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He returned home by way of the dutch east indies and the indian oceanoxfam shop haverfordwest the french entered the pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a spanish preserve until british navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid safter handing over the colony he had established in the falkland islands to spain, he sailed through the still relatively unknown straits of magellan into the poorly charted south pacificfrance's concerns that britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed louis de bougainville's voyage of exploration undertaken inhe then sailed to the samoan islands and on to vanuatu, as far as the great barrier reef, and north towards new guinea and the samoan islands making a number of discoveries and all the while leaving his name to a number of features, the best known of which are the island of bougainville and the bougainvillea flowerhe made a number of discoveries in the south west, but was too late to discover tahiti, where samuel wallis had preceded him by less than a yearthe book is in very good condition with some fading to spine and minimal foxing to topsee oxfam website for delivery information read morereports on bougainville's reception there and on life in the island were to create wide interest and controversy in europealthough bougainville published an account of his voyage in , his original journal was published only in ; the present volume makes the latter text available for the first time in english translation
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Three months were spent in that most interesting country, mainly in the states of yucatan, chiapas and oaxacacomthis book is a reproduction of an important historical workarmour to accompany him in his steam yacht ituna on a voyage to mexicothe following report, issued for convenience in two parts, is the resultoxfam bookshop wallingford excerpt from archaeological studies among the ancient cities of mexicoin december, , a number of gentlemen, representing different branches of scientific research, were invited by mrbesides this a short paper treating of the geology, and particularly of the cenotes or natural wells of yucatan, will appear in the journal of geology of the university of chicagothe writer was a member of the party and, as curator of anthropology in the field colum bian museum, was expected to examine and describe such archaeologic remains as happened to be encountered during the journeysee oxfam website for delivery information read morefind more at wwwforgotten books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copyabout the publisherforgotten books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic booksin rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our editionwe do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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Oxfam bookshop preston in the oxford handbook of language evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the fieldresearch on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decadessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreits five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution; the prehistory of language; the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and changeit highlights the links between different lines of research, shows what has been achieved, and considers promising directions for the futurethe oxford handbook of language evolution will be valued by everyone interested in one of the most productive and fascinating fields in natural and cognitive scienceinterdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in the evolution of human andanimal communication more generallythis book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involved
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Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirationswith the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, gibson has spent fifteen years collecting the literary and artistic forms our affinity for birds has taken over the centuriesbirds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as ovid, thomas hardy, kafka, thoreau and tgorgeously illustrated, woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, the bedside book of birds is for anyone who is aware of birds, and for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity has created to represent its soulwhether as the christian dove, or quetzalcoatl the aztec plumed serpent or in plato s vision of the human soul growing wings and feathers, religion and philosophy have looked to birds as representatives of our better selves that part of us not bound to the earthas divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the skybirds figure charmingly and tellingly in the work of such nature writers as gilbert white, peter matthiessen, farley mowat and barry lopezfrom the book: "stevenson remembered the story of a monk who had been distracted from his copy-work by the song of a birdthe song of the bird had given him a taste of paradise, where an instant is as a hundred years of earthly timewas the same true of time in hell, stevenson asked himselfsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey've been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they've been worshipped, eaten, feared and lovedoxfam bookshop knutsford in this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher graeme gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birdsnor does gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the galapagos finches did for darwinhe went into the garden to listen more closely, and when he returned, after what he thought were only a few minutes, he discovered that a century had gone by, that his fellow monks were dead and his ink had turned to dust
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As david gordon white demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrecttracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, white's exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of india's past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced todayvirtually forgotten in india for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the west, the yoga sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status-and translated into more than forty languages-only in the course of the past forty yearswhite retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down through its heyday in the seventh through eleventh centuries, its gradual fall into obscurity, and its modern resurgence since the nineteenth centuryfirst introduced to the west by the british orientalist henry thomas colebrooke, the yoga sutra was revived largely in europe and america, and predominantly in englishoxfam bookshop cotham hill first edition grey boards and spine with gilt embossed title to spine light shelf-wear to corners and top and bottom of spine but otherwise clean small marks to dust cover which is not price-clipped light bumps to edges of cover rough-cut pages are clean and bright with no marks, creases, or tears book and spine are bright and tight previous owner's pencil commentary to front end flap ("far outshines any since") consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, patanjali's yoga sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practicesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhite brings to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations-and misappropriations-of the yoga sutra led to its revered place in popular culture today
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Printed cloth boardslyrical and powerful, there is no doubting the passion and devotion that created this poetrythese were the gnostic gospels, alternative christian texts - poems, myths, philosophy and gospels - which challenge those of the new testament at every turnwhat they revealed stunned the worldbrown leather spine with gilt title to spineit is a miracle in itself that they survivedxxviii and 724 pages including indexcontained in brown slipcase see oxfam website for delivery information read moreover years of neglect, however, was nothing compared to what happened to them upon discovery: the books were burned in an oven, confiscated and sold on the black market, before they were eventually decipheredoxfam books & music lancaster in , thirteen papyrus books that had lain buried since the 4th century were discovered in an earthenware jar near nag hammadi, in upper egyptthe sacred writings of the nag hammadi library, the berlin gnostic codex and the codex tchacosone text tells the story of the garden of eden from the serpent's point of view, while another casts god as partly femininethe gospel of thomas records sayings of jesus unlike any we have ever heard; that of philip describes mary magdalene as christ's companion 'whom he loved more than all the disciples'
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Through notes on conversations with wittgenstein, letters to a student of philosophy and correspondence of almost 30 years with rush rhees, drury gives shape to what he had learned from wittgensteinthe subsequent course of drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacherwhether discussing philosophy, simone weil or the power of hypnosis, he makes fascinating excursions into the bearing of wittgenstein's thought on philosophy and the practice of medicine and psychiatryoxfam bookshop preston maurice o'connor drury was among wittgenstein's first students after his return to cambridge inbeautifully written and carefully selected, each piece reveals the impact of wittgenstein's teachings, shedding light on the friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morecentral to the collection is the danger of words, the text described by ray monk as 'the most truly wittgensteinian book published by any of wittgenstein's students'alongside a foreword by monk and an introduction presenting a new biography of drury, analysing the relationship between him and wittgenstein, this collection features previously unpublished archival sourcesthe selected writings of maurice o'connor drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicine
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More likely than not, the original idea was tphilip hobsbaum, in the oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry, says of the faber book of modern verse, 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the soxfam bookshop cheltenham first published in february , just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth centurysince then three further editions by, in succession, anne ridler, donald hall and peter porter have been publishedthis faber finds reissue restores that pristine selectionyes, his purpose was tendentious' on the other hand, 'i have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and language' from the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with gerard manley hopkins' the wreck of the deutschland michael roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aim' see oxfam website for delivery information read moremichael roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within itall took as their kernel the original selection by michael robertseliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired onehe excludes some poets he admires such as edmund blunden and walter de la mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic technique
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham westminster, london, 22 juneangry and humiliated he cuts caroline off, as was his right under the law, refuses to let her see their three sons, seizes her manuscripts and letters, her clothes and jewels, and leaves her destituteten years older, he is a dull, violent and controlling lawyer but caroline is determined not to be a traditional wifenorton is a laughing stockpickwick' inthe pickwick papersin westminster hall that day is a young charles dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalise the event as 'bardell vby her early twenties, caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic and outrageous flirtit is a fine, fresh morning that will become hot as the day progressesthe criminal conversation of mrs nortonis the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywherefor the next thirty years caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated victorian society, helping to write the infant custody act (), and influenced the matrimonial causes (divorce) act () and the married women's property act (), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first timeher beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the prime minister, lord melbourneafter a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous and sensationalsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon trial is caroline sheridan, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been manoeuvred into marrying the honourable george norton when she was just nineteencrowds are gathering at the court of common pleasafter years of simmering jealousy, norton accuses caroline and the prime minister of a 'criminal conversation' (adultery) precipitating 'the scandal of the century'
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With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyrannylaw, personified as 'king' (nomos basileus), came to be seen as the ultimate source of sovereignty especially as expressed through the constitutional machinery of the city, and became an important balance and constraint for personal ruleheroic rulers examines reasons why both personal and clan-based rule was particularly unstable and its core tension with the competitive nature of greek society, so that the question of who had the most arete was an issue of debate both from within the ruling family and from other heroic aspirantsit looks at how a common heroic ideology among rulers was based upon excellence, or arete, and also surveys dynastic ruling, where rule was in some sense shared within the family or clansee oxfam website for delivery information read morefinally, heroic rulers demonstrates that monarchy, which is generally thought to have disappeared before the end of the archaic period, remained a valid political option from the early iron age through to the hellenistic periodprobing into ancient perspectives on the legitimacy and legality of rule, the title also explores the relationship between ruling and law
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Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the lord redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the one true faithhe is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure and neither is anyone elsethe sanctuary of the redeemers on shotover scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary"the sanctuary of the redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hopebut the redeemers want cale back at any pricenot because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does nothe is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-mindedit is the first instalment in a gripping trilogy by paul hoffmanimagine if phillip pullman's his dark materials met umberto eco's name of the rosepraise for paul hoffman:'this book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' conn iggulden'tremendous momentum' daily telegraph'a cult classicoxfam shop colne road the left hand of god by paul hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogy' daily express see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or diefans of epic heroic fiction will love this seriesin one of the sanctuary's vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boyhe has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him thomas calehis only hope of survival is to escape across the arid scablands to memphis, a city the opposite of the sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely godless, and deeply corruptthe left hand of god is a must read
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiit is a rock opera that explores pink, a jaded rockstar whose eventual self-imposed isolation from society is symbolized by a wall2) quality: vinyl: vg ++ cover: vg ++ pink floyd ?– the wall label: harvest ?– 1a , harvest ?– 1a format: 2 × vinyl, lp, album, reissue country: netherlands released: genre: rock style: prog rock the wall is the 11th studio album by english rock band pink floyd, released 30 november on harvest and columbia recordsoriginally issued in the netherlands in as harvest 5c "the dark side of the moon" is the eighth studio lp to be released by pink floydit stands as one of the most successful commercial recordings of all time, and has been released in just about every known country on the entire planetrecorded at abbey road studios, london between june and januaryit was recorded at abbey road studios in london england and released inplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storein the us, dsotm has spent more time in the "billboard 200" charts for best selling lp's, than any other release in modern historythe pictures are part and supplement to the description and condition of the offered objectthe album was a commercial success, topping the us charts for 15 weeks, and reaching number three in the uknow offered these iconic and legendary pink floyd albums the albums 1) quality: vinyl: vg ++ cover: vg ++ pink floyd ?– the dark side of the moon label: emi ?– 1a , harvest ?– 1a format: vinyl, lp, album, repress, gatefold sleeve country: netherlands released: genre: rock style: psychedelic rock, prog rock notes "made in holland" on labels gatefold sleeve with lyricsit initially received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found it overblown and pretentious, but later came to be considered one of the greatest albums of all timecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesee pictures for details
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They feature in every major culture from the stone age onwards'there is something about owlsoxfam shop colne road the perfect gift for nature lovers'dusk is filling the valleyhuman-like, in other wordsin the secret life of the owl, john lewis-stempel explores the legends and history of the owlthey are creatures of the night, and thus of magicout in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-obut owls - with the sapient flatness of their faces, their big, round eyes, their paternal expressions - are also reassuringly familiarno other species has so captivated us'john lewis-stempel is one of the best nature writers of his generation' country life see oxfam website for delivery information read morewe see them as wise, like athena's owl, and loyal, like harry potter's hedwigit is the time of the gloaming, the owl-lightthey are the birds of ill-tidings, the avian messengers from the other sideand in vivid, lyrical prose, he celebrates all the realities of this magnificent creature, whose natural powers are as fantastic as any myth
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The pages of the rest of the book are in a very good condition win no evident faults, markings, underlining, or annotationsgilt-edged page blockslightly browned by aging but still a good readable copyoxfam shop shirley title: the poetical works of percy bysshe shelley author: percy bysshe shelley, edited by edward dowden publisher: macmillan and cothe top of the spine has material missing so that it's flush to the page block and the silk page marker is present but detached the bottom of the spine is intact with minimal bumping a school prize label is fixed to the front pastedownsize: 182mm tall by 130mm wide, 708 pages including index of first linessee oxfam website for delivery information read morelondon publication date: reprint binding: hardcover book condition: good dust jacket condition: no dust jacket hard-cover with gilt titles and decoration, sun-faded, and rubbed on the spine internally the hinge of the back cover is cracked with intact webbing showing through front cover gilt titles are in a good condition but the gilt crest is rubbed and fading on one sidethe text of poetry is set at a double column of text per pageshelf wear showing at all four corners which are rubbed and slightly turned
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Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of landno highlighting or other notesin stark contrast, one man, john harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solutiondust jacket unmarkedoxfam bookshop newport the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude, and the unlikely triumph of an english geniusthousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolutionthe quest for a solution had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries when, in , parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (gbp) to anyone whose method or device proved successfulthe scientific establishment throughout europe - from galileo to sir isaac newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreanyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuriesfull of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmakingexcellent condition for its age, with little signs of usetext block clean
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Professor of mathematics in the university of cambridge, a new edition, now first revised and improved by the revthomas smith, in two volumes see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cardiff a beautifully written and illustrated 2 volume set the jewish historian, containing twenty books of the jewish antiquities, seven books of the jewish war, and the life of josephus, written by himself, translated from the original greek, according to havercamp's accurate edition, together with explanatory notes and observations, parallel texts of scripture, the true chronology of the several histories, an account of the jewish coins, weights and measures, and a complete index by the late william whiston am
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Cover slightly dog-eared but otherwise as newin addition to a thorough discussion of its date and place of origin, the collection of essays discusses many aspects of the acts of andrew, such as its interest in magic, martyrdom and the place of the devil, its preoccupation with scatology, and its interest in eroticismoxfam bookshop preston the apocryphal acts of andrew' is the first modern collection of studies on the most important aspects of the acts of andrew, an early christian kind of novel, which has only partially been preserved in greek, latin and copticsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefinally, it analyses the armenian translation, which is shown to be an important witness to the original textit looks at its relationship with poimandres, with the pagan novels and with other christian writings, in particular the acts of john and the acts of andrew and mathiasmuch attention is paid to spiritual climate of the acts of andrew and its connections with platonism and gnosticism
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Five lectures on psycho-analysis, leonardo da vinci and other works ()this collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of sigmund freud in englishincludes:five lectures on psycho-analysis ()leonardo da vinci and a memory of his childhood ()the future prospects of psycho-analytic therapy ()the antithetical meaning of primal words ()a special type of choice of object made by men ()on the universal tendecy to debasement in the sphere of love ()the taboo of virginity ()the psycho-analytic view of psychogenic disturbance of vision ()'wild' psycho-analysis ()shorter writings () see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Then, one morning william fogg receives a letter from a legal firm in london, claiming he's the sole inheritor to his great-great-grandfather's estatebanished from england, he lived out his days in secrecy - before disappearing on an expedition to manchuria in the winter offogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexterityhailing from a landed family, fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor, collector, and quite probably the most extraordinary man ever to have livedby completing the life work of hannibal, william fogg strives to lift the veil on the supreme secret of manfirst in a series of ground-breaking adventure novels from master storyteller, tahir shah, hannibal fogg and the supreme secret of man is unlike anything published in recent timesten years in the making, it's as worldly and wise as the indefatigable hannibal foggbut, while such genius won him accolades and fame, it also fanned the flames of envyby the celebrated author of the caliph's house, a time top ten book of the yearknowing almost nothing of his forebear, he takes possession of the single object left in the bequest - a large rusty iron keyalmost eight decades passedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis life work was publically destroyed in what was to become known as the 'great foggian purge'zigzagging through five continents, the quest reveals how alexander the great was never beaten in battleand there begins the treasure trail of mystery, danger and uproar, as william pieces together the clues left for him by hannibal foggthe key to a door in marrakeshunable to take fogg's triumphs any longer, the british establishment sought to have him discreditedoxfam bookshop hertford through a life cloaked in mystery, edwardian polymath hannibal g
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Though seen most clearly at petra, vivid traces of their creativity and control also appear in the hejaz region of arabia, among the wild rock formations of wadi rum, along trade and pilgrimage routes in the sinai, and in towns and temples throughout jordan and into syriathe book is soft back, with front and back flap, it's slightly cocked forwardsoxfam bookshop keynsham ithis illustrated book recounts the story of a lost civilization - the development of their multifaceted culture, their relations with their neighbours and the demise of their kings and kingdomsmall 1cm tear at the top of the spine" see oxfam website for delivery information read more"the nabataean arabs were one of the most remarkable peoples of the ancient world but are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital - petrathe book is in good conditiontauris & co ltd, x 254 mm; 224 pages; coloured photos on almost every page, with black and white map illustrations
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Case history of schreber, papers on technique and other works ()this collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of sigmund freud in englishincludes:psycho-analytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia ()papers on technique ()dreams in folklore ()on psycho-analysis ()formulations on the two principles of mental functioning ()types of onset neurosis ()contributions to a discussion on masturbation ()a note on the unconscious in psycho-analysis ()an evidential dream ()the occurrence in dreams of material from fairy tales ()the theme of the three caskets ()two lies told by children ()the disposition to obsessional neurosis ()introuduction to pfister's the psycho-analytic method ()preface to bourke's scatalogical rites of all nations ()shorter writings () see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop thornbury the seven wonders of the world were first listed over years ago but they remain a source of fascination and their influence can still be seen in the cities and monuments of the modern worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book tells of the combination of legend and fact associated with these wonders; the story of their various images through the ages, and the reality of the objects themselves
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The work of translation has been undertaken by christopher newbury and steven hobbs, with additions by john chandler, who has edited the volume and contributed an introduction and detailed indexesoxfam bookshop shaftesbury thomas crockford () came to wiltshire in as schoolmaster at stockton, and from until his death was vicar of fisherton delamerehe assiduously collected and copied information from earlier registers and then continued them, for each parish, until shortly before his death book condition throughout very good: dust jacket complete and unmarked, cloth covers very good and all pages crisp and cleanin doing this he was following an instruction of , as many clergy did at the time, but what makes his registers unusual, if not unique, is the manner in which he set about his taskcrockford, unlike most of his parishioners, was proficient in latin, and into his registers he wrote not only the basic details of baptisms, marriages and burials, but also relationships, occupations, causes of death, fortunes and misfortunes, and thumbnail character sketches of everyone who crossed his path at altar, font or graveyard - and all in latinfor much of this time he assisted his neighbours the rectors of wylye and stockton, and began new registers for each of these three adjacent chalkland parishes in the wylye valley of south wiltshirein addition, by enquiring of families and elderly parishioners, he tried to discover details of those whom he had recorded from before his timethis remarkable mirror of rural society in the early 17th century is not a new discovery, but it is now published for the first time in translation and in its entiretywhen writing about the local gentry, fellow clergy, and leading members of society he was generally deferential and complimentary, to the extent that some of his more expansive efforts read as if they were funeral orations; but when it came to the less exalted members of his congregation he was briefer and more candid, knowing that they could not read his commentssee oxfam website for delivery information read morelooks like the book has never been read
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The red cloth boards with gold illustration and text are in very good conditionmultiple colour illustrationsoxfam bookshop bath a hardback in very good conditionyambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (yambo remembers all about julius caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, doesn't remember anything about his parents or his childhoodyambo promptly retreats to the sprawling attic, cluttered with boxes of newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and adolescent diariesyambo struggles through the frames to find at last the face of the girl he loves: she descends the stairs of their high school and morphs into a dante-esque promise (or threat) of the afterlife, as he struggles harder to capture her simple, innocent, real-life image - the schoolgirl he never forgotsigned by author on title pagethe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadhis wife, who is at his side as he slowly begins to recover, convinces him to return to his family home in the hills somewhere between milan and turinthere, he relives the story of his generation: mussolini, catholic education and guilt, josephine baker, flash gordon, cyrano de bergeracas he recovers his memory, two voids remain shrouded in fog: a terrible event he experienced during the resistance, and the vague image of a girl whom he loved at sixteen, then lostbut a relapse occursnow in a coma, his memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novelsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecopiously illustrated throughout with images from comics, book jackets, record sleeves and other printed ephemera, the mysterious flame is a fascinating and hugely entertaining new novel from the incomparable umberto ecothe dustjacket shows very minor shelf wear only
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It's commonly cited along with "the foundations of leninism" as the most important work expressing the ideology of the ussr under stalinthe gilt titles are fadedcorners lightly bumped and a 3cm split of the hinge between the top of the spine and front boardincludes a red ribbon page markerthe contents are clean and the binding is securecolloquially known as "the short course," it was the most widely disseminated book during the reign of joseph stalin see oxfam website for delivery information read morepublished by foreign languages publishing house, moscowoxfam shop darlington hardbackoxblood red boards with titles in gilt on front and spinejoseph stalin's history of the communist party of the soviet union, first published in
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These include their contribution to our understanding of developing theological understandings of jesus, the apostles and other important figures such as marypart one consists of authoritative surveys of the main branches of apocryphal literature (gospels, acts, epistles, apocalypses, and related literature) and part two considers key issues that they raisethe volume also considers questions such as which ancient readers read early christian apocrypha, their place in christian spirituality, and their place in contemporary popular culture and contemporary theological discoursesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit discusses key texts including the gospel of thomas, the gospel of mary, the gospel of peter, letters attributed to paul, peter, and jesus, and acts and apocalypses written about or attributed to different apostlesit also addresses the value of these texts as potential sources for knowledge of the historical jesus, and for debates about jewish-christian relations, the practice of christian worship, and developing understandings of asceticism, gender and sexuality, etcoxfam bookshop victoria the oxford handbook of early christian apocrypha addresses issues and themes that arise in the study of early christian apocryphal literature
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The spanish artist xavi has worked during all these years, illustrating the stories of disney characters such as mickey mouse, donald duck, the beagle boys, mickey mystery, basil, big bad wolf, totally minnie, little mermaid and some of the other characters from disneyare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikixavi, (xavier vives mateu) is a spanish disney artist who has been working for more than 30 years in the disney magazines of the egmont publishing house in denmark and in the sanoma publishing house in the netherlandshe has also made the official disney albums of the first films in long footage, oliver and codue to the current circumstances of the health crisis that the world is suffering, the delivery of this lot may be delayed, longer or shorter, depending on the severity of the momenton a 120 g/m2 21 x 29original sketch of ariel, the disney character of the little mermaidplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storemade in pencil and watercolour inspired on the real placement of the little mermaid of copenhagen this original has a (coa) signed by the authorcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablelittle mermaid and aladdin
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The cittamatrins accept the selflessness of both self and phenomena, but believe in the true existence of mindthe sautrantikas accept the selflessness of persons but not the selflessness of phenomena in excellent conditionthe various tenets of these four schools form the basis for understanding the entire scope of the buddha's teachingsoxfam bookshop kingsbridge the vaibhashikas believe that relative truth is that which can be broken down into parts, whereas ultimate truth is indivisiblethus, it is essential to gain an understanding of the fundamental schools of vaibhashika and sautrantika on the road to ultimate insightfinally, the madhyamikas claim that things appear to be real and substantial, but are actually without inherent, true existence volume 1 in the padma samye ling shedra seriessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The death of his parents, when he was three years old, has always been shrouded in mystery - he has never been told how or where it took place and has only a distant memory of his motherone day a coffin is delivered for his grandfather long before his death - a meticulous, beautiful piece of craftsmanshipedvard's desperate quest to unlock the family's tragic secrets takes him on a long journey - from norway to the shetlands, and to the battlefields of france - to the discovery of a very unusual inheritancethe sixteen trees of the somme is about the love of wood and finding your own self, a beautifully intricate and moving tale that spans an entire century"an intricate story about war, family, secrets and,yes, woodan engaging, satisfying read" the times"so cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic momentum as it zeroes in on its conclusion" scotsmanedvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in norway with his taciturn grandfather, sverreoxfam shop clitheroe a family story of epic scale, by the author of norwegian wood and the bell in the lakeperhaps einar is not dead after alla times bestsellermytting's book is as much a romantic historical thriller as it is a book of promise, a page-turner as it is a reflective journey into selfhood, history, life's meaning and individual moral responsibility - mika provata-carlone, bookanistatranslated from the norwegian by paul russell garrett see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut he knows that the fate of his grandfather's brother, einar, is somehow bound up with this mystery
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This copy is in excellent condition other than some slight 'lifting' on edges of the dust-jacket see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop portishead this volume in the series of the history of the royal regiment of artillery tells the story of the four year artillery duel of the first world war from the point of view of the half a million british gunners, together with those of the dominions and empire, nearly gave their livesillustrated with many photographs, artwork reproductions and maps
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28 €