A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems & what we can do to break the cycle When a young boy walked into Dr Nadine Burke Harris's clinic he looked healthy for a preschooler But he was seven & hadn't grown a centimetre since a traumatic event when he was four At that moment Dr Burke Harris knew that her gut feeling about a connection between childhood stress & future ill health was more than just a hunch
- & she began her journey into groundbreaking research with stunning results Two thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience from the likes of bereavement & divorce to abuse & neglect In The Deepest Well Dr Burke Harris reveals the science behind childhood adversity & offers a new way of understanding the adverse events that affect us throughout our lifetime Based on her own groundbreaking clinical work & public leadership Dr Burke Harris shows us how we can disrupt this cycle through interventions that help retrain the brain & body foster resilience & help children families & adults live healthier happier lives Like the classic Silent Spring this book helps readers see a problem hiding in plain sight that impacts us all By looking at the widespread crisis of childhood adversity through the objective lens of science & medicine this book provides a roadmap for deeper understanding & change
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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 Deer Hunter is an astonishing powerful & vivid epic about three men steelworkers from Pennsylvania whose lives are changed irrevocably in the tragic devastation of the Vietnam war When Michael Steven & Nick are captured by the Vietcong they are forced to play Russian Roulette by their brutal captors who make bets on their survival The experience of capture leaves them with terrible physical & spiritual wounds & when Michael returns to Saigon to fulfil an old vow to one of his friends he makes an unexpected horrific discovery Director Michael Cimino&s The Deer Hunter won no less than 5 Oscars in 1978 for Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor Best Editing & Best Sound Actors Robert De Niro Christopher Walken Meryl Streep John Cazale John Savage George Dzundza Joe Grifasi Rutanya Alda & Pierre Segui Director Michael Cimino Certificate 18 years & over Year 1978 Languages English Duration 2 hours & 58 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
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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 United States will not give an inch against terrorists especially Mohamed Jamar considered to be the worst of them all Jamar has been missing for months but his network continues its function If caught he must be tried If he is found guilty he would become a martyr & further inspiration to acts of terror If acquitted the policies of the entire western world would be destroyed So he must remain invisible Lance Rockford (Dolph Lundgren) heads a security team of six responsible for protecting Roberta Jones Head of the National Security Agency When a secret meeting with Jamar ends up in an ambush the team is forced to fight for their lives against an unknown attacker Actors Dolph Lundgren Jerry Springer Shakara Ledard Thomas Lockyer Caroline Lee-Johnson Gerald Kyd Ian Porter Howard Antony Geoffrey Burton Iddo Goldberg James Chalke Leigh Zimmerman Steven Elder Radu Florescu & Ovidiu Niculescu Director Dolph Lundgren Certificate 18 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 1781 Languages English
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The Defiant Heir continues the spellbinding story of courtly intrigue & dangerous magic that began with The Tethered Mage 560 pages Caruso Melissa ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture The Defiant Ones broke new ground by delivering its message of racial tolerance through a fast-moving blend of action & suspense It remains "a raw powerful film that is as exciting as it is moving real & literate" (Variety) Joker Jackson (Tony Curtis) & Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run Escaping from a Southern work gang the two men are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain & separated by an unbridled hatred towards each other Relentlessly pursued by a posse & bloodhounds they put aside their differences to survive But when a lonely woman (Cara Williams) breaks their chain & deliberately sends Cullen to certain death Jackson must decide what&s more important saving Cullen… or saving himself ...

Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area universally known as 'THE BIBLE' this is the sixth completely revised up-to-date much expanded edition of the DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE D-DAY NORMANDY LANDING BEACHESWritten to the same highly acclaimed formula as all of the other books in this important series of Battlefield Guides (Somme Ypres Gallipoli Market-Garden Western Front
- North Western Front
- South) Once again the cold facts are interlaced with anecdotes of bravery humour sadness & humanity This new edition now containsrnrn All the landing Beaches JUNO SWORD GOLD OMAHA UTAH All the Airborne Operations British & American Two Approach Routes; Six timed & measured Itineraries 21 in-text Itinerary maps Battle maps & Diagrams Approx 400 recommended sites within the D-Day planned area of advancernall with photos each with Latitude & Longitude references (New for this Edition) Over 400 coloured pictures 352 pages Memorials Museums Batteries Bunkers Landing fields Allied & German War Cemeteries Historical background to the landings The Plans & what actually happened Information about Allied & German War Graves Associations Veterans' & other commemorative associations Normandy tourist information Where to stay where to eat Cameos about personalities
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This international bestseller explains everything you need to know about body language how to read it & how to put your best self forwards What people say is often very different to what they think or feel Now with THE DEFINITIVE BOOK OF BODY LANGUAGE you can learn to read others people's thoughts by their gestures It sounds implausible but body language is easy to pick up & fun to use Find out How to tell if someone is lying How to make yourself likeable How to get co-operation from other people How to interview & negotiate successfully How to choose a partner Learn the secrets of body language with Allan & Barbara Pease bestselling authors of WHY MEN DON'T LISTEN & WOMEN CAN'T READ MAPS ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Scott of the Antarctic Robert Falcon Scott (John Mills) is a determined explorer whose ambition is to be the first man to reach the South Pole He starts off well with three modes of transportation -- dogs ponies & snow tractors -- but the extremely cold weather as well as the conspiracy against him by a rival team of Norwegian explorers proves to be too much for the man & his expedition The film is based on the true story & inspired by footage shot on the actual journey The Ladykillers Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) likes to report suspicious behavior to the police Unaware of her reputation the dapper thief Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness) rents rooms in the elderly widow's home for himself & his band of cohorts Posing as a string quintet the thieves pull off a bank robbery but slip up in front of the old woman as they try to escape Agreed that they need to murder her the bumbling crooks wind up double-crossing each other & slowly killing themselves off The Magnet Young Johnny Brent (William Fox) tricks another boy at his school into giving him a powerful magnet When the magnet gets Johnny into trouble he decides to give it away He meets a medical inventor (Meredith Edwards) who is holding auctions for the hospital & decides to give the man the magnet anonymously As Johnny continues to feel guilty for taking the boy's magnet he runs away to Liverpool where the magnet comes back to him in an unexpected way The Man in the White Suit Chemist Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) is at a crossroads in his career He's been trying to invent a long-lasting clothing fiber but his unreasonable demands for high-end equipment have gotten him fired from job after job Finally Sidney creates a white suit that is impervious to the elements -- it cannot stain or wrinkle At first he is celebrated as a hero but soon enough the clothing manufacturers realize that the perfect suit is actually very bad for business Actors Joan Greenwood Michael Gough Ernest Thesiger Kay Walsh John Mills Directors Alexander Mac Kendrick Charles Frend Writers Roger Mac Dougall William Rose Alexander Mac Kendrick TEB Clarke John Dighton Producers Michael Balcon Sidney Cole Format Box set PALRegion Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 4 ...

The Definitive Guide to Betting on Football is a distillation of " Racing Post" expert Kevin Pullein's extensive knowledge on how to make money when betting on football His weekly column in the " Post" is hugely popular with sports betting fans In this masterwork Pullein explains how you can work out what is likely to happen during a football match & how you might be able to exploit this knowledge profitably by betting In each chapter there will be both theory & practice in separate but complementary sections The theory will always be simply explained & illustrated & will satisfy both the more-specialist & the less-experienced reader alike each of whom will be able to get out of it want they want most
- as well as a lot of other things beside Topics include first & second half betting corners first goalscorer final result bookings spread betting betting exchanges & ante post
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Published for the first time in the UK Syd Field acclaimed writer & director tells you step-by-step how to identify & fix common screenwriting problems providing the professional secrets that make films brilliant
- secrets that can make your screenplay a success He provides easily understood guidelines for writing a screenplay from concept to finished product The art of film-writing is made accessible to novices & helps practiced writers improve their scripts as the author pinpoints stylistic & structural elements such as characterisation & plot Tips & techniques on what to do after your screenplay has been completed & much more are all here There are also practical examples from films which Syd Field has collaborated on such as Lord of the Rings American Beauty & The Pianist Written for all levels of screenwriters this is an indispensable reference book for anyone who wants to make money as a great screenwriter
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