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The Reef (DVD)
Freddie Prinze Jr, Rob Schneider, Evan Rachel Wood, Donal Logue, Andy Dick, …
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Animated adventure featuring the voice of Freddie Prinze Jr. When
Pi (Prinze Jr), an ordinary fish from Boston, arrives at the exotic
reef to live with his Aunt Pearl (Fran Descher), he is immediately
attracted to Cordelia (Evan Rachel Wood), the fish of his dreams.
There's just one problem - Troy (Donal Logue), the meanest shark in
the ocean, who not only patrols the reef keeping its community in
fear of becoming his next meal, but also has his eye on Cordelia
and wants her for himself. Pi must join up with his new group of
friends and try and outwit Troy and his henchmen, save the reef and
win Cordelia.
The Official History of the Tour de France – fully revised and
updated for 2023 – is a celebration of one of the greatest annual
sporting events, and the premier competition in world cycling.
Through more than 300 photographs, rarely seen documents and items
of memorabilia, this book covers more than a century of fascinating
stories about the Tour and its iconic yellow jersey. This revised
and updated edition includes an authoritative narrative account of
each major era, up to and including the thrilling 2022 Tour. There
are features on superstar cyclists and memorable moments from each
period of the event's rich history, plus a foreword from legendary
Tour de France champion Bernard Hinault. This is the definitive
illustrated book on the Tour.
PONDLIFE Simon and Martin seem unlikely friends, but when Simon
saves Martin from the aggressive and rather terrifying Sharon
MacGuinness their fate is sealed and together they take on the
world. However, one moment of indecision on a summer afternoon
changes everything forever. A story of how hard it is to be brave
when we are young and the moments we come to regret when we are
old. KAPPA Kappa tells the story of one boy as he tries to find his
place in a world that's falling apart. Set in an alternative
universe where quantum games and knowledge of numbers opens the
doors to multiple worlds and gives power to whoever can wield them
Kappa finds himself part of a dangerous game that could lead to his
own destruction. MIKEY & ADDIE Mikey is a dreamer. Addie is
anything but. He walks about with his head in the stars, believing
that his dad is up there somewhere, in space, working for NASA.
However, when Addie shatters his dreams she starts to realize that
with the truth comes responsibility and that, like it or not, she
is going to have to do everything she can to help this boy. Even if
it means breaking all the rules she holds dear.
Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces
the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions
for the changes required as we move into the next millenium.
Leading experts outline the changing context for land use and
environmental policy in Britain and explain why the existing
processes and profession of town planning are likely to be unable
to provide satisfactory policy responses in the future. Key themes
debated include:
* widening the remit of traditional town planning * giving land
and buildings a community value
* acting for people rather than simply for the market
* promoting an equalization of environmental conditions and
discouragement of motorization
* the need to anticipate long term global trends at the local and
national level.
Contributors: Andrew Blowers, Bob Colenutt, Richard Cowell, Bob
Evans, Cliff Hague, Peter Hall, Susan Owens, Eric Reade, Yvonne
Rydin.
Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces
the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions
for the changes required as we move into the next millenium.
Leading experts outline the changing context for land use and
environmental policy in Britain and explain why the existing
processes and profession of town planning are likely to be unable
to provide satisfactory policy responses in the future. Key themes
debated include:
* widening the remit of traditional town planning * giving land
and buildings a community value
* acting for people rather than simply for the market
* promoting an equalization of environmental conditions and
discouragement of motorization
* the need to anticipate long term global trends at the local and
national level.
Contributors: Andrew Blowers, Bob Colenutt, Richard Cowell, Bob
Evans, Cliff Hague, Peter Hall, Susan Owens, Eric Reade, Yvonne
Rydin.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, 2000, held in York, UK in October 2000. The 36 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers and three panel outlines were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 abstracts and 82 papers submitted. The book offers topical sections on use cases, enterprise applications, applications, roles, OCL tools, meta-modeling, behavioral modeling, methodology, actions and constraints, patterns, architecture, and state charts.
Das Buch beschaftigt sich mit den internationalen Filmbeziehungen
der DEFA von ihrer Grundung 1946 bis zu ihrer Auflosung nach dem
Ende der DDR 1991. Im Rahmen einer komparatistischen
Mediengeschichtsschreibung werden stilistische Einflusse in
verschiedenen Filmgattungen ebenso untersucht wie Wechselwirkungen
in der Rezeption und offentlichen Diskussion. Die Beitrage gehen
institutionellen Verflechtungen, deutsch-deutschen Filmkontakten
und gelungenen wie gescheiterten Kooperations- und
Koproduktionsvorhaben nach. Ein zentraler Aspekt des
interkulturellen Austauschs der DDR wird damit erstmals grundlegend
aufgearbeitet.
The Official History of the Tour de France is a celebration of one
of the greatest annual sporting events, and the premier competition
in world cycling. Through more than 300 photographs, rarely seen
documents and items of memorabilia, this book covers more than a
century of fascinating stories on the Tour and its iconic yellow
jersey. This revised and updated edition includes an authoritative
narrative account of each major era, up to and including the
thrilling 2020 Tour - a dramatic contest completed against all the
odds - and a preview of the 2021 event. There are features on
superstar cyclists and memorable moments from each period of the
event's rich history, and a foreword from legendary Tour de France
champion Bernard Hinault, all of which combines to form the
definitive illustrated book on the Tour.
30 East Drive Chequerfield, Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Scene of
the most violent Poltergeist activity ever recorded in Europe
during the late 1960's and early 1970's. Join me in my quest to
uncover finally the truth behind this famous haunting. With over 50
overnight stays inside the house I offer out my findings as to what
actually resides now within the empty walls. Was the spirit of 'The
Black Monk' still prevalent within the house? Forty years on the
stories continue. Don't Look Back in Anger takes the reader on a
roller-coaster ride into a world of paranormal activity which
remains today. Enjoy the read, enjoy the journey and enjoy the time
I spent at 30 East Drive
Warning - Contains adult themes Bogdan is a simple man whose
essence is enveloped within the love of his family. A simple but
happy man whose life is shattered and forever changed in one
horrifying night of murder and brutality he will carry with him for
the rest of his days. Age old scars of indifference and hatred are
opened yet again with the violent act of Nazi occupation of
Yugoslavia. These deep divisions will find Bogdan plunged into a
life of never ending bitterness and a deep rooted desire to seek
out revenge and retribution against the neighbours who have soaked
the mountain landscapes with blood and loathing. Family man to
fighting man, Bogdan will now take the fight to the very epicentre
of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. A new band of brothers set
out to embark on a journey which will inevitably lead them to a
horrifying crossroad of despair and never ending sacrifice. For
King and Fatherland, Freedom or Death will herald a dawn of no
return of what they always loved and lost.
The Good People of the United World have fallen victim to the
leaders that they look to for protection. They are isolated from
the outside world and deprived of clean air, fresh food and freedom
of choice. A small group, calling themselves The Revolution of the
Freedom Finders, decides to fight back against the oppression.
Their army is primarily made up of children who lost their parents
to the violence of The World Militia. Fueled by a prophecy and
supported by allies from worlds along The Portal Path, they seek
balance and freedom for The People of Earth.
Bosnia is the back drop to this fascinating insight into a twenty
year search to uncover the true identity of a man displaced from
his country and loved ones. Genealogy today is big business.
Websites now offer their services to uncover the truth about our
heritage. Lost royal bloodlines can be uncovered at the click of
the mouse. Family tragedies of old can be revisited once more,
memories cherished at last forever. Imagine however if no records
of our existence remained. DISPLACED tells of such a search of no
recordable beginning. The story strives to uncover the shrouded
blanket, kept in secret for over sixty years, of my own
grandfather's life before his appearance in England in 1947.
Yugoslavia's bloody and violent times of her past are revisited
within my own travels of modern day quest of understanding.
The following pages give an account of a twenty year search to
uncover the mystery that had surrounded grandfather for the
entirety of his life that he had spent living in the United
Kingdom. All that was ever known of him were the basic facts that
he was Serbian by nationality (although I was later to discover
that he in fact lived in Bosnia) and that he was never to return to
his native homeland again. The book is like that of a split
personality, two sides that would never see the other until the
final chapters were acknowledged, recorded and written together. It
describes my own early recollections of the man and the time I
would spend in his presence throughout childhood and teenage years
until his death in 1988. The other persona tells of the other side
that was left behind in Bosnia. The happiness, ever wandering, the
horrors and finally, as the first one is uncovered, the
understanding and joining together of both as finally one. The
search would be a relentless task searching for a man that had no
records of his existence prior to his displacement in 1946.
Searching a country whose own bloodlust and carnage has seen whole
generations of people and records of them disappear forever. A
country whose varied people are so secretive in their own right and
often hide their own pasts with a passion.
Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh is a eclectic and exciting
gathering of poem and prose-poem manifestos and unmanifestos that
try to understand what poetry is and who or what it might be for.
It is also about what the authors might want or demand from poetry,
in either a general or personal way. Manifestos are often
declamatory and incendiary, but I have tried to defuse polemic and
overtly dictatorial rhetoric by juxtaposition, and by selecting
work from a wide range of critical and poetic positions, not least
that of satire and wit.I've previously - as any of my students will
tell you - dismissed manifestos, but have more recently found them
useful to react against, to incite comment and both critical and
poetical reponse with. Rather than read them as a definitive and
final statement, I have come to see them as an important part of
poetics: a useful way to think about reasons for writing, about
processes and techniques one might use to make poetry, and about
existing or potential relationships with real or imaginary
audiences. The book is designed to encourage and incite readers to
engage with what all too often is regarded as a trivial and
occasional art form. I believe, as do many of the other
contributors, that poetry is far more than self-expression and
heartfelt truth, it is where language is actually rooted and
initiallly located; it is where thought itself comes into being.
Language is wonderful and intoxicating stuff, an engaging and
pliable medium with endless potential for reinvention and
recreation. If the reader can find enthusiasm, passion, laughter
and deep thought in this book - and then argue and engage with it -
I shall be a happy editor. These manifestos and unmanifestos do not
add up to a whole, but in their communcal incoherence and
difference they challenge and delight.
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