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oxfam shop oxford oakenfold, the harder they come see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam shop colne road the harder they come jimmy cliff you can get it if you really want (jimmy cliff many rivers to cross (jimmy cliff) sitting in limbo (jimmy cliff) draw your brakes (scotty) by the rivers of babylon (melodians) sweet and dandy (toots and the maytals) pressure drop (toots and the maytals) johnny too bad (slickers) shanty town (desmond dekker) see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam shop oxford oakenfold, the harder they come3 tracks plus one video see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read more 'the first circle' sees a vietnam veteran come to the team for help in 'one and one makes one' the protectors come up against some duplicitious thinking when they agree to rescue an imprisoned canadian agentoxfam shop new street the entire first series of the s tv thriller produced by gerry anderson and following the exploits of crimefighters harry rule (robert vaughn), paul bouchet (tony anholt) and countess caroline di contini (nyree dawn porter) in 'with a little help from my friends' harry has some family trouble when he agrees to serve as a bodyguard for a visiting head-of-state 'balance of terror' sees harry, paul and the contessa struggle to save london from the devastation of biological warfare 'a matter of life and death' sees the team visit malta and attempt to foil some smugglers 'the bodyguards' sees the team charged with protecting a corpse 'disappearing trick' finds the contessa helping out with a magical disappearing act 'talkdown' finds harry up in an airplane with a dead pilot on his hands 'quick brown fox' sees harry, paul and the contessa on the trail of some nazi fugitivesin as-new condition throughout 'it was all over lepzig' sees the contessa confront an old lover 'it could be practically anywhere on the island' finds the team chasing a poodle in 'the big hit' paul and the contessa narrowly escape assassination attempts and try to warn harry that he is probably next 'a kind of wild justice' sees harry's life endangered by the daughter of an old nemesis 'triple cross' has harry and the contessa in an uncomfortable situation when they are ordered to steal some jewels in order to save the life of the kidnapped paul'see no evil' has the team get involved in a blackmail case 'a case for the right' has the protectors take a tour of some roman tombs 'chase' finds harry running for his life when a blackmail investigation turns sour 'numbers game' finds the protectors trying their hand at a spot of codebreaking 'king con' finds our heroes involved in a con game as they attempt to retrieve an expensive antique 'brother hood' sees the team hired to orchestrate a prison break finally, in 'ceremony for the dead', the protectors look after a critically-ill president 'vocal' has paul blinded and harry impersonated watch out for the hit theme tune sung by tony christie, 'in the avenues and alleyways'in ' feet to die' a skydiving chum of harry's is endangered by villains 'for the rest of your natural' has the contessa captured by a psychopath 'thinkback' has harry and the contessa involved in a suspicious car crash 'your witness' has a murder witness disappear while under the team's protection
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop brentwood horror thriller in which a couple's quiet weekend break turns into a nightmarish fight for survivalwhen he acts suspiciously, the couple investigate but the closer they come to revealing henry's secret, the more unlikely they are to make it out alivesoon after arriving at a secluded lodge on a weekend away, michael (owen szabo) and julia (elizabeth kell) discover that they are not alone when they encounter caretaker henry (kevin mcclatchy)
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop bath a hardback in very good conditionyambo struggles through the frames to find at last the face of the girl he loves: she descends the stairs of their high school and morphs into a dante-esque promise (or threat) of the afterlife, as he struggles harder to capture her simple, innocent, real-life image - the schoolgirl he never forgotthe red cloth boards with gold illustration and text are in very good conditionthe dustjacket shows very minor shelf wear onlyas he recovers his memory, two voids remain shrouded in fog: a terrible event he experienced during the resistance, and the vague image of a girl whom he loved at sixteen, then lostyambo promptly retreats to the sprawling attic, cluttered with boxes of newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and adolescent diariescopiously illustrated throughout with images from comics, book jackets, record sleeves and other printed ephemera, the mysterious flame is a fascinating and hugely entertaining new novel from the incomparable umberto ecothe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadyambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (yambo remembers all about julius caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, doesn't remember anything about his parents or his childhoodhis wife, who is at his side as he slowly begins to recover, convinces him to return to his family home in the hills somewhere between milan and turinsigned by author on title pagemultiple colour illustrationsthere, he relives the story of his generation: mussolini, catholic education and guilt, josephine baker, flash gordon, cyrano de bergeracnow in a coma, his memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novelbut a relapse occurs
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe two of them have lost touch, but when rachel doesn't come home one night, becca is called in to helpoxfam bookshop cheltenham the secrets of happiness is an extraordinary tale of sisterhood, from lucy diamond author of the beach cafebut sometimes happiness can be found in the most unexpected placescan be just around the cornerrachel and becca aren't real sisters, or so they saythey are stepsisters, living far apart, with little in commonartistic becca, meanwhile, lurches from one dead-end job to another, shares a titchy flat, and has given up on lovethe best things in lifeonce there, she quickly realizes that her stepsister's life is not so perfect after all: rachel's handsome husbandhas moved out, her children are rebelling, and her glamorous career has taken a nosediverachel is the successful one: happily married with three children and a big house, plus an impressive careeras becca begins to untangle rachel's secrets, she is forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about her own life, and the future seems uncertainworst of all, nobody seems to have a clue where she might be
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreafter his explosive regeneration, the eleventh doctor awakes to discover his tardis is about to crash! after falling from the sky, he pulls himself out of the wreckage to come face-to-face with young amy pondbut first they must divert an alien plot that could destroy the earthbut they are not the only strange creatures the doctor and amy must face--there are also alien vampires, humanoid reptiles, the weeping angels, and a silent menace that follows amy and the doctor around wherever they gothe doctor promises to take amy to the starsmatt smith and karen gillan star as the new doctor and his companion in an all-new series of doctor whothey are hatching a new master plan from the heart of war-torn london in the sthe doctor makes good his promise, and amy boards the regenerated tardis, ready to take to the stars on a series of wild adventures that will change her lifeas always, wherever the doctor goes, his oldest enemies, the daleks, are never far behind
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam furniture shop southampton overall in very good conditionthis major two volume work covers over genera and is the most comprehensive work of its kind bridging the divide between scientific texts and everyday horticultural books and providing an unrivalled insight into the relationships between garden plants and the natural environment from which they comethe book begins with the genera whose ancestors can be traced back to the jurassic period and ranges in botanical order through the earliest flowering plants, to the catkin bearing trees and the familiar fruit treesthis volume deals with trees, shrubs and climbers and covers over 450 genera of woody plants
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oxfam shop mutley plain come see about me engineered by michael hutchinson and dan hartmantracks include come see about me, your precious love, rhythm of the rain, tears on my pillow, it's all in the game, new orleans, searching, earth angel, cathy's clown and stagger lee see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop swanage triple bill featuring the heroic collie dogin 'lassie come home' (), a collie dog, sold by her destitute family, escapes to begin the long journey back from scotland to her home in yorkshirefinally, 'courage of lassie' (), follows the fortunes of a pup, bill, separated from his mother, who is finally rescued by a young girl, played by elizabeth taylorin 'son of lassie' (), lassie's son 'laddie' is separated from his master in german occupied norway inwhen they too become separated, bill is taken into the army during wwii
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames almost as new hardback in like dust jacketbut these leaders won't simply come to the fore; we have to develop them, and we must cultivate them as quickly as is humanly possiblexiv, 204 pages, including appendices, notes, and indexthis book is a means to this endmoving from the theoretical to the practical, and employing real-world examples, author jennifer garvey berger offers a set of building blocks to help cultivate an agile workforce while improving performancecoaches, hr professionals, thoughtful leaders, and anyone who wants to flourish on the job will find this book a vital resource for developing their own capacities and those of the talent that they supportas opposed to showing readers how to play the role of a leader in a "paint by numbers" fashion, changing on the job builds on theories of adult growth and development to help readers become more thoughtful individuals, capable of leading in any scenariolisten to people in every field and you'll hear a call for more sophisticated leadership - for leaders who can solve more complex problems than the human race has ever faced
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham have you ever wondered: - how do they know how much an aircraft carrier weighs?- how do they get music onto a cd?- how does an electric eel generate electricity?- how do they know how long a second is?- how do penguins stay warm in antarctica?- how do they teach guide dogs to cross at a green light?the answers to these and many other everyday wonders are explainedhere, in simple and easy-to-understand terms, are solutions to the riddles of everyday lifehow do they measure the heat of distant stars? how do they measure the ozone layer? and how do they know there's going to be another ice age in two thousand years? the answers await withinhow exactly does a thief break into your car and drive off with it in less than a minute? and how do they get hostess twinkies to stay fresh for so long?more how do they do that? also reveals aspects of modern science and the natural world that are often taken for granted
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The harder i fight, the harder i fight, the more i lland of groovessound format: deluxe edition
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop newquay peter jackson's complete epic big screen adaptation of jin 'the fellowship of the rings' () frodo (elijah wood) is a hobbit living in the shire, a quiet, peaceful part of middle earthwhen it turns out that his elderly relative bilbo (ian holm) is harbouring the ultimate ring of power and the evil nazgul riders of sauron are coming to find it, frodo is entrusted by wizard gandalf (ian mckellen) to deliver the ring out of the shire without it falling into their handstogether they must battle across middle earth to destroy the ring by casting it into the cracks of doom, the fiery chasm in the centre of mordorin 'the two towers' () the fellowship of the ring has now divided and sam and frodo are lost in the hills of emyn muilthey are obviously out-numbered but are determined to keep sauron distracted in order to enable frodo to complete his quest to destroy the ring by throwing it into the fires of the mountain of doomfrodo leaves the shire aided by his cousins merry (dominic monaghan), pippin (billy boyd) and trusty friend sam gamgee (sean astin), but they soon realise that the agents of mordor are everywhere and that their trip is far from overmeanwhile aragorn, legolas and gimli search for the hobbits merry and pippin in the kingdom of rohan, which is currently being attacked by saruman's orc armiestolkien's 'lord of the rings' trilogy - filmed back-to-back and released over 3 consecutive yearsgandalf returns as gandalf the white to remind aragorn of his destiny to unite the people of rohan with gondoronce they reach the elvish realm of rivendell the hobbits form part of the anti-sauron fellowship, which includes aragorn (viggo mortensen), boromir (sean bean), legolas greenleaf (orlando bloom), gimli the dwarf and of course gandalfthey are also being followed by gollum, a creature who promises to help them find the mountain of doomfinally, 'the return of the king' () won all 11 academy awards it was nominated for, including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplaygandalf manages to rally gondor's fallen army with the help of king theoden of rohan for the biggest battle in the history of middle-earth; and aragorn finally faces up to his responsibilitieswhilst the fellowship are not travelling together they must unite against the powerful forces coming from the two towers: orthanc tower in isengard where saruman has bred a deadly army of , and sauron's fortress at barad-dûr
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop syston extended versions of peter jackson's complete epic big screen adaptation of jin 'the fellowship of the ring' () frodo (elijah wood) is a hobbit living in the shire, a quiet, peaceful part of middle earthwhen it turns out that his elderly relative bilbo (ian holm) is harbouring the ultimate ring of power and the evil nazgul riders of sauron are coming to find it, frodo is entrusted by wizard gandalf (ian mckellen) to deliver the ring out of the shire without it falling into their handstogether they must battle across middle earth to destroy the ring by casting it into the cracks of doom, the fiery chasm in the centre of mordorin 'the two towers' () the fellowship of the ring has now divided and sam and frodo are lost in the hills of emyn muilthey are obviously out-numbered but are determined to keep sauron distracted in order to enable frodo to complete his quest to destroy the ring by throwing it into the fires of the mountain of doomfrodo leaves the shire aided by his cousins merry (dominic monaghan), pippin (billy boyd) and trusty friend sam gamgee (sean astin), but they soon realise that the agents of mordor are everywhere and that their trip is far from overmeanwhile aragorn, legolas and gimli search for the hobbits merry and pippin in the kingdom of rohan, which is currently being attacked by saruman's orc armiestolkien's 'lord of the rings' trilogy - filmed back-to-back and released over 3 consecutive yearsgandalf returns as gandalf the white to remind aragorn of his destiny to unite the people of rohan with gondoronce they reach the elvish realm of rivendell the hobbits form part of the anti-sauron fellowship, which includes aragorn (viggo mortensen), boromir (sean bean), legolas greenleaf (orlando bloom), gimli the dwarf and of course gandalfthey are also being followed by gollum, a creature who promises to help them find the mountain of doomfinally, 'the return of the king' () won all 11 academy awards it was nominated for, including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplaygandalf manages to rally gondor's fallen army with the help of king theoden of rohan for the biggest battle in the history of middle-earth; and aragorn finally faces up to his responsibilitieswhilst the fellowship are not travelling together they must unite against the powerful forces coming from the two towers: orthanc tower in isengard where saruman has bred a deadly army of , and sauron's fortress at barad-dûr
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop hebden bridge award-winning actress geraldine mcewan stars as miss marple in this set of murder mysteriesin 'the sleeping murder', soon after gwenda (sophia myles) moved into her new home, odd things started to happenin 'the moving finger', after a serious motorcycle accident, the dashing jerry burton (james d'arcy) arrives in the sleepy village of lymstock with his sister joanna (emilia fox) to recuperatein 'by the pricking of the thumbs', when tommy (anthony andrews) and tuppence (greta scacchi) visit an elderly aunt in sunny ridge nursing home, tuppence is concerned by one resident, mrs lancaster (june whitfield), who rambles about a dead child behind the lounge fireplacetogether miss marple and jerry set out to stop the malicious messages before they result in another tragedywhen tuppence is introduced to one resident's friend, miss marple, she finds herself joining forces with her to follow the clues which lead them to the norfolk village of farrell st edmund where there they find a community guarding a number of deadly secretstheir expectations of peace and quiet are quickly dashed when they discover a poison pen-writer is at large in the villageunfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on footlittle do they know that they will ultimately unveil a murdererdespite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its pastworse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairsin fear, gwenda turns to miss marple to exorcise her ghoststension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'captain trevelyanbetween them, they attempt to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years beforefinally in 'the sittaford mystery', in a remote house in the middle of dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seanceis this black magic or simply a macabre joke? the only way to be certain is to locate captain trevelyan
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The question is: can they do the same for her? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans after building an empire that has made her a legend in business, olivia spends months each year planning a lavish holiday for everyone in her family to enjoythis summer she has arranged a dream trip on a luxurious yacht in the mediterranean, which she hopes will be the most memorable of allimmersed in the splendour of the riviera, this should be a summer to remember, but old resentments die hard, and olivia is still running the business full-timeas each of these individuals confront the past and the challenges of the present and future, they also learn to accept the enduring, unconditional love of their family - and a mother who is strong enough to take more than her fair share of the blame, and loving enough to accept them as they really areliz, her older daughter, is preoccupied with a chance to recapture her dream of being a writer and is terrified of failure, againbut her younger daughter, cassie, a hip london music producer, refuses the invitation altogether as she does every yearand her sons john and phillip work for her, for better or worse, with wives who wish they didn'tmore than anything, she hopes to express her love and her regret at all the important times she missed during her children's early years
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop clitheroe director's extended cut of the famous fantasy adaptation of part one of the fantasy trilogy by jtogether they must battle across middle earth to destroy the ring by casting it into the cracks of doom, the fiery chasm in the centre of mordorfrodo leaves the shire aided by his cousins merry (dominic monaghan), pippin (billy boyd) and trusty friend sam gamgee (sean astin), but they soon realise that the agents of mordor are everywhere and that their trip is far from overfrodo (elijah wood) is a hobbit living in the shire, a quiet, peaceful part of middle earthonce they reach the elvish realm of rivendell the hobbits form part of the anti-sauron fellowship, which includes aragorn (viggo mortensen), boromir (sean bean), legolas greenleaf (orlando bloom), gimli the dwarf and of course gandalfwhen it turns out that his elderly relative bilbo (ian holm) is harbouring the ultimate ring of power and the evil nazgul riders of sauron, the dark lord of mordor, are coming to find it, frodo is entrusted by wizard gandalf (ian mckellen) to deliver the ring out of the shire without it falling into their hands
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop thornbury the faculty at east high school thinks that winning the best youth musical in america (bym america) competition would be the drama club's greatest achievementyou play this game, player, and you are included! the worldwide runaway disney channel movie hit high school musical comes to the small-screen on nintendo ds in an all new game with high school musical: makin' the cut! this is the high school musical handheld experience that takes players across america as they compete in the ultimate musical competitionplaying as any of the six high school musical stars - troy, gabriella, sharpay, ryan, chad or taylor (or their own customised character) - fans dance and play along with the movie's songs on the touch screen, and create and choreograph their own dance videos in order to win the national titlein addition, players can create their own video clips and show off their style by customising their outfits as they compete head-to-head and trade their personal video creations with their friends, wherever and whenever they wantsharpay evans thinks so too, and before anyone can stop her, she signs up the wildcats' top performers for the contesthigh school musical: makin' the cut! includes 12 songs from high school musical and high school musical 2 with four levels of difficulty
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fictionnational book award finalistnew york times bestsellerwinner of the carnegie medal for fictiona beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind french girl and a german boy whose paths collide in occupied france as both try to survive the devastation of world war ii'open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close foreverthe walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the nazis invade paris'for marie-laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazesthe microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the museum of natural historyin this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories ofmarie-laure and werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one anotherthe miniature of a paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way homeand a future which draws her ever closer to werner, a german orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the hitler youth
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop didsbury what makes a good doctor? are there bad doctors out there - and if so how do we protect patients from them? can we inject more information, more trust and more assured competence into the medical system to solve these problems? drawing on his years of dealing with patient concerns, ron paterson tackles these important questionsthe good doctor will be prescribed reading for doctors, patients and policymakers-all of those determined to make sure patients get the medical care they deservethe book makes challenging arguments: that patients don't demand the sort of information about doctors that they should; that doctors who feel put upon by information overload, patient demands, complaints and growing requirements from employers, colleges, medical boards and government, will be resistant to any additional regulation of their activity; that doctors are reluctant to judge problem doctors and prefer the quiet chat'; and that current law and practice is lax when it comes to checking that doctors remain up-to-datepaterson concludes the book with proposals to lift the veil of secrecy, to inform patients better and to revalidate doctors periodically, all key ways we might improve patient care
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop didsbury first edition autobiography to accompany the staging of a play by manchester-based quarantine at the contact theatrethe paperback is in good condition with a few scuff marks to the grey card cover and creases along the spinethe nicely designed book contains monologues, poems, scribbles, scripts and morein the book and play grace and veronica dyas, sisters from dublin, attempt to describe everything that they could remember happening within their lifetime with some things they don't want to share, resulting in black outs and redactionthe pages are clean and the binding is tight
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam music shop byres road the first three adventures for the doctor (william hartnell) from the classic bbc television sci-fi series, including all 13 episodesthere, they become embroiled in a dangerous conflict between groups of cavemen who have lost the secret of making fireas it becomes clear that a mechanical fault has caused the problem and is sending the tardis hurtling towards destruction, the time machine itself is able to communicate with the crew and warn them of dangerthe doctor finally accepts ian and barbara as proper members of his crewin 'the daleks' episodes, the team travel to the ravaged planet of skaro, where the meet the pacifist race of thals, and the evil mutant daleksbut, with the doctor's help, the thals start an attack that wipes out the daleks completelyepisodes are: 'an unearthly child'; 'the cave of skulls'; 'the forest of fear'; 'the firemaker'; 'the dead planet'; 'the survivors'; 'the escape'; 'the ambush'; 'the expedition'; 'the ordeal'; 'the rescue'; 'the edge of destruction'; and 'the brink of disaster'when the doctor interferes, the daleks learn information vital to their survival and hatch a plan to wipe out the thalsin the 'an unearthly child' episodes, the doctor takes schoolteachers ian (william russell) and barbara (jacqueline hill) back to the dawn of human history after they discover his tardis time machinein the 'edge of destruction' episodes, the tardis is hit by a massive explosion and at first the doctor suspects ian and barbara of sabotage
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good conditionnew states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handsat the paris peace conference of , the allies agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationsthe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadas imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easier to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinydrawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world ordercolonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva to demand a repartition of the spoilsbritain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwisethe allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves createdas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencesthe first world war threw the imperial order into crisisminor signs of shelf wear
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brighton today the world is focusing unprecedented attention on asia and the middle east - rediscovering a cultural, political, and geographical landscape that has fascinated and frustrated westerners since the time of alexander the greatthe maps provide detailed visual keys to the fascinating history of asia and the middle east: altogether they illuminate a cast of historical figures ranging from great leaders (the queen of sheba, mohammed the prophet, king charles v) to legendary explorers (marco polo, columbus, magellan, sir francis drake, captthe book focuses on both maritime exploration and overland discovery via the ancient silk road: a network of trading posts that encompassed china, tibet, pakistan, india, kurdistan, iraq, ethiopia, eritrea, and dozens of other places known in ancient times by fabled names, including abyssinia, malacca, macassar, siam, and cathaymapping the silk road and beyond traces the history of the european age of exploration and its lasting effects on these regions through an extensive series of beautifully rendered and imaginative maps drawn by explorers, merchants, and colonial administrators of the timejames cook) and influential cartographersmapping the silk road and beyond depicts over eighty maps organized in clear chronology - from alexander the great's map of the world, first created in 323 bc and reproduced in a sixteenth-century atlas, to maps from the nineteenth century by french and dutch explorers that detail the growing interaction between europeans and eastern culturesthese maps represent the finest examples in existence in museums, libraries, and archives around the world, chosen because they depict the most important milestones in the mapping of asia
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop wallingford "they didn't die like flies, you know, like i've heard some reporters say over the yearsthey had frozen feet, and fingers too numb and cramped with the cold to wipe the tears from their eyesleft to die is gary collins's most ambitious and creative work of non-fiction, a storytelling masterpiecethe men who died didn't just drop like fliesthere was nothing quick or easy about itmen both young and old left their homes from all over the province that year to pursue the annual seal huntthe historic convergence of ice, seals, and men in late march marked the end of newfoundland's innocencewith new photos and new research revealed, he recalls with stunning clarity what history remembers about the sealing disaster ofamong the vessels that took them to the ice was the newfoundland, a wooden-walled steamship captained by the famous captain westbury keanwith no wireless aboard the *, the stage was set for seventy-eight of the men who went over the side and their fates sealedoh no, it wasn't like that a'tall"cecil mouland, the last living survivor of the ss newfoundland sealing disaster, told his story to gary collins in the fall of while travelling to stjohn's, where the old ice hunter would live out his final daysthis book grew from that encounter and stands alone as the defining tale of the bonavista bay men who were left to die on the ice
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oxfam shop wolverhampton a large parcel came by post to arthur ransomethey have the sort of holiday that everybody would like to have if only they could! see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe opened it to find the manuscript of this book written by two schoolgirls, during the winter and spring terms, to the detriment of their school workhe began reading it with deep mistrust but soon found himself unable to stopa party of children stay in a farmhouse on exmoor, meet other like-minded children, have all sorts of adventures, mostly on horseback but also on a raft on the river
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop victoria here is the definitive account of the house of amphora, the innovative ceramic artworks bearing that name in fact or by association, and the five workshops that produced themwith access to the most extensive amphora collections worldwide and recently unearthed archives and records from the czech republic, the authors - all three specialists in their fields - piece together a fascinating story of talent, ambition, family ties and innovationincluded are hundreds of specially commissioned photographs with detailed descriptions, chapters on collecting, care and conservation, and a lengthy study of marks, signatures and the amphora numbering systemthey journey from amphora's beginnings in the turn-teplitz region of what was once bohemia, to foreign markets where their artworks garnered mass appeal and on to the world's largest art exhibitions of the late 19th and early 20th centuriescognizant that all works of art reflect the times from which they emerge, the authors discuss the vital relationship between the ceramic workshops and the many movements - political, economic and artistic - that swept through europe and the rest of the world at that time
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road from the moment the stranger burst into her antiquities shop in rome, lavinia lake knew he was nothing but troubleand just as his investigation was heating up, he found it complicated by the most ungovernable, exasperating - and ever so slightly shady - woman he had ever mettobias march was bent instead on destroying herwhen the self-professed spy hustled her all the way back to england, lavinia vowed she would find a way to repay him in fullmarch had in fact been telling the truth, that he had been hired to track down a powerful villainhe said he was in pursuit of a killer and swore he was only trying to save herlavinia most certainly never dreamed they would meet again, forced into partnership under shocking circumstances - or that their fiery disputes would spark a sizzling desire as overwhelming as the danger they facedyet lavinia was convinced that mrshe never dreamed that mr
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