Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach & his brother The Squid & the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents& divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s In his third feature director Noah Baumbach scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager whose writer-parents are divorcing The father (Jeff Daniels) & mother (Laura Linney) duke it out in half-civilized half-savage fashion while their two sons adapt in different ways shifting allegiances between parents The film is squirmy-funny & nakedly honest about the rationalizations & compensatory snobbisms of artistic failure as well as the conflicted desires of adolescents for sex & status In detailing bohemian-bourgeois life in brownstone Brooklyn Baumbach is spot on Everyone proceeds from good intentions & acts rather badly in spite or because of their manifest intelligence Fulfilling the best traditions of the American independent film this quirky wisely written feature explores the gulf between sexes generations art & commerce Brooklyn & Manhattan ...

This all-new story finds an old soldier from a forgotten war in a post-apocalyptic world that has left him behind He was one of the last of the legendary Squidder Legions Can a discarded relic with a death wish & a rebellious Squid priestess overthrow humanity&s tentacled alien overlords? Ben Templesmith returns to his roots to finally do the tentacle Cthulhu-orientated book he&s always promised! The Squidder mixes action horror science fiction & fantasy elements with a touch of Squidly destruction ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Rising Damp creator Eric Chappell&s 22 years as a travelling auditor gave him an unequalled opportunity to observe offices & their inhabitants at close quarters & this hit sitcom
- created & written by Chappell with additional scripts by Phil Redmond & Kenneth Cope among others
- wryly explores the perils of the mid-seventies office environment A tyrannical boss unchecked male chauvinism pranks malingering & in-fighting are among the workplace hazards for the staff of the accounts department of International Rentals with Bernard Hepton Ken Jones & Patsy Rowlands featuring in the line-up of a frustrated & occasionally rebellious team (and wife!) Guest stars include Philip Madoc Leslie Schofield & Alun Armstrong This set contains all 22 existing episodes (out of 29) Scripts for some of the missing episodes are included in PDF format on disc one Actors Bernard Hepton Ken Jones Patsy Rowlands Alan David Ellis Jones & Karin Mac Carthy Certificate 12 years & over Year 1974
- 1976 Screen 1331 Languages English Duration 9 hours & 10 minutes (approx)


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Two greedy squirrels learn to share in the third hilarious rhyming adventure from the bestselling creators of THE LION INSIDEGreedy squirrels Cyril & Bruce both have their sights on a very special prize THE VERY LAST NUT OF THE SEASON! As the nut bounces crazily though the forest the squirrels race after it between the trees over boulders down the river &
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- right to the edge of a waterfall! Working together might be the only way to save themselves now A laugh-out-loud tale about friendship & sharing from the bestselling creators of THE LION INSIDE & THE KOALA WHO COULD Perfect for competitive friends & sibling rivals! Praise for THE LION INSIDE'A heartfelt message delightfully conveyed' Parents in Touch 'A delight to read over & over again' WRD' Captivating' Books for Keeps ' Will easily win over readers' The Book List' Field is on top form offering so many imaginative framings & irreverent characterizations that readers will feel carried along by his visual & comedic generosity' Publishers Weekly ' Brilliant had me in hoots of laughter' The Bookbag

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Two greedy squirrels learn to share in the third hilarious rhyming adventure from the bestselling creators of The Lion Inside & The Koala Who Could Greedy squirrels Cyril & Bruce both have their sights on a very special prize THE VERY LAST NUT OF THE SEASON! As the nut bounces crazily though the forest the squirrels race after it between the trees over boulders down the river &
- ARGH!
- right to the edge of a waterfall! Working together might be the only way to save themselves now A laugh-out-loud tale about friendship & sharing from the award-winning creators of The Lion Inside & The Koala Who Could Perfect for competitive friends & sibling rivals! Praise for The Lion Inside'A heartfelt message delightfully conveyed' Parents in Touch 'A delight to read over & over again' WRD' Captivating' Books for Keeps ' Will easily win over readers' The Book List' Field is on top form offering so many imaginative framings & irreverent characterizations that readers will feel carried along by his visual & comedic generosity' Publishers Weekly ' Brilliant had me in hoots of laughter' The Bookbag Praise for The Koala Who Could' Fabulous rhymes I'm in love with Kevin & would like to buy this for all my friends' children' Claudia Winkleman

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A comprehensive political & design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack -- an accidental megastructure -- is both a technological apparatus & a model for a new geopolitical architecture What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales -- from energy & mineral sourcing & subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software & massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand & eye to users identified by self -- quantification & the arrival of legions of sensors algorithms & robots Together how do these distort & deform modern political geographies & produce new territories in their own image? In The Stack Benjamin Bratton proposes that these different genres of computation -- smart grids cloud platforms mobile apps smart cities the Internet of Things automation -- can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own but as forming a coherent whole an accidental megastructure called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus & a new governing architecture We are inside The Stack & it is inside of us In an account that is both theoretical & technical drawing on political philosophy architectural theory & software studies Bratton explores six layers of The Stack Earth Cloud City Address Interface User Each is mapped on its own terms & understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard & soft systems intermingling -- not only computational forms but also social human & physical forces This model informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol "stacks" in which network technologies operate within a modular & vertical order offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure & a platform for its ongoing reinvention The Stack is an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with & for planetary-scale computation Interweaving the continental urban & perceptual scales it shows how we can better build dwell within communicate with & govern our worldsthestackorg ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Self-confessed metrosexual Fionnan doesn&t want a stag do but would happily attend the Hen Ruth the now concerned bride-to-be (Amy Huberman) promptly persuades the marginally more-macho best man (Andrew Scott) to organise one Reluctantly he agrees but proceeds to do everything he can to stop Ruth s wildly infamous brother known only as The Machine (Peter Mc Donald) coming along for their sober walking-weekend excuse for a stag party But The Machine not so easily foxed tracks them down & what follows is a hilarious few days in rural Ireland where the Stags find themselves lost shot at stoned & butt-naked The Stag is a hilarious & heart-warming journey of friendship fear male bonding & tightly fashioned squirrel skin! ...

This book is intended as a teacher's manual & as an independent-study handbook for students & mathematical competitors Based on a traditional teaching philosophy & a non-traditional writing approach (the stair-step method) this book consists of new problems with solutions created by the authors The main idea of this approach is to start from relatively easy problems & "step-by-step" increase the level of difficulty toward effectively maximizing students' learning potential In addition to providing solutions a separate table of answers is also given at the end of the book A broad view of mathematics is covered well beyond the typical elementary level by providing more in depth treatment of Geometry & Trigonometry Number Theory Algebra Calculus & Combinatorics ...

Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall & shivered in the foggy early dawn light Glancing up at the enormous wooden carved gate she hesitated This was a secret world she was about to enter For 16 year old Joyce who lived in one of the poorest streets in Cambridge the college building where she was about to enter represented privilege wealth a life she'd never live As a bedder Joyce would be working up & down one of the stone staircases making the beds of the male students sweeping floors dusting desks She never expected to also find herself mothering chastising & sometimes even covering up for 'her boys' The Staircase Girls takes us into the lives of Joyce & other bedders like Nance Maud Rose & Audrey They endured the Second World War & then had to contend with poverty ill health & bereavement They loved lost & loved again But their friendships gave them strength & their work gave them happiness
- & even a lasting connection with their charges some of whom would go on to run the country Revealing their untold stories for the first time this is a vivid poignant account of these remarkable women's lives
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A leading scholar of Jewish history's bracing & challenging case for the role of the historian today Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N Myers's illuminating & poignant call for the relevance of historical research & writing His inquiry identifies a number of key themes around which modern Jewish historians have wrapped their labors liberation consolation & witnessing Through these portraits Myers revisits the chasm between history & memory revealing the middle space occupied by modern Jewish historians as they work between the poles of empathic storytelling & the critical sifting of sources History properly applied can both destroy ideologically rooted myths that breed group hatred & create new memories that are sustaining of life Alive in these investigations is Myers's belief that the historian today can & should attend to questions of political & moral urgency Historical knowledge is not a luxury to society but an essential requirement for informed civic engagement as well as a vital tool in policy making conflict resolution & restorative justice ...