Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This Box Set features the following Man To Man Live from his luxury apartment in London&s glittering East End Dean Learner club owner celebrity manager restaurateur entrepreneur & publisher of high-class gentlemen&s magazines invites you to meet some of his closest friends Man to Man Garth Marenhi&s Dark Place Celebrated horror genius Garth Marenghi introduces his long-lost television project a haunting medical drama set in Romford The best-selling writer is already known to hundreds as the creative force behind such classic chillers as The Ooze (can water die?) Afterbirth (a mutated placenta attacks Bristol) & Black Fang (rats learn to drive) Darkplace was originally filmed in the 1980s & has since earned a cult reputation as one of the most terrifying & radical television programmes ever made Even now Garth warns that the show which he describes as an effort to radicalise men&s minds may prove &too subversive too dangerous too damn scary& Actors Matthew Holness Richard Ayoade Matt Berry Alice Lowe Julian Barratt Stephen Merchant Graham Linehan & Noel Fielding Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 2007 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
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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 Opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) moves into her sister Andy&s (Beverly D& Angelo) Hollywood home after her own house is mysteriously ransacked But with Andy just about to publish a kiss-&-tell memoir which reveals uncomfortable information about her mobster ex-boyfriend (Harry Dean Stanton) the move only brings more trouble Joan then hires guard dog trainer Harry Bliss (Jack Nicholson) in an attempt to beef up the security & soon she & Bliss are embarking on an affair of their own in this light-hearted screwball comedy ...

'A valuable book for parents' Barbara Ellen Observer Why are boys three times more likely than girls to be suspended from school? & four times more likely to have behavioural difficulties? Why do men make up 75 of suicides & 95 of prisoners? From babyhood through school & adolescence to work & relationships fatherhood & old-age Man Up investigates the unique difficulties boys & men encounter today Through fascinating research & real-life case studies this book shows that change is possible & that there is room for men & boys to find greater fulfilment & happiness
- to the benefit of everyone
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play From the producer of Shaun of the Dead Hot Fuzz &38; Paul & the director of The Inbetweeners Movie comes MAN UP an honest heart-warming comedy about taking chances & rolling with the consequences One night two people on a first date like no other Meet Nancy (Lake Bell In A World) 34 single hung-over & exhausted by her well-meaning but clueless friends&8217; continual matchmaking Nancy is done with dating She&8217;s reached the end of her rope & is more than happy to hole up seal up & resign herself to a life alone That is until Jack (Simon Pegg Hot Fuzz) mistakes Nancy for his blind date at Waterloo Station & she does the unthinkable & just&8230; goes with it Because what if pretending to be someone else finally makes her man up & become her painfully honest awesomely unconventional & slightly unstable true self? Actors Simon Pegg Lake Bell Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Man Up! teaches the importance of self-reliance common sense & useful but often long-neglected skills With this book every man will be able to overcome whatever perils & difficulties he might encounter in the course of an adventurous life 160 pages bw line drawings throughout Green Rod ...

Have you ever wondered how to beat the bookies? How does your computer know you might like this song? & should you be worried about this? Everything we do leaves a trail of data behind from buying something on a credit card to using a GPS-enabled mobile phone
- whether you know it or not like it or not Big Data is now a part of modern life Heralded as the Fourth Industrial Revolution it is now more crucial than ever to learn about how data is affecting the way we live Exploring the numerous ways in which Big Data' has sometimes imperceptibly infiltrated our lives this accessible & informative book looks at one of the most important subjects facing us today & helps you get to grips with what that means for you With quirky humorous illustrations this important book distills the complexities of the most absorbing statistics & data of modern life showing us how understanding a little more can help improve your life
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Economics expert Stewart Cowley distils the complexities of modern-day money & our relationship with it explaining how you can use economics to your advantage & that understanding economics can improve your life Along the way you will discover how the statistics that govern our world are based on guesswork why stock markets are like a wandering drunken man what you need to live like a millionaire & why cooking has made man the dominant species on the planet Where is all the money? How does a country go bust? Should I get paid in Bitcoin? Wherever you go whatever you do however you live your life money plays a role Getting it keeping it & making more out of it has been one of man's major preoccupations for the past five thousand years From buying a sandwich to earning a wage going on holiday to playing the lottery how money & economics governs our world is fascinating & it's just about to get more curious; the arrival of modern banking crowd funding investments at the touch of a smartphone & virtual currencies means for many of us it is even more complex ...

In 2007 Adam then a toaster salesman was inspired by a film about a man attempting to change his life by swimming the English Channel to try to emulate the feat After a year of rigorous training without a coach Adam achieved his goal in 11 hours 35 minutes despite a ruptured bicep tendon leading to medical advice to give up long-distance swimming In 2011 after two operations & a change to his swimming style to take pressure off his injured shoulder he became the first Briton to achieve a two-way crossing from Spain to Morocco & back In the process he broke the British record one way Shortly afterwards the Ocean's Seven challenge was born a gruelling equivalent to the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge At first it seemed that injury would prevent Adam from participating but ignoring medical advice he developed an innovative technique
- the Ocean Walker stroke
- that would enable him to continue with the ultimate aim of completing this seemingly impossible feat Whether man would triumph over ocean or fail in the attempt forms the core of this extraordinary autobiography Always intriguing sometimes terrifying & occasionally very funny Adam's story is about sport in its truest form rather than competitions between teams & individuals it is about man against nature
- & against his own failings & demons In that it is truly inspirational


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Chris Diamantopoulos stars in this found footage horror from film-maker Adam Massey Doug Woods (Diamantopoulos) is the star & host of hit TV series & Man Vs& where he is dropped into the middle of nowhere & forced to survive on his own for five days recording his progress with a video diary In the latest instalment of the show Doug lands in the remote forest of Ontario Canada & he begins his usual routine of finding shelter & drinking water When he is awoken by a loud crash he realises he is not alone & ventures deeper into the woods to investigate Will he survive for the whole five days? ...

Linear B is Europe's oldest readable writing dating from the middle of the second millennium BC This book newly available in paperback tells the life story of Michael Ventris interlaced with that of his decipherment of Linear B First discovered in 1900 on clay tablets among the ruins of the Palace of Minos at Knossos Crete it remained a mystery for over fifty years until 1952 when Michael Ventris discovered that its signs did not represent an unknown language as previously believed but an archaic dialect of Greek more than 500 years older than the Greek of Homer Dubbed the Everest of archaeology the decipherment was all the more remarkable because Ventris was not a trained classical scholar but an architect by profession who had first heard of Linear B as a schoolboy An initial fascination became a lifelong obsession for this intriguing & contradictory man a gifted linguist but a divided soul " Excellent well researched & clearly presented compelling reading" (" The Times Literary Supplement") " Excellent Robinson understands how to make the complexities of pictograms clear to the non-expert The book gives many examples & would appeal to anyone interested in crosswords codes & cyphers but it also tells a fascinating human story" (" The Independent") "A wonderfully swift & clear biography written for the nonspecialist" (" The Economist") "A superb biography of Michael Ventris combining a warm account of his life with just enough technical details to satisfy those who have knowledge of linguistics or indeed of the classics It is a splendid read & a fine memorial to the split personality that enabled Ventris to decipher Minoan Linear B so triumphantly (" Current World Archaeology") ...