Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Starring Robert Beatty Jack Warner & Simone Signoret this is the story of a diverse group of people from very different backgrounds who were brought together in one of the strangest enterprises of the war Sabotage was their job; sabotage organised from London in the form of macabre practical jokes as ingenious as they were injurious to the enemy The work was over-clouded with the constant fear of discovery
- & what it would mean Actors Robert Beatty Simone Signoret Jack Warner Gordon Jackson Paul Dupuis Gisele Preville John Slater Peter Illing & James Robertson Justice Director Charles Crichton Certificate PGLanguages English Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)
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One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast & often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work Looking at figures including Michel Foucault St Paul Nietzsche the Marquis de Sade Simone Weil & Hannah Arendt this one-stop reference to Agamben's influences covers 30 thinkers his primary interlocutors his secondary references & the figures who lurk in the background of his arguments without being directly mentioned ...

None can defy the will of the gods but the gods themselves Driven by the ambition of their king the Greeks have arrived on the shores of Troy Some seek power some seek revenge while still others seek the great moment in battle that will define their place in history Agamemnon is a fast-paced strategy board game in which two players take on the roles of ancient Greek gods during the Trojan War By tactically deploying warriors to where they&re needed across the board each player may influence the final outcome of the battles famously detailed in Homer&s Iliad Some areas will be decided by the strength of the warriors others by sheer weight of numbers & some by the inspiration your heroes provide To begin the game Strings of Fate tiles are placed on their matching spaces on the board & each player receives one set of fifteen playing tiles These tiles come in three varieties Warriors with a numerical value marking their strength Leaders with both a letter rank & a strength value & Weavers who have no strength or rank but instead manipulate the Strings of Fate Each player will shuffle their tiles face down in front of them The first player flips over one of their tiles & places it on any available space If it’s a Weaver its effect immediately comes into play the Warp Weaver may swap two adjacent Strings of Fate whilst the Weft Weaver simply splits all strings it’s connected to After the first turn each player flips & plays two tiles on their turns Once all the tiles have been placed each string is resolved each Strength String is won by the player with the highest combined strength contained within it; each Leadership String is won by the player with the single highest ranked tile within the string; & Force Strings are won by the player with the most tiles including Weavers in the string Players claim all the tiles from Strings of Fate they have won & the player with the most tiles at the end wins Players 2 Playing time 20-30 minutes Ages 12 ...

One day the world was enveloped by a mysterious blinding light The destruction it caused was terrible even as the light itself was sublime in its beauty & it made those who witnessed the awesome display think of the unrestrained rage & fury of the divine The central continent from where the light is believed to have originated from went silent while at the same time demons began to spread throughout the world like a plague Amongst the survivors of the catastrophe that fateful day became known as the " Day of Light" Sometime after the events of the Day of Light a young man by the name of Weiss who had lost all memory of himself encounters an enigmatic woman named Eva who introduces herself as an Agent of the Divine It is from her that Weiss learns that he has committed the grievous sin of deicide & that in order for him to atone for his crime he is to become the " Vessel" in which the power of the divinity he had slaughtered will be stored For it will be that power that will be used to resurrect the one whose life he stole For those who betray the divine will pay for their sins in the space which separates salvation & damnation as will their progeny Battle your foes with a totally revamped active grid-based battle system Enjoy all character art movies & environments in glorious high definition Play Station Move compatible mini games Travel seamlessly across an all new Agarest universe with the Active Animation Adventure engine as featured in the Koei RPG & Trinity Universe& ...

At the dawn of time the world of Agarest was plunged into a terrible war between the forces of good & evil Entire races fought & died for their divine masters ending in the total destruction of Agarest The victorious Gods of light unified their defeated foes creating a new world & sealing their broken bodies into an eternity of darkness With the ancient wars fading into distant memory all have forgotten the evil slumbering beneath their feet but the darkness remembers It watches It waits The seal that held the evil for aeons is fading & war is again raging among the Kingdoms of Men Choose the path of darkness or light through a truly epic story spanning 5 generations & featuring 60 hours of gameplay Battle hundreds of different creatures using an array of character abilities in compelling & strategic turn-based combat Unite with your chosen heroine using the "soul breed" system & together shape the fate of the next generation of heroes Collect hundreds of items & weapons & harness the power of alchemy to vastly improve equipment Build the ultimate army of warriors & master Extra Skills Special Arts & Over Kills to defeat colossal enemies! ...

Irish Times " The kind of books that adults will covet & collect as well The language & structure is simple enough for young readers while a biographical timeline at the end of each book offers greater historical complexity" In the Little People Big Dreams series discover the lives of outstanding people from designers & artists to scientists All of them went on to achieve incredible things yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream The book follows Agatha Christie who taught herself to read at the age of five on her journey to becoming the most famous crime writer of all time This inspiring & informative little biography comes with extra facts about Agatha&s life at the back ...

Irish Times " The kind of books that adults will covet & collect as well The language & structure is simple enough for young readers while a biographical timeline at the end of each book offers greater historical complexity" In the Little People Big Dreams series discover the lives of outstanding people from designers & artists to scientists All of them went on to achieve incredible things yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream The book follows Agatha Christie who taught herself to read at the age of five on her journey to becoming the most famous crime writer of all time This inspiring & informative little biography comes with extra facts about Agatha&s life at the back ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Evil is everywhere Even in paradise Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman&s body found on a moor & then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Blatt & Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband & step-daughter on a tropical island hotel He joins them on the island & finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons
- refusing to do a stage show stopping a book & for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern another guest in full view of his shy wife So it&s only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead strangled & Poirot must find out who it is (Dir Guy Hamilton 1982)
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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 The Agatha Christie Hour is a collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by the most popular novelist in history Some were romances some had supernatural themes & a couple were adventures The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie all were entertaining & each drama was carefully crafted & well cast with many of Britain&s best known actors of the time represented Episodes Comprise The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife When Mrs Packington whose husband is paying more attention to his young secretary answers an ad in the papers reading ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE she soon finds herself being dazzled & swept off her feet by the handsome Claude Luttrell In A Glass Darkly Matthew Armitage is startled by a vision in his mirror he sees a man with a scarred neck strangling a beautiful blonde He later meets the woman in his vision Sylvia & notes her fiance&s scarred neck Mathew tells Sylvia of his premonition & the engagement is broken off But is that all there is to it? The Case of the Discontented Soldier The recently retired Major Wilbraham is bored & unhappy so he answers Parker Pyne&s newspaper ad Before long the Major finds himself rescuing Freda Clegg from two burly attackers; with Freda in tow he embarks on a daring adventure to find treasure in the wilds of Africa! Another charming love story of an autumn romance Magnolia Blossom Theodora Darrell is running away with her lover
- & business associate of her husband
- Vincent Easton when she learns her husband Richard is facing financial ruin Old loyalties resurface & she returns home to see if she can fix the situation The Mystery of the Blue Jar Playing golf early one morning Jack Harrington hears a cry " Murder! Help!" from a nearby cottage He runs up to find a beautiful French girl Felise placidly weeding the garden oblivious to any disturbance When the Jack hears the same cries for many days he begins to think he might be mad But are more sinister forces at work? The Red Signal Dermot West is invited to dinner at the home of Jack & Claire Trent The first is his best friend the second the woman he loves During the evening the conversation turns to the supernatural; Dermot admits he frequently gets what he calls &the red signal& to warn him of impending danger He neglects to mention that he is getting the signal strongly that night! Jane in Search of a Job Jane Cleveland lands a sought-after job as double for the Grand Duchess of Ostrova during the latter&s state visit to England An attempt is feared on the Duchess& life & when Jane is framed for a theft events become ever more complicated Can she clear her name & who is trying to kill the Duchess? The Manhood of Edward Robinson Prim & proper yet a romantic dreamer Edward Robinson leads a rather dull life with his domineering girlfriend & uninspiring job His quiet dull life ends when he wins some money in a newspaper contest & he embarks on an adventure that even he never dreamed of The Girl in The Train George Rowland a bored playboy disowned for the seventh time by his wealthy uncle is on the train to London When a beautiful girl bursts into his compartment frantically begging to be hidden his life changes dramatically The Fourth Man A canon a lawyer & a psychiatrist find themselves together on a train bound for Newcastle There is a fourth man in the compartment who apparently pays no attention to his companions& animated conversation Actors Maurice Denham Gwen Watford Peter Jones Nicholas Clay Emma Piper Jonathan Morris William Gaunt Patricia Garwood Ralph Bates & Jeremy Clyde Certificate 12 years & over Year 1982 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages English Subtitles English Duration 8 hours & 35 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Star-studded cast lists & 21st century production values bring Agatha Christie&s queen of crime deduction to sparkling life in these four stunning feature length episodes 1 The Body In The Library 2 A Murder Is Announced 3 Murder At The Vicarage 4 450 From Paddington Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 6 hours & 50 minutes (approx)
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