Root is a game of adventure & war in which 2 to 4 (1 to 6 with the & Riverfolk& expansion) players battle for control of a vast wilderness The nefarious Marquise de Cat has seized the great woodland intent on harvesting its riches Under her rule the many creatures of the forest have banded together This Alliance will seek to strengthen its resources & subvert the rule of Cats In this effort the Alliance may enlist the help of the wandering Vagabonds who are able to move through the more dangerous woodland paths Though some may sympathize with the Alliance’s hopes & dreams these wanderers are old enough to remember the great birds of prey who once controlled the woods Meanwhile at the edge of the region the proud squabbling Eyrie have found a new commander who they hope will lead their faction to resume their ancient birthright The stage is set for a contest that will decide the fate of the great woodland It is up to the players to decide which group will ultimately take root Root represents the next step in our development of asymmetric design Like Vast The Crystal Caverns each player in Root has unique capabilities & a different victory condition Now with the aid of gorgeous multi-use cards a truly asymmetric design has never been more accessible The Cats play a game of engine building & logistics while attempting to police the vast wilderness By collecting Wood they are able to produce workshops lumber mills & barracks They win by building new buildings & crafts The Eyrie musters their hawks to take back the Woods They must capture as much territory as possible & build roosts before they collapse back into squabbling The Alliance hides in the shadows recruiting forces & hatching conspiracies They begin slowly & build towards a dramatic late-game presence--but only if they can manage to keep the other players in check Meanwhile the Vagabond plays all sides of the conflict for their own gain while hiding a mysterious quest Explore the board fight other factions & work towards achieving your hidden goal In Root players drive the narrative & the differences between each role create an unparalleled level of interaction & replayability Leder Games invites you & your family to explore the fantastic world of Root! ...

A new faction is added to the forest fray The Riverfolk expansion

Includes:: A New Core Faction The Riverfolk

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Players can now square off against four fiendishly automated factions either to round out a low-player-count game or to team up for cooperative play! Compete against the Mechanical Marquise 20 the Electric Eyrie the Automated Alliance or the Vagabot ...

Delve deeper into the world of root with the Underworld Expansion which adds two new factions & a new board Play as the Underground Duchy &8211; Sway your ministers to lead a righteous expedition to the Woodland bringing order to the unending war & chaos above Corvid Conspiracy &8211; Use cunning & trickery to hold the Woodland hostage instigating plots to seize control through terror Play on the Mountain Map &8211; Trek across outcroppings clear blocked routes & hold the mountain pass to show you are an effective leader Lake Map &8211; Whisk yourself across the map by travelling on the ferry meeting new friends & allies along the way ...

Rooted in Evil by Ann Granger is set in the Cotswold village of Weston Saint Ambrose & features Inspector Jess Campbell & Superintendent Ian Carter in their fifth murder mystery When the body of a man with his brains blown out is found in a Cotswold wood it looks like suicide But looks can be deceptive & it doesn't take long for the police to identify that there's more to the case than meets the eye People's stories don't add up & when Superintendent Ian Carter & Inspector Jess Campbell start probing it becomes clear that the dead man had ruffled more than a few feathers in this close-knit community His stepsister had been bailing him out of his financial troubles
- much against her husband's wishes
- but with his money worries still mounting the victim had become a desperate man As Jess & Ian dig deeper & deeper into the case a cover-up is exposed & bitter resentment rises to the surface to reveal a killer

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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 His name was Kunta Kinte Kidnapped from Africa enslaved in America in 1767 he refused to accept his slave name Toby Heirs kept his heroic defiance alive passing on his tale across generations until it reached a young boy growing up in Tennessee His name was Alex Haley Through the lineage of one family Haley & his Pulitzer Prize
- winning Roots told a story for all America & the world Seen by 130 million viewers during its premiere telecast & the winner of dozens of awards the David L Wolper production remains an engrossing entertainment 30 years later Embark on an unforgettable DVD journey Actors Olivia Cole Le Var Burton Ben Vereen Vic Morrow Ji-Tu Cumbuka Edward Asner & Ralph Waite Director Marvin J Chomsky John Erman David Greene & Gilbert Moses Certificate PGYear 1977 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo

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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 Four-part US drama miniseries that charts the life of Kunta Kinte (Malachi Kirby) a Mandinka warrior from The Gambia who is kidnapped & sold into slavery Taken from his West African home in the 1770s Kunta is purchased by John Waller (James Purefoy) & sent to the United States where he is put to work on a Virginian tobacco plantation Despite befriending fellow slave Fiddler (Forest Whitaker) Kunta struggles to come to terms with being a slave & dreams of escaping However after an attempted escape goes wrong Kunta is finally forced to accept that he won&t be able to return home to Africa Years later after fighting in the American Revolutionary War Kunta marries Belle (Emayatzy Corinealdi) & the pair have a daughter named Kizzy (Saniyya Sidney Emyri Crutchfield) Despite growing up to be a strongminded young woman Kizzy is soon forced to face a number of hardships as she is sold on to cruel slaveholder Tom Lea (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) in North Carolina ...

How did a distinct & powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain there was no such recognised entity as " Black Britain" Yet by the 1980s the cultural landscape had radically changed & a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre poetry literature music & the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity This new book chronicles the extraordinary blend of social political & cultural influences from the mid-1950s to late 1970s that gave rise to new heights of Black-British artistic expression in the 1980s Eddie Chambers relates how & why during these decades " West Indians" became " Afro-Caribbeans" & how in turn " Afro-Caribbeans" became " Black-British"
- & the centrality of the arts to this important narrative The British Empire migration Rastafari the Anti-Apartheid struggle reggae music dub poetry the ascendance of the West Indies cricket team & the coming of Margaret Thatcher
- all of these factors & others have had a part to play in the compelling story of how the African Diaspora transformed itself to give rise to Black Britain

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Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker Jonathan Rhys Meyers & Laurence Fishburne Tracing his ancestry through six generations
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Tracklist A1 Hard Bastards A2 Crying A3 Facety 211 A4 Don&t Breathe Out A5 Cargo B1 Stepping Hard B2 Me Up! B3 One Thing B4 I Know Your Face B5 Fighting For? Release date (30 Oct 2015) Number of Discs 1 Label Big Dada Genre Hip Hop Reggae Funk Soul ...