Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From Makoto Shinkai (Five Centimeters Per Second Journey to Agartha) comes a love story with a twist When Takao a young high school student who dreams of becoming a shoe designer decides to skip school one day in favor of sketching in a rainy garden he has no idea how much his life will change when he encounters Yukino Older but perhaps not as much wiser she seems adrift in the world Despite the difference in their ages they strike up an unusual relationship that unexpectedly continues & evolves with random meetings in the same garden on each rainy day But the rainy season is coming to a close & there are so many things still left unsaid & undone between them Will there be time left for Takao to put his feelings into actions & words? Between the raindrops between the calms in the storm what will blossoms PECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE Interviews (52 minutes with the Japanese cast & director) Storyboards (45 minutes) English production stillls Japanese trailer The Works of Makoto Shinkai English commentary track with cast Japanese commentary with English subtitles LANGUAGES ON DISC English dub & Japanese language track with English subtitles ...

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human Drawing on the study of human evolution & the author A's own scientific research into how children learn the author shows that although caring for children is profoundly important it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way 320 pages Gopnik Alison ...

The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book which combines exquisite botanical illustrations with practical self-help projects Every day sees a discovery in the press about the new uses of plants & it's certain that most of our most important drugs are derived from plants From willow (used to procure aspirin) to periwinkle (used in chemotherapy to treat lymphoma) many common garden plants have provided cures in modern medicine In this book readers can discover more than 200 life-saving plants & 25 home-grown remedies to make themselves Each home cure is described & illustrated with step-by-step photographs to show how you can be a gardener & heal yourself ...

Garfield’s beloved stuffed teddy bear Pookie has been stolen off the clothesline! Garfield & Odie must go to great lengths to scour the neighborhood for their stuffed comrade Plus Garfield gets put on a diet in “ High Scale” & Garfield & Odie switch bodies in “ Freaky Monday”! About the Author JIM DAVIS is the creator of Garfield named by Guinness World Records as " The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World" The strip debuted in 1978 in 41 US newspapers Today it is read in 2570 newspapers by 263000000 readers around the globe Jim Davis has had many successes with Garfield including four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program & induction into the Licensing Hall of Fame (1998) but his most prized awards are from his peers in the National Cartoonist Society Best Humor Strip (1981 & 1985) the Elzie Segar Award (1990) & the coveted Reuben Award (1990) for overall excellence in cartooning ...

When Garfield overhears Jon tell Liz "you are what you eat" he panics— he&s just eaten a can of dog food! Now Garfield must figure out a way to avoid one of his darkest fears… turning into a dog like Odie! Featuring five more stories from The Garfield Show ...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize It is 1912 & at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate Fred Fairly a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus where for centuries no female not even a pussy cat has been allowed to set foot lectures in physics Science he is certain will explain everything Until into Fred's orderly life come Daisy Fred is smitten Why have I met her? he wonders How can I tell if she's quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist To him the truth should be everything But even scientists make mistakes ...

' Mind you it was a pukka respectable opium-house & not one of those stifling sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City' Kipling first became famous for his pungent harsh & shocking stories of northwest India where he grew up This is just a small selection from his inexhaustibly contentious & various early work Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Kipling's works available in Penguin Classics are Captains Courageous Just So Stories Kim Plain Tales from the Hills Selected Poems The Jungle Books & The Man Who Would Be King Selected Stories ...

' An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' (David Blair Sunday Telegraph) Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires
- Roman to Ottoman Habsburg to Russian
- & they all left their imprint on the landscape the language & the people living within these shifting borders In this authoritative book Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine & annexation of Crimea Fascinating & multilayered The Gates of Europe is the essential guide to understanding not just Ukraine's past but also its future

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The ultimate Rome story From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the Senate from the foreign wars that secure the power of the empire to the betrayals that threaten to tear it apart this is the remarkable story of the man who would become the greatest Roman of them all Julius Caesar In the city of Rome a titanic power struggle is about to shake the Republic to its core Citizen will fight citizen in a bloody conflict
- & Julius Caesar cutting his teeth in battle will be in the thick of the action The first instalment in the bestselling Emperor series
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New novel in the Kencyrath series sequel to The Sea of Time Adventure in a well-crafted high fantasy land Destruction is in Jame Knorth’s nature Literally She is the avatar of of a god known at That-Which-Destroys the god of chaos & ruin Yet Jame is also a noblewoman within an ancient race & the designated heir of her twin brother Torisen Knorth High Lord of the Kencyrath Jame’s people are fleeing world by world from a terrible enemy that has pursued them through a multitude of universes Its name is Perimal Darkling Obeying instructions from her brother Jame sets out with a force of Southron warriors to reestablish the long-fallen castle keep of Tagmeth By Jame’s side is Lyra a devious Kencyrath noble girl who is determined not to be forced into a marriage with a man she despises Jame’s old friends Mark & Brier Iron-thorn stand with her as well Marc steward & organizer of Jame’s household & Brier the only captain under her command wholly sworn to support Jame no matter the cost Jame finds more allies in the forest surrounding the ancient keep where the wild people of the woodlands the Merikit hold court & Jame’s adopted mother Gran Cyd matriarch & queen of the Merikit may once again provide the voice of calm that Jame requires to survive her own tempestuous nature Jame sets about establishing Tagmeth as an outpost against the gathering power of Perimal Darkling But Tagmeth hides a secret a gateway to a mystery that may save this world from eternal darkness—or plunge it to destruction & ruin all the sooner It is up to Jame to find her way through Perimal Darkling’s traps & to come to terms with the god of pandemonium & destruction within her who grows stronger every day If she succeeds it may be that Perimal Darkling can finally be defeated after eons of fear & flight & if she fails yet another world will fall to darkness forever Meet the Author PC Hodgell earned her doctorate at the University of Minnesota with a dissertation on Sir Walter Scott&s Ivanhoe & is a graduate of both the Clarion & the Milford Writers Workshops Recently retired she was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in modern British literature & composition & teaches an on-line course on science fiction & fantasy for the University of Minnesota Hodgell lives in her family’s ancestral nineteenth-century wood-framed house in Oshkosh Wisconsin ...