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Oxfam bookshop glossop road slight shelf wear, small creases, otherwise very good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The psychology of global citizenship a review of theory and research by stephen reysen (hardback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is usually within 11 to 13 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Each month we recycle over 2general interest3 million books, saving over tonnes of books a year from going straight into landfill siteshow math explains the world: a guide to the power of numbers, from car repair to modern physics
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Oxfam original liverpool the world has made me the man of my dreamsmeshell ndegeocello  format- audio cd- see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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From the popular tv series: the dukes of hazard dodge - chrysler - red ertl noare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storenew price: €158 weight: 952 g without original packagingplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitevery good condition for me without visible defects, pictures are part of the descriptioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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'league of gentlemen at drury lane'() is the live stage adaptation of the popular tv seriesoxfam shop edenbridge box set featuring the feature film and two specials from the cult tv programmein 'the league of gentlemen are behind you' () the tradition of the great british panto is lampooned by the crackpot crewsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe locals then discover that they are in fact fictional creations of the 'league of gentlemen' comedy troupemaking their way through a mysterious portal into the real world, murderous butcher hilary briss (mark gatiss), embittered businessman geoff tipps (shearsmith) and sinister pederast herr lipp (steve pemberton) confront their creators in an effort to force them to continue writing about royston vasey'the league of gentlemen's apocalypse' () is the big screen version of the programme in which misanthropic vicar bernice (reece shearsmith) discovers a prophecy that warns of the destruction of royston vaseythe town of royston vasey is populated by many strange and eccentric individualsthe annual panto in royston vasey is at least as creepy and wacky as you'd expect
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In the procession, the young males of the island, dressed in the traditional dress of thethe last one is based on a tradition going back to the end of the 17th century
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Geology and plant life: the effects of landforms and rock types on plants paperback – 1 jundrawing on case histories from around the world, arthur kruckeberg demonstrates the role of landforms and rock types in producing the unique geographical distributions of plants and in stimulating evolutionary diversification
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The result is an enthralling account of life during the second world war and in the years of recovery and recrimination that followed the liberation of paris inhow would you have survived?
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Oxfam bookshop knutsford a monumental history of the nineteenth century, the transformation of the world offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transitionosterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railwaysindispensable for any historian, the transformation of the world sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developmentsjĂĽrgen osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering eruditionhe examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from new york to new delhi, from the latin american revolutions to the taiping rebellion, from the perils and promise of europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planethe explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much morefirst edition see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is the highly anticipated english edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed german book, which is also being translated into chinese, polish, russian, and french
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It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in global ethics and their implications for substantive moral issues in global politicsoxfam bookshop reading the field of global ethics draws on traditions of moral theory, mostly derived from western philosophy, in order to address moral problems specific to an increasingly globalised worldthis book provides an accessible introduction to the field of global ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalisationthese issues include the morality of state and non-state violence, the obligations of rich to poor in a globalising world and the scope and nature of international human rightssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe aim of the book is to help non-specialist students understand the assumptions underpinning different moral traditions and to enable them to make up their own minds about the best way of approaching moral judgment and prescription in a shared world, which is nevertheless marked by massive cultural differences and inequalities of power
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world sinceusing newly opened kremlin archives and his own experiences in the field, martin walker has written a brilliant analysis of the conflict that has shaped the contemporary worldfrom the origins of the marshall plan, which revived europe after world war ii, and the strategic decision to rebuild a defeated japan into a bulwark against china to the collapse of the berlin wall, this authoritative work reveals how the west was built into an economic alliance that overpowered the soviet economy while also unleashing global economic forces that today challenge the traditional nation-statenow that it is over, it is crucial to our future to understand how the cold war has shaped us and, especially, to recognize it as the economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of today's global economythe cold war was more of a global conflict than was either of this century's two major wars; far more than a confrontation between states or even empires, it was, as martin walker puts it, "a total war between economic and social systems, an industrial test to destructionthe west continued to be alarmed by the prospect of defeat right up to the soviet empire's last breathfor more than forty years, as this detailed analysis makes clear, the outcome of the cold war was in doubtas the united states became the national security state, california, which had a population of five million at the start of the cold war, grew to thirty million and, by the s provided one in every ten members of congress and two presidentssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewe also come to understand how the arms race caused new alignments and shifts in domestic power"walker reminds us how easy it is to forget that there were many occasions for the late s on when victory seemed far from assured, and that lent a particular urgency to the efforts of postwar western leadersat the end of the s the fear was generated by communist expansion into eastern europe and china; in the s by the prospect of defeat in vietnamin the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominence" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold war
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For the film studies scholar, or for all those who love russian cinema and want to learn more, directory of world cinema: russia will be an essential companionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom sergei eisenstein's anti-tsarist drama, the battleship potemkin, to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic explosion, this volume explores the sociopolitical impact of the cinema of russia and the former soviet unionoxfam shop nether edge be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their timeintroductory essays establish key players and situate important genres within their cultural and industrial milieus, while reviews and case studies analyse individual titles in considerable depth
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Oxfam bookshop raeburn place this thoroughly updated edition of global security in the twenty-first century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas in the worldkay focuses especially on the implications of the election of barack obama and the changing role of the united states in global security writing in an engaging style, kay integrates traditional and emerging challenges in one easily accessible study that gives readers the tools they need to develop a thoughtful and nuanced understanding of global security sean kay assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and peace has evolved in relation to major flashpoints including in the middle east, asia, and eurasia he builds on the first edition's emphasis on the role of trade and technology, the militarization of space, the privatization of security, the use of sanctions, ethnic conflict, and transnational crimesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis edition goes even farther to incorporate traditional thinking about national security in the context of human rights, democracy, population, health, environment, energy, and especially education
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Now, as the world realigns itself in the wake of september 11, hutton turns his attention to the global picture, and the ways in which the new world should be orderedoxfam bookshop royal exchange square 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 states where, over the past 30 years, the forces of conservatism have achieved such supremacy as to reduce liberalism to a term of abusesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeurope should not be afraid to stand up against the american version of globalisation, and champion the cause of a reinvigorated international society - taking over the mantle now abandoned by the usbut britain and europe are different: our attitudes towards property, equality, social solidarity and the public realm are strikingly distinct from amerrica's current conservative leaningsthe results have been dire: america is a weaker, fragmented society, and its economic strenths are oversold and misunderstood
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Now, 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 orderedto understand the global economy, hutton argues, one must first understand the united statesoxfam 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 warhe 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 povertyit 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 fairnessand whilst american ideas dominated the latter part of the twentieth century, hutton argues that the underpinning of the twenty-first must come from europesee 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 abuse
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Forming part of a series, along with the gwr handbook, the lms handbook and the southern railway handbook, this new edition provides an authoritative and highly detailed reference of information about the lnerrenowned for its express locomotive mallard setting a world speed record (126mph) for steam locomotives that endures to this day, the london & north eastern railway was the second largest of the big four rail way companies to emerge from the grouping and also the most diverse, with its prestigious high-speed trains from kings cross balanced by an intensive suburban and commuter service from liverpool street and a high dependence on freightoxfam shop scarborough the book is in very good condition, the only defects are small creases and dirt on the front and back cover, inside the book the pages are clean and readablesee oxfam website for delivery information read morenoted for its cautious board and thrifty management, the lner gained a reputation for being poor but honest
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Rather, by using a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, the book situates fear in more global terms, breaks new ground in the historical and cultural analysis of emotions, and sets out a new agenda for further researchit has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernityin these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, facing fear sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts, and demonstrates how fear universally binds us to particular presents but also to a broad spectrum of memories, stories, and states in the pastoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, only slight shelf wear to cover fear is ubiquitous but slipperyfrom the eighteenth-century peruvian highlands and the california borderlands to the urban cityscapes of contemporary russia and india, this book collectively explores the wide range of causes, experiences, and explanations of this protean emotionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein addition to the editors, the contributors are alexander etkind, lisbeth haas, andreas killen, david lederer, melani mcalister, ronald schechter, marla stone, ravi sundaram, and charles walkerthe volume contributes to the thriving literature on the history of emotions and destabilizes narratives that have often understood fear in very specific linguistic, cultural, and geographical settings
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The text offers a view of world music from 'within,' building on original, qualitative, interview-based research with people from the british world music scenethese interviews provide unique insights into the discursive repertoires that underpin contemporary culture, and will make a significant contribution to the mainly theoretical debates about world musichaynes adds a conceptual and textual shift to these debates by utilizing world music as a lens for examining cultural imaginaries of race and analytical nuances of racializationthis book presents a sociological analysis of this enduring relationship and asks: how are ideas of race critical to the understanding of music genres and preferences? what does the 'love of difference' via music contribute to contemporary perspectives of racism? previous studies of world music have situated it within the dynamics of local/global musical production, the representation of nations and ethnic groups, theories of globalization, hybridization and cultural appropriationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morerace and music seem fatally entwined in a way that involves both creative ethnic hybridity and ongoing problems of racismoxfam bookshop hove minor shelf wear to hardcover, contents in very good, clean condition throughout
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This book, lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, is the first comprehensive reference on lizards around the worldpart three gives an unprecedented global view of evolutionary trends that have shaped present-day lizard communities and considers the impact of humans on their futurea definitive resource containing many entertaining anecdotes, this magnificent book opens a new window to the natural world and the evolution of life on earthpianka and laurie jpublished by the university of california press, this paperback book is in very good used condition with only minor wear to edges and bumping to cornerssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreaccessible, scientifically up-to-date, and written with contagious enthusiasm for the subject, lizards: windows to the evolution of diversity covers species evolution, diversity, ecology, and biologyvitt have studied and photographed members of almost all lizard families worldwide, and they bring to the book a deep knowledge based on extensive firsthand experience with the animals in their natural habitatsin part two the authors take us on a fascinating tour of the world's manifold lizard species, beginning with iguanians, an evolutionary group that includes some of the most bizarre lizards, the true chameleons of africa and madagascaroxfam books & music fareham from tiny to gigantic, from drab to remarkably beautiful, from harmless to venomous, lizards are spectacular products of natural selectionwe also meet the glass lizard, able to break its tail into many highly motile pieces to distract a predator from its body; lizards that can run across water; and limbless lizards, such as snakesinternally clean and unmarkedpart one explores lizard lifestyles, answering such questions as why lizards are active when they are, why they behave as they do, how they avoid predators, why they eat what they eat, and how they reproduce and socialize
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Oxfam bookshop beverley as globalization and market liberalization march forward unabated the global commons continue to be commodified and privatized at a rapid pacethe book then presents case studies of important water privatization initiatives in the region, drawing out crucial themes common to water privatization debates around the world including corruption, gender equity and donor conditionalitiesin this global process, the ownership, sale and supply of water is increasingly a flashpoint for debates and conflict over privatization, and nowhere is the debate more advanced or acute than in southern africathis book is powerful and necessary reading in our new age of commoditysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe age of commodity provides an overview of the debates over water in the region including a conceptual overview of water 'privatization', how it relates to human rights, macro-economic policy and gats
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I have for sale a sony icf-sw77 world radio stereo lw/mw/sw/fm i have had this radio for a number of years, but never really used itit is a very high quality and adaptable radioplease feel free to ask any questionsit can also work from 4 x size c batteriesit comes complete with ac mains power adaptorit is in perfect working orderperfect visual conditionit looks totally newi can't find a mark on itsome consider it to be one of the best radios sony every built, but now discontinued
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The first world war threw the imperial order into crisisdrawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world orderas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencesas imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easier to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinyminor signs of shelf wearoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good conditionnew states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handsbritain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwiseat the paris peace conference of , the allies agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationsthe allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves createdsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadcolonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva to demand a repartition of the spoils
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Oxfam shop okehampton radio engineers handbook see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Roberts r861 multi-band pll rds world radio (used in great condition) this details are taken from online site0v dc * ac adaptor*** not included * size 225 x 135 x 40mm * weight 820g (without batts) * included: soft carrying pouch, portable sw antenna, instruction manual, bbc world service radio guide0w * power 4 x aa cells (batt life 16hrs) * ext dc input socket 6frequency: khz (lw) * khz (mw) (9/10khz steps) * sw coverage mhz (am, ssb) * mhz (fm) * modes: am, usb, lsb, fm (fm stereo) * am wide/narrow filter * pll synthesized tuner * 307 memories: 261 sw, 18 mw, 18 fm 9 lw, + plus priority station * automatic tuning system (ats) * scan tuning * direct, memory, rotary tuning * tone control * rf gain control (local/dx) * signal strength * fm stereo through earphones * keylock switch * rds (radio data system) - station name * digital clock * battery level indicator * telescopic whip * af output power 1unsure how up to date? collection only pr2
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Oxfam shop colne road with its first broadcast on bbc radio 4 on march , this dramatised tale of middle earth became an instant global classicsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith his uncle bilbo having mysteriously disappeared, frodo finds himself in possession of a simple gold ring that has great and evil powerbrian sibley's famous adaptation has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly-recorded beginning and end narration by ian holm, who now stars as bilbo in the feature films based on the lord of the ringspart one, the fellowship of the ring, introduces us to frodo bagginsfrodo must do everything he can to prevent this, and with the help of gandalf the wizard and a band of loyal companions he begins a perilous journey across middle-earthas new in shelfworn jewel caseit boasts a truly outstanding cast including ian holm (as frodo), sir michael hordern (as gandalf), robert stephens (as aragorn), bill nighy (as sam gamgee) and john le mesurier (as bilbo)it is the ruling ring, taken long ago from the dark lord, sauron, who now seeks to possess it againsauron's black riders are on their trail as they travel to rivendell, attempt to cross the snow-swept misty mountains and, in desperation, enter the terrifying mines of moria
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The authentic map directory of london and suburbs fourth edition edited by james bain, fa collectors book of london of days gone by published by geographia ltd55, fleet street, london, econsisting of a large-scale coloured street plan of london and suburbs in 173 sections; a plan of the city of london in 3 sections; maps showing parliamentary, administrative, police and petty sessional divisions; home counties; underground railways map; map showing postal districts; and a complete index to the sectional street plan and the plan of the city containing over names
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A directory of glasgow from the early-mid 'spages are yellowed and foxing with age, spine is partially detached though the book remains readableoxfam bookshop victoria road condition: used fair see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe pages are neat and sqare with the exception of the street plan which is removed from the bookcondition of the book is used and fair, with red cloth cover and bronzed embossing
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In this year's prestigious series of reith lectures, soyinka considers fear as a predominant theme in world politicsin this extraordinary book, developed from the bbc radio 4 reith lectures, soyinka explores the changing face of fear: the conflict between power and freedom; the complex motives behind unthinkable acts of violence; the meaning of human dignity; while comparing the fanaticism of powerful terrorists with the attitude of world leaders - discovering terrifying similaritieswe are all potential targetsoxfam bookshop carlisle wole soyinka was the first african to be awarded the nobel prize for literaturethe fear is created by tyranny and by furtive, invisible power, the power of the quasi-state, and terrorismfrom niger to manhattan, and now to madrid, this climate of fear has stretched to engulf the globe, warning its inhabitants that there is now no distinction between the involved or non-involvedfrom the fear of a terrorist with a bomb in his bag to the threat of a virus sent by a computer hacker with a lust for destruction, fear of the invisible threat is now omnipresentsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor soyinka, 11th september did not instigate the development of the climate of fear that has enveloped the world, it was in when, a few months before the lockerbie disaster, a passenger plane was brought down by terrorists over the republic of nigera few decades ago the existence of collective fear had an immediately identifiable face - the nuclear bombcover & spine in very good conditionnow it is much more complexpages are slightly dog-eared and shows signs of age
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Bench kh digital world radio fm/mw/lw/sw with 40 presets world time clockradio alarm with sleep timer back lightboxed with instruction booklet ÂŁ25 onosuddenly rediscoveredperfect as new conditiononly used for a fortnight's holiday in and then put into hibernation in a drawer
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