Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ira & Ruth Luke & Sophia – two couples separated by time & age – have little in common until a series of unexpected events are set in motion & their lives become intertwined From New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes an extraordinary love story that begins when a box of old letters filled with a lifetime of love wisdom & experience set Luke & Sophia on a path to discover their true values & the real meaning of love ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Conrad Valmont (Jason Bateman Juno Horrible Bosses) is the over-educated under-employed heir to the Valmont Hotel fortune Though he s spent most of his adult life enjoying a playboy lifestyle on a diet of Tom Collins cocktails at 40 years old he finds himself suddenly cut off from his allowance & tossed out into the unforgiving streets of the Upper West Side Luckily he is taken in by his old friend Dylan (Billy Crudup Eat Pray Love Watchmen) & returns the favour by immediately falling for Dylan&s beautiful girlfriend Beatrice (Olivia Wilde In Time Rush) A hilarious love triangle ensues as Conrad attempts to woo Beatrice all over the city in secret All s fair in love & war right? That is until she finds out he s completely brokeand Dylan finds out his best friend has stolen his girl ...

Ella's mum is in a deep coma having just had a new baby That means Ella has to live with Jack her hopeless stepfather & cope with her tiny newborn brother as well as worrying about Mum The only thing that's going right is her school project It's all about whales & how they sing out to each other to attract a mate
- sometimes for hours Maybe a whale song could reach Mum wherever she is & bring her back to Ella & baby Samson Surely it's worth a try?
...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It was hard to put a team together until they found out who they were playing Director Peter Segal & comedian Adam Sandler join forces once more for a fun remake of the 1974 classic The Longest Yard In the role of Paul Wrecking Crewe first immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough) Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving Fed up he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife's (an uncredited Courtney Cox Arquette) luxury car & drives it into a multi-car pileup This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship Crewe timorously agrees suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season To the ragtag inmates this is the chance they've been waiting for & they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards Actors Adam Sandler Chris Rock Burt Reynolds Nelly Michael Irvin Walter Williamson Bill Goldberg Rob Schneider Bob Sapp Nicholas Turturro David Patrick Kelly William Fichtner Edward Bunker Steve Austin Ed Lauter & James Cromwell Director Peter Segal Certificate 15 years & over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Dutch ; Hindi ; Portuguese ; Spanish Duration 1 hour & 48 minutes (approx)
...

AS SEEN IN THE TIMESEat the foods that will help you live longer THIS is the internationally bestselling clinically tested revolutionary & straightforward diet to help you slow-down ageing fight disease & lose weight------------------' The diet that holds the key to staying young Dr Valter Longo is now considered one of the most influential voices in the 'fasting movement' The Times' Dr Valter Longo is one of the real scientific pioneers when it comes to researching the impact of food on health' Dr Michael Mosley bestselling author of The Fast Diet & The Clever Guts Diet------------------Following 30 years of research Professor Valter Longo
- a biochemist & one of the world's leading researchers into ageing
- has investigated genetics nutrition & stem cells to discover that the secret of longevity lies in cellular regeneration triggered by a special diet He is now able to reveal how by adhering to his fasting-mimicking diet we heal ourselves through food Dr Valter Longo's healthy lifespan-extending programme is based on an easy-to-adopt lifetime plan coupled with a fasting-mimicking diet 3-4 times a year & just 5 days at a time that gives all the health benefits of fasting without the hunger Including 30 easy recipes for an everyday diet based on Longo's Five Pillars of Longevity The Longevity Diet is the key to living a longer healthier & more fulfilled life------------------Try easy plant-&-fish based recipes that use phenomenal live-long ingredients Great for the heart & rich in antioxidants black rice with courgette & shrimp with a mixed green salad sweet tomatoes & carrots drizzled in balsamic vinegar For a good source of iron snack on dark chocolate & yoghurt & for dessert try tangy dried cranberries & walnuts----------------------Make simple changes that can extend your healthy lifespan Prevent age-related muscle & bone loss Build your resistance to diabetes cardiovascular disease Alzheimer's & cancer Maintain your ideal weight & reduce abdominal fat Why rely on medication to cure illness when you can help to prevent it altogether with your diet?

...

A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction John le Carre's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses audacious bluffs & the ever-present threat of nuclear war published in Penguin Modern Classics When the Department
- faded since the war & busy only with bureaucratic battles
- hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place The Cold War is at its height & the Department is dying for a piece of the action Swiftly becoming carried away by fear & pride the Department & her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany armed only with some schoolboy training & his memories of the war In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany Leiser's fate becomes inseparable from the Department's If you enjoyed The Looking Glass War you might like le Carre's The Secret Pilgrim also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A devastating & tragic record of human not glamour spies' New York Herald Tribune'A book of rare & great power' Financial Times

...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In exchange for political asylum Polish defector Leiser (Jones) agrees to return behind the Iron Curtain to confirm the suspicions of the British Security Chief that East Germany is building a rocket in violation of the disarmament pact Once in East Berlin Leiser falls in love with a beautiful young girl & the couple decide to flee the espionage experts
- both East & West
- to start a new life together But they soon find themselves pawns in the brutal game where the stakes are human lives Adapted from the classic John Le Carre spy novel

...

Equal parts psychological drama & heist movie this film from screenwriter Scott Frank is a smart first feature with a strong cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Chris Pratt a young man whose life changes after a car accident Though Chris survived hes not the cocky high school athlete everyone remembers Instead a head injury leaves him with memory loss & the need to write everything down in a notebook After leaving his late-night job as a bank janitor for the evening Chris meets Gary (Matthew Goode) & Luvlee (Isla Fisher WEDDING CRASHERS) at a neighbourhood bar Though they initially seem genuine Gary reveals his intentions to rob the bank where Chris works Eager for friendship & a return to the person he used to be Chris is quickly in over his head After starring in THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN Gordon-Levitt hasnt gone the typical route of a 20-something actor There isnt a single mainstream film in his post-sitcom filmography & he has chosen smart indie fare such as BRICK & MYSTERIOUS SKIN Though THE LOOKOUT is a larger project it gives him the chance to shine Jeff Daniels (THE SQUID & THE WHALE) adds depth & wry humor with his portrayal of Lewis Chriss blind roommate British actor Goode trades in the good-guy roles in CHASING LIBERTY & MATCH POINT for this decidedly darker part Though THE LOOKOUT lacks the style & humor of Franks previous screenwriting work in OUT OF SIGHT & GET SHORTY its a well-acted film that is worth seeking out ...

Brilliantly written compelling & highly original The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 911 Drawing on astonishing interviews & first-hand sources it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization
- & those who tried to stop them There is the tormented resentful Egyptian Sayyid Qutb who was horrified by the godlessness & decadence he perceived in America in 1948 & whose subsequent writings turned him into a martyr for Islamic extremists There is Ayman al-Zawahiri a devout student who by the age of fifteen had already helped to form an underground jihadist cell There is the deeply contradictory Osama bin Laden Saudi multimillionaire turned muhajideen commander whose interests merged with al-Zawahiri's to form a global terror coalition & there is the FBI's counterterrorism chief the flamboyant cigar-smoking John O' Neill who found his warnings that 'something big' was coming continually ignored & would finally meet his fate in the shadow of the Twin Towers Interweaving this extraordinary story with events including the Israeli-Palestine conflict the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan & the first attack on the World Trade Center Lawrence Wright takes us into training camps mountain hideouts & top secret meetings to explore how it all fed into the planning & execution of 911
- & reveals the real complex origins of Al Qaeda's hatred of the West Wright's brilliantly acclaimed book now

Includes:: a new Afterword which covers events that have unfolded since publication including the death of Osama Bin Laden



...

A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy The Looting Machine' is a searing expose of the global web of traders bankers middlemen despots & corporate raiders that is pillaging Africa's vast natural wealth From the killing fields of Congo to the crude-slicked creeks of Nigeria a great endowment of oil diamonds copper iron gold & coltan has become a curse that condemns millions to poverty violence & oppression That curse is no accident This gripping investigative journey takes us into the shadows of the world economy where secretive networks conspire with Africa's kleptocrats to bleed the continent dry & like their victims the beneficiaries of this grand looting have names ...