Essential reading following an astounding summer of sport; if you've ever wondered what makes a champion Bounce has the answer What are the real secrets of sporting success & what lessons do they offer about life? Why doesn't Tiger Woods choke? Why are the best figure skaters those that have fallen over the most & why has one small street in Reading produced more top table tennis players than the rest of the country put together Two-time Olympian & sports writer & broadcaster Matthew Syed draws on the latest in neuroscience & psychology to uncover the secrets of our top athletes & introduces us to an extraordinary cast of characters including the East German athlete who became a man & her husband
- & the three Hungarian sisters who are all chess grandmasters Bounce is crammed with fascinating stories & statistics Looking at controversial questions such as whether talent is more important than practice drugs in sport (and life) & whether black people really are faster runners the mind-bending Bounce is a must-read for the hardened sports nut or brand new convert
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Tracklist A1 Crucial Moments A2 1989 A3 Favorite Everything B1 Here's To Us B2 4th Avenue Sunrise B3 Home ...

Break-proof smash-proof crack-proof super-spoof bouncing rubber egg for endless tricks & pranks Leave it in amongst real eggs to upset the cook throw it around to create alarm & consternation Simple but effective like all the best gags Life-size life-like rubber egg
- perhaps your rubber chicken laid it? Egg bouncy ball Realistic shape colour & size Egg 55cm tall
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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 American crime thriller written & directed by The Wachowski Brothers Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) is a money launderer for the Mob who has just come into possession of 2 million in cash His moll violet (Jennifer Tilly) begins a relationship with their new neighbour ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) & the two women plot to relieve violet&s boyfriend of the money
- by playing on his distrust of fellow mobster Johnnie (Christopher Meloni) the son of Mafia boss Gina Marzzone (Richard Sarafian Jr)
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Alex Verus can see the future But he never thought he'd see this day Manoeuvred by forces beyond his control the probability mage has made a terrible choice he's agreed to work for his old master once more Richard Drakh the sadistic dark mage Alex escaped as an apprentice has him in his clutches again & this time he won't let go so easily ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Radiant yoga instructor MAY (Jessica Biel) has her wholesome life thrown out of balance by the arrival of her long-lost biological sister SHIVA (Zosia Mamet of the hit HBO show GIRLS) a street-smart yet naïve young woman with an abusive boyfriend May feels compelled to rescue the hapless Shiva & finds herself increasingly drawn out of her sedate world & deeper into Shiva&s chaotic one with lethal consequences ...

In the action RPG Bound by Flame you are a mercenary possessed by a flame demon in an ambitious Dark Fantasy universe As a victim of this demonic influence players will have to choose between the powers offered by this evil or rejection of the demonic influence in order to develop heroic talents instead Dangers & enemies becoming more terrifying & fearsome in battle will be temptations to acquire more power by giving up part of the hero&s soul to the demon Progression of the demonic influence will be reflected by the transformation of the hero&s body Through its different chapters Bound by Flame offers many quests around a primary epic adventure Depending on the choices made by the player & the influence of the demon some chapters will offer different scenarios & a different experience adding important replayability to the game If the player begins the game knowing only the basics of combat fire magic & assassination he will be able to specialize by unlocking & improving many skills & powers through three different skill trees Create & customize a powerful warrior develop your skills combat assassination & fire magic Call upon the devastating powers of the demon within Find create & improve your weapons & armor Develop special binds with your companions such as romance friendship or rivalry ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Spies cops & armed children cross paths on a day of danger mystery & possible transformation Bound unfolds over twenty minutes on one New Orleans afternoon experienced through the lives of five unusual characters who unknowingly are connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime Actors Christian Slater Christopher Walken Q&orianka Kilcher Anthony Anderson Jesse Bradford Moon Bloodgood Nicky Whelan Juvenile Devon Gearhart Navid Negahban Jordan Prentice & Dereck Richardson Director Leone Marucci Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 36 minutes (approx) ...

When Jame returned to Knorth hall to help her brother Torisen name all the fallen fighters’ death banners stored there she made the disturbing discovery that those banners splattered with their owners’ blood also have trapped their owners’ souls She also found a contract proving her cousin Kindrie to be legitimate proving that there are three full-blooded Knorth Three full-blooded Knorth means that the Three-Faced God can be manifested—something that none of the three are likely to want to do if they have any choice in the matter Returning with this unwelcome knowledge to school at Tentir Jame continued to dodge the attentions of an unwanted admirer strengthen her link to her feline hunting ounce work with the rathorn colt Death’s-head to insure that it doesn’t resume its attempts to kill her & of course kept causing plenty of unintended havoc She also had to help fight off attacks from hillmen repel a stampede of yarkcarn (think warthogs the size of mammoths) fight in the Winter War (a mock conflict—or at least that’s how it was supposed to be) & solve the mystery behind the death of her evil uncle who somehow is still spectrally manifesting himself in nasty ways No doubt about it— Jame is back & with a vengeance as the popular & critically-praised fantasy adventure series continues About the Author Pat Hodgell can&t remember a time when she wasn&t passionately interested in science fiction & fantasy She&s sold stories to such anthologies as Berkley Showcase Elsewhere III & Imaginary Lands & has also published four novels God Stalk & Dark of the Moon the novels included in The God Stalker Chronicles begin her critically praised fantasy saga which is concerned not! only with high adventure but also with questions of personal identity religion politics honor & arboreal drift She earned her doctorate at the University of Minnesota with a dissertation on Sir Walter Scott&s Ivanhoe & is a graduate of both the Clarion & the Milford Writers Workshops Recently retired she was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in modern British literature & composition & teaches an distant training course on science fiction & fantasy for the University of Minnesota Pat lives in Oshkosh Wisconsin in a nineteenth-century wood-framed house which has been in her family for generations In addition to writing & teaching she attends science fiction conventions collects yarn knits embroiders raises cats & makes her own Christmas cards ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In this heart-pounding horror thriller a kidnapped woman escapes from the basement where she was being held captive & decides to turn the tables on her captor When she discovers she wasn t the only victim & that other girls are being held in different locations she leads her depraved kidnapper on a wild hunt across the city to free the other girls before the clock runs out ...