Designed by the internationally renowned architect Renzo Piano & developed by Irvine Sellar The Shard is one of the worlds most striking new skyscrapers & is now at 310m the tallest building in Western Europe Almost twice the height of any other viewing gallery in London the View on floors 68 69 & 72 offers visitors a 360-degree 40-mile view over one of the worlds most historic & exciting cities Organized spread by spread easy to navigate & as elegantly designed as the building itself the official guidebook sets The Shard in the context of Southwark before outlining the design principles & construction story of the building Also included are Q& As with both the architect & the developer & fascinating facts & stats relating to this extraordinary building Central to the books purpose as the official guidebook is a series of twelve double-page panoramic photographs of the view from The Shard all of them new to this edition An informative souvenir for visitors to The Shard the book will also be available in the trade making it available to all Londoners & visitors to the capital ...

From the islands of Hawaii the tale of Nanaue who tries to balance his Dad&s yearning with his Mom&s nurture ...

The Sharman-Caselli Deck was first published as part of the Beginner's Guide To Tarot with a 192-page instruction book & is now released as a deck-alone for the first time It results from a close collaboration between experienced tarot tutor Juliet Sharman-Burke & internationally acclaimed artist Giovanni Caselli The deck depicts traditional symbolism & Caselli's art is perfect for those using the tarot for the first time ...

SHARPE&S PERIL It&s India 1818 & Lt Col Richard Sharpe & Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are travelling across India escorting the beautiful Marie-Angelique Bonnet to meet her fiancee While in bandit-plagued badlands they come across the very dregs of the Crown&s troops; an ill disciplined rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare As Sharpe & company sit down to have dinner with their hosts the camp comes under attack by the notorious bandit Chitu As the dust settles it becomes apparent there have been many casualties & Sharpe realises that he is the only person now capable of getting this wagon train to the safety of the next army garrison Little does Sharpe know that the adventure has only just begun & that he has inadvertently stumbled across a massive opium trafficking ring SHARPE&S CHALLENGE Wellington sends Sharpe to India following the news of unrest in the country Sharpe finds himself tasked with saving a general&s daughter & keeping a beautiful scheming woman at arms length ...

World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's background-and uncover his true loyalties-in this thrilling & atmospheric entry in the bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review) At the foot of a tree shattered by shelling & gunfire stretcher-bearers find an exhausted officer shivering with cold & a loss of blood from several wounds The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's aid station where she stabilizes him & treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital The odd thing is the officer isn't British-he's French But in a moment of anger & stress he shouts at Bess in German When Bess reports the incident to Matron her superior offers a ready explanation The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine a province in the west where the tenuous border between France & Germany has continually shifted through history most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 won by the Germans But is the wounded man Alsatian? & if he is on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie? Of course Matron could be right but Bess remains uneasy-and unconvinced If he was a French soldier what was he doing so far from his own lines & so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce last-ditch fight? When the French officer disappears in Paris it's up to Bess-a soldier's daughter as well as a nurse-to find out why even at the risk of her own life ...

Region 2 This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Accountant Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sent to prison in the Forties for the murder of his unfaithful wife & her lover despite protesting his innocence He slowly comes to terms with the injustices of the corrupt prison system & quietly inspires some of his fellow prison inmates to have a more positive outlook on life Meanwhile the Governor of the prison discovers Dufresne&s book-keeping talents & recruits him to do a spot of creative accountancy Fellow inmate ageing gangster & Red& (Morgan Freeman) uses his connections to take care of Dufresne&s material needs & narrates the story of his friend&s term in jail through to the late Sixties ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Accountant Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sent to prison in the Forties for the murder of his unfaithful wife & her lover despite protesting his innocence He slowly comes to terms with the injustices of the corrupt prison system & quietly inspires some of his fellow prison inmates to have a more positive outlook on life Meanwhile the Governor of the prison discovers Dufresne&s book-keeping talents & recruits him to do a spot of creative accountancy Fellow inmate ageing gangster & Red& (Morgan Freeman) uses his connections to take care of Dufresne&s material needs & narrates the story of his friend&s term in jail through to the late Sixties ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Fear can hold you prisoner Hope can set you free City banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947 Convicted of two brutal murders he received a double life sentence & discovers that when they send you to Shawshank State Prison for life that is exactly what they take Within the confines of Shawshank Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red (Morgan Freeman) He also becomes popular with the Warden & the prison&s guards as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes With an extraordinary twist in the tale Andy finds that survival comes down to a simple choice get busy living or get busy dying ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Accountant Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sent to prison in the Forties for the murder of his unfaithful wife & her lover despite protesting his innocence He slowly comes to terms with the injustices of the corrupt prison system & quietly inspires some of his fellow prison inmates to have a more positive outlook on life Meanwhile the Governor of the prison discovers Dufresne&s book-keeping talents & recruits him to do a spot of creative accountancy Fellow inmate ageing gangster & Red& (Morgan Freeman) uses his connections to take care of Dufresne&s material needs & narrates the story of his friend&s term in jail through to the late Sixties Actors Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman Bob Gunton William Sadler Clancy Brown Directors Frank Darabont Writers Frank Darabont Producers Niki Marvin Language English Subtitles English Number of discs 3 ...

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