In Rio de Janeiro's favelas traffickers assert power through conspicuous displays of wealth & force brandishing high-powered guns gold jewelry & piles of cash & narcotics Police for their part conduct raids reminiscent of action films or video games wearing masks & riding in enormous armored cars called big skulls Images of these spectacles circulate constantly in local national & global media masking everyday forms of violence prejudice & inequality The Spectacular Favela offers a rich ethnographic examination of the political economy of spectacular violence in Rocinha Rio's largest favela Based on more than two years of residence in the community the book explores how entangled forms of violence shape everyday life & how that violence is in turn connected to the market economy Erika Robb Larkins shows how favela violence is produced as a marketable global brand While this violence is projected in disembodied form through media the favela is also sold as an embodied experience through the popular practice of favela tourism The commodification of the favela becomes a form of violence itself; favela violence is transformed into a commercially viable byproduct of a profit driven war on drugs which serves to keep the poor marginalized This book tells the story of how traffickers police cameras tourists & even anthropologists come together to create what the author calls the spectacular favela ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It&s been a tough week for Peter Parker His two best friends are mad at him Aunt May is behind on the bills & Flash Thompson is still bullying him at school It hasn&t been a cakewalk for Spider-man either The Enforcers are trying to destroy him the Vulture is seeking revenge on Mr Osborn Electro is wreaking havoc on the city & his mentor Dr Connors just transformed into The Lizard
- a reptile on a rampage But with great power comes great responsibility & Peter Parker wouldn&t have it any other way 3 episodes from the hit TV series! Episodes Comprise Survival of the Fittest Interactions Natural Selection
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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 An animated television show that focuses on a 16-year-old Peter Parker & the origins of Spider-Man ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Your favorite web-slinging Super Hero returns for excitement in more episodes of this animated adventure! Peter Parker is on top of the world when his date Mary Jane Watson is the hit of the Midtown High Fall Formal sending Peter&s popularity rating sky high But he&s brought down to earth with a resounding thud when the Green Goblin threatens to beat Hammerhead & Tombstone at their own criminal game When Dr Octavius joins the bastion of super villains as the megalomaniacal Dr Octopus Spidey&s really got his work cut out for him Our hero&s greatest challenge however will be facing the awful truth about the Green Goblin&s true identity Balancing home school & Super Hero life has never been so challenging! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Witness the original web-slinger&s mythology from the beginning! Peter Parker is a not so typical high school junior fresh off an exciting summer engaging common criminals with his new found powers But now he must conceal his secret identity as " Spider-Man" while engaging a new level of terror the multi-leveled pressures of teenage life at homeschool with combating bigger badder super villains in the real world! ...

In these never-before-collected tales from the 1990s police detective Jim Corrigan tries to end his mission as The Spectre But the grisly crimes of a serial killer pulls him back into the battle for justice
- & sends him on a trip to hell itself & the enigmatic mystic known as Madame Xanadu tries to help Corrigan & his friends
- but her help may lead one of them to commit suicide Collects The Spectre 1-12

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Everyone knows this kind of politician a charismatic maverick who goes up against the system & its ways but thinks he doesn't have to live by the rules Through his own experience as a speechwriter for a controversial governor Barton Swaim tells the story of a band of believers who attach themselves to this sort of ambitious narcissist-and what happens when it all comes crashing down Swaim paints a portrait of a boss so principled he'd rather sweat than use state money to pay for air conditioning so oblivious he'd wear the same stained shirt for two weeks so egotistical he'd belittle his staffers to make himself feel better & so self-absorbed he never once apologized to his staff for making his administration the laughingstock of the country On the surface this is the story of one politician's rise & fall But in the end it's a story about us-the very real people who want to believe in our leaders & must learn to survive with broken hearts ...

Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee whose She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982 appeared in Breaking Bad & was even covered by The Muppets Based on his meticulous notes & journals The Speed of Sound chronicles Dolby's life in the music business during the eighties; in Silicon Valley through the nineties & at the forefront of the mobile phone revolution around the turn of the millennium
- it was Dolby who created the synthesizer installed today on most mobile phones With humour & a considerable panache for storytelling The Speed of Sound is a revealing look behind the curtain of the music industry as well as a unique history of technology over the past thirty years From sipping Chablis with Bill Gates to visiting Michael Jackson at his mansion or viewing the Web for the first time on Netscape founder Jim Clark's laptop this is both the view from the ultimate insider & also that of a technology pioneer whose groundbreaking ideas have helped shape the way we live today
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Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee whose &8216; She Blinded Me With Science&8217; reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982 appeared in Breaking Bad & was even covered by The Muppets Based on his meticulous notes & journals The Speed of Sound chronicles Dolby&8217;s life in the music business during the eighties; in Silicon Valley through the nineties & at the forefront of the mobile phone revolution around the turn of the millennium &8211; it was Dolby who created the synthesizer installed today on most mobile phones With humour & a considerable panache for storytelling The Speed of Sound is a revealing look behind the curtain of the music industry as well as a unique history of technology over the past thirty years From sipping Chablis with Bill Gates to visiting Michael Jackson at his mansion or viewing the Web for the first time on Netscape founder Jim Clark&8217;s laptop this is both the view from the ultimate insider & also that of a technology pioneer whose groundbreaking ideas have helped shape the way we live today ...

Jack (of the beanstalk fame) & his magical talking chicken Betsy have always been great at making new friends But when Jack spots Anansi the new kid in town talking to a troll in the Deep Dark Woods everything changes Everyone knows that trolls mean trouble & Jack will do anything to prove to the rest of his friends that Anansi is a troll spy Even if that means using stolen magic! The Spell Thief is the first book in this brilliant new highly-illustrated series by Tom Percival featuring all the fairy-tale characters you know & love having br&-new adventures! ...