They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter & clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls The King of the Union ever a jealous neighbour is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher The orders have been given & the armies are toiling through the northern mud Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones on a worthless hill in an unimportant valley & they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them Bremer dan Gorst disgraced master swordsman has sworn to reclaim his stolen honour on the battlefield Obsessed with redemption & addicted to violence he's far past caring how much blood gets spilled in the attempt Even if it's his own Prince Calder isn't interested in honour & still less in getting himself killed All he wants is power & he'll tell any lie use any trick & betray any friend to get it Just as long as he doesn't have to fight for it himself Curnden Craw the last honest man in the North has gained nothing from a life of warfare but swollen knees & frayed nerves He hardly even cares who wins any more he just wants to do the right thing But can he even tell what that is with the world burning down around him? Over three bloody days of battle the fate of the North will be decided But with both sides riddled by intrigues follies feuds & petty jealousies it is unlikely to be the noblest hearts or even the strongest arms that prevail Three men One battle No Heroes ...

In J R R Tolkien&s Lord of the Rings The Hobbit & The Silmarillion Middle-earth endured cataclysmic wars & critical battles causing great men women & mystical creatures to arise influence & shape the course of its history Here in this book Tolkien expert David Day examines the complexities surrounding Tolkien&s portrayal of good & evil & analyses Middle-earth&s most celebrated heroes & the literary historical & mythological sources that inspired their creation This work is unofficial & is not authorized by the Tolkien Estate or Harper Collins Publishers ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Swords clash warriors fall & the battle for the future of the Kingdom of Pars begins in the epic first twelve episodes of The Heroic Legend of Arslan Season One! Pitched into the middle of a war between the nations of Pars & Lusitania young Prince Arslan barely escapes with his life when his father King Andragoras III is targeted by traitors in his own camp With nothing but the help of the steadfast & loyal warrior Daryun & a ragtag group of followers Arslan must face impossible odds to liberate his fallen nation from the amassed forces of Lusitania led by the mysterious Silvermask! This strictly limited special collector’s edition of Arslan Season One Part One comes complete with an eighty page book of interviews character profiles & artwork; 12 art cards from the creative team behind the series; 4 collectible character cards; a map of the Kingdom of Pars & a boardgame with forty tokens featuring all the key characters from this epic fantasy anime Experience the legend like never before with this heroic box set! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Swords clash warriors fall & the battle for the future of the Kingdom of Pars begins in the epic first twelve episodes of The Heroic Legend of Arslan Season One! Pitched into the middle of a war between the nations of Pars & Lusitania young Prince Arslan barely escapes with his life when his father King Andragoras III is targeted by traitors in his own camp With nothing but the help of the steadfast & loyal warrior Daryun & a ragtag group of followers Arslan must face impossible odds to liberate his fallen nation from the amassed forces of Lusitania led by the mysterious Silvermask! This strictly limited special collector’s edition of Arslan Season One Part One comes complete with an eighty page book of interviews character profiles & artwork; 12 art cards from the creative team behind the series; 4 collectible character cards; a map of the Kingdom of Pars & a boardgame with forty tokens featuring all the key characters from this epic fantasy anime Experience the legend like never before with this heroic box set! ...

New alliances are made & battle lines drawn in the final twelve episodes of The Heroic Legend of Arslan Series One collected in this limited special edition set Following the events at Peshawar Arslan & his companions find themselves fighting the invading Shindra army led by Prince Rajendra & are soon embroiled in a power struggle between Rajendra & his brother Gadevi An alliance with Shindra may be just what the young Prince needs to defeat Silvermask but still standing between Arslan & his final goal are villainous double crosses spies for both sides duels in the desert & an army of 100000 Lusitanian soldiers Arslan has come a long way on his journey from boy to king but is he destined to fall at the final hurdle? Find out in this stunning Special Collector’s Edition which also

Includes:: twelve artcards character cards a double sided poster & a 100 page book of character profiles background info & artwork from the creative staff behind the most ‘heroic’ series in anime history! Bonus Features Music Clips Comedy Short

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10th anniversary edition with exclusive new content Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom the co-founder of legendary Moetley Crue offers an unflinching & gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction When Moetley Crue were at the height of their fame there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do He spent days
- sometimes alone sometimes with others addicts friends & lovers
- in a coke- & heroin-fuelled daze THE HEROIN DIARIES reveals Nikki's personal diary entries alongside commentary from the people who know Nikki best including band mates Tommy Vince & Mick The book is a candid look at a nightmare come true a punishing heroin addiction that brought Nikki to the edge of losing his talent his career his family & finally to a near-fatal overdose which left him clinically dead for a few minutes before being revived Brutally honest utterly riveting & shockingly moving THE HEROIN DIARIES follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom & his courageous decision to pick himself up & start living again' Harrowing required reading' Rolling Stone' Heartbreaking The Heroin Diaries presents a new model for the rock bio' The New York Times'A modern-day opera based on his time in hell' New York Post' Addictive reading' Kerrang' Lurid' Harp

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Britain's war in the shadows of male spies & subterfuge in the heart of occupied France is a story well known but what of the women who also risked their lives for Britain & the liberation of France? In 1942 a desperate need for new recruits saw SOE turn to a previously overlooked group
- women These extraordinary women came from different backgrounds but were joined in their idealistic love of France & a desire to play a part in its liberation They formed SOE's F Section From the famous White Mouse Nancy Wake to the courageous Noor Inayat Khan they all risked their lives for King Country & the Resistance Many of them died bravely & painfully & often those who survived like Eileen Nearne never told their stories yet their secret missions of intelligence-gathering & sabotage undoubtedly helped the Resistance to drive out their occupiers & free France Here for the first time is the extraordinary account of all forty SOE F women agents It is a story that deserves to be read by everyone They were the war's bravest women devoted to defeating the Nazis yet reluctant ever to reveal their heroic pasts Now a new book tells their intrepid tales' Daily Express Squadron Leader BERYL E ESCOTT served in the RAF & is one of the foremost experts on the women of SOE
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Two young women working for a company that conducts euthanasia are dispatched to a remote estate to perform a custom assisted-suicide ritual There they unearth the spirits of an evil death cult that was led by the very man they have been hired to kill Actors Liv Collins Sarah Power Tim Burd Ari Millen Tony Burgess Directors Jesse Thomas Cook Writers Tony Burgess Producers Jesse Thomas Cook John Geddes Matt Wiele Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Can we imagine a world without flowers? Flowers are beautiful offering us delight in their colour fragrance & form as well as their medicinal benefits Flowers also speak to us in the language of the plant form itself as cultural symbols in different societies & at the highest levels of inspiration In this beautiful & original book renowned thinker & geometrist Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that has received perhaps the least attention This is the flower as teacher of symmetry & geometry (the 'eternal verities' as Plato called them) In this sense he says flowers can be treated as sources of remembering -- a way of recalling our own wholeness as well as awakening our inner power of recognition & consciousness What is evident in the geometry of the face of a flower can remind us of the geometry that underlies all existence Working from his own flower photographs & with every geometric pattern h&-drawn the author reviews the role of flowers within the perspective of our relationship with the natural world His illuminating study is an attempt to re-engage the human spirit in its intimate relation with all nature ...

Sunday Times Bestseller A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families tree parents live together with their children communicate with them support them as they grow share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling & even warn each other of impending dangers Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods & forests explaining the amazing processes of life death & regeneration he has observed in his woodland A walk in the woods will never be the same again ...