The mechanical practice of physick
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Entitled; the mechanical practice of physick in which the specifick method is examin’d and explored and the bellinian hypothesis of animal secretion and muscular motion confider’d and refutedwoodward, london and datedare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikimain text; 362 pages (338 pages in total, including preface, contents and blanks etccatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablewould benefit from restoration by a professional book binder, but the book appears complete and is in reasonably good condition overall, as shownalso, the backboards have been re-attached, and the spine re-covered using leatherlight staining and discolouration throughoutour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeinscription inside front cover and library stamps for, st georges hospital library (london)please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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The fifth discipline - the art & practice of the learning organization by peter mbrand new, never used and in mint condition
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Oxfam bookshop carlisle the essential practice of kadam lamrimsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The shambhala book and card set offers readers a unique and accessible way to put the principles of the sacred warrior to practice in daily life through a series of slogans or maxims that emphasize facing the world with openness and fearlessnessthe remainder of the slogans, which have never before been available to a general audience, were composed by chogyam trungpa to be used in shambhala training, a program that he developed as a way to train people in the path and practice of warriorshipalso a little blue has transfered from the box faintly onto the rim of pages (nothing which is going to effect the reading of it) and the same has also happened on the edges of the cardsan 16-page booklet with instructions on how the slogans can be applied to one's own life throughout the day - a 256-page unabridged edition of trungpa's classic book shambhala: the sacred path of the warrior the majority of the slogans and commentary are drawn from shambhala: the sacred path of the warriorthere is a mark on the front of box too (see all pictures) rrp ÂŁ149 since ancient times, the path of the enlightened warrior has been a powerful and inspiring ideal, showing us how we can master the challenges of life and draw power not from violence or aggression but through the cultivation of gentleness, courage, and self-knowledgecan post extra ÂŁ3shambhala: the sacred path of the warrior: book and card set rrp ÂŁ149 the set is practically like new apart from small tear along 2 side of lid on the crease (which lifts away like a flap) - which could be glued and you probably wouldn't noticethe box includes: 53 four-color cards, with a shambhala warrior slogan on one side and commentary from the tibetan buddhist master chĂ·gyam trungpa on the reverse sidethrough these teachings, readers can start to gain personal freedom and power, overcome negative habitual patterns, find the sacred dimension of everyday life, and discover the basic goodness of human life
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Title: the practice of the six yogas of naropamissing information?catalogue number
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Oxfam shop cockermouth a definitive work on the principles and practice of maxicombustionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moregood condition with no marks or fading and the dust jacket is in good condition
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Binding is solid and book shows general shelf-wear for agethe british encyclopaedia of medical practice, edited by sir humphry rolleston, , hardback, good condition, 432 pages plus index and built-in bookmark
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The british encyclopaedia of medical practice, edited by sir humphry rolleston, , hardback, good condition, 432 pages plus index and built-in bookmarkbinding is solid and book shows general shelf-wear for age
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Oxfam bookshop folkestone das groĂźe praxisbuch der runen /Â the great practice book of runes this book is in germansee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The history and practice of magic by paul christianrare vintage first edition book read morepublished by citadel in hardback in vgc with original dustjacket as shown in picture
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Principles and practice of business continuity: tools and techniques 2nd edition, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk
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practice of research in criminology and criminal justice - international student edition, paperback by bachman, ronet dschutt, russell kisbn x, isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk
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Principles and practice of consumer credit risk by mcnab, helen paperback bookdispatched with royal mail 2nd class large lettercondition is very good
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And the latest research is only now revealing how the brain and nervous system performs the mechanical magic of balancing, navigating a crowded city, or running our inner gps systemoxfam shop billericay 'informative and persuasive enough to rouse the most ardent couch potato' (new scientist)irish times top ten bestsellerwalking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skillin praise of walking celebrates this miraculous abilitywalking together to achieve a shared purpose is also a social glue that has contributed to our survival as a speciesas our lives become increasingly sedentary, we risk all thisit enabled us to walk out of africa and to spread as far as alaska and australiait freed our hands and freed our mindsincredibly, it is a skill that has its evolutionary origins millions of years ago, under the seasunday independent book of the week agreatread and argosybooks book of the month see oxfam website for delivery information read morewe, and our societies, will be better for itwe must start walking again, whether it's up a mountain, down to the park, or simply to school and workit defines us as a specieswe put one foot in front of the other without thinking - yet how many of us know how we do that, or appreciate the advantages it gives us? in this hymn to walking, neuroscientist shane o'mara invites us to marvel at the benefits it confers on our bodies and mindswalking is good for our muscles and posture; it helps to protect and repair organs, and can slow or turn back the ageing of our brainswith our minds in motion we think more creatively, our mood improves and stress levels fall
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In stark contrast, one man, john harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solutionthousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution see oxfam website for delivery information read morelacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of landthe quest for a solution had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries when, in , parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (gbp) to anyone whose method or device proved successfulno highlighting or other notesthe scientific establishment throughout europe - from galileo to sir isaac newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answerfull of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmakingtext block cleananyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuriesoxfam bookshop newport the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude, and the unlikely triumph of an english geniusexcellent condition for its age, with little signs of usedust jacket unmarked
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However, the ship is in fact trapped in a miniscope - the mechanical peepshow of intergalactic showman vorgbernice, en route to india inwhen the scope is impounded by officials on the planet inter-minor, many of the creatures contained within get loose, including the monstrous drashigssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe doctor (jon pertwee) and jo find themselves arrested as stowaways after the tardis makes an unplanned arrival on the soxfam music shop byres road another adventure for everyone's favourite time lord
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Oxfam books & music norwich the use of clinical and laboratory information to detect conditions and predict patient outcomes is a mainstay of medical practicethis book describes the statistical concepts and techniques for evaluating the accuracy of medical testsadditional topics include: meta-analysis for summarizing the results of multiple studies of a test; the evaluation of markers for predicting event time data; and procedures for combining the results of multiple tests to improve classificationbook cover contains a few marks but item is in generally good conditionthe book also covers the theoretical foundations for statistical inference and will be of interest to academic statisticiansmain topics include: estimation and comparison of measures of accuracy, including receiver operating characteristic curves; regression frame-works for assessing factors that influence test accuracy and for comparing tests while adjusting for such factors; and sample size calculations and other issues pertinent to study designa variety of worked examples are providedproblems relating to missing and imperfect reference data are discussed in detailsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinternal pages are clean and free of marks'the statistical evaluation of medical tests for classification and prediction' will be of interest to quantitative researchers and to practicing statisticians
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For the first time ever, this inspiring book, written by an internationally acclaimed shaolin grandmaster, brings to you the crystallization of shaolin wisdom and practice spanning many centuriesinteresting stories and legends of shaolinprofound concepts and difficult techniques are explained systematically with many illustrationsthe book includes: - the background and scope of kungfuprinciples and methods of force trainingoxfam bookshop holmfirth shaolin kungfu has been considered by many as the best martial art in the worldzen and spiritual developmentno inscriptions see oxfam website for delivery information read moreits scope and depth is amazing, touching on, among many other things, poetry and enlightenmentmaintaining one's health and vitality and the healing of so-called incurable diseasesform and combat applicationsbut kungfu is just one of the three treasures of shaolin, the other two being chi kung and zensecrets of the mastersyet it is written in a language easy to understandenergy training and mind trainingtraditional chinese weapons
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Oxfam bookshop cotham hill first edition grey boards and spine with gilt embossed title to spine light shelf-wear to corners and top and bottom of spine but otherwise clean small marks to dust cover which is not price-clipped light bumps to edges of cover rough-cut pages are clean and bright with no marks, creases, or tears book and spine are bright and tight previous owner's pencil commentary to front end flap ("far outshines any since") consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, patanjali's yoga sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practicefirst introduced to the west by the british orientalist henry thomas colebrooke, the yoga sutra was revived largely in europe and america, and predominantly in englishvirtually forgotten in india for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the west, the yoga sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status-and translated into more than forty languages-only in the course of the past forty yearswhite brings to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations-and misappropriations-of the yoga sutra led to its revered place in popular culture todaytracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, white's exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of india's past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced todaywhite retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down through its heyday in the seventh through eleventh centuries, its gradual fall into obscurity, and its modern resurgence since the nineteenth centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas david gordon white demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrect
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Whether discussing philosophy, simone weil or the power of hypnosis, he makes fascinating excursions into the bearing of wittgenstein's thought on philosophy and the practice of medicine and psychiatryoxfam bookshop preston maurice o'connor drury was among wittgenstein's first students after his return to cambridge inthe selected writings of maurice o'connor drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicinealongside a foreword by monk and an introduction presenting a new biography of drury, analysing the relationship between him and wittgenstein, this collection features previously unpublished archival sourcessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe subsequent course of drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacherthrough notes on conversations with wittgenstein, letters to a student of philosophy and correspondence of almost 30 years with rush rhees, drury gives shape to what he had learned from wittgensteinbeautifully written and carefully selected, each piece reveals the impact of wittgenstein's teachings, shedding light on the friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th centurycentral to the collection is the danger of words, the text described by ray monk as 'the most truly wittgensteinian book published by any of wittgenstein's students'
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First published in , this is an attempt to explain the observable universe in mechanical terms which made the book notorious upon its publicationoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells vestiges of the natural history of creation robert chambers the victorian library edition the paper dust jacket has shelf wear at the corners, including tearson the front cover there is 24mm closed tear at the bottom right-hand corner and a 7mm closed tear at the top right-hand cornersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe back cover has a 14mm closed tear along the spine edge and a very small open tear in the opposite cornerthere are 2 names written on the first blank page, one has been crossed through with blue ink
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It also addresses the value of these texts as potential sources for knowledge of the historical jesus, and for debates about jewish-christian relations, the practice of christian worship, and developing understandings of asceticism, gender and sexuality, etcit discusses key texts including the gospel of thomas, the gospel of mary, the gospel of peter, letters attributed to paul, peter, and jesus, and acts and apocalypses written about or attributed to different apostlesthe volume also considers questions such as which ancient readers read early christian apocrypha, their place in christian spirituality, and their place in contemporary popular culture and contemporary theological discoursepart one consists of authoritative surveys of the main branches of apocryphal literature (gospels, acts, epistles, apocalypses, and related literature) and part two considers key issues that they raisesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethese include their contribution to our understanding of developing theological understandings of jesus, the apostles and other important figures such as maryoxfam bookshop victoria the oxford handbook of early christian apocrypha addresses issues and themes that arise in the study of early christian apocryphal literature
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The practice of true reality madhyamaka is divided into ground, path and fruit, whereas word madhyamaka is divided into teachings and commentariesit can be divided into two categories: true reality madhyamaka and word madhyamakathis tradition is generally associated with the "three great masters of the east": jnanagarbha, shantarakshita, and kamalashilain this book, the venerable khenpo rinpoches use shantarakshita's famous madhyamakalankara (the ornament of the middle way) and commentaries by longchenpa and mipham rinpoche to explore yogachara madhyamakamadhyamaka is a direct teaching on the essential nature, free from all extremessee oxfam website for delivery information read morein excellent conditionthe commentarial tradition is characterized by prasangika and svatantrika madhyamaka, and svatantrika itself includes the sautrantika and yogachara madhyamaka schoolsoxfam bookshop kingsbridge in this third year of our continuing investigation of buddhist philosophy, we begin our study of madhyamaka, the middle way schoolvolume 3 in the padma samye ling shedra seriestrue reality madhyamaka is the absolute, inexpressible nature the mother of all the victorious ones; word madhyamaka describes this absolute nature
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Oxfam books & music beeston free association books, , paperback very good condition bollas integrates the contribution of the british school of object relations with the fine texture of problems that have arisen in the author's own clinical practicesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The core concepts of occupational therapy a dynamic framework for practice by anne lawson-porter (paperback, ) 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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Now, the respected master of italian cuisine finally shares his vast knowledge of pasta, gnocchi, and risotto in this inspiring, informative primer featuring expert tips and techniques, and more than 100 recipesinstead, he wrote two other acclaimed cookbooks and continued researching pasta for ten more yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop st giles street award-winning chef marc vetri wanted to write his first book about pastasome knocks on back of hard cover, as shown in photos
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Just released my new children's christmas book latest illustrated children’s christmas book the exciting adventures of charlie the dog & alfie anthony r stephenson amazon the exciting adventures of charlie the dog & alfie is an illustrated christmas tale for childrenin the perfect wintertide, there is time for snow, a party, a visit from santa claus, and family christmas dinner—and the greatest gift of all: a new addition to the familywith the charming, albeit sometimes chaotic, antics of a young boy and his dog, the exciting adventures of charlie the dog & alfie is a story of the magic of christmas where wishes come truespanning the few days coming up to and including christmas day, it tells a heartwarming story of familial warmth and joy through the eyes of charlie, the family dog
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikidiscs 1 - 4 are mounted in the box set, discs 5 and 6 are in separate cardsleeves fast shipping, insured and tracked read morecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablea must have for collectors pink floyd - the dark side of the moon collector's edition box set the box includes: 36-page 26cm x 26 cm booklet designed by storm thorgerson, 20-page 26cm x 26 cm photo book edited by jill furmanovsky, exclusive art print, 4 x collectors' cards featuring art and comments by storm thorgerson, replica of the dark side of the moon tour ticket, replica of the dark side of the moon backstage pass, 100% viscose (exclusive of 100% acrylic fringe) collectible printed scarf 3 x collectible black marbles 9 x collectible coasters (unique to this box) featuring early design sketches, and a 12-page credits bookletour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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This lithograph measure's approx 56x71cm and is nothing but amazingare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiyou will not be disappointed with this amazing piece of artvery rare and hard to get traffic lithograph for the "the low spark of high heeled boys albumcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableit really is a quality item and the chance's of obtaining this item in great condition like this one is quite rareour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethese limited edition lithographs do nothing but rise in value over time as for they are very collectible and very sort afterif your a traffic fan, you will fall in love with this very limited lithographthe lithograph is in ex condition and plate (printed) signed by the artist tony wright (designer of the cover), limited edition of , comes with a coathe lithograph was produced on the finest quality paper stock, it really is a beautiful piece of art which is meant for framingplease notice the small spot (see extra photo) on the right hand side, easy to frame over, so in the end you will not see itit is an original museum edition lithograph which is very hard to find anymorethis is an authorized productplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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