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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham tony scott directs this remake of the crime thriller 'the taking of pelham one two three' which starred walter matthau and robert shawdenzel washington takes over matthau's role as lieutenant garber, a dispatcher for the new york city transit police who finds himself in a face-off with criminal mastermind ryder (john travolta, in the role originally played by shaw) after an armed gang hijacks a subway train and takes its passengers hostage, threatening to start executing them one by one if they are not paid a hefty ransom within the space of one hoursee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This is for a the taking of pelham 123 blu-ray movienote: this disc is for blu-ray players sold in australia only
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Stunning framed print subject 'the taking of beirut' framed has a distressed look frame approx5" x 19" print showing approx5" professionally framed excellent condition smoke and pet free home safe collection can be arranged read more
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Epic in scope, searingly intimate and immediate in its perspective, the taking is a story of a strangely changed and changing world as apocalypse comes to main streetby evening, the town has lost all communication with the outside worldthe young couple gathers together with some neighbours, sensing a threat they cannot identify or even imaginefirst tv and radio go dead, then the internet and phone linesthe rain diminishes with the dawn but a moody grey-purple twilight prevailsplease check shipping costs before ordering synopsis on the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, molly and niel sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rainan obscuring fog turns once familiar streets into a ghostly labyrinthwithin the misty gloom the small band will encounter something that reveals in a terrifying instant what is happening to the world -- something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiencyas hours pass they hear news of extreme weather phenomena across the globethe night brings strange noises, and mysterious lights drift among the treesit has haunted their dreams through the night, and now they find an eerily luminous and silver downpour that drenches their small californian mountain town
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The title is taking of pelham one two threecd's are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, demonstration demo, not for sale, promotional promo, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions
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He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from new york to new delhi, from the latin american revolutions to the taiping rebellion, from the perils and promise of europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planetindispensable for any historian, the transformation of the world sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developmentsosterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railwaysoxfam bookshop knutsford a monumental history of the nineteenth century, the transformation of the world offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transitionthis is the highly anticipated english edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed german book, which is also being translated into chinese, polish, russian, and frenchjĂĽrgen osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering eruditionfirst edition see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more
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In the game, players will interact with the characters of the fellowship in a unique structure, taking on individual quests while intersecting the major events of the film trilogy that drive the story forwardplayers battle on the side of the fellowship, but can unlock additional encounters where they fight on the side of sauron as they progresstolkien's classic the lord of the rings trilogy, the lord of the rings, the third age videogame allows players to adventure through middle-earth, building a party of heroes as they journeysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe lord the rings, the third age, is being developed by ea's redwood shores studio, the same studio that developed the hit the lord of the rings; the return of the king gameparties will traverse through both familiar and seldom-glimpsed locations, using an innovative turn-based battle system as they fight, encountering the demonic balrog in the mines of moria, defending the fallen city of osgiliath, or trying to destroy helm's deepoxfam bookshop hexham based on new line cinema and peter jackson's acclaimed film adaptations of j
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Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting pointsuch new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the pacific, and more widelysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projectsthis study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratificationoxfam bookshop beverley in , the pacific island village of matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption
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taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines devoted to land management, forestry, soil science, and the improvement and management of crops and livestockthe life sciences considered include genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and deal with us, european, russian, japanese, indonesian, chinese contextsoxfam books & music crouch end this volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morewithout close attention to this zone it is not possible to understand the emergence of new disciplines and transformation of old disciplines, to evaluate the role and impact of such major figures of science as humboldt and mendel, or to appreciate how much of the history of modern biology has been driven by national ambitions and imperialist expansion in competition with rival nationsthe book shows that the investigation of the border zone of life sciences and agriculture raises many interesting questions about how science developsin particular it challenges one to re-examine and take seriously the intimate connection between scientific development and the practical goals of managing and improving - perhaps even recreating - the living world to serve human ends
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Nasa's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with neil armstrong taking his small step on the moon init was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-soviet world had to offermeanwhile, the us air force was looking ahead to a time when men would fly in space, and test pilots like neil armstrong were flying cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper atmosphereat this point getting a man in space became a national imperative, leading to the creation of the national aeronautics and space administration, otherwise known as nasaas the war came to its chaotic conclusion, von braun escaped from the ruins of nazi germany, and was taken to america where he began developing missiles for the us armysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the s, rockets were all the rage in germany, the focus both of scientists hoping to fly into space and of the german armed forces, looking to circumvent the restrictions of the treaty of versaillesbreaking the chains of gravity tells the story of america's nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the us militaryoxfam bookshop swanage the incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of nasaone of the key figures in this period was wernher von braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became the devastating v-2but america's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum
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Back in the present, and taking a sideswipe at stanley kubrick's 'eyes wide shut', the endlessly warring couple stella and charlie try to resolve their dysfunction, and stella visits a strange masked group called 'solutions' in the hope of using voodoo to get rid of her husbandwe are presented with a complex tableau of stories delivered to royston vasey's vicar bernice by a variety of strangers who visit her churchfinally we travel back to visit a younger herr lipp, the vicious pederast, who is captured here leading a choir of small boys in the small german town of duisberg; but what will he do to the young lad who asks if he may come to visit this christmas? see oxfam website for delivery information read morein flashback we are shown the terrible secret behind dr chinnery's always fatal attempts at veteninary surgeryoxfam shop ulverston it's christmas time in royston vasey, the little northern town whose proud motto is 'you'll never leave', and this special full-length episode has a darkly dickensian yuletide flavour
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Order of the phoenix charges you with taking up harry's wand to explore the dark corridors, secret rooms and extensive grounds of hogwartsyou can compete in minigames, talk to enchanted portraits and perfect your spell-casting" case, inserts & disc in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith the wizarding world in denial about voldemort's return, harry recruits a small group of his fellow students and secretly trains them in practical defensive magicoxfam bookshop chipping norton "the order of the phoenix is billed as potter's most dangerous year in school yetfrom the dementor attack in little whinging to the epic battles at the ministry of magic, this game lets you experience all of the harrowing action of harry's fifth year at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardrythe group christen themselves dumbledore's armyso, sharpen your wizarding skills, boost your courage, and prepare to battle lord voldemort and his fearsome death eaters in harry's most demanding and dangerous year yet
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Eckersley flees, taking the queen hostage, but the doctor uses the real aggedor to track him down, eckersley is killed, but aggedor also dies in the skirmisha ghost-like image of aggedor has been responsible for some deaths in the planet's trisilicate mines, heightening unrest amoungst the minersthe planet is now ruled by queen thalira - daughter of the last king peladon - with advice from chancellor ortronthe doctor discovers that the apparitions are really the result of the use of a matter projector and a directional heat ray by a human engineer, eckersleyazaxyr mounts an attack on the throne room and kills ortronits plans thwarted, galaxy 5 surrenders to the federationthe doctor is invited by thalira to take over as chancellor but he declines, suggesting the miners' leader gebek would make a better candidatesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam music shop byres road the tardis returns to peladon some fifty years after the doctor's last visitthe doctor however turns the heat ray on some of the martians, while others are dispatched by the minersthe doctor and sarah are arrested by ortron for trespassing on sacred ground but their names are cleared by alpha centauri, now galactic federation ambassador to peladoneckersley is in league with a group of renegade martian warriors, led by commander azaxyr, in a plot to seize the trisilicate deposits for galaxy 5, a power bloc at war with the federation
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Back in the present, and taking a sideswipe at stanley kubrick's 'eyes wide shut', the endlessly warring couple stella and charlie try to resolve their dysfunction, and stella visits a strange masked group called 'solutions' in the hope of using voodoo to get rid of her husbandoxfam shop colne road it's christmas time in royston vasey, the little northern town whose proud motto is 'you'll never leave', and this special full-length episode has a darkly dickensian yuletide flavourwe are presented with a complex tableau of stories delivered to royston vasey's vicar bernice by a variety of strangers who visit her churchfinally we travel back to visit a younger herr lipp, the vicious pederast, who is captured here leading a choir of small boys in the small german town of duisberg; but what will he do to the young lad who asks if he may come to visit this christmas? see oxfam website for delivery information read morein flashback we are shown the terrible secret behind dr chinnery's always fatal attempts at veteninary surgery
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Two decades later, he walked out of tibet and started on his journey of fully taking on leadership of the drikung kagyu lineagesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ringwood this is the story of a young boy, born in tibet to inherit the role of buddhist lineage holder, whose life was interrupted by the chinese army invasion and the ensuing cultural revolutionsince then the teachings of this lineage have flourished and are practiced all around the world--after nearly being lost
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taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess isis as a guide and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as goethe, rilke, wittgenstein and heidegger, hadot traces successive interpretations of heraclitus' words  dust jacket in very good condition with very slight signs of shelf wear  clean and tightly bound with no inscriptions or annotations but with very occasional side-linings in textgreen/black boards with gold titles  the aphorism, usually translated as "nature loves to hide", has haunted western culture ever since and is the subject of this engaging study by pierre hadot  (taken from inside the front of the dust jacket) see oxfam website for delivery information read morefine overall, with dj (unclipped "$")oxfam books & music winchester 399ppnearly twenty-five hundred years ago the greek thinker heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "phusis kruptesthai philei"
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Back in the present, and taking a sideswipe at stanley kubrick's 'eyes wide shut', the endlessly warring couple stella and charlie try to resolve their dysfunction, and stella visits a strange masked group called 'solutions' in the hope of using voodoo to get rid of her husbandwe are presented with a complex tableau of stories delivered to royston vasey's vicar bernice by a variety of strangers who visit her churchit's christmas time in royston vasey, the little northern town whose proud motto is 'you'll never leave', and this special full-length episode has a darkly dickensian yuletide flavourfinally we travel back to visit a younger herr lipp, the vicious pederast, who is captured here leading a choir of small boys in the small german town of duisberg; but what will he do to the young lad who asks if he may come to visit this christmas? see oxfam website for delivery information read morein flashback we are shown the terrible secret behind dr chinnery's always fatal attempts at veteninary surgeryoxfam shop kendal new and sealed
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taking us from birth to death and from a&e to the mortuary, the language of kindness is an astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness1 sunday times bestselling memoir of nursing todaywe watch christie as she nurses a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side during her patient's agonising heart-lung transplant, and we hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrivein our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, christie is with usshe is a guide, mentor and friendit made me thinkoxfam bookshop cheltenham read costa award-winning author christie watson's incredible noand in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages us all to stretch out a hand'a powerful insight into the life of nurses' the times, books of the year'a remarkable book about life and death and so brilliantly written it makes you hold your breath' ruby wax see oxfam website for delivery information read more'it made me cryit made me laugh' adam kay, author of this is going to hurt and twas the nightshift before christmas christie watson was a nurse for twenty years
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taking her extended family with her, jean stays in a sailboat anchored off the coast, and finds herself gradually becoming more and more engrossed in the bay's mysterious and gruesome pasta third woman survived by hiding in a cave until dawnsee oxfam website for delivery information read morejean's fear of losing all that she cares about is reflected in maren's poignant tale of love and loss, and her obsession with the ancient story drives her to wild impulsive action -- with unrecoverable consequencesin , jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay about the legendary crimewandering into a library one day, she unearths letters written by maren, the sole survivor of the murder spreeoxfam bookshop cheltenham on smuttynose island, off the coast of new hampshire, more than a century ago, two norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered
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He reminds us of the danger of taking numbers so seriously at the expense of what is non-measurable, non-calculable: intuition, creativity, imagination, happinesswe count people, but not individualsas long as we remember how limiting they are if we cling to them too closelythe government has set itself new targetsif it can't be measured it can be ignoredwe are in a world in which everything designed only to be measuredwe count exam results rather than intelligence, benefit claimants instead of povertyoxfam bookshop cheltenham never before have we attempted to measure as much as we do todaybut the big problem is what numbers don't tell youin this passionately argued and thought-provoking book, david boyle examines our obsession with numberscounting is a vital human skillthey won't inspire, and they won't tell you precisely what causes whatyardsticks are a vital toolsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey won't interpretwhy are we so obsessed with numbers? what can they really tell us?too often we try to quantify what can't actually be measuredpoliticians pack their speeches with skewed statistics: crime rates are either rising or falling depending on who is doing the counting
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It describes the mechanics taking place beneath the surface of our bodies and shows how we can consciously use yogic practices to direct and change our lives in positive waysoxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditioninternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkededdie stern's one simple thing: a new look at the science of yoga and how it can transform your life explains from both a yogic and a scientific perspective how the human nervous system is wiredif yoga does accomplish all that-as many practitioners report-how exactly does yoga do it? how does yoga work? believe it or not, the answers lie in how the human body and mind functionyoga was created as a science for liberation, but in modern times it is used by many to improve physical and mental health, helping us become more productive at work, more caring in relationships, more responsible contributors to society, and better inhabitants of this planetsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon the front cover and spine there is some signs of wear to the dust jacket
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At the start of a round, one player, taking turns as the reader, picks a card and reads it outeach of the one hundred cards gives you the title, author and plot summary of a different novel or short storydevised by leslie scott (the creator of jenga) & sara finch first published by oxford games ltd a family favourite since '91  ex libris is a game to challenge your literary acumen and test your creative writing skillssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop kendal new and sealedthe book-lover's game of writer's bluff  the other players then have to write a plausible opening or closing sentence to the work in an attempt to bluff fellow players into believing that their script is the genuine one
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Oxfam bookshop new milton this volume contains aldous huxley's two essays on the effects and implications of drug takingthis edition was reprinted inthe colours of the dust jacket are somewhat faded particularly on the spine and there is some foxing the book is in good condition with no inscriptions see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe pages are clean and unmarkedthe dust jacket is chipped and worn along the edges and there is a small tear on the bottom edgealso in the volume are eight appendices dealing with such diverse and relevant topics as the effect of vitamin starvation on the medieval mind and the part played by carbon dioxide in producing auto-intoxication and the visionary state
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham classic comedy starring charles laughton as an english servant who undergoes a transformation after taking on a new post in americathere are bound to be cultural lessons learned on both sides as ruggles, very much a product of traditional england, attempts to get to grips with the american way of lifethe earl of burnstead (roland young), a proud upper class englishman, loses his butler, marmaduke ruggles (laughton), in a reckless bet during a poker gamesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe bewildered ruggles suddenly finds himself in the employment of brash american egbert floud (charles ruggles) and transferred from his homeland to red gap in washington
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taking these faults into consideration, a low price for this collectable itemno highlighting, other notes or children's scribblesome staining and marking on several of the pagesfirst page is creased, slightly torn and partially detached from spineoxfam bookshop newport from the 'see and say storybook' series, the story of goldilocks and the three bears is a 'read along with me' children's storybook that encourages the young listener's participation in story-tellingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreacceptable conditioncolourful iillustrations integrated throughout text (see image 2 for example)undated but likely circa spictorial hardcover shows general wear and scuffing commensurate with age
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham controversial s horror in which a shipwrecked man stumbles upon on island where horrifying experiments are taking placeas they descend towards chaos parker finds himself caught uncomfortably in the middlesee oxfam website for delivery information read morepresided over by the insane scientist, dr moreau (charles laughton), a series of experiments are underway to transform animals into humanswhen edward parker (richard arlen) is thrown overboard after a fight with the captain of his ship he is initially happy to land on a populated islandhowever, this is no ordinary island
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taking as his point of departure the theories of langbaum- perhaps the most distinguished browning critic-Â dr slinn developsa new analysis of what browning meant by 'action in character'Â Â see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Economics has never been this cool' new statesmanif humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? is this really rational behaviour? and how come your idiot boss is so overpaid? in fact, the behaviour of even the unlikeliest of individuals - prostitutes, drug addicts, racists and revolutionaries - complies with economic logic, taking into account future costs and benefits, even if we don't quite realise itthere is almost no situation that harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist's toolsoxfam bookshop cheltenham truly eye-openingwe are rational beings after allsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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How exactly do they hope to make their getaway from an enclosed tunnel surrounded by police? in excellent conditionoxfam shop inverness four identically-dressed gunmen lay siege to a new york subway train and demand that a ransom of one million dollars be delivered within the hour see oxfam website for delivery information read moregerber (walter matthau) negotiates with the hijackers, trying to keep their leader (robert shaw) engaged in a continuous radio conversation while he looks for a way to defuse the situation and puzzles over the hijackers' intended escape planstransport cop lt
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