Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Academy Award winner Robert De Niro Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) & Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore give powerhouse performances in this compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between & child written & directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy) Nick Flynn (Dano) is a young writer seeking to define himself His father Jonathan (De Niro) however scrapes through life on his own terms & has not seen his son in 18 years Taking a job at a homeless shelter Nick finds purpose in his own life & work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed To give the two of them a shot at a real future Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out to his dad in this "undeniably powerful" (Peter Travers Rolling Stone) adaptation of Nick Flynn&s award-winning memoir & Another Bull! Night in Suck City& Actors Robert De Niro Paul Dano Julianne Moore Olivia Thirlby & Lili Taylor Director Paul Weitz Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English Additional Languages French ; Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 38 minutes (approx) ...

It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism relativism hypocrisy & nihilism dog ethics Whether it is a matter of giving to charity or sticking to duty or insisting on our rights we can be confused or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish & tribalistic or competitive & aggressive Simon Blackburn author of the best-selling Think structures this short introduction around these & other threats to ethics Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral well-behaved creatures he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us Then turning to problems of life & death he shows how we should think about the meaning of life & how we should mistrust the sound-bite sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates Finally he offers a critical tour of the ways the philosophical tradition has tried to provide foundations for ethics from Plato & Aristotle through to contemporary debates ...

If you have ever felt that you are only what you see this thought-provoking book will delight you with the discovery that you are much more The new science that has brought us quantum physics has plunged us head first into a kind of technological wizardry that has not only challenged our experience of time & space but has opened us up to the very real reality of the virtual It has melded the spiritual thinking of Eastern thought with the scientific understandings of the West Using simple & delightful illustrations throughout Being Here Now explores the paradigm shift that whether we are ready or not is already upon us Form is discovered to be empty & emptiness full & overflowing Particles refuse to exist without an observer & remain in the infinite world of potential as waves until sparked by the creative impulse of the universe Do things exist as solid matter if they go unnoticed? Do things exist independently of us? In the cauldron of our own human conscious the seen & the unseen become alchemised into form Explore the relationship of self to oneness of form to emptiness & discover who we truly are ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Being human nobody ever said it was easy But for three twenty-something roommates
- who happen to be a vampire a werewolf & a ghost
- is it even possible? By turns frightening witty & romantic Being Human explores what it means to be human through the eyes of these outsiders Aidan was a Revolutionary War soldier who sacrificed himself to vampires to spare his men Now some 260 years later he is still struggling to escape the orbit of his powerful mentor Bishop Josh was a promising medical student forced to abandon his family & future after a werewolf attack left him cursed & Sally happily engaged before her tragic death must now figure out how to move on as a ghost As Aidan Josh & Sally learn that there are fates worse than death they also realize that there&s more to life-and the afterlife-than most "normal" humans could ever imagine

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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 BEING HUMAN is a bizarre supernatural sitcom from the BBC that revolves around the concept of two young menu Mitchell & George--sharing a flat While this seems like a tried & tested formula for television the twist is that Mitchell (Aidan Turner u THE TUDORS) is a vampire & George (Russell Tovey u LITTLE DORRIT THE HISTORY BOYS) is a werewolf Complicating matters further is pair&s newfound home is haunted by the ghost of Annie (Lenora Crichlow u SUGAR RUSH) Included all the episodes from the show&s first & second series ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play All episodes from the first to fifth series of the BBC comedy drama about three very unusual flat-sharers They could be any group of 20-somethings sharing a house But these friends carry their own strange & dark secrets – they each live a supernatural life as a werewolf a vampire or a ghost Though desperate to live as normal young people their paranormal qualities cast more than just a shadow over their everyday lives Being human is anything but easy – try holding down a career or dating when there are unwelcome intruders in your supernatural life power struggles in the underworld & the constant threat of exposure Over five gripping witty & sexy series the housemates battle with their own demons as well as confronting terrifying forces threatening the whole of human society ...

BEING HUMAN is a bizarre supernatural sitcom from the BBC that revolves around the concept of two young menu Mitchell & George--sharing a flat While this seems like a tried & tested formula for television the twist is that Mitchell (Aidan Turner u THE TUDORS) is a vampire & George (Russell Tovey u LITTLE DORRIT THE HISTORY BOYS) is a werewolf Complicating matters further is pair&s newfound home is haunted by the ghost of Annie (Lenora Crichlow u SUGAR RUSH) Included all the episodes from the show&s first series ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Russell Tovey plays the lovable George battling with his double identity as a mild-mannered & geeky hospital porter who for one night a month is transformed into a flesh-hungry predatory werewolf Aidan Turner plays the good-looking & laid-back Mitchell who in contrast to George has the gift of the gab & an easy confidence with the ladies But he is also a blood-sucking vampire struggling with going cold-turkey from the blood he craves Completing the flat-share trio is Annie played by Lenora Crichlow a talkative ghost lacking in self-confidence & desperate for company Annie is still pining after her fiance whom she was due to marry before the fatal accident that left her with her ghostly affliction
- & who happens to be the landlord of their flat The series follows the trio as they do their best to live their lives as normally as possible despite their strange & dark secrets But with unwelcome intruders into their world rumblings about an impending revolution from the vampire underworld & constant threats of exposure
- on top of the usual issues faced by young people surrounding love work & mates
- the only thing they may be able to rely on in their heightened world is each other Actors Russell Tovey Lenora Crichlow & Aidan Turner Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages English


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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 Russell Tovey plays the lovable George battling with his double identity as a mild-mannered & geeky hospital porter who for one night a month is transformed into a flesh-hungry predatory werewolf Aidan Turner plays the good-looking & laid-back Mitchell who in contrast to George has the gift of the gab & an easy confidence with the ladies But he is also a blood-sucking vampire struggling with going cold-turkey from the blood he craves Completing the flat-share trio is Annie played by Lenora Crichlow a talkative ghost lacking in self-confidence & desperate for company Annie is still pining after her fiance whom she was due to marry before the fatal accident that left her with her ghostly affliction
- & who happens to be the landlord of their flat The series follows the trio as they do their best to live their lives as normally as possible despite their strange & dark secrets But with unwelcome intruders into their world rumblings about an impending revolution from the vampire underworld & constant threats of exposure
- on top of the usual issues faced by young people surrounding love work & mates
- the only thing they may be able to rely on in their heightened world is each other


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The events of 2016
- Brexit & Trump
- broke the mould which shaped ideas of democracy politics & social identity In this book

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