Izzy is really pleased to have been put in charge of the new girl at school Matilde is French & Izzy & her friends can't wait to show her their den & its moth & to help her avoid school dinners (also known as poison) But Matilde LOVES school dinners & even has seconds! & that's when they know Matilde is a spy & she has come to find out their secrets They must stop her before it's TOO LATE!!! ...

' Authentic taut & compelling Brookes is the real deal' Charles Cumming The stunning third novel from multi-award-nominated ...

From a land before time comes a hero for today Spynosaur
- he's going to make crime extinct! A hilarious new series from award-winning
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In 1919 Michael Collins conceived of a scheme to knock out the eyes & ears of the British Administration at Dublin Castle by undermining & terrorising the police so that the British would react blindly & drive the Irish people into the arms of the Irish Republican Army The Bureau of Military History interviewed those involved in this scheme in the early 1950s with the assurance that the material would not be published in their lifetimes A few of the contributions were made available by the families of those involved but the bulk of them have only recently been released This the first book to make use of those interviews It makes fascinating almost unique reading because they contain first-hand descriptions in which men speaking candidly of their involvement in killing selected people at close range As a result it throws a considerable amount of new light on the activities of the Squad & the intelligence operations of Michael Collins ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When contact is lost with a military base set deep in the desolate plains of Colombia a special high mountain command unit is sent to check things out On arrival they find only one person alive & gradually the isolation & inability to communicate with the outside world takes its toll on their sanity Prisoners of fear paranoia & a dark secret; they must challenge each other & be prepared to kill one another in order to survive unless they can work out the true nature of their enemy & unite to defeat it Actors Juan David Restrepo Alejandro Aguilar Andres Castañeda Mateo Stevel Nelson Camayo Daniela Catz Mauricio Navas Andres Torres Julio Cesar Valencia & Juan Pablo Barragan Director Jaime Osorio Marquez Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen 169 Languages Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English Region Region 2
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The New York Times bestseller' Silicon Valley needed a history lesson & Ferguson has provided it' Eric Schmidt What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson the global bestselling author of Empire The Ascent of Money & Civilization this is a whole new way of imagining the world Most history is hierarchical it's about popes presidents & prime ministers But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks
- leaving them to the conspiracy theorists with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age But in The Square & the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new From the printers & preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes & kings Far from being novel our era is the Second Networked Age with the computer in the role of the printing press Once we understand this both the past & the future start to look very different indeed' Ambitious & illuminating the historian who more than most connects our age to its past' Evening Standard Books of the Year' Captivating & compelling' The New York Times' Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book In 400 pages you will have restocked your mind Do it' Wall Street Journal
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Historians love to write about rulers--kings emperors presidents--or about vast social forces--migration industrialisation--but what if they are all missing the point? Thinking about our own lives isn't it clear that what makes the world go round are families colleagues teams associations in other words networks? Many old Italian towns have the same central structure a large square where people gather & a tower where the town's elite ruled from Throughout history you can express the battle between the two as a battle of networks
- who knows who who works with who guilds families fellowships clans cabals all cooperating to make sometimes huge changes Sometimes the power lies with those lurking in the tower & sometimes with those in the square Access to information to credit to ideas to news
- all constantly shift Whether in the Renaissance or in the present day what makes the world work is an astonishing tangle of networks
- & this was as true for the effort that went into discovering the New World as it is now for fighting elections or just talking to friends online In his enormously enjoyable new book Niall Ferguson celebrates the myriad ways in which the battle between rival networks makes history happen


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Set between 1989 & the downfall of Ceausescu & 2013 The Squeeze travels between Edinburgh Romania & Oslo & sees this -multi-award-winning & bestselling author at the height of her powers Marta a teenager trafficked from Romania in the early 1990s is forced to work as a prostitute in Edinburgh Mats a Norwegian businessman who longs only to be a good husband & father becomes involved with Marta & both their lives are wrenched
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- in new directions Told in a splintered narrative style that allows glimpses into several points of view The Squeeze explores the transactions that take place between men & women Sex money & the desire for love are at its heart

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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 A retired safecracker living in Mexico is lured back to New York City for one last job Unfortunately the promised heist is in fact a double cross putting him in danger Actors Lee Van Cleef Karen Black Directors Anthony Dawson Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach & his brother The Squid & the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents& divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s In his third feature director Noah Baumbach scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager whose writer-parents are divorcing The father (Jeff Daniels) & mother (Laura Linney) duke it out in half-civilized half-savage fashion while their two sons adapt in different ways shifting allegiances between parents The film is squirmy-funny & nakedly honest about the rationalizations & compensatory snobbisms of artistic failure as well as the conflicted desires of adolescents for sex & status In detailing bohemian-bourgeois life in brownstone Brooklyn Baumbach is spot on Everyone proceeds from good intentions & acts rather badly in spite or because of their manifest intelligence Fulfilling the best traditions of the American independent film this quirky wisely written feature explores the gulf between sexes generations art & commerce Brooklyn & Manhattan ...