The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands Colonies were established & a great empire grew Funding their ships & cargoes helped make the City of London into the world's leading financial centre In the 19th century a vast network of docks was created for ever-larger ships behind high prison-like walls that kept them secret from all those who did not toil within Sail made way for steam as goods were dispatched to every corner of the world In the 19th century London was the world's greatest port city In the Second World War the Port of London became Hitler's prime target It paid a heavy price but soon recovered Yet by the end of the 20th century the docks had been transformed into Docklands a new financial centre The History of the Port of London A Vast Emporium of Nations is the fascinating story of the rise & fall & revival of the commercial river The only book to tell the whole story & bring it right up to date it charts the foundation growth & evolution of the port & explains why for centuries it has been so important to Britain's prosperity This book will appeal to those interested in London's history maritime & industrial heritage the Docklands & East End of London & the River Thames ...

What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? When Raimundo Silva a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon 320 pages Saramago Jose ...

History is a rich varied & fascinating subject so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book until now Author Emma Marriott pulls it all together from the world's earliest civilizations to the founding of the United Nations in 1945 passing by the likes of Charlemagne the Ottoman Empire & the Crimean War to name a few 192 pages Marriott Emma ...

In 1889 the first Official Secrets Act was passed creating offences of 'disclosure of information' & 'breach of official trust' It limited & monitored what the public could & should be told Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished As successive governments have been selective about what they choose to share with the public we have been left with a distorted & incomplete understanding not only of the workings of the state but of our nation's culture & its past In this important book Ian Cobain offers a fresh appraisal of some of the key moments in British history since the end of WWII including the measures taken to conceal the existence of Bletchley Park & its successor GCHQ for three decades; the unreported wars fought during the 1960s & 1970s; the hidden links with terrorist cells during the Troubles; the sometimes opaque workings of the criminal justice system; the state's peacetime surveillance techniques; & the convenient loopholes in the Freedom of Information Act Drawing on previously unseen material & rigorous research The History Thieves reveals how a complex bureaucratic machine has grown up around the British state allowing governments to evade accountability & their secrets to be buried ...

The trap is set Failure is not an option in the second book in the thrilling Will Robie series 592 pages Baldacci David ...

First a legendary radio series then a bestselling book now a blockbuser movie the immensely successful Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy needs no introduction Reissued to coincide with the film's release this hardback omnibus edition include all five parts of the trilogy incorporating for the first time Mostly Harmless along with a guide to the guide & essential notes on how to leave the planet This single hardback edition is indispensable for any would-be galactic traveller & for old & new fans of Douglas Adams Doctor Who & bestselling science fiction books ...

Introduced by Richard Dawkins & Nick Harkaway First a legendary radio series then a sequence of bestselling books & most recently a blockbuster movie The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the greatest fictional enterprises of the twentieth century Reissued in time for the first novel's thirty-fifth anniversary this hardback omnibus edition

Includes:: all five parts of the trilogy along with a wealth of extra material prefaced & contextualised by Jem Roberts the official biographer of Douglas Adams to complete the canon This unique hardback edition is indispensable for any would-be galactic traveller & a must-read for all Douglas Adams fans

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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 Fantastic box set containing the four films director Alfred Hitchcock made with the legendary Hollywood producer David O Selznick In ' Rebecca' Joan Fontaine stars as a young woman who after a brief Monte Carlo courtship & a rushed marriage returns with the handsome & mysterious Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) to his Cornish country estate Manderlay The new bride receives a hostile reaction from the housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Judith Anderson) & finds herself intimidated & overcome by the surviving traces of de Winter's first wife Rebecca Then as she becomes more & more unhappy she stumbles upon the secret of Rebecca's death In ' Notorious' Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) is a social butterfly recruited by the American government to work as a spy in Rio de Janeiro in the years directly following World War Two Helped by fellow agent Devlin (Cary Grant)
- who soon falls in love with her
- she is ordered to seduce & marry Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains) a member of a covert group of exiled Nazis She succeeds in marrying Sebastian & uncovers a Nazi plot to stockpile uranium but when Sebastian himself realises who is wife is working for he begins to plot to get rid of her In ' Spellbound' psychiatrist Dr Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) is intrigued by the arrival of her new boss Dr Edwardes (Gregory Peck) Edwardes seems to be suffering from amnesia & when he faints it transpires that he is in fact an imposter & may be guilty of murdering the real Dr Edwardes Constance then sets about probing the imposter's psyche in an attempt to discover the truth Finally in ' The Paradine Case' barrister Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) is hired to defend the wealthy Mrs Paradine (Alida Valli) who has been accused of murdering her husband Keane finds himself falling in love with his client becoming obsessive about her to the exclusion of all else However the judge in the case (Charles Laughton) makes things difficult adopting a belligerent attitude towards Keane because he secretly desires the lawyer's wife (Ann Todd) Actors Laurence Olivier Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck Cary Grant Joan Fontaine Directors Alfred Hitchcock Format Box set Dolby PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 4

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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 The open highway becomes a terrifying battleground of blood metal fear & murder when a young couple Grace & Jim (Sophia Bush & Zachary Knighton) hit the road & encounter the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder (Sean Bean) during a violent storm The initial encounters with Ryder escalate rapidly as he transforms into a deadly racing psychopath & the stakes are raised further when he frames Grace & Jim for a horrific slaying that makes them fugitives from the law As the carnage mounts & the action pushes you to the edge of your seat Grace & Jim must fight for their lives & face their fears head-on Actors Sean Bean Sophia Bush Zachery Knighton Neal Mc Donough Danny Bolero Kyle Davis & Lauren Cohn Director Dave Meyers Certificate 18 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Spanish Duration 1 hour 20 minutes (approx)
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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 It is the most remarkable certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus better selling than Fifty Three Things to Do in Zero Gravity & more controversial than Oolon Colluphid&s trilogy of philosophical blockbusters
- Where God Went Wrong Some More of God&s Greatest Mistakes & Who is this God Person Anyway? So that whingeing Earthling Arthur Dent should be very grateful he had a copy! For after Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass Arthur Dent is let loose in the furthest recesses of the Galaxy armed only with the aforementioned mysterious but indispensable Guide Follow Dent&s cosmic adventures as he is joined by his pretty weird companions Zaphod Beeblebrox Ford Prefect Trillian-the-Astrophysicist-he-met-at-a-party-in-Islington & Marvin the manically depressed Android You never know they may even find the answer to Life The Universe & Everything! Actors Simon Jones David Dixon Joe Melia Martin Benson Andrew Mussell Gil Morris Mark Wing-Davey Peter Jones David Prowse & Sandra Dickinson Director Alan Bell Certificate 15 years & over Year 1981 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages English
- Original Mono sound Duration 3 hours (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players



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