Award-winning original fiction for learners of English At seven levels from Starter to Advanced this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities A tragic love story is uncovered as journalist Clare Crowe goes to Switzerland to bring home a relative's body Clare's grandfather has been found frozen in a glacier 74 years after a climbing accident Clare knows this could make an interesting story for her newspaper but as she investigates her grandfather's last climb she learns that the accident wasn't as simple as she had first thought Paperback-only version Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book ...

In the 6th century AD the Near East was divided between two great empires the Persian & the Roman A hundred years on & one had vanished for ever while the other was a dismembered bleeding trunk In their place a new superpower had arisen the empire of the Arabs So profound was this upheaval that it spelled in effect the end of the ancient world But the changes that marked the period were more than merely political or even cultural there was also a transformation of human society with incalculable consequences for the future Today over half the world's population subscribes to one of the various religions that took on something like their final form during the last centuries of antiquity Wherever men or women are inspired by belief in a single god to think or behave in a certain way they bear witness to the abiding impact of this extraordinary convulsive age
- though as Tom Holland demonstrates much of what Jews Christians & Muslims believe about the origins of their religion is open to debate In the Shadow of the Sword explores how a succession of great empires came to identify themselves with a new & revolutionary understanding of the divine It is a story vivid with drama horror & startling achievement & stars many of the most remarkable rulers ever seen
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As the dust settled after World War II America controlled half the world's manufacturing capacity By the end of the Cold War it possessed nearly half the planet's military forces spread across eight hundred bases & much of its wealth Beyond what was on display the United States had also built a formidable diplomatic & clandestine apparatus Indeed more than anything else it is this secretive tier of global surveillance & covert operations that distinguishes the US from the great empires of the past But even as it has secured an unrivalled power network through satellites drones & cyberwarfare recent years have seen America's share of the global economy diminish its diplomatic alliances falter & its claim to moral leadership abandoned Meanwhile China is emerging as the world's economic powerhouse poised to integrate the world island' stretching from Shanghai to Madrid & lay claim to the South China Sea The nineteenth century belonged to Britain & the twentieth to America Will China take the twenty-first? ...

A Christian pathway into mindfulness using the gospels poetry & storytelling 272 pages O Tuama Padraig ...

DANIEL LEARY IS CINNABAR&S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPACE CAPTAIN; HIS FRIEND LADY ADELE MUNDY IS ITS MOST EFFICIENT SPY BUT THEY&VE GOT THEIR HANDS FULL THIS TIME AS THEY FACE A Cinnabar Senator furious at losing an election still powerful enough to make her anger deadly The boy ruler of a star cluster who thinks he&s a god who can sign the death warrants of even Cinnabar officials if a mad whimsy tells him to A world of slaves & escaped slaves where the most savage beasts in the jungle used to be human An enemy base that could shrug off attack by powerful battlefleets which must fall to a single cruiser if Cinnabar is to survive From palace to reeking jungle from gunfights in grimy hangars to the flagship&s bridge during a sprawling space battle Leary & Mundy are in the thick of it again Watch the galaxy explode THE STORMY RED SKY ...

Dorothy L Sayers' amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey returns in this collection of mysteries introduced by crime writer Elizabeth George A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot & Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries All that was left of the garage was a heap of charred & smouldering beams In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body An accident said the police An accident said the widow She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months Murder said the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey
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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 When model soldier Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) mysteriously goes AWOL shortly after returning to the US from the front lines in Iraq his career officer father Hank (Tommy Lee Jones) enlists the aid of police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) in the search for his son His wife Joan (Susan Sarandon) also joins them to uncover the truth of his disappearance " After Iraq" & " Coming Home" Featurettes UK Exclusive Interview with Paul Haggis Additional Scenes Trailer Deleted Scenes Actors Tommy Lee Jones Charlize Theron Jason Patric Susan Sarandon James Franco Barry Corbin Josh Brolin Frances Fisher Wes Chatham Jake Mc Laughlin Mehcad Brooks Jonathan Tucker Wayne Duvall Victor Wolf & Brent Briscoe Director Paul Haggis Certificate 15 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hard of hearing Duration 2 hours & 1 minute (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 " Your son is missing" It’s the phone call every soldier’s father dreads What Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones) had never thought to fear was that this call would come when his son was home in the US on leave from service in Baghdad Facing military indifference to the disappearance Hank decides to take matters into his own hands & discover the truth about what’s happened to his son With the reluctant help of police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) Hank embarks on a journey that will bring him up against the closed ranks of the armed forces & the harsh realities of modern warfare Written & directed by Academy Award - winner Paul Haggis & starring three Academy Award -winning actors – Tommy Lee Jones Charlize Theron & Susan Sarandon – alongside James Franco Josh Brolin & Jason Patric In the Valley of Elah is the powerful story of one father’s search for the truth Extras Featurette After Iraq Featurette Coming Home Interview With Paul Haggis Additional Scenes TRAILER ...

When a body is found floating in London's Royal Albert Dock successful public relations expert Kay Christie is sent to quiet the media but things get complicated when it emerges that she knew the victim 320 pages Trevorrow Helen ...

It is the rainy season Drunk & delirious an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush In his opium-hazed last hours a priest finds his deserted shack & listens to his last words Half-awake & half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future in a very different world ...