In the DC Comics Deck-building Game Heroes Unite each player takes on the role of a Super Hero such as Shazam! or Hawkman Your Super Hero has an ability that will guide your strategy throughout the game Each player starts with his own basic 10-card deck & draws a hand of 5 cards each turn Power is the currency you will use to buy new stronger cards to add to your deck A large central stack of cards supplies a five-card “ Line-Up” from which players make their purchases Each player will always have five face-up cards to choose from each turn so every turn there are new options & surprises When a player has amassed enough Power he or she may defeat the current Super-Villain When a Super-Villain is defeated a new one appears & makes an Attack against each player in the game! Players can defend themselves with Defense cards like Force Field the Helmet of Fate or several others In the end the player who has accumulated the most Victory Points from the cards in his or her deck wins the game This is the follow-up to the 2012 hit DC Comics Deck-building Game Play Heroes United on its own or combine it with the original for an epic battle! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The complete seasons One to Four of the US TV drama series about ordinary people across the globe who discover they have extraordinary powers Over 14 hours of bonus features including Never-before-aired 71 minute episode Audio commentaries Special effects Extended scenes The super powers of Heroes Alternate stories Deleted scenes In Season One as they discover their new found talents the superheroes have to come to terms with the impact the discovery has on their lives Episodes comprise & Genesis& & Don&t Look Back& & One Giant Leap& & Collision& & Hiros& & Better Halves& & Nothing to Hide& & Seven Minutes to Midnight& & Homecoming& & Six Months Later& & Fallout& & Godsend& & The Fix& & Distractions& & Run!& & Unexpected& & Company Man& & Parasite& &7& & Five Years Gone& & The Hard Part& & Landslide& & & How to Stop an Exploding Man& Season Two introduces a number of new characters including Honduran twins Maya (Dania Ramirez) & Alejandro (Shalim Ortez) the devious & lethal Elle (Kristen Bell) & Hiro&s (Masi Oka) idol Takezo Kensei (David Anders) Episodes comprise & Four Months Later& & Lizards& & Kindred& & The Kindness of Strangers& & Fight Or Flight& & The Line& & Out of Time& & Four Months Ago& & Cautionary Tales& & Truth & Consequences& & & Powerless& Season Three opens with an assassination attempt on Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar) & traces the consequences of this event far into the future Meanwhile the slippery Sylar (Zachary Quinto) accidentally frees a dozen super-criminals who were held by the Company giving Claire (Hayden Panettiere) Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) Matt (Greg Grunberg) Hiro & the other heroes a whole new line-up of powerful evil-doers to contend with Episodes comprise & The Second Coming& & The Butterfly Effect& & One of Us One of Them& &I Am Become Death& & Angels & Monsters& & Eris Quod Sum& & Villains& & It&s Coming& & The Eclipse (Part 1)& & The Eclipse (Part 2)& & Our Father& & Dual& &A Clear & Present Danger& & Trust & Blood& & Building 26& & Cold Wars& & Exposed& & Shades of Gray& & Cold Snap& & Into Asylum& & Turn & Face the Strange& &1961& &I Am Sylar& & & An Invisible Thread& Finally in Season Four Claire attends college but has difficulty adjusting to her new life Hiro&s powers are no longer in his control which leaves him thinking he may be dying & Peter goes back to work as a Paramedic using Mohinder&s (Sendhil Ramamurthy) powers to help others Episodes comprise & Orientation& & Jump Push Fall& & Ink& & Acceptance& & Hysterical Blindness& & Tabula Rasa& & Strange Attractors& & Once Upon a Time in Texas& & Shadowboxing& & Brother&s Keeper& & Thanksgiving& & The Fifth Stage& & Upon This Rock& & Let It Bleed& & Close to You& & Pass Fail& & The Art of Deception& & The Wall& & & Brave New World& ...

Barbara Gordon is one of Batman's sidekicks & a member of the Batman Family along with Robin! Here she is in Pop! Vinyl Figure Form & looking as menacing as ever! Add her to your collection today! This Pop! Vinyl Figure comes packaged in a window display box & measures Approx. 3 34-inches tall ...

Young soldier Grace following a medical discharge from the army faces a daunting return to the UK She struggles to find her place her people Post-conflict & in search of the friendship she's lost forced to question the very foundations of her beliefs Grace finds herself back on the front line but who is she fighting? Patriotism nativism & modern Britain collide in Nessah Muthy's devastating exploration of the UK today ...

These are the stories of women famous infamous & unknown who shaped the course of medieval history The lives & actions of medieval women were restricted by the men who ruled the homes countries & world they lived in It was men who fought wars made laws & dictated religious doctrine It was men who were taught to read trained to rule & expected to fight Today it is easy to think that all women from this era were downtrodden retiring & obedient housewives whose sole purpose was to give birth to children (preferably boys) & serve their husbands Heroines of the Medieval World looks at the lives of the women who broke the mould those who defied social norms & made their own future consequently changing lives society & even the course of history Some of the women are famous such as Eleanor of Aquitaine who was not only a duchess in her own right but also Queen Consort of France through her first marriage & Queen Consort of England through her second in addition to being a crusader & a rebel Then there are the more obscure but no less remarkable figures such as Nicholaa de la Haye who defended Lincoln Castle in the name of King John & Maud de Braose who spoke out against the same king's excesses & whose death (or murder) was the inspiration for a clause in Magna Carta Women had to walk a fine line in the Middle Ages but many learned to survive
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- in this male-dominated world Some led armies while others made their influence felt in more subtle ways but all made a contribution to their era & should be remembered for daring to defy & lead in a world that demanded they obey & follow

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A whimsical RPG with a colourful cast & quirky sense of humour from the writer of Mother 3 the Japanese game with a global cult following Playing as Lucky a part-timer at the adventure theme park Heroland the title thrives on tongue-in-cheek personality reminiscent of Paper Mario vibrant charm of Earthbound & the pick-up-&-play simplicity akin to games such as Pokemon Quest Quirky humour A light-hearted & funny story stands out from the genres usual heavy plots & melodrama Huge cast of characters Pick your party from a roster of more than 20 characters & get to know the monsters; aka your colleagues! Each character has their own charming story that is a delight to discover Customisation Customise your heroes strategies weapons & more including taking spoils to decorate your room Creatives team with cult following Directed by Takahiro Yamane (Fantasy Life) written by Nobuyuki Inoue (MOTHER 3 Legend of Mana) taking place in a colorful 2D world created by Nobuhiro Imagawa (MOTHER 3 Legend of Mana) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD In the ponderous drama HEROSTRATUS a disillusioned poet decides that he has had enough of life & begins to plan his suicide Rather than go quietly he decides to make a &statement& by turning it into a media circus He heads straight for a public relations company & tells them that he is famous & from a wealthy family A little investigation reveals that he is not only poor but also a lousy writer Still news is news & they agree to publicise his death Unfortunately on the appointed day the poet finds someone waiting for him on the roof top This person tries to convince the poet not to jump A struggle ensues & the helpful fellow falls to his death Later the poet runs wildly through the streets into the distance Actors Mona Chin Michael Gothard Helen Mirren Richard Huggett Max Latimer Gabriella Licudi Hilda Marvin Malcolm Muggeridge Vivienne Myles Antony Paul Brigitte St John & Peter Stephens Director Don Levy Certificate 15 years & over Year 1967 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Duration 2 hours & 17 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A devious housekeeper convinces her master to cut his worthy grandson out of his will & to leave the riches to her instead The grandson disguised as the projectionist of a travelling cinema show flatters his way into the home to project a film of Tartuffe in an attempt to open his grandfather&s eyes F W Murnau made this film adaptation of Moliere&s satire for UFA early in 1925 & it was released the following year shortly followed by Faust By presenting the play as a film-within-a-film Murnau takes the opportunity to place the material in a contemporary setting sandwiched inside a morality lesson about greed & hypocrisy Unjustly neglected for decades perhaps because of its low-key nature compared with Murnau&s more grand masterpieces this delightful curiosity is more than a mere trifle Tartuffe affirms Murnau as a master of multifarious cinematic disciplines from the set-based dreams of Faust & Sunrise to the naturalist landscapes of Nosferatu City Girl & Tabu In Tartuffe we find an intimate Murnau relying on close-ups & the performances of his actors to create magic Emil Jannings plays Tartuffe with creepy panache in a tour-de-force turn alongside Lil Dagover & Werner Krauss Restored in 2002 by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin Koblenz & the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung of Wiesbaden this DVD contains the best surviving version of the film featuring German intertitles optional English subtitles tinting & is presented at the correct speed Actors Hermann Picha Rosa Valetti Andre Mattoni Werner Krauss & Lil Dagover Director FW Murnau Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1926 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages SILENT
- Dolby Digital Subtitles German intertitles ; English subtitles Duration 1 hour & 4 minutes (approx)
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For such a small fish the herring has played an enormous role in history Since the Middle Ages battles have been waged for it; international economic alliances have formed over it; a number of major cities owe their initial prosperities & structural foundations to it Unquestionably political powers have risen & fallen with the herring's own rise & fall in population In Herring A Global History Kathy Hunt looks at the environmental historical political & culinary background of this highly prolific delicious & easily caught fish It will appeal to food lovers history buffs & anyone who has ever eaten British kippers German Bismarcks Dutch matjes or Jewish chopped herring ...

Roger Norton Vane is dead Twenty years ago he went for a walk in the Thai jungle with his partner & never returned After years of wild speculation & fruitless searches finally his death is to be made official & somebody will inherit his accumulated wealth Ethelred Tressider crime writer & Vane&s biographer attends the memorial service but little does he expect to find himself talking to Vane himself apparently returned from the dead Chaos ensues & while trying to complete the biography it becomes clear that many people wish the man calling himself Vane had stayed dead & that his anecdotes had died with him ...