In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen & his team made medical history They discovered a new realm of consciousness a twilight zone somewhere between life & death They called this the Grey Zone The people who inhabit the Grey Zone are frequently labelled as being irretrievably lost with no awareness & no sense of self The shocking truth is that they are often still there an intact mind trapped deep inside a broken body & brain hearing everything around them experiencing emotions thoughts pleasure & pain just like the rest of us Not quite living & not quite gone they have existed silently in these shadowlands But now through Dr Owen's pioneering techniques we can talk to them
- & they can talk back These shifting boundaries of consciousness have shaken the architecture of our sense of self We have known for a long time that a body does not define a person
- but what if a brain does not define a mind? What does it mean if a mind can exist unharmed within a deeply damaged brain? Through cutting edge research & case studies that are poignant tragic & uplifting Dr Owen maps this inner universe of the self showing us what it means to be alive & human

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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 James Marsden (X-Men Days of Future Past) Billy Bob Thornton (Entourage) Thomas Jane (The Mist) & Piper Perabo (Looper) star in this nerve-shredding thriller A sheriff whose mission is protecting the threatened grizzly bear suddenly finds himself conflicted when a massive rogue grizzly wreaks havoc on a local Alaskan community Enlisting the help of his estranged brother he enters the labyrinthian Grizzly Maze to track down his wife who s gone missing before the bear does As the body count mounts & an infamous bear hunter enters the fray determined to take down the bear he s been waiting for his whole life no one is safe in the harsh Alaskan wilds ...

When Allen Allenson scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a wild star sector where they encroaching he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth improve his family fortunes & gather enough lucre to make a good marriage But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a rube! ...

When Allen Allenson scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a “wild” star sector where they’re encroaching he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth improve his family’s fortunes – & gather enough lucre to make a good marriage But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a rube Worse Riders the beings who naturally ply the wilderness between the stars are playing their own deadly political games – against the Terrans against the colonials & against one young greenhorn commander in particular naïf young Allen whom they figure they can manipulate to do their bidding The one thing nobody has counted on is the fact that Allen while young & inexperienced & much to his own amazement happens to be a hero in the making About the Author The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School & sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam & Cambodia with the 11th Cav the Blackhorse He learned new skills saw interesting sights & met exotic people who hadn&t run fast enough to get away Dave returned to become Chapel Hill&s Assistant Town Attorney & to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences Dave describes war from where he saw it the loader&s hatch of a tank in Cambodia His military experience combined with his formal education in history & Latin has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF & fantasy His bestselling Hammer&s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF He often wishes he had a less interesting background Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina Dr John Lambshead is senior research scientist in marine biodiversity at the Natural History Museum London He is also the Visiting Chair at Southampton University Oceanography & Regent’s Lecturer University of California He also writes military history & designs computer & fantasy games ...

A TV production which stars Ron Moody as the sorcerer Rothgo whose source of power has been stolen by Belor
- a witch-like manifestation
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NTRY 2 IN CITIZEN SERIES SEQUEL TO INTO THE HINTERLANDS Science fiction adventure on the frontier realms of empire written by biological scientist Dr John Lambshead & nationally best-selling David Drake THE RIGHT MAN FOR A VERY BAD JOBThe Cutter Stream colonies were at peace If everybody behaved reasonably that peace could last a thousand years Allen Allenson had known war; it had made him peaceful & reasonable He was far too experienced to believe the same was true of all his fellow colonists however let alone the government of the distant homeworld across the Bight War was coming a war that the colonies had to win if they were ever to be more than prison camps & a dumping ground for incompetent noblemen The experience that had caused Allenson to hate war made him the only man who could lead the colonial army Allenson knew that he wasn&t really a general but he understood his fellow colonists better than any homeworld general could He would free the Cutter Stream or he would die trying What Allen Allenson would not do what he would never do was quit Meet the Author David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted He served the next two years in the Army spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam & Cambodia Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke & was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill North Carolina He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981 His books include the genre-defining & bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series the nationally bestselling RCN series including In the Stormy Red Sky The Road of Danger The Sea without a Shore & with John Lambshead Citizen series entries Into the Hinterlands & Into the Maelstrom Dr John Lambshead is a retired senior research scientist in marine biodiversity at the Natural History Museum London He is also the Visiting Chair at Southampton University Oceanography & Regent’s Lecturer University of California He writes military history & designs computer & fantasy games He is the author of swashbuckling fantasy Lucy’s Blade contemporary urban fantasy Wolf in Shadow & coauthor with nationally best-selling author David Drake of science fiction adventures Into the Hinterlands & Into the Maelstrom ...

Entry 2 in the Citizen series & sequel to Into the Hinterlands by biological scientist Dr John Lambshead & nationally best-selling David Drake The Right Man for a Very Bad Job! The Cutter Stream colonies were at peace If everybody behaved reasonably that peace could last a thousand years Allen Allenson had known war; it had made him peaceful & reasonable He was far too experienced to believe the same was true of all his fellow colonists however let alone the government of the distant homeworld across the Bight War was coming a war that the colonies had to win if they were ever to be more than prison camps & a dumping ground for incompetent noblemen The experience that had caused Allenson to hate war made him the only man who could lead the colonial army Allenson knew that he wasn&t really a general but he understood his fellow colonists better than any homeworld general could He would free the Cutter Stream or die trying What Allen Allenson would not do what he would never do was quit! ...

A life-changing memoir of the power of mindfulness & how it helped a boy without hope to find a new future Now a leading neurosurgeon Dr James Doty shares practical tips for meditation & visualisation techniques in this inspiring true story of the woman who taught him to think magically 288 pages Doty Dr James R ...

What price for peace on Wrath? The blood-curdling sequel to science-fiction epic The Sign of One Hiding out in a Gemini stronghold Kyle is finding out that being a hero is a bit of a let-down The rebels may have struck a blow against the Slayer army but victory is far from won & Wrath is as hostile as ever Kyle finds himself caught between his ident brother Colm who he saved from certain death & his friend Sky who is desperate to follow up a trail that may or may not lead to her lost sister When the Slayers offer a peace deal with a sting in its tail the rebels are split into factions
- with Kyle at its centre There's no choice but to run
- & this time the path leads deep into Reaper territory into the No-Zone Eugene Lambert is a graduate of Bath Spa's MA in Writing for Young People His first novel The Sign of One was shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award Falling somewhere between Mad Max Star Wars & John Wyndham's The Chrysalids it's a perfect young adult book series for readers who have enjoyed The Hunger Games Michael Grant's GONE books & The Maze Runner

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A reflective & wide-ranging exploration of an organic material that has played a key part in Scottish life for thousands of years 272 pages Illustrations color Crawford Robin A ...