Charles Dickens classics read by Martin Jarvis This master of character voices brings to vivid life so many of Dickens' memorable characters from Fagin to Scrooge Pip to Magwitch The six abridged novels combine two previous trilogies in one bumper edition comprising David Copperfield Great Expectations Oliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities A Christmas Carol Nicholas Nickleby ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play From the creators of Borat comes the hilarious story of a North African dictator (Oscar nominee & Golden Globe winner Sacha Baron Cohen Borat Bruno Da Ali G Show) who on a visit to New York is stripped of his power & forced to get a real job at a Brooklyn health food store ...

Please note this is a Region Free Blu-ray & will play on all Blu-ray players The creators & star of Borat bring you the jaw-dropping comedy about what happens when the world&s worst dictator comes to America Stuck in New York & stripped of his power Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) is finally forced to live his ultimate nightmarethe American dream Get ready to laugh with the extended cut featuring never-before-seen footage that&s outrageous & shamefully funny Blu-ray Bonus Features Deleted & Extended Scenes
- All in High definition Newsnight Interview Nuclear Dairy Deathbed Flashback Assemble the Generals Meet Clayton Aladeen Steals Food Apple Store Death to Aladeen Restaurant Manhattan Zoo Funeral Parlor A Gift for Zoey Titfight The Birthing The Rooftop A Final Word Larry King Interview
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For eighteen years Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head They start from a single assertion Leaders do whatever keeps them in power They don't care about the national interestor even their subjectsunless they have to This clever & accessible book shows that the difference between tyrants & democrats is just a convenient fiction Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters or backs that need scratching The size of this group determines almost everything about politics what leaders can get away with & the quality of life or misery under them The picture the authors paint is not pretty But it just may be the truth which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance ...

The son of a dreaded despot enrolls in an American college quickly making friends all across campus thanks to his hard-partying ways & endless cash flow Efren Ramirez Katrina Bowden Adam West & Curtis Armstrong star ...

Where mainstream nutritional science has demonised dietary fat for 50 years hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer Nutrition & obesity scientists have struggled to make sense of the paradox that obesity has become an epidemic that diabetes rates have soared & the incidence of heart disease has not declined despite the fact that society is more diet & health aware today than generations ago The Diet Delusion is an in-depth scientific groundbreaking examination of what actually happens in your body as a result of what you eat rather than what the diet industry might have you believe happens & is essential reading for anyone trying to decide which diet
- low-fat or low-carbohydrate
- is truly the healthy diet For years we have been deluded by the dieting industry Now it's time to find out the truth

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Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal & gain weight while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why despite all the advice about what to eat are we all still getting fatter? The answers are much more surprising
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- than we've been led to believe The key to health & weight loss lies not in the latest fad diet nor even in the simple mantra of 'eat less exercise more' but in the microbes already inside us Drawing on the latest science & his own pioneering research Professor Tim Spector demystifies the common misconceptions about fat calories vitamins & nutrients Only by understanding what makes our own personal microbes tick can we overcome the confusion of modern nutrition & achieve a healthy gut & a healthy body

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The diggers are coming! The diggers are coming with massive metal mouths Their teeth are tearing at the ground & their tracks trudge round & round & round Follow all the people & vehicles involved in building a house
- from the wreckers coming to clear the ground through planners bulldozers diggers tippers mixers trucks builders cranes rollers & vans to the people coming to move into the new houses A lively & colourful new book by Susan Steggall the successful author-illustrator of Life of a Car On the Road Rattle & Rap & Busy Boats who uses her trademark vivid collage illustrations to bring a busy building site to life for young readers
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Our daily lives our culture & our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more

Dimensions of life from the trivial to the profound They are making use of the capacities of complex communication infrastructures currently dominated by social mass media such as Twitter & Facebook on which they have come to depend Amidst a confusing plurality Felix Stalder argues that are three key constituents of this condition the use of existing cultural materials for one's own production the way in which new meaning is established as a collective endeavour & the underlying role of algorithms & automated decision-making processes that reduce & give shape to massive volumes of data These three characteristics define what Stalder calls 'the digital condition' Stalder also examines the profound political implications of this new culture We stand at a crossroads between post-democracy & the commons a concentration of power among the few or a genuine widening of participation with the digital condition offering the potential for starkly different outcomes This ambitious & wide-ranging theory of our contemporary digital condition will be of great interest to students & scholars in media & communications cultural studies & social political & cultural theory as well as to a wider readership interested in the ways in which culture & politics are changing today

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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks presents a proposal for reframing the terms of this important debate The first major statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization it introduces a new paradigm into the search for co-existence Sacks argues that we must do more than search for common human values We must also learn to make space for difference even & especially at the heart of the monotheistic imagination The global future will call for something stronger than earlier doctrines of toleration or pluralism It needs a new understanding that the unity of the Creator is expressed in the diversity of creation; Sacks argues that this new thinking also sheds fresh light on the global challenges of an age of unprecedented change economic inequality environmental destruction the connection between information technology & human dignity & the structures of civil society ...