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") ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play James Stewart & Doris Day star in this exciting Hitchcock suspense yarn complete with murder assassination plots kidnapping & a hair raising climax Dr Ben Mackenna (Stewart) & his wife Jo (Day) take their ten year old son on holiday to Morocco & get caught up in a web of intrigue when he is kidnapped They are forced to travel to London to find him which results in a memorable murder sequence at the Royal Albert Hall & Que Sera Sera& sung by Doris Day won an Oscar (Best Song 1955) Actors James Stewart Doris Day Brenda De Banzie Daniel Gelin Bernard Miles Reggie Nalder Richard Wattis Noel Willman Christopher Olsen Ralph Truman Mogens Wieth Alan Mowbray Hillary Brooke Alix Talton & Yves Brainville Director Alfred Hitchcock Certificate PGYear 1956 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Mono Additional Languages German Subtitles English for hearing impaired ; English ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; German ; Norwegian ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 55 minutes (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 Ranking with Stagecoach & The Searchers as one of the greatest of its genre The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a modern-day western to beat all westerns John Ford whose very name is synonymous with the genre directed an ideal cast Jimmy Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid the fair village of Shinbone of its number one nuisance & bad man Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) & as if all that weren&t enough the biggest star that ever aimed a six-shooter plays the Man of the title John Wayne Super sincere Stewart & rugged rancher Wayne also share the same love interest (Vera Miles) One gets the gunman but the other gets the gal When the legend becomes fact print the legend ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Steve Myers (Billy Connolly) gave up his job as a lawyer to become a fisherman But when a storm destroys his only asset his boat & the insurance company refuses to pay out for &an act of God& he decides to react Re-registering as a lawyer Myers then sues the insurance company & the Church (who represent God) whilst local journalist Anna Redmond (Julia Davis) begins to follow the case Actors Billy Connolly Judy Davis Colin Friels Wendy Hughes Bille Brown Directors Mark Joffe Writers Don Watson John Clarke John Collee Patrick Mc Carville Producers Ben Gannon Brian Abel Irene Dobson Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Two versions of Dziga Vertov&s fascinating montage of life in Moscow are included on this tape The first is the original silent version with music by the Alloy Orchestra The second version

Includes:: a commentary by Yuri Tsivian Russian silent cinema historian Vertov makes innovative early use of dissolves split screen slow motion & freeze frames in this fascinating document of life in Twenties Russia The DVD also

Includes:: the option of watching the film with a new soundtrack composed by the In the Nursery orchestra



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Under the intense summer sun on the Essex coast a gull falls from the sky & strikes an unassuming local council worker sitting on the beach below From that moment on he is obsessed a crazed visionary repeatedly depicting the scene & the unknown figure within in it which filled his view at the moment of impact The mysterious beauty of his creations draw others to him but can they lay hold of that which possess him? & what of his anonymous muse? ...

James Bond has been marked for death & he need all his lethal instincts & seductive charm to survive in this action-packed adventure! Roger Moore returns as Agent 007 & faces off in a deadly game of cat-&-mouse with assassin Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) Featuring a wild automobile chase through Bangkok & Bond stunning confrontation with an entire martial-arts school The Man with the Golden Gun delivers nonstop excitement! ...