The story of No Game No Life centers around Sora & Shiro a brother & sister who are brilliant (but unemployed) gamers whose Internet fame have spawned urban legends all over the Internet One day they are summoned by a boy named " God" to an alternate world There God has prohibited war & declared this to be a world where "everything is decided by games"
- even national borders Humanity has been driven back into one remaining city by the other races Will Sora & Shiro the good-for-nothing brother & sister become the " Saviors of Humanity" on this alternate world?
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Ten years on from 911 much of the Muslim faith remains largely unknown & misunderstood in the West While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of Islamic history
- from Karen Armstrong's Islam A Brief History to Bernard Lewis's The Crises of Islam
- there is surprisingly no book for a popular audience about Islam as a religion let alone one by an author from an Islamic background No God But God fills that gap addressing issues of belief the difference between the Quran & the Bible the meaning of the Hajj the Muslim relationship with Jesus the Muslim attitude towards Jews equality between the sexes & more This revised & updated edition

Includes:: a wealth of new material & new chapters covering recent uprisings in Tunisia Egypt & Libya; the changing face of Islam in Europe & North Africa; & a number of topics of heated debate (the veil controversy; Islam & women; Iraq War as a Jihadi recruiting agent etc)



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Jon & Lobo return for book 5 in the series A nanotech-enhanced soldier-of-fortune joins with his AI-equipped spaceship on a mission to acquire forbidden tech Jon & Lobo are back–and enemies on all sides are out to get them Haunted by memories of children he could not save Jon Moore becomes so increasingly self-destructive that even his best friend the hyper-intelligent Predator-Class Assault Vehicle Lobo is worried So when Jon receives both a job offer & a message from a woman from his distant past he & Lobo leap at the welcome diversions That the job is illegal is the least of their problems They’re happy to retrieve stolen artifacts from Jon’s quarantined home world & their fee is high even for a job so highly illegal The forces protecting their targets are formidable & the assault team that’s chasing them is even more dangerous–but Jon & Lobo are used to that The scientist Jon & Lobo need for the mission has an agenda of her own but they’ve faced that problem before This time though the knowledge that they & the others seek spells doom for Jon Racing from planet to planet Jon & Lobo come at last to a world so inhospitable that its statues & monuments outnumber its living inhabitants Desperate & out of options they encounter their deadliest challenges yet & must make life-changing decisions from which there truly is No Going Back Meet the Author Mark L Van Name whom John Ringo has said is "going to be the guy to beat in the race to the top of SFdom" has worked in the high-tech industry for over 30 years & today runs a technology assessment company in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina A former Executive Vice President for Ziff Davis Media & a national technology columnist he&s published over a thousand computer-related articles & multiple science fiction stories in a variety of magazines & anthologies including the Year&s Best Science Fiction A portion of Van Name&s profits from the Jon & Lobo saga are dedicated to Falling Whistles a fund for the rehabilitation of child soldiers ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Jack a police officer is taken hostage inside a house that is being used by a gang of bank robbers When he is left alone with gang member Erin they become attracted to each other Based on a short story entitled & The House on Turk Street& by classic pulp novelist Dashiell Hammett Actors Samuel L Jackson Milla Jovovich Stellan Skarsgard Doug Hutchinson Joss Ackland Grace Zabriskie & Director Bob Rafelson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 39 minutes (approx)
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What do you do when the homeless man on the street you've just given money to thanks you by name & turns out to be one of your closest' friends one you haven't seen for over twenty years? Take him for a hot meal & see him on his way? Give him a lot more money than you usually would? Or take him in & try to get him back on his feet? For Alan there's no question
- only natural that he'd want to see his old mate Craig off the streets even if only for a few nights & into some clean clothes But what if the successful life you've made for yourself
- good job happy marriage lovely kids grand Victorian house (you did well out of the property boom thank you very much)
- is one that that your old pal would quite like to have too? Even if it means taking it from you? Gradually inevitably mayhem ensues as Craig turns Alan's orderly household upside down threatening to wreck Alan's life for good Following the divergent lives of two childhood friends No Good Deed is a funny & painful examination of friendship; of the strange currents of ambition loathing pity & affection that flow between people over the decades; & of men getting older as they fail & succeed


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In 1779 driven out of his home Calum Mac Donald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family After a long terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees' & eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan red-haired & black-eyed with its own identity its own history It is the 1980s by the time our narrator Alexander Mac Donald tells the story of his family a thrilling & passionate story that intersects with history with Culloden where the clans died & with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall' ...

<p> The story of a school shooting & its awful aftermath; a psychologically convincing study of grief loss & guilt & their effects on young lives<p> 280 pages Anna Seidl ...

Theodore Honey is a shy inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics & spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost ...

The autobiography of West Indies fast-bowling legend turned Sky pundit Michael Holding As one of the fastest bowlers the world has seen Michael Holding went by the haunting nickname ' Whispering Death' claiming 249 Test wickets Despite having not laced his bowling boots since 1989 it remains a fitting sobriquet As a commentator & administrator Holding has delivered his views on cricket in the same manner that he played the game he speaks softly with a rich Jamaican rhythm & is calculated in either criticism or compliment NO HOLDING BACK charts his effortless transition from one of the great players to one of the great pundits Holding graphically describes his days as a player looking back at how he tried to deliberately hurt batsmen on the wastelands of Kingston & his first match for Jamaica when he almost collapsed from exhaustion
- after only four overs! There is time too to divulge what it was like to tour with the West Indies & unmissable insights about sharing a dressing room with other legends of the game like Clive Lloyd Sir Viv Richards & Malcolm Marshall Holding does not shirk the big issues as he discusses how the West Indies have slipped following their halcyon days openly assesses Brian Lara & laments the hypocrisy over the state of the game in the region The controversy surrounding the Allen Stanford 20m spectacle the ICC's handling of the abandoned England v Pakistan match player power illegal bowling actions & the threat of Twenty 20 to the Test game are all subjects which Holding tackles with characteristic knowledge & class
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Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men & Living on the Volcano is back to complete his football trilogy with a new book that tells the inside story of becoming a professional footballer What's your dream son?A six year-old boy head bowed mumbles the eternal answer Be a footballer Steadman Scott football's most unlikely talent scout smiles indulgently & takes him in from the street He knows the odds Only 180 of the 15 million boys who play organised youth football in England will become a Premier League pro That's a success rate of 0012 per cent How & why do the favoured few make it? What separates the good from the great? Who should they trust
- the coach the agent or their parents? Michael Calvin provides the answers on a journey from non-league grounds to hermetically sealed Premier League palaces via gang-controlled sink estates & the England team's inner sanctum He interviews decision makers behavioural specialists football agents & leading coaches He shares the hopes & fears of players & their parents He exposes bullying & a black economy in which children are commodities but remains true to the dream
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