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 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play How long can you hold your breath? After almost drowning in a lake accident Madison (Michelle Mylett
- Antisocial) develops a crippling fear of water But when her friends attempt an intervention they unknowingly unleash something far worse the vision of serial killer turned supernatural psychopath Sebastian Donner
- known as The Drownsman
- who begins to stalk the women one by one dragging them into a lair of submerged torment from which there is no escape


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This revised & expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet writer & religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume only thirty-five were published in his lifetime Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time Crowley was a successful critic editor & author of fiction from 1908 to 1922 Like their author his stories are fun smart witty thought-provoking & sometimes unsettling They are set in places in which he had lived & knew well Belle Epoque Paris Edwardian London pre-revolutionary Russia & America during the First World War The title story The Drug stands as one of the first accounts
- if not the first
- of a psychedelic experience His Black & Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy that can stand with Samuel Butler's Erewhon Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written This second edition adds several additional stories including the Qabalistic allegory Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum featuring the author's previously unpublished annotations Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories

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The Druid Animal Oracle was first published as a deck of cards & a 176 page instruction book & is now released as a deck
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At a time when we seek closer connection with the natural world The Druid Craft Tarot Deck invites us to celebrate the earth & the rhythm of her seasons This acclaimed deck created by practising Druids combines the two great streams of Western Pagan tradition
- Wicca & Druidry Its powerful images have emerged from a vast store of teachings & story-telling rooted in the past & also from the ancient concepts of numerology which have provided the artist Will Worthington with inspiration from Sacred Geometry
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To the scions of Shannara have fallen three tasks Par Ohmsford has recovered the fabled Sword of Shannara This he has accomplished but the Federation's Chief Seeker has planted an awful thought in Par's mind
- that he himself is Shadowen the very evil he seeks to destroy Wren is in the Westland seeking out the elves & in the Northland Walker Boh has been commanded by the shade of Allanon to find the lost city of Paranor & recreate the Order of Druids disbanded for three hundred years To achieve this he must find the Black Elfstone but the gem is in the hands of an ancient being of timeless evil
- the Stone King Beset on all sides by enemies & from within by his own self-doubt Walker Boh sets out on his part of the perilous quest A quest that will end in success
- or the complete destruction of all he holds dear


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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 Alongside Sanders of the River & The Four Feathers this rip-roaring Technicolor adventure completes what became known as the Korda&s " Empire trilogy" made by London Films in the late 1930s An unabashed celebration of the British Raj The Drum made a star of Sabu the young Indian actor who was to become a firm favourite in both British & American films over the coming decade Also starring Roger Livesey as an Army captain working undercover to monitor arms smuggling & featuring a memorably malevolent performance from Oscar nominee Raymond Massey as a murderous royal usurper intent on fomenting rebellion The Drum is featured here in a br&-new transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio ...

Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating eye-opening guide to understanding our random world Randomness & uncertainty surround everything we do So why are we so bad at understanding them? The same tools that help us understand the random paths of molecules can be applied to the randomness that governs so many aspects of our everyday lives from winning the lottery to road safety & reveals the truth about the success of sporting heroes & film stars & even how to make sense of a blood test The Drunkard's Walk reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting
- read it or risk becoming another victim of chance 'A wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives' Stephen Hawking author of A Brief History of Time ' Delightful Our lives may be shaped by chance but they are enriched by awareness
- just the sort of awareness that this fascinating book will give you' Guardian ' Mlodinow writes in a breezy style interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists The result is a readable crash course in randomness' The New York Times ' Please read The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow a history explanation & exaltation of probability theory The results are mind-bending' Fortune Leonard Mlodinow has a Ph D has been a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Technology & a television writer in Hollywood as well as developing many award winning CD-ROMs He is currently Vice President of Emerging Technologies & R&D at Scholastic Inc & lives in New York City His previous books include A Brief History of Time which he co-authored as well as Euclid's Window & Some Time with Feynman both published by Penguin

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