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Dostoevsky and the ethics of narrative form suspense, closure, minor characters by greta matzner-gore (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is within 4 to 6 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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The ethics of research with children and young people: a practical handbook by …please note has been used so some comments, highlighted parts see pictures make be within the book but otherwise good condition dispatched with royal mail 1st classcondition is good
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Title: the ethics of identitycatalogue number
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The siege of krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation and lifebut farrell manages just this here: his imaginative insight and technical virtuosity combine to produce a novel of quite outstanding quality' the times' see oxfam website for delivery information read morethey prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can musterfor the british there, life is orderly and genteelas food and ammunition grow short, the residency, its defences battered by shot and shell and eroded by the rains, becomes ever more vulnerableoxfam bookshop cheltenham in the spring of , with india on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, krishnapur is a remote town on the vast north indian plainthen the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the british community retreats with shock into the residency'suspense and subtlety, humour and horror, the near-neighbourliness of heroism and insanity: it is rare to find such divergent elements being controlled in one hand and being raced, as it were, in one yoke
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Using archival sources, forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among american antistatists and british egalitariansshe traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the s and '70s and beyondrecasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, in the shadow of justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limitsthese thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their criticsin the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war, rawls's a theory of justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophypages are clean and tight with no tears, bumps, or nicksfine unclipped dust-wrappersee oxfam website for delivery information read more"-michael eric dyson, new york times a history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by john rawls's a theory of justicein the shadow of justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of john rawlsin these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right-from the new international economic order to the rise of the new rightoxfam bookshop cotham hill black boards with gold-embossed spine which is unbroken "a forceful, encyclopedic studyin this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, katrina forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism-a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state-became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar united states and britain
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Written in convenient narrative form, it contains full cross-referencing to the relevant cases, statutory provision and policy circularsit also includes a full explanation of the scope of powers to acquire land compulsorily and the exercise of the powers and principles of compensationthis book should be on the desk of every practitioner who has to advise upon this branch of law and every advocate who has to present a case in which it arisesfind the answers you need quickly and easilythere is some little shelf wear and a few marks to the page edge on the bottomsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit both simplifies what can be simplified and explains with clarity the difficult areasoxfam bookshop hampstead the law of compulsory purchase by guy roots being spread across several statutes of varying antiquity and many judicial decisions, the law relating to compulsory purchase and compensation can appear dauntingthis authoritative new book is your single accessible volume to this complex and wide-ranging area of the lawthe practical structure, style and indexing ensures that the relevant statutory provisions and cases to the matters in issue are easy to findit provides a summarised statement of the law, complete with footnotes to enable you to access further informationthis is a first edition in a very good conditionthe law of compulsory purchase sets out the practice, procedure, policy and valuation of a compulsory purchase
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An overarching theme is the role of deliberate intervention in the development of german, whether it took the form of education, prescriptivism, purism or political manipulationothers are studies of particular periods, places or groups which have not found their place in more narrative accounts: standardisation in the nineteenth century, the role of low german, the state of german at the stunde null inthe essays, a number of which were originally delivered as lectures in the university of cambridge and all of which are by specialists in the field, combine to provide a history of the german language in its social contextoxfam books & music beeston peter lang, , paperback very good condition the contributions to this volume explore eleven key developments in the external history of the german language, that is, the combination of social, political and cultural circumstances which influenced the language and its speakerssee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome of these 'landmarks' are individuals or groups of people who have exerted influence over the language: charlemagne, luther, the early modern grammarians and lexicographers
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This title reopens the question of media ethicssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe top corner of the front cover is slightly turnedtaking an exploratory rather than prescriptive approach, an esteemed collection of contributors tackle the diverse areas of moral questioning at work within various broadcasting practices, accommodating the plurality and complexity of present-day ethical challenges posed by the world of mediaoxfam books & music wells a good clean copy of this paper back which is signed on the pre-title page by one of the editors (nick couldry) and this is the only marking or annotation
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Radical hope ethics in the face of cultural devastation by jonathan lear (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 8 to 10 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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A selection of crime/thriller/suspense paperback novelscook simisola by ruth rendell (a chief inspector wexford mystery) a darkness more than night by michael connelly all books are in very good or excellent conditiontitles include: blood line by lynda la plante no turning back by tracy buchanan the doomsday testament by james douglas the emperor's tomb by steve berry pieces of her by karin slaughter frozen grave by lee weeks the dealer and the dead by gerald seymour places in the dark by thomas hchoose any 2 books for ÂŁ1
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Schweid helps us to appreciate the broader message of the narrative of creation and settlement of the land in its ecumenical and planetary dimensionsoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no marks or wear the fundamental book of eliezer schweid is a modern interpretation of the bible as narrative and law which can reopen the dialogue of contemporary jews with the bible, from which a dynamic jewish culture can continue to draw its inspirationthe approach draws at the same time from the philosophical modernism of hermann cohen, the dialogical philosophy of buber, the religious phenomenology of heschel, and the insights of contemporary biblical scholars, including literary analysts of the biblesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe world is gods creation, and its resources are to be deployed as necessary for the sustenance and need-fulfillment of all peoples and all creatures equally a message very much relevant to the ecological crisis facing us all at the present time
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In a spellbinding narrative that spans several continents, brands brings the fervour and excitement of the gold rush vividly to lifethe age of gold is narrative history at its best -- the astonishing tale of one of the most extraordinary speculative frenzies in history, told by a master historianoxfam shop colne road the discovery of gold by a team of mormon mill workers in sparked a frenzy that shook the worldthey came from england and france, from ireland and chile, leaving behind their families and everything they owned in the hope of making their fortunes in the new worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey came by ship and overland, braving tierra del fuego and the pestilences of panama, lured by the promise of goldpeople swarmed to california from as far as china and australia
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Jocelin of brakelond was a monk in the abbey of bury st edmunds, and his narrative of events between the years of and provides a unique insight into the life of a medieval religious communitysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lichfield this is the first english translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century englandthe translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of jocelin's narrative, and the annotation is particularly clear and helpful
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Transpersonal and transgenerational psychotherapeutic insights back up the personal narrativeit is in the main a personal and moving narrative of a mother looking to help her son avoid such a lifelong sentence of medication whilst trying to research holistic resources and alternative approaches for treatment at the same time as negotiating the vagaries of the current mental health systemits hypothesis is that if we cannot understand our own unconscious responses how can we understand those of our loved ones in psychotic episodes? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is often a tale of despair and frustration, yet also gives a compassionate voiceit includes an accessible inquiry into how unconscious forces influence our mind, our bodies and the entire family systemoxfam books & music wells internally a very good clean copy of this paperback book this is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in psychosis; psychosis which still remains the greatest taboo in society today, together with its implicit diagnosis of a lifelong sentence of medication and no cure there is also a mark on the front of the bottom edge the cover has a few marks and bows away from the book
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The subject of pettigrew's bizarre, nightmarish narrative is arthur whoneycombing is defined as "taking things away from people who do not need themendpaper, inscription by a previous owner foxedback end-papers and paste-down, foxed, stained" in short, the honeycombers are housebreakersoxfam shop darlington hardbackall edges yellowedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepaste-down, inscription by a previous owner, some foxingpublisher: hodder and stoughton limitedall other pages in a clean conditionused good conditionflyleaf's, half-title and last 2 pages, foxedbound in green clothaggs, an eccentric who may or may not have paranormal abilities (he may be telepathic and be able to read and control minds, or simply a skillful con man), who is carrying on his dead uncle's psychic research at longshaws, an ancient manor house in scotlandthe main focus of the book is the activity of the honeycombers, a secret society founded by aggsspine, black letters lined decoration, bumped top and bottom, shelf-wornfront-board, black letters, lined border, bumped, shelf-wornbackboard, stained, bumped, shelf-worn
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Ravensburger jaws a game of strategy and suspense game board
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Although dogen was a zen priest, his preaching, especially in practical ethics has a universal application dust jacket intact, boards excellent, pages unmarkeddogen was one of the great zen masters in japan, and in this book his thought is explained in the clearest termssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the essence of dogen masanobu takahashi very good condition hardback
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Im their place, he developed a pragmatic and realist approach to the ethics of force which eschews absolute rules and instead evaluates consequentially the use of force in defence of the liberal-democratic statethis work assesses niebuhr's ethical approach to warsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop aberystwyth reinhold niebuhr was vociferously opposed to nazism and to isolationism as an american response to that threat, he rejected pacifism and the legalism of the just war tradition
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'a storyteller who could teach scheherazade a thing or two about pace, suspense and imaginative invention'new york times'melodrama of the most magnificent kind' the guardian see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brigg voted one of britain's favourite historical novels before george rmartin there was dorothy dunnettis he back to foment rebellion? does he seek revenge on those who banished him? or has he returned to clear his name? no one but the enigmatic lymond himself knows the truth - and no one will discover it until he is ready' the times literary supplement 'i despised men who accepted their fate'she is a brilliant story teller, the lymond chronicles will keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come to care deeply aboutbut for many in an already divided scotland, where conspiracies swarm around the infant queen mary like clouds of midges, he is not welcomei shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands' it is and, after five years imprisonment and exile far from his homeland, francis crawford of lymond - scholar, soldier, rebel, nobleman, outlaw - has at last come back to edinburghlymond is wanted for treason and murder, and he is accompanied by a band of killers and ruffians who will only bring further violence and strifeperfect for fans of a game of thrones
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As the paths of communication breakdown the president of the united states and leaders from around the world face an appalling choice: should they allow the loss of thousands to save the lives of many more? this is the devil's alternative and in this incomparable and gripping thriller from the master of espionage and suspense, the cold war giants must fight a battle to the deaththey devise a plan to trade vital food resources with the russians in exchange for sensitive political informationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe usa is quick to offer assistancebut the politburo has other ideas: the invasion of western europe to commandeer the food for themselves' when the entire soviet union wheat crop is destroyed by a devastating string of failures, the population faces starvationoxfam shop evesham 'whichever option i choose, men are going to die
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Just what happened in the lodge at gloomy gatleigh hall makes a story frightening in its reality, breathtaking in its suspensethe shadow of thirteen by jsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon the thirteenth of october thirteen years ago there had been a death and a disappearance within its gatesthe shadow of thirteen loomed darkly over gatleigh halljefferson farjeonhardback, lacking dust jacketfirst edition of one of prolific crime writer jis the past really dead? will the present provide an explanation of the past? mrfor thirteen years on the fatal anniversary lady chelwyn had returned, in response to some mysterious inner compulsion, to her neglected homepublished by collins ppbook condition: good - minor wear at spine and rear, otherwise tightly bound and clean throughoutjefferson farjeon is an accomplished master of the macabre, and yet he does not exaggerate his effectsjefferson farjeon's later works
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As the paths of communication breakdown the president of the united states and leaders from around the world face an appalling choice: should they allow the loss of thousands to save the lives of many more? this is the devil's alternative and in this incomparable and gripping thriller from the master of espionage and suspense, the cold war giants must fight a battle to the deaththey devise a plan to trade vital food resources with the russians in exchange for sensitive political informationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe usa is quick to offer assistancebut the politburo has other ideas: the invasion of western europe to commandeer the food for themselves'Â when the entire soviet union wheat crop is destroyed by a devastating string of failures, the population faces starvationoxfam bookshop brigg 'whichever option i choose, men are going to die
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Written 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 moreoxfam 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 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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The book of elstree & boreham wood brings them all to life, recapturing the history of these two places, in a fluent and considered narrative and very many fascinating picturesnot long after the normans came, there was a flourishing settlement at elstree hillboreham 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 parishidlestre and borham 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 latersigned by stephen castlesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe hills and valleys of this busy corner of herts have been home to people for some years, and the romans chose elstree hill as a major tile-manufacturing centrevery minor marks to dj otherwise clean and bright throughoutuntil recently, medieval elstree had survived largely intact, but post-war reconstruction brought considerable mutilationoxfam books & music hereford signed limited subscriber edition, numbered 44happily, a few fine late medieval buildings escaped the developer's insensitive eyecondition: as newhere 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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The narrative ranges from the concepts of nikola tesla in and the experiments of christian hulsmeyer in right through, in chronological order, to the commercially sponsored experiments of the prewar daysthe book also sets out to explain the basic principles of radar and, where applicable, historical aspects of the evolution of these principles are dealt withsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book is the first general history of radar to be published, and one which covers the independent but more or less simultaneous emergence of radar in several countries in the spublished, as volume 6 in the 'iee history of technology series'the historical events and the military influences, which shaped the ultimate development of radar in each country, are then consideredoxfam shop fulwood road radar has become an essential factor in air and sea travel, has affected all areas of military science and, most important of all perhaps, has considerably influenced the progress of electronic engineeringthe study, while underlining the significance of the cavity magnetron, purposely restricts itself to the pre-cavity magnetron era of radarsome of the earliest proposals for the use of radio waves to detect objects at a distance are first dealt withabundant references, which could facilitate further research, are given
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The author is presenting to the laity a straightforward narrative of the catholic faith and the catholic church as keeper of that faith dom philip justin mccann () was born in ireland and educated at ampleforth college our book is in good condition for its age, despite lacking a dust jacket  previous owner's name neatly inscribed at the top of the front fepit contains the texts of 11 lectures delivered at the university of tubingen in , with two additional lectures from and respectivelyinside, the binding is firm with no loose pages; pages clean apart from some annotations between ppthe yellow cloth covers are rather grubby and darkened, particularly at edges & angles; there are two small punctures on the spine (see photo), and a 'catholic book-a-month club' stamp on the backtitle etc in black lettering on spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreclothed as a monk in , he devoted his life to the benedictine way, and, after completing a degree at oxford, spent 12 years teaching classics at ampleforth, and leading it as prior for the final 3 of those yearsdom justin mccann) -1st edition thusthis is the best known of the author's workskarl borromäus adam () was a german catholic theologian of the early 20th centuryit has been widely translated, and remains in print today107 is torn at the bottom, but with no frank loss  the back cover may have sufferedsome water damage, as there is a stain both inside and out, with slight puckering of the pastedown  previous sale price of 1/6, circled, at top of front pastedownin he was appointed master of st benet's hall in oxford, where he remained for 27 years, and was able to spend much time in translating texts such as 'the spirit of catholicism'very occasional spots of foxing notedoxfam books & music islington the spirit of catholicism (karl adam, trans
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Oxfam bookshop brighton behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its discovery and its place in historythe atlas of disease is the first book to tell these stories in a new an innovative way, interweaving new maps with contemporary illustrations to chart some of the world's most deadly pandemics and epidemicssee oxfam website for delivery information read more diseases covered: airborne: diphtheria; influenza; leprosy; measles; scarlet fever; sars; smallpox; tuberculosis (tb) waterborne: cholera; dysentery; typhoid insects and animals: malaria; plague; typhus; yellow fever; zika human to human: polio; ebola; hiv and aids; syphilis  crucially, the atlas of disease will also explore how cartographic techniques have been used to combat epidemics by revealing previously hidden patternsthese discoveries have changed the course of history, affected human evolution, stimulated advances in medicine and saved countless lives in the atlas of disease, sandra hempel reveals how maps have uncovered insightful information about the history of disease, from the seventeenth century plague maps that revealed the radical idea that diseases might be carried and spread by humans, to cholera maps in the s showing the disease was carried by water, right up to the aids epidemic in the s and the recent devastating ebola outbreak
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The lady of the lake is a narrative poem by sir walter scott, first published inare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiset in the trossachs region of scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single daythe poem has three main plots: the contest among three men, roderick dhu, james fitz-james, and malcolm graeme, to win the love of ellen douglas; the feud and reconciliation of king james v of scotland and james douglas; and a war between the lowland scots (led by james v) and the highland clans (led by roderick dhu of clan alpine)our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website"the lady of the lake: a poem" by sir walter scott longman hurst, london - fifth edition (rare early edition) - 432p, 18cmx15cm - condition: very good, in leather binding with minor rubbing to spine, with name to title page[1] there are voluminous antiquarian notescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe poem was tremendously influential in the nineteenth century, and inspired the highland revival
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" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold warfrom the origins of the marshall plan, which revived europe after world war ii, and the strategic decision to rebuild a defeated japan into a bulwark against china to the collapse of the berlin wall, this authoritative work reveals how the west was built into an economic alliance that overpowered the soviet economy while also unleashing global economic forces that today challenge the traditional nation-statethe cold war was more of a global conflict than was either of this century's two major wars; far more than a confrontation between states or even empires, it was, as martin walker puts it, "a total war between economic and social systems, an industrial test to destructionfor more than forty years, as this detailed analysis makes clear, the outcome of the cold war was in doubtin the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominence"walker reminds us how easy it is to forget that there were many occasions for the late s on when victory seemed far from assured, and that lent a particular urgency to the efforts of postwar western leaderssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewe also come to understand how the arms race caused new alignments and shifts in domestic powernow that it is over, it is crucial to our future to understand how the cold war has shaped us and, especially, to recognize it as the economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of today's global economyoxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world sinceas the united states became the national security state, california, which had a population of five million at the start of the cold war, grew to thirty million and, by the s provided one in every ten members of congress and two presidentsthe west continued to be alarmed by the prospect of defeat right up to the soviet empire's last breathusing newly opened kremlin archives and his own experiences in the field, martin walker has written a brilliant analysis of the conflict that has shaped the contemporary worldat the end of the s the fear was generated by communist expansion into eastern europe and china; in the s by the prospect of defeat in vietnam
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It brings a critical perspective and a strong aesthetic sense to the subject, but above all it is primarily a narrative historythis is a large book measuring 305 x 240 x 26 mm and weighing 1 7 kg, however, this is still within the limit to not affect the postage costat the heart of the book is a quest to understand what makes a truly great photographthe dust jacket has creasing to the top edge and bumping to all four corners and also the top and bottom of the spineall the pages are clean and unmarkedthe hard cover has a little bumping to the top and bottom of the spine but the corners are goodoxfam bookshop new milton used, fair condition, hard cover with dust jacketit begins with the earliest days of the photograph in the s and ends with an examination of the state of photography today and the effect that the 'digital revolution' will have, changing not only how we look at a photograph but what it is in a physical sensethere is a very small tear (about 5 mm) at the bottom of the spine"the genius of photography" examines the evolution of photography in its wider context: social, political, economic, technological and artisticthe inner edge of the back board is damaged down the length where it joins to the spine, however, the binding of the pages is still soundsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreaccompanying the first major television history of this ever more influential artform, this landmark book explores the key events and the key images that have marked the development of photographythis is a major book for anyone who wants to know more about one of the most important art forms of the 21st centurythis book examines all the different genres of photography from landscape and portraiture to news and reportage
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