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This book, with stamps from edmond hall school, newport, was published inoxfam books & music lichfield an intricatly detailed exploration of the hundred of bradford (north), you'll find information about and black and white photography of adderley, to hodnet, to shawbury & whitchurchsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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"romanesque churches of france", which covers a hundred or so churches in ten geographical sections from normandy and burgundy in the north to provence, roussillon and languedoc in the south, is the first comprehensive book to be published on the subjectmany have links to romanesque churches in italy, england and germany, since romanesque was a style that was admired throughout europeoxfam books & music beaconsfield the romanesque churches to be found in every corner of france are one of the wonders of europeit was the age of pilgrimages and a number of the churches were built along the four great pilgrim routes through france to santiago de compostela in north-west spainthe period saw the first revival of the art of sculpture since roman times, and many of the churches such as moissac, autun, vezelay and chauvigny contain outstanding sculpturesee oxfam website for delivery information read moretheir architectural style varies from region to region, as do their size, shape and layoutsome, like st-savin-sur-gartempe and tavant, have superb frescoes, and a few like ganagobie have fine mosaicsthis book is an ideal companion for travellers, with its many maps and its regional arrangement, and will be a stimulus for the exploration of remote and beautiful areas that are less familiar, such as auvergne and the pyreneesit will also be invaluable as a reference book for all those with a general interest in the history of french architecture and sculpturecopyright/first publishedthe book is in good condition with a little shelfwear, sound binding and unmarked pagesthey were built between about and and were contemporary with english norman architecture
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Drawing on her groundbreaking research at evangelical churches near the uoxfam bookshop witney a comparative look at evangelical churches across the uĀ the politics of evangelical identityĀ challenges this notion, arguing that the hijacking metaphor paints a fundamentally distorted picture of how evangelical churches have become politicizedborder with canada-two in buffalo, new york, and two in hamilton, ontario-lydia bean compares how american and canadian evangelicals talk about politics in congregational settingsthe book reveals how the powerful coalition between evangelicals and the republican party is not merely a creation of political elites who have framed conservative issues in religious language, but is anchored in the lives of local congregationswhile canadian evangelicals share the same theology and conservative moral attitudes as their american counterparts, their politics are quite differentsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe politics of evangelical identityĀ demonstrates how deep the ties remain between political conservatism and evangelical christianity in americaside of the border, political conservatism is woven into the very fabric of everyday religious practiceshe explains how the most explicit partisan cues come not from clergy but rather from lay opinion leaders who help their less politically engaged peers to link evangelical identity to conservative politicsbean shows how subtle partisan cues emerge in small group interactions as members define how "we christians" should relate to others in the broader civic arena, while liberals are cast in the role of adversariescanada border that reveals deep political differencesit is now a common refrain among liberals that christian right pastors and television pundits have hijacked evangelical christianity for partisan gain
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Country churches of england scotland and wales
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A hymn book for all the churchessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop lymington with one voiceharmony editiondark blue hardcover with gilt titlesa very good and clean copyminor darkening to page extremitiescollins liturgical publications
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreĀ includes the administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church according to the use of the church of england together with the psalter or psalms of david, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches, and the form or manner of making ordaining and consecrating of bishops, priests and deaconsit has a thin ribbon place markeroxfam bookshop truro tiny pocket sized version with leather bound spine andĀ card and plastic ? boardsthe pages are tissue thin with re gold edges and are in good conditionfair condition, with a dedication on the front end paper
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In this study, paul duff offers a different viewpoint on the origin of the book of revelation is a rhetorically sophisticated response to an internal leadership crisis within the churchesmore recently, however, it has been argued that no such crisis existed at the time the book was writtenthroughout the work, the apocalyse points to rome as the predominant demonic agentsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe result is a work that substantially advances the implication of the current consensus and sheds new light on this influential yet enigmatic textscholars have traditionally thought that revelation was written in order to encourage believers to stand fast in the face of the roman persecutation of the early churchin support of this argument duff marshals evidence from the social and economic context of the time, and from literary and rhetorical analyses of the textoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear the book of revelation presents the reader with a frightening narrative world in which the people of god are tormented, threatened, and sometimes killed by various agents of satan
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Oxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear in the period between the councils of nicea and chalcedon in the fourth and fifth centuries, the faithful in the churches of the ecclesiastical district of antioch were the beneficiaries of the ministry of the word from distinguished pastorsin the course of this survey, readers will gain an insight also into antioch's worldview and its approach to the person of jesus, to soteriology, morality and spiritualitysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluded in this ministry were homilies on the old testament by john chrysostom and written commentaries by his mentor diodore and his fellow student theodore, and later by theodoretstudents and exegetes of the old testament and its individual authors and books will be introduced here to antioch's distinctive approach and interpretation by commentators reading their local form of the greek biblethough the biblical text was admittedly jewish in origin, "the text and the meaning are ours," claimed chrysostom; and the great bulk of extant remains reveals the pastoral priority given to this often obscure material
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In the following century, former monasteries were eventually adapted to a variety of uses: royal palaces and country houses, town halls and schools, almshouses and re-fashioned parish churchessee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this beautiful and elegantly argued book, maurice howard reveals that changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of construction and the self-image of major patrons in the revolutionary century between reformation and civil warwhile the dissolution of the monasteries in the s resulted in the destruction of much of england's built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emergedoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , yalea very good copy
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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 verbaloxfam 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 disciplinesandrews and cambridge), ann loades (durham), david npower (catholic university of america), sven-erik brodd (uppsala), peter bouteneff (stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreross (loyola university, chicago)the 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 (stvladimir's seminary, new york) and susan awhat 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 theology
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreall pages are very clean and crisp all solid bindingsthe volumes are nos in the hakluyt society second series, originally published in volume set hardbacksall dust covers present (unclipped) some rubbing wear to dust coverthe 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 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 init 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 indicatedthese supplement vancouver's narrative at many pointsthey 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 manyvancouver, 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 canadavolume ii continue with book 2 and part of book 3 of the new edition, and contains the voyage to hawaii and the north american coastthe main pagination of all four volumes is continuousvery small tear to spine on volume iias a midshipman vancouver had been with cook when he discovered the sandwich (hawaiian) islands inthe 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 hawaiioxfam 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 discoveryvolume i contains book 1 of this new and annotated edition of a voyage of discoveryappendices include documents relating to the voyage and a list of the ships' companythe final volume contains the remainder of book 5 of a voyage of discoverythe voyage to australia and tahitiit covers the coast of north america
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Frodo 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 overfinally, 'the return of the king' () won all 11 academy awards it was nominated for, including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplaywhen 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 handsgandalf returns as gandalf the white to remind aragorn of his destiny to unite the people of rohan with gondorsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretogether 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 mordorwhilst 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»rthey are also being followed by gollum, a creature who promises to help them find the mountain of doomoxfam shop syston extended versions of peter jackson's complete epic big screen adaptation of jtolkien's 'lord of the rings' trilogy - filmed back-to-back and released over 3 consecutive yearsgandalf 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 responsibilitiesonce 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 gandalfmeanwhile 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 fellowship of the ring' () frodo (elijah wood) is a hobbit living in the shire, a quiet, peaceful part of middle earthin 'the two towers' () the fellowship of the ring has now divided and sam and frodo are lost in the hills of emyn muilthey 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 doom
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British coldstream guards light company, by britains, recreating the defense of hougoumontit consists of close to 32 figuresregiment of the line, by king and countryreferences na111the 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 āscum of the earthā)references andgarde impĆ©riale (dragons de lĀ“emperatrice), by king and coubtryna112, na113, na114, na115, na116, na117, na118, na120 and na121 (the whole series ācuirassiersā)it also includes srcuirassiers (les gros freres), by king and countrycharacteristics of the items the majority of these figures do not have the original boxthese 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 dioramafrench light infantry, by britains, participating in the attack to hougoumontreferences na067, na068, na069, na070, na071, na072, na073, na074, na075, na076 and na077 (the whole āto take the kingĀ“s shilling series)references na064, na065 and na066 (the whole series)it includes 16 cavalry soldiers attacking the british squaresfrench artillery, by king and countryour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonāt find in just any storeit 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)coldstream 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 āon campaignā)references na039, na042, na043, na044, na078, na079, na080, na081 (the whole series Ā”āvive lĀ“emperatrice!ā) - 7ththe scots greys (the 2nd north british dragons), by king and country, representing the ācharge of the greysāit includes 16 figures, references na083, na084, na085, na086, na087, na088, na089, na090 (these references represent the whole series ābold chevaliers)it includes close to 31 cavalry soldiers attacking the british squaresit consists of 11 figuresplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteit includes close to 30 figures, references (published in the collection supplement)tomas picton by britains, referencecatawikiās goal is to make special objects universally availablethe french army commanded by napoleĆ³n - the french 3rdare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe 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 āscotland the braveā)the royal horse artillery, by king and country, references na096, na097, na098 and na099 (the whole series)all of them have been sold out and retiredreferences 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 āvive lĀ“empereurā)it consists of close to 45 figures recreating the defense from the scot greys chargethe kingĀ“s german legion (recruited mostly from the german state of hannover), by king and countryeach king and country series is complete, retired and sold out and includes the original catalogue
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Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonāt find in just any storeājames edward budgett meakin () was an english journalistcatawikiās goal is to make special objects universally availabletwo uniformly bound books in the original bindings with original endpapers - xxxi, 464 + folding 'map of morocco' ( cm), xxii, 503 ppsee pictures of the table of contents) 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 morehe wrote extensively about morocco (contents (summary): land of the moors: preface, spelling, parts i, ii, iii -natural and physical, political, experimental, appendixā registered shippingare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikihe adopted local clothes, gave himself a local name (tahar bel mikki) and learned the local customs and languagethe moors: preface, spelling, parts i, ii, iii -social, ethical, supplementarycondition: 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 marginotherwise the books look good, bookblocks are solidplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonāt find in just any storecatawikiās goal is to make special objects universally availablethis edition is fromare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikipart 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 contentsa study or reference literature for true lovers or specialists of french furniture or those who want to become itplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe 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 parispart 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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70; or royal mail 'uk standard' 2nd class service for small parcel upto and including 1kg: Ā£3should 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 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 yeomen of the guard vhs video tapethe 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£3one 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 flowers
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Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonāt find in just any storecatawikiās goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiiron 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 & cdplease 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 Ć 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 dellāunita dāitalia, 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 mail
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But just a few decades earlier, this position was considered radical and even Ć²un-americanmorgan shows how radical and revisionist scholars in the s and s first challenged the paradigm of denying an american empireit 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 timesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreĆ³ how did this dramatic change come about?tracing the emergence of the concept of us imperialism, james gsimultaneously, 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 contextoxfam 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 centuryas 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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See oxfam website for delivery information read morebut 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 eastkarim 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 cityamong 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 ofoxfam 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 britain
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morein good condition, there are a number of small tears to the edge of the dust jacket, and some discolouration to the edges of the pageswritten 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 eventsoxfam bookshop lower petergate a personal account of the spring offensive of that culminated in the capture of saigon and the end of the vietnam wartranslated by john spragens jr, with an afterword by cora weiss and don luce
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See 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 colorjones 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 museumsjones'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 carvingsat 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 todaythe 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 classichis 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 sources
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedoxfam 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)the 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 specieson 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 author
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Indispensable 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 developmentsfirst edition see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford a monumental history of the nineteenth century, the transformation of the world offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transitionhe 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 moreosterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railwayshe 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 planetthis 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 frenchjĆ¼rgen 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 erudition
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The 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 centreidlestreĀ 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 latersee oxfam website for delivery information read morevery minor marks to dj otherwise clean and bright throughoutboreham 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 parishsigned by stephen castleoxfam books & music hereford signed limited subscriber edition, numbered 44until recently, medieval elstree had survived largely intact, but post-war reconstruction brought considerable mutilationhere 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 blattnerthe 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 picturescondition: as newhappily, a few fine late medieval buildings escaped the developer's insensitive eyenotĀ long after the normans came, there was a flourishing settlement at elstree hill
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Internally clean and unmarkedvitt have studied and photographed members of almost all lizard families worldwide, and they bring to the book a deep knowledge based on extensive firsthand experience with the animals in their natural habitatspublished by the university of california press, this paperback book is in very good used condition with only minor wear to edges and bumping to cornerspart one explores lizard lifestyles, answering such questions as why lizards are active when they are, why they behave as they do, how they avoid predators, why they eat what they eat, and how they reproduce and socializesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein part two the authors take us on a fascinating tour of the world's manifold lizard species, beginning with iguanians, an evolutionary group that includes some of the most bizarre lizards, the true chameleons of africa and madagascaraccessible, scientifically up-to-date, and written with contagious enthusiasm for the subject, lizards: windows to the evolution of diversity covers species evolution, diversity, ecology, and biologypart three gives an unprecedented global view of evolutionary trends that have shaped present-day lizard communities and considers the impact of humans on their futurepianka and laurie ja definitive resource containing many entertaining anecdotes, this magnificent book opens a new window to the natural world and the evolution of life on earththis book, lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, is the first comprehensive reference on lizards around the worldwe also meet the glass lizard, able to break its tail into many highly motile pieces to distract a predator from its body; lizards that can run across water; and limbless lizards, such as snakesoxfam books & music fareham from tiny to gigantic, from drab to remarkably beautiful, from harmless to venomous, lizards are spectacular products of natural selection
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Makdisi argues that sectarianism represented a deliberate mobilization of religious identities for political and social purposeshis study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groupssee oxfam website for delivery information read moremakdisi's book is important to our understanding of lebanese society today, but it also makes a significant contribution to the discussion of the importance of religious discourse in the formation and dissolution of social and national identities in the modern worldthe religious violence of the nineteenth century, which culminated in sectarian mobilizations and massacres in , was a complex, multilayered, subaltern expression of modernization, he says, not a primordial reaction to itthe ottoman reform movement launched in and the growing european presence in the middle east contributed to the disintegration of the traditional lebanese social order based on a hierarchy that bridged religious differencesoxfam bookshop knutsford focusing on ottoman lebanon, ussama makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular countrymakdisi highlights how european colonialism and orientalism, with their emphasis on christian salvation and islamic despotism, and ottoman and local nationalisms each created and used narratives of sectarianism as foils to their own visions of modernity and to their own projects of colonial, imperial, and national developmentĀ condition good, some minor warping to front cover as can be seen in digital image
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the ultimate rome storyfrom the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the senate, from the foreign wars that secure the power of the empire to the betrayals that threaten to tear it apart, this is the remarkable story of the man who would become the greatest roman of them all: julius caesarcitizen will fight citizen in a bloody conflict - and julius caesar, cutting his teeth in battle, will be in the thick of the actionin the city of rome, a titanic power struggle is about to shake the republic to its corethe first instalment in the bestselling emperor series
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And 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 filmhis trail leads all the way to berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and divergeexactly 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 balconyoxfam bookshop cheltenham "a highly original and often hypnotic worktranslated from the german by jamie bulloch see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis first novel of germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright is written in prose of tremendous power and precisionon an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodeselisabeth and micha run away through the snow from their home village, crossing the wolf's tracks on their way to the citythe lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by tomasz, a polish construction worker who cannot survive in germany without his girlfriendthose who catch sight of the wolf see their own lives reflected, and find themselves searching for a different path in a cold time
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