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Books / reading / adventure / story this baffling world no3 by john goodwin publisher bantam books collection only from houghton-le-spring read more
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Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the first world war'on the face of it,' writes lyn macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the first world war'lyn macdonald wrirtes splendidly and touchingly of the work of the nurses and doctors who fought their humanitarian battle on the western front' sunday telegraph over the past twenty years lyn macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the first world warin leaking tents and draughty huts they fought another war, a war against agony and death, as men lay suffering from the pain of unimaginable wounds or diseases we can now cure almost instantlyand it was here that women achieved a quiet but permanent revolution, by proving beyond question they could do anythingsee oxfam website for delivery information read more' yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasionmost are published by penguinall this is superbly captured in the roses of no man's land, a panorama of hardship, disillusion and despair, yet also of endurance and supreme courageit was here that young doctors frantically forged new medical techniques - of blood transfusion, dentistry, psychiatry and plastic surgery - in the attempt to save soldiers shattered in body or spiritoxfam bookshop cheltenham lyn macdonald's the roses of no man's land is a compelling look at the women who risked their lives on the western front
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The second world war by winston si: the gathering storm () -- xv, 640 ppplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website6 kg see the photos for a better idea of details and condition read moreiii: the grand alliance () -- xviii, 818 ppv: closing the ring () -- xviii, 673 ppthe dust jackets have some staining and the spines are faded and browneddust jackets not price clippedthe interior of the books is in very good condition with no spotting or marksiv: the hinge of fate () -- xviii, 917 ppour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storechurchill, published by cassell & cosize: 22 x 15 cm weight: 5vi: triumph and tragedy () -- xviii, 716 ppthere are some chips and closed tears, especially along the upper edges, and there is a tape repair to the back flap of the jacket of volvol ii: their finest hour () -- xvii, 683 ppblack cloth bindings with gilt titles to spine, upper page edges dyed red; complete with all maps and diagrams, many of which are foldingbindings firm, no loose pages, owner inscription to volumes i-iii, no bookplatesoverall a very good clean set, with original dust jackets in good conditionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe black covers are generally clean with some scuffing/stainingsix volumes, all first editions, first printings: volcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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The author was recruited into the squadron at the outset of the second world war, and continued a distinguished career in the years after the warwritten with the support of squadron association members, the author has collected individual stories to capture the flavour of past eras and events, such as the early days of the air force during the first world war, the bomber attacks of and the berlin airlift of99 squadron of the royal air force, from 197 tosee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop lower petergate a very nice signed copy of this work charting the history of nothe book has been signed by the author with an inscriptionin good condition, there is one medium tear to the top of the dust jacket
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Mumby - the great world war - a history: 6 volume set - the gresham publishing company - hardback - cm x 20 cmillustrated history of the first world war on land sea and in the air some extraordinary photographs of events - nice set of books read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikigeneral editor - frank aour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitevolume pages - volume pages - volume pages - (undated) volume pages - (undated) volume pages - volume pages - (undated) these books are all in very good condition - all have firm bindings and clean bright contents - no inscriptions - numerous coloured fold-out maps depicting the various areas of conflict during the warcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Two annual collections of the periodical the floral world and garden guide, edited by shirley hibberd, published by groombridge and sons, londonotherwise in overall very good condition with bindings holding firm and no loose pagesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicovers have slight scuffing with very slight wear along spine edgesno inscriptions or bookplates, text and plates generally clean and bright3 kg see the photos for a better idea of details and condition read morespeckled page edgeseach volume consists of 12 monthly issues of this periodicalour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteplain green cloth hardcovers with gilt title and decoration to spine, [vi], 378 ppspotting and soiling to first few and last few pages, and scattered spotting elsewhere, mainly along page edgeseach volume illustrated with twelve tissue-guarded chromolithographic plates (some with hand-finishing) and many black and white wood engravingsindex, list of new plants, colour plates and wood engravings at the beginning of each volumea few of the colour plates have a vertical crease through the middle of the plate (see photos)catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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The item format is a cd sacdcd's are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, demonstration demo, not for sale, promotional promo, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions9 'from the new world&aposthe title is symphony no
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This essential volume includes a foreword written by a world leader in palliative care-jan stjernsward, former chief of the cancer and palliative care program of the world health organization and currently international director of the oxford international centre for palliative care in the united kingdomthis book provides you with true accounts of palliative care programs from around the world to help you meet the needs of disadvantaged clientspain and palliative care in the developing world and marginalized populations: a global challenge explores the challenges and barriers preventing satisfactory pain management for patients who urgently need itpain and palliative care in the developing world and marginalized populations also offers an important look at pain management programs geared toward several specific underserved populations in both developing and developed countries, including native americans and inmates in a new zealand prisonpain and palliative care in the developing world and marginalized populations: a global challenge addresses issues of vital importance for the global health care community, such as: why do so many people in the developing world suffer excruciating pain for months and years, when simple inexpensive medication could make them comfortable? they get mri scans; why don't they have access to palliative care? why do some palliative care programs fail to reach the needy? how could a palliative care delivery system be adapted to local needs? why are medical and nursing students not taught the fundamentals of pain management? what direction should palliative care education take? could health care resources be channeled to deliver care in a more just and equitable manner? this book chronicles the efforts of ambitious pain management care professionals to confront these questions, working toward an end to needless, preventable pain and sufferingoxfam shop dumfries essential information for anyone involved in palliative care programs for deprived patients! in this comprehensive resource, leading healthcare professionals describe pioneering work on the front lines of pain and palliative care service planning and implementation for underserved populationsit examines their programs, and acknowledges their successes and failures to date, with commentaries by international expertsthis indispensable manual discusses palliative care programs in developing countries such as india, chile, argentina, saudi arabia, thailand, hong kong, malaysia, and otherssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreillustrated with figures, graphs, and tables, this book is essential for practitioners and officials in both palliative and public health careall proceeds from sales of this book will be used to support the growth of palliative care programs in india
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'the babylonian world' presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state babylonia and its 'holy city', babylonhistoricized by the new testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern sciencecomprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying the periodsee oxfam website for delivery information read more this book explores all key aspects of the development of this ancient culture, including the ecology of the region and its famously productive agriculture, its political and economic standing, its religious practices, and the achievements of its intelligentsiaoxfam shop cowley road softcover published by routledge,  (first published )the book is free of notes and inscriptions, and remains a clean, bright and good condition copy, which shows no signs of having been readpaperback in excellent condition except for some water-ruffling to bottom of pages
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Rare 100% vintage ufo ‘strangers in the night’ world tour concert t-shirtthe item is in reasonable condition for its agetag size shows shirt is a large, but is the size of a small fitno holes or stains, apart from some signs of minor fading to the text and graphicsitem has been worn and has signs of wear where the material has worn thin below the ufo logo to the front and below the graphic image of the group on the backmaterial: 50 % cotton 50% polyester
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Oxfam bookshop brigg at the height of the second world war, lincolnshire had no fewer than 46 operational airfields, all but nine built sincenumbered among them are the lancaster, manchester, hampden, wellington, hurricane, spitfire and beaufighterprevious owners name inside front coversee oxfam website for delivery information read morefully illustratedin this book, each airfield is described and details of its wartime function givenalso highlighted are the many and varied aircraft that comprised the operational unitsthe build up of the raf air offensive after and the arrival of squadrons from america, australia, canada and poland, meant that by early in in lincolnshire alone, there were several thousand aircraft and personnel
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The wonderful world of dr seuss, 20 hardback box setsome damage to box corners and the inside of one of the box door (superficial) and 2 books have no outer sleeve coverswas £99 new and now a collector's itembooks inside are in excellent conditionhappy to email more pics of that
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Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the amazon forestwill they return alive? the book and cd tell an abridged version of the lost world by sir arthur conan doylebut this world is dangerous to reach, and, once the professor and his small group of explorers arrive, things get even more dangerous for themand he sends his young reporter, malone, on a strange journey into south america with the famous professor challengersee oxfam website for delivery information read more'you said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says mcardle, the editor of the daily gazette new and sealed in original shrinkwrapoxfam shop cowley road paperback book plus cd audio recording of the complete textlevel 2 with 700 headwordspublished by oxford university press in their dominoes series for english language teaching
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world sinceusing newly opened kremlin archives and his own experiences in the field, martin walker has written a brilliant analysis of the conflict that has shaped the contemporary worldfrom the origins of the marshall plan, which revived europe after world war ii, and the strategic decision to rebuild a defeated japan into a bulwark against china to the collapse of the berlin wall, this authoritative work reveals how the west was built into an economic alliance that overpowered the soviet economy while also unleashing global economic forces that today challenge the traditional nation-statethe cold war was more of a global conflict than was either of this century's two major wars; far more than a confrontation between states or even empires, it was, as martin walker puts it, "a total war between economic and social systems, an industrial test to destructionfor more than forty years, as this detailed analysis makes clear, the outcome of the cold war was in doubtin the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominence"walker reminds us how easy it is to forget that there were many occasions for the late s on when victory seemed far from assured, and that lent a particular urgency to the efforts of postwar western leaderssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewe also come to understand how the arms race caused new alignments and shifts in domestic powernow that it is over, it is crucial to our future to understand how the cold war has shaped us and, especially, to recognize it as the economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of today's global economyas the united states became the national security state, california, which had a population of five million at the start of the cold war, grew to thirty million and, by the s provided one in every ten members of congress and two presidents" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold warthe west continued to be alarmed by the prospect of defeat right up to the soviet empire's last breathat the end of the s the fear was generated by communist expansion into eastern europe and china; in the s by the prospect of defeat in vietnam
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Annals of the former world is the winner of the pulitzer prize for nonfictionlike the terrain it covers, annals of the former world tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through itthe structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title annals of the former worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston the pulitzer prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4as clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern non-fiction6 billion years twenty years ago, when john mcphee began his journeys back and forth across the united states, he planned to describe a cross section of north america at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with
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But when the doorway to the hidden world closed, ben was trapped on the wrong sideit was said that once every 10 years, a secret pathway was revealed to a world long since goneprimordia ii explores a prehistoric world and travels over mountains, through swamps, strange jungles, and dives below a primordial ocean, in the stunning sequel to the blockbusting primordiathis time she'd be readyoxfam bookshop st albans it was true - it was all true - and we were never meant to be therethis time she had everything she needed to go back to that hellish place and survivein december , ben cartwright, former special forces soldier, and a team of naive explorers, followed the clues left by his ancestor to a hidden plateau in the middle of the amazon jungleonly ben and his childhood love, emma, surviveda cocktail of prehistoric cool"Â grim reader reviews see oxfam website for delivery information read moreall she needed was for ben to be alive when she got therenow, emma has waited 10 long years for the doorway to open againthey went, and what they found was a place of wonders and of horrors
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4 set readers digest - the magical world of opera in excellent condition(2 cassettes still sealed) world famous arias, all-time favourites, great voices, beautiful melodies, unforgettable moments, the world's favourite choruses, magical moments from golden operas, favourites forever and timeless souvenirsprice includes uk p&ppaypal acceptednext day dispatch guaranteed
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4 set readers digest - the magical world of opera in excellent condition(2 cassettes still sealed) world famous arias, all-time favourites, great voices, beautiful melodies, unforgettable moments, the world's favourite choruses, magical moments from golden operas, favourites forever and timeless souvenirsprice includes uk p&pnext day dispatch guaranteedpaypal accepted (plus fees unless sent as a gift) next day dispatch guaranteed
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River world expansion for the small world board game brand new factory sealed same day dispatch
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Oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the origins of the first world war annika mombauer very good condition paperbackthe seminal event of the 20th century, the origins of the first world war have always been difficult to establish and have aroused deep controversy there a sticky label on the backcover over the barcode that has been mostly removedemotive and emotional from the very beginning of the conflict, the debate and the passions aroused in response to such issues as the 'war-guilt paragraph' of the treaty of versailles, are set in the context of the times in which they were proposedannika mombauer tracks the impassioned debates as they developed at critical points through the twentieth century the book focuses on the controversy itself, rather than the specific events leading up to the warwere they really justified? see oxfam website for delivery information read moretext is unmarkedsimilarly, the argument has been fuelled by concerns over the sacrifices that were made and the casualities that were suffered
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Churchill - the second world war: 6 volume set - cassell & covolume 1 (the gathering storm) - 640 pages - volume 2 (their finest hour) - 683 pages - volume 3 (the grand alliance) - 818 pages - volume 4 (the hinge of fate) - 917 pages - volume 5 (closing the ring) - 673 pages - volume 6 (triumph and tragedy) - 716 pages - this set is in good condition - clean bright contents - all volumes are first editions - volumes 3 - 6 have dust jackets - each volume discusses the various tactical developments that unfolded during the world war that spanned from - includes numerous coloured and non-coloured fold-out maps to further explain the military strategies utilised throughout the war - a very nice collector's setare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehardback - cm x 15 cmcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Think you know your football? put yourself and your friends to the the test with this world cup quiz, jam-packed with thousands of quiz and trivia questions spanning right back to the first world cup inthere are four different modes you can play: shootout, play or pass, top of the league and football crazythis game is perfect for quizzers and all lovers of the beautiful gamesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyou can even tailor the difficulty of the questions, allowing experts to lay head-to-head against others who might not know quite as much
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Atlas of the dragonlance world vgtsr dragonlance - sourcebooks & box sets atlas of the dragonlance world (vg)karen wynn fonstad, author of the atlas of middle-earth, the atlas of pern, and the atlas of the land, draws you into the lives and places of the dragonlance saga as never beforeproduct line: dragonlance - sourcebooks & box sets
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Conquest of the new world pc big boxed this is the pc game conquest of the new world big boxedcollection onlyit is boxed and literally brand new
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Conquest of the new world pc big boxed this is the pc game conquest of the new world big boxedsw16 1tu open to offerscollection onlyit is boxed and literally brand new
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Written-by – tim smith the whole world window written-by – tim smith, w d drake* 5:5 see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop holmfirth reissue 1 a little man and a house written-by – tim smith in a city lining written-by – tim smith i'm eating in bed written-by – tim smith is this the life written-by – tim smith, w d drake* interlude written-by – tim smith dive written-by – tim smith the icing on the world written-by – tim smith the breakfast line written-by – tim smith victory egg written-by – tim smith r
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Vcs of the first world war: the western front by peter f batchelortitle: the western front series: vcs of the first world war format: hardback type: book publisher: sutton uk release date: language: english
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Very rare first record of the crazy world of arthur brown including the world wide hit " fire " second issue of the progressive rock group quintessence in rare gimmick coverare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeall in excellent condition see pictures for a good impression registered mail read moreplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethird release of the german progressive rock group named hoodoo man
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Oxfam shop leigh the second world war: six volume set by winston churchill churchill's famous account of the second world war volumes published between and please note that volume six is an ex-library copy and shows more wear and tear than the others binding is slightly loose and boards are bumped6 only) has "westminster public libraries" embossed on front cover (volsee oxfam website for delivery information read more6 only) sold as a set
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Tommy: the first world war experiences of a soldier in the durham light infantryworld of books ltd was founded in , recycling books sold to us through charities either directly or indirectlyauthor:crawford, thomas abook binding:paperback
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