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A collection of episodes from the CBeebies animation created by
Sarah Gomes Harris and Tim O'Sullivan. Narrated by Roger Allam, the
show follows the adventures of seven-year-old Sarah (voice of Tasha
Lawrence) and her faithful companion Duck as they learn a variety
of life lessons. The episodes are: 'Lots of Shallots', 'Sarah, Duck
and the Penguins', 'Cheer Up Donkey', 'Cake Bake', 'Scarf Lady's
House', 'Robot Juice', 'Bouncy Ball', 'Rainbow Lemon', 'Sit Shop'
and 'Kite Flight'.
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Brotherhood (DVD)
Trevor Morgan, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci, Arlen Escarpeta, Jesse Steccato, …
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A college initiation prank goes horribly wrong in this
psychological thriller from first time director Will Canon. As part
of their induction to the college, Frank (Jon Foster), the
overbearing head of his fraternity, decides to test his 'brothers'
to the limit by issuing each of them with a gun and telling them to
rob a local store. The initiates are supposed to be stopped from
pulling their guns at the last moment by a fellow student, but
events take a turn for the worse when Kevin (Lou Taylor Pucci)
winds up being shot by store worker Mike (Arlen Escarpeta). When
wounded Kevin struggles back to the college and Frank refuses to
compromise himself by alerting the authorities, fellow initiate
Adam (Trevor Morgan) is sent back to the shop to try to put things
right, but his problems are only just beginning.
The Epicurean school of philosophy was one of the dominant
philosophies of the Hellenistic period. Founded by Epicurus of
Samos (century 341-270 BCE), it was characterized by an empiricist
epistemology and a hedonistic ethics. This new introduction to
Epicurus offers readers clear exposition of the central tenets of
Epicurus' philosophy, with particular stress placed on those
features that have enduring philosophical interest and where
parallels can be drawn with debates in contemporary analytic
philosophy. Part 1 of the book examines the fundamentals of
Epicurus' metaphysics, including atoms and the void, emergent and
sensible properties, cosmology, mechanistic biology, the nature and
functioning of the mind, death, and freedom of action. Part 2
explores Epicurus' epistemology, including his arguments against
scepticism and his ideas on sensations, preconceptions and
feelings. The final part deals with Epicurus' ethics, exploring his
arguments for hedonism, his distinctive conceptions of types of
pleasure and desire, his belief in virtue, his notions of justice,
friendship and his theology. O'Keefe provides extended exegesis of
the arguments supporting Epicurus' positions, indicating their
strengths and weaknesses, while showing the connections between the
various parts of his philosophy and how Epicureanism hangs together
as a whole.
The sixth series of the roots music show in which musicians from
Britain and the USA perform together with a house band led by Jerry
Douglas and Aly Bain. Featured artists in this series include Maura
O'Connell, Cara Dillon, Julie Fowlis, Karen Matheson and Tim
O'Brien.
An American Master returns: The author of The Things They
Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a
brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a
disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation
corroded by shameless delusion and deceit. At 11:34 a.m. one
Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community
National Bank in northern California. “How much is on hand, would
you say?†he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.â€
“You’re robbing me?†“Not you,†Boyd replied, revealing a
Temptation .38 Special. Angie Bing, the teller, scraped together
$81,000. Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery
bag. “I’m sorry about this,†he said, “but I’ll
have to ask you to take a ride with me. …†So begins the
adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious
online disinformation troll turned JC Penny manager—and his
irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of
his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with
him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday
Boyd and Angie reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront
mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers,
ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour
veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd’s past. Everyone, it
seems, except the police. America Fantastica marks the
triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. Just
as O’Brien’s modern classic, The Things They Carried, so
brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, America
Fantastica puts a mirror to a nation and a time that has
become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusion.
True-life reporting on vicious criminals and the haphazard system
that punishes themIn 1969, the Supreme Court justices cast votes in
secret that could have signaled the end of the death penalty.
Later, the justices' resolve began to unravel. Why? What were the
consequences for the rule of law and for the life at stake in the
case? These are some of the fascinating questions answered in
Murder at the Supreme Court. Veteran journalists Martin Clancy and
Tim O'Brien not only pull back the curtain of secrecy that
surrounds Supreme Court deliberations but also reveal the crucial
links between landmark capital-punishment cases and the lethal
crimes at their root. The authors take readers to crime scenes,
holding cells, jury rooms, autopsy suites, and execution chambers
to provide true-life reporting on vicious criminals and the
haphazard judicial system that punishes them. The cases reported
are truly "the cases that made the law." They have defined the
parameters that judges must follow for a death sentence to stand up
on appeal. Beyond the obvious questions regarding the dubious
deterrent effect of capital punishment or whether retribution is
sufficient justification for the death penalty (regardless of the
heinous nature of the crimes committed), the cases and crimes
examined in this book raise other confounding issues: Is lethal
injection really more humane than other methods of execution?
Should a mentally ill killer be forcibly medicated to make him
"well enough" to be executed? How does the race of the perpetrator
or the victim influence sentencing? Is heinous rape a capital
crime? How young is too young to be executed?This in-depth yet
highly accessible book provides compelling human stories that
illuminate the thorny legal issues behind the most noteworthy
capital cases.
This concise guide covers all the practical skills that students
need to work effectively in a group in higher and further
education. Using a variety of interactive teaming activities,
students can practice the main principles. A number of case-study
and real-life examples are also included.
This book tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in public
participation: the government-sponsored debate on the possible
commercialization of 'GM' crops in the UK. Giving a unique and
systematic account of the debate process, this revealing volume
sets it within its political and intellectual contexts, and
examines the practical implications for future public engagement
initiatives. The authors, an experienced team of researchers,
produce a conceptually-informed and empirically-based evaluation of
the debate, drawing upon detailed observation of both public and
behind-the-scenes aspects of the process, the views of participants
in debate events, a major MORI-administered survey of public views,
and details of media coverage. With innovative methodological work
on the evaluation of public engagement and deliberative processes,
the authors analyze the design, implementation and effectiveness of
the debate process, and provide a critique of its official
findings. The book will undoubtedly be of interest to a wide
readership, and will be an invaluable resource for researchers,
policy-makers and students concerned with cross-disciplinary
aspects of risk, decision-making, public engagement, and governance
of technology.
Since its first publication, "The Things They Carried" has become
an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American
literature, and a profound study of war that illuminates the
capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul.
First published to critical acclaim by Houghton Mifflin, Tim
O'Brien's celebrated classic In the Lake of the Woods now returns
to the house in a gorgeous new Mariner paperback edition. This
riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things
They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century's
legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When
long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam
come to light, a candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with his
wife to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of
their arrival, his wife mysteriously vanishes into the watery
wilderness.
This concise guide covers all the practical skills that students
need to work effectively in a group in higher and further
education. Using a variety of interactive teaming activities,
students can practice the main principles. A number of case-study
and real-life examples are also included.
This fully photocopiable teaching resource provides tutors with a
varied and lively range of learning activities and exercises to use
with students to help equip them with the skills needed to plan for
a research project in higher education.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In a tour de force of black comedy, award-winning novelist Tim
O'Brien explores the battle of the sexes and creates a savage,
startlingly inventive tale with a memorably maddening hero, a
modern-day Don Juan who embodies the desires and bewilderment of
men everywhere. Pompous, vain, shallow, inconsiderate,
untrustworthy, fickle... linguistics professor Thomas 'Tomcat'
Chippering is a man much like any other. But when his serial
flirting finally drives his wife into the arms of a Florida tycoon,
it is more than his fragile pride can stand, and he sets off in
pursuit, with vengeance on his mind...
The Epicurean school of philosophy was one of the dominant
philosophies of the Hellenistic period. Founded by Epicurus of
Samos (century 341-270 BCE) it was characterized by an empiricist
epistemology and a hedonistic ethics. This new introduction to
Epicurus offers readers clear exposition of the central tenets of
Epicurus' philosophy, with particular stress placed on those
features that have enduring philosophical interest and where
parallels can be drawn with debates in contemporary analytic
philosophy. Part 1 of the book examines the fundamentals of
Epicurus' metaphysics, including atoms and the void, emergent and
sensible properties, cosmology, mechanistic biology, the nature and
functioning of the mind, death, and freedom of action. Part 2
explores Epicurus' epistemology, including his arguments against
scepticism and his ideas on sensations, preconceptions and
feelings. The final part deals with Epicurus' ethics, exploring his
arguments for hedonism, his distinctive conceptions of types of
pleasure and desire, his belief in virtue, his notions of justice,
friendship and his theology. O'Keefe provides extended exegesis of
the arguments supporting Epicurus' positions, indicating their
strengths and weaknesses, while showing the connections between the
various parts of his philosophy and how Epicureanism hangs together
as a whole.
Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre.
Stories to Encourage Positive Behavior in Small Children The
preschool and kindergarten years are some of the most important
formative years of a person's life. Habits and attitudes developed
during these crucial years affect a child for the rest of his or
her life. These years are also a challenging time for parents as
their children test boundaries (and patience). How parents and
children respond makes all the difference in the world. The Growing
God's Kids series is designed to help young children understand
their feelings, develop godly ways to deal with temptations, and
form positive attitudes and behaviors that will serve them well in
the future. In Telling the Truth, parents and children are
encouraged to address lying and discover the value of telling the
truth.
Danger gets a little too close to home for ex-cop Raymond Donne . .
. When his father's former law partner, Harry Stover, is murdered
while being celebrated as Williamsburg, Brooklyn's "Man of the
Year," ex-cop turned schoolteacher Raymond Donne fights his old
police instincts and vows to stay out of the investigation. That is
until his childhood home is broken into and one of his students is
threatened. Has a decades old case of his father's come back to
haunt the Donne family? Could the murder have something to do with
the victim's charitable work connecting low-income kids with
business leaders in Williamsburg? Raymond never has liked
unanswered questions, and when the answers come a little too close
to his home and school, he decides he's not above giving the cops a
little unwanted help.
This book is based on the workshop that kickstarted the NATO
Science Committee Special Programme on Advanced Educational
Technology. We invited the leaders in the field to attend this
inaugural meeting and were delighted by the quality of the
attendance, the papers delivered at the workshop and this book.
Many of the authors have subsequently run other meetings funded by
the Special Programme and have, or are in the process of, editing
books which focus on particular topics. This book covers all the
major themes in the area ranging from fundamental theoretical work
to empirical studies of state of the art technological innovations.
Tim O'Shea chaired the NATO Survey Group which planned the
Programme and the subsequent Panel which disbursed funds in the
first two years of the Programme. He would like to thank the other
group and panel members, namely, Professor N Balacheff, Professor D
Bjomer, Professor H Bouma, Professor P C Duchastel, Professor A
Dias de Figueiredo, Dr D Jonassen and Professor T Liao. He would
like to offer his special thanks to Dr L V da Cunha the NATO
Programme Director for his unfailing support and patience. Eileen
Scanlon was the Director of the Workshop which is the basis of this
book. She offers heartfelt thanks to the contributors and to the
following who provided practical help with the meeting or the
production of this book: Mrs Pauline Adams, Dr Mike Baker, Mrs
Kathy Evans, Mrs Patricia Roe, Mr Dave Perry and Ms Fiona Spensley.
On the twentieth anniversary of its publication, "The Things They
Carried" returns to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with over two
million copies in print. A classic work of American literature that
has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the
literary scene, "The Things They Carried" is a ground-breaking
meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of
storytelling. "The Things They Carried" depicts the men of Alpha
Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders,
Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has
survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the
age of forty-three. Taught everywhere--from high school classrooms
to graduate seminars in creative writing--it has become required
reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in
their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and
fear and longing.
A remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of
'Going After Cacciato' and 'The Things They Carried', which
combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension
of a many-layered mystery. In a remote lakeside cabin deep in the
Minnesota forests, Kathy Wade is comforting her husband John, an
ambitious politician, after a devastating electoral defeat. Then
one night she vanishes, and gradually the search for Kathy becomes
a voyage into the darkest corners of John Wade's life, a life of
deception and deceit - the life of a man able to escape everything
but the chains of his darkest secret.
Winner of the National Book Award, 'Going After Cacciato' captures
the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked the
Vietnam War, this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and
fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day
lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the
jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable
evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of
battle, 'Going After Cacciato' stands as much more than just a
great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and
heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all.
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation
on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of
storytelling. 'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a
sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam
War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a
novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and
theme. But while Vietnam is central to 'The Things They Carried',
it is not simply a book about war. It is also a book about the
human heart - about the terrible weight of those things we carry
through our lives.
What happened to all those hopes and ideals? After thirty years, a group of friends are reunited in their old college gymnasium for a weekend of dancing and drinking, reminiscence and revelation. A mop manufacturer and a bigamist, a war veteran and a trophy wife, a glamour model and a defrocked priest ? each character has an extraordinary tale to tell in the compelling new novel from former National Book Award-winner Tim O?Brien.
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