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Triple bill of crime dramas. In 'Bad Karma' (2012), starring Ray
Liotta and Dominic Purcell, a criminal's attempts to go straight
are sabotaged by his former partner. Relocating from Sydney to the
Gold Coast to start afresh, Molloy (Liotta) is remarkably
successful and even finds something approaching domestic bliss with
a new girlfriend. Naturally, when his old crime partner Mack
(Purcell) tracks him down he finds that Molloy is reluctant to
return to his past life. Unfortunately, this doesn't deter the
increasingly deranged Mack as he sets about convincing Molloy to
help him pull off one last job. In 'The Entitled' (2011) social
misfit Paul (Kevin Zegers) is driven to desperate measures when he
is turned down for yet another job and his ill mother is given a
foreclosure notice on the family home. He enlists the help of two
friends to abduct three kids from rich families and hold them
ransom for a million dollars each, but the plan goes badly wrong
and they soon find themselves in way over their heads. 'Officer
Down' (2012) follows Detective David Callahan (Stephen Dorff),
known as 'Cal' on the force, who has had a mixed career as a police
officer, struggling with drink problems and straying to the wrong
side of the law himself at times. When he finds himself caught up
in a murder investigation, Cal must attempt to overcome the demons
from his own past as well as the challenges of the case.
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Straw Dogs (DVD)
Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Dominic Purcell, James Woods, …
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This remake of Sam Peckinpah's classic 1971 psychological thriller
transposes the events of the first film from Cornwall to the
American Deep South. James Marsden stars as David Sumner, a
Hollywood screenwriter who moves with his wife, Amy (Kate
Bosworth), from LA to a house in his wife's small rural hometown to
write his new script in peace and quiet. But tensions brew between
the two amid the intense heat and isolation, and an escalating
conflict with the locals eventually drives a naturally
even-tempered David to violent and drastic measures.
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Nausea (Paperback, [New Ed.])
Jean-Paul Sartre; Introduction by James Wood; Translated by Robert Baldick
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Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. The book chronicles his struggle with the realization that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose and then take total responsibility for his choices. A seminal work of contemporary literary philosophy, Nausea evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to live.
Collection of five films starring Sylvester Stallone. In
'Assassins' (1995) professional hitman Rath (Stallone) decides it's
time to call it a day, even though he is still the best around. But
as he searches for a way out he discovers that he is now the target
of another assassin, Bain (Antonio Banderas), who is determined to
be the new number one. The two men are both sent on an assignment
to kill intelligence operative Elektra (Julianne Moore). However,
Rath decides to flee with Elektra and outwit Bain. In 'The
Specialist' (1994) US demolition expert Ray Quick (Stallone)
attempts to abort the assassination of a South American drugs baron
when he realises innocent children will be killed in the explosion.
However, his partner (James Woods) goes ahead with the mission,
leaving the duo permanently estranged and Quick psychologically
scarred. Years later, a beautiful woman (Sharon Stone) asks Quick
to come out of retirement to kill a Cuban drug lord who has
murdered her father. Quick initially refuses, but is soon drawn
into a plot that brings him in contact with his ex-partner once
again. In 'Tango and Cash' (1989) two mismatched cops, one
sharp-suited (Stallone), the other a slob (Kurt Russell), are
thrown together when they are framed by a big-shot gun-runner (Jack
Palance). They are put in prison, duly escape, and then attempt to
clear their names whilst trying to track down a massive haul of
weapons before they get shipped abroad. In 'Demolition Man' (1993)
LA cop John Spartan (Stallone), nicknamed 'Demolition Man' due to
his hands-on approach to law enforcement, is condemned to 70 years
in the penal freezer after being set up by Simon Phoenix (Wesley
Snipes), Public Enemy Number One. Halfway through his sentence,
however, both he and Phoenix are catapulted out of captivity,
discovering their city has been transformed into a peaceful utopia,
under the benevolent rule of mayor Dr Cocteau (Nigel Hawthorne). As
a mysteriously pumped-up Phoenix carries on where he had left off
35 years earlier, Spartan teams up with a comparatively feisty cop
(Sandra Bullock) to bring him to justice and expose the man who is
engineering the whole scenario. In 'Cobra' (1986) a tough detective
known as Cobra (Stallone), is assigned to protect a beautiful model
(Brigitte Nielsen), the only witness to a series of brutal murders.
It transpires that the killings are not the work of one lone
psychopath but rather a highly organised army of neo-fascists.
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Surf's Up (DVD)
Zooey Deschanel, Diedrich Bader, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Heder, Jeff Bridges, …
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Animated family comedy featuring the voice talents of Shia LeBeouf,
Jeff Bridges and Zooey Deschanel. Cody Maverick (LeBeouf) is a
young penguin who dreams of winning the biggest penguin surfing
competition of the year: the Penguin World Surfing Championship.
His pursuit of this goal becomes the chosen subject of a team of
documentary makers who go behind the scenes of the competition and
interview Cody, his friends and surfing fans along the way.
In his autobiography, Charles Darwin wrote of his time at
Cambridge: 'I attempted mathematics ... but I got on very slowly.
The work was repugnant to me, chiefly from my not being able to see
any meaning in the early steps in algebra. This impatience was very
foolish, and in after years I have deeply regretted that I did not
proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great
leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to
have an extra sense.' First published in 1795 and reissued here in
its 1815 sixth edition, The Elements of Algebra by James Wood
(1760-1839) was one of the standard Cambridge texts for decades, so
its presence in Darwin's library aboard the Beagle is readily
understandable. Then, as now, Cambridge had a high opinion of
itself as a mathematical university. The contents of Wood's book
give an interesting glimpse of the standards expected of the less
able students.
No project management training? No problem! In today's workplace,
employees are routinely expected to coordinate and manage projects.
Yet, chances are, you aren't formally trained in managing
projects--you're an unofficial project manager. FranklinCovey
experts Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, and James Wood understand
the importance of leadership in project completion and explain that
people are crucial in the formula for success. Project Management
for the Unofficial Project Manager offers practical, real-world
insights for effective project management and guides you through
the essentials of the people and project management process:
Initiate Plan Execute Monitor/Control Close Unofficial project
managers in any arena will benefit from the accessible, engaging
real-life anecdotes, memorable "Project Management Proverbs," and
quick reviews at the end of each chapter. If you're struggling to
keep your projects organized, this book is for you. If you manage
projects without the benefit of a team, this book is also for you.
Change the way you think about project management--"project
manager" may not be your official title or necessarily your dream
job, but with the right strategies, you can excel.
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Nausea (Paperback)
Jean-Paul Sartre; Translated by Richard Howard; Introduction by James Wood
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Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is
horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he
ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts
culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which
"spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our
time -- the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is
made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil
stain."
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined
to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre -- philosopher, critic, novelist,
and dramatist -- holds a position of singular eminence in the world
of French letters. La Nausee, his first and best novel, is a
landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth
century.
Groundbreaking movie using realistic, yet entirely
computer-generated, characters. Based on a long-running series of
Nintendo computer games, 'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within' tells
a futuristic tale of an Earth besieged by alien invaders. Dr Aki
Ross (voiced by Ming-Na) is a talented young scientist who must
uncover the secrets of the alien invaders before the particles
she's become infected with kill her. Aided by members of a
counter-alien team run by Grey Edwards (Alec Baldwin) and Dr Sid
(Donald Sutherland), Aki must also outwit General Hein (James
Woods) whose plans for alien resistance have deadly ramificiations
for the people of Earth.
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Austerlitz (Paperback)
W. G. Sebald; Introduction by James Wood; Translated by Anthea Bell
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A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly
beautiful 'The greatest writer of our time' Peter Carey In 1939,
five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a
Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless
couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity
and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career
as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all
clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to
haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years
before. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebald's melancholic masterpiece.
'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other
writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald' Eileen
Battersby, Irish Times 'Greatness in literature is still possible'
John Banville, Irish Times, Books of the Year 'A work of obvious
genius' Literary Review 'A fusion of the mystical and the solid ...
His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher
aim' Evening Standard 'Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art'
The Times Literary Supplement 'I have never read a book that
provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the
dispersal of the Jews from Prague and their treatment by the Nazis'
Observer 'A great book by a great writer' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944 and
died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in
Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position
as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and
settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of
European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the
author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz,
After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo,
Unrecounted, A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is
published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.
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Austerlitz (Paperback)
W. G. Sebald; Introduction by James Wood; Translated by Anthea Bell
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Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe. In
1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a
Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless
couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity
and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career
as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all
clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to
haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years
before. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebald's melancholic masterpiece.
'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other
writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald' Eileen
Battersby, Irish Times 'Greatness in literature is still possible'
John Banville, Irish Times, Books of the Year 'A work of obvious
genius' Literary Review 'A fusion of the mystical and the solid ...
His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher
aim' Evening Standard 'Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art'
The Times Literary Supplement 'I have never read a book that
provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the
dispersal of the Jews from Prague and their treatment by the Nazis'
Observer 'A great book by a great writer' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944 and
died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in
Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position
as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and
settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of
European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the
author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz,
After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo,
Unrecounted, A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is
published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.
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Chronicle In Stone (Paperback, Main - Canons)
Ismail Kadare; Translated by David Bellos, Arshi Pipa; Edited by David Bellos; Afterword by David Bellos; Introduction by …
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In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, a young boy reflects on
events as his hometown in Albania falls to a series of invaders.
Amid floods and bombings, his own innocence and wonder are lost
forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War. A
disturbing mix of tragedy and comedy, politics and sexuality,
Chronicle in Stone is a fascinating masterpiece about what it means
to grow up in a turbulent world.
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The Rainbow (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Anne Fernihough, James Wood, Mark Kinkead-Weekes
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With its frank portrayal of human passion and sexual desire, D.H.
Lawrence's The Rainbow was banned as 'obscene' in Britain shortly
after first publication. This Penguin Classics edition is edited
with an introduction by James Wood. Set in the rural Midlands, The
Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen
family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against
the emergence of modern England. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish
widow, Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter Anna as his own, he is
unprepared for the conflict and passion that erupts between them.
All are seeking individual fulfilment, but it is Ursula, Anne's
spirited daughter, who in her search for self-knowedge, becomes the
focus of Lawrence's examination of relationships and the conflicts
they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the
spiritual. Suffused with Biblical imagery, The Rainbow addresses
searching human issues in a setting of precise and vivid detail. In
his introduction James Wood discusses Lawrence's writing style and
the tensions and themes of The Rainbow. This Penguin edition
reproduces the Cambridge text, which provides a text as close as
possible to Lawrence's original. It also includes suggested further
reading, a fragment of 'The Sisters II' from his first draft, and
chronologies of Lawrence's life and of The Rainbow's Brangwen
family. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter,
critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in
20th-century English literature. Lawrence published Sons and Lovers
in 1913, but The Rainbow, completed in 1915, was declared obscene
and banned two months after first publication; and for three years
he could not find a publisher for Women in Love, which he completed
in 1917. His last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was published in
1928, but banned in England and America. If you enjoyed The
Rainbow, you might like Lawrence's Women in Love, also available in
Penguin Classics. 'A brave and important book, passionate and
wildly ambitious' Independent on Sunday
This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated
masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James
Wood. "Austerlitz" is the story of a man's search for the answer to
his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England
on a "Kindertransport" in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is
told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and
his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting
memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly
understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he
left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at
the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his
heritage from oblivion.
The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary
critic and author of How Fiction Works 'James Wood is a close
reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and
disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John Banville James
Wood is one of the leading critics of the age, and here, for the
first time, are his selected essays. From the career-defining
'Hysterical Realism' to his more personal reflections on family,
religion and sensibility, Serious Noticing offers a comprehensive
overview of his writing over the last twenty years. These essays
offer more than a viewpoint - they show how to bring the eye of
critical reading to life as a whole. 'James Wood is one of
literature's true lovers, and his deeply felt, contentious essays
are thrilling in their reach and moral seriousness' Susan Sontag
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