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Letters from Iwo Jima (DVD)
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidô Nakamura, …
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R35
Discovery Miles 350
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Clint Eastwood's completion of the Iwo Jima saga. Here the action
is seen from the Japanese point of view and the film is based on
the book 'Picture Letters from Commander in Chief' by Tadamichi
Kuribayashi. The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American
military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the
Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into
American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of
Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) is given
command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the
imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favour the
rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and
resentment and resistance fester among his staff.
Charlie Parker is an African Gray Parrot. He entered the life of
Debby and Michael Smith three decades ago when, at the insistence
of their young son, Eli, they brought him home from a downtown
Manhattan bird shop. He has been an integral, and voluble, member
of the family ever since. Charlie's vocabulary is astonishingly
diverse and colorful. He can be demanding, squawking imperiously
"Clean my cage" or "Want some water." He can be brutally direct,
warning an aggressive business associate who had been yelling at
Debby "I'm going to kick your ass, you sonofabitch." He can be
mischievous, making meowing noises to a neighbor's confused dog in
the elevator. Charlie is a survivor. He ended up recovering on an
IV after the collapse of the World Trade Center filled the Smiths'
apartment with toxic dust. He is often an entertainer, with a
songbook that extends across "Home on the Range" to "The Yellow
Rose of Texas." And most of the time he is affectionate, often
hanging upside down against the side of his cage and demanding to
be tickled. In encountering Charlie's tales in this concise and
charming book, we come to realize that parrots are intelligent and
loving creatures, to an extent that, as the renowned avian
scientist Professor Irene Pepperberg points out in her
introduction, they cannot meaningfully be owned by humans but only
enjoyed as companions.
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The Symphony (Paperback)
John Winston Ackerman, Michael Steven Rosati
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R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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