Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Robin Williams delivers his funniest performance since Mrs Doubtfire in this non-stop hilarious comedy audiences & critics adore Williams stars as Armand the outlandish owner of a wild Miami Beach nightclub whose partner Albert is also the star attraction at the club Gene Hackman (Crimson Tide) is the ultra conservative US Senator Keeley who faces political problems when his closest political ally dies in bed with a prostitute When Armand&s son Val announces his engagement with Keeley&s daughter the scene is set for a riotous comedy of errors Keeley sees the wedding as the opportunity to restore political fortunes by promoting "traditional family values" If he only knew what sort of family&s his daughter was marrying into! Put the two families together & watch the sparks fly ...

How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened & then withdrew 'A classic of alienation & horror ' The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation & mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world The mountain paradise of ' Monte Verita' promises immortality but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera & into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; & a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd ...

An important tool of a birdwatcher is a good identification guide Most cover the birds of Europe & few deal exclusively with Ireland This first photographic identification guide to the birds of Ireland has over 1600 photos of more than 260 species in an easy quick-reference format With eight to fifteen images per species the key identification features of each bird are shown with concise descriptions & pointers to indicate important features This guide is produced in association with Bird Watch Ireland Ireland's leading bird-conservation organisation The purchase of this guide contributes funds to Bird Watch Ireland's conservation & education initiatives to help protect & promote Ireland's wild birds & habitats similar to Ireland's Garden Birds by Jim Wilson & Oran O' Sullivan ...

' Superb description of a haunting blighted landscape His best book so far' C J Sansom Police Sergeant William South has a reason for not wanting to be on the murder investigation He is a murderer himself But the victim was his only friend; like him a passionate birdwatcher South is warily partnered with the strong-willed Detective Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi newly recruited to the Kent coast from London Together they find the body violently beaten forced inside a wooden chest Only rage could kill a man like this South knows it But soon
- too soon
- they find a suspect Donnie Fraser a drifter from Northern Ireland His presence in Kent disturbs William
- because he knew him as a boy If the past is catching up with him South wants to meet it head on For even as he desperately investigates the connections he knows there is no crime however duplicitous or cruel that can compare to the great lie of his childhood Moving from the storm-lashed bird-wheeling skies of the Kent Coast to the wordless war of the Troubles The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense intelligence & powerful humanity about fathers & sons grief & guilt & facing the darkness within


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WHAT DRIVES GOOD MEN TO MURDER?' If you're not a fan yet why not?' Val Mc Dermid' The most gripping book I've read in years William Shaw is quite simply an outstanding storyteller' Peter May' Grips the reader by the throat & never lets go' Independent Sergeant William South has always avoided investigating murder A passionate birdwatcher & quiet man he has few relationships & prefers it that way But when his only friend is found brutally beaten South's detachment is tested Not only is he bereft
- it seems that there's a connection between the suspect & himself For South has a secret He knows the kind of rage that killed his friend He knows the kind of man who could do it He knows because Sergeant William South himself is a murderer Moving from the storm-lashed bird-wheeling skies of the Kent Coast to the wordless war of the Troubles The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense intelligence & powerful humanity about fathers & sons grief & guilt & facing the darkness within
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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 Nate Parker writes directs & stars in this biographical drama which tells the story of Nat Turner (Parker) as he struggles with a life of slavery in the antebellum South His owner Samuel (Armie Hammer) takes advantage of Nat's literacy & preaching ability to try & quell the resistance displayed among his other slaves Nat witnesses brutality & injustice inflicted upon his people & his preaching becomes ever more ardent But as his passion grows he becomes more of a problem for the slave owners & is himself brutally whipped Though he grew up alongside Samuel Nat has lost all respect for him & those like him & with his patience at an end he is determined that all slaves shall have justice; & if not justice vengeance The cast also features Aja Naomi King Penelope Ann Miller & Jackie Earle Haley Actors Nate Parker Armie Hammer Penelope Ann Miller Jackie Earle Haley Mark Boone Jr Directors Nate Parker Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play One of the most artistically significant & controversial motion pictures ever made D W Griffith&s silent epic The Birth of a Nation was a massive commercial success at the time of its release owing to its dynamic storytelling & its breakthrough developments in cinema language that have become common traits of practically every film that has since followed However the picture&s legacy is one that continues to elicit outrage over its vulgar depictions of African-Americans & its deceptive historiography of the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century The Birth of a Nation begins depicting the amiable relationship between two families Northern & Southern & the way in which the impending Civil War intensifies the conflict of their worldviews Following the end of the war & the assassination of President Lincoln a lawless chaos courses throughout the Reconstruction South & the Ku Klux Klan is formed to take on a rising black militia & impose a vengeful vigilante justice across their land & "birthright" It&s a film that&s deeply divisive even to the senses of a single viewer images of painterly beauty in composition & tonal quality often exhibit a contemptuous inflammatory coarseness with regard to subject matter; just as frequently long tracts evince an innocent terrifically lyrical grandeur Griffith would attempt to make amends for the moral schism of this schizophrenic epic in his next film Intolerance but The Birth of a Nation cannot
- & should not
- remain unseen or undiscussed it is a great & terrible masterpiece The Masters of Cinema Series releases Griffith&s three-hour epic including a series of the director&s Civil War shorts Actors Lillian Gish Mae Marsh Henry B Walthall & Miriam Cooper Director DW Griffith Certificate 15 years & over Year 1915 Screen 1371 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Duration 3 hours & 10 minutes (approx)


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' The Penguin History of Europe series is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world At every level from languages to calendars to political systems we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe' using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures As this consistently fresh & surprising new book makes clear however this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves whose myths history & buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old & revered past filled with great leaders & writers emigrations & battles Indeed much of the reason we know so much about the classical past is the obsessive importance it held for so many generations of Greeks & Romans who interpreted & reinterpreted their changing casts of heroes & villains Figures such as Alexander the Great & Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today but they were themselves fascinated by what had preceded them The Birth of Classical Europe is therefore both an authoritative history & also a fascinating attempt to show how our own changing values & interests have shaped our feelings about an era which is by some measures very remote but by others startlingly close ...

This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more globalised at this time than is commonly thought Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history Reveals that the world was far more globalised even at the beginning of this period than is commonly thought Sketches the ripple effects of world crises such as the European revolutions & the American Civil War Shows how events in Asia Africa & South America impacted on the world as a whole Considers the great themes of the nineteenth-century world including the rise of the modern state industrialisation & liberalism Challenges & complements the regional & national approaches which have traditionally dominated history teaching & writing ...

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy for the philosophy of Schopenhauer & for the music of Wagner to whom this work was dedicated Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces the Apolline representing beauty & order & the Dionysiac a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music & tragic drama which not only reveal the truth about suffering in life but also provide a consolation for it Impassioned & exhilarating in its conviction The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture & in literary criticism ...