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Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans star in this superhero
action adventure film based on characters from Stan Lee's classic
Marvel comic strip. Gawky teenager Peter Parker (Garfield) lives
with his aunt and uncle in New York City. Aware that there is some
mystery surrounding his history and his parentage, Peter does his
best to make sense of the few murky clues he has about his past -
until one day he discovers the shocking secret that will change his
life forever.
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (DVD)
Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti, Dane DeHaan, …
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Andrew Garfield reprises his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in
this superhero sequel based on the Marvel Comics characters. By day
Peter Parker enjoys an ordinary life, spending time with his
girlfriend Gwen (Emma Stone), but by night he flies high amidst New
York skyscrapers as he battles evil. The emergence of Electro
(Jamie Foxx), a figure with startling power and malevolent
intentions, poses Spider-Man his greatest challenge to date, while
he also has The Rhino (Paul Giamatti) to keep under control. The
unexpected return of his old friend Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) is
more welcome. Together, the pair come to realise that shadowy
corporation Oscorp seems to be responsible for much of the evil
they encounter. Can they find a way to put an end to Oscorp's
nefarious activities?
JACK RYAN RETURNS in this high-octane twenty-fourth instalment of
Tom Clancy's heart-pounding, #1 New York Times bestselling series
___________ PRAISE FOR TOM CLANCY 'Constantly taps the current
world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an
engrossing tale' NEW YORK TIMES 'Exhilarating. No other novelist is
giving so full a picture of modern conflict' SUNDAY TIMES 'A
brilliantly constructed thriller that packs a punch' DAILY MAIL
'Heart-stopping action . . . entertaining and eminently topical'
WASHINGTON POST
Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson and Haley Bennett star in this
psychological thriller, adapted from Paula Hawkins' novel. The film
follows Rachel Watson (Blunt) who, after getting divorced from her
husband Tom (Justin Theroux), takes the train to work every day,
passing by her old home and fantasizing about a couple, Megan and
Scott Hippwell (Bennett and Luke Evans), who live down the same
street, and their perfect life together. After seeing Megan with
another man, Rachel is so distraught she turns to alcohol and heads
out for a night in the city. The next morning, with no memory of
what she did the previous night, Rachel awakens to discover that
Megan's disappearance is headline news. She quickly becomes
obsessed with the case and tries to find out more about Megan's
life but discovers her own interest in the couple's lives also
makes her a suspect in the eyes of the police.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in each area.
Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in
provocative ways and map out the potential directions of travel.
They are relevant but also visionary. Outlining significant
dynamics to pave the way for future evolution in the field of
corporate law, this timely Research Agenda explores provocative and
cutting-edge developments to identify new directions for scholarly
inquiry. Bringing together a diverse group of scholars, the book
evaluates doctrinal and normative issues in corporate law from a
range of contextual and interdisciplinary viewpoints. Initial
sections consider how evolving conceptual foundations, capital
markets, social and cultural contexts, and technologies may impact
corporate law and governance in years to come. Subsequent chapters
explore how such dynamics are further impacted by the increasingly
global nature of corporate production and investment markets.
Identifying a host of empirical, theoretical, and practical
research questions, the impressive array of contributors suggest
new directions for corporate legal scholarship. This
state-of-the-art Research Agenda will be of great value to students
and scholars of corporate law, corporate governance, and business.
Its proposed strategies for carrying out future research on the
impact of capital markets, technology and global production will
also benefit practitioners and policymakers in corporate law,
corporate governance, sustainability, business, finance, and
economics.
Every third Monday each April since 1897, the fastest endurance
athletes in the world converge on Boston, Massachusetts to run
planet Earthâs most prestigious road race, the Boston Marathon.
What began with fifteen runners toeing the start on a dirt road is
now a global phenomenon, attracting millions of online viewers,
more than 500,000 spectators, and 30,000 of the fastest athletes
from 120 countries around the world. Books chronicle its storied
history. Memoirs highlight its penchant for self-transformation.
The Unofficial Boston Marathon Handbook takes a different tack,
delivering everything we need to know â how to prepare, what to
wear, how to qualify, where to celebrate, who to emulate, how to
race, and everything else critical (and not so critical) â to
ensure race-day success. In a reverent yet tongue-in-cheek style,
The Unofficial Boston Marathon Handbook educates and entertains in
equal measure. Marc W. Pollina presents us with the definitive
field guide to the Boston Marathon for participants, aspirants on
the cusp of participating, and athletes who dream of participating.
The Unofficial Boston Marathon Handbook features tips on getting
in, training, navigating Boston and the runnersâ expo, racing
through each town, celebrating after the finish, shaking off the
post-race blues, and figuring out what challenge to pursue next in
one entertaining package.
Students in economics are ever more distressed by the disconnect
between mainstream economics and the real world. This book shows
how post-Keynesian economics constitutes a coherent heterodox
alternative, based on realistic assumptions and the integration of
the financial and real sides of the economy, with an emphasis on
the many paradoxes that arise in a truly macroeconomic analysis.
The book is a considerably revised and updated version of the
widely used and frequently cited 2014 edition. It provides a
comprehensive account of post-Keynesian theory and policy. Topics
covered include its methodological foundations, consumer theory and
choice under fundamental uncertainty, firms and pricing, money and
credit, effective demand and employment, growth theory,
open-economy issues, inflation theory. It also links with
ecological economics. Scholars of economics, particularly
post-Keynesian and heterodox economists, will find this
comprehensive look at the field a necessary addition to their
libraries, while students and instructors will find it a perfect
text for any class on post-Keynesian economics.
Graphic novels and comics have launched characters and stories that
play a dominant role in contemporary popular culture throughout the
world. The extensive revisions in this second edition of Comic Art,
Creativity and the Law update the authorâs analysis of important
changes at the intersection of law and comics, featuring an
examination of how recent cases will affect the creative process as
applied to comic art. Throughout, Marc H. Greenberg examines the
impact of contract law, copyright law (including termination
rights, parody and ownership of characters), tax law and obscenity
law on the creative process. He considers how these laws enhance
and constrain the process of creating comic art by examining the
effect their often inconsistent and incoherent application has had
on the lives of creators, retailers and readers of comic art.
Thoroughly revised and updated, there are new chapters featuring a
discussion of important new cases in copyright work-for-hire and
fair use doctrines; the intersection of law and fan-based
creations, such as fan fiction, fan art, fan film and cosplay; as
well as a new chapter on licensing comics for motion pictures and
television. Designed for academics, practitioners, students of law
and fans of comic art, the book offers proposals for changes in
those laws that constrain the creative process, as well as a
glimpse into the future of comic art and the law.
In Good Company celebrates South African culture through the lens of the country’s top artists and leaders in the fields of Entertainment, Business and Sport. The aim is to amaze and inspire South Africans with unique stories and a visual punch that is both powerful and visceral.
This is a project of the heart and its intention is to benefit those in need which is why the author has partnered with one of SA’s greatest charaties, Reach For A Dream, who will receive all book proceeds.
Personalities that feature in the collection include Ayanda Thabethe, Prof. Thuli Madonsela, Pearl Thusi, J’Something, Gert-Johan Coetzee, Maps Maponyane, Minnie Dlamini-Jones, Master KG, Thapelo Mokoena, Siba Mtongana, Catherine Constantinides and others.
Governments have always required large public organizations, or
bureaucracies, to deliver on their promises. Yet most people
leading and managing those agencies lack understanding of the full
toolkit of values, insights and findings that are necessary.
Considering how public administration can learn from a wide range
of disciplines ranging from history and the humanities to
management and the social sciences, Marc Holzer delineates new ways
of transforming organizations and building trust in governments.
Reflecting upon the well-established field of studies on public
administration, this book examines how it might reposition itself
as societyâs necessary and best investment. Concise and timely,
the book first draws on the arts and humanities for portrayals of
bureaucracyâs unintended impacts, before moving to highlight that
public organizations must deliver on governmental promises to build
trust with their stakeholders, outlining how willful blindness can
result in organizational disasters. Holzer concludes by confronting
the popular notion that governments should be run according to the
principles of the private sector, and provides an insightful
rethinking of how public administration should be practiced.
Demonstrating the full range of competencies necessary to manage
the public sector, Rethinking Public Administration will be
essential reading for all scholars and students of public
administration and management, public policy, government and
political science. Providing a practical approach to the topic, it
will also be advantageous to policymakers and other actors involved
in the public sector.
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After the Ball (DVD)
Portia Doubleday, Marc-André Grondin, Chris Noth, Lauren Holly, Natalie Krill, …
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Portia Doubleday and Marc-André Grondin star in this romantic
comedy directed by Sean Garrity. Kate (Doubleday) dreams of being a
designer for a top fashion house, but her father's reputation for
ripping off the houses she wants to work for makes getting a job
near impossible. When she agrees to work for the family business
she decides to disguise herself as a top male designer in order to
expose the company for the frauds that they really are. The cast
also includes Chris Noth, Lauren Holly and Natalie Krill.
Los Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural
extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of
the productthe biggest, best, and brightest theatres imaginable.
The magnificent movie palaces along Broadway in downtown Los
Angeles still represent the highest concentration of vintage
theatres in the world. With Hollywood and the movies practically
synonymous, the theatres in the studios neighborhood were
state-of-the-art for showbiz, whether they were designed for film,
vaudeville, or stage productions. From the elegant Orpheum and the
exotic Graumans Chinese to the modest El Rey, this volume
celebrates the architecture and social history of Los Angeless
unique collection of historic theatres past and present. The common
threads that connect them all, from the grandest movie palace to
the smallest neighborhood theatre, are stories and the ghosts of
audiences past waiting in the dark for the show to begin.
Bryan Bertino co-writes and directs this found footage thriller
starring Todd Stashwick, Alexandra Lydon and Barak Hardley. The
film follows three separate people who receive a video camera on
their doorstep with instructions to begin filming and be entered
into a mysterious competition. However, as the reality of their
situation slowly becomes apparent, they find there is something
much more sinister going on behind the scenes.
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Lost River (DVD)
Barbara Steele, Carey Torrice, Christina Hendricks, Matt Smith, Saoirse Ronan, …
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Surreal thriller written and directed by Ryan Gosling. In an
abandoned town, single mother Billy (Christina Hendricks), who is
struggling with the expense of her home and two sons, begins work
at a nightclub run by her sinister bank manager Dave (Ben
Mendelsohn). She soon discovers that employees are encouraged to
engage in sadistic acts for the customers' viewing pleasure and she
must develop her own unique performance with help from star
performer Cat (Eva Mendes). Meanwhile her teenage son Bones (Iain
de Caestecker) develops an infatuation with neighbour Rat (Saoirse
Ronan) who lives next door with her mute grandmother (Barbara
Steele). Rat introduces Bones to a mythical underwater town at the
bottom of a resevoir that the pair yearn to explore after escaping
the clutches of neighbourhood tormenter Bully (Matt Smith).
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Strange Hill High (DVD)
Emma Kennedy, Doc Brown, Richard Ayoade, Caroline Aherne, Marc Silk, …
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British children's animated series written by Josh Weinstein, who
has previously worked on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama'. The series
is set in and around a high school where strange events take place
and follows the students of the school as they try to make sense of
the bizarre occurrences. The pupils at the school include Becky
Butters (voice of Emma Kennedy), a studious girl who nonetheless
struggles with logic, and Mitchell Tanner (Doc Brown), a lively boy
who would much rather be playing with his friends than stuck in a
classroom. The voice cast also includes Richard Ayoade, Caroline
Aherne and Marc Silk.
Seasonal British comedy sequel starring David Tennant, Pam Ferris
and Jessica Hynes. Neurotic newly-qualified teacher Mr Peterson
(Tennant) starts a new job at an under-achieving school and soon
finds himself juggling his heavy workload with a wildly
unconventional classroom assistant, a group of delinquent kids and
his own very pregnant wife. The pressure mounts still further when
he somehow becomes embroiled in a madcap plan to enter the National
'Song for Christmas' Competition and finds himself embarking on the
craziest road trip of his life.
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Hunky Dory (DVD)
Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Danielle Branch, Robert Pugh, Haydn Gwynne, …
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Feature drama starring Minnie Driver as a schoolteacher intent on
staging a rock opera version of 'The Tempest'. It is the summer of
1976, and Viv May (Driver) is an enthusiastic young drama teacher
at a Swansea secondary school. With her diaphanous dresses and
progressive attitudes, former actress Viv has her enemies amongst
the school's more conservative staff, and has set her sights on
creating a high-octane fusion of Shakespeare and David Bowie for
this year's school performance. Between rehearsals her adolescent
students pass the hot summer days lounging around the lido,
fighting and falling in love, as their future beyond the safe
confines of school life looms ahead of them.
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(500) Days of Summer (DVD)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler, …
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in this offbeat
romantic comedy, the feature debut of music video director Marc
Webb, which chronicles 500 days in the on/off relationship of
Summer (Deschanel) and Tom (Gordon-Levitt). While Summer
steadfastly refuses to believe in true love, asserting that real
life will always get in the way in the end, Tom has thrown caution
to the wind and fallen hook, line and sinker in love with her.
Where can their so-called relationship lead?
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Straw Dogs (DVD)
Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Dominic Purcell, James Woods, …
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This remake of Sam Peckinpah's classic 1971 psychological thriller
transposes the events of the first film from Cornwall to the
American Deep South. James Marsden stars as David Sumner, a
Hollywood screenwriter who moves with his wife, Amy (Kate
Bosworth), from LA to a house in his wife's small rural hometown to
write his new script in peace and quiet. But tensions brew between
the two amid the intense heat and isolation, and an escalating
conflict with the locals eventually drives a naturally
even-tempered David to violent and drastic measures.
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Resurrecting the Champ (DVD)
Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Kathryn Morris, Dakota Goyo, Alan Alda, …
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Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson star in this drama about a
journalist whose life changes after he writes an article about a
homeless man who was once a boxing legend. Reporter Erik Kernan Jr.
(Hartnett) finds the opportunity to prove himself to his boss (Alan
Alda) and his family by writing a heartfelt piece about a former
professional boxer (Jackson) who has since fallen into homelessness
and destitution and now spends his days raking through the rubbish
bins of Denver. Writing the article leads to a soul-searching
personal journey for Erik as he finds himself re-examining his own
past and his relationship with his family.
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