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Corbyn Comic Book (Paperback)
Martin Rowson, Steve Bell, Stephen Collins
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Pollsters called it a foregone conclusion. Columnists said Theresa
May's snap general election wouldn't just return her a thumping
majority in the House of Commons - it would plunge the opposition
into existential crisis. For Labour MPs, concerns about "job
security" in an age of zero-hours contracts suddenly felt
uncomfortably close to home. And then something happened. Momentum
got to work. Grime4Corbyn gathered steam. Clicktivists were
transformed into door-knocking, flag-waving activists. Soon, a
familiar chant - "Oh, Jeremy Corbyn" - was reverberating around
football stadiums and venues across the country. All this while
Theresa turned Maybot and the Conservatives released a manifesto
that looked bad for people and even worse for animals. Featuring
work by many of the UK's best-known cartoonists, including Martin
Rowson, Steve Bell and Stephen Collins, The Corbyn Comic Book
captures the qualities, quirks and flaws of a man whose startling
rise to prominence has been the defining story of 2017. He didn't
win, but he did cause a political earthquake. Corbynmania is a
thing now - and so is Comix4Corbyn.
'Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions
are a step in the right direction.' It's 1938, the British have
thrown everything they've got at Everest but they've still not
reached the summit. War in Europe seems inevitable; the Empire is
shrinking. Still reeling from failure in 1936, the British are
granted one more permit by the Tibetans, one more chance to climb
the mountain. Only limited resources are available, so can a small
team be assembled and succeed where larger teams have failed? H.W.
Tilman is the obvious choice to lead a select team made up of some
of the greatest British mountaineers history has ever known,
including Eric Shipton, Frank Smythe and Noel Odell. Indeed, Tilman
favours this lightweight approach. He carries oxygen but doesn't
trust it or think it ethical to use it himself, and refuses to take
luxuries on the expedition, although he does regret leaving a case
of champagne behind for most of his time on the mountain. On the
mountain, the team is cold, the weather very wintery. It is with
amazing fortitude that they establish a camp six at all, thanks in
part to a Sherpa going by the family name of Tensing. Tilman
carries to the high camp, but exhausted he retreats, leaving Smythe
and Shipton to settle in for the night. He records in his diary,
'Frank and Eric going well-think they may do it.' But the monsoon
is fast approaching ...In Mount Everest 1938, first published in
1948, Tilman writes that it is difficult to give the layman much
idea of the actual difficulties of the last 2,000 feet of Everest.
He returns to the high camp and, in exceptional style, they try for
the ridge, the route to the summit and those immense difficulties
of the few remaining feet.
The beginning of the gospel of Jeremiah, as it is written...
Since his unforeseen resurrection from the tepid ashes of the Labour Party in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn has been on a seemingly unstoppable upward trajectory. And one of Britain's best-loved political cartoonists, Steve Bell, has been with him every step of the way.
In Corbyn: The Resurrection, Bell has compiled an unmissable selection of his caustically witty cartoons charting the Labour leader's ascension amid the country's best attempts to tear itself apart. From an unforgettable Star Wars pastiche depicting Jez-Bi-Wan Conorbyn's leadership saga, to Bell's savagely gleeful account of the 2017 snap election and beyond, the result is an endlessly entertaining chronicle of Corbyn's path from the 'unelectable' to 'the prime-minister-in-waiting'.
Between Naivety and Hostility provides thinking Christians with a
broad range of balanced evidence on Islam in Britain, which will
enable them to engage with the issues and come to conclusions that
might help them be better social 'peacemakers' and 'spiritual
friends' to Muslims for the sake of Jesus Christ.
Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom
Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big
seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as
popular today as ever This book takes a closer look at the precise
meanings of the terms screwball and romantic. Film fans and
scholars alike tend to lump film with laughter and love under a
screwball/romantic umbrella and use the terms screwball and
romantic interchangeably. In reality, there is a distinction; the
screwball variety places its emphasis on "funny," while the more
traditional romantic comedy accents "love." Covering over 60 titles
each of romantic and screwball comedy dating from the 1930s to the
present, this research tool not only demonstrates how screwball and
romantic comedy are two distinct genres, but also highlights
pivotal social and artistic changes which impacted both genres.
Includes 24 black and white movie stills, countless quotations from
selected films, an annotated bibliography, and a two-part
filmography. Not only an informative resource for film students and
scholars, but also an interesting read for film buffs.
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Seven Whole Days (Paperback)
Malcolm Guite; Illustrated by Faye Hall; Foreword by Steve Bell
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R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
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Seven Whole Days (Hardcover)
Malcolm Guite; Illustrated by Faye Hall; Foreword by Steve Bell
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R679
Discovery Miles 6 790
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"It took only a few seconds for the drama to conclude as the
flaccid body crashed down onto the roof of a stationary black cab.
The vehicle's roof crumpled, creating blind panic for the forlorn
and completely unsuspecting driver. The cab's windows exploded with
a piercing crack, showering him with zirconium-like crystals of
safety glass. The victim bounced and rolled onto the bustling main
carriageway, South Colonnade." The suicide of an Investment Banker
at Canary Wharf Tower in London's Docklands was too neat for DC
Watson's seasoned instincts. Follow his adrenaline-fuelled quest as
he battles against the odds to seek the truth within an environment
controlled by a secret Cabal behind the Global Financial Industry,
which does not welcome outside interference and will defend its
existence by whatever means deemed necessary. Watson soon realises
that he is in too deep to turn around, leaving the pursuit of truth
as his only option for self-preservation. Some secrets are best
left untold...
David Reynolds has everything. The perfect life: money, success, a
beautiful wife and two adorable children. But all that is about to
change. When Reynolds is urgently called home, he finds his world
has been destroyed. With his life disintegrating around him, he
must choose the hardest path of all - forgiveness. Supported by his
estranged brother, his wife's best friend, his lawyer, and above
all, God, he must demonstrate to the world that he is an
extraordinary man. But his journey holds a dark secret - a secret
that will bring him face to face with his God.
It has been called one of the greatest tragedies of our time. In an
age of prosperity and plenty, hundreds of thousands of people
continue to find themselves destitute and homeless. Bent Hope was
born out of Tim Huff's unique and extensive twenty-year ministry
among homeless and street-involved youth and adults in Toronto,
Canada. It is a collection of thoughtful narratives birthed beneath
crumbling bridges and in the hidden alcoves of darkened alleyways.
Each chapter reveals a unique life-story-unpredictable, intriguing
and compelling. These gripping true-life stories surface quietly
from unforgiving corridors of fear, hurt and uncertainty that
unexpectedly and supernaturally transform into fascinating places
of intimacy and godly anticipation. While the surface aims of Bent
Hope are to inspire and educate, the author's core objective is not
to reveal the grand experience of ministry "to" the poorest of the
western world's poor, but to expose the extraordinary beauty of
being blessed "by" and "among" them.
A violent impact with a car leaves Ellis Landis unconscious and
bleeding on a dark desert road, and the driver is shocked to find
the man naked, with nothing more than a strange metal device
clutched in his hands.
"The device, for some unexplainable reason, meant
everything."
After waking in the hospital, Landis finds he has lost his
memory. As events continue to unfold around him, he senses his life
is in danger. Doctor Elisha Sienna, guided by sinister military
forces, tries to recover his memory and gain access to the
earth-shattering secret that is locked in his mind. But she is not
alone. A radical terrorist group-The Enigma-wants their key holder
back.
"Again the word exploded in his mind - Enigma - it meant
everything and nothing all at once. The whole thing was an enigma,
a riddle he had to solve. He was sure he was part of something
bigger, something important and that he and the device were at the
heart of it."
While fleeing from a set of bizarre experiments and violent
torture, Ellis slowly recovers the dark secrets of his paranoid
mind-secrets that could mean the difference between life and death
for all humankind.
Outwardly, 'Britain's most experienced teenage Alpinist' is a brave
young mountaineer. But he's not experienced at all, at least not in
the way he really wants to be. Behind his death-defying climbs
there lurks a great deal of fear - fear of the opposite sex, fear
of failure, fear of not being 'man enough'. He seeks manhood in the
mountains, yet he believes he will only truly gain it by losing
something. Harrowing escapades in Scotland, the Alps and Alaska are
interspersed by excruciating sexual encounters and unsettling
hitch-hiking rides. When the mountains fail him, he seeks meaning
with a religious cult in Colorado. Eventually he succeeds in his
quest, only to find that he's lost more than he bargained for.
Virgin on Insanity by Steve Bell is a coming-of-age story of high
adventure, youthful insecurity and immature love. The situations
might be extreme, but the deeper issues will be familiar to many.
In his daily cartoon for the Guardian and his long-running strip,
IF, in the same paper, Steve Bell has proved that he is without
equal in Britain as political cartoonist. Savage, funny, rude,
constantly transgressing the rules of good taste, and of course
beautifully drawn his cartoons are hated by those they lampoon and
loved by everyone who likes to see authority subverted. In his new
collection he covers the years of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat
coalition government, 2010-2015, fertile ground for Bell's genius.
From George Osborne in his bondage gear, the 'Quiet Man' zombie Ian
Duncan Smith, Cable the elephant, Cameron the talking condom and
Clegg the butler to Kipling and the IF penguins, every awful moment
of the coalition years is re-run before your eyes ... but Steve
Bell style: 'outrageous, anarchic, brilliant, sometimes
inexplicable and a bit mad (not really)' to quote John Pilger.
Steve Bell has distilled three decades of experience in
cross-cultural communication of the Gospel to ordinary Muslim
people.
"Gospel For Muslims" asserts that all theology - including
Western theology - is influenced by the culture of those who write
it. Help is therefore needed to move beyond the western
understanding of the Bible in order to tell Muslims the good news
about Jesus in more accessible ways and enable them to believe and
follow him in culturally appropriate ways - even if it means doing
so from outside institutionalized Christianity.
Terry Jones is known the world over as one of the beloved creators
of the legendary Monty Python. But independent of the Python team,
Jones has been writing columns targeting the Anglo-American
response to September 11. His wit and venom are particularly
focused on the messianic vernacular of Bush and Blair and the
semantics of the "war on terror." As Jones writes, "What really
alarms me about President Bush's'War on Terrorism' is the grammar.
How do you wage war on an abstract noun? ... How is'Terrorism'
going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that
it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender." Terry Jones's War
on the War on Terror proves that in times of high political
anxiety, humour and irony are most potent antidotes to the spin
emanating from the White House and Downing Street.
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