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The diamond sutra is a stunning book for anyone curious about the earliest origins of printing and the sacred foundations of buddhismthe book extensively discusses the content of the sutra and also describes the invention of paper in china and the origins of far eastern printingthis beautifully designed book, the first to focus solely on the diamond sutra, features a full-color reproduction of the work, along with an account of the discovery of the sutra by sir aurel stein in may in a hidden cave on the edge of the gobi desertthe diamond sutra was hidden for centuries in a cave in northwest china, and it was created from seven strips of yellow-stained paper that were printed from carved wooden blocks and pasted together to form a scroll over five meters longmade in 868 ad and written in chinese, the text contains a significant dialogue on perception, and is one of the most important sacred works of the buddhist faithoxfam shop burleigh street the buddhist text known as the diamond sutra is believed to be the oldest surviving printed book in the worldit reveals how the sutra was originally made and the conservation work that the british library employs to preserve itsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe oldest dated example of wood block printing, produced some six hundred years before gutenberg's movable type printing in europe, it is clearly the product of a mature printing industry in china
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Buy and read dianetics: the modern science of mental health by llearn to control your reactive mindavailable at your local church of scientology, 134a high street, poole, bh15 1dnron hubbard it contains discoveries heralded as greater than the wheel or fireit's the source of your nightmares, unreasonable fears, upsets and any insecuritythe unconscious, subconscious or reactive mind underlies and enslaves man(click to reveal full phone number)
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This updated version also encompasses greater integration of the information on evolution and crop originsoxfam bookshop wallingford this unique volume combines discussion of plant evolution with that of crop originsthe first edition was published in by prentice-hall, and has now been fully revised to reflect recent advancessee oxfam website for delivery information read morea description of the process of evolution in native and cultivated populations of plants is incorporated, plus a review of when and where major crops were domesticated and discussions of the subsequent development of crops over time
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Fun da mental – with intent to pervert the cause of injustice! (tracks from the forthcoming album) – 12” vinyl record promo sampler ?– nation records ?– fdm 3, mantra recordings ?– fdm 3 outer sleeve: very good disc: looks: very good plus labels: excellent – very good label / cat noplease don’t hesitate to ask any questions, emy categories are: fair - good - very good - very good plus - excellent – near mint – still sealed happy to post it to you in a professional record mailer, just let me know the location you want it posted to for a quoteif you have any questions about catalogue numbers/ labels/matrix numbers or require more photos, please do get in touchthanks for looking, oohh and do take a look at my other itemsnation records ?– fdm 3, mantra recordings ?– fdm please note that my condition comments are not professional grading, just my opinion
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Fun da mental – with intent to pervert the cause of injustice! (tracks from the forthcoming album) – 12” vinyl record promo sampler– nation records– fdm 3, mantra recordings– fdm 3 outer sleeve: very good disc: looks: very good plus labels: excellent – very good label / cat noplease don’t hesitate to ask any questions, emy categories are: fair - good - very good - very good plus - excellent – near mint – still sealed happy to post it to you in a professional record mailer, just let me know the location you want it posted to for a quoteif you have any questions about catalogue numbers/ labels/matrix numbers or require more photos, please do get in touchthanks for looking, oohh and do take a look at my other itemsnation records ?– fdm 3, mantra recordings ?– fdm please note that my condition comments are not professional grading, just my opinion
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mental toughness for golf - the minds of winnersfree collectioncan be delivered for additional charge
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The archaeology of mind neuroevolutionary origins of human emotions by jaak panksepp (hardback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Oxfam shop fulwood road first published in , this is an exercise in humorous nonsense, rich in wordplay and absurd situations, in the tradition of lewis carroll's alice's adventures in wonderlandthis edition, with illustrations by harry furniss and an introduction by gillian avery, published in in the series 'gollancz revivals'see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The title is origins of the cold warthe sleeve condition is newbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for salefor example: idzthe item format is a book paperback
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The title is origins of the first world warbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for sale condition newthe sleeve condition is newfor example: idzthe item format is a book paperback
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Oxfam shop mutley plain an abbreviated version of the "australian national dictionary", which explores the origins of australian words and phrasesthis reference work contains almost as many headwords as the full dictionary, but fewer collocationscondition is very good but with some wear to the corners of the dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam books & music perth the flowerers the origins and history of ayrshire needlework, m h swain, w & chambers ltd london and edinburgh see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This is a clean edition with some slight shelf wear on the spinealthough there is nothing new in questioning the supposed neutrality and scientific rigour of geographical lines, which legitimise frontiers as containers of those ideologies linked to the territoriality of the nation-state, various recent developments have pointed to the urgency of finding new ways to locate or map an increasing number of intermediate spaces arising from the hybridisation, superimposition, and crossing of peoples flowing between more stable territoriesoxfam books & music islington proclaimed in by swedish artists carl michael von hausswolff and leif elggren, the kingdoms of elgaland-vargaland (krev) consist of all border territories: geographical, mental, and digital see oxfam website for delivery information read morewith contributions by hans-ulrich obrist, magali arriola, adrian notz, and hkan nilssoninside images are in colour and black and white documenting the political and geographical impact of borders through photography and mixed media
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He regards many different mental phenomena based on comparison (such as analogies, metaphors, parables, allegories, jokes, identification, role-playing, acting, personification, anthropomorphism etcit lays out koestler's attempt to develop an elaborate general theory of human creativityone or two underlinings in pen; one or two marginal annotations in pencil - otherwise clean/intacthence low price for this item), as special cases of "bisociation"oxfam bookshop newport a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the artssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreunclipped d/j is tatty with a number of tears around the edgesfirst published in ; this is the scarcer danube edition, with a new preface by the authorfrom describing and comparing many different examples of invention and discovery, koestler concludes that they all share a common pattern which he terms "bisociation" - a blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated matrices of thought into a new matrix of meaning by way of a process involving comparison, abstraction and categorisation, analogies and metaphors
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It is in the main a personal and moving narrative of a mother looking to help her son avoid such a lifelong sentence of medication whilst trying to research holistic resources and alternative approaches for treatment at the same time as negotiating the vagaries of the current mental health system this is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in psychosis; psychosis which still remains the greatest taboo in society today, together with its implicit diagnosis of a lifelong sentence of medication and no cureoxfam books & music wells internally a very good clean copy of this paperback bookit is often a tale of despair and frustration, yet also gives a compassionate voicetranspersonal and transgenerational psychotherapeutic insights back up the personal narrativeits hypothesis is that if we cannot understand our own unconscious responses how can we understand those of our loved ones in psychotic episodes? see oxfam website for delivery information read more there is also a mark on the front of the bottom edgeit includes an accessible inquiry into how unconscious forces influence our mind, our bodies and the entire family system the cover has a few marks and bows away from the book
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Covering all key areas of human experience, they apply the principles of tibetan buddhism to everyday problems and reveal how one can find balance and complete spiritual and mental freedomcutler's western perspectivethe art of happiness is a highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the dalai lama's eastern spiritual tradition with dr howard csee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop pershore in this unique and important book, one of the world's great spiritual leaders offers his practical wisdom and advice on how we can overcome everyday human problems and achieve lasting happinessfor the many who wish to understand more about the dalai lama's approach to living, there has never been a book which brings his beliefs so vividly into the real world
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Boreham wood's origins are mistier, but technology brought massive change and development with the coming of the railway in , and again, when cinema created britain's hollywood in this pleasant parishsigned by stephen castleidlestre and borham were much influenced by the great abbey of st albans, and indeed by alban's martyrdom and the roman muncipium of verulamium, so that the area's past is inextricably entwined with the great and the good of times ancient and laterthe book of elstree & boreham wood brings them all to life, recapturing the history of these two places, in a fluent and considered narrative and very many fascinating picturesvery minor marks to dj otherwise clean and bright throughoutcondition: as newuntil recently, medieval elstree had survived largely intact, but post-war reconstruction brought considerable mutilationnot long after the normans came, there was a flourishing settlement at elstree hillsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehappily, a few fine late medieval buildings escaped the developer's insensitive eyeoxfam books & music hereford signed limited subscriber edition, numbered 44the hills and valleys of this busy corner of herts have been home to people for some years, and the romans chose elstree hill as a major tile-manufacturing centrehere are the people behind that past - edward de kendale, adam scippe, thomas newchapman and agnes, his wife; sir anthony denny and rev canon eales; george byng and wortley-montagu; murderers thurtell and hunt; macready the great actor; burton the great explorer and the photographer wellington; and of course, the legendary giants of british cinema - men like rank, danziger, balcon and blattner
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Using archival sources, forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among american antistatists and british egalitariansfine unclipped dust-wrapperin the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war, rawls's a theory of justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophyshe traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the s and '70s and beyondin this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, katrina forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism-a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state-became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar united states and britainthese thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their critics"-michael eric dyson, new york times a history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by john rawls's a theory of justicein the shadow of justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of john rawlsoxfam bookshop cotham hill black boards with gold-embossed spine which is unbrokenpages are clean and tight with no tears, bumps, or nicksin these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right-from the new international economic order to the rise of the new rightrecasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, in the shadow of justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limitssee oxfam website for delivery information read more "a forceful, encyclopedic study
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Yoga was created as a science for liberation, but in modern times it is used by many to improve physical and mental health, helping us become more productive at work, more caring in relationships, more responsible contributors to society, and better inhabitants of this planeteddie stern's one simple thing: a new look at the science of yoga and how it can transform your life explains from both a yogic and a scientific perspective how the human nervous system is wiredon the front cover and spine there is some signs of wear to the dust jacketoxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditioninternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreif yoga does accomplish all that-as many practitioners report-how exactly does yoga do it? how does yoga work? believe it or not, the answers lie in how the human body and mind functionit describes the mechanics taking place beneath the surface of our bodies and shows how we can consciously use yogic practices to direct and change our lives in positive ways
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Text block is clean and binding solidhe shows how the cult of this particular saint developed, firstly, as an expression of sienese civil religion; secondly, as a focus for italian civil religion; and finally into an expression of european civil religionvery good black cloth" see oxfam website for delivery information read moregerald parsons argues that the cult of catherine of siena constitutes a remarkable example of the cult of a particular saint which, across more than six centuries, has been the vehicle for an evolving sequence of civil religious rituals and meanings"this book examines the origins, development and history of the cult of saint catherine of sienaoxfam bookshop stirling very good gloss illustrated dust jacket, crease along top edgeinstead of the predominantly devotional - and frequently essentially hagiographical - approach of much of the literature on catherine of siena, parsons examines the significance of her cult from the perspective of civil religion and the social history of religion
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Drawing primarily upon the archaeological record, and supported by ethnographic, linguistic and historical evidence, the authors trace the origins and development of culture in india and pakistan from its earliest roots in palaeolithic times, through the rise and disintegration of the great indus civilization to the emergence of regional cultures, and the arrival and spread of indo-aryan speaking peoplescambridge world archeologyoffering an original and stimulating perspective on the archaeology of the subcontinent, the rise of civilization in india and pakistan will be invaluable to students of south asian culture and early historyin the rise of civilization in india and pakistan the authors have completely revised and rewritten their earlier work to present an integrated and dynamic account of human culture in south asiathey conclude with the early buddhist period and the appearance of city states right across pakistan and north india, establishing the pattern of subcontinental unity and regional diversity that was to characterize the country henceforwardit will also appeal to anyone interested in historical geography, world prehistory and archaeology in generalsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop leeds 379ppthe authors have made every attempt to incorporate the results of the most recent research and their book is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and line diagramsmany spectacular discoveries of archaeological significance have been made in the indian subcontinent since the first appearance of raymond and bridget allchin's book the birth of indian civilization, for long the most authoritative and widely read text on its subjectadvances in related fields, particularly in geomorphology, palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology, have also radically altered our picture of the emergence of indian civilisation
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The contributors-whose perspectives range from that of fsm leader mario savio to university of california president clark kerr--shed new light on such issues as the origins of the fsm in the civil rights movement, the political tensions within the fsm, the day-to-day dynamics of the protest movement, the role of the berkeley faculty and its various factions, the trial of the arrested students, and the virtually unknown "little free speech movement ofoxfam shop bishop's stortford this is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on berkeley's celebrated free speech movement (fsm) ofdrawing from the experiences of many movement veterans this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent history of american higher educationsee oxfam website for delivery information read more" this 1st edition paperback copy is very good condition
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Featuring 45 chapters from an expert team of contributors from around the world, the bipolar book delves deep into the origins of the disorder and how it informs clinical practice today by focusing on such topics as bipolar disorder occurring in special populations, stigmatization of the disease, the role genetics play, postmortem studies, psychotherapy, treatments and moreedited by a team of experts in the field, the bipolar book: history, neurobiology, and treatment is a testament and guide to diagnosing and treating this exceedingly complex, highly prevalent diseasehb as new see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop balham as a major mainstay of clinical focus and research today, bipolar disorder affects millions of individuals across the globe with its extreme and erratic shifts of mood, thinking and behaviordesigned to be the definitive reference volume for clinicians, students and researchers, aysegĂĽl yildiz, pedro ruiz and charles nemeroff present the bipolar book as a "must have" for those caregivers who routinely deal with this devastating disease
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Rosario villari's account of the background to this revolt, first published in and now at last available in english, has established itself as essential reading for all those interested in the origins and character of these seventeenth-century revoltsoxfam bookshop wallingford the revolt of naples in was one of several contemporaneous revolts and revolutions which have been grouped together by historians as manifestations of a "general crisis of the seventeenth century"Â concentrating not on the city of naples itself but on the countryside, it has new and important things to say about landlord-peasant relations, rural banditry, and the workings of spanish rule in southern italysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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As a result, our notions about the trojan war, the foundation of rome, the origins of the greek alphabet, and the golden age of solomon all have to be reexamined, revolutionizing our view of the ancient worldthe dates for the near east and mediterranean are derived from the highly regarded chronology of ancient egyptoxfam shop lytham the old world has confronted archaeologists with many riddles, perhaps the most tantalizing of which is the dark age, an economic and cultural recession so devastating that it is supposed to have lasted for 400 years, from to 800 bcpeter james and his team ask whether those dates might have been miscalculated" their discoveries lead to a questioning of the so-called dark age and the purposes which belief in it has servedin this intricate piece of scholarly detective work, the authors propose a pioneering theoryin centuries of darkness, a group of archaeologists presents a controversial challenge to this claimsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredeciphering the clues from papyri and pottery, they search layer by layer through the excavated treasures of a vast area from spain to france and from denmark to the sudan, until they reach egypt - where they unearth 250 years of "ghost history
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Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback ridingbut who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even nazis seeking the roots of the aryan racethe horse, the wheel, and language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original indo-european speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilizationthe horse, the wheel, and language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the indo-european languages and english--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the pasthe explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social changelinking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, david anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of proto-indo-european, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchangeoxfam books & music lichfield roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as proto-indo-europeansee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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In order to get back home, diana and her new friends steve trevor and etta candy must head into the war zone and find the nazi agent known as the duke of deception, who wields a powerful artifact that belongs to hippolytabut the balance is upset when hippolyta is granted what no immortal may have: a child, given life from the clay of the islandbut when a man from the outside world is brought to themyscira as part of a conspiracy to overthrow its queen, diana will risk everything to save his innocent lifeshe is the princess diana, who alone can sense the evil that is infesting the amazon's homeand lose everything in the processand in order to defeat this powerful enemy, the princess of peace must become the hero she was meant to beoxfam books & music perth the beginning of a legend! on the hidden island of themyscira, the amazons, led by queen hippolyta, live in a kingdom of peace, protected by the godssee oxfam website for delivery information read moresoon, the amazon princess finds herself in a world she never knew existed-america, a land of untold wonders that also finds itself threatened by a great war abroadshe must become wonder woman! with gorgeous art, a period setting and contemporary flair, writer/artist renae de liz (the last unicorn), with help from artist ray dillon (noble causes), stunningly retells the origin of the greatest superheroine the world has ever known! collects the legend of wonder woman 1-9
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The origins of the works are explored, and annotations to each piece seek to assist the modern readeroxfam bookshop victoria the complete works of evelyn waugh offers the first scholarly edition of waugh's work, bringing together all of his extant writings and graphic art: novels, biographies, travel writing, short fiction, essays, articles, reportage, reviews, poems, juvenilia, parerga, drawings, and designsthe edition's general editor is alexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume personal writings sequencelong interred in fashion magazines, popular newspapers, sober journals, undergraduate reviews, and bbc archives, 110 of the 170 pieces in the volume have never before been reprintedoriginal texts, so easily distorted in the production process, have been established as far as possible using manuscript and other controlsalexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson, is editing a twelve-volume personal writings sequence for the series, intercalating over letters with the complete, unexpurgated diariesno other edition of a british novelist has been undertaken on this scaleonly 15% of waugh's letters have previously been publishedfiction and non-fiction volumes will also contain a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variantswaugh was 19 when his first oxford review appeared, 31 when the spectator printed his last review ofthe volume embraces university journalism; essays from waugh's years of drift after oxford; forcefully emphatic articles and contrasting sophisticated reviews written for the metropolitan press from to (the most active and enterprising years of waugh's career); reports for three newspapers of a coronation in abyssinia and essays for the times on the condition of ethiopia and on british policy in arabiaseveral typescripts of articles and reviews are published here for the first time, as are a larger number of unsigned pieces never before identified as waugh'swaughs works are placed in their rich literary and historical context, enabling readers to appreciate for the first time the range and complexity of his thinking and artistic practice, and linking this to the work of his contemporaries in britain, america and europefinally, in early waugh travelled for three months in remote british guiana, resulting in nine travel articles and a handful of dust, acclaimed as one of the most distinguished novels of the centurythis is a young writer's book, and the always lucid articles and reviews it presents read as fresh and lively, as challenging and opinionated, as the day they first appearedthis volume is part of the complete works of evelyn waugh critical edition, which brings together all waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variantssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe complete works will revolutionize waugh studies, and offer new insights for twentieth-century literary and cultural studies generallythis first volume of evelyn waugh's articles, essays, and reviews contains every traceable piece of journalism that research could uncover written by waugh between january , when he first went up to oxford, and december , when he had recently returned from british guiana and was enjoying the runaway success of a handful of dustall volumes will be beautifully produced, and have comprehensive introductions and detailed annotation
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The art of looking sideways is a fascinating and entertaining insight into fletcher's thoughts on the mental process of creativity and designbook is in good condition with only a slight fading to the red on teh spinewritten by alan fletcher, one of the founding partners of the highly respected pentgram design group
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It covers the origins of mankind right through to the turmoil of the 21st centuryrrp ÂŁ75 read morethe ultimate work of historical referenceit is in immaculate condition with slipcaseseventh edition by richard overywith over 600 maps and charts and internet links throughout, it's pages bring history to life
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