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The 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 wittgensteinthe subsequent course of drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teachersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston maurice o'connor drury was among wittgenstein's first students after his return to cambridge inbeautifully 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 centurywhether 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 psychiatryalongside 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a new biography of drury, analysing the relationship between him and wittgenstein, this collection features previously unpublished archival sourcescentral to the collection is the danger of words, the text described by ray monk as 'the most truly wittgensteinian book published by any of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'
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Robert browning selected writings by richard cronin (paperback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is usually within 8 to 10 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Oxfam books & music totnes selected writings on vernacular furniture see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The sacred writings of the nag hammadi library, the berlin gnostic codex and the codex tchacosone text tells the story of the garden of eden from the serpent's point of view, while another casts god as partly feminineoxfam 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 egyptwhat they revealed stunned the worldbrown leather spine with gilt title to spinexxviii and 724 pages including indexthe 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'lyrical and powerful, there is no doubting the passion and devotion that created this poetryprinted cloth boardsit is a miracle in itself that they survivedthese were the gnostic gospels, alternative christian texts - poems, myths, philosophy and gospels - which challenge those of the new testament at every turnover 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 decipheredcontained in brown slipcase see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport not dated but probably sincludes generous selections from 'autobiographic sketches', 'confessions of an english opium-eater', 'literary reminiscences of the lake poets' and 'essays' including 'the english mail-coach'no highlighting or other notesvery good condition
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Title: the essential writings of christian mysticismcatalogue number
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"the history of england" - longmans, london - edition 4 "the miscellaneous writings and speeches by lord macaulay' - longmans, london - edition 5are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe works of lord macaulay, by lord macaulay - longmans green - uniformally bound in fine binding - condition: good, with some wear and rubbing to leather boards, scattered foxing"lord macaulay's essays and the lays of rome" - longmans, london - edition read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website"the life and letters of lord macaulay" - longmans, london - edition 2-3catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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The title is the original writings of edward bach: compiled from the archives of the edward bach healing trustthe item format is a book paperbackbelow is a more detailed summary of this specific item for salefor example: idz
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Front end board of binding unattached at topsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreall pages and binding intactoxfam bookshop swanage "with all the parallel texts and marginal readings to which notes are added notes and practical observations designed as a help to a correct understanding of the sacred writings" , published by liverpool, printed by nuttall, fisher and dixon fair+ condition pages dust-toned as with age, with some foxing to the title and prelims
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Then the box is simply pressed towards the audience, the top number now agrees with the selected number of the audience!they present a small wooden box with a cube-sealed insidean audience is asked to try to change the top number on the die he finds soon is impossible
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The size of the ice-free surface depends on the selected wattage and the ambient temperatureit is independent of the pond sizewhen the ice cover is closed, however, decomposition of dead plant parts produces fermentation gases that damage aquatic animals and pond plantsschego pond heater stainless steel the schego pond heater keeps an area in the garden pond free of ice, even in severe frost, so that these fermentation gases can escape and gas exchange can take placedue to the limited local heating and the noiseless operation of the pond healife in the garden pond continues even in winter
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When time is up, the audience will select the winner, depending on how many tasks were completed and how difficult the selected dish wasif you win, new ingredients are unlocked and your recipe is added to your cookery booknow it seems that everyone wants a piece of the actionwith 60 delicious recipes to master, and two-player competition offering three levels of difficulty but requiring just one cartridge, ready steady cook can make a gourmet out of the poorest cooknext choose your grocery bag, budget or classic, which determine what ingredients will be available to usenow it's a race against the clock to prepare a dish by following your chef's instructionsthere are five different chefs, each with their own style of cuisine: mediterranean, continental, indian asian and mexicanoxfam shop thornbury "once the nintendo wii and ds had provided an audience of casual and female gamers for it, cooking mama started a gameplay revolution" see oxfam website for delivery information read moreplayers choose their kitchen, green or red, pepper or tomato, and select a chef to work withselect your ingredients, prepare and cook your food and, serve it up to the plateas play progresses, bistro and gourmet bags become available too, opening up the opportunity for more exciting menus and more adventurous recipeseach cooking session lasts around four minutesendemol, creators of the ready, steady, cook tv program are bringing it to he ds and wii, so that viewers who enjoy watching can get some idea of what it's like to compete in the popular tv program's cooking against the clock format
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Science and your faith in god: a selected compilation of writings and talks by prominent latter-day saints scientists on subjects of science and religion by paul rgreen, henry eyring, carl jwidtsoe - hardcover excellentharris, joseph fmerrill, frederick jchriustensen, harvey fletcher, franklin s
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He is the author of in search of cinema: selected writings on international film art and vittorio de sica: director, actor, screenwriterhe had a flair for fusing western literature with elements from his native kabuki theaterhis film techniques and storytelling innovations have greatly influenced european and american film, particularly westerns" ranging from to the mid-s, this collection includes an interview by lillian ross, a conversation with gabriel garcã-a márquez, and a previously unpublished interview with the book's editorsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebecause of his ability to control all aspects of film production and to maintain artistic control on almost all of his projects, kurosawa was known throughout japan as "the emperorran retells king lear as a samurai tale; throne of blood retells macbeth; hakuchi adapts fyodor dostoevsky's the idiot as a tale set in northern japankurosawa became the first japanese director widely known in the west when his rashomon won the top prize at the venice film festival inbert cardullo is professor of american culture and literature at ege university, in izmir, turkeyoxfam books & music crouch end akira kurosawa () moved with ease and mastery from the mysterious and internal to the spectacular and panoramickurosawa was a man of all genres and all periods, bridging the traditional and the modern, the old and the new, the east and the west
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Edmunds the flame is a stunning collection of leonard cohen's last poems and writings, selected and ordered by cohen in the final months of his lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music bury stby turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange, these are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting, yearning for morean enormously powerful final chapter in cohen's storied literary career, the flame showcases the full range of leonard cohen's lyricism, from the exquisitely transcendent to the darkly funnythe book contains an extensive selection from cohen's notebooks, featuring lyrics, prose pieces and illustrations, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist and thinker
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Among other books, he is the author of in search of cinema: selected writings on international film art and vittorio de sica: director, actor, screenwriterbert cardullo is professor of american culture and literature at ege university in izmir, turkeysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis early successes, including l'avventura () and la notte (), reshaped film drama by focusing so intently on characters (particularly couples) that plot was often a secondary concernhe also moved away from the social realism of his italian peersin interviews ranging from to , antonioni discusses his neuroses, his cinematic concerns, his roots in italian neorealism, and the reasons he ultimately broke free of the style's constraintshis most notable english-language films, from blow up () to zabriskie point (), engage contemporary politics and modern social alienationhe insists that the struggle to understand the inner lives of characters is the crucial issue that cinema must tackleoxfam books & music crouch end in the s and s, michelangelo antonioni () forged a cinematic language that reflected a changed, postwar worldmichelangelo antonioni: interviews collects a broad range of conversations with this iconoclastic filmmaker, including one, never before in print, with the editor of this volume
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Includes an introduction to cumberland dialect and 50 dialect ballads selected from andersons writingsgood condition for its age, slight staining on frontispiece and back pageoxfam music shop reading robert anderson, known as the cumberland bard ()see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The selected speeches and writings of the anarchist and feminist emma goldman an anthology compiled and editted by alix kates shulman published by wildwood house, very good condition read more
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The edition's general editor is alexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume personal writings sequencealexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson, is editing a twelve-volume personal writings sequence for the series, intercalating over letters with the complete, unexpurgated diariesoxfam 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 designsthis 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 variantslong 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 reprintedthe complete works will revolutionize waugh studies, and offer new insights for twentieth-century literary and cultural studies generallythe 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'ssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewaugh was 19 when his first oxford review appeared, 31 when the spectator printed his last review ofall volumes will be beautifully produced, and have comprehensive introductions and detailed annotationthe origins of the works are explored, and annotations to each piece seek to assist the modern readerfinally, 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 centuryno other edition of a british novelist has been undertaken on this scalefiction and non-fiction volumes will also contain a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variantswaughs 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 europeoriginal texts, so easily distorted in the production process, have been established as far as possible using manuscript and other controlsthis 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 dustonly 15% of waugh's letters have previously been publishedthis 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 appeared
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Oxfam bookshop st albans essential writings by the founders of russian literary and social criticismsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop swanage hardback with dust jacket in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop preston man ray: writings on art fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship on the artist and his periodwith richly reproduced illustrations, it provides powerful insight not only to scholars of art history and academics, but also to working artists and those who count themselves as man ray fansit brings together his most significant writings, many of them published here for the first timesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis volume offers a long overdue vision of man ray as someone who used words both as a creative medium and as a means of articulating ideas about the nature and value of artthese occasionally quixotic texts, which include artist books, essays, interviews, letters, and visual poems, reveal the incredible scale of the artist's output and the remarkable continuity of his aesthetic and political beliefs
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Oxfam bookshop harrogate from nobel prize-winning economist amartya sen, the argumentative indian: writings on indian culture, history and identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary indiaout of these conflicting views spring a rich tradition of skeptical argument and cultural achievement which is critically important, argues amartya sen, for the success of india's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace'profound and stimulatinghe deserves the recognitionshows that the argumentative gene is not just a part of india's make-up that can easily be wished away'Â Â the economist amartya sen is lamont university professor at harvardhis most recent books are the idea of justice, identity and violence and development as freedomsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreindia is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpointshis books have been translated into thirty languagesthis is a book that needed to have been writtenhe won the nobel prize in economics in and was master of trinity college, cambridgeit would be no surprise if it were to become as defining and as influential as work as edward said's orientalism'Â Â soumya bhattacharya, observer 'the winner of the nobel prize in economics is a star in indiathe product of a great mind at the peak of its power'Â Â william dalrymple, sunday times 'one of the most influential public thinkers of our times
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Title: the qur'an and the prophet in the writings of shaykh ahmad al-alawiauthor(s): al-alawi, ahmadpublisher: the islamic texts society
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Introduces students to the best recent writings on the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesoxfam shop bishop's stortford this book introduces students to the best recent writings on the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriescovers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemypresents work by scholars who have been at the forefront of reinterpreting the scientific revolution great condition copy of a excellent book for students and historians of the period see oxfam website for delivery information read morerepresents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovative
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Oxfam bookshop new milton the writings of the english mystics have now largely been recovered from historical obscurity and are gradually being edited and printedthe 90 page introduction is masterly, and any reader must be the wiser for this study of the development of devotional spirituality in the west; besides his appreciation colledge does not hesitate to point out the failings of some of the more popular devotional writers and the abuses which rose from misunderstood passages in their writingssee oxfam website for delivery information read more this is the first volume in a new series devoted to exploring the riches of christianitythis edition is edited and with an introduction by eric colledgehe also explores the extent of christianity's borrowings from other faiths and philosophies, with many quotations and opens up a larger perspective for the texts which make up the body of the book the dust jacket has a little fraying on the bottom edge but is otherwise in very good condition for its agethis hardback edition is in very good condition, tightly bound with clean cream pages
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham superbly edited and annotated, this collection of the writings of john wilkes booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on abraham lincoln, the civil war, and nineteenth-century theater historythe nearly seventy documents--more than half published here for the first time--include love letters written during the summer of , when booth was conspiring against lincoln, explicit statements of booth's political convictions, and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassinationsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The complete astrological writings of the last and final prophet[peace be upon his name] the great beast, aleister crowley read more
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Oxfam books & music berkhamsted these writings present the rationale behind lupukhov's attempt to develop a "symphonic" ballet that would integrate the formal and expressive elements of dance and musictranslations by dorinda offord edited and with an introduction by stephanie jordan see oxfam website for delivery information read morethey also show his finely detailed knowledge of the classical heritage and his creative efforts to transmit major works to future generations paperback book in very good condition, slight shelf wear, with a small amount of scratching to the covers
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Pentecost & sanctification in the writings of john wesley and charles wesley with a proposal for tod by laurence w wood (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 7 to 9 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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