The real revolution in the arts first took place not as is commonly supposed in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston black jazz & mint juleps but more quietly & intimately in the shadow of the windmills This book tells about life in the bohemian world of art in Paris between 1900-1910 384 pages Roe Sue ...

Matthew Mac Fadyen stars in this tense drama based on the novel by Maurice Gee Paul Prior (Mac Fadyen) is an internationally respected war photographer who returns to his small New Zealand home town after the death of his father His estranged brother Andrew (Colin Moy) is shocked to see him & despite their differences Paul agrees to remain behind to help sort out the sale of their father&s estate Looking around the broken-down estate Paul comes across 16-year-old Celia (Emily Barclay) an aspiring writer Paul is unaware that Celia is in fact his daughter from a teenage relationship with local woman Jackie (Jodie Rimmer) & when he takes up a temporary position teaching journalism at the school he finds that Celia is one of his pupils Despite the disapproval of Jackie & Andrew & of the community at large the unwitting pair meet regularly & begin to form a strong emotional bond When Celia goes missing suspicion instantly falls on Paul & as the truth begins to dawn on him he is forced to confront the family tragedies & betrayals that he ran away from as a youth Actors Matthew Macfadyen Miranda Otto Emily Barclay Colin Moy Jimmy Keen Directors Brad Mc Gann Writers Brad Mc Gann Maurice Gee Producers Dixie Linder James Mitchell Jim Reeve Paul Mitchell Paul Trijbits Format PALRegion Region 2 Number of discs 1 Classification 15 Studio Studiocanal DVD Release Date 2 Oct 2005 Run Time 125 minutes ...

Starring the same little girl in the same charming illustration style as Hello In There! In My Heart explores emotions--happiness sadness bravery anger shyness & more Unlike other feelings books that tend to oversimplify In My Heart lyrically explains what an emotion feels like physically inside For example When I get really angry my heart feels like it's going to explode! Don't come near me! My heart is yelling hot & loud This is when my heart is mad Toddlers will be empowered by this new vocabulary & able to practice articulating & identifying their own emotions On the cover & the right side of each spread a die-cut heart decreases in size creating a multi-coloured heart the depth of the entire book ...

Battles blockades convoys raids how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas Yet the Royal Navy's role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over This groundbreaking book asserts that contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar essentially completed the Navy's task the war at sea actually intensified over the next decade ceasing only with Napoleon's final surrender In this dramatic account of naval contributions between 1803 & 1815 James Davey offers original & exciting insights into the Napoleonic wars & Britain's maritime history Encompassing Trafalgar the Peninsular War the War of 1812 the final campaign against Napoleon & many lesser known but likewise crucial moments the book sheds light on the experiences of individuals high & low from admiral & captain to sailor & cabin boy The cast of characters also

Includes:: others from across Britain-dockyard workers politicians civilians-who made fundamental contributions to the war effort & in so doing both saved the nation & shaped Britain's history

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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 safely delivering the cash after selling his employer&s cattle Roy is blamed when the employer is robbed Roy & Gabby go off in pursuit of the real robbers even though both sides are out to stop him Actors Roy Rogers Directors Joseph Kane Language English Number of discs 1 ...

In Other Words is a revelation It is at heart a love story of a long & sometimes difficult courtship & a passion that verges on obsession that of a writer for another language For Jhumpa Lahiri that love was for Italian which first captivated & capsized her during a trip to Florence after college Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterwards true mastery had always eluded her Seeking full immersion she decided to move to Rome with her family for a trial by fire a sort of baptism' into a new language & world There she began to read & to write
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- solely in Italian In Other Words an autobiographical work written in Italian investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language & describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice Presented in a dual-language format this is a wholly original book about exile linguistic & otherwise written with an intensity & clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov a startling act of self-reflection & a provocative exploration of belonging & reinvention

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A colourfully illustrated collection of more than ninety untranslatable words & phrases & the unique insights they offer into the cultures they come from 128 pages Illustrated in colour throughout Moore Christopher J ...

When Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia was published in 1977 it heralded the arrival of a startling new talent in British literature Critics were surprised & spellbound by a story of an adventure which blurred the boundaries between travel writing biography history & memoir All readers recognised its timeless quality
- Auberon Waugh went as far as to call it a classic' Forty years later Chatwin's first book continues to inspire generations of travellers & writers This 40th anniversary edition celebrates the enduring status of In Patagonia &

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Beautifully written & full of wonderful descriptions & intriguing tales In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast & his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road ...

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it Today the consensus that it is moral to remember immoral to forget is nearly absolute & yet is this right? David Rieff an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa the Balkans & Central Asia insists that things are not so simple He poses hard questions about whether remembrance ever truly has or indeed ever could inoculate the present against repeating the crimes of the past He argues that rubbing raw historical wounds-whether self-inflicted or imposed by outside forces-neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation If he is right then historical memory is not a moral imperative but rather a moral option-sometimes called for sometimes not Collective remembrance can be toxic Sometimes Rieff concludes it may be more moral to forget Ranging widely across some of the defining conflicts of modern times-the Irish Troubles & the Easter Uprising of 1916 the white settlement of Australia the American Civil War the Balkan wars the Holocaust & 911-Rieff presents a pellucid examination of the uses & abuses of historical memory His contentious brilliant & elegant essay is an indispensable work of moral philosophy ...