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The Internship (2013)
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson star as two former salesmen who, never having
managed to come to grips with the digital age, are left high and
dry when their employer suddenly decides to call it a day. Staking
everything on one last throw of the dice, the pair, defying all the
odds, somehow manage to get themselves accepted onto a coveted
internship at tech giants Google. But will they be able to keep up
the facade once they take up their positions?
The Watch (2012)
Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade star as a group of
friends who form a neighbourhood watch group. While Evan Trautwig, a newcomer to the suburban neighbourhood, may have a
legitimate reason for forming a crime watch group following the
recent murder of a friend, it is clear that for most of the men
ulterior motives are at work. Indeed, Bob Finnerty seems
to spend a lot more time examining the dating habits of his
daughter, Chelsea, than he does looking for
threats. However, when the men stumble across what appears to be an
alien plan to destroy humankind, they understand where their
responsibilities lie and set out to counter the threat.
The Company-State rethinks the nature of the early English East
India Company as a form of polity and corporate sovereign well
before its supposed transformation into a state and empire in the
mid-eighteenth century. Taking seriously the politics and political
thought of the early Company on their own terms, it explores the
Company's political and legal constitution as an overseas
corporation and the political institutions and behaviors that
followed from it, from tax collection and public health to
warmaking and colonial plantation. Tracing the ideological
foundations of those institutions and behaviors, this book reveals
how Company leadership wrestled not simply with the bottom line but
with typically early modern problems of governance, such as: the
mutual obligations of subjects and rulers; the relationship between
law, economy, and sound civil and colonial society; and the nature
of jurisdiction and sovereignty over people, commerce, religion,
territory, and the sea. The Company-State thus reframes some of the
most fundamental narratives in the history of the British Empire,
questioning traditional distinctions between public and private
bodies, "commercial" and "imperial" eras in British India, a
colonial Atlantic and a "trading world" of Asia, European and Asian
political cultures, and the English and their European rivals in
the East Indies. At its core, The Company-State offers a view of
early modern Europe and Asia, and especially the colonial world
that connected them, as resting in composite, diffuse, hybrid, and
overlapping notions of sovereignty that only later gave way to more
modern singular, centralized, and territorially- and
nationally-bounded definitions of political community. Given
growing questions about the fate of the nation-state and of
national borders in an age of "globalization," this study offers a
perspective on the vitality of non-state and corporate political
power perhaps as relevant today as it was in the seventeenth
century.
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The Smurfs (DVD)
Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria, Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, …
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R92
Discovery Miles 920
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Based on the characters created by Peyo for the 1980s television
series, this family comedy is a mix of CGI animation and live
action. After being chased by dark wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria)
the Smurfs find themselves transported from their village in the
Middle Ages to modern-day New York. There they seek shelter in the
home of Patrick Winslow (Neil Patrick Harris) and his wife, Grace
(Jayma Mays), but with Gargamel on the loose, the Smurfs are
running out of time to get back to their village. The film features
the voice talents of Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Alan Cumming,
George Lopez and Paul Reubens.
A revolutionary approach to longevity and ageing
In many western countries, people complain of turning invisible after
50. When they hit their mid-60s, they expect or are forced to retire,
cutting them adrift from social networks and leading to a loneliness
epidemic. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
In Healthy to 100, Ken Stern uncovers the ground-breaking secrets of
the winners in healthy longevity – countries like Singapore, Spain,
Japan and South Korea – who are all top-rankers on the ‘Healthy
Longevity Index’, the best measure not just of living long, but living
long well.
Bringing together the latest science of ageing and real-life stories,
this book offers us a personal and societal guide to living a
fulfilling life after 65: one where purpose, learning, community and
intergenerational connection are the pillars of good health. Rather
than advocating for special diets or exercise regimens, Healthy to 100
offers a hopeful, attainable and research-backed model for anyone
seeking a longer, healthier and purpose-driven life.
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Laurence Sterne
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