THE INTERNATIONAL & SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER; All leaders are constrained by geography Their choices are limited by mountains rivers seas & concrete Yes to understand world events you need to understand people ideas & movementsbut if you don't know geography you'll never have the full picture; To understand Putin's actions for example it is essential to consider that to be a world power Russia must have a navy & if its ports freeze for six months each year then it must have access to a warm water port
- hence the annexation of Crimea was the only option for Putin To understand the Middle East it is crucial to know that geography is the reason why countries have logically been shaped as they are
- & this is why invented countries (eg Syria Iraq Libya) will not survive as nation states; Spread over ten chapters (covering Russia; China; the USA; Latin America; the Middle East; Africa; India & Pakistan; Europe; Japan & Korea; & Greenland & the Arctic) using maps essays & occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author Prisoners of Geography looks at the past present & future to offer an essential guide to one of the major determining factors in world history

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Herge's classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most iconic characters in children's books These highly collectible editions of the original 24 adventures will delight Tintin fans old & new Perfect for lovers of graphic novels mysteries & historical adventures The world's most famous travelling reporter journeys to South America on a mission to save Professor Calculus When Professor Calculus is kidnapped Tintin & a desperate Captain Haddock set off to Peru on a rescue mission braving runaway train carriages yellow fever & avalanches Then they must find an ancient Inca tribe if they are to find their great friend The Adventures of Tintin are among the best books for readers aged 8 & up Herge (Georges Remi) was born in Brussels in 1907 Over the course of 54 years he completed over 20 titles in The Adventures of Tintin series which is now considered to be one of the greatest if not the greatest comics series of all time Have you collected all 24 graphic novel adventures? Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Tintin in the Congo Tintin in America Tintin Cigars of the Pharaoh Tintin The Blue Lotus Tintin The Broken Ear Tintin The Black Island Tintin King Ottakar's Sceptre Tintin The Crab with the Golden Claws Tintin The Shooting Star Tintin The Secret of the Unicorn Tintin Red Rackham's Treasure Tintin The Seven Crystal Balls Tintin Prisoners of the Sun Tintin Land of Black Gold Tintin Destination Moon Tintin Explorers of the Moon Tintin The Calculus Affair Tintin The Red Sea Sharks Tintin in Tibet Tintin The Castafiore Emerald Tintin Flight 714 to Sydney The Adventures of Tintin & the Picaros Tintin & Alph-Art ...

Herge&s classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most iconic characters in children&s books These highly collectible editions of the original 24 adventures will delight Tintin fans old & new Perfect for lovers of graphic novels mysteries & historical adventures The world&s most famous travelling reporter journeys to South America on a mission to save Professor Calculus When Professor Calculus is kidnapped Tintin & a desperate Captain Haddock set off to Peru on a rescue mission braving runaway train carriages yellow fever & avalanches Then they must find an ancient Inca tribe if they are to find their great friend The Adventures of Tintin are among the best books for readers aged 8 & up Herge (Georges Remi) was born in Brussels in 1907 Over the course of 54 years he completed over 20 titles in The Adventures of Tintin series which is now considered to be one of the greatest if not the greatest comics series of all time Have you collected all 24 graphic novel adventures? Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Tintin in the Congo Tintin in America Tintin Cigars of the Pharaoh Tintin The Blue Lotus Tintin The Broken Ear Tintin The Black Island Tintin King Ottakar&s Sceptre Tintin The Crab with the Golden Claws Tintin The Shooting Star Tintin The Secret of the Unicorn Tintin Red Rackham&s Treasure Tintin The Seven Crystal Balls Tintin Prisoners of the Sun Tintin Land of Black Gold Tintin Destination Moon Tintin Explorers of the Moon Tintin The Calculus Affair Tintin The Red Sea Sharks Tintin in Tibet Tintin The Castafiore Emerald Tintin Flight 714 to Sydney The Adventures of Tintin & the Picaros Tintin & Alph-Art ...

TWO EPIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS BY A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME New York Times bestseller Endgame Enigma & Promethius Award winner Voyage from Yesteryear Endgame Enigma New York Times bestseller In the near future Russia has built Valentina Tereshkova a space station a mile in diameter a shining city in space Its builders claim that the orbiting space city is a peaceful Utopian experiment but American intelligence reports raise the ominous possibility that the space colony is actually a weapon built by the last heirs of the Soviet dictators When scientist Paula Bryce & trained agent Lew Mc Cain travel to the station to investigate they become prisoners in the station&s high-tech prison facilities Escape seems impossible but if they can&t escape Armageddon is inevitable Voyage from Yesteryear Prometheus Award-winning novel Late in our century as nuclear war loomed Americans sent a colonization spaceship manned by robots to an Earthlike planet in the Alpha Centauri system On arrival the robot crew used recorded DNA information to bring forth a generation of infants whom they educated in accordance with the principles enunciated by the founders of the American government Generations later Earth has rebuilt after the war unfortunately with authoritarian governments which now can send manned starships with more colonists to the new worlds They&ll show their distant relatives "help" But the robots educated their pupils much too well—the colonists are actually serious about all that life liberty the pursuit of happiness & the inalienable rights of the individual stuff Meet the Author James P Hogan was a science fiction writer in the grand tradition combining informed & accurate speculation from the cutting edge of science & technology with suspenseful story-telling & living breathing characters Born in London in 1941 he worked as digital system engineer & sales executive for several major computer firms before turning to writing full-time in 1979 His first novel Inherit the Stars was greeted by Isaac Asimov with the rave " Pure science fiction Arthur Clarke move over!" & his subsequent work quickly consolidated his reputation as a major SF author He wrote over thirty novels nonfiction works & mixed collections including the New York Times bestsellers The Proteus Operation & Endgame Enigma & the Prometheus Award Winning novels Voyage from Yesteryear & The Multiplex Man He lived in the USA for twenty years in the USA then moved to the west coast of Ireland where he died in 2010 More from this Author The Two Moons Cyber Rogues The Two Worlds Worlds in Chaos Mission to Minerva Echoes of an Alien Sky ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Prisoners of War is the gripping ten-part drama on which the American series Homeland is based When three Israeli Defence Force reservists are captured behind enemy lines in Lebanon their fate is unknown that is until seventeen years later when they mysteriously return
- two of them alive the third in a coffin The story of their time in captivity unfolds as they attempt to reintegrate into society; trying to cope with the pressures of being reintroduced to their families & friends as well as handling the national hero status being thrust upon them via the public limelight The gripping plot unravels through three time plains; before capture life in captivity & present day which all intertwine to reveal dark secrets about their life in captivity
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We live more & more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work correspond with friends & loved ones & go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills streaming videos reading the news & listening to music Without thinking twice we operate with the understanding that the data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future There is an abstract idea of privacy that we invoke & concrete rules about our privacy that we can point to if we are pressed Nonetheless too often we are uneasily reminded that our privacy is not invulnerable-the data tracks we leave through our health information the internet & social media financial & credit information personal relationships & public lives make us continuously prey to identity theft hacking & even government surveillance A great deal is at stake for individuals groups & societies if privacy is misunderstood misdirected or misused Popular understanding of privacy doesn't match the heat the concept generates though understandably With a host of cultural differences as to how privacy is understood globally & in different religions & with ceaseless technological advancements it is an increasingly slippery & complex topic In this clear & accessible book Leslie & John G Francis guide us to an understanding of what privacy can mean & why it is so important Drawing upon their extensive joint expertise in law philosophy political science regulatory policy & bioethics they parse the consequences of the forfeiture however great or small of one's privacy ...

Private First Class William Hudson was a combat technician in the United States Colonial Marine Corps part of 2nd Battalion Bravo Team He was a member of the combat unit deployed to Acheron aboard the USS Sulaco in 2179 to investigate the sudden loss of contact with the colony of Hadley&s Hope He was among the last to perish in the incident eventually becoming host for a Xenomorph Chestburster His body was later found by Corporal Christopher Winter from the USS Sephora during a subsequent investigation of the colony Standing 3-34" tall Hudson comes equipped with a pulse rifle pistol motion tracker welding torch M3 pattern personal armor & M10 pattern ballistic helmet ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A pampered socialite (Goldie Hawn) is so distraught after the wedding-ni ght death of her husband (Albert Brooks) that she up & joins the Army She whines she pouts she brings the corps down until of course she gets with it Eileen Brennan received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as the butch Captain Doreen Lewis Benjamin&s nemesis Funny & winning the film takes an odd turn when Benjamin is assigned to the international theatre & gets involved with a dour Frenchman (Armand Assante) Of course it&s all part of Benjamin&s growth as a person & the part confirmed that Hawn had gone from a go-go girl to a "you go" girl ...

A history lesson they'll never forget & neither will you Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin & believes she's seen the worst of people in her previous life with the Berlin police force That is until Chris her colleague
- & until recently her fiance
- is found dead brutally murdered in an old slaughterhouse outside the city The slaughterhouse is filled with bodies But just as Private begin their investigations the building explodes wiping out all evidence of the crimes & nearly killing Mattie & her team Mattie soon realises that a masked killer is picking off Chris's childhood friends one by one & destroying the trail But who wants the past buried so badly? What is the truth about that slaughterhouse? & will Mattie become the killer's next victim?

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Capturing the anxious self-aware mood of young college grads in the noughties Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century The novel's four whip-smart narrators
- idealistic Cory Internet-lurking Will awkward Henrik & vicious Linda
- are torn between fixing the world & cannibalizing it In boisterous prose that ricochets between humour & pain the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech start-ups protestors gentrifiers karaoke bars house parties & cultish self-help seminars washing up in each other's lives once again

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