The last thirty years
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A unique insight into the last desperate years of the german army at war on the eastern frontoxfam bookshop lymington scarce booksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon the vast steppes of the soviet union, it describes how the german army, together with the elite mountain troops and luftwaffe field divisions played a decisive role in trying to stem the rout along the disintegrating front lineslarge format, illustrated laminated hard coversrare and previously unpublished photographs with in-depth captionspublished by hellion & company, publishers of high quality military books
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Wall had a great knack from getting under the skin of interviewees' big issuewhether it's hanging around with marillion's fish in berlin, seeing whitesnake fail to ignite 's rock in rio, talking through old times with jimmy page in his berkshire pile or following ozzy osbourne to moscow, there isn't a rock luminary that wall hasn't cross-examined or kept the flame burning with at some point over the last thirty yearsyou won't read a funnier rock book****' mojo'wall is firing on all cylinders' classic rock'this hilarious tome is a collection of his finest momentssee oxfam website for delivery information read morehere, amongst several pieces, he catches lars ullrich just on the cusp of world domination; has dinner with ritchie blackmore on the eve of a deep purple comeback; and is up all night in la with wit also features brand-new introductions to all the pieces, written with maybe less hair but also the benefit of twenty years' hindsightoxfam bookshop st albans 'appetite for destruction has the best of wall's kerrang! features, each bolstered by new, insightful post-scriptsappetite for destruction gathers together wall's journalism for kerrang!, for whom he was the star writer in their eighties heyday
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Oxfam bookshop shaftesbury winner of the society for military history distinguished book award the horrific series of conflicts known as the thirty years war () tore the heart out of europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all germans and laying waste to whole areas of central europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recoveredthe war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stopwilson's great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries' future with such horrifying resultssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by itat its end a recognizably modern europe had been created but at a terrible price book condition very good, covers and spine unmarked and all pages crisp and cleanpeter wilson's book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of eventsthe principal actors in the drama (wallenstein, ferdinand ii, gustavus adolphus, richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive under impossible circumstancesall the major european powers apart from russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder
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Though the developing theory has been presented in a steady stream of books and articles over the last thirty years, two items stand out as major landmarks: the publication of speech acts in and of intentionality inoxfam bookshop preston for more than three decades john searle has been developing and elaborating a unified theory of language and mindsee oxfam website for delivery information read morejohn searle and his critics proceeds from an analysis of the importance and influence of these two works to an overall assessment of searle's impact in the philosophy of language, of mind, of social explanation, and of reference and intentionalityboth of these seminal books offer structural theories: that is, they analyze the items within their domains (speech acts and mental states) as having a structure which allows for variation along a number of parameterssome annotations in ink, but this book is otherwise as newwhat has emerged is an impressive and detailed account of intentionality embracing both mental states and linguistic behavioureach of the chapters has been newly commissioned from a leading scholar in the relevant field and each section concludes with a summary and response from searle himself
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Oxfam shop st giles street a deadly continental struggle, the thirty years war devastated seventeenth-century europe, killing nearly a quarter of all germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alikesome scuff on the hard cover and edges of the pagespeter wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Presenting a personal archive of material, steve mccurry untold features the very best of mccurry's most beautiful and powerful photo stories, taken from around the world over the last thirty yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebook is still sealed and in very good conditionthis is the first book to fully explore how the world-renowned photographer finds, takes and develops his uniquely iconic photographsoxfam books & music islington italian edition of steve mccurry untold: the stories behind the photographs takes an unprecedented look at the work of steve mccurry, one of today's finest and most daring imagemakers
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My collection of scouting memorabilia from thirty years of scoutingsad to see them go but the time has comeincludes my cub scout leaders cap badge, my queen's scout pin badge, my tie clip from usa national jamboree in valley forge, my gilwell scout centre tie clip and various others
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Ten years older, he is a dull, violent and controlling lawyer but caroline is determined not to be a traditional wifeafter years of simmering jealousy, norton accuses caroline and the prime minister of a 'criminal conversation' (adultery) precipitating 'the scandal of the century'for 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 timeafter a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous and sensationalangry 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 destitutesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein westminster hall that day is a young charles dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalise the event as 'bardell vcrowds are gathering at the court of common pleasoxfam bookshop cheltenham westminster, london, 22 juneon trial is caroline sheridan, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been manoeuvred into marrying the honourable george norton when she was just nineteenher beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the prime minister, lord melbournepickwick' inthe pickwick papersit is a fine, fresh morning that will become hot as the day progressesnorton is a laughing stockthe criminal conversation of mrs nortonis the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywhereby her early twenties, caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic and outrageous flirt
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The creation of britain's 'mandates' of palestine, transjordan and iraq, and france's in lebanon and syria, made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following thirty yearsin , after many years of intrigue and espionage, britain finally succeeded in ousting france from lebanon and syria, and hoped that, having done so, it would be able to cling on to palestinesir mark sykes was a visionary politician; françois georges-picot a diplomat with a grudgesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreagainst the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries britain and france would rulelawrence, winston churchill and charles de gaulle, a line in the sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when britain and france ruled the middle eastoxfam books & music marlborough in , in the middle of the first world war, two men secretly agreed to divide the middle east between themthrough a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including tit explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the arabs and the jews, and ultimately led to war between the british and the french in and between the arabs and the jews inusing newly declassified papers from the british and french archives, james barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life, and reveals, for the first time, the stunning way in which the french finally got their revengeterritory north of that stark line would go to france; land south of it, to britainthe deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the entente cordiale, drew a line in the sand from the mediterranean to the persian frontier
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2 gelding 17 years oldwe have had chuck for 5 yearswe have taken him to the junior riding club camp for the last 2 years and he loves the pony games etcwe have also done some dressage with him over the last yearhe has had weekly lessons with the 3 valleys riding club for the last 18 monthshe currently lives out in the summer and comes in on a night in wintermore of a kick along type of ponyexcellent with the farrier and does not need shoeshe will hack alone or in company and is bombproof in all traffic (we live on a farm)he will stand all day to be pamperedmy daughter was 6 when we bought him and he has taken her from being on the lead rein to regularly out competing at 65cm in show jumping and cross country and often placedhe is an absolute star and good to do in all waysÂŁ inc tack and rugs read morevery sensible, safe and kind pony who is sadly outgrownheart breaking sale for us so a knowledgable 5* home is a mustperfect first/second ponyfor sale chuck 12good to catch and clip
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Over the past thirty years there, the forces of conservatism have achieved such supremacy as to reduce liberalism to a term of abusehe lays bare modern america for what it is: a country of inequality in risk, opportunity and income, where 1% of the population owns 38% of the wealth, and 19% live in terrible povertyit is time for britain to stop vacillating between two cultures and make common cause with its continental partners - to reject the conservative orthodoxy in favour of the shared european beliefs of obligations, rights and fairnessand whilst american ideas dominated the latter part of the twentieth century, hutton argues that the underpinning of the twenty-first must come from europesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreto understand the global economy, hutton argues, one must first understand the united statesoxfam bookshop cheltenham the state we're in, will hutton's explosive analysis of british society, was the biggest selling politico-economic work since the second world warnow, as the world realigns itself in the wake of the september 11th atrocities, hutton turns his attention to the global picture, and the ways in which the new world should be ordered
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Jackson examines the significant roles played by international development workers-"the globalizers"-operating in honduras over the past thirty years, particularly in the troubled construction of the el cajĂłn hydroelectric dam, the creation of maquiladoras, and the multinational relief, recovery, and reconstruction efforts following hurricane mitchin doing so he makes a persuasive connection between nation building and global governance-raising important questions about whose nations are being built and whysee oxfam website for delivery information read morejust one light smudge on page edgesusing honduras as a case study, jeffrey tin the process, he draws a provocative connection between the efforts of international development workers and the emergence of global governancehe finds in the international development community a close-knit coalition of policy makers who have inserted themselves into the local political process and pushed the honduran nation-state to conform to international norms and integrate into a transnational structure of governancejackson illuminates the processes by which wealthy western countries target countries in latin america, asia, africa, and the middle east for political economic construction, or nation buildingoxfam bookshop skipton very good conditionjackson examines the mechanisms of power at the disposal of these development organizations, the expertise of those administering development aid, the agency of development workers, and the benefits that accrue to donor countries
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This edition is expanded with a new epilogue covering the last dozen years of levon's lifethis updated edition of his life story includes a new epilogue that covers the last dozen years of his life
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It gives insight into her final years and the evolution of her last poemsthe journals of sylvia plath (paperback) this is a transcription of the journals kept by sylvia plath over the last 12 years of her lifelocal delivery availablecollection welcomedgood condition - never read, so aside from crease on back cover (see photo) this book is unusedpostage ÂŁ4 by courier to uk mainland
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1 and 10 years oldhe has looked after novice riders in a riding school and has spent the last two years at a boutique riding holiday companyspent last winter at an equine college so also quite nicely schoolednever strong and always happy in his workno vices or medical issuesjack is approx 15very safe in open spaces, traffic etclovely home required
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"kylo" is a 4yo beltex x breeding ram who has served our small flock of hebridean ewes with 100% success for the last three yearstime for us to breed some heb replacements so he is no longer needed but has many good working years left, too good to go as a cull ramthrows decent, commercial shaped lambs when crossed with our small hill ewes, we sold store lambs last year in august which were as good as other commercial lambs at marketnever aggressive and can follow a bucket but is by no means tamecollection preferred but could arrange delivery for fuel cost within 20 miles of buckfastleighnever any issues with feet, has lived out year round without supplementary feed
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Fats waller & his rythm - the last years disc set see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Suitable for readers aged 5-8 yearslowri loves hearing about the last red kites which nested on the farm when granny sarah was a little girlgranny sarah and the last red kite, paperback by doyle, malachy; brown, petra (ilt), isbn x, isbn-13 a story featuring granny sarah and her granddaughter lowrithe environment is an important theme as is welsh conservation
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Brilliantly ambitious and powerfully written, the last time they met is a tale not so much of life, but of a life not livedoxfam bookshop ipswich when linda fallon and thomas janes meet at a writers' festival in toronto, it is a first time they have seen each other for twenty-six yearswritten with reverse chronology, anita shreve's new novel is a haunting story of mesmerising beauty, with a strong narrative pull that inescapably draws the reader in, and leaves its most stunning revelation until the very last sentencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moretheirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion - a love which begins in massachusetts in the early s, is rekindled in kenya in the mid s and which is about to play out its astonishing final episode
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Told with boundless warmth and affection, the last act of love by cathy rentzenbrink is a heartbreaking yet uplifting testament to a family's survival and the price we pay for lovethis is the story of what happened to cathy and her brother, and the unimaginable decision that she and her parents had to make eight years after the night that changed everythingit's a story for anyone who has ever watched someone suffer or lost someone they loved or lived through a painful time that left them forever changedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, cathy and her parents willed him to survivethey did not know then that there are many and various fates worse than deathin the summer of , cathy's brother matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night outoxfam bookshop cheltenham a richard and judy book club selectionit was two weeks before his gcse results, which turned out to be the best in his school
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Paperback - good condition - 333 pages this is the story of the making of england in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which king alfred the great, his son and grandson defeated the danish vikings who had invaded and occupied three of england’s four kingdomsthe story is seen through the eyes of uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the northmen begin their assault on wessex (alfred’s kingdom and the last territory in english hands) uhtred almost thinks of himself as a danehe certainly has no love for alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for viking savagery, yet when alfred unexpectedly defeats the danes and the danes themselves turn on uhtred, he is finally forced to choose sidesthis thrilling adventure—based on existing records of bernard cornwell’s ancestors—depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on christian england, an assault that came very close to destroying englandby now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wallabove all, though, he wishes to recover his father’s land, the enchanting fort of bebbanburg by the wild northern sea
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Antique firescreen with a embossed copper panel depicting the scene of the last supperreally great patina on the screen with the layers of polish that must of been used over the years, actually helps to bring the scene to lifereally nice ornamental piecenot sure on age but we're thinking the copper is much older that then wood surroundoverall size is 24" wide, 23" high, with the copper panel being 20" wide, 10" highsouth molton - delivery available for a small charge
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Revolution hasn't just spent the last three years crafting a new story for this latest instalmentoxfam bookshop newport "ten years on from revolution's first broken sword title, after battling dragons, mayan gods and joining the knights templar, unwitting hero george stobbart is trying to get back to his regular life and his 9-5 desk job when he finds a beautiful and enigmatic woman waiting for himinstead, the predecessor's graphics engine has been replaced with a completely new, more detailed 3d systembeyond the usual note-taking and lists of contacts, the pda can be used as a hacking toolthe hacking puzzles, once completed, result in access being granted to various databases around the world, which are then cross referenced with the information contained in the manuscriptnow, broken sword: the angel of death's characters are more colourful and varied thanks to the proprietary virtual actor systemsee oxfam website for delivery information read more" in very good conditionwithout warning, she vanishes, leading george into a frantic search for an artefact of great and terrible powerto assist in your decoding of the manuscript, you carry a pdaas you progress, information gleaned from the characters you meet or uncovered from the many locations across the world helps you decode the manuscript's secrets and move toward revealing the identity of 'the one true patriarch' in a gripping and intriguing story that is deftly interwoven with factual contextrendering more believable facial expressions, the system projects each character's emotions as you interact with them, as they are once again brought to life with excellent voice actingcomplete with manualback in control of stobbart, who is - sigh - once again charged with saving the world, you're armed with a richly illustrated manuscript that holds as many secrets as it does clues
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For sale the denbigh collumn drill was all working when last used been dry stored for the last 4 yearsthis is on its own stand with wheels heavy piece of equipment
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The survey outlines the importance of the archaeological evidence and the way it has been collected in the past, and brings together for the first time the results of aerial survey and field work over the last 50 yearsoxfam bookshop woodbridge the gravel deposits of the upper thames valley bear extensive evidence of man's settlement over a period of yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is being destroyed at an alarming ratesome minor wear to the cover, otherwise in very good condition
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Since his death, and until the last few years, almost none of his work has been reprintedhe was the author of sixteen books, mostly poetryif no paper was at hand, he would scratch his poem on slate, wedges, his miner's 'hard' hat, even his thumbnail; and if no ink was available he would use blackberry-juicephotographs by david hillssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreedited and with an introduction by ddiscreetly ex-libraryotherwise, however, in very good, clean conditionoxfam bookshop kingsbridge john harris was born at bolennowe, near camborne, in , the eldest of ten childrenhe remained working there for twenty years, until a post as bible reader in falmouth was found for himhe is buried in treslothan churchyard, with his daughter, lucretiahe wrote poetry from early childhoodone paste-down on front cover verso; remains of sticker on rear verso; library stamp/catalogue number on copyright page, and traces of a spine stickerhe was at work by the age of nine, and when he was thirteen he joined his father underground in dolcoath mine
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Roland fp50 keyboard only about 3 years old but not used for the last 2 yearsonly selling it as i need a slightly lighter action due to medical conditionplease phone/text or e mail read morevery good condition / built in speakers/ pedal included
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Not used last two yearsscooter runs like newmax 8 mph quick sale wanted hence pricecarries up to 20 stoneshad service before it was stored awayvariable speed settingonly lightly used before thatcan deliver if can’t pick upbeen stored awayk r mobility scooter
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He has provided us with two beautiful cria girls in the last two yearsmale alpaca entire aprox 7 years oldup for sale as we need new blood line he is unregistered
300 €
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Unfortunately he didn’t grow as big as we’d hoped and my daughter lost interest so he’s been a much loved field ornament for the last two years so will need starting againalways comes cantering over to the gate when called and always pleased to see you, can never have enough cuddlesbeautiful 7 year old cob geldingin no rush to sell and he’ll only be sold to the very best of homeshe was started as a four year old, been long lined, hacked out but not schooled as we don’t have any facilitiesnever reared or bucked, can be a bit spooky with pheasants suddenly flying up thoughwe live on a very busy road but have direct access to miles of off road hacking out of the back of our house so he’s never been on the roadno known health problemsshouldn’t take much as he’s such a lovely, willing ponyno novices as he deserves to go out and enjoy life not just sit in the field! read morethis little fella is the sweetest boy, never kicked, bitten, ect
4000 €