New York Times Bestseller Following the success of Lean In & Why Women Should Rule the World the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative & practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence-and learning how to achieve it-for women of all ages & at all stages of their career Working women today are better educated & more well qualified than ever before Yet men still predominate in the corporate world In The Confidence Code Claire Shipman & Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence Combining cutting-edge research in genetics gender behavior & cognition-with examples from their own lives & those of other successful women in politics media & business-Kay & Shipman go beyond admonishing women to lean in Instead they offer the inspiration & practical advice women need to close the gap & achieve the careers they want & deserve ...

The con artist from Bernie Madoff to Clark Rockefeller to Lance Armstrong How do they get away with it? & what keeps us falling for them over & over again? In The Confidence Game Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of the swindle from the put-up all the way to the fix & how we can train ourselves to spot a story that isn't all it seems ...

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A classic cookbook by renowned author Irena Chalmers brought back into print as part of giftable series of timeless cookbooks with updated forwards & cover designs for the modern cook 256 pages Black & white line drawings throughout to illustrate different cooking instructions eq Chalmers Irena ...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN' In a class by himselfthe ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness & anxiety' William Golding In a small continental country civil war is raging 272 pages Greene Graham ...

The author offers a new look at one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus He presents the Tractatus as expressing the intellectual anxieties of its modernist epoch The most intriguing but usually unanswered question concerning the Tractatus is why Wittgenstein had to think that only propositions of natural science have meaning The author reviews the most popular interpretations of the Tractatus & comes to the conclusion that the early Wittgenstein was an ethical subjectivist With this insight he solves the tension between Tractarian theses that influenced neopositivism & its mystical part ...

Valentine's Day is approaching a busy time for Lake District florist Simmy Brown & she has a number of anonymous orders to deliver But the orders & their apparently innocuous messages cause great distress When one of the recipients goes missing Simmy must face the possibility that evil intent is at play ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Reprising their roles Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga (“ Up In the Air” TV’s “ Bates Motel”) & Patrick Wilson (the “ Insidious” films) star as Lorraine & Ed Warren who in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits The film follows the phenomenal worldwide reception of Wan’s “ The Conjuring” which marked the largest opening ever for an original horror movie The film went on to make more than 319 million worldwide & still remains the second highest grossing original horror movie of all time second only to “ The Exorcist” Rounding out the cast are Frances O’ Connor (TV’s “ The Missing”) as the single mum with Madison Wolfe (TV’s “ Zoo”) & newcomers Lauren Esposito Patrick Mc Auley & Benjamin Haigh as her children; Maria Doyle Kennedy (TV’s “ Orphan Black”); Simon Delaney (TV’s “ Roy”); Franka Potente (TV’s “ The Bridge”); & Simon Mc Burney (“ Mission Impossible Rogue Nation”) In addition to directing the film Wan wrote the screenplay with Carey Hayes & Chad Hayes & David Leslie Johnson Peter Safran Wan & Rob Cowan who previously collaborated on “ The Conjuring” are producing Collaborating with Wan behind-the-scenes is Oscar-nominated director of photography Don Burgess (“ Forrest Gump” “42”) Reuniting with the director from “ The Conjuring” are production designer Julie Berghoff editor Kirk Morri costume designer Kristin Burke & composer Joseph Bishara ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play James Wan directs this horror starring Patrick Wilson & Vera Farmiga as real-life demonologists Ed & Lorraine Warren When the Perron family experience strange goings-on at their farmhouse they enlist the help of paranormal experts Ed & Lorraine As they investigate however the couple begin to realise that despite their expertise they may not be equipped to deal with such a violent & foreboding evil ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the true life story " The Conjuring" tells the tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives From New Line Cinema comes a feature film drawn from the case files of married demonologists Ed & Lorraine Warren " The Conjuring" stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (" Up in the Air" TV&s " Bates Motel") & Patrick Wilson (" Insidious") as the Warrens & Ron Livingston (" The Odd Life of Timothy Green") & Lili Taylor (TV&s " Hemlock Grove") as Roger & Carolyn Perron residents of the house Joey King Shanley Caswell Hayley Mc Farland Mackenzie Foy & newcomer Kyla Deaver play the Perrons& five daughters & Sterling Jerins is the Warrens& little girl Judy Rounding out the cast are Marion Guyot Steve Coulter Shannon Kook & John Brotherton James Wan (" Saw" " Insidious") directed the film from a screenplay by Chad Hayes & Carey W Hayes (" The Reaping") The film is produced by Tony De Rosa-Grund Peter Safran & Rob Cowan with Walter Hamada & Dave Neustadter serving as executive producers Actors Vera Farmiga Patrick Wilson Lili Taylor Ron Livingston Shanley Caswell & Hayley Mc Farland Director James Wan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English Audio Description ; French ; Italian Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Italian for the hearing impaired ; English ; Dutch ; French ; Italian Duration 1 hour & 47 minutes (approx)
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