The language of things
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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 languageeven 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 purposesjung 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 poetrysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 cry'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 laugh' adam kay, author of this is going to hurt and twas the nightshift before christmas christie watson was a nurse for twenty yearsshe is a guide, mentor and friendand in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a handoxfam 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 todayit made me thinkin our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, christie is with us
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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 kindness: a nurse's storyfor example: idzthe item format is a book paperbackbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for salethe sleeve condition is new
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The title is the language of comicsfor example: idzthe item format is a book paperbackbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for salethe sleeve condition is new
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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 jb pontalis good condition paperback, creased spine, paper toned dictionary of fread's concepts, describing their evolution and linking each to supporting textssee oxfam website for delivery information read more translated from french
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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 title is the order of thingsbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for sale the sleeve condition is newthe item format is a book paperbackconsolidated orders and bulk orders
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Oxfam bookshop chelmsford francis pott: in the heart of things  ex see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The game of things by hasbro 4+ players adult game
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He is the author of b is for bauhaus, the language of things and the edifice complexhe was born in london, and studied architecture in edinburghdeyan sudjic is director of the design museum
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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 unitsforeword by sir harry melvilleoxfam bookshop shrewsbury 257 pagesillustrated with black and white drawings and graphsprevious owners name in ink to inside front boardsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehardback with laminated picture boards in near fine condition
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Title: the language of lovemissing information?artist: vale,jerry
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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 hairthis 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 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 industrycourtship 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 seathe 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 emotionssee 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 wear
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Like a good soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning german, the language of russia's nazi allyand she was keeping a diary, in which she recorded her hopes and dreamsall too soon, leningrad was besieged and life became a living hellit offers readers the vivid first-hand testimony of a courageous young woman struggling simply to survivelena 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 hersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe diary of lena mukhina is a truly remarkable account of this most terrible era in modern historythen, on 22 june , hitler broke his pact with stalin and declared war on the soviet unionfrom 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 loved
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the ukthis will be a wonderfully stimulating read and act as an invaluable guide as to what is truly important in living life, whether facing success, failure, justice, wrong, love, loss or any of the other profound experience life throws outgrayling's 'the last word' column in the guardianthis book is an accessible, lively and thought-provoking series of linked commentaries, based on asee oxfam website for delivery information read moreits aim is not to persuade readers to accept one particular philosophical point of view or theory, but to help us consider the wonderful range of insights which can be drawn from an immeasurably rich history of philosophical thoughtconcepts covered include courage, love, betrayal, ambition, cruelty, wisdom, passion, beauty and deatha life truly worth living is one that is informed and considered so a degree of philosophical insight into the inevitabilities of the human condition is inherently important and such an approach will help us to deal with real personal dilemmasthinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store does not have to be a despondent experience, but rather can be enlightening and uplifting
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Oxfam shop wilmslow this book, the result of a life-time's effort to understand the nature of things indian, describes the human situation in india after independencethe binding is tight and the text is clear and bright the dust cover is intact though slightly damaged in placessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book edges show shelf wear and the page edges and end papers have some foxing
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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'according to this view, human beings are born with a rich structure of cognition already in placebut people do not realize how thin the evidence for that idea isthe 'language instinct' debate examines the various arguments for instinctive knowledge, and finds that each one rests on false premisses or embodies logical fallaciessee oxfam website for delivery information read morein 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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Oxfam shop macclesfield the outline of history, by h g wells, cassell and company, london, pp including indexsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefoxing of inside cover and page yellowing consistent with the age of the bookmany good quality black and white illustrations throughoutthe whole story of life mankind, covering periods from: the first living things, natural selection and changes of species, changes in the world's climate, reptiles, mammals, man, human language(s), history, of egypt, greece, judea, india, the roman empire, etc
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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 languagethe literary editor of the times of london, howard takes a robust, commonsensical view of the changes that are happening in englishrather than have us wring our hands, philip howard entreats us, with his customary with and erudition, to use our tongues in concert with our brainshoward argues that as far as we can, we should strive to direct and control the changes in english in ways that increase its powerhe 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 usehe navigates the back streets of euphemism and the broad, boring boulevards of clichesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 - yessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon 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 mind
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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 speakersan 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 insee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome 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 conditionoxfam bookshop carlisle this book is an investigation of how societies have understood and described themselveswords 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 conceptspages clean and unmarked see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 america
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Publisher: koros press the elements of language teaching contributors/editors: wei zhao, et aldate: price: £ http://wwwcom/language-linguistics-literature/-the_elements_of_language_teaching
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Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, anthony peardew has spent half his life collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before'touching, funny and romantic' daily mail'a charming read, perfect for the holidays' the lady'a warm and heartfelt debut' prima*and if you loved the keeper of lost things, don't miss ruth hogan's other novels: queenie malone's paradise hotel and the wisdom of sally red shoes* see oxfam website for delivery information read morekeep it' richard & judymeet the 'keeper of lost things'oxfam shop pershore *the perfect cosy up-lit read, recommended by thousands of readers**the sunday times bestseller & winner of the richard and judy book club*'one of the most charming novels either of us has readbut the final wishes of the 'keeper of lost things' have unforeseen repercussions which trigger a most serendipitous series of encountersrealising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil his legacy and reunite the thousands of objects with their rightful owners
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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 firstthe art of lego mindstorms ev3 programming is a full-color, beginner-friendly guide designed to bridge that gap all of the book s programs work with one general-purpose test robot that you ll build early onsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas 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 systems inside, you ll discover how to combine core ev3 elements like blocks, data wires, files, and variables to create sophisticated programs
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