While used for centuries in Sufi circles the prayer known as ' The Most Elevated Cycle' or ' The Prayer of Protection' had never before been available in English This book provides a lucid English translation of this beautiful & powerful prayer written by the great Sufi master Muhyi al-Din Ibn ' Arabi as well as a transliteration for those unable to read Arabic but who wish to recite it in its original language It also delves into the prayer's contemporary life & historical transmission & gives details of generations of well-known scholars & Sufi masters who transmitted the prayer providing an intimate insight into Islamic history ...

Claiming the courtesan's child It's been more than three months but Oliver Gregory still remembers the exquisite night he shared with a beautiful woman in Paris Discovering her working at the discreet London gentlemen's club he part-owns comes as a shockeven more so when he realises she's pregnant! Oliver knows the pain of being an outcast & will do all in his power to ensure his child is not born illegitimate Cecilia will return to his bedas his wife! The Society of Wicked Gentlemen The hour is late & the stakes are high ...

This biographical film provides insight into the life of renowned British author DH Lawrence (Ian Mc Kellen) best known for his sexually explicit novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER In addition to exploring Lawrence's youth PRIEST OF LOVE examines important events in Lawrence's personal & professional career including his tempestuous relationship with his wife & sometime collaborator Frieda (Janet Suzman); his battle against censorship (LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned in England for years); & his bisexuality ...

Book-smart & more than a little naive Robert Sapolsky left the comforts of college in the US for a research project studying a troop of baboons in Kenya Whether he's relating his adventures with his neighbours Masai tribesmen or his experiences learning how to sneak up & dart suspicious baboons Sapolsky combines irreverence & humour with the best credentials in his field A Primate's Memoir is the culmination of over two decades of experience & research
- an exhilarating hilarious & daring memoir & an astonishing masterpiece of the people & nature of Africa
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A Primer of Ecological Statistics Second Edition explains fundamental material in probability theory experimental design & parameter estimation for ecologists & environmental scientists The book emphasizes a general introduction to probability theory & provides a detailed discussion of specific designs & analyses that are typically encountered in ecology & environmental science Appropriate for use as either a st&-alone or supplementary text for upper-division undergraduate or graduate courses in ecological & environmental statistics ecology environmental science environmental studies or experimental design the Primer also serves as a resource for environmental professionals who need to use & interpret statistics daily but have little or no formal training in the subject The book is divided into four parts Part I discusses the fundamentals of probability & statistical thinking It introduces the logic & language of probability (Chapter 1) explains common statistical distributions used in ecology (Chapter 2) & important measures of central tendency & spread (Chapter 3) explains P-values hypothesis testing & statistical errors (Chapter 4) & introduces frequentist Bayesian & Monte Carlo methods of analysis (Chapter 5) Part II discusses how to successfully design & execute field experiments & sampling studies Topics include design strategies (Chapter 6) a 'bestiary' of experimental designs (Chapter 7) & transformations & data management (Chapter 8) Part III discusses specific analyses & covers the material that is the main core of most statistics texts Topics include regression (Chapter 9) analysis of variance (Chapter 10) categorical data analysis (Chapter 11) & multivariate analysis (Chapter 12) Part IV-new to this edition-discusses two central topics in estimating important ecological metrics Topics include quantification of biological diversity (Chapter 13) & estimating occupancy detection probability & population sizes from marked & unmarked populations (Chapter 14) The book

Includes:: a comprehensive glossary a mathematical appendix on matrix algebra & extensively annotated tables & figures Footnotes introduce advanced & ancillary material some are purely historical others cover mathematicalstatistical proofs or details & still others address current topics in the ecological literature Data files & code used for some of the examples as well as errata are available online

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On 9th August 2001 twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh a double-A Category high-security prison in south London to HMP Wayland a Category C establishment in Norfolk He served sixty-seven days in Wayland & during that time as this account testifies encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously over-stretched prison service but the spirit & courage of his fellow inmates Prison Diary Volume II Purgatory is an extraordinary work of non-fiction where Jeffrey Archer reveals what life is like inside the walls of Britain's prisons ...

The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve & a half hours & will not be let out again until midday; eighteen & a half hours of solitary confinement There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting
- his first offence not even convicted
- & he is being locked up for eighteen & a half hours unable to speak to anyone This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century not Turkey not Nigeria not Kosovo but Britain On Thursday 19 July 2001 after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail He was to spend the first twenty-two days & fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh a double A-Category high-security prison in South London which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals Hell the first volume in Archer's The Prison Diaries is the author's daily record of the time he spent there

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Up-&-coming secretary Friedrich Zeitz (Richard Madden) is whisked off to factory owner Hoffmeister&s (Alan Rickman) estate to serve as a tutor for his young son It is there that Friedrich catches the eye of the boss&s younger wife Lotte (Rebecca Hall) after which their instant attraction is challenged both by Zeitz&s general reticence & Mrs Hoffmeister&s loyalty to her husband Beautifully filmed & set in Germany just prior to WW1 A Promise tells the powerful love story of a married woman & her husband s protege separated first by duties then by war they pledge their devotion to one another but can they ever be together? ...

Discover a new hero… Clyde Barr the drifter with lethal skills is alone again wandering the highways of the American West in search of something to believe in As summer turns to autumn he heads for the mountains planning to clear his head & regain his edge with some hunting But when he runs across an elderly sick man—a Ute Indian from a nearby reservation— Clyde’s dream of solitude is quickly dashed On the reservation Clyde finds the old man’s daughter Lawana & grandson Taylor as well as a group of menacing bikers called Reapers running wild in the struggling half-abandoned village Gripped by the desire to do good in a hard world Clyde offers to stay on Lawana’s ranch to help out until her father is better As tensions rise between the locals & the Reapers Clyde’s efforts to protect the reservation become a fight for his Lawana’s & Taylor’s lives… A Promise to Kill is an edge-of-the-seat thriller pushing its no-hold-barred hero to new levels of improvisation & bare-knuckled blunt force Praise for Clyde Barr & Erik Storey &8203;‘ Clyde Barr — remember the name because he could just become as famous as Lee Child’s anti-hero Jack Reacher Utterly compelling from the first pagefor my money it will become a worldwide sensation’ DAILY MAIL ‘ Very very good Reacher is keeping an eye on this guy’ LEE CHILD ‘A singular new talent! Nothing short of brilliant It grabs you from page one & simply doesn&t let go This man is a born storyteller!’ JEFFERY DEAVER & Nothing Short of Dying features great action scenes fast pacing & well-drawn characters with sharp & blunt dialogue that always rings true’ Nelson De Mille & Erik Storey’s writing is exceptional This is a splendid debut harsh & gripping throughout& THE TIMES ‘…the best debut thriller of the year – & don’t be surprised if before long Erik Storey ranks among the giants of the genre’ THE WASHINGTON TIMES ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Gritty shocking & unforgettable A Prophet is an epic crime masterpiece that can&t be missed A nineteen-year-old troublemaker starts a six year sentence in a notorious prison a concrete hell where violence is the only language understood Taken under the wing of a powerful mafia boss he is initiated into a vicious & brutal way of life As the years pass he proves his worth moving up the ranks within the prison However he has his own plans & they don&t involve taking orders from anyone Using his ruthless cunning to extend his influence beyond the walls of the jail he arranges drugs runs hostage exchanges & violent assassinations Once merely a petty criminal he is soon on his way to establishing a criminal empire of his own Directed by celebrated filmmaker Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) A Prophet has become an instant crime classic Winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not In The English Language ...