Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Charles Bronson stars as professional killer Arthur Bishop a man regarded as the best in his bloody trade He prides himself on the fact that he can make all his hits look like accidents After one particular job the son of his victim Steve (Jan-Michael Vincent) pleads with Arthur to teach him the tricks of the trade & Arthur obliges as his solitary lifestyle is beginning to have a profound effect on him Soon however Arthur becomes involved in a deadly game of cat & mouse that can only lead to the death of one of the parties involved Actors Charles Bronson Jan-Michael Vincent Keenan Wynn Jill Ireland Linda Ridgeway Directors Michael Winner Writers Lewis John Carlino Producers Henry Gellis Irwin Winkler Robert Chartoff Format PALLanguage English Subtitles French Dutch Swedish Finnish Danish Polish Greek Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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When archaeologist Neil Watson unearths a long-buried mechanical figure in a Dartmoor field he is determined to discover the truth behind the bizarre find Soon however the sleepy village becomes the focus of press attention for another reason when two people with no apparent connection to each other are found shot dead in nearby Manor Field seemingly victims of an execution-style double murder DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate but the two murders aren't his only problem The daughter of a local MP has gone missing & the pressure is on to find her especially when it's revealed that she has a connection to one of the murder victims & Wesley's own life is thrown into turmoil when a woman he helped on a previous investigation finds herself subjected to a campaign of terror Is there a link between the double murder & the accidental death of a young history student in Manor Field twenty years ago? & just what is the true identity of the Mechanical Devil? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play They took his family now he&s out for revenge Dolph Lundgren stars as former Russian Special Forces agent Nick Cherenko in this well-made action flick Abandoning his old life for a peaceful existence with his wife & child Nick receives a rude awakening when they are killed in gang crossfire Moving to the US & beginning once again with a job as a mechanic Nick is given the chance to extract revenge on those who killed his loved ones & the fighter in him is re-awakened ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Saints & Soldiers Four American soldiers & one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from US forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre Lebanon The Soldier's Journey During the First Lebanon War in 1982 a lone tank & a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town Assault On The Pacific
- Kamikaze World War II epic about a squadron of Japanese Kamikaze pilots & their journey through training & first missions toward the terrifying destiny of their battle with the US Navy over the Pacific Ocean Actors Oshri Cohen Yoav Donat Michael Moshonov Itay Tiran Kirby Heyborne Directors Ryan Little Samuel Maoz Taku Shinjo Writers Samuel Maoz Shintaro Ishihara Geoffrey Panos Matt Whitaker Producers Ryan Little Anat Bikel Leon Edery Moshe Edery Ilann Girard Format Box set PALLanguage English Hebrew Japanese Number of discs 1
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The Media Student's Book is a comprehensive introduction for students of media studies It covers all the key topics & provides a detailed lively & accessible guide to concepts & debates Now in its fifth edition this bestselling textbook has been thoroughly revised re-ordered & updated with many very recent examples & expanded coverage of the most important issues currently facing media studies It is structured in three main parts addressing key concepts debates & research skills methods & resources Individual chapters include approaching media texts narrative genres & other classifications representations globalisation ideologies & discourses the business of media new media in a new world? the future of television regulation now debating advertising branding & celebrity news & its futures documentary & 'reality' debates from 'audience' to 'users' research skills & methods Each chapter

Includes:: a range of examples to work with sometimes as short case studies They are also supported by separate longer case studies which include Slumdog Millionaire online access for film & music CSI & detective fictions Let the Right One In & The Orphanage PBS BBC & HBO images of migration The Age of Stupid & climate change politics The authors are experienced in writing researching & teaching across different levels of undergraduate study with an awareness of the needs of students The book is specially designed to be easy & stimulating to use with a Companion Website with popular chapters from previous editions extra case studies & further resources for teaching & learning at wwwmediastudentsbookcom margin terms definitions photos references (and even jokes) allied to a comprehensive glossary follow-up activities in ' Explore' boxes suggestions for further reading & online research references & examples from a rich range of media & media forms including advertising cinema games the internet magazines newspapers photography radio & television

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Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century the Medici gained political power in Florence raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement & becoming its hereditary dukes Among their number were no fewer than three popes & a powerful & influential queen of France Their patronage brought about an explosion of Florentine art & architecture Michelangelo Donatello Fra Angelico & Leonardo are among the artists with whom they were associated Thus runs the 'received view' of the Medici Mary Hollingsworth argues that the idea that they were wise rulers & enlightened fathers of the Renaissance is a fiction that has acquired the status of historical fact In truth the Medici were as devious & immoral as the Borgias
- tyrants loathed in the city they illegally made their own & which they beggared in their lust for power
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A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power money & ambition Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient & classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise & fall of the Medici family in Florence as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor & encourage Strathern also follows the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings including Leonardo Michelangelo & Donatello; as well as scientists like Galileo & Pico della Mirandola; & the fortunes of those members of the Medici family who achieved success away from Florence including the two Medici popes & Catherine de& Medicis who became Queen of France & played a major role in that country through three turbulent reigns ...

Medicinal Chef Dale Pinnock is the perfect teacher & he starts by explaining the benefits of types of ingredient like wholegrains oils & meat & poultry as well as cooking methods like stir-frying 192 pages Colour photography throughout Pinnock Dale ...

In antiquity & the Middle Ages memory was a craft & certain actions & tools were thought to be necessary for its creation & recollection Until now however many of the most important visual & textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult Mary Carruthers & Jan M Ziolkowski bring together the texts & visual images from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that are central to an understanding of memory & memory technique These sources are now made available for a wider audience of students of medieval & early modern history & culture & readers with an interest in memory mnemonics & the synergy of text & image The art of memory was most importantly associated in the Middle Ages with composition & those who practiced the craft used it to make new prayers sermons pictures & music The mixing of visual & verbal media was commonplace throughout medieval cultures pictures contained visual puns words were often verbal paintings & both were used equally as tools for making thoughts The ability to create pictures in one's own mind was essential to medieval cognitive technique & imagination & the intensely pictorial & affective qualities of medieval art & literature were generative creative devices in themselves ...

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all about medieval housewives peasant women grand ladies women in trade & women in the church in this fascinating book More has been written about medieval women in the last twenty years than in the two whole centuries before that Female authors of the medieval period have been rediscovered & translated; queens are no longer thought of as merely decorative brood mares for their royal husbands & have merited their own biographies In the past historians have tended to look at what women could not do In this book we will look at the lives of medieval women in a more positive light finding out what rights & opportunities they enjoyed & attempting to uncover the real women beneath the layers of dust accumulated over the centuries ...