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Chapters: Ian Mckellen, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'toole, Alan Rickman, Albert Finney, Judi Dench, Paul Scofield, Miranda Richardson, Wendy Hiller, Nigel Hawthorne, Maureen Lipman, Maggie Smith, Joseph Fiennes, Alan Bates, Michael Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Angela Lansbury, Jeremy Brett, John Gielgud, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Ian Holm, Celia Johnson, Simon Callow, Michael Hordern, Edward Hardwicke, Julie Walters, David Tennant, David Morrissey, John Barrowman, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Helen Mirren, Brenda Blethyn, Catherine Tate, Ian Charleson, Daniel Craig, Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, Edward Woodward, Emily Watson, Russell Tovey, Tamsin Greig, Lynn Redgrave, Daniel Evans, Gina Mckee, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams, Mark Rylance, Marc Sinden, Terence Knapp, Emily Blunt, Shirley Henderson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Lesley Sharp, Douglas Hodge, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Damian Lewis, Diana Rigg, Rufus Sewell, Anne-Marie Duff, James Purefoy, Juliet Stevenson, Simon Russell Beale, Irene Worth, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Frank Finlay, Dominic Cooper, Tom Hollander, Hattie Morahan, Eileen Atkins, Rosemary Harris, Peggy Ashcroft, Helen Mccrory, Ruth Wilson, Mairead Mckinley, Antony Sher, Frances de La Tour, Rupert Penry-Jones, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ken Stott, Paterson Joseph, Anne Reid, Kelly Reilly, Janet Mcteer, Lesley Manville, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stanley Townsend, Edith Evans, Billie Whitelaw, Sally Hawkins, Catherine Mccormack, Steven Webb, Gareth Hunt, Jonathan Cullen, Andrew Garfield, Ashley Jensen, Harriet Walter, Joan Plowright, Jack Shepherd, Patricia Routledge, Lyndsey Marshal, Indira Varma, Lindsay Duncan, Geraldine Mcewan, Bryan Dick, Ben Whishaw, Jasper Britton, Steven Mackintosh, Noma Dumezweni, Stuart Mcquarrie, Kate Ashfield, Adrian Lester, Lisa Dillon, Dominic Rowan, Imogen Stubbs, Laura Michelle Kelly, Mark Hadfield, Cyril Cusack, Hayley Atwell, Jeremy Northam, Lee Ingleby, Sinéad Cusack, Elliot Cowan, Kevin Mc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1672146 ... Read more

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Issue 434. Articles include: Anthony Hopkins: On Playing Picasso and His Own Blue Period; Special Report: The New Establishment 1996; Mata Harriman: Pamela Harriman's Wartime Adventures; Presume Guilty: Scott Turow's Real-Life Courtroom Thriller; Late-Night Rumble: The Leno-Letterman Feud Heats Up; Vanity Fair's All-Ivy All-Stars: A Pre-Season Lineup of College Football's Best and Brightest; Alex Shoumatoff on William Weld and John Kerry's Blueblood Battle; Amy Fine Collins on Fleur Cowles; Helmut Newton Shotts Couture and Christopher Hitchens on Orwell's Secret List. ... Read more

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Sit down for a meal with the locals on six continents-what they eat may surprise you. Extreme Cuisine examines eating habits across the global neighborhood, showing once and for all that road kill for one culture is restaurant fare for another! From the foreword by Anthony Bourdain:'I could not have written A Cook's Tour without this book. There is so much I would have missed. And experience has shown me that no matter how frightening a dish may look on the page, in front of you, on the table, with a proud host watching your first tasting-and the accompaniment of much local beverage, it's almost always worth the ride. For truly-how bad can it be?" 'So dig in. Enjoy. Eat without fear or prejudice, secure in the knowledge that millions of people have been enjoying this fare for centuries without ill effect. Get away from your hotel dining room-and the tourist terror domes and range wild and free. Eat. Eat adventurously. Miss nothing. It's all here in these pages." ... Read more

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How Bizzare!
Strange foods from around the world. It is probably a blue print for the Food Network TV show.

Highly readable and fascinating
This book is every bit as readable as Bourdain's "A Cook's Tour," and is a must for those of you who enjoy reading about food and its impact on various world cultures.Hopkins has a knack for exposing "extreme" foods such as dogs, cats, rats, insects, snakes, etc. in a manner which is interesting and does not cast judgement on the people who enjoy or rely on these foods for sustenance.There are pictures, RECIPES (yep -- not kidding), interesting facts, detailed histories, and general observations which will keep you turning the pages.

Not for readers with delicate stomachs.
Fascinating reading! In my travels I thought I had seen a lot of strange culinary customs but after reading this book I realize that I had barely scratched the surface. Apparently every living creature on this planet is a delicacy somewhere.

Mannish Water ...a stew with sheep's head????
I don't think so! Traditionally this is made in Jamaica with the Goats' head, tripe and (if you are lucky ) the testes.It is considered a soup. It rarely uses the meat which is reserved for the following course of curry goat. In fact prior to making the soup the head is 'singed' to remove the hair easily,this results in the soup having a delightful smoky flavour.The head is then chopped into bite sized pieces and the soup is slow cooked (best done in an old "kerosene" pan on a traditional Jamaican coal pot outside).Wedding Feasts, breaking ground for a new house,or a funeral were all reasons tokill a goat and have a "goat Feast"
Jamaica has a sheep population whichis very small ( most of the lamb consumed, is imported) but goats are commonly reared.
A delightful read however, the book does help the reader to appreciate the gastronomic diversity thatexists even today and some of its'history.

Great Fun... with a Pinch of Salt
I'm enjoying this book, but some of it must be taken with a pinch of salt :-)

There's lots of information about the weirdest things that people can eat, with some totally gross and unnecessary information (e.g., about how primates can be purchased in Africa, all grilled and chopped to pieces).Some of the info is really fascinating (e.g., that iguanas can have eggs harvested from them whilst they are alive, and patched up with some ash, and left to regenerate and scamper off).

Read this book if you enjoy the odd curiousity now and then, and not because you want to be a gourmet cook of this stuff.Many of the recipes are probably not tried-and-tests, although my sense is that the factual information provided has been carefully fact-checked.
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This digital document is an article from Christianity and Literature, published by Conference on Christianity and Literature on January 1, 2010. The length of the article is 1952 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins.(Book review)
Author: David Anthony Downes
Publication: Christianity and Literature (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2010
Publisher: Conference on Christianity and Literature
Volume: 59Issue: 2Page: 357(5)

Article Type: Book review

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Saint Anthony of Padua
The book wasn't what I expected for the price. It was a booklet, very small, not what I consider a book. It was a gift for my mother, but not something I wanted to give her after I saw it. I contacted the seller, and was told to return it for a refund. I mailed it back to the seller about 2 months ago. I contacted the seller again 3-4 weeks later and was told they had not received the book yet. I still have not heard from the seller or received a refund. I will never order from this seller again. This is the first time that I am unhappy with a purchase made through Amazon. Maria Schell ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Richard Wollheim's contributions to philosophy have ranged extraordinarily across aesthetics, mind and psychoanalysis. He is one of the few philosophers in the analytic tradition to have engaged, in detail, in questions of why events in life mean what they do and how such significance informs works of art. Psychoanalysis, Mind and Art attempts to do justice to the breadth of Wollheim's work in the fields of psychoanalysis, mind and the emotions, art and politics and values. Twenty distinguished authors have been invited to discuss, dissect and review his achievements in all these areas. The resulting collection is a testament to the importance of Wollheim's philosophy and a coherent examination of the enduring problems and possibilities of mind and art. ... Read more

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A central subject in the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins is his understanding of the self, what he called "selving." While Hopkins scholars have studied the phenomenology of Hopkins' notions of selfness, few scholars have studied in depth the hermeneutics of what Hopkins called "selving." This book is the first to explore, in depth, the hermeneutics of Hopkins' notions of the self and to apply his ideas of "selving" to his poetry. The author applies Paul Ricoeur's notions of the human self to the major English poet. He then surveys Hopkins' religious poetry to exhibit the creative dynamic of "selving." In a postscript, Downes contrasts the "passion for the possible" of Ricoeur and "the great sacrifice" of Christian hope in Hopkins with the agonies of "the disappearing self" rooted in Modernist culture. This unique and thoughtful book will appeal to Victorian scholars and Hopkins scholars worldwide. Contents: Preface; Prologue: Hopkins' Hermeneutical Stages of Consciousness; Hopkins' Selving Hermeneutics; The Poetics of Volition in Hopkins; The Poetics of the Sacramental Word: Hope and Freedom; Poems of Existence; Postscript: The Poetics of Redemption; Bibliography; Index. ... Read more

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