Cooper Sullivan & Lil Chance were unlikely childhood friends
- thrown together each summer when Coop visited his grandparents'
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A look at Black History framed by those who made it BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN ITS OWN WORDS presents"es of dozens of black luminaries with portraits & illustrations by Ronald Wimberly Featuring the memorable words & depictions of Angela Davis Jean-Michael Basquiat Kanye West Zadie Smith Ice Cube Dave Chappelle James Baldwin Spike Lee & more ...

The setting suburban Seattle the mid-1970s We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers transmitted by sexual contact The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it that’s it There’s no turning back As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it some who don’t some who are about to get it — what unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague or bring heightened awareness to it or even to treat it What we become witness to instead is a fascinating & eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself — the savagery the cruelty the relentless anxiety & ennui the longing for escape & then the murders start As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux & the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn’t exactly cool to be a hippie anymore but Bowie was still just a little too weird To say nothing of sprouting horns & molting your skin… Meet the Author Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine in the mid-1980s & took off from there in an extraordinary range of comics & projects from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids In 1992 he designed the set for Mark Morris’s delightful restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at BAM He’s illustrated covers for Time The New Yorker & The New York Times Magazine He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in 2003 Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife & two daughters ...

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Sunday Times' This is empirical poetry A fascinating tale of human curiosity beautifully told & with black holes & lasers too' Robin Ince In 1916 Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves miniscule ripples in the very fabric of spacetime generated by unfathomably powerful events If such vibrations could somehow be recorded we could observe our universe for the first time through sound the hissing of the Big Bang the low tones of merging galaxies the drumbeat of two black holes collapsing into one In 2016 a team of hundreds of scientists at work on a billion-dollar experiment made history when they announced the first ever detection of a gravitational wave confirming Einstein's prediction a century ago Based on complete access to LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) & the scientists who created it Black Hole Blues offers a first-hand account of this astonishing achievement an intimate story of cutting-edge science at its most awe-inspiring & ambitious ...

Travel beyond the event horizon Gravity-twisting sci-fi comedy When the crew of the spaceship Endera is sucked into a black hole it seems like the end Fortunately the ship crashes on Entity – an unidentified object resembling a planet After the crash the first member to wake up is the guy who makes coffee for the crew
- you! There’s no one around & your only ally is Auriel the ship’s computer’s sarcastic AI Together you’ll need to come up with a plan to fix the spaceship save the others & become heroes of planet Earth by closing the black hole once & for all It won’t be an easy task because the mysterious caves lost cities towering mountains & deep forests are full of tricky gravity-defying puzzles & deadly traps More than 130 levels in 6

Dimensions to explore Hundreds of secrets to discover & puzzles to solve A fully voiced sci-fi comedy with a cool soundtrack Pixel-perfect controls


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Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time Now in his first collection of essays & other pieces
- on subjects that range from warmly personal to the wholly scientific- Stephen Hawking is revelaed varioulsy as the scientist the man the concerned world citizen &
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- the rigourous & imaginative thinker Whether he is remebering his first experience of nursery school; puncturing the arrogance of those who think science can best be understood only by other scientists & should be left to them; exploring the origins & the future of the universe; or reflecting on the phenomenon of A Brief History of Time Stephen's wit directness of style & absence of pomp are vital characteristics at all times


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It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction & nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on a subject that has fascinated him for decades
- black holes In these flagship lectures the legendary physicist argues that if we could only understand black holes & how they challenge the very nature of space & time we could unlock the secrets of the universe
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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 Frontier drama about two cowhands who try to capture a wild stallion responsible for luring the mares from a small town into the wild The duo believe the stallion to be very valuable especially if it is put to stud & are keen to capture it as quickly as possible but they soon encounter fierce competition from an unexpected quarter Actors Joel Mc Crea Mari Blanchard Murvyn Vye Irving Bacon Race Gentry Directors Jesse Hibbs Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Longlisted for the FT & Mc Kinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 In September 2008 HBOS with assets larger than Britain's GDP was on the edge of bankruptcy Its collapse would have created the biggest economic crisis since the 1930s & a major political disaster for the Labour government With the help & support of Gordon Brown HBOS was rescued by Lloyds TSB one of the country's strongest banks in circumstances that have since become the stuff of City legend In the highly acclaimed Black Horse Ride veteran financial journalist Ivan Fallon brings together the accounts of all the power players involved in this dramatic saga for the first time including the key roles played by the Governor of the Bank of England the Prime Minister & the Treasury Through a compelling cast of prominent bankers politicians & investors Fallon reveals what really occurred in the aftermath of the crash of Lehman Brothers perhaps the worst single day in banking history ...

A comfortable solid middle-American town
- inhabited by a serial killer Children are disappearing lost to the world horrifically
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