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oxfam shop beverley tales from chaucer, the canterbury tales done into prose by eleanor farjeon, the medici society see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop hebden bridge 5 x volumes: 1) england under the tudors written by gthe volumes were selected by, and under the general editorship of, british historian felipe fernandez-armesto, and published by the folio societyt clanchy3) england in the later middle ages written by mh keen4) england under the stuarts written by gr elton2) early medieval england written by mvolumes come without slipcase a history of england () is a series of reprints of twelve classic, magisterial volumes of different periods of english history, together constituting a continuous history from ancient roman times to the end of the 20th centurym trevelyan5) anglo-saxon england written by peter hunter blair edition
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oxfam shop southend-on-sea someone has put their name and year on title page (see photo) but otherwise like new thomas hodgkin's the barbarian invasions vol ii folio society see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam shop dorchester approved by the horse society see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam shop purley as picturedcopy of the memoirs of harriette wilson volume 2 published by the navarre society see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brighton folio society publisher folio society, london; orange cloth and grey decorated boards hardback wood engraving illustrations by joan hassall complete 7 volume set in boxpride and prejudice; sense and sensibility; emma; mansfield park; northanger abbey; persuasion; shorter workseach volume includes frontispieces and are accompanied with introductions by richard church plus wood engraving illustrations by joan hassall
75 €
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells earth rising ii, the betrayal of science, society and the soul dr nick begich, james roderick a paperback book in very good condition that appears to be unreadan examination of new areas of technology and their implications for personal security and the state of democracy in the beginning of the 21st century
34 €
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston the spanish inquisitiona historical revision (the folio society)Â hardcovercomplete with original sleeve
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop portishead this edition of the tales of beatrix potter, in a blue board slip case, was produced exclusively for the folio society and consists of 12 of miss potter's favourite stories, including the tale of the pie and the patty pan the books are covered in linen with titles on the front and spine embossed in gilt apart from slight bumping to the spine edges the books are in very good condition with no markings on the pages
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moretypeset in garamond at the folio societyoxfam shop portishead travels with my aunt () is a novel written by english author graham greene green board slipcaseaunt augusta pulls henry away from his quiet suburban existence into a world of adventure, crime and the highly unconventional details of her past in very good condition with very slight bumping to bottom of spine and light staining to front pastedown printed on abbey wove paper by st edmundsbury press, bury st edmunds by hunter & foulis, haddington, in full cloth blocked and printed with a design byjohn holderthe novel follows the travels of henry pulling, a retired bank manager, and his eccentric aunt augusta as they find their way across europe, and eventually even further afield
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop darley street a history of the royal society of arts henry trueman wood published by john murray, london () used hardcover about this item: john murray, londoncondition: goodsize: 8vo - over 7Âľ" - 9Âľ" tallblue cloth with gilt to lettering on spine and disc on front which says 'arts and commerce promoted', some browning, pages tanned and occasionally foxed, good in original blue cloth gilt, extremities worn and bumped
19 €
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Full set see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop glossop great britain th anniversary of the royal society sg
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oxfam bookshop bloomsbury street the law society of scotland directory of expert witness see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop cowley road hardback with blue boardsthe acquisitive society was one of his most influential works of social criticismhardback, no dust jacketpublished by g bell & sons, first editionbinding is tight, and the book is free of notes and inscriptionsboards are bumped, spine is discoloured with faded lettering and some frayingrichard henry tawney () was an english socialist economic historian and an advocate of adult education programmes and free secondary education for all
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The society's programme for , a membership form and a letter are held in this copy see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans essays and critiques relating to the views and attitudes of hardy in his writings
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oxfam shop scarborough good condition, with some wear & creases to the cover - inside pages are good condition psychology of consciousness & society see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'the writing glows with emotional intelligencesome see the choir as a chance to forget their troubles, others the chance to shinean uplifting and heart-warming novel perfect for fans of helen simonson's the summer before the war and the guernsey literary and potato peel pie societythis atmospheric debuthad me sniffing copiously' daily mailin wartime, survival is as much about friendship as it is about couragethough for one villager, the choir is the perfect cover to destroy chilbury's new-found harmonyin the idyllic village of chilbury change is afoothearts are breaking as sons and husbands leave to fight, and when the vicar decides to close the choir until the men return, all seems lostbut coming together in song is just what the women of chilbury need in these dark hours, and they are ready to singwith a little fighting spirit and the arrival of a new musical resident, the charismatic miss primrose trent, the choir is reborn
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is a reprint for the folio society of edmund blunden's experiences in the first world warthere is light pencil marking in the front pagesome shelf wear to the slip case; otherwise, the book is as newhardback within slipcase
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham westminster, london, 22 juneangry 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 sensationalten years older, he is a dull, violent and controlling lawyer but caroline is determined not to be a traditional wifein 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 pleason 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 stockafter years of simmering jealousy, norton accuses caroline and the prime minister of a 'criminal conversation' (adultery) precipitating 'the scandal of the century'the criminal conversation of mrs nortonis the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywherefor 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 timeby her early twenties, caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic and outrageous flirt
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oxfam bookshop bloomsbury street wear commensurate with age, fading to the spine and darkening on some parts of covers (please see photos)published in , privately printed by rixon and arnold and edited by edwin freshfield (doctor of laws, treasurer of the society of antiquaries of london) lists all the income and expenditures of the church parish see oxfam website for delivery information read morealso contains two ex-library stamps from the sir john soane's museum library; one on inside front cover and one on first end page
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the winner of the national book award, the new york times noit announces jonathan franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of american society and the american soulstretching from the midwest in the mid-century to wall street and eastern europe in the age of globalised greed, the corrections brings an old-time america of freight trains and civic duty into wild collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and new economy millionairesthe lamberts - enid and alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled agealfred is ill and as his condition worsens the whole family must face the failures, secrets and long-buried hurts that haunt them if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs1 bestseller and the worldwide literary sensation, the corrections has established itself as a truly great american novel
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop mold generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is thereanythingsensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? *does language reflect the culture of a society? *is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? *can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? inthrough the language glass, acclaimed author guy deutscher will convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yeson an odyssey that takes us from homer to darwin, from scientists to savages, from the corridors of yale to the rivers of the amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why russian water - a 'she' - become a 'he' once you have dipped a tea bag into her,this book explores some of the most fascinating and controversial questions about language, culture and the human mind
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham a forbidden passioncressida felbridge is living the high life as a debutante in s london society when she is courted by a friend of her brother's and set to marrya lifetime of consequencessoon, she is deeply in love with ralph, but there is one problem: ralph is still married to catherinesteering the car off the road at high speed, their perfect life is abruptly endedwhen she wakes from her injuries, emily is told of a mysterious legacy: a house in cumbria on the edge of an estate, left to her by a woman she has never metbut catherine will not give up ralph that easilyas cressie is drawn into a strange, triangular relationship, catherine's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic and ralph and cressie escape to cressie's family home in cumbriabut as emily and will drive to a party, will reveals that he has been betrayed by his business partnercould this house provide the chance to start anew, or does it hold secrets that she must uncover before it can be at peace?the snow angel is a deliciously dark family saga from lulu taylor, the bestselling author of the winter follybut as soon as she meets the painter ralph few, cressie knows her life will never be the same againwishing only the best for his daughter, her father decrees that she must have her portrait painted to mark the occasionin the present day, emily conway has everything she could wish for: a huge house in west london, two beautiful children and a successful husband, will
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop bath a hardback in 'as new' conditionas commissions for more villas flooded in, barry dierks and eric sawyer, "those two charmers", flourished at the heart of riviera societyin barry dierks, a young american architect, arrived in paris and fell in love with francewith his partner, an ex-officer in the british army, he built a white, flat-roofed modernist masterpiece that rested on the rocks below the esterel, with views across the mediterraneandust jacket and boards in very good conditionpages are clean and tight and appear unreadriviera dreaming tells the dazzling story of the lives, loves and adventures that played out behind the walls of these glamorous houses and provides an unparalleled portrait of life on the cote d'azur at the height of the jazz ageover the years, dierks would design and build over 70 of the riviera's most recognisable villas for clients ranging from somerset maugham's villa mauresque and jack warner's villa aujourd'hui to the marquess of cholmondeley's villa le roc, and maxine elliott's chateau de l'horizon, later the home of aly khan and rita hayworththey called it le tridentfrom the moment it was built, it captivated the riviera
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lancaster seek the peace of the city provides a robust engagement with the theological foundations and practices of christian social and political criticismthe book concludes by developing an account of the impact such a theological realism and practice of critique might have on contemporary political theory--with explorations of the doxological nature of social change, the changing shape of the state, governmentality and political sovereignty, and the status and role of religious communities in civil societyrichard bourne identifies a theological realism found in the work of john howard yoderin developing this theological realism, the book furnishes an account of christian criticism capable of addressing key debates in contemporary theology and political theorybourne develops this account and shows how it is consonant with aspects of the work of a range of contemporary theologians including stanley hauerwas, john milbank, karl barth, and dietrich bonhoefferbourne begins by arguing for the public status of theological political claimshe demonstrates that only a vigorous theological realism, grounded in the universal lordship of christ, is capable of providing a foundation for local, particular, and ad hoc practices of critiquethis realism bases social and political criticism in the purposes of a nonviolent, patient, and reconciling god
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the places in between, rory stewart's moving account of his walk across afghanistan in january was immediately hailed as a classicwinner of the royal society of literature ondaatje award and the spirit of scotland award and shortlisted for the guardian first book award, the john llewellyn rhys memorial prize and the scottish book of the year prizetravelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible mountainous route once taken by the mogul emperor, babur the great, stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme, hostile conditionscaught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time afghanistan was in turmoil following the us invasiononly with the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way did he survive to report back with unique insight on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parissally 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 societyhis 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 inhe 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 swithin 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 colonyhowever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selective
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionin an epilogue he observes that the end of the wars did not mean the end of the agony, but rather a legacy of pain and anger that to this day shapes south african society the story of the nine 'kaffir' wars, fought in the 18th and 19th centuries between the whites and the xhosa nation, form the heart of this astonishing bookit was here that the crucial frontier was variously to be found - the volatile border where colonial expansion met local intransigence and brutal warfare proved the only solution to the impassehis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, innoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosainternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedin a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai riversexternally the bottom right corner of the front cover has been creased and the is some slight signs of edge wear on the front and back covers
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop kendal the sleeve's and case in very good conditioncomplete collection of episodes from the satirical british comedy 'yes minister' and its spin-off series 'yes, prime minister'discs in very good conditionthe 'yes, prime minister' episodes are: 'the grand design', 'the ministerial broadcast', 'the smoke screen', 'the key', 'a real partnership', 'a victory for democracy', 'the bishop's gambit', 'one of us', 'man overboard', 'official secrets', 'a diplomatic incident', 'a conflict of interest', 'power to the people', 'the patron of the arts', 'the national education service' and 'the tangled web'the 'yes minister' episodes are: 'open government', 'the official visit', 'the economy drive', 'big brother', 'the writing on the wall', 'the right to know', 'jobs for the boys', 'the compassionate society', 'doing the honours', 'the death list', 'the greasy pole', 'the devil you know', 'the quality of life', 'a question of loyalty', 'equal opportunities', 'the challenge', 'the skeleton in the cupboard', 'the moral dimension', 'the bed of nails', 'the whisky priest' and 'the middle-class rip-off'
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morepublished in by the folio societyoxfam bookshop aylesbury illustrated hard cover and green cloth spine in immaculate conditioninternally the book is also as newthe slip case has a very minor sign of usethe book is illustrated with engravings by simon brett
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