Zoe Saldana (Avatar Star Trek) stars in action adventure Colombiana produced & written by Luc Besson (The Transporter 1-3 Taken & Leon) & directed by Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3) 1992 Colombia Nine-year-old Cataleya witnesses her parents& murder Barely escaping the massacre herself she takes refuge in the United States with Emilio her gangster uncle Fifteen years later Cataleya works for him as a hit woman Her calling card
- an orchid drawn on the chests of her victims
- is a message to her parents& assassins For Cataleya is determined to see her vengeance through to the bitter end even if it means losing everything she loves Actors Zoe Saldana Jordi Mollà Lennie James Amandla Stenberg Michael Vartan Cliff Curtis Beto Benites Jesse Borrego Cynthia Addai-Robinson Angel Garnica Ofelia Medina Callum Blue Sam Douglas Graham Mc Tavish & Charles Maquignon Director Olivier Megaton Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English Subtitles English

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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 Colombiana is a Luc Besson produced assassin flick written by Besson & Robert Mark Kamen (writer on Transporter 3 & Taken) The story is set in Latin America & follows Zoe Saldana who plays Cataleya a young woman who has grown up to be an assassin after witnessing the murder of her parents as a child Turning herself into a professional killer & working for her uncle she remains focused on her ultimate goal to hunt down & get revenge on the mobster responsible for her parents& deaths ...

By long convention American history began during the early seventeenth century along the Atlantic Seaboard with the English colonies at Jamestown in Virginia & Plymouth in New England From that eastern origin America supposedly expanded westward reaching only the Appalachian mountains by the end of the colonial period In this version of history earlier Spanish & contemporary French settlements seemed irrelevant except as enemies that brought out the best in the English as they remade themselves into Americans Indians appeared only as wild & primitive peoples engaged in an ultimately futile resistance to American destiny & historians formerly treated African slaves in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer & more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent of free land During the past generation however historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by adopting both a trans-Atlantic & a trans-continental perspective examining the interplay of Europe Africa & the Americas through the flows of goods people plants animals capital & ideas In this Very Short Introduction Alan Taylor presents the current scholarly understanding of colonial America to a broader audience American colonization derived from a global expansion of European exploration & commerce beginning in the fifteenth century In an Atlantic & global perspective the English had to share the stage with the French Spanish Dutch & Russians each of whom created alternative Americas By comparing the diverse colonies of rival empires Taylor aims to recover what was truly distinctive about the English enterprise in North America In particular he intends to pay greater attention to slavery as central to the economy culture & political thought of the colonists & by taking a Continental approach to restore the importance of native peoples to the colonial story To adapt to the new land the colonists needed the expertise guidance alliance & trade of the Indians who dominated the interior The new historical approach emphasizes the ability of the diverse natives to adapt to the newcomers & to compel concessions from them In sum colonial America produced an unprecedented mixing of radically diverse peoples-African European & Indian-under stressful circumstances for all The colonial intermingling of peoplesmicrobes plants & animals from different continents was unparalleled in speed & volume in global history Everyone had to adjust to a new world of unpredictable social & cultural hybrids that compromised & complicated the ambitious plans of empire-builders ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century Like their predecessors modern imperial wars are shaped especially by spatial features & by pronounced asymmetries of military organisation resources modes of warfare & cultures of violence between the respective parties Today's imperial wars are essentially civil wars in which Western powers are only one player among many As ever the Western military machine is proving incapable of resolving political strife through force or of engaging opponents with no reason to offer conventional combat who instead rely on guerrilla warfare & terrorism & as they always have local populations pay the price for these shortcomings Colonial Violence aims to offer for the first time a coherent explanation of the logic of violent hostilities within the context of European expansion Walter's analysis reveals parallels between different empires & continuities spanning historical epochs He concludes that recent Western military interventions from Afghanistan to Mali are not new wars but stand in the 500-year-old tradition of transcultural violent conflict under the specific conditions of colonialism ...

Colonialism is a game of 19th Century imperialistic struggle In this game each player assumes the role of a nondescript colonial power Players proceed to struggle for influence in the unindustrialized regions of the world & the subsequent resources such influence entails Each turn is divided into action phases & colonization phases During action phases players use cards to secretly bid influence in the six regions of the game board During colonization phases all cards in play are revealed the placement of influence is resolved & conflict occurs Whenever all native influence is eliminated from a region that region&s resources are collected The amount of resources collected by each player depends on each players& influence in the region At the end of the game the player who collects the most resources wins ...

OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer
- Active a tough versatile version of OS Explorer The OS Explorer Active range now

Includes:: a digital version of the paper map accessed through the OS smartphone app OS Maps


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Condemned for a crime he didn&t commit Scott Landus is sentenced to life without parole on Colony a galactic " Devil&s Island" where the fascist Galactic Confederacy disposes of its human & alien refuse Colony is a science-fiction allegory to the founding of Australia as hardened career convicts alien species & political dissidents from Earth band together to overthrow their technologically-superior captors ...

In Colony each player constructs & upgrades buildings while managing resources to grow their fledgling colony In a clever twist dice are used as resources with each sidenumber representing a different resource Some resources are stable allowing them to be stored between turns while others must be used right away Buildings provide new capabilities such as increased production resource manipulation & additional victory points Using dice-as-resources facilitates a dynamic ever-changing resources management mini-game while players work to earn victory points by adding building to their tableau on their way to victory Colony

Includes:: 28 different building card types of which only seven are used each game in addition to the fixed buildings that are used each time that you play Players 1-4 Playing time 45-60 minutes Ages 13

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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 Forced underground by the next ice-age the inhabitants of Colony 7 struggle to survive below the world&s frozen surface When they mysteriously lose contact with the only other known settlement Briggs (Laurence Fishburne) decides to lead a dangerous mission into the frozen wasteland determined to discover their fate When he & his team reach their destination they discover a threat much worse than nature & must battle to save themselves & protect their fellow colonists in what might be humanity&s last stand Actors Laurence Fishburne Bill Paxton & Kevin Zegars Director Jeff Renfroe Year 2013 Languages English ...