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Stardust/Ondine (DVD)
Charlie Cox, Henry Cavill, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller, Peter O'Toole, …
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Double bill of film fantasies. 'Stardust' (2007) is an adventure
based on the bestselling graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles
Vess. When a young man, Tristan (Charlie Cox), tries to win the
heart of his beautiful but cold object of his desire Victoria
(Sienna Miller) by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star, his
journey takes him to a mysterious and forbidden land beyond the
walls of his village. On his odyssey, Tristan finds the star, which
has transformed into a striking girl called Yvaine (Claire Danes).
However, Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A king
(Peter O'Toole)'s four sons - not to mention the ghosts of their
three dead brothers - all need the star as they vie for the throne.
Tristan must also overcome the evil witch, Lamia (Michelle
Pfeiffer), who needs the star to make her young again. As Tristan
battles to survive these threats, encountering a pirate named
Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro) and a shady trader named Ferdy
the Fence (Ricky Gervais) along the way, his quest changes. He must
now win the heart of the star for himself as he discovers the
meaning of true love. Neil Jordan directs the Irish drama 'Ondine'
(2009). Syracuse (Colin Farrell) is a poor fisherman whose life is
changed forever when he fishes a beautiful live woman (Alicja
Bachleda) out of the sea. His young daughter, Annie (Alison Barry),
is convinced that the mysterious beauty must be a mermaid. Theories
abound about the girl's origins as she transforms the lives of
Syracuse, Annie and the local townsfolk. Stephen Rea and Dervla
Kirwan co-star.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The Futility of Philosophical Ethics puts forward a novel account
of the grounds of moral feeling with fundamental implications for
philosophical ethics. It examines the grounds of moral feeling by
both the phenomenology of that feeling, and the facts of moral
feeling in operation - particularly in forms such as moral luck,
vicious virtues, and moral disgust - that appear paradoxical from
the point of view of systematic ethics. Using an analytic approach,
James Kirwan engages in the ongoing debates among contemporary
philosophers within metaethics and normative ethics. Instead of
trying to erase the variety of moral responses that exist in
philosophical analysis under one totalizing system, Kirwan argues
that such moral theorizing is futile. His analysis counters
currently prevalent arguments that seek to render the origins of
moral experience unproblematic by finding substitutes for realism
in various forms of noncognitivism. In reasserting the problematic
nature of moral experience, and offering a theory of the origins of
that experience in unavoidable individual desires, Kirwan accounts
for the diverse manifestations of moral feeling and demonstrates
why so many arguments in metaethics and normative ethics are
necessarily irresolvable.
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary
Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on
Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of
leading scholars. It contains chapters on the key methods and
questions surrounding the performance event, the audience, and the
archive – the primary sources on which performance studies draws.
It identifies the recurring trends and fruitful lines of inquiry
that are generating the most urgent work in the field, but also
contextualises these within the histories and methods on which
researchers build. A central section of research-focused essays
offers case studies of present areas of enquiry, from new
approaches to space, bodies and language to work on the
technologies of remediation and original practices, from
consideration of fandoms and the cultural capital invested in
Shakespeare and his contemporaries to political and ethical
interventions in performance practice. A distinctive feature of the
volume is a curated section focusing on practitioners, in which
leading directors, writers, actors, producers, and other theatre
professionals comment on Shakespeare in performance and what they
see as the key areas, challenges and provocations for researchers
to explore. In addition, the Handbook contains various sections
that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A-Z of key
terms and concepts, a guide to research methods and problems, a
chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to
resources for study of the field, and a substantial annotated
bibliography. The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and
Contemporary Performance is a reference work aimed at advanced
undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and
libraries, a guide to beginning or developing research in the
field, and an essential companion for all those interested in
Shakespeare and performance.
It's 1829, and young Princess Victoria's life is full of
constraints. Brought up hidden from the world and protected even
from walking downstairs alone, the ten-year-old princess decides to
write a secret diary about life at Kensington Palace. But little
does she know that she is about to make a startling discovery.
Closer to the throne than she ever imagined, My Story: Victoria
spans a fascinating year in the life of a future queen. Experience
history first-hand with My Story in this all-new look! Other titles
in the My Story series include: My Story: Titanic My Story: The
Trenches My Story: The Great Plague My Story: Berlin Olympics My
Story: Blitz My Story: Mayflower My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat
Khan My Story: D-Day My Story: A Picture of Freedom My Story: Roman
Invasion My Story: Ignatius Sancho
What does it mean to do theology and philosophy in our contemporary
academia? What is the notion of good life in the 21st century
university? One distinctive tradition of philosophical and
theological investigation has been working since early modernity to
offer answers to these questions, the Society of Jesus, founded in
1540 by Ignatius of Loyola. The engaging and original contributions
in this volume examine topics such as faith, science and reason,
secularism, naturalism, humanism and Ignatian spirituality. The
opening text outlines the vision of Jesuit education and is
followed by historical analyses of sources such as St Ignatius of
Loyola and Mary Ward, to show the relevance of these methodologies
for other texts and practices. The contributions explore the
relationship between philosophy and theology, challenge the
dominant perspectives such as naturalism and secularisation, and
propose a new way of thinking. This livelydiscussion engages with
contemporary issues in the sphere of interreligious dialogue,
bioethics, citizenship and human rights.
For over twenty-five years, the authors of International Financial
Reporting and Analysis have provided comprehensive insight into the
intricacies of financial reporting. This ninth edition has been
updated throughout with an increased focus on ethics,
sustainability and corporate governance. Timely real-world
illustrations and activities give students a truly international
perspective to successfully interpret and use IFRS Standards in
business. This title is available with MindTap, a flexible online
learning solution that provides your students with all the tools
they need to succeed, including an interactive eReader, engaging
multimedia, practice questions, assessment materials, revision aids
and analytics to help you track their progress.
"A very serious undertaking by a scholar who has an excellent
knowledge of Kant's philosophy. Kant's aesthetics is a hot topic
right now, so this book will be of considerable interest to those
in the field." - Donald Crawford, University of Southern California
at Santa Barbara. "An alternative account of aesthetic judgment
which is rich, interesting and provocative. This is a book which
will certainly provoke engagement and debate." - Rachel Jones,
Dundee University. Kant's "Critique of Judgment" is widely
considered to be the seminal work of modern aesthetics. In recent
years it has been the focus of intense interest and debate not only
in philosophy but also in literary theory and other disciplines in
which the nature of the aesthetic is an issue. "The Aesthetic in
Kant" offers a new reading of Kant's problematic text, drawing on
the great volume of recent philosophical work on the text and on
the context of eighteenth century aesthetics. Kant's text is used
as a basis on which to construct a radical alternative solution to
the antinomy of taste, the basic problem of the aesthetic. Immanent
in Kant's account is a theory of the aesthetic that, far from
establishing its 'disinterested' nature, instead makes it
symptomatic of what Kant himself describes as the ineradicable
human tendency to entertain 'fantastic desires'.
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