Rushmore is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film Bottle Rocket. It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fish, a precocious pupil at a conservative private school. He is a live wire, a teenager full of madcap entrepreneurial schemes that usually in failure. His personal life becomes similarly complicated when he falls for his elegant teacher, Rosemary Cross, and finds himself vying for her favor with Herman Blume-who is portrayed in the film by Bill Murray-the wealthy father of two of his classmates. Max ultimately proves himself a figure of some tenacity as he negotiates the minefield of love, desire, and adolescence.At the Toronto Film Festival, Screen International called Rushmore "a real charmer filled with surprise twists and emotions that avoid sentimentality . . . A little gem.
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice. Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the limitations of the happiness agenda. The authors emphasize that this movement draws on a parochial, Western-centric philosophical basis and demographic sample. They show that happiness defined as subjective satisfaction or a surplus of positive emotions bears little resemblance to the richer and more nuanced concepts of the good life found in many world traditions. Cross-cultural philosophy, comparative theology, and social and cultural psychology all teach that cultures and subcultures vary in how much value they place on life satisfaction or feeling happy. Furthermore, the ideas promoted by the happiness agenda can compete with rights, justice, sustainability, and equality—and even conceal racial and gender injustice. Against Happiness argues that a better way forward requires integration of cross-cultural philosophical, ethical, and political thought with critical social science. Ultimately, the authors contend, happiness should be a secondary goal—worth pursuing only if it is contingent on the demands of justice.
What if...Satan was real in the way we are all real? Had his own place, enjoyed a drink, some company and his favourite sounds? What if he had his own jukebox stocked with 100 slammin' sound files and we all dropped by one night to see his current selection? This book is the best guess of what we might find on The Devil's Jukebox. There's fun, torture, surprises and enough in the way of the well-known and utterly obscure to get anyone with any opinion on music's dark side arguing, Googling and acquiring. We wouldn't recommend reading the pages inside this cover if you're easily offended, or sensitive to sudden shocks. For everyone else this is a searing spotlight on the hot, hateful, horrible and occasionally humorous hits from Hell. A world in which utter abnormality will snag you the #1 spot and every barrel is lovingly scraped for the festering remnants of the sounds the righteous rejected long ago. From the darkest metal to the most deranged samples they're here, along with several surprises by way of a few kiddie-friendly sounds subsequently used in ways their creators never imagined some misguided attempts at recording hits. The Devil's jukebox is a jukebox like no other.
On 2nd October 2018 Washington Times journalist Jamal Kashoggi went to the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul to get a marriage licence. Instead, he fell into an ambush to dismember him, arranged by at least 16 Saudi officials. It immediately put the spotlight on the young Crown Prince of Saudi who had only recently incarcerated leading members of his family to make them hand over part of their wealth. This book investigates behind the headlines.
On 2 October 2018, Saudi-royal courtier and writer Jamal Khashoggi was trapped by his palace peers into entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Once there, he was killed in cold blood in the consul-general's library in one of the world's most infamous conspiracies of the twenty-first century. His body was dismembered by palace officials in fifteen parts and packed into five suitcases that were left at the consul-general's home. Using Turkish sources, 'Murder in Istanbul' reconstructs the execution of the plot in rigorous detail and reveals how the assassination was connected to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and their orbit - including president of Russia Vladimir Putin - as well as the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and tragic death of Dawn Sturgess in Salisbury.
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