In Last Will Getting Sacked the lawyers have found a hidden clause in your uncle&s last will Spending money faster than all your relatives will not be enough To inherit your uncle&s fortune you must also lose your job! After all your uncle&s heritage can&t go to someone who&s employed! With this expansion added to Last Will each player begins the game with a job card that provides him with a regular income each turn & details a number of things the player must do in order to get fired Unlike in real life it can be difficult to persuade your employer to give you the old heave-ho When you miss work he&s inclined to be charitable because he liked your uncle & he&s sorry for your loss To make him angry you need to get caught living it up when you should be working He won&t sack you straight away but he will at least dock your salary Once per round you are able to reduce your income by completing one of the things listed on the job card earning you a demotion Even your kindly old boss has his limits though; when you earn enough demotions to cancel out every line of income you can discard your employment card Congratulations You have been sacked & are one step closer to winning the game! You will also have a chance to find yourself a good demanding wife A wedding is such a romantic way to spend piles of money in a hurry right? The expansion has six nuptial cards so get down on one knee & ask the question! Also with this expansion each game can have a different planning board to bring additional variety to the game When you set up the game boards you randomly select the eight plan tiles that will be used in the game ...

A powerful consideration of the lessons imparted in the final works of essential writers & philosophers For many today retirement & the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower long-lost time In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work & careers to stop working often is to become nobody In this deeply perceptive & personal exploration of last works Mark C Taylor poignantly explores the final reflections of writers & thinkers from Kierkegaard to David Foster Wallace How did they either face or avoid ending & leaving? What do their lessons in ending teach us about living in the time that remains for us? Some leavings brought relief even joy while others brought pain & suffering Whether the cause was infirmity impending death or simply exhaustion & ennui the ways these influential voices fell silent offer poignant examples of people withdrawing from the world's stage Throughout this learned & moving book Taylor probes how the art of living involves learning to leave gracefully ...

In Alain Resnais's masterwork L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD each fantasy laden heavily dramatised aesthetically perfected scene is dictated by the memories of a man (Giorgio Albertazzi) who is one of many elegant aristocratic guests vacationing at the enchanting resort Marienbad Because the story consists of foggy memories that may or may not be accurate the film unrolls like a repetitious dream In the opening sequences the man describes the immensity & silence of the lavishly decorated baroque hotel as the camera roams its empty hallways Soon after the hotel guests appear assembled for a theatre production inside the hotel Like the actors in the play the characters in the film make it obvious that they are also playing established roles & reciting lines Sometimes they simply pose as the camera passes over them while at other times they stand like statues trying to remember what happened last year They amuse themselves with parlour games ballroom waltzes target practice in the shooting gallery & strolls through the garden Meanwhile the man establishes the abstract plot about a love affair he began last year with a woman (Delphine Seyrig) reconstructed from his partial memories She remembers nothing of the affair not even the man's name In fact most of the guests cannot even recall the year in which these things might have happened--was it 1928 or 29 ...

Tracklist A1 Vacum ? behoud 709 A2 Schone Schijn 448 A3 Zomersneeuw 632 A4 Ondersteboven 238 B1 Haat & Bonhomie 533 B2 Blind Staren 523 B3 Weerworm 522 B4 Zinsbetovering 654 ...

Undo a lock or latch swing open the numbered door & count on finding fun when the picture beneath is revealed on this wooden play board & educational toy! Build fine motor skills while learning colours numbers animals & more! Extension Activities More Ways to Play & Learn Find a specific coloured door & identify the animals behind it " Point to the red door What animals are behind it?" (rabbits) Find a house & identify a specific shape andor number " Which house has a circle with the number 5?" (green) Count the animals behind a door or window " Open the latch on the blue house How many dogs do you see?" (2) Identify a house by describing something on it " What colour is the house with two circular windows"? (orange) Find a specific animal name its colour & count them " Find the frogs What colour are the frogs? How many frogs do you see?" (green 5) Find a specific shape on a house & ask who lives inside " Point to the violet triangle Who lives in this house?" (1 pony) ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play In director Yasujiro Ozu&s drama LATE AUTUMN (AKIBIYORI) a still-beautiful widow has a daughter who is sufficiently past the favored age for marriage to be in danger of becoming an old maid according to the norms of Japanese culture Three mature men friends of the family get together to discuss the widow & her problem daughter Despite the fact that they each would like to marry the mother they agree that one of them should make the sacrifice of marrying the daughter They discuss their marriage idea with the mother not the daughter (as is customary) Somehow the girl hears of it & is infuriated She has said all along that though she wants to get married someday she wants to remain single for some time longer Now she is angry enough to threaten to accept the family friend&s suit simply out of spite Also included in this release is Ozu&s rare 1933 film A MOTHER SHOULD BE LOVED (HAKA O KOWAZUYA) ...

Tracklist A1 Complacency A2 Sleeve A3 Heaven A4 January A5 Not the Same B1 Listen B2 All I Need B3 The Truth B4 Make It Go Away B5 Life is Weird ...

Tracklist Complacency Sleeve Heaven January Not the Same Listen All I Need The Truth Make It Go Away Life is Weird ...

Late Century Dream looks at a number of underground regional scenes in the US through the fertile years of the 1980s & 90s encompassing many different genres under the DIY banner The book's six key texts each revolve around a key city andor creative hub of groups These include a definitive alternative take on grunge-era Seattle largely circumnavigating the populist Sub Pop hegemony; the early cop-baiting punk rock weirdo skronk & post-psychedelic rock of Austin Texas; a varied oral account of the art school-derived post-punk scene in Athens Georgia; a personal account of an immersion in the college rock hotbed of Chapel Hill North Carolina; an in-depth look at Phoenix Arizona's rich history of left-field alternative & punk; & a geographically de-centralised primer on Chicago s Drag City Records Illustrated with a wealth of archival & unseen promo live & 'zine imagery from bands including The Accused The Gits Butthole Surfers JFA REM Big Boys & Meat Puppets Late Century Dream gives an alternative insight into the lasting legacies carved out by bands for whom making it big was rarely an aim Alongside extended appendices of new interviews & oral material the book provides an insightful social history featuring newly commissioned texts from Noel Gardner Pavel Godfrey Brian Howe Jimmy Martin Kevin Mc Caighy & Louis Pattison who have collectively contributed to various music publications & websites of note including The Quietus BBC Music The Guardian Pitchfork Independent Weekly Paste & Edge Mag ...

Stranger Shores a collection of JM Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999 was followed by Inner Workings which contained those from 2000 to 2005 Late Essays gathers together Coetzee's literary essays since 2006 The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature & here he engages with the work of Goethe Hoelderlin Kleist & Walser There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett & he looks at the work of three Australian writers Patrick White Les Murray & Gerald Murnane There are essays too on Tolstoy's great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich on Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary & on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto JM Coetzee a great novelist himself is a wise & insightful guide to these works of international literature that span three centuries ...