The No 1 New York Times bestseller on the secret to leading a good life We live in a Big Me culture universities & businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars & those who self-promote are most likely to thrive But what does this say about us? David Brooks argues that our hunger for wealth & status is eroding our ability to create meaningful inner lives To show us how to live better he looks at people whose sense of humility was fundamental to their success What they all understood was a simple but counterintuitive truth in order to fulfil yourself you must learn how to forget yourself ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In 1960 a former child actor with writing ambitions Mancunian Tony Warren begins submitting television scripts for & Shadow Squad& to progressive Canadian producer Harry Elton who wants to nurture local talent Tony however is keen to sell a drama he has written about real Northernerscalled & Florizel Street&after a picture of Prince Florizel in his office Harry is supportive but Granada studio boss Sidney Bernstein is lukewarmfeeling it is seedy & unglamorous Fortunately his brother Cecil sees the virtue in cheaply made studio drama with local actors & with writer Harry Kershaw & director Derek Bennett on board the street&s residents are cast Thirteen episodes are commissioned but the pivotal character of battle-axe Ena Sharples is proving impossible to cast until Tony brings in a cantankerous old actress from his radio days--violet Carson She is perfect Less perfect is the titlewhich the tea lady says sounds like disinfectant ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Eric Bergeron & Don Michael Paul direct this animation featuring the voice talents of Kevin Kline & Kenneth Branagh When luckless Spanish adventurers Tulio & Miguel (voices of Kline & Branagh) obtain a map showing the way to El Dorado the legendary city of gold they immediately set sail for Mexico & the adventure of a lifetime After a perilous sea voyage they reach their destination & are lavished with more gold than they ever dreamed of Their excitement is short-lived however when they learn that the people of El Dorado are in danger & Tulio & Miguel must decide what matters to them most
- their wealth or their newfound friends The film features music by Elton John Tim Rice & Hans Zimmer the Oscar-winning team behind & The Lion King& (1994) Directors Eric Bergeron Don Michael Paul Producers Bonne Radford Brooke Breton Format PALNumber of discs 1 Run Time 86 minutes
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Davy David an orphan lives by his wits in the dead-end town of Brownvale When a stray dog called George turns Davy's life upside down just days before Christmas he sets in motion a chain of events which forces them to flee A mischievous wind blows the two of them to a boarded-up museum on the outskirts of town where they meet the elderly recluse Miss Flint She has planned one last adventure before her time is up & hires the reluctant Davy & George to escort her The Road to Ever After by Moira young is a magical adventure about an unlikely friendship & an unforgettable journey ...

The war between magically-gifted Arcana & psionically-talented Sharona continues to rage The dragon-borne Arcanan assault across five universes has been halted at Fort Salby by a desperate defense but at atrocious cost One of those costs was the life of Crown Prince Janaki heir to the newly created Sharonian Empire who went knowingly to his death in the tradition expected of the House of Calirath & another price will be the sacrifice of his younger sister Grand Imperial Princess Andrin now heir of Sharona for the accords creating the Sharonian Empire require the marriage of the heir to the Crown to wed a Uromathian prince Andrin bears her family&s Talent the Glimpses which show flashes of events yet to come She knows the accords must be secured & like her brother she will pay any price make any sacrifice for her duty to her people Sharona&s soldiers dig in facing the Arcanans in a tense standoff which cannot last long Men & women of honor on both sides must grapple with the terrible costs & deadly secrets of the spreading cataclysm & in the shadows those who will balk at neither treason nor murder drive the conspiracies pouring fuel into the furnace The stakes are high & the pieces are in motion but there are factors known not even to the conspirators & not even a Calirath can Glimpse the final outcome ...

Track List 1 Jazzee Blue Stereo 2 That&s The Way It Goes Stereo 3 Where The Blues Come From Stereo 4 Josephine Stereo 5 Work Gang Stereo 6 Head Out On The Highway Stereo 7 Easy Rider Stereo 8 & Til The Morning Stereo 9 Stony Road Stereo 10 KKK Stereo 11 Julia Stereo 12 Stainsby Girls Stereo 13 61 & 69 Stereo 14 Heartbeat Stereo 15 Road To Hell Stereo 16 On The Beach Stereo 17 Let&s Dance Stereo ...

In 1967 Celtic manager Jock Stein stepped from the tunnel of Lisbon's Estadio Nacional & took up a position pitch-side as his team of home-grown players ran out to face the might of Inter Milan the charismatic superstars of Italian football in the European Cup final Celtic were a team forged in Stein's own image steeled with a relentless industry & integrity by their inspirational manager whose character had in turn been honed by the horrors of the deep dark of the Lanarkshire coalfields Martin Greig & Charles Mc Garry's extraordinary novel delves to the very heart of that incredible season telling the story through the eyes of Stein
- as he plots & plans & drags his team to the pinnacle of European club football
- & those of Tim an idealistic young fan from the south side of Glasgow whose dreams of life beyond the decaying slums of the Gorbals are inextricably tied to those of his heroes The Road to Lisbon is a novel of hopes & dreams of self-discovery & triumph over adversity & of an unerring love with an institution that represents so much more than just a football club

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WINNER NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016 Twenty years ago Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green & kindly island that had become his adopted country The hilarious book that resulted Notes from a Small Island was taken to the nation's heart & became the bestselling travel book ever & was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain Now to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic Bryson makes a br&-new journey round Britain to see what has changed Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath by way of places that many people never get to at all Bryson sets out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful magnificently eccentric endearingly unique country that he thought he knew but doesn't altogether recognize any more Yet despite Britain's occasional failings & more or less eternal bewilderments Bill Bryson is still pleased to call our rainy island home & not just because of the cream teas a noble history & an extra day off at Christmas Once again with his matchless homing instinct for the funniest & quirkiest his unerring eye for the idiotic the endearing the ridiculous & the scandalous Bryson gives us an acute & perceptive insight into all that is best & worst about Britain today ...

Twenty years ago Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green & kindly island that had become his adopted country The hilarious book that resulted Notes from a Small Island was taken to the nation's heart & became the bestselling travel book ever & was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain Now to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic Bryson makes a br&-new journey round Britain to see what has changed Following (but not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Line from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath by way of places that many people never get to at all Bryson sets out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful magnificently eccentric endearingly unique country that he thought he knew but doesn't altogether recognize any more Yet despite Britain's occasional failings & more or less eternal bewilderments Bill Bryson is still pleased to call our rainy island home & not just because of the cream teas a noble history & an extra day off at Christmas Once again with his matchless homing instinct for the funniest & quirkiest his unerring eye for the idiotic the endearing the ridiculous & the scandalous Bryson gives us an acute & perceptive insight into all that is best & worst about Britain today ...

A real-life adventure that inspired countless travellers in fact & fiction the Penguin Classics edition of Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana

Includes:: an introduction by Colin Thubron In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut Jerusalem Baghdad & Teheran to Oxiana
- the country of the Oxus the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan & the Soviet Union The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers Robert Byron (1905-41) was born in 1905 & educated at Eton & Merton College Oxford He died during the Second World War when the ship he was serving on was torpedoed by a U-Boat off Cape Wrath Byron's The Road to Oxiana is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing If you enjoyed The Road to Oxiana you might like Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle also available in Penguin Classics' The greatest of all pre-war travel books' William Dalrymple' What Ulysses is to the novel between the wars & what ' The Waste Land' is to poetry The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book' Paul Fussell' In any list of the great travel books of the 20th century Robert Byron's account of his travels in Persia & Afghanistan The Road to Oxiana must be put somewhere near the very top' Telegraph


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