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Quentin Tarantino directs this ensemble action drama set in Europe
during World War Two.
In the first of two converging storylines,
Shosanna (Melanie Laurent), a young Jewish woman in occupied
France, seeks to avenge the death of her parents by the Nazis after
narrowly escaping execution herself and fleeing to Paris. There she
creates a new identity for herself as the owner and manager of a
cinema. Meanwhile, a group of Jewish American soldiers known as
'The Basterds', led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt),
joins forces with German actress and undercover agent Bridget von
Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) to take down the leaders of The Third
Reich.
The Basterds cross paths with Shosanna when her cinema,
which has been commandeered by the Nazis for the screening of their
latest propaganda film, becomes the target for their next attack.
However, unbeknown to them, Shosanna has devised a revenge plan of
her own.
Christoph Waltz gained the Best Supporting Actor Awards at
both the 2010 BAFTAs and Academy Awards for his portrayal of the
devious Colonel Hans Landa.
Firmly based on the authors personal experience, this book
tackles a wide range of issues relating to the teaching of the arts
in the primary school. The authors illustrate how primary children
of all ages can be educated to both know about and to practice all
the major art forms, and how a school staff can effectively
accommodate and practice them all, even within the constraints of
the National Curriculum. This book is unique in primary school
education terms, as its primary focus is specific and it embraces
every major art form dance, drama, literature, music, visual arts
and film.
The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have
unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We
have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested
interests to capture governments and influence public opinion
excessively. We have created a god called ‘the market’ and
allowed our most important decisions to be made by this imaginary
entity, which is in fact a human system controlled by vested
interests. The result has been the exploitation of our life support
system, our planet, and most of its inhabitants, to the point of
collapse. This book argues that the way out of our black hole is to
build social movements to apply overwhelming pressure on government
and big business, weaken the power of vested interests and
strengthen democratic decision-making. This must be done
simultaneously with action on the specific issues of climate,
energy, natural resources and social justice, in order to
transition to a truly sustainable civilisation.
Firmly based on the authors personal experience, this book
tackles a wide range of issues relating to the teaching of the arts
in the primary school. The authors illustrate how primary children
of all ages can be educated to both know about and to practice all
the major art forms, and how a school staff can effectively
accommodate and practice them all, even within the constraints of
the National Curriculum. This book is unique in primary school
education terms, as its primary focus is specific and it embraces
every major art form dance, drama, literature, music, visual arts
and film.
This multidisciplinary book provides new insights and hope for
sustainable prosperity given recent developments in economics - but
only if swift and strong actions consistent with Earth's
biophysical limits and principles of justice are universally taken.
It is one thing to put limits on resource throughput and waste
generation to conform with the ecosphere's biocapacity. It is
another thing to efficiently allocate a sustainable rate of
resource throughput and ensure it is equitably distributed in the
form of final goods and services. While the separate but
interdependent decisions regarding throughput, distribution, and
allocation are the essence of ecological economics, dealing with
them in a world that needs to cure its growth addiction requires a
realistic understanding of macroeconomics and the fiscal capacity
of currency-issuing central governments. Sustainable prosperity
demands that we harness this understanding to carefully regulate
the rate of resource throughput and manipulate macroeconomic
outcomes to facilitate human flourishing. The book begins by
outlining humanity's current predicament of gross ecological
overshoot and laments the half-century of missed opportunities
since The Limits to Growth (1972). What was once economic growth
has become, in many high-income countries, uneconomic growth
(additional costs exceeding additional benefits), which is no
longer advancing wellbeing. Meanwhile, low-income nations need a
dose of efficient and equitable growth to escape poverty while
protecting their environments and the global commons. The book
argues for a synthesis of our increasing knowledge of the
ecosphere's limited carrying capacity and the power of governments
to harness, transform, and distribute resources for the common
good. Central to this synthesis must be a correct understanding of
the difference between financial constraints and real resource
constraints. While the latter apply to everyone, the former do not
apply to currency-issuing central governments, which have much more
capacity for corrective action than mainstream thinking perceives.
The book joins the growing chorus of authoritative voices calling
for a complete overhaul of the dominant economic system. We
conclude with policy recommendations based on a new economics that,
if implemented, would come close to guaranteeing a sustainable and
prosperous future. Upon reading this book, at least one thing
should be crystal clear: business as usual is not a viable option.
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Nobody Runs Forever (DVD)
Christopher Plummer, Rod Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Camilla Sparv, Daliah Lavi, …
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R136
Discovery Miles 1 360
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Rod Taylor and Christopher Plummer star in this 1960s action
thriller adapted from Jon Cleary's novel 'The High Commissioner'.
Australian police sergeant Scobie Malone (Taylor) is sent to London
to arrest High Commissioner Sir James Quentin (Plummer), who is
currently engaged in sensitive peace talks, on the suspicion of
murdering his first wife 25 years previously. Malone allows Quentin
a few days to finish his work before taking him back to Australia
and during this time stays with the suspect and his second wife
Sheila (Lilli Palmer) in their home. Complications arise, however,
when Malone finds himself having to prevent Quentin's assassination
at the hands of a ruthless group of spies.
At the end of the War Between The States, Frank Cavanaugh had led a
party of displaced soldiers from Virginia to Cache Valley in the
Utah Territory. Having stayed only a short time, he had moved on
further west, and over the next thirteen years built a reputation
as a man who could find anything or anyone for the right price. It
had also had gained him more than a few scars, very few friends,
considerable money, and the name "Manhunter." Now he had accepted a
job to find and return the missing son of a railroad tycoon, and
the trail had led him back to the Rocky Mountains, to the town of
Juniper Flat. Here Cavanaugh finds people who appear peaceful and
friendly on the surface, are fiercely loyal to their friends, and
ready to fight if necessary, to defend and protect their friends
and their way of life. This peaceful-appearing little town is as
tough as any Cavanaugh has ever found. Fast with a gun, dogged in
his searches, adept at reading people and trails alike, Cavanaugh
has always been a man to be dealt with on his own terms, but when
he announces his mission he soon finds the people willing to put
"his terms" to the test. He soon finds some of them to be
unpredictable and thoroughly dangerous, and most of the citizens of
Juniper Flat are as tough as he is...and he finds this to be very
much to his liking. You can ride into Juniper Flat and watch
Cavanaugh, "Cherokee John," Pete Oakes, Kate, Amanda, Jesse, the
Pendry family, Greenriver and all the rest and follow them as
Cavanaugh gets to know them, sorts out the good from the bad, makes
close friends with some, and works it all through to the end.
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Legends (Paperback)
Tom 'Forty Rod' Taylor
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R557
Discovery Miles 5 570
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Legends is the story of many people and many places, a story
repeated many times throughout history, but it is told here through
the lives of two young people and their adventures during the late
Nineteenth Century and the beginning of the Twentieth, those last
great days of the great American "Wild West." The story weaves
through a number of historical places and events, and many actual
historical people interact with the fictional characters of the
story. While the town and ranches may never have existed, many of
the other places are still there to this day, and may be seen be by
those who would venture there. Follow Jack and Marty and their
friends and families, from their first meeting and their early
lives, through their discoveries and education, and be with them as
they cross the continent from Colorado to the Atlantic and back
again. Live with them as they discover friendship, love, and
parenthood, and as they survive tragedy; and enjoy discovering with
them the new technologies on the brink of The Twentieth Century.
Cheer along with them their triumphs and mourn their losses, and
experience with them their fears and doubts, hopes and dreams, as
you follow along with them on their daily quest to simply survive
and prosper, to raise their families, and to make their world a
better place. Finally, watch as Jack and Marty develop into
adulthood, living their daily lives and raising their own family,
and share their fortunes and misfortunes and that of those around
them while they left their marks upon our history. Go with them as
they face the challenges of every day life to become the true
Legends of the great story that is The American West and see the
west and its people as it truly was.
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