In this text Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable The problems are identified as diminishing human agency & political freedom
- the paradox that as human powers increase through technological & humanistic inquiry we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions This edition contains an expanded index & an introduction that analyzes the text's argument & its present relevance
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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 Corporate player Julian Wright is a charming & mega successful businessman who hides a secret from the rest of the world which tears him apart every day While he stands on the verge of the deal of his career his life crosses paths witha woman who will turn his world upsidedown As he pursues her in a dangerous game of seduction he is forced to confront his past Julina must face the dark family secrets that continue to haunt him & his troubled sister Actors Jada Pinkett Smith Jason Clarke Paz Vega Idris Elba TJ Thyne Joanna Cassidy Steven Brand Ted Danson & Anne Ramsay Director Jada Pinkett Smith Certificate 18 years & over Year 2008 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 43 minutes (approx) ...

This book explores the human contribution to the reliability & resilience of complex well-defended systems Usually the human is considered a hazard
- a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns However there is another perspective that has been relatively little studied in its own right
- the human as hero whose adaptations & compensations bring troubled systems back from the brink of disaster time & again What if anything did these situations have in common? Can these human abilities be 'bottled' & passed on to others? The Human Contribution is vital reading for all professionals in high-consequence environments & for managers of any complex system The book draws its illustrative material from a wide variety of hazardous domains with the emphasis on healthcare reflecting the author's focus on patient safety over the last decade All students of human factors
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John Scalzi's The Human Division is the fifth in The Old Man's War series Lieutenant Harry Wilson has an impossible mission He must help preserve the union of humanity's colonies in the wake of a terrible revelation For years the Colonial Union has protected its citizens from the dangerous universe around them But the people of Earth now know the ugly truth The Union deliberately kept Earth as an ignorant backwater
- & as a source of recruits for its war against hostile aliens Now other alien races have formed a new alliance against the Union & they've invited the incensed people of Earth to join them Managing the Colonial Union's survival will take all the political cunning & finesse its diplomats can muster & Harry & his team will be deployed to deal with the unexpected
- for failure is unthinkable

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With a new introduction by Colm Toibin A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS sparking off the inevitable security checks tensions & suspicions The sort of atmosphere perhaps where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle it is the end of the line anyway & time for him to retire to live peacefully with his African wife Sarah To the lonely isolated neurotic world of the Secret Service Graham Greene brings his brilliance & perception laying bare a machine that sometimes overlooks the subtle & secret motivations that impel us ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play If you&re a fan of Battle Royale or The Hunger Games you will be captivated by the Human Race Veronica suddenly finds herself in a surreal & horrifying marathon race The Rules are simple If you are lapped you die If you step off the path you die 80 will start but only one may cross the finishing line alive Who will win the Human Race? ...

Director Robert Benton brings Philip Roth's 2000 novel THE HUMAN STAIN to the screen in this lavish production with expert cinematography from Jean-Yves Escoffier Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a light-skinned African-American college professor who has kept his true racial identity secret for the majority of his life His career comes to a sudden halt when he makes a comment that is misinterpreted as a racial slur Soon after he is fired Silk hooks up with young Faunia Farely (Nicole Kidman) The affair with Farely who is almost half Silk's age becomes small-town gossip & attracts the attention of Farely's psychotic ex-husband Lester (Ed Harris) As Lester seeks vengeance still angry at his ex-wife Silk must make some tough decisions about his affair with Farely leading to the film's nail-biting conclusion Benton draws incredibly convincing performances from his two lead actors Hopkins ably transcends his Caucasian ethnicity to play an African American & Kidman fully embraces her character as a downtrodden janitor who is determined to rise beyond her humble beginnings The two actors conquer the difficult subject matter offering fascinating commentary on racial mores & relationship issues ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play During the Second World War British warships in Gibraltar & Alexandria were attacked by a secret weapon invented by the Italian Navy the &human torpedo& Tracing the history it was first used in World War I when it sank an Austrian battleship then re-invented 20 years later Its a story of courage & adversity told in part by the Italian who rode the device into the enemy harbour in 1940 & went on to become Naval Commander of NATO Forces in the Mediterranean The film reveals for the first time the truth concerning the death of one of the inventors of the Italian machine Teseo Tesei whose name is now on the badge of Italy&s special forces From the first disastrous missions to ultimate success in sinking British battleships; & to the secret of an interned merchant ship whose concealed underwater compartment was used to attack ships the film follows the extraordinary stories of the men who rode the &human torpedoes& The film also follows the strange story of the discovery of top secret naval papers that led to the unearthing of the only surviving British mark two human torpedo & an interview with two Englishmen who attacked the Axis harbours on British copies of the Italian machine Filmed in Italy England & Malta ...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature & of reading in the wider world & about the state of literary education inside schools & universities The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious What is clear however is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought It is sceptically challenged from within for example by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history contextualized explanation or media studies It is shaken from without by even greater pressures by economic exigency & the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merely antiquated For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal to start reinvigorated work into the meaning & value of literary reading We think of the humanities as a cluster of specialized academic activities So they are But they also belong to the ordinary world the world where students & faculty make connections & careers; where they eat & drink & fret; where they move through new buildings & old seminar rooms In The Humanities & Everyday Life Michael Levenson places academic humanities within this field of daily life where abstract thought stands alongside material need The humanities also live outside the university in activities that have been overlooked or undervalued in book clubs in historical re-enactments in visits to museums & libraries in private collections in contributions to Wikipedia & in amateur genealogy These activities belong to the humanities quite as much as research published in specialty journals The Humanities & Everyday Life addresses both the university & the world beyond to see where they meet & fail to meet & to argue that the walls between them should lower At the centre of the book is an account of experts & expertise a controversial topic that poses questions about professionals versus amateurs & what constitutes expertise Drawing on the recent rejection of political elite expertise as seen in the Brexit referendum & the American election campaign as well as examples from science & medicine the volume reveals the unsteady boundary between specialized knowledge & public curiosity The Humanities & Everyday Life asks us to accept that the humanities are as enduring as religion are indeed both rival & complement to religion; & to acknowledge that despite imperfections they give an image of many-dimensioned life The humanities are worth improving on their own terms but also because just often enough they constitute an exemplary micro-society one that will illuminate still more widely when academic thought meets the light of the everyday ...

' Matt Haig is a supreme talent & a writer to cherish & The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus' Guardian 320 pages Haig Matt ...