Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder One day he meets Kurose a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion As the two go through each of the ten steps Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows Seeing Kurose for the first time in two months Shirotani takes a big step forward in their relationship-and his treatment-by holding hands with Kurose Then after Kurose fails to invite him home Shirotani chases after him! Could this new more impulsive side of Shirotani signal a new phase in this tumultuous relationship? ...

' It flashed upon me suddenly they were going to shoot me!' This electrifying eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution written by an American journalist in St Petersburg as the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 is an unsurpassed record of history in the making ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Commissioned by the October Revolution Jubilee Committee (Chairman NikolaiPodvolsky) for the tenth anniversary of the revolution Sergei Eisenstein&s third major feature film " October 1917" is a marvelous reconstruction of the events from February leading up to the revolution & the Bolshevik&s overthrow of the czarists & Kerensky&s provisional government in 1917 True to the communist philosophy there were no main characters; the proletariat providing the &heroic& star quality throughout The ultimate victory belonging to the revolution Eisenstein&s skill & experimentation in using fast moving & rhythmic montage to produce telling metaphors & build & intensify sequences was not fully understood by the early Russian audiences; typical examples being the rapidly alternating images employed to create a machine-gun firing & the cross-cutting between power-hungry Kerensky & the statue of Napoleon Outstanding for the period are the dynamic sequences illustrating the massacre in the vicinity of the St Petersburg bridges & the storming of the Winter Palace which feature a profusion of exciting cinematic techniques Eisenstein&s research was extremely thorough & he did not allow contemporary events to influence his production The film&s release was delayed until 1928 by the Government Group&s demands for the removal of most of the footage featuring Stalin&s political adversary Trotsky This required substantial re-editing & caused the film to be reduced to a little over three-quarters of its original length When this film was made Leningrad & it&s streets the buildings the Winter Palace the corridors of the Smolny were the same as in that fateful year Thus October 1917 renders a stirring &eye-witness& account of the early days of the revolution Many of the participants of the revolution; Red Guards soldiers & sailors appear in the film Among them is NikoaliPodvolsky one of the leaders of the armed uprising Actors Layaschenko Boris Livanov Vasili Nikandrov Nikolai Popov & Eduard Tisse Director Sergei Eisenstein Certificate PG Year 1928 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages Dolby (10) Mono Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 44 minutes (approx) ...

Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917 when Lenin & the Bolsheviks finally seized power Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders & the chance comments of bystanders set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat soldiers sailors & peasants uniting to throw off oppression Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement & remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting ...

From Vodka to Soju Absinth to Tequila bartender poet & writer Seki Lynch explores the origins recipes & drinkers of the world's most popular spirits 216 pages 32 colour 14 b&w Lynch Seki ...

Come on a great escape through the kitchen as we follow each sausage that decides to make a run for it Will they succeed or will the cat blender plug hole or fan prove their downfall? Michelle Robinson's no-holds-barred humour is perfectly matched by Tor Freeman's mad-cap artwork Hilarious & merciless this tale will have you hooting out loud ...

A magical counting tale featuring ten flying brooms & ten friendly witches Join the brooms as they search for their lost owners ' Ten flying brooms zoomed swiftly through the night Their witches were gone
- they were nowhere in sight!' Written in rollicking rhyme TEN FLYING BROOMS is the perfect picture-book treat for any child who loves Halloween
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Isobel Kuhn questioned whether God even existed Mary Slessor grew up in a slum with an alcoholic father Joni Eareckson broke her neck during a diving accident & Corrie Ten Boom just lived with her family in a little watch shop in Harlaam Holland What is so special about these girls & how did they change their world? Isobel Kuhn believed in God & then obeyed his call to travel to Asia to tell the Lisu people about God Mary Slessor put herself through evening classes & eventually became one of the first white women to venture into the interior of Africa Joni Eareckson struggled through her treatment & endless hospital visits to become the inspiration to many Christians Corrie Ten Boom spent most of her life just living in Holland until the Nazis started killing the Jews Corrie Ten Boom put her life on the line to save the lives of many Jews in the hiding place a hidden room behind her wardrobe in a little watch shop in Haarlem Holland Mary Slessor (Missionary in Africa) Corrie Ten Boom (hid Jews in Nazi Germany) Evelyn Brand (Missionary in India) Joni Eareckson Gladys Aylward (Missionary in China) Jackie Pullinger (Missionary in Hong Kong) Amy Carmichael (Missionary in India) Elisabeth Fry (Worked among the sick prisoners & homeless) Catherine Booth (Co-Founder of The Salvation Army) & Isobel Kuhn (Missionary in Asia) ...

Blandina Perpetua Lady Jane Grey Anne Askew Lysken Dirks Marion Harvey Margaret Wilson Judith Weinberg Betty Stam Esther John 160 pages Howat Irene ...

Would you like to make a difference? These ten girls grew up to do just that Katherine Luther Bethan Lloyd-Jones Sabina Wurmbrand Susanna Wesley Ann Judson Edith Schaeffer Ruth Bell Graham Monica of Thagaste Susannah Spurgeon Maria Taylor Read this book & find out what God wants you to do ...