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That's My Boy (DVD)
Adam Sandler, Leighton Meester, Susan Sarandon, Eva Amurri, Andy Samberg, …
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R35
Discovery Miles 350
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Adam Sandler stars in this comedy as an absent father who re-enters
the life of his estranged son in an attempt to sting him for cash.
Donny, a foul-mouthed, hedonistic middle-aged playboy who is facing
a jail sentence for tax evasion, finds out that Todd (Andy
Samberg), the son he fathered as a teenager with his high school
teacher, is now a hedge fund manager and about to tie the knot with
his fiancée (Leighton Meester). Donny instantly sees an opportunity
to get hold of the cash he needs to bail him out of jail, and turns
up at Todd's door the day before his wedding, sending his son's
well-ordered life spinning into chaos.
Prestigious authorship from USA and Australia Over 100 video clips
demonstrate clinical techniques and symptoms and signs of
neurological conditions Extensively illustrated with clear line
diagrams for ready reference Tips, clinical pearls and management
are highlighted Text is logical, systematic and provides a
step-by-step approach
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Questions to My Father (Hardcover)
Werner Bischof; Edited by Marco Bischof; Photographs by Werner Bischof; Contributions by John Morris; Text written by Dieter Buchmann
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R962
R858
Discovery Miles 8 580
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In 1916, with the Great War reducing northern Europe to a treeless,
shattered void, a boy was born to the prosperous director of a
pharmaceutical firm in Zurich. He was named Werner. It was not an
auspicious time to be born and, indeed, his mother died soon after.
As a child, young Werner sought order in his life by dissecting
snails and photographing, in the limpid light of his creation, the
elegant whorls revealed. He did not become the physical training
instructor his father wanted him to be. He did not become the
painter he had once wanted to be in Paris in 1939, on the brink of
another devastating conflict. He became Werner Bischof, the man,
and a photographer of incalculable artistry who found in both order
and the chaos he confronted and experienced a sublime beauty, a
humanity that was singularly his own. His photographs of a post-war
Europe in poverty and despair expressed infinite hope for the human
condtion, yet he was only 29. Less than 10 years later he was dead,
leaving behind among his last photographs that of a Peruvian child
playing his flute on the edge of a ravine. It is now an iconic
photograph with a fatal allure. Bischof himself died when his jeep
plunged over a ravine in the Andes on a quest for the faces, the
lives, of harmony there. Fifty years later his son Marco has
gathered together 70 previously unpublished photographs by Werner
Bischof. They powerfully reiterate the man his father was, the
nature of his humanity and his search for a benign and beautiful
cognisance of the brief and terrifying world he lived in.
This book provides a sound introduction to basic electronic
concepts in a lively and practical format. It effectively meets the
needs of both the electronics option of the advanced GNVQ in
engineering and the BTEC National certificate in electronics and
includes hands-on practical investigations and self-test questions
which will appeal to a wide range of readers. Applied Electronics
employs user-friendly text and a non-mathematical approach to
develop the reader's ability and understanding of the principles of
analogue and digital electronics. Beginning with the semiconductor
devices themselves, it progresses through amplifiers and power
supplies to combinational and sequential logic.
Prestigious authorship from USA and Australia Over 100 video clips
demonstrate clinical techniques and symptoms and signs of
neurological conditions Extensively illustrated with clear line
diagrams for ready reference Tips, clinical pearls and management
are highlighted Text is logical, systematic and provides a
step-by-step approach
Drawing on the history of modern finance, as well as the sociology
of money and risk, this book examines how cultural understandings
of finance have contributed to the increased capitalization of the
UK financial system following the Global Financial Crisis.
Providing both a geographically-inflected analysis and re-appraisal
of the concept of performativity, it demonstrates that financial
risk management has a spatiality that helps to inform
understandings and imaginaries of the risks associated with money
and finance. The book traces the development of understandings of
risk at the Bank of England, with an analysis that spans some 1,000
reports, documents and speeches alongside elite interviews with
past and present employees at the central bank. The author argues
that the Bank has moved from a relatively broad-brush approach to
the risks being managed in the financial sector, to a greater
preoccupation with the understanding and mapping of the
mobilization of financial risk. The study of financial practices
from a critical social sciences and humanities perspective has
grown rapidly since the Global Financial Crisis and this book will
be of interest to multiple subject areas including IPE, economic
geography, sociology of finance and critical security studies.
Drawing on the history of modern finance, as well as the sociology
of money and risk, this book examines how cultural understandings
of finance have contributed to the increased capitalization of the
UK financial system following the Global Financial Crisis.
Providing both a geographically-inflected analysis and re-appraisal
of the concept of performativity, it demonstrates that financial
risk management has a spatiality that helps to inform
understandings and imaginaries of the risks associated with money
and finance. The book traces the development of understandings of
risk at the Bank of England, with an analysis that spans some 1,000
reports, documents and speeches alongside elite interviews with
past and present employees at the central bank. The author argues
that the Bank has moved from a relatively broad-brush approach to
the risks being managed in the financial sector, to a greater
preoccupation with the understanding and mapping of the
mobilization of financial risk. The study of financial practices
from a critical social sciences and humanities perspective has
grown rapidly since the Global Financial Crisis and this book will
be of interest to multiple subject areas including IPE, economic
geography, sociology of finance and critical security studies.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This sequel to 'Toy Story' sees pull-string cowboy Woody (voiced by
Tom Hanks) kidnapped by toy collector Al, who plans to sell him to
a Japanese toy museum. Assisted by Mr Potato Head, Slinky Dog and
Rex the Dinosaur, action figure Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) sets off
to the rescue, but when they get to Al's store Buzz is mistakenly
boxed up and his place taken by a new, flashier Lightyear model -
complete with utility belt! Meanwhile, Woody has discovered that he
was once the star of a popular children's television show, and is
no longer sure he wants to return to Andy's toy cupboard.
The book, written in a charming and self-effacing style, gives
fascinating insight into Japan and Japanese life on the eve of its
fateful entry into the Second World War.
This book provides a sound introduction to basic electronic
concepts in a lively and practical format. It effectively meets the
needs of both the electronics option of the advanced GNVQ in
engineering and the BTEC National certificate in electronics and
includes hands-on practical investigations and self-test questions
which will appeal to a wide range of readers. Applied Electronics
employs user-friendly text and a non-mathematical approach to
develop the reader's ability and understanding of the principles of
analogue and digital electronics. Beginning with the semiconductor
devices themselves, it progresses through amplifiers and power
supplies to combinational and sequential logic.
Physical education is paramount to the holistic development of
every young person. More so when that young person has physical,
cognitive, and or emotional /behavioural difficulties to overcome
also. Teaching physical education to children with special needs
often requires the teacher or coach to use different methods and
approaches in order to generate even the smallest improvement in
learning, performance, and independence. The activities games and
adaptations featured in the book have been developed within the
teaching environment and enable students with special needs to have
opportunities to participate and compete whilst learning and
consolidating new and existing skills. Activities in the book can
be used to supplement existing programs and schemes of work or they
can be used as stand alone activities. They are intended and
designed to be inclusive also. The contents have been organised
into sections that cover: games and ball skills; gymnastics and
dance; developing spatial awareness and Athletic activities; and
schemes of work influenced by the national curriculum and the
equals' schemes have been supplied to use with the activities so
that the book provides a user with a guide for how to deliver an
adapted PE program to pupils with special needs. They may also be
useful to mainstream teachers who may need to supplement and adapt
mainstream PE programs to accommodate pupils with moderate learning
difficulties or physical disabilities.
Based in a historically distinguished town near New York City, the
firm of Bentel & Bentel Architects has been led for over 50
years by two generations - men and women - of one family. The
interweaving of their experiences, lifestyles, and personal
philosophies has produced a uniquely elegant series of works
including public buildings, restaurants, and hotels. The buildings
are equally notable for their thoughtful relationships to the
structures they occupy or adjoin, the communities in which they
stand, and the experiences of their intended users. Bentel &
Bentel's accomplishments reflect not only its cumulative design
experience but the insights the partners bring to their work from a
variety of related activities: painting, sculpture, dance, design
of furnishings, architectural history, and education. Reflecting
the lives and accomplishments of the firm's partners, this
monograph is composed of three narratives: Who We Are, What We Do,
and Who We Were.
Jim Carrey stars in this family comedy based on the 1930s
children's novel by Richard and Florence Atwater. Tom Popper
(Carrey) is a business executive who has become disillusioned with
the daily grind. But when he unexpectedly inherits six penguins,
his life is transformed into a series of madcap adventures as he
finally gets the excuse to indulge his childhood hankering for
polar exploration. Carla Gugino, Madeline Carroll and Angela
Lansbury co-star.
John William Salter (1820 1869) was an English naturalist and
geologist, best known for his work as palaeontologist to the
Geological Survey of Great Britain. This is a complete catalogue of
the Cambrian and Silurian fossils in the Geological Museum at the
University of Cambridge. Preceded by a detailed introductory
section on the Pal ozoic system, the catalogue is arranged by
geological strata, covering the various groups of Cambrian and
Silurian fossils. The entries include detailed illustrations, along
with references to the location of each fossil in the collection,
its name and details of its place of origin. Revised by staff of
the University and published posthumously in 1873, the catalogue
also contains a substantial preface by Adam Sedgwick, famous for
his role in the development of modern geology, which provides
fascinating insights into the geological advances of the Victorian
era.
An essential companion to John C Morris's 'Analogue Electronics',
this clear and accessible text is designed for electronics
students, teachers and enthusiasts who already have a basic
understanding of electronics, and who wish to develop their
knowledge of digital techniques and applications. Employing a
discovery-based approach, the author covers fundamental theory
before going on to develop an appreciation of logic networks,
integrated circuit applications and analogue-digital conversion. A
section on digital fault finding and useful ic data sheets
completes the book.
An essential companion to John C Morris's 'Analogue Electronics',
this clear and accessible text is designed for electronics
students, teachers and enthusiasts who already have a basic
understanding of electronics, and who wish to develop their
knowledge of digital techniques and applications. Employing a
discovery-based approach, the author covers fundamental theory
before going on to develop an appreciation of logic networks,
integrated circuit applications and analogue-digital conversion. A
section on digital fault finding and useful ic data sheets
completes the book.
Is Japan prepared for an ethnically-diverse society? The volume
examines the past and future trajectory of Japan's immigration and
integration policies and related institutions, taking a
cross-disciplinary approach in social sciences. The authors
highlight critical issues and challenges that the nation is facing
as a result of the government's inarticulate migrant-acceptance
policy, e.g. in the fields of refugee policies, multicultural
education and disaster protection. How can the situatio Is Japan
prepared for an ethnically-diverse society? The volume examines the
past and future trajectory of Japan's immigration and integration
policies and related institutions, taking a cross-disciplinary
approach in social sciences. The authors highlight critical issues
and challenges that the nation is facing as a result of the
government's n be improved? The book investigates the changes and
initiatives needed to build a resilient policy regime for a
liberal, pluralistic, and inclusive Japan. Japan, a long-time
immigration laggard, is opening its gate to foreign workers, both
skilled and less-skilled, to address its chronic labor shortage
through legal and policy changes. Both government and society are
awkwardly exploring "multicultural coexistence"-the harmony of
Japanese nationals and others of foreign origin. Immigrant
integration processes are raising manifold concerns, revealing
challenges in terms of labor, welfare, education, culture, and
human rights. Yet, the government has downplayed the nation's
increasingly multicultural reality while support institutions
remain ineffective. Japan's approach, heavily dependent on
grassroots initiatives and goodwill, is clearly unsustainable. This
co-authored volume examines the evolution of Japan's immigration
and integration policies and their social outcomes from
cross-disciplinary and multi-level perspectives. Researchers from
the social sciences and humanities address crucial local and
national issues that emerge from the matrix of "immigration and
integration" such as refugee policies, deportation, multicultural
education, disaster protection, and local activism.
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Penelope (Paperback)
Trever John Morris; Illustrated by Ariceli O'Coffey
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R404
R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
Save R75 (19%)
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Domesday Book is a statistical survey of England in 1086 A.D. it is
a census of the population and productive resources of the country,
of their value and of who held them. It was unmatched in Europe for
many centuries, the product of a sophisticated and experienced
English administration, fully exploited by the Conqueror's
commanding energy. Its name is known to everyone - and everyone can
now have access to its text, and, within the limitations of
contemporary scholarship, its meaning. It is difficult to
exaggerate the important to local historians and archaeologists of
the availability of a cheap edition of this fundamental source, for
the first time in 900 years. The Domesday Survey was arranged by
counties, or shires, and so is the Domesday Book Series. These are
the ancient counties that survived with little change until 1974.
Radical domestic politics, musical experimentation, advancing
technology and the influence of migration from Europe and Britain's
enrichment from it, all had their affects on a remarkable year in
musical cultural life in the mid-30s. This book looks at the
little-known aspect of music and politics in domestic Britain in
1934, a pivotal year in terms of political and cultural
developments. Music and Politics in Thirties Britain focuses on the
production, reception and interpretation of classical music in
relation to the changes of the 1930s. John Morris treads new ground
by examining the relationship between music, musicians and fascism
- an area overlooked by existing scholarship. The book expertly
traces the complexities and contradictions of British music history
in the 1930s as musicians like others in the Arts attempted to
engage with the political turmoil of the period. John Morris
exemplifies the "cultural turn" in studies of British fascism, and
also shows the overlap between ideas of the BUF and more
progressive musicians. The result is a stimulating addition to
existing scholarship which will be of interest to scholars and
students alike.
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