Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Please note the UV copy is only compatible in participating regions please visit the UV website for full details Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) & George Clooney (Syriana) star in Gravity a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite & unforgiving realm of deep space The film was directed by Oscar nominee Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) Bullock plays Dr Ryan Stone a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) But on a seemingly routine spacewalk disaster strikes The shuttle is destroyed leaving Stone & Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other & spiraling out into the blackness The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earthand any chance for rescue As fear turns to panic every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space Actors Sandra Bullock & George Clooney Director Alfonso Cuarón Certificate 12 years & over Year 2013 Languages English ...

George Clooney & Sandra Bullock star in this award-winning sci-fi thriller directed by Alfonso Cuaron Seasoned astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) is on his final mission in space while medical engineer Dr Ryan Stone (Bullock) is making her first outing on the Space Shuttle While they are engaged in extra-vehicular activity debris collides into the shuttle damaging it irreparably Kowalsky & Stone now find themselves drifting in space with low oxygen supplies & cut off from all communication on Earth They work together in their attempt to survive but will they make it back to solid ground? The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards & won seven including Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki) Best Director (Cuaron) & Best Original Score (Steven Price) & also picked up the Golden Globe for Best Director & BAFTAs for Best Director & Outstanding British Film ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) & George Clooney (Syriana) star in Gravity a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite & unforgiving realm of deep space The film was directed by Oscar nominee Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) Bullock plays Dr Ryan Stone a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) But on a seemingly routine spacewalk disaster strikes The shuttle is destroyed leaving Stone & Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other & spiraling out into the blackness The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earthand any chance for rescue As fear turns to panic every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space Actors Sandra Bullock & George Clooney Director Alfonso Cuarón Certificate 12 years & over Year 2013 Languages English ...

Experience the thrilling conclusion to Kat’s mind-bending adventures as she chases the mystery of her origin across a huge new open world Wield an arsenal of hard-hitting gravity-based attacks in three different gravity styles against powerful new enemies unleash devastating tag-team attacks with Raven by your side & ward off a new danger that threatens the world & the fabric of the universe itself Gravity Rush 2 is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed gravity-shifting classic developed exclusively for the Play Station 4 system by SIE WWS JAPAN Studio In a new story set just after the conclusion of the first game Kat returns with her gravity-shifting partner Raven & the police officer Syd to investigate strange gravitational waves appearing over Hekseville The next adventure for the gravity queen begins when Kat is swallowed by a gravity storm of unprecedented scale & taken to a remote mining village Separated from Dusty the source of her gravity powers Kat is forced to mine ore for the village to earn her keep along with Syd However they soon face the dangerous Scarabs lurking near the storms
- a new breed of Nevi that threatens Kat & the village Gravity Rush 2 Key Features Gravity-Based Action
- The franchise’s famous gravity-based action mechanics have evolved with two additional styles the lighter Lunar Style & heavier Jupiter Style In battle players can seamlessly switch between the three distinct gravity styles each with their own unique attacks Jump to PS4
- Boasting larger environments more physics effects & an expanded story Gravity Rush 2 is a giant leap forward from its predecessor Vast Open World
- Enter a bright & bustling floating city bursting with life Manipulate gravity with the motion sensors of the DUALSHOCK 4 wireless controller to soar & traverse a vast & detailed open world 25 times larger than the original packed with an abundance of missions to keep Kat busy Signature Art Style
- France’s “bande dessinee” comic book aesthetic is blended with Japanese manga & anime influences to create a unique & beautiful atmosphere Enemy Variety
- Battle against not only Nevi but trained soldiers armored mechs & massive bosses along with br&-new supervillains Rich & Exciting World
- Delve deeper into Kat’s background with an all new story new characters side missions & more Online Features
- Compete with other players through asynchronous online features including treasure hunts mining events & time attack challenge missions







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Please Note Play Station Vita titles are not compatible with standard Sony PSP consoles Gravity Rush is an exciting new adventure that lets players get hands-on with their Play Station Vita Touch it tap it or tilt it to interact with the gameplay & hold the forces of gravity in your own two hands Story A futuristic world is under attack from strange unknown forces powerful "gravity storms" have started to appear in the sky & nightmarish creatures are terrorising the population Amidst the mayhem a young girl named Kat wakes up struggling to regain her lost memories Only one thing seems certain
- Kat has somehow gained a phenomenal new ability the power to shift gravity Use the PS Vita system&s dual analog sticks for pinpoint precision Freely explore a sprawling metropolis full of hidden secrets & dangers Take control of gravity with the PS Vita motion sensor function Use the touchscreen to flick through cutscenes like a real comic book Enjoy a distinctive art style with striking cel-shaded graphics Directed by Keiichiro Toyama creator of Siren (PS2) & Silent Hill (PS3)
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At the edge of known space the most famous adventurers converge on a strange little planet that is uniquely capable of attracting precious stardust with its befuddling gravity These adventurers are there to collect as much of this rare resource as they can while their rivals constantly try to steal it You are one of these superstars on a quest for wealth & you must overcome the gravitational challenges set before you! What is really original about Gravity Superstar is the manner in which the players& pawns move Each turn they move one or two spaces then they are affected by gravity which makes them fall until they are stopped by a platform This effect is made possible by the fact that the pawns are used lying down on the board Thus they move up (above their head) down (below their feet) left or right During its movement a pawn can collect stars (to score points at the end of the game) or replay tokens (to take a second consecutive turn) & eject opponents& pawns from the board ...

A fascinating account written in real time of the unfolding of a scientific discovery the first detection of gravitational waves Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitational waves for fifty years Then in September 2015 came a very interesting event (as the cautious subject line in a physicist's email read) that proved to be the first detection of gravitational waves In Gravity's Kiss Harry Collins -- who has been watching the science of gravitational wave detection for forty-three of those fifty years & has written three previous books about it -- offers a final fascinating account written in real time of the unfolding of one of the most remarkable scientific discoveries ever made Predicted by Einstein in his theory of general relativity gravitational waves carry energy from the collision or explosion of stars Dying binary stars for example rotate faster & faster around each other until they merge emitting a burst of gravitational waves It is only with the development of extraordinarily sensitive highly sophisticated detectors that physicists can now confirm Einstein's prediction This is the story that Collins tells Collins a sociologist of science who has been embedded in the gravitational wave community since 1972 traces the detection the analysis the confirmation & the public presentation & the reception of the discovery -- from the first email to the final published paper & the response of professionals & the public Collins shows that science today is collaborative far-flung (with the physical location of the participants hardly mattering) & sometimes secretive but still one of the few institutions that has integrity built into it ...

Tyrone Slothrop a GI in London in 1944 has a big problem Whenever he gets an erection a Blitz bomb hits Slothrop gets excited & then as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence &a screaming comes across the sky& heralding an angel of death a V-2 rocket Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany Gravity&s Rainbow is never a single story but a proliferation of characters
- Pirate Prentice Teddy Bloat Tantivy Mucker-Maffick Saure Bummer & more
- & events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension It is a blizzard of references to science history high culture & the lowest of jokes & among the most important novels of our time Winner of the National Book Award

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‘ The greatest wildest author of his generation’ Guardian We could tell you the year is 1944 that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop & that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe & crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests But that doesn’t really begin to cover it Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish sinister mysterious absurd compulsive netherworld As the Financial Times said ‘you must forget earlier notions about life & letters & even the Novel’ Forty years since publication Gravity’s Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral ...

Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature It also has the distinction of being the oldest weakest & most difficult force to quantize Understanding gravity is not only essential for understanding the motion of objects on Earth but also the motion of all celestial objects & even the expansion of the Universe itself It was the study of gravity that led Einstein to his profound realisations about the nature of space & time Gravity is not only universal it is also essential for understanding the behaviour of the Universe & all astrophysical bodies within it In this Very Short Introduction Timothy Clifton looks at the development of our understanding of gravity since the early observations of Kepler & Newtonian theory He discusses Einstein's theory of gravity which now supplants Newton's showing how it allows us to understand why the frequency of light changes as it passes through a gravitational field why GPS satellites need their clocks corrected as they orbit the Earth & why the orbits of distant neutron stars speed up Today almost 100 years after Einstein published his theory of gravity we have even detected the waves of gravitational radiation that he predicted Clifton concludes by considering the testing & application of general relativity in astrophysics & cosmology & looks at dark energy & efforts such as string theory to combine gravity with quantum mechanics ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...