Double bill featuring movies that focus on America's recent involvement in foreign countries. In ' The Kingdom' (2007), when a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team & negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury & his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious & unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol, & with the clock ticking on their five days, the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury's crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Police Captain Al-Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom), who helps them navigate royal politics & unlock the secrets of the crime scene & the workings of an extremist, hell bent on further destruction. ' Jarhead' (2006) is an adaptation of former Marine Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir. Young recruit Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) joins up with the US Marines (nicknamed ' Jarheads' because of their distinctive haircuts) on the eve of the 1990 Gulf War. After a brutal spell in boot camp, during which Swofford & his fellow recruits are systematically geared up for the conflict, the Marines are dispatched to the deserts of the Persian Gulf to take part in a war that sees them required to do very little in the way of fighting. Bored & frustrated in the middle of nowhere, the young soldiers resort to a macabre sense of humour as they wait for the war to happen to them. ...

Did you know that your bed could be swarming with 10 trillion hungry creatures? Or that cheetahs can accelerate faster than any car? This title

Includes:: up-close & scary photos of extreme jungle creatures, wild & weird data on their amazing superpowers.

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All six episodes from the third season of the ITV drama series starring Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, the country solicitor who stands up for the little guy in a variety of cases
- some funny, some sad. Now fully qualified as a solicitor, Peter turns his attention to finding himself a love interest. Meanwhile, the cases, involving crop circles, sex discrimination, & animal research, show no signs of abating. Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Phyllida Law & Tony Slattery co-star.
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All six episodes from the second season of the ITV drama series starring Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, the country solicitor who stands up for the little guy in a variety of cases
- some funny, some sad. Big-hearted & slightly eccentric, Peter appears to be content, but his life is overshadowed by the mysterious disappearance of his brother. The cast also

Includes:: Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Phyllida Law, Tony Slattery, Richard Wilson & Joss Ackl&.


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This wide-ranging text focuses on the collective values & activities of lay society over several centuries, from trade guilds & manor courts to the development of parliaments & the rule of feudal monarchs. It offers a fresh approach to the history of medieval Europe. ...

A catalogue of the world's living organisms describing the diversity of the major groups, or phyla, of nature's most inclusive taxa. It carries a classification scheme that aims to be consistent with both the fossil record &, the molecular & metabolic data. It logically classifies the life forms according to their evolutionary relationships. ...