In his various guises, the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has threatened Uzbekistan with catapults, driven a U.N. Secretary- General to profanity, and ruined New York's Fashion Week. Evincing shades of Jonathan Swift, Monty Python, and Andy Kaufman, Baron Cohen has consistently demonstrated a singular talent for crafting outrageous personae, a ruthless dedication to staying in character, and an uncanny ability to parlay controversy into professional success. Now, in his lively and often humorous study The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, Parody, and the Battle over Borat, Robert A. Saunders explores the striking cultural resonance and far-reaching political ramifications of Baron Cohen's portrayals of Borat, Ali G, and Bruno. In Ali G, a wannabe gangsta rapper from the leafy... Less

In his various guises, the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has threatened Uzbekistan with catapults, driven a U.N. Secretary- General to profanity, and ruined New York's Fashion Week. Evincing shades of Jonathan Swift, Monty Python, and Andy Kaufman, Baron Cohen has consistently demonstrated a singular talent for crafting outrageous personae, a ruthless dedication to staying in character, and an uncanny ability to parlay controversy into professional success. Now, in his lively and often humorous study The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, Parody, and the Battle over Borat, Robert A. Saunders explores the striking cultural resonance and far-reaching political ramifications of Baron Cohen's portrayals of Borat, Ali G, and Bruno. In Ali G, a wannabe gangsta rapper from the leafy... Less

The first biography of the comedic genius behind the cult favorite TV show “Da Ali G Show” and the high grossing—and gross out—smash film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. If the millions of fans who flocked to the blockbuster films Borat and Talladega Nights tuned in to Sacha Baron Cohen’s interviews on late night TV hoping to see the man behind the characters, they were sure to be disappointed. Who exactly is this Sacha Baron Cohen, who has everyone from TV personalities to the government of Kazakhstan all riled up?  Did he fool all the politicians and luminaries who made such idiots of themselves on “Da Ali G Show” or did it just look like it? Was it the RV-driving Southern good ole frat boys in Borat—Cultural Learnings of America for... Less

Thank you for your interest in our listing! This is a genuine collector's item, an ORIGINAL movie poster. Movie posters are produced by the studios to publicise their movies and as such they generally are sent for display in movie theatres. This poster is a BRAND NEW one in perfect mint condition, never used. It was actually produced during the original year that the movie played in the theatres. All U.S. original movie posters measure approximately 27x 41 inches (69x104 cms) and are generally double sided unless we state "single sided" in the listing. Double sided means that the poster is printed all the way through on both sides so that when placed in a light box (like in theatres) it displays better. Single sided means that the reverse of the poster is white or blank. Movie posters... Less

Sacha Baron Cohen brings his Borat character to the big screen with this feature length adaptation of his American exploits. Fans of DA ALI G SHOW will already be familiar with the devilishly simple Borat formula in which the heavily mustachioed TV host from Kazakhstan dupes a number of unwitting citizens into revealing their deepest prejudices and this movie takes that premise stirs in a little narrative structure and serves a side-splitting 84-minute mirth-fest. The action begins with Borat traveling to America alongside his producer Azamat Bagatov Ken Davitian. After a hotel room viewing of BAYWATCH Borat decides he must travel to California to woo Pamela Anderson so he and the long-suffering Azamat take a cross-country road trip in an ice cream van encountering some funny disturbing... Less

Borat Sagdiyev is a fictional Kazakhstani journalist portrayed by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. He is the eponymous protagonist of the 2006 mockumentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Humour is often derived from Borat's taboo sociocultural viewpoints, deadpan behaviour, repeated catchphrases, exaggerated third-world status, and physical humour.

Examines over 1600 Scriptures from the Old and New Testaments Many things today are termed "The Battle of Armageddon," but this phrase specially belongs to the Bible and can only properly be used or understood in its Biblical context a context which traces the marshalling of all human institutions, be they social, political, financial or religious, in preparation for the last great battle on earth. The Battle of Armageddon, written more than a century ago, provides both the Scriptural and historical background of the "controversy" which the Lord has with the nations of earth. It reviews the record of evil and oppression which leads to the indictment and the sentence to "destruction" of all human institutions not in harmony with the establishment of God's kingdom of truth and... Less

Islamic fundamentalists wreck the financial heart of New York; Hindus destroy a mosque at Ayodhya; Orthodox Jews battle Palestinians for possession of holy sites; in Egypt, Israel and India political leaders are murdered by religious zealots. In many parts of the world, religion combines with ethnic and national conflict to stimulate political militancy. The collapse of Communism and the failure of Western secular models of development have stimulated the revival of religiously inspired nationalisms. Even in stable affluent democracies, religion is a powerful influence on political preferences. It affects lifestyle concerns such as abortion, gender roles and gay rights. It influences economic attitudes. It shapes the alignments of political parties. Believers try to influence governments... Less

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Winner of the Golden Globes Best Actor award. Sacha Baron Cohen, the star and creator of HBO's wildly popular Da All G Show, brings his truly original Kazakh character Borat to the big screen for the first time. With a camera crew in tow and armed with a jar of gypsy tears "for protection", Kazakhstan's fourth most famous celebrity travels to the US an A to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the country, lovable Borat meets real people in real situations--with hilarious consequences.

Over the past twenty years, Joshua Cohen has explored the most controversial issues facing the American public: campaign finance and political equality, privacy rights and robust public debate, hate speech and pornography, and the capacity of democracies to address important practical problems. In this highly anticipated volume, Cohen draws on his work in these diverse topics to develop an argument about what he calls, following John Rawls, “democracy’s public reason.” He rejects the conventional idea that democratic politics is simply a contest for power, and that philosophical argument is disconnected from life. Political philosophy, he insists, is part of politics, and its job is to contribute to the public reasoning about what we ought to do. At the heart of Cohen’s normative... Less

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Robert Whitfield, aka Simon Vance] In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it--his fears, his wounds and their treatment, the mechanics of being taken prisoner, the nature of leadership at the most junior level, the role of compulsion in getting men to stand their ground, the intrusions of cruelty and compassion, the din and blood. Set battles, with their unities of time and place, may be a thing of the past, but this anatomy of what they were like for the men... Less

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Robert Whitfield, aka Simon Vance] In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it--his fears, his wounds and their treatment, the mechanics of being taken prisoner, the nature of leadership at the most junior level, the role of compulsion in getting men to stand their ground, the intrusions of cruelty and compassion, the din and blood. Set battles, with their unities of time and place, may be a thing of the past, but this anatomy of what they were like for the men... Less

"OF ALL HIS MANY REGRETS, IT WAS HIS DECISION TO WRITE HIS MEMORIES THAT AVRAM COHEN NOW REGRETTED THE MOST" Thus begins An Accidental Murder, the latest book in Robert Rosenberg's acclaimed Avram Cohen mystery series. In a tale that takes the retired Jerusalem detective from Germany's Frankfurt book fair to the Negev desert, as he searches for a murderer in Germany and ends up in the dark netherworld of the new Russian mafia in Israel, Avram Cohen is revealed as never before -- a man with a complex past that makes his future most uncertain. Someone wants to kill Cohen -- or so it seems -- possibly because of something he wrote in his memoir about his year as an avenger assassinating Nazis after his long-ago liberation from the Dachau concentration camp. But then his longtime protege... Less

Acclaimed, award-winning novelist Robert Cohen delivers a bold, provocative exploration of the panic of midlife, follow- ing two men plateaued on either side of their forties and the unexpected consequences of changing course.Teddy Hastings is a New England middle school principal  desper ate  for  transce ndence.  Unmoored   by  his brother’s death and a health scare of his own, he tries to broaden his ordinary life and winds up unemployed and on the wrong side of the law. Meanwhile, Oren Pierce, a per- petual grad student from New York, abandons, somewhat to his own surprise, his search for the extraordinary and begins settling into the humble existence that Teddy seeks to escape. What comforts Oren alarms Teddy, and their paths overlap as Teddy’s quest for the unknown and unfamiliar... Less

Powers Collectibles was started by Matt Powers as a way for sports and celebrity enthusiasts and collectors to have a high-quality product available at affordable pricing. Having been in the business since 2004 he noticed there wasn t a web site available that included not only sports and celebrity autographs but also high quality custom framing and display cases. Authenticity is the backbone of the company having all of our items come directly from the athlete/celebrity . All items come with a 100% guaranteed authenticity and Certificate of Authenticity. Signed 8x10 Signed it Borat

Clement Attlee -- the man who created the welfare state and decolonized vast swathes of the British Empire, including India -- has been acclaimed by many as Britains's greatest twentieth- century Prime Minister. Yet somehow Attlee the man remains elusive and little known. How did such a moderate, modest man bring about so many enduring changes? What are the secrets of his leadership style? And how do his personal attributes account for both his spectacular successes and his apparent failures?When Attlee became Prime Minister in July 1945 he was the leader of a Labour party that had won a landslide victory. With almost 50% of the popular vote, Attlee seemed to have achieved the platform for Labour to dominate post-war British politics. Yet just 6 years and 3 months after the 1945 victory,... Less

JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS- AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY by HAROLD S. QUIGLEY. Originally published in 1932. PREFACE This book was undertaken to meet a need which the author has experienced and which others have expressed. It is offered as an introductory study and makes no pretensions to completeness or finality. Materials in its field are scattered and, in many instances, rendered inaccessible by difficulties of language. General works in any Western language are few, and none attempts to cover the whole subject, even in outline. Japanese scholarly works are discussions of legal relations rather than descriptions of institutions or anal yses of actual procedures. Monographs are even scarcer than gen eral works. It has been necessary to depend largely upon transla tions of documents,... Less

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Politics of the Police : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199283392 : 0199283397 : 04 Mar 2010 : This book covers the history of the police, the sociology of policing, and the law and politics of the police. From Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry to Life on Mars, Robert Reiner explores the highly-charged debates that surround policing and analyses the proposals for reform.

I was rather apprehensive about the contents of this book purely because of the title, as it gave the impression of a book with many suggestions of little practical value. Yet, the lack of frivolity in the cover design and the very subtle silver letters on black for a cover evoked my enthusiasm beyond just curiosity. The Foreword did the trick, it simply convinced me that the book must be read in detail. At first glance I did not believe that there will be so many management insights in this book. The abundance of these intermixed with family life, people management and the comprehensive coverage of inspiration, innovation, motivation, creativity, etc. make this book a truly valuable asset to the young and the old in every sphere of life. If I reflect on my life s multiple roles and... Less

Robert Kennedy's abbreviated run for the presidency in 1968 has assumed almost mythical proportions in American memory. His campaign has been romanticized because of its tragic end, but also because of the foreign and domestic crises that surrounded it. Yet while most media coverage initially focused on Kennedy's opposition to the Vietnam War as the catalyst of his candidacy, another issue commanded just as much of his attention. That issue was poverty. Stumping across the country, he repeated the same anti-poverty themes before college students in Kansas and Indiana, loggers and women factory workers in Oregon, farmers in Nebraska, and business groups in New York. Although his calls to action sometimes met with apa-thy, he refused to modify his message. If they don t care, he told one... Less

In recent years, few federal requirements have been as controversial as the mandate for what critics call 'bilingual ballots'. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 included a permanent requirement for language assistance for Puerto Rican voters educated in Spanish and ten years later Congress banned English-only elections in certain covered jurisdictions, expanding the support to include Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian-language voters and Spanish-language voters. Some commentators have condemned the language assistance provisions, underlying many of their attacks with anti-immigrant rhetoric. Although the provisions have been in effect for over three decades, until now no comprehensive study of them has been published. This book describes the evolution of the provisions, examining the... Less

Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Da Ali G Show and Talladega Nights) brings you the comedy that has started more conversations, generated more controversy and dared to go further than ever before!As Bruno travels the world in search of fame, everyone he encounters -- celebrities, politicians, Hasidic Jews, terrorists and cage fighters -- becomes a stepping-stone to stardom, with hilarious results!

Juxtaposing readings of three plays of William Shakespeare and two major treatises in political philosophy— Plato's Republic and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan— Kottman contests the figural ground from which political philosophy emerges and suggests how a Shakespearean sense of the 'scene' might open up new avenues for thinking about politics. A Politics of the Scene builds especially on the reflections of Hannah Arendt and offers a speculative approach to politics that abandons taxonomical and scientific ambitions in order to finally reckon with the world as a stage.

Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one of the most romantic of all Irish revolutionaries. He was the youngest son of Ireland's state physician and was educated privately at Trinity College Dublin. Like many young people in the early 1790s, he was caught up in the fervour of the French Revolution. In the revolutionary year of 1798, when three different insurrections broke out in Ireland, he was expelled from Trinity College, thus ending his prospects of a professional career. He went to the Continent where he met both Napoleon and Talleyrand and returned to Dublin where he organised and led the doomed insurrection of May 1803. No foreign help came. There were probably spies in the camp, and Emmet's rising was quickly crushed. He was tried and executed, but not before making a speech from the... Less

I was rather apprehensive about the contents of this book purely because of the title, as it gave the impression of a book with many suggestions of little practical value. Yet, the lack of frivolity in the cover design and the very subtle silver letters on black for a cover evoked my enthusiasm beyond just curiosity. The Foreword did the trick, it simply convinced me that the book must be read in detail. At first glance I did not believe that there will be so many management insights in this book. The abundance of these intermixed with family life, people management and the comprehensive coverage of inspiration, innovation, motivation, creativity, etc. make this book a truly valuable asset to the young and the old in every sphere of life. If I reflect on my life s multiple roles and... Less