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 frontpublished by hellion & company, publishers of high quality military bookssee 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front linesoxfam bookshop lymington scarce booklarge format, illustrated laminated hard coversrare and previously unpublished photographs with in-depth captions
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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 yearsit also features brand-new introductions to all the pieces, written with maybe less hair but also the benefit of twenty years' hindsightsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyou 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 momentsappetite for destruction gathers together wall's journalism for kerrang!, for whom he was the star writer in their eighties heydayhere, 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 woxfam bookshop st albans 'appetite for destruction has the best of wall's kerrang! features, each bolstered by new, insightful post-scripts
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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 stopwhether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by itall 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 murdersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 circumstancespeter 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 eventsat its end a recognizably modern europe had been created but at a terrible pricewilson'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 results book condition very good, covers and spine unmarked and all pages crisp and clean
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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 inboth 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 parameterssee 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 intentionalityeach 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 himselfsome 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 behaviouroxfam bookshop preston for more than three decades john searle has been developing and elaborating a unified theory of language and mind
14 €
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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 alike see oxfam website for delivery information read morepeter wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern worldsome scuff on the hard cover and edges of the pages
19 €
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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 yearsbook is still sealed and in very good conditionoxfam 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 imagemakerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is the first book to fully explore how the world-renowned photographer finds, takes and develops his uniquely iconic photographs
40 €
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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 timeon trial is caroline sheridan, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been manoeuvred into marrying the honourable george norton when she was just nineteenoxfam bookshop cheltenham westminster, london, 22 juneby her early twenties, caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic and outrageous flirther beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the prime minister, lord melbournecrowds are gathering at the court of common pleasit is a fine, fresh morning that will become hot as the day progressespickwick' inthe pickwick papersnorton is a laughing stockthe criminal conversation of mrs nortonis the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywheresee 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 vangry 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 destituteafter a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous and sensational
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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 palestinethrough a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including tusing 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 revengesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music marlborough in , in the middle of the first world war, two men secretly agreed to divide the middle east between themit 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 inlawrence, 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 eastsir mark sykes was a visionary politician; françois georges-picot a diplomat with a grudgeagainst 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 rulethe 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 frontierterritory north of that stark line would go to france; land south of it, to britain
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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 monthsfor sale chuck 12excellent with the farrier and does not need shoesvery sensible, safe and kind pony who is sadly outgrowngood to catch and cliphe is an absolute star and good to do in all waysheart breaking sale for us so a knowledgable 5* home is a mustÂŁ inc tack and rugs read moremy 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 placedperfect first/second ponyhe will stand all day to be pamperedmore of a kick along type of ponyhe will hack alone or in company and is bombproof in all traffic (we live on a farm)he currently lives out in the summer and comes in on a night in winter
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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 abuseoxfam 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 orderedto understand the global economy, hutton argues, one must first understand the united statessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand whilst american ideas dominated the latter part of the twentieth century, hutton argues that the underpinning of the twenty-first must come from europeit 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 fairnesshe 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 poverty
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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 mitchjackson 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 countriesoxfam bookshop skipton very good conditionhe 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 governancesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the process, he draws a provocative connection between the efforts of international development workers and the emergence of global governanceusing honduras as a case study, jeffrey tjust one light smudge on page edgesjackson 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 buildingin doing so he makes a persuasive connection between nation building and global governance-raising important questions about whose nations are being built and why
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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 welcomedpostage ÂŁ4 by courier to uk mainlandgood condition - never read, so aside from crease on back cover (see photo) this book is unused
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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 schooledlovely home requiredjack is approx 15very safe in open spaces, traffic etcno vices or medical issuesnever strong and always happy in his work
7000 €
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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 marketcollection preferred but could arrange delivery for fuel cost within 20 miles of buckfastleighnever aggressive and can follow a bucket but is by no means tamenever any issues with feet, has lived out year round without supplementary feed
100 €
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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 everythingoxfam bookshop cheltenham a richard and judy book club selectionin the summer of , cathy's brother matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night outit was two weeks before his gcse results, which turned out to be the best in his schoolsitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, cathy and her parents willed him to survivesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit'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 changedthey did not know then that there are many and various fates worse than death
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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 daneby now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wallthis 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 englandabove all, though, he wishes to recover his father’s land, the enchanting fort of bebbanburg by the wild northern seahe 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 sides
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Antique firescreen with a embossed copper panel depicting the scene of the last supperreally nice ornamental piecereally 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 lifesouth molton - delivery available for a small chargeoverall size is 24" wide, 23" high, with the copper panel being 20" wide, 10" highnot sure on age but we're thinking the copper is much older that then wood surround
50 €
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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 himbeyond the usual note-taking and lists of contacts, the pda can be used as a hacking tool" in very good conditionthe 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 manuscriptsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas 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 contextnow, broken sword: the angel of death's characters are more colourful and varied thanks to the proprietary virtual actor systeminstead, the predecessor's graphics engine has been replaced with a completely new, more detailed 3d systemback 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 clueswithout warning, she vanishes, leading george into a frantic search for an artefact of great and terrible powerrendering 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 manualto assist in your decoding of the manuscript, you carry a pda
4 €
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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
140 €
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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 yearssome minor wear to the cover, otherwise in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is being destroyed at an alarming rate
9 €
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Since his death, and until the last few years, almost none of his work has been reprintedotherwise, however, in very good, clean conditionif 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-juicehe was at work by the age of nine, and when he was thirteen he joined his father underground in dolcoath minesee oxfam website for delivery information read morephotographs by david hillshe was the author of sixteen books, mostly poetrydiscreetly ex-libraryhe wrote poetry from early childhoodoxfam 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, lucretiaedited and with an introduction by done paste-down on front cover verso; remains of sticker on rear verso; library stamp/catalogue number on copyright page, and traces of a spine sticker
19 €
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Roland fp50 keyboard only about 3 years old but not used for the last 2 yearsplease phone/text or e mail read morevery good condition / built in speakers/ pedal includedonly selling it as i need a slightly lighter action due to medical condition
500 €
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Not used last two yearsonly lightly used before thatscooter runs like newbeen stored awaycan deliver if can’t pick upvariable speed settingmax 8 mph quick sale wanted hence pricecarries up to 20 stonesk r mobility scooterhad service before it was stored away
225 €
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Male alpaca entire aprox 7 years oldhe has provided us with two beautiful cria girls in the last two yearsup 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 againno known health problemsnever reared or bucked, can be a bit spooky with pheasants suddenly flying up thoughshouldn’t take much as he’s such a lovely, willing ponythis little fella is the sweetest boy, never kicked, bitten, ectbeautiful 7 year old cob geldingwe 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 novices as he deserves to go out and enjoy life not just sit in the field! read morealways comes cantering over to the gate when called and always pleased to see you, can never have enough cuddlesin 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 facilities
4000 €