Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism & philosophy An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century & its influence is still felt today The book's success owes much to Beauvoir's brilliant writing style & passion but both are rooted in the clarity of her critical thinking skills She builds a strong argument against the silent assumptions that continually demoted (and still demote) women to second place in a society dominated by men Beauvoir also demonstrates the central skills of reasoning at their best presenting a persuasive case organising her thoughts & supporting her conclusions Above all though The Second Sex is a masterclass in analysis Treating the structures of contemporary society & culture as a series of arguments that tend continuously to demote women Beauvoir is able to isolate & describe the implicit assumptions that underpin male domination Her demolition of these assumptions provides the crucial ammunition for her argument that women are in no way the second sex but are in every way the equal of men ...

Vintage Feminism classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage & scandal Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully & successfully argued De Beauvoir's belief that One is not born but rather becomes a woman' switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women & began a fight for greater equality & economic independence These pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE & SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED & INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID ...

' One is not born but rather becomes woman' First published in Paris in 1949 The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking risque book that became a runaway success Selling 20000 copies in its first week the book earned its author both notoriety & admiration Since then The Second Sex has been translated into forty languages & has become a landmark in the history of feminism Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes the central messages of The Second Sex are as important today as they were for the housewives of the forties ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play One Christmas Eve a parcel falls from Santa&s sleigh & lands in a small garden shed inhabited by three pets Archie the rabbit Duke the guinea pig & Babs the hamster Determined to deliver the lost Christmas presentby daybreak to its rightful owner they embark on an exciting new adventure Second Star to the Left is a beautifully animated film from the team behind the BAFTA & Royal Television Society award-winning & The First Snow of Winter& It features the voices of Barbara Windsor Hugh Laurie & Mark Williams (of The Fast Show) with the musical score provided by Becky Taylor Actors Barbara Windsor Hugh Laurie Mark William Konnie Huq & Tony Collingwood Director Graham Ralph Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 2001 Screen Widescreen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English
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A magisterial single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria & ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific & China & yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects Using the most up-to-date scholarship & research Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific & from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers & civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this the most terrible war in history ...

From the beaches of Dunkirk to the air raid shelters in the Blitz this book tells the story of Britain during the most destructive war of the 20th century It is full of intriguing facts illustrations photographs detailed reconstructions paintings maps & photographs It

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Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists authors & philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction & the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health wealth & happiness Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions literature religions & philosophies throughout the centuries A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived Among them Plato Leonardo Galileo & Einstein Now 'the secret' is being shared with the world Beautiful in its simplicity & mind-dazzling in its ability to really work The Secret reveals the mystery of the hidden potential within us all By unifying leading-edge scientific thought with ancient wisdom & spirituality the riveting practical knowledge will lead readers to a greater understanding of how they can be the masters of their own lives ...

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' Madness & despair! Give me that for a lever & I'll move the world' In the only novel Conrad set in London The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc a Russian spy working for the police & ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion & when his evil plan goes horribly awry Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions The Penguin English Library
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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 Starring David Suchet & David Capaldi this powerful three-part BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad&s famous novel tells of an attempt by a triple agent to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 a time of unrest & anarchist violence throughout Europe However it is the far-reaching effect this infamous conspiracy has upon the domestic life of the anti-hero Adolf Verloc that takes this compelling & complex tale beyond political intrigue to reveal a psychological drama of probing depth & vivid detail in its incisive portrayal of human frailty Forced against his will to commit a terrorist outrage & become a political pawn Verloc is unable to avoid involving his own wife Winnie & her handicapped brother Stevie in an escalating & desperate struggle for survival in the merciless arena of political blackmail & treachery The diverse worlds of Victorian London&s embassies & fashionable aristocratic society alongside the squalid criminal back streets of Soho provide a smouldering background to the dark tragedy that will befall Verloc&s family Faced with an impossible moral dilemma this hapless victim of circumstance sees his life filled with mystery danger & ultimately death ...