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  • Can post to mainland u10 / signed for Ā£4via royal mail Ā£3button up at frontcontact seller to organiseused in good condition patrons of peace: vibrant pink jumpsuit with embroidered waist detailing

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  • Paul mccartney - pipes of peace () cd excellent condition fast & free post

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  • Beswick spirit of peacecan post in a strong box for Ā£6 extradesigned by graham tongue, only produced for two years untilexcellent condition

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  • It tells of the rise of the covenanters in scotland with such leaders as the gallant montrose and the mysterious argyllmiss wedgewood has sought to convey the vivid day sequence of events as they flooded down on the men & women of the time, and to restore as far as possible the immediacy of their experienceit tells of parliament's opposition to the king under the skilful leadership of john pymsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop macclesfield some slight scuffing to cover and browning of pagesthis volume tells the story of the four eventful years which immediately preceded the civil war, years which transformed the tranquil dominions of king charles into a land rent by mistrust and menaced by fire and swordthe tragedy of strafford is linked with the terrible insurrection in ireland

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  • At the paris peace conference of , the alliesĀ agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationsoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good conditionbritain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwiseas imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easierĀ to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinyminor signs of shelf wearthe allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves creatednew states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handsthe first world war threw the imperial order into crisisdrawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world ordersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencescolonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva toĀ demand a repartition of the spoils

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  • The other sporting events celebrated on the stamps are the international race of peace in poland and the pan american games ina couple of the used stamps have a little of the envelope that they were attached to still on the back that can be seenthe newest stamp in this collection was issued inthe empire and commonwealth games in , and the commonwealth games in edinburgh insome of the stamps are a little fadedthe countries that the stamps were issued in are the grenada grenadines, great britain, united arab emirates, the former ussr, mongolia, poland, the former czechoslovakia, australia, rwanda and yemensome of the used stamps have a little of the printed postmark on themthe oldest stamp in this collection was issued inoxfam emporium manchester this is a collection of 34 stampsthe decades the stamps were issued in are the s, s, s, and ssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreone of the stamps shows the logo of the london olympics ofmany of the stamps in this collection have not been usedthe olympic games and the commonwealth games that the stamps celebrate are the munich summer olympic games, the montreal summer olympic games, the rome olympic games, the rome olympic games ofthe sports shown on the stamps are fencing, basketball, volleyball, ski-jumping, boxing, pole-vaulting, horse jumping, gymnastics, diving, sailing, running, canoeing, weight-lifting, and wrestling

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  • The cd's cardboard holder is a little worn around the edgesfirst presented at a series of popular retreats, this full eight-cd program takes a participatory approach to merton's most useful teachings, helping us to discover our true selfin the end we find ourselves in what the taoist sage chuang tzu called the palace of nowhere, where all the many things are onenow james finley, who for six years lived, prayed, and studied with brother louis, as merton was known at the abbey of gethsemani, shares with us the gifts passed on to him by this towering figure on thomas merton's path to the palace of nowherethere is an eastern teaching called transmission of mind, in which the enlightened mind embodied in the master is manifest in the student's awakeningoxfam bookshop newark this is not a bookto disappear into god; to be submerged into his peace; to be lost in the secret of his face, as merton said, through daily practices including contemplation, prayer, and faithhis writings, which bridge eastern and western spiritual thought, continue to inspire us with their real possibilities for immediate and direct experience of the divinesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethomas merton, trappist monk, author, and student of zen, remains one of the most important and beloved figures in the modern christian contemplative movementit is in this spirit that james finley invites us to follow thomas merton's path to the palace of nowhere

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  • Founded in to preserve peace between its member-states, the league inspired a rich, participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual which found expression through the establishment of voluntary societies in dozens of countries across europe and beyondembodied in the hugely popular league of nations union, this pro-league movement touched britain in profound waysoxfam bookshop chelmsford in the decades following europe's first total war, millions of british men and women looked to the league of nations as the symbol and guardian of a new world order based on international co-operationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebased on extensive archival research, the british people and the league of nations offers a vivid account of this popular league consciousness and in so doing reveals the vibrant character of associational life between the warsforemost amongst the league societies, the union became one of britain's largest voluntary associations and a powerful advocate of democratic accountability and popular engagement in the making of foreign policy

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  • We are meant to go in and out of doors in civilized style, but my mother bade me climb into woodsy wildness and a darkness flushed with crimson light and torchesnewly published paperbackher unmarked way is costly and hard" clambering into the branches of a tree, a young woman flees flaming arrows and massacreoccult fears have a way of creeping into the mindshe may be tugged by her desires for companionship, may even stumble into an intense love for a man, and may be made to try the strength of female heroism in ways no longer familiar to women in our centuryshe will need to struggle for survival: to scour the wilderness for shelter, to strive and seek for a new family and a setting where she can belongand even if she survives the wilds, it is no simple matter to discover and nest among her own kind-the godly, those called puritans by othersstreams of darkness run through the seventeenth-century villages of the massachusetts bay colonyoxfam bookshop victoria "when i swung over that windowsill, everything changed for mewhat young woman can be safe from the dangers of wilderness when its shadowy thickets spring up so easily in the soil of human hearts? much will oppose charis' longings for renewal and peace; she must pursue and discover the hero's path to a larger, more vivid lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor charis, the world outside the window of home is a maze of hazards

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  • Profoundly moving, it pays tribute to the men and women who voluntarily risked their lives for peaceand eventually they meet the kind of men worth giving up their precious independence for - if only they all surviveused to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first in the dardanelles, then on the western frontat once epic in scope and extraordinarily intimate, the daughters of mars brings the first world war to vivid life from an unusual perspectivesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet they find courage in the face of extreme danger and become the friends they never were beforeoxfam bookshop cheltenham in , two spirited australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them

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  • It is a story of the struggle for one's ideals amid the despair and grief of war, but most of all, it is a story of hope in the most dire circumstancesoxfam shop dumfries brutally honest and rich in detail, this posthumously published diary of a twenty-seven-year-old vietcong woman doctor, saved from destruction by an american soldier, gives us fresh insight into the lives of those fighting on the other side of the vietnam warsee oxfam website for delivery information read more

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  • Very good conditionoxfam bookshop aberystwyth a exhibition for the soane gallery marking the bicentenary of the signing of the treaty of parissee oxfam website for delivery information read more

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  • However, it quickly becomes clear to granger that only the elimination of the tyrant king, raven (lochlyn munro), can bring about peace - no small task when the only weapons the former soldier possesses in such a rustic era are his own two fistsvancouver resident granger (dolph lundgren) falls through a time vortex after being attacked in his apartment by a group of assassinsthough he is initially bewildered to find himself in a mediaeval world, he quickly falls in with manhatten (natassia malthe), a woman who believes she can bring relief to her war-torn land by killing a witch known as the holy mother (christina jastrzembska)see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop lymington fast-paced adventure sequel in which a former special forces soldier is transported back in time and becomes involved in a quest that may shape the future

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  • All she wanted was a bit of peace - some time to herself - but it didn't work out that wayexcept that the man on the news is a man sally has never seen beforealso perfect for fans of clare mackintosh and paula hawkinsbecause sally met a manall the details are the same: where he lives, his job, his wife geraldine and daughter lucyand ended in murderlast year, a work trip sally had planned was cancelled at the last minutedesperate for a break from her busy life juggling work and a young family, sally didn't tell her husband that the trip had fallen throughsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresally is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she ought not to recognise: mark bretherickinstead, she booked a week off work and treated herself to a secret holidayand geraldine and lucy bretherick are both dead'addictive' marie claire'irresistible' guardianit began with an affairmark bretherickoxfam bookshop cheltenham agatha christie fans will love queen of crime sophie hannah's third stunning psychological suspense novel

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  • Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square light novel version of the popular anime and manga seriessee oxfam website for delivery information read more

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  • The main pagination of all four volumes is continuousit has been possible to identify virtually all the host of islands, channels and inlets that vancouver encountered, and the provenance of most of the approximately 400 place names he bestowed, nine out of ten of which are still in use, is indicatedthe third volume in the set includes the remainder of book 3, all book 4, part of book 5, covering the pacific coast of north america and return to hawaiithe volumes are nos in the hakluyt society second series, originally published in volume set hardbacksvery small tear to spine on volume iithe final volume contains the remainder of book 5 of a voyage of discoveryvolume i contains book 1 of this new and annotated edition of a voyage of discoverysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit was an achievement that places him with his mentor, cook, in the first rank of marine surveyorsthis is the first annotated edition of vancouver's journal as he revised it for publication inthe voyage to australia and tahitioxfam bookshop skipton four of the greatest maritime exploring expeditions were crammed into two decades late in the 18th century - cook's third voyage, the french expedition commanded by la perouse, the malaspina expedition sent out by spain, and george vancouver's voyage of discoveryall dust covers present (unclipped) some rubbing wear to dust coverthese supplement vancouver's narrative at many pointsall pages are very clean and crisp all solid bindingsappendices include documents relating to the voyage and a list of the ships' companyvancouver, by contrast, surveyed the enormous extent of coast from lower california to cook inlet, and his meticulous survey literally set out on the map of the world the intricacies of puget sound and the western coast of mainland canadaas a midshipman vancouver had been with cook when he discovered the sandwich (hawaiian) islands inthe original manuscript has disappeared, but fortunately no fewer than 25 partial or complete logs or journals by other members of the expedition have survivedall four visited the northwest coast of north america, but weather and circumstances prevented cook from making more than what beaglehole calls ' a magnificent, an epoch-making reconnaissance'; la perouse only touched the coast in a significant way at yakutat bay and lituya bay, and malasina's memorable visits were to yakutat bay and nootka soundit covers the coast of north americathey attracted his interest, and the attention he devoted to the islands, their inhabitants and their political future when he twice later wintered there will surprise manyvolume ii continue with book 2 and part of book 3 of the new edition, and contains the voyage to hawaii and the north american coast

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  • Oxfam shop syston extended versions of peter jackson's complete epic big screen adaptation of jonce they reach the elvish realm of rivendellĀ  the hobbits form part of the anti-sauron fellowship, which includes aragorn (viggo mortensen), boromir (sean bean), legolas greenleaf (orlando bloom), gimli the dwarf and of course gandalfgandalf manages to rally gondor's fallen army with the help of king theoden of rohan for the biggest battle in the history of middle-earth; and aragorn finally faces up to his responsibilitiesfinally, 'the return of the king' () won all 11 academy awards it was nominated for, including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplaytolkien's 'lord of the rings' trilogy - filmed back-to-back and released over 3 consecutive yearsmeanwhile aragorn, legolas and gimli search for the hobbits merry and pippin in the kingdom of rohan, which is currently being attacked by saruman's orc armiesin 'the two towers' () the fellowship of the ring has now divided and sam and frodo are lost in the hills of emyn muilin 'the fellowship of the ring' () frodo (elijah wood) is a hobbit living in the shire, a quiet, peaceful part of middle earthwhen it turns out that his elderly relative bilbo (ian holm) is harbouring the ultimate ring of power and the evil nazgul riders of sauron are coming to find it, frodo is entrusted by wizard gandalf (ian mckellen) to deliver the ring out of the shire without it falling into their handstogether they must battle across middle earth to destroy the ring by casting it into the cracks of doom, the fiery chasm in the centre of mordorgandalf returns as gandalf the white to remind aragorn of his destiny to unite the people of rohan with gondorwhilst the fellowship are not travelling together they must unite against the powerful forces coming from the two towers: orthanc tower in isengard where saruman has bred a deadly army of , and sauron's fortress at barad-dĆ»rsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrodo leaves the shire aided by his cousins merry (dominic monaghan), pippin (billy boyd) and trusty friend sam gamgee (sean astin), but they soon realise that the agents of mordor are everywhere and that their trip is far from overthey are obviously out-numbered but are determined to keep sauron distracted in order to enable frodo to complete his quest to destroy the ring by throwing it into the fires of the mountain of doomthey are also being followed by gollum, a creature who promises to help them find the mountain of doom

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  • It includes close to 31 cavalry soldiers attacking the british squaresreferences na067, na068, na069, na070, na071, na072, na073, na074, na075, na076 and na077 (the whole ā€œto take the kingĀ“s shilling series)references na064, na065 and na066 (the whole series)references na013, na014, na015, na016, na017, na018, na019, na020, na021, na022, na023, na024, na028, na033, na034, na100, na101, na102, na103, na104, na105, na106, na107, na108, na109, na110 (the whole series ā€œvive lĀ“empereurā€)catawikiā€™s goal is to make special objects universally availabletomas picton by britains, referencethese figures have been exclusively displayed in a toy soldier museum (museo lĀ“iber, valencia, spain)they are in mint to very good condition, since they were used exclusively to be displayed in the dioramana112, na113, na114, na115, na116, na117, na118, na120 and na121 (the whole series ā€œcuirassiersā€)british coldstream guards light company, by britains, recreating the defense of hougoumontare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe royal horse artillery, by king and country, references na096, na097, na098 and na099 (the whole series)cuirassiers (les gros freres), by king and countryregiment of the line, by king and countryit includes close to 30 figures, references (published in the collection supplement)garde impĆ©riale (dragons de lĀ“emperatrice), by king and coubtrycoldstream guards (the 2nd regiment of the foot guards), integrating close to 60 soldiers 60 by king and country, references na125, na126, na126, na128, na 129, na 130, na 131, na 132, na 133, na 134, na 135, na 136 (these references represent the whole series ā€œon campaignā€)it includes 16 figures, references na083, na084, na085, na086, na087, na088, na089, na090 (these references represent the whole series ā€œbold chevaliers)french light infantry, by britains, participating in the attack to hougoumontit consists of close to 45 figures recreating the defense from the scot greys chargeeach king and country series is complete, retired and sold out and includes the original cataloguereferences na039, na042, na043, na044, na078, na079, na080, na081 (the whole series Ā”ā€œvive lĀ“emperatrice!ā€) - 7threferences na111french artillery, by king and countryit includes 16 cavalry soldiers attacking the british squarescharacteristics of the items the majority of these figures do not have the original boxthe british and ally army commanded by wellington: - black watch (royal highland regiment), integrating close to 80 soldiers square by king and country, references na035, na036, na037, na 38, na047, na048, na049, na050, na051, na052, na053, na054, na055, na067, na068 and na077 (these references represent the whole series ā€œscotland the braveā€)all of them have been sold out and retiredthe scots greys (the 2nd north british dragons), by king and country, representing the ā€œcharge of the greysā€it also includes srplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe french army commanded by napoleĆ³n - the french 3rdthe kingĀ“s german legion (recruited mostly from the german state of hannover), by king and countryit contains 380 items, 318 by king and country (recreating the typical british squares defending themselves against the french cavalry charges) ang 62 by britains (recreating the defense of hougoumont)it consists of close to 32 figuresthe 71th, integrating close to 35 soldiers square by king and country, references na001, na002, na003, na004, na05, na006, na007, na008, na009, na010, na011, na012, na030, na031, na032 (these references represent the whole series ā€œscum of the earthā€)references andour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonā€™t find in just any storeit consists of 11 figures

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  • Two uniformly bound books in the original bindings with original endpapers - xxxi, 464 + folding 'map of morocco' ( cm), xxii, 503 ppplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecondition: both books from new college library oxford with features: embossed marking on the front cover, traces at the bottom of the spine, bookplate and coding inside front and back cover, map with a stamp in the marginā€˜james edward budgett meakin () was an english journalistthe moors: preface, spelling, parts i, ii, iii -social, ethical, supplementary) he was fascinated by the people and culture of morocco and soon after his arrival there he started to write about everything he saw and experienced(total of 2 books) read morecatawikiā€™s goal is to make special objects universally availablehe wrote extensively about morocco (see pictures of the table of contentsā€™ registered shippingour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonā€™t find in just any storehe adopted local clothes, gave himself a local name (tahar bel mikki) and learned the local customs and languageotherwise the books look good, bookblocks are solidcontents (summary): land of the moors: preface, spelling, parts i, ii, iii -natural and physical, political, experimental, appendixare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

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  • Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitea study or reference literature for true lovers or specialists of french furniture or those who want to become itour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonā€™t find in just any storecatawikiā€™s goal is to make special objects universally availablepart two includes: - "the period of the seventeenth (xvii), eighteenth (xviii) and nineteenth (xix) century" and also 317 pages and contains 108 drawn images, followed by a table of contentsthe two parts are nicely bound in a red hard cover with gold and black printtwo specialist books on french furniture in two parts written in the french language by alfred champeaux curator of the library of the association of decorative arts in paristhis edition is fromare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikipart one describes: - "the period of the antiques, the middle ages and the renaissance" - 317 pages and contains 75 drawn images, followed by a table of contents

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  • Should it also be of interest, i also have a video tape for sale in the same condition at the same price of the guilbert & sullivan opera the mikado, which is also one of the savoy video series of video tapes released by ait was also produced by george walker and starred william conrad, clive revill, stafford dean, john stewart and kate flowersone of the savoy video series of video tapes released by at video gems in , this classical musical version of the gilbert & sullivan opera is numbered vhs s and was produced by george walker and starred joel grey, alfred marks, elizabeth gale, david hillman and elizabeth bainbridgethe video tape is in excellent condition and is made available inclusive of the cost of packaging but exclusive of the cost of postage which will be one of the following: royal mail 'uk standard' 1st class service for small parcel upto and including 1kg: Ā£370; or royal mail 'uk standard' 2nd class service for small parcel upto and including 1kg: Ā£3the yeomen of the guard vhs video tape

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  • However, it can also be spread through contact with infected materialthis second infection path is where the smartbunker could be highly beneficialsome of the key benefits include being fully vermin proof and fully waterproof for indoor and outdoor usageit will also reduce labour costs for staff as the feed will be outside of the horseā€™s stable and close at hand, if multiple smartbunkers are purchasedits main goals are to keep feed safe and reduce the risk of spreading infectionsmartbunker can help lessen part of the risk of equine influenza by cutting out unnecessary contact between vulnerable and transmitting animalsworking together, itā€™s a win-win situation for everyone involvedwhatā€™s more, the smartbunker allows each horseā€™s feed and feed bucket to be kept separate, therefore reducing the risk of cross contamination(click to reveal full phone number) click to contact wwwit has a unique dispensing system with an easy to use pull arm, which distributes the necessary amount of product with very little forcefurthermore, feed can be weighed out, which reduces waste and also allows monitoring of overfeeding or underfeeding, and before refilling the smartbunker can be fully washed down, allowed to dry, and then refilled to keep feed fresh and cleanin fact, smartbunkers could also help to reduce the risk of any further outbreaks of equine influenza if used consistentlythe award winning smartbunker is practical for a range of animal feedsthe virus is predominantly spread via infected bodily fluids and secretions, such as nasal discharge, coughing and foetal fluids

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  • Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteiron maiden ?ā€“ the book of souls: live chapter label: parlophone ?ā€“ format: 2 Ɨ cd, album, deluxe edition country: europe released: 17 nov tracklist 1-1 if eternity should fail (qudos bank arena, sydney, australia, speed of light (grand arena, grandwest, cape town, south africa, wrathchild (3arena, dublin, ireland, children of the damned (bell centre, montreal, canada, death or glory (wroclaw stadium, wroclaw, poland, the red and the black (ryogoku kokugikan, tokyo, japan, the trooper (estadio jorge magico gonzalez, san salvador, el salvador, powerslave (piazza dellā€™unita dā€™italia, trieste, italy, the great unknown (metro radio arena, newcastle, uk, the book of souls (download festival, donington, uk, fear of the dark (arena castelao, fortaleza, brazil, iron maiden (estadio velez sarsfield, buenos aires, argentina, the number of the beast (wacken open air, wacken, germany, blood brothers (download festival, donington, uk, wasted years (hsbc arena, rio de janeiro, brazil, ) item will be shippd by registrated mailcatawikiā€™s goal is to make special objects universally availableour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonā€™t find in just any storeiron maiden ?ā€“ the number of the beast label: parlophone ?ā€“ series: iron maiden the studio collection remastered ā€“ format: cd, album, limited edition, reissue, remastered box set country: europe released: 16 nov tracklist 1 invaders 2 children of the damned 3 the prisoner 4 22 acacia avenue 5 the number of the beast 6 run to the hills 7 gangland 8 hallowed be thy name with eddie 1:24 scale figurine, beast collectors patch & cdare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki

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  • Morgan shows how radical and revisionist scholars in the s and s first challenged the paradigm of denying an american empirebut just a few decades earlier, this position was considered radical and even Ć²un-americansimultaneously, a small school of revisionist scholars, led by historian william appleman williams at the university of wisconsin, put forward a progressive, nuanced critique of american empire grounded in psychology, economics, and broader historical contextsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford the idea that the united states-a nation founded after a war of independence-operates as an imperialist power on the world stage has gained considerable traction since the turn of the twenty-first centuryit is this more sophisticated strand of thinking, morgan argues, which demonstrated that empire can be an effective analytical framework for studying us foreign policy, thus convincing american scholars to engage with the subject seriously for the first timeĆ³ how did this dramatic change come about?tracing the emergence of the concept of us imperialism, james gas the vietnam war created a critical flashpoint, bringing the idea of american imperialism into the us mainstream, radical students of the new left turned toward marxist critiques, admiring revolutionaries like che guevara

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  • Karim lives with his mum and dad in a suburb of south london and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big cityoxfam bookshop cheltenham the buddha of suburbia, hanif kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young pakistani growing up in s britainbut his father is no ordinary dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the eastsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreamong his disciples is the glamorous and ambitious eva, and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a crumbling flat in barons court, karim's life becomes changed in ways that even he had never dreamed of

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  • Oxfam bookshop lower petergate a personal account of the spring offensive of that culminated in the capture of saigon and the end of the vietnam warwritten by general van tien dung, chief of staff in the vietnam people's army and the officer in charge of the offensive, the narrative offers valuable insight into the vietnamese side of these historic eventssee oxfam website for delivery information read moretranslated by john spragens jr, with an afterword by cora weiss and don lucein good condition, there are a number of small tears to the edge of the dust jacket, and some discolouration to the edges of the pages

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  • His aim was to improve the quality of western design by changing the habits of victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sourcesjones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in europe, the middle east, and in his native london, where he studied objects on display at the great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations in and at local museumsthe studio library of decorative art, the grammar of ornament owen jones hardcover with dust jacket good condition - some tears to the dust jacket first published in , the grammar of ornament remains a design classicat once splendidly victorian and insistently modern, the grammar of ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook todayjones's resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of ornamental design, presenting key examples ranging from maori tattoos, egyptian columns, and greek borders to byzantine mosaic, indian embroidery, and elizabethan carvingssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreits inspiration came from pioneering british architect and designer owen jones (), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color

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  • On the front cover there is a small deep indentation and on the back cover there are some slight signs of wearit marks the culmination of over 50 years of field recording by local botanists and over 18 years of fieldwork and in-depth search of historical records by the authoroxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionĀ  this is the first full flora of the vice county of renfrewshire (renfrewshire, east renfrewshire, inverdyde and parts of southend north-west glasgow)internally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe flora contains:- over species accounts that include first record, status, distribution and ecology;- more than 660 dot maps of native and frequently encountered alien spieces;- introductory chapters on geology soils, landscape, climate, historical recording and the changing environment;- discussion chapters on distribution patterns, floristic distribution patterns, floristic conservation;- 24 pages of colour plates of maps and photographs showing botanical hot spots and local notable species

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  • First edition see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much morehe examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from new york to new delhi, from the latin american revolutions to the taiping rebellion, from the perils and promise of europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planetoxfam bookshop knutsford a monumental history of the nineteenth century, the transformation of the world offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transitionosterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railwaysindispensable for any historian, the transformation of the world sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developmentsjĆ¼rgen osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering eruditionthis is the highly anticipated english edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed german book, which is also being translated into chinese, polish, russian, and french

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  • Signed by stephen castleidlestreĀ andĀ borhamĀ were much influenced by the great abbey of st albans, and indeed by alban's martyrdom and the roman muncipium of verulamium, so that the area's past is inextricably entwined with the great and the good of times ancient and laterboreham wood's origins are mistier, but technology brought massive change and development with the coming of the railway in , and again, when cinema created britain's hollywood in this pleasant parishthe book of elstreeĀ &Ā boreham woodĀ brings them all to life, recapturing the history of these two places, in a fluent and considered narrative and very many fascinating picturesvery minor marks to dj otherwise clean and bright throughoutcondition: as newuntil recently, medieval elstree had survived largely intact, but post-war reconstruction brought considerable mutilationnotĀ long after the normans came, there was a flourishing settlement at elstree hillsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehappily, a few fine late medieval buildings escaped the developer's insensitive eyeoxfam books & music hereford signed limited subscriber edition, numbered 44the hills and valleys of this busy corner of herts have been home to people for some years, andĀ the romans chose elstree hill as aĀ major tile-manufacturing centrehere are the people behind that past - edward de kendale, adam scippe, thomas newchapman and agnes, his wife; sir anthony denny and rev canon eales; george byng and wortley-montagu; murderers thurtell and hunt; macready the great actor; burton the great explorer and the photographer wellington; and of course, the legendary giants of british cinema - men like rank, danziger, balcon and blattner

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