WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD In the vein of Bad Blood & Why be Happy when you can be Normal? an enthralling at times shocking & deeply personal family memoir of growing up in & breaking away from a fundamentalist Christian cult At university when I made new friends & confidantes I couldn't explain how I'd become a teenage mother or shoplifted books for years or why I was afraid of the dark & had a compulsion to rescue people without explaining about the Brethren or the God they made for us & the Rapture they told us was coming But then I couldn't really begin to talk about the Brethren without explaining about my father' As Rebecca Stott's father lay dying he begged her to help him write the memoir he had been struggling with for years He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect Yet each time he reached a certain point he became tangled in a thicket of painful memories & could not go on The sect were a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan non-sect books were banned women were made to wear headscarves & those who disobeyed the rules were punished Rebecca was born into the sect yet as an intelligent inquiring child she was always asking dangerous questions She would discover that her father an influential preacher had been asking them too & that the fault-line between faith & doubt had almost engulfed him In In the Days of Rain Rebecca gathers the broken threads of her father's story & her own & follows him into the thicket to tell of her family's experiences within the sect & the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away ...

WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD In the vein of Bad Blood & Why be Happy when you can be Normal? an enthralling at times shocking & deeply personal family memoir of growing up in & breaking away from a fundamentalist Christian cult At university when I made new friends & confidantes I couldn't explain how I'd become a teenage mother or shoplifted books for years or why I was afraid of the dark & had a compulsion to rescue people without explaining about the Brethren or the God they made for us & the Rapture they told us was coming But then I couldn't really begin to talk about the Brethren without explaining about my father' As Rebecca Stott's father lay dying he begged her to help him write the memoir he had been struggling with for years He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect Yet each time he reached a certain point he became tangled in a thicket of painful memories & could not go on The sect were a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan non-sect books were banned women were made to wear headscarves & those who disobeyed the rules were punished Rebecca was born into the sect yet as an intelligent inquiring child she was always asking dangerous questions She would discover that her father an influential preacher had been asking them too & that the fault-line between faith & doubt had almost engulfed him In In the Days of Rain Rebecca gathers the broken threads of her father's story & her own & follows him into the thicket to tell of her family's experiences within the sect & the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away ...

After leaving Marvel Comics at the end of the 1960s Jack Kirby came to DC where he soon created the series of super-hero comics known collectively as " The Fourth World" One of his first projects for DC was the black-&-white magazine In the Days of the Mob which focused on stories of organized crime in the 1930s in the style of the TV series " The Untouchables" & " The Godfather" movies ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A newly qualified vet with a heart of gold takes over an old practice & becomes rivals with another vet ...

Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror & philosophy is utterly original & utterly captivating Thomas Ligotti author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is increasingly unthinkable a world of planetary disasters emerging pandemics & the looming threat of extinction In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live
- a central motif of the horror genre In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy & horror In Thacker's hands philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead it is the thought of the limit of all thought especially as it dovetails into occultism demonology & mysticism Likewise Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore & scare tactics but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction film comics & music
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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 New Iberia Louisiana Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is on the hunt for a serial killer who preys on young women Driving home from another gruesome crime scene Dave meets glamorous Hollywood star Elrod Sykes (Peter Sarsgaard) Sykes is in town shooting his new movie with backing from local crime kingpin Baby Feet Balboni (John Goodman) He tells Dave he saw a body lying in a swamp
- the decomposed corpse of a black man in chains The discovery brings memories hurtling out of Dave&s past He senses the two cases are linked But as Dave gets closer to the murderer the murderer gets closer to Dave & his family Actors Tommy Lee Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Kelly Macdonald Mary Steenburgen Justina Machado Ned Beatty & James Gammon Director Bertrand Tavernier Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 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 A detective tracking a serial killer who preys on young women finds his investigation complicated by a glamorous Hollywood starlet & a ruthless crime kingpin in director Bertrand Tavernier&s adaptation of the James Lee Burke novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead Jerzy Kromolowski Mary Olson-Kromolowski & Tommy Lee Jones collaborate on the screenplay for the film which stars Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Ned Beatty & Tom Sizemore Actors Tommy Lee Jones John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Kelly Macdonald Mary Steenburgen Justina Machado Ned Beatty & James Gammon Director Bertrand Tavernier Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 minutes (approx) ...

For five years Sapphire has been the King of Sari's most treasured concubine Independent at last she refuses to put herself in anyone's control again But now another's scheming has led her into the path of proud arrogant Wulfric Crown Prince of the rival kingdom of D' Ashier a man who is dangerous to her in every way 368 pages Day Sylvia ...

The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century art & its institutions came under critique from a new democratic & egalitarian spirit The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried & subsequently they would be understood merely as things This meant an attack on realism as well as on the traditional preservative mission of the museum Acclaimed art theorist Boris Groys argues this led to the development of "direct realism" an art that would not produce objects but practices (from performance art to relational aesthetics) that would not survive But for more than a century now every advance in this direction has been quickly followed by new means of preserving art's distinction In this major new work Groys charts the paradoxes produced by this tension & explores art in the age of the thingless medium the Internet Groys claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura digital production generates aura without objects transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In 1942 Belarus is in the hands of Nazis & the local militia Sushenya is taken from his house in the middle of the night by Burov & his sidekick Voitik two partisan fighters hiding out in the hills & forest Sushenya is the only one of four captured rail workers who has been allowed to live by the occupying Germans after seemingly sabotaging the rail tracks With the village & even his wife turned against him as a collaborator Sushenya accepts what must happen next until the Germans suddenly appear & he is
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- given a second chance leaving space for doubt both on his betrayal & on the legitimacy of punishment by death The three & later two
- men walk in the wood exhausted fleeing death from the Nazis while discussing & living the moral dilemmas of treason heroism guilt & revenge Shot in sumptuous long takes & vibrant colour In the Fog ultimately questions the corruption of man's very humanity in the context of war Actors Vladimir Svirski Vlad Abashin Sergei Kolesov Directors Sergei Loznitsa Format PALLanguage Russian Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1


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