Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Based on Peter Rock&s novel My Abandonment LEAVE NO TRACE revolves around a teenage girl (Thomasin Harcourt Mc Kenzie) & her father (Ben Foster) who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park a vast wood on the edge of Portland Oregon A chance encounter leads to their discovery & removal from the park & into the charge of a social service agency They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking independence & forces them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart Actors Ben Foster Directors Debra Granik Language English Subtitles Czech Slovak Portuguese Polish Croatian Arabic Italian Hebrew Slovene Bulgarian Hungarian Icelandic Romanian Greek Turkish Spanish English Serbian Dubbed Italian Hungarian Spanish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Audio Description English Number of discs 1 ...

LEAVE YOUR MARK isn't an advice book -- it's a mentorship in 288 pages Aliza Licht -- global fashion communications executive AKA fashion's favorite 'PR girl' & Twitter phenomenon -- is here to tell her story complete with The Devil Wears Prada-like moments & insider secrets Drawing invaluable lessons from her experience Licht shares advice inspiration & a healthy dose of real talk in LEAVE YOUR MARK She delivers personal & professional guidance for people just starting their careers & for people who are well on their way With a particular emphasis on communicating & building your personal brand something she knows a thing or two about Aliza is your sassy knowledgeable guide to the contemporary working world where personal & professional lines are blurred & the most important thing you can have is a strong sense of self ...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series stunning clothbound editions of ten favourite poets which present each poet's most ...

As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing' for it exhibits ' Whitman at his best Whitman at his freshest in vision & boldest in language Whitman transformed by a new experience' Mr Cowley has taken the first edition from its narrow circulation among scholars faithfully edited it added his own introduction & Whitman's original introduction (which never appeared in any other edition during Whitman's life) & returned it to the common readership to whom the great poet really speaks ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Tim Blake Nelson writes & directs this offbeat comedy about pot poetry philosophy & coming to terms with the past Edward Norton plays two identical twin brothers both highly intelligent but diametrically opposite Bill is an Ivy League classical philosophy professor who has worked hard to distance himself from his down-at-heel small-town upbringing while his marijuana-dealing brother Brady still lives in their hometown in Oklahoma When Brady tricks Bill into returning home for the first time in 20 years Bill is furious & threatens to take the next plane back to the East Coast However he ends up staying long enough to visit his estranged mother (Susan Sarandon) & fall under the spell of free-spirited local teacher Janet (Keri Russell) ...

London 1933 Some two months after an Indian woman Usha Pramal is found murdered in a South London canal her brother turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full & thorough investigation Before her death Usha was staying at an ayah's hostel a refuge for Indian women whose British employers had turned them out As Maisie learns Usha was different from the hostel's other lodgers But with this discovery comes new danger
- soon another Indian woman who was close to Usha is found murdered before she can speak out As Maisie is pulled deeper into an unfamiliar yet alluring subculture her investigation becomes clouded by the unfinished business of a previous case & at the same time her lover James Compton gives her an ultimatum she cannot ignore
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Adam Gordon is a brilliant if highly unreliable young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid struggling to establish his sense of self & his attitude towards art Fuelled by strong coffee & self-prescribed tranquillizers Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself & the world around him It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish but the underlying suspicion that his relationships his reactions & his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry ...

This book is a record of the people who visited Lebanon from between 1800 BC to the last summer; & of the Lebanese themselves writing about their homeland their religions their joys their wars & their sorrows The passages have been selected & presented by Ted Gorton & Andree Feghali Gorton Ted first came to Lebanon in 1967 to study Arabic at the American University of Beirut AUB; there he met his archaeologist wife Andree They describe their book as a labour of love in it the visitor to Lebanon will discover a country that is infinitely richer more diverse & perennial than the headlines of the last few decades might suggest A Lebanese reader will delight in the familiar as well as discovering new treasures of description analysis & literature ...

This new edition of Bradt's Lebanon remains the most comprehensive & detailed English-language guide available In addition to its more in-depth coverage of essential background information such as history culture & religion the guide has expanded treatment for the business traveller & prospective property buyer Subjects such as the environment & responsible travel are given increased emphasis & there is plenty of additional information for those interested in volunteering opportunities The guide also caters for all types of travellers & budgets with extensive listings & reviews for accommodation & restaurants There is also a new section on travelling with children With a comprehensive language appendix covering both Arabic & French together with an expanded further reading section for this new edition Bradt's Lebanon is an indispensable practical companion for use within the country & a useful work of reference for armchair travellers too Although only half the size of Wales Lebanon offers extraordinary diversity Here some of the oldest human settlements in the world at the Phoenician ports of Tyre Sidon & Byblos sit alongside modern Beirut popular for its cuisine eclectic nightlife & mosaic of peoples In Lebanon's second city Tripoli busy medieval souks are watched over by a vast Crusader castle Outside the city snow-capped mountains & the lush Qadisha Valley with its snaking river & waterfalls provide entertainment for skiers & hikers while the Mediterranean Sea draws sun & watersports enthusiasts Bradt's Lebanon provides detailed cultural & practical information to this increasingly popular destination It also provides in-depth historical & religious background enabling visitors to travel with awareness & sensitivity ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Lebanon is a personal film a film about four boys who had never been involved in anything violent before & found themselves killing people A film about survival against a palpable threat of death a situation in which the conflict between their basic instincts & human conscious claims its victims The First Lebanon War
- June 1982 A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israel Air Force What seems to be a simple mission gets gradually out of control & turns into a death trap a shivering nightmare Shmuel the gunner Assi the commander Herzl the loader & Yigal the driver are the tank&s crew Four boys aged 20 plus who are operating a killing machine They are not fighters eager for battle conquest or self-sacrifice Entangled in the absurd & unfair war nets they are terrified to death by its horrors They&re brave kids losing their innocence in the most brutal way & being mentally destroyed A sharp basic instinct will push them to the limits as they struggle hard to survive in a situation they cannot contain anymoredesperately trying not to lose their humanity amid the chaos of war Actors Reymond Amsalem Ashraf Barhom Oshri Cohen Yoav Donat Michael Moshonov Zohar Shtrauss Dudu Tassa & Itay Tiran Director Samuel Maoz Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Duration 1 hour & 29 minutes (approx)
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