From the critically-acclaimed cartoonist behind Box Office Poison & Tricked comes the delightful 2 Cool 2 B 4 Gotten a story of second chances Andy Wicks is a forty-something father of two who's making one final attempt to quit smoking hypnosis He's skeptical it will work but is stunned to find that when he emerges from his trance he's fifteen years old
- & it's 1985! Is he doomed to relive the worst four years of his life or will this second go-round finally give him the answers he's been missing all his life? If nothing else he'll finally get to ask out Marie Simone from history class
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Director Kevin Smith talks about his life & answers audience members question during the course of this documentary Much of his monologue has to do with the incident where he was kicked off a plane for being too overweight a story that gives this release its name ...

A Stylist Book Club pick ' In a time when women are under constant attack I am so grateful for Anne Helen Petersen's sharp & topical book Petersen nails the magnetism of women who break boundaries & the punishment that often comes along with it All women will see a bit of themselves in the "unruly"' Jessica Valenti New York Times-bestselling author of Sex Object You know the type the woman who won't shut up who flaunts it who's too brazen too opinionated
- too much Sometimes she's the life of the party; others she's the focus of gossip She's the unruly woman & she's one of the most provocative powerful forms of womanhood today The unruly woman has been around for as long as there have been boundaries of what constitutes acceptable 'feminine' behaviour
- that is for ever
- but these days she is more visible & less easily dismissed than ever before In Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud cultural critic & Buzzfeed writer Anne Helen Petersen explores 'unruliness' through the lens of eleven pop culture powerhouses including Serena Williams Melissa Mc Carthy Nicki Minaj Madonna Kim Kardashian Hillary Clinton Caitlyn Jenner & Lena Dunham Petersen examines why our culture loves to love & berate these controversial figures for being 'too' something too queer too strong too naked too old too shrill too much This is an incisive candid conversation starting analysis of the part influential women play in redefining contemporary femininity ' An oasis in a world of hot takes a set of crisp essays on the provocateurs who fascinate & enrage us With warmth & wit Anne Helen Petersen celebrates the power of being just a little too much seeking the rebel inside the trainwreck' Emily Nussbaum New Yorker critic ' Raucous & smart Because these criticisms are writ large the same ones flung daily at non-celeb women the book is a timely & essential read' US Elle' Anne Helen Petersen's gloriously bumptious brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment Crucial reading' Rebecca Traister author of All the Single Ladies


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A Stylist Book Club pick ' In a time when women are under constant attack I am so grateful for Anne Helen Petersen's sharp & topical book Petersen nails the magnetism of women who break boundaries & the punishment that often comes along with it All women will see a bit of themselves in the "unruly"' Jessica Valenti New York Times-bestselling author of Sex Object You know the type the woman who won't shut up who flaunts it who's too brazen too opinionated
- too much Sometimes she's the life of the party; others she's the focus of gossip She's the unruly woman & she's one of the most provocative powerful forms of womanhood today The unruly woman has been around for as long as there have been boundaries of what constitutes acceptable 'feminine' behaviour
- that is for ever
- but these days she is more visible & less easily dismissed than ever before In Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud cultural critic & Buzzfeed writer Anne Helen Petersen explores 'unruliness' through the lens of eleven pop culture powerhouses including Serena Williams Melissa Mc Carthy Nicki Minaj Madonna Kim Kardashian Hillary Clinton Caitlyn Jenner & Lena Dunham Petersen examines why our culture loves to love & berate these controversial figures for being 'too' something too queer too strong too naked too old too shrill too much This is an incisive candid conversation starting analysis of the part influential women play in redefining contemporary femininity ' An oasis in a world of hot takes a set of crisp essays on the provocateurs who fascinate & enrage us With warmth & wit Anne Helen Petersen celebrates the power of being just a little too much seeking the rebel inside the trainwreck' Emily Nussbaum New Yorker critic ' Raucous & smart Because these criticisms are writ large the same ones flung daily at non-celeb women the book is a timely & essential read' US Elle' Anne Helen Petersen's gloriously bumptious brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment Crucial reading' Rebecca Traister author of All the Single Ladies


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Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the bestselling Shetland series When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident After all Stonebridge is a quiet country village in the Scottish Borders where murders just don't happen But Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez soon arrives from far-away Shetland when his ex-wife Sarah asks him to look into the case The local gossips are saying that her new husband Tom was having an affair with Anna Could Tom have been involved with her death? Sarah refuses to believe it
- but needs proof Anna had been a teacher She must have loved kids Would she kill herself knowing there was nobody to look after her daughter? She had seemed happier than ever before she died & to Perez this suggests not suicide but murder
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War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody & futile offensive on the Western Front One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions & debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long & exact so appalling a human cost? After all this was a fight that we were told would be over by Christmas Now in his major new history Allan Mallinson former professional soldier & author of the acclaimed 1914 Fight the Good Fight provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial & have a contemporary resonance He disputes the growing consensus among historians that British generals were not to blame for the losses & setbacks in the war to end all wars'
- that given the magnitude of their task they did as well anyone could have He takes issue with the popular view that the amateur' opinions on strategy of politicians such as Lloyd George & especially Winston Churchill prolonged the war & increased the death toll On the contrary he argues even before the war began Churchill had a far more realistic intelligent & humane grasp of strategy than any of the admirals or generals while very few senior officers
- including Sir Douglas Haig
- were up to the intellectual challenge of waging war on this scale & he repudiates the received notion that Churchill's stature as a wartime prime minister after 1940 owes much to the lessons he learned from his First World War mistakes'
- notably the Dardanelles campaign
- maintaining that in fact Churchill's achievement in the Second World War owes much to the thwarting of his better strategic judgement by the professionals' in the First
- & his determination that this would not be repeated Mallinson argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine & paid as a result an unnecessarily high price in casualties He shows that Lloyd George understood only too well the catastrophically dysfunctional condition of military policy-making & struggled against the weight of military opposition to fix it & he asserts that both the British & the French failed to appreciate what the Americans' contribution to victory could be
- & after the war to acknowledge fully what it had actually been






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Shortlisted for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best SF Novel The year is 2454 Humanity has engineered a hard-won golden age forged in the aftermath of a bitter conflict that wiped both religion & nation state from the planet Now seven factions or 'hives' co-govern the world their rule fuelled by benign censorship oracular statistical analytics & technological abundance But this is a fragile Utopia
- & someone is intent on pushing it to breaking point Convicted for his crimes celebrated for his talents Mycroft Canner is the indentured instrument
- & confidant
- of some of the world's most powerful figures When he is asked to investigate a bizarre theft he finds himself on the trail of a conspiracy that could shatter the tranquil world order the Hives have maintained for three centuries But Mycroft has his own secrets He is concealing a much greater threat to the seven Hives a wild card no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesised This threat takes the unlikely form of a thirteen-year-old called Bridger For how will a world that has banished God deal with a child who can perform miracles?


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Rabbit has too many carrots which overtake his house When he tries to move in with friends more chaos ensues Will Rabbit learn to change his selfish ways? ...

Two Michelin-starred chef Sat Bains offers an unprecedented view into his past recipes & philosophies on food in his award-winning autobiographical cookbook The book is an autobiographical cookbook that follows the tasting menu format at Restaurant Sat Bains featuring 68 in-depth recipes demonstrating how research development & creativity play a vital role in Sat's food pairings & flavour combinations The recipes are presented in 7 courses mirroring the tasting menu at the restaurant but with the addition of Sat's famous Ham Egg Peas which took him through to the final of the Great British Menu The 7 courses are Introduction Savouries Main Course Crossover Chocolate Cheese & To Finish The book details the theories thought process & evolution that shape the Sat's food & offers an exclusive opportunity to order dishes featured within the book when dining at Restaurant Sat Bains even when they're not on the restaurant's current menu With a foreword by Heston Blumenthal & contributions from Rene Redzepi & 35 of the world's greatest chefs & photography by John Arandhara Blackwell ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Too Many Crooks (1958) boasts an intricate plot in which Terry Thomas is being blackmailed for the hoards he&s stashed away as a renowned tax dodger Driving around in a Jaguar XK 150 a desirable sports car of the period his intricate private life unravels as his put-upon wife Brenda de Banzie draws on her expertise as a wartime PT instructress to turn the tables on him by marshalling the support of a band of crooks (George Cole Sidney James Bernard Bresslaw & Joe Melia) Look out for the very funny court scene where TT makes three appearances on separate charges before a bemused magistrate John Le Mesurier ...