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Paul Blart - Mall Cop 2 (DVD)
Raini Rodriguez, Neal McDonough, Nicholas Turturro, Eduardo Verastegui, David Henrie, …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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Kevin James returns to work as everyone's favourite mall cop in the sequel to the 2009 comedy. When clumsy, overweight security guard Paul Blart (James) travels to Las Vegas with his daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez) to attend the annual Security Guard Conference, he inadvertently discovers that a heist is being planned by master criminal Vincent (Neal McDonough). As the security team of the Las Vegas hotels refuse to take the threat seriously, Blart takes it upon himself to find the crooks and catch them in the act, proving to himself and everyone around him that he's still got what it takes to be a good security guard.
The cast also includes Eduardo Verastegui, Daniella Alonso and David Henrie.
American political observers express increasing concern about
affective polarization, i.e., partisans' resentment toward
political opponents. We advance debates about America's partisan
divisions by comparing affective polarization in the US over the
past 25 years with affective polarization in 19 other western
publics. We conclude that American affective polarization is not
extreme in comparative perspective, although Americans' dislike of
partisan opponents has increased more rapidly since the mid-1990s
than in most other Western publics. We then show that affective
polarization is more intense when unemployment and inequality are
high; when political elites clash over cultural issues such as
immigration and national identity; and in countries with
majoritarian electoral institutions. Our findings situate American
partisan resentment and hostility in comparative perspective, and
illuminate correlates of affective polarization that are difficult
to detect when examining the American case in isolation.
In his short life (1865-1921), Micha Josef Berdichevsky was a
versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew
prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient
Jewish and Christian history. He was at once a peer of the Brothers
Grimm, Sholem Aleichem, Friedrich Nietzsche, and a diverse circle
of Jewish writers in the Russian Empire and German-speaking
countries. As a Yiddish writer, however, he remains largely unknown
to gen eral readers. Originally published in the 1920s, his stories
were dismissed by prominent critics and viewed as out of step with
the literary taste of his own time. Yet these vivid portraits of a
small Jewish town (shtetl) in the southern Russian Empire can speak
powerfully to audiences today. With enchanting humor, social
satire, and verbal dexterity, From a Distant Relation captures the
world of the shtetl in a sharp realist prose style. Themes of
repressed desire, poverty, relations with non-Jews, and historic
upheavals echo in a cast of memorable characters. Many of the
stories and monologues feature strong female protagonists, while
others shed light on the misogynistic culture of the shtetl. At the
border between fiction and reportage, with a gritty underbelly and
a deceptive naivete, Berdichevsky's stories explore dynamics of
wealth, power, and gender in an intimate setting that resonates
profoundly with contemporary Jewish life.
Originally published in 1906, this volume gathers together the
candidate praelections for the Regius Professorship of Greek at the
University of Cambridge, given during January 1906 at the Senate
House. Each candidate was required to provide a one-hour lecture on
a passage of Ancient Greek assigned by the Electors of the post. A
chapter is given to each candidate as follows: Henry Jackson on
Plato, Cratylus, chapters 42-44; James Adam on Pindar, fragment,
131; A. W. Verrall on Aeschylus, Eumenides, 734-743; Walter Headlam
on Aeschylus, Agamemnon, second Chorus; William Ridgeway on
Aeschylus, Supplices, 304 sqq. This book will be of value to anyone
with an interest in Ancient Greek and classical studies at
Cambridge.
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The Family Letters (Paperback)
Thomas Jefferson; Volume editing by Edwin Morris Belts, James Adam Bear
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R1,214
Discovery Miles 12 140
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Thomas Jefferson was a prolific letter writer; it has been
estimated that he wrote and received as many as fifty thousand
letters. The letters here are not limited strictly to family
matters but deal with local events in Paris, Philadelphia, New
York, Washington, and Albemarle County, Virginia, or wherever the
correspondents happened to be.
Covering the years from 1781 into the 1820s, these valuable
accounts remain the chief source of information about Thomas
Jefferson's domestic and personal life, interests, habits,
appearance, and day-to-day activities at Monticello.
Isaac Jefferson and Edmund Bacon were each sixty-five years old
when their recollections were recorded. What they remember best, of
course, are scenes from the past made vivid and immediate by
details involving their own experience. Although their
recollections of Jefferson differ in a number of ways, apparent in
both accounts is a concern for the master whose involvement in
national affairs made his life so different from their own.
Why would a normal teenager throw his heart and soul into an
average Third Division football club for almost a decade, only to
walk away from them at the height of their success? After
abandoning that club for 20 years, what would cause him to rekindle
his passion in a conversion-like experience, and then stick with
the club for the rest of his life? The answers lie in the
psychology of attachment. This is the story of James Adams and his
support of Coventry City, from the days of Billy Frith to Mark
Robins. It's an account that delves into the crucial yet poorly
understood psychological aspects of football fandom to uncover
truths that every football fan can relate to. Join James on a
rollercoaster ride as he asks important questions of himself and
his life alongside a backdrop of footballing highs and lows,
including three Wembley victories and four promotions, as well as
FA Cup debacles for the Sky Blues. Attached to Coventry City is a
highly personal, honest and reflective account of the unusual story
of a lifelong football fan.
Animated comedy sequel directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. As
newly-weds Mavis (voice of Selena Gomez) and Jonathan (Andy
Samberg) start their new life as a family with their baby boy,
Mavis's father, Count Dracula (Adam Sandler), decides to open the
doors of his beloved Hotel Transylvania to human guests for the
first time. After reluctantly accepting that his vampire daughter
fell in love with a human, Dracula hoped that his grandson would be
born with natural vampiric instincts but, as the child grows, his
instincts become more and more human. Unwilling to accept that his
grandson is disinclined to follow in his footsteps, Dracula enlists
the help of his closest friends - and scariest monsters - to put
Dennis through his paces in their very own monster boot camp.
Originally published in in 1893, this book contains the text of the
Socratic dialogue Protagoras, which discusses a variety of
Sophistic and Socratic tenets, including the teachability of
virtue. The dialogue also provides an interesting view on the
connection between pederasty and education in ancient Athens.
Notable Plato scholars James and Adele Adams present an
introduction addressing the purpose and themes of the dialogue; a
biography of Protagoras and extant fragments of his works are also
included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in
the Platonic, Socratic or Sophistic philosophies.
James Adam (1860 1907) was a Scottish classics scholar who taught
at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A strong defender of the importance
of Greek philosophy in a well-rounded education, Adam published a
number of Plato's works including Protagoras and Crito. This
two-volume critical edition of the Republic (1902) was another
major contribution to the field. Though his preface claims 'an
editor cannot pretend to have exhausted its significance by means
of a commentary, ' Adam's depth of knowledge and erudite analysis
of the Greek text ensured that his edition remained the standard
reference for decades to follow, and it remains a thought-provoking
evaluation of one of the great works of Western thought. Volume 1
is devoted to Books 1 5, which discuss justice and the ideal
society.
James Adam (1860 1907) was a Scottish classics scholar who taught
at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A strong defender of the importance
of Greek philosophy in a well-rounded education, Adam published a
number of Plato's works including Protagoras and Crito. This
two-volume critical edition of the Republic (1902) was another
major contribution to the field. Though his preface claims 'an
editor cannot pretend to have exhausted its significance by means
of a commentary, ' Adam's depth of knowledge and erudite analysis
of the Greek text ensured that his edition remained the standard
reference for decades to follow, and it remains a thought-provoking
evaluation of one of the great works of Western thought. Volume 2
examines Books 6 10, which discuss the place of the philosopher and
questions of governance.
The late James Adam's edition of The Republic of Plato was
published in 1902 and has long been out of print; it still remains
among the most detailed and valuable critical editions available.
D. A. Rees, Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford, has written
an introduction of 15,000 words for this edition. In it, he surveys
Adam's work on The Republic and reviews subsequent work on the
textual problems, language and meaning of the book. The book is
divided into two volumes; Volume I, printed here, Introduction and
Books I-V, and Volume II. Books VI-X and Indexes.
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