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Contents include: the three lines of criticism - rise and conditions of the philosophical theory of the state - sociological compared with philosophical theory - the paradox of political obligation; self government - the problem of political obligation more radically treated - the conception of a "real" will - the conception of liberty as illustrated by the foregoing suggestions - psychological illustration of the idea of a real or general will - nature of the end of the state and consequent limit of state action - rousseau's theory as applied to the modern state: kant, fichte, hegel - the analysis of a modern state, hegel's "philosophy of right" - institutions considered as ethical ideas formerly owned by the university of dundee library it has the wrong cover on the book this is the fourth edition, reprinted insee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston originally published in
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Oxfam shop walthamstow monographs in world archaeology no 23 proceedings of the may conference on levallois technology at the university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology, focusing on a stone flaking technique that existed during the lower and middle paleolithicpencil underlining on a few paragraphs on ppno other wear marks on covers/pagestopics include refitting of prehistoric artifacts; metric techniques developed to reconstruct processes of core reduction; variability in the levallois process; and the role of technological analysis in reconstructing the processes that underlie morphological variabilityb/w illustrations throughout the booksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreprevious owner's name written in black ink on the top right corner of the 1st page
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She is an assistant professor of english at the university of kentuckyfor though david's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has down's syndromebut the night dr david henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for everfamilies have secrets they hide even from themselvesas grief quietly tears apart david's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she canher second novel, the lake of dreams, is available from penguinoxfam shop pershore the multi-million copy bestseller, kim edwards' the memory keeper's daughter is a moving and poignant novel about grief, family and betrayalthis is simply a beautiful book' jodi picoult 'i loved this riveting story with its intricate characters and beautiful language' sue monk kidd, author of the best-selling, the secret life of bees kim edwards is the author of the short-story collection the secrets of the fire king, which was an alternate for the pen/hemingway award, and has won the whiting award and the nelson algren award'crafted with language so lovely you have to reread the passages just to be captivated all over againsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy familyand, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse
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Oxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , oxford university presswhat they actually do and how they go about it is in the service of their purposes and their goalsthe central focus of the clinician and of this book is the patientaccording to eric cassell, everything else, including the disease, is secondarywhen physicians act in medicine they have some purpose or goal in mindsuch goals cover a wide range of topics centering on patients, the doctor-patient relationship, the acts of doctoring patients, and the goals involved in being a physician among other physicians working within the institutions of medicinethe nature of clinical medicine takes its direction from a catalog of goals of medicine that range from the expected diagnosis and treatment of diseases to wider concerns for patients, for physicians, and for medicine itselfclinical medicine, as a thinking discipline, is concerned not only with what clinicians do, but whysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe care of the dying, what thinking itself is, and finally, why would one want to do this exciting and rewarding but difficult work, come under discussion in this bookthe chapters are specific in teaching the kinds of knowledge that clinicians require in order to be able to achieve these goalsusing many examples from real-life medical practice, each chapter examines the different kinds of thought involved in caring for the patientcassell takes on a variety of difficult issues, from thinking about values to developing wisdoma very clean and tidy copy
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Besides this a short paper treating of the geology, and particularly of the cenotes or natural wells of yucatan, will appear in the journal of geology of the university of chicagothree months were spent in that most interesting country, mainly in the states of yucatan, chiapas and oaxacacomthis book is a reproduction of an important historical workarmour to accompany him in his steam yacht ituna on a voyage to mexicothe following report, issued for convenience in two parts, is the resultoxfam bookshop wallingford excerpt from archaeological studies among the ancient cities of mexicoin december, , a number of gentlemen, representing different branches of scientific research, were invited by mrthe writer was a member of the party and, as curator of anthropology in the field colum bian museum, was expected to examine and describe such archaeologic remains as happened to be encountered during the journeysee oxfam website for delivery information read morefind more at wwwforgotten books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copyabout the publisherforgotten books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic booksin rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our editionwe do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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Hydrogen and helium are discussed in some detail and it is shown that quantum mechanics enables us to understand the structure of the periodic table without engaging with the complexities of many-electron atomsevery opportunity is taken to illustrate the emergence of the familiar classical, dynamical world through the quantum interference of stationary statesoxfam bookshop knutsford the physics of quantum mechanics aims to give students a good understanding of how quantum mechanics describes the material worldthe connections between observables, operators and transformations are clearly explained and the standard commutation rules derived from the properties of spacetimea chapter is devoted to entanglement, quantum computation, density operators and their role in thermodynamics, and the measurement problemthe text stresses the continuity between the quantum world and the classical world, which is merely an approximation to the quantum worldscattering phenomena, including the origin of radioactivity, are handled early on in the accessible context of one dimension, and at the end of the book with some rigour in three dimensionsname written on inside facing page see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit stresses that stationary states are unphysical mathematical abstractions that enable us to solve the theory's governing equation, the time-dependent schroedinger equationit shows that the theory follows naturally from the use of probability amplitudes to derive probabilitiesthe mathematical prerequisites are no more than simple vector algebra, taylor series expansion and the use of integrating factors to solve linear first order differential equationsdirac notation is used from the outset and students are trained to move easily from one representation to another, choosing whichever representation is best suited to a particular problemrigorous algebraic methods are preferred to the solution of partial differential equations
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Professor of mathematics in the university of cambridge, a new edition, now first revised and improved by the revthomas smith, in two volumes see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cardiff a beautifully written and illustrated 2 volume set the jewish historian, containing twenty books of the jewish antiquities, seven books of the jewish war, and the life of josephus, written by himself, translated from the original greek, according to havercamp's accurate edition, together with explanatory notes and observations, parallel texts of scripture, the true chronology of the several histories, an account of the jewish coins, weights and measures, and a complete index by the late william whiston am
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Xabier lamikiz is associate professor of economic history at the university of the basque countryoxfam books & music fareham trade and trust in the eighteenth-century atlantic world: spanish merchants and their overseas networks by xabier lamikizin particular, it explores the processes of trade, trading networks and communications, seeking to understand merchant behaviour, especially the choices made by individuals when conducting business - and specifically with whom they chose to deal boydell press covers are slightly faded in very good conition fruitfully combining approaches from economic history and the cultural history of commerce, this book examines the role of interpersonal trust in underpinning trade, amid the challenges and uncertainties of the eighteenth-century atlanticit focuses on the nature of mercantile activity in two parts of spain: cadiz in the south, and its trade with spain's american empire; and bilbao in the north, and its trade with western and northern europe paperback with laminated covers see oxfam website for delivery information read moredrawing from a broad range of spanish, peruvian and british archival sources, the book reveals merchants' experiences of trusting their agents and correspondents, and shows how different factors, from distance to legal frameworks and ethnicity, affected their ability to rely on their contacts
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He was founder professor of music at the university of sussex (), was visiting professor at king's college, london, and is currently a visiting professor at the universities of sussex and yorkwithout understanding the territorial, social and familial conflicts of this time one cannot truly appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles of his later yearstwo composers have been central to his writings on music, gustav mahler and benjamin brittenfrom his birth in bohemia, then part of the mighty austro-hungarian empire, to a survey of his early works, many now lost, gustav mahler: the early years forms an indispensable prelude to the period of the great compositionsrevised and updated in the early s, this paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author to bring this classic work once again to the forefront of mahler studieshis three studies of mahler, the early years (), the wunderhorn years (), and songs and symphonies of life and death (), are among the enduring monuments of postwar mahler literaturethe conflicts which came to mark mahler's music and personality had their beginnings in his childhood and youthsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredonald mitchell was born inoxfam books & music lichfield available again for a new generation of mahlerians, donald mitchell's famous study of the composer's early life and music was greeted as a major advance on its first appearance in
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Oxfam bookshop canterbury rod rosenquist cambridge university press (30 augcontaining illuminating examinations of wyndham lewis, laura riding and henry miller, this study will be invaluable reading for those interested in modernism and its complicated legacyseeking to refine our own understanding of the high modernists through the frequent difficulties encountered by the generation that succeeded them, this study discusses issues of cultural value, the relationship of history to innovation, and the market for new works in an era already dominated by the likes of joyce, eliot and poundmodernism remains deeply connected to ideas of innovation, and this has created problems for successive generations of writersfor example, how does one create an original work when the 'new' has already been established, marketed and institutionalised? rod rosenquist's study focuses on the writers and poets who emerged after modernism's high-water mark year of , in which ulysses, the waste land and the early cantos were publishedan as new unread copy see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Stroeher is professor of music history at marshall university where she is also coordinator of the music history & literature area nicholas clark is the librarian at the britten-pears foundation at the red house, britten and pears's home in aldeburgh, suffolkoxfam shop magdelen street 'to read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret garden of two giantsthis volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between benjamin britten and peter pears' from the foreword by fiona shaw jude brimmer is an archivist at the britten-pears foundationwhile 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 moreentertaining 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 topicsabove 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 centurythe 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship are here brought together and published, as pears intended, for the first time
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Housman, his appointment at the age of 25 as professor of greek at the university of adelaide, his writing of poetry, his love for an aristocratic irish woman, his resignation from macmillans cabinet, the rivers of blood speech, and his spiritual godfathering of margaret thatcherthe book will cover all aspects of powell's life: his midlands childhood, his teaching by athere have been many biographies of enoch powell - this will be the 7th or the 8thsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit will also, effectively, be a history of postwar british politics from powell's perspectiveoxfam shop fulwood road the definitive, controversial, authorised biography of one of the defining political figures of postwar britainthey testify at least to the fascination we have for him, but none will be a patch on simon heffer's, the only one written with full access to all his personal and public papers, by one of britain's leading conservative commentators and, with his acclaimed book on carlyle published by weidenfeld & nicholson, one of it's most promising biographers
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Oxfam bookshop leeds 163pp, yale university , very good condition without dustjacketno annotations, pages clean and tight, very slight mark on front coversee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom the preface; the primary aim of this volume is to make available to the english-speaking reader frege's more important writings on the notion of a purely formal theory and on independence-proofs for the axioms of axiomatic systems
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Trail - professor of botany aberdeen university published/printed for the perthshire society of natural science bybware you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiwhite, francis buchanan wwith tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of white and a double page coloured mapin a reduced size facsimile reprint was published of this 1st ed of condition; good/fair, some spotting/foxing on front and end pages, previous owner name (stamp) pso this book belonged to himewing in right corner first title pageedinburgh, th original edition original green buckram hardback with gilt titles on spinepeter ewing's glasgow catalogue, published in() the flora of perthshire edited by james wplease 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 storepeter ewing, author of mrsee pics for overall conditionblackwood & sonslix + 407pp, 19,5 x 14 cm it appears that only 500 copies have been printedcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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He was a recent visiting scholar at the centre for peace and conflict studies at the university of sydney(dahr jamail, independent journalist) about the author michael otterman is an award-winning freelance journalist and human rights consultanthe is the author of american torture (pluto, )review if i could only recommend one book that provides a comprehensive overview of both the situation in iraq today, and the decades of us-backed policy it took to create this nightmare scenario, erasing iraq is it
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Jean-luc nancy is professor of philosophy at the university of strasbourgstanford has published english translations of a number of his works: a finite thinking (), the speculative remark (), being singular plural (), the muses (), the experience of freedom (), and the birth to presence ()
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Oxfam shop macclesfield the conquest of plague, by l fabian hirst, md, oxford university press, pp including indexthis is a study of the epidemiology of the plague, covering religious belief, plague in the ancient world, middle ages up to the 18th and 19th centuriesthis covers vectors of plague ie rats, fleas, other rodents, human transmission of plague, finally dealing with methods of containment and controlsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Dion was awarded with a bfa from hartford art school at the university of hartford, connecticut in ; the school also awarded him an honorary doctorate inare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikidion received the ninth annual larry aldrich foundation award (), the joan mitchell foundation award (), the lucida art award of the smithsonian american art museum (), and a guggenheim fellowship ()in dion's work was included in documenta 13, curated by carolyn christov-bakargiev in kassel, and exhibited at moma ps1 in new york, the guggenheim bilbao, the minneapolis institute of art, the tate gallery and the museum of modernvery good condition, verso signedplease 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 storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemark dion is a us-american concept artist
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Oxfam shop st giles street andrew blowers obe is emeritus professor of social sciences at the open universitysome writing on last page, as shown in photoas a member of the first committee on radioactive waste management he was directly responsible for some of the uk's policy on legacy wastesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreover a long career he has been involved in the field of environmental politics and policy making as an academic, politician, government adviser, nuclear company director and prominent environmental activistthe legacy of nuclear power brings together his varied experience and expertise and reflects his lifetime concern with the fate of nuclear communities now and in the future
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Oxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , cambridge university pressblue boards in good orderdustwrapper has a slight chip to the spine and some markings to the rear otherwise cleanprevious owner has written name and college on front endpaper in inktraditionally, logic has been claimed to be 'the science of rational arguement', but the relevance to our everyday disputes of the formal logician's results has remained unclearsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The family is soon joined by oliver canning, a talented young academic who urges her to take control of her futurea single mistake, however, could put her newfound independence at riskafter she is expelled from boarding school, anna severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelistas autumn begins and anna enters university, the pair grow closersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham it is the height of summer
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Wenckebach was a cardiologist at the university of groningen ()are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikikarel frederik wenckenbach medal, 70 yearscatalogue: hofstee, page 128 bronze, 50 mmdesign: oswald wenckebach professor ka prepared heart with mcm and xxxiv on the left and rightplease 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 storelegend: omni cura tuere cortuum nam ex eo vitae est origo ("bescherm met alle zorg uw hart, want daaruit is de oorsprong des levens", 'guard your heart with care, as the origin of life comes from it')catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Eliot memorial lectures at the university of kent, explores systematically the implications of eliot's position and attempts to reconcile them with his own thoughtsalso reference label on fep, library stamp on ffep and stamp on publication details pagebeige dj with title in blue and author in brownfor a library book it is in very good condition with clean contents and tight bindingblack cloth covers with gilt titles on spineex reference library (college of librarianship wales) with reference tabs on spine of book and djeliot's paper "what is a classic?" kermode, in his tsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe dj is in very good condition as are the boardspublished by faber and faberoxfam shop darlington hardbackthe reflections in this book had their origin in t
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Oxfam shop scarborough sandro botticelli's 'the nativity', with an introduction by lionello venturi, professor at the university of romedespite some minor damage to parts of the hardcover, as shown in photographs, this book is in great conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe perfect gift for yourself or any art lovers in your lifeincludes pages of gorgeous art by sandro botticelli and insightful commentary besides
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Light foxing to cover and wear to edges and cornerslight pencil markings to text on a few pagesmatthiessen left off in his achievement of tprevious owners name to title pageeliot is generally recognized as one of the very few first-rate critical studies of arguably our finest poetbased on a series of lectures delivered at oxford university, this study begins where droxfam shop kendal paperback in good conditioneliot see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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I was expelled from the university at a younger age than most people are allowed inyou may have heard of metext block is clean and tightsuperficial scuffs and marks, reading creases to spine and rear coveri tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during daymy name is kvothei have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weepsee oxfam website for delivery information read morei have spent the night with felurian and left with both my sanity and my life" pictorial paper coversi burned down the town of trebonoxfam bookshop newport "i have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings
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Publisher: oxford university press spine, gilt letters and banding, slightly bumpedused very good conditionall edges cleanfrontboard embossed border and letters, minor tear on the top edge, bumpedbound in black clothof the same era as the herbert j butler books and complimentary too, rather than repeating the sameall pages complete and very cleanupdate of the original  backboard embossed border,bumpedpaste-downs has minor staining along the edgesevery aspect from lighting to coachwork and piston rings to seat designsee oxfam website for delivery information read more "a text book for students and draughtsmen"oxfam shop darlington hardbackendpaper has inscription by a previous owner
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By the late robert willis - edited with large additions and brought up to the present time () by john willis clark  see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop malvern volume three  with some wear at the spine ends and bottom and front edges of the boards hardcover in very good condition, some foxing on the endpapers, half-title page and very last page (advert) all text pages are in almost fine condition, with no foxing,marks or tears with numerous illustrations throughout the book xi, 722pp, including index  label pasted inside front board "theological college, ely
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Tilman (hardback) publisher: cambridge university press for readers union year published: condition is fair to good for 80 years old pictures are of of actual book description: pagesthe ascent of nanda devi by hspine is tanned with edge wearpages are slightly yellowed with moderate foxing to frontispiece and the endpapersbinding is firm with light corner bumping and scuffing around the edges of the boardsblue pictorial boards and contains black and white pictorial plates
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Condition: good: a book that has been read, but is in good conditionminimal damage to the book cover egsubject: military history -roman empire weight: 553g country/region of manufacture:united kingdom language:english author: lawrence keppie publisher:university of oklahoma press publication year: place of publication: oklahoma read more
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