The nineteenth and twentieth century
List the nineteenth and twentieth century
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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 everisttwo 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 workthe repertoire discussed ranges from schumann through wagner, mahler, zemlinsky, debussy, schoenberg, berg, webern and stravinsky to carter and birtwistleowners book plate stamp on fly leafsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinterpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book attempts to demonstrate and reflect on the interpretive results of analysisin very good conditionhardback with dust jacketthis book is devoted to music analysis as an interpretive activitythe 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 press
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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 makingotherwise "as new"oxfam bookshop victoria book appears new & unread only blemish on back of floppy cover small rectangular mark, possibly remains of redundant price stickera serious man who earned his living as a teacher, karl blossfeldt () seems an unlikely candidate for aesthetic canonizationthey are still-lifes, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their technical brilliance and the ongoing fascination of students and photographerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morelike their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effectivebeautifully 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 themselves
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Featuring nineteenth and twentieth century mavericks as diverse as wagner, holst, ravel, boulez, stockhausen, schoenberg, penderecki, harry partch and john cage in addition to the aforementioned stravinsky and varese this collection illustrates the impulse for many of zappa s own compositions and works as both an introduction to a style of music rarely heard outside of the most elite communities in the third millennium and as a guide to the music frank vincent took to his very heart and cherished throughout the major part of his tragically short lifeboth cds in excellent condition see oxfam website for delivery information read morevarese was one of zappa s very earliest influences and after discovering the dissonant sounds that this french born composer created, he was hooked on a genre of music that for most of us is anything but easy listeningbut while an acquired taste the tracks that fill this 2 disc compilation may be, the acquisition of such a taste is a rewarding journey with an even more rewarding destinationincluding fully illustrated 16 page booklet with extensive notes by music historian derek barker, this delightful package finally reveals what it was that informed so much of frank zappa s extraordinary musicoxfam books & music aberdeen a man of hugely eclectic tastes, frank zappa was a lover of everything from doo-wop to heavy metal and from jazz-funk to new waveindeed a radio show he produced for the bbc in found him spinning records by artists as varied as frankie valli, howlin wolf, the channels, lene lovich, wild man fisher, uk subs, traffic and the rolling stoneson that same sunday evening more than 30 years ago, zappa also played records by edgar varese and igor stravinsky, representing his love of modern classical music
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Work by a magnificent watercolourist who lived and painted between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, enrique marĂn sevilla (granada -madrid )he was a painter and draughtsman belonging to the andalusian school of the 19th centuryhe was a contemporary of enrique marĂn higuero (arriate -madrid ), a sculptor from malagaour 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 skillare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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The editors of medicine in the twentieth century have commissioned over forty authoritative essays, written by historical specialists but intended for general audiencesoxfam shop dumfries during the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformativein , western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individualsit is now central to these aspects of lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome concentrate on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries, others focus on understandings of the body, and a third set of essays explores transformations in some of the theatres of medicine and the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patientsour prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and genetic technologies which promise to reshape future generations
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The editors of medicine in the twentieth century have commissioned over forty authoritative essays, written by historical specialists but intended for general audiencesoxfam books & music kentish town during the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformativein , western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individualsit is now central to these aspects of lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome concentrate on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries, others focus on understandings of the body, and a third set of essays explores transformations in some of the theatres of medicine and the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patientsour prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and genetic technologies which promise to reshape future generations
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The puffin book of twentieth century children’s stories edited by judith elkin and beautifully illustrated by michael foreman and the puffin book of twentieth century children’s verse edited by brian patten and again beautifully illustrated by michael foremanboth brand new would make lovely presentsbargain only £1 each
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The picture printer of the nineteenth century: george baxter (hardcover) stock photo, not the actual bookasin: beu38o plates in good condition with good colourpublisher: sampson lowbinding: hardcovercovers with minor rubbing and corners very slightly bumpedbeing printed on hand made paper the edges are in original condition ie not been trimmeddate of publicationplates in good condition with good colour95 or free collection read moreedition: first edition description: condition: in very good condition without dust wrapper as issuedyou can cut the plates out and sell individually
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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 handlingdust jacket condition: goodbinding tight and appears little read; owners bookplate to ffep see oxfam website for delivery information read morehardback; 8vo, xx+296ppa reprint with new preface, corrections and annotations by the authorinternally cleantext and illustrations bright and clear throughoutcondition: very goodreprint of the original
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London's lost theatres of the nineteenth century by erroll shersonnotes on the plays and players follow the likes of ellen terry, edward blanchard, and henry irvinghardback, red cloth boardssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebook condition: very good - clean covers, tightly boundpublished john lane ppfeaturing 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 otherslight foxing to fore-edges and preliminaries, otherwise clean throughout
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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 coverour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Goodbye, twentieth centuryincorporates his acclaimed first volume of autobiography,a poet in the family, in a new volume which brings his life up to the present and the outset of a new centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham dannie abse's rich mixture of welsh and jewish backgrounds, and his dual occupations of doctor and author, have led to what is widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies since the war
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Complete set of the history of the twentieth century by martin gilbert in three volumesbuyer collects as too heavy to postunwanted gift, and still as new
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International cooperation in the early twentieth century by daniel gorman (hardback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is usually within 6 to 8 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Oxfam bookshop skipton an orderly presentation of the harmonic procedures to be found in the music of the first half of the twentieth centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreunmarked text, tight binding, dustcover in very good condition too
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One of the oldest and most powerful of the great hollywood studios, twentieth century fox has maintained its magnificent archive of still photographsthis collection features the best of these photographs, many previously unpublishedfilmmaker scorsese contributes an essay to this stunning volume
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World powers in the twentieth century by harriet ward a good introduction to this period for modern history degree or a level coursecover is slightly faded but inside is good can post email me for details will combine postage if more than one item bought
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Scrivener's button cabinet: a twentieth century clothing button collection, paperback by jackson, sandra, isbn , isbn-13 , like new used, free shipping in the us
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Scrivener's button cabinet: a twentieth century clothing button collection, paperback by jackson, sandra, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free shipping in the us
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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 umiddle eastern relationscontributors 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 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 eastsee 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 homethis 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 world
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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 centuriescomprehensive 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 see oxfam website for delivery information read morethese 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
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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
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Old chambers twentieth century dictionary used as in picture's ÂŁ1 non smoking household see other adds
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Oxfam bookshop canterbury time-images: alternative temporalities in twentieth century theory, history, and art: alternative temporalities in twentieth-century theory, literature, and art hardcover - by tyrus miller  cambridge scholars publishing; new edition (1 sept) a very good copy see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop brentwood christie's catalogue - twentieth century art 30 april lotsillustrated in colour141 pages with 2 fold-outssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Collectible glass buttons of twentieth century by barbara more **brand new**
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twentieth century tiles (shire library) by van hans lemmen **mint condition**
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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 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 explosionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon april , in paris, albert einstein and henri bergson publicly debated the nature of timebergson, 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 timethe 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 todayeinstein considered bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physicsoxfam 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 debate
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Coupled with the most newsworthy stories of the period and other relevant backdrop information, the book attempts an understanding of life in donegal during the 20th centuryeach locality has its own rich plethora of lore, tales anecdotes and historical datasee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop wallingford donegal is a county which is steeped in historythe book is an attempt to present a sampling of these stories
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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 centurythere were many important differences between, let us say, horace's art of poetry and the criticism of drthis 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 moreit 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 publicoxfam bookshop byres road the development of literary theory in the lifetime of coleridge was to a surprising extent the making of the modern critical mindjohnston, but there was also a discernible continuity in premises, aims and methods
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