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- Paul Black Dylan Wiliam Christine Harrison
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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 Michael Mosley embarks on an astonishing voyage through the world&s most complex organism
- you Inside The Human Body
- takes us deep under our skin where we are dwarfed by even the smallest cell where blood vessels become vast cathedrals & the tiniest cluster of cilia becomes an expansive forest Our body&s almost infinite ability to adapt & surprise is illustrated by the stories of remarkable characters whose bodies allow them to do amazing things live in incredible places & push their physiology to the limits Spectacular photography shows human behaviour in super slow motion revealing elements of ourselves that we are completely unaware of Certificate PGLanguages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired

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Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world & yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 911 hijackers It is a modern state driven by contemporary technology & yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs & practices rolled back to match those of the Prophet Muhammed over a thousand years ago In a world where events in the Middle East continue to have geopolitical consequences far beyond the region's boundaries an understanding of this complex nation is essential With Inside the Kingdom British journalist & bestselling author Robert Lacey has given us one of the most penetrating & insightful looks at Saudi Arabia ever produced More than twenty years after he first moved to the country to write about the Saudis at the end of the oil boom Lacey has returned to find out how the consequences of the boom produced a society at war with itself Filled with stories told by a broad range of Saudis from high princes & ambassadors to men & women on the street Inside the Kingdom is in many ways the story of the Saudis in their own words ...

What drives Marine Le Pen & France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways or is she merely rebranding its old ideas & policies for a new era? In the age of Brexit & Trump France too has seen a growing audience for identity-based politics Under ' Marine' the FN is enjoying unprecedented success But what's her secret? This is a probing investigation into the philosophy of Marine Le Pen's FN It seeks answers in her speeches in the history of French nationalism & in revealing interviews with those on the far right--including Jean-Marie Le Pen himself Michel Eltchaninoff exposes a vision of France tyrannised by liberalism & seduced by the offer of an uncompromising alternative a Republic 'beyond Left & Right' defined by its enemies & aligned with Putin's Russia Whatever Marine Le Pen is thinking she has not forgotten the FN's roots The French far right is now stronger than ever ...

What is Vladimir Putin thinking? Does he deserve his reputation as a modern Machiavelli? & where does he get his ideas? The Russian president's landmark speeches interviews & policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past & present from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky & Solzhenitsyn They offer powerful visions of strong leaders & the Russian nation they value conservatism & the Slavic spirit They root morality in Orthodoxy & Russian identity in the historic struggle with the West Today Putin manages & manipulates those same ideas in his 'defence' of 130 million ethnic Russians against the world With the annexation of Crimea the war in Syria & shock election results across the West the challenge of decrypting his worldview has become more pressing than ever From a Eurasian Union to a new Russian Empire this is a revealing tour of Kremlin doctrine & strategy viewed through its philosophical roots ...

Inside the Star Wars Empire is the very funny & insightful tell-all about the two decades author Bill Kimberlin spent as a department director at Lucas Film Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) the special effects studio founded by the legendary filmmaker George Lucas 272 pages 69 Halftones color; 18 Halftones black & white Kimberlin Bill ...

In this the second of Geoff Moore's classic three-part marketing series Moore provides highly useful guidelines for moving products beyond early adopters & into the lucrative mainstream market Updated for the Harper Business Essentials series with a new author's note Once a product crosses the chasm it is faced with the tornado a make or break time period where mainstream customers determine whether the product takes off or falls flat In Inside the Tornado Moore details various marketing strategies that will teach marketers how reach these customers & how to take advantage of living inside the tornado in order to reap the benefits of mainstream adoption ...

To be alive is to be inside the wave always travelling until it breaks & is gone These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living & the dead
- the underworld & the human living world
- & the exquisitely intense being of both They possess a spare eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss & anguish of the voyage Inside the Wave is Helen Dunmore's first new poetry book since The Malarkey (2012) whose title-poem won the National Poetry Competition Her other books include Glad of These Times (2007) & Out of the Blue Poems 1975-2001 (2001) a comprehensive selection drawing on seven previous collections Her final poem ' Hold out your arms' written shortly before her death & not included in the first printing of Inside the Wave has now been added to the reprint

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The secret diary of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman & the real story behind the BBC ABSOLUTELY FASHION documentary& One of the great social diaries of our time should become a classic& Sunday Times& Eye-popping brilliantly candid& Evening Standard What a year for Vogue! Alexandra Shulman reveals the emotional & logistical minefield of producing the 100th anniversary issue (that Duchess of Cambridge cover surprise) organizing the star-studded Vogue 100 Gala working with designers from Victoria Beckham to Karl Lagerfeld & contributors from David Bailey to Alexa Chung All under the continual scrutiny of a television documentary crew But narrowly-contained domestic chaos hovers
- spontaneous combustion in the kitchen a temperamental boiler & having to send bin day reminders all the way from Milan fashion week For anyone who wants to know what the life of a fashion magazine editor is really like or for any woman who loves her job this is a rich honest & sharply observed account of a year lived at the centre of British fashion & culture
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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 Based on the article The Man Who Knew Too Much THE INSIDER depicts the true story of Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) a successful scientist who is fired from the Brown & Williamson tobacco company for objecting to certain lab tests He signs a confidentiality agreement to ease the company&s nervousness but when hotshot 60 MINUTES producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) recruits Wigand to help him decipher some technical documents he realizes that there&s a bigger story hiding inside Wigand Eventually Bergman convinces him to break the agreement & sit for an interview with Mike Wallace (Christopher Plummer) The resulting media frenzy causes Wigand to lose the support of his family & forces Bergman to confront the harsh reality of his business in addition Wigand is recruited by the state of Mississippi to testify on its behalf that cigarettes are in fact addictive To pay the rent he begins teaching high school chemistry waiting for Bergman to convince the network to air the piece Buckling under corporate pressure CBS pulls the plug which sparks Bergman to leak information to the press As Wigand deals with his personal dilemma Bergman battles the corporation that begins to show its true colors Both men must decide for themselves if they&ve made the right choices Like his other films THIEF MANHUNTER & HEAT director Michael Mann takes on the theme of a man trying to do the right thing while trapped by circumstances that could destroy him Once again Mann pulls terrific performances from his entire cast Crowe is outstanding as Jeff Wigand the beleaguered insider who risks everything for the truth Pacino is suitably tenacious as the once-radical producer Bergman & Christopher Plummer is excellent as news anchor Mike Wallace With its brilliant performances & stunning cinematography THE INSIDER is an emotionally intense film that reveals the consequences of standing up for the truth ...