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 ...

The Great Dinosaur Rush — or the Bone Wars as it&s otherwise called — was a period of incredible advancement in paleontology (ie the discovery of fossils) In The Great Dinosaur Rush players compete to grab bones from the best dig sites & build new dinosaurs for prestigious museums gaining notoriety in the process by stealing bones sabotaging dig sites & otherwise impeding your fellow paleontologists The game is played over turns each with two main phases dig & build During the dig phase players collect different-colored bones from dig sites & perform actions Some dirty actions give players secret notoriety tokens Notoriety adds to players& scores at the end of the game but having the MOST notoriety SUBTRACTS from the score! During the build phase players create their dinosaurs from the bones they collected maximizing them to score points in various museum categories length size height ferociousness etc You&ll have to play dirty if you want to win — just not too dirty! Players 2-5 60 Minutes Ages 10 ...

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
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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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Three of the greatest SF novels in the world in one bumper omnibus' An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POSTHerbert's evocative epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis the focus for a complex political & military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions Arrakis is the source of spice a mind-enhancing drug which makes interstellar travel possible; it is the most valuable substance in the galaxy When Duke Atreides & his family take up court there they fall into a trap set by the Duke's bitter rival Baron Harkonnen The Duke is poisoned but his wife & her son Paul escape to the vast & arid deserts of Arrakis which have given the planet its nickname of Dune Paul & his mother join the Fremen the Arrakis natives who have learnt to live in this harsh & complex ecosystem But learning to survive is not enough
- Paul's destiny was mapped out long ago & his mother is committed to seeing it fulfilled
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