The nineteenth and twentieth centuries
List the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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Oxfam bookshop ipswich kennedy's latin books have acquired a firm place in english culture: they are not simply excellent textbooks on the latin language but are symbols of what schoolchildren have endured and enjoyed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries see oxfam website for delivery information read morecomprehensive and easy to use with coverage of all the key points of latin grammar, the shorter primer is the ideal learning tool for the beginner in latinthese books provide clear and simple explanations of written and spoken latineven thought this famous book is being brought to you in a new edition it remains complete and includes extra material from kennedy's other grammar books
18 €
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Work by a magnificent watercolourist who lived and painted between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, enrique marĂn sevilla (granada -madrid )catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehe was a contemporary of enrique marĂn higuero (arriate -madrid ), a sculptor from malagahe was a painter and draughtsman belonging to the andalusian school of the 19th centuryare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storehe devoted himself to watercolour, a specialty that he mastered with great skill
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Oxfam bookshop knutsford during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, american missionary encounters in the middle east set foundations for later uthis volume focuses on regions that were once part of the ottoman empire in western asia, the balkans, and north africathese engagements prompt larger questions about the consequences of american christian cultural projection into the wider worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremissionaries presented examples of american culture to middle eastern peoples, just as they interpreted the middle east for americans back homemiddle eastern relationsthis is an excellent resource for specialists in history, middle eastern studies, american studies, religious studies, missiology, and anyone interested more broadly in american engagement in the middle eastcontributors explain the distinctly american dimensions of these missionary encounters, the cultural influences they exerted on the region, and their consequences for local nationalism, print culture, education, and more
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames the beaten track is a major study of european tourism during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuriessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit draws on a wide variety of sources from high literature and travel writing to periodicals and guidebooks to reveal an important current in the history of the modern concept of 'culture', in both popular and elite formsincluding bibliography and indexa couple of bumps at corners, contents in excellent clean condition throughout
20 €
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1 "the poets of the nineteenth century" by rev robert aris willmott george routledge, london - first thus edition - 394p, 20cmx15cm - condition; good, original binding with some wear and rubbing, some page foxing, some scribbling and inscription endpapers"english sacred poetry of the sixteenth seventeenth eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" selected by willmott george routldge, london - new edition - ill by various incl gilbert and engraved by brothers danziel - 419p, 25cmx20cm - condtion: good, gift inscription to ffep, some foxing, complete with all illustrations, housed in mylar covercatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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Oxfam books & music fareham analytical strategies and musical interpretation: essays on nineteenth and twentieth century music edited by craig ayrey and mark everisthardback with dust jacketthis book is devoted to music analysis as an interpretive activityinterpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book attempts to demonstrate and reflect on the interpretive results of analysissee oxfam website for delivery information read moretwo associated types of practice are emphasised: 'translation', the transformation of one type of experience or art object into the musical work, the artistic attempt to persuade us that the new product is as valid as its original, or more so than its origin; and 'rhetoric', the attempt to persuade us, through structure, to accept the signifying power of the workowners book plate stamp on fly leafthe repertoire discussed ranges from schumann through wagner, mahler, zemlinsky, debussy, schoenberg, berg, webern and stravinsky to carter and birtwistlethe unifying theme of the essays is the interpretive transformation of concepts, ideas and forms that constitutes the heart of the compositional process of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music1st edition published by cambridge university pressin very good condition
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But his photographs of plants, which he took in the thousands over more than thirty years, reveal a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the nineteenth and twentieth century worlds of image makingoxfam bookshop victoria book appears new & unread only blemish on back of floppy cover small rectangular mark, possibly remains of redundant price stickerlike their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effectivesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreotherwise "as new"beautifully but starkly composed against plain cardboard backgrounds, blossfeldt's images, relying on a northern light for their sense of volume, reveal nothing of the man but everything of themselvesthey are still-lifes, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their technical brilliance and the ongoing fascination of students and photographersa serious man who earned his living as a teacher, karl blossfeldt () seems an unlikely candidate for aesthetic canonization
15 €
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The picture printer of the nineteenth century: george baxter (hardcover) stock photo, not the actual bookedition: first edition description: condition: in very good condition without dust wrapper as issuedbinding: hardcoverbeing printed on hand made paper the edges are in original condition ie not been trimmedasin: beu38o plates in good condition with good colourplates in good condition with good colour95 or free collection read morepublisher: sampson lowyou can cut the plates out and sell individuallycovers with minor rubbing and corners very slightly bumpeddate of publication
29 €
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Oxfam bookshop stratford upon avon church builders of the nineteenth century, by basil f l clarke  david & charles reprintsin overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age and handlinginternally cleandust jacket condition: goodhardback; 8vo, xx+296ppreprint of the originaltext and illustrations bright and clear throughout see oxfam website for delivery information read morecondition: very goodbinding tight and appears little read; owners bookplate to ffepa reprint with new preface, corrections and annotations by the author
9 €
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London's lost theatres of the nineteenth century by erroll shersonlight foxing to fore-edges and preliminaries, otherwise clean throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenotes on the plays and players follow the likes of ellen terry, edward blanchard, and henry irvingbook condition: very good - clean covers, tightly boundhardback, red cloth boardsfeaturing numerous black-and-white plates detailing the stadiums, performers, and streets of london during this time period (all checked and accounted for), this volume revisits the olympic theatre, the princess's theatre, the old strand theatre, toole's theatre, the bower saloon amongst many otherspublished john lane pp
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14 €
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Introduces students to the best recent writings on the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesoxfam shop bishop's stortford this book introduces students to the best recent writings on the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriespresents work by scholars who have been at the forefront of reinterpreting the scientific revolution great condition copy of a excellent book for students and historians of the period see oxfam website for delivery information read morerepresents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovativecovers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemy
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The primary concern of this book is with the english theory of poetry, and to a lesser extent of the other major arts, during the first four decades of the nineteenth centurythis continuity was broken by the theories or romantic writers, english and german; and their innovations include many of the points of view and procedures which make the characteristic differences between traditional criticism and the criticism of our own time, including some criticism which professes to be anti-romanticsee oxfam website for delivery information read morejohnston, but there was also a discernible continuity in premises, aims and methodsoxfam bookshop byres road the development of literary theory in the lifetime of coleridge was to a surprising extent the making of the modern critical mindthere were many important differences between, let us say, horace's art of poetry and the criticism of drit stresses the common orientation which justifies us in identifying a specifically 'romantic' criticism; but not, i trust, at the cost of overlooking the many important diversities among the writers who concern themselves with the nature of poetry or art, its psychological genesis, its constitution and kinds, its major criteria, and its relation to other original and enduring critics of the time, rather than with the run-of-the-mill reviewers who often had more immediate, though shorter-lived influence on the general reading public
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop tavistock this book of extracts from 'the west briton', cornwall's leading newspaper, spans the years from and is the last of four sequent volumes which together encompass all aspects of everyday cornish lifedust jacket in good condition with fading to the spine and sticker damage to the back covergrey cloth covers in very good conditioncontents clean and unmarked apart from light foxing to top page edges and an inscription on inside front cover
6 €
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Oxfam shop newcastle upon tyne starting from the premise that the most important contributions to tool building up to the end of the nineteenth and into the early 20th century came from english (the author probably means british) and american tool builders, the author, in this book, tries to bring out the importance of the work and influence of the great tool builders on the industry of their timegood condition internallythe scope of the book is evident in the table of contents seen in the second image included with this listingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno dust wrapperthis copy is the first, , edition but was subsequently rebound probably in when it was part of a university librarythere is evidence of previous repair which was made good by the rebindingbinding in very good conditionadhesive tape residue evident in some placessome grubby marks and a few pages show foxingthere are 50 black and white plates and a frontispiece together with 7 illustrations within the text
17 €
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Pages show some tanning, but otherwise they are free of marks and annotationssee oxfam website for delivery information read more inscriptions in ink on one page in front of book some rubbing on the top and bottom of the spine and minor marks on coveroxfam bookshop knutsford 1st edition longman green and co
19 €
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Jimena canales introduces readers to the revolutionary ideas of einstein and bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth centurythe physicist and the philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists todaycanales explains how the new technologies of the period-such as wristwatches, radio, and film-helped to shape people's conceptions of time and further polarized the public debateeinstein considered bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physicssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon april , in paris, albert einstein and henri bergson publicly debated the nature of timeoxfam shop kendal paperback as newthe physicist and the philosopher is a magisterial and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of timeshe shows how it provoked responses from figures such as bertrand russell and martin heidegger, and carried repercussions for american pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanicsshe also discusses how bergson and einstein, toward the end of their lives, each reflected on his rival's legacy-bergson during the nazi occupation of paris and einstein in the context of the first hydrogen bomb explosionbergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of time
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The sectarian movement was steadily gaining strength in england in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; dr whale examines its teachings and tells of its later developmentsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe speaks with conviction and vigour about issues including religious tolerance and intolerance and the conflict between church and state; he closes with a plea for unity the churchoxfam bookshop carlisle first published in , this book was intended to offer a new interpretation of early protestantism and, against this background, a searching treatment of modern religious issuesthe protestant tradition stems mainly from luther, calvin, and the sectariansafter him calvin, with his remorseless logic, may seem an unsympathetic figure; but here he is shown in his proper light as the great statesman and doctrinarian of the young churchsome page edge and board wear, jacket is cutluther was the revolutionary genius; because of his acute sense of paradox his teaching is difficult to understand, but dr whale's summing-up makes it a good deal easier
9 €
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham this fascinating new book explores what life was like during the templars' stay in somerset during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuriesthe author has found compelling evidence to suggest the church was not only built on templar land, but had a connection with the grand master of the order himselfsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe final chapter explores the controversy surrounding a carved wooden man's head discovered in a somerset churchrichly illustrated and compiled using original research, this book is sure to appeal to everyone interested in medieval historyit reveals the struggles over land ownership in the county, and introduces the reader to little known historical characters including william de marisco, revealing his struggle with the templars, and claim to the throne of england
6 €
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Oxfam bookshop lymington this book traces the life and work of a painter twenty years old at the beginning of the twentieth centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulationvery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacket51 colour reproductions - oils, gouaches, pastel; 20 pen & pencil drawings in two tones show the full range of the artist's styleart series which offers a series of monographs on the great masters of modern artthe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationthe work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four years
19 €
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The mahabharata was probably compiled between the 3rd century bce and the 3rd century ce, the original events related by the epic probably fall between the 9th and 8th centuries bcecondition volumes included i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi (vii not included) viii, ix, x, xi, xiigenerally good conditionbinding slightly-loose in volume iii & ivprinted calcutta - kolkata indiatraditionally, the authorship of the mahabharata is attributed to vyasathese volumes are an important translation which gives westerners a glimpse of this ancient indian civilisationcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablewith original red cloth covers, slight bumped cornershis translation published as the mahabharata of krishna-dwaipayana vyasa translated into english prose between and , by protap chandra rai (), a calcutta bookseller who owned a printing press and raised funds for the project it narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the kurukshetra war and the fates of the kaurava and the pa??ava princes and their successorsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiapprox 500 pages each volumeref:wikipedia kisari mohan ganguli (also kganguli) an indian translator first complete translation of the sanskrit epic mahabharata in englishplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website4th century ce) this vast storehouse of indian knowledge is normally hiddenour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe mahabharata - mahabharata is one of the two major sanskrit epic of ancient india, the other being the ramaya?athis is the early edition of english translation in these volumesthese 11 volumes have been translated from the original sanskrit languagethe text probably reached its final form by the early gupta period (c
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36 €
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Author jill trevelyan is a curator and award-winning writer specialising in twentieth century new zealand artfar more than a simple biography, this examines the growth and development of contemporary new zealand artthrough exclusive access to mcleavey's extensive and hitherto untapped archive of letters, diaries, exhibition files and more, this book offers insights into artists represented by mcleavey including: colin mccahon, toss woollaston, len lye, milan mrkusich, bill hammond, gordon walters, michael illingworth, robin white, richard killeen, john reynolds, yvonne todd and many morethe book is in very good, unmarked, clean condition and unclipped see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop witney the first biography of peter mcleavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the s has shaped new zealand artmcleavey's personal story is remarkable, but his contemporaries will recognise common themes: the religious upbringing, the struggle to be bohemian in repressive mid-century small town, the challenges of marriage and fatherhood, the dilemma of whether to stay or leave new zealand, and the need to make a mark
24 €
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ushered in a new era of discovery as explorers traversed the globe, returning home with vivid tales of distant lands and exotic peoplesunlike other collections, travel narratives from the age of discovery offers a global view of travel at a crucial stage in world, and human, history, with accounts written by non-european authors, including two new translationsaided by the invention of the printing press in europe, travelers were able to spread their accounts to wider audiences than ever beforewritten by authors from spain, france, italy, england, china, and north africa describing locations that range from brazil to canada, china to virginia, and angola to vietnam, these accounts provided crucial insight into unfamiliar cultures and environments, and also betrayed the prejudices of their own societies, revealing as much about the observers themselves as they did about faraway landsmancall has compiled some of the most important travel accounts of this erain travel narratives from the age of discovery, historian peter cfrom christopher columbus to lesser-known figures such as the huguenot missionary jean de léry, this anthology brings together first-hand accounts of places connected by the atlantic, pacific, and indian oceansin addition to these travel narratives, this anthology features rare pictures from sixteenth-century printed books, including images of brazil, roanoke, guiana, and india, which, together with the accounts themselves, provide a detailed understanding of the many ways in which fifteenth and sixteenth century travelers and readers imagined other worlds see oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluded here are the mughal emperor babur's first thoughts of india upon establishing his empire there, the chinese chronicler ma huan's report detailing chinese travel to the middle east during the fifteenth century, and an account of africa written by the man known as leo africanus
18 €
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English history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often overlooks the contribution of ireland, scotland and wales to the formation of the british statethis collection opened up a different kind of literary history and has pressing relevance for discussions of 'britishness' see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop wallingford though british history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched areas, the role of literature in the construction of 'britishness' is under-examinedprominent historians respond to the issues raised by the volumehistorians describe 'britain' as a multiple kingdom, with a long history of conflictin this volume, a team of leading renaissance literary critics read a broad range of texts from the period, including plays of shakespeare, in light of british history
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Oxfam bookshop skipton number of discs:Â 1 "this cd is a one hour, beautiful rendition of the original, where purcell combines styles from lyrical ballads of the 16th and 17th centuries with masque traditions in english music, absorbing italian and french influences from such as the early opera composer, monteverdi, to produce a masterpiece of early opera (even though it was an unfinished piece)based on a play by sir robert howard with a libretto written by poet/playwright john dryden, purcell's romance is not the sentimental kind, but his music seems soar into the heavens, or maybe it's coming from heaven!" (amazon review) see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe intriguing and complex plot involves a peruvian (inca) princess, orazia; a mexican queen, zempoalla; and the mexican heir to the throne, montezuma
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It was later used by royal courts during the renaissance, and contributed to the increasingly brutal prosecution of witchcraft during the 16th and 17th centuriessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop horsham an english translation of the best known treatise on witchcraftbook bound in black cloth with metallic red and silver design on the front, title and silver design on the spine which is barely fadedinternal pages are clean and unmarkedit was written by the catholic clergyman heinrich kramer and first published in the german city of speyer ingrey marbled paper covered slipcase, a little wear to open corner tips
35 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morestudents and exegetes of the old testament and its individual authors and books will be introduced here to antioch's distinctive approach and interpretation by commentators reading their local form of the greek bibleincluded in this ministry were homilies on the old testament by john chrysostom and written commentaries by his mentor diodore and his fellow student theodore, and later by theodoretthough the biblical text was admittedly jewish in origin, "the text and the meaning are ours," claimed chrysostom; and the great bulk of extant remains reveals the pastoral priority given to this often obscure materialoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear in the period between the councils of nicea and chalcedon in the fourth and fifth centuries, the faithful in the churches of the ecclesiastical district of antioch were the beneficiaries of the ministry of the word from distinguished pastorsin the course of this survey, readers will gain an insight also into antioch's worldview and its approach to the person of jesus, to soteriology, morality and spirituality
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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 booksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit 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 impasseexternally 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 covershis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, inoxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionnoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosain a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai riversinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedin 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
10 €
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With a legacy stretching back into legend and folklore, the vampire in all its guises haunts the film and fiction of the twentieth century and remains the most enduring of all the monstrous threats that roam the landscapes of horror
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The year marks the birth of guru nanak the founder of sikhismsikh gurus the life and times of the ten sikh gurus by om books international the sikh gurus are the spiritual masters of sikhi who established this religion over the course of about two and a half centuries, beginning inhe was succeeded by nine other gurus until, in , the guruship was finally passed on by the tenth guru to the holy sikh scripture, guru granth sahib which is now considered the living guru by the followers of the sikh faithbeautifully illustrated, rare book bargain only ÂŁ10
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By 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 englandthe story is seen through the eyes of uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the northmen begin their assault on wessex (alfred’s kingdom and the last territory in english hands) uhtred almost thinks of himself as a danehe certainly has no love for alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for viking savagery, yet when alfred unexpectedly defeats the danes and the danes themselves turn on uhtred, he is finally forced to choose sidesabove all, though, he wishes to recover his father’s land, the enchanting fort of bebbanburg by the wild northern seapaperback - 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 kingdoms
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