Throughout his long hectic & astonishingly varied life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes visiting cards draft manuscripts & even bills Goethe was probably the last true Renaissance Man' Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar's court where he helped oversee major mining road-building & irrigation projects he also painted directed plays carried out research in anatomy botany & optics
- & still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre His fourteen hundred Maxims & Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art ethics literature & natural science but also his immediate reactions to books chance encounters or his administrative work Although variable in quality the vast majority have a freshness & immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers
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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 Hollywood&s toughest heroes Steven Seagal & " Stone Cold" Steve Austin have joined forces in an explosive thriller that out runs & out guns anything you may have seen before Tom Steele (Seagal) is an operations genius Manning (Austin) is a weapons expert Both work for one of the government&s black ops security forces manoeuvring outside the standard army protocol Their assignment is to safely deliver two female convicts to a top-secret military prison But once the women have been incarcerated a squadron of ruthless violent mercenaries targets them intent on gaining high-risk information that could be lethal in the wrong hands It&s now up to Steele & Manning to protect them at any cost Actors Steven Seagal Steve Austin Michael Pare Aliyah O& Brien Bren Foster Steph Song Zak Santiago Kirby Morrow Michael Adamthwaite Sharlene Royer Lauro Chartrand Toby Levins Christopher Gordon Teach Grant & Kimani Ray Smith Director Keoni Waxman Certificate 18 years & over Year 2012 Languages English ...

During its run in the mid-&90s Minimum Wage racked up critical accolades & a devoted following numbering among its fans Patton Oswalt Marc Maron Dana Gould Scott Aukerman Margaret Cho Janeane Garofalo David Cross & more Why? Because each page boasted sticky uncomfortable truths drenched in bleakly familiar humor It was comedy" before the phrase had been coined presaging squirmy shows like Louie & Girls Set in a New York so real you can practically smell it (so claimed Mike Mignola) Minimum Wage is the workaday saga of cartoonist Rob Hoffman & his firebrand girlfriend Sylvia He churns out strips for smut rags & off-brand MAD knockoffs & she languishes managing a hair salon With their colorful crew of friends they forge ahead against the brutal indifference of their hometown This definitive edition

Includes:: the original 72-page "pilot" episode (Minimum Wage Book One) & the revised cut" of the main storyline Plus a bonus color section featuring original cover paintings & guest pin-ups by Mike Mignola Kevin Nowlan Dave Johnson Jill Thompson Dave Cooper Glenn Barr & others

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Stephen King's directorial debut concerns a comet which when it passes too close to the Earth causes all things mechanical develop a life of their own As the machines leave behind a trail of destruction a few human survivors trapped in a diner decide that they have to take positive action to destroy their formidable foe Features original music by Australian rock giants ACDC Actors Laura Harrington Christopher Murvey Yeardley Smith Emilio Estevez Directors Stephen King Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

THE NINTH & ULTIMATE MAXIMUM RIDE STORY IS HERE! Legions of Max fans won't be disappointed by this encore episode in the beloved series about the incredible adventures of a teenage girl who can fly As Maximum Ride boldly navigates a post-apocalyptic world she & her broken flock are roaming the earth searching for answers to what happened All will be revealed in this last spectacular ride
- a br&-new grand finale featuring all of the non-stop action twists & turns that readers can rely on in a blockbuster Patterson page-turner!
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Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride better known as Max knows what it's like to soar above the world She & all the members of the ' Flock'
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Narrowly surviving their encounter with erasers in New York City the flock is following up a lead on their pasts in Washington DC But what they find waiting for them is a home? How will the flock adjust to a real school
- one that doesn't involve mad scientists & genetic freaks?
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Despite their initial hesitation living with Anne has softened the flock so Max is keenly aware that it's time to leave With Thanksgiving so near though all of them want to stay at least until they've had their first ever Thanksgiving turkey! But danger is on the horizon as Jeb's plan advances & while the flock's new school seems normal & safe secrets are hidden beneath its prestigious facade ...

Escaping Itex in Florida the flock head west with Max more burdened than ever by the knowledge that she's meant to save the world With the erasers eerily absent from their lives of late has the flock finally earned a bit of peace 208 pages Patterson James ...

There's a rift in the flock & everyone is choosing sides! While Max & her team are Europe-bound Fang & his crew head west No matter which direction the flock heads in though there's trouble around every corner Itex's 'by-half plan' to reduce the world's population is already in motion & they have no intention of letting anything
- or anyone
- stand in their way! Can these bird-kids of a feather survive if they don't flock together?

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