Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature These dazzling & utterly satisfying stories explore varieties & degrees of love
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In a world careening towards climate chaos nature is dead It can no longer be separated from society Everything is a blur of hybrids where humans possess no exceptional agency that sets them apart from dead matter But is it really so? In this blistering polemic & theoretical manifesto Andreas Malm develops a contrary argument in a warming world nature comes roaring back & it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural & the social Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable Deflating several prominent currents in contemporary theory-constructionism hybridism new materialism posthumanism-and submitting the influential work of Bruno Latour to particularly biting critique Malm shows that action against fossil fuels is best served by a theory that takes nature society & the dialectics between them very seriously indeed ...

In a single night Kyle Phipps's life is derailed His relationship is over he is denied access to his young son & everything important to him is at risk His thoughts stumble between fear & revenge Kyle Phipps has a choice to make Meanwhile after the tragic end to a previous case DC Gary Goodhew finds himself questioning his reasons for returning to work until the badly beaten body of a homeless man is found on Market Hill Having known the homeless man for several years Goodhew feels compelled to be part of the investigation
- but routine lines of enquiry soon take a dark & unexpected turn Suddenly the Cambridge back streets hold deadly secrets for Goodhew & the only person who has the answers is planning one final desperate act
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Lesley Pearse No 1 bestselling author of Stolen & Belle returns with the phenomenal novel The Promise Heartbreaking enduring & masterfully told The Promise will take you on a breathtaking journey into the battlefields of the First World War War threatens to take all she has loved & lived for On the outbreak of war Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists & heads for the deadly trenches of northern France But Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives Volunteering to help battlefield wounded Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver There a tragic accident brings her face to face with Etienne
- a man from her past she's never quite forgotten Torn between forbidden passion loyalty & love Belle is caught in an impossible situation Will she succumb to the dark forces of this most brutal of wars? Or will fate intervene & finally lead her to lasting happiness? The Promise vividly describes life behind the front line & the tragic choices that war forces people to make' Pearse will pull your heartstrings' Sun' Characters it is impossible not to care about' Daily Mail' An addictive tear-jerker with characters you'll adore laugh with & cry for' Bella' Full of love passion & heartbreak' Best' Glorious heartwarming' Woman & Home Lesley Pearse's novels have sold five million copies worldwide Her fourteen most recent books including Belle Stolen Gypsy Faith Hope A Lesser Evil Secrets Remember Me Till We Meet Again Father Unknown Trust Me Never Look Back Charlie & Rosie are huge bestsellers & available as Penguin paperbacks Lesley lives near Bristol & has three daughters & two grandchildren Find Lesley on Twitter Lesley Pearse or find out more on her website wwwlesleypearsecouk
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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 It is 1914 As the Great War looms the mighty Ottoman Empire is crumbling Constantinople the once vibrant multicultural capital on the shores of the Bosporus is about to be consumed by chaos Michael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac) arrives in the cosmopolitan hub as a medical student determined to bring modern medicine back to Siroun his ancestral village in Southern Turkey where Turkish Muslims & Armenian Christians have lived side by side for centuries Photo-journalist Chris Myers (Christian Bale) has come here only partly to cover geo-politics He is mesmerized by his love for Ana (Charlotte le Bon) an Armenian artist he has accompanied from Paris after the sudden death of her father When Michael meets Ana their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between the two men As the Turks form an alliance with Germany & the Empire turns violently against its own ethnic minorities their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to survive even as events threaten to overwhelm them The one promise that must be kept is to live on & tell the story Actors Oscar Isaac Charlotte Le Bon Christian Bale Daniel Gimenez Cacho Shohreh Aghdashloo Directors Terry George Writers Terry George Robin Swicord Producers Eric Esrailian William Horberg Mike Medavoy Ralph Winter Format PAL Blu-ray Language English German French Subtitles English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio Unknown Number of discs 1 ...

The Thunder Point series The Promise
- Book 5 1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr returns to Thunder Point with an uplifting
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Loyalty commitment the fight against injustice
- these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole & Joe Pike If they make
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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 An orphaned girl driven by poverty at such a young age makes a promise with an enchantress In return for beauty & the admiration of every man she will never be with the man she loves This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens snow falling in spring & the dead coming back to life Now a grown & beautiful princess she regrets her promise for all of the men she&s loved has always been met with tragedy In love again with a man behind a red armor & a golden mask who rescues her from death she is tormented by their inevitable parting Meanwhile Kunlun the slave of a great general is searching for the lost memories of a family he once had Soon the fate of these two intertwine when the princess believes the general to be her hero thus pulling him into this web of fate What end will befallen our three characters? Are their fates already sealed by a higher power or can they still choose a life they want? Actors Jang Dong-kun Hiroyuki Sanada Cecilia Cheung Nicholas Tse Ye Liu Hong Chen & Cheng Qian Director Chen Kaige Certificate 15 years & over Year 2006 Screen 169 Languages Mandarin
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx)
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A picture book of great beauty & hope about the power we have to transform our world 48 pages Davies Nicola ...

A letter brings him back to his Amish family It will take someone truly extraordinary to make him stay Roman is on the verge of leaving the Amish ways Feeling confined by the strict rules he longs to do something more with his life But when things don't go as planned Roman's prospects outside of the community dwindle Upon learning that his beloved grandmother has died & left a letter urging him to reconcile with his brother in Birch Creek Roman decides to return home But he doesn't plan to stay for long Leanna Chupp has always made her own way in her small community of Birch Creek Though some may call her unconventional-strange even-Leanna is happy Her unique outlook on life has meant she's never had many suitors pursuing courtship which Leanna doesn't mind She is content being single But when Roman & Leanna find themselves working together again everything changes Though neither fit squarely within the strictures of the Amish faith their differences could be the very thing to help them form a deeper connection to their community & to each other The question remains will this strengthening bond be enough to make Roman stay for good? ...