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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces or can produce well developed human beings' Mill's four essays ' On Liberty' ' Utilitarianism' ' Considerations on Representative Government' & ' The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes
- whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the late nineteenth century tackling as they do the appropriate grounds for protecting individual liberty the basic principles of ethics the benefits & the costs of representative institutions & the central importance of gender equality in society These essays are central to the liberal tradition but their interpretation & how we should understand their connection with each other are both contentious In their introduction Mark Philp & Frederick Rosen set the essays in the context of Mill's other works & argue that his conviction in the importance of the development of human character in its full diversity provides the core to his liberalism & to any defensible account of the value of liberalism to the modern world 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
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'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to themnow that I am at leisure' Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Rome's greatest orator had a career of intense activity in politics the law courts & the administration mostly in Rome His fortunes however followed those of Rome & he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey Crassus & Caesar Cicero though a senior statesman struggled to maintain his independence & it was during these years that frustrated in public life he first started to put his excess energy stylistic brilliance & superabundant vocabulary into writing these works of philosophy The three dialogues collected here are the most accessible of Cicero's works written to his friends Atticus & Brutus with the intent of popularizing philosophy in Ancient Rome They deal with the everyday problems of life; ethics in business the experience of grief & the difficulties of old age ...

In the first century BC Marcus Tullius Cicero orator statesman & defender of republican values created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship religion death fate & scientific inquiry A pragmatist at heart Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal & ethical drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties the questions of free will & the justification of any creative endeavour This lively lucid new translation from Thomas Habinek editor of Classical Antiquity & the Classics & Contemporary Thought book series makes Cicero's influential ideas accessible to every reader ...