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This is an economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature of
production and consumption activities in households in the counties
of Kent and Cornwall. It yields important new insights on the
transition to capitalism in England.
This is an economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption activities in households in the counties of Kent and Cornwall. It yields important new insights on the transition to capitalism in England.
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United (Blu-ray disc)
Sam Claflin, David Calder, Melanie Hill, David Tennant, Dean Andrews, …
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R128
Discovery Miles 1 280
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TV drama following the turmoil of football club Manchester United
through the Munich air disaster that killed a number of its staff
and star players. In February 1958 a flight leaving Munich-Riem
Airport crashed on its third attempt to take off. On board were the
famous 'Busby Babes', a team of gifted young players led by the
famous manager Matt Busby, returning to Manchester after successful
qualification to the European cup semi-finals. A number of players,
including Duncan Edwards, were killed in the crash, and still more
injured. This BBC dramatisation of events follows star player Bobby
Charlton (Jack O'Connell) and coach Jimmy Murphy (David Tennant) as
they attempt to recover from the crash. With Busby (Dougray Scott)
still hospitalised with his injuries and so many of their players
gone, stand-in coach Murphy and the still-grieving Charlton will be
crucial to the success on the field that would honour those so
tragically lost.
Through the supernatural gifts of five orphaned sisters, a gateway
to the gods has emerged from a clearing in the deep forests of the
Middle Lands and, with it, a priestess clan of holy terror and
unmatchable progress. The Gateway tells the interconnecting stories
of two of their descendants, Seers caught in a struggle for
meaning, change, and survival amid unceasing clashes of ambition,
prejudice, and animal desire. When Moishays' mother conceals the
signs of his gift from The Clan on the day of his birth, he becomes
the first male seer in over three centuries. The beloved pawn of
his spirit mentor, Guide, a personal threat to the Queen whose clan
he hopes to join, and an object of infatuation to one love sick
Clan Daughter, Moishays must choose between becoming what he hopes
to be or emerging into the man he is meant to be. When Bretnay's
caravan is waylaid by barbarians, neither her gift of "sight," her
position as heiress apparent, nor her naive vision of reality
provide the emotional tools needed to deal with the horrors of the
Outland. Injured, betrayed, bereft, far from her spirit mentor,
Bretnay strives to find strength in her darker nature, striving to
meet brutality with cunning, without losing herself in the process.
Fifteen years after the suspicious death of the McCully's eldest
son, "That Twisted Monument," the pear tree from which seven year
old William "fell," remains a centrifuge for rumor, suspicion, and
terror on the Newport estate of Au Beau Verger. Unfortunately for
Sarah, a somewhat timid 16 year old maid, fresh from Canada, and
Native Newporter Paul, Sarah's co-worker, this fenced off arboreal
oddity has also become a gnawing fixation. When circumstance and
temptation cross paths one fateful evening, Sarah and Paul discover
the true depth of the horrors waiting for them inside the iron
rails. Trapped together, forced to play roles in someone else's
nightmares, and hunted in their dreams by the dead boy, the entire
fabric of their reality threatens to unravel; now, if they can only
live long enough to go completely mad.
A compilation of poetry that addresses complex issues related to
self, relationship, and world matters, in rhymed format that
preserves raw emotion, while simultaneously adhering to
well-respected, age-old, artistic- poetic forms.
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Weekender (DVD)
Jack O'Connell, Emily Barclay, Zawe Ashton, Dean Andrews, Sam Hazeldine, …
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R54
Discovery Miles 540
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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British drama set amidst the rave scene of the early 1990s. The
film follows the exploits of 20-something best friends Matt (Henry
Lloyd-Hughes) and Dylan (Jack O'Connell) as they progress from
partying at illegal warehouse raves to becoming successful
promoters at the peak of the scene in Manchester, Amsterdam and
Ibiza. But whilst their success increases, their friendship begins
to unravel as they become caught up in a dark and sinister world
and lose sight of their dreams.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch
explores the use of deception in the Pentateuch and uncovers a new
understanding of the trickster's function in the Hebrew Bible.
While traditional readings often «whitewash the biblical
characters, exonerating them of any wrongdoing, modern scholars
often explain these tales as significant at some earlier point in
Israelite tradition. But this study asks the question: what role
does the trickster have in the later pentateuchal setting?
Considering the work of Victor Turner and the mythic function of
the trickster, The Trickster Revisited explores the connections
between tricksters, the rite de passage pattern, marginalization,
and liminality. Marginalized individuals and communities often find
trickster tales significant, therefore trickster stories often
follow a similar literary pattern. After tracing this pattern
throughout the Pentateuch, specifically the patriarchal narratives
and Moses' interaction with Pharaoh in the Exodus, the book
discusses the meaning these stories had for the canonizers of the
Pentateuch. The author argues that in the Exile and post-exilic
period, as the canon was forming, the trickster was the perfect
manifestation of Israel's self-perception. The cognitive dissonance
of prophetic words of hope and grandeur, in light of a meager
socio-economic and political reality, caused the nation to identify
itself as the trickster. In this way, Israel could explain its
lowly state as a temporary (but still significant) «betwixt and
between, on the threshold of a rise in status, i.e. the great
imminent kingdom predicted by the prophets.
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