The incredible, hilarious insider's story of Britain's favourite film company! It all started when Beatle George Harrison stepped in to fund Life of Brian when Monty Python's original backers pulled out. His company, HandMade films, went on to make some of the best British films of the 80s (Withnail and I, Time Bandits and Mona Lisa among them), but then things started to go wrong... This is the incredible and often hilarious insiders' story of what happened...

"Using material from diverse sources, including sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis and personal experience, Naughty Boys discusses how Western society's political, social and economic value system is bad for children and families. The author argues that when it comes to the important task of child rearing, people in the West have much that they could learn from the developing world. This important and timely text will be of interest to all professionals who deal with children, including psychiatrists, counsellors and psychotherapists, psychologists, teachers, paediatricians, social workers and nurses."--BOOK JACKET.

The thirteenth (and final) of Christopher Milne's brilliant series of irreverent, funny and award-winning collections of short stories, Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls. The books are for kids who like to laugh (and cry) aged 6 - 13. The series is a winner of THE YOUNG AUSTRALIANS BEST BOOK AWARD. The four stories in this volume include 'The Girl Who Wrote Rude Poems' and 'A Street Kid Named Bazza'

After her center-court split with Aiden, Tessa put the SOS behind her. After all, cheaters never prosper! Now she's busy working on her faux-relationship with Aiden and negotiating the unfamiliar waters of "technically single and pseudo-dating." Life can't get any more dismal for a one-guy kind of girl until an imposter hijacks the SOS, and it's up to Tessa to save her squad from slander. But with her best boy hot and cold, what's a kitten to do? Even worse, Tessa doesn't realize how much she's up against—because this copykitten is far more naughty than nice.

Lej is five years old. There are a lot of great things about being five: your siblings can’t call you a toddler anymore, you’re taller than you were before, and you even get to throw a big party in celebration of your birthday! There are some not-so-great things about being five, too. Like kindergarten. Kindergarten is at the big kid school that Lej’s brother and sister go to, and they always have homework and aren’t allowed to play outside whenever they want to, like you can in preschool. Lucky for Lej, his friends Pete and Abe are going to kindergarten, too. But when Lej arrives, he doesn’t always listen to the adults in charge. Instead, he runs around his classroom and does things he knows he shouldn’t do, just because Pete and Abe tell him to. One day, Lej’s bad behavior catches up with him, as he overhears his mom talking to someone on the phone. Did she just say, “Naughty Boys Camp?!” Then suddenly, as if by magic, the picture Lej is drawing comes to life, sucking him into Naughty Boys Camp. Is it really as bad as they say it is there? Do the boys really have to eat broccoli for breakfast and scoop poop on the farm? Please say this is all just a dream! Follow Lej as he learns the hard way that listening to the adults in charge maybe isn’t so bad after all, and that true friends are the people who help you to be the best person you can be!

This is the gripping true story of the rise and fall of one of the UK's mostnnovative film companies. HandMade Films was personally set up by Georgearrison to make Monty Python's Life and Brian. They went on to make Withnailnd I, Nuns on the Run and The Time Bandits amongst many other classics.owever it all went sour when Harrison fell out with his financial partnernd filed a USD25m lawsuit against him. Robert Sellers has interviewed a hostf key players such as Robbie Coltrane and John Cleese for this brilliantlyritten history of the troubled film company. Packed full of hilariousnecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories about stars as diverse as Madonna,he Pythons and Robbie Coltrane, Very Naughty Boys is an essential item inny film-buff's library.

“This book bears the hallmark of Open University Press texts. It is well laid out and nicely produced. It manages a good balance between textbook and cutting edge research… The book is impressive in its command of a wide range of writings on sexuality, gender, masculinity and schooling.” - Educational Review "Secondary school teachers, principals and school counsellors would be the primary audience for this book, although youth workers and other workers with adolescent males should also find the boys' perceptions of school and adolescent culture of great interest and considerable use." -Youth Studies Australia This book focuses on the impact and effects of masculinities on the lives of boys at school. Through interviews with boys from diverse backgrounds, the authors explore the various ways in which boys define and negotiate their masculinities at school. The following questions and issues are addressed: What does it mean to be a 'normal' boy and who decides this? How do issues of masculinity impact on boys from culturally diverse backgrounds, indigenous boys, those with disabilities and boys of diverse sexualities? What issues of power impact on these boys' lives and relationships at school? What effects do these issues have on boys' learning at school? Through problematizing and interrogating the question of what makes a boy a boy, this fascinating title offers recommendations and indicates future directions for working with boys in school.

Robert and his mother are taken in by austere Miss Bunn, to a life of. Robert soon meets Arabella, Miss Bunn's cane. Fanatically religious Miss Bunn only allows him to go to school; where beatings are frequent, and to Bible Class, with attractive Jane, a minx who teases Robert, leading him on. Jane and her friend Amy enjoy getting Robert into trouble. Teacher finds them in girls' toilet together, Robert is blamed, punished publicly. Jane's parents catch them together undressed, both are spanked soundly. Robert sent to a Home, to a ward where the discipline imposed by nurses and the toilet regime are more appropriate for younger children. He attempts to escape, is brought back by police, is chastised in front of other patients and Board of Guardians. He eventually escapes to become a servant to a film star, lands a role in a TV soap opera, but is still treated like a Very Naughty Boy!

This book talks of; child abuse, design, violence, mental illness, dancing, gangster business, birth, laughter, pain, religion, fashion, drugs, rape, music, sex, guns, love, death, murder, racism, travel, style, hate, history, injustice, car, theft, prison, disappointment, ballet, armed robbery, clubs and prostitution.