Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe & the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse In contrast they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts-austerity-to solve the financial crisis We are told that we have all lived beyond our means & now need to tighten our belts This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from Not from an orgy of government spending but as the direct result of bailing out recapitalizing & adding liquidity to the broken banking system Through these actions private debt was rechristened as government debt while those responsible for generating it walked away scot free placing the blame on the state & the burden on the taxpayer That burden now takes the form of a global turn to austerity the policy of reducing domestic wages & prices to restore competitiveness & balance the budget The problem according to political economist Mark Blyth is that austerity is a very dangerous idea First of all it doesn't work As the past four years & countless historical examples from the last 100 years show while it makes sense for any one state to try & cut its way to growth it simply cannot work when all states try it simultaneously all we do is shrink the economy In the worst case austerity policies worsened the Great Depression & created the conditions for seizures of power by the forces responsible for the Second World War the Nazis & the Japanese military establishment As Blyth amply demonstrates the arguments for austerity are tenuous & the evidence thin Rather than expanding growth & opportunity the repeated revival of this dead economic idea has almost always led to low growth along with increases in wealth & income inequality Austerity demolishes the conventional wisdom marshaling an army of facts to demand that we austerity for what it is & what it costs us ...

Austerlitz is W G Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe In 1939 five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport & placed with foster parents This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity & he grows up ignorant of his past Later in life after a career as an architectural historian Austerlitz
- having avoided all clues that might point to his origin
- finds the past returning to haunt him & he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before Austerlitz is WG Sebald's melancholic masterpiece' Mesmeric haunting & heartbreakingly tragic Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald' Eileen Battersby Irish Times' Greatness in literature is still possible' John Banville Irish Times Books of the Year'A work of obvious genius' Literary Review'A fusion of the mystical & the solid His art is a form of justice
- there can be I think no higher aim' Evening Standard' Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art' The Times Literary Supplement 'I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague & their treatment by the Nazis' Observer'A great book by a great writer' Boyd Tonkin Independent W G Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau Germany in 1944 & died in December 2001 He studied German language & literature in Freiburg Switzerland & Manchester In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester & settled permanently in England in 1970 He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia & is the author of The Emigrants The Rings of Saturn Vertigo Austerlitz After Nature On the Natural History of Destruction Campo Santo Unrecounted A Place in the Country His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land & the Water


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017 marks the 70th Anniversary of the wedding of HM Queen Elizabeth II &38; HRH Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh To celebrate this historic occasion Corgi has produced a die-cast Classic Routemaster & Mini in unique commemorative liveries At Westminster Abbey on November 20 1947 at 1130am in front of 2000 invited guests Princess Elizabeth was married to Philip Mountbatten in a service of?ciated by the Archbishops of Canterbury & York & was broadcast by radio to over 200 million people worldwide Distant cousins Princess Elizabeth had ?rst met Philip Mountbatten the youngest child & only son to Prince Andrew of Greece & Princess Alice of Battenberg at a wedding in 1934 They met again in 1937 & began their courtship in 1939 with the exchange of letters Secretly engaged in 1946 the formal engagement was announced on July 9 1947 following Princess Elizabeth&8217;s 21st birthday Princess Elizabeth&8217;s satin bridal gown was designed by Norman Hartnell Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother the material being purchased by the use of ration coupons Over 10000 congratulatory telegrams were received & over 2500 wedding presents were gifted from across the world Corgi is celebrating the 70th Wedding Anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II & His Royal Highness Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh with this special commemorative die-cast model ...

The RAF Police used Minis for many years to patrol the perimeter of airfields varying their route & timetable to keep their movements unpredictable while maintaining close radio contact with controllers The Mini's long service career in this role spanned from shortly after its launch in 1959 until the early 1980s & they were known as LMVs or Light Military Vehicles by the RAF Mechanical Transport Division Minis were ordered in RAF blue directly from BMC although from the early 1970s Minis used in this role were painted Olive Drab green with a yellow stripe The RAF Mini Club custodians of the Mini's RAF history was invaluable while researching this model's livery Dimensions 72 x 67 x 153 Scale 143 Limited Edition Yes Limited Edition Size 1000 Length 70mm Age Suitability 14 ...

RAF stations are often very large plots of land & to get around the Station Commander used a Mini which was ideal for the role being nippy reliable easy to park & economical to both buy & run It was distinguishable by the blue & red flag on the bonnet as other black Minis were used for general transport roles around RAF facilities Many racetracks most noticeably Silverstone & Goodwood originated as airfield perimeter tracks & it wasn't unusual for even quite senior officers to use these Minis to perform a quick 'handling test' on the perimeter track; it was a more carefree era than today's health & safety dominated world Dimensions 72 x 67 x 153 Scale 143 Limited Edition Yes Limited Edition Size 1000 Length 70mm Age Suitability 14 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Mike Myers reprises his role as Austin Powers the oversexed super-spy from the sixties Arch-enemy Dr Evil has travelled back in time to 1969 & stolen Powers& mojo the secret of his all-conquering virility Realising that this theft is probably part of one of Dr Evil&s attempts at world domination our intrepid hero gives chase following the super-criminal back to 1960s swinging London Once there he teams up with the beautiful CIA agent Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham) but due to his aforementioned lack in the mojo department he is unfortunately unable to consummate the relationship
- which raises the stakes considerably Watch for cameos from Elvis Costello Jerry Springer & Woody Harrelson
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Austin Powers; Goldmember the third movie in the Austin Powers series stars Mike Myers in director Jay Roach&s James Bond Sci-Fi 1970s funkadelic formula--a hyper-stylized backdrop to what is ultimately Myers& one-man show Goldmember is a family affair Austin has a few unresolved issues with his dear old dad Nigel Powers (the dead ringer Michael Caine who is also a good sport) & he hopes to work out some Freudian tension when he&s not saving the world from the forces of evil Myers flexes his actor muscles & portrays a more thoughtful &--is it even possible--a slightly less geeky Austin in this film Likewise even the bad guys show some new personality Dr Evil reveals a penchant for talking like a hip-hop wise-ass homeboy & the new villain Goldmember (the latest in Myers& repertoire) is an enigmatic amputee with a heart of gold who speaks with a Dutch accent & eats his own peeling skin If that&s not disgusting enough Fat Bastard the greasy behemoth from The Spy Who Shagged Me appears again in Goldmember delving into new & nasty scatological territory But the joke&s on us because Goldmember&s toilet humour is so extreme that it dissolves into a harmless fit of giggles keeping viewers laughing from start to finish Extra Features Behind the Scenes Focus Points Trailers Additional Footage Deleted Scenes Music Videos Language English Running time 95 mins Approx ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Frozen in the 60&s secret agent Austin Powers (Myers) is thawed back into action to once again battle his archenemy Dr Evil With his sexy sidekick Ms Kensington (Liz Hurley) Austin must stop Dr Evil&s outrageous plot to control the world But first this time-warped swinger must get hip quick & discover that there&s no free love in the 90&s Actors Mike Myers Elizabeth Hurley Robert Wagner Michael York Mimi Rogers Burt Bacharach Christian Slater Rob Lowe Seth Green & Fabiana Udenio Director Jay Roach Certificate 15 years & over Year 1997 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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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 ...

Michelin National Map Series help you easily plan your safe & enjoyable journey thanks to a comprehensive key a complete name index as well a clever time & distance chart Michelin's driving information will help you navigate safely in all circumstances with scales from 1150000 to 128500000 1 pages ...