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Doctor Who: Mara Tales (DVD)
Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Richard Todd, …
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R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
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Two adventures from the early 1980s with Peter Davison starring as
the Time Lord. In 'Kinda' (1982), the Doctor (Davison), Tegan
(Janet Fielding), Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) and Nyssa (Sarah
Sutton) land on paradisical Deva Loka, for rest and recuperation.
However, the military expediton on the planet has lost several crew
members, and the Doctor and Adric are taken hostage by the near
hysterical Hindle. Meanwhile, Tegan's dreams have provided the
gateway to an ancient evil, the snake-like Mara. The Doctor must
prevent the Mara from taking over the Kinda and destroying the
expedition, as the wheel of creation begins to turn. In
'Snakedance' (1983), a loose sequel to 'Kinda', Tegan must have
made a mistake when she was setting the co-ordinates for the
TARDIS, because the Doctor certainly hadn't intended landing on
Manussa. When the Doctor learns that Manussa was once the home of
the Sumaran Empire, he realises that an evil force has begun to
take over Tegan's will. This force, the Mara, is planning to use
Tegan as a vehicle to retake power on Manussa. Just as the
celebrations to commemorate the destruction of the Sumaran Empire
by the Federation are about to take place, the Legend of Mara is
about to come true.
More electronic puppet action in this, the second of the
'Thunderbirds' films. This time round, Tracy Island's resident
genius Brains designs a revolutionary new aircraft, the Skyship
One, only to see it hijacked on its maiden voyage. The Thunderbirds
team get ready to come to the rescue, but with Alan Tracy and Lady
Penelope trapped on board the Skyship, and Thunderbirds 1 and 2
heading into a trap set up by the hijackers, it's not going to be
that easy.
How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality
with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might
be natural, persistent, and consequential? In this wide-ranging
account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and
intelligence over the past two centuries, John Carson tells the
fascinating story of how two nations wrestled scientifically with
human inequalities and their social and political implications.
Surveying a broad array of political tracts, philosophical
treatises, scientific works, and journalistic writings, Carson
chronicles the gradual embrace of the IQ version of intelligence in
the United States, while in France, the birthplace of the modern
intelligence test, expert judgment was consistently prized above
such quantitative measures. He also reveals the crucial role that
determinations of, and contests over, merit have played in both
societies--they have helped to organize educational systems,
justify racial hierarchies, classify army recruits, and direct
individuals onto particular educational and career paths.
A contribution to both the history of science and intellectual
history, "The Measure of Merit" illuminates the shadow languages of
inequality that have haunted the American and French republics
since their inceptions.
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