Like George Orwell Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare but in Kafka's world it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is The Trial where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials & if there is any help to be had it will come from unexpected sources is a chilling blackly amusing tale that maintains to the very end a relentless atmosphere of disorientation Superficially about bureaucracy it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature Still more enigmatic is The Castle Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence & his need for approval? Is it all of these things? & K? Is he opportunist victim or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally in his fables Kafka deals in dark & quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance & no reliable guidance to resolving our existential & emotional uncertainties & anxieties ...

Edited with an introduction by ROBERT SKIDELSKY' Many of the greatest economic evils of our time are the fruits of risk uncertainty & ignorance' John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist & one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century He overturned the orthodoxy that markets were optimally self-regulating & instead argued for state intervention to ensure full employment & economic stability This new selection is the first comprehensive single-volume edition of Keynes's writings on economics philosophy social theory & policy including several pieces never before published Full of irony & wit they offer a dazzling introduction to a figure whose ideas still have urgent relevance today ...

International bestselling authors Esther & Jerry Hicks are the producers of the Leading Edge Abraham-Hicks teachings For more than two decades their Law of Attraction workshops held in up to 60 cities per year have inspired a regular flow of Abraham books CDs & DVDs The Law of Attraction Essential Collection is an omnibus of three of their bestselling titles that's a perfect introduction The Law of Attraction Money & the Law of Attraction & The Vortex The Law of Attraction presents the powerful basics of the original Teachings of Abraham (R) Here you'll learn how all things wanted & unwanted are brought to you by this most powerful law of the universe the Law of Attraction that which is like unto itself is drawn Learn here about the omnipresent Laws that govern this Universe & how to make them work to your advantage Through the teachings of the Non-Physical consciousness Abraham in Money & the Law of Attraction Esther & Jerry Hicks shine a spotlight on two subjects most chronically affecting people today money & physical health Whatever your life experience this book will guide you to take conscious creative control of your financial & physical wellbeing This book has been written to deliberately align you with the most powerful law in the universe-the Law of Attraction-so that you can make it work specifically for you The Vortex will help you understand every relationship you are currently involved in as well as every relationship you have ever experienced Abraham will show you how to enter that Vortex where you will rendezvous with everything & everyone you have been looking for ...

Milton H Greene (1922-1985) famous for his fashion photography & celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood met Marilyn Monroe on a photo shoot for Look magazine in 1953 The pair developed an instant rapport quickly becoming close friends & ultimately business partners In 1954 after helping her get out of her studio contract with 20th Century Fox they created Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc Milton & Marilyn were much more then business partners Marilyn became a part of the Greene family By the time their relationship had ended in 1957 the pair had produced two feature films in addition to more than 5000 photographs of the iconic beauty There was magic in Milton & Marilyn's working relationship The trust & confidence they had in each other's capabilities was on full display in each photo Greene passed in 1985 thinking his life's work was succumbing to the ravages of time His eldest son Joshua began a journey to meticulously restore his father's legacy A photographer himself Joshua spent years researching ways to restore his father's photographs as well as cataloguing & promoting Milton's vast body of work all over the world As a result Joshua established " The Archives" a company committed to the restoration & preservation of photography After spending nearly two decades restoring his father's archive Joshua Greene & his company are widely regarded as one of the leaders in photographic restoration & have been at the forefront of the digital imaging & large-format printing revolution Now Joshua Greene in conjunction with Iconic Images presents The Essential Marilyn Monroe Milton H Greene 50 Sessions With 280 photographs including many never-before published & unseen images newly scanned & restored classics as well as images that have appeared only once in publication Greene's Marilyn Monroe archive can finally be viewed as it was originally intended when these pictures were first produced more than 60 years ago These classic sessions
- 50 in all
- cover Monroe at the height of her astonishing beauty & meteoric fame From film-sets to the bedroom at home & at play Joshua has curated a lasting tribute to the work of a great photographer & his greatest muse Poignant & powerful joyful & stunning
- these breath-taking images of an icon stand above all the rest & The Essential Marilyn Monroe Milton HGreene 50 Sessions will sure to be a book that will become the platinum standard in photography monographs Milton H Greene was one of the earliest & best photographers working in the early days of colour photography Outside his outstanding Monroe images he has worked with a plethora of other celebrities from Elizabeth Taylor Frank Sinatra Sammy Davis Jr & Audrey Hepburn to Grace Kelly Marlene Dietrich Dizzy Gillespie & Judy Garland


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Tracklist Disc 1 Can't Hold The Feeling Back Show Me The Way Something About You Something's Wrong This Love Starved Heart Of Mine (It's Killing Me) (1994 Love Starved Heart Version (Mono) Why Am I Lovin' You (Single Version) What More Could A Boy Ask For Stormy Suspicion All I Do Is Think About You He Who Picks A Rose You Hit Me Where It Hurt Me Angel Doll It Happens Every Time I Want My Baby Back If You Ever Get Your Hands On Love I've Been Cheated 6 By 6 (Single Version) Take Him Back If It Makes You Happy I Can't Be Hurt Anymore I've Gotta Get Away Disc 2 Tell Me It's Just A Rumor Baby Lonely Lonely Girl Am IIt's Gonna Take A Whole Lot Of Doin' No One Could Love You More Forever In My Heart You Can Do It I'm Grateful The Touch Of Venus We're Gonna Be More Than Friends We'll Keep On Rolling My Love For You Your Love Can Save Me Don't Stop Now Sometimes I Have To Cry The Stranger Give In You Just Can't Win Nothing's Too Good For My Baby (Single Version) You've Got To Pay The Price On The Avenue (In The Neighborhood)I Ain't Going Nowhere (Single Version) That's A Funny Way I Know Better Disc 3I Have Faith In You Share A Little Love With Me (Somebody) The Way You Been Acting Lately Keep On Lovin' Me (Single Version) It's Not Unusual Ain't You Glad You Chose Love A Tear From A Woman's Eyes Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead (Single Version) Clip My Wings I'm Gonna Make It Up To You Sweet Thing (1995 Anthology Version Mono) We'll Be Satisfied Baby A Go-Go Baby Come Home To Me The In Crowd Head Over Heels In Love With You Baby You Got The Love I Need Don't Be Afraid Crying In The Night Sunny Tell Me How To Forget A True Love After The Rain ...

With an introduction by Charlotte R Brown & William Edward Morris David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English as well as a master stylist This volume contains his major philosophical works A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) published while Hume was still in his twenties consists of three books on the understanding the passions & morals It applies the experimental method of reasoning to human nature in a revolution that was intended to make Hume the Newton of the moral sciences Disappointed with the Treatise's failure to bring about such a revolution Hume later recast Book I as An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1751) & Book III as An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals which he regarded as incomparably the best' of all his works Both Enquiries went through several editions in his lifetime Hume's works controversial in his day remain deeply & widely influential in ours especially for his contributions to our understanding of the nature of morality political & economic theory philosophy of religion & philosophical naturalism This volume also

Includes:: Hume's anonymous Abstract of Books I & II of the Treatise & the short autobiographical essay My Own Life' which he wrote just before his death

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'A world without Pokemon would be less stable & more dangerous for all of us'
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Discover the true meaning of fear with these classic horror stories The Essential Tales of HP Lovecraft collects one of the author's most popular novellas At the Mountain of Madness & six of his most famous short stories including The Call of Cthulhu The Shadow Out of Time The Dunwich Horror The Colour of Space The Shadow Over Innsmouth & The Whisperer in the Darkness These hair-raising tales have inspired generations of authors & filmmakers including Stephen King Alan Moore Guillermo del Toro & Neil Gaiman This elegantly designed clothbound edition features an elastic closure & a new introduction The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the essential works of classic authors from around the world in stunning editions to be collected & enjoyed ...

Alan Turing pioneer of computing & WWII codebreaker is one of the most important & influential thinkers of the twentieth century In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad non-specialist readership They make fascinating reading both in their own right & for their historic significance contemporary computational theory cognitive science artificial intelligence & artificial life all spring from this ground-breaking work which is also rich in philosophical & logical insight An introduction by leading Turing expert Jack Copeland provides the background & guides the reader through the selection About Alan Turing Alan Turing FRS OBE (1912-1954) studied mathematics at King's College Cambridge He was elected a Fellow of King's in March 1935 at the age of only 22 In the same year he invented the abstract computing machines
- now known simply as Turing machines
- on which all subsequent stored-program digital computers are modelled During 1936-1938 Turing continued his studies now at Princeton University He completed a Ph D in mathematical logic analysing the notion of 'intuition' in mathematics & introducing the idea of oracular computation now fundamental in mathematical recursion theory An 'oracle' is an abstract device able to solve mathematical problems too difficult for the universal Turing machine In the summer of 1938 Turing returned to his Fellowship at King's When WWII started in 1939 he joined the wartime headquarters of the Government Code & Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park Buckinghamshire Building on earlier work by Polish cryptanalysts Turing contributed crucially to the design of electro-mechanical machines ('bombes') used to decipher Enigma the code by means of which the German armed forces sought to protect their radio communications Turing's work on the version of Enigma used by the German navy was vital to the battle for supremacy in the North Atlantic He also contributed to the attack on the cyphers known as ' Fish' Based on binary teleprinter code Fish was used during the latter part of the war in preference to morse-based Enigma for the encryption of high-level signals for example messages from Hitler & other members of the German High Command It is estimated that the work of GC&CS shortened the war in Europe by at least two years Turing received the Order of the British Empire for the part he played In 1945 the war over Turing was recruited to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London his brief to design & develop an electronic computer
- a concrete form of the universal Turing machine Turing's report setting out his design for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was the first relatively complete

Specification of an electronic stored-program general-purpose digital computer Delays beyond Turing's control resulted in NPL's losing the race to build the world's first working electronic stored-program digital computer
- an honour that went to the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University in June 1948 Discouraged by the delays at NPL Turing took up the Deputy Directorship of the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory in that year Turing was a founding father of modern cognitive science & a leading early exponent of the hypothesis that the human brain is in large part a digital computing machine theorising that the cortex at birth is an 'unorganised machine' which through 'training' becomes organised 'into a universal machine or something like it' He also pioneered Artificial Intelligence Turing spent the rest of his short career at Manchester University being appointed to a specially created Readership in the Theory of Computing in May 1953 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in March 1951 (a high honour)





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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 Four classic war films In ' The Great Escape' (1963) a collection of hardened Allied prisoners are kept in an 'escape-proof' German camp during World War Two Led by the ' Big X' (Richard Attenborough) the men formulate a plan for a mass breakout digging three tunnels Tom Dick & Harry The team behind the escape

Includes:: a near-blind forger of passports (Donald Pleasence) a claustrophobic tunnel-digger (Charles Bronson) & the independent American ' Cooler King' (Steve Mc Queen) With men like that on their side how can they fail? Guy Hamilton's ' Battle of Britain' (1969) looks at how England defended itself from the German aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940 Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding the air chief marshal whose fleet outmanouevres the Luftwaffe despite a numerical disadvantage & those few to whom so many owed so much are portrayed by an all-star cast including Michael Caine Kenneth More & Ralph Richardson Despite its pro-British slant the authenticity of the film's impressive flying sequences was guaranteed by the technical advice of Adolf Galland one of the Nazi's most celebrated World War 2 pilots 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977) is Richard Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault Dirk Bogarde James Caan Robert Redford & Sean Connery are among those battling against insurmountable odds
- foul weather bad luck negligence on the part of intelligence officers
- to secure one of the bridges essential to the Allied advance into Germany Gene Hackman Michael Caine & Anthony Hopkins co-star In ' The Bridge at Remagen' (1969) it is March 1945 & the war in Europe is nearly at an end German troops led by Major Kreuger (Robert Vaughn) are ordered to blow up the only bridge left leading into the Rhineland to prevent entry by the allies Meanwhile American US Lieutenant Hartman (George Segal) & his platoon close in on the bridge hoping to put a swift end to the bloody combat Actors Steve Mc Queen James Garner Donald Pleasence David Mc Callum James Coburn Directors Richard Attenborough John Sturges Guy Hamilton John Guillermin Writers James Clavell WR Burnett James Kennaway Wilfred Greatorex William Goldman Producers John Sturges Harry Saltzman Benjamin Fisz Joseph E Levine Richard P Levine Format Box set PALSubtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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