Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, & Understanding Alien Worlds probes for possible answers to the fundamentals questions asked about these planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. This book examines what such planets might be like & how we can find them. ...

Since the Second World War, the US dollar has been the world's sole international reserve currency, giving it, in the words of one critic, 'exorbitant privelege'. But in the wake of the worldwide financial crisis, will other currencies overtake it? & what impact would that have? Eichengreen explains the history & assesses what may come. ...

A significant examination of exorcism & deliverance from a range of disciplines focuses on an important but often neglected area of the church's mission to the world. The diversity of essays makes sure that every facet is presented to encourage the reader thoroughly to consider this aspect of the church's approach to evil in our society. ...

Horror starring Laura Linney based on true events. In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognised the demonic possession of a 19 year old college freshman. The film chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Linney plays the lawyer who takes on the task of defending the priest (Tom Wilkinson) who performed the controversial exorcism. ...

Horror starring Laura Linney based on true events. In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognised the demonic possession of a 19 year old college freshman. The film chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Linney plays the lawyer who takes on the task of defending the priest (Tom Wilkinson) who performed the controversial exorcism. ...

Double-bill of horror. In ' The Exorcism of Emily Rose' (2005), based on 'true events', the Catholic Church, in an extremely rare decision, officially recognises the demonic possession of a 19-year old college freshman. The film chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Laura Linney plays the lawyer Erin Bruner, who takes on the task of defending the priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson), who originally performed the controversial exorcism. In ' The Relic' (1997), biologist Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) teams up with police Lieutenant D' Agosta (Tom Sizemore) to investigate a series of grisly murders at her place of work
- the Natural History Museum. Can there be a link with the recently-arrived crates belonging to a missing anthropologist from Brazil? All that is found in the crates are some leaves covered with a strange fungus which, when analysed, proves capable of mutating whoever eats it. When a guard is killed & a headless body interrupts the museum's exhibition gala, Margo & D' Agosta discover that there is an ancient killer monster on the loose.
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Actress Chris Mac Neil (Ellen Burstyn) has every reason to be content, having just completed a film with director Burke Dennings (Jack Mac Gowran). However, she becomes disturbed by the changes taking place in her 12-year-old daughter, Regan (Linda Blair). At first sullen & withdrawn, Regan becomes aggressive & blasphemous, & ugly welts appear on her face & body. No medical cure is forthcoming, & after Burke is killed by being thrown from Regan's window, Chris turns to local Jesuit priest Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) for help. Karras then calls in exorcist Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), who confirms that Regan is possessed by the devil. William Peter Blatty's screenplay, based on his own novel inspired by actual events, won an Oscar, & the film was deemed so powerful that it was refused a BBFC certificate for fifteen years. ...