In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations & concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of political & social inequality it is time we ask what comes after a broken internet? Ramesh Srinivasan & Adam Fish reimagine the internet from the perspective of grassroots activists & citizens on the margins of political & economic power They explore how the fragments of the existing internet are being utilized
- alongside a range of peoples places & laws
- to make change possible From indigenous & non-Western communities & activists in Tahrir Square to imprisoned hackers & whistleblowers this book illustrates how post-digital cultures are changing the internet as we know it
- from a system which is increasingly centralized commodified & personalized into something more in line with its original spirit autonomous creative subversive The book looks past the limitations of the internet reconceptualizing network technology in relation to principles of justice & equality Srinivasan & Fish advocate for an internet that blends the local concerns of grassroots communities & activists with the need to achieve scalable change & transformation


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Alan S Blinder-esteemed Princeton professor Wall Street Journal columnist & former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan-is one of our wisest & most clear-eyed economic thinkers In After the Music Stopped he delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened what the government did to fight it & what we must do to recover from it With bracing clarity Blinder chronicles the perfect storm of events beginning in 2007 from the bursting of the housing bubble to the implosion of the bond bubble & how events in the US spread throughout the interconnected global economy Truly comprehensive & eminently readable After the Music Stopped is the essential book about the financial crisis ...

For the characters in after the quake the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm ' When he gets angry he causes earthquakes' says Frog ' And right now he is very very angry ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ingmar Bergman brings the worlds of cinema & theater together as a stage director takes on his new actress & former mistress in a duel of wits whilst they rehearse a new play together Henrik Vogler (Erland Josephson) an aging director in the process of staging a production of August Strindberg&s &A Dream&s Play& remains in the theatre alone one night after a rehearsal has taken place to reflect on his life & career He is subsequently joined by young ingenue Anna (Lena Olin) who seems to have romantic designs on him & later by Rakel (Ingrid Thulin) a former lover of Henrik&s & possibly Anna&s mother In a film of many layers & intricacies one thing is very clear
- the true confessional is Bergman&s craving forgiveness from his attentive audience Actors Erland Josephson Ingrid Thulin Lena Olin Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss & Bertil Guve Director Ingmar Bergman Certificate 15 years & over Year 1984 Screen Widescreen 1661 Letterboxed Languages Swedish
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 12 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Two master thieves (Brosnan & Hayek) are finally retiring after one last succesful mission Residing in their own tropical paradise their old nemesis FBI Agent Stan P Lloyd shows up to make sure they really are retired Docked in the port is an ocean liner called the " Diamond Cruise" & Stan is convinced that they&re not really retired at all & that this is the next set up ; ; While Lola (Hayek) is busy settling into their new life & trying to find ways to keep busy Max (Brosnan) is contemplating whether or not to steal the diamond Now the question is will he? Will Stan finally catch him after eight years of chasing him? Will Lola help Max steal it? & what of that shady character that has told Max he must steal the diamond for him? ...

What if you woke up tomorrow & everything had changed? Money is worthless Your friends are gone Armed robbers roam the streets No one is safe Suddenly you're a refugee After Tomorrow is an unflinchingly poignant but ultimately hopeful story from Carnegie Medal winning author Gillian Cross exploring the struggle for survival within refugee camps ...

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981 Alasdair Mac Intyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy In this book Mac Intyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult In the search for a way out of this impasse Mac Intyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking that of Aristotle who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life More than thirty years after its original publication After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics & morality today ...

Hardin has nothing to loseexcept her AFTER WE COLLIDED Life will never be the same After a tumultuous beginning to their relationship Tessa & Hardin were on the path to making things work Tessa knew Hardin could be cruel but when a bombshell revelation is dropped about the origins of their relationship
- & Hardin's mysterious past
- Tessa is beside herself Hardin will always be Hardin But is he really the deep thoughtful guy Tessa fell madly in love with despite his angry exterior or has he been a stranger all along? She wishes she could just walk away but it just isn't that easy Not with the memory of passionate nights wrapped in his armshis electric touchhis hungry kisses Still Tessa's not sure she can endure one more broken promise She put so much on hold for Hardin
- University friends her relationship with her mother a loving boyfriend even her fledgling career She needs to move on Hardin knows he made a mistake possibly the biggest one of his life but he won't be going down without a fight! But can he changewill he changefor love?


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Book Three of the After series-the internet sensation with millions of readers Tessa & Hardin's love was complicated before Now it's more confusing than ever After We Fell Life will never be the same Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life everything changes Revelations about her family & then Hardin's throw everything they knew before into doubt & make their hard-won future together more difficult to claim Tessa's life begins to come unglued Nothing is what she thought it was Not her friends Not her family Hardin
- the one person she should be able to rely on
- is furious when he discovers the massive secret she's been keeping & rather than being understanding he turns to sabotage Tessa knows Hardin loves her & will do anything to protect her but there's a difference between loving someone & being able to have them in your life This cycle of jealousy unpredictable anger & forgiveness is exhausting She's never felt so intensely for anyone so exhilarated by someone's kiss
- but is the irrepressible heat between her & Hardin worth all the drama? Love used to be enough to hold them together But if Tessa follows her heart now will it bethe end?


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