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Tim Burton directs this fantasy adventure based on the bestselling
book by Ransom Riggs. When Jacob Portman (Asa Butterfield)'s
grandfather dies, he leaves him clues to a mysterious place called
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob determines to
discover the story behind this strange establishment and the
unusual Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), he finds that the peculiar
children in question are so-called because they have extraordinary
powers and it is his destiny to protect them from an evil force
intent on destroying them. The all-star cast includes Judi Dench,
Samuel L. Jackson, Chris O'Dowd and Rupert Everett.
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Rob Letterman directs this comedy adventure based loosely on the
classic satirical novel by Jonathan Swift. Jack Black stars as
Lemuel Gulliver, a lowly mailroom worker who spontaneously
reinvents himself as a free-spirited travel writer in order to
impress a co-worker. He soon finds himself mistakenly sent off on a
whirlwind assignment to Bermuda and en route is washed ashore on
the hidden island of Lilliput. Initially captured and enslaved by
the island's diminutive and industrious population of Lilliputians,
he eventually manages to win them over with his questionable charms
and is eventually declared their hero. The supporting cast includes
Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Amanda Peet and Billy Connolly.
Successful film and TV star, Chris O' Dowd, collaborates with
friend and screenwriter Nick Vincent Murphy in Moone Boy: The
Blunder Years, the first in this hilarious, illustrated series.
Martin Moone is eleven and completely fed up with being the only
boy in a family of girls. He's desperate for a decent wingman to
help him navigate his idiotic life. So when best mate Padraic
suggests Martin get an imaginary friend - or 'IF' for short - he
decides to give it a go. His first attempt is Loopy Lou, a
hyperactive goofball who loves writing rubbish rap songs. But
Martin soon gets fed up with Lou's loopiness and decides to trade
in his IF for someone a little less wacky. Enter Sean 'Caution'
Murphy, an imaginary office clerk in a bad suit with a passion for
laziness and a head full of dodgy jokes. Sean is full of tips and
tricks to guide Martin through the perils of the playground, from
dealing with his sisters' pranks to beating the bullying Bonner
boys. But getting rid of Lou is not that easy, and having TWO
imaginary friends is a recipe for trouble!
The bestselling novel and major film about love, loss and hope from
the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same
dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since
she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But
tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at
his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it
wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the
truth. Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning
writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking
tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to
survive.
Charles Dowding draws on his years of experience, to show how easy
it is to start a new vegetable garden. Any plot - whether a
building site, overgrown with weeds or unwanted lawn - can be
turned into a beautiful and productive vegetable area. Charles's
no-nonsense and straightforward advice is the perfect starting
point for the beginner or experienced gardener. The book takes you
step-by-step through: * Planning and early stages * Clearing the
ground * Mulch - what, why, how? * Minimizing digging * Sowing and
planting across the seasons * Growing in polytunnels and
greenhouses It is filled with labour-saving ideas and the
techniques that Charles uses to garden so successfully and is
illustrated throughout with photos and tales from Charles's first
year in his new vegetable garden.
Placing Psyche is the first in a series of books that will explore
the notion of cultural complexes in a variety of settings around
the world. The continent of Australia is the focus of this
inaugural volume in which the contributors elucidate how the unique
geography and peoples of Australia interact and interpenetrate to
create the particular "mindscapes" of the Australian psyche. While
the cultural complexes of Australia are explored with a keen eye to
the specificity of place, history, context, and content, at the
same time it becomes obvious that these cultural complexes emerge
out of an archetypal background that is not just Australian but
global. This volume shows how cultural complex theory itself
mediates between the particularity of place and the universality of
archetypal patterns.
This book invites young people to examine their lives and
relationships. It begins by helping teens define what physical,
emotional and sexual boundaries are. Stories illustrate how
personal space and feelings can be either respected or violated.
The book's journal format encourages teens to reflect on and record
feelings about their own relationships.
A moving, heart breaking, and lyrical true story of the author's
escape from an apocalyptic cult-and the survival skills that led to
her freedom. My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I
know how to survive on what the earth yields. As a child, Michelle
Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was
born into an ultra-religious cult-or the Field as they called
it-started in the 1930s by her grandfather, a mercurial,
domineering, and charismatic man who convinced generations of young
male followers that he would live 500 years and ascend to the
heavens when doomsday came. Comfort and care are sins, Michelle is
told. As a result, she was forced to learn the skills necessary to
battle hunger, thirst, and cold; she learned to trust animals more
than humans; and most importantly, she learned how to survive in
the natural world. At the Field, a young Michelle lives a life of
abuse, poverty, and isolation, as she obeys her family's rigorous
religious and patriarchal rules-which are so extreme that Michelle
is convinced her mother would sacrifice her, like Abraham and
Isaac, if instructed by God. She often wears the same clothes for
months at a time; she is often ill and always hungry for both love
and food. She is taught not to trust Outsiders, and especially not
Quitters, nor her own body and its warnings. But as Michelle gets
older, she realizes she has the strength to break free. Focus on
what will sustain, not satiate you, she tells herself. Use
everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land,
like the intricacies of your body. And so she does. Using stories
of individual edible plants and their uses to anchor each chapter,
Forager is both a searing coming-of-age story and a meditation on
the ways in which understanding nature can lead to freedom, even
joy.
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St. Vincent (DVD)
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Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy star in this comedy drama written
and directed by Theodore Melfi. Murray plays Vincent, a
misanthropic and curmudgeonly old man who becomes responsible for
his neighbour Maggie (McCarthy)'s son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher).
Maggie, who has enough on her mind with starting her new job at the
hospital while going through divorce proceedings from Oliver's
father, employs Vincent to take care of Oliver after school.
Unbeknown to Maggie, Vincent is a heavy drinker and smoker and
likes to hang around bars and racetracks in his spare time. But is
there more to Vincent than meets the eye?
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Cuban Fury (Blu-ray disc)
Ian McShane, Rashida Jones, Chris O'Dowd, Nick Frost, Wendi McLendon-Covey, …
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Nick Frost stars as a former salsa dancer desperate to regain his
mojo in this comedy directed by James Griffiths. 22 years after a
bullying incident robbed him of his shot at glory in the UK Junior
Salsa Championships, overweight and self-loathing office worker
Bruce Garrett (Frost) falls for the charms of his new, seemingly
out-of-reach American boss Julia (Rashida Jones). Bruce's hopes
rise, however, when he discovers that Julia also shares a passion
for the dance floor, inspiring him to try to turn back the clock
and win the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, there's a problem -
Bruce's testosterone-fuelled colleague Drew (Chris O'Dowd) has made
it quite obvious that he's got his own carnal designs on Julia. Can
Bruce regain his confidence, unleash his dormant Latin fire and
snatch the ultimate prize?
Tim Burton directs this fantasy adventure based on the bestselling
book by Ransom Riggs. When Jacob Portman (Asa Butterfield)'s
grandfather dies, he leaves him clues to a mysterious place called
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob determines to
discover the story behind this strange establishment and the
unusual Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), he finds that the peculiar
children in question are so-called because they have extraordinary
powers and it is his destiny to protect them from an evil force
intent on destroying them. The all-star cast includes Judi Dench,
Samuel L. Jackson, Chris O'Dowd and Rupert Everett.
No dig organic gardening saves time and work. It requires an annual
dressing of compost to help accelerate the improvement in soil
structure and leads to higher fertility and less weeds. No dig
experts, Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty, explain how to set
up a no dig garden. They describe how to: Make compost, enrich
soil, harvest and prepare food and make natural beauty and clean
ing products and garden preparations. These approaches work as well
in small spaces as in large gardens. The Authors' combined
experience gives you ways of growing, preparing and storing the
plants you grow for many uses, including delicious vegetable feasts
and many recipes and ideas for increasing self reliance, saving
money, living sustainably and enjoying the pleasure of growing your
own food, year round. Charles' advice is distilled from 35 years of
growing vegetables intensively and efficiently; he is the
acknowledged no dig guru and salad expert both in the UK and
internationally. Stephanie, a kitchen gardener, grows in her small,
productive home garden and allotment, and creates no dig gardens
for restaurants and private estates.She presents truly delicious
seasonal recipes, made from the vegetables anyone can grow. She
also explains how to use common plants you can grow and forage for
to make handmade preparation for the home and garden.
Placing Psyche is the first in a series of books that will explore
the notion of cultural complexes in a variety of settings around
the world. The continent of Australia is the focus of this
inaugural volume in which the contributors elucidate how the unique
geography and peoples of Australia interact and interpenetrate to
create the particular "mindscapes" of the Australian psyche. While
the cultural complexes of Australia are explored with a keen eye to
the specificity of place, history, context, and content, at the
same time it becomes obvious that these cultural complexes emerge
out of an archetypal background that is not just Australian but
global. This volume shows how cultural complex theory itself
mediates between the particularity of place and the universality of
archetypal patterns.
Designed to guide you through a structured approach to building
your leadership skills, this book uses case studies, practical
examples, and reflective questions to help you engage with every
aspect of leadership. It explores a wide range of topics and ideas
from teamwork, communication, and problem-solving, to emotional
intelligence, critical self-reflection, and quality of care to
provide an ideal platform for learning. It is suitable for all
professions allied to medicine, including students of adult, mental
health, children and learning disability nursing and midwifery, as
well as nursing associates, specialist community public health
nurses, physician associates, paramedic sciences, and more.
- brings together researcher and practitioner perspectives. -
explores these issues on a local and global level - provides
critical reflections around how sexual violence is framed and
responded to within the Criminal Justice system.
This volume introduces Virtual Exchange (VE) as an innovative form
of online intercultural learning and investigates the myriad of
ways VE is being carried out across universities, ultimately
arguing for its integration into university internationalisation
policies and course curricula. Against the backdrop of increased
digitalisation initiatives throughout universities given the
effects of the pandemic, chapters focus not only on providing new
research findings, but also on providing a comprehensive
introduction and argumentation for the use of VE in university
education and also in demonstrating how it can be put into use by
both university decision-makers and educators. Reviewing the
limitations of the activity, this timely work also fundamentally
posits how VE and blended mobility more broadly could be developed
in future higher education initiatives. This book will be of
interest to researchers, academics, scholars, and students involved
with Open & Distance Education and eLearning, approaches to
internationalisation in education, and the study of higher
education more broadly. Those interested in innovative methods for
teaching and learning, as well as educational research, will also
benefit from this volume.
A journal with a perpetual diary, a manual of gardening to inform
and inspire, packed with illustrations and an introduction by
Darina Allen of Ballymaloe Cookery School Three quarters Charles's
advice on how to grow great crops, one quarter writing space for
each day. Use it year after year to make the best decisions, with
your notes alongside Charles's suggestions, for future reference.
Advice in the diary section is linked to each week of the season
and takes you through the whole process, from clearing weeds,
feeding soil and sowing to harvests and storing vegetables. *
Advice on sowing and planting methods, plus raising plants at home
* Best sowing dates - seeds neither fail in cold nor start too late
* Advantages of no dig, saving time, giving fewer weeds and bigger
crops * How to maintain control of weeds through timely mulching
and hoeing * How to feed soil just once a year, for strong and
healthy growth * When and how to make all the harvests, with advice
on storing produce too.
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an Informa company.
'A whip-smart puzzle with unforgettable characters' Robin Stevens,
bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike 'Compulsive Reading'
Independent 'Thoroughly gripping' Sunday Telegraph A story about
family, self-belief and bravery, The London Eye Mystery is a
brilliantly inventive crime-caper perfect for fans of Enola Holmes,
High-Rise Mystery and A Kind of Spark. 11.32 a.m. Ted and his
sister Kat watch their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye.
The pod rises from the ground, high above the city. 12.02 p.m. The
pod lands and the doors open. Everyone exits - everyone but Salim.
Has he spontaneously combusted? (Ted's theory.) Has he been
kidnapped? (Aunt Gloria's theory.) Is he even still alive? (The
family's unspoken fear.) Ted doesn't see the world like most people
he knows and is sure that with his "unique operating system" of a
brain he can uncover the truth about Salim's disappearance. So,
teaming up with Kat, Ted sets out to do just that - following a
trail of clues across London. But with time ticking dangerously by,
can Ted solve the mystery before it's too late? A multiple
award-winning novel with over 150k copies sold in the UK alone, The
London Eye Mystery is a true modern classic that's not to be missed
- now featuring an introduction from Robin Stevens. Don't miss
Ted's second detective adventure, The Guggenheim Mystery!
Conventional wisdom is difficult to question, even when it is
misguided and contains many contradictions. Gardening has its share
of such 'myths' - some with discernible origins in history, others
that have become established for no obvious reason - and they often
obscure simpler and easier methods of working. This delightfully
illustrated book reveals how common sense triumphs and crops are
more successful when these 'rules' are overturned. A fascinating
but practical book that will save the seasoned gardener time and
give new gardeners heart.
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Moone Boy: Series 1 and 2 (DVD)
David Rawle, Chris O'Dowd, Peter McDonald, Deirdre O'Kane, Clare Monnelly, …
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The complete first two series of the sitcom created by and starring
Chris O'Dowd following a 12-year-old boy and his imaginary friend
in a small Irish town. Young Martin (David Rawle), the youngest
member of the Moone family, has a unique outlook on life. With his
imaginary friend, Seán (O'Dowd), on hand to help him, he negotiates
everyday life and the troubles it brings.
Known as the guru of no-dig, Charles Dowding has updated his
definitive book on salad-growing in this beautifully illustrated
new edition: how to have tasty salad leaves all year round in a
garden, balcony or windowsill; how to grow micro leaves and how to
serve them in delicious recipes, all using organic or permaculture
principles. Great for food lovers keen to eat tasty food with a low
carbon footprint. This compendium of practical methods for growing
a wide variety of salads throughout the year, will inspire you to
grow your own, whether on a windowsill, in your garden or on the
allotment. Here is all the information you need for productive,
healthy and tasty salads. Learn the subtleties of salad seasons and
virtues of different leaves throughout the year. And when your
table is groaning with the abundance of your harvests, there are
delicious and imaginative recipes by Stephanie Hafferty, exploiting
the fantastic flavours, colour and vitality of home grown salad
leaves.
How to Grow Winter Vegetables shows that it is possible to enjoy an
abundance of vegetables at the darkest time of year, whether stored
or ready for harvesting when needed. It also covers growing for the
'hungry gap' from April to early June. Not much grows in winter,
but a well-organised plot may nonetheless be quite full. You need
to plan carefully, and well ahead (as early as spring) for sowing
and planting at specific times through the year, so the main part
of the book is an extensive month-by-month sowing, planting and
growing calendar. Further sections cover harvesting, from garlic in
July right through to the last of the overwintered greens in May,
and storing your produce. Many salads can be grown in winter,
especially with a little protection from fleece, cloches or larger
structures. The book includes a whole section on frost-hardy salad
plants, explaining how to ensure harvests of fresh leaves
throughout winter. The beauty of winter and its produce is captured
in glorious photographs from the author's garden.
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