The Drone Debate offers a thorough investigation of the where why how & when of the US's use of UAVs Beginning with a historical overview of the use of drones in warfare it then addresses whether targeted killing operations are strategically wise whether they are permissible under international law & the related ethical issues It also looks at the political factors behind the use of drones including domestic & global attitudes toward their use & potential issues of proliferation & escalation Finally the use of drones by other countries such as Israel & China is examined Each chapter features a case study that highlights particular incidents & patterns of operation in specific regions including Yemen Somalia Pakistan & Libya & strike types (signature strikes personality strikes etc) ...

What If The Cure For Cancer Came With A Pricestephen Roland (Billy Wirth
- The Lost Boys) faces this horrifying dilemma in The
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Is it the end of the line for Harry Bosch? When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named Clayton Pell the case should be watertight Pell's DNA was found on the victim
- but he was only eight years old at the time This is not the only mystery Harry Bosch has to solve A man jumped
- or was pushed
- from a window The victim's father is Councilman Irving who's been intent on destroying Harry's career for years Now Irving wants Harry to head up the investigation Harry uncovers traces of two of the city's deepest secrets a killer operating for as many as three decades without being detected & a conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department


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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 Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) tends bar in his cousin&s pub & looks the other way when local mobsters use the joint as a temporary bank His simple life takes a complicated turn when he finds a battered puppy He asks his neighbor Nadia (Noomi Rapace) for help nursing it back to health & a mutual attraction sparks between them However a robbery at the bar & the return of Nadia&s abusive ex force Bob to face the truth about those he thinks he knows best -- including himself ...

The Drop is a crime drama from Michael R Roskam the Academy Award nominated director of Bullhead Based on a short story from Dennis Lehane (Mystic River Gone Baby Gone) The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a covert scheme of funnelling cash to local gangsters
- "money drops"
- in the underworld of Brooklyn bars Under the heavy hand of his employer & cousin Marv Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry & entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood&s past where friends families & foes all work together to make a living
- no matter the cost


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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 DROP is a crime drama from Michaël R Roskam the Academy Award nominated director of Bullhead Based on a short story from Dennis Lehane (Mystic River Gone Baby Gone) THE DROP follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a covert scheme of funnelling cash to local gangsters – "money drops" – in the underworld of Brooklyn bars Under the heavy hand of his employer & cousin Marv Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry & entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood’s past where friends families & foes all work together to make a living – no matter the cost ...

With a new introduction by M John Harrison & a striking new cover design from the artist Stanley Donwood this acclaimed cult novel sees human existence threatened by devastating climate change Water Man's most precious commodity is a luxury of the past Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused the sea to form a protective skin strong enough to devastate the Earth it once sustained & while the remorseless sun beats down on the dying land civilization itself begins to crack Violence erupts & insanity reigns as the remnants of mankind struggle for survival in a worldwide desert of despair Remarkable for its prescience & the originality of its vision The Drought is a work of major importance from the early career of one of Britain's most acclaimed novelists This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ned Beauman Ali Smith Neil Gaiman & Martin Amis) & br&-new cover designs ...

Shortly after completing The Drowned & the Saved Primo Levi committed suicide The manner of his death was sudden violent & unpremeditated & there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt
- guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others better than he had gone to the wall' The Drowned & the Saved dispels the myth that Primo Levi forgave the Germans for what they did to his people He didn't & couldn't forgive He refused however to indulge in what he called the bestial vice of hatred which is an entirely different matter The voice that sounds in his writing is that of a reasonable man it warns & reminds us that the unimaginable can happen again A would-be tyrant is waiting in the wings with beautiful words on his lips The book is constantly impressing on us the need to learn from the past to make sense of the senseless'
- Paul Bailey

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When London is lost beneath the rising tides unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of Crash' & Empire of the Sun' reissued here with a new introduction from Martin Amis Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps sending the planet into a new Triassic Age of unendurable heat London is a swamp; lush tropical vegetation grows up the walls of the Ritz & primeval reptiles are sighted swimming through the newly-formed lagoons Some flee the capital; others remain to pursue reckless schemes either in the name of science or profit While the submerged streets of London are drained in search of treasure Dr Robert Kerans
- part of a group of intrepid scientists
- comes to accept this submarine city & finds himself strangely resistant to the idea of saving it First published in 1962 Ballard's mesmerising & ferociously imaginative novel gained him widespread critical acclaim & established his reputation as one of Britain's finest writers of science fiction This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Robert Macfarlane Martin Amis James Lever & Ali Smith) & br&-new cover designs

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It's the dawning of a new era for Alexandria & Cleopatra & her younger brother Ptolemy are established on the throne Long overlooked by his father in favor of his beguiling sister eleven-year-old Ptolemy is desperate to assert himself as a man & as a king But he & his advisors are no match for Queen Cleopatra who's quick to establish her primacy throughout the land from Alexandria to Upper Egypt When a year later Cleopatra alienates Rome's remaining legions & flees the palace Ptolemy finally gets his first taste of power though not without its complications Cleopatra has joined forces with their sister Arsinoe in Egypt & Ptolemy must prepare to meet their army head-on & prove his ruthlessness to Caesar Despite mounting doubts about where her sister's loyalties lie Arsinoe has remained faithful to her But when news comes that Cleopatra has manipulated Caesar to regain the throne & embraced Rome's dominance Arsinoe is torn between her warring siblings & sensing her own nascent hunger to lead rising within Arsinoe must choose whether it will be her dear sister or brother she irrevocably betrays & make a decision that will determine the fate of a kingdom & all the future of history ...