Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde&s Dorian Gray Joris-Karl Huysmans& Against Nature (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick Mc Guinness in Penguin Classics A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel Against Nature contains only one character Des Esseintes is a decadent ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury & excess Veering between nervous excitability & debilitating ennui he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature & art exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise) rich perfumes & a kaleidoscope of sensual experiences Against Nature in the words of the author exploded &like a meteorite& & has enjoyed a cult following to this day This revised edition of Robert Baldick&s lucid translation features a new introduction & a chronology & reproduces Huysmans&s original 1903 preface as well as a selection of reviews from writers including Mallarme Zola & Wilde Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) is now recognized as one of the most challenging & innovative figures in European literature & an acknowledged principal architect of the fin-de-siècle imagination He was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels most notably A Rebours & Là-Bas If you enjoyed Against Nature you might like Huysmans&s The Damned (La-Bas) also available in Penguin Classics ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Struggling with a tragic past Paul Thompson (Joseph Fiennes Shakespeare in Love) decides to fulfill a lifelong dream & swim the length of the Hudson River Joined by travel companion Jeff (Justin Kirk TV&s Weeds) & Liz (Elizabeth Reaser the Twilight series) Paul embarks on an emotional journey that will test the limits of friendship & explore the right to decide one&s own fate Michelle Trachtenberg & Mary Tyler Moore co-star in this provocative tale of loss & desire Actors Joseph Fiennes Samantha Sherman Pell James Justin Kirk Elizabeth Reaser Amy Hargreaves Martin Shakar Seth Kanor Mary Tyler Moore & Constance Barron Director Peter Callahan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages French ; Italian ; Spanish Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Arabic ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; French ; Hindi ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)
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' One of our best-known living philosophers' Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis
- by opening our doors or pulling
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A Business Week New York Times Business & USA Today Bestseller " Ambitious & readable an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition & fatalism" -The New York Times " An extraordinarily entertaining & informative book" -The Wall Street Journal "A lively panoramic book Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise & then delivers on it" -Business Week " Deserves to be & surely will be widely read" -The Economist "A challenging book one that may change forever the way people think about the world" -Worth " No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm & excitement" -Robert Heilbroner author The Worldly Philosophers " With his wonderful knowledge of the history & current manifestations of risk Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever I speak carefully no one should miss it" -John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus Harvard University In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles & soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today " An extremely readable history of risk" -Barron's " Fascinating this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face" -Money "A singular achievement" -Times Literary Supplement " There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history) Oliver Sacks (disease) Richard Dawkins (heredity) James Gleick (physics) Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company" -The Australian ...

An account of all the new & surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative Why did humans abandon hunting & gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock & cereal grains & governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant & animal domestication allowed humans finally to settle down & form agricultural villages towns & states which made possible civilization law public order & a presumably secure way of living But archaeological & historical evidence challenges this narrative The first agrarian states says James C Scott were born of accumulations of domestications first fire then plants livestock subjects of the state captives & finally women in the patriarchal family-all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction Scott explores why we avoided sedentism & plow agriculture the advantages of mobile subsistence the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants animals & grain & why all early states are based on millets & cereal grains & unfree labor He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded state control as a way of understanding continuing tension between states & nonsubject peoples ...

The worst has happened Fleet is tearing Itself apart Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power or for blood The Loyalists meanwhile fight desperately to preserve the rule of law In Familias Regnant space But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano Is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet the apparent victim of Family politics she has no Idea of the whirlwind of conflict Into which she is about to be drawn As the noose tightens on galactic civilization great battles will be fought & greater loves affirmed & old friends will meet their destinies ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific & find themselves on a tiny life raft surrounded by open ocean No food No water No hope of rescue Against incredible odds these three virtual strangers must survive storms sharks starvation & each other as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety ...

The fifth in the fantasy series about children & their spirit animals fighting to save their kingdom Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual watched by cloaked strangers Four flashes of light erupt & from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts
- a wolf a leopard a panda a falcon Suddenly the paths of these children
- & the world
- have been changed for ever Enter the world of Erdas where every child who comes of age must discover if they have a spirit animal a rare bond between human & beast that bestows great powers to both A dark force has risen from distant & long-forgotten lands & has begun an onslaught that will ravage the world Part engrossing book series part action role-playing game
- discover your spirit animal & join the adventure



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play CJ Adams of The Odd Life Of Timothy Green stars as Zach Wade a mischievous kid who
- along with his younger sister Hannah (Erin Pitt of American Girl Isabelle Dances into the Spotlight & Camp Rock 2) & their devoted dog Chinook
- become lost in the wilderness when their small plane has engine problems & must make an emergency landing Their mom (Natasha Henstridge of She Spies & The Whole Nine Yards) & dad (Ted Whittall of Beauty & The Beast) are frantic & rescue teams are searching But for the next few days Zach Hannah & Chinook must learn how to combine their skills trust their instincts & navigate a terrain as beautiful as it is untamed John Tench (Tooth Fairy) co-stars in this exciting family adventure about loyalty bravery & surviving AGAINST THE WILD Actors Natasha Henstridge CJ Adams Erin Pitt Ted Whittall & John Tench Director Richard Boddington Year 2013

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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 Starring Robert Beatty Jack Warner & Simone Signoret this is the story of a diverse group of people from very different backgrounds who were brought together in one of the strangest enterprises of the war Sabotage was their job; sabotage organised from London in the form of macabre practical jokes as ingenious as they were injurious to the enemy The work was over-clouded with the constant fear of discovery
- & what it would mean Actors Robert Beatty Simone Signoret Jack Warner Gordon Jackson Paul Dupuis Gisele Preville John Slater Peter Illing & James Robertson Justice Director Charles Crichton Certificate PGLanguages English Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)
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