Every year, the Scorpio Races are run on the beaches of Skarmouth. Every year, the sea washes blood from the s&. To race the savage water horses can mean death, but the danger is irresistible. When Puck enters the races to save her family, she is drawn to the mysterious Sean, the only person on the island capable of taming the beasts. Even if they stay together, can they stay alive? ...

Wrestling superstar The Rock reprises his role as the warrior Mathayus in this movie spin-off from ' The Mummy Returns' set 5000 years ago in the Middle East. Sent on a mission to assassinate Cassandra (Kelly Hu), the powerful sorceress advisor to King Mem ...

Wrestling superstar The Rock reprises his role as the warrior Mathayus in this movie spin-off from ' The Mummy Returns' set 5000 years ago in the Middle East. Sent on a mission to assassinate Cassandra (Kelly Hu), the powerful sorceress advisor to King Mem ...

Michael Copon takes up the reins as the young warrior Mathayus in this prequel to the 2002 film ' The Scorpion King'. Warned against joining the Emperor of Akkad's elite fighting warriors, the Black Scorpions, by his father Ashur (Peter Butler), Mathayus ( ...

Double bill of action films. In ' The Scorpion King' (2002), set 5000 years ago in the Middle East, wrestling superstar The Rock reprises his role as the warrior Mathayus from ' The Mummy Returns'. Sent on a mission to assassinate Cassandra (Kelly Hu), the ...

Balls!! Is a hilarious new collection of football stories from the Scottish Sun. Featuring all your favourite players, it's crammed full of insults, scandal, confessions, pranks, boozy benders, toilet humour & practical jokes. Nothing is out of bounds as players, managers & backroom staff get stuck in & dish the dirt in the funniest collection of football stories around. ...

In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia & Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest
- 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects
- had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, ' Civilization' & Conquest. The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history. This book has 738 pages & is 19.7cm x 12.9cm x 4.9cm

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In August 2007 the world reacted with consternation as Russia planted a flag beneath the ice of the North Pole, symbolising the Kremlins claim to the Arctic with its vast mineral resources, & firing the starting gun on the worlds last colonial scramble. The Scramble for the Arctic examines the history of the region & its exploration, the current state of ownership, the legal status of the Arctic & its waters, the likely outcomes of todays powerplays, & what is at stake both politically & ecologically. With the map literally being redrawn by global warming, the ownership of the Arctic will be one of the defining issues of the next decade. In this deeply informed & clearsighted account by two of the worlds leading Arctic scholars & explorers, Richard Sale & Eugene Potapov analyse the competing interests of nations, corporations, & indeed species. ...

From the rowdy backstreets of Dublin, full of earthy homour & spirit, emerges a young boxing hopeful
- Sparrow Mc Cabe. Sparrow's
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A milestone in the history of popular theology, ' The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare & the power of the devil. This profound & striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian. Although the young man initially looks to be a willing victim, he changes his ways & is 'lost' to the young devil. Dedicated to Lewis's friend & colleague J.R.R. Tolkien, ' The Screwtape Letters' is a timeless classic on spiritual conflict & the invisible realities which are part of our religious experience. ...