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Men in Black 2 (DVD)
Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Tony Shalhoub, …
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Sequel to the successful sci-fi-cop, comedy-drama. Some four years
after the Men in Black averted a major intergalactic disaster, K
(Tommy Lee Jones) has returned to a civilian life, working as a
postman and quite unaware of his former heroics alongside Agent J
(Will Smith). But when J uncovers a secret alien plot organised by
the seemingly seductive Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle) he has to call
on K again. Unfortunately K has no memory of his former role as
'Saver-of-the-World', but somewhere in his head is the expertise
that can save the Earth, if only J can get him onside in time.
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Moonwalk (Paperback)
Michael Jackson
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The only book Michael Jackson ever wrote about his life It
chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest, his early days
with the Jackson 5, and his unprecedented solo success. Giving
unrivalled insight into the King of Pop's life, it details his
songwriting process for hits like Beat It, Rock With You, Billie
Jean, and We Are the World; describes how he developed his
signature dance style, including the Moon Walk; and opens the door
to his very private personal relationships with his family,
including sister Janet, and stars like Diana Ross, Berry Gordy,
Marlon Brando, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney, and Brooke Shields. At
the time of its original publication in 1988, MOONWALK broke the
fiercely guarded barrier of silence that surrounded Michael
Jackson. Candidly and courageously, Jackson talks openly about his
wholly exceptional career and the crushing isolation of his fame,
as well as the unfair rumours that have surrounded it. MOONWALK is
illustrated with rare photographs from Jackson family albums and
Michael's personal photographic archives, as well as a drawing done
by Michael exclusively for the book. It reveals and celebrates, as
no other book can, the life of this exceptional and beloved
musician.
'An important and contentious book... It could stimulate a cult!' - Anthony Cohen, Principal of Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part Two, Volume 59, the latest
release in the Advances in Ecological Research series, is the
second part of a thematic on ecological biomonitoring. It includes
specific chapters that cover aquatic volatile metabolomics using
trace gases to examine ecological processes, next generation
approaches to rapid monitoring Bio-aerosol and the link between
human health and environmental microbiology, NGB in Canadian
wetlands, CELLDEX/global monitoring of functional responses,
Citizen Science and Biomonitoring, and more.
In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on
philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the
meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as
significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.
Beginning with Aristotle's accounts of friendship as a political
virtue and Montaigne's famous essay on friendship as a form of
love, Jackson examines the tension between the political and
personal resonances of friendship in the philosophy of Hannah
Arendt, the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and the
oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He
offers reflections on childhood friends, imaginary friends,
lifelong friendships, and friendships with animals. He ruminates
particularly on the complications of friendship in the context of
anthropological fieldwork, exploring the contradiction between the
egalitarian spirit of friendship on the one hand and, on the other,
the power imbalance between ethnographers and their interlocutors.
Through these stories, Jackson explores the unpredictable interplay
of mutability and mutuality in intimate human relationships, and
the critical importance of choice in forming friendship-what it
means to be loyal to friends through good times and bad, and even
in the face of danger. Through a blend of memoir, theory,
ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective
affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and
offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a
measure of our own self-worth.
Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other
than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our
shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are
and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter
ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person
we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical
question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a
practical care—can I change, and
how? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across
Cultures explores and analyzes these apparently universal
hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come
at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of
modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social
processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a
non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of
alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves,
including through religious and spiritual traditions and
innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like
psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism
or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a
model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change
that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself.
In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on
philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the
meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as
significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.
Beginning with Aristotle's accounts of friendship as a political
virtue and Montaigne's famous essay on friendship as a form of
love, Jackson examines the tension between the political and
personal resonances of friendship in the philosophy of Hannah
Arendt, the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and the
oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He
offers reflections on childhood friends, imaginary friends,
lifelong friendships, and friendships with animals. He ruminates
particularly on the complications of friendship in the context of
anthropological fieldwork, exploring the contradiction between the
egalitarian spirit of friendship on the one hand and, on the other,
the power imbalance between ethnographers and their interlocutors.
Through these stories, Jackson explores the unpredictable interplay
of mutability and mutuality in intimate human relationships, and
the critical importance of choice in forming friendship-what it
means to be loyal to friends through good times and bad, and even
in the face of danger. Through a blend of memoir, theory,
ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective
affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and
offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a
measure of our own self-worth.
This book contains edited and revised papers from a conference on
"Science and Technology for Managing Plant Genetic Diversity in the
21st Century" held in Malaysia in June 2000, organized by the
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI). It
includes keynote papers and some 40 additional ones, covering 10
themes. The major scientific challenges to developing a global
vision for the next century are identified and key research
objectives are also discussed.
Anthropologist Michael Jackson predicates his intellectual
autobiography, Worlds Within and Worlds Without, on the view that
works and lives are intimately entangled. Through a skillful
interweaving of personal and ethnographic descriptions, he focuses
on the imaginative and practical ways human beings negotiate the
space between worlds they call their own and worlds they regard as
lying beyond their immediate purview. Whether the worlds that elude
our empirical grasp are identified with divinities or the dead,
ether or earth, history or myth, the Internet, or the nation state,
we experience them ambivalently, as potential sources of wellbeing
and as possible threats to our very existence. Closing ourselves
off from the world is not an option, for our humanity depends on
the ties that bind us to significant others, and others to us. As
Jackson shows, the relationship between the familiar and the
foreign is not only an existential issue that all human beings
address in one way or another. It is a methodological issue for
anthropologists concerned with the complementarity of individual
and collective perspectivesethnos and anthropos, the intrapsychic
and the intersubjective.
In The Genealogical Imagination Michael Jackson juxtaposes
ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational
trauma and temporality. Drawing on over fifty years of fieldwork,
Jackson recounts the 150-year history of a Sierra Leone family
through its periods of prosperity and powerlessness, war and peace,
jihad and migration. Jackson also offers a fictionalized narrative
loosely based on his family history and fieldwork in northeastern
Australia that traces how the trauma of wartime in one generation
can reverberate into the next. In both stories Jackson reflects on
different modes of being-in-time, demonstrating how genealogical
time flows in stops and starts—linear at times, discontinuous at
others—as current generations reckon with their relationships to
their ancestors. Genealogy, Jackson demonstrates, becomes a
powerful model for understanding our experience of
being-in-the-world, as nobody can escape kinship and the pull of
the past. Unconventional and evocative, The Genealogical
Imagination offers a nuanced account of how lives are lived, while
it pushes the bounds of the forms that scholarship can take.
In The Genealogical Imagination Michael Jackson juxtaposes
ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational
trauma and temporality. Drawing on over fifty years of fieldwork,
Jackson recounts the 150-year history of a Sierra Leone family
through its periods of prosperity and powerlessness, war and peace,
jihad and migration. Jackson also offers a fictionalized narrative
loosely based on his family history and fieldwork in northeastern
Australia that traces how the trauma of wartime in one generation
can reverberate into the next. In both stories Jackson reflects on
different modes of being-in-time, demonstrating how genealogical
time flows in stops and starts—linear at times, discontinuous at
others—as current generations reckon with their relationships to
their ancestors. Genealogy, Jackson demonstrates, becomes a
powerful model for understanding our experience of
being-in-the-world, as nobody can escape kinship and the pull of
the past. Unconventional and evocative, The Genealogical
Imagination offers a nuanced account of how lives are lived, while
it pushes the bounds of the forms that scholarship can take.
A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to
implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United
States has an inequality problem, the social science community has
failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead
adopted a strikingly insipid approach to policy reform, an
ostensibly science-based approach that offers incremental,
narrow-gauge, and evidence-informed "interventions." This approach
assumes that the best that we can do is to contain the problem. It
is largely taken for granted that we will never solve it. In
Manifesto for a Dream, Michelle Jackson asserts that we will never
make strides toward equality if we do not start to think radically.
It is the structure of social institutions that generates and
maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that
structure that progress can be made. Jackson makes a scientific
case for large-scale institutional reform, drawing on examples from
other countries to demonstrate that reforms that have been
unthinkable in the United States are considered to be quite
unproblematic in other contexts. She persuasively argues that an
emboldened social science has an obligation to develop and test the
radical policies that would be necessary for equality to be assured
for all.
This book was originally published in paperback in 1991, during a
time of growing global concern over the loss of gene resources in
crop plants. The future was seen as being dependent on their
immediate conservation and effective use by plant breeders. The
text is aimed at providing a comprehensive introduction to the form
and availability of crop diversity, as well as how this diversity
may be gathered, conserved and ultimately combined with new
cultivars. Techniques are defined within the fields of data
management, tissue culture and genetic engineering, and the overall
concept of plant genetic resources is discussed within a political
context. A comprehensive bibliography is included.
This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of
anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of
social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition
in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions
of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies.
The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in
anthropology beyond the areas in which it has been most
influential—studies of sensory perception, emotion, bodiliness,
and intersubjectivity—into new areas of inquiry such as martial
arts, sports, dance, music, and political discourse.
In many countries, concern about socio-economic inequalities in
educational attainment has focused on inequalities in test scores
and grades. The presumption has been that the best way to reduce
inequalities in educational outcomes is to reduce inequalities in
performance. But is this presumption correct?
"Determined to Succeed?" is the first book to offer a comprehensive
cross-national examination of the roles of performance and choice
in generating inequalities in educational attainment. It combines
in-depth studies by country specialists with chapters discussing
more general empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of
educational inequality. The aim is to investigate to what extent
inequalities in educational attainment can be attributed to
differences in academic performance between socio-economic groups,
and to what extent they can be attributed to differences in the
choices made by students from these groups. The contributors focus
predominantly on inequalities related to parental class and
parental education.
A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to
implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United
States has an inequality problem, the social science community has
failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead
adopted a strikingly insipid approach to policy reform, an
ostensibly science-based approach that offers incremental,
narrow-gauge, and evidence-informed "interventions." This approach
assumes that the best that we can do is to contain the problem. It
is largely taken for granted that we will never solve it. In
Manifesto for a Dream, Michelle Jackson asserts that we will never
make strides toward equality if we do not start to think radically.
It is the structure of social institutions that generates and
maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that
structure that progress can be made. Jackson makes a scientific
case for large-scale institutional reform, drawing on examples from
other countries to demonstrate that reforms that have been
unthinkable in the United States are considered to be quite
unproblematic in other contexts. She persuasively argues that an
emboldened social science has an obligation to develop and test the
radical policies that would be necessary for equality to be assured
for all.
Most people have a story to tell about a remarkable coincidence
that in some instances changed the course of their lives. These
uncanny occurrences have been variously interpreted as evidence of
divine influence, fate, or the collective unconscious. Less common
are explanations that explore the social situations and personal
preoccupations of the individuals who place the most weight on
coincidences. Drawing on a variety of coincidence stories, renowned
anthropologist Michael Jackson builds a case for seeing them as
allegories of separation and loss-revealing the hope of repairing
sundered lives, reconnecting estranged friends, reuniting distant
kin, closing the gap between people and their gods, and achieving a
sense of emotional and social connectedness with others in a
fragmented world.
While the Three Stooges were the longest-active and most productive
comedy team in Hollywood, their artistic height coincided with the
years Curly was with them, from 1932 to 1946. To their fans, Curly
stands out as the zaniest of the three. Famous for his high-pitched
voice, his “n’yuk-n’yuk-n’yuk” and “why, soitenly,”
and his astonishing athleticism, Curly was a true natural, an
untrained actor with a knack for improvisation. Yet for decades,
little was known about his personal life.
Then, in 1985, Joan Howard Maurer, Curly’s niece, published this
definitive biography.
When she first set out to write the book, there was almost no
biographical information available about Curly. So she spoke at
length to his relatives, friends, and colleagues. She amassed a
wealth of Curly memorabilia, a mixture of written material and rare
photographs of Curly’s family, films, and personal life. In
Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge, she put it all
together to come up with the first and only in-depth look at this
crazy comedic genius. She included plenty of intimate details about
his astonishing relationship with his mother, his marriages, and
his interactions with his daughters and friends.
Despite its excellence as a well-rounded portrait of the most
unpredictable—and most popular—Stooge, Curly has long been out
of print. This new edition of a timeless classic, now updated with
previously unpublished facts, is sure to be appreciated by Three
Stooges fans new and old.
NEXT GENERATION BIOMONITORING: Part 1, Volume 58, the latest
release in the Advances in Ecological Research series, is the
firstpart of a thematic on ecological biomonitoring, including
specific chapters that cover Aquatic volatile metabolomics - using
trace gases to examine ecological processes, Next generation
approaches to rapid monitoring Bio-aerosol and the link between
human health and environmental microbiology, NGB in Canadian
wetlands, Monitoring the biodiversity and functioning of
terrestrial systems via high resolution trace gas fluxes, and
Computational approaches to gathering biomonitoring data from
social media platforms: a superior solution to next generation
biomonitoring challenges.
A new and updated edition of the classic, definitive guide to malt
whiskies, originally written by the late Michael Jackson and fully
updated by whisky experts Dominic Roskrow and Gavin D. Smith. The
fully revised 8th edition of the Malt Whisky Companion will teach
you everything you want to know about your favourite tipple. How
should you taste a single malt scotch whisky? Which whiskies are
light and flowery, or rich and treacly? How different is a single
malt scotch from a distillery in the Highlands to one from the
islands? If you find yourself asking these questions, then this may
be the book for you! Did you know that this best-selling book on
malt whisky was originally authored in 1989 by Michael Jackson, who
was regarded as the world's foremost authority on whisky until his
death in 2007. His legacy lives on in his books, which have been
approved by his estate. This brilliant book about whiskey has been
fully updated by world-leading whisky consultants Dominic Roskrow,
author of 12 books about whiskey, and Gavin D. Smith - a
professional writer with over 20 years experience, to include all
the latest significant bottlings since the 7th edition in 2015. A
new introduction section includes hot news on all the current
whisky questions being asked. Discover the wonderful world of
whisky as you explore: - Fully updated and modernised edition of
the world's best-selling book on malt whisky - Includes whisky
tasting notes on over 1,000 malts arranged from A-Z - Includes
vintage whiskies from 1926 onwards - Approximately 70% of the text
is updated to include all the latest significant bottlings -
Updated by whisky experts Dominic Roskcow and Gavin D. Smith Find
whisky tasting notes on over 1,000 malts arranged from A-Z,
including vintages from 1926 onwards and the very latest releases.
For distilleries in the New World Whisky section there are
brand-new whisky tasting notes. This comprehensive whisky guide
defines the characteristics of each whisky, gives it an overall
score, making it the perfect companion for keen whisky drinkers and
new converts to the wonderful world of the single malt. From the
origins of malt whiskey to the language of the label, this book's
tasting notes for more than 1,000 bottlings, practical advice on
buying and collecting malts, and hundreds of colour images make it
the perfect gift for any whisky lover. No other book contains as
much detail on all aspects of whisky, making it a must-have volume
for a new generation of whisky drinkers, or people who want to try
different whiskies but don't know where to start.
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The Wiz (Blu-ray disc)
Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Clyde J. Barrett, Theresa Merritt, Richard Pryor, …
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Modern update of 'The Wizard of Oz' with Diana Ross as Dorothy
leading her gang of no-gooders to the disco chic city of New York.
Plenty of Motown music and dance routines are provided by an all
black cast.
The #1 "New York Times" bestseller! Michael Jackson's one and only
autobiography - "his "life, in "his "words.
With original Foreword by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a new
Introduction by Motown founder Berry Gordy, and an Afterword by
Michael Jackson's editor and publisher, Shaye Areheart.
"I've always wanted to be able to tell stories, you know, stories
that came from my soul. I'd like to sit by a fire and tell people
stories - make them see pictures, make them cry and laugh, take
them "anywhere" emotionally with something as deceptively simple as
words. I'd like to tell tales to move their souls and transform
them. I've always wanted to be able to do that. Imagine how the
great writers must feel, knowing they have that power. I sometimes
feel I "could "do it. It's something I'd like to develop. In a way,
songwriting uses the same skills, creates the emotional highs and
lows, but the story is a sketch. It's quicksilver. There are very
few books written on the art of storytelling, how to grip
listeners, how to get a group of people together and amuse them. No
costumes, no makeup, no nothing, just you and your voice, and your
powerful ability to take them anywhere, to transform their lives,
if only for minutes." -Michael Jackson, in "Moonwalk
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From the 1988 edition:
Megastar Michael Jackson's singularly brilliant career and
intensely private lifestyle have become a magnificent obsession for
millions of rock fans and celebrity watchers throughout the world.
His double-platinum singles rocket to the top of the music charts
with a velocity equaled only by the inevitable accompaniment of
wild rumors about his eccentric personal life. Now for the first
time, Michael Jackson breaks the fiercely guarded barrier of
silence that has surrounded him in a remarkably candid and
courageous book -- "Moonwalk."
In this intimate and often moving personal account of Michael
Jackson's public and private life, he recalls a childhood that was
both harsh and joyful but always formidable. Michael and his
brothers played amateur music shows and seamy Chicago strip joints
until Motown's corporate image makers turned the Jackson 5 into
worldwide superstars. Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 have
combined sales of over 200 million albums. He talks about the happy
prankster days of his youth, traveling with his brothers, and of
his sometimes difficult relationships with his family over the
years. He speaks candidly about the inspiration behind his music,
his mesmerizing dance moves, and the compulsive drive to create
that has made him one of the biggest stars in the music business
and a legend in his own time. "The Guinness Book of World Records"
lists "Thriller" as the biggest-selling-album of all time.
In "Moonwalk," Michael Jackson shares his personal feelings about
some of his most public friends...friends like Diana Ross, Berry
Gordy, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney, Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando,
and Katharine Hepburn. He talks openly about the crushing isolation
of his fame, of his first love, of his plastic surgery, and of his
wholly exceptional career and the often bizarre and unfair rumors
that have surrounded it.
Illustrated with rare photographs from Jackson family albums and
Michael's personal photographic archives, as well as a drawing done
by Michael exclusively for this book, "Moonwalk" is a memorable
journey to the very heart and soul of a modern musical genius.
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