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A bold & imaginative page-turner that challenges ideas about the world of antiquity& Peter Frankopan (The Silk Roads) This vivid & engaging book brings to life some of the most important moments in ancient history moments that have shaped not only the politics & culture of bygone eras but the institutions thoughts & fantasies of our time& Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens) As panoramic as it is learned this is ancient history for our globalised world& Tom Holland (Dynasty Rubicon) Acclaimed historian & TV presenter Michael Scott guides us through an epic story spanning ten centuries to create a bold new reading of the classical era for our globalised world Scott challenges our traditionally western-focused perception of the past connecting Greco-Roman civilisation to the great rulers & empires that swept across Central Asia to India & China
- resulting in a truly global vision of ancient history With stunning range & richness Ancient Worlds illustrates how the great powers & characters of antiquity shared ambitions & crises ways of thinking & forms of governing connections that only grew stronger over the centuries as political systems evolved mighty armies clashed universal religions were born & our modern world was foreshadowed Scott focuses on three epochal moments& across the ancient globe & their profound wider significance from 509-8 BCE (birth of Athenian democracy & Rome&s republic also the age of Confucius&s teachings in China); to 218 BCE (when Hannibal of Carthage challenged Rome & China saw its first emperor); to 312 CE when Constantine sought to impose Christianity on the Roman world even as Buddhism was pervading China via the vast trading routes we now know as the Silk Roads&A major work of global history Michael Scott&s enthralling journey challenges the way we think about our past re-draws the map of the classical age to reveal its hidden connections & shows us how ancient history has lessons for our own times
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play An illuminating & spectacular six-part odyssey tracing the development of Western civilisation
- from the first cities of Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire Academic & archaeologist Richard Miles travels through the Middle East Egypt Pakistan & the Mediterranean to discover how the mainstays of our society
- community democracy commerce & technology
- were forged & fought over in a series of classical cultures Ancient Worlds tells the amazing stories of disappeared ruined & modern cities
- from Ancient Iraq to Augustan Rome & from Phoenicia & the city states of Greece to today&s Damascus
- & reveals the compromise ruthlessness sacrifice & toil that made each city work In an epic sweep of history against a panorama of stunning locations Richard Miles with the help of local experts & archaeologists brings these legendary civilisations back to life to show how the successes & failures of the ancients shaped the world that we have inherited




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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 An illuminating & spectacular six-part odyssey tracing the development of Western civilisation
- from the first cities of Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire Academic & archaeologist Richard Miles travels through the Middle East Egypt Pakistan & the Mediterranean to discover how the mainstays of our society
- community democracy commerce & technology
- were forged & fought over in a series of classical cultures Ancient Worlds tells the amazing stories of disappeared ruined & modern cities
- from Ancient Iraq to Augustan Rome & from Phoenicia & the city states of Greece to today&s Damascus
- & reveals the compromise ruthlessness sacrifice & toil that made each city work In an epic sweep of history against a panorama of stunning locations Richard Miles with the help of local experts & archaeologists brings these legendary civilisations back to life to show how the successes & failures of the ancients shaped the world that we have inherited Actors Richard Miles Certificate Exempt from Classification Year 2010 Languages English




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The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014 Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body & her search for revenge Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C Clarke the Nebula & the Hugo Award for Best Novel in the same year They made me kill thousands but I only have one target now The Radch are conquerors to be feared
- resist & they'll turn you into a 'corpse soldier'
- one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship's AI mind Whole planets are conquered by their own people The colossal warship called The Justice of Toren has been destroyed
- but one ship-possessed soldier has escaped the devastation Used to controlling thousands of hands thousands of mouths The Justice now has only two hands & one mouth with which to tell her tale But one fragile human body might just be enough to take revenge against those who destroyed her'ENGAGING & PROVOCATIVE' SFX Magazine'UNEXPECTED COMPELLING & VERY COOL' John Scalzi'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED' Independent on Sunday'MIND-BLOWING'io 9com'THRILLING MOVING & AWE-INSPIRING' Guardian'UTTER PERFECTION 1010' The Book Smugglers'ASTOUNDINGLY ASSURED & GRACEFUL' Strange Horizons'ESTABLISHES LECKIE AS AN HEIR TO BANKS' Elizabeth Bear The Imperial Radch trilogy begins with Ancillary Justice continues in Ancillary Sword & concludes with Ancillary Mercy Also available now Provenance is a stunning standalone adventure set in the same world as Ancillary Justice NPR calls it 'A fitting addition to the Ancillary world'


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Ancillary Sword is the sequel to Ancillary Justice the debut which is the only novel to ever win the Hugo the Nebula & the Arthur C Clarke Award Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds now she only has a single body & serves the emperor she swore to destroy Given a new ship & a troublesome crew Breq is ordered to the only place in the galaxy she will agree to go to Athoek station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew
- a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood The Imperial Radch trilogy begins with Ancillary Justice continues in Ancillary Sword & concludes with Ancillary Mercy Also available now Provenance is a stunning standalone adventure set in the same world as Ancillary Justice NPR calls it 'A fitting addition to the Ancillary world' Praise for the trilogy'ENGAGING & PROVOCATIVE' SFX Magazine'UNEXPECTED COMPELLING & VERY COOL' John Scalzi'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED' Independent on Sunday'MIND-BLOWING'io 9com'THRILLING MOVING & AWE-INSPIRING' Guardian'UTTER PERFECTION' The Book Smugglers'ASTOUNDINGLY ASSURED & GRACEFUL' Strange Horizons'ESTABLISHES LECKIE AS AN HEIR TO BANKS' Elizabeth Bear
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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 & a Nightingale Sang strikes a chord with its bittersweet & sharply humorous portrait of working-class family life on the British Home Front during World War Two Despite air raid sirens gas masks ration books & whistling bombs punctuating their everyday lives the Stott family remain stoic as they focus on keeping life as normal as possible Joan Plowright is the beleaguered church-going matriarch who finds herself drawn to her priest John Woodvine plays her husband who escapes from awkward family situations by banging out popular tunes on the piano Helen Stott (Phyllis Logan) is their sensible 30-year-old daughter She is a kindly if self-deprecating soul but life hasn t been very kind to her She walks with a limp & falls for a soldier who could be toying with her heart Joyce (Pippa Hinchley) is her young sister a flirt who is attracted to every soldier except her husband (Stephen Tompkinson) This is a heart-warming household where misery & happiness mingle as naturally as they do in real life reminding us that in the face of adversity humanity will keep calm & carry on loving

Includes:: three short public information films from the Imperial War Museum They Keep the Wheels Turning (1942); Britannia Is a Woman (1940); & The New Britain (1940) Actors Stephen Tompkinson Tom Watt Joan Plowright John Woodvine Pippa Hinchley Directors Robert Knights Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1

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Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incident Arthur has travelled the length breadth & depth of known & unknown space He has stumbled forwards & backwards through time He has been blown up reassembled cruelly imprisoned horribly released & colourfully insulted more than is strictly necessary & of course he has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life the universe & everything Arthur has though finally made it home to Earth But that does not mean he has escaped his fate For Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa are evaporating along with the world's oceans Because no sooner has he arrived than he finds out that Earth is about to be blown up again ...

In & Another Thing the outspoken & outrageous presenter Jeremy Clarkson shares his opinions on just about everything Jeremy Clarkson finds the world such a perplexing place that he wrote a bestselling book about it Yet despite the appearance of The World According to Clarkson things
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- haven't enhanced Not being someone to give up easily however he's decided to have another go In & Another Thing the king of the exasperated quip discovers that Bombing North Carolina is bad for Yorkshire We can look forward to exploding at the age of 62 Russians look bad in Speedos But not as bad as we do Wasps are the highest form of life Thigh-slappingly funny & in your face Jeremy Clarkson bursts the pointless little bubbles of the idiots while celebrating the special the unique & the sheer bloody brilliant And Another Thing is a hilarious collection of Jeremy's Sunday Times columns & the second in his The World According to Clarkson series which also

Includes:: The World According to Clarkson For Crying Out Loud! & How Hard Can It Be? Praise for Jeremy Clarkson' Brilliant laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph' Outrageously funny will have you in stitches' Time Out Number-one bestseller Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars current affairs & anything else that annoys him in his sharp & funny collections Born To Be Riled Clarkson On Cars Don't Stop Me Now Driven To Distraction Round the Bend Motorworld & I Know You Got Soul are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App i Clarkson The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store Jeremy Clarkson because his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser Since then he has written for the Sun & the Sunday Times Today he is the tallest person working in British television & is the presenter of the hugely popular Top Gear



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