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A successful travel journalist, bridget has ambitions to turn her quirky relationship blog about the missing pieces of her heart into a booknicole dupré died leaving behind a bestselling novel and an incomplete sequelher best book yet!' heat, five star review 'a gorgeous, warm novel' adele parkswhen life feels like a puzzle, sometimes it's the small pieces that make up the bigger picturea beautifully written, heart-wrenching journey of love and loss' ok!  'poignant and lovely, warm and wise' milly johnson  'paige's writing is brilliant' mhairi mcfarlane 'i loved it' lindsey kelk 'interrupting my weekend away from twitter to say i've just finished the last piece of my heartbut after a spate of rejections from publishers, she accepts an alternative propositionjoin bridget on a journey to put her world back together'you'll laugh, you'll cry and be hooked from page onebravo' owlsandstags '5 of 5 stars to the last piece of my heart by paige toon' overflowingklc 'i just finished the last piece of my heart and it was amazing!!! i love it so much!'livsescape praise for the one we fell in love with: 'you'll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted' marian keyes 'i blubbed, i laughed and i fell in lovetasked with finishing the book, bridget is thankful to have her foot in the publishing door, even if it means relocating to cornwall for the summer and answering to nicole's grieving husband, charlieoxfam shop colne road 'wonderfully heartfeltutterly heart-wrenching' giovanna fletcher see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Kolfin, 'tot uitpersing van tranen, de verbeelding van de hartstochten', in 'romeyn de hooghe, de verbeelding van de late gouden eeuw' (hplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitemost known for his graphic workfrom a series of wrestling scenes invented by the famous wrestler and wine merchant nicolaes petter who had great interest in classical greece and began to give wrestling lessons to other merchants in his wine shop on the prinsengracht in amsterdamthan returned to haarlem where he stayed the rest of his lifein a handpainted/guilded passe-partoutworked in paris with van der meulen and enjoyed great successreference: hollstein landwehr litthis series: ' klare onderrichte der voortreffelijcke worstel-konst, published in , is considered one of the most important books about the unarmed struggle of the periodetching by romeyn d'hooghe, important innovator of dutch printmakingcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableright wrestlerl lying on the ground and kicking the left of the other wrestler with his right leg, while pulling the latter towards the ground by his hairvan nierop et alhe itood for a renewal of print art and rejected the somewhat dull french style from the periodromeyn de hooghe () painter, engraver and sculptor of amsterdamour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storereceived patent of nobility from the king of polen in), zwolle/amsterdam, , ppexcellent good black inked impression on laid paper with no folds or tears; a few small stainsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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The book includes: - the background and scope of kungfumaintaining one's health and vitality and the healing of so-called incurable diseasesinteresting stories and legends of shaolinprofound concepts and difficult techniques are explained systematically with many illustrationsfor the first time ever, this inspiring book, written by an internationally acclaimed shaolin grandmaster, brings to you the crystallization of shaolin wisdom and practice spanning many centuriesbut kungfu is just one of the three treasures of shaolin, the other two being chi kung and zenform and combat applicationsoxfam bookshop holmfirth shaolin kungfu has been considered by many as the best martial art in the worldenergy training and mind trainingyet it is written in a language easy to understandsecrets of the masterstraditional chinese weaponszen and spiritual developmentno inscriptions see oxfam website for delivery information read moreprinciples and methods of force trainingits scope and depth is amazing, touching on, among many other things, poetry and enlightenment
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Oxfam books & music hereford skilfully interwoven with each other, theo aronson's accounts of the reigns of european royalty, abdications and exiles capture the scope and variety of what victoria used to call the royal mobever since the instant success of his first book the golden bees: the story of the bonapartes, theo aronson has steadily built up his reputation as an historical biographer specializing in the royal houses of europesee oxfam website for delivery information read more owing to a production fault, the book has not been trimmed square so that top & bottom of pages are not parallel to lines of printamong his many widely read books are napoleon and josephine: a love story; crowns in conflict: the triumph and the tragedy of european monarchy and the king in love: edward vii's mistresses
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Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its relation to other early epic and hesiodic poetry, its place in the development of a pan-hellenic consciousness, and attitudes to womenthe catalogue of women, ascribed to hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the godsin this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and receptionthe wider influence of the catalogue is considered in chapters on pindar and the lyric tradition, on hellenistic poetry, and on the poem's reception at romesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis collection provides a significant approach to the study of the catalogue
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Luminous emptiness is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious concepts, terms, and imagerythe entire world of our experience is constantly appearing and disappearing at every momentfremantle relates the symbolic world of the tibetan book of the dead to the experiences of everyday life, presenting the text not as a scripture for the dying, but as a guide for the livingover the years, it has been studied and cherished by buddhists and non-buddhists alikeluminous emptiness features in-depth explanations of: the tibetan buddhist notions of death and rebirth the meaning of the five energies and the five elements in tibetan buddhism the mental and physical experience of dying, according to the tibetan buddhist tradition see oxfam website for delivery information read morehere, fremantle, who worked closely with chögyam trungpa on the translation of the tibetan book of the dead (shambhala), brings the expertise of a lifetime of study to rendering this intriguing classic more accessible and meaningful to the livingaccording to the buddhist view, nothing is permanent or fixedusing vivid and dramatic imagery, the tibetan book of the dead presents the notion that most of us are living in a dream that will continue from lifetime to lifetime until we truly awaken by becoming enlightenedoxfam books & music beeston shambhala, , paperback good condition, some stains to front cover the tibetan book of the dead, a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of tibetan buddhism
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The 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 emotionoxfam 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 neuroscienceoxford university press now presents the most authoritative and comprehensive guide ever published to the philosophy of mindthe volume concludes with a section on self, personhood, and agencythe 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 fieldthe third section focuses on the much-debated subjects of content and intentionalitythe fifth section looks at epistemic issues, in particular regarding knowledge of one's own and other mindssee oxfam website for delivery information read morean outstanding international team of contributors offer 45 specially written critical surveys of a wide range of topics relating to the mind
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France's concerns that britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed louis de bougainville's voyage of exploration undertaken inreports on bougainville's reception there and on life in the island were to create wide interest and controversy in europehe returned home by way of the dutch east indies and the indian oceanhe then sailed to the samoan islands and on to vanuatu, as far as the great barrier reef, and north towards new guinea and the samoan islands making a number of discoveries and all the while leaving his name to a number of features, the best known of which are the island of bougainville and the bougainvillea flowerhe made a number of discoveries in the south west, but was too late to discover tahiti, where samuel wallis had preceded him by less than a yearafter handing over the colony he had established in the falkland islands to spain, he sailed through the still relatively unknown straits of magellan into the poorly charted south pacificsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is in very good condition with some fading to spine and minimal foxing to topalthough bougainville published an account of his voyage in , his original journal was published only in ; the present volume makes the latter text available for the first time in english translationoxfam shop haverfordwest the french entered the pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a spanish preserve until british navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid s
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Comthis book is a reproduction of an important historical workfind more at wwwthe writer was a member of the party and, as curator of anthropology in the field colum bian museum, was expected to examine and describe such archaeologic remains as happened to be encountered during the journeyarmour to accompany him in his steam yacht ituna on a voyage to mexicoforgotten books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copythree months were spent in that most interesting country, mainly in the states of yucatan, chiapas and oaxacaabout the publisherforgotten books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic bookssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebesides this a short paper treating of the geology, and particularly of the cenotes or natural wells of yucatan, will appear in the journal of geology of the university of chicagowe do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical worksin rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our editionthe following report, issued for convenience in two parts, is the resultoxfam bookshop wallingford excerpt from archaeological studies among the ancient cities of mexicoin december, , a number of gentlemen, representing different branches of scientific research, were invited by mr
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This book presents a wide-ranging summation of work in all the disciplines involvedthe oxford handbook of language evolution will be valued by everyone interested in one of the most productive and fascinating fields in natural and cognitive scienceoxfam bookshop preston in the oxford handbook of language evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the fieldresearch on language evolution has burgeoned over the last three decadesinterdisciplinary activity has produced fundamental advances in the understanding of language evolution and in the evolution of human andanimal communication more generallyit highlights the links between different lines of research, shows what has been achieved, and considers promising directions for the futuresee oxfam website for delivery information read moreits five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution; the prehistory of language; the development of a linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change
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Nor does gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the galapagos finches did for darwinbirds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as ovid, thomas hardy, kafka, thoreau and tas divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the skyoxfam bookshop knutsford in this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher graeme gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birdsthe song of the bird had given him a taste of paradise, where an instant is as a hundred years of earthly timewith the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, gibson has spent fifteen years collecting the literary and artistic forms our affinity for birds has taken over the centuriesfrom the book: "stevenson remembered the story of a monk who had been distracted from his copy-work by the song of a birdthey've been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they've been worshipped, eaten, feared and lovedbirds figure charmingly and tellingly in the work of such nature writers as gilbert white, peter matthiessen, farley mowat and barry lopezwhether as the christian dove, or quetzalcoatl the aztec plumed serpent or in plato s vision of the human soul growing wings and feathers, religion and philosophy have looked to birds as representatives of our better selves that part of us not bound to the earthsee oxfam website for delivery information read moregorgeously illustrated, woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, the bedside book of birds is for anyone who is aware of birds, and for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity has created to represent its soulhe went into the garden to listen more closely, and when he returned, after what he thought were only a few minutes, he discovered that a century had gone by, that his fellow monks were dead and his ink had turned to dustbirds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirationswas the same true of time in hell, stevenson asked himself
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The handbook will be a rich source of insight and stimulation for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the state of phenomenology todayoxfam bookshop preston the oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology presents twenty-eight essays by some of the leading figures in the field, and gives an authoritative overview of the type of work and range of topics found and discussed in contemporary phenomenologythe essays aim to articulate and develop original theoretical perspectivessome offer detailed analyses of concrete phenomena; others take a more comprehensive perspective and seek to outline and motivate the future direction of phenomenologyit is the definitive guide to what is currently going on in phenomenologysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit includes discussions of such diverse topics as intentionality, embodiment, perception, naturalism, temporality, self-consciousness, language, knowledge, ethics, politics, art and religion, and will make it clear that phenomenology, far from being a tradition of the past, is alive and in a position to make valuable contributions to contemporary thoughtsome of them are concerned with issues and questions typical and distinctive of phenomenological philosophy, while others address questions familiar to analytic philosophers, but do so with arguments and ideas taken from phenomenology
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Oxfam bookshop cotham hill first edition grey boards and spine with gilt embossed title to spine light shelf-wear to corners and top and bottom of spine but otherwise clean small marks to dust cover which is not price-clipped light bumps to edges of cover rough-cut pages are clean and bright with no marks, creases, or tears book and spine are bright and tight previous owner's pencil commentary to front end flap ("far outshines any since") consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, patanjali's yoga sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practicewhite brings to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations-and misappropriations-of the yoga sutra led to its revered place in popular culture todayvirtually forgotten in india for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the west, the yoga sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status-and translated into more than forty languages-only in the course of the past forty yearswhite retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down through its heyday in the seventh through eleventh centuries, its gradual fall into obscurity, and its modern resurgence since the nineteenth centuryas david gordon white demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrectfirst introduced to the west by the british orientalist henry thomas colebrooke, the yoga sutra was revived largely in europe and america, and predominantly in englishtracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, white's exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of india's past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Brown leather spine with gilt title to spinewhat they revealed stunned the worldthese were the gnostic gospels, alternative christian texts - poems, myths, philosophy and gospels - which challenge those of the new testament at every turnoxfam books & music lancaster in , thirteen papyrus books that had lain buried since the 4th century were discovered in an earthenware jar near nag hammadi, in upper egyptone text tells the story of the garden of eden from the serpent's point of view, while another casts god as partly feminineit is a miracle in itself that they survivedthe gospel of thomas records sayings of jesus unlike any we have ever heard; that of philip describes mary magdalene as christ's companion 'whom he loved more than all the disciples'the sacred writings of the nag hammadi library, the berlin gnostic codex and the codex tchacoscontained in brown slipcase see oxfam website for delivery information read moreprinted cloth boardsover years of neglect, however, was nothing compared to what happened to them upon discovery: the books were burned in an oven, confiscated and sold on the black market, before they were eventually decipheredxxviii and 724 pages including indexlyrical and powerful, there is no doubting the passion and devotion that created this poetry
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Whether 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 selected writings of maurice o'connor drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicinethrough 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 wittgensteincentral 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'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 centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston maurice o'connor drury was among wittgenstein's first students after his return to cambridge inalongside 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 sourcesthe subsequent course of drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacher
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' see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe excludes some poets he admires such as edmund blunden and walter de la mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic techniquemore likely than not, the original idea was toxfam bookshop cheltenham first published in february , just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth centurythis faber finds reissue restores that pristine selectionsince then three further editions by, in succession, anne ridler, donald hall and peter porter have been publishedeliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired onemichael roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within itphilip hobsbaum, in the oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry, says of the faber book of modern verse, 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the s' on the other hand, 'i have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and language' from the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with gerard manley hopkins' the wreck of the deutschland michael roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aimall took as their kernel the original selection by michael robertsyes, his purpose was tendentious
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After a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous and sensationalthe criminal conversation of mrs nortonis the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywhereten years older, he is a dull, violent and controlling lawyer but caroline is determined not to be a traditional wifecrowds are gathering at the court of common pleasfor the next thirty years caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated victorian society, helping to write the infant custody act (), and influenced the matrimonial causes (divorce) act () and the married women's property act (), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first timeoxfam bookshop cheltenham westminster, london, 22 juneafter years of simmering jealousy, norton accuses caroline and the prime minister of a 'criminal conversation' (adultery) precipitating 'the scandal of the century'angry and humiliated he cuts caroline off, as was his right under the law, refuses to let her see their three sons, seizes her manuscripts and letters, her clothes and jewels, and leaves her destitutepickwick' inthe pickwick papersher beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the prime minister, lord melbourneby her early twenties, caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic and outrageous flirtsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenorton is a laughing stockin westminster hall that day is a young charles dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalise the event as 'bardell vit is a fine, fresh morning that will become hot as the day progresseson trial is caroline sheridan, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been manoeuvred into marrying the honourable george norton when she was just nineteen
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It looks at how a common heroic ideology among rulers was based upon excellence, or arete, and also surveys dynastic ruling, where rule was in some sense shared within the family or clanprobing into ancient perspectives on the legitimacy and legality of rule, the title also explores the relationship between ruling and lawwith an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyrannyfinally, heroic rulers demonstrates that monarchy, which is generally thought to have disappeared before the end of the archaic period, remained a valid political option from the early iron age through to the hellenistic periodsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreheroic rulers examines reasons why both personal and clan-based rule was particularly unstable and its core tension with the competitive nature of greek society, so that the question of who had the most arete was an issue of debate both from within the ruling family and from other heroic aspirantslaw, personified as 'king' (nomos basileus), came to be seen as the ultimate source of sovereignty especially as expressed through the constitutional machinery of the city, and became an important balance and constraint for personal rule
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But the redeemers want cale back at any pricehis only hope of survival is to escape across the arid scablands to memphis, a city the opposite of the sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely godless, and deeply corruptimagine if phillip pullman's his dark materials met umberto eco's name of the rose"the sanctuary of the redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hopehe has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him thomas calefans of epic heroic fiction will love this serieshe is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure and neither is anyone elsemost of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the lord redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the one true faiththe sanctuary of the redeemers on shotover scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuaryhe is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or dieit is the first instalment in a gripping trilogy by paul hoffmanpraise for paul hoffman:'this book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' conn iggulden'tremendous momentum' daily telegraph'a cult classicnot because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does notin one of the sanctuary's vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boythe left hand of god is a must readoxfam shop colne road the left hand of god by paul hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogy' daily express see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-minded
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Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website2) quality: vinyl: vg ++ cover: vg ++ pink floyd ?– the wall label: harvest ?– 1a , harvest ?– 1a format: 2 × vinyl, lp, album, reissue country: netherlands released: genre: rock style: prog rock the wall is the 11th studio album by english rock band pink floyd, released 30 november on harvest and columbia recordsin the us, dsotm has spent more time in the "billboard 200" charts for best selling lp's, than any other release in modern historyoriginally issued in the netherlands in as harvest 5c "the dark side of the moon" is the eighth studio lp to be released by pink floydthe album was a commercial success, topping the us charts for 15 weeks, and reaching number three in the ukthe pictures are part and supplement to the description and condition of the offered objectsee pictures for detailsnow offered these iconic and legendary pink floyd albums the albums 1) quality: vinyl: vg ++ cover: vg ++ pink floyd ?– the dark side of the moon label: emi ?– 1a , harvest ?– 1a format: vinyl, lp, album, repress, gatefold sleeve country: netherlands released: genre: rock style: psychedelic rock, prog rock notes "made in holland" on labels gatefold sleeve with lyricsit was recorded at abbey road studios in london england and released incatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablerecorded at abbey road studios, london between june and januaryit initially received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found it overblown and pretentious, but later came to be considered one of the greatest albums of all timeour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeit is a rock opera that explores pink, a jaded rockstar whose eventual self-imposed isolation from society is symbolized by a wallit stands as one of the most successful commercial recordings of all time, and has been released in just about every known country on the entire planetare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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They feature in every major culture from the stone age onwardsin the secret life of the owl, john lewis-stempel explores the legends and history of the owloxfam shop colne road the perfect gift for nature lovers'dusk is filling the valleyit is the time of the gloaming, the owl-lightthey are the birds of ill-tidings, the avian messengers from the other sidebut owls - with the sapient flatness of their faces, their big, round eyes, their paternal expressions - are also reassuringly familiarhuman-like, in other wordsout in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-oand in vivid, lyrical prose, he celebrates all the realities of this magnificent creature, whose natural powers are as fantastic as any myth'john lewis-stempel is one of the best nature writers of his generation' country life see oxfam website for delivery information read morethey are creatures of the night, and thus of magicno other species has so captivated us'there is something about owlswe see them as wise, like athena's owl, and loyal, like harry potter's hedwig
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The pages of the rest of the book are in a very good condition win no evident faults, markings, underlining, or annotationsthe top of the spine has material missing so that it's flush to the page block and the silk page marker is present but detachedoxfam shop shirley title: the poetical works of percy bysshe shelley author: percy bysshe shelley, edited by edward dowden publisher: macmillan and cothe text of poetry is set at a double column of text per page internally the hinge of the back cover is cracked with intact webbing showing throughsize: 182mm tall by 130mm wide, 708 pages including index of first lineslondon publication date: reprint binding: hardcover book condition: good dust jacket condition: no dust jacket hard-cover with gilt titles and decoration, sun-faded, and rubbed on the spine the bottom of the spine is intact with minimal bumpinggilt-edged page blockslightly browned by aging but still a good readable copy a school prize label is fixed to the front pastedownsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshelf wear showing at all four corners which are rubbed and slightly turned front cover gilt titles are in a good condition but the gilt crest is rubbed and fading on one side
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Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuriesthe quest for a solution had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries when, in , parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (gbp) to anyone whose method or device proved successfulthe scientific establishment throughout europe - from galileo to sir isaac newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answerin stark contrast, one man, john harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solutionexcellent condition for its age, with little signs of useno highlighting or other notesdust jacket unmarkedtext block clean see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude, and the unlikely triumph of an english geniusthousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolutionlacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of landfull of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking
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Thomas smith, in two volumes see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cardiff a beautifully written and illustrated 2 volume set the jewish historian, containing twenty books of the jewish antiquities, seven books of the jewish war, and the life of josephus, written by himself, translated from the original greek, according to havercamp's accurate edition, together with explanatory notes and observations, parallel texts of scripture, the true chronology of the several histories, an account of the jewish coins, weights and measures, and a complete index by the late william whiston amprofessor of mathematics in the university of cambridge, a new edition, now first revised and improved by the rev
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Much attention is paid to spiritual climate of the acts of andrew and its connections with platonism and gnosticismcover slightly dog-eared but otherwise as newoxfam bookshop preston the apocryphal acts of andrew' is the first modern collection of studies on the most important aspects of the acts of andrew, an early christian kind of novel, which has only partially been preserved in greek, latin and copticin addition to a thorough discussion of its date and place of origin, the collection of essays discusses many aspects of the acts of andrew, such as its interest in magic, martyrdom and the place of the devil, its preoccupation with scatology, and its interest in eroticismsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit looks at its relationship with poimandres, with the pagan novels and with other christian writings, in particular the acts of john and the acts of andrew and mathiasfinally, it analyses the armenian translation, which is shown to be an important witness to the original text
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Five lectures on psycho-analysis, leonardo da vinci and other works ()this collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of sigmund freud in englishincludes:five lectures on psycho-analysis ()leonardo da vinci and a memory of his childhood ()the future prospects of psycho-analytic therapy ()the antithetical meaning of primal words ()a special type of choice of object made by men ()on the universal tendecy to debasement in the sphere of love ()the taboo of virginity ()the psycho-analytic view of psychogenic disturbance of vision ()'wild' psycho-analysis ()shorter writings () see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Ten years in the making, it's as worldly and wise as the indefatigable hannibal foggoxfam bookshop hertford through a life cloaked in mystery, edwardian polymath hannibal ghis life work was publically destroyed in what was to become known as the 'great foggian purge'zigzagging through five continents, the quest reveals how alexander the great was never beaten in battlethen, one morning william fogg receives a letter from a legal firm in london, claiming he's the sole inheritor to his great-great-grandfather's estateby the celebrated author of the caliph's house, a time top ten book of the yearfogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexterityunable to take fogg's triumphs any longer, the british establishment sought to have him discreditedand there begins the treasure trail of mystery, danger and uproar, as william pieces together the clues left for him by hannibal foggalmost eight decades passedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe key to a door in marrakeshbut, while such genius won him accolades and fame, it also fanned the flames of envyknowing almost nothing of his forebear, he takes possession of the single object left in the bequest - a large rusty iron keyby completing the life work of hannibal, william fogg strives to lift the veil on the supreme secret of manbanished from england, he lived out his days in secrecy - before disappearing on an expedition to manchuria in the winter offirst in a series of ground-breaking adventure novels from master storyteller, tahir shah, hannibal fogg and the supreme secret of man is unlike anything published in recent timeshailing from a landed family, fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor, collector, and quite probably the most extraordinary man ever to have lived
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"the nabataean arabs were one of the most remarkable peoples of the ancient world but are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital - petra" see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop keynsham ithe book is soft back, with front and back flap, it's slightly cocked forwardssmall 1cm tear at the top of the spinetauris & co ltd, x 254 mm; 224 pages; coloured photos on almost every page, with black and white map illustrationsthe book is in good conditionthis illustrated book recounts the story of a lost civilization - the development of their multifaceted culture, their relations with their neighbours and the demise of their kings and kingdomthough seen most clearly at petra, vivid traces of their creativity and control also appear in the hejaz region of arabia, among the wild rock formations of wadi rum, along trade and pilgrimage routes in the sinai, and in towns and temples throughout jordan and into syria
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Case history of schreber, papers on technique and other works ()this collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of sigmund freud in englishincludes:psycho-analytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia ()papers on technique ()dreams in folklore ()on psycho-analysis ()formulations on the two principles of mental functioning ()types of onset neurosis ()contributions to a discussion on masturbation ()a note on the unconscious in psycho-analysis ()an evidential dream ()the occurrence in dreams of material from fairy tales ()the theme of the three caskets ()two lies told by children ()the disposition to obsessional neurosis ()introuduction to pfister's the psycho-analytic method ()preface to bourke's scatalogical rites of all nations ()shorter writings () see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop thornbury the seven wonders of the world were first listed over years ago but they remain a source of fascination and their influence can still be seen in the cities and monuments of the modern worldthis book tells of the combination of legend and fact associated with these wonders; the story of their various images through the ages, and the reality of the objects themselvessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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