Languishing in a Panamanian prison cell William Holbert
- known as ' Wild Bill'
- is waiting to be tried for the murder of five

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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 The Jolson Story Larry Parks gives the performance of his life in the story of Al Jolson from his meteoric rise to fame to the doubts & depression that emerged later in his career One of the greatest musicals ever made The Jolson Story is an electrifying cavalcade of lavish production numbers with an all-star cast Winning Academy Awards for Musical Scoring & Sound Recording the film also received four Academy Award nominations in 1946 including Best Actor for Larry Parks& portrayal of Al Jolson Jolson Sings Again Larry Parks repeats his unforgettable role as Al Jolson in this musical extravaganza The dramatic story of one of America&s all-time favourite entertainers continues in this captivating motion picture The drama unfolds when Jolson exits retirement & heads back to Broadway where he discovers that musical styles have changed & his exuberant brand of minstrel jazz no longer pulls top-billing Discouraged & tired of a life of wine women & little song
- Jolson turns to his friend & manager (William Demarest) who enlists him to entertain troops during the war There he falls in love with & marries a beautiful army nurse (Barbara Hale) who encourages Al to sing again Get set for an exciting array of Jolson&s most popular songs including & Baby Face& & & Sonny Boy& in this electrifying & true-to-life story as Jolson Sings Again
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They&re not just living the American dream they&re selling it Perfect couple Steve (David Duchovny) & Kate Jones (Demi Moore) & their gorgeous teen-aged children Jenn & Mick are the envy of their posh suburban neighbourhood filled with Mc Mansions & all the trappings of the upper middle class Kate is the ultimate trend setter
- beautiful sexy dressed head-to-toe in designer labels Steve is the admired successful businessman who has it all a gorgeous wife big house & an endless supply of high-tech toys Jenn & Mick rule their new school as they embody all that is hip & trendy
- cool clothes fast cars & the latest gadgets But as the neighbours try to keep up with the Joneses none are prepared for the truth about this all-too perfect family Actors Demi Moore David Duchovny Amber Heard Gary Cole Ben Hollingsworth Glenne Headly Lauren Hutton Chris Williams Catherine Dyer Robert Pralgo Justin Price & Christine Evangelista Director Derrick Borte Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players



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The newest edition of the bestselling book on educational leadership This expanded & thoroughly updated edition of the popular anthology contains the articles book excerpts & seminal reports that define & drive the field of educational leadership today Filled with critical insights from bestselling authors education research & expert practitioners this comprehensive volume features six primary areas of concern The Principles of Leadership; Moral & Trustworthy Leadership; Culture & Change; Leadership for Learning; Diversity & Leadership; The Future of Leadership Offers a practical guide for timeless & current thinking on educational leadership

Includes:: works by Peter Senge & Tom Sergiovanni From Jossey-Bass publishers a noted leader in the fields of education & leadership This important resource

Includes:: relevant & up-to-date articles for leaders today on gender diversity global perspectives standardstesting e-learningtechnology & community organizing



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The young naturalist W N P Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude' It begins as an ambitious teenager's notes on the natural world & then following his diagnosis at the age of twenty-six transforms into a deeply moving account of battling the disease His prose is full of humour & fierce intelligence & combines a passion for life with clear-sighted reflections on the nature of death Barbellion selected & edited this manuscript himself in 1917 adding a fictional editor's note announcing his own demise This Penguin Classics edition

Includes:: ' The Last Diary' which covers the period between submission of the manuscript & Barbellion's actual death in 1919

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Designed as a standalone work of fiction as well as a deluxe handout for use with The Curse of Nineveh campaign this journal is a beautiful in-world artefact in its own right Neve Journal brings the curse of Nabu home as young investigator Neve Selcibuc sets out to uncover the truth behind a series of unexplained events in the streets of London What she uncovers will require more than her own pen & wits to solve leading in to her recruiting investigators for The Curse of Nineveh campaign ...

' Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible' In equal measure famous & infamous Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey Mac Donald a convicted murderer & Joe Mc Ginniss the author of a book about the crime Lauded as one of the Modern Libraries 100 Best Works of Nonfiction The Journalist & the Murderer is fascinating & controversial a contemporary classic of reportage ...

The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature These exact & complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life
- covering her marriage to Ted Hughes & her struggle with depression
- are a key source for the poems which make up her collections Ariel & The Colossus' Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity
- 1950s New England pre-co-ed Cambridge pre-mass tourism Benidorm where she & Hughes honeymooned the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962 These & other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here & now The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling & unique' John Carey Sunday Times


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This edition of the classic self-help bestseller is fully revised & updated to reflect the newest developments in the mind-body field today The Journey was born of Brandon Bays' extraordinary experience of healing from a football-sized tumour without drugs or surgery in 6 weeks Forced to go beyond the limits of known alternative therapies (she had been working in mindbody healing for two decades) she was catapulted into a remarkable soul-searching & ultimately ground-breaking healing journey Bays pioneered a remarkable healing technique that guides us directly to the root cause of a longstanding difficulty
- emotional or physical
- & then gives us the tools to resolve it At the most sophisticated nexus of mind-body healing today The Journey offers a simple imaginative process that is a revolutionary way to actually access memories held in specific parts of the body bringing the latest findings of energy medicine into a fast effective technique that anyone from a CEO to a child can use

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Building on the success of his Life with Full Attention A Practical Course in Mindfulness Maitreyabandhu here offers a challenging but profoundly useful work on how to practise Buddhism in everyday life Drawing on examples from the life of the Buddha as well as weaving in astute references to poetry & art Maitreyabandhu gives an easily understood outline of the system of spiritual life as undertaken by Buddhists in the Triratna Community The journey starts with our own mind particularly when we begin to look into the truth of things
- the truth of the old man on the escalator the friend in hospital the coffin we help carry to the graveside What we find in our guide the Buddha is a man with a 'fit' mind a healthy happy non-neurotic honest-to-goodness mind To get fit we need to work on becoming a happy healthy human being We need to integrate our thinking faculty with our emotions We need to wake up to thought & tune in to direct experience & we need to work against the ever-rising tide of trivia dissipation & overstimulation of the modern world Maitreyabandhu takes us on this journey with practical week-by-week exercises focusing on cultivating mindful awareness being happy integrating & simplifying our lives knowing ourselves & truly being ourselves
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