A miraculous true-life Second World War survival story that is being featured on the BBC's ONE SHOW (The show attracts on average a daily audience of 5 million viewers) with a ten minute dramatised documentary to be broadcast in early October 2018 248 pages Martin John ...

In south side Chicago Walter Lee a black chauffeur dreams of a better life & hopes to use his father's life insurance money to open a liquor store His mother who rejects the liquor business uses some of the money to secure a proper house for the family Mr Lindner a representative of the all-white neighbourhood tries to buy them out Walter sinks the rest of the money into his business scheme only to have it stolen by one of his partners In despair Walter contacts Lindner & almost begs to buy them out but with the help of his wife Walter finally finds a way to assert his dignity Deeply committed to the black struggle for equality & human rights Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 35 A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway & won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award Hansberry was the youngest & the first black writer to receive this award ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A dual perspective he-said she-said romantic comedy about two twenty-somethings (Laura & Kevin) trying to make it in Hollywood & their chance encounter at a local coffee shop that takes you on an entertaining journey of misunderstandings bad timing & almost missed chances Mindy (Meghan Markle
- Suits) is the sassy independent best friend of Laura believes that you make your own luck in the superficial LA dating scene they live in Laura on the other hand is a hopeless romantic who believes that fate will bring her true love A Random Encounter is a roller-coaster ride that proves finding your Prince Charming can be a right royal pain Actors Meghan Markle Directors Boris Undorf Language English Number of discs 1
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Today's stock market is not for the faint-hearted At a time when high-frequency traders & hedge funds seem to have the upper hand one might ask what the average investor is to do Turn to the rock-solid advice in Burton G Malkiel's best-selling guide to investing A Random Walk Down Wall Street now features new material on exchange traded funds & investment opportunities in emerging markets as well as a br&-new chapter on smart beta funds & as always Malkiel's core insights-on stocks bonds & money markets as well as property investment trusts & tangible assets-along with the book's life-cycle guide to investing will restore confidence & composure to anyone seeking a calm route through today's financial markets ...

From the early years of the Common Era to 1700 Indian intellectuals explored with unparalleled subtlety the place of emotion in art Their investigations led to the deconstruction of art's formal structures & broader inquiries into the pleasure of tragic tales Rasa or taste was the word they chose to describe art's aesthetics & their passionate effort to pin down these phenomena became its own remarkable act of creation This book is the first in any language to follow the evolution of rasa from its origins in dramaturgical thought-a concept for the stage-to its flourishing in literary thought-a concept for the page A Rasa Reader incorporates primary texts by every significant thinker on classical Indian aesthetics many never translated before The arrangement of the selections captures the intellectual dynamism that has powered this debate for centuries Headnotes explain the meaning & significance of each text a comprehensive introduction summarizes major threads in intellectual-historical terms & critical endnotes & an extensive bibliography add further depth to the selections The Sanskrit theory of emotion in art is one of the most sophisticated in the ancient world a precursor of the work being done today by critics & philosophers of aesthetics A Rasa Reader's conceptual detail historical precision & clarity will appeal to any scholar interested in a full portrait of global intellectual development A Rasa Reader is the inaugural book in the Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought series edited by Sheldon Pollock These text-based books guide readers through the most important forms of classical Indian thought from epistemology rhetoric & hermeneutics to astral science yoga & medicine Each volume provides fresh translations of key works headnotes to contextualize selections a comprehensive analysis of major lines of development within the discipline & exegetical & text-critical endnotes as well as a bibliography Designed for comparativists & interested general readers Historical Sourcebooks is also a great resource for advanced scholars seeking authoritative commentary on challenging works ...

A Reader's Greek New Testament Third Edition saves your valuable time & effort in studying the Greek New Testament If a Greek word appears in the New Testament fewer than 30 times then a definition is provided This serves as an aid when you encounter less common vocabulary allowing you to focus on reading comprehension parsing & grammatical issues You no longer have to interrupt your reading searching through a lexicon! Featuring a handsome Italian Duo-Tone (TM) binding A Reader's Greek New Testament Third Edition is a practical attractive & surprisingly affordable resource Features of this third edition include footnoted definitions of all words occurring 30 times or less; mini-lexicon of all words occurring more than 30 times; Greek text underlying the New International Version; footnotes comparing the Greek text with the critical text of UBS5NA28; 4 pages of full-color maps; marker ribbon; & easy-to-read Greek fonts ...

Track Listings Disc 1 1 Making Love 2 She Loves Me Now 3 Strive 4 Here I Come 5 Telephone Love Rumours 6 How Could I Leave 7 Ebony Eyes 8 Hush Darling 9 Hard Times 10 Moving Away 11 International Herb 12 A Place In The Sun 13 Tune In 14 Once Ago 15 In The Rain 16 Under Me Sleng Teng ...

Bill's own fascination with science began with a battered old schoolbook he had when he was about ten or eleven years old in America It had an illustration that captivated him
- a cutaway diagram showing Earth's interior as it would look if you cut into it with a large knife & carefully removed about a quarter of its bulk & he very clearly remembers thinking How do they know that? Bill's story-telling skill makes the How? & just as importantly the Who? of scientific discovery entertaining & accessible for all ages In this exciting edition for younger readers he covers the wonder & mysteries of time & space the frequently bizarre & often obsessive scientists & the methods they used the crackpot theories which held sway for far too long the extraordinary accidental discoveries which suddenly advanced whole areas of science when the people were actually looking for something else (or in the wrong direction) & the mind-boggling fact that somehow the universe exists & against all odds life came to be on this wondrous planet we call home
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From the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize comes a tender gentle rhyming story celebrating playtime Capturing the joy of the simplest games a child plays including hide-&-seek chase & lots of imaginative play A joyous story with the perfect lullaby ending Praise for A Recipe for Bedtime I can imagine this becoming a bedtime favourite with many a toddler
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For fans of Julia Quinn Eloisa James & Sarah Mac Lean comes Isabella Bradford's enthralling new trilogy of London's most scandalous rakes the Breconridge Brothers who are about to lose their hearts Though charming & handsome Lord Rivers Fitzroy the youngest Breconridge brother is more inclined to dusty books than brazen women But when his father insists he marries he vows to make the most of his last days as a bachelor And what better way than in the company of a troupe of Italian dancers where he's challenged to a wager he can't resist turn the players' meek & mousy cousin into the first lady of the London stage But he gets more than he bargained for with Lucia di Rossi She has her own past to overcome & her own starlit aspirations As the lines between performance & passion become blurred will finding the spotlight mean losing their hearts? Catch the rest of the dazzling series! Don't miss A Wicked Pursuit & A Sinful Decption Before the Breconridge Brothers came the Wylder sisters Don't miss a moment of the romantic & captivating debut trilogy from Isabella Bradford When You Wish Upon a Duke When The Duchess Said Yes & When The Duke Found Love ...