Comedy crime drama from director Steven Soderberg starring Matt Damon & Scott Bakula based on the true story told in the best-selling book by Kurt Eichenwald Mark Whitacre (Damon) was a high flier in a hugely successful agricultural foods company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) who along with other senior employees engaged in price fixing until he decided to turn informer for the FBI gathering evidence against the corrupt company Whitacre agreed to wear a wire & take recordings all under the misguided impression that he would emerge from the investigation as the good guy However the FBI gradually learn that their star informer
- & the key to their whole case
- has not fully disclosed his own suspect dealings & it becomes increasingly difficult for them to determine if Whitacre is being truthful

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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012 the world's leading prize for popular science writing We live in the information age But every era of history has had its own information revolution the invention of writing the composition of dictionaries the creation of the charts that made navigation possible the discovery of the electronic signal the cracking of the genetic code In The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use transmit & keep what they know From African talking drums to Wikipedia from Morse code to the bit' it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea & a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives ...

The Informers of the title are a loose grouping of underworld types upon whom Scotland Yard inspector Nigel Patrick depends for crucial information Patrick gets in trouble with his superiors when he refuses to reveal the identity of his informants He gets into even more trouble when while investigating the murder of one of his snitches Patrick is framed on a corruption rap by Margaret Whiting THE INFORMERS was based on DEATH OF A SNOUT a novel by Douglas Warner ...

The Informers of the title are a loose grouping of underworld types upon whom Scotland Yard inspector Nigel Patrick depends for crucial information Patrick gets in trouble with his superiors when he refuses to reveal the identity of his informants He gets into even more trouble when while investigating the murder of one of his snitches Patrick is framed on a corruption rap by Margaret Whiting THE INFORMERS was based on DEATH OF A SNOUT a novel by Douglas Warner ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free blu-ray player in order to play The Informers is an adaptation of Bret Easton Elis& novel & stars Winona Ryder Amber Head Billy Bob Thronton Mickey Rouke Kim Basinger Brad Renfo & Rhys Ifans The Informers is set in LA & details over the course of a week in 1983 a collection of loosly related short stories involving movie execs rock stars a vampire & other morally challenged characters Actors Winona Ryder Amber Heard Billy Bob Thornton Mickey Rourke Kim Basinger Brad Renfro Rhys Ifans Jon Foster Lou Taylor Pucci Austin Nichols Aaron Himelstein Cameron Goodman Katy Mixon Theo Rossi Diego Klattenhoff & Simone Kessell Director Gregor Jordan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 27 minutes (approx)
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Directed by the late great Ingmar Bergman this loose trilogy brings together three of his finest films thematically-linked by their depiction of man's relationship with God

Includes:: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY WINTER LIGHT & THE SILENCE

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region r or region free DVD player in order to play When newly married couple Dan & Jessica move into the neglected March Carriage Bed & Breakfast Inn in New England they believe that this will be the start of their dreams They have plans to renovate & restore the historic inn to its former glory but it isn&t long before a presence in the house makes itself known After a series of disturbing events the husband begins to suspect that something evil is lurking within the walls of this old house & whatever it is has set its sights on his wife Now he must fight to uncover the inn&s dark secret before this malicious spirit consumes everything he loves ...

The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion home to three people each dreaming of another time The judge broken by a world too messy for justice is haunted by his past His orphan granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor despite their different backgrounds & ideals The cook's heart is with his son who is working in a New York restaurant mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home Around the house swirl the forces of revolution & change Civil unrest is making itself felt stirring up inner conflicts as powerful as those dividing the community pitting the past against the present nationalism against love a small place against the troubles of a big world 'A Magnificent novel of humane breadth & wisdom comic tenderness & political acuteness' Hermione Lee chair of the Man Booker Prize judges' Poised elegant & assured breaks out into extraordinary beauty' The Times' Desai's bold original voice & her ability to deal in a grand narratives with a deft comic touch that affectionately recalls some of the masters of Indian fiction makes hers a novel to reread & remembered' Independent Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 was educated in India England & the United States & now lives in New York She is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries & The Inheritance of Loss which won the Man Book Prize for Fiction & the National Book Critics Circle Award was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction ...

' The Penguin History of Europe series is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman The world known as the ' Dark Ages' often seen as a time of barbarism was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created Chris Wickham's acclaimed history shows how this period encompassing peoples such as Goths Franks Vandals Byzantines Arabs Anglo-Saxons & Vikings was central to the development of our history & culture From the collapse of the Roman Empire to the establishment of new European states & from Ireland to Constantinople the Baltic to the Mediterranean this landmark work makes sense of a time of invasion & turbulence but also of continuity creativity & achievement ...

Critically acclaimed award-winning biography of CS Lewis JRR Tolkien & the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War CS Lewis JRR Tolkien & their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery in the years during & after the Second World War They drank beer on Tuesdays at the Bird & Baby' & on Thursday nights they met in Lewis' Magdalen College rooms to read aloud from the books they were writing; jokingly they called themselves The Inklings' CS Lewis & JRR Tolkien first introduced The Screwtape Letters & The Lord of the Rings to an audience in this company & Charles Williams poet & writer of supernatural thrillers was another prominent member of the group Humphrey Carpenter who wrote the acclaimed biography of JRR Tolkien draws upon unpublished letters & diaries to which he was given special access in this engrossing story ...