' Well-being for all is not a dream' In this brilliantly enjoyable challenging rallying-cry of a book Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs
- beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th & early 20th centuries & which have a renewed relevance & poignancy today Humane thoughtful
- but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal narrow few clinging onto their wealth & privileges at the expense of the many) The Conquest of Bread is a book to be argued over again & again

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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 Charting man&s complicated journey towards & mastery over flight this fascinating film uses both drama & documentary footage to present a highly cinematic account of the evolution of aviation encompassing early experiments in automated flight the development of bombers & aircraft carriers & the earliest experiments in vertical rotary flight A project initiated in 1935 by Alexander Korda as a potential collaboration with Winston Churchill The Conquest of the Air was produced in fits & starts over the following five years eventually being released in 1940 as a propaganda film to help the war effort both here & in America The film is featured here in a br&-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio ...

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind & to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? David J Chalmers unveils a major new theory of consciousness one that rejects the prevailing reductionist trend of science while offering provocative insights into the relationship between mind & brain Writing in a thought-provoking style Chalmers proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time mass & space that exists at a fundamental level & cannot be understood as the sum of its parts Engaging & penetrating this book adds a fresh new perspective to the subject that is sure to spark debate about our understanding of the mind for years to come ...

Perfect reading for fans of Joanna Trollope & Elizabeth Buchan this is a novel of lost loves deceits & second chances Nattie is now happily married to Hugo & they have two beautiful children but no one knows that her heart has never truly been hers to give The love of her life was lost to her years ago or so she thought Now Ahmed is back & although he knows Nattie is married he just can't stop himself from making contact Torn between Ahmed & her family Nattie ends up meeting him in secret But will her lies cause more trouble than the truth? Praise for A Matter of Loyalty the brilliant prequel Topical & intriguing Brave & far-reaching the novel never loses pace Thrilling' Daily Telegraph ' Sandra Howard's thriller could not be more topical An entertaining yarn that explores the conflict of the interest between love politics & religion' Tatler ' Engaging & genuinely gripping' Daily Mail ...

Bedded banished pregnant! Talented photographer Coral Dahl can't afford any distractions on her first major photoshoot But the beauty of her location-the private Greek island of Hydros-is nothing compared to the lethal charisma of its owner tycoon Raffaele Rossini! A charisma that wary innocent Coral is powerless to resist Coral is astonished to discover her family is scandalously entwined with Rafa's & that she has a claim on his inheritance Branded a gold-digger she's dismissed from his bed & his life But the biggest surprise of all is that their one night of rapture has had unexpected permanent consequences! ...

Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust Though a convinced Christian in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy This work dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; writers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas Jean de Meun & Dante were inspired by it In England it was rendered in to Old English by Alfred the Great into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer & later Queen Elizabeth I made her own translation The circumstances of composition the heroic demeanour of the author & the ' Menippean' texture of part prose part verse have combined to exercise a fascination over students of philosophy & literature ever since ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

The Consolations of Philosophy is Alain de Botton's internationally bestselling guide to life Alain de Botton bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life Here then are Socrates Epicurus Seneca Montaigne Schopenhauer & Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all lack of money the pain of love inadequacy anxiety; the fear of failure & the pressure to conform' Singlehandedly de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest & most important purpose helping us live our lives' Independent' No doubt about it philosophy is the new rock & roll & Alain de Botton is its Colonel Tom Parker A pleasure to read & good writing like good philosophy is always a consolation' John Banville Irish Times' Few discussions on the great philosophers can have been so entertaining an ingenious imaginative book' Humphrey Carpenter Sunday Times' Witty thoughtful entertaining a stylish book which manages to make philosophy both enjoyable & relevant' Anthony Clare Literary Review' Gentle helpful & humane De Botton's instinct is surely right if we are to bring philosophy to life we should look again at those thinkers who have sought to be not clever or paradoxical but simply wise' Roger Scruton Mail on Sunday ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Based on a true story The Conspirator tells the powerful story of a woman who would do anything to protect her family & the man who risked everything to save her In the wake of Abraham Lincoln&s assassination seven men & one woman are arrested & charged with conspiring to kill the President Vice President & Secretary of State The lone woman charged Mary Surratt (Wright) owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) & others met & planned the simultaneous attacks Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington newly-minted lawyer Frederick Aiken (Mc Avoy) a 28-year-old Union war-hero reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal Aiken realizes his client may be innocent & that she is being used as bait & hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt her own son John (Johnny Simmons) As the nation turns against her Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth & save her life ...

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 a true story The Conspirator tells the powerful story of a woman who would do anything to protect her family & the man who risked everything to save her In the wake of Abraham Lincoln&s assassination seven men & one woman are arrested & charged with conspiring to kill the President Vice President & Secretary of State The lone woman charged Mary Surratt (Wright) owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) & others met & planned the simultaneous attacks Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington newly-minted lawyer Frederick Aiken (Mc Avoy) a 28-year-old Union war-hero reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal Aiken realizes his client may be innocent & that she is being used as bait & hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt her own son John (Johnny Simmons) As the nation turns against her Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth & save her life ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Comedy written & directed by Sidney Gilliat Rex Harrison stars as a man who wakes up on the Welsh coast with no recollection of who he is or how he got there With the help of a Cardiff psychiatrist (Cecil Parker) he traces his life back to a large London home & beautiful wife But further detective work reveals a string of further lovely wives & capacious homes & a pattern of repeated bad behaviour by his former self that shocks him to the core Can he now break the pattern & stop himself from repeating the mistakes of his past? ...