How does one traverse the spiritual landscape to move beyond suffering to experience the peace & love of God to transcend illusion & realize the state of enlightenment? This title lets the reader remind the illusory nature of the personal self (identification of the egomind) & the direct pathways to transcend the egomind's trappings 240 pages Hawkins David R ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Broadcast on ITV1 in 2005 the highly acclaimed comedy drama Distant Shores stars Peter Davison (The Last Detective) as Dr Bill Shore a successful plastic surgeon based in London When Bill accepts a posting as the GP on the remote North Sea island of Hildasay however he could not have imagined the humourous exploits he & his family would encounter! Tits bums & tummy tucks were all in days work for one of London s top plastic surgeons Dr Bill Shore However when one night he returns home having spent the day knee deep in artificial breasts he realises that all is not well with family life When Bill s lovely wife Lisa (Samantha Bond) tells him to accept an opportunity on the remote North Sea island of Hildasay as the island s GP for the sake of his family Bill reluctantly accepts; but he could never have foreseen the impact the lifestyle change would have on his family & their complex web of relationships!! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Peter Davison & Samantha Bond star in this comedy drama series about a plastic surgeon who relocates his family to the remote island of Hildasay to take a new job as a small community GP How will the modern urbanites cope with their new way of life in the middle of nowhere? Matthew Thomas Davies Claudia Renton & Berwick Kaler also star ...

No judgement of taste is innocent
- we are all snobs Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions
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AN IRISH TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLERONE OF AMAZON UK'S 'RISING STAR' BEST DEBUTS OF 2016 WINNER BEST MYSTERY INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARDS 2017 USASHORTLISTED FOR BOOKS ARE MY BAG IBA CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER 2017 Did she leave or was she taken? The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend Sarah fails to return from a Barcelona business trip his perfect life begins to fall apart Days later the arrival of her passport & a note that reads 'I'm sorry
- S' sets off real alarm bells He vows to do whatever it takes to find her Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called the Celebrate
- & to a woman Estelle who disappeared from the same ship in eerily similar circumstances almost exactly a year before To get the answers Adam must confront some difficult truths about his relationship with Sarah He must do things of which he never thought himself capable & he must try to outwit a predator who seems to have found the perfect hunting ground Distress Signals is a highly confident & accomplished debut novel impeccably sustained with not a false note The exploration of the often murky backstage workings of the luxury liner world is fascinating & there is a psychologically acute portrait of a killer that is genuinely moving We will hear a great deal more of this author
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Both of the leads in the French action flick DISTRICT 13 practice parkour a kind of urban gymnastics that looks a little like skateboarding without the skateboard & the pleasure of this short frenetic film is watching the two lithe heroes leap through windows run up walls & jump off buildings Like Jackie Chan Cyril Raffaelli & David Belle both stuntmen-turned-leading-men perform their own acrobatic martial arts sans special effects or invisible wires & the lo-fi fight sequences pack a gritty punch that is often missing in slick Hollywood fare The plot involves a futuristic France where the worst ghettos have been walled off from the rest of society their schools shut down & the police force evacuated The people in power simply want to ignore the plight of the disenfranchised but this becomes difficult to do when the most notorious gang led by the wild-eyed Taha (Bibi Naceri) gets its hands on a nuclear warhead & proceeds to demand a 20-million-Euro ransom with the city of Paris as its hostage Enter Damien (Raffaelli) a one-man police strike force who has 24 hours to disarm the missile To help him navigate the war zone of District 13 he springs a vigilante antihero Leito (Belle) from jail Leito has personal reasons for taking down the crime lord Taha has turned Leito's adolescent sister into his junkie pet As the ultra-athletic duo go up against Taha's gangster army they repeatedly (and conveniently) lose their guns & are forced to improvise thrashing goons with steering wheels cinder blocks & their foreheads Lovers of action flicks could ignore the English subtitles completely & still relish the hyperkinetic beauty of the whip-quick combat ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free blu-ray player in order to play It&s 2013 & Parisian ghetto District 13 has become so dangerous the authorities have walled it in & left its inhabitants to rot But when a neutron weapon is stolen by a ghetto gangmember enter super-cop Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) & wrongly-imprisoned ghetto-dweller Leito (David Belle) They&re both hard-as-nails & experts in Le Parkour an extreme sport involving wall scaling roof-running & building-to-building leaping From the pen of multi-talented action maestro Luc Besson (director of Leon producer of The Transporter) comes a full throttle action-thriller with physical thrills & spills to rival even Ong-Bak! Actors Cyril Raffaelli David Belle Tony D& Amario Bibi Naceri Dany Verissimo François Chattot Patrick Olivier Samir Guesmi & Stephane Vigroux Director Pierre Morel Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Languages French Additional Languages English Subtitles English ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Three years after bringing order to the District Damien & Leito return on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is now controlled by five different gang bosses before the city&s secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem This second instalment offers a heady mix of gang violence & breathtaking chase sequences bigger & better than before Raffaeli & Belle re-team to run flip jump tumble twist punch kick & head-butt their way to saving the slum from destruction Actors David Belle Cyril Raffaelli Philippe Torreton Daniel Duval Elodie Yung Laouni Mouhid Fabrice Fletzinger Pierre-Marie Mosconi Sophie Ducasse & Moussa Maaskri Director Patrick Alessandrin Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Languages French Subtitles English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three years after bringing order to the District Damien & Leito return on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is now controlled by five different gang bosses before the city&s secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem This second instalment offers a heady mix of gang violence & breathtaking chase sequences bigger & better than before Raffaeli & Belle re-team to run flip jump tumble twist punch kick & head-butt their way to saving the slum from destruction Actors David Belle Cyril Raffaelli Philippe Torreton Daniel Duval Elodie Yung Laouni Mouhid Fabrice Fletzinger Pierre-Marie Mosconi Sophie Ducasse & Moussa Maaskri Director Patrick Alessandrin Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen Languages French Subtitles English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Low-budget US sci-fi thriller After a disastrous chemical weapon explosion an eight mile quarantine zone is put in place in the Nevada Desert called Territory 8 Dr Eli Dolton (Michael A Tushaus) works in a research facility situated in the zone along with the weapon&s creator Dr Tao Xing (Heung Wong) as he tries to find a cure for those affected by the disaster Meanwhile a group of their fellow survivors who want to escape the district turn their hostile attentions to the research facility in search of a way out ...