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Examining political, economic, and cultural relations between siena and the contado, diana norman offers a new understanding of marian art and its political function as an expression of civic ideologythis richly illustrated book explores late medieval sienese art-how it was created, commissioned, and understood by the citizens of sienashe analyzes similarly important commissions in the contado towns of massa marittima, montalcino, and montepulcianocasting new light on such topics as the original site for the reliquary tomb of saint cerbone, patron saint of massa marittima, and the identity of the patrons of the marian frescoes in the rural hermitage of san leonardo al lago, the author deepens our insight into the origins and meanings of sienese art production of the late medieval periodsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredrawing on extensive unpublished archives, norman reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the commission of marian art in the three most prestigious locations of fourteenth-century siena: the cathedral, the palazzo pubblico, and the hospital of santa maria della scalathe book is in as new condition in a slip case which has a little shelfwearsuch celebratory portraits of the virgin were also common in siena's extensive subject territories, the contadofirst edition publishedoxfam books & music beaconsfield celebrating the virgin mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride, artists of fourteenth-century siena established for their city a vibrant tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century
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Laying bare the personalities, pyrotechnics and political intrigues of the blair years, it was described as yes minister meets alan clark' peter hain 'every once in a while, political diaries emerge that are so irreverent and insightful that they are destined to be handed out as leaving presents in offices across whitehall for years to comea view from the foothills is one such bookfunny and self-deprecating, the new diaries run from his sacking by blair as a minister after the elections to election day as he prepares to step down after 23 years as an mp wryly observing ' they say failed politicians make the best diarists, in which case i am in with a chance' david cameron, observer books of the year see oxfam website for delivery information read more' praise for a view from the foothills 'gems sprinkled across every pageoxfam shop haddington signed by authorchris mullin's bestselling a view from the foothills provided a riveting insider's account of life as a junior minister
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Plausible legality legal culture and political imperative in the global war on terror by rebecca sanders (hardback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is usually within 12 to 14 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Oxfam shop magdelen street the asperger social guide is a pocket sized travel guide for adults with aspergers syndrome exploring the social worldi endorse their explanations, tips and strategies and will be recommending the asperger social guide to my adult clients and those who support them- professor tony attwoodgenevieve and dean have written a practical handbook based on their personal experiencessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey know what people with aspergers syndrome need to know and write in a clear and engaging style
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James cook) and influential cartographersmapping the silk road and beyond traces the history of the european age of exploration and its lasting effects on these regions through an extensive series of beautifully rendered and imaginative maps drawn by explorers, merchants, and colonial administrators of the timeoxfam bookshop brighton today the world is focusing unprecedented attention on asia and the middle east - rediscovering a cultural, political, and geographical landscape that has fascinated and frustrated westerners since the time of alexander the greatthese maps represent the finest examples in existence in museums, libraries, and archives around the world, chosen because they depict the most important milestones in the mapping of asiathe maps provide detailed visual keys to the fascinating history of asia and the middle east: altogether they illuminate a cast of historical figures ranging from great leaders (the queen of sheba, mohammed the prophet, king charles v) to legendary explorers (marco polo, columbus, magellan, sir francis drake, captthe book focuses on both maritime exploration and overland discovery via the ancient silk road: a network of trading posts that encompassed china, tibet, pakistan, india, kurdistan, iraq, ethiopia, eritrea, and dozens of other places known in ancient times by fabled names, including abyssinia, malacca, macassar, siam, and cathaymapping the silk road and beyond depicts over eighty maps organized in clear chronology - from alexander the great's map of the world, first created in 323 bc and reproduced in a sixteenth-century atlas, to maps from the nineteenth century by french and dutch explorers that detail the growing interaction between europeans and eastern culturessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The text block appears to be clean and unmarkedoxfam bookshop hexham 'the genocide in rwanda showed us how terrible the consequences of inaction can be in the face of mass murderon the one hand, is it legitimate for a regional organisation to use force without a un mandate on the other, is it permissible to let gross and systematic violations of human rights, with grave humanitarian consequences, continue unchecked ' (united nations secretary-general kofi annan)this volume is an invaluable contribution to the debate on all aspects of this vital global issuethis book is a comprehensive, integrated discussion of 'the dilemma' of humanitarian interventionthere are a few scuffs and minor scratches on the cover, front and back, and the spine is creasedthe corners are bumpedbut the conflict in kosovo raised equally important questions about the consequences of action without international consensus and clear legal authoritythis paperback first edition is in a good, used conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewritten by leading analysts of international politics, ethics, and law, it seeks, among other things, to identify strategies that may, if not resolve, at least reduce the current tension between human rights and state sovereignty
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Insurance may be a more efficient way to organise resources than a community barn raising, but the deep social and human ties that are constitutive of community are weakened by the shift from reciprocity to market relations marglin dissects the ways in which the foundational assumptions of economics justify a world in which individuals are isolated from one another and social connections are impoverished as people define themselves in terms of how much they can afford to consumenow a farmer whose barn burns down turns, not to his neighbours, but to his insurance companyoxfam bookshop hertford economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and that the only community that matters is the nation-state marglin presents an account of how this happened and an argument for righting the imbalance in our lives that this ideology has fosteredin the past, for example, when a farm family experienced a setback - say the barn burned down - neighbours pitched insee oxfam website for delivery information read morehowever, as stephen marglin argues, market relationships erode communityover the last four centuries, this economic ideology has become the dominant ideology in much of the world
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Designer "legatte" outfit, womens dress and jacketfun outfit that could be worn to the races, on summer holiday, casual or dressy! read morevibrant autumn colours and trendy full length dresshardly ever worn and in excellent conditionsize 14 or french 42, usa 10
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Sara macdonald and barry craig demonstrate that their comedies, in particular, which are often dismissed as mere entertainments, actually present substantial philosophic and political argumentsin those works, they discover insightful engagements with such ideas as questions of human freedom, the relationship of reason to religion, and the nature of liberal democracy in the american regimeoxfam bookshop byres road both critically and commercially successful filmmakers, the coen brothers have written, produced, and directed numerous acclaimed films over the past three decadesthey examine five of the coen brothers' comedies: raising arizona, fargo, the big lebowski, o brother, where art thou, and hail caesar!see oxfam website for delivery information read morethey demonstrate how sometimes explicitly, but generally implicitly, the coens draw on thinkers such as homer, plato, dante, and hegel, while simultaneously presenting popular entertainment
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The shifting military and political alliances in the area and the presence of the modern indian navy are variables that will strongly affect future war in these troubled waters
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Though primarily diplomatic history, it seeks to bring out the economic forces and political ideas which shaped day-to-day diplomacyoxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreedmunds this book describes relations of the great european powers when europe was still the centre of the world
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womens blue and black top, size 16, lightweight material, sleeve length to the elbow, viscose elastine material, very good condition, never worn
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womens brown and black top size 16, sleeve length to the elbow, viscose elastine material, very good condition, never worn
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Oxfam shop cockermouth the encyclopedia provides a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and discipline discussing human, social and cultural life in all its diversity and difference see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Introduction to feminist therapy strategies for social and individual change by kathy mevans (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 7 to 9 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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social and economic rights in ireland by claire mitchell smyth (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 12 to 14 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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womens fashion and accessoriessome items are brand new with tagsitems are posted trackedall sizes availablegiving pre-loved fashion a new lease of life, most items are used but in immaculate conditionpreluxeboutique on facebook and instagram read more
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womens black and white striped trousers, size 16, very good condition, never worn, linen and viscose material, comfy everyday trousers
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womens blue and white striped trousers, size 16, very good condition, never worn, linen and viscose material, comfy everyday trousers
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Early american furniture makers - a social and biographical study by thomas hamilton ormsbee missing dust jacket; pages can have notes/highlightingspine may show signs of wear~ thriftbooks: read more, spend less
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Without 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 brittenhe 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 yorkfrom 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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The exhibits come mainly from the prehistoric minoan era and form a valuable record of the artistic, social and economic life of the island during the ancient periodoxfam shop thornbury the herakleion museum contains a unique collection of finds from excavations carried out in all parts of cretesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratificationoxfam bookshop beverley in , the pacific island village of matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruptionthrough detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting pointit also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projectssee oxfam website for delivery information read moresuch new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the pacific, and more widely
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This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in picture postcards and those interested in popular art and social and cultural history it is an entertaining and informative take on the subject the dustcover is a little worn at the edgessee oxfam website for delivery information read more the book is in very good condition, covers and spine are firm, binding is strong and pages are clean and clear with no internal markingoxfam shop lincoln this collectors' item is the story of the picture postcard and its place in the history of popular art
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Shambhala: the sacred path of the warrior: book and card set rrp £149 the set is practically like new apart from small tear along 2 side of lid on the crease (which lifts away like a flap) - which could be glued and you probably wouldn't noticethe shambhala book and card set offers readers a unique and accessible way to put the principles of the sacred warrior to practice in daily life through a series of slogans or maxims that emphasize facing the world with openness and fearlessnessthrough these teachings, readers can start to gain personal freedom and power, overcome negative habitual patterns, find the sacred dimension of everyday life, and discover the basic goodness of human lifethe box includes: 53 four-color cards, with a shambhala warrior slogan on one side and commentary from the tibetan buddhist master ch÷gyam trungpa on the reverse sidean 16-page booklet with instructions on how the slogans can be applied to one's own life throughout the day - a 256-page unabridged edition of trungpa's classic book shambhala: the sacred path of the warrior the majority of the slogans and commentary are drawn from shambhala: the sacred path of the warriorthere is a mark on the front of box too (see all pictures) rrp £149 since ancient times, the path of the enlightened warrior has been a powerful and inspiring ideal, showing us how we can master the challenges of life and draw power not from violence or aggression but through the cultivation of gentleness, courage, and self-knowledgealso a little blue has transfered from the box faintly onto the rim of pages (nothing which is going to effect the reading of it) and the same has also happened on the edges of the cardscan post extra £3the remainder of the slogans, which have never before been available to a general audience, were composed by chogyam trungpa to be used in shambhala training, a program that he developed as a way to train people in the path and practice of warriorship
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Only 15% of waugh's letters have previously been publishedthe edition's general editor is alexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume personal writings sequencethe origins of the works are explored, and annotations to each piece seek to assist the modern readerall volumes will be beautifully produced, and have comprehensive introductions and detailed annotationthis volume is part of the complete works of evelyn waugh critical edition, which brings together all waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variantslong interred in fashion magazines, popular newspapers, sober journals, undergraduate reviews, and bbc archives, 110 of the 170 pieces in the volume have never before been reprintedalexander waugh, evelyn waugh's grandson, is editing a twelve-volume personal writings sequence for the series, intercalating over letters with the complete, unexpurgated diariesfinally, in early waugh travelled for three months in remote british guiana, resulting in nine travel articles and a handful of dust, acclaimed as one of the most distinguished novels of the centurywaughs works are placed in their rich literary and historical context, enabling readers to appreciate for the first time the range and complexity of his thinking and artistic practice, and linking this to the work of his contemporaries in britain, america and europefiction and non-fiction volumes will also contain a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variantswaugh was 19 when his first oxford review appeared, 31 when the spectator printed his last review ofthis is a young writer's book, and the always lucid articles and reviews it presents read as fresh and lively, as challenging and opinionated, as the day they first appearedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreseveral typescripts of articles and reviews are published here for the first time, as are a larger number of unsigned pieces never before identified as waugh'sthe complete works will revolutionize waugh studies, and offer new insights for twentieth-century literary and cultural studies generallythe volume embraces university journalism; essays from waugh's years of drift after oxford; forcefully emphatic articles and contrasting sophisticated reviews written for the metropolitan press from to (the most active and enterprising years of waugh's career); reports for three newspapers of a coronation in abyssinia and essays for the times on the condition of ethiopia and on british policy in arabiaoriginal texts, so easily distorted in the production process, have been established as far as possible using manuscript and other controlsno other edition of a british novelist has been undertaken on this scaleoxfam bookshop victoria the complete works of evelyn waugh offers the first scholarly edition of waugh's work, bringing together all of his extant writings and graphic art: novels, biographies, travel writing, short fiction, essays, articles, reportage, reviews, poems, juvenilia, parerga, drawings, and designsthis first volume of evelyn waugh's articles, essays, and reviews contains every traceable piece of journalism that research could uncover written by waugh between january , when he first went up to oxford, and december , when he had recently returned from british guiana and was enjoying the runaway success of a handful of dust
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