You have cancer These are perhaps the most feared three words that will ever come out of a doctor's mouth Yet most people do not realize they can reduce their risk of getting cancer & improve their chances of surviving a cancer diagnosis by making six fundamental changes in their lifestyle This book presents these six key lifestyle factors 432 pages Cohen Lorenzo ...

An updated edition for 2011 including all the latest medical research & up-to-date studies An approachable empowering guide to staying healthy & fighting disease Would it surprise you to hear that one in four people are affected by cancer? If you knew that simple lifestyle changes could significantly reduce your chances of developing the disease would you take advantage of your natural defences?'I had cancer I was diagnosed for the first time 15 years ago I received conventional treatment & the cancer went into remission but I relapsed after that Then I decided to learn everything I could to help my body defend itself against the illness I've lived cancer free now for seven years In this book I'd like to tell you the stories
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- behind what I learned' Author David-Servan Schreiber is an academic physician with a wealth of experience in the field of integrative medicine He will show you how through simple alterations in diet lifestyle & attitude you can tackle cancer alongside conventional treatments or even avoid it altogether This is not a biology textbook but a practical insightful & individual guide that will allow you to make the best choices for your own health & well-being

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Willem Dafoe & Charlotte Gainsbourg play a grieving couple retreat to Eden their isolated cabin in the woods where they hope to repair their broken hearts & troubled marriage But nature takes its course & things go from bad to worse Following its award winning success at this year s Cannes Film Festival & explosive box office performance one of the most controversial films ever to receive a cinema release in the UK finally makes it way on to the DVD & Blu-Ray SPECIAL FEATURES Feature Commentary with Director Lars von Trier Interview with Charlotte Gainsbourg Interview with Willem Dafoe FEATURETTES The Evil of Woman The Visual Style of Antichrist The Make-Up Effects & Props of Antichrist The Three Beggars Eden Confessions about Anxiety The Sound & Music of Antichrist The Antichrist Test Behind the test Antichrist Chaos Reigns at the Cannes Film Festival ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Willem Dafoe & Charlotte Gainsbourg play a grieving couple retreat to Eden their isolated cabin in the woods where they hope to repair their broken hearts & troubled marriage But nature takes its course & things go from bad to worse Following its award winning success at this year s Cannes Film Festival & explosive box office performance one of the most controversial films ever to receive a cinema release in the UK finally makes it way on to the DVD & Blu-Ray SPECIAL FEATURES Feature Commentary with Director Lars von Trier Interview with Charlotte Gainsbourg Interview with Willem Dafoe FEATURETTES The Evil of Woman The Visual Style of Antichrist The Make-Up Effects & Props of Antichrist The Three Beggars Eden Confessions about Anxiety The Sound & Music of Antichrist The Antichrist Test Behind the test Antichrist Chaos Reigns at the Cannes Film Festival Actors Willem Dafoe Charlotte Gainsbourg Directors Lars Von Trier Format PALLanguage English Subtitles Danish Italian Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio Unknown Number of discs 1 ...

' Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle'
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Tough times don't last Tough people do In The Black Swan Taleb showed us that highly improbable & unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world Here Taleb stands uncer-tainty on its head making it desirable even necessary The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust The resil-ient resists shocks & stays the same; the antifragile gets better & better Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress & tension many things in life benefit from stress disorder volatility & turmoil What Taleb has identified & calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive & flourish Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world Erudite witty & iconoclastic Taleb's message is revolutionary the antifragile & only the antifragile will make it' The hottest thinker in the world' Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times ...

When her dead brother is decreed a traitor his body left unburied beyond the city walls Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments Defying her uncle who governs she dares to say & No& Forging ahead with a funeral alone she places personal allegiance before politics a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction Renowned for the revelatory nature of his work Ivo van Hove first enthralled London audiences with his ground-breaking Roman Tragediesseen at the Barbican in 2009 Drawing on his &ability to break open texts calcified by tradition& (Guardian) the director now turns to a classic Greek masterpiece ...

The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone&s rebellious brother Outraged she defies his edict Creon condemns the young woman his niece to be buried alive The people daren&t object but the prophet Teiresias warns that this tyranny will anger the gods the rotting corpse is polluting the city Creon hesitates & his fate is sealed Sophocles& great tragic play dramatises the clash between the family & the city & with high poetry & deep tragedy presents an irreconcilable but equally balanced conflict Sophoclean heroine Antigone has become a cultural archetype the symbol of personal integrity & an icon of political freedom whilst her coprotagonist Creon can be interpreted as either a civic saviour or a ruthless tyrant This translation by Don Taylor accurate yet poetic was made for a BBC TV production of the Theban Plays in 1986 which he directed ...

& Anouilh is a poet but not of words he is a poet of words-acted of scenes-set of players-performing& Peter Brook Jean Anouilh one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative dramas which exploit fantasy tragic passion scenic poetry & cosmic leaps in time & space Antigone his best-known play was performed in 1944 in Nazi-controlled Paris & provoked fierce controversy In defying the tyrant Creon & going to her death Antigone conveyed to Anouilh&s compatriots a covert message of heroic resistance; but the author&s characterisaation of Creon also seemed to exonerate Marshal Petain & his fellow collaborators More ambivalent than his ancient model Sophocles Anouilh uses Greek myth to explore the disturbing moral dilemmas of our times Commentary & notes by Ted Freeman ...

& It&s a dreadful thing to yieldbut resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That&s dreadful too& The remarkable story of Greek tragedy&s most intrepid heroine Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin&s 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) Sophocles&s works available in Penguin Classics are The Theban Plays & Electra & Other Plays ...