Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In August 1977 in a seemingly normal house in Enfield North London a series of disturbing paranormal events have begun to take place Reports of an unworldly presence making repeated attempts on the life of 11-year-old Janet Hodgson soon attracts the attention of paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse (Timothy Spall) who is convinced that the house is plagued by a poltergeist With the attacks growing increasingly violent by the day Maurice will stop at nothing to protect Janet from these strange & dark forces ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In a remote lab outside of Dallas Texas a medical experiment goes horribly wrong The subject experiences a psychotic break after being administered a text vaccine & ends up deceased The board of directors of the pharmaceutical company plans to shut the facility down in the wake of the disaster but the lead scientist (Danny Glover) convinces them to give him one more week to test the vaccine on a subject who they are monitoring at a nearby residence Meanwhile upon arriving from a tour of duty in the Middle East Dean Pierce (Taylor Handley) & his girlfriend Mandy (Margo Harsham) & his friends set out on a road trip to Mentryville to clean up his hoarding & ageing grandmother&s remote home & save her from eviction The lab learns that Dean & his friends have compromised their subject who may possess the DNA for the successful vaccine discovery so they send in a private armed guard (Vinnie Jones) to keep the group from leaving the property alive One by one the virus infects Dean&s friends as they are trapped inside the house Dean & his friends find themselves fighting for their lives ...

A tough District Attorney played by Humphrey Bogart goes after an organised gang of killers based on the real life ' Murder Inc' case After his chief witness falls suddenly to his death Bogart is given 24 hours to solve the mystery ...

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Mysterious aliens ruthless terrorists androids with attitude genetic manipulation punch-ups with lasers giant spaceships what more do you want? A collection by the author of Gridlinked The Skinner In the Line of Polity Cowl Brass Man & The Voyage of the Sable Keech by Neal Asher More from this Author Prador Moon Dark Intelligence Polity Agent The Line of Polity Shadow of the Scorpion Gridlinked ...

In The English & their History the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people & of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them from the prehistoric 'dreamtime' through to the present day If a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship a political identity & representative institutions then the English have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world They first came into existence as an idea before they had a common ruler & before the country they lived in even had a name They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since & their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history The English have come a long way from those precarious days of invasion & conquest with many spectacular changes of fortune Their political economic & cultural contacts have left traces for good & ill across the world This book describes their history & its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria & the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of today's England Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story including participatory government language law religion the land & the sea & ever-changing relations with other peoples Not the least of these connections are the ways the English have understood their own history have argued about it forgotten it & yet been shaped by it These diverse & sometimes conflicting understandings are an inherent part of their identity Rather to their surprise as ties within the United Kingdom loosen the English are suddenly beginning a new period in their long history Especially at times of change history can help us to think about the sort of people we are & wish to be This book the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century & which incorporates a wealth of recent scholarship presents a challenging modern account of this immense & continuing story bringing out the strength & resilience of English government the deep patterns of division & yet also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger ...

During the year between July 1588 when the Spanish Armada set sail from Spain & July 1589 when the survivors of the English counterpart of this fleet the little-known English Armada reached port in England two of history's worst naval catastrophes took place A great deal of attention has been dedicated to the former & precious little to the latter This book presents a full-scale account of an event which has been neglected for more than four centuries It reconstructs the military operations day by day for the first time taking apart the established notion that with the defeat of the Spanish Armada England achieved maritime supremacy & the decay of Spain began This book clearly & in a rigorously documented fashion shows how the defeat of the English Armada counterbalanced that of the Spanish frustrating England's intention of seizing Philip II's American empire & changing the tide of the war ...

Art restorer & sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece & discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings
- stolen by Nazis in the war
- is missing With the Swiss authorities trying to pin the murder on Allon & a powerful cabal determined to make sure this wartime secret remains buried the art restorer must use all his former spy skills to find out the truth & with an assassin that he helped to train also on the loose Allon will need all his wits just to stay alive

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A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War & its long-term consequences by an acclaimed historian The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history Other events have changed the occupancy & the powers of the throne but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic the monarchy & the House of Lords were abolished to be replaced by a republic & military rule In this wonderfully readable account Blair Worden explores the events of this period & their origins
- the war between King & Parliament the execution of Charles I Cromwell's rule & the Restoration
- while aiming to reveal something more elusive the motivations of contemporaries on both sides & the concerns of later generations

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' An ancient & ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered' Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history & working of the British political system ever written As arguments raged in mid-Victorian Britain about giving the working man the vote & democracies overseas were pitched into despotism & civil war Bagehot took a long cool look at the 'dignified' & 'efficient' elements which made the English system the envy of the world His analysis of the monarchy the role of the prime minister & cabinet & comparisons with the American presidential system are astute & timeless & pertinent to current discussions surrounding devolution & electoral reform Combining the wit & panache of a journalist with the wisdom of a man of letters steeped in evolutionary ideas & historical knowledge Bagehot produced a book which is always thoughtful often funny & seldom dull This edition reproduces Bagehot's original 1867 work in full & introduces the reader to the dramatic political events that surrounded its publication ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...