' 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
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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 ...

A comprehensive introduction to an important & fascinating subject this exceptional new title is published to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of VE Day Paul Dowswell's informative & accessible text will immerse readers in the era & h&-coloured black & white photographs give a unique & atmospheric look Provides a genuinely international perspective showing how people all over the world were affected by the war ...

From the beaches of Dunkirk to the air raid shelters in the Blitz this book tells the story of Britain during the most destructive war of the 20th century It is full of intriguing facts illustrations photographs detailed reconstructions paintings maps & photographs It

Includes:: links to websites to find out more information via the Usborne Quicklinks website as well as lists of places to visit throughout Britain

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' Riveting' Lesley Pearse on The Letter ' Gripping' Good Housekeeping on The Secret From the 1 bestselling author of The Letter comes The Secret
- a powerful twisting novel that you won't be able to put down Mary has been nursing a secret Forty years ago she made a choice that would change her world for ever & alter the path of someone she holds dear Beth is searching for answers She has never known the truth about her parentage but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past She must go back to where it all began to unlock The Secret What readers are saying about the unputdownable stories of Kathryn Hughes' Get set to be hooked' 'A page-turner from the very beginning'' This is one of the BEST BOOKS I have ever read''I cried buckets of tears reading it''A beautifully told tragic tale'
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' Madness & despair! Give me that for a lever & I'll move the world' In the only novel Conrad set in London The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc a Russian spy working for the police & ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion & when his evil plan goes horribly awry Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions The Penguin English Library
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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 Starring David Suchet & David Capaldi this powerful three-part BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad&s famous novel tells of an attempt by a triple agent to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 a time of unrest & anarchist violence throughout Europe However it is the far-reaching effect this infamous conspiracy has upon the domestic life of the anti-hero Adolf Verloc that takes this compelling & complex tale beyond political intrigue to reveal a psychological drama of probing depth & vivid detail in its incisive portrayal of human frailty Forced against his will to commit a terrorist outrage & become a political pawn Verloc is unable to avoid involving his own wife Winnie & her handicapped brother Stevie in an escalating & desperate struggle for survival in the merciless arena of political blackmail & treachery The diverse worlds of Victorian London&s embassies & fashionable aristocratic society alongside the squalid criminal back streets of Soho provide a smouldering background to the dark tragedy that will befall Verloc&s family Faced with an impossible moral dilemma this hapless victim of circumstance sees his life filled with mystery danger & ultimately death ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Hugh Epstein Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain ' Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself of a monstrous towna cruel devourer of the world's light There was room enough there to place any story depth enough for any passion variety enough there for any setting darkness enough to bury five millions of lives' Conrad's monstrous town' is London & his story of espionage & counter-espionage anarchists & embassies is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar & simple-minded brother Stevie as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho However far from offering any sentimental picture The Secret Agent is Conrad's funniest novel Its savagely witty picture of human absurdity & misunderstanding is written in an ironic style that provokes laughter & unease at the same time & that continues to provide one of the most disturbing visions of aspiration & futility in twentieth century literature ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award 2018 Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2018 Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018 Eye-opening funny & horrifying& Observer Everyone who has any interest in public life should read it& Daily Mail You may not wish to think about it but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom You might be a juror a victim a witness or
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- a defendant Whatever your role you&d expect a fair trial I&m a barrister I work in the criminal justice system & every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect The innocent are wronged & the guilty allowed to walk free I want to share some stories from my daily life to show you how the system is broken who broke it & why we should start caring before it&s too late A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FOR 24 WEEKS

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