What is a caliphate? What is the history of the idea? How is the term used & abused today? In the first modern account of a subject of critical importance today acclaimed historian Hugh Kennedy answers these questions by chronicling the rich history of the caliphate from the death of Muhammad to the present At its height the caliphate stretched from Spain to the borders of China & was the most powerful political entity in western Eurasia In an era when Paris & London boasted a few thousand inhabitants Baghdad & Cairo were sophisticated centres of trade & culture & the Umayyad & Abbasid caliphates were distinguished by major advances in science medicine & architecture By ending with the recent re-emergence of caliphal ideology within fundamentalist Islam The Caliphate underscores why it is crucial that we know about this form of Islamic government to understand the political ideas of the so-called Islamic State & other Islamist groups in the twenty first century ...

Nessa & her friends attend Boyle College to train for the most dangerous time of their lives
- THE CALL Without warning each one
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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 In the high-stakes edge-of-your-seat thriller The Call a thin thread of survival separates a teenage kidnap victim from her only hope a compassionate steady voice on the other end of a cell phone marshaling all the resources she can to find her Veteran 911 Emergency Call Center operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that&s not for the faint of heart navigating the public&s distress in order to save lives But when a young woman&s frantic report of a prowler ends tragically Jordan is devastated Reassessing her life Jordan wonders if perhaps she&s experienced her last fraught-filled phone call With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend maybe it&s time to step back enjoy life & teach others the ins & outs of her high-pressure profession That lifeline to strangers isn&t over yet though When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin) is abducted by a serial killer (Michael Eklund) she manages to place a 911 call from the trunk of the killer&s car Jordan leading a group of new recruits through the massive Call Center operation is in earshot of the call It&s an all-too familiar scenario for this experienced public servant but before long Casey&s situation reveals itself as eerily shockingly familiar There&s only one thing Jordan can do take charge in a way she&s never done before She must turn Casey into a partner in helping them track down the killer & prove that this call is Jordan&s calling Product Details Actors Halle Berry Abigail Breslin Morris Chestnut Michael Eklund David Otunga & Michael Imperioli Director Brad Anderson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the high-stakes edge-of-your-seat thriller The Call a thin thread of survival separates a teenage kidnap victim from her only hope a compassionate steady voice on the other end of a cell phone marshaling all the resources she can to find her Veteran 911 Emergency Call Center operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that&s not for the faint of heart navigating the public&s distress in order to save lives But when a young woman&s frantic report of a prowler ends tragically Jordan is devastated Reassessing her life Jordan wonders if perhaps she&s experienced her last fraught-filled phone call With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend maybe it&s time to step back enjoy life & teach others the ins & outs of her high-pressure profession That lifeline to strangers isn&t over yet though When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin) is abducted by a serial killer (Michael Eklund) she manages to place a 911 call from the trunk of the killer&s car Jordan leading a group of new recruits through the massive Call Center operation is in earshot of the call It&s an all-too familiar scenario for this experienced public servant but before long Casey&s situation reveals itself as eerily shockingly familiar There&s only one thing Jordan can do take charge in a way she&s never done before She must turn Casey into a partner in helping them track down the killer & prove that this call is Jordan&s calling Actors Halle Berry Abigail Breslin Morris Chestnut Michael Eklund David Otunga & Michael Imperioli Director Brad Anderson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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' What has risen may sink & what has sunk may rise' Mad macabre tales of demonic spirits hideous rites ancient curses & alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England from the man who created the modern horror story A new series of twenty distinctive unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers ...

Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction & notes by ST Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition HP Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century Discarding ghosts & witches & instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic & malevolent universe Lovecraft's unique works would prove to be a huge influence on modern horror writers such as Stephen King This selection of short stories ranges from early tales of nightmares & insanity such as ' The Outsider' & ' The Rats in the Walls' through the grotesquely comic ' Herbert West
- Reanimator' & ' The Hound' to the extraterrestrial terror of ' The Call of Cthulhu' which fuses traditional supernaturalism with science fiction Including the definitive corrected texts this collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerising narrative style & establishes him as a hugely influential
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- American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) born in Providence Rhode Island was self-educated & lived in his birthplace all his life working as a freelance writer journalist & ghostwriter Using many pen names he contributed his supernaturalhorror & science fictionfantasy stories to various pulp magazines but his reputation as a writer rests mainly on the 60 or so stories he published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales starting in 1923 If you enjoyed The Call of Cthulhu you might also like Arthur Machen's The White People & Other Weird Stories available in Penguin Classics' The twentieth century horror story's dark & baroque prince' Stephen King


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Between these pages you will find things that lurk things that scurry in the walls things that move unseen things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl unfathomable blackness unconquerable evil inhuman impulses abnormal bodies ancient rites nameless lands best left undiscovered thoughts best left unspoken doors best left closed names best forgotten You have been warned ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics Deep in the forest a call was sounding & he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire & to plunge into the forest' Half St Bernard half sheepdog Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California & sold to dog traders He soon finds himself aboard a ship on its way to Northern Canada Surrounded by cruelty Buck's natural instincts & behaviour begin to emerge as he works as a mail carrying sled dog scavenging for food protecting himself against other dogs & sleeping out in the cold snow Sold to a group of American gold hunters who are inexperienced living in the wilderness the dogs are treated badly & as misfortune besets them Buck is saved by John Thornton Indebted to his new master Buck remains by Thornton's side saving him from drowning & protecting him with fierce loyalty throughout their time together However Buck can not deny the strong lure of the wilderness around him Exciting & action-packed Call of the Wild explores the timeless relationship between man & dog & the inevitable draw of primitive instincts that pull Buck away from civilization & humanity towards the lawless & harsh wilderness ...

Adventure! Drama! Danger! Loyalty! Stolen from a life of luxury & taken to work in the frozen north as a sledge dog Buck faces ...

The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California & forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland White Fang by contrast is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf & a quarter dog & who must endure considerable suffering in the wilderness before being tamed by an American & taken to live in California Extraordinary both for the vividness of their descriptions & the success with which they imagine life from a non-human perspective these two classics of children's literature are two of the greatest & most popular animal stories ever written This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Call of the Wild & White Fang features an afterword by Sam Gilpin Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much-loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure ...