We live more & more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work correspond with friends & loved ones & go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills streaming videos reading the news & listening to music Without thinking twice we operate with the understanding that the data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future There is an abstract idea of privacy that we invoke & concrete rules about our privacy that we can point to if we are pressed Nonetheless too often we are uneasily reminded that our privacy is not invulnerable-the data tracks we leave through our health information the internet & social media financial & credit information personal relationships & public lives make us continuously prey to identity theft hacking & even government surveillance A great deal is at stake for individuals groups & societies if privacy is misunderstood misdirected or misused Popular understanding of privacy doesn't match the heat the concept generates though understandably With a host of cultural differences as to how privacy is understood globally & in different religions & with ceaseless technological advancements it is an increasingly slippery & complex topic In this clear & accessible book Leslie & John G Francis guide us to an understanding of what privacy can mean & why it is so important Drawing upon their extensive joint expertise in law philosophy political science regulatory policy & bioethics they parse the consequences of the forfeiture however great or small of one's privacy ...

Private First Class William Hudson was a combat technician in the United States Colonial Marine Corps part of 2nd Battalion Bravo Team He was a member of the combat unit deployed to Acheron aboard the USS Sulaco in 2179 to investigate the sudden loss of contact with the colony of Hadley&s Hope He was among the last to perish in the incident eventually becoming host for a Xenomorph Chestburster His body was later found by Corporal Christopher Winter from the USS Sephora during a subsequent investigation of the colony Standing 3-34" tall Hudson comes equipped with a pulse rifle pistol motion tracker welding torch M3 pattern personal armor & M10 pattern ballistic helmet ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A pampered socialite (Goldie Hawn) is so distraught after the wedding-ni ght death of her husband (Albert Brooks) that she up & joins the Army She whines she pouts she brings the corps down until of course she gets with it Eileen Brennan received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as the butch Captain Doreen Lewis Benjamin&s nemesis Funny & winning the film takes an odd turn when Benjamin is assigned to the international theatre & gets involved with a dour Frenchman (Armand Assante) Of course it&s all part of Benjamin&s growth as a person & the part confirmed that Hawn had gone from a go-go girl to a "you go" girl ...

A history lesson they'll never forget & neither will you Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin & believes she's seen the worst of people in her previous life with the Berlin police force That is until Chris her colleague
- & until recently her fiance
- is found dead brutally murdered in an old slaughterhouse outside the city The slaughterhouse is filled with bodies But just as Private begin their investigations the building explodes wiping out all evidence of the crimes & nearly killing Mattie & her team Mattie soon realises that a masked killer is picking off Chris's childhood friends one by one & destroying the trail But who wants the past buried so badly? What is the truth about that slaughterhouse? & will Mattie become the killer's next victim?

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Capturing the anxious self-aware mood of young college grads in the noughties Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century The novel's four whip-smart narrators
- idealistic Cory Internet-lurking Will awkward Henrik & vicious Linda
- are torn between fixing the world & cannibalizing it In boisterous prose that ricochets between humour & pain the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area's maze of tech start-ups protestors gentrifiers karaoke bars house parties & cultish self-help seminars washing up in each other's lives once again

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" Colorful & relevant " -Slate Nominated for three Eisner Awards Panel Syndicate&s digital comics sensation THE PRIVATE EYE is finally coming to print in this gorgeous deluxe hardcover edition Set in an inevitable future of where everyone has a secret identity THE PRIVATE EYE is an eerily prescient sci-fi mystery about an unlicensed private investigator who stumbles onto the most important case of his life The series is set in 2076 a time after "the cloud has burst" revealing everyone&s secrets As a result there is no more Internet & people are excessively guarded about their identity to the point of appearing only masked in public ...

James Patterson's Book Shots Short fast-paced high-impact entertainment Private Johannesburg is closing down After the tragic suicide of his partner Khosi Joey Montague is packing up the branch of Private they'd set up in Johannesburg with US owner Jack Morgan The investigation agency will be scaled down until Joey can recover from this devastating loss As he's loading the removal van Joey receives a call from an American woman who has just landed in the city & needs his help But what at first seems to be a simple protection job soon becomes a matter of life & death
- not just for his client but for Joey himself
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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 This award-winning series Life of a Masterpiece reveals the full & fascinating stories behind famous works of art not just how they came to be created but also how they influenced others & came to have a life of their own in the modern world The works of art featured here are both instantly familiar & profoundly mysterious Revolutionary in their conception & iconic years after their execution they each have their own compelling stories For behind the beautiful canvases & sculptures are tales of political revolution wartime escapes massive ego clashes social scandal financial wrangling & shocking violence The artists & works included in this collection are Renaissance Masterpieces
- Sandro Botticelli La Primavera; Paolo Uccello The Battle of San Romano; Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper; Piero della Francesca The Resurrection Seventeenth Century Masters
- Rembrandt van Rijn The Night Watch; Johannes Vermeer The Art of Painting; Diego Velazquez The Rokeby Venus Masterpieces 1800 to 1850
- Francisco Goya The Third of May 1808; Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People; Katsushika Hokusai The Great Wave Masterpieces 1851 to 1900
- Edouard Manet Le Dejeuner Sur L& Herbe; James Mc Neill Whistler Portrait of the Artist’s Mother; Edvard Munch The Scream Impressionism & the Post Impressionists
- Auguste Renoir Dance at the Moulin de la Galette; Vincent Van Gogh The Sunflowers; Georges Seurat A Sunday on La Grande Jatte 1884 Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century
- Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d& Avignon; Gustav Klimt The Kiss; Salvador Dali Christ of St John of the Cross Masterpieces of Sculpture
- Michelangelo David; Edgar Degas Little Dancer Aged 14; Auguste Rodin The Kiss In this fascinating series key works of art are investigated & the intricate details of their lives revealed
- the history contemporary reactions & legacies of each are illustrated Director 2entertain Certificate Suitable for 15 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Subtitles Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired








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For the first time here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men & ruthless dictators who ever lived Mao Zedong had control over more people for a longer period than any other leader in history In this intimate biography we learn not only about the imperial grandeur of his life in a country racked by poverty & the vicious infighting at his court but also about his extraordinary personal habits that equal those of deceased Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Il another infamous & idiosyncratic dictator equally deified & worshipped by his followers Mao's teeth turned black because he would only brush them with tea; he hardly ever bathed but then received Krushchev in his swimming pool where he obliged the Soviet President to join him Li's revealing account also chronicles Mao's voracious sexual appetite that led to the seduction of thousands of peasant women because he believed in the mythical healing power of sex Zhisui Li spent more time with Mao than perhaps any other person He witnessed first-hand the catastrophic events that Mao's dotage & paranoia sparked in a country that revered him as a demi-god The Private Life of Chairman Mao is a landmark biography as fascinating as it is important to the understanding of modern China & a must buy for fans of Wild Swans ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play David Attenborough takes the viewer on a guided tour of plants& lives travelling growing flowering their struggle with other plants & animals & the ingenious ways they adapt to even the harshest conditions Using time-lapse photography the programme shows us top plant-life action ...