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He has been on the faculty of the princeton university school of architecture and the university of california, losangelesanthony vidler, dean of the irwin schanin school of architecture of the cooper union, is a historian and critic of modern and contemporary architecture
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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 (), t*** world catalogue - oclc number: shipping: packaged with care and insured shipmentour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store4 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)géographie 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 fcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available), jean baptiste louis charle were french geographers[48 charts of europe and all the known countries & continents anno ] jplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitebarbié du bocage, aare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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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 storespecial anniversary set in eight volumesscientific 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 colleaguesa wrinkle at the top of the spine of volume 1by frederich burkhardt and the editors of the darwin correspondence projectcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablecondition: minimal signs of storage¶ british nature researcher charles darwin corresponded with an exceptionally large group of people all over the worldplease 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 catawiki
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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 centurydarwin 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 persondust 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 subjectsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop beckenham as new condition, seems unreadother volumes available at oxfam beckenham online
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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 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 blurthe 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 generalinscription in ink on half-title pagewe are moving towards a completely religionless time; people as they are now simply cannot be religious any morelooking forward to seeing his best friend, bonhoeffer writes, "to meet again is a godbonhoeffer'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 todayotherwise in excellent conditioneven 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 more" hardcover is a little worn where the book has slid in and out of the slipcase
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The author is a faculty member of lincoln college and university of oxford in the ukannotation © 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 ithe examines the works of kant, burke, wollstonecraft, coleridge, wordsworth, shelley, and many other writers and philosophers of the periodportland, or ()british 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 period
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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 agenciesplastic comb bindingoverall 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 subjectour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethere are numerous schematics and diagrams throughout28x22cm, titles, prelims, ppsections paginated separatelymurray (), best known for his series of papers with john von neumannn on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von neumann algebrasthe first edition, published a year before, came out just as electro-mechanical and mechanical designs were being out-competed by electronicscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablewe are delighted to present a copy of this important work on the theory of computers by francis jhis proof of the complex version of the hahn-banach theorem of functional analysis is also notedbookplate and ink inscription of richard f reiss from linacre college, oxfordblue-green card covers with white lettering, in good conditionbookplates and library markings, otherwise pages cleanplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethis is the first printing of the second edition (3rd printing overall), revised from the first with an extra chapter on electronic digital computersit looks at a diverse range of computing instruments from slide rules to the eniacmarks on front cover from removed labelsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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69 €
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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 impressioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesent via registered mailplease 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 catawiki
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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)halfway through their correspondence, in , the tables are turnedthe excitement of cutting this and restoring that, of correcting correctionsmaxwell 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 confidenceproblems of clarity arise - of what will fly in ireland but not in americain fair conditionopposed 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 commathough in fact he dida good reading copyoxfam 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 dosee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome light stains to dust jacket and fore-edge and former owner's name written to title pageas 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 amusingsitting 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 materiali don't give a hoot what the writing's like"
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It 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 industrythe book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objectsoxfam bookshop clifton very good condition; some shelf wearthis volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught processthe 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 courtslove emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined ritualssee oxfam website for delivery information read morecourtship 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 seait 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 hair
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44 €
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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 iiibrown cloth, gilt titlesalso added land grants, attestations, journal of voyage to tristan da cunha, names of freemen, &csee oxfam website for delivery information read more 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 insecurityhis 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 kingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremichael 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 lettersirene 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 lovebut who is the mystery paramour? with familial chaos on the horizon, the ladies find that saving the planet is the least of their worriessoon, 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 bankmeanwhile, vera has thrown herself into environmental causes, winning the courgette competition at great shags' greener gardens showsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefinding 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 doominevitably, disasters occur, with toilets blocking, cars self-combusting, and even rivers getting diverted
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5 €
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Spine, gilt letters and banding, slightly bumpedall pages complete and very cleanendpaper has inscription by a previous ownerbound in black cloth "a text book for students and draughtsmen"frontboard embossed border and letters, minor tear on the top edge, bumpedpaste-downs has minor staining along the edges  backboard embossed border,bumpedpublisher: oxford university pressof 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 designsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop darlington hardbackused very good conditionupdate of the originalall edges clean
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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 vintagecomplete with the correct number of 96 tiles, 4 pawns, and game boardcondition is usedbox is in very good condition with just a bit of foxingno instructions
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Lot of letters with commemorative postmarkssome time stainour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteplease see the imagesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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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 wward and prefaced by lord macaulay's essayundated but believed to bein dark blue boards and gilt top edge to pagesall three in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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19 €
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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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Oxfam 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 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 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 imagerythis 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 valuethe 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 unexpectedsee 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 mindoxfam 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 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 imagerythis 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 valuethe 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 unexpectedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Engraved frontis portrait, head-pieces, and ornate initial lettersleaves 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 obliterationthis copy includes the 24pp life of crowley by thomas sprat and thereare errata notes on last page in volumeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website\t\t\t condition: binding copy - front board detached yet present and both boards show bumps to fore-corners and moderate wearare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki\t a folio sized (304mm x 192mm) volume in contemporary full leather that is partially disbound with the front board detached, yet presentweight (with sturdy packaging): g approxplease note: fully insured delivery in sturdy packaging that does actually protect the contentsboards have tooled border and corner pieces, five raised bands, and red spine label with gilt letteringfor henry herringman, pp: [xviii]the 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 prosecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available\t this work consists of six main parts with their own separate pagination, three of which have their own title-page with the dateconsisting 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-attachmentthe 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 mrour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storespine 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 sturdyotherwise leaves are clean and clear with generous marginsend-papers appear to have been replaced more recently
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109 €
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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 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 authors still find scope for lively debate, particularly in their discussion of free will and of the reality of godthe 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 knowledgethe 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 realitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe ffep has been torn outthe dustjacket is sunned on the spine and has signs of wear around the edgeshardback book with dustjacket
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In an astonishing cache, containing some letters and great numbers of business documents, came to lightthe 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 agesiris origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of italian domestic life on the eve of the renaissance
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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 storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe 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 website"lord macaulay's essays and the lays of rome" - longmans, london - edition read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki"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 portfolioblind dentelle inside squarepublished by nornaville &fell, new bond street & sherwood, jones & co, paternoster row inin good used condition for age but front cover is detached, back board loose and much of spine material is missingbound in blind patterned leather with gold tooling to boardsincludes plates of sites in several counties of england including the rufus stone, kett's castle, fotheringay and several plates of scarboroughowner's name scribbled out on free end papersee oxfam website for delivery information read morealso includes the statue of st george, prague and rood house at heilingenstadtmarbled end papersoxfam bookshop sevenoaks volume iv only
15 €