Jenna Miscavige Hill niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005 In Beyond Belief she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect details her experiences as a member Sea Org-the church's highest ministry speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization & tells the story of her ultimate escape In this tell-all memoir complete with family photographs from her time in the Church Jenna Miscavige Hill a prominent critic of Scientology who now helps others leave the organization offers an insider's profile of the beliefs rituals & secrets of the religion that has captured the fascination of millions including some of Hollywood's brightest stars such as Tom Cruise & John Travolta ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Scandanavian animated children&s adventure about a young rabbit&s quest to save his mother One day Johan (voice of Evan Tube HD)&s sick mother is suddenly snatched away from him & taken to the land of the Feather King (Patrick Warburton) Although everyone tells Johan he can&t follow her he leaves his new home on the open seas in the hopes of reuniting his family once again When an old dog is also taken by the Feather King Johan sees his chance to gain a way into his kingdom After he arrives to search for his mother young & naive Johan discovers the Feather King needs his help to save his kingdom from falling into the ocean Will he eventually be able to make it home with his mother again? ...

A comically sinister tale of wicked spirits & suburban mediums from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall' & Bring Up the Bodies' Alison Hart a medium by trade tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors But behind her plump smiling persona hides a desperate woman she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past who infiltrate her body & home becoming stronger & nastier the more she resists Shortlisted for the Orange Prize Hilary Mantel's supremely suspenseful novel is a masterpiece of dark humour & even darker secrets ...

From its origins in academic discourse in the 1970s to our collective imagination today the concept of "rape culture" has resonated in a variety of spheres including television gaming comic book culture & college campuses Beyond Blurred Lines traces ways that sexual violence is collectively processed mediated negotiated & contested by exploring public reactions to high-profile incidents & rape narratives in popular culture The concept of rape culture was initially embraced in popular media
- mass media social media & popular culture
- & contributed to a social understanding of sexual violence that mirrored feminist concerns about the persistence of rape myths & victim-blaming However it was later challenged by skeptics who framed the concept as a moral panic Nickie D Phillips documents how the conversation shifted from substantiating claims of a rape culture toward growing scrutiny of the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses This in turn renewed attention toward false allegations & away from how college enforcement policies fail victims to how they endanger accused young men Ultimately she successfully lends insight into how the debates around rape culture including microaggressions gendered harassment & so-called political correctness inform our collective imaginations & shape our attitudes toward criminal justice & policy responses to sexual violence

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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 Sarah Jordan (Angelina Jolie) is an American living in London in the early 1980s She is married to wealthy Henry Bauford (Linus Roache) when she meets relief worker Nick Callahan (Clive Owen) at a charity benefit Nick&s plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa move Sarah & she joins his crusade embarking on a journey of discovery to Cambodia ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Low-budget paranormal thriller starring Jon Voight as a detective trying to track down a missing girl When Amy (Chloe Lesslie) the daughter of the local police chief goes missing seen-it-all-before detective John Koski (Voight) is assigned the case None too impressed when he&s made to work alongside psychic investigator Farley (Teri Polo) who claims to have had visions of the missing girl Koski&s views rapidly change as the pair uncover increasingly sinister evidence that tests their beliefs to the core ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play For a brief moment in history the world stood still All eyes & minds focused on the skies & the colossal unidentified object that was discovered on a collision course with Earth Now shrouded in mystery the vast alien spacecraft looms ominously in sight above Northern Europe bringing with it an uncertain future Amidst the chaos of the ensuing global catastrophe one young couple searching for their infant daughter their lost relationship & the hope of salvation embark on a perilous journey across a beautiful but treacherous landscape They are driven on by hope confronting their own demons while forced to survive in a world that stands on the brink of collapse Survival is a choice… ...

Many of us especially since 911 have become personally concerned about issues of security & this is no surprise Security is near the top of government & corporate agendas around the globe Security-related stories appear on the front page everyday How well though do any of us truly understand what achieving real security involves? In Beyond Fear Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies businesses of all shapes & sizes & our national governments & militaries Schneier believes we all can & should be better security consumers & that the trade-offs we make in the name of security
- in terms of cash outlays taxes inconvenience & diminished freedoms
- should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal professional & civic lives & the subject of an open & informed national discussion With a well-deserved reputation for original & sometimes iconoclastic thought Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative counter-intuitive & just plain good sense He explains in detail for example why we need to design security systems that don't just work well but fail well & why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security He also believes for instance that national ID cards are an exceptionally bad idea technically unsound & even destructive of security & contrary to a lot of current nay-sayers he thinks online shopping is fundamentally safe & that many of the new airline security measure (though by no means all) are actually quite effective A skeptic of much that's promised by highly touted technologies like biometrics Schneier is also a refreshingly positive problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing & fear-mongering world of security pundits Schneier helps the reader to understand the issues at stake & how to best come to one's own conclusions including the vast infrastructure we already have in place & the vaster systems--some useful others useless or worse--that we're being asked to submit to & pay for Bruce Schneier is the author of seven books including Applied Cryptography (which Wired called the one book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published) & Secrets & Lies (described in Fortune as startlingly livelya jewel box of little surprises you can actually use) He is also Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Counterpane Internet Security Inc & publishes Crypto-Gram one of the most widely read newsletters in the field of online security

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In this profound & profoundly controversial work a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971 B F Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind & society Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved only by dealing much more effectively with human behavior Skinner argues that our traditional concepts of freedom & dignity must be sharply revised They have played an important historical role in our struggle against many kinds of tyranny he acknowledges but they are now responsible for the futile defense of a presumed free & autonomous individual; they are perpetuating our use of punishment & blocking the development of more effective cultural practices Basing his arguments on the massive results of the experimental analysis of behavior he pioneered Skinner rejects traditional explanations of behavior in terms of states of mind feelings & other mental attributes in favor of explanations to be sought in the interaction between genetic endowment & personal history He argues that instead of promoting freedom & dignity as personal attributes we should direct our attention to the physical & social environments in which people live It is the environment rather than humankind itself that must be changed if the traditional goals of the struggle for freedom & dignity are to be reached Beyond Freedom & Dignity urges us to reexamine the ideals we have taken for granted & to consider the possibility of a radically behaviorist approach to human problems--one that has appeared to some incompatible with those ideals but which envisions the building of a world in which humankind can attain its greatest possible achievements ...

One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good & evil truth & God Beyond Good & Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety & infected with a &slave morality& With wit & subversive energy Nietzsche demands that the individual impose their own &will to power& upon the world ...