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The editors of medicine in the twentieth century have commissioned over forty authoritative essays, written by historical specialists but intended for general audiencesoxfam shop dumfries during the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformativesome concentrate on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries, others focus on understandings of the body, and a third set of essays explores transformations in some of the theatres of medicine and the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patientsour prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and genetic technologies which promise to reshape future generationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morein , western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individualsit is now central to these aspects of life
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The editors of medicine in the twentieth century have commissioned over forty authoritative essays, written by historical specialists but intended for general audiencesoxfam books & music kentish town during the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformativesome concentrate on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries, others focus on understandings of the body, and a third set of essays explores transformations in some of the theatres of medicine and the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patientsour prospects seem increasingly dependent on the progress of bio-medical sciences and genetic technologies which promise to reshape future generationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morein , western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of most individualsit is now central to these aspects of life
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Complete set of the history of the twentieth century by martin gilbert in three volumesbuyer collects as too heavy to postunwanted gift, and still as new
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World powers in the twentieth century by harriet ward a good introduction to this period for modern history degree or a level coursecover is slightly faded but inside is good can post email me for details will combine postage if more than one item bought
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Oxfam shop inverness this ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth centuryall the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pagessome discolouration on edges from dust and storage wear otherwise sharp copyeliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxyhere are poets rescued from oblivion, such as the suffragette who wrote a compelling poem about her mistreatment in holloway prison in or the medical offer who went into belsen with the british troops producing an eye-witness poem of lasting powerthis richly rewarding collection makes invaluable reading for poetry lovers all over the world see oxfam website for delivery information read morehouseman, for example, rubs shoulders with tbook is in good conditionconcise biographies for each poet complete the anthologythe authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic developmentby organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see poets in a new light
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Oxfam bookshop skipton an orderly presentation of the harmonic procedures to be found in the music of the first half of the twentieth centuryunmarked text, tight binding, dustcover in very good condition toosee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Miller's church history: from the first to the twentieth century by andrew miller - hardcover
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Coupled with the most newsworthy stories of the period and other relevant backdrop information, the book attempts an understanding of life in donegal during the 20th centuryoxfam bookshop wallingford donegal is a county which is steeped in historyeach locality has its own rich plethora of lore, tales anecdotes and historical datasee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is an attempt to present a sampling of these stories
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Above all, when read together, britten and pears's letters allow the clearest possible look 'behind the scenes' of one of the most productive creative partnerships of the twentieth centuryentertaining to read, domestic and intimate, the letters provide glimpses of cultural and artistic life in the twentieth century, including pacifism and conscientious objection, critical assessments of music and other artists, transport and communications development in the twentieth century, the 'aldeburgh corpses', art collecting, gossip, everyday life in an english country house, the development of the aldeburgh festival, performance practice in early music, looking after dachshunds, travel, and a host of other topics nicholas clark is the librarian at the britten-pears foundation at the red house, britten and pears's home in aldeburgh, suffolkthe 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship are here brought together and published, as pears intended, for the first timethis volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between benjamin britten and peter pears' from the foreword by fiona shawstroeher is professor of music history at marshall university where she is also coordinator of the music history & literature areawhile the correspondence provides valuable evidence of the development of britten's works, more significant is the insight into his relationship with pears and their day-to-day life togethersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop magdelen street 'to read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret garden of two giants jude brimmer is an archivist at the britten-pears foundation
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The puffin book of twentieth century children’s stories edited by judith elkin and beautifully illustrated by michael foreman and the puffin book of twentieth century children’s verse edited by brian patten and again beautifully illustrated by michael foremanboth brand new would make lovely presentsbargain only £1 each
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The extensive research he embarked upon afterwards revealed not only the scope of the people's hardship and amazing resilience; it located in the american effort to help the armenians a unique perspective on our own nation's experience of the twentieth centuryas the new york times carried stories about the ""slow massacre of a race,"" public outrage over this tragedy led to an unprecedented philanthropic crusade spearheaded by near east relief, an organization rooted in protestant missionary endeavors in the near east and dedicated to saving the survivors of the first genocide of the twentieth century"" the west gradually began to take noticeoxfam bookshop knutsford the persecution and suffering of the armenian people, a religious and cultural minority in the ottoman empire, reached a peak in the era of world war i at the hands of the turksbetween and as many as 1in ""starving armenians,"" merrill peterson explores the american response to these atrocities, beginning with the initial reports to president wilson from his ambassador to the ottoman empire, henry morgenthau, who described turkey as ""a place of horror""starving armenians"" is an eloquent narrative of an all but forgotten part of that experiencethe book also addresses the armenian aspirations for an independent republic under american auspices; these hopes went unfulfilled in the peacemaking after the war and ended altogether when armenia was absorbed into the soviet union5 million armenian men, women, and children died in ottoman turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the syrian desertpart of a generation who were admonished as children to ""remember the starving armenians,"" peterson went to armenia in as a peace corps volunteer and became fascinated by the country's troubled historyfirst edition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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International cooperation in the early twentieth century by daniel gorman (hardback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is usually within 6 to 8 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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One of the oldest and most powerful of the great hollywood studios, twentieth century fox has maintained its magnificent archive of still photographsfilmmaker scorsese contributes an essay to this stunning volumethis collection features the best of these photographs, many previously unpublished
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Indispensable 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 developmentshe 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 morehe 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 planetjĂĽrgen 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 eruditionosterhammel 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 frenchfirst edition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Scrivener's button cabinet: a twentieth century clothing button collection, paperback by jackson, sandra, isbn , isbn-13 , like new used, free shipping in the us
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Scrivener's button cabinet: a twentieth century clothing button collection, paperback by jackson, sandra, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free shipping in the us
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Old chambers twentieth century dictionary used as in picture's ÂŁ1 non smoking household see other adds
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Oxfam bookshop canterbury time-images: alternative temporalities in twentieth century theory, history, and art: alternative temporalities in twentieth-century theory, literature, and art hardcover - by tyrus miller  cambridge scholars publishing; new edition (1 sept) a very good copy see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop brentwood christie's catalogue - twentieth century art 30 april lotssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreillustrated in colour141 pages with 2 fold-outs
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Collectible glass buttons of twentieth century by barbara more **brand new**
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twentieth century tiles (shire library) by van hans lemmen **mint condition**
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Annika mombauer tracks the impassioned debates as they developed at critical points through the twentieth centurytext is unmarked the book focuses on the controversy itself, rather than the specific events leading up to the warwere they really justified? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreemotive and emotional from the very beginning of the conflict, the debate and the passions aroused in response to such issues as the 'war-guilt paragraph' of the treaty of versailles, are set in the context of the times in which they were proposed there a sticky label on the backcover over the barcode that has been mostly removedsimilarly, the argument has been fuelled by concerns over the sacrifices that were made and the casualities that were sufferedoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the origins of the first world war annika mombauer very good condition paperbackthe seminal event of the 20th century, the origins of the first world war have always been difficult to establish and have aroused deep controversy
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In this tour de force of science history, manjit kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth centuryin , albert einstein suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying a century of experimentswhile "quantum" sets the science in the context of the great upheavals of the modern age, kumar's centrepiece is the conflict between einstein and bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science"quantum" is the essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and thrilling story and by the band of brilliant men at its heartand yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselvesquantum theory looks at the very building blocks of our world, the particles and processes without which it could not existwerner heisenberg's uncertainty principle and erwin schrodinger's famous dead-and-alive cat are similarly strangetake it nice and easy and savour the experience of your mind being blown without recourse to hallucinogens' nicholas lezard, guardian for most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable scienceyet for 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied the very existence of reality itselfin this magisterial book, manjit kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its coreoxfam shop worcester 'this is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reasonas niels bohr said, if you weren't shocked by quantum theory, you didn't really understand itsee oxfam website for delivery information read more'bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into believing that the problem had been solved', lamented the nobel prize-winning physicist murray gell-mannquantum theory is weirdbut in "quantum", kumar brings einstein back to the centre of the quantum debate
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Jimena canales introduces readers to the revolutionary ideas of einstein and bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth centurythe physicist and the philosopher is a magisterial and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of timeshe shows how it provoked responses from figures such as bertrand russell and martin heidegger, and carried repercussions for american pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanicson april , in paris, albert einstein and henri bergson publicly debated the nature of timethe physicist and the philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists todaybergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of timeeinstein considered bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physicssee oxfam website for delivery information read morecanales explains how the new technologies of the period-such as wristwatches, radio, and film-helped to shape people's conceptions of time and further polarized the public debateoxfam shop kendal paperback as newshe also discusses how bergson and einstein, toward the end of their lives, each reflected on his rival's legacy-bergson during the nazi occupation of paris and einstein in the context of the first hydrogen bomb explosion
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As the twentieth century progressed, children's books provided the material for an increasing range of new media, from radio to computer games, from television to cinema blockbusterlinking all these contributions is an interest in the changing definition of children's literature and its target audience within an increasingly media-rich societyoxfam shop colne road since the nineteenth century, children's literature has been adapted for both the stage and the screenthis book brings together writers whose work offers contrasting perspectives on the process of adaptation and the varying transformations - social, historical and ideological - that take place when a text moves from the page to another mediumsee oxfam website for delivery information read morealthough such adaptations are now recognised as a significant part of the culture of childhood and popular culture in general, little has been written about the range of products and experiences that they generate
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The result is a brilliant seafaring novel, a gripping saga encompassing industrial growth, the years of expansion and exploration, the crucible of the first half of the twentieth century, and most of all, the sea new republichailed in europe as an instant classic, we, the drowned is the story of the port town of marstal, denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the second world warcalled "one of the most exciting authors in nordic literature" by henning mankell, carsten jensen has worked as a literary critic and a journalist, reporting from china, cambodia, latin america, the pacific islands, and afghanistanthe novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation; there are cannibals here, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, and miraculous survivalsoxfam bookshop cheltenham an international bestsellera thrilling epic tale of the sea"we, the drowned sets sail beyond the narrow channels of the seafaring genre and approaches tolstoy in its evocation of war's confusion, its power to stun victors and vanquished alikesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe lives in copenhagen and marstal"washington post"a generational saga, a swashbuckling sailor's tale, and the account of a small town coming into modernity both melville and steinbeck might have been pleased to read ita gorgeous, unsparing novel
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Showing that these practices predate the age of nationalism, rae examines cases from both pre-nationalist and nationalist eras: the expulsion of the jews from fifteenth century spain, the persecution of the huguenots under louis xiv, and in the twentieth century, the armenian genocide, and ethnic cleansing in former yugoslaviacover shows minor wear and tear - slightly scratched and corners a little bumpedrae concludes by examining two 'threshold' cases - the czech republic and macedonia - to identify the factors that may inhibit pathological homogenisation as a method of state-buildingtext in very good condition, fore edge a little grubbyfirst editionoxfam bookshop cotham hill why are forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide an enduring feature of state systems? in this book, heather rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state buildingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepolitical elites have repeatedly used cultural resources to redefine bounded political communities as exclusive moral communities, from which outsiders must be expelledshe argues that those atrocities prompted the development of international norms of legitimate state behaviour that increasingly define sovereignty as conditional
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Spanning the twentieth century, these magically vivid letters between the legendary mitford sisters constitute not just a superb social and historical chronicle (what other family counted among its friends hitler and the queen, cecil beaton and president kennedy, evelyn waugh and givenchy?); they also give an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationship between six beautiful and gifted women who emerged from the same stock, incarnated the same indomitable spirit, yet carved out starkly different roles and identities for themselvesoxfam bookshop hertford the never-before published letters of the legendary mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted familynancy, the scalding wit who transferred her family life into bestselling novels; pamela, who craved nothing more than a quiet country life; diana, the fascist jailed with her husband, oswald mosley, during wwii; unity, an attempted suicide, obsessed with hitler; jessica, the runaway communist and fighter for social change; and deborah, the genial socialite who found herself duchess of devonshiresee oxfam website for delivery information read morewriting to one another to confide, commiserate, tease, rage and gossip, the sisters wrote above all to amusea correspondence of this scope is rare, for it to be penned by six such born storytellers makes it uniqueeditor charlotte mosley -- diana mitford's daughter-in-law -- has had unrestricted access to the vast archive of family letters and photographs, most of which have never been published before
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Together these short sermons form the prophet, the most inspirational work of the twentieth centurythis newly reset edition of kahlil gibran's classic contains an introduction by robin waterfield which throws new light onto one of the most significant books of the century and is a major addition to penguin arkana's uniform gibran collectionoxfam bookshop cheltenham almustafa the prophet, or 'chosen one', is about to return to his native landsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebefore leaving his place of exile, he delivers twenty-six homilies to the people he is about to leave
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In a decisive victory in a war with spain lasting less than four months, it acquired territories in the caribbean and pacific, and positioned itself so that the twentieth century became to manywas the year in which the united states first became a world power
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