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When beautiful, young women start disappearing from the streets of LA, it’s time for good-guy Callan (a.k.a. Cross) and his crew of weapons experts to kick into high gear and uncover the mystery.
Granted incredible power by his ancient Celtic cross, Callan must fight to stop an immortal Viking from destroying mankind.
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Sin City (DVD)
Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Nick Stahl, …
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Adaptation of the award-winning comic series created by Frank
Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history,
the film paints a picture of the ultimate town through the eyes of
its roughest characters. There's the street thug Marv (Mickey
Rourke), whose desperate quest to find the killer of a prostitute
named Goldie (Jaime King) will lead him to the foulest edges of
town. Inhabiting many of those areas is Dwight (Clive Owen), a
photographer in league with the sordid ladies of Sin City, headed
by Gail (Rosario Dawson), who opens up a mess of trouble after
tangling with a corrupt cop by the name of Jackie Boy (Benicio Del
Toro). Finally, there's Hartigan (Bruce Willis), an ex-cop with a
heart problem who's hell-bent on protecting a stripper named Nancy
(Jessica Alba).
Four-film collection featuring Marvel Comics superheroes.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Hugh Jackman reprises his role as clawed mutant Wolverine (formerly James Logan) in this blockbuster superhero action prequel based on the Marvel comic strip. The film, set over the years leading up to the action of the 2003 'X-Men' movie, follows the young Logan from the first awakenings of his mutant powers in childhood up to his amnesiac rebirth as Wolverine, and recounts his tumultuous relationship with his ferocious half-brother Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) and the events that lead him to sign up to the ominous Weapon X programme.
Daredevil
For Daredevil, justice is blind, and for the guilty there's hell to pay. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner ignite dangerous sparks and nonstop thrills in this "dazzling action-adventure" (The Film Journal) about the newest breed of superhero. By day, blind attorney Matt Murdock (Affleck) toils for justice in Hell's Kitchen. By night, he's Daredevil, The Man Without Fear--a powerful, masked vigilante stalking the dark streets with an uncanny "radar sense" that allows him to "see" with superhuman capabilities. But when the love of his life, fiery Elektra Natchios (Garner), is targeted by New York City's ruthless Kingpin of crime (Michael Clarke Duncan) and his deadly assassin Bullseye (Colin Farrell), Daredevil may be about to meet his match.
Elektra
Jennifer Garner proves that looks can kill as the sexiest action hero to burst from the pages of Marvel Comics. Restored to life after sustaining mortal wounds in Daredevil, an icy, solitary Elektra (Garner) now lives only for death as the world's most lethal assassin. Using her bone-crunching martial arts skills and Kimagure (the ability to see into the future), Elektra is on a collision course with darkness until her latest assignment forces her to make a choice that will lead either to her redemption or destruction in the ultimate battle between good and evil.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Marvel's first family of superheroes, The Fantastic Four, meets their greatest challenge yet in Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer as the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer comes to Earth to prepare it for its destruction. As he races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy Dr. Doom before all hope is lost.
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The Last Mimzy (DVD)
Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, …
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Sci-fi drama about two children who develop strange powers after
playing with some discarded toys. On a beach vacation near Seattle,
Noah (Chris O'Neil) and Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) Wilder find a
little box washed up on the shore. It contains a strange, pulsing
stone and the pair deign to keep it a secret, sensing its unusual
nature. Further examination reveals a collection of items in the
box including what appears to be a toy rabbit whose name turns out
to be Mimzy and who is perfectly able to communicate with the
children. Mimzy starts to instruct the children on many things that
they're not familiar with, resulting in the pair attaining genius
level very quickly, much to their parents' chagrin. It soon becomes
apparent that there are forces abroad in the Wilder house that
should have been left undisturbed - and that the future may be
trying to send a message back to us in order that we might save our
planet from a certain doom. After a huge power surge, originating
in the Wilder home, takes out half the state power grid, the
government begins to take an interest in the children.
FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Investigates what literary strategies
African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate
transformation and environmental change. This special issue
examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental
consciousness, and how African literary criticism addresses the
implications of global environmental transformations. Does
environmentalist literature offer new possibilities for critical
thinking about the future? What constitutes environmentalist
fiction and poetry? What kind of texts, themes and topics does
climate writing include? Does any text in which the environment
features become available to environmentalist criticism? In their
engagement with the diverse genres, themes and frameworks through
which contemporary African writers address topics including
urbanisation, cross-species communication, nature and climate
change, contributors to this special issue help to define African
environmental writing. They look at the literary strategies adopted
by creative writers to convey the impact of environmental
transformationin narratives that are historically informed by a
century of colonialism, nationalist political activism,
urbanisation and postcolonial migration. How does environmental
literature intervene in these histories? Can creative writers, with
their powerfully post-human and cross-species imaginations, carry
out the ethical work demanded by contemporary climate science? From
Tanure Ojaide's and Helon Habila's attention to environmental
decimation in the Niger Delta through to Nnedi Okorafor's and Kofi
Anyidoho's imaginative cross-species encounters, the special issue
asks how literature mediates the specificities of climate change in
an era of global capitalism and technological transformation, and
what the limits of creative writing and literary criticism are as
tools for discussing environmental issues. Guest Editors: Cajetan
Iheka (Associate Professor of English, Yale University) and
Stephanie Newell (Professor of English, Yale University) Series
Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu (Professor of Africana Studies at the
University of Michigan-Flint) Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma (Fellow,
Department of English University of Central Florida)
This book is focused on explaining the grand strategic behavior of
the United States from the Founding of the Republic to the Trump
administration. To do so it employs a neoclassical realist
framework to argue that while systemic change explains the broad
evolution of US grand strategy, the precise shape and content of
the grand strategies pursued has been conditioned by domestic
political culture and interests. The book argues that distinct
political cultures of statecraft (Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian,
Jacksonian and Wilsonian) have acted as permissive filters through
which policy-makers have interpreted and responded to systemic
stimuli making some grand strategy choices more likely than others
in the pursuit of national security. The book demonstrates that
while primacist grand strategies were facilitated by the
predominance from the mid-19th century to the early 21st century of
the vindicationist Hamiltonian and Wilsonian forms of statecraft,
the costs of primacy have now stimulated the resurgence of the long
dormant, exemplarist Jeffersonian and Jacksonian forms of
statecraft under the Obama and Trump administrations, resulting in
grand strategies that seek to either manage or stave off decline in
America's relative power position.
'Soft power' is an oft-used term and commands an instinctive
understanding among journalists and casual observers, who mostly
interpret it as 'diplomatic' or somehow 'persuasive'. 'Hard power'
is seen, by contrast, as something more tangible and usually
military. But this is a superficial appreciation of a more subtle
concept - and one key to Britain's future on the international
stage. Britain's Persuaders is a deep exploration of this
phenomenon, using new research into the instruments of soft power
evident in British society and most relevant to the 2020s. Some,
like the British Council or the BBC World Service, are explicitly
intended to generate soft power in accordance with governmental
intentions; but rather more, like the entertainment industries,
sport, professional regulatory bodies, hospitality industries or
education sectors have more penetrating soft power effects even as
they pursue their own independent or commercial rationales. This
book conducts an up-to-date 'audit' of all Britain's principal
sources of soft power. Situating its analysis within the current
understanding of the 'smart power' of nation states - that desire
to employ the full spectrum of policy instruments and national
characteristics to achieve policy outcomes, specifically in the
context of 'Brexit Britain' where soft power status is certain to
loom larger during the 2020s.
August Mendo, a young successful novelist, falls in love with the
beautiful and unique Sarah Gordon. At the height of his stellar
career August suffers a tragic loss. He comes to realizations that
force him to stop writing and retreat to a special sanctuary in the
woods, a decision that will alter his life as well as Sarah´s."to
live at the mouth of rivers" is a story of art, fame, fortune,
tragedy, dreams and Truth: the awesome powers of Nature, the Human
Spirit and Eternal Love. Life´s greatest adventure is the Journey
within: the perils and limitless possibilities of self-discovery.
This bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988,
lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in
French, English, and seven other languages including Japanese and
Russian. It incorporates and corrects where necessary all
information from earlier published bibliographies of Lacan's work.
Also included as background works are books and essays that discuss
Lacan in the course of a more general study, as well as all
relevant items in various bibliographic sources from many fields.
This book unveils a Gaian eco-social alternative to the
misanthropic status quo and demands a revolutionary mental
evolution to reformulate globalized culture so that mankind can
finally resolve social injustice and conserve our climate.
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the site of the largest
mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world
today. Researchers estimate that since 2016 one million people have
been detained there without trial. In the detention centres
individuals are exposed to deeply invasive forms of surveillance
and psychological stress, while outside them more than ten million
Turkic Muslim minorities are subjected to a network of hi-tech
surveillance systems, checkpoints and interpersonal monitoring.
Existing reportage and commentary on the crisis tend to address
these issues in isolation, but this ground-breaking volume brings
them together, exploring the interconnections between the core
strands of the Xinjiang emergency in order to generate a more
accurate understanding of the mass detentions' significance for the
future of President Xi Jinping's China. -- .
Michael Clark was an inquisitive, active boy-difficult for his
mother, although he wasn't a bad child. In this memoir, Clark
begins by detailing his childhood growing up in the fifties and
sixties in rural Michigan, where he built forts, became an Eagle
Scout, and met his future wife. As the Vietnam War raged, when he
turned eighteen, he eventually registered for the draft. In 1969,
after his number was called, Clark details how life changed
exponentially as he left his new bride behind and reported for duty
amid violent protests and draft card burnings. As he narrates his
experiences from basic training to his assignment to the army's
medical training center and finally his service in Vietnam, Clark
provides a compelling glimpse into the emotional influences of war.
In this engaging memoir, a Vietnam veteran chronicles his path
before, during, and after war as he accepted his fate and learned
to embrace the precious gift of life.
This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary
theory, practice and themes in the study of national security. Part
1: Theories examines how national security has been conceptualised
and formulated within the disciplines international relations,
security studies and public policy. Part 2: Actors shifts the focus
of the volume from these disciplinary concerns to consideration of
how core actors in international affairs have conceptualised and
practiced national security over time. Part 3: Issues then provides
in-depth analysis of how individual security issues have been
incorporated into prevailing scholarly and policy paradigms on
national security. While security now seems an all-encompassing
phenomenon, one general proposition still holds: national interests
and the nation-state remain central to unlocking security puzzles.
As normative values intersect with raw power; as new threats meet
old ones; and as new actors challenge established elites, making
sense out of the complex milieu of security theories, actors, and
issues is a crucial task - and is the main accomplishment of this
book.
Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the
history of cultural life across the breadth of Europe and Asia down
through the Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between and
across languages, in both similar and contrasting ways from east to
west. The demarcation of manuscript studies into single-language
academic disciplines has often obscured this reality, privileging
one constituent part or contributing language from each manuscript
rather than exploring the combination as a nuanced and complex
whole. This volume seeks to examine manuscripts as integrally
united artefacts, respecting the diversity of their constituent
elements. Case studies are presented of twelve manuscripts with
evidence for various levels of inter-language exchange and
collision, from horizons as diverse as the Atlantic West,
Carolingian Europe, the Byzantine world, the Silk Road cultures,
and east Asia. The essays function individually as discrete
contributions, but together they highlight a range of overlapping
themes, illustrating language interaction in global religions,
pedagogical exchange, and secular society-building.The analogies as
well as the concrete points of connection between them underline
the value of a cross-disciplinary approach.
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