Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A double bill of sci-fi thrillers In Chronicle (2012) three high school friends Steve (Michael B Jordan) Matt (Alex Russell) & Andrew (Dane De Haan) become endowed with superpowers after making a once-in-a-lifetime discovery in an underground crater Initially using their new-found powers to let loose a range of teenage pranks whenever they feel like it the trio soon find their friendship pushed to the limit when Andrew&s ambitions take an altogether darker route testing the very limits of their morality & sending their lives spinning out of control In Jumper (2008) Hayden Christensen stars as a young man able to teleport himself to any place on earth After discovering he has a genetic anomaly that allows him to teleport wherever he wants teenager David Rice (Christensen) embarks on a hedonistic lifestyle of girls money & travel indulging his every whim & using his power to fund his desires It&s not long however before he discovers that others share his power & that the underground community of & Jumpers& are being targetted by & Paladins& a group dedicated to their destruction Pursued by a Paladin named Roland (Samuel L Jackson) Rice & fellow jumper Griffin (Jamie Bell) soon find themselves fighting for their lives as their sworn enemies close in ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Chronicle is an unconventional & slightly darker take on the superhero genre where three ordinary teenagers suddenly gain super powers & are able to do things they never imagined possible Initially they have fun but their pranks become ever more dangerous & they must face the inevitable question of whether they can handle the responsibility that comes with extraordinary powers ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Chronicle is an unconventional & slightly darker take on the superhero genre where three ordinary teenagers suddenly gain super powers & are able to do things they never imagined possible Initially they have fun but their pranks become ever more dangerous & they must face the inevitable question of whether they can handle the responsibility that comes with extraordinary powers ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Chronicle is an unconventional & slightly darker take on the superhero genre where three ordinary teenagers suddenly gain super powers & are able to do things they never imagined possible Initially they have fun but their pranks become ever more dangerous & they must face the inevitable question of whether they can handle the responsibility that comes with extraordinary powers Actors Dane De Haan Alex Russell Michael B Jordan Michael Kelly Ashley Hinshaw Bo Petersen Anna Wood Rudi Malcolm Luke Tyler Crystal-Donna Roberts Adrian Collins Grant Powell Armand Aucamp Nicole Bailey & Lynita Crofford Director Josh Trank Year 2012 Languages English
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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 Chronicle is an unconventional & slightly darker take on the superhero genre where three ordinary teenagers suddenly gain super powers & are able to do things they never imagined possible Initially they have fun but their pranks become ever more dangerous & they must face the inevitable question of whether they can handle the responsibility that comes with extraordinary powers Actors Dane De Haan Alex Russell Michael B Jordan Michael Kelly Ashley Hinshaw Bo Petersen Anna Wood Rudi Malcolm Luke Tyler Crystal-Donna Roberts Adrian Collins Grant Powell Armand Aucamp Nicole Bailey & Lynita Crofford Director Josh Trank Year 2012 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling moving story exploring injustice & mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera ' On the day they were going to kill him Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on' Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers All the townspeople knew it was going to happen
- including the victim But nobody did anything to prevent the killing Twenty seven years later a man arrives in town to try & piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk To at last understand what happened to Santiago & why 'A masterpiece' Evening Standard'A work of high explosiveness
- the proper stuff of Nobel prizes An exceptional novel' The Times' Brilliant writer brilliant book' Guardian

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This is a highly readable history & a unique work of reference Focusing on the succession of the rulers of imperial Rome it uses timelines with at-a-glance visual guides to each reign & its main events Biographical portraits of the 56 principal emperors from Augustus to Constantine together with a concluding section on the later emperors build into a highly readable single-volume history of imperial Rome Biographical information is illustrated with busts of each emperor coin portraits battle plans & cutaway diagrams of imperial monuments Supporting datafiles for every emperor list key information such as name at birth wives & children full imperial titles & place & manner of death Genealogical trees & over 90 sidebars & special features on subjects ranging from Nero's Golden House to Diocletian's Palace allow the reader to delve even deeper Colourful contemporary judgments by such writers as Suetonius & Tacitus are balanced by judicious character assessments made in the light of modern research The famous & the infamous
- Caligula & Claudius Trajan & Caracalla
- receive their due while lesser names emerge clearly from the shadows for the first time Chronicle of the Roman Emperors is at once a book to be enjoyed as popular history an essential work of reference & a source of visual inspiration bringing to life one of the most powerful & influential empires the world has ever known 'A valuable volume providing a nice blend of information & entertainment'
- Teaching History ' Marvellous'
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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 Chronicle is an unconventional & slightly darker take on the superhero genre where three ordinary teenagers suddenly gain super powers & are able to do things they never imagined possible Initially they have fun but their pranks become ever more dangerous & they must face the inevitable question of whether they can handle the responsibility that comes with extraordinary powers Actors Dane De Haan Alex Russell Michael B Jordan Michael Kelly Ashley Hinshaw Bo Petersen Anna Wood Rudi Malcolm Luke Tyler Crystal-Donna Roberts Adrian Collins Grant Powell Armand Aucamp Nicole Bailey & Lynita Crofford Director Josh Trank Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Languages English ...

The return of the best-selling award-winning economist extraordinaire With the same powerful evidence & range of reference as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- & in columns of 700 words rather than 700 pages
- Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis what has happened since & where we should go from here Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama it comprises the very best of his writing for Liberation from the past ten years Now translated into English for the first time it will further cement Piketty's reputation as the world's leading thinker today

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Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar A celebrated essayist as well as novelist in this his last collection he explores many aspects of the modern world with irrepressible curiosity & wisdom A crisis in ideological values a crisis in politics unbridled individualism
- the familiar backdrop to our lives a liquid society' where it's not easy to find a polestar though stars & starlets are not lacking In these pieces written by Eco as articles for his regular column in l' Espresso magazine he brings his dazzling erudition & keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture & politics being seen conspiracies the old & the young mobile phones mass media racism good manners & the crisis in ideological values It is a final gift to his readers
- astute witty & illuminating

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