Tracklist In A Heartbeat Changeling Arcadia Elephant In The Room Turn On The Lights Skull & Crossbones Ghost Powerkick Our Time Furry Lewis That's My Life I Could Have Loved You ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Double bill of British crime dramas & The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan& (2012) follows Mike Jacobs (Nick Nevern) a football casual who is no stranger to finding himself on the wrong side of the law However the violence & intimidation he indulges in at football matches are one thing the credit card fraud schemes proposed by his friend Eddie Hill (Simon Phillips) are something else & Mike is soon in over his head In & The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan 2 England Away& (2013) Mike is living in Spain safeguarded by the Witness Protection Programme after testifying against several of his former associates Mike&s fatal weakness is his passion for the England football team & his problems begin when he is spotted attending a game Soon his life is turned upside down as those he betrayed seek revenge through the kidnapping of his friend Katie (Rita Ramnani) Actors Nick Nevern Simon Phillips & Rita Ramnani Director Paul Tanter Certificate 18 years & over Year 2012 ; 2013 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Paul Tanter directs this British crime sequel in which a reformed football hooligan who has testified against powerful London gangsters finds his safety under threat Mike Jacobs (Nick Nevern) was never entirely comfortable with the company he kept in London & now lives in Spain safeguarded by the Witness Protection Programme after his evidence put several of his former associates behind bars However Mike&s fatal weakness is his passion for the England football team & his problems begin when he is spotted attending a game Soon his life is turned upside down as those he betrayed seek revenge through the kidnapping of his friend Katie (Rita Ramnani) With less than a week to gather the two million pound ransom required to save her Mike&s quest will take him back to London & into grave danger Actors Nick Nevern Simon Phillips & Rita Ramnani Director Paul Tanter Certificate 18 years & over Year 2013 Languages English ...

In the century after the Civil War an economic revolution enhanced the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable Electric lighting indoor plumbing motor vehicles air travel & television transformed households & workplaces But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative historical anecdotes & economic analysis The Rise & Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated & demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 & 1970 cannot be repeated Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality stagnating education an aging population & the rising debt of college students & the federal government & that we must find new solutions A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time The Rise & Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change & a harbinger of tougher times to come ...

Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise & fall of Athens from the legendary days of Theseus the city's founder through Solon Themistocles Aristides Cimon Pericles Nicias & Alcibiades to the razing of its walls by Lysander ...

You think you know how the world works? Think again From bestselling author Neal Stephenson & critically acclaimed historical & contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating & complex near-future thriller that questions the very foundations of the modern world 1851 England The Great Exhibition at London's Crystal Palace has opened celebrating the rise of technology & commerce With it the power of magic
- in decline since the industrial revolution began
- is completely snuffed out The existence of magic begins its gradual devolution into mere myth 21st Century America Magic has faded from the minds of mankind until an encounter between Melisande Stokes linguistics expert at Harvard & Tristan Lyons shadowy agent of government leads to the uncovering of a distant past After translating a series of ancient texts Melisande & Tristan discover the connection between science magic & time travel & so the Department of Diachronic Operations
- DODO
- is hastily brought into existence It's mission to develop a device that will send their agents back to the past where they can stop magic from disappearing & alter the course of history But when you interfere with the past there's no telling what you might find in your future Written with the genius complexity & innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson's work & steeped with the down-to-earth warmth & humour of Nicole Galland's storytelling style this exciting & vividly realised work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible & take you to places
- & times
- beyond imagining





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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER' Entertaining acute & disarmingly honest' Economist'A vital guide to the new economic order' Rana Foroohar Time The crisis of 2008 ended the illusion of a golden era in which many people imagined that prosperity & political calm would continue to spread indefinitely In a world now racked by slowing growth & mounting unrest how can we discern which nations will thrive & which will fail? Shaped by prize-winning author Ruchir Sharma's twenty-five years travelling the world The Rise & Fall of Nations rethinks economics as a practical art By narrowing down the thousands of factors that can shape a country's future it spells out ten clear rules for identifying the next big winners & losers in the global economy' The nub of the book is how to spot which countries are likely to succeed & which to fail in this impermanent world Sharma offers a framework of 10 rules The more of these rules countries achieve the more they are likely to rise rather than fall it may just help you avoid picking losers' David Smith Sunday Times' Amazing fascinating insights quite simply the best guide to the global economy today' Fareed Zakaria' Lively & informative' Martin Wolf Financial Times' As ambitious as it is well executed a mix of humble pragmatism & daring decisiveness' Reuters ...

Owain Glyn Dwr is one of the great figures of Welsh & military history Initially a loyal subject of the king of England he reluctantly took up arms against the Crown he had served Once committed to rebellion he proved surprisingly talented at leading rebel troops against a theoretically vastly superior enemy Not solely a warrior he conceived & implemented a strategy which saw his small poorly-equipped forces repeatedly defeat Crown troops & bring down the apparatus of governance in Wales Following these achievements he held native parliaments & established diplomatic contact with surrounding powers This led to a treaty with France after the conclusion of which he welcomed French forces to Welsh soil to campaign with the rebels In brief Owain erected a rebel state & won international recognition Owain's foreign support was fractured by the intrigues of exceptionally talented English diplomats at work in the French court This created an environment which allowed Crown forces to concentrate on defeating the rebellion in Wales Although ultimately unsuccessful Owain emerges from the era as a gifted & honourable leader giving the Welsh a figure commonly recalled as a hero ...

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle & military might Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500 at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China the Ottomans the rising Mughal state the nations of Europe But it was the latter which through competition economic growth & better military organisation came to dominate the globe
- until challenged later by Japan the Soviet Union & the United States Now China boosted by its own economic prowess rises to the fore Throughout this brilliant work Kennedy persuasively demonstrates the interdependence of economic & military power showing how an imbalance between the two has historically led to spectacular political disaster Erudite & brilliantly original The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the politics of power
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An illuminating & highly readable account of the rise & demise of a world classic which still informs our common language as well as much of the great literature of the last four centuries Most histories of Church of England liturgy for good reason begin in the 1530s & centre on the 1549 & 1552 Books of Common Prayer That is important for initial doctrinal changes & the establishment of the liturgical text However both liturgies were extremely short-lived & the real history of the Book of Common Prayer as the Liturgy of the Church of England begins with the Elizabethan Settlement 1559 & a long tenure of the enacted Elizabethan liturgy The only revision of any note was that of 1662 & this revision lasted without serious challenge until the 19th century & without legal alternative until the twentieth century This study therefore concentrates on 1559 until the Report of the Royal Commission in 1906 which paved the way for liturgical revision ...