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 centurieseven 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 see oxfam website for delivery information read morethese books provide clear and simple explanations of written and spoken latincomprehensive 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 latin
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 )please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehe was a contemporary of enrique marĂn higuero (arriate -madrid ), a sculptor from malagaare 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 skillhe was a painter and draughtsman belonging to the andalusian school of the 19th century
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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 africamissionaries presented examples of american culture to middle eastern peoples, just as they interpreted the middle east for americans back homethese engagements prompt larger questions about the consequences of american christian cultural projection into the wider worldmiddle eastern relationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis 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
17 €
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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 centuriesit 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 formsa couple of bumps at corners, contents in excellent clean condition throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluding bibliography and index
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 coverplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare 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
34 €
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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 jacketthe 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 musicowners book plate stamp on fly leafinterpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book attempts to demonstrate and reflect on the interpretive results of analysis1st edition published by cambridge university pressthis book is devoted to music analysis as an interpretive activitytwo 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 worksee oxfam website for delivery information read morein very good conditionthe repertoire discussed ranges from schumann through wagner, mahler, zemlinsky, debussy, schoenberg, berg, webern and stravinsky to carter and birtwistle
23 €
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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 makinga serious man who earned his living as a teacher, karl blossfeldt () seems an unlikely candidate for aesthetic canonizationoxfam bookshop victoria book appears new & unread only blemish on back of floppy cover small rectangular mark, possibly remains of redundant price stickersee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey are still-lifes, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their technical brilliance and the ongoing fascination of students and photographersbeautifully 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 themselvesotherwise "as new"like their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effective
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 issuedbeing printed on hand made paper the edges are in original condition ie not been trimmedcovers with minor rubbing and corners very slightly bumped95 or free collection read morebinding: hardcoveryou can cut the plates out and sell individuallyplates in good condition with good colourdate of publicationpublisher: sampson lowasin: beu38o plates in good condition with good colour
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 handlinga reprint with new preface, corrections and annotations by the authortext and illustrations bright and clear throughout see oxfam website for delivery information read morehardback; 8vo, xx+296ppbinding tight and appears little read; owners bookplate to ffepreprint of the originalinternally cleandust jacket condition: goodcondition: very good
9 €
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London's lost theatres of the nineteenth century by erroll shersonpublished john lane ppbook condition: very good - clean covers, tightly boundsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefeaturing 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 othershardback, red cloth boardsnotes on the plays and players follow the likes of ellen terry, edward blanchard, and henry irvinglight foxing to fore-edges and preliminaries, otherwise clean throughout
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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 centuries see oxfam website for delivery information read morecovers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemypresents 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 periodrepresents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovative
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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 centuryit 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 publicthis 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-romanticjohnston, 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 mindsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere were many important differences between, let us say, horace's art of poetry and the criticism of dr
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Contents clean and unmarked apart from light foxing to top page edges and an inscription on inside front coveroxfam 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 lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moredust jacket in good condition with fading to the spine and sticker damage to the back covergrey cloth covers in very good condition
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 timethe scope of the book is evident in the table of contents seen in the second image included with this listingno dust wrapperthis copy is the first, , edition but was subsequently rebound probably in when it was part of a university librarybinding in very good conditionthere are 50 black and white plates and a frontispiece together with 7 illustrations within the textsee oxfam website for delivery information read moregood condition internallysome grubby marks and a few pages show foxingthere is evidence of previous repair which was made good by the rebindingadhesive tape residue evident in some places
17 €
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Inscriptions in ink on one page in front of book some rubbing on the top and bottom of the spine and minor marks on cover pages show some tanning, but otherwise they are free of marks and annotationssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 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 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 timeeinstein considered bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physicsthe 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 todayshe 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 mechanicsoxfam shop kendal paperback as newcanales 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 debatesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon april , in paris, albert einstein and henri bergson publicly debated the nature of time
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The protestant tradition stems mainly from luther, calvin, and the sectariansthe sectarian movement was steadily gaining strength in england in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; dr whale examines its teachings and tells of its later developmentsome page edge and board wear, jacket is cuthe 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 churchluther 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 easiersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreafter 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 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 issues
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 himselfit 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 englandrichly illustrated and compiled using original research, this book is sure to appeal to everyone interested in medieval historysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe final chapter explores the controversy surrounding a carved wooden man's head discovered in a somerset church
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 centuryvery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacketthe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationsee oxfam website for delivery information read more51 colour reproductions - oils, gouaches, pastel; 20 pen & pencil drawings in two tones show the full range of the artist's stylethe work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four yearsart series which offers a series of monographs on the great masters of modern artit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulation
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 bceganguli) an indian translator first complete translation of the sanskrit epic mahabharata in englishwith original red cloth covers, slight bumped cornersthe text probably reached its final form by the early gupta period (cthese volumes are an important translation which gives westerners a glimpse of this ancient indian civilisationref:wikipedia kisari mohan ganguli (also kprinted calcutta - kolkata indiahis 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 successorsthis is the early edition of english translation in these volumesgenerally good conditionbinding slightly-loose in volume iii & ivthese 11 volumes have been translated from the original sanskrit languagecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicondition volumes included i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi (vii not included) viii, ix, x, xi, xiitraditionally, the authorship of the mahabharata is attributed to vyasaapprox 500 pages each volume4th century ce) this vast storehouse of indian knowledge is normally hiddenthe mahabharata - mahabharata is one of the two major sanskrit epic of ancient india, the other being the ramaya?aplease 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 store
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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 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 morefar more than a simple biography, this examines the growth and development of contemporary new zealand artthe book is in very good, unmarked, clean condition and unclippedmcleavey'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 markoxfam bookshop witney the first biography of peter mcleavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the s has shaped new zealand art see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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 peoplesaided by the invention of the printing press in europe, travelers were able to spread their accounts to wider audiences than ever beforefrom 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 morewritten 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 landsunlike 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 translationsmancall has compiled some of the most important travel accounts of this erain travel narratives from the age of discovery, historian peter cincluded 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 stateprominent historians respond to the issues raised by the volumein 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 historyhistorians describe 'britain' as a multiple kingdom, with a long history of conflictoxfam 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-examinedthis collection opened up a different kind of literary history and has pressing relevance for discussions of 'britishness' see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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
11 €
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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 centuriesgrey marbled paper covered slipcase, a little wear to open corner tipsoxfam shop horsham an english translation of the best known treatise on witchcraftinternal pages are clean and unmarkedit was written by the catholic clergyman heinrich kramer and first published in the german city of speyer insee oxfam website for delivery information read morebook bound in black cloth with metallic red and silver design on the front, title and silver design on the spine which is barely faded
35 €
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Included 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 pastorssee 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 biblein 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
70 €
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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 bookin a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai rivershis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, init 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 impasseoxfam 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 societyinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosaexternally 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
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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Beautifully illustrated, rare book bargain only ÂŁ10the 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 faith
10 €
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Paperback - good condition - 333 pages this is the story of the making of england in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which king alfred the great, his son and grandson defeated the danish vikings who had invaded and occupied three of england’s four kingdomsabove all, though, he wishes to recover his father’s land, the enchanting fort of bebbanburg by the wild northern seathe 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 danethis 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 englandhe 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 sidesby now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall
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