Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Making sense of modern Britain is a tough call But the explanation more often than not lies in the British Empire Jeremy Paxman believes that unless we come to terms with our Imperial past we&ll never understand who we are & where we&re going today So in this series he cuts through our national embarrassment turning his forensic & unapologetic gaze on to this most compelling period of our history
- & tracing its far-reaching influence on the present Actors Jeremy Paxman Director Julian Birkett Certificate Exempt from Classification Year 2012 Languages English Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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In Empire Express designed to be an easy-to-play introduction to the Empire Builder series of games players create competing railroad empires by drawing railroad tracks with crayons upon an erasable board You win if you utilize your network of rail lines to acquire & deliver goods efficiently to accumulate the largest personal fortune! The base game provides pre-programmed routes on a board depicting a north-eastern portion of the US with demand cards providing players with an easy way to learn the system through play Players start with the bare bones of a railroad an empty train & track connecting some cities Each turn you & your fellow players take turns building track operating trains & delivering loads The bank will pay you for each delivered load With the starting route guided by the board only two loads per card & a visual pick-up & delivery guide on every card the learning curve is greatly shortened ...

Empire Games is the first book in the exciting series set in the same world as Charles Stross' The Merchant Princes series A time of ambition treachery & dangerous secrets Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job & trained as a reluctant US spy All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines
- & infiltrate them Her United States is waging a high-tech war targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale & Rita will be their secret weapon Miriam Beckstein has her own mission as a politician in an industrial revolution North America She must accelerate her world's technology before their paranoid American twin finds them It would blow them to hell After all they've done it before Each timeline also battles internal conspiracies as a cold war threatens to turn white hot But which world is the aggressor
- & will Rita have to choose a side?

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Empire in Black & Gold is the first novel in Adrian Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed fantasy series The Shadows of the Apt The days of peace are over The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace & prosperity for decades bastions of civilization & sophistication That peace is about to end In far-off corners an ancient Empire has been conquering city after city with its highly trained armies & sophisticated warmaking & now it's set its sights on a new prize Only the ageing Stenwold Maker spymaster artificer & statesman can see the threat It falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of his people
- as soon a tide will sweep down over the Lowlands & burn away everything in its path But first he must stop himself from becoming the Empire's latest victim Empire in Black & Gold is followed by the second book in the Shadows of the Apt series Dragonfly Falling
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WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATUREEconomist BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015' Knowledgeable & stunning' Orhan Pamuk 'A masterpiece of the historian's craft' The Nation For about 900 years from 1000 to 1900 cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry It remains a vast business
- if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable tower 40000 miles high Sven Beckert's superb new book is a history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world It is both a gripping narrative & a brilliant case history of how the world works
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In this tour de force of original cultural history Paul Koudounaris takes the reader on an unprecedented international tour of macabre & devotional architectural masterpieces in nearly 20 countries This is the first book to bring together the world's most important charnel sites ranging from the crypts of the Capuchin monasteries in Italy & the skull-encrusted columns of the ossuary in Evora in Portugal to the strange tomb of a 1960s wealthy Peruvian nobleman decorated with the exhumed skeletons of his Spanish ancestors Illustrated with specially taken photographs of sites rarely open to the public & forgotten archive images of others long destroyed this mesmerising shocking & deeply moving book is an essential memento mori for our modern age ...

The 4th novel in the bestselling Conqueror series continuing the life & adventures of the mighty Khan dynasty Genghis Khan is dead but his legend & his legacy live on His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain & made a capital for the new nation Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis' sons has the strength to be khan The Mongol empire has been at peace for two years but whoever survives will face the formidable might of their great enemy China's Song dynasty The great leader Tsubodai sweeps into the west through Russia over the Carpathian mountains & into Hungary The Templar knights have been broken & there is no king or army to stop him reaching France But at the moment of Tsubodai's greatest triumph as his furthest scouts reach the northern mountains of Italy Tsubodai must make a decision that will change the course of history forever ...

Empire of Sin the strategy game from Romero Games & Paradox Interactive puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago Its up to you to hustle charm & intimidate your way to the top of the pile & do whatever it takes to stay there This character-driven game puts players smack dab in the glitz & glamor of roaring 20s all while having them work behind the scenes in the gritty underbelly of organized crime Features - Build A Crime Empire Raise your criminal empire from the ground up by establishing rackets in your neighborhood (be it speakeasies breweries brothels union skimming protection rackets or casinos) & recruiting a team of loyal mobsters to make your mark on the streets Once you make a name for yourself expand your influence by taking over rival territory & adding more ventures to your repertoire Explore a Living Breathing City Take to the streets of vibrant 1920s Chicago & its distinct neighborhoods such as Little Italy or West Loop with real historical landmarks & events Interact with a full cast of over 60 living breathing characters with backgrounds that inform how they react to what you or other characters do Each recruitable character has traits & relationships that significantly affect gameplay & vice versa Schmooze coerce seduce threaten or kill them to get your way Defend & Expand Territory If it comes to blows hypothetically of course & your posse needs to send a message face off in brutal turn-based combat Recruit your goons strategically to build a strong chemistry within your crew to maximize combat damage & help secure your hold on the city Wield Your Influence Make & break alliances bribe cops & trade on the black market to gain an edge & expand the influence of your crime family But always keep your enemies close & ensure you have a mole on the inside & eyes everywhere Dominate the Neighborhood Whether you make it to the top with violence business smarts or city-wide notoriety there are a number of ways to become King or Queen of Chicago With various starting conditions & constantly changing crew dynamics no two playthroughs will ever be the same ...

Empire of Sin the strategy game from Romero Games & Paradox Interactive puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago Its up to you to hustle charm & intimidate your way to the top of the pile & do whatever it takes to stay there This character-driven game puts players smack dab in the glitz & glamor of roaring 20s all while having them work behind the scenes in the gritty underbelly of organized crime Features - Build A Crime Empire Raise your criminal empire from the ground up by establishing rackets in your neighborhood (be it speakeasies breweries brothels union skimming protection rackets or casinos) & recruiting a team of loyal mobsters to make your mark on the streets Once you make a name for yourself expand your influence by taking over rival territory & adding more ventures to your repertoire Explore a Living Breathing City Take to the streets of vibrant 1920s Chicago & its distinct neighborhoods such as Little Italy or West Loop with real historical landmarks & events Interact with a full cast of over 60 living breathing characters with backgrounds that inform how they react to what you or other characters do Each recruitable character has traits & relationships that significantly affect gameplay & vice versa Schmooze coerce seduce threaten or kill them to get your way Defend & Expand Territory If it comes to blows hypothetically of course & your posse needs to send a message face off in brutal turn-based combat Recruit your goons strategically to build a strong chemistry within your crew to maximize combat damage & help secure your hold on the city Wield Your Influence Make & break alliances bribe cops & trade on the black market to gain an edge & expand the influence of your crime family But always keep your enemies close & ensure you have a mole on the inside & eyes everywhere Dominate the Neighborhood Whether you make it to the top with violence business smarts or city-wide notoriety there are a number of ways to become King or Queen of Chicago With various starting conditions & constantly changing crew dynamics no two playthroughs will ever be the same ...