Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Romantic sci-fi feature starring Asa Butterfield as a teenager raised on Mars who decides to return to Earth 16-year-old Gardner Elliot (Butterfield) was the first human born on Mars & spent all of his childhood on the planet with scientists after his mother died in childbirth After befriending a girl named Tulsa (Britt Robertson) online Gardner travels to his home planet to experience all that he&s read about & missed out on for all of his lonely childhood Desperate for human connection Gardner escapes his guardians on Earth who are tasked with monitoring him & embarks on an adventure across the US with his fellow orphan Tulsa in search of his unknown father However the wonder of discovering the world for the first time is short-lived as scientists discover his body can&t withstand Earth&s gravity ...

This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewis's classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars Venus & Earth It

Includes:: an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by JRR Tolkien who inspired Lewis to write the first volume The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy demonstrating the powerful imagination of CSLewis This new one-volume edition marks the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Out of the Silent Planet with an exclusive Foreword by JRR Tolkien on whom the main character of Ransom was largely based OUT OF THE SILENT PLANETDr Ransom a Cambridge academic is abducted & taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra which he knows as Mars His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures & offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there PERELANDRAHaving escaped from Mars Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra or Venus When his old enemy also arrives & is taken over by the forces of evil Ransom finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of this Eden-like world THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTHInvestigating the truth about her prophetic dreams Jane Studdock encounters the fabled Dr Ransom who is in great pain after his travels A sinister society run by his old adversaries intends to harness the ancient powers of a resurrected Merlin in their ambition to subjugate the people of Earth

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There is a space within you where you are already perfect whole & complete It is a space of pure consciousness
- the space inside
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From KISS Spaceman as a stylized POP vinyl from Funko! Figure stands 3 34 inches & comes in a window display box Check out the other KISS figures from Funko! Collect them all! ...

A new novel in New York Times best seller Eric Flint&s science fiction Jao Empire series It has become clear to both the Jao & their human & Lleix partners that if they are going to defeat the Ekhat who have been terrorizing the galaxy for eons they need more allies To that end Preceptor Ronz guardian of Earth & greatest living strategist of the Jao has harnessed the energy of Earth&s humans to create & send out an exploration fleet under the command of Caitlin Kralik But after a long search all the expedition has found are dead worlds & now-extinct intelligent species slaughtered by the genocidal Ekhat Do they continue to search down the galactic arm in which Earth & the Jao worlds lie or do they make an astounding leap in another direction? With friends like Gabe Tully Tamt Wrot & Caewithe Miller supporting her Caitlin makes her decision Meanwhile the Ekhat as murderous & destructive as they have always been have a new generation of leaders growing into power who are even more implacable than those who have gone before them The Ekhat have not forgotten the Jao nor the damage they have done over the years to the Ekhat purpose It&s up to the Jao-human-Lleix confederation & the new allies they make to survive the onslaught & turn the tables on the Ekhat ...

Shot-proof fever-proof & a veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellington's army But for Juana a long year of war must follow Georgette Heyer was for over fifty years one of the most prolific succesful & best writers of historical romance 432 pages Heyer Georgette ...

UPDATED EDITIONA rousing & full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War & the rise to prominence of General Franco No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians & intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 Burned into our collective historical consciousness it not only prefigured the imminent Second World War but also ushered in a new & horrific form of warfare that would come to define the twentieth century At the same time it echoed the revolutionary aspirations of millions of Europeans & Americans after the painful years of the Great Depression In this authoritative history Paul Preston vividly recounts the political ideals & military horrors of the Spanish Civil War
- including the controversial bombing of Guernica
- & tracks the emergence of General Franco's brutal but extraordinarily durable fascist dictatorship

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This Very Short Introduction offers a powerfully-written explanation of the war's complex origins & course & explores its impact on a personal & international scale It also provides an ethical reflection on the war in the context of Europe's tumultuous twentieth century highlighting why it has inspired some of the greatest writers of our time & how it continues to resonate today in Britain continental Europe & beyond Throughout the book the focus is on the war as an arena of social change where ideas about culture were forged or resisted & in which both Spaniards & non-Spaniards participated alike These were conflicts that during the Second World War would stretch from Franco's regime which envisaged itself as part of the Nazi new order to Europe & beyond Accordingly this book examines Spanish participation in European resistance movements during World War II & also the ongoing civil war waged politically economically judicially & culturally inside Spain by Francoism after its military victory in 1939 History writing itself became a battleground & the book charts the Franco regime's attempt to appropriate the past It also indicates its ultimate failure
- as evident in new writings on the war & above all in the return of Republican memory now occurring in Spain during the opening years of the twenty-first century ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable
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During the middle decade of the 16th century a new type of sailing vessel emerged designed to carry the wealth of Americas to Spain This was the galleon & over the next century these vessels would serve Spain well as treasure ships & war ships becoming a symbol of Spanish power & wealth during the period This book traces the development of the Spanish Galleon & outlines the constructional methods the ordnance & the crewing needed to produce & maintain these stately vessels It examines the role of the galleon as a treasure ship & describes how these ships were manned & fought in action ...

A vivid & gripping novel from the master of the modern spy thriller' (Mail on Sunday) which sees Alec Milius coaxed back into the secret world to face the uncontainable danger of 21st century terrorism For six years Alec Milius has escaped the past In Madrid he has rebuilt his life but remains in exile & in danger Slightly older & much wiser than the young spy who first impressed MI6 he has kept his fatal attraction to secrets So when a prominent politician mysteriously disappears Alec is lured back into the spying game Only this time he operates without the protection of any official agency
- isolated & expendable with nobody to turn to if things go wrong & they soon do But when Alec is confronted with the nightmare of modern terrorism he is given one last chance for redemption
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