James Bond goes undercover in the treacherous Swiss Alps in this action-packed epic filled with artillery laden ski pursuits incredible stunts & nonstop thrills! George Lazenby leaps into the role of Agent 007 with supreme confidence & undeniable charisma even finding love with the beautiful & seductive Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) But first Bond must stop evil genius Blofeld (Telly Savalas) from realising a germ warfare plot that could kill millions ...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTON' He was a man with many years of dirty dangerous memories
- a spy' James Bond has had
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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 James Bond goes undercover in the treacherous Swiss Alps in this action-packed epic filled with artillery laden ski pursuits incredible stunts & nonstop thrills George Lazenby leaps into the role of Agent 007 with supreme confidence & undeniable charisma even finding love with the beautiful & seductive Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) But first Bond must stop evil genius Blofeld (Telly Savalas) from realising a germ warfare plot that could kill millions ...

'A novelist of immense power uncompromising & original' Colm Toibin'I can feel the passage of time as though it were coursing through my veins along with my blood' One June day in 1955 Alejandra last of a noble yet decaying Argentinian dynasty shoots her father locks herself up with his body & sets fire to them both What caused this act of insanity? Does the answer lie with Martin her troubled lover Bruno the writer who worshipped her mother or with her father Fernando himself demonic creator of the strange ' Report on the Blind'? Their lives entwine in Ernesto Sabato's dark epic of passion philosophy & paranoia in Buenos Aires ' Bewitched baroque monumental' Newsweek ...

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's & a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history It

Includes:: the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent war with Iraq Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyses not just the events that conspire to cause disaster but why crucial intelligence is so often ignored misunderstood or spun by politicians & seasoned generals alike This book analyses how Hitler's intelligence staff misled him in a bid to outfox their Nazi Party rivals; the bureaucratic bungling behind Pearl Harbor; how in-fighting within American intelligence ensured they were taken off guard by the Viet Cong's 1968 Tet Offensive; how over confidence political interference & deception facilitated Egypt & Syria's 1973 surprise attack on Israel; why a handful of marines & a London taxicab were all Britain had to defend the Falklands; the mistaken intelligence that allowed Saddam Hussein to remain in power until the second Iraq War of 2003; the truth behind the US failure to run a terrorist warning system before the 911 WTC bombing; & how governments are increasingly pressurising intelligence agencies to 'spin' the party-political line

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' Over himself over his own body & mind the individual is sovereign' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated While many of his immediate predecessors & contemporaries from Adam Smith to Godwin & Thoreau had celebrated liberty it was Mill who organized the idea into a philosophy & put it into the form in which it is generally known today The editor of this essay Gertrude Himmelfarb records responses to Mill's books & comments on his fear of 'the tyranny of the majority' Dr Himmelfarb concludes that the same inconsistencies which underlie On Liberty continue to complicate the moral & political stance of liberals today ...

In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writer John Stuart Mill explores the risks & responsibilities of liberty Examining the tyranny that can come both from government & from the herd-like opinion of the majority Mill proposes a freedom to think unite & pursue our pleasures as the most important freedoms as long as we cause no harm to others GREAT IDEAS Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other They have inspired debate dissent war & revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked & comforted They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are

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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is the most important of Britain's nineteenth-century philosophers His writings & activities were many & varied The works reprinted in this volume were first published during a particularly prolific ten-year span from 1859 to 1869 On Liberty (1859) Considerations on Representative Government (1861) Utilitarianism (1863) & The Subjection of Women (1869) are four of his most famous works; they are central pillars on which Mill's high reputation rests Also included for the light they shed on Mill & his times are two of his lesser-known works
- The Contest in America' (1862) written in the context of the American Civil War; & his erudite but accessible Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews (1867) Mill contributed to several contemporary debates including ones about where to draw the proper boundaries between the liberty of the individual' on one hand & the security of the state' on the other Living as we do in a world where those boundaries continue to be tested & contested Mill's timeless writings are of no less value to us today than they were to those who read them when they were first published
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A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age the political & social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism his great work On Liberty argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a 'tyranny of opinion' in which minority views are suppressed if they do not conform with those of the majority Written in the same period as On Liberty shortly after the death of Mill's beloved wife & fellow-thinker Harriet The Subjection of Women stresses the importance of equality for the sexes Together the works provide a fascinating testimony to the hopes & anxieties of mid-Victorian England & offer a compelling consideration of what it truly means to be free ...