From esteemed British playwright Caryl Churchill
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Love & Liberation reads the autobiographical & biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Chonyi Wangmo (also called Dewe Dorje 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only for achieving religious mastery as a Tibetan Buddhist visionary & guru to many lamas monastics & laity in the Golok region of eastern Tibet but also for her candor This book listens to Sera Khandro's conversations with land deities dakinis bodhisattvas lamas & fellow religious community members whose voices interweave with her own to narrate what is a story of both love between Sera Khandro & her guru Drime Ozer & spiritual liberation Sarah H Jacoby's analysis focuses on the status of the female body in Sera Khandro's texts the virtue of celibacy versus the expediency of sexuality for religious purposes & the difference between profane lust & sacred love between male & female tantric partners Her findings add new

Dimensions to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist consort practices complicating standard scriptural presentations of male subject & female aide Sera Khandro depicts herself & Drime Ozer as inseparable embodiments of insight & method that together form the Vajrayana Buddhist vision of complete buddhahood By advancing this complementary sacred partnership Sera Khandro carved a place for herself as a female virtuoso in the male-dominated sphere of early twentieth-century Tibetan religion

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All six episodes of the ITV comedy following a mother who retires from her job & sets out in search of a different way of life When Pauline Paradise (Alison Steadman) decides that she has had enough of her immediate family her self-contained husband Ken (Duncan Preston) & their demanding children & grandchildren she decides to move in with her sister Rowan (Celia Imrie) who has a decidedly more unconventional life The episodes are & Huge Weekend for the Paradise Family& & Alarm!& & Secrets & Lies& & The Elephant in the Room& & Who&s the Boss& & & The Empty Nest& ...

A New York Times Science Bestseller What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh & Picasso weren't even told they existed? Alas this is how math is taught & so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry In Love & Math renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen suffused with all the beauty & elegance of a work of art In this heartfelt & passionate book Frenkel shows that mathematics far from occupying a specialist niche goes to the heart of all matter uniting us across cultures time & space Love & Math tells two intertwined stories of the wonders of mathematics & of one young man's journey learning & living it Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years the Langlands Program Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems such as Fermat's last theorem that had seemed intractable before At its core Love & Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking which can enrich our lives & empower us to better understand the world & our place in it It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Handsome & charming pharmaceutical rep Jamie (Jake Gyllenhaal) falls head over heels for radiant free spirit Maggie (Anne Hathaway) & together the two people who never thought they would fall in love discover that their intense chemistry is more powerful than any drug on the market Edward Zwick is best known for historical epics such as LEGENDS OF THE FALL THE LAST SAMURAI & DEFINACE so LOVE & OTHER DRUGS marks something of a dramatic change of direction for director Age Rating 15 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Maggie Smith & Timothy Bottom star in this sweet romantic comedy drama from Alan J Pakula (Klute The Parallax View) Walter Elbertson (Timothy Bottoms) is young asthmatic & shy lost within his family of overachievers Englishwoman Lila Fisher (Maggie Smith) is awkward & emotionally repressed The two of them meet on their respective holidays in Spain & proximity gradually nervously turns into a tremulous romantic attachment They decide to leave their respective holiday tours & head off together but then their fragile relationship is put to the test when they meet a Spanish Duke who is rather taken with Lila ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play For shy & awkward Ryoichi dreams of musical superstardom have long since faded & he s resigned himself to a lifetime of unrewarding office work for a company that barely acknowledges his existence But when he randomly buys a pet turtle named Pikadon a series of events are put into place that not only give Ryoichi the chance to fulfil his rock & roll fantasies they might just bring about the end of the world With more imagination in the first ten minutes than most films can boast in their entire running time Love & Peace is pure Sono a bonkers & uproarious one-of-a-kind that simply has to be seen to be believed ...

A hilarious confrontational & moving story of one woman's attempts to navigate her way through the challenges of mid-life for lovers of HOW TO BE A WOMAN & I'M NOT WITH THE BAND ' Claire Dederer is not only a brilliant author but an honest & brave one' Elizabeth Gilbert author of EAT PRAY LOVEClaire Dederer's youth was wild an endless cascade of beer & rock & acid & sex that left her benumbed & adrift But then after two decades of disciplined transformation she'd become a successful writer a faithful wife & a mother
- a real adult That is until one morning at 44 she found herself overcome by the same sexual cravings & ineffable sadness of her younger years The hedonistic girl 'that crazy bitch' was back
- or had she never left? Frank & disarming seductive & hilarious Love & Trouble A Mid-life Reckoning is Dederer's attempt to reckon with those urges & to reconcile the girl she'd been with the woman she's become

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Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece' Love & War in the Apennines' is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment & escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II After the Italian Armistice of 1943 Eric Newby escaped from the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year He evaded the German army by hiding in the caves & forests of Fontanellato in Italy's Po Valley Against this picturesque backdrop he was sheltered for three months by an informal network of Italian peasants who fed supported & nursed him before his eventual recapture Love & War in the Apennines' is Newby's tribute to the selfless & courageous people who were to be his saviours & companions during this troubled time & of their bleak & unchanging way of life Of the cast of idiosyncratic characters most notable was the beautiful local girl on a bike who would teach him the language & eventually help him escape; two years later they were married & would spend the rest of their lives as co-adventurers Part travelogue part escape story & part romance this is a mesmerising account of wisdom courage humour & adventure & tells the story of the early life of a man who would become one of Britain's best-loved literary adventurers ...

Jim Shore's charming miniatures feature some of the most popular imagery from the full-size collection This heartfelt Love Angel is beautifully decorated with Jim's signature combination of quilt patterns & folk-art design ...