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The Facility (DVD)
Aneurin Barnard, Alex Reid, Skye Lourie, Oliver Coleman, Chris Larkin, …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Horror in which a clinical trial at a remote facility goes terribly
wrong. Among those who sign up to test ProSyntrex's latest drug
Pro9 are Adam (Aneurin Barnard), Joni (Alex Reid), Carmen (Skye
Lourie) and Jed (Oliver Coleman). The trial is highly secret, with
no-one, including the staff who administer injections, aware of who
is receiving the drug and who is in the placebo group. Shortly
after the trial begins it becomes clear that something has gone
wrong. There are unexplained disappearances, bizarre silhouettes
and screaming from behind locked doors. Locked inside the facility,
unaware of the true nature of events, the surviving patients and
staff must band together to try and find a way out of the
nightmare.
John Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential
figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most
striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe's
Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to
Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive.
As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and
then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a,
perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university
curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy,
raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial
teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair
of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was
equally central.
But Blackie was also a great 'public man', corresponding with
great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe
and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of
newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the
day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely
involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as
champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their
contemporary survival and unique status.
Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and
letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life
of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman
of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895. This book
will be his first biography.
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