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This is a ravensburger best of british no piece jigsaw which is fully completethe cricket match
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Want a pair of british short hair kittens to welcome to a loving homedoesn't necessarily need to be british short hair but hypoallergenic and do not malt too much
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The slow death of british industry a sixty-year suicide , nicholas comfcondition is gooddispatched with royal mail 2nd class
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"heath's gallery of british engravings" by charles heath london: longman, rees, orme, brown - first uk edition - rebound in fine half leather binding with decorative spines - four works bound in two volumes - complete with all plates - condition: good, some rubbing to boards and spineare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitebeautiful copiesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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Ravensburger best of british no13 - the cricket match piece jigsaw puzzle
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Ravensburger best of british no20 - the cruise ship piece jigsaw puzzle
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Ravensburger best of british nounopened new and sealed in box23 - the auction piece jigsaw puzzle
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british coins some from 's, two pence, three pence and farthingsassortment of british and foreign coins, including american, canadian, egyptian, french and spanish
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The history of british motorcycles, in good conditiongreat for the enthusiast £3
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Book of british hit singles by jo & tim rice, paul gambaccini & mike read
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The guinness book of british hit singles no 4 by jo & tim rice, paul gambaccini & mike readprinted in good condition
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Aa book of british villages hardback in good condition does have a inscription on the inside front cover
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Its inspiration came from pioneering british architect and designer owen jones (), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic colorthe studio library of decorative art, the grammar of ornament owen jones hardcover with dust jacket good condition - some tears to the dust jacket first published in , the grammar of ornament remains a design classicjones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in europe, the middle east, and in his native london, where he studied objects on display at the great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations in and at local museumsat once splendidly victorian and insistently modern, the grammar of ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read morejones's resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of ornamental design, presenting key examples ranging from maori tattoos, egyptian columns, and greek borders to byzantine mosaic, indian embroidery, and elizabethan carvingshis aim was to improve the quality of western design by changing the habits of victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sources
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Here are the people behind that past - edward de kendale, adam scippe, thomas newchapman and agnes, his wife; sir anthony denny and rev canon eales; george byng and wortley-montagu; murderers thurtell and hunt; macready the great actor; burton the great explorer and the photographer wellington; and of course, the legendary giants of british cinema - men like rank, danziger, balcon and blattnerthe book of elstree & boreham wood brings them all to life, recapturing the history of these two places, in a fluent and considered narrative and very many fascinating picturesvery minor marks to dj otherwise clean and bright throughoutoxfam books & music hereford signed limited subscriber edition, numbered 44signed by stephen castleidlestre and borham were much influenced by the great abbey of st albans, and indeed by alban's martyrdom and the roman muncipium of verulamium, so that the area's past is inextricably entwined with the great and the good of times ancient and laterhappily, a few fine late medieval buildings escaped the developer's insensitive eyecondition: as newsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenot long after the normans came, there was a flourishing settlement at elstree hilluntil recently, medieval elstree had survived largely intact, but post-war reconstruction brought considerable mutilationthe hills and valleys of this busy corner of herts have been home to people for some years, and the romans chose elstree hill as a major tile-manufacturing centreboreham wood's origins are mistier, but technology brought massive change and development with the coming of the railway in , and again, when cinema created britain's hollywood in this pleasant parish
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The first volume of pilots concentrated on the stories of american and british schoonersand slight bumping to the inside back fly leaf of dust jacketthe schooners in this volume range from the hiates of portugal to the beautiful station boats of the north sea ports of germany, the netherlands, belgium and francesee oxfam website for delivery information read morevolume 2 enters what for many will be a less familiar world, that of the european pilot schooners, the remarkable pilot brigs of the hooghly and the small, undecked craft of many of the less famous but equally important, servicesoxfam furniture shop southampton overall very good condition with only a tear to bottom left hand corner of the front dust jacket
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Tony kushner examines the impact of evacuation, the blitz, the black market and other aspects of the war on relations between gentile and jewit is complete with its dustjacket which has a small sticker mark on the inside front flapthe jewish image in society, the response of the state to jews at home and abroad, and the effect of antisemitism on the jewish community itself receive particular attentionthe text block is yellowing slightly but appears to be free from inscriptions or annotationsoxfam bookshop hexham the persistence of prejudice examines attitudes to jews at all levels of society during a war that many saw as a fight against fascismthere are a few minor marks here and there on the dustjacket but otherwise it is free from chips or tearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe blue cloth boards are gilt stamped on the spine and are a little spotted and stainedthe binding is soundas a contribution to the social history of wartime britain, it also reveals the strengths and weaknesses of a liberal democracythis hardback first edition is in a good, used condition overallthis book is likely to interest those studying or teaching social history, jewish history or race relations in sociology, politics and cultural studieshe probes attitudes to anglo-jewry, from left to right of the political spectrumthis book suggests that, rather than being confined to extremists, antisemitism was part of the mainstream culture
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¶ british nature researcher charles darwin corresponded with an exceptionally large group of people all over the worldare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikidarwin also relied on correspondence for a lot of his scientific work and used letters to find support for his ideas among friends an colleaguescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitespecial anniversary set in eight volumeshis letters to harvard botanist asa gray for instance show his changing opinions regarding slavery and the american civil warthe letters offer a lot of insight in matters from the origin of important scientific concepts to religious and philosophical discussions, that are still relevant todayletters in eight volumesscientific historian janet browne has argued that darwin’s ability to correspond on a daily basis played a crucial role in the development of his theory and his ability to find the support of colleaguesthe letters also highlight a lot of aspects about darwin and his biography: the development of is ideas, an insight in his character and health, personal opinions about controversial mattersby frederich burkhardt and the editors of the darwin correspondence projectcondition: minimal signs of storagea wrinkle at the top of the spine of volume 1our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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In 'the league of gentlemen are behind you' () the tradition of the great british panto is lampooned by the crackpot crewthe annual panto in royston vasey is at least as creepy and wacky as you'd expect'the league of gentlemen's apocalypse' () is the big screen version of the programme in which misanthropic vicar bernice (reece shearsmith) discovers a prophecy that warns of the destruction of royston vaseythe town of royston vasey is populated by many strange and eccentric individualsoxfam shop edenbridge box set featuring the feature film and two specials from the cult tv programmemaking their way through a mysterious portal into the real world, murderous butcher hilary briss (mark gatiss), embittered businessman geoff tipps (shearsmith) and sinister pederast herr lipp (steve pemberton) confront their creators in an effort to force them to continue writing about royston vaseysee oxfam website for delivery information read more'league of gentlemen at drury lane'() is the live stage adaptation of the popular tv seriesthe locals then discover that they are in fact fictional creations of the 'league of gentlemen' comedy troupe
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Oxfam books & music beeston a history of british livestock husbandry by robert trow-smith (2 vol) hardback with dust jackets volinscription in black ink on first on pagedust jackets of both books show signs of wear and tearinscription to first page in black ink and discolouration to pagepages are tightly bound, clean and unmarkedvolume 2 hardback is green cloth covered board with gold lettering no spinerest of pages tightly bound, clean and unmarkedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morevolume 1 hardback is green cloth covered board with gold lettering on spine in excellent conditionvery minor scuff mark to edge of spine otherwise boards are in excellent condition
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In the end of time, the british theoretical physicist julian barbour describes the coming revolution in our understanding of the world: a quantum theory of the universe that brings together einstein's general theory of relativity, which denies the existence of a unique time, and quantum mechanics, which demands oneoxfam bookshop cheltenham time is an illusionthis is the first full-length account of the crisis in our understanding that has enveloped quantum cosmologythe heart of the book is the author's lucid description of how a world of stillness can appear to be teeming with motion: in this timeless world where all possible instants coexist, complex mathematical rules of quantum mechanics bind together a special selection of these instants in a coherent order that consciousness perceives as the flow of timefinally, in a lucid and eloquent epilogue, the author speculates on the philosophical implications of his theory: does free will exist? is time travel possible? how did the universe begin? where is heaven? does the denial of time make life meaningless? written with exceptional clarity and elegance, this profound and original work presents a dazzlingly powerful argument that all will be able to follow, but no-one with an interest in the workings of the universe will be able to ignorebarbour believes that only the most radical of ideas can resolve the conflict between these two theories: that there is, quite literally, no time at allunifying thinking that has never been brought together before in a book for the general reader, barbour reveals the true architecture of the universe and demonstrates how physics is coming up sharp against the extraordinary possibility that the sense of time passing emerges from a universe that is timelessalthough the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there are only timeless 'nows'see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Britain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwisedrawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world orderat the paris peace conference of , the allies agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationsas imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easier to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinyas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencesthe first world war threw the imperial order into crisisthe allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves createdoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good conditionminor signs of shelf wearnew states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handscolonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva to demand a repartition of the spoilssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe pages are clean and tight and appear unread
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Using archival sources, forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among american antistatists and british egalitariansin the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war, rawls's a theory of justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophythese thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their critics "a forceful, encyclopedic studyin this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, katrina forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism-a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state-became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar united states and britainin these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right-from the new international economic order to the rise of the new rightrecasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, in the shadow of justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limitspages are clean and tight with no tears, bumps, or nicksfine unclipped dust-wrappersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the s and '70s and beyond"-michael eric dyson, new york times a history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by john rawls's a theory of justicein the shadow of justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of john rawlsoxfam bookshop cotham hill black boards with gold-embossed spine which is unbroken
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Oxfam books & music durham what happened to the allied armies in normandy in the months after d-day, ? why, after the initial success of the landings, did their advance stall a few miles inland from the beaches? why did the british take so long to capture caen? why did the us infantry struggle so much in the bocage south of omaha beach? who was right about the conduct of the land campaign - eisenhower or montgomery? how did the germans, deprived of air support, manage to hold off such a massive allied force for more than two months? and if enigma was allowing the allies to read german battleplans, why did things go wrong as often as they did?the battle of normandy re-examines the demands and difficulties of the campaign and sheds new light on both with the aid of accounts from veterans on both sides) it also analyses in detail the plans and performance of the commanders involved: eisenhower, bradley, patton, montgomery, crerar and, of course, rommelcontroversial and at times catastrophic, the battle of normandy was the last great set-piece battle in history and is long overdue for reassessmentsee oxfam website for delivery information read more(oral history forms a large part of the book
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Widely accepted practice guidelines, major classification schemes, commonly used neurological scales, significant syndromes and constellation of key signs and symptoms are found in 188 tables, presented in a way easy to understand and rememberhundreds of imaging studies, neuropathological photographs (some in full colour) and anatomical and surgical diagrams supplement the text which is methodically organised to allow understanding of all complex neurosurgical concepts of adult and paediatric neurosurgeryover 18 sections and 113 chapters, all critical neurosurgical information is systematically presented to include clear definitions; epidemiology, pathophysiology and mechanisms of disease; neuroradiological and neuropathological features; critical care and neuroanaesthesia; clinical presentation and differential diagnosis; treatment; critical surgical anatomy and step-by-step key operative techniques of the brain, skull base and spineit is systematically, meticulously and clearly broken down into easy-to-follow sections that contain condensed but comprehensive neurosurgical informationbased on the curriculum of british, north american and european neurosurgical training programmes, and with the contribution of some of the worlds leading neurosurgeons and neuroclinicians, the neurosurgeon's handbook has been produced with the highest possible standardsthe neurosurgeon's handbook concisely covers all aspects of adult and paediatric neurosurgerysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop wallingford the neurosurgeon's handbook is compact, readable, multi-authored, extensively illustrated and authoritative source of high quality neurosurgical information; it is the ultimate companion to neurosurgical trainees and neurosurgeons around the worldthe material is based on clinical trials, major clinical series and the extensive personal experience of some of the worlds best neurosurgeons and neuroclinicians who contributed to the handbook
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Italian artist trevisan moved to milan and joined the studio d’ami agency, from here he worked extensively for british comics and war picture libraries, illustrating many adaptations of literature including ‘a dog of flanders’ by marie louise de la ramée (ouida), the ugly duckling by the brothers grimm, and also stories of sherlock holmes during the sare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe fabulous colour palette highlights the fantasy mood of the story, whilst the figure drawing, composition and exquisite line work highlight this artist’s talentthis beautiful panel shows the friends, the tin man and the scarecrow adventuring through the woods and coming across the field mice who live in the magical land of ozan elegant black mount has been cut and is provided with this piece, however the piece has not been attached to the mount as this leaves room for personal choiceplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitetrevisan is now highly regarded for his work for tarot card designsthe mice all live very close to the field of deadly poppies and mostly stay undergrounda very rare chance to bid on a panel from georgio trevisan's adaptation of classic 'the wizard of oz' for the comic 'princess tina'they aren’t a unique race of rodents who can talk and live on the outskirts between the munchkin country border and the emerald citythey are all ruled by a mouse queen, whom the tin woodman savesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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The book stresses both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the age, and raises fundamental issues about a period of crucial change in british history - industrialisation, war, constitutional change and the attitudes of politicians towards it, political development, and, not least, society and culturewidely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and researchoxfam bookshop shaftesbury the age of improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writingthe author also discusses perceptions of, and reactions to, changing circumstances, the influence of religion and science on national life, and changing styles in art and literature this second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by lord briggs amongst others, since its original publicationthe story ends, not with a full stop but with a question markcould improvement be maintained? could balance and progress continue to be reconciled? see oxfam website for delivery information read more in the background are the new economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron technology; in the foreground, new social and political problems and new ways of tackling them
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A familiar scenario, perhaps, but here the devoted couple is a pair of foxes--o-ha, a vixen born in the british countryside, and her second mate, camio, who, after escaping from the zoo, becomes a streetwise scavenger in the suburbsoxfam bookshop ludlow signed first edition, lovely copy of the cult bookher life with camio in trinity wood is equally hazardous; daily survival is difficultthe author endows his anthropomorphized characters with complex emotions, clear thinking, reasoned judgment and a shared stock of ancient clan memoriescomplete with very tidy dust jacket, no tearsunmarked board cover and inside pages clean and brighttheir adventures and the misadventures of their pups are seen through a framework of their own mythology, a world governed by rituals and traditions that began at the time of creation: firstdarka true sense of peril, a wry observance of their other enemy, man, some quixotic digressions into the lives of their offspring and avoidance of sentimentality all combine to invite comparison to watership downsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreo-ha's first mate was killed by fox hunters and her initial litter froze to deathyet the most ominous threat is from sabre, a vengeful ridgeback hound bent on destroying them boththis novel by a booker prize nominee is an engaging saga of two lovers paired for life, bound by strong family ties and firmly united by their terror of a common enemy
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Gpo first day cover of british bridges set of 4 stamps with clear cancel read more
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Hardback best of british cookery/recipe book by ed baines - received recently as a gift and now priced for quick salein excellent condition
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