Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A skilfully constructed melodrama with a genuinely thrilling denouement The Great Defender tells the story of an artist wrongly accused of murdering his model & of the efforts of an eminent KC to clear him Featuring a characteristically powerful performance from Matheson Lang the classical actor who became one of Britains most successful screen stars during the twenties this superb feature is presented here in a br&-new digital transfer from original film elements Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience Now in rapidly failing health he is advised to retreat from the courtroom & pursue more pleasurable activities But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago & whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband now to stand trial for murder Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye ...

The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied Symptoms of decline are all around us today slowing growth crushing debts ageing populations But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer Niall Ferguson argues is that the institutions that were once the four pillars of Western society
- representative government the free market the rule of law & civil society
- are degenerating The Great Degeneration is a powerful indictment of an era of negligence & complacency To stop us frittering away the institutional inheritance of centuries Ferguson warns will take heroic leadership & radical reform 'A refreshing perspective on the economic decline of advanced countries & the origins of the crisis' Samuel Brittan Financial Times ' He writes with splendid panache & a seemingly effortless debonair wit' The Times ' One of the most incisive writers of history politics & economics today' Sunday Telegraph ' Niall Ferguson has transformed the intellectual landscape' Economist

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The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades & was seen by many as tantamount to the American Way itself Now in this superb ...

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature history & politics--to grasp the scale & violence of climate change The extreme nature of today's climate events Ghosh asserts make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking & imagining This is particularly true of serious literary fiction hundred-year storms & freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres In the writing of history too the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory & counterintuitive elements Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics much like literature has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action But to limit fiction & politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction Ghosh argues is the best suited of all cultural forms His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie Adenoid Hynkel the dictator of Tomania & a Jewish Barber The Barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country The film ends with a message of hope for the world ...

The Great Dinosaur Rush — or the Bone Wars as it&s otherwise called — was a period of incredible advancement in paleontology (ie the discovery of fossils) In The Great Dinosaur Rush players compete to grab bones from the best dig sites & build new dinosaurs for prestigious museums gaining notoriety in the process by stealing bones sabotaging dig sites & otherwise impeding your fellow paleontologists The game is played over turns each with two main phases dig & build During the dig phase players collect different-colored bones from dig sites & perform actions Some dirty actions give players secret notoriety tokens Notoriety adds to players& scores at the end of the game but having the MOST notoriety SUBTRACTS from the score! During the build phase players create their dinosaurs from the bones they collected maximizing them to score points in various museum categories length size height ferociousness etc You&ll have to play dirty if you want to win — just not too dirty! Players 2-5 60 Minutes Ages 10 ...

In the near future humanity awakens to the horrifying reality that the faintest touch from another&s skin results in agonizing death The survivors isolate themselves many driven mad by fragments of memories absorbed from those they&ve killed Two years after the " Divide" a pair of thieves stumble upon the means to save their species but not everyone is eager to see the old world order restored!
Includes: free digital bonus content to download including the song " Teotwawki" (mood music for the apocalypse) a coloring book RPG content a self help book from the perspective of villain Sebastian Gibbs dystopian short stories & a song by the band City Below!
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Why has inequality increased in the Western world
- & what can we do about it? In The Great Divide Joseph E Stiglitz expands on
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CS Lewis's dazzling allegory about heaven & hell
- & the chasm fixed between them
- is one of his most brilliantly imaginative

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The day has arrived for the Dogs' Summer Ball It's so high class that each dog must remove their bottom before they are allowed inside the hall But in the middle of all the frivolity something unexpected happens & the dogs have to make a hasty exitwith or without the correct bottom! ...