The classic explanation of the craft of history & the vital worth of historians to civilization In this volume English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of the importance of his craft At a time when fact & historical truth are under unprecedented assault Evans shows us why history is necessary Taking us into the historians' workshop to show us just how good history gets written he demolishes the wilder claims of postmodern historians who deny the possibility of any realistic grasp of history & explains the deadly political dangers of losing a historical perspective on the way we live our lives ...

" In Defence of Serendipity" is a lively & buccaneering work of investigative philosophy treating the origins of serendipity accident & sagacity both as riddles & philosophical concepts that can be put to a future political use Taking in Aristotle LSD Tony Blair & techno-mysticism Olma challenges the prevailing faith in the benevolence of digital technology & the illegitimate equation of innovation & entrepreneurship arguing instead that we must take responsibility for the care of society&s digital infrastructure & prevent its degeneration into an apparatus of marketing & finance For although there is nothing wrong with marketing & finance"per se "if they alone lead technological development free of any discretionary political interference the freedom to be exploited will be as much a part of the future as our ability to intervene freely in our lives will be a thing of the past" ...

In-Depth Acting provides a comprehensive understanding of character preparation text subtext & objectives How to prepare for drama school & professional auditions How to develop a 3-dimensional truthful character Preparation exercises to help you get in character Rehearsal guidelines An appendix of Transitive Active Verbs & more 'A wonderful succinct book that no student or professional actor should be without' Jenny Lipman LAMDA ' Dee Cannon's classes at RADA were legendary An inspiring & intensely practical guide for anyone at any stage of their acting life' Eve Best ' This is the definitive version of the method I use to approach every role How wonderful to finally have it all in book form!' Gemma Arterton ' Working with Dee & with this book I feel my process & preparation has been energized activated & inspired' Ramin Karimloo ...

Barcelona early 1930s Natalia a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square But Joe is charming & forceful & she takes his hand They marry & soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening both good & bad When Joe decides to breed pigeons the birds delight his son & daughter
- & infuriate his wife Then the Spanish Civil War erupts & lays waste to the city & to their simple existence Natalia remains in Barcelona struggling to feed her family while Joe goes to fight the fascists & one by one his beloved birds fly away A highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into more twenty-eight languages In Diamond Square is the moving vivid & powerful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of history
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play James Franco directs & stars in this US drama adapted from John Steinbeck&s novel Set during the height of the Great Depression the film follows political activists Mac Mc Leod (Franco) & Jim Nolan (Nat Wolff) as they infiltrate a small group of apple pickers who are being exploited by wealthy landowner Chris Bolton (Robert Duvall) With Bolton only willing to pay the desperate workers a dollar a day despite originally promising triple that Mc Leod & Nolan begin stirring up discontent before organising a strike However the ruthless Bolton soon learns of the strike action & begins to fight back as a violent & deadly confrontation ensues The cast also

Includes:: Vincent D& Onofrio Ed Harris & Bryan Cranston

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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 James Franco directs & stars in this US drama adapted from John Steinbeck&s novel Set during the height of the Great Depression the film follows political activists Mac Mc Leod (Franco) & Jim Nolan (Nat Wolff) as they infiltrate a small group of apple pickers who are being exploited by wealthy landowner Chris Bolton (Robert Duvall) With Bolton only willing to pay the desperate workers a dollar a day despite originally promising triple that Mc Leod & Nolan begin stirring up discontent before organising a strike However the ruthless Bolton soon learns of the strike action & begins to fight back as a violent & deadly confrontation ensues The cast also

Includes:: Vincent D& Onofrio Ed Harris & Bryan Cranston

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THE TENTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIESDon't miss this unforgettable explosive finale to Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series In 2001 three year old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident Not long thereafter Dina's mother dies under mysterious circumstances & Dina's father Jonas is convicted of her murder In 2016 the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that the father might have been wrongly convicted Holme & Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric blogger as well as the kidnapping of the grandson of a Euro Jackpot millionaire ...

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Book 7 of the Honor Harrington Series Honor Harrington&s career has its ups & its downs She&s survived ship-to-ship battles assassins political vendettas & duels She&s been shot at shot down & just plain shot had starships blown out from under her & made personal enemies who will stop at nothing to ruin her & somehow she&s survived it all But this time she&s really in trouble The People&s Republic of Haven has finally found an admiral who can win battles & Honor&s orders take her straight into an ambush Outnumbered outgunned & unable to run she has just two options see the people under her command die in a hopeless futile battle or surrender them--and herself--to the Peeps There can be only one choice & at least the People&s Navy promises to treat their prisoners honorably But the Navy is overruled by the political authorities & Honor finds herself bound for a prison planet aptly named " Hell" & her scheduled execution Put into solitary confinement separated from her officers & her treecat Nimitz & subjected to systematic humiliation by her gaolers Honor&s future has become both bleak & short Yet bad as things look they&re about to get worse for the Peeps ...

Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin St Petersburg to Auschwitz Kiev to Srebrenica He set off in search of evidence & witnesses looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium The result is mesmerising Mak's rare double talent as a sharp-eyed journalist & a hugely imaginative historian makes In Europe a dazzling account of that journey full of diaries newspaper reports & memoirs & the voices of prominent figures & unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno in Poland with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau But Mak is above all an observer He describes what he sees at places that have become Europe's well-springs of memory where history is written into the landscape At Ypres he hears the blast of munitions from the Great War that are still detonated twice a day In Warsaw he finds the point where the tram rails that led to the Jewish ghetto come to a dead end in a city park & in an abandoned creche near Chernobyl where tiny pairs of shoes still stand in neat rows he is transported back to the moment time stood still in the dying days of the Soviet Union Mak combines the larger story of twentieth-century Europe with details that suddenly give it a face a taste & a smell His unique approach makes the reader an eyewitness to his own half-forgotten past full of unknown peculiarities sudden insights & touching encounters In Europe is a masterpiece; it reads like the epic novel of the continent's most extraordinary century ...