'she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority & how much might be set apart for freedom in working' North & South is a novel about rebellion Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman & from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority & obedience Through the story of Margaret Hale the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class & gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers & her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder John Thornton This new revised & expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social & medical debate ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All episodes of the mini-series based on the book trilogy set in the 1800s in the years leading up to the Civil War Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) & George Hazard (James Read) form a strong friendship at the United States Military Academy However their friendship is later put to the test when they find each of their families are on opposing sides of the war The drama also stars Kirstie Alley with David Carradine Elizabeth Taylor Hal Holbrook Gene Kelly Robert Mitchum & Johnny Cash making guest appearances ...

Adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell&s novel Margaret Hale a southerner has newly moved to the industrial town of Milton When the workers of a cotton mill strike Margaret immediately takes their side already displaying a strong dislike for the mill&s owner John Thornton As the conflict between Margaret & Thornton intensifies however Margaret finds herself doing the unspeakablefalling in love ...

Tracklist A1 Soft Coda 420 A2 Chirality 404 A3 Mirador 436 A4 Interval 404 A5 Empire Waste 545 B1 Savage With Barometer 532 B2 Expert With Altimeter 516 B3 The Receiver 557 B4 Downhill 354 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play American classic comedy drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock Advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) finds himself in a case of mistaken identity as members of a strange organisation believe he is a man by the name of George Kaplan due to a miscommunication With no other option he flees across the country being pursued by enemies of the government who are convinced that he is a secret agent He finds a friend in Eve Kendall (Eve Marie Saint) who helps to conceal him during a perilous train journey but he soon discovers that she is not all she seems Actors Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason Jessie Royce Landis Leo G Carroll Directors Alfred Hitchcock Writers Ernest Lehman Producers Alfred Hitchcock Herbert Coleman Format PAL Subtitled Language English Subtitles English Spanish Danish Finnish French German Italian Norwegian Swedish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired Italian German English Region All Regions (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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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 Summer 1936 Bearing the expectations of a nation & their Fuhrer two climbers set out to be the first to conquer the "last great problem of the Alps" But soon their ascent becomes a race for survival threatened by injury & storms of unimaginable fury Before long their quest becomes a pusle-pounding race against both time & the awesome forces of nature Shot through with scenes of gut-wrenching peril rivaling those of Touching The Void Northface is a powerful breathtaking tale of human endurance on a terrifying landscape; towering over 1800m the North Face has claimed over 60 lives & earned itself the grimly appropriate nickname "the murder wall" ...

For one long intense week in October 1962 it looked like the world might end as the Cuban Missile Crisis brought with it an East-West st&-off & the possibility of nuclear holocaust This dark bittersweet novel evokes the fear & confusion of the period through the experience of a young boy caught up in South Africa's political unrest following the Sharpeville massacre Nelson Mandela's arrest & the State of Emergency Paul sensitive isolated & desperate to fit in despite his English parents has the chance to join the most popular pupil's gang & will do whatever is required to please its Afrikaans' ringleader When a friend of Paul's parents is put under house-arrest the boys become suddenly aware of a world beyond the school boundaries the far-right is in the ascendant & South Africa is no longer safe Added to this sense of unease Paul's growing realisation of his sexuality sets him still further apart from his peers Now a man in his sixties & living abroad he is drawn back to Pretoria to revisit his boyhood home & make sense of the part he unwittingly played in the arrest of a charismatic teacher & his African lover ...

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When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War It began over 75 years ago in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War The battle lines are no longer drawn but they linger on unwittingly or not in conflict zones such as Syria Somalia & Ukraine In an era of mass-produced AK-47s & ICBMs one such flashpoint was Korea Without warning at 400 am on 25 June 1950 North Korean artillery laid down a heavy bombardment on the Ongjin Peninsula followed four hours later by a massive armoured air amphibious & infantry breach of the ill-conceived post-war border that was the 38 north line of latitude At 1100 am North Korea issued a declaration of war against the Republic of Korea Three days later the South Korean capital Seoul fell The attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that Communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independent nations & will now use armed invasion & war A week after his reaction to the North Korean invasion US President Harry S Truman in compliance with a UN Security Council resolution appointed that iconic Second World War veteran General Douglas Mac Arthur commander-in-chief of forces in Korea The first in a six-volume series on the Korean War this publication considers those first few fateful days in June 1950 that would cement north south antagonism to this day the pariah state that is communist North Korea a seemingly increasing threat to an already tenuous global peace ...