Full of sensitive pastoral advice & shot through with arresting & illuminating theological insights Rowan Williams' new book explores the meaning & practice of four essential components of the Christian life baptism Bible Eucharist & prayer This book is an invitation to everyone to think through the essentials of the faith & how to live it making it an ideal gift for anyone at the start of their spiritual journey or thinking about confirmation ...

Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4&s The Archers since 1982 He is also the Earl of Portland & the voice of & Mind The Gap& on the Piccadilly Line Aimed primarily at the five million regular Archers listeners Timothy takes the reader behind the scenes of the longest running drama series in the world a British institution with a theme tune that Billy Connolly wants to be the National Anthem But that&s not all With wry self-deprecating humour Timothy recounts his enormously varied life
- a successful actor in TV film & theatre a voice specialist working in every vocal medium He&s also been an HGV truck driver a US tour guide a computer programmer & website designer an inventor with UK & US patents farm worker house renovator & he sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords for three years Unlike many acting memoirs this isn&t a succession of thespian tales of freezing digs forgotten lines & name dropping This is an articulate funny & thoughtful account of how to survive an insecure life
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The autobiography of actor Timothy Bentinck who has played the role of David Archer the Paterfamilias of the Archer family since 1982 336 pages 2x 8pp colour plate sections Bentinck Timothy ...

This fresh & inspiring look at the meaning of discipleship covers the essentials of the christian life includingfaith hope & love; forgiveness; holiness; social action; life in the Spirit Written for the general reader by one of our greatest living theologians this book will help you to see more clearly love more dearly & follow more nearly the way of Jesus Christ ...

' To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' PDSmith Guardian Why is everything we think we know about ecology wrong? Is there really any difference between 'humans' & 'nature'? Does this mean we even have a future? Don't care about ecology? This book is for you Timothy Morton who has been called ' Our most popular guide to the new epoch' (Guardian) sets out to show us that whether we know it or not we already have the capacity & the will to change the way we understand the place of humans in the world & our very understanding of the term 'ecology' A cross-disciplinarian who has collaborated with everyone from Bjoerk to Hans Ulrich Obrist Morton is also a member of the object-oriented philosophy movement a group of forward-looking thinkers who are grappling with modern-day notions of subjectivity & objectivity while also offering fascinating new understandings of Heidegger & Kant Calling the volume a book containing 'no ecological facts' Morton confronts the 'information dump' fatigue of the digital age & offers an invigorated approach to creating a liveable future ...

What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world&s first rock star there was no one to tell him what to expect no one with whom he could share the burden of being himself
- of being Elvis On the outside he was all charm sex appeal outrageously confident on stage & stunningly gifted in the recording studio To his fans he seemed to have it all He was Elvis With his voice & style influencing succeeding generations of musicians he should have been free to sing any song he liked to star in any film he was offered & to tour in any country he chose But he wasn&t free The circumstances of his poor beginnings in the American South which as he blended gospel music with black rhythm & blues & white country songs helped him create rock & roll had left him with a lifelong vulnerability Made rich & famous beyond his wildest imaginings when he mortgaged his talent to the machinations of his manager & Colonel& Tom Parker there would be an inevitable price to pay Though he daydreamed of becoming a serious film actor instead he grew to despise his own movies & many of the songs he had to sing in them He could have rebelled But he didn&t Why? In the Seventies as the hits rolled in again & millions of fans saw him in a second career as he sang his way across America he talked of wanting to tour the world But he never did What was stopping him?BEING ELVIS takes a clear-eyed look at the most-loved entertainer ever & finds an unusual boy with a dazzling talent who grew up to change popular culture; a man who sold a billion records & had more hits than any other singer but who became trapped by his own frailties in the loneliness of fame
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Being Ethnographic is an essential introductory guidebook to the methods & applications of doing fieldwork in real-world settings It discusses the future of ethnography explores how we understand identity & sets out the role of technology in a global networked society Driven by classic & anecdotal case studies Being Ethnographic highlights the challenges introduced by the ethnographers' own interests biases & ideologies & demonstrates the importance of methodological reflexivity Addressing both the why & how questions of doing ethnography well Madden demonstrates how both theory & practice can work together to produce insights into the human condition This fully updated second edition
Includes: New material on intersubjectivity Information on digital inscription tools A practical guide to qualitative analysis software New coverage of cyberethnography & social media Expanded information on ethnographic possibilities with animals Filled with invaluable advice for applying ethnographic principles in the field it will give researchers across social sciences everything they need to walk a mile in someone else's shoes
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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 Academy Award winner Robert De Niro Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) & Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore give powerhouse performances in this compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between & child written & directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy) Nick Flynn (Dano) is a young writer seeking to define himself His father Jonathan (De Niro) however scrapes through life on his own terms & has not seen his son in 18 years Taking a job at a homeless shelter Nick finds purpose in his own life & work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed To give the two of them a shot at a real future Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out to his dad in this "undeniably powerful" (Peter Travers Rolling Stone) adaptation of Nick Flynn&s award-winning memoir & Another Bull! Night in Suck City& Actors Robert De Niro Paul Dano Julianne Moore Olivia Thirlby & Lili Taylor Director Paul Weitz Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English Additional Languages French ; Spanish ; Brazilian Portuguese ; Latin American Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 42 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Academy Award winner Robert De Niro Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) & Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore give powerhouse performances in this compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between & child written & directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy) Nick Flynn (Dano) is a young writer seeking to define himself His father Jonathan (De Niro) however scrapes through life on his own terms & has not seen his son in 18 years Taking a job at a homeless shelter Nick finds purpose in his own life & work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed To give the two of them a shot at a real future Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out to his dad in this "undeniably powerful" (Peter Travers Rolling Stone) adaptation of Nick Flynn&s award-winning memoir & Another Bull! Night in Suck City& Actors Robert De Niro Paul Dano Julianne Moore Olivia Thirlby & Lili Taylor Director Paul Weitz Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English Additional Languages French ; Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 38 minutes (approx) ...

It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism relativism hypocrisy & nihilism dog ethics Whether it is a matter of giving to charity or sticking to duty or insisting on our rights we can be confused or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish & tribalistic or competitive & aggressive Simon Blackburn author of the best-selling Think structures this short introduction around these & other threats to ethics Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral well-behaved creatures he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us Then turning to problems of life & death he shows how we should think about the meaning of life & how we should mistrust the sound-bite sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates Finally he offers a critical tour of the ways the philosophical tradition has tried to provide foundations for ethics from Plato & Aristotle through to contemporary debates ...