James Franco and Kate Hudson star in this thriller directed by Henrik Ruben Genz. American couple Tom and Anna Wright (Franco and Hudson) are in the process of renovating their London townhouse but are struggling to make ends meet as they frequently spend more money than they make. When their tenant Ben (Francis Magee) fails to turn down his music after multiple requests, Tom and Anna let themselves into his flat to check if anything is wrong. When they discover Ben's dead body they panic and call the police, but not before Tom finds a bag containing more than two hundred thousand pounds. As the cash-strapped couple decide to take the money to pay off their debts, they soon discover that the money did not belong to Ben and the real owner wants it back...

This book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The collection defines an understanding of ‘difficult death’ and examines the differences between death, dying and the dead, as well as exploring the ethical challenges of researching death in mediated form. The collection is attendant to the ways in which difficult deaths are imbricated in power structures both before and after they become mediatised in culture. As such, the work navigates the many political and social complexities and inequalities ­– what might be deemed the difficulties – of death, dying and the dead. The book seeks to expand understandings of the difficulty of death in media and culture through a wide range of chapters from different contexts focused on literature, film, television, and in online environments, as well as several chapters examining news reportage of difficult deaths. 

Following the Formula in Beowulf, OErvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula. Michael Fox imagines the process that generated the poem and provides a model for reading it, extending this model to investigate formula in a half-line, a fitt, a digression, and a story-pattern or folktale, including the Old-Norse Icelandic OErvar-Odds saga. Fox also explores how J. R. R. Tolkien used the same formula to write Sellic Spell and The Hobbit. This investigation uncovers relationships between oral and literate composition, between mechanistic composition and author, and between listening and reading audiences, arguing for a contemporary relevance for Beowulf in thinking about the creative process.

Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture representations of the gendered supernatural from a broad range of international contexts. The contributors show that, as creatures pass through the liminal space of death, their new supernatural forms challenge cultural conceptions of gender, masculinity, and femininity.

Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture representations of the gendered supernatural from a broad range of international contexts. The contributors show that, as creatures pass through the liminal space of death, their new supernatural forms challenge cultural conceptions of gender, masculinity, and femininity.

Following the Formula in Beowulf, OErvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula. Michael Fox imagines the process that generated the poem and provides a model for reading it, extending this model to investigate formula in a half-line, a fitt, a digression, and a story-pattern or folktale, including the Old-Norse Icelandic OErvar-Odds saga. Fox also explores how J. R. R. Tolkien used the same formula to write Sellic Spell and The Hobbit. This investigation uncovers relationships between oral and literate composition, between mechanistic composition and author, and between listening and reading audiences, arguing for a contemporary relevance for Beowulf in thinking about the creative process.

Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations like Nestle, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local water sources--lakes, streams, and springs--and taking control of public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodify water, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinched backroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying to deny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their most essential public resource.

The authors' PBS documentary "Thirst" showed how communities around the world are resisting the privatization and commodification of water. "Thirst," the book, picks up where the documentary left off, revealing the emergence of controversial new water wars in the United States and showing how communities here are fighting this battle, often against companies headquartered overseas.

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. . .to anyone who seeks to become complete in Christ, the quest itself offers the opportunity to think and act creatively-to live life with a sense of awe and 'aha' Complete in Christ offers readers creative tools to comprehend and implement a life immersed in the truth, character and ministry of Jesus-facilitating the reader's quest for a life of significance. The core of this unique personal development volume is the unprecedented 'Three & Twenty-one' aka, '3-2-1']. The Three & Twenty-one core is the product of a compelling inductive study of three scripture passages: the seven Foundations of Fellowship Ephesians 4:1-6], the seven Habits of Holiness 2 Peter 1:3-11] and the seven Gifts of God Romans 12:3-8].As the reader works his way through Complete in Christ, he will discover a dynamic truth: The Foundations of Fellowship empower the believer to embody the Habits of Holiness and to employ their Gifts of God. Complete in Christ offers the reader an unparalleled creative paradigm of the Christian life. Complete in Christ represents a thorough understanding of scripture, but has been written with an engaging, accessible style featuring refreshing insights from scripture, the innovative use of graphic devices and thought-provoking interactive exercises. Michael Fox, the author of Complete in Christ and the 'creator' of the Three & Twenty-one core, was educated as a minister of the Church of Christ. For nearly twenty years, however, Michael has owned BoldPrint, an award-winning graphic design studio. Michael's personal vision has compelled him to combine his understanding of scripture with his knowledge of design to create effective personal development and training materials for Christians. Michael is an accomplished public speaker with a passion for encouraging men and women to discover their full potential in Christ.

Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Why has this profound shift taken place and how does this new, so-called Twenty-First-Century Socialism actually manifest itself? What are we to make of the often fraught relationship between the social movements and governments in these countries and do, in fact, the latter even qualify as 'socialist' in reality? These are the bold and critical questions that Latin America's Turbulent Transitions explores. The authors provocatively argue that although US hegemony in the region is on the wane, the traditional socialist project is also declining and something new is emerging. Going beyond simple conceptions of 'the left', the book reveals the true underpinnings of this powerful, transformative, and yet also complicated and contradictory process.