Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A New York couple (Tom Hanks & Shelley Long) buy a bargain basement house in the country but when they try to turn it into their dream home they realise why it was so cheap Not only do they have to deal with the structural integrity of the building but also with the conning & conniving builders & plumbers they employ to rebuild it ...

Imagine living for an entire year without money Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that & here is his extraordinary & compelling story How do friends & family react? What do you eat? How do you wash? Mark Boyle finds out the hard way & explores the troubling consequences of our obsession with money Encountering cuttlefish toothpaste seasonal foods paper made out of mushrooms & compost toilets Boyle puts the fun into frugality & will inspire you to question what really matters in life ...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals a leader of genius driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule Believing he was divinely protected Genghis united warring clans to create a nation & then an empire that ran across much of Asia Under his grandson Kublai Khan the vision evolved into a more complex religious ideology justifying further expansion Kublai doubled the empire's size until in the late 13th century he & the rest of Genghis's Golden Family' controlled one fifth of the inhabited world Along the way he conquered all China gave the nation the borders it has today & then finally discovered the limits to growth Genghis's dream of world rule turned out to be a fantasy & yet in terms of the sheer scale of the conquests never has a vision & the character of one man had such an effect on the world Charting the evolution of this vision John Man provides a unique account of the Mongol Empire from young Genghis to old Kublai from a rejected teenager to the world's most powerful emperor ...

Matthew Lewis's Gothic masterpiece depicting a holy man slowly becoming entangled in a web of sin The Monk is edited with an introduction by Christopher Mac Lachlan in Penguin Classics Savaged by critics for its blasphemy & obscenity particularly since the author was a Member of Parliament The Monk soon attracted thousands of readers keen to see if this Gothic novel lived up to its lurid reputation With acute psychological insight Lewis shows the diabolical decline of Ambrosio a worthy superior of the Capuchins of Madrid who is tempted by Matilda a young girl who has entered his monastery disguised as a boy Descending into a hell of his own creation Ambrosio is driven to magic & murder in an attempt to conceal his crimes from the Inquisition The Monk was greatly admired by the Marquis de Sade who saw it as a response to the upheavals of the French Revolution yet it also reveals something more universal the way violent & erotic impulses lurking within us all can break through every barrier of social restraint Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) was educated at Oxford after which he held a position in the British Embassy at The Hague It was there in 1794 that he wrote the racy novel The Monk under the influence of the early German romantics Its controversial publication in 1796 due to Lewis' new status as MP earned him fame & the book a great deal of popularity If you enjoyed The Monk you might like Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto also available in Penguin Classics ...

With an Introduction by Kathryn White Prepare to be shocked This novel written in 1796 is a Gothic festival of sex magic & ghastly ghostly violence rarely seen in literature The Monk is remarkably modern in style & tells a breathless tale of temptation imprisonment & betrayal Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio the holier-than-thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter corruption of the soul Meanwhile two sets of young lovers are thwarted & the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits & is chilled by the spectre of nuns imprisoned in vermin-ridden & skeleton-crowded vaults Late Eighteenth Century audiences were polarised in opinion as to the novel's merits Lord Byron & the Marquis de Sade were impressed by Lewis's daring while Coleridge warned parents against The Monk's suitability for their sons or daughters describing the novel as 'poison for youth If you want a novel that still terrifies over two hundred years after it was written there is none finer than The Monk ...

An internationally bestselling fable about a spiritual journey littered with powerful life lessons that teach us how to abandon consumerism in order to embrace destiny live life to the full & discover joy This inspiring tale is based on the author's own search for life's true purpose providing a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage balance abundance & joy It tells the story of Julian Mantle a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life following a heart attack he decides to sell all his beloved possesions & trek to India On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture he meets Himalayan gurus who offer powerful wise & practical lessons that teach us to
- Develop joyful thoughts- Follow our life's mission- Cultivate self-discipline & act courageously- value time as our most important commodity- Nourish our relationships- Live fully one day at a time
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The first in the fantastic Cole & Pike series from the bestselling author of THE WANTED & THE PROMISE ' Robert Crais is an author of incredible talent' Dan Brown 256 pages Crais Robert ...

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