Silver award winner in the Made For Mums Awards 2017 children's books series category Find out all about wriggling reptiles & amazing amphibians! DKfindout! Reptiles & Amphibians takes kids close to all kinds of cold blooded creatures with beautiful photography lively illustrations & key curriculum information The DKfindout! series will satisfy any child who is eager to learn & acquire facts
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Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher Essentially an inquiry into morality Republic also contains crucial arguments & insights into many other areas of philosophy It is also a literary masterpiece the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary reader who is carried along by the wit & intensity of the dialogue & by Plato's unforgettable images of the human condition This new lucid translation by Robin Waterfield is complemented by full explanatory notes & an up-to-date critical introduction 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 ...

Translated by John Llewelyn Davies & David James Vaughan With an Introduction by Stephen Watt The ideas of Plato (c 429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher AN Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato's work Beyond philosophy he has exerted a major influence on the development of Western literature politics & theology The Republic deals with the great range of Plato's thought but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society & individual It combines argument & myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by desires & appetites Regarded by some as the foundation document of totalitarianism by others as a call to develop the full potential of humanity the Republic remains a challenging & intensely exciting work ...

The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows & furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Platos text with natural readability while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship & insights into Plato's thought since publication of the first edition in 1974 A new introduction index & bibliography by Professor Reeve are included in this new rendering ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Carol (Catherine Deneuve) a young French girl living in Sixties& London is repelled yet fascinated by men Her radiant beauty attracts the opposite sex but she shrinks from their advances Her days are spent in an intensely feminine atmosphere working in a beauty salon & clinging to her sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux) for love Things start to unwind however when Helen goes away with her married boyfriend (Ian Hendry) As Carol incarcerates herself in her sinister shadowy flat men begin to invade her dreams night & day mixing her terror with delight as bizarre hallucinations take hold of her mind The walls start to crack literally before her eyes Finally racked & depraved through her delirium she is left with only one instinct towards the men who invade her life
- that of a killer SPECIAL FEATURES Brand New Widescreen 1851 HD Transfer Enhanced for 16x 9 TV s Restored Original Mono Soundtrack Audio Commentary with Roman Polanski & Catherine Deneuve Clive James Meets Roman Polanski Documentary Interview with St&-in Cinematographer Stanley Long
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REPULSION starring the incomparable Catherine Deneuve was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English It chronicles the descent into schizophrenia of a sexually confused isolated young woman named Carol who works at a beauty parlor & shares an apartment with her sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux) One day Helen & her boyfriend Michael (Ian Hendry) go off on vacation together & Carol is left alone in the empty apartment where the only sounds are the constant ticking of a clock faucets dripping & the invasive ringing of a telephone Extremely paranoid Carol refuses to let anyone in & never leaves the building herself in effect breaking off all contact with the outside world In this claustrophobic environment she begins to lose her grip on reality suffering from hallucinations of being attacked by a phantom rapist & hands reaching out from the walls to grab her Highly acclaimed & extremely gripping Polanski's disturbing film can be seen as a prelude to his later work in the field of psychological horror ROSEMARY'S BABY & especially THE TENANT ...

A story of addiction revolving around four characters hooked on various drugs Sara who dreams of appearing on televsion decides to use diet pills to help her lose weight Her son Harry his girlfriend & his best friend are all addicted to cocaine & herion They aspire to become big time dealers ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debut Pi with this gritty emotionally charged film set amidst the abandoned beaches & faded glory of Coney Island Brooklyn Based upon the novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr the story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother (Academy Award Winner Ellen Burstyn) her son Harry (Jared Leto) his beautiful girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) & his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) Requiem for a Dream is a hypnotic tale of four human beings each pursuing their vision of happiness Even as everything begins to fall apart they refuse to let go plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish gut-wrenching freefall Actors Jared Leto Ellen Burstyn Jennifer Connelly Marlon Wayans Louise Lasser & Christopher Mc Donald Director Darren Aronofsky Certificate 18 years & over Year 2000 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Dolby Digital (20) Stereo English Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 37 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 Lucrèce (Melanie Laurent) is the best contract killer in the business She is looking to go clean but accepts one final job eliminate an opera singer who owns a tract of land that’s desperately wanted by a British oil firm To get to her target Lucrèce takes part in a recital that he will be performing in But when she arrives for rehearsals she can’t bring herself to complete the contract As the night of the concert approaches Lucrèce learns that a second hitman has arrived & that she is his target ...