At first it seemed impossible
- a radio signal that came not from Earth but from far beyond the nearest stars But then the signal
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When an exploration ship from Freehold discovered a planet with intelligent lifeforms first which humans had ever encountered should have been the most important event in history & it might be all the wrong reasons Corporations on Freehold were eager to sell high-tech toys to the Ithkuil as the inhabitants called themselves which had the potential to disrupt their society Then there was the UN which controlled the planet Earth Earth & Freehold were not on good terms to put it mildly & the UN immediately sent its own ship to make contact with the Ithkuil If the authoritarians from Earth started throwing their weight around Freehold would have to push back causing anything from a diplomatic incident to outright war & then another ship arrived full of idealistic do-gooders determined to keep the Ithkuil in their unspoiled state of nature The whole thing was turning into a cross between a Marx Brothers farce & a Kafkaesque nightmare with a potential for Greek tragedy Contact with a more advance civilization might pose a danger to the Ithkuil but it definitely was becoming more dangerous to the human factions & the situation was a powder keg just waiting for a spark to cause a very deadly explosion ...

Steven Soderbergh directs this multi-starrer thriller charting the rapid progress of a lethal airborne human virus that is spread by simple human contact & kills within days As the pandemic sweeps the globe an international team of medics races against time to contain the mutating bug The cast

Includes:: Kate Winslet Matt Damon Gwyneth Paltrow Laurence Fishburne Marion Cotillard & Jude Law

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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 Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days As the fast-moving epidemic grows the worldwide medical community races to find a cure & control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself At the same time ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart Actors Matt Damon Jude Law Gwyneth Paltrow Kate Winslet Marion Cotillard Jennifer Ehle John Hawkes Laurence Fishburne Bryan Cranston Sanaa Lathan Elliott Gould Dan Latham Steven James Price Demetri Martin & Duke Czlonka Director Steven Soderbergh Certificate 12 years & over Year 2011 Screen 1781 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Italian ; French ; English Audio descriptive track Subtitles Italian for the hearing impaired; French for the hearing impaired; English for the hearing impaired; Dutch Duration 1 hour & 42 minutes (approx)
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Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days As the fast-moving epidemic grows the worldwide medical community races to find a cure & control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself At the same time ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) Contagion brings together a stellar international ensemble cast including Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose Inception); Academy Award winner Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting the Bourne films); Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne (What&s Love Got to Do With It The Matrix); Oscar nominee Jude Law (Cold Mountain Sherlock Holmes); Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love Iron Man); & Academy Award winner Kate Winslet (The Reader Titanic) Extra Content ...

Eyre has survived the collapse of the galactic empire better than most of the lost colonies with a central government a world trade network an effective medical system
- & a pathological fear of death When the medical re-contact ship Waiora arrives with its dual mission of finding the plague & stabilizing surviving colonies its crew is quickly immersed in a religious schism that threatens their mission & their lives As a mysterious contagion threatens lives & incites revolution against the Caducean Order the Waiorans must choose between the success of their mission & their most deeply held values This is the second volume of The Plague Confederacy series from Alison Sinclair by Alison Sinclair
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Why are some products & ideas talked about more than others? Why do some articles make the most emailed list? Why do some You Tube videos go viral? Word-of-mouth Whether through face-to-face conversations emails from friends or online product reviews the information & opinions we get from others have a strong impact on our own behaviour Indeed word-of-mouth generates more than two times the sales of paid advertising & is the primary factor behind 20-50 of all purchasing decisions It is between 85 & 30 times more effective than traditional media But want to know the best thing about word-of-mouth? It's available to everyone Whether you're a Fortune 500 company trying to increase sales a corner restaurant trying to raise awareness a non-profit trying to fight obesity or a newbie politician running for city council word-of-mouth can help you succeed & you don't have to have millions of dollars to spend on an advertising budget You just have to get people to talk The challenge though is how to do that This book will show you how ...

A model construction kit of the Colombo Express At the time of commissioning in 2005 she was the largest container ship in the world- Two-part hull with bow thruster- Rotating ships propeller & moving rudder- Faithfully reproduced deck textures- 23 container blocks with fine details- The ship can be displayed with or without containers- Free-fall life-boat- Separate bridge bridges- Finely detailed bridge construction with stairways- Representation of the command bridge- Display st&- Decal set for six Colombo Express class ships SPECIFICATIONSManufacturer Revell Model 05152 Colombo Express Scale 1700 ...

This book presents the background information & ideas for the practical application of contemplative practices across academic curriculum from the physical sciences to the humanities & arts Contemplative pedagogy is more than a new trendy technique to change the landscape of learning 256 pages Barbezat Daniel P ...

Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery & museum present public memory contemporary art it would seem is haunted by the past " Contemporary Art & Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art Looking at both personal & public memory Gibbons explores art as autobiography the memory as trace the role of the archive revisionist memory & postmemory as well as the absence of memory in oblivion Grounding her discussion in historical precedents Gibbons explores the work of a wide range of international artists including Yinka Shonibare MBE Doris Salcedo Keith Piper Jeremy Deller Judy Chicago Louise Bourgeois Tracey Emin Felix Gonzalez-Torres Christian Boltanski Janet Cardiff Bill Fontana Pierre Huyghe Susan Hiller Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi & new media artist George Legrady" Contemporary Art & Memory" will be indispensable to all those concerned with the ways in which artists represent & remember the past????? ...