The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied Symptoms of decline are all around us today slowing growth crushing debts ageing populations But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer Niall Ferguson argues is that the institutions that were once the four pillars of Western society
- representative government the free market the rule of law & civil society
- are degenerating The Great Degeneration is a powerful indictment of an era of negligence & complacency To stop us frittering away the institutional inheritance of centuries Ferguson warns will take heroic leadership & radical reform 'A refreshing perspective on the economic decline of advanced countries & the origins of the crisis' Samuel Brittan Financial Times ' He writes with splendid panache & a seemingly effortless debonair wit' The Times ' One of the most incisive writers of history politics & economics today' Sunday Telegraph ' Niall Ferguson has transformed the intellectual landscape' Economist

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The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades & was seen by many as tantamount to the American Way itself Now in this superb ...

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature history & politics--to grasp the scale & violence of climate change The extreme nature of today's climate events Ghosh asserts make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking & imagining This is particularly true of serious literary fiction hundred-year storms & freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres In the writing of history too the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory & counterintuitive elements Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics much like literature has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action But to limit fiction & politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction Ghosh argues is the best suited of all cultural forms His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie Adenoid Hynkel the dictator of Tomania & a Jewish Barber The Barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country The film ends with a message of hope for the world ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie Adenoid Hynkel the dictator of Tomania & a Jewish Barber The Barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country The film ends with a message of hope for the world ...

In the near future humanity awakens to the horrifying reality that the faintest touch from another&s skin results in agonizing death The survivors isolate themselves many driven mad by fragments of memories absorbed from those they&ve killed Two years after the " Divide" a pair of thieves stumble upon the means to save their species but not everyone is eager to see the old world order restored!
Includes: free digital bonus content to download including the song " Teotwawki" (mood music for the apocalypse) a coloring book RPG content a self help book from the perspective of villain Sebastian Gibbs dystopian short stories & a song by the band City Below!
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Why has inequality increased in the Western world
- & what can we do about it? In The Great Divide Joseph E Stiglitz expands on
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CS Lewis's dazzling allegory about heaven & hell
- & the chasm fixed between them
- is one of his most brilliantly imaginative

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The day has arrived for the Dogs' Summer Ball It's so high class that each dog must remove their bottom before they are allowed inside the hall But in the middle of all the frivolity something unexpected happens & the dogs have to make a hasty exitwith or without the correct bottom! ...

At the Ferocious Dragon Academy dragons-in-training learn the arts of bone crunching & teeth sharpening But there is one dragon who harbours a passion for a most undragon-like pastime Meet Flamie Oliver To look at Flamie is as terrifying as a dragon can get But behind closed doors Flamie is a stupendously spectacular Star Baker! That's right
- choux rough salty sweet & puff
- Flamie loves it all In fact he loves baking so much that his studies at the Ferocious Dragon Academy are starting to suffer & there's a chance he won't graduate! Flamie's going to need a real showstopper to get out of this one On your marks get set BAKE! Fabulously funny & perfect for fans of BBCs Great British Bake Off

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