High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago Called the Burgess Shale it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived
- a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in incredible detail In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale might tell us about evolution & the nature of history The Darwinian theory of evolution is a well-known well-explored area But there is one aspect of human life which this theory of evolution fails to account for chance Using the brilliantly preserved fossil fauna of the Burgess Shale as his case study Gould argues that chance was in fact one of the decisive factors in the evolution of life on this planet & that with a flip of coin everything could have been very different indeed
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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 Collection of four classic Christmas films In & It&s a Wonderful Life& (1946) George Bailey (James Stewart) has spent his entire life in the small town of Bedford Falls Despite his yearning to see the world George has always sacrificed his personal ambitions for the sake of his family & the local community settling down to marry his childhood sweetheart Mary (Donna Reed) & raise a family However when a huge amount of money goes missing from his savings & loans company he panics & finds himself preparing to commit suicide George is shown the error of this idea by Clarence (Henry Travers) an angel who has been sent to Earth in order to earn his wings To this end Clarence shows George just how badly Bedford Falls & its residents would have turned out had he never been born In & Holiday Inn& (1942) Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby) & Ted Hanover (Fred Astaire) are a successful song & dance double act until Jim decides to retire & become a gentleman farmer following Ted&s seduction of his girlfriend Jim fails as a farmer but decides to convert his property to an inn that is only open on public holidays He also finds happiness with the lovely Linda Mason (Marjorie Reynolds)
- that is until Ted shows up! In & White Christmas& (1954) two army buddies (Crosby & Danny Kaye) team up after the war & become a successful song-&-dance act While on a skiing holiday the pair stage a benefit to save an inn run by their old commander who is beset by financial difficulties resulting from a lack of snow Finally in & Scrooge& (1970) miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) is so mean-spirited that he resents giving his clerk Bob Cratchit (David Collings) the day off for Christmas At night Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley (Alec Guinness) who warns him that three spirits will visit him in an attempt to save his soul
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This Thai film is set in a small town in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami Though it has been three years since the event Takua Pa is still recovering from the catastrophe & its inhabitants are experiencing that same difficulty An architect (Supphasit Kansen) appears in town to help but he forms an unexpected romance with the beautiful proprietor of a small hotel (Anchalee Saisoontorn) WONDERFUL TOWN marks the directorial debut of Aditya Assarat ...

' That's brutal violence on a defenceless person & quite unnecessary declares Sophie & she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy heap on the ground What's unnecessary is best of all says Rainer who wants to go on fighting We ageed on that' It is the late 1950s A man is out walking in a park in Vienna He will be beaten up by four teenagers not for his money he has an average amount ? nor for anything he might have done to them but because the youths are arrogant & very pleased with themselves Their arrogance is their way of reacting to the maggot?ridden corpse that is Austria where everyone has a closet to hide their Nazi histories their sexual perversions & their hatred of the foreigner Elfriede Jelinek who writes like an angel of all that is tawdry shows in Wonderful Wonderful Times how actions of the present are determined by thoughts of the past ...

A new chapter in the world of Wonderland begins Calie Liddle has lost everything Wonderland has fallen to madness her daughter is possessed by the Mad Hatter & the Ace of Spades has crushed all of the hope her reign has fostered in the Realm of Dreams However when the evils of Wonderland begin to spill over into Earth Calie finds new purpose in defending her world from the coming madness ...

When Calie escaped from Wonderland she wanted to believe she was finally free from the realm of madness She wanted to believe she could live a normal life But she was wrong! Now Calie & her daughter violet are on the run from the realm of madness Meanwhile a child returns from a carnival with a special hat that will mean murder & chaos for all those who cross his path! ...

After defeating the malevolent spirit of her long-dead brother & escaping the terror of a town possessed by the insanity of the Mad Hatter Calie & her daughter violet disappear into the city of Los Angeles hoping to evade Wonderland's ever-extending reach But the duo is fast to learn that no matter where they run or where they hide Wonderland will find them! From the writers & creators who brought you Zenescope's original Wonderland trilogy comes the continuation of the adventure in a world of madness like you've never seen before Volume 2 collects issues 6-10 of the Wonderland series ...

Back to the beginning! Tired of fleeing from Wonderland Calie & violet begin to search for answers by delving into Charles Dodsgon past But a mysterious force from Wonderland might have other darker plans in mind for them ...

Tired of fleeing from Wonderland Calie & violet begin to search for answers by delving into Charles Dodsgon past But a mysterious force from Wonderland might have other darker plans in mind for them ...

As an Age of Darkness spreads across the realms pushing the Queens of Wonderland into conflict Calie must take a final stand Journeying into Wonderland to save her daughter violet Calie assembles a team of warriors in effort to take control of Wonderland for good! Collects Wonderland 21-25 ...