William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time He excels in plot poetry & wit & his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet King Lear Othello & Macbeth as well as the moving history plays & the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream The Taming of the Shrew & As You Like It with their magical combination of humour ribaldry & tenderness This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition & it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written It also

Includes:: Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as his longer poems Venus & Adonis & The Rape of Lucrece

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' We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers but none I think which have been quite so illuminating It is a fascinating diary It is shorter than Barbara Castle's & although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's itis distinctly funnier'
- Lord Allen of Abbeydale (formerly Permanent Secretary at the Home Office) in The Times' It has an entertainment & educational value which isunique It is uproariously funny & passes the acid test ofbecoming more amusing at every subsequent reading I willgo so far as to claim that in the characters of Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby Messrs Lynn & Jay have createdsomething as immortal as PG Wodehouse's Bertie Woosterand Jeeves'
- Brian Walden in The Standard

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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 Complete collection of episodes from the satirical British comedy ' Yes Minister' & its spin-off series ' Yes Prime Minister' The ' Yes Minister' episodes are ' Open Government' ' The Official Visit' ' The Economy Drive' ' Big Brother' ' The Writing On the Wall' ' The Right to Know' ' Jobs for the Boys' ' The Compassionate Society' ' Doing the Honours' ' The Death List' ' The Greasy Pole' ' The Devil You Know' ' The Quality of Life' 'A Question of Loyalty' ' Equal Opportunities' ' The Challenge' ' The Skeleton in the Cupboard' ' The Moral Dimension' ' The Bed of Nails' ' The Whisky Priest' & ' The Middle-Class Rip-Off' The ' Yes Prime Minister' episodes are ' The Grand Design' ' The Ministerial Broadcast' ' The Smoke Screen' ' The Key' 'A Real Partnership' 'A Victory for Democracy' ' The Bishop's Gambit' ' One of Us' ' Man Overboard' ' Official Secrets' 'A Diplomatic Incident' 'A Conflict of Interest' ' Power to the People' ' The Patron of the Arts' ' The National Education Service' & ' The Tangled Web' Actors John Fortune Paul Eddington Nigel Hawthorne Derek Fowlds John Nettleton Directors Stuart Allen Peter Whitmore Sidney Lotterby Writers Antony Jay Jonathan Lynn Producers Stuart Allen Peter Whitmore Sidney Lotterby Number of discs 7 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From the minds of Jonathan Lynn & Antony Jay comes the complete box set of all three series of Yes Minister First-class political satire & a worldwide favourite seen in over 80 countries Yes Minister is well-known for being closer to the truth than those in the political arena would like to admit Re-live the exploits of the amiable & honourable Jim Hacker & his permanent Secretary the urbane but evasive Sir Humphrey Appleby as they balance the intricacies of government bureaucracy This four-disc set contains the complete Yes Minister collection from Hacker&s arrival on the political arena as Minister of Administrative Affairs through to the extraordinary events that turned Jim Hacker MP into Jim Hacker PM This contains all three series of this much-loved sitcom in a striking box set plus a score of extras Actors Paul Eddington Nigel Hawthorne Derek Fowlds John Nettleton Diana Hoddinott & Neil Fitzwiliam Director Peter Whitmore Certificate PGYear 1980 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English Duration 11 hours (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
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This expanded & up-to-date volume showcases Zaha Hadid's remarkable & inspiring work over the course of her career ...

Prepare for success on respiratory therapy credentialing exams! Updated to reflect the 2009 National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) content outlines Sills' The Comprehensive Respiratory Therapist's Exam Review 5th Edition helps you review for both entry & advanced level credentialing exams It covers every testable subject providing content review self-assessment questions & study hints The new Evolve website contains electronic testing offering realistic practice for the entry-level credentialing exam & the advanced-level credentialing Written Registry Exam (WRE) & Clinical Simulation Exam (CSE) Self-study questions at the end of each chapter include an answer key with rationales to help you analyze your strengths & weaknesses in content learned UNIQUE! Exam Hint boxes point out point out subjects that are frequently tested helping you study plan your time & improve your test-taking skills Rationales for each question provide feedback for correct & incorrect answers so you understand why an answer is correct or incorrect & retain information better Difficulty level codes (recall application analysis) for each question on Evolve help you prepare for questions in the way that is most appropriate (eg memorization for recall or synthesis for analysis) Special NBRC coding of topics corresponds to every topic covered in the NBRC Detailed Content Outline (DCO) so you can easily review each of the testable topics Secure Evolve website lets you experience the actual NBRC testing environment in a computerized format NEW! Therapist Multiple Choice Exam (TM-CE) practice test aligns with the new 2015 NBRC Written Exam UPDATED! Revised content reflects the 2015 NBRC Detailed Content Outline & examination matrix so you know exactly what to expect on the exams
- & can review each of the areas covered on the matrix NEW! More analysis-type questions added to the end-of-chapter self-study questions reflect changes in the matrix content outlines NEW! Greater consistency in formulas abbreviations & equations achieved through aligning the text & Evolve site to comprehensive Abbreviation & Equation Glossaries EXPANDED! 22 clinical simulations feature shortened sections & align with the new 2015 NBRC Clinical Simulation Exam in both study mode & exam mode giving you the opportunity to practice this difficult portion of the Registry Exam on Evolve NEW! Standard Normal Range Guide features reference tables with normal values of various parameters used in respiratory care assessment EXPANDED! New practice exams on Evolve including one 140-question TM-CE with automatic scoring to delineate entry & advanced credentialing levels let you assess your understanding in both study (untimed) & exam (timed) modes
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There is a companion web site asssociated with the book (httpvsicomputerwordpresscom) It contains chapter summaries links to relevant material & posts about items of news relevant to the book's contents Computers have changed so much since the room-filling bulky magnetic tape running monsters of the mid 20th century They now form a vital part of most people's lives & they are more ubiquitous than might be thought
- you may have more than 30 computers in your home not just the desktop & laptop but think of the television the fridge the microwave But what is the basic nature of the modern computer? How does it work? How has it been possible to squeeze so much power into increasingly small machines? & what will the next generations of computers look like? In this Very Short Introduction Darrel Ince looks at the basic concepts behind all computers; the changes in hardware & software that allowed computers to become so small & commonplace; the challenges produced by the computer revolution
- especially whole new modes of cybercrime & security issues; the Internet & the advent of 'cloud computing'; & the promise of whole new horizons opening up with quantum computing & even computing using DNA 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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This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking & forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge imagination consciousness & the intellect The result is a classic example of philosophy ...

In this his most influential work legal theorist & political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing one-self for the state
- a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared George Schwab's introduction to his translation of the 1932 German edition highlights Schmitt's intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state In addition to analysis by Leo Strauss & a foreword by Tracy B Strong placing Schmitt's work into contemporary context this expanded edition also

Includes:: a translation of Schmitt's 1929 lecture The Age of Neutralizations & Depoliticizations which the author himself added to the 1932 edition of the book An essential update of a modern classic The Concept of the Political Expanded Edition belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in political theory or philosophy


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Twenty-five years after losing his position as the conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra for his refusal to fire the Jewish musicians a once-famous musical director attempts to stage a late-career comeback Andrei Semoinovitch Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) was at the top of his game when the Soviet regime ended his career More than two decades later he's working as a janitor in the same theater where he once conducted In his spare time Andre & his wife stage mock communist demonstrations to entertain the locals When Andre happens across an invitation to Paris' famed Theatre du Chatelet he contacts his old orchestra friends in hopes of staging a performance that will bring the crowd to their feet for a standing ovation ...