268 pages 90 Tables black & white; 9 Illustrations black & white Williams Barbara Bole (Rowan University New Jersey USA) ...

Some men take to gun-running because they have a longing for danger & adventure Girija Krishnan an Indian clerk is not one of them Deep in the Malayan jungle Girija stumbles on a cache of arms hidden during the communist insurgency Selling the arms will help Girija achieve his lifelong dream of founding a transport company Two American tourists in the Far East find more adventure than they bargained for when they get entangled in Girija's plans Greg & Dorothy Nilsen had wanted to go on an adventurous trip to see some out-of-the-way places So when Mr Tan in Hong Kong asks Greg to travel to Singapore & help with a business deal Greg is surprisingly receptive All he has to do is sign some papers & collect a handsome fee
- but this is Greg's first step into the dangerous world of post-colonial rebellions Chinese gun smugglers & Islamic revolutionaries This classic thriller won the Crime Writers' Association gold dagger in 1959
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Passages Third Edition is a two-level multi-skills course that will quickly & effectively move adult & young-adult learners of English from high-intermediate to the advanced level The Passages Third Edition Student's Books have been updated to offer fresh contemporary content relevant speaking & listening activities comprehensive grammar & vocabulary support enhanced reading skills development & a step-by-step academic writing strand Students will progressively elevate their language ability in both formal & informal communication through a variety of real-world contexts Frequent communication reviews will systematically consolidate learning while the popular Grammar Plus & new Vocabulary Plus sections in the back of the Student's Book provide additional skills support ...

Passages Third Edition is a two-level multi-skills course that will quickly & effectively move adult & young-adult learners of English from high-intermediate to the advanced level The Passages Third Edition interleaved spiral-bound Teacher's Edition with Assessment Audio CDCD-ROM Level 1 features complete teaching instructions audio scripts language summaries video activity worksheets & teaching notes along with the complete Student's Book & Workbook answer keys The Assessment CDCD-ROM provides a complete & flexible assessment program including oral & written quizzes as well as all tests in editable & printable formats ...

Passages Third Edition is a two-level multi-skills course that will quickly & effectively move adult & young-adult learners of English from high-intermediate to the advanced level The Workbook provides additional practice through six-page units covering target grammar vocabulary reading & writing skills The Workbook can be used for in-class work or assigned as homework ...

The Classic Account of Passchendaele
- Reissued for the First World War Centenary The third battle of Ypres culminating in a desperate
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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play A shell shocked veteran returns home to Canada where he is assigned to help the on-going recruitment drive needed to feed the war machine As he recovers from his experiences he falls for a war nurse whose younger brother cannot enlist due to a medical condition Desperate to serve his country David uses a fraudulent medical certificate & joins the army Michael feels he has no option but to follow him back to the Western Front & protect him from harm Both men are dispatched to the front line of Passchendaele
- a battle that became synonymous with the misery of the First World War & claimed over 600000 casualties Making of Passchendaele Actors Paul Gross Caroline Dhavernas Joe Dinicol Meredith Bailey Jim Mezon Michael Greyeyes Adam Harrington Gil Bellows James Kot & Jesse Frechette Director Paul Gross Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 50 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 A shell shocked veteran returns home to Canada where he is assigned to help the on-going recruitment drive needed to feed the war machine As he recovers from his experiences he falls for a war nurse whose younger brother cannot enlist due to a medical condition Desperate to serve his country David uses a fraudulent medical certificate & joins the army Michael feels he has no option but to follow him back to the Western Front & protect him from harm Both men are dispatched to the front line of Passchendaele
- a battle that became synonymous with the misery of the First World War & claimed over 600000 casualties
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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 The world sometimes seems divided into two camps those who recall their teenage years as having been an exhilarating dream & those who remember them as having been an infernal nightmarish hell With all this in mind it might do to describe Passe ton bac d&abord Graduate First Pass Your Bac First as Maurice Pialat&s " The Best Years of Our Lives" while bearing in mind all that such a description might suggest It&s an elastic unsparing portrait of teenage life in the suburbs of France from an era when the phrase "sixteen candles" still might have first conjured the image of flames A group of young actors including several local unknowns -- Philippe Marlaud Bernard Tronczyk Patrick Lepczynski & Sabine Haudepin (once the little girl of Truffaut&s Jules et Jim) among others -- make up the cluster of friends adrift beneath the twilight of their school years There&s drama violence & pot-induced laughs -- group holidays indiscriminate sex advances from teachers twenty-five years their seniors attempted moves to Paris & few prospects of passing the bac the final set of exams French students take before embarking into the world to do what? Marking the last work of Pialat&s turbulent cycle of films made in the 1970s Passe ton bac d&abord is the brilliant spiritual sequel to the great filmmaker&s feature-debut L& Enfance-nue -- picked up again from a vantage ten years on from the lives of the earlier film&s protagonists The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Maurice Pialat&s teenage drama in a beautiful new transfer for the first time on home video in the UK As part of the ongoing Masters of Cinema Series releases by Maurice Pialat the DVD of Passe ton bac d abord is released on 24 August 2009 Special Edition Including An 11-minute 2003 video interview with Pialat collaborator&s Arlette Langmann & Patrick Grandperret conducted by Serge Toubiana (former editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinema & director of the Cinemathèque Française) Après le bac After the Bac -- a 26-minute 2003 documentary featurette by Serge Toubiana & Sonia Buchman that catches up with the cast & setting of the film in the present era Original trailer for the film & trailers for the six other Maurice Pialat features available from The Masters of Cinema Series A lengthy booklet with a new essay by filmmaker & educator Jean-Pierre Gorin & newly translated interviews with Maurice Pialat ...

' Riveting Romantic characters & an immense world with no end in sight'
- Victoria Aveyard New York City present day In one night
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