The beginning of this century
List 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 centuryare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikidimensions: 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 daysour 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 websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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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 moreit is niall ferguson's masterpiecewhat went wrong? how did we do this to ourselves? the war of the world comes up with compelling, fascinating answersglobalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people
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Elegant silver mirror made in italy in the beginning of 20th centuryare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikidimensions: 43 cm (h) x 31 cm (l) the overall condition is excellentour 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 websitethe mirror will be packed in a secure way and shipped within 1-2 working dayscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Made in italy in the beginning of 20th centuryare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki2 antique bells made of bronzethe item will be packed in a secure way and shipped within 1-2 working daysour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storedimensions: 8 cm (h) x 7 cm (l) the overall condition is excellentplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Antique silver 800 vase from the beginning of 20th centuryare 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 websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemade in italy read more
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Made in italy in the beginning of 20th centuryare 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 and weight: 6,5 cm x 6,5 cmplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website94 g 6,5 cm x 4 cm62 g read morecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available2 antique plates in silver 800 that represent religious scenes
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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 centurysome 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 storechasse 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 paperthe marquis d'armaillé was one of the greatest huntsman of his timehe wrote this synthetic and practical treatise, which has become impossible to findplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteillustrated with seven lovely original watercolours by thierry d'ercevillecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethis new, very meticulous edition contains the full text, the introduction and the pieces added by salverte and a short biography
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Very beautiful fine vase from the beginning of this century from the verries de val saint lambertare 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 storecolour - petrol bluefor the non-connoisseurs, this is a 100% val saint lambert and i first presented it to a great collector and connoisseur of vsl! height - 15please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecondition - very beautiful and good condition, no chips and no lime! the photos are part of the description! will be shipped safely packaged and insuredpetrol blue colour and with silvered ring with 2 hallmarkscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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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 centuryoxfam 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 unreadsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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 todayoxfam 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 see oxfam website for delivery information read more
39 €
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' - to the beginning of end times in novemberhow 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 nationoxfam shop evesham no comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has beencelebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard republican p) see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be)o'rourke brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky businesshow 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 exclusive
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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)some slight bending to the corners and slight ruffing of top and bottom of hingemany diagrams, drawings, photographs and one fold-out mapvolume 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 godssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut 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 lifeshe is the princess diana, who alone can sense the evil that is infesting the amazon's homebut the balance is upset when hippolyta is granted what no immortal may have: a child, given life from the clay of the islandin 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 hippolytashe 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 1-9soon, 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 abroadand in order to defeat this powerful enemy, the princess of peace must become the hero she was meant to beand lose everything in the process
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Oxfam 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 citythose who catch sight of the wolf see their own lives reflected, and find themselves searching for a different path in a cold timetranslated from the german by jamie bulloch see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand 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 filmon an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodesthe lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by tomasz, a polish construction worker who cannot survive in germany without his girlfriendexactly 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 germanya woman burns her mother's diaries on a berlin balconyhis trail leads all the way to berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and divergethis first novel of germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright is written in prose of tremendous power and precision
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The 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 doubtas 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 presidentssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewe also come to understand how the arms race caused new alignments and shifts in domestic powerusing 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-statenow 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 economyoxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world since"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 leadersat 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 vietnamin the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominence" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold warthe 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
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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 marketsfirst 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 economicsvarious scuffs and marks to boardsbuff cloth covered boards with blind embossed design to front and gilt text to spine, which is discolouredcreases 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 smith see oxfam website for delivery information read moredecorated endpapers (everyman design)shelf wear to top and bottom edges of spine and boardsneatly inked name to front free endpaper
12 €
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Happy and healthy male kittens will be ready to leave at the beginning of septemberall 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 moreboth 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 trained
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Turquoise cloth covered boards with gilt text within dark blue panel to spinewear to edges, various other scuffs and markslight shelfwear to edgessee oxfam website for delivery information read morevarious superficial scuffs and marks, discolouration to spine and outer edges of boardsoxfam 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 throughoutalone 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 foundit details the discovery of a type of prehistoric fish, known only from fossils and believed to have become extinct at least fifty million years agosmall chips and closed tearsendpapers discolouredtear to top of spine, which is discolouredsporadic foxing within text block which is otherwise clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedpictorial dust jacket
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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 yeardesigned for dynamic movement and is close fittingwas purchased as a xmas gift last year! jacket in perfect a1 conditionaward winning , brilliant blue goretex pro jacket by mountain equipmentproofed for mild to extreme weathermy reason for selling is due to an earlier illness the jacket no longer fitsfor quick sale ono
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It reassesses the character of this third lancastrian king and his place in english history, though it is not primarily a personal biographyoxfam 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 insee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit describes the governance of england during the mid-fifteenth century, yet without claiming to study every aspect of english lifedust jacket slightly yellowed with age, but book otherwise in excellent condition
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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 moredesperate 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 securityoxfam 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 own
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See 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 coveredthe book also has an updated colour distribution map for each species,conveniently placed on interleaved pages within the colour platesoxfam 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 replacedbirds 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 congo
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 bookin 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 societyit 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 impassehis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, innoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosainternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedin a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai riversexternally 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 covers
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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 everyonehailed 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 poetrysee oxfam website for delivery information read morealexander pope (), was an english poet most renowned for his satirical verse and for the writing of this bookhe is also the third-most quoted writer in 'the oxford dictionary of quotations' after shakespeare and tennysonit comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the authormany 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 editionoxfam bookshop victoria this book contains alexander pope's seminal interpretation of the original homeric poem, published serially from to
49 €
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiissue 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 conditionour 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 lotplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website#specialcollectionservice read more11 issues of adventures on the planet of the apescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Andrews and cambridge), ann loades (durham), david nsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhat 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 theologyvladimir'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 (stpower (catholic university of america), sven-erik brodd (uppsala), peter bouteneff (stoxfam 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 disciplinesross (loyola university, chicago)it 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 verbal
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