You may already have seen trailers for the Doctor Strange film which opens across Europe in the last week of October
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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 The bald-headed buffoon with a head like an orange attempts to broaden his beautiful Manc mind by traversing the globe in search of the new seven wonders of the world experiencing some of the many delights that foreign cultures have to offer from extreme naked yoga to scorpions on a stick! Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant are outraged that Karl has written off the Seven Wonders claiming they&re all "a bit st" having never seen any of them with his own eyes They&ve thrown down the gauntlet to send him around the globe to force him out of his comfort zone Stephen wants the experience to broaden Karl&s mind & change his outlook on the world Ricky wants Karl to hate every minute of it for his own amusement Despatched on what many would term a journey of a lifetime the &little Englander& will be putting his misgivings to one side as Karl finds out for himself what the fuss is about He will travel to the Great Wall of China Christ the Redeemer in Brazil Petra in Jordan Machu Picchu in Peru Chichen Itza in Mexico the Taj Mahal in India & the Great Pyramids of Egypt Meanwhile Gervais & Merchant will be keeping a watchful eye from London monitoring every step of Pilkington&s journey Actors Karl Pilkington Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Languages English ...

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions & the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism This biography shows how the major personal & historical events of his life transformed him from a bourgeois radical into a Christian socialist but also informed his ambivalent stance on social democracy communism the New Deal & the shifting intellectual scene of postwar America The book begins with Polanyi's childhood in the Habsburg Empire & his involvement with the Great War & Hungary's postwar revolution It connects Polanyi's idealistic radicalism to the political promise & intellectual ferment of Red Vienna & the horror of fascism The narrative revisits Polanyi's oeuvre in English German & Hungarian

Includes:: exhaustive research in five archives & features interviews with Polanyi's daughter students & colleagues clarifying the contradictory aspects of the thinker's work These personal accounts also shed light on Polanyi's connections to scholars Christians atheists journalists hot & cold warriors & socialists of all stripes Karl Polanyi A Life on the Left engages with Polanyi's biography as a reflection & condensation of extraordinary times It highlights the historical ruptures tensions & upheavals that the thinker sought to capture & comprehend & in telling his story engages with the intellectual & political history of a turbulent epoch

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Tracklist After Mr Morrison Little Lucy I Want You Glass Eye Hang Our Bodies Crotchets Slow Short Story I Know Julia Voices Everything ...

Elemental beings such as gnomes & fairies exist in many folk & spiritual traditions & Rudolf Steiner also discussed their significance to our world Some people are able to engage & even communicate with elementals Ursula Burkhard was one such person Blind from birth she experienced gnomes & other elementals from early childhood When as she grew older her parents tried to dissuade her she was puzzled why should she believe in the 'real' things she was unable to see & ignore what she knew to be true? In this readable little book she describes her remarkable experiences & in particular her relationship with a special gnome Karlik The book was a bestseller in Germany in the 1980s bringing the world of the elementals into the mainstream ...

Imagine Smidge&s delight when one day a little man with a propeller on his back appears hovering at the window! It&s Karlson & he lives in a house on the roof Soon Smidge & Karlson are sharing all sorts of adventures from tackling thieves & playing tricks to looping the loop & running across the rooftops Fun & chaos burst from these charming classic stories ...

These Karma coil incense sets burn in a spiral & each set comes with the incense coil & a stand to hold it ...

Karma jasmine incense cones belong to the beautifully designed Karma Scents range 40 incense cones & a sparkly ...

Karma patchouli incense sticks belong to the beautifully designed Karma Scents range 40 incense sticks & a sparkly ...

A companion volume to Patterns of the Past this book explores the relationships we have in this life & their connections to previous lives

Includes:: visualizations & many case histories

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