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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, canto the fourth
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- Byron's long narrative poem was written in four parts and published between 1812 and 1818. In Canto IV, Harold leaves Venice to travel through Italy lamenting the vanished heroic past.
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Christian Art
- £25.00
- Palm mats and pilgrim tokens, manuscript illuminations and church frescoes, gold and enamel reliquaries and papier-mch figurines, Russian icons and Mexican murals: What makes these works of art Christian? And what, as such, distinguishes them from other works? These are the questions at the center of this book, which is…
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Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
- £22.00
- Collects eight of the author's well-known talks broadcast by the BBC in the autumn of 1942. Four talks have fresh sections added to bring in points which the author had not time to include in the original boradcasts; these talks are included in both broadcast and revised version.
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Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
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- Collects eight of the author's well-known talks broadcast by the BBC in the autumn of 1942. Four talks have fresh sections added to bring in points which the author had not time to include in the original boradcasts; these talks are included in both broadcast and revised version.
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Christianity and Power Politics
- £75.00
- Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr[a] (1892Ð1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
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Church Poems
- £25.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
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Church Poems
- £45.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
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Churchill, by his Granddaughter (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From his birthplace at Blenheim Palace to his tumultuous political life in Westminster, Celia Sandys is uniquely placed to examine the life of one of the most revered Britons in history. This book accompanies the launch of the Churchill Museum and includes many previously unpublished images and artifacts displayed in…
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City of Gold
- £12.00
- January 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German commander, and Captain Albert Cutler has been sent to find them amongst the city's teeming streets and bazaars, before it is too late. But Cutler…
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City Songs
- £15.00
- Scottish poet but apart from that I know nothing!
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City Without Walls and other poems
- £30.00
- Contains Auden's shorter poems written from 1965 to 1968, together with his translations of the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and a few poems written earlier. Among the best-known poems in the book are the title poem, "The Horatians", "Amor Loci", "Forty Years On", "Partition", "August, 1968", "Fairground", "River…
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Clarissa Harlowe
- £15.00
- Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a young woman, Clarissa Harlowe, whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family. The Harlowes are a recently wealthy family whose preoccupation…
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Classical Landscape with figures
- £12.00
- Lancaster's great travelogue through Greece, wonderfully told and illustrated with many b/w drawings and 8 colour plates
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Cleared for Take-Off
- £15.00
- On his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and bitter humour of the battlefield. He also had, like countless others, a feeling of utter hopelessness at the…
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
- £25.00
- One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. But these…
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Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, canto the fourth
- £50.00
- Byron's long narrative poem was written in four parts and published between 1812 and 1818. In Canto IV, Harold leaves Venice to travel through Italy lamenting the vanished heroic past.
- Add to basket
-
Christian Art
- £25.00
- Palm mats and pilgrim tokens, manuscript illuminations and church frescoes, gold and enamel reliquaries and papier-mch figurines, Russian icons and Mexican murals: What makes these works of art Christian? And what, as such, distinguishes them from other works? These are the questions at the center of this book, which is…
- Add to basket
-
Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
- £22.00
- Collects eight of the author's well-known talks broadcast by the BBC in the autumn of 1942. Four talks have fresh sections added to bring in points which the author had not time to include in the original boradcasts; these talks are included in both broadcast and revised version.
- Add to basket
-
Christian Behaviour. A Further Series of Broadcast Talks
- £40.00
- Collects eight of the author's well-known talks broadcast by the BBC in the autumn of 1942. Four talks have fresh sections added to bring in points which the author had not time to include in the original boradcasts; these talks are included in both broadcast and revised version.
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Christianity and Power Politics
- £75.00
- Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr[a] (1892Ð1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
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Church Poems
- £25.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
- Add to basket
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Church Poems
- £45.00
- This volume gathers together all of Betjeman's "Church poems," as well as some new poems and others previously been out of print. John Betjeman enlarges any scene, not only into his own personal significances, but into those of us all, and never more so than in his Anglican explorations. In…
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Churchill, by his Granddaughter (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From his birthplace at Blenheim Palace to his tumultuous political life in Westminster, Celia Sandys is uniquely placed to examine the life of one of the most revered Britons in history. This book accompanies the launch of the Churchill Museum and includes many previously unpublished images and artifacts displayed in…
- Add to basket
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City of Gold
- £12.00
- January 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German commander, and Captain Albert Cutler has been sent to find them amongst the city's teeming streets and bazaars, before it is too late. But Cutler…
- Add to basket
-
City Songs
- £15.00
- Scottish poet but apart from that I know nothing!
- Add to basket
-
City Without Walls and other poems
- £30.00
- Contains Auden's shorter poems written from 1965 to 1968, together with his translations of the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and a few poems written earlier. Among the best-known poems in the book are the title poem, "The Horatians", "Amor Loci", "Forty Years On", "Partition", "August, 1968", "Fairground", "River…
- Add to basket
-
Clarissa Harlowe
- £15.00
- Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a young woman, Clarissa Harlowe, whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family. The Harlowes are a recently wealthy family whose preoccupation…
- Add to basket
-
Classical Landscape with figures
- £12.00
- Lancaster's great travelogue through Greece, wonderfully told and illustrated with many b/w drawings and 8 colour plates
- Add to basket
-
Cleared for Take-Off
- £15.00
- On his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and bitter humour of the battlefield. He also had, like countless others, a feeling of utter hopelessness at the…
- Add to basket
-
Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
- £25.00
- One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. But these…
- Add to basket
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