Highlighting certain socio-economic & cultural trends, this exploration discloses the dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. This title presents an examination that gives voice to what the author has deemed 'post black' approaches to business, lifestyles, & religion that are nowhere else reflected as part of black life. ...

Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master & Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the second book in the series. ...

Sexual drama from the man they call the Czech Fellini, Juraj Jakubisco. Never one to shy away from controversy, Jakubisco presents this highly-sexualised web of interweaving stories & characters. The tousled web

Includes:: Sabrina, her boss Zikmund & his partner Viola, the pleasure seeking ageing hippy photographer Bakchus, the naive Jarouska & his wife, the barmaid Messalina, the confused virgin Kristyna, the cynical med student & part time prostitute Kleopatra & the rocker, Adam. Each is living out a different little drama but they're all connected & they're all sexual. The film examines the aftermath of fun
- the resounding consequences for others & ourselves, of careless sexual actions. Also poignantly touched upon is the resulting emptiness of finding that the short term kicks of a free & easy sexual lifestyle doesn't do anything but exacerbate the emptiness we use it to dispel.


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This collection of essays reflects the debate in literary theories, especially since 1968, & the growth of post colonial literatures in English, which together have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, the Caribbean, as well as in America & Europe. ...

Demonstrates that the only way to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider. In this title, we learn the story of Haines' post-Britpop art house trio Black Box Recorder, we meet a talking cat, two dead rappers, a mystical England football manager, & a shady transgender German Professor. ...

Offbeat indie comedy starring Alexis Blendel as the eternally optimistic Ryden Malby, who is forced to move back into her childhood home with her eccentric family after graduating from college. While harbouring fantasies of a luxurious loft apartment & a dream job in a top publishing house, she struggles to get along with her wacky dad Walter (Michael Keaton), down-to-earth mum Carmella (Jane Lynch), politically incorrect Grandma Maureen (Carol Burnett), decidedly odd little brother Hunter (Bobby Coleman)
- & a growing stack of job application rejections.
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Introduces particular styles of painting with a focus on how to recreate the style & the techniques used, to help aspiring artists discover their style. This series

Includes:: ' Try it yourself' activities that help students to develop their own skills & ' Tricks of the trade' sections that explain techniques used in the different styles.

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