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The complete second series of the BBC drama, adapted from Jennifer Worth's memoirs, about a group of midwives working in East London in the 1950s. In this series, it's 1958, and while Jenny (Jessica Raine) has her hands full dealing with an abused patient, fellow midwives Trixie (Helen George) and Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris) are forced to board a Swedish cargo ship to tend to the captain's pregnant daughter.
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Call the Midwife: Series 1 (DVD)
Jessica Raine, Bryony Hannah, Helen George, Miranda Hart, Pam Ferris, …
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All six episodes from the first series of the BBC drama, adapted
from Jennifer Worth's memoirs, about a group of midwives working in
East London in the 1950s. Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) gets her first
job at Nonnatus House which she soon realises is a nursing convent
and not a hospital, as she had assumed. As she begins caring for
patients, she gradually becomes accustomed to her new environment,
making friends with fellow midwives Cynthia (Bryony Hannah), Trixie
(Helen George) and the clumsy Chummy (Miranda Hart).
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The Prince (DVD)
Gia Mantegna, John Cusack, Jason Patric, Bruce Willis, Jessie Pruett, …
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Action-packed thriller starring Bruce Willis and John Cusack. When
widowed mechanic Paul (Jason Patric) decides to question his
daughter Beth (Gia Mantegna) for not being in school, he is shocked
to learn that she's been kidnapped by an old enemy from his
previous life as an assassin. With the help of Beth's friend Angela
(Jessica Lowndes) and his buddy Sam (Cusack), Paul, formerly known
as The Prince, goes in pursuit of notorious crime boss Omar
(Willis), a former rival from his violent past. As he ventures from
Mississippi to Omar's stronghold in New Orleans, Paul is forced to
confront a past life that's been buried for 20 years as his
carefully cultivated identity begins to unravel...
Just as "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance used motorcycle
repair as a metaphor for the examination of self, Howell Raines
uses his lifelong experiences as a fly fisherman to explore his
life, politics, gender, roles as a son, husband, father, and
journalist, and his attitudes toward aging and mortality. A man who
has fished with presidents and Southern friends as well as with his
own two sons, Raines chronicles his progress from "the Redneck way
of fishing" for quantity and food to the catch-and-release way of
his friend and mentor Dick Blalock. Blalock taught Raines that fly
fishing is about attitude and friendship, not about catching fish.
Raines imparts tips on casting and stream beds gracefully, along
with his love for what he calls "waters that move" as he explores
the deep funk he fell into at midlife, complete with a divorce, a
seven-year feud with his father and brother, and the all-consuming
animosity he allowed himself to develop toward his boss at work. By
casting into the waters of his own life -- and ultimately
reconciling with middle age -- Howell Raines has written a
literate, contemplative celebration of life and friendship.
The first two series and the 2012 Christmas special of the BBC drama adapted from Jennifer Worth's memoirs about a group of midwives working in East London in the 1950s. Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) gets her first job at Nonnatus House which she soon realises is a nursing convent and not a hospital, as she had assumed. As she begins caring for patients, she gradually becomes accustomed to her new environment, making friends with fellow midwives Cynthia (Bryony Hannah), Trixie (Helen George) and the clumsy Chummy (Miranda Hart).
In series two, it's 1958, and while Jenny has her hands full dealing with an abused patient, Trixie and Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris) are forced to board a Swedish cargo ship to tend to the captain's pregnant daughter. In the Christmas special, the discovery of an abandoned baby on the convent's doorstep proves to be a catalyst as the community come together to try to trace the child's mother. Elsewhere, Jenny finds herself drawn into the mystery surrounding elderly local woman Mrs Jenkins (Sheila Reid), while Chummy is determined to stage an unforgettable nativity play.
If you mention the word ‘superhero’ these days, everyone and
their mum can tell you a potted history of it all, because
they’ve sat through numerous phases, extended TV series, and
animated side-specials of expansive character-development,
culminating in extraordinary final chapters, with the screen
literally stacked full of characters battling one another while
your eyes bleed with excitement and spectacle. But before
1997, people would generally only think of a few things:
Christopher Reeve smiling as he keeps a watchful eye over Earth’s
atmosphere, Michael Keaton running around Gotham while dressed in
moulded rubber. Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man being hauled up a
wall on a rope, pretending to grip it, while also being a foot away
from it. Bill Bixby trying not to get angry, Flash Gordon arriving
in another galaxy, that was essentially a soft porn film, Dolph
Lundgren mumbling in broken English while Frank Langella hammed
behind a mask, and how Michael Crawford dressed like a bird was the
closest thing Disney had to a cinematic universe. Despite
starting on a high in 1978, by 1997 there could be no doubt that
the genre was dead. Out was the sheen of verisimilitude, and in
were Bat-credit-cards, ugly CGI, slashed budgets, rubber nipples
and Martin Sheen in a girdle. So, whatever happened to the
heroes? Join John Rain as he walks through every film of note from
1978 to 1997, and examines just what went wrong, and how. Is
it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s SUPERBOOK.Â
The "enlightening" (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to
carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its
survivors' founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy
their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist who
discovered the ship's remains. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave
trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to
bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled
and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape
prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck,
Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019,
journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully
concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to
uncover one of our nation's most important historical artifacts.
Traveling from Alabama to the ancient African kingdom of Dahomey in
modern-day Benin, Raines recounts the ship's perilous journey, the
story of its rediscovery, and its complex legacy. Against all odds,
Africatown, the Alabama community founded by the captives of the
Clotilda, prospered in the Jim Crow South. Zora Neale Hurston
visited in 1927 to interview Cudjo Lewis, telling the story of his
enslavement in the New York Times bestseller Barracoon. And yet the
haunting memory of bondage has been passed on through generations.
Clotilda is a ghost haunting three communities-the descendants of
those transported into slavery, the descendants of their fellow
Africans who sold them, and the descendants of their fellow
American enslavers. This connection binds these groups together to
this day. At the turn of the century, descendants of the captain
who financed the Clotilda's journey lived nearby-where, as
significant players in the local real estate market, they
disenfranchised and impoverished residents of Africatown. From
these parallel stories emerges a profound depiction of America as
it struggles to grapple with the traumatic past of slavery and the
ways in which racial oppression continues to this day. And yet, at
its heart, The Last Slave Ship remains optimistic-an epic tale of
one community's triumphs over great adversity and a celebration of
the power of human curiosity to uncover the truth about our past
and heal its wounds.
Working within the context of the evolutionary-institutional
transformation of higher education, the authors trace the
development of an economic model by which the behavioral tendencies
of modern universities can be evaluated. That model is expanded to
provide insights to the following questions: Why do universities
compete and how do they develop and implement their competitive
strategies? How do universities make critical institutional
decisions about operational missions, academic policies, and
internal resource allocation? Do universities efficiently and
effectively pursue the special social functions assigned to them?
Patrick Raines and Charles Leathers present an integrated, coherent
theory to explain the behavior of universities and provide a
realistic economic model that predicts how universities allocate
their scarce educational resources. This alternative view is
contrasted with the mainstream explanations of university behavior
based on the maximization of student welfare or faculty influences.
The authors extend the existing literature on the operation of
universities by presenting a history of the evolution of the modern
entrepreneurial universities as well as an explanation of academic
capitalism. This absorbing volume will appeal to anyone interested
in the history of economic thought or the history of education.
Scholars of Veblen, Smith, and Malthus will be fascinated by their
individual and comparative theories of the purpose and failures of
higher education.
If your loved one could stay another day, what would you do?Diana
Merriman is probably the only person in the small town of Snow
Haven who isn’t looking forward to Christmas. It’s been three
weeks since her fiancé Linus was hit by a car as he biked home
from the toy store he owns. When she uncovers the surprise gift
Linus had bought her for Christmas – a snow globe of their town
– the night before Christmas Eve, little does she know it will
set her on a course that will change everything. Because Diana
wakes up to find that it’s the day of Linus’ accident. Stuck in
an endless loop, repeating the day over and over, Diana fights fate
to save her fiancé. But it’s not just Linus who needs rescuing.
As Diana uncovers startling truths about herself and her
relationship, the future becomes even more uncertain… A
compelling and heartwarming time-loop romance, for fans of Lindsey
Kelk, Molly James and Dani Atkins.
In Debt, Innovations, and Deflation, the authors analyze the
deflation theories of Thorstein Veblen, Irving Fisher, Joseph A.
Schumpeter, and Hyman Minsky. In so doing, they develop a paradigm
for understanding the phenomenon of deflation. They explain how
technological, organizational, and financial innovations, combined
with developments related to the creation and use of debt, give
rise to conditions in which both deflation and inflation can be
present in the modern economy. The past several years have ushered
in a new era in economic policy issues. After decades of concern
over inflation, a series of studies brought to light the
potentially greater danger of deflation. In response, the authors
provide a critical re-examination of the literature and theories of
deflation. A driving question behind the research is whether
post-World War II capitalist economies rely on economic policies
and institutional reforms to keep an inherent tendency toward
deflation in check? And can the theories of Veblen, Fisher,
Schumpeter and Minsky shed light on how the creation and use of
debt can create a modern economy affected simultaneously by
deflation and inflation? Scholars and students of economic history
and finance will enjoy this insightful examination of the subject.
Being a Mountain Leader is so much more than map reading and
ropework. This book is aimed at Mountain Leaders and is designed to
help them be a better leader once they have the qualification.
There is advice herein for trainees and trainers, for the assessed
and the assessor. This book moves away from the technical skills
attained during training and assessment and focuses on actually
being a Mountain Leader. What it does so well is demonstrate what
is required to be a good and effective leader after gaining the
qualification. Much of the content is also valid for the Walking
Group Leader and Lowland Leader holders.
First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of
Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England's only
prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which
now underline much of Western civilization, hitting hard at the
ideas of a naive materialist philosophy which, even in his own day,
was already eating at the roots of English national life. In his
insistence that ?mental things are alone real?, Blake was ahead of
his time. Materialist views are now challenged from various
quarters; the depth psychologies of Freud and Jung, the study of
Far Easter religion and philosophy, the reappraisal of myth and
folk lore, the wealth of psychical research have all prepared the
way for an understanding of Blake's thought. We are ready to
acknowledge that in attacking ?the sickness of Albion? Blake
penetrated to the inner worlds of man and explored them in a way
that is quite unique.
Dr Raine, who has made a long study of Blake's sources, presents
him as a lonely powerful genius who stands within the spiritual
tradition of Sophia Perennis, ?the Everlasting Gospel?. From the
standpoint of this great human Norm, our immediate past described
by W.B. Yeats as ?the three provincial centuries?, is a tragic
deviation; catastrophic, as Blake believed, in its spiritual and
material consequences. Only now do we possess the necessary
knowledge to understand William Blake and the ever-growing number
of people who turn to him surely justifies his faith in the eternal
truths he strove to communicate.
The 1980s. A time of fear: fear of the unknown, fear of your
neighbours, fear of drugs, fear of sex, fear of strangers, fear of
videos, and the very real fear that the world would end at any
moment in an awful, and very sudden, nuclear attack. However, in
those times of turmoil and worry, there was a comfort that soothed
the mind, and acted as a quiet balm: action movies. Video shops
were bursting at the seams with rampant gunfire, sex, drugs, rock,
roll, cars on fire, people on fire, guns, bombs, and people dressed
in army fatigues (and that was just the staff). Heroes were born
shrouded in fire and violent revenge, they were not only armed with
guns, but also red-hot quips, that served as a muscly arm around
the shoulder, and a wink that everything was going to be okay. So
thank you Arnold, Sylvester, Sigourney, Bruce, Eddie, Charles,
Patrick, Mel, Chuck and everyone else that made it happen. You
saved the world, in your own inimitable way. Join John Rain, the
author of the critically-acclaimed Thunderbook: The World of Bond
According to Smersh Pod, as he examines a choice selection of the
greatest action movies from the decade when the explosion was king.
Most unmarried women who engage in sexual intercourse do not
become unwed mothers. They use contraceptives, secure an abortion,
or get married before the baby is born. What happens to the
minority of women who bear illegitimate children? This book is the
first study to describe in detail the actual situation of unwed
motherhood, as opposed to the causes and pathology of deviance.
Based largely on observation of middle-class white girls in a
psychiatrically oriented maternity home and lower-class black
teenagers in a day school for unwed mothers, the study focuses on
the unwed mother's moral career as it is shaped by social agencies.
The author shows how these agencies operate to reconstruct a
mother's vision of herself as a "good" girl, restoring her from
deviance to the status of "an innocent who made a mistake"--thereby
leaving her vulnerable to a repetition of that mistake. The topic
is expanded to include general questions of sociological
importance. The author's clear, jargon free prose makes the book
especially attractive to social workers, clinical and school
psychologists, community and public health workers, and teachers
and students of the sociology of deviance. Prudence Mors Rains is
retired Professor of Sociology at McGill University, Montreal. She
graduated from Lake Forest College and received her M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from Northwestern University. She has been a recipient of a
National Science Foundation dissertation research grant. Her
professional interests lie in the areas of deviance and social
control in regards to woman and youth as well as qualitative
methods, specifically ethnography.
Author, psychiatrist and scholar, painter, world traveller, and
above all visionary dreamer, Carl Jung was one of the great figures
of the 20th century. This text is a comprehensive compilation of
his work on dreams. Weaving a narrative that encompasses all of his
major themes - mysticism, religion, culture and symbolism - Jung
brings a wealth of allusion to the collection. He identifies such
issues as the filmic quality of some dreams, and the differences
between "personal dreams" - dreams that exist on the individual
level - and "big dreams" - dreams that we all experience, that come
from the collective unconscious. This text provides an introduction
to Jung's concepts for those unfamiliar with his work.
An extensive collection of problems in physics suitable for
self-study, tutorial and group work at the level of an
undergraduate course. The authors have created a set of problems
drawing together the core elements of a physics degree. In order to
solve these problems, the reader is led to develop conceptual
insight and to reinforce his or her existing knowledge of basic
theory and standard mathematical techniques. The aim of the book is
to provide students with the problem-solving skills needed for
"general physics" examinations and for real-life situations
encountered by the professional physicist. The book is divided into
three sections. The first contains problems arranged into short
groups or "tutorials" that are suitable for both group discussion
and individual study. The second section provides detailed answers
to these tutorials. The final section presents some further
problems but without solutions.
The loving yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of comedy
legend Richard PryorRain Pryor was born in the idealistic,
free-love 1960s. Her mother was a Jewish go-go dancer who wanted a
tribe of rainbow children, and her father was Richard Pryor,
perhaps the most compelling and brilliant comedian of his era.In
this intimate, harrowing, and often hilarious memoir, Rain talks
about her divided heritage, and about the forces that shaped her
wildly schizophrenic childhood. In her father's house, she bonded
with Richard's grandmother, Mamma, a one-time whorehouse madam who
never tired of reminding Rain that she was black. In her mother's
house, and in the home of her Jewish grandparents, Rain was a
"mocha-colored Jewish princess," learning how to cook everything
from kugel to beef brisket.It seemed as if Rain was blessed with
the best of both worlds, but it didn't quite work out that way.
Life at Mom's was unstable in the extreme, while at Richard's place
Rain was exposed to sex and drugs before she had even learned to
read. "Daddy," she told her father one day, sitting down to
Thanksgiving dinner at the advanced age of eight, "the whores need
to be paid." Jokes My Father Never Taught Me is both lovingly told
and painfully frank: the story of a girl who grew up adoring her
father even as she feared him--and feared for him--as his drug
problems grew worse. In 1980 Pryor tried to kill himself by setting
himself on fire, then joked that it had been an accident: "No one
ever told me you couldn't mix cookies with two types of milk!" In
his later years, Pryor succumbed to multiple sclerosis, and Rain
watched in tears as her father became a shell of his former self.
Once, in an unusually introspective mood, Pryor asked his daughter,
"Why do you love me, Rainy, when I can be so mean?" Jokes My Father
Never Taught Me answers that poignant question and many more. It is
an unprecedented look at the life of a legend of comedy, told by a
daughter who both understood the genius and knew the tortured man
within.
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