Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Alex Rose (Ben Stiller
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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 & Our House& is the first new musical for decades which celebrates London It&s pacey hilarious & often touchingly romantic journey through one boy&s London life

Includes:: performances of the hits House Of Fun Baggy Trousers Embarrassment Driving In My Car My Girl It Must Be Love & Night Boat To Cairo Winner of the 2003 Olivier Award for Best New Musical Director Tim Firth Certificate Exempt from Classification Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
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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 Comedy directed by Danny De Vito starring Ben Stiller & Drew Barrymore as Alex & Nancy a young professional New York couple who have bought the home of their dreams But the house though exactly what they dreamed of in almost every respect turns out to have one major disadvantage the tenant on the rent-controlled top floor Mrs Connelly (Eileen Essel) is a cranky old woman who spends her days watching TV at full volume practising for her brass band & constantly interrupting the couple&s lives with various outrageous demands & requests Alex a writer is struggling to finish his novel for a pending deadline when Nancy loses her job leaving them both stuck at home with their neighbour from hell Eventually their frustration turns to homicidal fantasies as they dream of a way to get rid of Mrs Connelly once & for all ...

The urgent & powerful story of Greta Thunberg climate activist who has sparked a worldwide student movement & is demanding action from world leaders who refuse to address climate change ...

This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how we deal with the issue of change handle the challenge well & you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly & you put yourself at risk The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many years Then one curious penguin discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home
- & pretty much no one listens to him The characters in this fable are like people we recognize even ourselves Their story is one of resistance to change & heroic action confusion & insight seemingly intractable obstacles & the most clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles It is a story that is occuring in different forms around us today
- but the penguins handle change a great deal better than most of us Based on John Kotter's pioneering work on how to make smart change happen faster & better the lessons you can learn from this short & easy-to-read book will serve you well in your job in your family & in your community & these lessons are becoming ever more important as the world around us changes faster & faster This edition will celebrate 10 years since the publication of this classic business fable with new & enhanced illustrations

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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 Paul Rudd stars in this witty & highly relatable comedy about that one family member who is always just a little bit behind the curve For sisters Liz (Emily Mortimer) Miranda (Elizabeth Banks) & Natalie (Zooey Deschanel) that person is their upbeat brother Ned an organic farmer whose willingness to trust human kind allows for oddly trouble-free existence Ned may be utterly lacking in common sense but he is their brother & after his girlfriend dumps him & boots him off the farm his sisters must once again come to his rescue As Liz Miranda & Natalie each take a turn at housing Ned their brother&s unfailing commitment to honesty creates more than a few messes in their comfortable routines But after seeing life through Ned&s optimistic perspective his family comes to realize that maybe Ned isn&t such an idiot after all Actors Paul Rudd Elizabeth Banks Zooey Deschanel Peter Hermann Adam Scott Rashida Jones Emily Mortimer Steve Coogan Kathryn Hahn TJ Miller & Shirley Knight Director Jesse Peretz Certificate 12 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...

We have long attributed man's violent aggressive competitive nature to his animal ancestry But what if we are just as given to cooperation empathy & morality by virtue of our genes? From a scientist & writer whom EO Wilson has called 'the world authority on primate social behavior' comes a lively look at the most provocative aspects of human nature
- power sex violence kindness & morality
- through our two closest cousins in the ape family For nearly 20 years Frans de Waal has worked with both the famously aggressive chimpanzee & the lesser-known egalitarian erotic matriarchal bonobo two species whose DNA is nearly identical to that of humans He brings these apes to life on every page revealing their personalities relationships & power struggles creating an engrossing narrative that explores what their behaviour can teach us about ourselves & each other

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A New York Times bestseller & a passionate urgent (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of opportunity But over the last quarter century we have seen a disturbing opportunity gap emerge We Americans have always believed that those who have talent & try hard will succeed but this central tenet of the American Dream seems no longer true or at the least much less true than it was In Our Kids Robert Putnam offers a personal & authoritative look at this new American crisis beginning with the example of his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton Ohio The vast majority of those students went on to lives better than those of their parents But their children & grandchildren have faced diminishing prospects Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich middle class & poor kids from cities & suburbs across the country brilliantly blended with the latest social-science research A truly masterful volume (Financial Times) Our Kids provides a disturbing account of the American dream that is thoughtful & persuasive (The Economist) Our Kids offers a rare combination of individual testimony & rigorous evidence No one can finish this book & feel complacent about equal opportunity ...

In John le Carre's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world Britain is in the depths of recession A left-leaning young Oxford academic & his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula & a diamond-encrusted gold watch He also has a tattoo on his right thumb & wants a game of tennis What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London & its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment' If you want to know about the state of Britain today forget the Booker shortlist Just read John le Carre's latest thriller' Evening Standard' Few recent plays have had dialogue as good & few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing beguiling masterly performance' Sunday Times ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A civilian couple find themselves lured into a Russian mobsters plans to defect & soon find themselves thrust between the Russian Mafia & the British Secret Service neither of whom they can trust ...