Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An epic tale of human alienation BABEL draws several disparate yet interconnected storylines that converge in surprising & cataclysmic ways An accident sparks a chain of events that have global repercussions ...

In Babel each player makes use of members of various tribes of the ancient world to build temples exploit (or exterminated) their opponent&s work force destroy or steal their opponent&s temples & otherwise do whatever it takes to build the tallest temples to win the game The game plays out on a small game board representing regions of 5 ancient civilizations Medes Sumerians Hitites Persians & Assyrians Each player will be dealt a hand of cards (consisting of 5 types corresponding to the above tribes) Players themselves are represented by stone figures Temple cards will be made available at the side of the board for building throughout the game On his or her turn a player may discard a card to move to the corresponding region place a card on the region they are currently located build a temple by having tribesmen equal to the number or level on the temple card & having built the previous (lower) temple level move tribesmen from one region to another or perform a skill action unique to each tribe Players may perform any & all actions available to them being able to perform most actions as many times as they wish & saving any number of unplayed cards for subsequent turns A big component of this game is placing your tribe cards in sets Skills can only be used if a set of three (or more) cards is at the same location as the player marker By discarding one of the cards of a set the skill may be used No matter the tribe performing this action can force the opponent to discard half their hand Other skills such as robbing a temple from an opponent skipping a level on a temple build destroy an opposing temple etc are specific to the tribe activated Game play progresses until one of two conditions is met if a player builds 15 points (or levels) of temples before the opposing player builds at least 10 points that player wins If the opponent idoes havei more than 10 points the game continues until one player reaches 20 points (in which case he or she wins) OR one player subsequently drops below 10 (in which case he or she loses) Players 2 Playing Time 45 Minutes ...

During the Golden Age of comics publishers offered titles supporting the war effort — presenting fighting men & their feminine counterparts — babes in arms! Comic books during this period featured US service-women fighting all of the axis bad guys & gave several of the most noteworthy women artists of the era opportunities to create action-packed adventure-filled four-color stories Now for the first time renowned pop-culture historian Trina Robbins assembles comic book stories by artists Barbara Hall Jill Elgin Lilly Renee and Fran Hopper together with insightful commentary & loads of documentary extras to create the definitive book chronicling the work of these important Golden Age artists This magnificent art book offers page-after-page of good girl action! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Its two days before Christmas & the Toyland Toy factory has just recieved its biggest order ever but the evil Barnaby who doesn&t believe in toys has plans to shut the factory down & spoil the holiday for everyone Now its upto Toyland&s most recent arrivals young Jack & his sister Jill to help their newfound friends Tom Tailor Mairy Lamb Humpty Dumpty & the rest of Toyland stop Barnaby&s plot & save christmas ...

A remake of the 1934 Laurel & Hardy original where Mary & Tom travel through the Forest Of No Return & find themselves in Toyland where they assist in making toys for Christmas But trouble appears in the shape of the wicked villain Mr Barnaby ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Fully restored & available on Blu-ray for the very first time Gabriel Axel&s celebrated Oscar-winning classic remains as charming entertaining & mouth-watering as ever Adapted from a story by & Out of Africa& author Isak Dinesen it tells the story of a 19th Century religious community on Denmark&s remote & windswept coast Into this austere environment comes Babette a mysterious refugee from France&s civil war When she mounts a French gourmet feast to mark the community&s anniversary the local elders are scandalized Just who is the strangely talented Babette who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure? Actors Stephane Audran Bodil Kjer Birgitte Federspiel Jarl Kulle Jean-Philippe Lafont Bibi Andersson Ghita Nørby Asta Esper Hagen Andersen Thomas Antoni & Gert Bastian Director Gabriel Axel Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1987 Languages Danish Duration 1 hour & 42 minutes (approx) ...

Babies our biggest mystery & our most natural consequence our hardest test & our enduring love Anne Enright describes the intensity bewilderment & extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles & becoming acquainted with the long reaches of the night Everyone from parents to the mildly curious can delight in Enright's funny eloquent & unsentimental account of having babies Selected from the book Making Babies by Anne Enright VINTAGE MINIS GREAT MINDS BIG IDEAS LITTLE BOOKS A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series Fatherhood by Karl Ove Knausgaard Motherhood by Helen Simpson Drinking by John Cheever Sisters by Louisa May Alcott ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play French documentary from director Thomas Balmes depicting the early lives of four young babies from around the world The children were followed on film for the first year of their lives with all footage shot in their respective countries of origin Bayar is from Bayanchandmani Mongolia & Ponijao is from Opuwo Namibia
- both rural areas; Mari is from Tokyo Japan & Hattie is from San Francisco USA
- both urban areas The film aims to showcase the cultural differences & connections of the world through the fresh & innocent eyes of the babies

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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 Four countries Four babies From birth to their first steps Their names are Ponijao Bayarjargal Mari & Hattie & live in Namibia Mongolia Japan & the United States BABIES plunge us simultaneously in the heart of four different cultures & seizes the most touching funniest & carefree unique & universal of the very first months of one’s life ...

A heart warming sculpture of twin babies wrapped around each other inside their mothers hands representing a womb suggesting how delicate & precious new born babies are This beautiful sculpture will make the perfect gift for any family Weight 044kg Depth 10cm Width 17cm Height 5cm Colour Bronze Packaging Brown Box with Polyfoam Material Cold Cast Bronze ...