The explorations in interpretative sociology
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Thompson part of the explorations in interpretative sociology series published by oxford - basil blackwell, very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethompson with the assistance of kenneth athompson introduction by kenneth aoxfam bookshop raeburn place false consciousness: an essay on reification by joseph gabeltranslated from the french by margaret a
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On the one hand, it is a critical introduction to a vital and inspiring sociologist who stands against the predictable in 'majority' sociology to draw out daring and new insights from which we can all learnsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon the other, it is an anthology of his work chosen with the specific aim of guiding readers, whether undergraduates, postgraduates, academics or general readers to bauman's original way of 'thinking sociologically', which is as irresistible as the 'liquid' metaphor that guides ithis work is an essential reference point in sociology, but it is time that everyone caught up with himoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear zygmunt bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directionsthe new bauman reader is two books in onein this book tony blackshaw doesn't just tell us that bauman is a massive star in sociology, he demonstrates why his light shines brighter than that of almost any other intellectual figure in the world today by offering his readers deep insights into the 'bauman effect'
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Why the porcupine is not a bird explorations in the folk zoology of an eastern indonesian people by gregory lforth (paperback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is within 3 to 5 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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'explorations in wood' celebrate stead's deep relationship with nature and the belief that his work is part of a whole, interconnecting with other environmentally inspired artistssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinscribed with previous owners name as illustrated in digital imageoxfam bookshop knutsford tim stead's work has a universal appealusing timber others would discard, his works of art and functional pieces merge together to defy convention and categorisationwood is an essential part of mankind's existence, but it is what stead does with it that makes him so extra-ordinary
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The star in the east, shewing the analogy which exists between the lectures of freemasonry the mechanism of initiation into its mysteries etccatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitein the original leather binding, in very good condition with a masonic binding! read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeby george oliverlondon, spencer, pp
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5 cms (sheet), 24 x 16 cms (image), with annotations in the white margincatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikirecollections and studio photographs of 31 of the most prominent artists of the twentieth centuryfirst published in , reprinted in an expanded edition, with a new introduction by the artist, inrevised editionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteperhaps the very finest collection of artist photographs to date, including sections on bonnard, matise, van dongen, picasso, chagall, brancusi, arp, miro, dubuffet, giacometti athe portrait with raised hands was (partially) published on double-page in liberman's book the artist in his studio () in good condition, matted, with slight handling marks read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storein good condition\t\t added: >> two portraits of georges rouault\t silver gelatin prints, calexander liberman - the artist in his studio - new york, random housewhite cloth with embossed initials, with dustjacket, 31 x 24 cms, 293p, profusey illustrated in colour and bl/w, mostly full-pagestamped, both 25 x 18
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Arthur's investigations lead him to believe that the woman is a ghost, haunted by her inability to save her son from drowningonce there, arthur discovers that the locals live in such fear of a mysterious figure known as the 'woman in black' that they keep their children locked away indoors, afraid that contact with the woman would harm themwhen she turns her attention towards arthur's own son, the lawyer is forced to confront the spectre head onsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen arthur kipps (daniel radcliffe) leaves his son (misha handley) behind in london to head off on an assignment to a remote village, he has little idea of what lies in store for himoxfam bookshop carlisle supernatural drama, based on the novel by susan hill, in which a young lawyer finds himself battling to contain the ghost of a dead woman bent on destructiondisc and case in very good condition
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Hartright helps the woman to find her way back to londonbook excellent, slipcase gwhile the novel was a commercial success when first published it was harshly reviewed by critics of the agethe woman warns him against an unnamed baronet and after they part he discovers that she may have escaped from an insane asylumsince that time it has come to be regarded as a groundbreaking work of the mystery genre, one of collins's bestsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehartright travels to cumberland where he takes up a position as the art tutor of laura fairlie and her devoted half-sister, marian halcombe, who are somehow entangled with this mysterious "woman in white"oxfam bookshop carlisle first published serially between and , "the woman in white" is wilkie collins's epistolary novel that tells the tale of walter hartright, who encounters a woman all dressed in white on a moonlit road in hampsteadthis folio edition is illustrated by alexy pendlewilkie collins's fifth published novel, "the woman in white" is considered one of the earliest examples of the mystery genre, an early work of detective fiction, and one of the finest examples of sensationalist literature
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At the forefront of her story, barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexuals'the eye in the door' was awarded the guardian fiction prize, while the final volume in the 'regeneration' trilogy, 'the ghost road', won the booker prize inwriting in the sunday times, peter kemp said, 'in the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly formsa sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor'see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham set in london in , 'the eye in the door' is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of dr william rivers, billy prior, and siegfried sassoon begun in 'regeneration'
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Arthur's investigations lead him to believe that the woman is a ghost, haunted by her inability to save her son from drowningonce there, arthur discovers that the locals live in such fear of a mysterious figure known as the 'woman in black' that they keep their children locked away indoors, afraid that contact with the woman would harm themwhen she turns her attention towards arthur's own son, the lawyer is forced to confront the spectre head onsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen arthur kipps (daniel radcliffe) leaves his son (misha handley) behind in london to head off on an assignment to a remote village, he has little idea of what lies in store for himoxfam shop dorchester supernatural drama, based on the novel by susan hill, in which a young lawyer finds himself battling to contain the ghost of a dead woman bent on destruction
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Tracing the narrative of the jewess from its beginnings in romantic and evangelical literature, and reading canonical writers including walter scott, george eliot and anthony trollope alongside more minor figures such as charlotte elizabeth tonna, grace aguilar and amy levy, valman demonstrates the remarkable persistence of this narrative and its myriad transformations across the centuryreading a range of texts from popular romance to the realist novel, she investigates how the complex figure of the jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focussee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford stories about jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century britain as debates about the place of the jews in the nation ragedwhile previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in this period, nadia valman argues that the figure of the jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire
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Oxfam shop worcester this fully illustrated book explores the story of richard iii and the tales that have been woven around the historic events; discusses his life and reign and the disappearance of the princes in the tower; and assesses the original sources upon which much of the 'history' is basedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein addition a number of 'picture essays'explore particular aspects of richard iii's life and reign: his birth sign of scorpio; the portraits of richard; the symbolism of pigs and boars; richard's saints; his books; the princes; historical pictures of the princes; cartoons and caricatures the text is illustrated by over 150 manuscript illustrations, engravings, contemporary documents and photographs in both black-and-white and colourthe book is also supported by full source notes and references
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The same fascination exists in relation to roles of the narrator and the expositorthe ability of such a figure to move in and out of the action, and thus different realities, characterizes a relationship to the action and the audienceoxfam books & music crouch end interest in the content of this book has developed out of an examination of the prompter who operated in full view of the audience and offered all the lines to the playersin at groningen a production of the towneley second shepherds' play focused on an examination of this conventionsometimes these roles are overt ones; sometimes they 'double up' with roles of actors, personages or charactersthe purpose of this book is to investigate the nature of these roles in order to identify their influence upon the performance of medieval playsthese figures are of pivotal significance in the communication of those plays in which they operatesee oxfam website for delivery information read moresuch a role and its function is fascinating, not only in its own right, but also in relation to how it might inform us about the nature and purpose of presented theatremany of the audience responses then were concerned with the figure of the prompter as he was seen to operate simultaneously both 'inside' and 'outside' the action of the play
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Oxfam bookshop hampstead the worst of crimes: homosexuality and the law in eighteenth century london in the eighteenth century homosexuality became an issue, especially in london with its fast growing populationno one dared to say publicly that it should be tolerated, yet the reactions of men and women to the homosexuals in their midst were varied and complexin good conditionshe also shows a how reactivated sodomy law put all eighteenth-century male homosexuals in fear and suggests it led to a distorted concept of masculinitythere are a slight dust marks to the jacket and marks to the cover boardssee oxfam website for delivery information read moremoving from the old bailey to the court of king's bench, the author discusses the anomalies, inconsistencies and miscarriages of justice that arose as our ancestors decided what to do with defendants accused of the so-called 'worst of crimes' by studying original trial documents and other manuscript sources netta murray goldsmith has discovered hitherto unsuspected facts about some cases, including one important instance in which a prosecutor, aided by members of the judiciary, was able to pervert the course of justicethere is sight edge wear to the jacket top spinethe inside pages are clean and unmarked
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This book forms part of our 'pook press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literaturealternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the english thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality and unceasing camaraderiesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreone of the most celebrated painters of the british golden age of illustration, which encompassed the years from until the start of the first world war, rackham's artistry still delights both young and old over a century laterit is also accompanied by a series of dazzling colour illustrations by arthur rackham ()'the wind in the willows' is a true classic of children's literature, penned by kenneth grahame and first published inthis text contains an introduction by apresented alongside the text, his illustrations further refine grahame's masterful storytellingmilne, the famed author of 'whinnie the pooh' and various other children's poems
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Published by hamish hamilton in , it has illustrations by erik blegvad the volume is in near fine condition, with a fine and unclipped dust jacket protected by a mylar cover see oxfam website for delivery information read morecomplete in itself, the story is a sequel to the same author's the diamond in the windowoxfam bookshop sevenoaks this is the first uk edition of the swing in the summer house by the american author jane langtonthe novel is a fantasy featuring the adventures of eleanor, edward and their friend oliver as they disappear through the magic doorway of the summerhouse
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Woolf, published by edward arnold in , third impressionbound in blue cloth with gold lettering, the boards are very worn and show marks from dampwritten by leonard woolf, husband of virginia woolf, the novel the village in the jungle was based on his experiences in the colonial service in ceylon before the first world warsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe cloth of the spine has split at the rear hinge and head and tail of spine and corners are bumped, and corners exposeda rare copy in fair conditionoxfam bookshop sevenoaks by lspine cracked internally and foxing to edges of block
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Also contains an overview of the bomb tonnage and targetscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablecondition: the spines have minor loss of paperare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikia total of 2 booksconsists of: the war in western europe part i june to december, ppthe war in western europe part ii december to may ppplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteshipping with registrationmade for the us military during ww ii with later adaptations, additions and improvementsseven appendices + sixteen fold-out mapseleven appendices, of which three maps and one diagram + fifteen fold-out mapsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeotherwise greatcontains a 3d overview of the assault technique used at the normandy landings
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Innovative and revolutionary for its time, the catcher in the rye is as much a testament to and reflection of that time and its frustrations as it is a timeless and universal reflection on life, disillusionment, and growing upsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough his direct first-person narrative emerges one of the most touching, funny and nuanced portrayals of the confusions and frustrations of youth that exists in the literature of the english language, and a sparky and colloquial style that influenced generations of writers afterwardsoxfam bookshop cheltenham holden caulfield is a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school, in s new yorkprecocious, sensitive and confused, he blunders through a haze of teenage failures, disappointments and anti-climaxes and delivers to the reader a bitter-sweet, biting commentary on all the 'phony' aspects of society and the 'phonies' themselves
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham carriglas is the island estate off county cork where sarah pollexfen goes to live as governess to her wealthy cousins on the eve of the first world warsee oxfam website for delivery information read more'the silence in the garden' won the yorkshire post book of the year awardhelplessly, sarah watches her cousins lead increasingly isolated and empty lives as if punishing themselves for a past crimewriting in the spectator, anita brookner said, 'trevor is a specialist in brooding regret and a discoverer of past crimesand somewhere in the tranquil garden of carriglas there are secrets waiting to be discoveredhe is devoted to ireland, to its soft speech and its frequently ugly deeds, and he combines them in a sort of elegy'
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Winner of the royal society of literature ondaatje award and the spirit of scotland award and shortlisted for the guardian first book award, the john llewellyn rhys memorial prize and the scottish book of the year prizeonly with the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way did he survive to report back with unique insight on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of wartravelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible mountainous route once taken by the mogul emperor, babur the great, stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme, hostile conditionssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the places in between, rory stewart's moving account of his walk across afghanistan in january was immediately hailed as a classiccaught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time afghanistan was in turmoil following the us invasion
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The slide from representational use to consciousness involves a change in the material of use, but not the form of representationmartin, an original and influential exponent of 'ontologically serious' metaphysics, echoes locke's dictum that 'all things that exist are only particulars', and argues that properties are powerful qualitiessee oxfam website for delivery information read moremartin emphasizes the importance of non-conscious 'vegetative' systems, which provide clear examples of intentionality in the form of representational usealong the way, we are led to understand the nature of minds and conscious states of mind in a way that avoids both reductionism (the idea that mental is reducible to the non-mental) and dualism (the idea that mental substances or properties differ dramatically from physical substances and properties)a concluding chapter provides an argument for the view that an ontology of particular substances and properties leads ineluctably to monism: the bus we board with locke takes us directly to the world of spinoza and einsteinhe also spells out the implications of this view for philosophical conceptions of causation, intentionality, consciousness, and the mind-body problemoxfam bookshop preston what are the most fundamental features of the world? do minds stand outside the natural order? is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? the mind in nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical
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Moreover, the romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring fixture in films, literature, and the theatreoxfam shop clitheroe for centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ban the practicedrawing on a vast range of historical and cultural sources, this is the definitive account of a violent ritual that continues to fascinate even todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the duel in european history, renowned historian victor kiernan writes with his characteristic wit and insight of duelling's evolution from its medieval origins - when it was regarded as a badge of rank - to the early twentieth century, by which time it was seen as an irrational anachronismin doing so, he shows how the duelling tradition was something unique to europe and its colonies, and, in its contribution to the development of the officer corps, played a key part in shaping european military power
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Although it shared a similar pattern in its formation to the auxiliary territorial service (ats) and had a similar ethos to its air force counterpart, the waaf, the wrns took on a wider-ranging role in the war, in part due to the latitude afforded to the service because of its uniquely independent originshannah roberts offers new insights into a previously little studied british military institution, which celebrates its centenary inthis book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the service and the impact key individuals had on it and in turn the influence it had on its membersoxfam shop nether edge the women's royal naval service (wrns) was created in , re-formed in and maintained aftersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe shows how political and military decision-making within the fluctuating national security situation, coupled with a growing cultural acceptability of women taking on military roles, allowed for the growth of the service in world war ii into realms never expected of womenusing twenty-one new oral histories and a multitude of archived personal documents, this book demonstrates the pivotal importance of the women's royal naval service in both the world warsfrom onward the wrns spread internationally and subverted the combat taboo by adopting semi-combatant roles
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It is new in appearance and has a protective cellophane coverthe volume is provided with additional bibliography and indexes, while the introduction has been relegated to the end of the series on the jews of the islandit is the sequel to the first five volumes and covers the events during the rule of king johnalthough john continued the policies of his father alphonso towards the jews of the island, there is a distinct deterioration in their position during his timesnearly a thousand documents, many of them published here for the first time, record the fortunes of the jews and their relationships with the authorities and their christian neighbourstherefore, again, many documents had to be reported in summary formsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremuch new information has come to light, and many facets of jewish life in sicily have been uncoveredthe worst of them was the massacre in modica induring that period the jewish minority of sicily continued to flourish economically and sociallythe abundance of historical records in the archives of the crown and of local authorities compares favourably with the relative scarcity of surviving documentation in earlier centuriesthe inside pages are clean and brightoxfam bookshop hampstead the jews in sicily, volume ) by shlomo simonsohn this volume in the series documentary history of the jews in italy illustrates the history of the jews in sicily from toafter years of incitement by the members of the mendicant orders, anti-jewish riots broke out in various parts of the sicily
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Oxfam bookshop preston for generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental questionfrom life's murky origins to the microscopic engines that run the cells of our bodies, the demon in the machine is a breath-taking journey across the landscape of physics, biology, logic and computingat the heart of these diverse fields, davies explains, is the concept of information: a quantity with the power to unify biology with physics, transform technology and medicine, and even to illuminate the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreso can life be explained by known physics and chemistry, or do we need something fundamentally new?in this penetrating and wide-ranging new analysis, world-renowned physicist and science communicator paul davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name, a domain where computing, chemistry, quantum physics and nanotechnology intersectand yet, huge advances in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the mysterylife really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match itweaving together cancer and consciousness, two-headed worms and bird navigation, davies reveals how biological organisms garner and process information to conjure order out of chaos, opening a window on the secret of life itself
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It brings together the latest work on a subject which is central to an understanding not just of the french revolution but of much french political controversy over the past two centuriesalthough the framework of this book is a narrative, the main themes of the counter-revolution are also covered in order to set the events in their wider context of europe, much of which at some time was occupied by the frenchoxfam bookshop new milton used, very good condition, hard cover with dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is in very good condition with just some light shelfwear and a little bumping to the top corners of the dust jacketthe binding is sound, the corners of the hard cover are good and the pages are all clean and unmarked
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Arthur's investigations lead him to believe that the woman is a ghost, haunted by her inability to save her son from drowningonce there, arthur discovers that the locals live in such fear of a mysterious figure known as the 'woman in black' that they keep their children locked away indoors, afraid that contact with the woman would harm themwhen she turns her attention towards arthur's own son, the lawyer is forced to confront the spectre head onsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen arthur kipps (daniel radcliffe) leaves his son (misha handley) behind in london to head off on an assignment to a remote village, he has little idea of what lies in store for himoxfam shop kingsthorpe supernatural drama, based on the novel by susan hill, in which a young lawyer finds himself battling to contain the ghost of a dead woman bent on destruction
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king edward v and his younger brother richard, duke of york, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in english historyit is a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violenceshe brilliantly reconstructs the whole chain of events leading to their murder and reveals how, why and by whose order they diedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this gripping book alison weir re-examines all the evidence - including that against the princes' uncle, richard iii
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On top of that, the author is making an investigation on the violent character of spectacles -Â representation in pursuit of picturing this subject more clearly and more relevantthe author clarifies the ways of understanding the body as a physical and metaphorical reality, but also the medieval conceptualization of violencethe approach of the volume is dominantly christian reviewing the representations of the body through outstanding figures of christianity (crucifixion of jesus christ, body of virgin mary)see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster the volume the spectacle of the body in late medieval england represents a study on the human body representation in medieval england by approaching the concept of the spectacle as a space of manifestation
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