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Oxfam books & music lancaster this is an excellent roundup of early dj sides from the late '60s and early '70sfeaturing innovators like king stitt and u-roy, keep on coming through the door should help dispel the reputation of reggae's dj music -- especially the early sides -- as being inferior to the music's more high-profile vocal, instrumental, and dub releasesa nice companion volume to the label's other early dj roundup, with a flick of my musical wristfeaturing the production talents of joe gibbs, bunny lee, lloyd charmers, glen brown, leslie kong, and others, not to mention some of the island's top session players, coming through the door will work perfectly for listeners interested in checking out the early days of jamaica's toasting royaltywith a incredible array of microphone personalities to choose between -- from the witty i-roy and intense dillinger to the idiosyncratic prince jazzbo -- this trojan collection bristles with energy and inventiveness from start to finishsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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By the late seventies the friends find themselves together again, but the political climate and social changes mean that they are growing further aparttosker and mary's marriage breaks down, geordie descends deeper into petty crime and alcoholism, and nicky's political protests manifest themselves by both illegal and legitimate meansthe entire series of the popular bbc television series charting the lives of a group of four geordie friends from their teens until middle-age: nicky is a radical socialist, determined to devote his life to the class struggle; tosker a jack-the-lad with dreams of pop stardom; mary, courted by nicky and tosker, is eager to pursue her own professional ambitions; and geordie, a drifter who runs away to londonoxfam bookshop wanstead box in fair-good condition, with several scuffs and creases, but all three discs are in very good condition, with little to no marks or scratchessee oxfam website for delivery information read morebooklet is missingthe award-winning drama starts in in newcastle and carries through the swinging sixties to the recession ridden seventies
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Oxfam bookshop swanage clio barnard directs this avant-garde docu-drama chronicling the life and legacy of the late bradford playwright andrea dunbarthe film mixes fact with fiction by using actors to lip-synch words actually spoken by members of dunbar's family and residents from the buttershaw estatethis film catches up with lorraine in the present day and finds her alienated from her mother's family and in prison undergoing rehabdunbar, who wrote the plays 'the arbor' and 'rita, sue and bob too', was hailed as 'a genius straight from the slums' for her unflinching autobiographical portrayals of her upbringing on the notorious buttershaw estate in bradfordas she is re-introduced to her mother's plays and letters, lorraine begins to understand the personal difficulties her mother went through and reflects on their impact on her own lifewhen she died at age of 29 in , her daughter lorraine, now 29 herself, was just ten years oldsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop chipping norton in the late s, the pioneering decca recording engineers perfected a new set of microphone techniques that allowed the full range of frequencies to be fully heard by listeners for the first time, and the term full frequency range recording was launchedverdi: otelloverdi: otello 41mendelssohn: sextet; borodin: quintet 28 the analogue years presents 53 cds, in original jackets, of the celebrated international recordings that emerged from the london-based record label in that pre-digital eragershwin: an american in paris; copland: appalachian spring 12strauss: thousand and one nights 422 - "resurrection" 31saint saens: tone poems; piano concerto nochopin: etudes 22rossini: overtures; mendelssohn: violin concerto ascriabin: piano concerto; prometheus; le poeme de l'extase 25grieg: peer gynt; piano concerto 49shostakovich: string quartets nos2; the love for three oranges; scythian suite 7rimsky-korsakov: antar; glazunov: stenka razinrimsky-korsakov: antar; glazunov: stenka razin see oxfam website for delivery information read moremartin: etudes; concerto for timpani & winds; honegger: symphony nohérold: la fille mal gardée; gounod: ballet music from "faust" 39tchaikovsky: manfred symphony; valse-scherzo 11shostakovich: symphony nomendelssohn: symphonies nosdebussy & franck violin sonatas 105; rimsky-korsakov: russian easter festival overture; capriccio espagnol 9mahler: symphony no2; dvorak: symphony noprokofiev: symphony nobrahms: piano concerto nopuccini: la bohème puccini: la bohème 45stravinsky: le sacre du printemps 17walton & stravinsky violin concertos 21bartók: suite noschumann: szenen aus goethes faustschumann: szenen aus goethes faust 20haydn: symphonies nossurinach & montsalvatge piano concertos 14debussy: piano works 51; two pictures; enescu: roumanian rhapsody 8tchaikovsky: ; capriccio italien; rachmaninov: piano concerto noit was a major revolution in sound quality, and the beginnings of high fidelitysibelius: symphony nowolf-ferrari: il segreto di susanna 13sibelius: pelléas et mélisande; the tempest 6dvorak: tone poems & overturesbloch: schelomo; a voice in the wilderness; 26verdi: requiem 30bruckner: symphony nobritten: cello symphony; haydn: cello concerto 33tchaikovsky: swan lake - scenes 43schubert: symphonies nosschumann & grieg piano concertos 18offenbach: le papillon; massenet: le cid 23holst: the planets; saint-saëns: symphony nosibelius: symphonies nosbruch: scottish fantasia; hindemith violin concerto 371 & 4; karelia suite 35perfected with the birth of stereo in the mid s, decca's full frequency stereophonic sound became a worldwide hallmark of sonic excellence and a golden age of classical recorded music was bornmozart: wind serenades 36rimsky-korsakov: capriccio espagnol 271; mozart: piano concerto noschubert: rosamunde 16ravel: l'enfant et les sortilèges 50kodaly: hary janos; dances of galanta; the peacock variations 34beethoven: symphony no
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Oxfam shop macclesfield a historical novel, first published in , about events occurring in the ohio river valley in the late eighteenth centuryit involves the attempts by missionaries to convert native americans to christianity and features lewis wetzel, who had dedicated his life to the destruction of native americans and to the protection of white settlements in the regionit is the second in a trilogy, the first of which is "betty zane" and the last of which is "the last trail"see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear in the late s, david kahler was deeply inspired by seeing an exhibition of owith funding for printing provided by the kahler family charitable fund, all sales will go to support the center's worknearly one hundred images edited from this body of work form the core of the railroad and the art of place, along with a selection of earlier pennsylvania railroad steam-era photographs that reflect kahler's interest in the railroad landscape from an early age" armed with a used leica m6 and gritty tri-x film, he and his wife made six week-long trips in the dead of winter to photograph trains along the pocahontas division of the norfolk southern railwayhe soon began making annual trips to the west virginia and eastern kentucky coalfields, destinations that strongly resonated with his own aesthetic of "placesee oxfam website for delivery information read morealso included are three essays by kahler, scott lothes, and jeff brouws, discussing the personal motivations, historical context, and aesthetic development behind the photographywinston link photographs
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It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the seven liberal arts, including rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of god, the terminology of the law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensilsisidore compiled the work between coxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear this work is a complete english translation of the latin etymologies of isidore, bishop of seville (cthis book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from isidore's timesee oxfam website for delivery information read more615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matterisidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning
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"walker reminds us how easy it is to forget that there were many occasions for the late s on when victory seemed far from assured, and that lent a particular urgency to the efforts of postwar western leadersas the united states became the national security state, california, which had a population of five million at the start of the cold war, grew to thirty million and, by the s provided one in every ten members of congress and two presidentsthe west continued to be alarmed by the prospect of defeat right up to the soviet empire's last breathnow that it is over, it is crucial to our future to understand how the cold war has shaped us and, especially, to recognize it as the economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of today's global economythe cold war was more of a global conflict than was either of this century's two major wars; far more than a confrontation between states or even empires, it was, as martin walker puts it, "a total war between economic and social systems, an industrial test to destructionusing newly opened kremlin archives and his own experiences in the field, martin walker has written a brilliant analysis of the conflict that has shaped the contemporary worldin the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominencefrom the origins of the marshall plan, which revived europe after world war ii, and the strategic decision to rebuild a defeated japan into a bulwark against china to the collapse of the berlin wall, this authoritative work reveals how the west was built into an economic alliance that overpowered the soviet economy while also unleashing global economic forces that today challenge the traditional nation-stateoxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world sincesee oxfam website for delivery information read more" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold warat the end of the s the fear was generated by communist expansion into eastern europe and china; in the s by the prospect of defeat in vietnamwe also come to understand how the arms race caused new alignments and shifts in domestic powerfor more than forty years, as this detailed analysis makes clear, the outcome of the cold war was in doubt
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In such puzzle-stories as "the evidence on the japanned box," "the toledo death threat," and "the huppheimer museum robbery," wren and mckay sparked a craze for "ten-minute mysteries" that spread through the american pulp-detective magazines of the late sin words, charts, and diagrams, you are placed at the crime scene and presented with facts established by the policethese are the originals - and perhaps the most perfect examples - of this venerable mystery puzzle genre to challenge the wits of armchair investigatorsdon't cheat: you'll only spoil the funand if you find you are stumped, you can turn to the back of the book, where the answers are printed (but upside-down, to deter you from giving up too easily)see oxfam website for delivery information read morewhat do you observe? which are the telltale clues? what do you deduce? and how will you answer the questions posed at the end of each problem: "who stole the emerald?" "where did the gang plan to meet?" "in what city had the amnesia victim once worked?" each question is scored to a degree of difficulty, with a perfect score of ten points per puzzleoxfam bookshop cheltenham fifteen old-fashioned but wonderfully challenging "detective puzzles," the unraveling of which requires your powers of observation and deduction
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A series of photographs of women from the late 50's to 80's" book in very good condition with clean pages throughout, except for foxing to the top margin of the last three pagesthe pictures are accompanied by cleverly-written pieces by the other authors or by the subjects of the picturesbook is securely boundimmense curiosity value, not only because parkinson is as talented as he is, but because the women he has photographed are famous, beautifuland of great fascination to the rest of us' the tatler and bystandersee oxfam website for delivery information read more" " a superb collection of photographs of women taken over a forty year spanoxfam shop mutley plain "
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He became famous in the late s, playing under the pseudonym of manuel and the music of the mountains tracklist manuel forever record-1/side1 a1-just for you a2-you are the sunshine of my life a3-feelings a4-fernando a5-don't cry for me argentina (from " evita ") a6-forever and forever (and ever) a7-my thanks to you a8-the way we were a9-when i need you record1/side2 b1-you make me feel brand new b2-strangers in the night b3-the twelfth of never b4-killing me softly with his song b5 alone again (naturally) b6-yesterday b7-i'll see you again b8-stranger on the shore b9-its magic in the still of the night record 2/side1 c1-as time goes by c2-in the still of the night c3 moon river c4-sand in my shoes c5-love theme from " the sandpiper " c6-begin the beguine c7-come closer to me c8-but beautiful c9-honeymoon song record2/side2 d1-the very thought of you d2-smoke gets in your eyes d3-all the things you are d4-dancing in the dark d5-moonlight serenade d6-moonglow & theme from " picnic " d7-clair de lune d8-what are you doing for the rest of your life? d9-softly as in a morning sunrise big screen little screen record3/side1 e1-eye level e2-the homecoming e3-i talk to the trees (from " paint your wagon ") e4-the poldark theme e5-sailing e6-tara theme (from the film " gone with the wind ") e7-intermezzo (from " escape to happiness ") e8-i will wait for you (from " the umbrellas of cherbourg ") e9-sunrise, sunset (from " fiddler on the roof ") record3/side2 f1-can you read my mind (love theme from the film " superman ") f2-cavatina f3-princess leia's theme (from the film " star wars ") f4-evergreen (from " a star is born ") f5-song of the barefoot contessa (" my gypsy heart ") f6-theme from " a summer place " f7-bella nott f8-the one and only f9-you light up my lifesouth of the border record4/side1 g1-meditation g2-tico - tico g3-baia g4-tequila g5-sabara g6-wave g7-el condor pasa g8-maria elena g9-corcovado record4/side2 h 1-mas que nada (say no more) h2-la cucaracha h3-south of the border h4-canto de ossanha h5-guantanamera h6-recado bossa nova h7-mexican hat dance h8-cuanto le gusta h9-how insensitive manuel international record5/side1 i1-la cumparsita i2-be mine i3-la golondrina i4-quando, quando, quando i5-jealousy i6-y viva espana i7-arrivederci roma i8-el relicario i9-paloma blanca record5/side2 j1-autumn concerto j2-la mer j3-the white rose of athens j4-tango des jumeaux j5-concerto de aranjuez j6-delicado j7-autumn leaves j8-a man and a woman j9-cherry pink and apple blossom white manuel with love record6/side1 k1-games that lovers play k2-chanson d'amour k3-the ways of love k4-and i love you so k5-how deep is your love k6-love theme from " romeo and juliet " k7-so in love k8-amor, amor k9-you'll never find another love like mine record6/side2 l1-and this is my beloved l2-somewhere my love l3 what is love l4-i wish you love l5-how near am i to love l6-for my love l7-no greater love (la vie en rose) l8-what i did for love l9-lover see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop darlington records in excellent condition, spindle marksalbum  covers in excellent condition 6 vinyl, lp, compilation, box set world record club, various datesgeoffrey love, known as geoff love, was a prolific british arranger and composer of easy listening and pop versions of film themes box in excellent conditionsleeves in excellent condition
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The pair split over creative differences in the late 80s, and their final album was released under the name freudianabegan as a progressive rock act, but shifted toward a more "progressive pop"/soft rock sound in the 80sare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikino price code i robot: ? & © arista recordsnow offered this rare and collectable 4 lp box by the alan parsons projectplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe 4 lp box: quality vinyl: vg++ box: vg++ the alan parsons project ?– i robot / pyramid / eve / the turn of a friendly card label: arista ?– format: box set, compilation 4 x vinyl, lp, album, reissue country: germany released: genre: rock style: pop rock, synth-pop, prog rock notes this box contains 4 lp's of the alan parsons projectpyramid: ? aristarecords © aristarecords eve: ? aristarecords © aristarecords the turn of a friendly card: ? & © arista records printed in western germany label code: lc rights society (boxed): gema the alan parsons project profile: british studio act, formed in by sound engineer/producer/musician alan parsons and singer/songwriter/producer eric woolfson, additionally involving several other musicians who took part on the project's recordings through the yearsthe pictures are part and supplement to the description and condition of the offered objectsee pictures for detailscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Oxfam bookshop ilkley the troubles in northern ireland rolled grimly on for almost 30 years from the late s until the onset of the current shaky peace processthousands of books, articles and theses were published, dissecting every possible aspect of the problem and making it the most researched civil conflict in historyin that time, the conflict never strayed far off the news schedules of the world's mediabehind the wall of information and opinion there is a straightforward storysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is an account of what happened in the northern ireland conflict, and why, told by award-winning ireland correspondent for the "independent", david mckittrick, and historian david mcvea
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford picking up from where other san francisco public transit historians left off, peter felton's daily public transit ridership: the inside scoop gives readers an acute internal perspective as to the routine external operations of the late 20th-early 21st century-era san francisco municipal transportation agency (or "muni" as it is more commonly nicknamed)" signed by the author, with dedicationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith a majority of the information taken strictly from a young lifetime of permanent public custom, felton colorfully outlines the awe and wonder arising from riding this means of public service day-in-and-day-out, acknowledging realities and comparing-contrasting past, present, and future transit modalities drawn completely from personal experience and observation-yet portrayed entirely on a "general basisranging from vehicular characteristics to urban development above and below ground level, felton provides intricate details into the life and times of the "average joe" public transit rider traveling around the city of san francisco by bus or subway train
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By the late seventies the friends find themselves together again, but the political climate and social changes mean that they are growing further aparttosker and mary's marriage breaks down, geordie descends deeper into petty crime and alcoholism, and nicky's political protests manifest themselves by both illegal and legitimate meansoxfam shop billericay the entire series of the popular bbc television series charting the lives of a group of four geordie friends from their teens until middle-age: nicky is a radical socialist, determined to devote his life to the class struggle; tosker a jack-the-lad with dreams of pop stardom; mary, courted by nicky and tosker, is eager to pursue her own professional ambitions; and geordie, a drifter who runs away to londonsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe award-winning drama starts in in newcastle and carries through the swinging sixties to the recession ridden seventies
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Oxfam bookshop knutsford this highly sought after book charts the pub scene in eccles from the late s to early s, and contains some of the only-available pictures of pubs like the pineapple in patricroft, the hanging gate on the now-demolished timothy street and the irwell inn on lane endaround copies were sold for the initial price of ÂŁ1; demand meant that another were publishedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 40-page book is dedicated to tony flynn's son sean, now 33, with the immortal words 'keep out of 'em' priced on other sites at ÂŁ400+ first edition paper back copy in very good condition
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Oxfam shop hebden bridge the harshly magnificent landscape of the elan valley in mid wales was changed utterly in the late s by a reservoir building project initiated by the corporation of birmingham in order to supply water to that expanding citya great feat of civil engineering, the project required the flooding of land by the river elan and the compensating of local landowners; but also made a tremendous impact on the traditions, rights and privileges of the local commoners, and on a flock system of hill farming that had existed for hundreds of yearsoriginally published in , the valley is elizabeth clarke's account of hill farming life in the elan valley and the massive changes wrought upon it between the first period of reservoir construction and a subsequent project that followed the second world warpages are clean and whitedust jacket is price clipped but in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresunning to page edges
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Oxfam books & music beaconsfield depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, the golden legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the bible, during the late middle agesin his new translation, the first in modern english of the complete text from the graesse edition, william granger ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and in popular religious culture more generallythe book is in good condition with only a little shelfwear, sound binding and unmarked pages fourth printing and first paperback printingsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Starting in the mesolithic and carrying his analysis through to the late bronze age, richard bradley sheds light on this complex period and the changing consciousness of these prehistoric peoplesthe significance of monuments studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation over six thousand years lateroxfam bookshop leeds 179ppother features of the prehistoric landscape - such as mounds and enclosures - across continental europe are also examinedin as new conditionthe neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguitiesit is also an enlightening read for professional archaeologists and all those interested in this fascinating periodthe significance of monuments is an indispensable text for all students of european prehistorysee oxfam website for delivery information read morepart two studies how such monuments were modified and reinterpreted to suit the changing needs of society through a series of detailed case studiespart one discusses how monuments first developed and their role in developing a new sense of time and space among the inhabitants of prehistoric europe
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The second half of the set--in addition to its phenomenal songs-- is interesting in that it charts the beatles' move from straightforward pop toward the new chapter of rock the band would help script in the late 60sconsequently, it plays like an overview of some of the most popular and indelible rock songs of all time from the "yeah, yeah, yeah"'s of "she loves you" through the amped-up giddiness of "i want to hold your hand", the minor-key melodicism of "and i love her", and on to the chiming power pop of "eight days a week" and the tweaky feedback of "i feel fine", these are the songs that turned the entire western world on its earthis superb compilation, often called "the red album", brings together the majority of the beatles' hits from the early to mid 60soxfam shop new street digital remaster of the classic beatles albumafter the expansive chords and slinky melodies of "ticket to ride", the band becomes alternately darkly introspective ("yesterday") and looser and more groove-obsessed ("drive my car"), while trying on allegorical dylan-inspired narratives ("norwegian wood (this bird has flown)"), and happy-go-luck psychedelia ("yellow submarine") these songs are part of our living, breathing cultural identity, and--as this collection reminds us--for good reasonlove me do please please me from me to you she loves you i want to hold your hand all my loving can't buy me love a hard day's night and i love her eight days a week i feel fine ticket to ride yesterday help! you've got to hide your love away we can work it out day tripper drive my car norwegian wood (this bird has flown) nowhere man michelle in my life girl paperback writer eleanor rigby yellow submarine see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The fourth volume of the eam series, european avant-garde and modernism studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through european modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st centurythe book's varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: - how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?- how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?- how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston this hardback book is in very good conditionutopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde there is slight wear at the top of the spine, but otherwise this copy is nearly as new inside and outreadings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present
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Jim morrison is considered a rock musician who articulated and exemplarily lived out the fantasies,visions,fears and self-destructiveness of the generation of the late sthe doors–an interview with jim morrison cat-nrare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikialthough morrison made a name for himself with his rock-baritone and poetic song lyrics,in later years he was mostly associated with a rebellious and self-destructive lifestylebackgrounds of a poet for fans and collectors read moremorrison is one of the central symbolic figures of the hippie era and culture001 james douglas"jim" morrison(born december in melbourne,florida,†july in paris)was an american singer, songwriter and poettogether with the doors,he expanded the rock music repertoire to include multi-layered concept pieces and forms of rock theaterplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storehe was the front man of the rock band the doorshe produced a documentary about the doors and an experimental feature filmhe is one of the most charismatic personalities in rock music of the timethis is a great interview with this really great actor,with hundreds,only on this picture disc to hear information of his life ! lp/mint sleeve:generic(plastic) *** cat nothe early death of morrisons,the details of which could not be clarified with certainty,contributed significantly to the creation of legends about his personcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemorrison, of whom three volumes of poetry were published during his lifetime,regularly used the doors concerts for spontaneous recitations of poetic texts
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Oxfam bookshop cardiff a beautifully written and illustrated 2 volume set the jewish historian, containing twenty books of the jewish antiquities, seven books of the jewish war, and the life of josephus, written by himself, translated from the original greek, according to havercamp's accurate edition, together with explanatory notes and observations, parallel texts of scripture, the true chronology of the several histories, an account of the jewish coins, weights and measures, and a complete index by the late william whiston amprofessor of mathematics in the university of cambridge, a new edition, now first revised and improved by the revthomas smith, in two volumes see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Included are rare and exquisite pieces, many of great iconographic and technical importance, ranging in date from the paracas to the inka and colonial periods, 200 bc to the late 18th century adoxfam bookshop hexham this is the first time the british museum's major collection of peruvian and other early andean textiles is being published as a groupthey also look at the evidence of who made them, how and whysee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor these ancient cultures, textiles were often the most valuable commodity they possessed - far beyond gold and silver - and they were a major medium for conveying critical cultural meaningthe authors then explain their importance in reflecting and often affecting the political and religious beliefs of these culturesfor us, they are works of unsurpassed art and craftsmanship, and one of the greatest resources for studying these great civilizationsthe introduction discusses briefly how ancient andean textiles have survived in desert graves for up to years, setting them in their chronological, cultural and environmental context
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He hushed up the great famine of the early s and glossed over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the "times" in the late soxfam books & music perth journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parishowever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selectivesee oxfam website for delivery information read moresally taylor's biography of this flamboyant individual also explores the source and content of the news the west received between the world wars, and raises issues about the role of the press in modern societywithin months of duranty arriving in moscow as a correspondent for the "new york times" the romanovs were deposed, but he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the western colonyhis newspaper career was equally glittering - his interview with stalin won him the pulitzer prize and his articles played a prominent role in gaining american recognition for the ussr in
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Born in norfolk and educated at eton and cambridge, henry calthorpe blofeld obe, nicknamed blowers by the late brian johnston, is best known as a cricket commentator for test match special on bbc radio 4 and bbc radio 5 live sports extrablowers has been close the the heart of the game for over fifty years and his career has taken him to the far corners of the earththis autobiography, stuffed to the gunwhales with delicious anecdotes, brings his astonishingly colourful story bang up to datesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis distinctively rich, cut glass voice and his vividly eccentric observations of life on and off the pitch, have made him a household name, not only in britain but around the world, wherever cricket is playedthe quintessentially english cricket commentator, writer, oenophile, bon viveur, collector and national treasure, fondly known as blowers, tells his colourful life story
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"the late lieut athe eloquent sermon by the church of england padre at his funeral service appears on page 7, while an account of his last successful escape, a magnificent effort, as written by his companion, f/lt best, rafvr, appears on page 8the cloth is worn through in places (particularly the corners) and the original boards are showing throughthere is some foxing and age-toning throughoutmike sinclair was without a peer as an escaper" see oxfam website for delivery information read morecoloured portraits and black and white illustrations by lieutthe edges are grubbythe spine is split along its entire length on one side and one-fifth of the way up on the other sidehe was ultimately killed on his final effort, a wire job in the spring ofoxfam shop shirley bound in blue cloth boards with the title in gilt on the front and spine
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Oxfam bookshop victoria based on a three-year course prepared by leon maclaren for the school of economic science in london in the late s, this book reassesses the first principles of economicsit concludes with an examination of society's structure as a whole, the part economic activity plays in the bigger picture, and the social and cultural influences that shape the production and distribution of wealthin his view, science is a study of laws that exist in nature, while economics is a study of the humanities with the interaction between human nature and the natural universe at its heartwith original subject matter from his economic course and introducing more recent examples and statistics from australia, canada, new zealand, the uk, and the united states, the study examines the major characteristics of the modern economy-such as banking, taxation, and international trade-and considers the role of the government in economic affairsleon maclaren () was a barrister, politician, philosopher, and the founder of the school of economic sciencesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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They 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 timeoxfam 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 innovationsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluded 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 system
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– part iv: the late period ()are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease see the photos to form your own impressionregistered shipping– part iii: the diverse period ()part vi also contains the silver 5 euro coin rembrandtrembrandt coin packs , series of 6 different coin sets with each the dutch euro coins and a medal– part vi: self-portrait ()please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe six-part set "400 years rembrandt", the silver collection, sets with coins that match the most important periods from rembrandt's life– part i: the leiden period ()– part v: the night round ()comes in the original cassette– part ii: the amsterdam period ()catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablepart 6 has the 5 euro silver rembrandt edition royal dutch mint & batavian coin company
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