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When Shadow Moon is released from prison, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday and a storm begins to brew. Little does Shadow know, this storm will change the course of his entire life.
Left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife, and suddenly hired as Mr. Wednesday’s bodyguard, Shadow finds himself in the centre of a world that he struggles to understand. It’s a hidden world where magic is real, where the Old Gods fear both irrelevance and the growing power of the New Gods, like Technology and Media. Mr. Wednesday seeks to build a coalition of Old Gods to defend their existence in this new America, and reclaim some of the influence that they’ve lost.
As Shadow travels across the country with Mr. Wednesday, he struggles to accept this new reality, and his place in it.
Fassinerende en interessante feite wat die nuuskierigste kind (en grootmens!) vasgenael sal hou! InHoekom nie?is daar 1,111 fantastiese antwoorde en verduidelikings vir al daardie vrae waarop weetgierige kinders antwoorde soek: Hoekom hou ons nie aan met groei nie? Hoekom vlieg ons nie rond in straalpakke nie? Hoekom is daar nie meer dinosourusse nie? Om alles te kroon is daar ook nog top 10-lyste, raar-maar-waar feite, profiele van ontdekkingsreisigers en cool aktiwiteite!
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9 (DVD)
Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, …
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Animated, action-packed fantasy adventure set in a post-apocalyptic
future where the human race has been destroyed by machines which
they themselves created. All that exists, aside from a number of
the machines, is a group of sapient rag dolls brought to life by a
scientist in the final days of humanity who stumble upon 9 (voiced
by Elijah Wood), another of their own kind. The group, consisting
of war veteran and leader 1 (Christopher Plummer), frail inventor 2
(Martin Landau), non-verbal twins 3 and 4, engineer 5 (John C
Reilly), vision-plagued artist 6 (Crispin Glover), brave fighter 7
(Jennifer Connelly), and dim but strong 8 (Fred Tatasciore),
welcome 9 in the hope that he can help them muster the courage to
battle the remaining machines and save what is left of the world.
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The Carrier (DVD)
John Cusack, David Shumbris, Crispin Glover, Kirk 'Sticky Fingaz' Jones, Mike Mayhall, …
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Crime thriller starring John Cusack, Rebecca Da Costa and Robert De
Niro. Assassin Jack (Cusack) is given a new assignment by his
ruthless boss Dragna (De Niro): he must collect a bag without
looking inside it and stay at a motel until Dragna arrives. At the
motel there are many suspicious characters who all seem to want to
get their hands on the bag and the murder count rises as Jack
protects its contents. He meets prostitute Rivka (Da Costa), who is
hiding out in his room, and is unsure whether he can trust her but
allows her to stay because she knows too much. When Dragna
eventually comes to the motel Jack learns that there is more to the
mission than he first realised...
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Epic Movie/Date Movie (DVD)
Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune A Chambers, …
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Double bill featuring two spoof comedies. 'Epic Movie' (2007) tells
the tale of four fully grown orphans: one the victim of snakes that
attacked her plane, another raised by a kindly Louvre curator, the
third a Mexican 'libre' wrestling refuge, and the last an average
mutant from an 'X'-community. When the curious quartet visits a
sprawling chocolate factory, they stumble across a magical wardrobe
which transports them to the enchanted land of Gnarnia. It seems
that the wondrous fantasy land has recently fallen under the spell
of the evil White Bitch (Jennifer Coolidge), and in order to bring
peace back to Gnarnia these four bumbling mortals will have to join
forces with a charismatic pirate, a painfully sincere group of
aspiring wizards, and one particularly libidinous lion. 'Date
Movie' (2006) stars Alyson Hannigan as a hopeless romantic who has
finally met the man of her dreams Grant Funkyerdoder. But before
they can have their 'Big Fat Greek Wedding', they'll have to 'Meet
the Parents', hook up with 'The Wedding Planner' and contend with
Grant's girlfriend, Andy, a spectacularly beautiful woman who wants
to put a stop to her 'Best Friend's Wedding'.
'Farber [is] a lucid and courageous witness to the power-play
behind the first "scamdemic," . . . [Her] work is journalism at its
best—solid, lucid, and humane, attacking wrongs that few dare
touch, and thereby helping right them.' —Mark Crispin Miller,
bestselling author and professor of media studies at NYU On April
23, 1984, in a packed press conference room in Washington, DC, the
secretary of health and human services declared, 'The probable
cause of AIDS has been found.' By the next day, 'probable' had
fallen away, and the novel retrovirus later named HIV became
forever lodged in global consciousness as 'the AIDS virus.' Celia
Farber, then an intrepid young reporter
for SPIN magazine, was the only journalist to question
the official narrative and dig into the science of AIDS. She
reported on the 'evidence' that was being continually cited and
repeated by health officials and the press, the deadliness of AZT,
and Dr. Fauci’s trials on children, infants, and pregnant
mothers. Throughout, Faber’s reportage was largely ignored. She
was maligned, maliciously attacked, and ultimately cancelled. Now,
forty years after her original reporting, Farber’s Serious
Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS is reissued
with a new foreword by Mark Crispin Miller, shining much-needed
light on her groundbreaking work once again. More relevant than
ever, this book serves as an essential foundation to understanding
its catastrophic sequel: COVID-19. Serious Adverse
Events makes clear that the tactics employed at the height of
HIV/AIDS—the fearmongering, cancel culture, and “woke”
takeover of science, medicine, and journalism—persist today. The
response to COVID-19 isn’t new: it is a well-trod and dangerous
path in the social landscape. 'Groundbreaking work.'—Bob
Guccione, Jr., founder of SPIN magazine
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The Long Divorce
Edmund Crispin; Introduction by Val McDermid
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As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse –
discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime
fiction at its quirkiest and best. Long inhabited by a collection
of profoundly offbeat locals, there has been a recent influx of the
newly rich and well to do arriving in the village of Cotten Abbas
… and not everyone is happy about it. New arrivals are receiving
anonymous letters that know a little too much about dark secrets
and dirty laundry. Gervase Fen is summoned to the scene, but soon
finds more than he bargained for. A suicide on Friday, a murder by
Sunday, and some villagers that seem hell bent on keeping this
mystery unsolved…
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PROTOTYPE 1 (Paperback)
Astrid Alben; Rachael Allen; Theis Anderson; Rowland Bagnall; Tara Bergin; Emily Berry; Crispin Best; Paul Buck; Jen Calleja; Thomas A Clark; Laurie Clark; Esme Creed-Miles; Emily Critchley; Jake Elliott; Laura Elliott; SJ Fowler; Amy Key, Michael Kindellan; Caleb Klaces; Gareth Damian Martin; Robert Herbert McClean; Wayne Holloway-Smith; Kirstie Millar; Catrin Morgan; Richard Price; Leonie Rushforth; Rachel Snowdon; Rebecca Tama s; Ollie Tong; Kandace Siobhan Walker; Ahren Warner; Stephen Watts; Ralf Webb; Eley Williams; Alison Honey Woods; Madeleine Wurzburger; Edited by Jess Chandler; Designed by Theo Inglis; Cover design or artwork by Catrin Morgan
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As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse –
discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime
fiction at its quirkiest and best. When a decapitated head is seen
floating down the river in the Devon village of Aller, the rural
calm is shattered. Soon the corpses are multiplying, and the entire
community is involved in the hunt for the murderer. Whilst many
chase false trails, it is left to Gervase Fen, Oxford don and
amateur criminologist, to uncover the sordid truth…
This book provides a thorough and detailed analysis of how the
figure of the ‘autonomous learner’ shapes educational
practices. It unpacks the impact of current educational reform
discourse that focuses on the individual pupil as a learner, while
neglecting the social dimensions of classroom practices. In view of
the yet unknown requirements of the knowledge economy, students are
demanded to take more responsibility for their learning and to
become self-reliant, independent, lifelong learners. In turn,
teachers are asked to tailor education to the individual needs of
their students and to foster their individual learning
trajectories. Based on in-depth fieldwork and long-term observation
of interactions in classrooms and other scholastic settings,
scholars from three European countries – France, Germany and
Switzerland – show how the translation of the figure of the
‘autonomous learner’ into classrooms is shaped by distinct
cultural traditions. Chapters analyse teaching routines and
conceptions of self-reliance involved in autonomy-oriented settings
and discuss how these change the sociality of the classroom. They
scrutinize how autonomy is used to differentiate between students
and how it contributes to the reproduction of social inequality.
The book brings into dialogue two neighbouring research traditions
that research autonomous learning from a sociological perspective
and which have largely ignored each other until now. In so doing,
the contributions engage a critical perspective for a careful
empirical analysis in order to better understand what is being done
in the name of autonomy. Providing insight into the many facets of
developing and nurturing self-standing pupils across various
educational contexts, this is ideal reading for scholars in the
field of education, as well as teachers and decision-makers across
the educational sector.
The complete collection of published short stories of Edmund
Crispin, together in one volume for the first time. ‘Detective
stories are anti-social. It’s quite impossible to suppose that
criminals don’t collect useful information from them, fantastic
and far-fetched though they usually are.’ Gervase Fen disagrees
with such a pompous assessment. If criminals studied detective
stories properly, they would get away with . . . well . . . murder.
Forty-six detective stories by the great Edmund Crispin – a
splendid hoard! Most of them feature his Oxford don, Gervase Fen,
and Inspector Humbleby of Scotland Yard, and the cases turn upon a
fine assortment of clues – dandelions and hearing aids, a
bloodstained cat and a Leonardo drawing, a corpse with an alibi and
a truly poisonous letter . . . there seems no limit to the
intricacy of Edmund Crispin’s invention or the sparkle of his
wit. Compiled from Beware of the Trains, Fen Country and other
disparate sources, and concluding with the recently discovered
Christmas novella The Hours of Darkness, this is a long-overdue
treasury of original, often startling and invariably entertaining
tales by one of the acknowledged masters of the detective story.
Erudite and complex, succinct yet leisurely, it is classic crime at
its finest.
In 1982, eight young Guards officers in their twenties found
themselves suddenly on the way to the Falklands 8000 miles away
from Britain. Some four decades later, they realised that no one
had written the history of this unique war in Britain's history
from their side - including coming under Argentine fire on Sir
Galahad on 8 June, the most dramatic day in Britain's military
history since the second world war. Crispin Black tells their story
and casts a startling new light on what happened to them, using the
latest official documents. Even basic facts have remained hidden to
this day.
Hospitality Business Development analyses and evaluates the
different aspects of business growth routes and development
processes in the international hospitality industry. It considers
the essential features of the strategic business context, in which
any hospitality organisation operates, and: Explores the essential
requirements and challenges of hospitality business development,
and the implications which these present for hospitality operators.
Explains how differentiation and innovation can become key to
organizational success and provides you with the all of the skills
you need to implement your own business development Examines the
shifting nature of demand, evaluating consumers' behaviour and
relating the principles of customer centricity to the business
development function Is packed with case studies and industry
related examples, which cover a broad range of hospitality sectors
including in-flight catering, holiday homes, guest houses, licensed
retail, catering, international restaurants and hotels, ensuring
you have a thorough understanding of the international hospitality
business development This title also has a companion website for
lecturers with PowerPoint slides to aid teaching and learning.
Hospitality Business Development equips students and aspiring
hospitality managers with the necessary knowledge, expertise and
skills in business development. This book is a must-read for any
one studying or working in the hospitality industry.
First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book provides a thorough and detailed analysis of how the
figure of the ‘autonomous learner’ shapes educational
practices. It unpacks the impact of current educational reform
discourse that focuses on the individual pupil as a learner, while
neglecting the social dimensions of classroom practices. In view of
the yet unknown requirements of the knowledge economy, students are
demanded to take more responsibility for their learning and to
become self-reliant, independent, lifelong learners. In turn,
teachers are asked to tailor education to the individual needs of
their students and to foster their individual learning
trajectories. Based on in-depth fieldwork and long-term observation
of interactions in classrooms and other scholastic settings,
scholars from three European countries – France, Germany and
Switzerland – show how the translation of the figure of the
‘autonomous learner’ into classrooms is shaped by distinct
cultural traditions. Chapters analyse teaching routines and
conceptions of self-reliance involved in autonomy-oriented settings
and discuss how these change the sociality of the classroom. They
scrutinize how autonomy is used to differentiate between students
and how it contributes to the reproduction of social inequality.
The book brings into dialogue two neighbouring research traditions
that research autonomous learning from a sociological perspective
and which have largely ignored each other until now. In so doing,
the contributions engage a critical perspective for a careful
empirical analysis in order to better understand what is being done
in the name of autonomy. Providing insight into the many facets of
developing and nurturing self-standing pupils across various
educational contexts, this is ideal reading for scholars in the
field of education, as well as teachers and decision-makers across
the educational sector.
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Frequent Hearses
Edmund Crispin; Introduction by Val McDermid
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As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse –
discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime
fiction at its quirkiest and best. When young actress Gloria Scott
throws herself from Waterloo Bridge, the news sends shockwaves
through her film studio. Luckily Gervase Fen is in London to
investigate. But when someone acts fast to cover up any evidence
– removing all signs of Ms Scott’s identity from her apartment
and poisoning a suspicious cameraman – the truth is hard to
find…
No one can disagree that benefits are good things. Whether you are
responsible for projects, programs, or portfolios, you are
increasingly expected to think-and act-in an appropriate
benefits-driven way. However: Do you understand that what may be
appropriate for a project may be inapplicable for a program? Can
you avoid the trap of wishful thinking based on overinflated
expectations and underestimated costs? Can you manage your program
or portfolio from inception to final delivery in a consistent,
benefits-focused way based on a single, coherent model? This book
describes how Earned Benefit Program Management techniques provide
an innovative, all-inclusive model and set of tools developed
specifically to answer these questions. This model consolidates the
key concepts of project, program, and portfolio management and
ensures that all program and portfolio management steps are carried
out based on a single, signed-off model in a consistent, verifiable
manner within a consolidated life cycle. This approach guarantees
alignment with strategic goals and constraints through every stage
of a program. Case studies highlight the key features of the
approach and provide important lessons and insights for managing
programs. Although the ideas and concepts for each topic are fully
consistent with existing standards and other published material,
they are based on new thinking and go beyond current practice. They
provide a set of original and powerful techniques that are
applicable to both programs and portfolios in a wide range of
business environments.
With contributions from international authors, this text
demonstrates that education systems, and what it is to be educated,
are in transition and that societies and economies are changing
dramatically. The contributors explore expanding university
systems, financial responsibilities and curricula.
Provides a timely and original contribution to the debate
surrounding privileged self-knowledge Contemporary epistemologists
and philosophers of mind continue to find puzzling the nature and
source of privileged self-knowledge: the ordinary and effortless
‘first-person’ knowledge we have of our own sensations, moods,
emotions, beliefs, desires, and hopes. In Expression and
Self-Knowledge, Dorit Bar-On and Crispin Wright articulate their
joint dissatisfaction with extant accounts of self-knowledge and
engage in a sustained and substantial critical debate over the
merits of an expressivist approach to the topic. The authors
incorporate cutting-edge research while defending their own
alternatives to existing approaches to so-called ‘first-person
privilege’. Bar-On defends her neo-expressivist account,
addressing the objection that neo-expressivism fails to provide an
adequate epistemology of ordinary self-knowledge, and addresses new
objections levelled by Wright. Wright then presents an alternative
pluralist approach, and Bar-On argues in response that pluralism
faces difficulties neo-expressivism avoids. Providing invaluable
insights on a hotly debated topic in epistemology and philosophy of
mind, Expression and Self-Knowledge: Presents an in-depth debate
between two leading philosophers over the expressivist approach
Offers novel developments and penetrating criticisms of the
authors' respective views Features two different perspectives on
the influential remarks on expression and self-knowledge found in
Wittgenstein’s later writings Includes four jointly written
chapters that offer a critical overview of prominent existing
accounts, which provide a useful advanced introduction to the
subject. Expression and Self-Knowledge is essential reading for
epistemologists, philosophers of mind and language, psychologists
with an interest in self-knowledge, and researchers and graduate
students working in expression, expressivism, and self-knowledge.
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Hello (Paperback)
Crispin Best
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As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse -
discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime
fiction at its quirkiest and best. Richard Cadogan, poet and
would-be bon vivant, arrives for what he thinks will be a relaxing
holiday in the city of dreaming spires. Late one night, however, he
discovers the dead body of an elderly woman lying in a toyshop and
is coshed on the head. When he comes to, he finds that the toyshop
has disappeared and been replaced with a grocery store. The police
are understandably skeptical of this tale but Richard's former
schoolmate, Gervase Fen (Oxford professor and amateur detective),
knows that truth is stranger than fiction (in fiction, at least).
Soon the intrepid duo are careening around town in hot pursuit of
clues but just when they think they understand what has happened,
the disappearing-toyshop mystery takes a sharp turn... Erudite,
eccentric and entirely delightful - Before Morse, Oxford's murders
were solved by Gervase Fen, the most unpredictable detective in
classic crime fiction.
As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse -
discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime
fiction at its quirkiest and best. Holy Disorders takes Oxford don
and part time detective Gervase Fen to the town of Tolnbridge,
where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the
cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to play
sleuth. The man didn't have an enemy in the world, and even his
music was inoffensive: could he have fallen foul of a nest of
German spies or of the local coven of witches, ominously rumored to
have been practicing since the 17th century?
This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings
together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the
first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna
Brand. Mystery stories have been around for centuries-there are
whodunits, whydunits and howdunits, including locked-room puzzles,
detective stories without detectives, and crimes with a limited
choice of suspects. Countless volumes of such stories have been
published, but some are still impossible to find: stories that
appeared in a newspaper, magazine or an anthology that has long
been out of print; ephemeral works such as plays not aired, staged
or screened for decades; and unpublished stories that were absorbed
into an author's archive when they died . . . Here for the first
time are three never-before-published mysteries by Edmund Crispin,
Ngaio Marsh and Leo Bruce, and two pieces written for radio by
Gladys Mitchell and H. C. Bailey-the latter featuring Reggie
Fortune. Together with a newly unearthed short story by Ethel Lina
White that inspired Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, and a complete
short novel by Christianna Brand, this diverse mix of tales by some
of the world's most popular classic crime writers contains
something for everyone. Complete with indispensable biographies by
Tony Medawar of all the featured authors, the fourth volume in the
series Bodies from the Library once again brings into the daylight
the forgotten, the lost and the unknown.
Since the foundation of the town by King John, Liverpool has had a
church by the river. Over the following centuries dozens more
churches came and went, but the imprint of the activity of the
Parish of Liverpool on the city and people was profound.
Particularly until the mid-nineteenth century (and at times
afterwards) the history of the town was inseparable from her
church, and their unusually strong relationship is not replicated
in other cities. Control of the church sat with the corporation
(down to the council's instruction to the incumbent in 1612 to get
his hair cut!), and the town claimed ownership of the church and
its contents. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries
the health and social care for the town was run from the church
under the Elizabethan Poor Law. A beautiful book that makes
essential and fascinating reading for anyone who loves Liverpool
and its rich history.
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