A romantic & relevant debut about Islamophobia & how it affects the normal life of a teenage girl Maya Aziz dreams of being a film maker in New York Her family have other ideas They want her to be a dutiful daughter who wears gold jewellery & high heels & trains to be a doctor But jewellery & heels are so uncomfortable She's also caught between the guy she SHOULD like & the guy she DOES like But she doesn't want to let Kareem down & things with Phil would never work out anyway Would they? Then a suicide bomber who shares her last name strikes in a city hundreds of miles away & everything changes Perfect for fans of Annabel Pitcher WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI & THE HATE U GIVE ...

How do modern women in developing countries experience sexuality & love? Drawing on a rich variety of interview ethnographic & survey data from her native country of Kenya Sanyu Mojola examines how young African women who suffer disproportionate rates of HIV infection compared to young African men navigate their relationships schooling employment & financial access in the context of a devastating HIV epidemic & economic inequality Writing from a unique outsider-insider perspective Mojola argues that the entanglement of love money & the production & transformation of girls into "consuming women" lies at the heart of women's health & coming-of-age crises Engaging in themes of gender consumption & the transition to adulthood this text is an incisive analysis of gender sexuality & health in Africa ...

20-year-old Nina (Faye Marsay) moves from the Midlands to North London in the 1980s to care for Joe & Max the two young sons of a working single mother George (Helena Bonham Carter) the editor of a prestigious literary journal Playful sharply funny & fiercely bright Nina is thrown into a world of sophisticated bohemianism with only her no-nonsense attitude to guide her She is unabashed but unqualified having dropped out of school Relying on her warmth & self-taught intelligence Nina manages to improvise with the many intellectuals that pass through the house With George’s encouragement & the attentions of a good-looking boy across the street Nina’s eyes are gradually opened to a future of expanded opportunities… or at the very least sixth form college Brought to the screen by SJ Clarkson (Jessica Jones) Nick Hornby’s (About a Boy) fictionalized adaptation of Nina Stibbe’s award-winning book ‘ Love Nina’ is a sparkling life affirming drama celebrating family & friendship in all its chaotic glory Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ...

The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss & reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort understanding & hope they offer Some of the poems will be familiar many will be new but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain Some of Malcolm's own poetry is included written out of his work as a priest with the dying & the bereaved & giving to the volume a powerful authenticity The choice of forty poems is significant & reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European & Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death
- our word quarantine come from this They explore the nature & the risk of love the pain of letting go & look toward glimpses of resurrection
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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 Rosie (Lily Collins; The Mortal Instruments City of Bones) & Alex (Sam Claflin; The Hunger Games Mockingjay
- Part 1) have been best friends since the age of six but as they are approaching university fate forces them to go their separate ways Can their relationship survive the years & the miles? & at the back of Rosie’s mind is whether they were meant to be more than just good friends all along Misunderstandings circumstances & sheer bad luck have kept them out of each other’s arms but when presented with the ultimate opportunity will they gamble everything for the chance to be together at last? Based on the bestselling novel “ Where Rainbows End” by Cecilia Ahern Love Rosie is a fresh & heart-warming story about friendship true love & luck that shows how sometimes fate just can’t stop meddling …
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Track Listings Disc 1 1 Alfie's Song (Not So Typical Love Song)
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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 Set in Dublin’s violent gangland the award winning Irish series is a hard-hitting & unflinching look at the lives & loves of the criminals who work in the city’s drug organisations the pressures that result in young people joining the gangs & the dangers that they face It tells the story of the rise & fall of young gang footsoldier Darren (Robert Sheehan – Misfits) his doomed love for his childhood sweetheart Rosie (Ruth Negga – Shirley) & their deadly involvement in the dark world of chilling gang kingpin John Boy Power (Aidan Gillen – The Wire Game of Thrones) & his weaselly second in command – & pretender to the throne – Nidge (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
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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 complete fourth series of Love Hate Set in Dublin&s violent underworld this multi-award winning Irish series is a hard-hitting & unflinching look at the lives & loves of the young criminals who work in the city&s drug gangs
- the pressures they are under the dangers they face & the innocent lives they destroy

Includes:: behind-the-scenes extras Actors Tom Vaughan Lawlor & Killian Scott Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English


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Although there are many kinds of love erotic love has been celebrated in art & poetry as life's most rewarding & exalting experience worth living & dying for & bringing out the best in ourselves & yet it has excused & even been thought to justify the most reprehensible crimes Why should this be? This Very Short Introduction explores this & other puzzling questions Do we love someone for their virtue their beauty or their moral or other qualities? Are love's characteristic desires altruistic or selfish? Are there duties of love? What do the sciences
- neuroscience evolutionary & social psychology & anthropology
- tell us about love? Many of the answers we give to such questions are determined not so much by the facts of human nature as by the ideology of love Ronald de Sousa considers some of the many paradoxes raised by love looking at the different kinds of love
- affections affiliation philia storage agape but focusses on eros or romantic love He considers whether our conventional beliefs about love & sex are deeply irrational & argues that alternative conceptions of love & sex although hard to formulate & live by may be worth striving for ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable


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Kelly Flanagan is a psychologist father & blogger who is best known for the letters he has written to his children on his blog one of which landed him on the Today Show with his four-year-old daughter In Loveable Flanagan answers three fundamental human questions Am I enough? How do I become unlonely? Do I matter? He shows us how to rediscover our worthiness & remember that we are good enough He encourages us to shed the false self that keeps us lonely & to find people who accept us as we are & he inspires us to fully embrace our passions regardless of how ordinary those passions may be Reading like an extended love letter to readers Loveable uncovers three essential truths you are enough you are not alone & you matter Flanagan invites us to disconnect from the distractions & demands of daily life & to listen more intently for the voice of grace within each of us so we might fully awaken to the redemptive story we are here to live ...