James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression which he says is rooted in degradation dependency & powerlessness & is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical sensory cognitive or developmental disabilities Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to & differences from racism sexism & colonialism Charlton's analysis is illuminated by interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the Third World Europe & the United States Charlton finds an antidote for dependency & powerlessness in the resistance to disability oppression that is emerging worldwide His interviews contain striking stories of self-reliance & empowerment evoking the new consciousness of disability rights activists As a latecomer among the world's liberation movements the disability rights movement will gain visibility & momentum from Charlton's elucidation of its history & its political philosophy of self-determination which is captured in the title of his book Nothing About Us Without Us expresses the conviction of people with disabilities that they know what is best for them Charlton's combination of personal involvement & theoretical awareness assures greater understanding of the disability rights movement ...

' Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power You will laugh aloud & you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening exploration of the human weakness for power Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global elites drawing unforgettable sketches of some of the puppets who stand guard & the jugglers & conjurers employed within Most spectacular of all however are the astonishing contortions performed by those closest to the top in order to maintain the illusion of integrity decency & public service Based on the author's first-hand experiences of dealing with governments & political institutions around the world Nothing but a Circus offers a rare glimpse of the conversations that happen behind closed doors observing the appalling lengths that people go to in order to justify their unscrupulous choices from Dubai to Luanda Moscow to Beijing & at the heart of the UN & the US government ...

" It is this devotion to sound creation & manipulation that in truth Daniel B & Nothing But Noise should be classed as composers more than artists as theirs is the sort of material that cannot be created in a day; the length of each track & the way in which they change to different moods different emotions points towards this way of thinking too" Notion Magazine 20 years in the making Nothing But Noise the trio led by Front 242 mastermind Daniel B & featuring original Front 242 member Dirk Bergen & Erwin Jadot finally release their debut album Not Bleeding Red on UK independent Future Noise Music Born from a deep love of analogue synthesizers & inspired by the likes of Manuel Gottching Tangerine Dream s early albums & Bowie s Berlin period Not Bleeding Red is an album that fully deserves its place in the long & distinguished history of European synth acts Created in Daniel B s studio the album features an array of rare & vintage analogue synthesizers such as the Moog Voyager Prophet 8 Juno 106 & Arp Odyssey No nostalgia fest though the album also explores the possibilities afforded by today s new breed of analogue synthesizers It s lineage might be clear but this is an album that looks forward respectful of the past but not in its thrall Not Bleeding Red is an expansive affair an album in love with sound itself & tracks such as the elegiac nearly 19 minute long CK are given time to evolve & develop in stately fashion unfolding like some grand cosmic ballet Uncompromising & haunting this is an album that conjures up vast vistas of space both cold & beautiful at the same time On tracks like Puzzle Cosmique & Second Seven Nothing but Noise join the dots between the likes of electronic pioneers such as the Radiophonic Workshop through to present day acts such as Sunn O))) Having honed the Nothing But Noise sound over the course of two decades & a series of critically acclaimed live performances Not Bleeding Red is the culmination of a lifetime s obsession with synthesized sound & a timeless example of how raw circuit boards can produce something stunningly beautiful A fully realised concept Not Bleeding Red arrives in sumptuous packaging complete with accompanying iPad screens & desktop wallpapers all designed & produced by Daniel B himself The album will be released digitally on double vinyl & in a 2CD edition ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Black humour & biting social satire combine in this acclaimed feature of 1963 starring Alan Bates as an ambitious young real-estate clerk who s determined to crawl his way to the top of the social pile; Denholm Elliott is the disreputable aristocrat who teaches him all he needs to know Millicent Martin the girl he sets out to woo & win Nothing but the Best is scripted by Oscar winner Frederic Raphael who received a Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for his screenplay with Nic Roeg earning a BAFTA-Award nomination for cinematography The film is presented here in a br&-new digital transfer in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio Jimmy Brewster is a working-class lad using his dynamism natural cockiness & abundant charm to overcome any obstacles to the champagne lifestyle he craves He has his sights firmly set on his boss s attractive daughter Ann & finds a perfect mentor in the form of the caddish crooked Charlie But just how far is Brewster prepared to go in order to get what he wants? ...

Arthur Maxley is a tense & listless young man One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father Arthur's fear & aversion to the man is powerful yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible After their meeting Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking & spontaneous intimacy with a beautiful young woman But as the memories of childhood trauma surface & disorientate Arthur's night out rises towards the pitch of disaster ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region Free Blu-ray player in order to play Washington DC political journalist Rachel Armstrong (Beckinsale) writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent (Farmiga) When a special government prosecutor (Dillon) demands she divulge her source she refuses & finds herself behind bars struggling to defend the principles she has based her career upon Age Rating 15 ...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English At seven levels from Starter to Advanced this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities It is the start of a new school year for teenager Hu at an international school in the exciting city of Bangkok She has a problem with one of the teachers & does not know what to do Through an adventure in a national park acting in a musical & the help of friends Hu finds the courage to tell the truth Paperback-only version Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book ...

Tracklist 1 I Was Just a Kid 2 Amsterdam 3 Sorry 4 Broken Machine 5 Live Like Animals 6 Soda 7 I&m Not Made by Design 8 Particles 9 Get Better 10 Hell Yeah 11 Afterlife 12 Reset Me 13 Number 13 14 Sorry 15 Particles ...

Daddy Bear insists that nothing can frighten a bear
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In this moving autobiographical novel the narrator's mother Lucile raises her two daughters largely alone A former child model from a large Bohemian family Lucile is younger & more glamorous than the other mothers always in lipstick & stylishly dressed wayward & wonderful But as the years pass her occasional sadness gives way to overwhelming despair & delusion This is a story of luminous beauty & rambunctious joy of dark secrets & silences revelations & ultimately the unknowability of even those closest to us & in the face of the unknowable personal history becomes fiction Nothing Holds Back the Night is universally recognisable & singularly heartbreaking ...