A classic tale from Doris Lessing winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben their feral fifth child Listening to the laughter the sounds of children playing Harriet & David would reach for each other's hand & smile & breathe happiness' Four children a beautiful old house the love of relatives & friends
- Harriet & David Lovatt's life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss & old-fashioned family values But when their fifth child is born a sickly & implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll Large & ugly violent & uncontrollable the infant Ben full of cold dislike' tears at Harriet's breast Struggling to care for her new-born child faced with a darkness & a strange defiance she has never known before Harriet is deeply afraid of what exactly she has brought into the world
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Peter Senge founder & director of the Society for Organisational Learning & senior lecturer at MIT has found the means of creating a 'learning organisation' In The Fifth Discipline he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire where new & expansive patterns of thinking are nutured where collective aspiration is set free & where people are contually learning together The Fifth Discipline fuses these features together into a coherent body of theory & practice making the whole of an organisation more effective than the sum of its parts Mastering the disciplines will Reignite the spark of learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity Free you from confining assumptions & mind-sets Teach you to see the forest & the trees End the struggle between work & family time The Fifth Discipline is a remarkable book that draws on science spiritual values psychology the cutting edge of management thought & Senge's work with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods Reading it provides a searching personal experience & a dramatic professional shift of mind This edition contains more than 100 pages of new material about how companies are actually using & benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices as well as a new foreword from Peter Senge about his work with the Fifth Discipline over the last 15 years ...

They say that diplomacy is a gentle art That mastering it is a lifetime's work But you do need a certain inclination in that direction It's not something you can just pick up on the job A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper
- an important copper true
- chief of police
- but still at his core a policeman But today he is an ambassador
- to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald Today Sam Vimes is also a man on the run He has nothing but his native wit & the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask) It's snowing It's freezing & if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war There are monsters on his trail They're bright They're fast They're werewolves
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A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel They say that diplomacy is a gentle art That mastering it is a lifetime's work But you do need a certain inclination in that direction It's not something you can just pick up on the job A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper
- an important copper true
- chief of police
- but still at his core a policeman But today he is an ambassador
- to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald Today Sam Vimes is also a man on the run He has nothing but his native wit & the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask) It's snowing It's freezing & if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war There are monsters on his trail They're bright They're fast They're werewolves
- & they're catching up




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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 Political espionage thriller directed by Bill Condon & starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Australian publisher & journalist Julian Assange The film shows how Assange & the others in his Wiki Leaks team have disclosed a large volume of state secrets & classified information through their website in the hopes of informing the public of their government&s true nature Most notoriously the group published a video of the indiscriminate killing of over a dozen people in Iraq by the US military in 2010 with the help of intelligence analyst-turned whistleblower Bradley Manning But through this decision Assange & his colleagues were made enemies of the state & forced to consider whether their actions were justifiable or if the cost of full disclosure is too high ...

Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel A New York Times Notable Book Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Nebula Kitschies Audie & Locus Awards The inaugural Wiredcom book club pick THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS FOR THE LAST TIME IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole continent spewing ash that blots out the sun IT STARTS WITH DEATH with a murdered son & a missing daughter IT STARTS WITH BETRAYAL & long dormant wounds rising up to fester This is the Stillness a land long familiar with catastrophe where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon & where there is no mercy' Astounding' NPR' Amazing' Ann Leckie' Breaks uncharted ground' Library Journal' Powerful' io 9' Elegiac complex & intriguing' Publishers Weekly ' Brilliant' Washington Post The Broken Earth trilogy begins with The Fifth Season continues in The Obelisk Gate & concludes with The Stone Sky
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A blistering courtroom drama featuring The Lincoln Lawyer's Mickey Haller from the master of the genre 592 pages Connelly Michael ...

Four nuns & a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa A year later Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher & discovers a gruesome & meticulously planned murder
- a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles Then another man is reported missing Once again Wallander's life is put on hold as he & his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked
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From one of the major innovators of New Journalism Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of the world's greatest boxers both in & out of the ring published in Penguin Modern Classics Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa Zaire Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring Foreman's genius employed silence serenity & cunning He had never been defeated His hands were his instrument & 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case' Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds two iron wills & monumental egos Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch New Jersey & attended Harvard University at the age of sixteen He majored in engineering but it was while he was at university that he became interested in writing After graduating he served during the war in the Philippines with the Twelfth Armoured Cavalry regiment from Texas; those were the years that formed The Naked & the Dead (1948) In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice & was the editor of Dissent from 1952 until 1963 Among his other works are The Armies of the Night (1968) The Executioner's Song (1980) both of which won Mailer a Pulitzer Prize If you enjoyed The Fight you might like Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold also available in Penguin Modern Classics' If ever a fighter had been able to demonstrate that boxing was a twentieth-century art it must be Ali says Norm & his achievement in this masterly book is of a similar order demonstrating that writing about sport can also be a twentieth-century art' Geoff Dyer New Statesman' Probably no one has written about boxing better than Mailer has' Guardian ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Mark Wahlberg & Christian Bale star in this inspirational & powerful true story of two brothers who against all the odds come together to train for a historic title fight that has the power to unite their fractured family & give their run down town what it&s been waiting for Pride Struggling boxer Micky Ward has long been overshadowed by his older brother & trainer Dicky a local legend who is now battling his own demons The explosive relationship of these brothers threatens to take them both down but at the heart of this story is a bond of blood that may just be their only chance of redemption ...