After half a century writes renowned Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson " Pramoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor" Eka Kurniawan has been described as the "brightest meteorite" in Indonesia's new literary firmament the author of two remarkable novels whose sheer beauty elegance cosmopolitanism & ambition have brought comparisons not only to Pramoedya universally considered Indonesia's modern literary genius but also to Salman Rushdie Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Mark Twain A new generation of young literary figures in Indonesia emerging after decades of repressive dictatorship ended in 1998 is renewing the culture of the world's largest Muslim nation (and its language which was only nationally instituted in 1945) Kurniawan's Beauty Is a Wound & Man Tiger are the capstones of this movement A slim wry story set in an unnamed town near the Indian Ocean Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked & tormented families & of Margio an ordinary half-city half-rural youngster who also happens to be half-man half-supernatural female white tiger (in many parts of Indonesia magical tigers protect good villages & families) At once elegant & bawdy experimental & political Man Tiger will help to establish Indonesia's new voice underrepresented in world literature while demonstrating the influence of world literature on Indonesian writers ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Live from his luxury ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This Box Set features the following Man To Man Live from his luxury apartment in London&s glittering East End Dean Learner club owner celebrity manager restaurateur entrepreneur & publisher of high-class gentlemen&s magazines invites you to meet some of his closest friends Man to Man Garth Marenhi&s Dark Place Celebrated horror genius Garth Marenghi introduces his long-lost television project a haunting medical drama set in Romford The best-selling writer is already known to hundreds as the creative force behind such classic chillers as The Ooze (can water die?) Afterbirth (a mutated placenta attacks Bristol) & Black Fang (rats learn to drive) Darkplace was originally filmed in the 1980s & has since earned a cult reputation as one of the most terrifying & radical television programmes ever made Even now Garth warns that the show which he describes as an effort to radicalise men&s minds may prove &too subversive too dangerous too damn scary& Actors Matthew Holness Richard Ayoade Matt Berry Alice Lowe Julian Barratt Stephen Merchant Graham Linehan & Noel Fielding Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 2007 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
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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 Opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) moves into her sister Andy&s (Beverly D& Angelo) Hollywood home after her own house is mysteriously ransacked But with Andy just about to publish a kiss-&-tell memoir which reveals uncomfortable information about her mobster ex-boyfriend (Harry Dean Stanton) the move only brings more trouble Joan then hires guard dog trainer Harry Bliss (Jack Nicholson) in an attempt to beef up the security & soon she & Bliss are embarking on an affair of their own in this light-hearted screwball comedy ...

'A valuable book for parents' Barbara Ellen Observer Why are boys three times more likely than girls to be suspended from school? & four times more likely to have behavioural difficulties? Why do men make up 75 of suicides & 95 of prisoners? From babyhood through school & adolescence to work & relationships fatherhood & old-age Man Up investigates the unique difficulties boys & men encounter today Through fascinating research & real-life case studies this book shows that change is possible & that there is room for men & boys to find greater fulfilment & happiness
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Man Up! teaches the importance of self-reliance common sense & useful but often long-neglected skills With this book every man will be able to overcome whatever perils & difficulties he might encounter in the course of an adventurous life 160 pages bw line drawings throughout Green Rod ...

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Have you ever wondered how to beat the bookies? How does your computer know you might like this song? & should you be worried about this? Everything we do leaves a trail of data behind from buying something on a credit card to using a GPS-enabled mobile phone
- whether you know it or not like it or not Big Data is now a part of modern life Heralded as the Fourth Industrial Revolution it is now more crucial than ever to learn about how data is affecting the way we live Exploring the numerous ways in which Big Data' has sometimes imperceptibly infiltrated our lives this accessible & informative book looks at one of the most important subjects facing us today & helps you get to grips with what that means for you With quirky humorous illustrations this important book distills the complexities of the most absorbing statistics & data of modern life showing us how understanding a little more can help improve your life
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Economics expert Stewart Cowley distils the complexities of modern-day money & our relationship with it explaining how you can use economics to your advantage & that understanding economics can improve your life Along the way you will discover how the statistics that govern our world are based on guesswork why stock markets are like a wandering drunken man what you need to live like a millionaire & why cooking has made man the dominant species on the planet Where is all the money? How does a country go bust? Should I get paid in Bitcoin? Wherever you go whatever you do however you live your life money plays a role Getting it keeping it & making more out of it has been one of man's major preoccupations for the past five thousand years From buying a sandwich to earning a wage going on holiday to playing the lottery how money & economics governs our world is fascinating & it's just about to get more curious; the arrival of modern banking crowd funding investments at the touch of a smartphone & virtual currencies means for many of us it is even more complex ...

In 2007 Adam then a toaster salesman was inspired by a film about a man attempting to change his life by swimming the English Channel to try to emulate the feat After a year of rigorous training without a coach Adam achieved his goal in 11 hours 35 minutes despite a ruptured bicep tendon leading to medical advice to give up long-distance swimming In 2011 after two operations & a change to his swimming style to take pressure off his injured shoulder he became the first Briton to achieve a two-way crossing from Spain to Morocco & back In the process he broke the British record one way Shortly afterwards the Ocean's Seven challenge was born a gruelling equivalent to the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge At first it seemed that injury would prevent Adam from participating but ignoring medical advice he developed an innovative technique
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