Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play " The big action sequences are spectacular" raves The Sunday Times in this fast-paced pulse-pounding action epic Former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is in a race against time to save both his family & the world from a pandemic that is toppling governments & threatening to destroy humanity itself " World War Z is epic & the scenes of pandemonium are phenomenal" (MTV) Actors Brad Pitt Mireille Enos Daniella Kertesz James Badge Dale Ludi Boeken Matthew Fox Fana Mokoena & Peter Capaldi Director Marc Forster Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English Audio Description ; Hindi Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English ; Danish ; Swedish ; Norwegian ; Finnish ; Dutch ; Hindi Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 51 minutes (approx)
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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 Big-budget zombie apocalypse thriller starring Brad Pitt UN employee & committed family man Gerry Lane (Pitt) is forced to abandon his wife & children when a global pandemic hits turning ordinary people into violent subhuman monsters with an insatiable appetite for human flesh Due to the nature of his job Gerry is deemed one of the very few people left on Earth with the ability to find the source of the virus & ultimately a cure but will he be able to do so before the last remnants of humanity are completely eradicated? Certificate 15 Suitable for Persons Aged 15 or Over ...

Humanity is on the brink of extinction From New York to Moscow & Jerusalem the undead apocalypse continues to spread As the end looms a hardened few band together to defeat the horde & outlive the dead World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring swarms of hundreds of zombies Based on the Paramount Pictures film World War Z focuses on fast-paced gameplay while exploring new storylines from around the world Battle swarms of hundreds of zombies – the Swarm Engine™ seamlessly renders hordes of zombies in incredible firefights Advanced gore systems offer gruesomely satisfying action Coop story-driven campaigns – survive around the world as unique groups tell their stories of perseverance Fight other players for survival – several intense Player vs Player vs Zombies game modes complement the coop campaigns Grow stronger – unlock powerful weapon upgrades & level 6 character classes to take on greater challenges ...

Please note this is the NTSC version of the game which is compatible with PAL systems Any future DLC may require a US PSN account Humanity is on the brink of extinction From New York to Moscow & Jerusalem the undead apocalypse continues to spread As the end looms a hardened few band together to defeat the horde & outlive the dead World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring swarms of hundreds of zombies Based on the Paramount Pictures film World War Z focuses on fast-paced gameplay while exploring new storylines from around the world Battle swarms of hundreds of zombies – the Swarm Engine™ seamlessly renders hordes of zombies in incredible firefights Advanced gore systems offer gruesomely satisfying action Coop story-driven campaigns – survive around the world as unique groups tell their stories of perseverance Fight other players for survival – several intense Player vs Player vs Zombies game modes complement the coop campaigns Grow stronger – unlock powerful weapon upgrades & level 6 character classes to take on greater challenges ...

Humanity is on the brink of extinction From New York to Moscow & Jerusalem the undead apocalypse continues to spread As the end looms a hardened few band together to defeat the horde & outlive the dead World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring swarms of hundreds of zombies Based on the Paramount Pictures film World War Z focuses on fast-paced gameplay while exploring new storylines from around the world Battle swarms of hundreds of zombies – the Swarm Engine™ seamlessly renders hordes of zombies in incredible firefights Advanced gore systems offer gruesomely satisfying action Coop story-driven campaigns – survive around the world as unique groups tell their stories of perseverance Fight other players for survival – several intense Player vs Player vs Zombies game modes complement the coop campaigns Grow stronger – unlock powerful weapon upgrades & level 6 character classes to take on greater challenges ...

The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth continues with World Without End On the day after Halloween in the year 1327 four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge They are a thief a bully a boy genius & a girl who wants to be a doctor In the forest they see two men killed As adults their lives will be braided together by ambition love greed & revenge They will see prosperity & famine plague & war One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful corrupt nobleman One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love & always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war passion & family conflict set around the building of a cathedral World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later as the men women & children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change World Without End is followed by the third of Ken Follett's Kingsbridge novels A Column of Fire ...

Following Rivers of Gold & The Golden Age World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas its foremost worldwide authority World Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas It describes the conquest of Paraguay & the River Plate of the Yucatan in Mexico the only partial conquest of Chile & battles with the French over Florida & then in the 1580s the extraordinary projection of Spanish power across the Pacific to conquer the Philippines More significantly it describes how the Spanish ran the greatest empire the world had seen since Rome
- as well as conquistadores the book is people with viceroys judges nobles bishops inquisitors & administrators of many different kinds often in conflict with one another seeking to organise the native populations into towns to build cathedrals hospitals & universities Behind them
- sometimes ahead of them
- came the religious orders the Franciscans Dominicans Augustinians & finally the Jesuits builders of convents & monasteries many of them of astonishing beauty & reminders of the pervasiveness of religion & the self-confidence of the age Towering above them all though moving rarely from the palace of the Escorial outside Madrid is the figure of King Philip II the central figure in the book The Venetian ambassador thought him 'the arbiter of the world' Once the Philippines had been consolidated Philip's advisors contemplated an invasion of China the Jesuit Father Sanchez called it 'the greatest enterprise which has ever been proposed to any monarch in the world' It was an enterprise never undertaken but never explicitly abandoned Was it a great or a terrible empire? In contrast to other empire builders the Spaniards entered upon arguments with each other about their right to rule other peoples & their ruthlessness was often tempered by humanity Hugh Thomas's conclusion is unequivocal ' The speed with which the sixteenth-century conquistadores conquered such large territories on two vast continents & the comparable success of missionaries with large populations of Indians stands as one of the supreme epics of both valour & imagination by Europeans'


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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play England is on the brink of a devastating war with France that will last over a hundred years A terrible plague which will wipe out a third of Europe&s population before it is done is spreading Caris a visionary young woman struggles to rise above the suffering & oppression in order to lead her people out of the Dark Ages With her lover Merthin she builds a community in Kingsbridge that stands up to the Church & the Crown Together they unearth a dangerous secret & must fight to save their town from ruin ultimately ushering in a new era of freedom innovation & enlightenment Actors Ben Chaplin Charlotte Riley Nora von Waldstätten Oliver Jackson-Cohen Rupert Evans Tom Weston-Jones Tom Cullen Blake Ritson & Cynthia Nixon Director Michael Caton-Jones Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen 1851 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages French Subtitles Arabic ; English ; English ; French ; Hindi Closed Captions Yes Duration 6 hours & 29 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play England is on the brink of a devastating war with France that will last over a hundred years A terrible plague which will wipe out a third of Europe&s population before it is done is spreading Caris a visionary young woman struggles to rise above the suffering & oppression in order to lead her people out of the Dark Ages With her lover Merthin she builds a community in Kingsbridge that stands up to the Church & the Crown Together they unearth a dangerous secret & must fight to save their town from ruin ultimately ushering in a new era of freedom innovation & enlightenment Actors Ben Chaplin Charlotte Riley Nora von Waldstätten Oliver Jackson-Cohen Rupert Evans Tom Weston-Jones Tom Cullen Blake Ritson & Cynthia Nixon Director Michael Caton-Jones Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages French Subtitles Arabic ; English ; French ; Hindi Closed Captions Yes Duration 6 hours & 14 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge & information This rapid change has imperilled the way we think Without pausing to consider the cost the world has rushed to embrace the products & services of four titanic corporations We shop with Amazon; socialise on Facebook; turn to Apple for entertainment; & rely on Google for information These firms sell their efficiency & purport to make the world a better place but what they have done instead is to enable an intoxicating level of daily convenience As these companies have expanded marketing themselves as champions of individuality & pluralism their algorithms have pressed us into conformity & laid waste to privacy They have produced an unstable & narrow culture of misinformation & put us on a path to a world without private contemplation autonomous thought or solitary introspection
- a world without mind In order to restore our inner lives we must avoid being co-opted by these gigantic companies & understand the ideas that underpin their success Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer science
- from the Descartes & the enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stuart Brand & the hippie origins of today's Silicon Valley
- Foer exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology The corporate ambitions of Google Facebook Apple & Amazon he argues are trampling longstanding liberal values especially intellectual property & privacy This is a nascent stage in the total automation & homogenization of social political & intellectual life By reclaiming our private authority over how we intellectually engage with the world we have the power to stem the tide At stake is nothing less than who we are & what we will become There have been monopolists in the past but today's corporate giants have far more nefarious aims They're monopolists who want access to every facet of our identities & influence over every corner of our decision-making Until now few have grasped the sheer scale of the threat Foer explains not just the looming existential crisis but the imperative of resistance


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