Please note this is a Region B Blu-ray & will require either a Region B or Multi-Region Blu-ray player The Expendables are back & this time it&s personal Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) Yin Yang (Jet Li) Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) Toll Road (Randy Couture) & Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) -- with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) & Maggie (Nan Yu) aboard -- are reunited when Mr Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney & his band of old-school mercenaries But when things go wrong & one of their own is viciously killed the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them Hell-bent on payback the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces wreaking havoc & shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time -- six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world But that&s nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother That is done the Expendables way ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play THE EXPENDABLES return with a vengeance in this follow-up to the 2010 surprise hit THE MECHANIC&s Simon West directs from a script by Stallone & David Agosto Liam Hemsworth heads up the rest of the starring cast which

Includes:: returning cast members Jason Statham Jet Li Dolph Lundgren & Terry Crews along with other 80s action icons Jean-Claude Van Damme & Chuck Norris

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Experience & Educationis the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century Written more than two decades after Democracy & Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy) this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools & in the light of the criticisms his theories had received Analysing both traditional & progressive education Dr Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate & that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience & its relation to education He particularly urges that all teachers & educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped & larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive ism about education even such an ism as progressivism His philosophy here expressed in its most essential most readable form predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical & social both orderly & dynamic ...

This pocket-sized passport guides users to have more life-enriching experiences with dozens of creative prompts Take a different path to work or school every day for a week make two works of art in different media or subscribe to a new magazine With space to record observations the passport becomes a record of these priceless experiences ...

Black Sabbath is often credited with inventing heavy metal when they released their first album in 1970 Their new style of music was loud brutal scary innovative & highly influential on heavy metal bands from then on Their five decades of music crosses generations of fans & they remain relevant to this day with their 2013 album charting 1 in the US & in at least five other countries In Experiencing Black Sabbath A Listener's Companion musician & scholar Nolan Stolz leads the reader through Sabbath's 20 studio albums & additional songs offering a close look into their music & the storied history of the band Along the way Stolz highlights often-overlooked key moments that defined Sabbath's unique musical style & legacy Band members' own words illuminate certain aspects of the music & Stolz makes connections from song to song album to album & sometimes across decades to create an intricate narrative of the band's entire catalogue Experiencing Black Sabbath reveals the underappreciated genius of these heavy metal progenitors to all rock music fans & gives even the most fervent Sabbath fans a new way to appreciate this music ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Bank teller Lee Remick is accosted in her garage one dark night by asthmatic psycho Ross Martin He forces her to go through with an elaborate robbery scheme threatening to kill Lee&s teen-aged sister Stefanie Powers if the police are summoned FBI agent Glenn Ford suspects that something is amiss & advises Lee to play along with Martin hoping in this way to capture this dangerous criminal with a minimum of bloodshed Unfortunately Martin is as clever as he is deadly always managing to stay one step ahead of Ford The now-famous climax of Experiment in Terror finds the feds closing in on Martin during a crowded night baseball game at San Francisco&s Candlestick Park Experiment in Terror is based on the Gordons& novel Operation Terror ...

Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque & carnivalesque within contemporary fashion & the close relation between fashion & performance art from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style The book examines the designers & performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body These innovative people the book argues make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody humour & inversion It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley Bernhard Willhelm Rei Kawakubo & fashion designer performance artist & club figure Leigh Bowery It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon Lady Gaga ...

Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to traditional subjects Following the huge success of her previous book Experimental Flowers in Watercolour she now explores ways to interpret landscape Packed with stunning examples of her colourful expressive work this book encourages you to experiment with the same techniques in your own watercolour painting to develop a personal style Techniques covered include combining water-based paint & ink with other media such as gesso & collage to create dramatic effects; manipulating paint with materials such as plastic wrap (clingfilm); tearing layering & reassembling paintings into watercolour collages; & developing textures & marks made using fabrics & other found objects Throughout the book Ann offers her personal commentary on how her paintings were created giving us a unique insight into the mind of the artist Both practical & inspirational this glorious book is the ideal companion for watercolour painters who want to take their work a step further ...

What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest from seasoned practitioners to curious readers This book takes the stance that experimental music is not a limited historical event but is a proliferation of approaches to sound that reveals much about present-day experience An experimental work is not identifiable by its sound alone but by the nature of the questions it poses & its openness to the sounding event Experimentation is a way of working It pushes past that which is known to discover what lies beyond it finding new knowledge forms & relationships or accepting a state of uncertainty For each of these composers & sound artists craft is developed & transformed in response to the questions they bring to their work Scientific perceptual or social phenomena become catalysts in the operation of the work These practices are not presented according to a chronology a set of techniques or social groupings Instead they are organized according to the content areas that are their subjects including resonance harmony objects shapes perception language interaction sites & histories Musical materials may be subject among other treatments to systemization observation examination magnification fragmentation translation or destabilization These restless & exploratory modes of engagement have continued to develop over recent decades expanding the scope of both musical practice & listening ...

Photography has always been about experimentation & anyone who thinks the advent of digital imaging might have stopped photographers from inventing new ways to impress their film is in for a big surprise Experimental Photography presents the most interesting & creative modifications for low-cost film cameras manual printing techniques & unconventional use of the medium The book accompanies the reader through the world of photography special effects & manipulations documenting techniques approaches experimenters camera makers & their extraordinary creations One picture at a time Experimental Photography compiles a manifesto against visual homogenization ...