Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Paramilitary operative David Wolfe (Cuba Gooding Jr) is a highly trained & deadly assassin assigned to kill a notorious terrorist in the Middle East During his mission he stumbles upon a US government conspiracy involving the top members of the administration Now on the run David is determined to expose the truth before it&s too late Actors Cuba Gooding Jr JK Simmons Vernel Bagneris Brett Beoubay Kyle Bradley Edrick Browne Vince Canlas Patrick Michael Carney & Brad C Carte Director John Carter Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Shortlisted for the Andre Simon 2017 Drinks Book Awards& This book is incredible&
- Alex Kratena An in-depth personal journey around
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When Mila's brother disappears she believes he's been taken by the Bear a hooded stranger of legend who sought shelter at their home Mila & her sisters follow his trail into the frozen north determined to find a way past winter & bring their brother home 256 pages Millwood Hargrave Kiran ...

Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist & published in 1937 this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5000 miles across hills & bogs swimming through flooded caverns staying out all night on islands sifting fossil bones & exploring cattle-tramped tombs That was when conservation was still in the future farmers welcomed rambling strangers bogs were intact bungalows cars ESB poles & chain saws were absent & the countryside was largely tourist-free Praeger's journey began in Donegal & ended in Kerry Along the way he discovered much including the passage tombs of Carrowkeel in Sligo which he was the first to enter This is an absolute must for lovers of natural history ...

Get to grips with how things work inside hundreds of machines with this extraordinary book that explains the science behind technologies & inventions In this extensive encyclopedia packed full of simple science for kids David Macaulay&s beautiful illustrations show the inner workings of each machine from clocks & watches to jet engines & the internet From the basic lever to the modern microprocessor this bestseller has been completely updated with the latest technologies & explains every machine you&ve ever wanted to understand & some you&ve probably never thought about With David Macaulay&s inspired illustrations & humorous approach The Way Things Work makes even the most complex technology fun fascinating & accessible for children of all ages ...

From the author of Secrets of Nanreath Hall comes this gripping beautifully written historical fiction novel set during World War II-the unforgettable story of a young woman who must leave Singapore & forge a new life in England On the eve of Pearl Harbor impetuous & overindulged Lucy Stanhope the granddaughter of an earl is living a life of pampered luxury in Singapore until one reckless act will change her life forever Exiled to England to stay with an aunt she barely remembers Lucy never dreamed that she would be one of the last people to escape Singapore before war engulfs the entire island & that her parents would disappear in the devastating aftermath Now grief stricken & all alone she must cope with the realities of a grim battle-weary England Then she meets Bill a young evacuee sent to the country to escape the Blitz & in a moment of weakness Lucy agrees to help him find his mother in London The unlikely runaways take off on a seemingly simple journey across the country but her world becomes even more complicated when she is reunited with an invalided soldier she knew in Singapore Now Lucy will be forced to finally confront the choices she has made if she ever hopes to have the future she yearns for ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Way Way Back is the coming of age story of 14-year-old Duncan&s summer vacation with his mother Pam her overbearing boyfriend Trent & his daughter Steph Having a rough time fitting in the introverted Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen the gregarious manager of the Water Wizz Water Park Through his funny clandestine friendship with Owen Duncan slowly opens up to & begins to finally find his place in the world
- all during a summer he will never forget
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We have lost the ability to deal with death Most of our friends & beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers doctors & nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks They may not even know they are dying victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours robbed of their dignity & fed through a tube after a long series of excessive & hopeless medical interventions This is the starting point of Seamus O' Mahoney's thoughtful moving & unforgettable book on the western way of death Dying has never been more public with celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness but in private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying & made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve ...

The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism edited with an introduction & notes by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility
- using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims But as Melmotte climbs higher in society his web of deceit
- which also draws in characters as diverse as his own daughter Marie & Felix's mother the pulp novelist Lady Carbury
- begins to unravel A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy Frank Kermode's introduction explores the real-life inspiration for Trollope's masterly satire This edition also

Includes:: detailed notes Anthony Trollope (1815-82) had an unhappy childhood characterised by a stark contrast between his family's high social standing & their comparative poverty He wrote his earliest novels while working as a Post Office inspector but did not meet with success until the publication of the first of his ' Barsetshire novels' The Warden (1855) As well as writing over forty novels including such popular works as Can You Forgive Her? (1865) Phineas Finn (1869) He Knew He Was Right (1869) & The Way We Live Now (1875) Trollope is credited with introducing the postbox to England If you enjoyed The Way We Live Now you might like William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair also available in Penguin Classics' Trollope's masterpiece its examination of how hopes of easy money can corrupt remains relevant today' Observer




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With an Introduction & Notes by Peter Merchant Canterbury Christ Church College The tough-mindedness of the social satire in & its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises of the life of 1870s London the loves of those drawn to & through the city & the career of Augustus Melmotte Melmotte is one of the Victorian novel's greatest & strangest creations & is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time Trollope's ' Now' might in the twenty-first century look like some distant disenchanted ' Then' but this is still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make proper sense of our today ...