Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play What does a scanner see?A Scanner Darkly is set in suburban Orange County California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd where identities & loyalties are impossible to decode It is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K Dick & his own experiences Like a graphic novel come to life A Scanner Darkly uses live action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process (interpolated rotoscoping) to create a haunting highly stylized vision of the future ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken & discarded surfboard The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend he persists against all odds Though trapped in silence their expression of love is no less profound A heartrending masterpiece that as with Kitano&s other films (Sonatine) (Fireworks) has a sharp eye for human frailties & a love for the courage of the underdog Special features New HD restoration New audio commentary by film critic Jasper Sharp First 1000 copies contain a limited edition slipcase featuring new artwork ...

A School Like Mine is an amazing children&s book exploring schools around the world through the eyes of pupils A modern take on DK&s classic children&s book reveals the lives of children as they learn at school in their own words See school activities classrooms & playtime in photographs that will appeal to all children curious to learn about the lives of other schoolchildren on every continent With classic DK design & text using children&s own words children will take a journey around the world to discover A School Just Like Mine ...

Written by one of the all-time greats of Scottish literature truly revolutionary "A Scots Quair" is a trilogy of novels " Sunset Song" (1932) " Cloud Howe" (1933) & " Grey Granite" (1934) At each book's core is the heroine Chris Guthrie as she grows from a child into adulthood through the Great War to the development of communism in the 1920s Grassic Gibbon's writing is unique & riveting blending Scots & English in an accessible style & eloquent in its humanity & celebration of nature ...

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At Everdene setting for THE BEACH HUT two people meet both with secrets to hide Written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion Jenna is known as The Ice Cream Girl She doesn't mind the name one bit After all it's a happy name & there are far worse jobs than selling ice creams on Everdene beach Craig spends as much time as he can at the beach hut in Everdene he rents with a few of his mates As a policeman it is a restful change from his daily life & he's surfing mad One weekend he's down there on his own when he notices a girl on the beach He's young free & single & she catches his eye But on this particular summer weekend both Jenna & Craig's lives are about to change ...

The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island bound together by a code of loyalty & a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia When the boss' secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island where she has relatives Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders concerns for Elettra's safety & his not entirely straightforward feelings for her ...

Sophie & Gray return to London escorting the heiress of Alba to meet the British prince to whom she is betrothed Sparks fail to fly between the pair & the marriage alliance is cast into further doubt when the men who tried to poison King Henry are discovered to have escaped from prison Gray sets off to track the fugitives while Sophie tries to spark a connection between the bride & groom by enlisting them in her scheme to reopen a long-shuttered women's college at Oxford Many may believe that educating women spells ruin but in the decaying college library lies the key to protecting everything they hold dear-as well as a dark secret that could destroy it all ...

Is Italy a united country or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football a sport or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities This is a highly personal account of one man's relationship with a country its people & its national sport A book that combines the pleasures of travel writing with a profound analysis of one country's mad mad way of keeping itself entertained ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Detective Andreas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) seemingly perfect life is thrown into disarray when he is called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple to find their infant son neglected & crying in a closet With red tape stopping Andreas from intervening to protect the child the usually collected policeman finds himself powerless & shaken to the core Slowly losing his grip on right & wrong he decides to take justice from outside the law & in to his own hands in an attempt to save the child from a life of destitution & an early grave ...