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Drawing on extensive knowledge of the scientific literature on working memory and related topics, carruthers builds an argument that challenges the central assumptions of many philosopherswritten with his usual clarity and directness, the centered mind will be essential reading for all philosophers and cognitive scientists interested in the nature of human thought processestop corner is slightly bent but book is otherwise as newin addition to arguing that non-sensory propositional attitudes are never conscious, he also shows that they are never under direct intentional controloxfam bookshop preston the centered mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousnessthey are never themselves consciousthis system has been much studied by cognitive scientistshowever, our amodal (non-sensory) propositional attitudes are never actually among the contents of this stream of conscious reflectionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethus one might hear oneself as judging, in inner speech, that it is time to go home, for examplepeter carruthers argues that conscious thought is always sensory-based, relying on the resources of the working-memory systemit enables sensory images to be sustained and manipulated through attentional signals directed at midlevel sensory areas of the brainour beliefs, goals, and decisions are only ever active in the background of consciousness, working behind the scenes to select the sensory-based imagery that occurs in working memorywhen abstract conceptual representations are bound into these images, we consciously experience ourselves as making judgments or arriving at decisions
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From aristotle to wittgenstein, from democritus to derrida, this series provides a concise survey of philosophers ancient and modern
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Oxfam shop moortown british philosophers - kenneth matthews, (britain in pictures series) 1st edition see oxfam website for delivery information read moreused hardcover book in fair conditionsome wear to dust jacket and damage to jacket spine that has been fixed with tape8 colour plates and 14 b/w illustrationsstructural damage to spine, with binding partially detached from cover but still intact
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One of his arms is not connected to the object he is holdingthe casting looks goodalso referred to as a philosopher's lampi believe moving his arms would release the value & produce a self igniting flameit would have been originally owned by someone extremely wealthythe antique figure is from the top of a rare döbereiner's lamp of the 19th century, "a döbereiner's lamp is a lighter invented by the german chemist johann döbereiner in & based on the fürstenberger lighterit works by the action of sulphuric acid on zinc producing hydrogen, which ignites when the gas jet passes over finely divided platinuma jet of hydrogen would then be released from his mouth & burst into a flameit would make a great addition to any collectionboth his arms liftthis was one of the first methods of producing an instant flame & one of the earliest gas lights ever inventedpostage includes being signed forit was in production until abouthe has a long moustache & pointed hat" this charming & tactile lighter is made of solid brass with a nice patinaapprox 2 1/2" tall from the bottom of the screw thread to the top of his hatthe hole under the screw would allow the hydrogen gas to flow once the valve is openeda very charming, rare & tactile itemthe ignition would have been catalysed by platinum metalhe is kneeling down with his legs crossed**postage within the uplease study the images, as they also form part of the description & please also do your own research can post at extra costonly** read morethe item is in its expected condition for its agethe gas jet in his mouth freely unscrews
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De pauw was one of the philosophers and contributed to the encyclopedia supplementare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe benedictine, domthe replica by de pauw, is published in the third volumethis work has been highly controversialplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitewith an essay on america & the americans, by don pernety london: volumes 1 and 2; berlin:- volume 3 octavo: xxii -326pp,-tables-24 pp-326pp-tables-322 pp,-256pp, full-leather vintage binding, smooth spine adorned with small stamps, used but decent confitionsee photos the first three-volume edition, which contains the response to the reviews of the first edition in 2 volume, was published in berlin in , an anti-colonial polemic in which de pauw (), claimed that anthropological and climatic factors on the american continent would contribute to the racial degeneration of the american colonies and predicted that europeans would not would not be able to adaptalthough pauw's argument seems outdated, if not reprehensible, his book is an interesting first study of the effects of colonialism and the nature of indians and african americanshe considered the indigenous population to be physically and morally weakrecherches philosophiques sur les américains, ou mémoires intéressants pour servir à l'histoire de l'espèce humainepernety () responded with his dissertation on america and the americans, defending the reputation of the american indiansinside in good conditionit is also interesting as a study of the beginning of anthropology and demography in the french enlightenmentour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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He examines the works of kant, burke, wollstonecraft, coleridge, wordsworth, shelley, and many other writers and philosophers of the periodbritish romanticism and the critique of political reason, hardcover by michael, timothy, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk author timothy michael gives readers an in-depth examination of the political philosophy that dominated britain and france in the romantic periodthe author is a faculty member of lincoln college and university of oxford in the ukportland, or ()annotation © ringgold, inche argues over the book's eight chapters that a great deal of the period’s literary output takes the form of a critique of reason, its political value, and the types of knowledge attainable through it
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When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in pavia, it was to the greek philosophers that he turnedwatts translation, with a preface by brian kenabook and slipcase are in excellent conditionit is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' philosophythis folio edition is the vher instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment the consolation was written in the period leading up to his brutal executionoxfam bookshop carlisle boethius was an eminent public figure under the gothic emperor theodoric, and an exceptional greek scholarsee oxfam website for delivery information read more the consolation was extremely popular throughout medieval europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of chaucer and dante
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From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to google maps and beyond, simon garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history, with pocket maps of dragons, mars, murders and more, with plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the routeon the map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're goingoxfam bookshop cheltenham maps fascinate usthey chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our storiesif maps be the fuel of wanderlust, read onsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis compelling narratives range from the quest to create the perfect globe to the challenges of mapping africa and antarctica, from spellbinding treasure maps to the naming of america, from ordnance survey to the mapping of monopoly and skyrim, and from rare map dealers to cartographic fraudsen route, there are 'pocket map' tales on dragons and undergrounds, a nineteenth century murder map, the research conducted on the different ways that men and women approach a map, and an explanation of the curious long-term cartographic role played by animals" from the foreword by dava sobel, author of longitude
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One of the most influential french philosophers to have emerged from the s, balibar brings a lifetime of study and expertise to create a brilliantly concise portrait of marx that will initiate the student and intrigue the scholarhe examines all the key areas of marx's writings, including his early works, the communist manifesto, the german ideology and capital, explaining their wider historical and theoretical contextmaking clear such concepts as class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism and the state, balibar includes brief yet incisive biographical studies of key marxists such as althusser, gramsci, engels and leninthe philosophy of marx will become the standard guide to marx's thoughtsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lichfield providing a lucid and accessible introduction to marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, etienne balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand
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This book also discloses ways in which shakespeare's plays offer both pious and irreverent interpretations of the scriptures comparable to those presented by his contemporary writers, artists, philosophers and politiciansdespite the presence of hundreds of biblical allusions in shakespeare, this is the first book to explore the pattern and significance of those references in relation to a selection of his greatest playsit reveals the bible as a rich source for shakespeare's uses of myth, history, comedy and tragedy, his techniques of staging, and his ways of characterizing rulers, magicians and teachers in the image of the bible's multifaceted godeach book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subjectthough its subject matter and style appeal to a broad audience, this book is grounded in recent scholarship in shakespeare and biblical studiesits intertextual readings are framed by descriptions of the historical circumstances of each work's composition and reception and by an emergent theory of allusion as a principle of creation and understandingnotes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden researchsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston oxford university press, , paperback like new oxford shakespeare topics provides students and teachers with short books on important aspects of shakespeare criticism and scholarshipafter an opening chapter comparing the bible as a fragmented yet unified collection of 46 books with the fragmented yet unified first folio collection of shakespeare's 36 plays, each of the following six chapters matches a book of the bible with a representative play: the creation myth of genesis with the first play in the folio, the tempest, the historical epic of exodus with henry v, the tragedy of job with king lear, the tragicomedy of the gospel of matthew with measure for measure, the homiletic disputation of paul's epistle to the romans with the merchant of venice, and the apocalyptic masque of the book of revelation with the tempest again
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Oxford university press now presents the most authoritative and comprehensive guide ever published to the philosophy of mindthe fifth section looks at epistemic issues, in particular regarding knowledge of one's own and other mindsthe volume concludes with a section on self, personhood, and agencyoxfam bookshop preston the study of the mind has always been one of the main preoccupations of philosophers, and has been a booming area of research in recent decades, with remarkable advances in psychology and neurosciencean outstanding international team of contributors offer 45 specially written critical surveys of a wide range of topics relating to the mindthe oxford handbook of philosophy of mind will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and scholars of philosophy, and also for researchers in neighbouring disciplines seeking a high-level survey of the state of the art in this flourishing fieldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe third section focuses on the much-debated subjects of content and intentionalitythe first two sections cover the place of the mind in the natural world: its ontological status, how it fits into the causal fabric of the universe, and the nature of consciousnessthe fourth section examines a variety of mental capacities, including memory, imagination, and emotion
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Tsong-kha-pa was a prolific writer and one of tibet's greatest philosophersoxfam bookshop bath a hardback in fine conditionthis is volume three of a classic of tibetan buddhismthis third volume contains a presentation of the two most important topics to be found in the great treatise: meditation serenity (samatha) and supramundane insight into the nature of reality (vipasyana)dust jacket in very good conditionthe great treatise on the stages of the path to enlightenment is his most famous workboards in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe pages are clean and tight
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Oxfam bookshop preston ludwig wittgenstein () is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessiblethe contributors illuminate the character of the whole body of work by keeping a tight focus on some key topics: the style of the philosophy, the conception of grammar contained in it, rule-following, convention, logical necessity, the self, and what wittgenstein called, in a famous phrase, 'forms of life'see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe essays in this volume address central themes in wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematicsthey chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between its different stages
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Beautifully written and carefully selected, each piece reveals the impact of wittgenstein's teachings, shedding light on the friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th centurythrough notes on conversations with wittgenstein, letters to a student of philosophy and correspondence of almost 30 years with rush rhees, drury gives shape to what he had learned from wittgensteinalongside a foreword by monk and an introduction presenting a new biography of drury, analysing the relationship between him and wittgenstein, this collection features previously unpublished archival sourcessee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether discussing philosophy, simone weil or the power of hypnosis, he makes fascinating excursions into the bearing of wittgenstein's thought on philosophy and the practice of medicine and psychiatrythe subsequent course of drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teachercentral to the collection is the danger of words, the text described by ray monk as 'the most truly wittgensteinian book published by any of wittgenstein's students'the selected writings of maurice o'connor drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicineoxfam bookshop preston maurice o'connor drury was among wittgenstein's first students after his return to cambridge in
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Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interactionwhy does time seem to speed up with age? what is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles?   award winning author and mathematician joseph mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us with a narrative punctuated by personal stories of time's effects on truck drivers, olympic racers, prisoners, and clockmakers, mazur's journey is filled with fascinating insights into how our technologies, our bodies, and our attitudes can change our perceptionsthe clock mirage presents an innovative perspective that will force us to rethink our relationship with time, and how best to use itultimately, time reveals itself as something that rides on the rhythms of our minds"-john carey, sunday times (london)a tour of clocks throughout the centuries-from the sandglass to the telomere-to reveal the physical, biological, and social nature of time what is time? this question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of yearsskilfully writtenreaders learn that, as a consequence of time's personal nature, a forty eight hour journey on the space shuttle can feel shorter than a six hour trip on the soyuz capsule, that the amondawa of the amazon do not have ages, and that time speeds up with fever and slows down when we feel in dangersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music durham named one of book riot's six great nonfiction books about time  " mind-stretching book
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Lovely period worksare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiideologically, this book is of exceptional importance, in that it is at the origin of european anti-colonialism, exploiting to the utmost a certain misguided awareness of the conquest of the americas, which, more than two centuries later, continues to permeate mentalities and influence behaviourcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availabledelivery service provided by chronopost within a few daysplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethis is indeed how the "philosophers" understood this history, to which they reserved a flattering reception; this is how the parliaments and the clergy took it: the work was banned and the author was forced into exile in switzerland and prussia ( to )guillaume-thomas raynal - histoire philosophique et politique des etablissements et du commerce des européens - - volumes iii & iv - pagesinsides in very good condition, lovely headbands, marbled endpapers, frontispiece engravings, geographic maps on fold-out platesbindings in good condition, works in their period brown full leather bindings, covers and spines in good condition, light friction from use, marbled edges, adorned spines, gilded titling on morocco labels, gilded volume numbersour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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It also introduces you to some of the great names in the field of paradoxes, from ancient greek philosophers to albert einstein see oxfam website for delivery information read moreideal gift welcome to the perplexing world of the paradoxicaloxfam bookshop brighton brand newpacked with thought experiments, real-life examples, and exercises for you to try, 'paradoxes' is a book that will challenge the way you perceive everything around youdivided into eight mind-bending chapters, it takes you on a breathtaking journey from the counter-intuitive to the downright absurd'paradoxes' unveils how weird the world of thought can beon the way it will introduce you to topics suc as impossible objects, how to expect the unexpected, and the trouble with time travel
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablelightly rubbed binding, fresh inside, comments in pencil on the first endpaper pages, a nice copyla guerre des dieux, poème en 10 chants, : poem condemned by a decree of 27 june but which was often reprinted clandestinelyplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteit was in , at the end of an 18th century fertile with philosophical and literary upheavals, that "la guerre des dieux anciens et modernes" by evariste de parny was publishedsecond edition, revised and corrected, of the provocative and quickly censored masterpiece of the pre-romantic reunionese poet evariste parnyévariste désiré de forges, knight then viscount of parny, was a french poet born on 6 february in saint-paul de l'île bourbon (now reunion island), and died on 5 december in paris\t didot, an vii ()our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeheir to the philosophers, in particular voltaire, who had welcomed him by calling him "my dear tibulle" in , parny was now part of the anti-christian literary movement and pronounced, in the style of a theomachic fable in which pagan deities enter into a rivalry of power against the central figures of christianity, a relentless satire of the clerical world (the debauchery of the nuns, the hypocritical bawdiness of the religious, the simony of the popes) and a sharp criticism of some dogmas, in particular the doctrines of the trinity and the virginity of mary
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the ukthis will be a wonderfully stimulating read and act as an invaluable guide as to what is truly important in living life, whether facing success, failure, justice, wrong, love, loss or any of the other profound experience life throws outits aim is not to persuade readers to accept one particular philosophical point of view or theory, but to help us consider the wonderful range of insights which can be drawn from an immeasurably rich history of philosophical thoughtsee oxfam website for delivery information read moregrayling's 'the last word' column in the guardiana life truly worth living is one that is informed and considered so a degree of philosophical insight into the inevitabilities of the human condition is inherently important and such an approach will help us to deal with real personal dilemmasthinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store does not have to be a despondent experience, but rather can be enlightening and upliftingconcepts covered include courage, love, betrayal, ambition, cruelty, wisdom, passion, beauty and deaththis book is an accessible, lively and thought-provoking series of linked commentaries, based on a
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The oracle of the new philosophers as a continuation and clarification of the works of m de voltaire: rare first edition collectors item read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiworks of m de voltaire[rescripted]: chaumeix a j - villefranche chez philatte - hardback - 349 pages - 17 cm x 11 cmbook is in good condition firm binding clean contents red page ends marbled end paperscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease 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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Queens of the stone age - avon 3:22queens of the stone age - if only 3:20queens of the stone age - regular john 4:35queens of the stone age - you would know 4:16queens of the stone age - walkin' on the sidewalks 5:03
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Appropriatly levinas pursues this project by discussing the work of others, of philosophers among his contemporaries who bring out and champion a thought that realizes and sustains the proximity of person to personthis book brings together fourteen pieces from a large body of uncollected essayshe is widely considered to be one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century
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Millot was accepted by the académie française in where d'alembert reassured the philosophers about choosing an abbot by telling them: "he is a priest only by his habit"year: full leather bindings and insides in good condition albeit with some signs of friction on the crowns and corners of the bindingsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehaving no confidence in any system of chronology, millot limited himself to indicating the main erasauthor: abbé millot publisher: la société typographique in lausanne9 complete volumesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is doneoxfam bookshop preston this is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodologysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe entries in the second part address topics in philosophical methodology, such as intuitions, conceptual analysis, and transcendental argumentsthe first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical methodology (including logical empiricism, phenomenology, and ordinary language philosophy)the third part of the book is devoted to essays about the interconnections between philosophy and neighbouring fields, including those of mathematics, psychology, literature and film, and neuroscience
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International contributors include historians, museum specialists, urban planners, philosophers and sociologistspublished with the support of the king boudewijn foundation and the national lotterya unique collection of essays that represent the thinking that preceded the foundation of a major new museum in antwerpcontains several black and white illustrationsoxfam books & music wells this copy of this large softcover book is in excellent condition, clean with no markssee oxfam website for delivery information read more  written firstly in dutch and then, in the second half, in english
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Oxfam bookshop preston gareth evans, one of the most brilliant philosophers of his generation, died in at the age of thirty-fourthe work was edited for publication by john mcdowell, who contributes a prefacethe cover is faded by the sun, particularly on the spine, and there are some annotations on the title page, but the book is otherwise in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe had been working for many years on a book about reference, but did not complete it before his death
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen the cambridge descartes lexicon is the definitive reference source on rené descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all timeexamining the full range of descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thoughtthere are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, god, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, meditations on first philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countriespublished in first edition see oxfam website for delivery information read morecumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followers
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stone axe - rhinoceros 2:29stone axe - black widow 4:11stone axe - diamonds & fools 4:45stone axe - the skylah rae 5:16stone axe - sky is falling 3:08stone axe - riders of the night 3:28stone axe - riders of the night (live) 3:51
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Daniel gerould's landmark work êtheatre/theory/theatreê collects history's most influential eastern and western dramatic theorists ä poets playwrights directors and philosophers ä whose ideas about theatre continue to shape its futureeach of gerould's introductory essays shows fascinating insight into both the life and the theory of the authorin complete texts and choice excerpts spanning centuries we see an ongoing dialogue and exchange of ideas between actors and directors like craig and meyerhold and writers such as nietzsche and yeatssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hove minor cover wear, appears unreadavailable for the first time in paperback!þfrom aristotle's êpoeticsê to vaclav havel the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversyfrom horace to soyinka corneille to brecht this is an indispensable compendium of the greatest dramatic theory ever written
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stone roses - the stone rosestitle:stone roses - the stone rosesall of our paper waste is recycled within the uk and turned into corrugated cardboardyour item will be previously owned but still in great conditionartist:stone roses
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