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Contending for the Faith
- £10.00
- A History of the Evangelical Movement in the Universities and Colleges, taking up the story first begun by the Donald Coggan-edited history up to 1934, Christ and the Colleges.
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Darwin’s Nemesis, Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
- £10.00
- With the publication of 'Darwin on Trial' in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis…
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David G Farragut (American Crisis Biographies)
- £40.00
- Spears (1850-1936) was a renowned American journalist and author. Farragut was an admiral in the US Navy, and a significant Unionist strategist in the American Civil War, despite coming from the south (Tennessee).
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Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
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Earth’s Enigmas: a volume of stories
- £35.00
- This early work by Charles G. D. Roberts was originally published in 1896, a collection of short stories that include 'The Perdu', 'In the Accident Ward', 'The Stone Dog', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful…
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Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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Emily Bronte, a biography
- £35.00
- Winifred Grin (1901-1981) was a biographer, especially known for her biographies of each of the Bront siblings (for which she won several awards). She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1968 and OBE in 1975.
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Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland
- £100.00
- The forerunner of Burke's Peerage. Full title: Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the College of Arms. Third Edition, with a supplement.
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
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Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
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Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
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Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
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Contending for the Faith
- £10.00
- A History of the Evangelical Movement in the Universities and Colleges, taking up the story first begun by the Donald Coggan-edited history up to 1934, Christ and the Colleges.
- Add to basket
-
Darwin’s Nemesis, Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
- £10.00
- With the publication of 'Darwin on Trial' in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis…
- Add to basket
-
David G Farragut (American Crisis Biographies)
- £40.00
- Spears (1850-1936) was a renowned American journalist and author. Farragut was an admiral in the US Navy, and a significant Unionist strategist in the American Civil War, despite coming from the south (Tennessee).
- Add to basket
-
Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
- Add to basket
-
Earth’s Enigmas: a volume of stories
- £35.00
- This early work by Charles G. D. Roberts was originally published in 1896, a collection of short stories that include 'The Perdu', 'In the Accident Ward', 'The Stone Dog', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful…
- Add to basket
-
Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
- Add to basket
-
Emily Bronte, a biography
- £35.00
- Winifred Grin (1901-1981) was a biographer, especially known for her biographies of each of the Bront siblings (for which she won several awards). She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1968 and OBE in 1975.
- Add to basket
-
Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland
- £100.00
- The forerunner of Burke's Peerage. Full title: Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the College of Arms. Third Edition, with a supplement.
- Add to basket
-
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
- Add to basket
-
English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
- Add to basket
-
Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
- Add to basket
-
Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
- Add to basket
-
Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
- Add to basket
-
Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
- Add to basket
-
John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
- Add to basket