Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Written & directed by Academy Award winner George Clooney & starring Ryan Gosling The Ides Of March is an electrifying tale of ambition betrayal & revenge As up & coming press secretary Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) battles tirelessly for Governor Mike Morris (George Clooney) in a frantic election race he becomes distracted by sexy young intern Molly (Evan Rachel Wood) Whilst concealing their affair he agrees to meet the opposition&s campaign manager (Paul Giamatti) who offers him a job on his staff Stephen neglects to inform his boss of the meeting & as his silence is revealed he discovers a dirty personal secret that could sink Morris& political career Stephen must then decide whether to enact revenge or use it to his advantage Boasting a stellar cast including George Clooney Marisa Tomei Jeffrey Wright Philip Seymour Hoffman Paul Giamatti & Evan Rachel Wood this seductive award-winning thriller will leave audiences guessing until the very last moment Actors Ryan Gosling George Clooney Philip Seymour Hoffman Paul Giamatti Evan Rachel Wood Marisa Tomei Jeffrey Wright Max Minghella Jennifer Ehle Gregory Itzin Michael Mantell Yuriy Sardarov Bella Ivory Maya Sayre & Danny Mooney Director George Clooney Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK AWARDMotion sickness Nightmares Forgetting people's names Why did I walk into this room?? For something supposedly so brilliant & evolutionarily advanced the human brain is pretty messy fallible & disorganised In The Idiot Brain neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all their glory & the impact of these quirks on our daily lives Expertly researched & entertainingly written this book is for anyone who has wondered why their brain seems to be sabotaging their life & what on earth it is really up to ...

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel Prince Myshkin the last poverty-stricken member of a once great family & regarded by many as an idiot returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance Before he has even arrived home he becomes involved with Rogozhin a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the fascinating Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement But this is only the main thread of a rich & complex book in which a dazzling host of characters from generals to street urchins present the picture of an entire society on the verge of dissolution A tragicomic masterpiece ...

Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters from the beautiful self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin & the radical student Ippolit The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal & intense works of fiction presented here in a new translation 704 pages Dostoevsky Fyodor ...

Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction & Notes by Agnes Cardinal Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory & financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters & which ultimately lead to tragedy he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection & Dostoevsky's own views afflictions & manners His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel Dostoevsky supplies a harsh indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot ...

Disc 1 1 Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree 2 My Father's Son 3 Imposters of Life's Magazine 4 Sitting in My Tree 5 The Skeleton & the Roundabout 6 Knocking Nails into My House 7 End of the Road 8 Morning Sunshine 9 Days of the Broken Arrows Disc 2 1 Worn Red Carpet 2 Neanderthal Man 3 Victim of Circumstance 4 In the Summertime 5 Told You Twice 6 Lucky Man (Alternative Version) 7 Follow Me Follow (Alternative Version) ...

From the cool video game The Idolmaster Million Live! comes this beautiful PVC Statue She stands nearly 22 cm tall in 18 scale & comes in a window box packaging ...

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The If Odyssey draws out the philosophy that lies behind each story in Homer'sepic tale to introduce children not only to the exciting fables of Odysseusbut also to that other great Ancient Greek tradition philosophy Explore with Odysseus the value of happiness non-existent entities moral dilemmas thephilosophy of prophecy & the nature of love among many other philosophicalissues From the author of The If Machine this book offers stories andsession plans suitable for use across the curriculum with children aged 8-16 Online you'll find maps of Odysseus' journey The Words of Tiresias thatprovides clues for the children as to Odysseus' progress & an Ancient Greek languageworkshop with accompanying worksheets You can use the ' Storykit' section whichprovides hints & tips on storytelling skills to bring the tales of The Odyssey to life & stimulate independent critical thinking with yourclass ...

A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic in E V Rieu's classic translation The Iliad is the first & the ...