Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play He doesn&t just beat his opponents he creams them! Young milkman & amateur boxer & Calcium Kid& Jimmy (Bloom) is just as stunned as the rest of the boxing world when through an unusual (to say the least) sequence of events he&s offered the opportunity to fight the world champion in his home town Jimmy&s got a lotta bottle & he&s going to need it too! Actors Orlando Bloom Omid Djalili Michael Pena Michael Lerner Ronni Ancona & Billie Piper Director Alex De Rakoff Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 26 minutes (approx)
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Calculus is the key to much of modern science & engineering It is the mathematical method for the analysis of things that change & since in the natural world we are surrounded by change the development of calculus was a huge breakthrough in the history of mathematics But it is also something of a mathematical adventure largely because of the way infinity enters at virtually every twist & turn In The Calculus Story David Acheson presents a wide-ranging picture of calculus & its applications from ancient Greece right up to the present day Drawing on their original writings he introduces the people who helped to build our understanding of calculus With a step by step treatment he demonstrates how to start doing calculus from the very beginning ...

Originally released in 2017 as The Caligula Effect on Play Station Vita The Caligula Effect Overdose boasts twice the story content & new features like a UI overhaul new characters including a playable female protagonist plus additional scenario paths & endings! Voiceover option Japanese Language format English ...

Originally released in 2017 as The Caligula Effect on Play Station Vita The Caligula Effect Overdose boasts twice the story content & new features like a UI overhaul new characters including a playable female protagonist plus additional scenario paths & endings! Voiceover option Japanese Language format English ...

What is a caliphate? What is the history of the idea? How is the term used & abused today? In the first modern account of a subject of critical importance today acclaimed historian Hugh Kennedy answers these questions by chronicling the rich history of the caliphate from the death of Muhammad to the present At its height the caliphate stretched from Spain to the borders of China & was the most powerful political entity in western Eurasia In an era when Paris & London boasted a few thousand inhabitants Baghdad & Cairo were sophisticated centres of trade & culture & the Umayyad & Abbasid caliphates were distinguished by major advances in science medicine & architecture By ending with the recent re-emergence of caliphal ideology within fundamentalist Islam The Caliphate underscores why it is crucial that we know about this form of Islamic government to understand the political ideas of the so-called Islamic State & other Islamist groups in the twenty first century ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In the high-stakes edge-of-your-seat thriller The Call a thin thread of survival separates a teenage kidnap victim from her only hope a compassionate steady voice on the other end of a cell phone marshaling all the resources she can to find her Veteran 911 Emergency Call Center operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that&s not for the faint of heart navigating the public&s distress in order to save lives But when a young woman&s frantic report of a prowler ends tragically Jordan is devastated Reassessing her life Jordan wonders if perhaps she&s experienced her last fraught-filled phone call With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend maybe it&s time to step back enjoy life & teach others the ins & outs of her high-pressure profession That lifeline to strangers isn&t over yet though When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin) is abducted by a serial killer (Michael Eklund) she manages to place a 911 call from the trunk of the killer&s car Jordan leading a group of new recruits through the massive Call Center operation is in earshot of the call It&s an all-too familiar scenario for this experienced public servant but before long Casey&s situation reveals itself as eerily shockingly familiar There&s only one thing Jordan can do take charge in a way she&s never done before She must turn Casey into a partner in helping them track down the killer & prove that this call is Jordan&s calling Product Details Actors Halle Berry Abigail Breslin Morris Chestnut Michael Eklund David Otunga & Michael Imperioli Director Brad Anderson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the high-stakes edge-of-your-seat thriller The Call a thin thread of survival separates a teenage kidnap victim from her only hope a compassionate steady voice on the other end of a cell phone marshaling all the resources she can to find her Veteran 911 Emergency Call Center operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that&s not for the faint of heart navigating the public&s distress in order to save lives But when a young woman&s frantic report of a prowler ends tragically Jordan is devastated Reassessing her life Jordan wonders if perhaps she&s experienced her last fraught-filled phone call With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend maybe it&s time to step back enjoy life & teach others the ins & outs of her high-pressure profession That lifeline to strangers isn&t over yet though When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin) is abducted by a serial killer (Michael Eklund) she manages to place a 911 call from the trunk of the killer&s car Jordan leading a group of new recruits through the massive Call Center operation is in earshot of the call It&s an all-too familiar scenario for this experienced public servant but before long Casey&s situation reveals itself as eerily shockingly familiar There&s only one thing Jordan can do take charge in a way she&s never done before She must turn Casey into a partner in helping them track down the killer & prove that this call is Jordan&s calling Actors Halle Berry Abigail Breslin Morris Chestnut Michael Eklund David Otunga & Michael Imperioli Director Brad Anderson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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' What has risen may sink & what has sunk may rise' Mad macabre tales of demonic spirits hideous rites ancient curses & alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England from the man who created the modern horror story A new series of twenty distinctive unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers ...

A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie Frequently imitated & widely influential Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s discarding ghosts & witches & instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic & malevolent universe S T Joshi Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter presents a selection of the master's fiction from the early tales of nightmares & madness such as " The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of " The Call of Cthulhu" More than just a collection of terrifying tales this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style & establishes him as a canonical- & visionary-American writer ...

Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction & notes by ST Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition HP Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century Discarding ghosts & witches & instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic & malevolent universe Lovecraft's unique works would prove to be a huge influence on modern horror writers such as Stephen King This selection of short stories ranges from early tales of nightmares & insanity such as ' The Outsider' & ' The Rats in the Walls' through the grotesquely comic ' Herbert West
- Reanimator' & ' The Hound' to the extraterrestrial terror of ' The Call of Cthulhu' which fuses traditional supernaturalism with science fiction Including the definitive corrected texts this collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerising narrative style & establishes him as a hugely influential
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- American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) born in Providence Rhode Island was self-educated & lived in his birthplace all his life working as a freelance writer journalist & ghostwriter Using many pen names he contributed his supernaturalhorror & science fictionfantasy stories to various pulp magazines but his reputation as a writer rests mainly on the 60 or so stories he published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales starting in 1923 If you enjoyed The Call of Cthulhu you might also like Arthur Machen's The White People & Other Weird Stories available in Penguin Classics' The twentieth century horror story's dark & baroque prince' Stephen King


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