Battling bad guys High-tech hideouts The gratitude of the masses Who at some point in their life hasn't dreamed of being a superhero? Impossible right? Or is it? Possessing no supernatural powers Batman is the most realistic of all the superheroes His feats are achieved through rigorous training & mental discipline & with the aid of fantastic gadgets Drawing on his training as a neuroscientist kinesiologist & martial artist E Paul Zehr explores the question Could a mortal ever become Batman? Zehr discusses the physical training necessary to maintain bad-guy-fighting readiness while relating the science underlying this process from strength conditioning to the cognitive changes a person would endure in undertaking such a regimen In probing what a real-life Batman could achieve Zehr considers the level of punishment a consummately fit & trained person could handle how hard & fast such a person could punch & kick & the number of adversaries that individual could dispatch He also tells us what it would be like to fight while wearing a batsuit & the amount of food we'd need to consume each day to maintain vigilance as Gotham City's guardian A fun foray of escapism grounded in sound science Becoming Batman provides the background for attaining the realizable-though extreme-level of human performance that would allow you to be a superhero ...

Becoming Elektra is an account of Elektra Records in the Jac Holzman years from 1950 to 1973 It tells the story of Elektra's growth from a small independent folk label to a major multi-faceted hit making concern Jac Holzman's role in founding & running the company is central to the story & his capacity for lateral thinking
- that led to innovations such as the first-ever sampler album & a million-selling series of sound effects records
- is a recurring theme But the book is not just a story of one man's business success It is also about the label's artists & the great music they produced & other key people who gave the company its identity Becoming Elektra places the label in a broad context A gripping narrative drawing in elements of musical & cultural history & biographies of the main participants in the story the book opens with a pivotal moment in Elektra's history when Holzman discovered The Doors It then goes back to the previously untold story of Elektra in the 50s when the label brought folk music to a wide audience through artists such as Jean Ritchie Josh White Theodore Bikel & Bob Gibson Moving into the 60s the story takes in artists that have had an extraordinary resonance down the years including some such as Tim Buckley who are far more popular today than in their lifetime His story is told along with those of artists that read like an inventory of 60s & 70s musical innovation The Doors Love Judy Collins The Paul Butterfield Band (with Michael Bloomfield) Tom Paxton Tim Buckley Fred Neil David Ackles Phil Ochs Bread Queen Mickey Newbury The Incredible String Band Carly Simon The Stooges & The MC5

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Becoming Fiction Reassessing Atheism in Durrenmatt's Stoffe sets forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Durrenmatt modern Swiss dramatist essayist novelist & self-proclaimed atheist (1921-1990) & offers new insights into the ways in which his father's vocation as a Protestant minister along with Durrenmatt's own decision as a young man to pursue a career in writing rather than religion shaped his world view & in particular made necessary a final desperate attempt to fictionally recast his own life through revisions & amplifications of many of his earlier works when he created his final prose volume Stoffe Durrenmatt devoted immense energy in his writings to wrestling with his father's God as a way of seeking self-identity That perceived loss of his father's esteem became the motor behind his works After earlier successes the icy reception of his most ambitious play Der Mitmacher in 1976 left the author in such a frustrated state of disappointment that he reached a point of linguistic breakdown This book contends that Durrenmatt's loss of voice forced the author to a new kind of writing a re-turn' home Becoming Fiction explores the damage caused by Durrenmatt's inability to express his most central beliefs through the outdated deceptive modes of linguistic thought & tradition Consequently the book argues at the point of that breakdown of rigid linguistic & theological concepts a space was forced open & the Stoffe reveal a Divine presence ...

The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial & then expanded upon in Mein Kampf It tells of his rapid emergence as National Socialist leader in 1919 & of how he successfully rallied most of Munich & the majority of Bavaria's establishment to support the famous beer-hall putsch of 1923 It is an account which has largely been taken at face value for over ninety years Yet on closer examination Hitler's account of his experiences in the years immediately following the First World War turns out to be every bit as unreliable as his account of his experiences as a soldier during the war itself In Becoming Hitler Thomas Weber continues from where he left off in his previous book Hitler's First War stripping away the layers of myth & fabrication in Hitler's own tale to tell the real story of Hitler's politicization & radicalization in post-First World War Munich It is the gripping account of how an awkward & unemployed loner with virtually no recognizable leadership qualities & fluctuating political ideas turned into the charismatic self-assured virulently anti-Semitic leader with an all-or-nothing approach to politics with whom the world was soon to become tragically familiar As Weber clearly shows far from the picture of a fully-formed political leader which Hitler wanted to portray in Mein Kampf his ideas & priorities were still very uncertain & largely undefined in early 1919
- & they continued to shift until 1923 It was the failed Ludendorff putsch of November 1923
- & the subsequent Ludendorff trial
- which was to prove the making of Hitler & he was not slow to spot the opportunity that it offered As the movers & shakers of Munich's political scene tried to blame everything on him in the course of the trial Hitler was presented with a golden opportunity to place himself at the centre of attention turning what had been the ' Ludendorff trial' into the ' Hitler trial' Henceforth he would no longer be merely a local Bavarian political leader From now on he would present himself as a potential 'national saviour' In the months after the trial Hitler cemented this myth by writing Mein Kampf from his comfortable prison cell His years of metamorphosis were now behind him His years as Fuhrer were soon to come


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This film depicts the young Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) as she discovers her literary skills & her own affairs of the heart It is loosely based on a speculative romance between her & a young Irish lawyer Tom Lefroy (James Mc Avoy) The original screenplay was inspired by real events which were chronicled in the book Becomin Jane Austin by Jon Spence Also stars Maggie Smith The year is 1795 & young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old & emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class & commerce beyond pride & prejudice & dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable – marrying for love Naturally her parents are searching for a wealthy well-appointed husband to assure their daughter&s future social standing They are eyeing Mr Wisley nephew to the very formidable not to mention very rich local aristocrat Lady Gresham as a prospective match But when Jane meets the roguish & decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee His intellect & arrogance raise her ire – then knock her head over heels Now the couple whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense & sensibility of the age is faced with a terrible dilemma If they attempt to marry they will risk everything that matters – family friends & fortune ...

& When Yalom publishes something
- anything
- I buy it & he never disappoints He&s an amazing storyteller a gorgeous writer

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' Becoming Nicole is a powerful & illuminating book about one couple's journey in coming to accept & nurture their transgender daughter It's a page turner & a heart opener I couldn't recommend it more highly' Cheryl Strayed author of Wild When Wayne & Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys they thought their lives were complete But it wasn't long before they noticed a marked difference between Jonas & his brother Wyatt Jonas preferred sports & trucks & many of the things little boys were 'supposed' to like; but Wyatt liked princess dolls & dressing up & playing Little Mermaid By the time the twins were toddlers confusion over Wyatt's insistence that he was female began to tear the family apart Becoming Nicole is the heart-wrenching story of a mother whose instincts told her that her child needed love & not disapproval; of a conservative army-veteran father who overcame his deepest fears to embrace his new daughter; of a loving brother who never gave up supporting his twin sister; & of a town forced to confront its own prejudices More than that however Becoming Nicole is the story of an extraordinary girl who fought for the right to be herself ...

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What would it mean to become supernatural? What if you could tune in to frequencies beyond our material world change your brain chemistry to access transcendent levels of awareness create a new future andtransform your very biology to enable profound healing? This is what Dr Joe Dispenza offers in this revolutionary book a body of knowledge & a set of tools that allow ordinary people-people just like you-to reach extraordinary states of being Dr Joe author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself & Evolve Your Brain draws on up-to-the-minute research in neuroscience epigenetics & quantum physics to show how this kind of transformation takes place & what it can mean for our lives In thesepages you'll explore- How to free yourself from the past by reconditioning your body to a new mind- How changing your frequency means that you can create reality in the "generous present moment"- The secret science of the pineal gland & its role in accessing mystical realms of reality- How to shift your awareness beyond the limited predictable material world & move into the quantum field ofinfinite possibilities- & much more Using tools & practices ranging from state-of-the-art brain imaging to exercises such as a walking meditation Dr Joe offers nothing less than a program for stepping outside our physical reality & into a new world " This iswho we really are" he writes "and this is the future I'm creating-one in which each & every one of us becomes supernatural" ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An intimate & fascinating documentary that invites you to go behind the curtains of one of the world s greatest operas Verdi s masterpiece La Traviata Director Philippe Beziat offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of renowned singers & musicians as they collaborate to produce a contemporary re-telling of this classic opera at the prestigious Festival d Aix-en-Provence in France French theatreopera director Jean-François Sivadier & celebrated Met Opera soprano Natalie Dessay work side by side to tirelessly craft & mould with perfect precision Verdi s heroine violetta Dessay s metamorphosis is truly mesmerising Other collaborators include the London Symphony Orchestra musicians under the direction of Louis Langree Estonian Philharmonic Choir singers performers lighting technicians & set designers who work in unison to bring to life one magnificent artistic expression ...