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 ...

THE HUMANS ARE BACK! The second HUMANS collection follows the gang as they rampage thru drug runs with road pirates strip club freak outs & beatdowns passionate sex in cheap motel rooms & multiple bloody barroom massacres! ...

The bestselling hugely popular Hummingbird Bakery is back with a wonderful new collection of easy & delicious cupcakes layer cakes pies & cookies to suit all occasions in this beautiful book The Hummingbird Bakery has brought their mouth-watering yet easy-to-make cupcakes to kitchens everywhere & this time they show readers how to bake delicious cakes & other sweet delights for those days of the year that are just meant for indulgence
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Joanna has spent ten years married to a monster Everyone thinks she has the perfect life but behind closed doors she lives in constant fear of her husband Escape seems impossible
- & then a stranger offers her a chance to flee On the run with her young daughter Joanna finds herself in the mysterious town of Morro With no memory of how she got there & no idea of what the town truly is Joanna faces a rare & terrible choice
- stay safe or return to face the fight of her life to save herself & her little girl

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San Pedro a visionary & hallucinogenic brew derived from the mescaline-based Trichocereus pachanoi or 'cactus of vision' is one of Peru's most important & powerful teacher plants For thousands of years this brew has been drunk by spiritual seekers & those who need healing & it has cured a wide variety of physical problems including cancer diabetes paralysis & pneumonia as well as emotional & psychological issues such as alcoholism heartbreak & grief Those who work with it say San Pedro brings us closer to God Remarkably however while other South American teacher plants such as ayahuasca have been well reported in the literature there has been no book specifically written about the shamanic use of San Pedro
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Survivor genius critic Murderer Meet Benjamin White blessed since his infancy with an extraordinary gift to understand humour at its deepest level Yet Benjamin is cursed too in all his life he has never laughed or smiled At the height of his profession as a comedy critic yet lacking any kind of human empathy Benjamin discovers a formula that will allow him to construct the most powerful joke the world has ever known A joke that has the power to kill ...