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This eclectic and unknown sculptor of the twentieth century managed with a few simple traits to give life to a creature disappeared millions of years ago nowthe bull is carved in the hard palombino stone, typical of the maremma between lazio and tuscanycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiprimordial bull, tracing back to a primitive mastodonplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteit has been often identified as a symbol of natural forces beyond human controlit seems to smile, aware of its massivenessour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeit has been part of my collection since the s
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Oxfam bookshop st albans a history told largely in pictures of the first third of the twentieth century, seen through british eyessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The twentieth n ° 32 of august in good condition; binder extract, dimensions cmwith a double page of the black island and jo zette and jocko;the twentieth n ° 45 of november in good condition; binder extract, dimensions cmtears of 2cm on the bottom of all the pageswith a double page the black island and jo zette and jocko;shipment in plastic and rigid envelopeinterior clean, and without ripsclean interior without stains and tears
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Seeing her chance to escape from years of abuse in an orphanage and in service, hanna joins one of the shiploads of young women transported in the early years of the twentieth century to the colony of german south-west africa to assuage the needs of the male settlersfollowing atrocious punishment for daring to resist the advances of an army officer, she arrives in a phantasmagoric refuge in the african desert - 'prison, nunnery, brothel, shithouse, frauenstein'oxfam bookshop cheltenham as a small child in a wintry bremen, hanna dreams about the other side of silence, the place where the wind comes from and palm trees wave in the sunmounting a ragtag army of female and native victims of colonial brutality, she sets out on an epic march through the desert to take on the might of the german reichthis apocalyptic journey through the darker regions of the soul will also reveal to her the hidden meanings of suffering, revenge, companionship, love and compassionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen the drunken excesses of a visiting army detachment threaten her only companion, hanna revolts
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"-michael eric dyson, new york times a history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by john rawls's a theory of justicein the shadow of justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of john rawlsin the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war, rawls's a theory of justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophyfine unclipped dust-wrapperin these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right-from the new international economic order to the rise of the new rightrecasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, in the shadow of justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limitsin this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, katrina forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism-a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state-became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar united states and britainthese thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their criticssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreusing archival sources, forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among american antistatists and british egalitariansoxfam bookshop cotham hill black boards with gold-embossed spine which is unbrokenpages are clean and tight with no tears, bumps, or nicks "a forceful, encyclopedic studyshe traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the s and '70s and beyond
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Good overall condition a laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the weimar republic () continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth centuryits thirty chapters explore germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "new woman," bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascismsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe weimar republic sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any languageoxfam bookshop glossop road creasing to cover and spineits political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our agedrawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in english), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social lifewhile devoting much attention to the republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the frankfurt school, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographiesthis will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, german, and women's studiesit invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in germany before hitler's rise to power
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And whilst american ideas dominated the latter part of the twentieth century, hutton argues that the underpinning of the twenty-first must come from europehe lays bare modern america for what it is: a country of inequality in risk, opportunity and income, where 1% of the population owns 38% of the wealth, and 19% live in terrible povertynow, as the world realigns itself in the wake of the september 11th atrocities, hutton turns his attention to the global picture, and the ways in which the new world should be orderedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreover the past thirty years there, the forces of conservatism have achieved such supremacy as to reduce liberalism to a term of abuseoxfam bookshop cheltenham the state we're in, will hutton's explosive analysis of british society, was the biggest selling politico-economic work since the second world warto understand the global economy, hutton argues, one must first understand the united statesit is time for britain to stop vacillating between two cultures and make common cause with its continental partners - to reject the conservative orthodoxy in favour of the shared european beliefs of obligations, rights and fairness
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Ten years ago, the twentieth century and the bronze age were tossed together by a mysterious eventoxfam bookshop cheltenham harry turtledove hailed island in the sea of time as "one of the best time travel/alternative history stories i've ever read," and jane lindskold called against the tide of years "another exciting and explosive talesome have turned instead to the renegade coast guard officer william walkerand for ten years, the two sides have tested each other, feinting and parrying, to decide who will be the ones to lead this brave new world into the futuresome of these peoples have become alliessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand only one side can emerge the victorin the decade since, the republic of nantucket has worked hard to create a new future for itself, using the technological know-how retained from modern times to explore and improve conditions for the inhabitants of the pastnow the official battle lines have been drawn" now the adventures of the nantucket islanders lost in the time of the bronze age continues with on the oceans of eternity
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This book explores the ways in which a buffalo hunt transformed theodore roosevelt into the strenuous, larger-than-life figure who graces mount rushmore and led the united states (sometimes kicking and screaming) into the twentieth centuryroosevelt ventures into the american west in to kill a buffaloroosevelt, in return, transformed the american west and helped to make cowboy life a central feature of american mythologyroosevelt lived and worked in the north dakota badlands for four years between , but the american west remained one of his deepest passions and his favourite arena for pursuing the strenuous lifeincluded are more than 150 photographs of the life and times of theodore roosevelt, drawn principally from the extensive collections of the theodore roosevelt centre at dickinson state universityoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames no president of the united states is as thoroughly associated with the american west as theodore roosevelt, who was born in new york city and educated at harvard universityhe fell in love with the dakota badlands, purchased two badlands ranches, and threw himself into the life of the vanishing frontiersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreprominent inscription on ffep, otherwise excellent condition in dust jacket, not price clippedhe hunted big game in virtually every western state, recruited his rough riders from among those he had met in his western travels, and wrote a series of articles and books based on his adventures in the west
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Oxfam 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 centurymore likely than not, the original idea was tyes, his purpose was tendentious' 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 aim' see oxfam website for delivery information read moreeliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired one' 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 languagesince then three further editions by, in succession, anne ridler, donald hall and peter porter have been publishedthis faber finds reissue restores that pristine selectionphilip 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 smichael 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 itall took as their kernel the original selection by michael robertshe 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 technique
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Storm further illuminates how during the first decades of the twentieth century the culture of regionalism slowly lost the battle against its main rival: the avant-garderegional identities, like national identities, were created and sometimes even invented; and this was equally the case in france, germany and spainthey all appropriated, and in some cases perverted, the regionalist message showing that strong regional identities would ultimately reinforce national unityby using a novel comparative perspective it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalismartists, architects and international exhibitions played a highly influential role in this processoxfam bookshop kingston upon thames this pioneering book studies the rise, heyday and demise of regionalism from the belle aepoque until the eve of the second world warshortly afterwards they were followed by architects, who constructed villas and garden cities inspired by vernacular cottageslater on regionalism was used at international exhibitions by widely differing regimes, such as the primo de rivera dictatorship in spain, the popular front government in france, and the hitler-regime in germanysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreduring the s painters began to apply the regionalist ideology by producing images of a presumably harmonious and authentic rural societythis book offers new perspectives to specialists of regionalism and nationalism, but will also be of interest to students of the cultural history of france, germany and spain and to specialists from the fields of politics, ethnology, art history, cultural studies and architectural history
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This fascinating study is a profound effort to understand one of the twentieth century's great enigmasthe controversy surrounding heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertakenin fact, heisenberg never had to face the moral problem of whether he should design a bomb for the nazi regimewhat precisely did heisenberg know about the physics of the atomic bomb? how deep was his loyalty to the german government during the third reich? assuming that he had been able to build a bomb, would he have been willing? these questions, the moral and the scientific, are answered by paul lawrence rose with greater accuracy and breadth of documentation than any other historian has yet achievedthis was fiction, as rose demonstrates: in reality, heisenberg blindly supported and justified the cause of german victorysee oxfam website for delivery information read moredigging deep into the archival record among formerly secret technical reports, rose establishes that heisenberg never overcame certain misconceptions about nuclear fission, and as a result the german leaders never pushed for atomic weaponsthe question of why he did, and why he misrepresented himself afterwards, is answered through rose's subtle analysis of german mentality and the scientists' problems of delusion and self-delusiononly when he and his colleagues were interned in england and heard about hiroshima did heisenberg realize that his calculations were wrongno one better represents the plight and the conduct of german intellectuals under hitler than werner heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for nazi germanyhe began at once to construct an image of himself as a "pure" scientist who could have built a bomb but chose to work on reactor design insteadoxfam shop kendal very good condition hardback with minimal wear
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Oxfam bookshop woodbridge this volume of the history of the times provides a fascinating lens through which to review the close of the twentieth century and the dawn of the twenty-firstfirst edition first impressionvery good condition with dust cover see oxfam website for delivery information read morereview copy with a note from the publisher
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Recollections and studio photographs of 31 of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century5 cms (sheet), 24 x 16 cms (image), with annotations in the white margincatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifirst published in , reprinted in an expanded edition, with a new introduction by the artist, inrevised editionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteperhaps the very finest collection of artist photographs to date, including sections on bonnard, matise, van dongen, picasso, chagall, brancusi, arp, miro, dubuffet, giacometti athe portrait with raised hands was (partially) published on double-page in liberman's book the artist in his studio () in good condition, matted, with slight handling marks read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storein good condition\t\t added: >> two portraits of georges rouault\t silver gelatin prints, calexander liberman - the artist in his studio - new york, random housewhite cloth with embossed initials, with dustjacket, 31 x 24 cms, 293p, profusey illustrated in colour and bl/w, mostly full-pagestamped, both 25 x 18
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Featured in vince aletti's the book of 101 books: seminal photographic books of the twentieth century, described as "almost maniacally inclusive, rounding up everything from plymouth rock to a plaque commemorating the pony express in salt lake city and treating them with the same nonchalancetriple-post binding to allow removal of individual leaves for display purposescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe doggedness of friedlander's quest is at once astounding and hilariousare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikihistory stalks the landscape at every turncollectible first edition, first printing of celebrated photographer lee friedlander's massive, landmark tribute to american monumentsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store213 duo-tone photographs compiled and printed on heavy stockbound in blue-green cloth with black lettering to front and spine panels and gilt rulings to front panelone of copies issued
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It was continued into the twentieth century by angela thirkelloxfam bookshop carlisle the chronicles of barsetshire is a series of six novels by the english author anthony trollope, set in the fictional english county of barsetshire and its cathedral town of barchester together, the series is regarded by many as trollope's finest work the novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manœuvrings that go on among and between them books in excellent condition, slipcase f see oxfam website for delivery information read moreof the six novels, the last was trollope's own favouritethis 3 volume folio set contains the last three installments
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It was continued into the twentieth century by angela thirkelloxfam bookshop carlisle the chronicles of barsetshire is a series of six novels by the english author anthony trollope, set in the fictional english county of barsetshire and its cathedral town of barchester together, the series is regarded by many as trollope's finest work the novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manœuvrings that go on among and between them books in excellent condition, slipcase vg see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis 3 volume folio set contains the first three installmentsof the six novels, the last was trollope's own favourite
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Originally published in the first half of the twentieth century, these meditative, concise volumes have never previously appeared in paperbacksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoverall in good condition, some minor marks/'stains on the back cover and some slight rubbing to the cornersoxfam bookshop hexham the inspiration of ernest holmes has reached hundreds of thousands of readers through his classic works, many of which are just now becoming available in paperbackwhether a newcomer to the philosophy holmes founded or a veteran reader, you will find great power and practicality in the words that render holmes one of the most celebrated and beloved mystical teachers of the past hundred years
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Oxfam books & music romsey 3 disc box set featuring roosevelt, churchill, stalin and hilter disc 1 - the rising tide, the storm explodes, disc 2 - trial by fire, the price of glory, disc 3 never surrender, peace at last with just over 20 years separating the two most cataclysmic conflicts of the twentieth century wwi and wwii many historians argue that they were not separate wars, but one bloody continuum that first gripped the people of europe but eventually spread across the entire globebenito mussolininumber of discs: 5 region 0 language: english 300 minutes running time see oxfam website for delivery information read morecharles de gaulleand so it happens that the most iconic figures of wwii, the household names that we associate with either battlefield glory or murderous fascism, were themselves caught up in both conflictsbefore they were giants, they were infantrymen and privates in the 'war to end all wars'douglas macarthurthis is the story of these devastating three decades of war, through the eyes of the men who were shaped by the battles of world war i and came to command a world on the brink of disaster decades later
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Oxfam bookshop swanage gina mckee, ioan grufford, damian lewis and rupert graves star in this tv adaptation of john galsworthy's classic story of london society in the early years of the twentieth centurysoames forsyte (lewis) is a partner in the family law firm and a resolute believer in the stability of the old moral orderhowever, his relationship with his wife irene (mckee) is troubled from the outset, and when she begins having an affair, it starts to tear the family apartsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop lymington this book traces the life and work of a painter twenty years old at the beginning of the twentieth centuryart series which offers a series of monographs on the great masters of modern artthe work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four yearsthe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulation51 colour reproductions - oils, gouaches, pastel; 20 pen & pencil drawings in two tones show the full range of the artist's stylevery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacket
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Oxfam bookshop newport this is the story of the most sensational scientific discovery in natural history of the twentieth century, told by the scientist who is the central figure throughoutpictorial dust jacketendpapers discolouredwear to edges, various other scuffs and marksvarious superficial scuffs and marks, discolouration to spine and outer edges of boardslight shelfwear to edgessee oxfam website for delivery information read moretear to top of spine, which is discolouredturquoise cloth covered boards with gilt text within dark blue panel to spinesmall chips and closed tearsit details the discovery of a type of prehistoric fish, known only from fossils and believed to have become extinct at least fifty million years agosporadic foxing within text block which is otherwise clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedalone in his view that this coelacanth must have been a stray, professor smith and his wife carried out a series of arduous expeditions covering most of the wildest parts of the tropical western indian ocean, until, after fourteen years, the home of this living fossil was found
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And ends in the twentieth century this book would appeal to those interested in bookplates other than a small tear in the spine, the book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere are many images of the plates inside, consisting of detailed black and white drawingsthe pages are unmarked, and the spine remains unbrokenthe book includes virtually every pre- trophy plate that has been identified and located, and the author claims it is the largest collection of images of trophy plates so far seenoxfam bookshop lincoln limited to 350 copies, 240 of which were for members of the bookplate society, bookplates in the trophy style was the society's book forthe book begins its collection in c
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford the works of no great composer between the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries have undergone a more spectacular reassessment than those of giuseppe verdiits purpose is to index and describe some of the most significant studies about the composer and his music, presenting enough material - in a sort of stream of consciousness, using annotations that readers may survey the myriad directions verdi research has gone, ascertain the relevance of individual items to their individual interests, and easily pursue significant patterns and threads in which they are interestedit is primarily for these researchers that this volume is intended, although it is hoped that specialists will also find it to be usefulsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretoday, verdi scholars build their work on a vast foundation of earlier researchit is not surprising that a figure such as verdi should have inspired an enormous amount of books, articles, essays, and critical evaluationfor those who have not spent years with verdi literature or who may just be starting to explore some aspect of the giant's life and works, this foundation may seem daunting indeedhis death brought a crowd of several hundred thousand people to mourn not only the passing of a great artist but also a beloved national herothis verdi biography is dealt with as a simple story to be read in one go - in which thoughts concerning personal and professional events in his life flow in simplicity, while continuing to respect the importance of chronological order
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the new confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of john james todd, a scotsman born in and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth centuryto ordeal by mccarthyism and eventual escape to europe' peter kemp, observersee oxfam website for delivery information read morejohn james todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the western front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in london, to the electric excitements of the berlin film-world of the twenties, then moves on to hollywood'an often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction
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One such great change occurred at the turn of the twentieth century, when there was a revolution in modern scientific thinkinghere the genius and ironies behind those discoveries are describedthe subject is the the history and explanation of modern physicsoxfam bookshop thame this book is an essential guide for anyone inquiring about the present and future place of science in mankind's cultureevery so often science moves by large leaps,sometimes spurred by the realization that the commonly held beliefs of the day need revisingit finds answers to the deepest questions of modern physics and ultimately describes a unified design of the universe, which has truth beauty and symmetrythis book has great clarity and removes the shrouds of mystery, which envelop one of contemporary science's greatest challengessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis paperback is in a very good clean condition
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The passions and betrayals of trotsky's final years are unravelled, revealing a panorama of russian history during the first half of the twentieth centuryas personal and confiding as a whisper, "in the blue house" reverberates with the momentous words and voices of historythe blue house, prove also to be his lastsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut the extraordinary years spent in frida's beloved family homeoxfam bookshop royal exchange square hounded from country to country by stalin's agents, leon trotsky finally finds refuge in mexico as the guest of the artist diego rivera and his beautiful wife frida kahlo
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Oxfam bookshop preston ludwig wittgenstein () is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessiblethe contributors illuminate the character of the whole body of work by keeping a tight focus on some key topics: the style of the philosophy, the conception of grammar contained in it, rule-following, convention, logical necessity, the self, and what wittgenstein called, in a famous phrase, 'forms of life'they chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between its different stagessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe essays in this volume address central themes in wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics
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The great popular lyricists of the twentieth century can be counted on the fingers of onehand; lorenz hart, ira gershwin, cole porter, oscar hammersmithsome 220 new lyrics and additional verses for existing songs have been discovered by barry day and are published here for the first time, along with day's commentaries about the genesis and context for all the materialoxfam shop dumfries includes over 200 newly found lyricsthis is the first time that the complete lyrics of noël coward have been published togetherincludes sheet music, programmes and photos from original productionssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno one knew that noël coward had written so much undiscovered materialthis volume made news headlines when it was revealed that a whole cache of new lyrics were discovered in a swiss bank vaultthis magnificent collection of over 500 lyrics, richly illustrated with over 200 photographs, will lead the way in celebrating the centenary of coward's birth in
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The letters chronicle the social quirks and political upheavals of the twentieth century but also chart the stormy, enduring relationships between the uniquely gifted - and collectively notorious - mitford sistersoxfam bookshop cheltenham carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary mitford sisters, compiled by diana mitford's daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreakwriting to one another to confide, tease, rage and gossip, the mitford sisters set out, above all, to amusesee oxfam website for delivery information read morea correspondence of this scope is rare; a collection penned by six born storytellers is irreplaceablethere's nancy, the scalding wit and bestselling novelist; pamela, who craved a quiet country life; diana, the fascist wife of sir oswald mosley; unity, whose obsession with adolf hitler led to personal tragedy; jessica, the runaway communist; and deborah, the socialite who became duchess of devonshire
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