We have lost the ability to deal with death Most of our friends & beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers doctors & nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks They may not even know they are dying victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours robbed of their dignity & fed through a tube after a long series of excessive & hopeless medical interventions This is the starting point of Seamus O' Mahoney's thoughtful moving & unforgettable book on the western way of death Dying has never been more public with celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness but in private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying & made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve ...

The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism edited with an introduction & notes by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility
- using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims But as Melmotte climbs higher in society his web of deceit
- which also draws in characters as diverse as his own daughter Marie & Felix's mother the pulp novelist Lady Carbury
- begins to unravel A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy Frank Kermode's introduction explores the real-life inspiration for Trollope's masterly satire This edition also

Includes:: detailed notes Anthony Trollope (1815-82) had an unhappy childhood characterised by a stark contrast between his family's high social standing & their comparative poverty He wrote his earliest novels while working as a Post Office inspector but did not meet with success until the publication of the first of his ' Barsetshire novels' The Warden (1855) As well as writing over forty novels including such popular works as Can You Forgive Her? (1865) Phineas Finn (1869) He Knew He Was Right (1869) & The Way We Live Now (1875) Trollope is credited with introducing the postbox to England If you enjoyed The Way We Live Now you might like William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair also available in Penguin Classics' Trollope's masterpiece its examination of how hopes of easy money can corrupt remains relevant today' Observer




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With an Introduction & Notes by Peter Merchant Canterbury Christ Church College The tough-mindedness of the social satire in & its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises of the life of 1870s London the loves of those drawn to & through the city & the career of Augustus Melmotte Melmotte is one of the Victorian novel's greatest & strangest creations & is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time Trollope's ' Now' might in the twenty-first century look like some distant disenchanted ' Then' but this is still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make proper sense of our today ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play First screened on BBC1 in 2001 The Way We Live Now will surprise those who know Anthony Trollope through the subtleties of his Barsetshire novels This story of ambition centres around Augustus Melmotte an Austrian Jewish financier who takes the London money markets & social scene by storm in his efforts to become an " English country gentleman" His rise & fall is followed with remorseless logic by Trollope & David Yates& direction keeps this in focus against a wealth of sub-plots & character interaction The cast is a strong one with David Suchet&s Melmotte gripping in his recklessness climaxing in the theatrical magnificence of his departure in disgrace from the House of Commons Shirley Henderson is magnetic as his put-upon daughter Marie courted by the cream of society bachelors for her dowry rather than her person Cheryl Campbell gives a good account of the feckless Lady Carbury writing vacuous novels to support her family with Matthew Mac Fadyen relishing the part of her rakish son Felix Paloma Baeza is sympathetic as her daughter Hetta whose on-off relationship with entrepreneur Paul Montague ably taken by Cillian Murphy provides the main love interest Douglas Hodge impresses as the loyal & sincere but insipid Roger Carbury The series consists of four generous episodes each lasting 75 minutes This is an absorbing production of what isn&t the most subtle of Victorian novels but which surely remains among the most relevant --Richard Whitehouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title ...

A beautiful romance about fate & finding happiness from the Number One bestseller What if you had a second chance at first lovesusannah & Rob were childhood sweethearts But as with most early love affairs they broke up moved on & now find themselves in very different places & not entirely happy
- who is?A chance meeting between them sends shockwaves through their lives What happens when your first love makes a surprise reappearance? Is fate telling you it's time for a second chance or should you simply walk away & let the past become ancient history? But Susannah & Rob just aren't able to forget the way they were & the world is about to discover the consequences of their reunion' Impossible to finish without tears streaming down your face' Daily Express
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Through his years of intensive work consulting to companies including Procter & Gamble Sony Toyota Microsoft Ford & Ernst & Young with his firm The Energy Project Schwartz has developed a powerful program for changing the way we are working that greatly boosts our engagement & our satisfication with our work & increases our performance In this book he marshalls a wide range of powerful evidence from business research & psychology that shows that the current model of work -- in which people are treated essentially as machines that should be able to perform at top speed for extraordinarily long hours be able to multi-task be always accessible & online withstand often harsh & emotionally punishing treatment & be primarily driven by the need to make profits -- is not only not optimal it is specfically counter-productive because it saps us of our physical emotional mental & spiritual energy In order for us to perform at our best we must make a set of key changes in our work lives -- & in order to develop the full potential of their work force our managers & companies must institute changes that will provide us with the regular physical renewal emotional reward mental focus & stimulation; & sense of purpose & significance that we need ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Senator William J Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) enlists the help of veteran scout Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) to lead a wagon train of settlers from Missouri to Oregon in this plodding routine western A scared settler accidently shoots an Indian boy who is mistaken for a wolf prompting Summers to order newlywed triggerman Johnny Mack (Michael Witney) to be hanged to avoid an Indian attack The highlight of the film is the expert cinematography Watch for Sally Field in her first big-screen role as the slatternly Mercy Mc Bee ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD region B Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region free DVDBlu-ray player in order to play Coming-of-age comedy starring Steve Carell & Sam Rockwell 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) is forced to spend a summer at his mother (Toni Collette)&s new boyfriend Trent (Carell)&s beach house in upstate New York Arrogant & a bully Trent likes to belittle Duncan at any opportunity leading the boy to take off on his bike to explore his new environment It is then he comes across the Water Wizz water park & before long a friendship develops between Duncan & the park manager Owen (Rockwell) Seeing the water park as the much needed escape he has been looking for Duncan keeps his whereabouts a secret from the others & thanks to Owen&s positive outlook & encouraging attitude begins to grow in confidence ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A stunningly rendered & casually erotic evocation of the story of Judas THE WAYS OF MAN is a modren take on spirituality dripping with male sexuality After betraying his best friend Judas begins a searching journey through a lush forest It is on this journey that he encounters a beuatiful young man But will this meeting provide Judas with the redemption he needs? ...

The wolf stalks the wilderness & our own imaginations Uncover its mysteries in this beautifully written non-fiction picture book Majestic & fierce proud & strong the wolf has always been a source of fascination
- & fear It remains one of the most misunderstood of all creatures frequently cast as our mortal enemy The truth is that wolves & humans are more closely connected than we dare to admit With beautifully lyrical language Smriti Prasadam-Halls explores the lightning speed echoing howl & family life of these mysterious animals revealing astonishing facts & overturning misconceptions as she does so Wildlife illustrator Jonathan Woodward brings the creatures to life with breathtaking papercut collage artwork This is non-fiction storytelling at its very finest The Ways of the Wolf has been endorsed by the UK Wolf Conservation Trust
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