Endangered
Tim Flach and Jonathan Baillie
Book
In Endangered, the result of an extraordinary multiyear project to document the lives of threatened...
Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor
Book
India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by...
Dangerous Gifts: A Babylon Steel Novel
Book
Babylon Steel, owner of the Red Lantern brothel - and former avatar of the goddess of sex and war -...
Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Keith Carabine and John Cleland
Book
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in...
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini and Kate Mosse
Book
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE MOSSE. Wrongfully arrested following the Monmouth rebellion of 1685,...
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Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Movie Watch
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in...
Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth
Sir Alfred Milner, P.A. Barnett and C.G. Montefiore
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"Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this...
Awix (3310 KP) rated White God (Feher Isten) (2014) in Movies
Feb 13, 2021 (Updated Feb 13, 2021)
Obviously scores quite highly on the 'never seen *that* in a movie before' front; excellent direction and storytelling, and a remarkably self-possessed performance by Zsofia Psotta. Never really overcomes a slightly self-conscious weirdness that keeps it from completely working as either horror or drama. It's not entirely clear what the moral premise of the movie is, other than 'be kind to dogs'; can't help thinking it's probably quite facile, anyway. But the dog trainers do a sterling job of keeping it interesting.
The Waterworks
Book
One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing...
Exterminate All the Brutes
Book
Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind of experiential...