Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Shooters is a gritty British gangster flick that doesn&t tart itself up with smart suits & clever dialogue but instead goes for a refreshing authentic & underground edge When Gilly gets out of prison all he wants to do is collect the money he&s owed & start a new life But his friend J has other ideas & has invested the money in a drugs-for-guns deal Actors Adrian Dunbar Emma Fielding Gerard Butler Zara Ashton Ioan Gruffudd Marc Hobbs Andrew Howard Jason Hughes & Louis Dempsey Director Colin Teague Certificate 18 years & over Year 2000 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Duration 1 hour & 31 minutes (approx)
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Today battlefield isn just about the uniformed soldier in service to his country; there also the contractor who answers to the corporation Call them mercenaries soldiers-for-hire or private military operators they are a new breed of combatant in today conflicts SHOOTER is the story of Terry Glass a warrior whose spirit & soul has been hardened in countless battles When a horrible accident shatters his world Glass finds himself waging a private war on several fronts
- against his career his marriage & ultimately his faith Written by Eric S Trautmann (CHECKMATE Red Sonja Flash Gordon) & Brandon Jerwa (GI Joe Battlestar Galactica Highlander) & drawn by Eisner Award-winning artist Steve Lieber (Underground Whiteout ROAD TO PERDITION ON THE ROAD) SHOOTERS tells a story of modern warfare that will stay with you forever
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' Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing & painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool' The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as ' My Country Right or Left' ' How the Poor Die' & ' Such Such were the Joys' his memoir of the horrors of public school as well as discussions of Shakespeare sleeping rough boys' weeklies & a spirited defence of English cooking Opinionated uncompromising provocative & hugely entertaining all show Orwell's unique ability to get to the heart of any subject A collection of witty & incisive non-fiction George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant

Includes:: an introduction by Jeremy Paxman in Penguin Modern Classics

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If you can’t decide which activities you would enjoy the most then why not complete a combination of two events to make the most of your experience Choose one from the following options- Archery & Axe Throwing- Archery & Air Rifle Shooting- Axe Throwing & Rifle Shooting You will begin your day with a safety briefing before each of your activities An instructor will show you the best techniques on how to hit the target wield & throw an axe or try your hand at shooting on their diverse air rifle range After spending some time learning your chosen activities you will get the chance to end your session with some friendly competitions! When can you go? This experience is available on selected Monday to Sunday dates depending on the shooting ground throughout the year How long does this activity last? This experience will last Approx. two hours one hour spent on each experience You need to know The minimum age for the axe throwing is 12 for the archery & rifle shooting it is 8 years old There are no fitness requirements There are no qualifications required This is for a voucher entitling the holder to any of the activities supplied by Activity Superstore up to the value stated You & how many others? This experience is for two people There will be other people there on the day Family & friends You&re welcome to bring spectators to watch We can’t control the weather! This activity is dependent on appropriate weather conditions Locations Midlands
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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 In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes & the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population In the Ecole Technique Officielle the Catholic priest Christopher & the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor lodge two thousand & five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school under the protection of the UN Belgian force & under siege of the Hutu militia ...

Shooting Incident Reconstruction Second Edition offers a thorough explanation of matters from simple to complex to help the reader understand the factors surrounding ballistics trajectory & shooting scenes Forensic scientists law enforcement & crime scene investigators are often tasked with reconstruction of events based on crime scene evidence along with the subsequent analysis of that evidence The use & misuse of firearms to perpetrate crimes from theft to murder necessitates numerous invitations to reconstruct shooting incidents The discharge of firearms & the behavior of projectiles create many forms of physical evidence that through proper testing & interpretation by a skilled forensic scientist can establish what did & what did not occur Written by the world's most well-respected shooting scene & ballistics experts the book addresses the terminology science & factors involved in reconstructing shooting incident events to solve forensic cases It covers the full range of related topics including the range from which a firearm was discharged; the sequence of shots in a multiple discharge shooting incident; the position of a firearm at the moment of discharge; & the position of a victim at the moment of impact The probable flight path of a projectile & the manner in which a firearm was discharged are also discussed Case studies illustrate real-world application of technical concepts supported by over 200 full-color diagrams & photographs This book will be of value to practicing forensic scientists (firearm & toolmark examiners) ballistics experts crime scene personnel police departments forensic consultants (generalists) attorneys & judges medical examiners (coroners) & forensic pathologists ...

This book explains what shooting stars are what they are made from & what happens to them when they land on Earth SCHOLASTIC ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer&s surreal BBC2 panel show Shooting Stars is back for 2009 This brand new six part series also stars scorer "big baby" George Dawes played by Matt Lucas & team captains Ulrika Jonsson & comedian Jack Dee ...

Ten turning points in history vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig Such dramatically concentrated such fateful hours in which a timeless decision hangs on a single date a single hour even just a single minute rarely occur in everyday life & only rarely in the course of history One of the twentieth century's great humanists & a hugely popular fiction writer Stefan Zweig's historical works bring the past to life in brilliant Technicolor This collection contains ten typically breathless & erudite dramatizations of some of the most tense & important episodes in human history From General Grouchy's failure to intervene at Waterloo to the miraculous resurrection of George Frideric Handel this Stefan Zweig's selection of historical turning points newly translated by Anthea Bell is idiosyncratic fascinating & as always hugely readable The perfect stocking-filler for the Europhile in your life' Philosophy Football ' Shooting Stars forms part of an ambitious project by Pushkin Press to bring Zweig's work to the attention of the English-reading public an enterprise that has been entirely successful Zweigmania seems to break out with the publication of each book with readers discovering his work by word-of-mouth & by accident' Guardian' Zweig's impassioned pursuit of personal freedom seems more relevant than ever' Newsweek About the Author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family He studied in Berlin & Vienna & was first known as a poet & translator then as a biographer Zweig travelled widely living in Salzburg between the wars & was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok & Fear In 1934 with the rise of Nazism he moved to London where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity He later moved on to Bath taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York before settling in Brazil where in 1942 he & his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press About the Author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family He studied in Berlin & Vienna & was first known as a poet & translator then as a biographer Zweig travelled widely living in Salzburg between the wars & was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok & Fear In 1934 with the rise of Nazism he moved to London where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity He later moved on to Bath taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York before settling in Brazil where in 1942 he & his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press ...

Space opera with a bang as a young castout is caught up in an interstellar war DISOWNED IN A HARSH GALAXYCast out by his family & exiled from the Rimward Commonwealth Simon Forrester must make a new life for himself as an apprentice to the powerful Commerce Guild But others aboard the merchant vessel Stacked Deck have a hidden agenda that might lead directly to interstellar war Now with rising tensions between the Commonwealth & the neighboring League of Democracies threatens to erupt into open war Simon finds himself forced to choose between old & new loyalties with the fate of an empire at stake! Born in Southend-on-Sea a fading costal resort at the mouth of the Thames Estuary in 1958 Alex Stewart has been writing stories since he could first hold a pen Introduced to science fiction at an early age by his grandmother’s enthusiasm for Thunderbirds Godzilla movies & weekly gift of comic books he rapidly exhausted the local library’s stock of juvenile SF & resorted to raiding the adult shelves with his mother’s ticket Since his debut in British SF magazine Interzone Stewart has has written short stories novels screenplays comic scripts reviews criticism & RPG scenarios both under his own name & the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell As Sandy Mitchell he’s best known for the popular Commissar Cain series of Warhammer 40000 tie-ins described by David Drake as “ First rate military SF” In the late nineties he was also a staff writer on the BBC prime time technothriller series Bugs ...