The beginning of this century
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3d silver george v coin the beginning of the great war supplied in a plastic sleeve for storage and protection read more
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Oxfam shop colne road the dictionary of 20th century british book illustrators alan horne antique collectors society woodbridgeunclipped wrappervg++ ÂŁ see oxfam website for delivery information read morecontaining potted biographies of over british illustratorsmore than 300 b/w and 160 full colour illustrations
20 €
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Elegant snack holder in silver 800, made in italy in the beginning of 20th centurycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare 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 storedimensions: 9 cm (h) x 30 cm (l) x 7,5 cm the overall condition is excellentthe item will be packed in a secure way and shipped within 1-2 working days
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Oxfam shop crosby the world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benigninstead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the first world war and the end of the cold warsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreglobalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most peopleit is niall ferguson's masterpiecewhat went wrong? how did we do this to ourselves? the war of the world comes up with compelling, fascinating answers
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Elegant silver mirror made in italy in the beginning of 20th centurycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare 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 storethe mirror will be packed in a secure way and shipped within 1-2 working daysdimensions: 43 cm (h) x 31 cm (l) the overall condition is excellent
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Made in italy in the beginning of 20th centurycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website2 antique bells made of bronzeare 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 storethe item will be packed in a secure way and shipped within 1-2 working daysdimensions: 8 cm (h) x 7 cm (l) the overall condition is excellent
100 €
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Antique silver 800 vase from the beginning of 20th centurycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare 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 storemade in italy read more
145 €
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Made in italy in the beginning of 20th centurycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available62 g read moreplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki2 antique plates in silver 800 that represent religious scenesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store94 g 6,5 cm x 4 cmdimensions and weight: 6,5 cm x 6,5 cm
79 €
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From the contemporary vénerie d'autrefois bibliophilie collection which offers a overview of the venerie illustrators of the beginning of this centurycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehe wrote this synthetic and practical treatise, which has become impossible to findsome stains on the cover but the inside is immaculateare 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 storethis new, very meticulous edition contains the full text, the introduction and the pieces added by salverte and a short biographythe marquis d'armaillé was one of the greatest huntsman of his timechasse à courre du chevreuil marquis d'armaillé paris, montbel, x 21 cm, octavo paperback, 96 pages, 6 plateslimited edition of 400 numbered copies on rives laid paperillustrated with seven lovely original watercolours by thierry d'erceville
34 €
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Very beautiful fine vase from the beginning of this century from the verries de val saint lambertcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablecondition - very beautiful and good condition, no chips and no lime! the photos are part of the description! will be shipped safely packaged and insuredplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecolour - petrol blueare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifor the non-connoisseurs, this is a 100% val saint lambert and i first presented it to a great collector and connoisseur of vsl! height - 15our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storepetrol blue colour and with silvered ring with 2 hallmarks
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An examination of new areas of technology and their implications for personal security and the state of democracy in the beginning of the 21st centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells earth rising ii, the betrayal of science, society and the soul dr nick begich, james roderick a paperback book in very good condition that appears to be unread
34 €
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The book contains almost 150 drawings, which give an idea of the visual trail of thought of architects from the beginning of the 20th century to the s, with the latter marking the starting point of the digital age we live in today see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hove no d/j as issued; hardback; editors: sandra mälk, mait väljas, anne lass, triin ojari ;  architectural drawings: initial sketches, elaborate perspectives and lofty urban plans the architect has drawn manually on paper
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' - to the beginning of end times in novembero'rourke brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky business) see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be)celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard republican phow the hell did this happen? covers the whole election process from the pig pile of presidential candidates circa june , the dreadful key primaries and candidate debates through his come-to-satan moment with hillary - 'she's the second worst thing that could happen to our nationhow the hell did this happen? answers the key question of the presidential election: should we laugh or should we cry or should we hurl? (they are not mutually exclusiveoxfam shop evesham no comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been
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Oxfam shop macclesfield a reprint of the english translation covering the period from the beginning of the war to the beginning of october (volume 1) and then october-november (volume 2)many diagrams, drawings, photographs and one fold-out mapsome slight bending to the corners and slight ruffing of top and bottom of hingevolume 2 has two loose pages note they are different sizes see oxfam website for delivery information read more
24 €
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Oxfam books & music perth the beginning of a legend! on the hidden island of themyscira, the amazons, led by queen hippolyta, live in a kingdom of peace, protected by the godssoon, the amazon princess finds herself in a world she never knew existed-america, a land of untold wonders that also finds itself threatened by a great war abroadsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe is the princess diana, who alone can sense the evil that is infesting the amazon's homeand in order to defeat this powerful enemy, the princess of peace must become the hero she was meant to beshe must become wonder woman! with gorgeous art, a period setting and contemporary flair, writer/artist renae de liz (the last unicorn), with help from artist ray dillon (noble causes), stunningly retells the origin of the greatest superheroine the world has ever known! collects the legend of wonder woman 1-9and lose everything in the processbut the balance is upset when hippolyta is granted what no immortal may have: a child, given life from the clay of the islandbut when a man from the outside world is brought to themyscira as part of a conspiracy to overthrow its queen, diana will risk everything to save his innocent lifein order to get back home, diana and her new friends steve trevor and etta candy must head into the war zone and find the nazi agent known as the duke of deception, who wields a powerful artifact that belongs to hippolyta
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Translated from the german by jamie bulloch see oxfam website for delivery information read moreon an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodesa woman burns her mother's diaries on a berlin balconyoxfam bookshop cheltenham "a highly original and often hypnotic workelisabeth and micha run away through the snow from their home village, crossing the wolf's tracks on their way to the cityexactly the type of book that readers in search of striking european voices should embrace" john boyne, author of the boy in the striped pyjamasa contemporary berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of germany's best-known contemporary playwright one clear, ice-cold january morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between poland and germanyand elisabeth's father, a famous sculptor, observes the vast skeleton of a whale in his studio and asks: what am i doing here? and why? experiences and encounters flicker past with a raw, visual power, like frames in a black and white filmthe lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by tomasz, a polish construction worker who cannot survive in germany without his girlfriendthis first novel of germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright is written in prose of tremendous power and precisionthose who catch sight of the wolf see their own lives reflected, and find themselves searching for a different path in a cold timehis trail leads all the way to berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morenow 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 economy"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 leadersthe 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 destruction" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold warin the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominenceusing 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 worldwe also come to understand how the arms race caused new alignments and shifts in domestic powerthe west continued to be alarmed by the prospect of defeat right up to the soviet empire's last breathfor more than forty years, as this detailed analysis makes clear, the outcome of the cold war was in doubtat 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 vietnamas 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 presidentsfrom 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-stateoxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world since
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By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the industrial revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free marketsshelf wear to top and bottom edges of spine and boardsdecorated endpapers (everyman design) see oxfam website for delivery information read morefirst published in , the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economicsneatly inked name to front free endpapervarious scuffs and marks to boardscreases to lower leading corners of first few leaves of text block, which is otherwise clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedoxfam bookshop newport generally referred to by its shortened title, the wealth of nations, this is the magnum opus of the scottish economist and moral philosopher adam smithbuff cloth covered boards with blind embossed design to front and gilt text to spine, which is discoloured
12 €
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Happy and healthy male kittens will be ready to leave at the beginning of septemberboth parents can be seen, they have grown up in a loving home and they have been introduced to dogs and other catsthey are weaned and fully litter trainedall 4 have had a vet check at 4 weeks old and again at 8 weeks to ensure healthy progress of the kittensthey have been wormed and defleaed, they were wormed with panacur and flea treated with advantage2 kittens are left for sale read more
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moresporadic foxing within text block which is otherwise clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedit details the discovery of a type of prehistoric fish, known only from fossils and believed to have become extinct at least fifty million years agoturquoise cloth covered boards with gilt text within dark blue panel to spinelight shelfwear to edgessmall chips and closed tearsendpapers discolouredpictorial dust jacketvarious superficial scuffs and marks, discolouration to spine and outer edges of boardsalone in his view that this coelacanth must have been a stray, professor smith and his wife carried out a series of arduous expeditions covering most of the wildest parts of the tropical western indian ocean, until, after fourteen years, the home of this living fossil was foundtear to top of spine, which is discolouredoxfam bookshop newport this is the story of the most sensational scientific discovery in natural history of the twentieth century, told by the scientist who is the central figure throughoutwear to edges, various other scuffs and marks
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The book is in very good condition for its age however it is missing a blank page at the beginning of the book which appears to have been cut outoxfam shop haverfordwest published in by mrs dyson this is a first edition copy of her work on trees aimed at children and young adultsthe text is clear and readable and there is very little to moderate yellowing of the pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This sink was purchased from victoria plum at the beginning of this year for a bathroom refitit has never been used and needs a new home! the sink comes with the chrome legs but taps, bottle trap and waste etc are not includedit was, however, too big for the space so we replaced it with a smaller one
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The jacket has been kept in a cool cupboard for 12 months and only used a couple of times at the beginning of this yearaward winning , brilliant blue goretex pro jacket by mountain equipmentmy reason for selling is due to an earlier illness the jacket no longer fitsdesigned for dynamic movement and is close fittingproofed for mild to extreme weatherfor quick sale onowas purchased as a xmas gift last year! jacket in perfect a1 condition
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Dust jacket slightly yellowed with age, but book otherwise in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston this book, an invaluable and much-needed addition to english historiography, and unparalleled in its informative detail, is an examination of the exercise of the king's authority between the death of henry v in and the dethronement of henry vi init describes the governance of england during the mid-fifteenth century, yet without claiming to study every aspect of english lifeit reassesses the character of this third lancastrian king and his place in english history, though it is not primarily a personal biography
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Little did she know that the tailoring business she started to help her siblings would be the beginning of a dressmaking business that would create jobs and hope for one hundred neighbourhood women and would come to mean the difference between starvation and survival for hundreds of families like her ownsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans when the taliban took control of kabul, kamila sidiqi and all the women of kabul saw their lives transformedovernight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their owndesperate to help her family and support her five brothers and sisters at home, kamila began sewing cothes in her living roomthe economy collapsed and young men left the city in search of work and security
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The book also has an updated colour distribution map for each species,conveniently placed on interleaved pages within the colour platessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is the firstcomprehensive field guide to cover the birds of this exciting region,and will enable birders to identify any species found in any of thecountries coveredbirds of western africa (helm, ) was the firstsingle-volume guide to cover all species of this region, whichcomprises all countries from senegal and southern mauritania east tochad and the central african republic and south to congooxfam bookshop glossop road cover heavily creased with slight tears and sellotape repair attempts, pages very slightly creased, good overall condition this new field guide uses all of the plates from birds of western africa, with a concise, authoritative text on facing pages, to create a conveniently-sized, lightweight field reference covering all species found in the regionanumber of new images have been painted for this new field guide andseveral of the plates have been replaced
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreit was here that the crucial frontier was variously to be found - the volatile border where colonial expansion met local intransigence and brutal warfare proved the only solution to the impasseexternally the bottom right corner of the front cover has been creased and the is some slight signs of edge wear on the front and back covershis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, inoxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good condition the story of the nine 'kaffir' wars, fought in the 18th and 19th centuries between the whites and the xhosa nation, form the heart of this astonishing booknoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosain a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai riversinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedin an epilogue he observes that the end of the wars did not mean the end of the agony, but rather a legacy of pain and anger that to this day shapes south african society
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This edition provides a perfect rendering of this fine english verse which captures wonderfully the song of homer - a must-read for absolutely everyonemany vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality editionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop victoria this book contains alexander pope's seminal interpretation of the original homeric poem, published serially from tohailed by samuel johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal," this is a classic text that has moulded centuries of british and american culture through its beautiful and timeless poetryalexander pope (), was an english poet most renowned for his satirical verse and for the writing of this bookit comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the authorhe is also the third-most quoted writer in 'the oxford dictionary of quotations' after shakespeare and tennyson
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Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare 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 storenote the photos, these are part of the description of this lotissue 2: ridge on cover (this was originally the case), very light nip in the upper left corner issue 3: nip at top and bottom of spine, spine standing up slightly issue 6, light nip in lower left corner issue 7: light nip in upper right corner the issues are in very good condition#specialcollectionservice read more11 issues of adventures on the planet of the apes
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What has happened to sacramentality in an age which is on the one hand visual and on the other culturally cast adrift from the traditional symbolic universe in which sacramental theology was naturally at home? this book is not just confined to a discussion of eucharistic theologypower (catholic university of america), sven-erik brodd (uppsala), peter bouteneff (stross (loyola university, chicago)see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit examines both the historical roots of sacramentality, the concept of a sacral person, ways in which sacramentality may be re-envisioned and the flourishing roday of churches of a largely non-sacramental style in an age which is increasingly visual rather than verbalandrews and cambridge), ann loades (durham), david noxfam shop fulwood road this important new collection of essays on a topic of vital importance is by a group of scholars from ten countries, from a wide range of christian traditions, east and west, and from various academic disciplinesvladimir's seminary, new york) and susan athe vital importance of the subject of this book is confirmed by the distinction of the contributors-david brown (professor of theology at durham university), timothy jenkins (cambridge), bishop geoffrey rowell (oxford), jeremy begbie (st
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