The language of kindness
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Taking us from birth to death and from a&e to the mortuary, the language of kindness is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness'it made me cryoxfam bookshop cheltenham read costa award-winning author christie watson's incredible nowe watch christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side during her patient's agonising heart-lung transplant, and we hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive1 sunday times bestselling memoir of nursing todayshe is a guide, mentor and friendin our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, christie is with usit made me laugh' adam kay, author of this is going to hurt and twas the nightshift before christmas christie watson was a nurse for twenty yearsand in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a hand'a powerful insight into the life of nurses' the times, books of the year'a remarkable book about life and death and so brilliantly written it makes you hold your breath' ruby wax see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit made me think
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The title is the language of kindness: a nurse's storythe item format is a book paperbackthe sleeve condition is newfor example: idzbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for sale
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Oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells at home in the language of the soul exploring jungian discourse and psyche's grammar of transformation language has a primary importance in jungian psychology and its practicevividly exploring the grammar of the psyche, we are urged to constantly kindle and rekindle our engagement with languagesee oxfam website for delivery information read morejung saw every act of speech as a psychic eventthis book aims to deepen our consciousness of psyche's speech as it occurs in our professional discourses, in the psychoanalytic encounter, in dreams, fairy tales, myths, and poetryeven the "worker" words in language, like prepositions or conjunctions, carry particular archetypal energies, working dynamically and daimonically in the conduct of transformational narrative and realizing both personal and collective purposes
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Postcard of the language of stamps the orientation of the stamp has certain messages posted in with stamp published by jembossed any questions message me read more
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This is a fine copy of the language of flowers by kate greenaway at least 100 years oldwith dust cover read more
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The title is the language of comicsthe item format is a book paperbackthe sleeve condition is newfor example: idzbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for sale
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Alexa hampton the language of interior design by alexa hampton (hardback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 7 to 9 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Introduction to zen koans learning the language of dragons by james ishmael ford (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the language of psychoanalysis j translated from french dictionary of fread's concepts, describing their evolution and linking each to supporting textssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreb pontalis good condition paperback, creased spine, paper toned
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The language of graphics, by edward booth-clibborn and daniele baronispine is loose, though all 320 pages are intact and there are some beautiful colour and monochrome imageshardback first edition, published by thames & hudson indimensions: 28 x 21
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Oxfam shop knaresborough the language of graphics rare book by edward booth-clibbon & daniele baronisee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The book also includes an eight language vocabulary with indexes in french, german and italian, and a section on the use of si unitshardback with laminated picture boards in near fine conditionoxfam bookshop shrewsbury 257 pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreforeword by sir harry melvilleillustrated with black and white drawings and graphsprevious owners name in ink to inside front board
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Title: the language of loveartist: vale,jerrymissing information?
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It provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of haircourtship in georgian england was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent seasee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courtsoxfam bookshop clifton very good condition; some shelf wearthe book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objectsit also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the georgian era - most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine's card - revealing how love developed into a commercial industrythis volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught processlove emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined ritualsthe game of love in georgian england brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions
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Like a good soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning german, the language of russia's nazi allyit offers readers the vivid first-hand testimony of a courageous young woman struggling simply to survivethe diary of lena mukhina is a truly remarkable account of this most terrible era in modern historysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreall too soon, leningrad was besieged and life became a living hellfrom day to dreadful day, lena records her experiences: the desperate hunt for food, the bitter cold of the russian winter, the cruel deaths of those she lovedand she was keeping a diary, in which she recorded her hopes and dreamsthen, on 22 june , hitler broke his pact with stalin and declared war on the soviet unionlena and her family fought to stay alive; their city was starving and its citizens were dying in their hundreds of thousandsoxfam bookshop cheltenham in may lena mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether vova, the boy she liked, liked her
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Can a little bit of kindness really change your life? eszter, abbie and louise are about to find out!**summer at the kindness cafe was previously published as a four-part serial titled random acts of kindnesswelcome to brew, a cafe where kindness is almost as important as coffee**your favourite authors love summer at the kindness cafe: 'a heart-warming read - cosy and comfortingthis summer, three very different women are inspired by the random acts of kindness written up on the kindness board at brew, and decide to make a pact to be kinder to others and to themselvesi loved every single page!' holly martin'a really lovely story - heart-warming and life affirming' jo thomas'warmth and kindness on every page' sheila o'flanagan'i adored summer at the kindness café - it's such a cosy, heart-warming read' jennifer joyce'summer at the kindness cafe ticks all the feel-good boxes' holly hepburn, author of a year at the star and sixpence'an entertaining and timely reminder that a random act of kindness can change not only someone's day, but also someone's life' penny parkes, author of best practice'such an uplifting, warm story, with characters i already feel like i knowthe perfect pick-me-up, and a timely reminder of the importance of kindness in every part of life' phoebe morgan see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is the complete story in one packageand eszter, who has travelled from hungary with her daughter zoe, is hoping to fulfil her husband's dying wish: to reunite his familyalmost!abbie has fled london and the humiliation of not being able to make rent after being made redundanti loved every minute of it!' cressida mclaughlin'victoria walters has such a wonderful, fresh voice and the characters really do leap off the page her sister, louise, unlucky in love, has thrown herself into her career at the local hospitali loved it!' heidi swain'utterly gorgeous, a totally heart-warming, beautiful storyoxfam shop colne road 'one of the genre's standout stars - there is so much heart in this book!' heat escape to the beautiful town of littlewood with this heart-warming read, perfect for fans of cathy bramley, holly hepburn and jo thomas
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The structures of language are shown to be purely cultural creationssince chomsky revolutionized the study of language in the s, it has increasingly come to be accepted that language and other knowledge structures are hard-wired in our genesoxfam bookshop preston when it was first published in , geoffrey sampson's educating eve was described as the definitive response to steven pinker's the language instinct and noam chomsky's nativismwith a new chapter entitled 'how people really speak' which uses corpus data to analyse how language is used in spontaneous english conversation, responses to critics, extensive revisions throughout, and a new preface by paul postal of new york university, this new edition will be an essential purchase for students, academics, and general readers interested in the debate about the 'language instinct'but people do not realize how thin the evidence for that idea issee oxfam website for delivery information read moreaccording to this view, human beings are born with a rich structure of cognition already in placethe 'language instinct' debate examines the various arguments for instinctive knowledge, and finds that each one rests on false premisses or embodies logical fallaciesin this revised and expanded new edition, sampson revisits his original arguments in the light of fresh evidence that has emerged since the original publication
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He asks whether the language is actually changing as fast as we suppose, and, if so, whyoxfam bookshop cheltenham is the english language in decline? many people seem to think so--but philip howard isn't one of themhoward here examines the language in its various branches and categories, such as grammar and pronunciation, spelling and punctuation, dialect and slangand where we can't help it, he says, we should lie back and enjoy its immense richness, which is unrivaled by any other languagehis is not the panglossian attitude that all is neccessarily for the best in the best of all possible languages, but he does feel that change is necessary--and healthy--in any living languagehe navigates the back streets of euphemism and the broad, boring boulevards of clichesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe literary editor of the times of london, howard takes a robust, commonsensical view of the changes that are happening in englishhoward argues that as far as we can, we should strive to direct and control the changes in english in ways that increase its powerrather than have us wring our hands, philip howard entreats us, with his customary with and erudition, to use our tongues in concert with our brainshe discusses the effect the new technologies, from cable tv to photocomposition, are having on the mother tongue, and he examines the new dialects that are coming into use
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Oxfam shop mold generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is thereanythingsensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? *does language reflect the culture of a society? *is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? *can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? inthrough the language glass, acclaimed author guy deutscher will convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yeson an odyssey that takes us from homer to darwin, from scientists to savages, from the corridors of yale to the rivers of the amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why russian water - a 'she' - become a 'he' once you have dipped a tea bag into her,this book explores some of the most fascinating and controversial questions about language, culture and the human mindsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The essays, a number of which were originally delivered as lectures in the university of cambridge and all of which are by specialists in the field, combine to provide a history of the german language in its social contextoxfam books & music beeston peter lang, , paperback very good condition the contributions to this volume explore eleven key developments in the external history of the german language, that is, the combination of social, political and cultural circumstances which influenced the language and its speakerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morean overarching theme is the role of deliberate intervention in the development of german, whether it took the form of education, prescriptivism, purism or political manipulationothers are studies of particular periods, places or groups which have not found their place in more narrative accounts: standardisation in the nineteenth century, the role of low german, the state of german at the stunde null insome of these 'landmarks' are individuals or groups of people who have exerted influence over the language: charlemagne, luther, the early modern grammarians and lexicographers
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It is concerned both with the history of language and the language of historythe essays in this book explore the difficulties and the possibilities in understanding language as historical evidence softcover in excellent conditionthe author examines how political declarations and manifestos relate to the societies from which they emanated and for which they aimed to legislatethe chapters include studies of societies in germany, china, usa and india, pre-revolutionary france and 19th-century britain and americawords such as "liberty" and "equality" have to be understood in a limited sense in the french and american revolutions, but it would be impossible to understand these events without recourse to these resonant conceptsoxfam bookshop carlisle this book is an investigation of how societies have understood and described themselvespages clean and unmarked see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Publisher: koros press the elements of language teaching contributors/editors: wei zhao, et alcom/language-linguistics-literature/-the_elements_of_language_teachingdate: price: ÂŁ http://www
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You ll also learn good programming practices, memory management, and helpful debugging strategies general skills that will be relevant to programming in any languageoxfam bookshop hertford with its colorful, block-based interface, the lego mindstorms ev3 programming language is designed to allow anyone to program intelligent robots, but its powerful features can be intimidating at firstas you follow along, you ll program your robot to: react to different environments and respond to commands - follow a wall to navigate a maze - display drawings that you input with dials, sensors, and data wires on the ev3 screen - play a simon says style game that uses arrays to save your high score - follow a line using a pid-type controller like the ones in real industrial systemssee oxfam website for delivery information read more all of the book s programs work with one general-purpose test robot that you ll build early on inside, you ll discover how to combine core ev3 elements like blocks, data wires, files, and variables to create sophisticated programsthe art of lego mindstorms ev3 programming is a full-color, beginner-friendly guide designed to bridge that gap
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen dedicated to the potential hazards of trees, this book shows the reader how a tree breaks, why it breaks, why perhaps it breaks too soon and how it gives a warning using 'body language'this book aims to teach the reader to interpret and evaluate the symptoms biomechanicallyslight rubbing to the edges and creasing to the corners of the book 7th impression see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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language of flowersthe box has a few marks on it but the puzzle is in good conditionpiece jigsaw puzzlemy mum was given this puzzle but only likes doing 500 piece puzzlesking of puzzles
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The secret language of your face ancient chinese art of siang mien by rosemary dear (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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The secret language of birthdays book unique personality profiles for every day of the year
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Plato's cratylus the comedy of language by shanemontgomery ewegen (hardback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 7 to 9 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Oxfam bookshop canterbury the acquisition of the german case system by foreign language learners (processability approaches to language acquisition research & teaching) kristof baten john benjamins publishing company (31 july ) see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The secret language of churches & cathedrals, richard stemp hardback new and sealed collection from ireby in cumbria ca7 please view my other items for more books on history and historical places and buildings read more
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