Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Every country wanted what one man possessed… In the midst of World War 2 intelligence services from England Germany & Russia collide in a fierce fight for the mind of Nicky Raus a genius German Jewish scientist who was developing a weapon of tremendous power An American agent Frank Hossom enters the game when German agents undertake a daring operation to steal the scientist Frank has to get the scientist back
- dead or alive His mission is complicated by his developing relationship with Olga Ryabina Nicky&s lover an actress forced to work for the KGB The love triangle & the international intrigue weave into a deadly net
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No 1 bestselling memoir of Roy Keane former captain of Manchester United & Ireland
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Welcome to the Island of Struay home of one of the best-loved characters in children's books & as seen on TV
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In recent years computers have learned to diagnose diseases drive cars write clean prose & win game shows Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median income has stagnated & employment levels have fallen Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew Mc Afee reveal the technological forces driving this reinvention of the economy & chart a path towards future prosperity Businesses & individuals they argue must learn to race with machines Drawing on years of research Brynjolfsson & Mc Afee identify the best strategies & policies for doing so A fundamentally optimistic book The Second Machine Age will radically alter how we think about issues of technological societal & economic progress ...

TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE & SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED & INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID' Everyone who cares about freedom & justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote ' One is not born but rather becomes a woman' In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom & explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity Liberation she argues entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes & crucially in achieving economic independence Drawing on sociology anthropology & biology The Second Sex is as important & relevant today as when it was first published in 1949 ...

Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism & philosophy An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century & its influence is still felt today The book's success owes much to Beauvoir's brilliant writing style & passion but both are rooted in the clarity of her critical thinking skills She builds a strong argument against the silent assumptions that continually demoted (and still demote) women to second place in a society dominated by men Beauvoir also demonstrates the central skills of reasoning at their best presenting a persuasive case organising her thoughts & supporting her conclusions Above all though The Second Sex is a masterclass in analysis Treating the structures of contemporary society & culture as a series of arguments that tend continuously to demote women Beauvoir is able to isolate & describe the implicit assumptions that underpin male domination Her demolition of these assumptions provides the crucial ammunition for her argument that women are in no way the second sex but are in every way the equal of men ...

Vintage Feminism classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage & scandal Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully & successfully argued De Beauvoir's belief that One is not born but rather becomes a woman' switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women & began a fight for greater equality & economic independence These pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE & SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED & INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID ...

' One is not born but rather becomes woman' First published in Paris in 1949 The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking risque book that became a runaway success Selling 20000 copies in its first week the book earned its author both notoriety & admiration Since then The Second Sex has been translated into forty languages & has become a landmark in the history of feminism Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes the central messages of The Second Sex are as important today as they were for the housewives of the forties ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play One Christmas Eve a parcel falls from Santa&s sleigh & lands in a small garden shed inhabited by three pets Archie the rabbit Duke the guinea pig & Babs the hamster Determined to deliver the lost Christmas presentby daybreak to its rightful owner they embark on an exciting new adventure Second Star to the Left is a beautifully animated film from the team behind the BAFTA & Royal Television Society award-winning & The First Snow of Winter& It features the voices of Barbara Windsor Hugh Laurie & Mark Williams (of The Fast Show) with the musical score provided by Becky Taylor Actors Barbara Windsor Hugh Laurie Mark William Konnie Huq & Tony Collingwood Director Graham Ralph Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 2001 Screen Widescreen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Duration 29 Minutes (approx)
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A magisterial single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria & ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific & China & yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects Using the most up-to-date scholarship & research Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific & from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers & civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this the most terrible war in history ...