Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Inspired by a true story The Vow is the tale of a love that refuses to be forgotten Leo (Channing Tatum Dear John) is devastated when a car accident plunges his wife Paige (Rachel Mc Adams The Notebook) into a deep coma She miraculously recovers--but the last five years of her memories have vanished Suddenly Leo finds himself married to a stranger who can’t remember anything about him Naively Paige falls back under the influence of her controlling parents (Sam Neill & Jessica Lange) & reconnects with her ex-fiance (Scott Speedman) Desperately Leo tries to recreate the moments that shaped their romance Can he rekindle the passion before he loses Paige forever? ...

Please note the UV copy is only compatible in participating regions please visit the UV website for full details Inspired by a true story The Vow is the tale of a love that refuses to be forgotten Leo (Channing Tatum Dear John) is devastated when a car accident plunges his wife Paige (Rachel Mc Adams The Notebook) into a deep coma She miraculously recovers
- but the last five years of her memories have vanished Suddenly Leo finds himself married to a stranger who can&t remember anything about him Naively Paige falls back under the influence of her controlling parents (Sam Neill & Jessica Lange) & reconnects with her ex-fiance (Scott Speedman) Desperately Leo tries to recreate the moments that shaped their romance Can he rekindle the passion before he loses Paige forever?
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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 Romantic drama in which the love of a pair of newlyweds is tested to the limit by their involvement in a car crash Leo (Channing Tatum) & Paige (Rachel Mc Adams) are deeply in love Having just got married the pair enjoy an extended honeymoon & make plans for a future together However tragedy strikes when a freak car accident leaves Paige in hospital in a coma She awakens with severe memory loss unable to remember who Leo is & mistaking him for a doctor Leo now faces the toughest challenge of his life he has to make his wife fall in love with him again Age Rating 12 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Inspired by a true story The Vow is the tale of a love that refuses to be forgotten Leo (Channing Tatum Dear John) is devastated when a car accident plunges his wife Paige (Rachel Mc Adams The Notebook) into a deep coma She miraculously recovers
- but the last five years of her memories have vanished Suddenly Leo finds himself married to a stranger who can&t remember anything about him Naively Paige falls back under the influence of her controlling parents (Sam Neill & Jessica Lange) & reconnects with her ex-fiance (Scott Speedman) Desperately Leo tries to recreate the moments that shaped their romance Can he rekindle the passion before he loses Paige forever? Actors Rachel Mc Adams Channing Tatum Jessica Lange Sam Neill Jessica Mc Namee Wendy Crewson Tatiana Maslany Lucas Bryant Scott Speedman Joey Klein Joe Cobden Jeananne Goossen Dillon Casey Shannon Barnett & Lindsay Ames Director Michael Sucsy Certificate 12 years & over Year 2012 Screen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Czech ; Russian ; Turkish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Bulgarian ; Croatian ; Czech ; English ; Estonian ; Hindi ; Lithuanian ; Romanian ; Russian ; Serbian ; Slovak ; Slovene ; Turkish Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 40 minutes (approx)

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This item is a rental copy however it is Brand New Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Inspired by a true story The Vow is the tale of a love that refuses to be forgotten Leo (Channing Tatum Dear John) is devastated when a car accident plunges his wife Paige (Rachel Mc Adams The Notebook) into a deep coma She miraculously recovers
- but the last five years of her memories have vanished Suddenly Leo finds himself married to a stranger who can&t remember anything about him Naively Paige falls back under the influence of her controlling parents (Sam Neill & Jessica Lange) & reconnects with her ex-fiance (Scott Speedman) Desperately Leo tries to recreate the moments that shaped their romance Can he rekindle the passion before he loses Paige forever? Actors Rachel Mc Adams Channing Tatum Jessica Lange Sam Neill Jessica Mc Namee Wendy Crewson Tatiana Maslany Lucas Bryant Scott Speedman Joey Klein Joe Cobden Jeananne Goossen Dillon Casey Shannon Barnett & Lindsay Ames Director Michael Sucsy Certificate 12 years & over Year 2012 Screen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Czech ; Russian ; Turkish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Bulgarian ; Croatian ; Czech ; English ; Estonian ; Hindi ; Lithuanian ; Romanian ; Russian ; Serbian ; Slovak ; Slovene ; Turkish Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 40 minutes (approx)

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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 Romantic drama directed by Vittoria De Sica & starring Richard Burton When the head of the Braggi family dies he leaves his two sons Cesare (Burton) & Antonio (Ian Bannen) the family business in his will Another one of his dying wishes was for Antonio to ask for the hand in marriage of the lovely Adriana De Mauro (Sophia Loren) Adriana accepts Antonio&s proposal despite being in love with Cesare This leaves Cesare completely heartbroken & he leaves the village When Antonio dies in a car accident Cesare returns to take care of Adriana & the family business Unfortunately Adriana has been diagnosed with an incurable illness & the pair must make the most of their remaining time together ...

' Their fruits be diverse & plentiful as nutmegs ginger long pepper lemons cucumbers cocos sago with divers other sorts' Scholar spy diplomat & supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the size & strangeness of the world
- & determined to dominate it Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Richard Hakluyt (c 1552-1616) Hakluyt's Voyages & Discoveries is available in Penguin Classics
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With an Introduction by David Amigoni Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 & 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty & sublimity which language could barely capture Words he said were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions the sensation of delight which the mind experiences' Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts & interiors of South America to South Sea Islands Darwin's descriptive powers are constantly challenged but never once overcome In addition The Voyage of the Beagle displays Darwin's powerful speculative mind at work posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earth's structure animal forms anthropology & the origins of life itself ...

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Janet Brown & Michael Neve When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831 Charles Darwin was twenty-two & setting off on the voyage of a lifetime His journal here reprinted in a shortened form shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology natural history people places & events Volcanoes in the Galapagos the Gossamer spider of Patagonia & the Australasian coral reefs
- all are to be found in these extraordinary writings The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution & the most controversial book of the Victorian age The Origin of Species This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form In their introduction Janet Brown & Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought & work & this edition also

Includes:: notes maps appendices & an essay on scientific geology & the Bible by Robert Fitz Roy Darwin's friend & Captain of the Beagle Charles Darwin (1809-82) a Victorian scientist & naturalist has become one of the most famous figures of science to date The advent of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 challenged & contradicted all contemporary biological & religious beliefs If you enjoyed The Voyage of the Beagle you might enjoy Darwin's On the Origin of Species also available in Penguin Classics


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In 1271 17-year-old Marco Polo started on a journey to China with his father & older brother After a long & grueling journey that led through Jerusalem & Mesopotamia & over the " Silk Road" they reached the court of Kublai Khan in 1275 In The Voyages of Marco Polo players recreate this journey with each player having a different character & special power in the game The game is played over five rounds Each round the players roll their five personal dice & can perform one action each turn with them The five main actions are shown on the bottom part of the board Get resources with 1-3 dice depending on the value of the resource (camels pepper silk gold) The first player for each resource gets them for free; the later ones have to pay according to the value shown on the dice Take one resource of your choice & two camels Each player sets the minimum value for the future dice Earn money with any one die netting you five money Purchase orders The value of one die unlocks the orders up to that number (shown on the spaces) & allows to buy one or two of those orders Orders are refreshed & placed at the beginning of each round To fulfill an order players have to spend resources for victory points other resources camels & more Travel Two dice are placed to unlock the distance that can be traveled on the upper part of the board that is the map Here the traveler piece of each player starts at Venice & can decide between several routes eastward all the way to Beijing When a traveler stops at a city they place a marker there giving them access to a different additional action for the rest of the game After five rounds the game ends with players receiving victory points for arriving in Beijing fulfilling the most orders & having reached the cities on secret city cards that each player gets at the start of the game; these points are added to the VPs gained during the game Players 2-4 Suggested ages 12 Playing time 40 to 100 minutes ...