Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The entire second series of Ben Elton&s anarchic comedy In & Bambi& the boys get to go on & University Challenge& while & Nasty& sees Neil taking to wearing a dress In & Time& it looks like Rik has finally scored with a member of the opposite sex In & Cash& plates keep disappearing in the house Must be a poltergeist & Interesting& sees a visit from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse while in & Summer Holiday& the boys finish college & head off on a big red bus ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Hal Ditmar is a clean-cut kid the son of a wealthy movie producer When an argument at a theatre turns into a fight between Hal & the theatre manager Hal finds no one not even his father will believe his actions were justified as self-defense The police are concerned that Hal is a juvenile delinquent in the making but the real problem lies in Hal's father's inattention to his son It's up to Hal's mother to try to bridge the gulf between father & son Actors James Mac Arthur; Kim Hunter; James Daly Directors John Frankenheimer Format PALRegion Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From Academy Award winners Graham King & Martin Scorsese comes the story of Queen Victoria&s early rise to power From an object of a royal power-struggle in to her romantic courtship & legendary marriage to Prince Albert Emily Blunt gives a stunning performance as the young Victoria Winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design ...

With sales of over 200 million albums ACDC is not just the biggest rock band in the world it's a family business built by three brothers George Malcolm & Angus Young As with any business some people prospered while others got hurt along the way The Youngs The Brothers Who Build ACDC is unlike any ACDC book you've read before Less a biography more a critical appreciation it tells the story of the trio through 11 classic songs & reveals some of the personal & creative secrets that went into their making Important figures from ACDC's long journey to the top open up for the very first time while unsung heroes behind the band's success are given the credit they are due Accepted accounts of events are challenged while sensational new details emerge to cast a whole new light on the band's history
- especially their early years with Atlantic Records in the United States Former ACDC members & musicians from bands such as Guns N' Roses Dropkick Murphys Airbourne & Rose Tattoo also give their perspectives on the Youngs' brand of magic
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Grump the Yule Tomte lives all alone which is exactly how he likes it! He's waiting for Christmas to arrive when all of a sudden a gust of wind steals his mittens from the washing line & his hat from his head That's the last straw -- he won't be the Yule Tomte any more! Binny & Barty the rabbit children live with their family in the forest They've never heard of Christmas or the Yule Tomte until the wind brings them some strange gifts All the animals in the forest prepare for the arrival of Christmas They make presents bake sweet treats & even write a song But will the Yule Tomte ever bring Christmas to the big forest? This charming & funny Christmas story of a grumpy tomte & the hopeful little rabbits is told over twenty-five chapters -- one for eachday of Advent -- with delightful festive illustrations Perfect for families to share together ...

At a time of ever more accelerated & expanded development of natural & agricultural territory in the aim of making targeted areas more profitable & controllable there are inhabitants who oppose these projects with a firm unwavering NO! This is the case in Notre-Dame-des-Landes in western France & in the Italian Susa Valley where decades-long battles have been mounted against high-speed transport infrastructure an airport for one & a highspeed train (TAV) between Lyon & Turin for the other Each of these struggles embodies with its own distinct style original ways of merging life with combat & they do so to such a degree that they are redesigning today the future of their respective regions & awakening immense hope outside of their own territories This book recounts these two histories-in-the-making & gives voice to their protagonists It was born of the intuition that these experiences & the hypotheses that emerge from them should circulate at the same time as the slogans & the enthusiasm to strengthen the will to resist ...

The Zahir' Paulo Coelho's new novel available in paperback for the first time incorporates exclusive new content including an extra section containing interviews with Paulo & plenty of information for those for whom the book just wasn't enough It begins with a glimpse or a passing thought It ends in obsession One day a renowned author discovers that his wife a war correspondent has disappeared leaving no trace Though time brings more success & new love he remains mystified
- & increasingly fascinated
- by her absence Was she kidnapped blackmailed or simply bored with their marriage? The unrest she causes is as strong as the attraction she exerts His search for her
- & for the truth of his own life
- takes him from France to Spain Croatia & eventually the bleakly beautiful landscape of Central Asia More than that it takes him from the safety of his world to a totally unknown path searching for a new understanding of the nature of love & the power of destiny With The Zahir' Paulo Coelho demonstrates his powerful & captivating storytelling



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Oman The ancient land of frankincense wind-swept deserts craggy mountaintops & turquoise seas Into this magical nation come three remarkable women each facing a crossroad in her life Rachel an American war photographer who is struggling to shed the trauma of her career Now she is headed to Oman to cover quite a different story
- for a glossy travel magazine Ariana Khan a bubbly English woman who has rashly volunteered as Rachel's 'fixer' a job she's never heard of in a country she knows nothing about & Miza a young woman living far from her beloved homeland of Zanzibar As the second wife of Tariq she remains a secret from his terrifying 'other' wife Maryam Until the day that Tariq fails to come home As the three women journey together across this extraordinary land they quickly learn that in Oman things aren't always what they appear to be The Zanzibar Wife is a bewitching story of clashing cultures & conflicting beliefs of secrets & revelations of mystery & magic by the author of the beloved international bestseller The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul' As if Maeve Binchy had written ' The Kite Runner'
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If all that has ever been said & written about the art & science of fundraising could be distilled down to just what really matters-what fundraisers everywhere need to know-there would be only a small number of true gems deserving of the description "nuggets of information" Leading international fundraiser Ken Burnett author of the classic Relationship Fundraising has identified & defined 89 such nuggets which he presents here as The Zen of Fundraising a fun read one-of-a-kind look into what makes donors tick &-more importantly-what makes them give ...

The capitalist era is passing Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life Bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin explains that intense competition is forcing the introduction of ever newer technologies in turn boosting productivity to the point where the marginal cost of producing additional units is nearly zero making the product essentially free In turn profits are drying up property ownership is becoming meaningless & an economy based on scarcity is giving way to an economy of abundance Rifkin describes how hundreds of millions of people are already transferring parts of their economic lives from capitalist markets to networked Commons Prosumers are producing their own information entertainment energy & 3-D printed products at nearly zero marginal cost & sharing them via social media sites & other venues Students are enrolling in massive open online courses (MOOCs) that also operate at near-zero marginal cost As a result exchange value in the marketplace is increasingly being replaced by use value on the collaborative Commons Identity is less bound to what one owns & more to what one shares Cooperation replaces self-interest access trumps ownership & networking drubs autonomy We are Rifkin says entering a world beyond markets where we are learning how to live together collaboratively & sustainably ...