Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga Adventureland) & Dakota Fanning (The Twilight Saga Coraline) star as Joan Jett & Cherie Currie in The Runaways the music-fuelled coming of age story of the groundbreaking all girl 1970s rock band that paved the way for future generations of female musicians Plucked from obscurity by rock impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon Revolutionary Road) raven-haired rocker Joan the rebellious Cherie & their band become an outrageous sensations thanks to their tough image & raw talent But their fast drug-fuelled lifestyle soon catches up with the teenage girls as success starts to cloud their judgments Actors Kristen Stewart Dakota Fanning Michael Shannon Riley Keough Tatum O& Neal Stella Maeve Scout Taylor-Compton & Riley Keough Director Floria Sigismondi Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 46 minutes (approx)
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THE PENULTIMATE NOVEL IN THE CHINA SERIES FROM THE RICHARD & JUDY MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OFTHE BLACKHOUSETHE SUFFERERA prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics Days later a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition THE LISTENERDetective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities & finds a female athlete willing to talk But she will only trust one person Li's fiancee Margaret Campbell THE RUNNERWhen Campbell's contact herself vanishes the gun is fired on a race against time & Li must now outrun & outwit an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the wake of the BP oil spill Colin Price rockets to political stardom The trouble is his personal life is a shambles & when his extra marital affair is exposed he is forced to resign his wife leaves him & his career is in ruins Six months later while Colin is battling his demons he is forced to confront his troubled past & decide whether to chase ambition or hold on to his last shred of dignity ...

The Sunday Times Bestseller
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 Traditional ploughland is disappearing Seven cornfield
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It's not just a game when you're running for your life Every night they tuned in to the nation's favourite prime-time TV game show They all watched from the sprawling slums to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich They all watched the ultimate live death game as the contestants tried to bet not the clock but annihhilation at the hands of the Hunters Survive thirty days & win the billion dollar jackpot
- that was the promise But the odds were brutal & the game rigged Best score so far was eight days And now there was a new contestant the latest running man staking his life while a nation watched
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Barley Blair is not a Service man he is a small-time publisher a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky & jazz But it was Barley who one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began & made a promise Nearly a year later his drunken promise returns to haunt him A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence & sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between the beautiful Katya Both are lonely & disillusioned Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future all must betray their countries In his first post-glasnost spy novel le Carre captures the effect of a slow & uncertain thaw on ordinary people & on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them ...

The Russian Civil War of 1917-1920 out of which the Soviet Union was born was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century The collapse of the Tsarist regime & the failure of the Kerensky Provisional Government nearly led to the complete disintegration of the Russian state This book however is not simply the story of that collapse & the rebellion that accompanied it but of the painful & costly reconstruction of Russian power under a Soviet regime Evan Mawdsley's lucid account of this vast & complex subject explains in detail the power struggles & political manoeuvres of the war providing a balanced analysis of why the Communists were victors This edition

Includes:: illustrations a new preface & an extensively updated bibliography

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What is the Russian Mafia? This unique book thoroughly researches this question & challenges widely-held views The author charts the emergence of the Russian Mafia in the context of the transition to the market the privatization of protection & pervasive corruption The ability of the Russian state to define property rights & protect contracts is compared to the services offered by fragments of the state apparatus private security firms ethnic crime groups the Cossacks & the Mafia Past criminal traditions rituals & norms have been resuscitated by the Mafia of today to forge a powerful new identity & compete in a crowded market for protection The book draws on reports of undercover police operations; in-depth interviews conducted over several years with the victims of the Mafia criminals & officials; & documents from the Gulag archives It also provides a comparative study making references to other Mafia (the Japanese Yakuza the Sicilian Cosa Nostra the American-Italian Mafia & the Hong Kong Triads) ...

The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime & the opening of its archives it has become possible to step back & see the full picture Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917 through Stalin's 'revolution from above' to the great purges of the 1930s She tells a gripping story of a Marxist revolution that was intended to transform the world visited enormous suffering on the Russian people & like the French Revolution before it ended up by devouring its own children This updated edition contains a fully revised bibliography & updated introduction to address the centenary what does it all mean in retrospect ...

At the turn of the century the Russian economy was growing by about 10 annually & its population had reached 150 million By 1920 the country was in desperate financial straits & more than 20 million Russians had died & by 1950 a third of the globe had embraced communism The triumph of Communism sets a profound puzzle How did the Bolsheviks win power & then cling to it amid the chaos they had created? Traditional histories remain a captive to Marxist ideas about class struggle Analysing never before used files from the Tsarist military archives Mc Meekin argues that war is the answer The revolutionaries were aided at nearly every step by Germany Sweden & Switzerland who sought to benefit
- politically & economically
- from the changes overtaking the country To make sense of Russia's careening path the essential question is not Lenin's "who whom?" but who benefits?

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