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American Pie: Reunion (DVD)
Alyson Hannigan, Mena Suvari, Seann William Scott, Katrina Bowden, Shannon Elizabeth, …
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Fourth film in the comedy franchise series starring Jason Biggs.
Over a decade on from the action of the original movie 'American
Pie' (1999), the characters descend on their home town East Great
Falls, Michigan for their ten-year high school reunion. Over the
course of a wild weekend, sparks fly as Jim (Biggs), Stifler (Seann
William Scott), Oz (Chris Klein) and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas)
reconvene and reconnect. Jim and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) are
still married, but things get wobbly when their next door neighbour
develops a crush on Jim. Meanwhile, Stifler, stuck in a dead-end
temping job, is having a hard time with the ladies, Oz has hit the
big time after winning a TV talent show, and Finch is still
hankering after Stifler's 'MILF' mother.
A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award. Winner of the Women's Prize for Nonfiction.
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against?
Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience―she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?
Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us―and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.
Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now―and an intellectual adventure story for our times.
Naomi Klein, author of era-defining bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine,
This Changes Everything and No Logo, is back with her most compulsive
and personal book yet: a revelatory journey into the mirror world of
our polarised age
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but
had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically
mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then
suddenly it wasn't. She started to find herself grappling with a
distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats
on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of
her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme
path? Why was identity - all we have to meet the world - so unstable?
To find out, Klein decided to follow her double into a bizarre, uncanny
mirror world: one of conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers and demagogue
hucksters, where soft-focus wellness influencers make common cause with
fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting
'the children'). In doing so, she lifts the lid on our own culture
during this surreal moment in history, as we turn ourselves into
polished virtual brands, publicly shame our enemies, watch as deep
fakes proliferate and whole nations flip from democracy to something
far more sinister.
This is a book for our age and for all of us; a deadly serious dark
comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass.
It's for anyone who has lost hours down an internet rabbit hole, who
wonders why our politics has become so fatally warped, and who wants a
way out of our collective vertigo and back to fighting for what really
matters.
Klein's Organic Chemistry, Global Edition is not merely a
compilation of principles, but rather, it is a disciplined method
of thought and analysis. Success in organic chemistry requires
mastery in two core aspects: fundamental concepts and the skills
needed to apply those concepts and solve problems. This book
employs a skills-based approach to bridge the gap between theory
and practice. It provides extensive coverage of the principles and
helps students become proficient at approaching new situations
methodically based on a repertoire of skills.
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The Back-up Plan (DVD)
Jennifer Lopez, Alex O' Loughlin, Michael A. Watkins, Eric Christian Olsen, Anthony Anderson, …
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Romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez. After years of
directionless dating, Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has finally decided that
the wait for the perfect man has been too long. Determined to
become a mother before it is too late, she decides to go it alone
and signs up to conceive a baby through artificial insemination.
But when she meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) on the same day as
successfully conceiving twins, a comedy of errors ensues as Zoe
tries to keep her new relationship alive while struggling with the
early stages of pregnancy.
Comedy featuring five feisty kids from Dartmoor Academy. Nicknamed
the 'Stinkers', the gang skip opera appreciation classes to cause
chaos. Having smuggled Slappy the sea lion onto the school bus and
into principal Brinway's hot tub, the Stinkers find themselves on a
rescue mission to save Slappy before he is sold to the circus.
This wholly new edition of the Research Handbook on International
Marine Environmental Law provides an authoritative examination of
international law relating to the protection of the marine
environment. Rather than merely revised and updated, this new
edition provides completely new and original chapters that
critically engage with current legal issues surrounding activities
that harm the marine environment, including marine pollution,
seabed activities, exploitation of marine biodiversity and climate
change, and with the different legal tools and mechanisms,
including environmental impact assessments and compliance and
dispute settlement mechanisms, used to protect the marine
environment. New chapters also address legal issues relating to the
role of technology and marine scientific research as well as the
application of principles such as public participation. Each
chapter goes beyond a survey of existing law to identify
shortcomings in the legal regime and details further work needed to
ensure effective regulation and management of human activities that
affect the marine environment. Written by eminent scholars and
practitioners, the Research Handbook on International Marine
Environmental Law is a vital resource for scholars and government
and policy practitioners, as well as for lawyers, policy advisers
and advocates who work at intergovernmental organisations and
non-governmental organisations that address marine environmental
issues.
The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto,
and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous
Nazi law prohibiting childbirth. Elida Friedman was not supposed to
have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade
Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr.
Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into
the world, a little girl they name Elida--meaning non-birth in
Hebrew. To increase their child's chance of survival, the Friedmans
smuggle the baby out of the ghetto and into the arms of a
non-Jewish farm family when Elida is only three months old. It is
the beginning of a life marked by constant upheaval. When the Nazis
raze the entire Kovno Ghetto, Jonah and Tzila are among those
killed. Their only child is left orphaned and alone, dependent on
the kindness of strangers. Despite her circumstances, Elida grows
up, changing families, countries, continents, and even names,
countless times. Surviving the war and the Holocaust that stole her
parents, the young woman never gives up hope. In her lifelong
pursuit to find love and belonging, she works to rebuild her
identity and triumph over her terrible circumstances. A moving,
powerful chronicle of overcoming impossible odds, Elida, the
Forgotten Ghetto Girl is the true story of one unforgettable woman
and her will to survive.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed
to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys
of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete
subject areas. This stimulating and accessible Advanced
Introduction critically engages with dominant, modernist, and
ahistorical narratives of development, foregrounding the overlooked
dissonant discourses that are largely written out of mainstream
development. It argues that development discourse and practice must
remain aware of how historically unequal relations continue to be
reproduced today and outlines a range of effective strategies for
guiding change towards achieving global social justice. Features
include: challenges to the claims of universality evident in much
development scholarship exposure of critical discourses overlooked
by conventional development histories identification of progressive
ways to guide change towards achieving global social justice
guidance on development approaches and ideas that avoid reproducing
colonial forms of representation, knowledge, power, and control the
foregrounding of critical postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist
perspectives to identify how progressive possibilities for change
can emerge. This insightful Advanced Introduction will be
beneficial to students and scholars of development studies,
geography, sociology, anthropology, history, and indigenous studies
seeking an understanding of unequal global relations, knowledge
production, and the exercise of global power and control. Further,
it will be of great value to academics and students interested in
postcolonialism, contemporary colonial legacies, and processes of
decolonisation and decoloniality.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the highest energy collider ever
built. It resides near Geneva in a tunnel 3.8m wide, with a
circumference of 26.7km, which was excavated in 1983-1988 to
initially house the electron-positron collider LEP. The LHC was
approved in 1995, and it took until 2010 for reliable operation. By
now, a larger set of larger integrated luminosities have been
accumulated for physics analyses in the four collider experiments:
ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE.The LHC operates with an extended
cryogenic plant, using a multi-stage injection system comprising
the PS and SPS accelerators (still in use for particle physics
experiments at lower energies). The beams are guided by 1232
superconducting high field dipole magnets.Intense works are
underway in preparation of the High Luminosity LHC, aimed at
upgrading the LHC and detectors for collecting ten times more
luminosity, and extending the collider life to the early 2040's. So
far, the (HL-)LHC project represents a cumulation of around one
hundred thousand person-years of innovative work by technicians,
engineers, and physicists from all over the world; probably the
largest scientific effort ever in the history of humanity. The book
is driven by the realisation of the unique value of this
accelerator complex and by the recognition of the status of high
energy physics, described by a Standard Model — which still
leaves too many questions unanswered to be the appropriate theory
of elementary particles and their interactions.Following the
Introduction are: three chapters which focus on the initial decade
of operation, leading to the celebrated discovery of the Higgs
Boson, on the techniques and physics of the luminosity upgrade, and
finally on major options - of using the LHC in a concurrent, power
economic, electron-hadron scattering mode, when upgraded to higher
energies or eventually as an injector for the next big machine. The
various technical and physics chapters, provided by 61 authors,
characterise the fascinating opportunities the LHC offers for the
next two decades ahead (possibly longer), with the goal to
substantially advance our understanding of nature.
"A married vicar with a passion for a young single woman, a bitter
publican, a Peeping Tom, a resentful church warden: our human
frailties are still much as they always have been.Over three
hundred years ago, the Reverend Robert Foulkes arrived as the new
incumbent at the wealthy parish of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire.
Charismatic, 'exceedingly followed and admired', he set off a chain
of events which led to his hanging at Tyburn in 1679.What
irrational impulse could have brought a man of the Church to such a
squalid end? Historian Peter Klein has pieced together remarkable
documentary evidence which shows a village seething with
jealousies, covetousness and sexual intrigue. Their eloquent new
vicar was the catalyst for the moving and powerful tragedy that
followed.Awaiting execution, in Newgate gaol, Foulkes wrote his
confessional pamphlet, An Alarme for Sinners, which was an
immediate C17th best-seller.Today the ancient church of Stanton
Lacy still stands and there inscribed on a wall plaque, along with
other less notorious vicars, is the name of Reverend Robert Foulkes
and the dates he served there. In this remarkable book, Peter Klein
unfolds the full story of Robert Foulkes for the first time.From
the scaffold, Foulkes addressed the crowd: 'You may in me see what
sin is, and what it will end in.'A true story ""more real than any
historical novel - more moving, more evocative, more human."" John
FowlesJacketed paperback, includes 'character list' book mark."
A gripping ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised
culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock
Doctrine What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a
double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi
Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had
radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically
mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then
suddenly it wasn't. She started to find herself grappling with a
distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the
threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the
followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down
such an extreme path? Why was identity - all we have to meet the
world - so unstable? To find out, Klein decided to follow her
double into a bizarre, uncanny mirror world: one of conspiracy
theories, anti-vaxxers and demagogue hucksters, where soft-focus
wellness influencers make common cause with fire-breathing far
right propagandists (all in the name of protecting 'the children').
In doing so, she lifts the lid on our own culture during this
surreal moment in history, as we turn ourselves into polished
virtual brands, publicly shame our enemies, watch as deep fakes
proliferate and whole nations flip from democracy to something far
more sinister. This is a book for our age and for all of us; a
deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections
in the looking glass. It's for anyone who has lost hours down an
internet rabbit hole, who wonders why our politics has become so
fatally warped, and who wants a way out of our collective vertigo
and back to fighting for what really matters.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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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.
Can public schools feed themselves? That deceptively simple
question is like a fingernail picking at a fray in the fabric of
21st century public education. Fallow Lands of Plenty chronicles
one high school's attempt to feed itself and, in doing so, unravels
the fabric of neoliberal education, exposes its logics of
dependence and control, and begins to weave a new tapestry of
education for community cooperation and resilience. Set during the
ongoing transition between post-industrial globalization and the
community structures that are to come, this rich narrative moves
from furrows of Appalachian red clay soil, to the mountaintop
homesteads of elder seed savers, to the conveyor belts of
sterilized food sorting machines, and, finally, to a school's
cafeteria on the day that 250 portions of student-grown sweet
potatoes were served. Along the way, Fallow Lands centers
knowledges of place as well as the literal and metaphorical seeds
of relocalized food and education systems. Critical and
theoretically informed, the text disobeys the values, purpose and
canon of public education and proposes a fledgling pedagogy to
address the challenges of the coming age.
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