Introduced by Richard Dawkins & Nick Harkaway First a legendary radio series then a sequence of bestselling books & most recently a blockbuster movie The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the greatest fictional enterprises of the twentieth century Reissued in time for the first novel's thirty-fifth anniversary this hardback omnibus edition

Includes:: all five parts of the trilogy along with a wealth of extra material prefaced & contextualised by Jem Roberts the official biographer of Douglas Adams to complete the canon This unique hardback edition is indispensable for any would-be galactic traveller & a must-read for all Douglas Adams fans

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Fantastic box set containing the four films director Alfred Hitchcock made with the legendary Hollywood producer David O Selznick In ' Rebecca' Joan Fontaine stars as a young woman who after a brief Monte Carlo courtship & a rushed marriage returns with the handsome & mysterious Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) to his Cornish country estate Manderlay The new bride receives a hostile reaction from the housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Judith Anderson) & finds herself intimidated & overcome by the surviving traces of de Winter's first wife Rebecca Then as she becomes more & more unhappy she stumbles upon the secret of Rebecca's death In ' Notorious' Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) is a social butterfly recruited by the American government to work as a spy in Rio de Janeiro in the years directly following World War Two Helped by fellow agent Devlin (Cary Grant)
- who soon falls in love with her
- she is ordered to seduce & marry Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains) a member of a covert group of exiled Nazis She succeeds in marrying Sebastian & uncovers a Nazi plot to stockpile uranium but when Sebastian himself realises who is wife is working for he begins to plot to get rid of her In ' Spellbound' psychiatrist Dr Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) is intrigued by the arrival of her new boss Dr Edwardes (Gregory Peck) Edwardes seems to be suffering from amnesia & when he faints it transpires that he is in fact an imposter & may be guilty of murdering the real Dr Edwardes Constance then sets about probing the imposter's psyche in an attempt to discover the truth Finally in ' The Paradine Case' barrister Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) is hired to defend the wealthy Mrs Paradine (Alida Valli) who has been accused of murdering her husband Keane finds himself falling in love with his client becoming obsessive about her to the exclusion of all else However the judge in the case (Charles Laughton) makes things difficult adopting a belligerent attitude towards Keane because he secretly desires the lawyer's wife (Ann Todd) Actors Laurence Olivier Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck Cary Grant Joan Fontaine Directors Alfred Hitchcock Format Box set Dolby PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 4

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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 The open highway becomes a terrifying battleground of blood metal fear & murder when a young couple Grace & Jim (Sophia Bush & Zachary Knighton) hit the road & encounter the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder (Sean Bean) during a violent storm The initial encounters with Ryder escalate rapidly as he transforms into a deadly racing psychopath & the stakes are raised further when he frames Grace & Jim for a horrific slaying that makes them fugitives from the law As the carnage mounts & the action pushes you to the edge of your seat Grace & Jim must fight for their lives & face their fears head-on Actors Sean Bean Sophia Bush Zachery Knighton Neal Mc Donough Danny Bolero Kyle Davis & Lauren Cohn Director Dave Meyers Certificate 18 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Spanish Duration 1 hour 20 minutes (approx)
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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 It is the most remarkable certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus better selling than Fifty Three Things to Do in Zero Gravity & more controversial than Oolon Colluphid&s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters
- Where God Went Wrong Some More of God&s Greatest Mistakes & Who is this God Person Anyway? So that whingeing Earthling Arthur Dent should be very grateful he had a copy! For after Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass Arthur Dent is let loose in the furthest recesses of the Galaxy armed only with the aforementioned mysterious but indispensable Guide Follow Dent&s cosmic adventures as he is joined by his pretty weird companions Zaphod Beeblebrox Ford Prefect Trillian-the-Astrophysicist-he-met-at-a-party-in-Islington & Marvin the manically depressed Android You never know they may even find the answer to Life The Universe & Everything! Actors Simon Jones David Dixon Joe Melia Martin Benson Andrew Mussell Gil Morris Mark Wing-Davey Peter Jones David Prowse & Sandra Dickinson Director Alan Bell Certificate 15 years & over Year 1981 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages English
- Original Mono sound Duration 3 hours (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players



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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python takes the journeyman Pythonista to true expertise More than any other language Python was created with the philosophy of simplicity & parsimony Now 25 years old Python has become the primary or secondary language (after SQL) for many business users With popularity comes diversity-and possibly dilution This guide collaboratively written by over a hundred members of the Python community describes best practices currently used by package & application developers Unlike other books for this audience The Hitchhiker's Guide is light on reusable code & heavier on design philosophy directing the reader to excellent sources that already exist ...

A special edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace bypass & his best friend has just announced that he's an alien At this moment they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels & an innocuous-looking book inscribed in large friendly letters with the words DON'T PANICAn international phenomenon & a pop-culture classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show TV series stage play comic book & film & is a work of true comic genius It was the first Pan Original to sell more than one million copies ...

This really is the ultimate answer to Life the Universe & Everything
- all five radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhiker&s Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show TV show stage play comic book & film & is & a work of utter comic genius from Douglas Adams One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass It&s the final straw for Arthur Dent who has already had his house bulldozed that morning But for Arthur that is only the beginning In the seconds before global obliteration Arthur is plucked from the planet by his friend Ford Prefect
- & together the pair venture out across the galaxy on the craziest strangest road trip of all time
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DON'T PANIC collected together in the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy are the five titles that comprise Douglas Adams' wildly popular & wholly remarkable comedy science fiction series This one volume paperback edition comes complete with an unhelpful introduction from the author a bonus short story Young Zaphod Plays It Safe & a special undeleted scene The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass For Arthur Dent who has only just had his house demolished that morning this seems already to be rather a lot to cope with Sadly however the weekend has only just begun The Galaxy may offer a mind-boggling variety of ways to be blown up andor insulted but it's very hard to get a cup of tea The Restaurant at the End of the Universe When all questions of space time matter & the nature of being have been resolved only one question remains
- ' Where shall we have dinner?' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience & for once there is no morning after to worry about Life the Universe & Everything Following a number of stunning catastrophes Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth However just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse they suddenly do An eddy in the space-time continuum lands him Ford Prefect & their flying sofa in the middle of the cricket ground at Lord's just two days before the world is due to be destroyed by the Vogons Escaping the end of the world for a second time Arthur Ford & their old friend Slartibartfast embark (reluctantly) on a mission to save the whole galaxy from fanatical robots Not bad for a man in his dressing gown So Long & Thanks for All the Fish There is a knack to flying The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground & miss It's not an easy thing to do & Arthur Dent thinks he's the only human who's been able to master this nifty little trick
- until he meets Fenchurch the woman of his dreams Fenchurch once realised how the world could be made a good & happy place Unfortunately she's forgotten Convinced that the secret lies within God's Final Message to His Creation they go in search of it & in a dramatic break with tradition actually find it Mostly Harmless Arthur Dent has settled down on the small planet Lamuella & has embraced his role as a Sandwich Maker However his plans for a quiet life are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter There's nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in their hands When she runs away Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe After all
- he's encountered most of them before This publishing phenomenon began as a radio drama & now exists in a number of wildly contradictory versions (including a TV series a movie & a towel)
- this version produced by Douglas Adams' original publisher is at least definitively inaccurate



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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Sci-fi adventure based on the novel by Douglas Adams Earthman Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is having a very bad day His house is about to be bulldozed he discovers that his best friend is an alien & to top things off Planet Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass Arthur&s only chance of survival is to hitch a ride on a passing spacecraft For the novice space traveller the greatest adventure in the universe begins when the world ends Arthur sets out on a journey in which he finds that nothing is as it seems He learns that a towel is the most useful thing in the universe finds the meaning of life & discovers that everything he needs to know can be found in one book & The Hitchhiker&s Guide to the Galaxy& ...