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Richly detailed and deeply researched, american disruptor restores leland stanford's rightful place as a revolutionary force and architect of modern americait is also the saga of how stanford, once a serial failure, overcame all obstacles to become one of america's most powerful and wealthiest men, using his high elective office to enrich himself before losing the one thing that mattered most to him - his only child and sonscandal and intrigue would follow stanford through his life, and even after his death, when his widow was murdered in a honolulu hotel - a crime quickly covered up by the almost stillborn university she had savedoxfam bookshop clifton very good condition; some shelf wear the life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" - reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for america's transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperorsthe rags to riches story of the tumultuous tycoon who built silicon valleysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreamerican disruptor is the untold story of leland stanford - from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of silicon valley
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Oxfam bookshop hampstead history of the supreme court of the united states: volume 1 by julius goebel jrbook is in good condition, few white marks on the spinethese three parts are divided into seventeen chapters, together with a statistical analysis of the business of the supreme court from to and substantial notes on manuscript sources antecedents and beginnings to is the first of twelve volumes in the oliver wendell holmes devise history of the supreme court of the united statesin the final part of the book, he explains how early legislation affected the judiciary and the initial experience of the circuit courts and of the supreme courtsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe first part describes the background of american constitutionalismgoebel then goes on to depict the constitutional convention, the ensuing debate over ratification, and the framing of the bill of rightsdetails the creation of a national judiciary in the united states under the act of and traces the supreme court's development through its first decade of existencein this first volume, julius goebel jrthe book is organised into three parts
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It takes the reader on an adventure through the vast expanses of space, time and spirit from the paradise-like glade in the siberian taiga to the rough urban depths of russia's capital city, from the ancient mysteries of our forebears to a vision of humanity's radiant futureoxfam books & music wells this soft cover book is in very good condition with no markings or damagesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe ringing cedars of russia," the second book of the ringing cedars series, in addition to providing a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the story of how "anastasia" came to be published, offers a deeper exploration of the universal concepts so dramatically revealed in book 1
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Nineteen eighty-four popularized the adjective orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the past by a totalitarian or authoritarian state" the tyranny is epitomized by big brother, the quasi-divine party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe novel is set in airstrip one (formerly known as great britain), a province of the superstate oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation dictated by a political system in the government's invented language, newspeak, called ingsoc under the control of a privileged inner party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrimesbook in very good conditionoxfam bookshop hampstead the complete works of george orwell: volume 9: nineteen eighty-four nineteen eighty-four, sometimes published as , is a dystopian novel by george orwell little bit of wear on the dust jacket
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Given access to both personnel and the surviving wartime files, mackenzie's report was a reference document to be used by intelligence agencies in a future conflict, its audience the very elite of whitehall insidersmackenzie's document explores numerous controversies and reveals dozens of previously undisclosed episodes from britain's secret war against the axisnow, this highly classified account has been made availablewho were the agents parachuted in germany? what became of schemes designed to protect gibraltar from a spanish invasion? why did so many circuits suffer enemy penetration? when did soe decide to collaborate with the nkvd and infiltrate soviet spies into eastern europe? these and other wartime mysteries are packed into one of the most controversial documents of our timethe book is in very good condition with no marks or foxing see oxfam website for delivery information read morenever before have soe's operations across the world been described in such detail and with total authorityoxfam shop poole at the end of world war ii, the cabinet office commissioned an eminent academic, professor william mackenzie, to undertake a comprehensive secret history of special operations executive
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A beautifully written, heart-wrenching journey of love and loss' ok!  'poignant and lovely, warm and wise' milly johnson  'paige's writing is brilliant' mhairi mcfarlane 'i loved it' lindsey kelk 'interrupting my weekend away from twitter to say i've just finished the last piece of my hearther best book yet!' heat, five star review 'a gorgeous, warm novel' adele parkswhen life feels like a puzzle, sometimes it's the small pieces that make up the bigger picture'you'll laugh, you'll cry and be hooked from page oneoxfam shop colne road 'wonderfully heartfelta successful travel journalist, bridget has ambitions to turn her quirky relationship blog about the missing pieces of her heart into a booknicole dupré died leaving behind a bestselling novel and an incomplete sequeljoin bridget on a journey to put her world back togetherbravo' owlsandstags '5 of 5 stars to the last piece of my heart by paige toon' overflowingklc 'i just finished the last piece of my heart and it was amazing!!! i love it so much!'livsescape praise for the one we fell in love with: 'you'll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted' marian keyes 'i blubbed, i laughed and i fell in lovetasked with finishing the book, bridget is thankful to have her foot in the publishing door, even if it means relocating to cornwall for the summer and answering to nicole's grieving husband, charliebut after a spate of rejections from publishers, she accepts an alternative propositionutterly heart-wrenching' giovanna fletcher see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Worked in paris with van der meulen and enjoyed great successare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available), zwolle/amsterdam, , ppfrom a series of wrestling scenes invented by the famous wrestler and wine merchant nicolaes petter who had great interest in classical greece and began to give wrestling lessons to other merchants in his wine shop on the prinsengracht in amsterdamkolfin, 'tot uitpersing van tranen, de verbeelding van de hartstochten', in 'romeyn de hooghe, de verbeelding van de late gouden eeuw' (hexcellent good black inked impression on laid paper with no folds or tears; a few small stainsthan returned to haarlem where he stayed the rest of his lifeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteetching by romeyn d'hooghe, important innovator of dutch printmakingvan nierop et almost known for his graphic workhe itood for a renewal of print art and rejected the somewhat dull french style from the periodright wrestlerl lying on the ground and kicking the left of the other wrestler with his right leg, while pulling the latter towards the ground by his hairreceived patent of nobility from the king of polen inthis series: ' klare onderrichte der voortreffelijcke worstel-konst, published in , is considered one of the most important books about the unarmed struggle of the periodin a handpainted/guilded passe-partoutreference: hollstein landwehr litour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeromeyn de hooghe () painter, engraver and sculptor of amsterdam
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Secrets of the mastersyet it is written in a language easy to understandno inscriptions see oxfam website for delivery information read moreform and combat applicationsits scope and depth is amazing, touching on, among many other things, poetry and enlightenmentfor the first time ever, this inspiring book, written by an internationally acclaimed shaolin grandmaster, brings to you the crystallization of shaolin wisdom and practice spanning many centuriesprinciples and methods of force trainingprofound concepts and difficult techniques are explained systematically with many illustrationsmaintaining one's health and vitality and the healing of so-called incurable diseasesinteresting stories and legends of shaolinzen and spiritual developmentoxfam bookshop holmfirth shaolin kungfu has been considered by many as the best martial art in the worldthe book includes: - the background and scope of kungfutraditional chinese weaponsbut kungfu is just one of the three treasures of shaolin, the other two being chi kung and zenenergy training and mind training
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Owing to a production fault, the book has not been trimmed square so that top & bottom of pages are not parallel to lines of printamong his many widely read books are napoleon and josephine: a love story;Â crowns in conflict: the triumph and the tragedy of european monarchy and the king in love: edward vii's mistressessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreever since the instant success of his first book the golden bees: the story of the bonapartes, theo aronson has steadily built up his reputation as an historical biographer specializing in the royal houses of europeoxfam books & music hereford skilfully interwoven with each other, theo aronson's accounts of the reigns of european royalty, abdications and exiles capture the scope and variety of what victoria used to call the royal mob
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The wider influence of the catalogue is considered in chapters on pindar and the lyric tradition, on hellenistic poetry, and on the poem's reception at romein this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and receptionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe catalogue of women, ascribed to hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the godsindividual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its relation to other early epic and hesiodic poetry, its place in the development of a pan-hellenic consciousness, and attitudes to womenthis collection provides a significant approach to the study of the catalogue
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Here, fremantle, who worked closely with chögyam trungpa on the translation of the tibetan book of the dead (shambhala), brings the expertise of a lifetime of study to rendering this intriguing classic more accessible and meaningful to the livingusing vivid and dramatic imagery, the tibetan book of the dead presents the notion that most of us are living in a dream that will continue from lifetime to lifetime until we truly awaken by becoming enlightenedaccording to the buddhist view, nothing is permanent or fixedluminous emptiness features in-depth explanations of: the tibetan buddhist notions of death and rebirth the meaning of the five energies and the five elements in tibetan buddhism the mental and physical experience of dying, according to the tibetan buddhist tradition see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston shambhala, , paperback good condition, some stains to front cover the tibetan book of the dead, a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of tibetan buddhismthe entire world of our experience is constantly appearing and disappearing at every momentluminous emptiness is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious concepts, terms, and imageryover the years, it has been studied and cherished by buddhists and non-buddhists alikefremantle relates the symbolic world of the tibetan book of the dead to the experiences of everyday life, presenting the text not as a scripture for the dying, but as a guide for the living
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Oxford university press now presents the most authoritative and comprehensive guide ever published to the philosophy of mindthe fifth section looks at epistemic issues, in particular regarding knowledge of one's own and other mindsthe volume concludes with a section on self, personhood, and agencyoxfam bookshop preston the study of the mind has always been one of the main preoccupations of philosophers, and has been a booming area of research in recent decades, with remarkable advances in psychology and neurosciencean outstanding international team of contributors offer 45 specially written critical surveys of a wide range of topics relating to the mindthe oxford handbook of philosophy of mind will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and scholars of philosophy, and also for researchers in neighbouring disciplines seeking a high-level survey of the state of the art in this flourishing fieldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe third section focuses on the much-debated subjects of content and intentionalitythe first two sections cover the place of the mind in the natural world: its ontological status, how it fits into the causal fabric of the universe, and the nature of consciousnessthe fourth section examines a variety of mental capacities, including memory, imagination, and emotion
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France's concerns that britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed louis de bougainville's voyage of exploration undertaken inhe made a number of discoveries in the south west, but was too late to discover tahiti, where samuel wallis had preceded him by less than a yearafter handing over the colony he had established in the falkland islands to spain, he sailed through the still relatively unknown straits of magellan into the poorly charted south pacificthe book is in very good condition with some fading to spine and minimal foxing to topalthough bougainville published an account of his voyage in , his original journal was published only in ; the present volume makes the latter text available for the first time in english translationreports on bougainville's reception there and on life in the island were to create wide interest and controversy in europesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe then sailed to the samoan islands and on to vanuatu, as far as the great barrier reef, and north towards new guinea and the samoan islands making a number of discoveries and all the while leaving his name to a number of features, the best known of which are the island of bougainville and the bougainvillea flowerhe returned home by way of the dutch east indies and the indian oceanoxfam shop haverfordwest the french entered the pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a spanish preserve until british navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid s
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Forgotten books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copyarmour to accompany him in his steam yacht ituna on a voyage to mexicowe do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical worksbesides this a short paper treating of the geology, and particularly of the cenotes or natural wells of yucatan, will appear in the journal of geology of the university of chicagoabout the publisherforgotten books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic booksfind more at wwwcomthis book is a reproduction of an important historical workthe writer was a member of the party and, as curator of anthropology in the field colum bian museum, was expected to examine and describe such archaeologic remains as happened to be encountered during the journeysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our editionoxfam bookshop wallingford excerpt from archaeological studies among the ancient cities of mexicoin december, , a number of gentlemen, representing different branches of scientific research, were invited by mrthe following report, issued for convenience in two parts, is the resultthree months were spent in that most interesting country, mainly in the states of yucatan, chiapas and oaxaca
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This book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involvedinterdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in the evolution of human andanimal communication more generallyit highlights the links between different lines of research, shows what has been achieved, and considers promising directions for the futureoxfam bookshop preston in the oxford handbook of language evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the fieldthe oxford handbook of language evolution will be valued by everyone interested in one of the most productive and fascinating fields in natural and cognitive scienceits five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution; the prehistory of language; the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and changeresearch on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decadessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Was the same true of time in hell, stevenson asked himselfas divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the skywith the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, gibson has spent fifteen years collecting the literary and artistic forms our affinity for birds has taken over the centurieswhether as the christian dove, or quetzalcoatl the aztec plumed serpent or in plato s vision of the human soul growing wings and feathers, religion and philosophy have looked to birds as representatives of our better selves that part of us not bound to the earthfrom the book: "stevenson remembered the story of a monk who had been distracted from his copy-work by the song of a birdthey've been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they've been worshipped, eaten, feared and lovedbirds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as ovid, thomas hardy, kafka, thoreau and tthe song of the bird had given him a taste of paradise, where an instant is as a hundred years of earthly timegorgeously illustrated, woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, the bedside book of birds is for anyone who is aware of birds, and for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity has created to represent its soulbirds figure charmingly and tellingly in the work of such nature writers as gilbert white, peter matthiessen, farley mowat and barry lopezhe went into the garden to listen more closely, and when he returned, after what he thought were only a few minutes, he discovered that a century had gone by, that his fellow monks were dead and his ink had turned to dustsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenor does gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the galapagos finches did for darwinoxfam bookshop knutsford in this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher graeme gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birdsbirds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations
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The handbook will be a rich source of insight and stimulation for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the state of phenomenology todayoxfam bookshop preston the oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology presents twenty-eight essays by some of the leading figures in the field, and gives an authoritative overview of the type of work and range of topics found and discussed in contemporary phenomenologythe essays aim to articulate and develop original theoretical perspectivessome offer detailed analyses of concrete phenomena; others take a more comprehensive perspective and seek to outline and motivate the future direction of phenomenologyit includes discussions of such diverse topics as intentionality, embodiment, perception, naturalism, temporality, self-consciousness, language, knowledge, ethics, politics, art and religion, and will make it clear that phenomenology, far from being a tradition of the past, is alive and in a position to make valuable contributions to contemporary thoughtsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is the definitive guide to what is currently going on in phenomenologysome of them are concerned with issues and questions typical and distinctive of phenomenological philosophy, while others address questions familiar to analytic philosophers, but do so with arguments and ideas taken from phenomenology
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White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down through its heyday in the seventh through eleventh centuries, its gradual fall into obscurity, and its modern resurgence since the nineteenth centurytracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, white's exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of india's past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced todayas david gordon white demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrectvirtually forgotten in india for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the west, the yoga sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status-and translated into more than forty languages-only in the course of the past forty yearswhite brings to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations-and misappropriations-of the yoga sutra led to its revered place in popular culture todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read morefirst introduced to the west by the british orientalist henry thomas colebrooke, the yoga sutra was revived largely in europe and america, and predominantly in englishoxfam bookshop cotham hill first edition grey boards and spine with gilt embossed title to spine light shelf-wear to corners and top and bottom of spine but otherwise clean small marks to dust cover which is not price-clipped light bumps to edges of cover rough-cut pages are clean and bright with no marks, creases, or tears book and spine are bright and tight previous owner's pencil commentary to front end flap ("far outshines any since") consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, patanjali's yoga sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice
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Printed cloth boardsbrown leather spine with gilt title to spinecontained in brown slipcase see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster in , thirteen papyrus books that had lain buried since the 4th century were discovered in an earthenware jar near nag hammadi, in upper egyptthese were the gnostic gospels, alternative christian texts - poems, myths, philosophy and gospels - which challenge those of the new testament at every turnover years of neglect, however, was nothing compared to what happened to them upon discovery: the books were burned in an oven, confiscated and sold on the black market, before they were eventually decipheredthe gospel of thomas records sayings of jesus unlike any we have ever heard; that of philip describes mary magdalene as christ's companion 'whom he loved more than all the disciples'lyrical and powerful, there is no doubting the passion and devotion that created this poetryxxviii and 724 pages including indexwhat they revealed stunned the worldthe sacred writings of the nag hammadi library, the berlin gnostic codex and the codex tchacosit is a miracle in itself that they survivedone text tells the story of the garden of eden from the serpent's point of view, while another casts god as partly feminine
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Through notes on conversations with wittgenstein, letters to a student of philosophy and correspondence of almost 30 years with rush rhees, drury gives shape to what he had learned from wittgensteinbeautifully written and carefully selected, each piece reveals the impact of wittgenstein's teachings, shedding light on the friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th centuryalongside a foreword by monk and an introduction presenting a new biography of drury, analysing the relationship between him and wittgenstein, this collection features previously unpublished archival sourcessee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether discussing philosophy, simone weil or the power of hypnosis, he makes fascinating excursions into the bearing of wittgenstein's thought on philosophy and the practice of medicine and psychiatrythe subsequent course of drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teachercentral to the collection is the danger of words, the text described by ray monk as 'the most truly wittgensteinian book published by any of wittgenstein's students'the selected writings of maurice o'connor drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicineoxfam bookshop preston maurice o'connor drury was among wittgenstein's first students after his return to cambridge in
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Eliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired one' see oxfam website for delivery information read moresince then three further editions by, in succession, anne ridler, donald hall and peter porter have been publishedhe excludes some poets he admires such as edmund blunden and walter de la mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic techniqueyes, his purpose was tendentious' from the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with gerard manley hopkins' the wreck of the deutschland michael roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aimphilip hobsbaum, in the oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry, says of the faber book of modern verse, 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the smichael roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within itoxfam bookshop cheltenham first published in february , just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth centurymore likely than not, the original idea was tall took as their kernel the original selection by michael robertsthis faber finds reissue restores that pristine selection' on the other hand, 'i have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and language
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By her early twenties, caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic and outrageous flirther beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the prime minister, lord melbournethe criminal conversation of mrs nortonis the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywherecrowds are gathering at the court of common pleasafter years of simmering jealousy, norton accuses caroline and the prime minister of a 'criminal conversation' (adultery) precipitating 'the scandal of the century'it is a fine, fresh morning that will become hot as the day progressespickwick' inthe pickwick papersafter a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous and sensationalnorton is a laughing stockoxfam bookshop cheltenham westminster, london, 22 junefor the next thirty years caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated victorian society, helping to write the infant custody act (), and influenced the matrimonial causes (divorce) act () and the married women's property act (), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first timeangry and humiliated he cuts caroline off, as was his right under the law, refuses to let her see their three sons, seizes her manuscripts and letters, her clothes and jewels, and leaves her destituteon trial is caroline sheridan, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been manoeuvred into marrying the honourable george norton when she was just nineteensee oxfam website for delivery information read moreten years older, he is a dull, violent and controlling lawyer but caroline is determined not to be a traditional wifein westminster hall that day is a young charles dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalise the event as 'bardell v
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Finally, heroic rulers demonstrates that monarchy, which is generally thought to have disappeared before the end of the archaic period, remained a valid political option from the early iron age through to the hellenistic periodprobing into ancient perspectives on the legitimacy and legality of rule, the title also explores the relationship between ruling and lawit looks at how a common heroic ideology among rulers was based upon excellence, or arete, and also surveys dynastic ruling, where rule was in some sense shared within the family or clanlaw, personified as 'king' (nomos basileus), came to be seen as the ultimate source of sovereignty especially as expressed through the constitutional machinery of the city, and became an important balance and constraint for personal rulesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyrannyheroic rulers examines reasons why both personal and clan-based rule was particularly unstable and its core tension with the competitive nature of greek society, so that the question of who had the most arete was an issue of debate both from within the ruling family and from other heroic aspirants
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' daily express see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe left hand of god is a must read"the sanctuary of the redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hopehe is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure and neither is anyone elsehis only hope of survival is to escape across the arid scablands to memphis, a city the opposite of the sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely godless, and deeply corruptimagine if phillip pullman's his dark materials met umberto eco's name of the rosenot because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does notbut the redeemers want cale back at any priceoxfam shop colne road the left hand of god by paul hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogyhe has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him thomas calefans of epic heroic fiction will love this serieshe is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-mindedhe is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or diepraise for paul hoffman:'this book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' conn iggulden'tremendous momentum' daily telegraph'a cult classicthe sanctuary of the redeemers on shotover scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuarymost of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the lord redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the one true faithit is the first instalment in a gripping trilogy by paul hoffmanin one of the sanctuary's vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy
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The pictures are part and supplement to the description and condition of the offered objectare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablein the us, dsotm has spent more time in the "billboard 200" charts for best selling lp's, than any other release in modern historyit is a rock opera that explores pink, a jaded rockstar whose eventual self-imposed isolation from society is symbolized by a wallthe album was a commercial success, topping the us charts for 15 weeks, and reaching number three in the ukit initially received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found it overblown and pretentious, but later came to be considered one of the greatest albums of all timesee pictures for detailsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website2) quality: vinyl: vg ++ cover: vg ++ pink floyd ?– the wall label: harvest ?– 1a , harvest ?– 1a format: 2 × vinyl, lp, album, reissue country: netherlands released: genre: rock style: prog rock the wall is the 11th studio album by english rock band pink floyd, released 30 november on harvest and columbia recordsrecorded at abbey road studios, london between june and januaryit was recorded at abbey road studios in london england and released inoriginally issued in the netherlands in as harvest 5c "the dark side of the moon" is the eighth studio lp to be released by pink floydit stands as one of the most successful commercial recordings of all time, and has been released in just about every known country on the entire planetnow offered these iconic and legendary pink floyd albums the albums 1) quality: vinyl: vg ++ cover: vg ++ pink floyd ?– the dark side of the moon label: emi ?– 1a , harvest ?– 1a format: vinyl, lp, album, repress, gatefold sleeve country: netherlands released: genre: rock style: psychedelic rock, prog rock notes "made in holland" on labels gatefold sleeve with lyricsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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In the secret life of the owl, john lewis-stempel explores the legends and history of the owl'john lewis-stempel is one of the best nature writers of his generation' country life see oxfam website for delivery information read morethey feature in every major culture from the stone age onwardswe see them as wise, like athena's owl, and loyal, like harry potter's hedwigbut owls - with the sapient flatness of their faces, their big, round eyes, their paternal expressions - are also reassuringly familiarthey are creatures of the night, and thus of magicout in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-othey are the birds of ill-tidings, the avian messengers from the other sideno other species has so captivated usand in vivid, lyrical prose, he celebrates all the realities of this magnificent creature, whose natural powers are as fantastic as any mythoxfam shop colne road the perfect gift for nature lovers'dusk is filling the valleyhuman-like, in other wordsit is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light'there is something about owls
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Oxfam shop shirley title: the poetical works of percy bysshe shelley author: percy bysshe shelley, edited by edward dowden publisher: macmillan and cothe top of the spine has material missing so that it's flush to the page block and the silk page marker is present but detached a school prize label is fixed to the front pastedownsize: 182mm tall by 130mm wide, 708 pages including index of first linesthe pages of the rest of the book are in a very good condition win no evident faults, markings, underlining, or annotations internally the hinge of the back cover is cracked with intact webbing showing throughshelf wear showing at all four corners which are rubbed and slightly turned front cover gilt titles are in a good condition but the gilt crest is rubbed and fading on one sidethe text of poetry is set at a double column of text per pagesee oxfam website for delivery information read more the bottom of the spine is intact with minimal bumpingslightly browned by aging but still a good readable copylondon publication date: reprint binding: hardcover book condition: good dust jacket condition: no dust jacket hard-cover with gilt titles and decoration, sun-faded, and rubbed on the spinegilt-edged page block
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Dust jacket unmarked see oxfam website for delivery information read moreno highlighting or other notesin stark contrast, one man, john harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solutiontext block cleanexcellent condition for its age, with little signs of usethe quest for a solution had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries when, in , parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (gbp) to anyone whose method or device proved successfulfull of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmakinglacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of landthousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolutionthe scientific establishment throughout europe - from galileo to sir isaac newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answeroxfam bookshop newport the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude, and the unlikely triumph of an english geniusanyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuries
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Thomas smith, in two volumes see oxfam website for delivery information read moreprofessor of mathematics in the university of cambridge, a new edition, now first revised and improved by the revoxfam bookshop cardiff a beautifully written and illustrated 2 volume set the jewish historian, containing twenty books of the jewish antiquities, seven books of the jewish war, and the life of josephus, written by himself, translated from the original greek, according to havercamp's accurate edition, together with explanatory notes and observations, parallel texts of scripture, the true chronology of the several histories, an account of the jewish coins, weights and measures, and a complete index by the late william whiston am
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Finally, it analyses the armenian translation, which is shown to be an important witness to the original textin addition to a thorough discussion of its date and place of origin, the collection of essays discusses many aspects of the acts of andrew, such as its interest in magic, martyrdom and the place of the devil, its preoccupation with scatology, and its interest in eroticismoxfam bookshop preston the apocryphal acts of andrew' is the first modern collection of studies on the most important aspects of the acts of andrew, an early christian kind of novel, which has only partially been preserved in greek, latin and copticit looks at its relationship with poimandres, with the pagan novels and with other christian writings, in particular the acts of john and the acts of andrew and mathiassee oxfam website for delivery information read morecover slightly dog-eared but otherwise as newmuch attention is paid to spiritual climate of the acts of andrew and its connections with platonism and gnosticism
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