A rural working class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this urgent & inspired novel for our times Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland Massachusetts who after being swindled by a financial advisor feels opportunity passing him & his family by What future can he promise to his wife Karen & their young daughter Haley? When a wealthy money manager Philip Hadi moves to Howland to escape post-911 New York he hires Mark to turn his his house into a secure location The collision of these two men's very different worlds -- rural vs urban middle class vs rich -- propels Jonathan Dee's powerful new novel After the town's first selectman passes away suddenly Hadi runs for office & begins subtly transforming the town in his image with unexpected results for Mark & his extended family THE LOCALS is that rare work of fiction capable of capturing a fraught American moment in real time It is also a novel that is timeless in its depiction of American small town life ...

Rethinking questions of identity social agency & national affiliation Bhabha provides a working if controversial theory of cultural hybridity
- one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others In The Location of Culture he uses concepts such as mimicry interstice hybridity & liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practical political change Bhabha has become one of the leading post-colonial theorists of this era
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Ever since Angus was a wee baby monster living below the surface of Loch Ness his parents tried to teach him to be a proper monster But as Angus grows bigger he gets sloppy Puggy-nit peanut shells are piling up; his grottie laundry is in a heap; tattie cans litter the floor It's a mountain of a mess! & as Angus's rubbish heap grows a surprising Loch Ness sighting of his own awaits on the surface of the lake Children will love the twist at the end of this monstrously funny cautionary tale! ...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2017 War comrades' declared Trotsky is a great locomotive of history' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in 1917 Twentieth-century warfare based on new technologies & mass armies certainly saw the locomotive power of war geared up to an unprecedented level Peter Clarke explores the crucial ways in which war can be seen as a prime mover of history in the twentieth century through the eyes of five major figures In Britain two wartime prime ministers
- first David Lloyd George later Winston Churchill
- found their careers made & unmade by the unprecedented challenges they faced In the United States two presidents elected in peacetime
- Woodrow Wilson & Franklin Roosevelt
- likewise found that war drastically changed their agenda & it was through the experience of war that the economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes were shaped & came to exert wide influence When the United States entered the First World War in 1917 President Wilson famously declared The world must be made safe for democracy' This liberal prospectus was to be tested in the subsequent peace treaty one that was to be bitterly remembered by Germans for its war guilt clause' But both in the making of the war & the making of the peace the issue of guilt did not suddenly materialise out of thin air As Clarke's narrative shows it was an integral component of the Anglo-American liberal tradition The Locomotive of War is a forensic & punctilious examination of both the interplay between key figures in the context of the unprecedented all-out wars of 1914-18 & 1939-45 & the broader dynamics of history in this extraordinary period Deeply revealing & insightful it is history of the highest calibre



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Tracklist How To Become A Virgin The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office Kill Roger Hedgecock Straight From The Horse's Mouth Moth-Eaten Deer Head Priest With The Sexually-Transmitted Diseases Get Out Of My Bed Cattle Mutilation Perils Of Believing In Round Squares Twenty-Three Lubed-Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Grandeur Stucco Obelisks Labeled As Trees Skin Graft At Seventy-Five Miles An Hour Get Off The Cross The Wood Is Needed Who Wants A Dose Of The Clap? Wet Nurse Syndrome (Hand Me Down Display Case) Gluing Carpet To Your Genitals Does Not Make You A Cantaloupe Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys ...

One of the film-making industry&s greatest auteurs Alfred Hitchcock undoubtedly earned his title as " The Master of Suspense" with his thrilling films loved by the viewing public over a career spanning many decades Widely regarded as the first true " Hitchcock film" The Lodger is a masterclass in tension displaying all the trademarks of what was to become known as the typical Hitchcock thriller Newly restored in High Definition this release features a brand new orchestral soundtrack by acclaimed musician & composer Nitin Sawhney performed by the world famous London Symphony Orchestra On hearing reports of the seventh murder by " The Avenger" Daisy decides to stay with her parents She is being courted by Joe a detective who gets suspicious when her mother rents a room out to a lodger
- to whom Daisy is attracted While the lodger is out Joe takes the opportunity to search his room
- there he finds a gun press clippings of the killings & a map of the murders

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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 Karl Urban & James Marsden star in this mystery thriller in which five married men use a shared penthouse loft in the city to conduct their illicit affairs Their fantasy is torn apart when Luke (Wentworth Miller) discovers a woman&s dead body handcuffed to a bed in the apartment leading the five friends who possess the only keys to suspect each other of her murder As they are all interrogated by detectives Huggins (Kristin Lehman) & Cohagan (Robert Wisdom) the number of potential suspects only seems to increase as their complex affairs unravel ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Karl Urban & James Marsden star in this mystery thriller in which five married men use a shared penthouse loft in the city to conduct their illicit affairs Their fantasy is torn apart when Luke (Wentworth Miller) discovers a woman&s dead body handcuffed to a bed in the apartment leading the five friends who possess the only keys to suspect each other of her murder As they are all interrogated by detectives Huggins (Kristin Lehman) & Cohagan (Robert Wisdom) the number of potential suspects only seems to increase as their complex affairs unravel ...

Using a wood-burning stove effectively is both an art & a science In this friendly comprehensive guide chartered forester & woodfuel expert Will Rolls talks the reader through the theory & practice of getting the best results from their stove From finding the fuel & seasoning it to lighting the stove & operating it cleanly this books describes the best techniques for looking after your log stove The Log Book covers log suppliers avoiding too much smoke & ash checking fuel quality & picking the best wood for your fire This second edition
Includes: Flu temperature gauges Tips on cleaning the glass Heat fans Stacking logs next to stoves Advice for single vent burners How atmospheric conditions can affect draft especially when lighting
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The Logic Manual is a clear & concise introduction to logic for beginning philosophy students It offers a complete introductory course guiding the reader carefully through the topics in logic that are most important for the study of philosophy It covers propositional & predicate logic with & without identity It

Includes:: an account of the semantics of these languages including definitions of truth & satisfaction Natural deduction is used as a proof system Volker Halbach introduces the essential concepts through examples & informal explanations as well as through abstract definitions The Logic Manual provides the best entry to the general abstract way of thinking about language logic & semantics which is characteristic of contemporary philosophy Exercises examples & sample examination papers are provided on an accompanying website

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