&I hope the slave trade may be abolished I pray it may be an event at hand& Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789 Olaudah Equiano&s Interesting Narrative gives the author&s account of his enslavement after his childhood kidnapping in Africa & his journey from slavery to freedom Equiano was slave to a captain in the Royal Navy & later to a Quaker merchant & he vividly depicts the appalling treatment of enslaved people at sea & on land He takes part in naval engagements is shipwrecked & has other exciting adventures on his travels to the Caribbean America & the Arctic Equiano claimed his own freedom & became an important abolitionist but his Narrative is much more than merely a political pamphlet The most important African autobiography of the eighteenth century it has achieved an increasingly central position among the century&s great works of literature The introduction to this edition surveys recent debates about Equiano&s birthplace & identity & considers his campaigning role & literary achievements ...

This introductory-level text introduces students to the planning of interior environments addressing both the contents of the environments & the process of interior space planning Topics include the making of rooms the design of effective spatial sequences functional relationships among project parts arrangement of furniture planning effective circulation systems making spaces accessible & designing safe environments with efficient emergency egress systems Exercises throughout the book facilitate learning by encouraging students to apply ideas & concepts immediately after reading about them This second edition features logically re-organized content with coverage on accessibility & universal design throughout providing for a more intuitive read It also features new original artwork by the author & a new glossary for quick look-up of terms Finally there are new exercises that engage students & test their ability to apply what they have learned ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn&t all it&s cracked up to be Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site founded & run by Jules Ostin Actors Robert De Niro Anne Hathaway Rene Russo Directors Nancy Meyers Format PAL Language English Number of discs 1 Run Time 121 minutes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn&t all it&s cracked up to be Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site founded & run by Jules Ostin ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) is determined to expose an arms dealing ring responsible for facilitating acts of terrorism around the globe But as his investigation leads Salinger & his partner Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) deeper into the secret world of greed corruption & murder they become targets of a deadly conspiracy so vast they soon find the only people left to trust are each other This pulse-pounding thriller plays a high-stakes game of suspense intrigue & explosive action Actors Clive Owen Naomi Watts Jack Mc Gee Armin Mueller-Stahl Ulrich Thomsen Victor Slezak Remy Auberjonois & Brian F O& Byrne Director Tom Tykwer Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Italian Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; Finnish ; Hindi ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Swedish Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 58 minutes (approx)
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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 An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution&s role in an international arms dealing ring ...

The law of the sea provides for the regulation management & governance of the ocean spaces that cover over two-thirds of the Earth's surface This book provides a contemporary explanation of the foundational principles of the law of the sea a critical overview of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea & an analysis of subsequent developments including the many bilateral regional & global agreements that supplement the Convention The second edition of this acclaimed text takes as its focus the rules & institutions established by the Convention on the Law of the Sea & places the achievements of the Convention in both historical & contemporary context All of the main areas of the law of the sea are addressed including the foundations & sources of the law the nature & extent of the maritime zones the delimitation of overlapping maritime boundaries the place of archipelagic & other special states in the law of the sea navigational rights & freedoms military activities at sea & marine resource & conservation issues such as fisheries marine environmental protection & dispute settlement As the Convention is now well over a quarter of a century old the book takes stock of contemporary oceans issues that are not adequately addressed by the Convention Overarching challenges facing the law of the sea are considered including how new maritime security initiatives can be reconciled with traditional navigational rights & freedoms & the need for stronger legal & policy responses to protect the global ocean environment from climate change & ocean acidification ...

' It will change the way you remember the 20th century & read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker'A clarion call to preserve law & order across our planet' Philippe Sands'A fascinating & important book given the state of the world The Internationalists has come along at the right moment' Margaret Mac Millan Financial Times Since the end of the Second World War we have moved from an international system in which war was legal & accepted as the ultimate arbiter of disputes between nations to one in which it was not Nations that wage aggressive war have become outcasts & have almost always had to give up their territorial gains How did this epochal transformation come about? This remarkable book which combines political legal & intellectual history traces the origins & course of one of the great shifts in the modern world' Sweeping & yet personable at the same time The Internationalists explores the profound implications of the outlawry of war Professors Oona Hathaway & Scott Shapiro enrich their analysis with vignettes of the many individuals (some unknown to most students of History) who played such important roles in this story None have put it all together in the way that Hathaway & Shapiro have done in this book' Paul Kennedy' In this timely elegant & powerful book Oona Hathaway & Scott Shapiro help us understand the momentous significance of the individuals who imagined an end to war As the world stands on the cusp of a return to an earlier age The Internationalists is a clarion call to preserve law & order across our planet' Philippe Sands ...

More objects & devices are connected to digital networks than ever before Things
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Double bill of US comedies & The Internship& (2013) stars Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson as two former salesmen who never having managed to come to grips with the digital age are left high & dry when their employer suddenly decides to call it a day Staking everything on one last throw of the dice the pair defying all the odds somehow manage to get themselves accepted onto a coveted internship at tech giants Google But will they be able to keep up the facade once they take up their positions? In & The Watch& (2012) Ben Stiller Vaughn Jonah Hill & Richard Ayoade play a group of friends who form a neighbourhood watch group While Evan Trautwig (Stiller) a newcomer to the suburban neighbourhood may have a legitimate reason for forming a crime watch group following the recent murder of a friend it is clear that for most of the men ulterior motives are at work Indeed Bob Finnerty (Vaughn) seems to spend a lot more time examining the dating habits of his daughter Chelsea (Erin Moriarty) than he does looking for threats However when the men stumble across what appears to be an alien plan to destroy humankind they understand where their responsibilities lie & set out to counter the threat Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ...