Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Senator William J Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) enlists the help of veteran scout Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) to lead a wagon train of settlers from Missouri to Oregon in this plodding routine western A scared settler accidently shoots an Indian boy who is mistaken for a wolf prompting Summers to order newlywed triggerman Johnny Mack (Michael Witney) to be hanged to avoid an Indian attack The highlight of the film is the expert cinematography Watch for Sally Field in her first big-screen role as the slatternly Mercy Mc Bee ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD region B Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region free DVDBlu-ray player in order to play Coming-of-age comedy starring Steve Carell & Sam Rockwell 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) is forced to spend a summer at his mother (Toni Collette)&s new boyfriend Trent (Carell)&s beach house in upstate New York Arrogant & a bully Trent likes to belittle Duncan at any opportunity leading the boy to take off on his bike to explore his new environment It is then he comes across the Water Wizz water park & before long a friendship develops between Duncan & the park manager Owen (Rockwell) Seeing the water park as the much needed escape he has been looking for Duncan keeps his whereabouts a secret from the others & thanks to Owen&s positive outlook & encouraging attitude begins to grow in confidence ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A stunningly rendered & casually erotic evocation of the story of Judas THE WAYS OF MAN is a modren take on spirituality dripping with male sexuality After betraying his best friend Judas begins a searching journey through a lush forest It is on this journey that he encounters a beuatiful young man But will this meeting provide Judas with the redemption he needs? ...

The wolf stalks the wilderness & our own imaginations Uncover its mysteries in this beautifully written non-fiction picture book Majestic & fierce proud & strong the wolf has always been a source of fascination
- & fear It remains one of the most misunderstood of all creatures frequently cast as our mortal enemy The truth is that wolves & humans are more closely connected than we dare to admit With beautifully lyrical language Smriti Prasadam-Halls explores the lightning speed echoing howl & family life of these mysterious animals revealing astonishing facts & overturning misconceptions as she does so Wildlife illustrator Jonathan Woodward brings the creatures to life with breathtaking papercut collage artwork This is non-fiction storytelling at its very finest The Ways of the Wolf has been endorsed by the UK Wolf Conservation Trust
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The essential anthology of writings by the world's leading Marxist thinker this book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey's intellectual journey over five decades It shows how experiencing the riots despair & injustice of 1970s Baltimore led him to seek an explanation of capitalist inequalities via Marx & to a sustained intellectual engagement that has made him the world's leading exponent of Marx's work The book takes the reader through the development of his unique synthesis of Marxist method & geographical understanding that has allowed him to develop a series of powerful insights into the ways of the world from the new mechanics of imperialism crises in financial markets & the effectiveness of car strikers in Oxford to the links between nature & change why Sacre Coeur was built in Paris & the meaning of the postmodern condition David Harvey is renowned for originality acumen & the transformative value of his insights This book shows why ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Glynis Johns Diana Dors & Sybil Thorndike star in this powerful sympathetic drama tracing the contrasting lives & often faltering progress of the inmates of a women&s prison Based on the best-selling semi-autobiographical novel by Joan Henry a writer & former debutante who further drew upon her own prison experience for the novel & classic film Yield to the Night The Weak & the Wicked is directed by Henry&s future husband Oscar-nominated J Lee-Thompson The film is featured here in a br&-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio Jean Raymond an upper-class woman with a gambling addiction is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women&s prison; gradually however her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there SPECIAL FEATURES Original theatrical trailers Image gallery Promotional material PDF ...

' Ryan Avent is a superb writer highly readable & lively' Thomas Piketty'A pleasure to read This is an important argument on ...

Adam Smith's 1776 Inquiry into The Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Published in 1778 The Wealth of Nations was the first book on economics to catch the public's attention It provides a recipe for national prosperity that has not been bettered since based on small government & the freedom of citizens to act in their best interests It reassuringly assumes no knowledge of its subject & over 200 years on still provides valuable lessons on the fundamentals of economics This deluxe selected edition is a stylish keepsake from the Capstone Classics series This edition

Includes:: An abridged selection of all 5 books for the contemporary reader An original commentary offering new research & analysis by classic literature guru Tom Butler-Bowdon A biography & chronology of Adam Smith's life & the events surrounding the original publication of the work Today The Wealth of Nations is still essential reading for any business or self-development library reminding us that it is the ingenuity & drive of people not governments that remains the source of personal national & global prosperity

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Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of economic theory in general & 'classical' economics in particular & this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Andrew Skinner The publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America's Declaration of Independence & with this landmark treatise on political economy Adam Smith paved the way for modern capitalism arguing that a truly free market
- fired by competition yet guided as if by an 'invisible hand' to ensure justice & equality
- was the engine of a fair & productive society Books I
- III of The Wealth of Nations examine the 'division of labour' as the key to economic growth by ensuring the interdependence of individuals within society They also cover the origins of money & the importance of wages profit rent & stocks; but the real sophistication of his analysis derives from the fact that it encompasses a combination of ethics philosophy & history to create a vast panorama of society This edition contains an analytical introduction offering an in-depth discussion of Smith as an economist & social scientist as well as a preface further reading & explanatory notes Adam Smith (1723-90) was born in Glasgow & educated at Glasgow & Oxford Two years after his return to Scotland Smith moved to Edinburgh where he delivered lectures on Rhetoric In 1751 Smith was appointed Professor of Logic at Glasgow but was translated to chair of Moral Philosophy in 1752 The Theory of Moral Sentiments was published in 1759 & The Wealth of Nations in 1776 the same year as the Declaration of Independence If you enjoyed The Wealth of Nations you might like Karl Marx's Capital also available in Penguin Classics


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