George C. Scott plays the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in this version of the Dickens Christmas classic. Scrooge is a misanthrope unimpressed by the fuss everyone makes during the festive season. That is, until his sleep is disturbed one Christmas Eve by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, each of which takes him on a journey which helps him to open his heart to his fellow man and to thereby learn the joy of Christmas. Filmed entirely on location in the historic town of Shrewsbury.

Because Johnny Cash cut his classic singles at Sun Records in Memphis and reigned for years as country royalty from his Nashville-area mansion, people tend to associate the Man in Black with Tennessee. But some of Cash's best songs-including classics like "Pickin' Time," "Big River," and "Five Feet High and Rising"-sprang from his youth in the sweltering cotton fields of Mississippi County in northeastern Arkansas.In Country Boy, Colin Woodward combines biography, history, and music criticism to illustrate how Cash's experiences in Arkansas shaped his life and work. The grip of the Great Depression on Arkansas's small farmers, the comforts and tragedies of family, and a bedrock of faith all lent his music the power and authenticity that so appealed to millions. Though Cash left Arkansas as an eighteen-year-old, he often returned to his home state, playing some of his most memorable and personal concerts on his native soil, where, to use Cash's phrase, he could touch his roots again. Drawing upon the country legend's songs and writings, as well as the accounts of family, fellow musicians, and chroniclers, Woodward reveals how the profound sincerity and empathy so central to Cash's music depended on his maintaining a deep connection to his native Arkansas-a place that never left his soul.

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

All 22 episodes from the first series starring Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former government agent who offers his services to real people who have problems that are too big for them to solve on their own. Episodes comprise: 'Pilot', 'China Rain', 'The Defector', 'The Lock Box', 'Lady Cop', 'The Confirmation Day', 'The Children's Song', 'The Distant Fire', 'Mama's Boy', 'Bump and Run', 'Desperately', 'Reign of Terror', 'Back Home', 'Out of the Past', 'Dead Drop', 'Wash-Up', 'Torn', 'Unnatural Causes', 'Breakpoint', 'No Conscience', 'Unpunished Crimes' and 'Pretenders'.

All 22 episodes from the third season of the 1980s crime drama starring Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former government agent who offers his specialist services to those in need. The episodes comprise: 'Blood and Wine: Part 1', 'Blood and Wine: Part 2', 'Suspicion of Innocence', 'In the Money', 'Encounter in a Closed Room', 'Mission McCall: Part 1', 'Mission McCall: Part 2', 'Shadow Play', 'Inner View', 'The Rehearsal', 'Christmas Presence', 'A Dance On the Dark Side', 'The Child Broker', 'Video Games', 'Something Green', 'The Mystery of Manon: Part 1', 'The Mystery of Manon: Part 2', 'No Place Like Home', 'Last Call', 'Regrets Only', 'Target of Choice' and 'Always a Lady'.

1930. Contents: The Man in the Mist; Murder; The Warning; The Watchers; Winged Menace; Making Friends; Fenchurch Turns a Trick; An Eastern Setting; Gone ; The Search Commences; At El Naranja; Dr. Merrivale Diagnoses; Ambrosio Farrenti Receives Guests; Below Ground; Touch and Go; The Terror; and Cards Down.

1930. Contents: The Man in the Mist; Murder; The Warning; The Watchers; Winged Menace; Making Friends; Fenchurch Turns a Trick; An Eastern Setting; Gone ; The Search Commences; At El Naranja; Dr. Merrivale Diagnoses; Ambrosio Farrenti Receives Guests; Below Ground; Touch and Go; The Terror; and Cards Down.

The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery. Most Confederate soldiers were not slaveholders themselves, but they were products of the largest and most prosperous slaveholding civilization the world had ever seen, and they sought to maintain clear divisions between black and white, master and servant, free and slave. In Marching Masters Colin Woodward explores not only the importance of slavery in the minds of Confederate soldiers but also its effects on military policy and decision making. Beyond showing how essential the defense of slavery was in motivating Confederate troops to fight, Woodward examines the Rebels' persistent belief in the need to defend slavery and deploy it militarily as the war raged on. Slavery proved essential to the Confederate war machine, and Rebels strove to protect it just as they did Southern cities, towns, and railroads. Slaves served by the tens of thousands in the Southern armies-never as soldiers, but as menial laborers who cooked meals, washed horses, and dug ditches. By following Rebel troops' continued adherence to notions of white supremacy into the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, the book carries the story beyond the Confederacy's surrender. Drawing upon hundreds of soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs, Marching Masters combines the latest social and military history in its compelling examination of the last bloody years of slavery in the United States.