An 18-year-old orphan is trapped in an arranged marriage to a cruel middle-aged man While she initially hoped for a better life she soon realised that she wants out of the arrangement When he turns up murdered she is the prime suspect arousing the ire of a nation Based on the true story of Victoria Thompson in New Zealand ...

This book is the first in ten years to present a comprehensive survey of art & architecture in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq northeast Syria & southeast Turkey) from 8000 BCE to the arrival of Islam in 636 BCE The book is richly illustrated with c 400 full-colour photographs & maps & time charts that guide readers through the chronology & geography of this part of the ancient Near East The book addresses such essential art historical themes as the origins of narrative representation the first emergence of historical public monuments & the earliest aesthetic commentaries It explains how images & monuments were made & how they were viewed It also traces the ancient practices of collecting & conservation & rituals of animating statues & of architectural construction Accessible to students & non-specialists the book expands the scope of standard surveys to cover art & architecture from the prehistoric to the Roman era including the legendary cities of Ur Babylon Nineveh Hatra & Seleucia on the Tigris ...

The age of the dinosaurs is back — this time safely behind glass! Build the best dino zoo & impress your guests in a frantic real-time puzzle game Dinosaurs are back & the world is clamoring to see them! In Mesozooic it&s your job as the director to plan & construct a zoo that will surpass any others Fill your zoo with a variety of crowd-pleasing features wow your visitors with towering dinosaur enclosures entertain them with prehistoric attractions & let them travel around the zoo in style on a network of monorails Over the course of three rounds players draft the most desirable features into their hand piece their zoo together in real-time & score each layout to see who has created the best zoo After drafting your favorite features you’ll have to organize them in your zoo—but things won’t always go as planned! Race against time by frantically sliding the cards one at a time to match up features & optimize your zoo’s layout Complete dinosaur enclosures connect monorail tracks & maintain your attractions to score points The zoo with the best layout will score the most points! When drafting cards you can choose to customize your zoo however you like Choose from attractions monorails dinosaur enclosures or topiary Guests will be dazzled by the larger-than-life attractions at your zoo Pterodactyls soar through the aviary dinosaur eggs hatch in the nursery & underwater creatures swim through the bright blue waters of the aquarium Your zoo can include any or all of these attractions! To keep things running smoothly attractions need to be regularly maintained In order to score attractions in your zoo you must keep a maintenance truck next to the attraction While visiting your zoo guests will need to get around Hopping on the monorail will quickly transport your guests to other corners of the park In order to be effective the monorail’s route must be connected If you can continue the track each connection will score points for your zoo The highlight of the zoo is of course the dinosaurs themselves! Let guests come face to face with these creatures from another age Create the perfect environment for gentle herbivores or powerful carnivores each in their own enclosure Each completed enclosure will score points Careful planning & quick thinking can give you the edge Astonish guests with the amazing creatures from a land before time Will guests flock to your dinosaur zoo? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From the director of Assault on Precinct 13 Jacques Mesrine last of the great French gangsters was declared Public Enemy Number One during his lifetime He regularly finished atop the list of newsmakers in opinion polls His spectacular death shot full of holes by police at close range in the middle of Paris put the crowning touch on his legend Nearly thirty years after his demise in 1979 the myth of Jacques Mesrine is very much alive Now for the first time this ambitious project brings his life to the big screen At once a thriller & a biopic the project is shot through with action & emotion yet remains as faithful as possible to factual reality Far from making a model or superhero out of Mesrine the film portrays the character in all its complexity including the darkest aspects What will emerge is the story of the man behind the icon Actors Vincent Cassel Cecile De France Gerard Depardieu Gilles Lellouche Roy Dupuis Elena Anaya Michel Duchaussoy Myriam Boyer Florence Thomassin Abdelhafid Metalsi Gilbert Sicotte Deano Clavet Mustapha Abourachid & Ludivine Sagnier Director Jean-François Richet Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages French Subtitles English ...

In Mess Keri Smith creator of Wreck This Journal asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance -- on purpose Smith dares readers to drop some kind of coloured liquid (ink tea coffee) onto a page from a good height (at least five feet); draw in the dark (or with eyes closed); creatively misspell words; paint a picture in a water-based medium (pen marker watercolour etc) & leave it out during a rain or snowstorm; & bury this book then dig it up This book is unlike any other you've encountered & will allow you to open yourself up to the possibility of creating something new & unexpected ...

In a moment of desolation on a windswept beach Garrett bottles his words of undying love for a lost woman & throws them to the sea My dearest Catherine I miss you my darling as I always do but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me & the song is that of our life together But the bottle is picked up by Theresa a mother with a shattered past who feels unaccountably drawn to this lonely man Who are this couple? What is their story? Beginning a search that will take her to a sunlit coastal town & an unexpected confrontation it is a tale that resonates with everlasting love & the enduring promise of redemption ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach & is determined to track down its author ...

An attractive & innovative four-level course for lower-secondary students In addition to extra practice of the language covered in the Student's Book there are extension exercises for fast finishers in the Workbook A ' Learning diary' helps students assess their progress & take ownership of their own learning The accompanying Audio CDCD-ROM

Includes:: the workbook audio recordings & a wealth of fun interactive CD-ROM exercises so students can practise what they've learnt at their own pace

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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 A quivering voice begs screenwriter Joel Brandt to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine Thinking it&s a prank Joel deletes the message The caller is found dead Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murderthen anotherthen another The killer has Joel&s attention & Joel now has the attention of the police Finding himself the prime suspect in a series of murders Joel discovers this psychotic killer has targeted him for a reason found within his body of work Will Joel be able to re-write his ending or be forced to pay the ultimate price? Actors Matthew Lillard Deborah Kara Unger Gina Holden Serge Houde Chiara Zanni Michael Eklund Xantha Radley Ken Kramer Brandon Jay McLaren Woody Jeffreys Ildiko Ferenczi Paul Lazenby Anna Galvin Biski Gugushe & Parm Soor Director Rob Cowan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
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As Europe faced its darkest days Stefan Zweig was a passionate voice for tolerance peace & a world without borders In these moving ardent essays speeches & articles composed before & during the Second World War one of the twentieth century's greatest writers mounts a defence of European unity against terror & brutality These haunting lost messages all appearing in English for the first time & some newly discovered distil Zweig's courage belief & richness of learning to give the essence of a writer; a spiritual will & testament to stand alongside his memoir The World of Yesterday Brief & yet intense they are a tragic reminder of a world lost to the 'bloody vortex of history' but also a powerful statement of one man's belief in the creative imagination & the potential of humanity with a resounding relevance today At a time of monetary crisis & political disorder of mounting border controls & barbed-wire fences Zweig's celebration of the brotherhood of peoples reminds us that there is another way The Nation One of liberalism's greatest defenders New Republic Zweig's impassioned pursuit of personal freedom seems more relevant than ever Newsweek These essays few in number but rich in content reveal the essence of Zweig's thought Messages from a Lost World is ably translated from German into English for an American readership by Will Stone making it an extraordinary & highly recommended addition to community & academic library collections Midwest Book Review In pieces from the 1920s & early 30s Zweig takes it as a moral imperative to champion the cause of peace by reminding his readers & listeners that humanity could no longer afford the sort of belligerent nationalism that had led them into the Great War Inside Higher Ed While it is disheartening to read these pieces today knowing how Zweig's life ended it is inspiring to see that they have been published However defeated Zweig might appear to contemporary readers however aloof or naive his idea of the European soul is still worth defending Northwest Review of Books Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family He studied in Berlin & Vienna & was first known as a translator & later as a biographer Zweig travelled widely living in Salzburg between the wars & enjoying literary fame His stories & novellas were collected in 1934 In the same year with the rise of Nazism he briefly moved to London taking British citizenship After a short period in New York he settled in Brazil It was here that he completed his acclaimed memoir The World of Yesterday a lament for the golden age of a Europe destroyed by two world wars The articles & speeches in Messages from a Lost World were written as Zweig a pacifist & internationalist witnessed this destruction & warned of the threat to his beloved Europe On 23 February 1942 Zweig & his second wife Lotte were found dead following an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press ...