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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 institut* alexandre aimé vuillemin (), auguste-henri dufour (), victor levasseur (), tour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storegéographie 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 f), jean baptiste louis charle were french geographers[48 charts of europe and all the known countries & continents anno ] j4 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)please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available*** world catalogue - oclc number: shipping: packaged with care and insured shipmentbarbié du bocage, a
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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 mattersour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storescientific 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 volumesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableby frederich burkhardt and the editors of the darwin correspondence project¶ british nature researcher charles darwin corresponded with an exceptionally large group of people all over the worlda wrinkle at the top of the spine of volume 1condition: minimal signs of storage
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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 centurydust jacket perfect, not price clippedother volumes available at oxfam beckenham onlinesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop beckenham as new condition, seems unreaddarwin 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 personthe volume contains an appendix on the anti-vivisection debates, with which darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a royal commission on the subject
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Occasionally, bonhoeffer's letters burst into song--sometimes with actual musical notations, other times with unforgettable phrases" the pleasures of letters and papers from prison, however are not all so profoundoxfam 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 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 blurotherwise in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelooking forward to seeing his best friend, bonhoeffer writes, "to meet again is a godeven 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 "religiouswe are moving towards a completely religionless time; people as they are now simply cannot be religious any morethe 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 general" hardcover is a little worn where the book has slid in and out of the slipcaseinscription in ink on half-title pagebonhoeffer'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 today
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The author is a faculty member of lincoln college and university of oxford in the ukhe examines the works of kant, burke, wollstonecraft, coleridge, wordsworth, shelley, and many other writers and philosophers of the periodbritish 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 periodannotation © ringgold, inche 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 itportland, or ()
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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 agenciesblue-green card covers with white lettering, in good conditionour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storesections paginated separatelybookplate and ink inscription of richard f reiss from linacre college, oxfordbookplates and library markings, otherwise pages cleanplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikimurray (), best known for his series of papers with john von neumannn on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von neumann algebrascatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableit looks at a diverse range of computing instruments from slide rules to the eniacthe first edition, published a year before, came out just as electro-mechanical and mechanical designs were being out-competed by electronicshis proof of the complex version of the hahn-banach theorem of functional analysis is also noted28x22cm, titles, prelims, ppplastic comb bindingmarks on front cover from removed labelsthere are numerous schematics and diagrams throughoutoverall 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 subjectthis is the first printing of the second edition (3rd printing overall), revised from the first with an extra chapter on electronic digital computerswe are delighted to present a copy of this important work on the theory of computers by francis j
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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 carefullyour 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 websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesent via registered mail
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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 commasitting 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 materiala good reading copyi don't give a hoot what the writing's like"as 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 amusinghalfway through their correspondence, in , the tables are turnedmaxwell 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 confidencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreproblems of clarity arise - of what will fly in ireland but not in americaoxfam 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 dothough in fact he didthe excitement of cutting this and restoring that, of correcting correctionsin fair conditionsome light stains to dust jacket and fore-edge and former owner's name written to title page
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It 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 haircourtship 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 seaoxfam bookshop clifton very good condition; some shelf wearsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelove 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 emotionsthe book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courtsthe 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 process
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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 iiisee 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 pagesalso added land grants, attestations, journal of voyage to tristan da cunha, names of freemen, &c
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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 insecuritymichael 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 personalitysee 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 king
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The thoughts of the indomitable ladies turn to all things green in this latest collection of lettersinevitably, disasters occur, with toilets blocking, cars self-combusting, and even rivers getting divertedsoon, 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 worriessee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen 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 doomirene 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 lovemeanwhile, vera has thrown herself into environmental causes, winning the courgette competition at great shags' greener gardens showfinding 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 results
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Spine, gilt letters and banding, slightly bumpedused very good conditionendpaper has inscription by a previous owner "a text book for students and draughtsmen"  backboard embossed border,bumpedpublisher: oxford university presssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreall edges cleanpaste-downs has minor staining along the edgesall pages complete and very cleanof the same era as the herbert j butler books and complimentary too, rather than repeating the sameevery aspect from lighting to coachwork and piston rings to seat designfrontboard embossed border and letters, minor tear on the top edge, bumpedupdate of the originalbound in black clothoxfam shop darlington hardback
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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 vintagecondition is usedbox is in very good condition with just a bit of foxingcomplete with the correct number of 96 tiles, 4 pawns, and game boardno instructions
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Lot of letters with commemorative postmarksour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease see the imagesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’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 wsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreundated but believed to bein dark blue boards and gilt top edge to pagesward and prefaced by lord macaulay's essayall three in very good condition
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A book of spensers english men of lettersa book of spensers faerie queene
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See oxfam website for delivery information read more7 cds and accompanying letter packaged in metal tinoxfam bookshop knutsford collector's edition of radio 4 woman's hour serial "ladies of letters"
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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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See oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom and insight collected from all over the worlddescribing 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 valueit 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 mindloosely 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 imageryoxfam 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 imaginationthe 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 unexpected
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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 imaginationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom and insight collected from all over the worlddescribing 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 valueit 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 mindloosely 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 imagerythe 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 unexpected
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Engraved frontis portrait, head-pieces, and ornate initial letters\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-attachment\t a folio sized (304mm x 192mm) volume in contemporary full leather that is partially disbound with the front board detached, yet presentare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe 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 proseotherwise leaves are clean and clear with generous marginsplease note: fully insured delivery in sturdy packaging that does actually protect the contents\t\t\t condition: binding copy - front board detached yet present and both boards show bumps to fore-corners and moderate wearfor henry herringman, pp: [xviii]this copy includes the 24pp life of crowley by thomas sprat and thereare errata notes on last page in volumeour 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 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 jboards have tooled border and corner pieces, five raised bands, and red spine label with gilt letteringthe works of mrweight (with sturdy packaging): g approx\t this work consists of six main parts with their own separate pagination, three of which have their own title-page with the datespine 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 availableend-papers appear to have been replaced more recentlythe 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 occasions
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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 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 dustjacket is sunned on the spine and has signs of wear around the edgesthe ffep has been torn outhardback book with dustjacketthe boards are of blue cloth with silver gilt titlingoxfam 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 book is a major expansion of the gifford lectures delivered by the authors at the university of edinburgh in the autumn ofsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 knowledgethe authors still find scope for lively debate, particularly in their discussion of free will and of the reality of god
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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 2-3our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store"lord macaulay's essays and the lays of rome" - longmans, london - edition read morethe 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 foxingplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available"the history of england" - longmans, london - edition 4 "the miscellaneous writings and speeches by lord macaulay' - longmans, london - edition 5
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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 portfolioowner's name scribbled out on free end paperalso includes the statue of st george, prague and rood house at heilingenstadtin good used condition for age but front cover is detached, back board loose and much of spine material is missingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebound in blind patterned leather with gold tooling to boardsmarbled end papersblind dentelle inside squareincludes plates of sites in several counties of england including the rufus stone, kett's castle, fotheringay and several plates of scarboroughoxfam bookshop sevenoaks volume iv onlypublished by nornaville &fell, new bond street & sherwood, jones & co, paternoster row in
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