& Ingenious With great delicacy Nothomb updates the age-old divide between East & West in this delectable little book& O The Oprah Magazine Amelie a well-intentioned & eager young westerner goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie but once there her working life quickly becomes a comic nightmare of terror & self-abasement Disturbing hilarious & totally convincing Fear & Trembling displays an elegant & shrewd understanding of the intricate ways in which Japanese relationships are made & spoiled &A vituperatively funny attack on an alien culture& Daily Telegraph& Nothomb is the latest enfant terrible of French letters
- she has an acidic yet passionately romantic view of human nature& Elle&A scathingly funny novella& Newsday
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In Fear & Trembling Soren Kierkegaard's infamous & controversial work made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology & existentialist philosophers such as Sartre & Camus This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Danish with an introduction by Alistair Hannay Writing under the pseudonym of ' Johannes de silentio' Kierkegaard expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's command Believing Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of faith needed to make a full commitment to his religion Kierkegaard himself made great sacrifices in order to dedicate his life entirely to his philosophy & to God The conviction shown in this religious polemic
- that a man can have an exceptional mission in life
- informed all Kierkegaard's later writings His 'teleological suspension of the ethical' challenged the contemporary views of Hegel's universal moral system & was also hugely influential for both protestant theology & the existentialist movement Alastair Hannay's introduction evaluates Kierkegaard's philosophy & the ways in which it conflicted with more accepted contemporary views This edition also

Includes:: detailed notes to complement this groundbreaking analysis of religion & a new chronology Danish-born Scren Kierkegaard (1813-55) wrote on a wide variety of themes including religion psychology & literature He is remembered for his philosophy which pioneered the idea of the Absurd & was influential & in the development of 20th century existentialism His other works include The Sickness unto Death Either Or & Papers & Journals all of which are available in Penguin Classics If you enjoyed Fear & Trembling you might like Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death also available in Penguin Classics



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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 After a tragedy shatters their lives & leaves them with crippling phobias five people decide to seek treatment from Dr Andover (Robert Englund) who works to cure patients by placing them inside his Fear Chamber Once inside his invention patients are put into complete isolation & must face their worst fears in nightmarish hallucinations However soon after treatment & outside the confines of the chamber they discover their fears are not only still there but are more real than ever ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Want to see a really killer website? It&s the last site you&ll ever see A series of bloody stragely similar deaths force New York City detective Mike Reilly (Dorff) & beautiful health examiner Terry Houston (Mc Elhone) together to investigate the mysterious crimes The only link between the victims is their visit to a sick voyeristic website To find the mad killer who created the site Mike & Terry are forced to log on
- into a horrifying netherworld of nightmare hallucinations & murder without mercy Actors Stephen Dorff Natascha Mc Elhone Stephen Rea Udo Kier Jeffrey Combs Nigel Terry & Michael Sarrazin Director William Malone Certificate 18 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; Hungarian ; Italian
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles Arabic ; Croatian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; Finnish ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portugese ; Slovenian ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx)

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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 Together forever Or else First love can be innocent or intense intoxicating or insatiable Mark Wahlberg Reese Witherspoon & Alyssa Milano star in this riveting suspense-thriller about a passionate romance that soon becomes a deadly obsession Nicole Walker (Witherspoon) always dreamed of being swept away by someone special someone strong sexy & sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world David (Wahlberg) is all that & more a modern day knight who charms & seduces her body & soul But her perfect boyfriend is not all he seems to be His sweet facade masks a savage dark side that will soon transform Nicole&s dream into a nightmare Also starring William Peterson & Amy Brenneman & featuring a killer soundtrack this provocative thriller will lure you past the brink of terror & keep you on the edge of your seat! Actors Mark Wahlberg Reese Witherspoon William L Petersen Amy Brenneman Alyssa Milano Christopher Gray Tracy Fraim Jason Kristofer & Todd Caldecott Director James Foley Certificate 18 years & over Year 1996 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English ; German
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; German ; Dutch ; Swedish ; Norwegian ; Danish ; Finnish Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx)
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C12th Devon Much of the country lies under the iron rule of the Royal Forest laws with all hunting reserved to the King The penalty for killing a deer on the King's land is mutilation or death These harsh laws are rigorously upheld by the King's foresters notorious for their greed & corruption June 1195 A tall brown mare gallops into the sleepy village of Sigford its rider dragged by the stirrup the broken shaft of an arrow protruding from his back The embroidered badge on the dead man's tunic identifies him as a senior officer of the Royal Forest But with plenty of money still in the victim's purse the motive is a mystery When a second forest officer is violently attacked Sir John de Wolfe begins to uncover evidence of a sinister conspiracy & why is his unscrupulous brother-in-law the sheriff Sir Richard de Revelle taking such an interest in the case? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Joan Collins stars in this British horror co-written & directed by Jimmy Sangster The film follows Peggy (Judy Geeson) a 22-year-old carer who is set to move to a remote boys& boarding school with her husband for work However the night before they leave Peggy is attacked by a mysterious man with a prosthetic hand & left emotionally scarred by the incident Despite making the move the next day Peggy&s mental state deteriorates further as she continues to be tormented by her attacker & struggles to maintain a grip on reality ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash underwater salvage expert John Talbot (Barry Newman) hatches an elaborate scheme to bring those responsible to justice After staging the phony murder of a police officer he kidnaps Sarah Ruthven (Suzy Kendall) the heiress to a petroleum fortune His exploits attract the attention of the criminal mastermind behind his family&s demise who hires him to recover the valuables aboard a recently crash-landed plane This tightly plotted thriller based on Alistair Mac Lean&s bestselling novel contains one of cinema&s lengthiest car chases clocking in at a full 20 minutes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A beautiful secluded Island Five good friends & a killer out for revenge Five students visit a secluded island cabin for a wild weekend party After a night of music & drinking the friends are shocked to find the caretaker murdered & the only boat off the island gone Stranded they become the prey of a killer bent on revenge for something left behind from a previous visit Each one of them a suspect the five must decipher a series of chilling clues to reveal the island&s dark secret & eliminate their stalker or face death one by one Actors Lucy Hale Haylie Duff Aaron Ashmore Kyle Schmid Jacob Blair Anne Marie De Luise Jessica Harmon Brenna O& Brien Patricia Harras Jim Thorburn & Dana Mc Loughlin Director Michael Storey Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles None Listed Duration 1 hour & 30 minutes (approx)
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The Roleplaying Game of Personal Horror Fear Itself 2nd Edition plunges ordinary people into a disturbing contemporary world of madness & violence -and inexorably draws them into confrontation with creatures of the Outer Dark a realm of alien menace GMs can re-create all the shudders & shocks of the horror genre at their table whether they use the game&s distinctive mythology or one of their own choosing Powered by the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system Fear Itself 2nd Edition is ideal for one-shot horror games (where few if any of the protagonists are expected to survive) or ongoing campaigns in which the characters gradually discover more about the disturbing supernatural reality that hides in the shadows of the ordinary world Will they learn how to combat the darkness? Or spiral tragically into insanity & death? This edition features Support for multiple different types of play from bloody one-shots to mini-series & extended investigative campaigns Extensive advice for GMs on designing & running mystery games Revised psychic powers More monsters plus detailed monster design rules Updated rules that draw from more than ten years of GUMSHOE development & play experience to deliver the ultimate in personal horror roleplaying ...