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About Last Night (DVD)
Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Regina Hall, Joy Bryant, Christopher McDonald, …
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Steve Pink directs this romantic comedy, based on David Marmet's
play 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago', starring Kevin Hart, Michael
Ealy, Regina Hall and Joy Bryant. Bernie Jackson (Hart) and his
friend Danny Martin (Ealy) consider themselves successful
womanisers. However, when they become involved with two roommates,
Joan Derrickson (Hall) and Debbie Sullivan (Bryant), Bernie and
Danny find that life becomes a lot more complicated. The two
couples go through numerous ups and downs, with the difficulties
and successes of each relationship having a knock-on effect on the
other. Can romance and friendship survive such close proximity?
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Alpha and Omega (DVD)
Justin Long, Christina Ricci, Hayden Panettiere, Dennis Hopper, Danny Glover, …
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Animated road trip adventure. Kate (voiced by Hayden Panettiere)
and Humphrey (Justin Long) are two young wolves from a National
Park in Canada who find themselves shipped halfway across the
country by the park's rangers. While Humphrey is a streetwise,
fun-loving Omega wolf, Kate is a sleek and sophisticated Alpha wolf
and considers herself Humphrey's superior. Thrown together in a
foreign land, and faced with a journey of over a thousand miles to
get back home and restore peace on their warring home turf, the two
must overcome their differences and learn to look out for each
other.
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Why Him? (DVD)
Zoey Deutch, Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Megan Mullally, Keegan-Michael Key, …
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Bryan Cranston and James Franco star in this comedy directed and
co-written by John Hamburg. Overprotective father Ned (Cranston)
has always had a special relationship with his daughter Stephanie
(Zoey Deutch) so when she invites him, along with her mother Barb
(Megan Mullally) and brother Scotty (Griffin Gluck), to spend
Christmas with her and her millionaire boyfriend Laird (Franco), he
reluctantly agrees, for the sake of his daughter's happiness.
However, when Laird reveals his plan to propose to Stephanie and
asks for Ned's blessing, the caring father vows to do everything in
his power to prevent his little girl from agreeing to spend her
life with the moronic mogul. With Laird determined to convince his
future father-in-law to accept him however, he devises a plan to
get Barb and Scotty on his side.
Louise Gluck says in one of her essays that every end of a book is
for her a "conscious diagnostic act, a swearing off" in which she
discerns the themes, habits, and preoccupations of the previous
volume to define the tasks of the next. The First Four Books of
Poems shows this poet in the conscious evolution she describes,
marking time in changes. Readers will hear specifics of sequence:
where the ferocious tension of her first book, Firstborn, moves
towards the more finely-spun lyricism of her second, The House on
Marshland. They will also discover how the charged nouns of that
book acquire more intimate weight to become the icons in her third,
Descending Figure, and then rise to an archetypal mythic scale in
The Triumph of Achilles. These poems are as various as the force of
Gluck's intelligence is constant. In another essay, she cautions,
"the deft skirting of despair is a life lived on the surface,
intimidated by depth, a life that refuses to be used by time, which
it tries instead to dominate or evade." The First Four Books of
Poems attests to how truly Gluck has tested and proven the validity
of her own warning. The fierce, austerely beautiful voice that has
become Gluck's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in
unflinching awareness. Always she is moving in and around the
achingly real, writing poems adamant in their accuracy and depth.
Their progression is proof of her commitment to change; with her
first four books of poetry collected in a single volume, Louise
Gluck shows herself happily "used by time."
"Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the
V." So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Gluck's astonishing
chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a
fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two
hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit
of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, an incandescent act of autobiography.
Here are the elements you'd expect to find in a story of infant
twins: Father and Mother, Grandmother and Other Grandmother, bath
time and naptime-but more than that, Marigold and Rose is an
investigation of the great mystery of language and of time itself,
of what is and what has been and what will be. "Outside the playpen
there were day and night. What did they add up to? Time was what
they added up to. Rain arrived, then snow." The twins learn to
climb stairs, they regard each other like criminals through the
bars of their cribs, they begin to speak. "It was evening. Rose was
smiling placidly in the bathtub playing with the squirting
elephant, which, according to Mother, represented patience,
strength, loyalty and wisdom. How does she do it, Marigold thought,
knowing what we know." Simultaneously sad and funny, and shot
through with a sense of stoic wonder, this small miracle of a book,
following thirteen books of poetry and two collections of essays,
is unlike anything Gluck has written, while at the same time it is
inevitable, transcendent.
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About Ed
Robert Gluck
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Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, and crude. The Seven Ages is Glück's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in so doing, forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible -- an act that simultaneously defies and embraces the inevitable, and is, finally, mimetic. Over and over, at each wild leap or transformation, flames shoot up the reader's spine.
With real-world examples, fascinating applications and clear
explanations, this textbook helps uninitiated students understand
the basic ideas and human impact of groundbreaking learning and
memory research. Its unique organization into three
sections-Behavioral Processes, Brain Substrates, and Clinical
Perspectives-allows students to make connections across chapters
while giving instructors the flexibility to easily assign the
material that matches their course. The new edition again offers
the book's signature inclusion of human and animal studies with an
engaging full-colour design and images. You'll find even more
meaningful real-life examples; new coverage of learning and memory
research and brain-imaging; an expanded discussion of the role of
genetics in producing individual differences; new material on the
role of sleep in memory, and more.
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Crush (Paperback, New)
Richard Siken; Foreword by Louise Gluck
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The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful,
confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book
Critics Circle Award in Poetry "Siken writes about love, desire,
violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency
that makes this one of the best books of contemporary
poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post Richard Siken's Crush,
selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a
powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken
writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him.
His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent
eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is
striking. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise
Gluck hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and]
purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems. She notes, "Books of
this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of
crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great
genius of the form."
Since, 1990, Louise Glück has been exploring a form that is, according to poet Robert Hass, her invention. Vita Nova -- like its immediate predecessors, a book-length sequence -- combines the ecstatic utterance of The Wild Iris with the worldly dramas elaborated in Meadowlands. Vita Nova is a book that exists in the long moment of spring, a book of deaths and beginnings, resignation and hope, brutal, luminous, and farseeing. Like late Yeats, Vita Nova dares large statement. By turns stern interlocutor and ardent novitiate, Glück compasses the essential human paradox, a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that shape and thwart it.
In this book, Susan Gluck Mezey examines LGBT policymaking over the
last several decades, highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well
as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community.
With an emphasis on courts, she traces developments in the
struggles for LGBT rights in the United States and abroad. The
chapters focus on employment discrimination, transgender rights,
marriage equality, and the ongoing battles over discrimination
against same-sex couples and transgender persons in education,
employment, and public accommodations. It also adds a global
perspective by appraising issues affecting LGBT rights in other
parts of the world, discussing claims of discrimination in the
Canadian and South African courts as well as in the European Court
of Human Rights. Mezey provides a succinct and accessible guide to
the debates over sexual orientation and gender identity, evaluating
the roles played by state and federal courts, legislatures, and
chief executives in formulating and implementing LGBT policy.
Suitable as an up-to-date resource for anyone interested in LGBT
rights, Beyond Marriage will also help students in upper-level
classes focusing on judicial politics, public policymaking, family
law, civil rights, gender policy, and minority group politics
understand ways forward for the LGBT community in the political
realm.
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel
Prize-winning poet For the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been
a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the
restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for
her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of
poems. This volume brings together the twelve collections Gluck has
published to date, offering readers the opportunity to become
immersed in the artistry and vision of one of the world's greatest
living poets. From the allegories of The Wild Iris to the
myth-making of Averno; the oneiric landscapes of The House on
Marshland to the questing of Faithful and Virtuous Night - each of
Gluck's collections looks upon the events of an ordinary life and
finds within them scope for the transcendent; each wields its
archetypes to puncture the illusions of the self. Across her work,
elements are reiterated but endlessly transfigured - Persephone, a
copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband
and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain. Taken
together, the effect is like a shifting landscape seen from above,
at once familiar and unspeakably profound.
Women's Words is the first collection of writings devoted
exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and
practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a
tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary
esays, the book takes stock of the implicit presuppositions ,
contradictions, and prospects of oral history at the hands of
feminist scholars.
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Wild Iris (Paperback)
Louise Gluck
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The poems in this collection are written in the language of
flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris
in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for
Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Susan Gluck Mezey's newest book, Gay Families and the Courts, is a
compelling examination of the role of the state and federal courts
in furthering the goals of the gay and lesbian community. Unlike
Mezey's earlier book, Queers in Court, this book evaluates the
extent to which litigation is effective in advancing equal rights
for gay families-families in which at least one member is gay-as
they seek to expand their opportunities and battle discrimination.
Mezey shows how the courts address gay and lesbian rights and
sexual orientation in schools and social organizations such as the
Boy Scouts along with family-oriented problems such as marriage and
parenthood. In doing so, Mezey emphasizes the complexity of the
issues involved in the cases, and assesses the degree to which the
outcome of the litigation is explained by the type of case, the
type of court, and the judge's perception of his or her role as a
policymaker. It is a valuable reference for scholars interested in
judicial, legislative, and executive policymaking at the federal
and state level as well as anyone interested in LGBT politics.
Susan Gluck Mezey's newest book, Gay Families and the Courts, is a
compelling examination of the role of the state and federal courts
in furthering the goals of the gay and lesbian community. Unlike
Mezey's earlier book, Queers in Court, this book evaluates the
extent to which litigation is effective in advancing equal rights
for gay families_families in which at least one member is gay_as
they seek to expand their opportunities and battle discrimination.
Mezey shows how the courts address gay and lesbian rights and
sexual orientation in schools and social organizations such as the
Boy Scouts along with family-oriented problems such as marriage and
parenthood. In doing so, Mezey emphasizes the complexity of the
issues involved in the cases, and assesses the degree to which the
outcome of the litigation is explained by the type of case, the
type of court, and the judge's perception of his or her role as a
policymaker. It is a valuable reference for scholars interested in
judicial, legislative, and executive policymaking at the federal
and state level as well as anyone interested in LGBT politics.
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Handbook of Oral History (Paperback)
Thomas L Charlton, Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless; Contributions by Mary Chamberlain, Pamela Dean, …
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Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly
reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral
history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly
readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general
public. Covering the vast scope of this increasingly popular field,
the eminent contributors discuss almost every aspect of a field
that once was the province of historians but now has become
increasingly democratized and available across numerous
disciplines.
A companion to History of Oral History, Thinking about Oral History
presents parts III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, an essential
resource for scholars and students. Guided by Charlton, Myers, and
Sharpless, the prominent authors capture the current
state-of-the-art in oral history and predict key directions for
future growth in theory and application.
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Crush (Paperback)
Richard Siken; Foreword by Louise Gluck
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Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in
Poetry-an erotic, powerful collection "One of the best books of
contemporary poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post "Vital,
immediate, and cinematic in scope."-Library Journal (Best Poetry of
2005) Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise
Gluck as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard
Siken's Crush is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession
and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles
unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and
charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry,
Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction to the book, Gluck
hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and]
purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems. She notes, "Books of
this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of
crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great
genius of the form."
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