Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Gods Must Be Crazy For five thousand years things have pretty much stayed the same for Xi & his fellow bushmen Then one day an empty Coke bottle drops magically from the sky & life goes topsy turvy in the face of this generous &gift of the Gods& An international sensation & The Gods Must Be Crazy& is one of the most original & thought provoking comedies ever Starring real life Bushman Nixau it&s a movie that looks at us from the other side
- & shows us just how crazy we are Gods Must Be Crazy II This delightful sequel to the hilarious hit comedy is a piece of divinity inspired lunacy! Xi again collides with the so-called civilized world when he embarks on a search for his children who are accidental stowaways on a poacher&s truck He soon crosses their path with two very odd couples lost in the desert Xixo perplexed by their strange antics nevertheless finds himself drawn into a crazy adventure with people who know how to make machinesbut who constantly need to be saved from the wilderness!
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Life isn't always easy It's impossible to live deeply & not to feel pain or go through times of crisis breakdown or major disruptive change Although this is clearly inevitable what is not always obvious is the crucial role pain & crisis play in the process of growth & evolution While some people fall apart altogether & never make it through difficult times many others emerge from conflict & turmoil renewed & transformed indeed more fully alive They 'return' to life with a renewed sense of commitment to a neglected potential with a renewed sense of what one might call the 'sacred' in life with a richly enhanced sensitivity to others This lovely & important work from Howard Sasportas teaches us how to respond to the transits of Uranus Neptune & Pluto with calmness & a knowledge that the more we work with them the more worthwhile will be the end result ...

A grand alternate history science fiction adventure from multiple New York Times best-selling author Eric Flint creator of the Ring of Fire alternate history series the Jao Empire series & the Boundary series & multiple Hugo award winner & science fiction legend Mike Resnick Russ Tabor is one of the top security specialists in the galaxy Much against his will he finds himself assigned to provide protection for Rupert Medawar Narayan Shenoy—“ Lord Shenoy” as he likes to style himself—who is probably the human race’s most brilliant savant Shenoy has become convinced that the race of ancient aliens known as the Old Ones possessed powers unknown to any modern intelligent species He believes they had harnessed forces which may well have been actual magic giving the Old Ones the stature of gods Off Russ & Shenoy go to find the secret Meanwhile Occo a member of the alien race known as the Nac Zhe Anglan returns to her religious creed’s home cloister to find that it has been completely destroyed—and by means which suggest that the Old Ones were the perpetrators Yet the Old Ones those ancient & inimical gods of the galaxy were thought to have perished eons before Occo is not a savant of any kind She is a shaman castigant a warrior of her creed Her purpose now is to seek revenge not to uncover the secrets of the Old Ones But she cannot do the one without first doing the other So she & her familiar Bresk set ought to track down those long-gone deities Now human adventures & an alien shaman are on a collision course with the truth despite their many differences only if they unite their forces do they stand any chance of surviving the coming encounter with the gods of Sagittarius About the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel 1632 With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War & latest Honorverse series entry Cauldron of Ghosts Flint&s latest Ring of Fire novel is 1636 The Ottoman Onslaught Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives near Chicago Illinois Mike Resnick is the all-time leading finalist of science fiction’s Hugo awards He’s won five times & received a record 37 nominations He is also the winner of the Nebula award & other major awards in the USA France Japan Spain Catalonia Croatia & Poland Resnick is the author of 75 novels over 275 stories & 3 screenplays & the editor of 42 anthologies His work has been translated into 27 languages He is currently the editor of Stellar Guild books & Galaxy’s Edge magazine ...

A grand alternate history science fiction adventure from multiple New York Times best-selling author Eric Flint creator of the Ring of Fire alternate history series the Jao Empire series & the Boundary series & multiple Hugo award winner & science fiction legend Mike Resnick Russ Tabor is one of the top security specialists in the galaxy Much against his will he finds himself assigned to provide protection for Rupert Medawar Narayan Shenoy—“ Lord Shenoy” as he likes to style himself—who is probably the human race’s most brilliant savant Shenoy has become convinced that the race of ancient aliens known as the Old Ones possessed powers unknown to any modern intelligent species He believes they had harnessed forces which may well have been actual magic giving the Old Ones the stature of gods Off Russ & Shenoy go to find the secret Meanwhile Occo a member of the alien race known as the Nac Zhe Anglan returns to her religious creed’s home cloister to find that it has been completely destroyed—and by means which suggest that the Old Ones were the perpetrators Yet the Old Ones those ancient & inimical gods of the galaxy were thought to have perished eons before Occo is not a savant of any kind She is a shaman castigant a warrior of her creed Her purpose now is to seek revenge not to uncover the secrets of the Old Ones But she cannot do the one without first doing the other So she & her familiar Bresk set ought to track down those long-gone deities Now human adventures & an alien shaman are on a collision course with the truth despite their many differences only if they unite their forces do they stand any chance of surviving the coming encounter with the gods of Sagittarius Meet the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with over three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War Flint was a labor union activist for many years He lives in Chicago IL Mike Resnick is the all-time leading finalist of science fiction’s Hugo awards He’s won five times & received a record 37 nominations He is also the winner of the Nebula award & other major awards in the USA France Japan Spain Catalonia Croatia & Poland Resnick is the author of 75 novels over 275 stories & 3 screenplays & the editor of 42 anthologies His work has been translated into 27 languages He is currently the editor of Stellar Guild books & Galaxy’s Edge magazine ...

The ultimate Rome story Fresh from triumph in Britain & Gaul Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans To unseat Pompey now dictator of the empire he must make the terrible decision to wage war on his own people The glory that Julius Brutus Mark Antony & Octavian enjoy is short lived There are lands to conquer & choices to make that may yet tear them apart What cost will Caesar suffer for the path he has walked? Who will make him pay? The final instalment in the bestselling Emperor series ...

It is April 1793 & the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold the aristocrats are dead & the poor are fighting for bread in the streets In a Paris swept by fear & hunger lives Gamelin a revolutionary young artist appointed magistrate & given the power of life & death over the citizens of France But his intense idealism & unbridled single-mindedness drive him inexorably towards catastrophe Published in 1912 The Gods Will Have Blood is a breathtaking story of the dangers of fanaticism while its depiction of the violence & devastation of the Reign of Terror is strangely prophetic of the sweeping political changes in Russia & across Europe ...

Old Al Haji Amadu had three wives seven children
- & five extremely naughty goggle-eyed goats that munched & gobbled & chewed whatever
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'A great read & a fascinating insight into performance' Sir Clive Woodward We all want to discover our hidden talents & make an impact with them But how? Rasmus Ankersen an ex-footballer & performance specialist quit his job & for six intense months lived with the world's best athletes in an attempt to answer this question Why have the best middle distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are the leading female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston Jamaica succeed in producing so many world-class sprinters? Ankersen presents his surprising conclusions in seven lessons on how anyone
- or any business organisation or team
- can defy the many misconceptions of high performance & learn to build their own gold mine of real talent

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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 Leave it up to the Tramp to turn hard times into hilarity as he savours a Thanksgiving feast of boiled shoe slip slides inside a house teetering on a cliff choreographs a whimsical dance of dinner rolls & faces all manner of perils with pluck & fortitude ...

Winner of the 2016 EDGAR AGATHA MACAVITY & HRFKEATING crime writing awards this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie & colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction Detective stories of the Twenties & Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional Nothing could be further from the truth The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first time the extraordinary story of British detective fiction between the two World Wars A gripping real-life detective story it investigates how Dorothy L Sayers Anthony Berkeley Agatha Christie & their colleagues in the mysterious Detection Club transformed crime fiction Their work cast new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets & their complex & sometimes bizarre private lives Crime novelist & current Detection Club President Martin Edwards rewrites the history of crime fiction with unique authority transforming our understanding of detective stories & the brilliant but tormented men & women who wrote them ...