The Salmon of Doubt is Douglas Adams's indispensable guide to life the universe & everything This sublime collection dips into the wit & wisdom of the man behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy uncovering his unique comic musings on everything from his school-trousers to malt whisky & from the letter Y through to his own nose via atheism hangovers & fried eggs Including short stories & eleven chapters of a Dirk Gently novel that Douglas Adams was working on at the time of his death & featuring an introduction by Stephen Fry The Salmon of Doubt is for fans & new readers alike These hilarious collected writings reveal the warmth enthusiasm & ferocious intelligence behind this most English of comic writers; a man who was virtually an unofficial member of the Monty Python team Douglas Adams on his passion for P G Wodehouse The Beatles & the perfect cup of tea alone make this a must-have collection & a remarkable sign-off from one of the best loved writers of all time ...

' Dr Di Nicolantonio takes us away from hype & hyperbole to a place of rationality as it relates to salt This extensively researched text lets us finally erase the guilt all of us felt when catering to our desire for this important mineral' David Perlmutter MD bestselling author of Grain Brain & The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan A leading cardiovascular research scientist upends the low-salt myth proving that salt may be one solution to
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- the chronic disease crisis We've all heard the recommendation no more than a teaspoon of salt a day for a healthy heart But there's one big problem with this the majority of us don't need to watch our salt For most salt protects against a host of aliments including internal starvation insulin resistance diabetes & heart disease
- not to mention it tastes great Dr Di Nicolantonio reveals the eye-opening story a never-been-told century-spanning drama of competing egos & interests of how salt became unfairly demonised (The real culprit? Another white crystal
- sugar) Sure to change the conversation about this historically treasured substance The Salt Fix elegantly weaves research into a fascinating new understanding of salt's essential role in your health & what happens when you aren't getting enough Dr Di Nicolantonio shows how eating the right amount of this essential mineral will help you beat sugar cravings achieve weight loss improve athletic performance increase fertility & thrive with a healthy heart Finally he offers a transformative six-step programme for re-calibrating your innate salt thermostat so that you can simply listen to your cravings to achieve your ideal salt intake



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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 The 1870s among new settlers & outlaws Danish immigrant Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) has been waiting for years to bring his wife & son to the United States When he finally succeeds moments after their arrival they fall victim to a horrific crime Out of grief & despair Jon kills the perpetrator His actions unleash powerful forces His victim’s brother is the ruthless Colonel Delarue who terrorises the town of Black Creek & will stop at nothing to avenge his brother Betrayed & ostracised by the community Jon must transform himself from peaceful settler to fearless warrior to save the town & find peace ...

A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK SPRING 2016 When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows she's seen this MO before A sadistic serial killer has been operating undetected for a decade preying on lone female drivers who have broken down The press dub the killer 'the Samaritan' but with no leads the police investigation quickly grinds to a halt That's when Carter Blake shows up to volunteer his services He's a skilled manhunter who shares some uncomfortable similarities to the man Allen & her team are tracking As the slaughter intensifies Blake must find a way to stop it even if it means bringing his own past crashing down on top of him From the author of THE KILLING SEASON comes the thrilling new Carter Blake novel ...

The Same Inside is a sweet & thoughtful collection of poems about friendship empathy & respect by three of the nation's best-loved poets Liz Brownlee Matt Goodfellow & Roger Stevens These fifty poems deal sensitively with feelings empathy respect courtesy bullying disability & responsibility They are the perfect springboard to start conversations ...

In the gentle Shrewsbury spring of 1140 the midnight matins at the Benedictine abbey suddenly reverberates with an unholy sound
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In this lyrical hallucinatory novel set in Morocco Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative & radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs & Islamic law The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring Already the father of seven daughters Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male Accordingly the infant a girl is named Mohammed Ahmed & raised as a young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional Arab-Islamic societies As she matures however Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her sexual evolution & as a woman named Zahra Ahmed begins to explore her true sexual identity Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed's life through a professional storyteller & the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square in the 1950s to hear his tale A poetic vision of power colonialism & gender in North Africa The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring & significant work of international fiction ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Horror starring Brooke Butler & Jamie Kennedy A group of friends wake up after an all-night beach party to a terrible surprise
- the sand is alive & will consume anybody who touches it
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture this "fascinating" (The New York Times) action-drama chronicles a volatile time in history & will resonate with generations to come Directed with a "deft" (Life) hand by Oscar winner Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) The Sand Pebbles earned Steve Mc Queen his only Oscar nomination & also stars Richard Attenborough & Candice Bergen 1926 China Engineer Jake Holman (Mc Queen) is transferred to the USS San Pablo a gunboat patrolling the troubled waters of the Yangtze River As Chinese factions battle around them the crew has one singular mission to protect American interests in the region without provoking an international incident But as hostility over the US presence in the river intensifies Holman & his sole ally (Attenborough) know their latest assignment
- to save a US missionary (Bergen)
- could be their last Actors Steve Mc Queen Candice Bergen Richard Attenborough Richard Crenna Emmanuelle Arsan Mako Larry Gates Charles Robinson Simon Oakland Ford Rainey Joe Turkel Gavin Mac Leod Joe Di Reda Richard Loo & Barney Phillips Director Robert Wise Certificate 15 years & over Year 1966 Screen Widescreen 1692351 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (40) Stereo Subtitles Croatian; Czech; Danish; Finnish; Hebrew; Hungarian; Icelandic; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Swedish; Turkish; English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hour & 54 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 Collection of three children&s movies & The Sandlot Kids& (1994) is set in Salt Lake City in 1962 & tells the story of the friendship between two twelve-year old boys Scotty (Tom Guiry) & Benny (Mike Vitar) Scotty & his family move to town & Scotty although useless at baseball manages to get a place with a game played in a sandlot out the back of his house thanks to the engineering of a catch by the team&s best player Benny As the summer progresses the two boys become good friends while having occasional adventures with the next-door neighbour&s terrifying dog
- The Beast & The Sandlot Kids 2& (2005) is set ten years after the original story & the local dirt field is now &home& to a new group of neighbourhood kids who get together to share laughs show off & play baseball Yet the gang faces its toughest challenge yet as the kids try to retrieve an irreplaceable model rocket that has landed in the junkyard behind left field
- a forbidden territory guarded by the legendary slobbering beast known as & The Great Fear& Finally in & The Sandlot 3& (2007) Tommy Santorelli (Luke Perry) is a gifted but arrogant Major League baseball player When he is knocked out by a stray pitch he wakes up & finds himself a 12-year-old in 1976 on his childhood playing field When Earl Needman (Paul Garrett) a greedy developer threatens to bulldoze the sandlot unless Tommy&s friends can beat Needman&s far better side Tommy must decide whether to switch teams or stay with his friends & lead them to their greatest ever victory Actors Tom Guiry Mike Vitar Patrick Renna Chauncey Leopardi Marty York Directors David Mickey Evans William Dear Producers Dale De La Torre William S Gilmore David Bixler Jon Kuyper Language English Subtitles Dutch French German Italian Spanish Swedish Danish Finnish Norwegian Dubbed French German Italian Spanish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 3

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