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Pages fold out to reveal the illustrated answers fourth edition see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop lytham short verses quiz the reader on characters and events at the circus
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe settlers of the west were a unique breed, and this collection of western adventures contains chapters on jesse james, artists charles russell and frederic remington, the story of the alamo, and much moreraymond friday locke
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oxfam shop ulverston sequel to the hit lifestyle simulation manage your sim's dreams and fears over a lifetime mix sim genes and see physical and personality traits inherited down through sim generations movie-making feature lets you control the camera and capture the action into mini movies see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop brentwood boards of canada - the campfire headphaseinto the rainbow vein; chromakey dreamcoat; satellite anthem icarus; peacock tail; dayvan cowboy; a moment of clarity; '84 pontiac dream; sherbet head; oscar see through red eye; ataronchronon; hey saturday sun; constants are changing; slow this bird down; tears from the compound eye; farewell firedisc in very good conditioncd with 14 tracks
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oxfam shop scarborough cover is used, with some damage to the side cover - inside pages are good condition - see photos has some library writing on some pages the travels of marco polo see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop lower petergate a very nice signed copy of this work charting the history of noin good condition, there is one medium tear to the top of the dust jacket99 squadron of the royal air force, from 197 towritten with the support of squadron association members, the author has collected individual stories to capture the flavour of past eras and events, such as the early days of the air force during the first world war, the bomber attacks of and the berlin airlift ofthe book has been signed by the author with an inscriptionthe author was recruited into the squadron at the outset of the second world war, and continued a distinguished career in the years after the war
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford across the course of american history, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been awkwardly paired as influences on the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the united statesas noted by ian tyrrell and jay sexton, however, american "anti-imperialism was clearly selective, geographically, racially, and constitutionallyencounters in the middle east, and the transnational nature of anti-imperialist public sentiment during the cold war and beyondduring the mexican revolution, the anti-imperial dimensions of early u" empire's twin broadens our conception of anti-imperialist actors, ideas, and actions; it charts this story across the range of american history, from the revolution to our own era; and it opens up the transnational and global dimensions of american anti-imperialismby tracking the diverse manifestations of american anti-imperialism, this book highlights the different ways in which historians can approach it in their research and teachingthe contributors cover a wide range of subjects, including the discourse of anti-imperialism in the early republic and civil war, anti-imperialist actions in the uwith the revolution, and again in , the nation stood against the most powerful empire in the world and declared itself independentthe declaration of independence, after all, is an anti-imperial document, cataloguing the sins of the metropolitan government against the colonies
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam furniture shop southampton overall very good condition with only a tear to bottom left hand corner of the front dust jacketthe schooners in this volume range from the hiates of portugal to the beautiful station boats of the north sea ports of germany, the netherlands, belgium and franceand slight bumping to the inside back fly leaf of dust jacketthe first volume of pilots concentrated on the stories of american and british schoonersvolume 2 enters what for many will be a less familiar world, that of the european pilot schooners, the remarkable pilot brigs of the hooghly and the small, undecked craft of many of the less famous but equally important, services
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford wolfgang faust was the driver of a tiger i tank with the wehrmacht heavy panzer battalions, seeing extensive combat action on the eastern front infirst published in the late s, this memoir's savage realism shocked the post-war german publicsome readers were outraged at the book's final scenes, while others wrote, 'now, at last, i know what our men did in the eastthis memoir was his brutal and deeply personal account of the russian front's appalling carnagefaust describes how his tiger unit fought pitch battles in the snows of western russia against the full might of the red army: the t34s, stalin tanks, sturmovik bombers and the feared katyusha rocket brigades' today it stands as one of the great semi-autobiographical accounts of warfare in world war 2: a crescendo of horror, grom survival and a fatalistic acceptance of the panzer man's destinyhis astonishing testimony reveals the merciless decisions that panzer crews made in action, the devastating power of their weaponry and the many ways that men met their deaths in the snow and ice of the ostfront
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop burleigh street the buddhist text known as the diamond sutra is believed to be the oldest surviving printed book in the worldthe oldest dated example of wood block printing, produced some six hundred years before gutenberg's movable type printing in europe, it is clearly the product of a mature printing industry in chinathe diamond sutra is a stunning book for anyone curious about the earliest origins of printing and the sacred foundations of buddhismthis beautifully designed book, the first to focus solely on the diamond sutra, features a full-color reproduction of the work, along with an account of the discovery of the sutra by sir aurel stein in may in a hidden cave on the edge of the gobi desertit reveals how the sutra was originally made and the conservation work that the british library employs to preserve itthe diamond sutra was hidden for centuries in a cave in northwest china, and it was created from seven strips of yellow-stained paper that were printed from carved wooden blocks and pasted together to form a scroll over five meters longthe book extensively discusses the content of the sutra and also describes the invention of paper in china and the origins of far eastern printingmade in 868 ad and written in chinese, the text contains a significant dialogue on perception, and is one of the most important sacred works of the buddhist faith
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop darlington hardbackthere his heart remained for most of the rest of his lifefascinated by the shaded past of the cultural hub of our civilization there, field dug, dusted and studied to piece together his track of mandj has some minor chipsthough his work took him to the caves of altamira and the pyrenees with the abbe breuil, to america where he worked for years in the field museum and saw the construction of its marvellous hall of primitive man, into planning for the developmental exhibit at the chicago world's fair, and into wartime studies for the ucontents are clean and binding is tightgreen cloth boards protected by unclipped maroon pictorial dust jacketillustrated with 28 b/w photographshis autobiography is a spirited account of the adventure of science itselfboards clean with very slight fading around the titles on the spineffep has a small section (4cm x 1cm) removed to take out surname of inscriptionpublished by peter daviesfield went eagerly as a young student on his first trip to the excavation grounds at kishgovernment- it was at kish that he did his main body of workred top page endshenry field (december – january ) was an american anthropologist and archaeologistborn in chicago he spent his childhood in england and was educated at eton and oxfordthe inscription includes " with greeting henry field" and is dated but cannot verify its authenticityhis essays on the babylonian findings have their tribute in the scientific world
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Will holly uncover the secrets of her past? or will she always feel like the girl who just appeared? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham from jonathan harvey, the award-winning author of all she wants and the writer of coronation street and gimme, gimme, gimme, comes the girl who just appeared, a comedy with a huge, beating heartshe travels north and moves inwhen she finds a biscuit tin full of yellowing papers under the floorboards, she wonders if this might hold the secret to her pastby a bizarre twist of fate holly discovers that the flat is available to rentall she has is the address of where she was born - 32b gambier terrace, liverpoolfifteen-year-old darren negotiates life with his errant mother and the younger brother he is bringing upadopted when just a few months old, she's always felt she was someone with no history, the girl who just appearedwhen the toxteth riots explode around him darren finds himself with a moral dilemma that will have consequences for the rest of his lifeflitting between the present and the past, we discover how darren and holly's lives become intertwinedholly smith has never fitted in
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle all 13 episodes, plus the hour-long christmas special, from the sixth series of the relaunched sci-fi adventure series, starring matt smith as the legendary time lordthe episodes are: 'a christmas carol', 'the impossible astronaut', 'day of the moon', 'the curse of the black spot', 'the doctor's wife', 'the rebel flesh', 'the almost people', 'a good man goes to war', 'let's kill hitler', 'night terrors', 'the girl who waited', 'the god complex', 'closing time' and 'the wedding of river song'
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop clitheroe the complete opera tosca by giacomo puccini, with libretto by giuseppe giacosa and luigi illica the original motion picture soundtrack to the film directed by benoit jacquot starring angela gheorghiu, roberto alagna, ruggero raimondi, maurizio muraro, enrico fissore and david cangelosi with the tiffin boys' choir, and the chorus and orchestra of the royal opera house, covent garden, conducted by antonio pappano looked at from virtually any angle, this tosca is a triumphif roberto alagna's portrayal of cavaradossi does not quite scale the dizzying heights of gheorghiu's tosca, he is nevertheless capable of much subtletythe chorus and orchestra of the royal opera house, covent garden give their all for himpappano's tosca now becomes the modern version to havethere are, indeed, two distinct stars: the outstanding soprano angela gheorghiu in an assumption of the title role which is awe-inspiring in its breadth of emotion and dramatic range; and the conductor, antonio pappano, whose intimate knowledge of puccini's score illuminates page after page and detail after detailpappano possesses a complete grasp of the operatic situation, faultlessly pacing the whole opera to bring about a spine-tingling climaxit is lavishly presented (billed as the original motion picture soundtrack of benoit jacquot's film), superbly engineered and boasts a first-rate castruggero raimondi's scarpia is all the more evil for his multi-layered approach to this character
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road all 16 episodes from the fourth season of the us zombie adventure drama based on the comic books by robert kirkmanwhen police officer rick grimes (andrew lincoln) wakes from a coma to find the world in the grip of a zombie epidemic, he joins a small encampment on the outskirts of atlanta, where a band of human survivors struggle to withstand the terrifying advances of the walking deadthe episodes are: '30 days without an accident', 'infected', 'isolation', 'indifference', 'internment', 'live bait', 'dead weight', 'too far gone', 'after', 'inmates', 'claimed', 'still', 'alone', 'the grove', 'us' and 'a'in this season, the entire population of the prison is put in grave danger when a mystereious virus hits and the governor (david morrissey) plots his next move after losing woodbury
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham 90% or more of the matter in the universe is unseenit describes the scale of things, from atoms to galactic superclusters, and sketches the cosmological theories, based on einstein's theory of general relativity, used to describe the universe's expansionthe universe expands, but nobody knows how long the expansion has been going onnobody knows what it isit discusses the significance of the cosmic background satellite observations, and explains why current theories have nothing reliable to say about whether the universe had a "beginning"will it expand forever, or collapse in a big crunch, perhaps a big bang in reverse? from aristotle to newton, einstein and quantum mechanics, this book recounts the revolutions in physics and astronomy which underlie the present-day scientific picture of the universe
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop macclesfield some slight scuffing to cover and browning of pagesthis volume tells the story of the four eventful years which immediately preceded the civil war, years which transformed the tranquil dominions of king charles into a land rent by mistrust and menaced by fire and swordit tells of parliament's opposition to the king under the skilful leadership of john pymmiss wedgewood has sought to convey the vivid day sequence of events as they flooded down on the men & women of the time, and to restore as far as possible the immediacy of their experienceit tells of the rise of the covenanters in scotland with such leaders as the gallant montrose and the mysterious argyllthe tragedy of strafford is linked with the terrible insurrection in ireland
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music romsey all 16 episodes from the fourth season of the us zombie adventure drama based on the comic books by robert kirkmanwhen police officer rick grimes (andrew lincoln) wakes from a coma to find the world in the grip of a zombie epidemic, he joins a small encampment on the outskirts of atlanta, where a band of human survivors struggle to withstand the terrifying advances of the walking deadthe episodes are: '30 days without an accident', 'infected', 'isolation', 'indifference', 'internment', 'live bait', 'dead weight', 'too far gone', 'after', 'inmates', 'claimed', 'still', 'alone', 'the grove', 'us' and 'a'in this season, the entire population of the prison is put in grave danger when a mysterious virus hits and the governor (david morrissey) plots his next move after losing woodbury
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop hebden bridge all 13 episodes, plus the hour-long christmas special, from the sixth series of the relaunched sci-fi adventure series, starring matt smith as the legendary time lordthe episodes are: 'a christmas carol', 'the impossible astronaut', 'day of the moon', 'the curse of the black spot', 'the doctor's wife', 'the rebel flesh', 'the almost people', 'a good man goes to war', 'let's kill hitler', 'night terrors', 'the girl who waited', 'the god complex', 'closing time' and 'the wedding of river song'
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But can she? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans max soars above the worldangel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the "school" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of whack jobsher friends brave a journey to blazing hot death valley, ca, to save angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare: fighting off the half-human, half-wolf "erasers" in new york citymaximum ride and her "flock" -- fang, iggy, nudge, gasman and angel -- are just like ordinary kids, only they have wings and can flywhether in the treetops of central park or in the bowels of the manhattan subway system, max and her adopted family take the ride of their livesalong the way, max discovers that her purpose is save the worldbut in james patterson's thrilling adventure, fantasy can come crashing down to reveal the nightmares of the angel experimentit may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time
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" see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop rosemount viaduct "while it seems a little unfair to start comparing most mmos to the titanic world of warcraft, if there's one massively multiplayer online game out there that can take on the mighty wow, it has to be star wars: the old republicthe action takes place 300 years after the events of kotor and some years before the events of the star wars filmsyou may also remember that bioware is the developer behind knights of the old republic, the critically acclaimed game to which the old republic is a sequel of sortssimilarly, they might side with the sith while pursuing more noble endsthese companions can gather and craft on the player's behalf, so gamers might benefit from having more than onebasically, this game couldn't be in better handspopular opinion isn't really with the jedi, who many blame for the success of the sith in the 28 year great galactic war, so they've relocated to tython, birthplace of the jedi order, so they can regroup and commune with the forceit's against this uneasy backdrop that players must join either the galactic republic or the sith empire as new conflicts emergeplayers will be able to have a number of non-player companions accompany them through the gameit's a brave new galaxy in therewhile this might seem to be a case of siding with 'good guys' or 'bad guys', though, bioware hasn't made things quite that straight forwardhowever, if you choose to focus on less companions expect stronger relationships and even a possible love interestthe sith, meanwhile, have control of korriban and have set up a new sith academy theremay the force be with younot only does it come with the star wars pedigree, it comes from the company that's arguably the leading games developer in the western world - biowarea shaky peace has been established between the re-emergent sith empire and the galactic republicfaction and morality aren't forced to be aligned, and players might be part of the republic but have objectives that run counter to its goals
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop evesham did jesus marry and have children? if so, what happened to his family? are there descendants of his still alive today? at last the truth can be told, this extraordinary and controversial book, packed with intrigue, begins where others have endedthis unique book gives a detailed genealogical account of the authentic line of succession of the royal blood from the sons of jesus and his brother james down to the present daythere is also a fascinating history of the knights templars of jerusalemit casts penetrating new light on the bible story and onto the enigmatic figures of joseph of arimathea and mary magdalene, and on the real truth behind the arthurian legends and the holy graillaurence gardener has been granted privileged access to european sovereign and noble archives, along with special insight into chivalric and church repositorieshe proves for the first time that there is a royal heritage of the messiah in the west, and documents the systematic and continuing suppression of records tracing the descent of the sacred lineage by regimes down the centuries
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road jacquetta, daughter of the count of luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of europe, was married to the great englishman john, duke of bedford, uncle to henry viwith her links to melusina, and to the founder of the house of luxembourg, together with her reputation for making magic, she is the most haunting of heroinesof all the little-known but important women of the period, her dramatic story is the most neglectedwidowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as queen margaret of anjou's close friend and a lancaster supporter - until the day that her daughter elizabeth woodville fell in love and married the rival king edward iv
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music olney sir laurence olivier and eric porter narrate jeremy isaacs' epic documentary series, chronicling the events of the second world warthe episodes included are: 'a new germany - '; 'distant war - '; 'france falls - may-june '; 'alone in britain - may -june '; 'barbarossa - june-december '; 'banzai - japan strikes - '; 'on our way - america enters the war - '; 'desert - the war in north africa - '; 'stalingrad - '; 'wolfpack - '; 'red star - the soviet union - '; 'whirlwind - bombing germany - september -april '; 'tough old gut - '; 'it's a lovely day tomorrow - '; 'home fires'; 'inside the reich - germany '; 'morning - june '; 'occupation - '; 'pincers - august '; 'genocide - '; 'nemesis - feb-may '; 'japan - '; 'pacific - feb -may the island to island war'; 'the bomb - feb-sept '; 'reckoning - april '; 'remember'; 'secretary to hitler'; 'who won world war ii?'; and 'warrior'; 'hitler's germany - '; 'hitler's germany - '; 'the two deaths of hitler'; 'the final solution - part 1'; and 'the final solution - part 2'Â the slipcase is selotaped on the edges, otherwise all goodisaacs also presents a special 'making of' feature
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Forever? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ringwood puffin booksbut now a terrifying enemy - apophis, the giant snake of chaos - is risingand in order to battle the forces of chaos, they must revive the sun god ra - a feat no magician has ever achieveddust jacket condition: fineblack hardback (gilt lettering to the spine) with dust jacket in fine conditionnow the gods of egypt are waking in the modern worldif carter and sadie don't destroy him, the world will end in five days' timeprice un-clippedbecause first they must search the world for the three sections of the book of ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spellscan the kanes destroy apophis before he swallows the sun and plunges the earth into darknessever since the gods of ancient egypt were unleashed on the modern world, carter kane and his sister, sadie, have been in big troubleas descendants of the magical house of life, they command certain powerspercy jackson fought greek godscondition: finethe book is signed by the author on the title pagefirst uk edition-first printing()
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham fifteen old-fashioned but wonderfully challenging "detective puzzles," the unraveling of which requires your powers of observation and deductionin words, charts, and diagrams, you are placed at the crime scene and presented with facts established by the policethese are the originals - and perhaps the most perfect examples - of this venerable mystery puzzle genre to challenge the wits of armchair investigatorsdon't cheat: you'll only spoil the funand if you find you are stumped, you can turn to the back of the book, where the answers are printed (but upside-down, to deter you from giving up too easily)what do you observe? which are the telltale clues? what do you deduce? and how will you answer the questions posed at the end of each problem: "who stole the emerald?" "where did the gang plan to meet?" "in what city had the amnesia victim once worked?" each question is scored to a degree of difficulty, with a perfect score of ten points per puzzlein such puzzle-stories as "the evidence on the japanned box," "the toledo death threat," and "the huppheimer museum robbery," wren and mckay sparked a craze for "ten-minute mysteries" that spread through the american pulp-detective magazines of the late s
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 playersthe purpose of this book is to investigate the nature of these roles in order to identify their influence upon the performance of medieval playssometimes these roles are overt ones; sometimes they 'double up' with roles of actors, personages or charactersthe same fascination exists in relation to roles of the narrator and the expositormany 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 playthese figures are of pivotal significance in the communication of those plays in which they operatesuch 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 theatrein at groningen a production of the towneley second shepherds' play focused on an examination of this conventionthe 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 audience
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brigg too little or too much company can be stressfulhe thought dharma was a type of curryvalentine is saddharma is a word for cosmic law and ordertomorrow she will be fired' this delightful book is the latest in the series of ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them'hilarious' stylistexplore other essential life companions in the ladybird books of the shed, the meeting, the new you, and morein this way, mindfulness will have solved her work-related stressfeaturing original ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new textthe large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope'valentine became a buddhist because he was interested in dharmashe was meant to be in the office' 'alison has been staring at this beautiful tree for five hoursby discovering all about mindfulness, you can get away from it all by hiding out in the comfort of your own head
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop royal exchange square in this comprehensive history, john keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all timein knowledgable, perceptive analysis of the airborne battle of crete, the carrier battle of midway, the tank battle of falaise, the city battle of berlin, and the amphibious battle of okinawa, keegan illuminates the strategic dilemmas faced by the leaders and the consequences of their decisions on the fighting men and the course of the war as a wholehe focuses on five crucial battles and offers new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare
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