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A practically grounded accessible examination of heritage as a cultural practice, the uses of heritage is global in its benefit to students and field professionals alikechallenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved because they have an inherent importance, smith forcefully demonstrates that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but rather that these objects and places are used to give tangibility to the values that underpin different communities and to assert and affirm these values the cover is slightly bowed at the tips but otherwise undamaged examining international case studies including usa, asia, australia and new zealand, laurajane smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music wells a very god clean copy of this soft cover publication with no internal markings or annotations
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Previous owner has written name and college on front endpaper in inkoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , cambridge university presssee oxfam website for delivery information read moretraditionally, 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 uncleardustwrapper has a slight chip to the spine and some markings to the rear otherwise cleanblue boards in good order
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Why has this shift occurred, and what implications does it have for professionals practicing in the heritage field? in what ways is this a 'difficult' heritage to deal with? this volume brings together academics and practitioners to explore these questions, covering not only some of the practical matters, but also the theoretical and conceptual issues, and uses case studies of historic places, museums and memorials from around the globe, including the united states, northern ireland, poland, south africa, china, japan, taiwan, cambodia, indonesia, timor and australiaoxfam books & music lichfield places of pain and shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases - or, conversely, choose to forget themthey are however increasingly being regarded as 'heritage sites', a far cry from the view of heritage that prevailed a generation ago when we were almost entirely concerned with protecting the great and beautiful creations of the past, reflections of the creative genius of humanity rather than the reverse - the destructive and cruel side of historythese sites bring shame upon us now for the cruelty and futility of the events that occurred within them and the ideologies they representedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresuch episodes and locations include: massacre and genocide sites, places related to prisoners of war, civil and political prisons, and places of 'benevolent' internment such as leper colonies and lunatic asylums
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the fore in the field of heritage, museums and galleries over the past couple of decadesthe volume is divided into four parts: presents overviews and useful starting points for critical reflection focuses more specifically on selected issues of significance, looking particularly at the museum's role and responsibilities in the postmodern and postcolonial world concentrates on issues related to cultural heritage and tourism dedicated to public participation in heritage, museum and gallery processes and activitiesthe book provides an ideal starting point for those coming to the study of museums and galleries for the first timesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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With observations on their natural history and usesvery clean pages and colour plates on bright paperare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikia beautiful bright copynot only the history of plants but also their uses, medicines, edible plants, healing etcthe grasses of great britain by charles johnson illustrated by john eour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe pages are complete with 144 colour plates by john edescribed, with observations on their natural history and uses, by charles johnsonhalf leather binding with marbled plates and gold title on the spineplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitepp: [2], xxxii, 192pp, 144 colour platesimportant english herbarium with 144 colour plates by john erobert hardwickecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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heritage & hope:dwelling in the place of wondermanufacturer: wordsurface scratches to outer casingformat: audio cdcd in excellent condition
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Trio of heritage breed turkeysÂŁ25 each or ÂŁ65 for the triowould prefer to go togetherone norfolk black one norfolk bronze one buff/bourbon red believed to be 2 female & 1 male
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Chris barber frgs, the author of eighteen previous books has written this richly illustrated portrait of torfaen to provide a detailed record of the industrial heritage of the area and also as a tribute to the wide assortment of people who have played such an important part in shaping the course of history in this remarkable part of south walessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Episodes comprise: the case of the thistle killer', 'the case of the cunningham heritage', 'the case of the winthrop legend', 'the case of the greystone inscription' and 'the case of the french interpreter'oxfam bookshop cheltenham five episodes from the s tv series, starring leslie howard's son ronald in the title rolesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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I have loved changing the uses of these jars by giving them a makeover for dozens of thingsrather than keep throwing things out try and re-use read more
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames the seeds of kokopelli - a manual for the production of seeds in the family garden - a directory of heritage seedsa little bumping at corners, contents as newsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenear fine conditionhardcover with laminated pictorial boards
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In 'the tin soldier' (), when a young boy begins hanging out with the wrong crowd the gift of a tin soldier changes his perspective; the soldier comes to life and uses his army training and principles to set the boy back on the straight and narrowbut the soldier also has a few problems of his own as he has fallen in love with a toy ballerinaalong with a motley collection of streetwise strays, the pair find themselves caught and transferred to a secret space laboratory where after some intensive training they learn they've been selected for a space flight missionin 'space dogs' (), after escaping from the local dog pound, homeless stray strelka teams up with belka, canine canonball of the local state circus, when her trajectory takes an unexpected pathoxfam shop lytham collection of four family filmsin 'the adventures of chris fable' (), chris (solomon ray), a young thief and runaway, learns that his father is in needby using these newfound powers of his, he must work together with his new friends and save the forest realmbut when his neighbour, mrtim (paul danaceau), gives him a book of spells, the book opens a gate to another world in which max is enlisted to help local elves battle their enemies, the unseeliesin 'max magician and the legend of the rings' (), max (timothy stultz) is interested in magic, isn't very popular and gets picked on by bulliesleaving his friends, he embarks on a journey throughout a mystical wilderness where a range of obstacles stand in the way of a better lifesealed, as good as new! see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop chelmsford barclay james harvest ?- the best of barclay james harvestlabel:harvest ?- shsm series:harvest heritage -format:vinyl, lp, compilation, green labelscountry:ukreleased:genre:rockstyle:prog rock, symphonic rock vinyl ex  cover very good see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop chelmsford the demography of victorian england and wales uses the full range of nineteenth-century civil registration material to describe in detail for the first time the changing population history of england and wales between andsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis invaluable reference tool is lavishly illustrated with numerous tables, figures and maps, many of which are reproduced in full colourits principal focus is the great demographic revolution which occurred during those years, especially the secular decline of fertility and the origins of the modern rise in life expectancybut robert woods also considers the variable quality of the victorian registration system; the changing role of what robert malthus termed the preventive check; variations in occupational mortality and the development of the twentieth-century class mortality gradient; and the effects of urbanisation associated with the significance of distinctive disease environmentsthe volume also illustrates the fundamental importance of geographical variations between urban and rural areas
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Oxfam bookshop glossop road cover heavily creased with slight tears and sellotape repair attempts, pages very slightly creased, good overall condition this new field guide uses all of the plates from birds of western africa, with a concise, authoritative text on facing pages, to create a conveniently-sized, lightweight field reference covering all species found in the regionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is the firstcomprehensive field guide to cover the birds of this exciting region,and will enable birders to identify any species found in any of thecountries coveredthe book also has an updated colour distribution map for each species,conveniently placed on interleaved pages within the colour platesanumber of new images have been painted for this new field guide andseveral of the plates have been replacedbirds of western africa (helm, ) was the firstsingle-volume guide to cover all species of this region, whichcomprises all countries from senegal and southern mauritania east tochad and the central african republic and south to congo
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Pringle also looks at the uses of mummies for today's historians and scientists and how much they tell us about ancient culturesthis book introduces us to the eccentric world of the researchers and academics who investigate such phenomena as the child mummies of the chinchorro, preserved over years ago, animal mummies from ancient eygpt, the 19th century buddhist tradition of self-mummification to ward off decay, and the political mummification of 20th century demagogues like lenin and eva peronsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis research is sometimes bizarre, but often reveals fundamental truthsoxfam bookshop cheltenham from the dusty origins of mummification in the deserts of south america and africa to the latest technology hyped on the internet by utah's summum corporation (which promises mummification for millennia for a mere $), "the mummy congress" investigates the allure of mummiesin heather pringle visited the remote chilean port of arica for the world congress on mummy studies
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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 skirmishthe planet is now ruled by queen thalira - daughter of the last king peladon - with advice from chancellor ortronthe doctor however turns the heat ray on some of the martians, while others are dispatched by the minerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe doctor is invited by thalira to take over as chancellor but he declines, suggesting the miners' leader gebek would make a better candidateoxfam music shop byres road the tardis returns to peladon some fifty years after the doctor's last visitthe 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, eckersleyits plans thwarted, galaxy 5 surrenders to the federationthe 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 peladonazaxyr mounts an attack on the throne room and kills ortroneckersley 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 federationa ghost-like image of aggedor has been responsible for some deaths in the planet's trisilicate mines, heightening unrest amoungst the miners
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It uses the experience sayers had of literary creativity to illuminate christian doctrine about the nature of the doctrine of the trinitythe binding is soundthe corners are bumpedthe back free end paper show slight marks" see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe top and bottom of the spine show signs of wearthe front paste down end paper has a book plate glued to itoxfam bookshop keynsham the book is in good condition though the front board is bowed"a christian theological bookthe top edge is marked with a small stain, all edges are browned
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Michael kennedy, a leading scholar of british music and a distinguished musical biographer, uses this material, which includes elgar's own vast correspondence, in an attempt to get to the centre of the composer's complex personalitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis relationships with his wife and other women friends are a continuing thread in the life of a man who remained acutely conscious of his lower middle-class origins in spite of his meteoric rise to fame, honours in edward vii's reign and friendship with the kingelgar's letters reveal his unpredictable swings of mood, from gaiety and a fondness for puns to morose self-pity and a feeling that he was 'not wanted', and although much of elgar's music sounds confident and coherent, it also has an underlying layer of unease, melancholy and insecurityoxfam bookshop shaftesbury this important biography of elgar draws on letters and documents which became available in the preceding twenty-five years
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In this beautiful and elegantly argued book, maurice howard reveals that changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of construction and the self-image of major patrons in the revolutionary century between reformation and civil waroxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , yalewhile the dissolution of the monasteries in the s resulted in the destruction of much of england's built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emergedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the following century, former monasteries were eventually adapted to a variety of uses: royal palaces and country houses, town halls and schools, almshouses and re-fashioned parish churchesa very good copy
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Harvey begins with an insightful critique of the political uses of freedom and liberty, especially during the george wdemonstrated by incidents at abu ghraib and guantánamo bay, the pursuit of liberty and freedom can lead to violence and repression, undermining our trust in universal theories of liberalism, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanismpresidents as diverse as woodrow wilson, franklin delano roosevelt, john fsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepolitical agendas tend to fail, he argues, because they ignore the complexities of geographycombining his passions for politics and geography, david harvey charts a cosmopolitan order more appropriate to an emancipatory form of global governancekennedy, ronald reagan, and george woxfam bookshop wanstead liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political actionthen, through an ontological investigation into geography's foundational concepts, space, place, and environment, he radically reframes geographical knowledge as a basis for social theory and political actionincorporating geographical knowledge into the formation of social and political policy is therefore a necessary condition for genuine democracyyet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the groundas harvey makes clear, the cosmopolitanism that emerges is rooted in human experience rather than illusory ideals and brings us closer to achieving the liberation we seekbush administrationbush have built their policies on some version of these noble values
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Broken sword uses a basic point-and-click interface, where moving a pointer around various onscreen hot spots allows different actions to be performedfancying himself to be a better detective than the local authorities, your nosy tourist dives headfirst into mystery and intrigue, hot on the trail of the killer clownthe game opens with a malevolent-looking clown bombing a café where you're sitting, leaving a man dead and many questions unansweredoxfam shop ulverston broken sword: the shadow of the templars is actually a colourfully animated adventure game that casts you as an american tourist vacationing in paris• 60 beautifully animated characters • 70 breathtaking, hand drawn locations • compelling gameplay for the would-be adventurer • dive into an adventure of global exploration • solve cryptic puzzles • fight for survival for windows see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop glossop road very sligth shelf wear, otherwise very good condition in the first comprehensive work to articulate a psychoanalytic metaphysics based on process thought, the author uses dialectical logic to show how the nature and structure of mental life is constitutedarguing that ego development is produced not only by consciousness but also evolves from unconscious genesis, he makes the controversial claim that an unconscious semiotics serves as the template for language and all meaning structuresa thought-provoking account of idealism, origins confronts the limitations of materialism and empiricism while salvaging the roles of agency and freedom that have been neglected by the biological sciencessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Forgotten books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copysee oxfam website for delivery information read morewe do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works the paperback is in very good condition throughoutin rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our editionoxfam bookshop wallingford  this book is a reproduction of an important historical work from
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Broken sword uses a basic point-and-click interface, where moving a pointer around various onscreen hot spots allows different actions to be performed 60 beautifully animated characters  70 breathtaking, hand drawn locations  compelling gameplay for the would-be adventurer  dive into an adventure of global exploration  solve cryptic puzzles  fight for survival for windows see oxfam website for delivery information read morefancying himself to be a better detective than the local authorities, your nosy tourist dives headfirst into mystery and intrigue, hot on the trail of the killer clownthe game opens with a malevolent-looking clown bombing a café where you're sitting, leaving a man dead and many questions unansweredoxfam shop ulverston broken sword: the shadow of the templars is actually a colourfully animated adventure game that casts you as an american tourist vacationing in paris
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop aberystwyth this book looks at the work of key choreographers, whose rhythmic innovations challenged established norms of energy usage in their socio-cultural contexts, enabling their contemporaries to engage differently with dominant economics of energy
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As you follow along, you ll program your robot to: react to different environments and respond to commands - follow a wall to navigate a maze - display drawings that you input with dials, sensors, and data wires on the ev3 screen - play a simon says style game that uses arrays to save your high score - follow a line using a pid-type controller like the ones in real industrial systemsoxfam bookshop hertford with its colorful, block-based interface, the lego mindstorms ev3 programming language is designed to allow anyone to program intelligent robots, but its powerful features can be intimidating at firstsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyou ll also learn good programming practices, memory management, and helpful debugging strategies general skills that will be relevant to programming in any language all of the book s programs work with one general-purpose test robot that you ll build early on inside, you ll discover how to combine core ev3 elements like blocks, data wires, files, and variables to create sophisticated programsthe art of lego mindstorms ev3 programming is a full-color, beginner-friendly guide designed to bridge that gap
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Oxfam bookshop kingsbridge combine your magic and play with up to two friends on your pc to create bigger, more powerful charms and jinxes - experiment with magic, explore the world of hogwarts to discover new spell uses and combinations - compete in the triwizard tournament, facing the deadly hungarian horntail dragon, the icy depths of the black lake and an enchanted mazevery faint marks to disc which should not affect playsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Quest stand a lone awning adjustable heights only used once comes with curtains and a extra cover so basically 2 covers for the price of one as new 2nd cover never used would make good extension to motorhome for a wide range of uses
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreit was an achievement that places him with his mentor, cook, in the first rank of marine surveyorsit has been possible to identify virtually all the host of islands, channels and inlets that vancouver encountered, and the provenance of most of the approximately 400 place names he bestowed, nine out of ten of which are still in use, is indicatedthey attracted his interest, and the attention he devoted to the islands, their inhabitants and their political future when he twice later wintered there will surprise manyall pages are very clean and crisp all solid bindingsvancouver, by contrast, surveyed the enormous extent of coast from lower california to cook inlet, and his meticulous survey literally set out on the map of the world the intricacies of puget sound and the western coast of mainland canadavery small tear to spine on volume iithese supplement vancouver's narrative at many pointsthe final volume contains the remainder of book 5 of a voyage of discoveryoxfam bookshop skipton four of the greatest maritime exploring expeditions were crammed into two decades late in the 18th century - cook's third voyage, the french expedition commanded by la perouse, the malaspina expedition sent out by spain, and george vancouver's voyage of discoveryall four visited the northwest coast of north america, but weather and circumstances prevented cook from making more than what beaglehole calls ' a magnificent, an epoch-making reconnaissance'; la perouse only touched the coast in a significant way at yakutat bay and lituya bay, and malasina's memorable visits were to yakutat bay and nootka soundthe volumes are nos in the hakluyt society second series, originally published in volume set hardbacksappendices include documents relating to the voyage and a list of the ships' companyas a midshipman vancouver had been with cook when he discovered the sandwich (hawaiian) islands inthe original manuscript has disappeared, but fortunately no fewer than 25 partial or complete logs or journals by other members of the expedition have survivedall dust covers present (unclipped) some rubbing wear to dust coverthe third volume in the set includes the remainder of book 3, all book 4, part of book 5, covering the pacific coast of north america and return to hawaiivolume i contains book 1 of this new and annotated edition of a voyage of discoverythe voyage to australia and tahitithe main pagination of all four volumes is continuousvolume ii continue with book 2 and part of book 3 of the new edition, and contains the voyage to hawaii and the north american coastthis is the first annotated edition of vancouver's journal as he revised it for publication init covers the coast of north america
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