The complete series 1-3 of the blackly comic drama starring Bryan Cranston as a high school chemistry teacher who discovers that he is dying from inoperable lung cancer and decides to raise money for his family by embarking on a new career as a crystal meth dealer.

Season 1
Bryan Cranston gives an Emmy Award-winning performance as Walter White, a down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher struggling to make ends meet for his wife and physically challenged son. Everything changes when Walter receives a startling diagnosis: terminal lung cancer. With only a few years to live and nothing to lose, Walter uses his training as a chemist to cook and sell crystal meth with one of his former students. As his status grows, so do his lies, but Walt will stop at nothing to make sure his family is taken care of after he’s gone, even if it means putting all their lives on the line.

Season 2
Season 2 finds Walt and Jesse in way over their heads. As their partnership reaches new heights, Walt and Jesse begin to see the extremes of the drug trafficking business. Their trademark blue meth is making them rich, but it’s getting more difficult than ever for Walt to conceal the truth from his wife Skyler, his son Walter Jr. and his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank. Walt struggles to maintain control of his life as he contends with vicious drug dealers, an increasingly distant wife and son, the impending birth of his daughter, and a strung-out business partner – all while battling terminal lung cancer.

Season 3
Even though his cancer is in remission, chemistry-teacher-turned-meth- maker Walt White still can’t catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family’s future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price.

All 13 episodes from the third season of the blackly comic American drama series starring Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher turned crystal meth producer. Walter turned to drugs after being diagnosed with lung cancer, hoping to pay off his weighty medical bills and provide for his family in the event of his death. Unfortunately, becoming involved in the drugs industry brings with it numerous complications. In this series, Walter has to deal with divorce proceedings initiated by his wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), when she finally discovers where their newfound riches have come from and finds his business at risk from both the DEA and a Mexican drug cartel. The episodes are: 'No Mas', 'Caballo Sin Nombre', 'I.F.T.', 'Green Light', 'Mas', 'Sunset', 'One Minute', 'I See You', 'Kafkaesque', 'Fly', 'Abiquiu', 'Half Measures' and 'Full Measure'.

A dictionary for a child being taught in the first 3 years of school. It includes the words likely to be met and is age-appropriate. An effective resource, it includes parts of speech, pronunciation and examples of use with the Jolly Phonics characters. The Jolly Dictionary is a child's first dictionary, and will have these features: - Original selection of key vocabulary, age-appropriate, and including mentions of Jolly Phonics characters. It will have definitions from a 2,000 word 'defining vocabulary'. Parts of Speech given for each word in Jolly Grammar colours. - A Pronunciation Guide for each word, using joined diagraphs and a few new characters for clarity. - Vocabulary is focussed on Jolly Phonics, including the words used elsewhere in Jolly Phonics/Jolly Grammar, and the words typically used with this age group.

All seven episodes of the blackly comic drama series starring Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher in the throes of a midlife crisis who discovers that he is dying from inoperable lung cancer. In an attempt to sort out his disastrous financial affairs he decides to turn to crime, and enlists the help of a good-for-nothing ex-student to set himself up as a crystal meth dealer. Episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Cat's in the Bag', '... And the Bag's in the River', 'Cancer Man', 'Gray Matter', 'Crazy Handful of Nothin'' and 'A No-Rough-Stuff-Type-Deal'.

The case for democracy is an intrinsic part of our political culture. This non-partisan book provides the other side of the story via well-researched history and current events that illuminate the theory and practice of democracy. Are the politics of the United States to blame for its current unsteady footing in the 21st century? This book aims to answer this uncomfortable but relevant question by examining the strengths and weaknesses of democracy, addressing complex topics such as the history of liberalism, the relationship between democracy and capitalism, the nature of representation, and the difference between government and politics. Each of the book's chapters focuses on a recognized shortcoming of popular government, such as inefficiency, self-interestedness, and non-participation. Each section begins by focusing on current events and tracing issues back through history-through to the American founding, and in many instances, to antiquity. In the conclusion, the author proposes a series of thought-provoking fixes.

Highflying Midwest business executive Tag Grayson finds nothing more stimulating than seeking, negotiating, and closing a big deal. On the brink of concluding the transaction of his life, Grayson discovers his potential client has a murderous past that has left his mental state unpredictable at best. The shrewd Grayson knows he has his prospective client right where he wants him-desperate.

Nate Dillianquest knows he is in hot water. With a criminal background overshadowing his future, he is anxious to sell his mother's health-care business after his family's fortune is lost in a pyramid scheme. But as Grayson and Dillianquest finally meet, Grayson has no idea that Dillianquest will do anything to keep what is rightfully his. Suddenly, Grayson is propelled into a web of greed, secrets, and blackmail woven by a conniving southern patriarch and a pair of strikingly beautiful women. Just as Grayson realizes he is dealing with master manipulators who want revenge in the worst way, his life is turned upside down.

In this tale of greed, murder, and sexual obsession, members of a wealthy southern family draw an innocent business executive into their deceptive trap as one of them attempts to escape with millions in blood money.

For over 100 years, Paramount Pictures has been captivating movie and television audiences worldwide with its alluring imagery and compelling stories. Arising from the collective genius of Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, and Cecil B. DeMille during the 1910s, Paramount Pictures is home to such enduring classics as Wings, Sunset Boulevard, The Ten Commandments, Love Story, The Godfather, the Indiana Jones series, Chinatown, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, and Star Trek. Early Paramount Studios chronicles Paramount's origins, culminating in the creation and expansion of the lot at 5555 Melrose Avenue, the last major motion picture studio still in Hollywood.

It is 1953 in rural Ontario, and a 5-year-old boy's cheeks are wet with drool. His eyes are focused on his red-faced father. Soon, his father's words are not relevant, for the young man has already received the only message that matters: this day will not be scored as a no-hitter.

The boy, who thinks of himself as Ranger, wants to grow up and be just like the Lone Ranger. But his harsh and unavailable father seems determined to make his coming-of-age journey tumultuous, challenging and isolated. With a mother who could do little to balance the turmoil, he must rely on his imagination to transport him away from the strife and tension that hangs over his home like a dark cloud. As he rides his make-believe horse, Silver, down Main Street with his six-shooters strapped to his waist, he momentarily forgets the angry father who often stands over him with a belt and threatens to rob him of his spirit.

In this moving tale, a young boy engaged in a quiet war of wills with his father must learn how to survive and thrive as he grows into a man and realizes the true meaning of forgiveness.

All 13 episodes from the second season of the blackly comic American drama starring Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher in the throes of a midlife crisis who discovers that he is dying from inoperable lung cancer. In an attempt to sort out his disastrous financial affairs Walter decides to turn to crime and enlists the help of a good-for-nothing ex-student to set himself up as a crystal meth dealer. The episodes are: 'Seven Thirty-Seven', 'Grilled', 'Bit By a Dead Bee', 'Down', 'Breakage', 'Peekaboo', 'Negro Y Azul', 'Better Call Saul', '4 Days Out', 'Over', 'Mandala', 'Phoenix' and 'ABQ'.

KING ARTHUR WAS IRISH is an earthshaking new book that resurrects the high point of Irish history from out of its tomb - a tomb hewn of shameful religious politics, censorship, and blasphemous sex-guilt. The text is artfully decorated with a spirit akin to ancient Irish manuscripts. The revelations in the text are lavishly illustrated with medieval illuminations and wood-cuts, historic eighteenth and nineteenth century engravings, classic turn of the century Arthurian art, maps, charts, tables, satellite imagery, and striking original compositions. KING ARTHUR WAS IRISH answers the following five compelling questions and more: 1) Why didn't the Catholic Church canonize Saint Patrick - the Patron Saint of Ireland ? (This is no idle question considering that the twelfth century church had no problem canonizing the similarly myth laden Patron Saint of Wales - Saint David.) 2) Why does the ancient Book Of Armagh - a book long known as "St. Patrick's Book" - place the writings of the "Arch-heretic" Pelagius inside the New Testament ? (This very same Book Of Armagh was the official Bible of Ireland until the Norman Invasion. It was the National Bible used in the coronation of Irish High Kings including Brian Boru.) 3) Why is there such an ominous silence concerning the Irish Supremacy in Pelagian Wales and Cornwall during the Arthurian Era ? (And why is the related prominence of the Ui Liathain (the O'Lehans/Lyons) so purposefully evaded ?) 4) What motivates the historians who reject the authentic ancient texts which record that the Irish High King Niall and Irish High King Dathi were both killed fighting for Celtic rights deep inside France ? (And why is the preeminent alliance between the O'Lehan and O'Neill so vulnerably skirted?) 5) Is there really a codependent relationship between the sexual morality of the more egalitarian ancient Celts and the almost exclusively Latin formulated doctrine of Original Sin ? (And it was St. Augustine's fear of which Irishman that motivated the Bishop of Hippo to claim that all sex is sinful - even procreative sex between two baptized and married Christians ?) KING ARTHUR WAS IRISH unwraps these enigmas with a juicy study of the ancient texts. Fresh presentations and penetrations of the naked sources make up an impressive proportion of the book, making it a useful resource for anyone interested in probing the mysteries of medieval history. The seminal authorities are rendered into vibrant lines of easy to digest prose, with concise informed commentaries inserted right beside the accounts of the classical authors. The book shamelessly exhibits a huge endowment of scholarship, and kinetically delivers its virile message in an entertaining voice unafraid of the pungent humors exuded by such serious issues. The reader quickly regains the inherent knowledge that swallowing the truth is only alarming to the inherently untruthful.

Sometimes called the "literature of ideas," science fiction is a natural medium for normative political philosophy. Science fiction's focus on technology, space and time travel, non-human lifeforms, and parallel universes cannot help but invoke the perennial questions of political life, including the nature of a just social order and who should rule; freedom, free will, and autonomy; and the advantages and disadvantages of progress. Rather than offering a reading of a work inspired by a particular thinker or tradition, each chapter presents a careful reading of a classic or contemporary work in the genre (a novel, short story, film, or television series) to illustrate and explore the themes and concepts of political philosophy.

Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion explores the relationship between fictional short stories and the classic works of political philosophy. This edited volume addresses the innovative ways that short stories grapple with the same complex political and moral questions, concerns, and problems studied in the fields of political philosophy and ethics. The volume is designed to highlight the ways in which short stories may be used as an access point for the challenging works of political philosophy encountered in higher education. Each chapter analyzes a single story through the lens of thinkers ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Max Weber and Hannah Arendt. The contributors to this volume do not adhere to a single theme or intellectual tradition. Rather, this volume is a celebration of the intellectual and literary diversity available to students and teachers of political philosophy. It is a resource for scholars as well as educators who seek to incorporate short stories into their teaching practice.

For America's native peoples, Fabian writes, the sky is a daily - and nightly - influence on their society and culture. In a comprehensive study of a lowland South American people's astronomy, he explains how the Bororo Indians of Brazil integrate the social, natural and cosmic dimensions of time and space into their environment. Fabian introduces the Bororo by recounting a newly collected version of their birdnester myth that alludes to the spatial dimensions that govern Bororo village organization. Time is mapped onto the circular village structure, astronomical observations plot the nature and location of daily activities, and the perimeter of the settlement is synchronized with circadian and seasonal cycles. The village itself acts as a retrieval and classification system that functions much as lists or tables would in a literate society. By using extensive cross-cultural materials and a holistic approach that emphasizes relationships rather than objects, Fabian lets the Bororo speak for themselves. His interpretive work combines myth and folklore with personal interviews, archival research, and discussion of his own participation in ceremonies and secular activities during the ten-month period he and his wife lived among the Bororo. Of interest to anthropologists, folklorists, ethnoastronomers, and students of religion, ""Space-time of the Bororo of Brazil"" shows that the Bororo animate a complex, rational system, a realization, Fabian writes, ""that must both broaden and deepen our understanding, appreciation and respect for all native societies"".

The award-winning Jolly Dictionary complements the Jolly Grammar books and is designed to teach children how to look up and understand words they don't know. Teaching children how to use a dictionary will improve reading and writing, and help them become independent learners. The dictionary has been colour coded into four sections, (matching the Jolly Phonics Alphabet poster) so that children are able to find the words they are looking quickly. A unique Pronunciation Guide is given for each of the 6,000+ age-appropriate words. The definitions have been carefully written so that children find them easy to read and understand. The Jolly Dictionary is also beautifully illustrated throughout and features Inky, Bee and Snake.

The recent demise of the independent television companies and the expansion of satellite and cable networks has led to an explosion in small, independent production facilities. In parallel with this development has been a steady increase in media training and a major expansion in corporate video facilities. The Video Studio is written for everyone contemplating setting-up a professional installation, whether studio or location based. The Video Studio shows how to estimate the scale of investment required and, depending on the nature and frequency of use of the facility, the layout of technical areas and the function of the main items of equipment is described in easy to understand language. In short this is a nuts and bolts approach to planning and operating a studio of 150 square metres or less. Completely updated to take account of all the recent technological advances which have taken place, the book now covers: DAT, timecode, digital compression, non-linear editing and all current digital video formats.

This volume gathers 25 of the most important texts and speeches from American political history. Among them are Washington's Farewell Address, Carter's "Malaise" speech, Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, and Barack Obama's speech on race. Excepts from Supreme Court cases (Brown, Griswold, Windsor) are also included.