Weaving together the historical & the imagined China Mieville's The Last Days of New Paris is a surreal & extraordinary work from the author of The City & The City 1941 In the chaos of wartime Marseille American engineer & occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton In the strange games of dissident diplomats exiled revolutionaries & avant-garde artists Parsons finds & channels hope But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams & nightmares changing the war & the world for ever 1950 A lone Surrealist fighter Thibaut walks a new hallucinogenic Paris where Nazis & the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict & the streets are stalked by living images & texts
- & by the forces of Hell To escape the city Thibaut must join forces with Sam an American photographer intent on recording the ruins & make common cause with a powerful enigmatic figure of chance & rebellion the exquisite corpse But Sam is being hunted & new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties
- to each other to Paris old & new & to reality itself

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From the winner of the Oscar for the Best Screenplay for The Imitation Game in 2015 comes a superb historical legal thriller ...

Chronicling the life & death of the father of western philosophy & charting his influence on the most influential ancient Greek philosophers Plato's The Last Days of Socrates is translated from the Greek by Hugh Tredennick revised with an introduction & notes by Harold Tarrant in Penguin Classics The trial & condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy & corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens In tracing these events through four dialogues Plato also developed his own philosophy based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house debating the nature of piety while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges of impiety & a defence of the philosopher's life In the Crito while awaiting execution in prison Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape Finally in the Phaedo he is shown calmly confident in the face of death skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul Hugh Tredennick's landmark 1954 translation has been revised by Harold Tarrant reflecting changes in Platonic studies with an introduction & expanded introductions to each of the four dialogues Plato (c 427-347 BC) stands with Socrates & Aristotle as one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of the West He founded the Academy in Athens the first permanent institution devoted to philosophical research & teaching & the prototype of all Western universities If you enjoyed The Last Days of Socrates you might like Plato's The Symposium also available in Penguin Classics ...

A gripping account of the months before & after Stalin's death & how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime He was poised to challenge the newly elected US President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force & was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet Jews Stalin's sudden collapse & death in March 1953 was as dramatic & mysterious as his life It is no overstatement to say that his passing marked a major turning point in the twentieth century The Last Days of Stalin is an engaging briskly told account of the dictator's final active months the vigil at his deathbed & the unfolding of Soviet & international events in the months after his death Rubenstein throws fresh light on the devious plotting of Beria Malenkov Khrushchev & other comrades in arms who well understood the significance of the dictator's impending death; the witness-documented events of his death as compared to official published versions; Stalin's rumored plans to forcibly exile Soviet Jews; the responses of Eisenhower & Secretary of State Dulles to the Kremlin's conciliatory gestures after Stalin's death; & the momentous repercussions when Stalin's regime of terror was cut short ...

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Akila Berjaoui's incredibly sensual photographs often feature sand sun water-or a combination of all three In her first book this highly sought-after fashion photographer armed with her favorite old analogue cameras takes us to breathtaking seaside locations from her hometown of Sydney Australia to the bathing hotspots of Italy France & Brazil to name just a few Much in the tradition of Slim Arons Bruce Weber Peter Beard Claude Nori & Juergen Teller-all of whom she regards as influences on her work-Berjaoui's photos harken back to the 1950s '60s '70s & '80s with their soft colors & sultry joie de vivre As a woman Berjaoui is able to draw out her female subjects with a sense of kinship rather than voyeurism One of the world's most in-demand photographers Akila Berjaoui is destined to make a name for herself in the field of travel beauty & lifestyle photography ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery
- fossilised evidence of bacterial life Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory he disobeys orders to pack up & goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses & he falls into a deep crevice & near certain death His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body However when another vanishes they start to suspect that the lifeform they have discovered is not yet dead As the group begins to fall apart it seems their only hope is the imminent arrival of the relief ship Aurora Actors Liev Schreiber Olivia Williams Romola Garai & Elias Koteas Director Ruairi Robinson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Ukranian Duration 1 hour & 34 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 On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory he disobeys orders to pack up & goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses & he falls into a deep crevice & near certain death His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body However when another vanishes they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not yet dead As the group begins to fall apart it seems their only hope is the imminent arrival of the relief ship Aurora Actors Liev Schreiber Olivia Williams Romola Garai & Elias Koteas Director Ruari Robinson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Ukranian Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Simon has just been released from prison & is on parole His friend Albert lures him back to his old ways for one more hit To steal the priceless diamond Florentin Simon's plan to steal the diamond goes sour Others are also after the diamond such as gangsters & ruthless killers Actors Yvan Attal B&233;r&233;nice Bejo Jean-Fran&231;ois St&233;venin Directors Eric Barbier Format PALLanguage French Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Every dog has its day & for Lineker a happy go lucky mongrel from Peckham the day the world ends is his finally a chance to prove to his owner just how loyal he can be Reg an agoraphobic writer with an obsession for nineties football plans to wait out the impending doom in his second floor flat hiding himself away from the riots outside But when an abandoned orphan shows up in the stairwell of their building Reg & Lineker must brave the outside in order to save not only the child but themselves ...