Showcasing jewels & bringing them to life these 40 stories are an intriguing blend of art science history & psychology tracing the lives of jewels & all those connected to them The authors have brought their considerable knowledge & experience of handling jewellery & gemstones to compiling a lavishly illustrated book of stories in which the jewels are not always the most expensive or &important& to have passed through the saleroom but rather are those that have an intriguing history or provenance attached to them Spanning diverse cultures & countries different time periods & design eras the stories allow us into the private lives of those who have loved & lost jewellery who have owned & treasured commissioned designed created given & received it & who have marked the most memorable moments of their lives with it The stories in this very different type of jewellery book have never been shared publicly before & all of them are true ...

Hidden Harbours of Southwest Scotland is a lively tour of small & infrequently visited harbours on the stunning Scottish coast ...

Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible for the First World War It reveals how accounts of the war's origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of very rich & powerful men in London responsible for the most heinous crime perpetrated on humanity For ten years they plotted the destruction of Germany as the first stage of their plan to take control of the world The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was no chance happening It lit a fuse that had been carefully set through a chain of command stretching from Sarajevo through Belgrade & St Petersburg to that cabal in London Our understanding of these events has been firmly trapped in a web of falsehood & duplicity carefully constructed by the victors at Versailles in 1919 & maintained by compliant historians ever since The official version is fatally flawed warped by the volume of evidence they destroyed or concealed from public view Hidden History poses a tantalising challenge The authors ask only that you examine the evidence they lay before you ...

The brilliant new crime thriller from the BAFTA-winning writer behind the TV series PRIME SUSPECT When WPC Jane Tennison is promoted to the role of Detective Constable in London's Bow Street CID she is immediately conflicted While her more experienced colleagues move on swiftly from one criminal case to another Jane is often left doubting their methods & findings As she becomes inextricably involved in a multiple rape case Jane must put her life at risk in her search for answers Will she toe the line or endanger her position by seeking the truth? A number one bestselling author Lynda La Plante was inaugurated into the Crime Writing Hall of Fame in 2009 & received at the 2014 Harrogate Crime Festival the Theakstons award for Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction The Tennison series has been made into a new prime-time ITV series called Prime Suspect 1973 Praise for the Jane Tennison series ' Classic Lynda a fabulous read' MARTINA COLE ' La Plante excels in her ability to pick out details that give her portrayal of life in a police station a rare ring of authenticity' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ' An absorbingly twisty plot' GUARDIAN ' Enthralling' HEAT ' Vintage La Plante' INDEPENDENT 'A terrific gutsy back story for the heroine of TV's Prime Suspect' WOMAN & HOME ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Hidden Kingdoms is an innovative new series from the BBC&s Natural History unit For the first time it takes the viewer into a unique & unexplored miniature world immersing you into the action-packed lives of the planet&s smaller animals The films are based in six of the planet&s most iconic landscapes; the open plains of Africa&s savannah Arizona&s desert the forests of Borneo the woodlands of north America & the urban jungles of Rio & Tokyo From chipmunks to beetles from marmosets to elephant shrews these are animals who live life at an intensity it&s hard to imagine They hunt food but are themselves hunted they face the forces of the world that to them can be catastrophic When you are just a few inches tall raindrops can feel like meteorites dust stings like gravel a sudden gust of wind feels like a tornado This is a world that has been waiting to be explored
- the challenges our planet&s mini creatures face are daunting their solutions are always surprising & often defy belief Prepare to be amazed entertained & fascinated by the world&s Hidden Kingdoms Actors Stephen Fry Certificate Exempt from Classification Screen 169 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 58 minutes (approx)

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Hidden Markov Models for Time Series An Introduction Using R Second Edition illustrates the great flexibility of hidden Markov models (HMMs) as general-purpose models for time series data The book provides a broad understanding of the models & their uses After presenting the basic model formulation the book covers estimation forecasting decoding prediction model selection & Bayesian inference for HMMs Through examples & applications the authors describe how to extend & generalize the basic model so that it can be applied in a rich variety of situations The book demonstrates how HMMs can be applied to a wide range of types of time series continuous-valued circular multivariate binary bounded & unbounded counts & categorical observations It also discusses how to employ the freely available computing environment R to carry out the computations Features Presents an accessible overview of HMMs Explores a variety of applications in ecology finance epidemiology climatology & sociology
Includes: numerous theoretical & programming exercises Provides most of the analysed data sets online New to the second edition A total of five chapters on extensions including HMMs for longitudinal data hidden semi-Markov models & models with continuous-valued state process New case studies on animal movement rainfall occurrence & capture-recapture data
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Hidden Mysteries Notre Dame is an interactive hidden object adventure game set in Paris at the Notre Dame Cathedral The Crown of Thorns the most precious & revered relic there has disappeared As chief investigator assigned by the Prfecture de Police the player will uncover the hidden secrets of Notre Dame de Paris During the course of the investigation the player encounters the spirits of historical & fictional characters associated with the cathedral The spirits are encountered through documents clues flashbacks & even good old fashioned hauntings Each spirit has a unique motive to steal the crown but of course could not have stolen it in present day reality Linear gameplay with hidden object scenes followed by puzzles & mini-games Interactive inventory used during both hidden object & puzzle scenes Over 25 unique hidden object scenes with 15 unique puzzles Animated cut-scenes & character portraits help bring the story to life Minimum System Requirements OS
- Windows XPVista 7 Processor
- Pentium IV 12 G Hz processor or faster Memory
- 256MBHard drive
- 150MBVideo Card
- 64MB Video card Direct X
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Hidden Mysteries Titanic takes place aboard the RMS Titanic on her fateful maiden voyage across the Atlantic Explore the most famous ship in the world & feel the ship's deck creak beneath you as you go in search for hidden objects decode secret puzzles & solve the greatest sea mystery ever! Overcome challenging puzzles & obstacles to progress the ship's timeline starting from April 10th 1912 the date Titanic left Southampton to the cold night of April 15th 1912 when Titanic sunk beneath the waves Explore 20 levels in search of clues & solve challenging puzzles so you can get to a lifeboat in time! Decide how your story will end
- multiple endings offer a unique experience as you discover the secrets of the Titanic Discover hundreds of hidden objects & puzzles to unravel secret clues Explore 20 levels in search of clues Solve challenging puzzles so you can get to a lifeboat in time Decide how your story will end Multiple endings offer a unique experience as you discover the secrets of the Titanic Discover hundreds of hidden objects & puzzles to unravel secret clues
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& An emotional & compelling memoir that left me inspired both by her bravery in transforming her life & by the unexpected beauty she finds along the way& Countryfile Magazine& Fowler beautifully exposes her emotional fragility while also celebrating the unloved nature of buddleia herons & even the water rats who take refuge among the locks& i paper& Fowler captures the beauty of the canal&s dishevelled neglected condition& Times Literary Supplement& Thoughtful & heartbreakingly honest Beautiful& Press Association& An astounding memoir& Gay Star News& Hidden Nature is one of the most thrilling things I&ve read in a long time& Waterways World& She writes wonderfully about the species that have carved out a place for themselves amid the discarded shopping trolleys condom packets & industrial waste& Guardian& This candid book is as much about mapping the heart as it is about mapping the paths of waterways Lovely& Simple Things&A beautiful memoir& Good Housekeeping& Gentle brave & acutely observant& Woman&s Weekly Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs the Guardian&s award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham&s canal network full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk & kingfishers dart Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere & what it means to see beauty where you least expect it What happens when someone who has learned to observe her external world in such detail decides to examine her internal world with the same care? Beautifully written honest & very moving Hidden Nature is also the story of Alys Fowler&s emotional journey & her coming out as a gay woman above all this book is about losing & finding exploring familiar places & discovering unknown horizons ...

-- Pioneers a new Science of Nature-- Offers striking new arguments against GM technologies-- Proposes startling solutions to our energy needs-- Foreword by David Bellamy Austrian naturalist Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) was far ahead of his time From hi ...