Since its US debut a quarter-century ago this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America It is also an outstanding political economy a social & cultural narrative of the highest quality & perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx Rather than chronology geography or political successions Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation Thus he is concerned with gold & silver cacao & cotton rubber & coffee fruit hides & wool petroleum iron nickel manganese copper aluminum ore nitrates & tin These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent up to the Rio Grande & throughout the Caribbean & all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States & Europe Weaving fact & imagery into a rich tapestry Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered & suffering people An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes All readers interested in great historical economic political & social writing will find a singular analytical achievement & an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak unforgettably ...

What would you do if you were settling down for a quiet bedtime story & you realised that a crocodile had fallen into your storybook & was
- not to put too fine a point on it
- furious? Would you slam that book shut & cram it in the bookshelf for evermore or would you be brave enough to peek? This very grumpy crocodile has ended up in totally the wrong book so he proceeds to eat his way out in this fantastic debut picture book He tries to escape a storybook that is all wrong for him but is great fun for the reader!

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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 This nail-biting low-budget natural thriller directed by independent filmmaker Chris Kentis tells the simple tale of a married couple Susan (Blanchard Ryan) & Daniel (Daniel Travis) who go on a diving trip while on holiday together Both are experienced divers & break away from the rest of the group to explore Their dream holiday becomes a nightmare when the careless diving boat crew accidentally leave without them stranding them with only basic scuba diving equipment in shark-infested waters As time passes & their anxiety increases the personal troubles inherent in the couple&s relationship begin to surface while the sharks draw ever closer ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Nick&s dream falls apart when he wins a date with his favourite star Jill Goddard & she refuses to honour the contest But when Chord her so-called campaign manager offers Nick the ability to secretly watch Jill s every move via computer he cannot let the opportunity go Soon he will discover his decision has put him & Jill in grave danger ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Cesar rejects women after sleeping with them but this upsets one of his conquests who after driving off the road disfigures Cesar & then kills herself ...

Open A Toolkit for How Magic & Messed Up Life Can Be is full of honest advice about the big bad & beautiful things that growing up is all about from mental health to families to first love & everything in between Gemma Cairney is an important advocate for young people & between her life experiences & her personal insight from her time as Radio 1's resident agony aunt on The Surgery she is perfectly placed to offer hope & a huge comforting cuddle to young people questioning what life's all about or dealing with hard times Along with practical help & advice from a range of experts & gorgeous illustrations this bright & colourful book also has a ribbon marker & plenty of space for readers to personalize & make it their own making Open a treasured resource to return to whenever advice is needed ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) rehearses for her latest play about a woman in denial at the onset of her autumn years When Myrtle witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan it leads to a crisis of confidence in both her professional & her personal life which threatens to undermine the whole production Featuring a startling & compelling performance by Gena Rowlands which won her the Silver Bear for Best Actress in 1978 Opening Night is arguably one of John Cassavetes& most self-reflexive works & offers an insightful & intriguing evocation of the theatrical experience from both sides of the proscenium ...

A century can be understood in many ways
- in terms of its inventions its crimes or its art In Opening Skinner's Box Lauren Slater
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Ideal for outsiders volunteers & others helping out with prisoners Opening the Doors contains wise advice based on years of experience It places imprisonment in a Christian context & captures the essence of why some people end up in prison 156 pages 160 colour photos & illustrations Gill Paul ...

Keen to build web applications for the cloud? Get a quick hands-on introduction to Open Shift the open source Platform as a Service (Paa S) offering from Red Hat With this practical guide you'll learn the steps necessary to build deploy & host a complete real-world application on Open Shift without having to slog through long detailed explanations of the technologies involved Open Shift enables you to use Docker application containers & the Kubernetes cluster manager to automate the way you create ship & run applications Through the course of the book you'll learn how to use Open Shift & the Wildfly application server to build & then immediately deploy a Java application online Learn about Open Shift's core technology including Docker-based containers & Kubernetes Use a virtual machine with Open Shift installed & configured on your local environment Create & deploy your first application on the Open Shift platform Add language runtime dependencies & connect to a database Trigger an automatic rebuild & redeployment when you push changes to the repository Get a working environment up in minutes with application templates Use commands to check & debug your application Create & build Docker-based images for your application ...