Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones favourite exploring the childhood of Chrestmanci
- now a book with extra bits! Discovering
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The result of six years of research & some 1200 interviews this book takes fans deep into Lennon's secretive world from his traumatic childhood to his Beatles days to his hidden life with Yoko Ono While the Lennon of legend enjoyed a gifted & inspired life the private Lennon lived in torment poisoning himself with drugs & self-hatred The Lives of John Lennon exposed for the first time all of his various lives from idealist to cynic from ascetic to junkie It is a lasting tribute to his brilliant achievements & a revelation of the price he paid for them ...

With a foreword by John le Carre 1984 East Germany Captain Gerd Wiesler a loyal member of the secret police is assigned to spy on the playwright Georg Dreyman The flat is bugged & Wiesler begins to listen in to the daily
- & nightly -activities of the playwright & his actress-girlfriend But when he discovers that the surveillance has been instigated by the Minister of Culture's desire for Dreyman's girlfriend rather than the playwright's political views Wiesler begins to question his own loyalties As he continues to listen in he finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed in the couple's lives & the gap between his professional duty & personal integrity starts to widen This hugely influential film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck whose screenplay is published in English for the first time is as relevant
- or even more so
- now in the wake of Edward Snowden & the Wiki Leaks revelations as it was when it won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Further contents Introduction by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; ' Appassionata The Idea for the Film' by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck'; an essay by Sebastian Koch (' Georg Dreyman'); an interview with Ulrich Muhe by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; ' Wiesler's Change of Heart' an essay by Manfred Wilke; full film cast & crew credits Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck the writer & director of The Lives of Others was born in Cologne in 1973 & grew up in New York City Brussels Frankfurt & West Berlin He studied Russian Literature in Leningrad before obtaining an MA from Oxford & a Diploma in Film Direction from the University of Film & Television in Munich


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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Drama set in East Berlin prior to the fall of the communist government Captain Gerd Weiser (Ulrich Muhe) is assigned to surveillance duties specifically to collect information on popular dramatist Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) & his actress partner Christa Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck) As he becomes more & more submerged in their lives Weiser&s own attitudes to life politics & the state begin to change & it&s not long before he finds himself in a dangerous situation ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Drama set in East Berlin prior to the fall of the communist government Captain Gerd Weiser (Ulrich Muhe) is assigned to surveillance duties specifically to collect information on popular dramatist Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) & his actress partner Christa Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck) As he becomes more & more submerged in their lives Weiser&s own attitudes to life politics & the state begin to change & it&s not long before he finds himself in a dangerous situation Actors Martina Gedeck Ulrich Muhe Sebastian Koch Ulrich Tukur Thomas Thieme Directors Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Language German Subtitles English Number of discs 1 ...

' If a man is to write A Panegyrick he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life he must represent it really as it was' In the last of his major writings Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets The major Lives
- of Milton Dryden Swift & Pope
- are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing critical judgements Unsentimental opinionated "able The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned It is one of the greatest works of English criticism but also one of the most humanly diverting This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more

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Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States Genny Beemyn & Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey--one of the largest ever conducted in the US--on gender development & identity-making among transsexual women transsexual men crossdressers & genderqueer individuals With nearly 3500 participants the survey is remarkably diverse & with more than 400 follow-up interviews the data offers limitless opportunities for research & interpretation Beemyn & Rankin track the formation of gender identity across individuals & groups beginning in childhood & marking the touchstones that led participants to identify as transgender They explore when & how participants noted a feeling of difference because of their gender the issues that caused them to feel uncertain about their gender identities the factors that encouraged them to embrace a transgender identity & the steps they have taken to meet other transgender individuals Beemyn & Rankin's findings expose the kinds of discrimination & harassment experienced by participants in the US & the psychological toll of living in secrecy & fear They discover that despite increasing recognition by the public of transgender individuals & a growing rights movement these populations continue to face bias violence & social & economic disenfranchisement Grounded in empirical data yet rich with human testimony The Lives of Transgender People adds uncommon depth to the literature on this subject & introduces fresh pathways for future research ...

The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract not a matter for love & the education of women was minimal at best Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful & characterful women in a way that no era had been before Elizabeth Norton explores the seven ages of the Tudor woman from childhood to old age through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor Henry VIII's sister who died in infancy; Cecily Burbage Elizabeth's wet nurse; Mary Howard widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn mother of a controversial queen; & Elizabeth Barton a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft painting a portrait of the lives of queens & serving maids nuns & harlots widows & chaperones ...

The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria' One of Ireland's most lauded ...

One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written The Lives She Left Behind will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife & Life After Life- & of course Ferney In a Somerset village a teenage boy confronts a teacher with a story he should know nothing about The boy's impossible knowledge uncovers memories Michael Martin has done his utmost to forget
- & soon propels him into danger As Martin confronts his past once more three girls arrive in the village of Pen Selwood one of them drawn by an ancient instinct to find a man called Ferney Her actions reignite a love story an instinct that cannot be broken irrespective of the hurt & danger it brings to those around them A passionate love story that spans the centuries fall under the spell of Ferney & Gally's enduring romance
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