Classic farce from Norman Wisdom who plays a milkman caught up in a feud between the small traditional company that employs him & a large modern dairy planning a hostile takeover Will Norman in his typically inept fashion manage to save his company from the onset of modernity? ...

The Early Birds is the touching & funny follow-up to The Future Homemakers of America ' Wit & insight to match Nick Hornby & the entertainment value of Helen Fielding' Independent on The Future Homemakers of America' Why is Laurie Graham not carried on people's shoulders through cheering crowds? Her books are brilliant!' Marian Keyes Peggy the southern belle Kath the pragmatist with the only Norfolk accent in New York state Gayle the preacher with healing hands Mrs Colonel Audrey Rudman forever keeping up the standards of the Officers' Wives Club Lois who's never had a thought she didn't voice Loudly Their menfolk may be long retired but once a US Air Force wife always an Air Force wife & the bonds of friendship forged in base after military base are still going strong fifty years later Time is rendering its Accounts Payable for all of them now hip replacements eye problems forgetfulness & departures In this hymn to lifelong female friendship Peggy soldiers on through new upheavals including her ex-husband Vern's Alzheimer's diagnosis the death of one of her nearest & dearest a life-changing house move & the world-shattering events of 911 with the help of her sharp-tongued often eccentric but always loyal group of friends ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play History of the Avant-Garde THE EARLY FILMS OF PETER GREENAWAY 2 Vertical Features Remake The Falls He has other reputations as well as an academic as a maker of curious artefacts as a cataloguer of the bizarre & as a librarian of the absurd Greenaway might as well have been describing himself in this thumbnail sketch of Canton Remodell a character in an unmade project Before The Draughtsman&s Contract Greenaway had made a series of highly inventive films which established all the obsessions that run through his later work In Vertical Features Remake a playful parody of avant-garde theorising academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper Greenaway&s best-known fictional character The Falls is divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been affected by the VUE the Violent Unknown Event a phenomenon in some way connected with birds & flying Michael Nyman provided the score for both films DVD extras include a Galley of Artworks a Gallery of Archives filmed introductions to both films by Peter Greenaway plus hidden features UK 1978 1980 colour 224 minutes Ratio 1331 Region 2 DVD A series of video releases featuring the best of radical & innovative filmmaking from the first hundred years of cinema ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play History of the Avant-Garde THE EARLY FILMS OF PETER GREENAWAY 1A Walk Through H H is for House Windows Intervals Dear Phone Water Wrackets He has other reputations as well- as an academic as a maker of curious artefacts as a cataloguer of the bizarre & as a librarian of the absurd Greenaway might as well have been describing himself in this thumbnail sketch of Canton Remodell a character in an unmade project Before his international arthouse hit The Draughtsman&s Contract Greenaway had made a series of highly inventive & witty short films Their content varies widely the potted history of 37 people who have fallen to their deaths from windows (Windows) a sequence of 92 maps to guide a dead ornithologist on his way into the afterlife (A Walk Through H ) but all the films are immensely playful & take pleasure in outlandish detail fake erudition & corkscrew narratives Composer Michael Nyman started his career with Peter Greenaway & contributed a thrilling score to A Walk Through H ...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 30 IGO license The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American & Caribbean children & makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively a family affair Spending on effective programs for young children is an investment that if done well will have very high returns while failure to implement such programs will lower the returns on the hefty investments being made in primary secondary & higher education Policies for young children belong at the core of a country's development agenda alongside policies to develop infrastructure & strengthen institutions However if the services provided (or funded) by governments are to benefit children they must be substantially better than what is currently being delivered in the region This book offers suggestions for improving public policy in this critical area ...

Welcome to a world of wonders! In this enormous book about the Earth there is so much to explore! Readers can marvel at the physical planet travel back in time to primordial Earth explore all branches of the tree of life discover habitats from oceans to deserts learn how the weather works & take a tour of the human planet from the Maasai steppe to Manhattan ...

The result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents & sixty countries The Earth from the Air is the bestselling & most popular book of aerial photography ever published This updated edition of the internationally acclaimed original features an updated text & over 100 breathtaking new photographs New editorials by such renowned authors as Jane Goodall Matthieu Ricard & Olivier Blond consider such perpetual issues as agriculture climate & biodiversity as well as the latest concerns
- refugees new technologies & environmental movements A classic of its kind this book will heighten everyone's awareness of today's urgent ecological issues Now more than ever The Earth from the Air stands as a call to action
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For thousands of years we have struggled to rise above the surface of the Earth 2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the moment three human beings escaped the pull of the Earth's gravitational field for the first time & saw what no one had ever seen before the Earth as a sphere falling through the empty darkness of space Even today only 24 people have had that experience the Apollo astronauts who went on the nine manned missions to the moon that took place between 1968 & 1972 The astronauts returned with photographic evidence that the Earth was beautiful seemingly fragile & different from any other heavenly body The photographs known as Earthrise taken during the first manned mission & The Blue Marble taken during the last mission have become two of the most reproduced & most influential images of all time They were taken almost as an afterthought & inspired a whole generation to think about our responsibility for this tiny oasis in space In his remarkably wide-ranging book Christopher Potter writes of the early heroic days of aviation & of the often-blemished visionaries who inspired the journey into space Charles Lindbergh Robert Goddard & Wernher von Braum Now more than ever the need to see ourselves from an outside-perspective is urgent Can we learn to see ourselves for what we truly are inhabitants of a world without borders? The Earth Gazers is a timely & entrancingly written exploration of the ways in which this new perspective on ourselves did indeed change us & of how the opportunity for truly radical change was thwarted ...

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play An undercover investigator&s moral compass begins to change when she infiltrates an anarchist group responsible for targeting major corporations When the CEOs of high profile companies find themselves the victims of a number of covert attacks former FBI agent Sarah Moss (Brit Marling) is recruited by private intelligence firm Hiller Brood to gather information on & The East& a shadowy eco-activist collective thought to be responsible After finally managing to infiltrate the group however Sarah discovers her allegiances beginning to shift as she increasingly begins to question the moral uncertainties of her life & finds herself falling under the spell of the group&s charismatic leader Benji (Alexander Skarsgård) ...