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He has been on the faculty of the princeton university school of architecture and the university of california, losangeleschanin school of architecture of the cooper union, is a historian and critic of modern and contemporary architectureanthony vidler, dean of the irwin s
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* jean guillaume barbié du bocage () was a french geographer & cartographer, dean of the faculty of letters of paris, member of the institutare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki[48 charts of europe and all the known countries & continents anno ] jbarbié du bocage, aour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store* alexandre aimé vuillemin (), auguste-henri dufour (), victor levasseur (), t), jean baptiste louis charle were french geographers*** world catalogue - oclc number: shipping: packaged with care and insured shipmentplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitegéographie universelle; atlas illustré destiné à l'enseignement de la géographie élémentaire - paris/lyon, maison basset/guyot, père et fils, - reissue [note: revised and increased number of maps () put together by f4 visual, comparative engravings of mountains, streams, buildings and planetary symbols + 44 maps - hardcover, half leather binding with marbled covers - x cm - good copy, age wear, some (ink)stains & some dip pen writing, small paper damage on the edge of the title page (photo)catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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letters in eight volumeshis letters to harvard botanist asa gray for instance show his changing opinions regarding slavery and the american civil wardarwin also relied on correspondence for a lot of his scientific work and used letters to find support for his ideas among friends an colleaguesthe letters offer a lot of insight in matters from the origin of important scientific concepts to religious and philosophical discussions, that are still relevant todaythe letters also highlight a lot of aspects about darwin and his biography: the development of is ideas, an insight in his character and health, personal opinions about controversial mattersare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiby frederich burkhardt and the editors of the darwin correspondence projectscientific historian janet browne has argued that darwin’s ability to correspond on a daily basis played a crucial role in the development of his theory and his ability to find the support of colleaguesspecial anniversary set in eight volumescondition: minimal signs of storageour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storea wrinkle at the top of the spine of volume 1please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website¶ british nature researcher charles darwin corresponded with an exceptionally large group of people all over the worldcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readersthe letters are published chronologically: volume 23 includes letters from , the year in which darwin wrote and published insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the reading public, and started writing cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdomthis volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to charles darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreother volumes available at oxfam beckenham onlineoxfam shop beckenham as new condition, seems unreaddust jacket perfect, not price clippedthe volume contains an appendix on the anti-vivisection debates, with which darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a royal commission on the subjectdarwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person
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" the pleasures of letters and papers from prison, however are not all so profoundoccasionally, bonhoeffer's letters burst into song--sometimes with actual musical notations, other times with unforgettable phrasesoxfam bookshop preston letters and papers from prison is a collection of notes and correspondence covering the period from dietrich bonhoeffer's arrest in to his execution by the gestapo inthe time when people could be told everything by means of words, whether theological or pious, is over, and so is the time of inwardness and conscience--and that means the time of religion in generalwe are moving towards a completely religionless time; people as they are now simply cannot be religious any morebonhoeffer's first mention of "religionless christianity" came in a letter in : what is bothering me incessantly is the question what christianity really is, or indeed who christ really is, for us todayeven those who honestly describe themselves as "religious" do not in the least act up to it, and so they presumably mean something quite different by "religioussee oxfam website for delivery information read moreotherwise in excellent conditionthe book is probably most famous, and most important, for its idea of "religionless christianity"--an idea bonhoeffer did not live long enough fully to develop, but whose timeliness only increases as the lines between secular and ecclesial life blurlooking forward to seeing his best friend, bonhoeffer writes, "to meet again is a god" hardcover is a little worn where the book has slid in and out of the slipcaseinscription in ink on half-title page
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The author is a faculty member of lincoln college and university of oxford in the ukbritish romanticism and the critique of political reason, hardcover by michael, timothy, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk author timothy michael gives readers an in-depth examination of the political philosophy that dominated britain and france in the romantic periodhe examines the works of kant, burke, wollstonecraft, coleridge, wordsworth, shelley, and many other writers and philosophers of the periodannotation © ringgold, incportland, or ()he argues over the book's eight chapters that a great deal of the period’s literary output takes the form of a critique of reason, its political value, and the types of knowledge attainable through it
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Murray was a faculty member at colombia, and then at duke where he also served as mathematical consultant to us army agenciesbookplate and ink inscription of richard f reiss from linacre college, oxfordare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki28x22cm, titles, prelims, ppmarks on front cover from removed labelshis proof of the complex version of the hahn-banach theorem of functional analysis is also notedour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeit looks at a diverse range of computing instruments from slide rules to the eniacthere are numerous schematics and diagrams throughoutplastic comb bindingmurray (), best known for his series of papers with john von neumannn on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von neumann algebrasoverall this book is a fascinating artefact in the history of computing, of interest to specialists in the field and those who want to become acquainted with the subjectwe are delighted to present a copy of this important work on the theory of computers by francis jthis is the first printing of the second edition (3rd printing overall), revised from the first with an extra chapter on electronic digital computersbookplates and library markings, otherwise pages cleanplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe first edition, published a year before, came out just as electro-mechanical and mechanical designs were being out-competed by electronicssections paginated separatelyblue-green card covers with white lettering, in good conditioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Mainly belgium, (but some foreign folds), batch of letters and philatelic documents, including cob number 2, beautiful lot of letters by "balloon" mail, by boat, lot of registered letter "poortman", folds shipped by modern "relay", and a lot of letters and documents from all eras to be examined carefullyare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikisent via registered mailour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storesee all 148 photos to get a better impressionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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letters to the editor: a miscellany from the pages of country life by countrytitle: letters to the editor: a miscellany from the pages of country life format: hardback type: book publisher: simon & schuster uk uk release date: language: english
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Players have to create a word using the letters in the centre of the unitthe player then moves their scoring peg by the number of letters in the word they createdchainletters is highly entertaining for both, children and adults as players will have to think of various different letter combinations to score points
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In this book there are intimate telegrams, delighted letters of acceptance, announcements of checks sent to o'connor's literary agent (like robert louis stevenson, o'connor suffered from the delusion that he was being overpaid)opposed to this belief in spontaneity and the importance of form over finicky detail was the new yorker's insistence that a given piece of writing be as nearly perfect as humanly possible, down to the last semicolon and commahalfway through their correspondence, in , the tables are turnedproblems of clarity arise - of what will fly in ireland but not in americasee oxfam website for delivery information read moresitting at a table in maxwell's office with pages of manuscript scattered before them or galleys with dozens of queries - some helpful, some exasperating - from the proofreader, the two men would work their way deeper and deeper into the materialin fair conditiona good reading copythe excitement of cutting this and restoring that, of correcting correctionsas the professional relationship turns into a profound friendship, domestic details of their respective households begin to creep into the correspondence and are both vivid and amusingi don't give a hoot what the writing's like"maxwell finds himself in despair over the novel he has been working on for eight years, and it is o'connor who comes to the rescue by reading the various drafts, alternative versions, false starts, dead ends, and by his enthusiasm and concern restores maxwell's confidencesome light stains to dust jacket and fore-edge and former owner's name written to title pagethough in fact he didoxfam bookshop birmingham in an interview in the paris review, o'connor was asked the question "how do you start a story?" and his answer was "get black on white, used to be maupassant's advice - that's what i always do
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Courtship in georgian england was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent seasee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of hairthe book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courtsoxfam bookshop clifton very good condition; some shelf wearthe book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objectsit also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the georgian era - most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine's card - revealing how love developed into a commercial industrythis volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught processlove emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined ritualsthe game of love in georgian england brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames precis of the archives of the cape of good hope - letters despatched from the cape, , volume iiialso added land grants, attestations, journal of voyage to tristan da cunha, names of freemen, &csee oxfam website for delivery information read morebrown cloth, gilt titles corners and edges rubbed and bumped, boards marked, ex-library, with stamps, endpapers browned, contents otherwise clean and bright, small loss at the bottom corner of closing pages
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Oxfam bookshop shaftesbury this important biography of elgar draws on letters and documents which became available in the preceding twenty-five yearselgar's letters reveal his unpredictable swings of mood, from gaiety and a fondness for puns to morose self-pity and a feeling that he was 'not wanted', and although much of elgar's music sounds confident and coherent, it also has an underlying layer of unease, melancholy and insecuritysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis relationships with his wife and other women friends are a continuing thread in the life of a man who remained acutely conscious of his lower middle-class origins in spite of his meteoric rise to fame, honours in edward vii's reign and friendship with the kingmichael kennedy, a leading scholar of british music and a distinguished musical biographer, uses this material, which includes elgar's own vast correspondence, in an attempt to get to the centre of the composer's complex personality
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The thoughts of the indomitable ladies turn to all things green in this latest collection of lettersfinding out that doris was a fervent campaigner, and aware that vera is a keen recycler, irene decides to send doris' clothes to vera - with explosive resultswhen irene hears that her aunty doris has died and she must sort out her personal effects, she is filled with a sense of personal and global doommeanwhile, vera has thrown herself into environmental causes, winning the courgette competition at great shags' greener gardens showinevitably, disasters occur, with toilets blocking, cars self-combusting, and even rivers getting divertedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresoon, both ladies are eco-enthusiasts, tying bricks to ballcocks, running cars on chip fat, and even emailing al gore to update him on the state of the local bottle bankbut who is the mystery paramour? with familial chaos on the horizon, the ladies find that saving the planet is the least of their worriesirene is worried about the peoples of the planet, but people closer to home are causing problems too: her son, christopher, who has been travelling the world carbon trading, has fallen in love
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Spine, gilt letters and banding, slightly bumpedupdate of the originalall edges cleanevery aspect from lighting to coachwork and piston rings to seat designsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepublisher: oxford university press "a text book for students and draughtsmen"frontboard embossed border and letters, minor tear on the top edge, bumped  backboard embossed border,bumpedused very good conditionendpaper has inscription by a previous ownerbound in black clothoxfam shop darlington hardbackall pages complete and very cleanof the same era as the herbert j butler books and complimentary too, rather than repeating the samepaste-downs has minor staining along the edges
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Vintage board game, signs up - a game of letters and numbers, parker brothersthe game itself is in excellent condition don't think its ever been played with, the box does show some signs of wear due to its age read more
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Last word family board game the hidden word letters tile fun mb vintagebox is in very good condition with just a bit of foxingcondition is usedno instructionscomplete with the correct number of 96 tiles, 4 pawns, and game board
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Lot of letters with commemorative postmarksare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour 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 websiteplease see the imagescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesome time stain
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Oxfam bookshop raeburn place 3 volume set of the diary and letters of madame d'arblay (frances burney), with notes by wall three in very good conditionundated but believed to bein dark blue boards and gilt top edge to pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreward and prefaced by lord macaulay's essay
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A book of spensers english men of lettersa book of spensers faerie queene
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Oxfam bookshop knutsford collector's edition of radio 4 woman's hour serial "ladies of letters"7 cds and accompanying letter packaged in metal tinsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop clitheroe great box set ideal xmas present bbc radio 4 read by prunella scales and patricia routledge ladies of letters see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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It is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the interplay between the verbal and the visual, and the limitless resources of the human mindthis book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom and insight collected from all over the worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe art of looking sideways is the ultimate guide to visual awareness, a magical compilation that will entertain and inspire all those who enjoy the interplay between word and image, and who relish the odd and the unexpecteddescribing himself as a visual jackdaw, master designer alan fletcher has distilled a lifetime of experience and reflection into a brilliantly witty and inimitable exploration of such subjects as perception, colour, pattern, proportion, paradox, illusion, language, alphabets, words, letters, ideas, creativity, culture, style, aesthetics and valueoxfam shop dumfries the art of looking sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imaginationloosely arranged in 72 chapters, all this material is presented in a wonderfully inventive series of pages that are themselves masterly demonstrations of the expressive use of type, space, colour and imagery
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Oxfam books & music lancaster the art of looking sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imaginationit is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the interplay between the verbal and the visual, and the limitless resources of the human mindthis book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom and insight collected from all over the worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe art of looking sideways is the ultimate guide to visual awareness, a magical compilation that will entertain and inspire all those who enjoy the interplay between word and image, and who relish the odd and the unexpecteddescribing himself as a visual jackdaw, master designer alan fletcher has distilled a lifetime of experience and reflection into a brilliantly witty and inimitable exploration of such subjects as perception, colour, pattern, proportion, paradox, illusion, language, alphabets, words, letters, ideas, creativity, culture, style, aesthetics and valueloosely arranged in 72 chapters, all this material is presented in a wonderfully inventive series of pages that are themselves masterly demonstrations of the expressive use of type, space, colour and imagery
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Engraved frontis portrait, head-pieces, and ornate initial lettersour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store\t this work consists of six main parts with their own separate pagination, three of which have their own title-page with the datefor henry herringman, pp: [xviii]end-papers appear to have been replaced more recentlyotherwise leaves are clean and clear with generous marginsspine a little more worn with wear to spine-ends, remnants of spine label, and rear outer hinge is split - despite this the rear board is still firmly attached and block is very sturdycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available\t\t\t condition: binding copy - front board detached yet present and both boards show bumps to fore-corners and moderate wearplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteleaves show light age-goldening, the occasional isolated spot here and there, and there are some 25 leaves with what appears to be a printing flaw [in the same position], which is a central patch of diluted ink[?] of varying intensity throughout [see photos] - from these a small number of words are affected with varying degrees of obliterationconsisting of those which were formerly printed: and those which he design'd for the press, now published out of the authors original copies \t\t first edition published in london and printed by j\t as the block is very decent, this copy should prove highly rewarding after the attention of a competent binder who could easily perform the board re-attachmentplease note: fully insured delivery in sturdy packaging that does actually protect the contentsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithis copy includes the 24pp life of crowley by thomas sprat and thereare errata notes on last page in volumethe last section includes a proposition for the advancement of experimental philosophy, a discourse by way of vision, concerning the government of oliver cromwell, and several discourses by way of essays in verse and proseweight (with sturdy packaging): g approxthe remaining five main parts with sepatate pagination are: miscellanies, the mistress (with t-p), pindarique odes (with t-p), davideis (with t-p), and verses written on several occasionsthe works of mr\t a folio sized (304mm x 192mm) volume in contemporary full leather that is partially disbound with the front board detached, yet presentboards have tooled border and corner pieces, five raised bands, and red spine label with gilt lettering
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On the lower end of the spine there is also has an orange sticker with the letters 'arb' written on it and sellotaped onthe authors still find scope for lively debate, particularly in their discussion of free will and of the reality of godthe boards are of blue cloth with silver gilt titlingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music totnes in this book, michael arbib, a researcher in artificial intelligence and brain theory, joins forces with mary hesse, a philosopher of science, to present an integrated account of how humans 'construct' reality through interaction with the social and physical world around themthe ffep has been torn outthe dustjacket is sunned on the spine and has signs of wear around the edgeshardback book with dustjacketthe book integrates an accessible exposition of background information with a cumulative marshalling of evidence to address fundamental questions concerning human action in the world and the nature of ultimate realitythe book is a major expansion of the gifford lectures delivered by the authors at the university of edinburgh in the autumn ofthe authors reconcile a theory of the individual's construction of reality as a network of schemas 'in the head' with an account of the social construction of language, science, ideology and religion to provide an integrated schema-theoretic view of human knowledge
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In an astonishing cache, containing some letters and great numbers of business documents, came to lightiris origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of italian domestic life on the eve of the renaissancethe book is rightly celebrated as one of the most engrossing of all modern books on italian life and historyfrancesco di marco datini, the 14th-century tuscan merchant who forms the central subject of iris origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later middle ages
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"the life and letters of lord macaulay" - longmans, london - edition 2-3are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe works of lord macaulay, by lord macaulay - longmans green - uniformally bound in fine binding - condition: good, with some wear and rubbing to leather boards, scattered foxing"lord macaulay's essays and the lays of rome" - longmans, london - edition read moreour 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 history of england" - longmans, london - edition 4 "the miscellaneous writings and speeches by lord macaulay' - longmans, london - edition 5catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Plates of antiquarian architectural and topographical subjects with descriptions, some of which are in the form of letters to the editor of the portfolioblind dentelle inside squarein good used condition for age but front cover is detached, back board loose and much of spine material is missingowner's name scribbled out on free end paperalso includes the statue of st george, prague and rood house at heilingenstadtbound in blind patterned leather with gold tooling to boardssee oxfam website for delivery information read moremarbled end paperspublished by nornaville &fell, new bond street & sherwood, jones & co, paternoster row inoxfam bookshop sevenoaks volume iv onlyincludes plates of sites in several counties of england including the rufus stone, kett's castle, fotheringay and several plates of scarborough
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