Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play During the Civil War a wounded union soldier is sheltered by the headmistress & students of a girls’ academy in the south As his health returns his desire increases but can he trust these enemy women not to turn on him? He takes his chances but soon realises that his benefactress can’t be trustedwith his love or with his life! His lustful ambition turns quickly against him & the story follows him through a series of nerve shattering events including realistic scenes that are among the boldest most shocking ever witnessed on film ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play From acclaimed writerdirector Sofia Coppola The Beguiled unfolds during the Civil War at a Southern girls’ boarding school Its sheltered young women take in an injured Union soldier who then cons his way into each of the lonely women&s hearts causing them to turn on each other & eventually on him Starring Nicole Kidman Colin Farrell Kirsten Dunst & Elle Fanning the film premiered at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year & earned Sofia Coppola the award for Best Director ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play One man seven women in a strange house! Set in the Deep South during the Civil War The Beguiled stars Eastwood as John Mc Burney a severely wounded soldier who is near death when discovered by a teenage girl She takes him to the mansion that serves as her boarding school where he slowly begins to regain his health under the care of headmistress Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page) & the dozen or so girls who live there As Mc Burney gets better he begins to charm the girls all of whom are starved for affection because of the war&s claim on their men At length powerful undercurrents of jealousy saturate the atmosphere as the girls & even the headmistress begin to vie for Mc Burney&s attention He first becomes involved with one of the oldest of the girls Edwina Dabney (Elizabeth Hartman) but ultimately finds it difficult to resist the charms of some of her schoolmates His promiscuity becomes his undoing Actors Clint Eastwood Geraldine Page Elizabeth Hartman Jo Ann Harris Darleen Carr Mae Mercer Pamelyn Ferdin Melody Thomas Scott Peggy Drier Patricia Mattick & Matt Clark Director Don Siegel Certificate 15 years & over Year 1971 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English Subtitles English for the HOHDuration 1 hour & 40 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From acclaimed writerdirector Sofia Coppola The Beguiled unfolds during the Civil War at a Southern girls’ boarding school Its sheltered young women take in an injured Union soldier who then cons his way into each of the lonely women&s hearts causing them to turn on each other & eventually on him Starring Nicole Kidman Colin Farrell Kirsten Dunst & Elle Fanning the film premiered at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year & earned Sofia Coppola the award for Best Director ...

In THE BEIDERBECKE AFFAIR Trevor & Jill are school teachers who enter a complex world of mysterious intrigue THE BEIDERBECKE CONNECTION tells of more unlikely adventures of the two schoolteachers THE BEIDERBECKE TAPES is another story of Trevor Chaplin & Jill Swinborne who enter a world of adventure as Trevor is offered some jazz tapes from the barman at his local pub One of the tapes contains some alarming information & when they return to challenge the barman they find he has disappeared The collection

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Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning & interpretation The authors' central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social outcomes for individuals
- & that it is a better predictor of achievement than income background or socioeconomic status One of the major issues raised by the book was its discussion of 'racial differences in intelligence' & its contention that there is a link between the low observed test scores & social outcomes for African-Americans & their lack of social attainment While the authors produce & interpret a great deal of data to back up their contentions they ultimately fail to tackle the problem that neither 'intelligence' nor 'race' have widely accepted definitions in biology anthropology or sociology In consequence the book has been termed both racist' & pseudoscientific' thanks to what its critics see as both its faulty reasoning & its uncautious interpretation of evidence The debate continues to this day with academics on both sides engaged in fierce arguments over what can be argued from the data that Herrnstein & Murray used
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I was supposed to be having the time of my life When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953 she is elated believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer But in between the cocktail parties & piles of manuscripts Esther&s life begins to slide out of control She finds herself spiralling into depression & eventually a suicide attempt as she grapples with difficult relationships & a society which refuses to take women&s aspirations seriously The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath&s only novel was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas The novel is partially based on Plath&s own life & descent into mental illness & has become a modern classic The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny & razor sharp portrait of 1950s society & has sold millions of copies worldwide ...

I was supposed to be having the time of my life When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953 she is elated believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer But in between the cocktail parties & piles of manuscripts Esther&s life begins to slide out of control She finds herself spiralling into depression & eventually a suicide attempt as she grapples with difficult relationships & a society which refuses to take women&s aspirations seriously The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath&s only novel was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas The novel is partially based on Plath&s own life & descent into mental illness & has become a modern classic The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny & razor sharp portrait of 1950s society & has sold millions of copies worldwide ...

I was supposed to be having the time of my life When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953 she is elated believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer But in between the cocktail parties & piles of manuscripts Esther&s life begins to slide out of control She finds herself spiralling into depression & eventually a suicide attempt as she grapples with difficult relationships & a society which refuses to take women&s aspirations seriously The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath&s only novel was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas The novel is partially based on Plath&s own life & has become a modern classic The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny & a razor sharp portrait of 1950s society & has sold millions of copies worldwide ...

I was supposed to be having the time of my life When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953 she is elated believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer But in between the cocktail parties & piles of manuscripts Esther&s life begins to slide out of control She finds herself spiralling into serious depression as she grapples with difficult relationships & a society which refuses to take her aspirations seriously The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath&s only novel was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas The novel is partially based on Plath&s own life & descent into mental illness & has become a modern classic ...