Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes & the special Jury prize at the Chicago International Film Festival the critically acclaimed After Lucia is directed by Michel Franco (Daniel & Ana) The story follows the relationship between Roberto & his 17 year old daughter Alejandra Roberto is very depressed after his wife Lucia dies in a car accident & decides to move away with his daughter to a new city They try hard to adjust to their new life & Alejandro does her best to help but struggles as she becomes the victim of bullying at her new school To protect her father she decides not to tell him anything but as the bullying gets worse her situation becomes more & more desperate Actors Tessa Ia Gonzalo Vega Jr Tamara Yazbek & Hernán Mendoza Director Michel Franco Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Languages Spanish Subtitles English ...

The debut novel by the bestselling author of THE ESSEX SERPENTOne hot summer's day John Cole decides to leave his life behind He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to & drives out of London When his car breaks down & he becomes lost on an isolated road he goes looking for help & stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house Its residents welcome him with open arms
- but there's more to this strange community than meets the eye They all know him by name they've prepared a room for him & claim to have been waiting for him all along Who are these people? & what do they intend for John? Elegant gently sinister & psychologically complex After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by the author of The Essex Serpent
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John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them The implications of this argument are highly significant If this is the case methods are always political & it raises the question of what kinds of social realities we want to create Most current methods look for clarity & precision It is usually said that only poor research produces messy findings & the idea that things in the world might be fluid elusive or multiple is unthinkable Law's startling argument is that this is wrong & it is time for a new approach Many realities he says are vague & ephemeral If methods want to know & help to shape the world then they need to reinvent themselves & their politics to deal with mess That is the challenge Nothing less will do ...

A love story set in the magical Mole Antonelliana (the Museum of Cinema in Turin Italy) A young woman comes into the museum to escape from the police & waits for her boyfriend to come & get her It is then she meets the night watchman Martino & becomes enchanted with the museum Martino & his love for the world of film She then finds that she has to choose between Martino & Angelo ...

Barack Obama's foreign policy has failed but the American strategic mind has not yet closed In After Obama Robert Singh examines how & why US influence has weakened & contributed to the erosion of the world America made endangering international order & liberal values A well-intentioned but naive strategy of engagement has encouraged US adversaries such as Russia China & Iran to assert themselves while allowing Western alliances to fray But challenging claims of an inevitable American decline Singh argues that US leadership is a matter of will as much as wallet Despite partisan polarization at home & the rise of the rest abroad Washington can renew American leadership & through a New American Internationalism pave a path to the restoration of global order Timely & provocative the book offers a powerful critique of the Obama Doctrine & a call for strategic resolution in place of 'leading from behind' ...

What links these seemingly random events? As atrocious acts from the past haunt the present & lives are changed forever some will struggle to remember
- while others struggle to forget 400 pages Grebe Camilla
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Available through Nemesis Now as part of our Wholesale Collection this piece is perfect for anyone who loves the macabre This simple skull is natural in colour but is actually home to a Shot Glass giving any drink a darkafter taste Cast in the finest resin before being lovingly h&-painted this pieceis the perfect addition to any alternative store ...

The battle for Stalingrad has been studied & recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942 But most of these accounts finish at the end of the battle with columns of tens of thousands of German soldiers disappearing into Soviet captivity Their fate is rarely described That is why Adelbert Holl's harrowing & vivid memoir of his seven-year ordeal as a prisoner in the Soviet camps is such an important record as well as an absorbing story As he moves from camp to camp across the Soviet Union an unsparing inside view of the prison system & its population of ex-soldiers emerges He describes the daily life in the camps
- the crowding the dirt the cold the ever-present threat of disease the forced marches the indifference or cruelty of the guards
- in authentic detail The Soviets treated German prisoners as slave labourers working them exhaustively in often appalling conditions The prisoners could only struggled to survive to support each other & hope against hope to return home

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Tamerlane the Ottomans the Mughals the Manchus the British the Soviets the Japanese & the Nazis All built empires they hoped would last forever all were destined to fail But as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book their empire building created the world we know today From the death of Tamerlane in 1405 last of the world conquerors' to the rise & fall of European empires & from America's growing colonial presence to the resurgence of India & China as global economic powers After Tamerlane provides a wonderfully intriguing perspective on the past present & future of empires ...

Grace should never have married the gentle curate who helped her during her mother's illness Seven yearslater he is rector of a rural parish & she is an unhappy wife & mother Her reckless behaviour tears the youngfamily apart Life changes for all of them after the affair 512 pages none Eleridge Elaine ...