Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A team of undercover narcotics agents is conducting an investigation when things mysteriously begin to go haywire One by one the squad members are eliminated by an assassin To help identify the karate killer the police enlist the aid of karate champion Matt Logan (Chuck Norris) Initially disinterested he is galvanized into action when his adopted son is killed by the villains He eventually tracks down the serial killer (Bill Wallace) a traitor within the police force & brings his reign of terror to an end in a no holds barred climactic karate battle between the two men Actors Chuck Norris Jennifer O& Neill & Ron O& Neal Director Paul Aaron Certificate 15 years & over Year 1979 Languages English ...

Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year Selected by the Sunday Times & the Guardian as Best Thriller Perfect for fans of John le Carre a gripping & suspenseful spy thriller from the master of the modern spy thriller' (Mail on Sunday) Six weeks before she is due to become the first female head of MI6 Amelia Levene disappears without a trace Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her
- quickly & quietly The mission offers Kell a way back into the secret world the only life he's ever known Tracking her through France & North Africa Kell embarks on a dangerous voyage shadowed by foreign intelligence services This far from home soil the rules of the game are entirely different
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Something that has been needed for decades a leftist foreign policy with a clear moral basis Foreign policy for leftists used to be relatively simple They were for the breakdown of capitalism & its replacement with a centrally planned economy They were for workers against moneyed interests & for colonized peoples against imperial (Western) powers But these easy substitutes for thought are becoming increasingly difficult Neo-liberal capitalism is triumphant & the workers' movement is in radical decline National liberation movements have produced new oppressions A reflexive anti-imperialist politics can turn leftists into apologists for morally abhorrent groups In Michael Walzer's view the left can no longer (in fact could never) take automatic positions but must proceed from clearly articulated moral principles In this book adapted from essays published in Dissent Walzer asks how leftists should think about the international scene-about humanitarian intervention & world government about global inequality & religious extremism-in light of a coherent set of underlying political values ...

The Mistress of Evil Maleficent stands out against the Princess Aurora amongst a forest of thorns in this glass bauble This fabulous Sleeping Beauty keepsake would make a lovely unique gift for a friend or a self-purchase to brighten up the home Presented in a branded window box ...

In 2007 Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years & eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries Working out of a shed in his parents& garden Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world&s greatest museums During the court case the breadth of his forgeries shocked the art world & tantalised the media What no one realised was how much more of the story there was to tell Written in prison A Forger&s Tale details Shaun&s notorious career & the extraordinary circumstances that led to it From Leonardo drawings to LS Lowry paintings from busts of American presidents to Anglo-Saxon brooches from cutting-edge Modernism to the ancient art of the Stone Age Greenhalgh could
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- copy it all Told with great wit & charm this is the definitive account of Britain&s most successful & infamous forger a man whose love for art saturates every page of this extraordinary memoir

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Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole is a riotously funny explosion of a novel SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 From his prison cell Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin his crazy Uncle Terry & how the three of them upset
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- an entire continent Incorporating death parenting (good & bad kinds) one labyrinth first love a handbook for criminals a scheme to make everyone rich & an explosive suggestion box Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole is a hilarious heartbreaking story of families & how to survive them'A fat book but very light on its feet skipping from anecdote to rant to reflection like a stone skimming across a pond it is brilliant' Guardian' Sparkling comic writing It gives off the unmistakeable whiff of a book that might just contain the secret of life' Independent' With tinges of magical realism & buckets of misanthropic humour it's a clever & funny debut' Observer' If first novels were sandwiches Steve Toltz's would be a juicy swaggering doorstop of a sarnie overflowing with eccentrically combined but delicious ingredients Toltz is a superb phrase-maker with an acute eye for humanity's shortfalls' Big Issue Steve Toltz was born in Sydney After graduating from Newcastle University in 1994 he has lived in Sydney Montreal Vancouver Barcelona & Paris working primarily as a screenwriter & freelance writer but also doing stints as both a private investigator & an English teacher A Fraction of the Whole is his first book

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For graduate & undergraduate courses in marketing management A Succinct Guide to 21st Century Marketing Management Framework for Marketing Management is a concise streamlined version of Kotler & Keller's fifteenth edition of Marketing Management a comprehensive look at marketing strategy The book's efficient coverage of current marketing management practices makes for a short yet thorough text that provides the perfect supplement for incorporated simulations projects & cases The Sixth Edition approaches the topic of marketing from a current standpoint focusing its information & strategy on the realities of 21st century marketing Individuals groups & companies alike can modernize their marketing strategies to comply with 21st century standards by engaging in this succinct yet comprehensive text ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In this dark & gritty horror thriller a brilliant geneticist has just achieved a huge scientific breakthrough by successfully cloning the first human being The creation of his modern day Frankenstein soon leads to Dr Reed & his family finding themselves in a living hell as their home & lives come under fire Their biggest threat however could be Victor&s own secret; a secret that could destroy everything & everyone precious to him Their nightmare is only just beginning! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Set in the traditional British boys& school the farce deals with the reactions of the young lads & their profs when Mlle Madeleine Lafarge (Agnes Laurent) a gorgeous new French language teacher shows up to start work Along with the incidents that evolve out of countless crushes on the charming sexy woman is a school full of great characters from the cook to the posturing school master & the young lover to the insufferable colonel who heads up the board of governors all adding interest & zest to the goings-on A French Mistress ...

A Frequency Dictionary of French is an invaluable tool for all learners of French providing a list of the 5000 most frequently used words in the language Based on a 23-million-word corpus of French which

Includes:: written & spoken material both from France & overseas this dictionary provides the user with detailed information for each of the 5000 entries including English equivalents a sample sentence its English translation usage statistics & an indication of register variation Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index Throughout the frequency listing there are thematically-organized lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports weather clothing & family terms An engaging & highly useful resource the Frequency Dictionary of French will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of French vocabulary Deryle Lonsdale is Associate Professor in the Linguistics & English Language Department at Brigham Young University (Provo Utah) Yvon Le Bras is Associate Professor of French & Department Chair of the French & Italian Department at Brigham Young University (Provo Utah)

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