Film is a communal dream in which our fears & fantasies are revealed. It has influenced our behaviour intertwined with our politics helped to forge national identity galvanise communities against a wartime enemy or warn of social upheaval. It has burrowed deep into our psyche changing perceptions of history & memory & even raised our romantic expectations. Despite decades of rapid change we are still hypnotised & seduced by the power of cinema; it remains our most persuasive mass entertainment. In this fascinating entertaining & illuminating book Francine Stock takes us on a personal journey through a glorious century of cinema from the Lumiere brothers flickering train to the 3D excesses of Avatar showing in vivid detail how film both reflects & remakes our world. ...

Denounced by the Vatican as 'fanciful & absurd' this classic of investigative reporting is now available in a new revised edition. Yallop's ground-breaking investigation into Pope John Paul I's death just 33 days after his election is a tale of intrigue murder & corruption. It reveals the dark heart of the Vatican via a trail of evidence that connects the papacy the masons Opus Dei & the mafia. ...

This ambitious interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist & psychologist Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention cultural selection & historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential & moral elements that have evolved in the human condition. ...

I dont feel sorry for myself. Today everything is all right. I look at it is this way it cant ever be as bad as it was then.... Sean Hogan was just eight years old when he was confined in the notorious Artane Industrial School under the brutal regime of the Christian Brothers. In & out of care throughout his childhood Sean was so badly neglected by his alcoholic parents that he never even knew what day his birthday fell on or how old he was
- things he only learned as an adult. But when he arrived at Artane instead of receiving the care he so desperately needed he entered into months of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of some of the brothers. Now for the first time he feels able to tell his story
- & reveal the devastating truth of what really happened in Irelands industrial schools. In Harms Way" is a powerful & moving story of astonishing hardship & near despair but also of triumph over terrible adversity."

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It is 1895 & the world is in turmoil. The Great Powers compete for resources & the latest technology & an undeclared & secret war rages between them all. This is battleground of the Adventuring Companies. These clandestine agents of the Great Powers operate in the shadows matching skills & wits in pursuit of the newest scientific formulae or powerful occult artifacts. In Her Majestys Name" sets these adventuring companies against each other in one-off encounters & in longer narrative campaigns. Companies are usually comprised of just 4-15 figures & two players could easily play three games in an evening making an on-going campaign a highly viable option. In " Her Majestys Name" has been designed to allow maximum versatility for the player
- if you can imagine it the system will help you build it. There is however a wealth of material provided in the book covering weird science mystical powers & a range of pre-generated adventuring companies including the British Explorers Club the Prussian Society of Thule the US Marine Corps the Legion Etrangere the revolutionaries of the Brick Lane Commune ancient Egyptian cults & the mysterious Black Dragon Tong."
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Its an impossibly difficult & painful time; someone you love has just died & you have very quickly to choose an appropriate & moving reading for the funeral. In an increasingly secular age people often look for a poem or piece of prose which will celebrate the life of the person who has just died & as well as inspiring religious poems Sally Emersons anthology

Includes:: secular words of comfort celebration & mourning. This is also an anthology in its own right & offers insight into universal emotions. These pieces will help to express grief & anger but also help to understand grieving & the gradual repair of life after losing a loved one.

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Bruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing typewriter store & he leaps at the suggestion. Then he realizes that Susan was his teacher when he was in fifth grade. In spite of that they are married within days. & then the odd compulsions & instabilities start to interfere with their plans. Milton Lumky the paper salesman in whose area they live is uneasy about their future.. . ...

Concentrating upon her family & their life in Holland before the war this inspiring & revealing book describes in moving detail living above the family watch shop in Harlem & her memories of the family together before their lives changed for ever with the advent of war & persecution. Corrie believed that this life helped prepare them for carrying out God's work later & gave her the strength to survive the war brutal hardship & persecution & begin her worldwide ministry. This much loved book is being re-issued in B format with a contemporary cover. ...

Turn the colourful pages of this irresistible board book to discover just what makes a little bunnys meadow so happy. Is it the soft grass? Is it the bubbling stream? No its his family! Bright pictures a sweet reassuring message & an adorable finger puppet fill this book with reading & playtime fun. ...

' Honest funny heartfelt.. .I loved it' Cathy Kelly Clear-eyed touching forthright & funny In My Mother's Shoes is Alison Walsh's delightful account of three generations of mothers -- her Nana leading light of the Irish Countrywomen's Association indomitable in all things except deferring to her husband; her mother whose glamorous career as a 1960s air hostess was cut cruelly short by the simple act of getting married; & Alison herself a modern woman whose life would not be thwarted by such lack of choice. Or would it? ' Cheerful intelligent funny & shockingly sensible.. . Buy it. Read it. Pass it on.' Judith O' Reilly author of Wife in the North ' Honest & immensely readable.. .many mothers will find themselves nodding along in recognition. I will be passing it on &
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- looking for it back' Sunday Business Post ' Yay for Alison Walsh!.. . An adroit & honest account of having babies (in the UK & Ireland) of bringing up babies (ditto) of being a Celtic Tiger mum working all the hours God sends to being a-stay-at-home mum plus all the messy compromises in between' Sunday Independent

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