In ancient Rome parents would consult the priestess Carmentis shortly after birth to obtain prophecies of the future of their newborn infant. Today, parents and doctors of critically ill children consult a different oracle. Neuroimaging provides a vision of the child's future, particularly of the nature and severity of any disability. Based on the results of brain scans and other tests doctors and parents face heart-breaking decisions about whether or not to continue intensive treatment or to allow the child to die. Paediatrician and ethicist Dominic Wilkinson looks at the profound and contentious ethical issues facing those who work in intensive care caring for critically ill children and infants. When should infants or children be allowed to die? How accurate are predictions of future quality of life? How much say should parents have in these decisions? How should they deal with uncertainty about the future? He combines philosophy, medicine and science to shed light on current and future dilemmas.

Extensive coverage of the political, economic and social affairs of the region. This impartial up-to-date survey of the countries and territories that make up the region includes: * incisive analysis by acknowledged experts * the latest statistics on the major economic indicators and population * invaluable directory material. General Survey * Leading authorities on the region analyse topics of regional importance including: International Relations of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States; Politics of Energy in the Caspian Sea Region; Militant Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus; The Economics of the Commonwealth of Independent States; Russia's New Federalism; Poverty and Social Welfare in the Commonwealth of Independent States; Trends in Religious Policy; Organized Crime in the Russian Federation and the CIS and Environmental Degradation: Past Roots, Present Transition and Future Hopes. Country Surveys Individual chapters on every country containing: * An introductory survey, containing essays on the geography, recent history and economy of each country, which includes a map and full chronology * An extensive statistical survey of economic indicators, which include area and population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, finance, trade, transport, tourism, media and education. * A full directory containing names, addresses, contact numbers and e-mail and internet addresses for the following areas: the constitution, the government, legislature, local government, political organizations, diplomatic representation, the judiciary, religion, the media, finance, trade and industry, transport, tourism, culture, education, social welfare, the environment and defence * A useful bibliography, providing sources for further research. Political Profiles * Biographical details on the leading figures in the region. Regional Information * Detailed information on the following: regional organizations; research institutes; a select periodicals bibliography and a select books bibliography.

Triple bill of thrillers. In 'Catch .44' (2011) Tes (Malin Åkerman), Kara (Nikki Reed) and Dawn (Deborah Ann Woll) are three women with guns who are working for crime boss Mel (Bruce Willis). When they find themselves the victims in a double-crossing drug deal that turns out to be more of a set-up than a heist gone wrong, they set out to get their revenge. Forest Whitaker and Brad Dourif co-star. 'Switch' (2011) is a French-language thriller in which a woman's attempts to spice up her life through switching apartments goes disastrously wrong. Sophie Malaterre (Karine Vanasse), a Montreal fashion designer, initially enjoys swapping apartments with a French woman she met over the internet, Bénédicte Serteaux (Karina Testa). Sophie's first day in Paris is like a dream - but her second is a nightmare. She is awoken by the police, led by Detective Forgeat (Eric Cantona), who have discovered a dead body in the duplex, and seem unable to distinguish Sophie from Bénédicte... 'Hijacked' (2012) stars Randy Couture, Dominic Purcell and Vinnie Jones. Paul Ross (Couture), a grizzled government agent, has been investigating an influential crime organisation known as The Tribe for a number of years. Just when he begins to feel that he is making progress with the investigation his personal and professional interests interconnect. When a private jet carrying a wealthy businessman and Ross' former fiancée, Olivia (Tiffany Dupont), is hijacked by The Tribe, Ross is the only government agent on the scene. How will he cope?

The entire first series of the BBC comedy starring Sue Perkins as a vet afraid to tell her parents that she's gay. Although she seems to have it all - friends, success, popularity - skilled vet Sara (Perkins) she still hasn't gotten around to telling her elderly parents about her sexual orientation. With her 40th birthday approaching, she's given an ultimatum by her friends to tell her parents when they next visit in six weeks, or they will. Help is at hand, however, as in order to help the process along and allay Sara's rising dread, her friends have saved up to provide her with some sessions with oddball lifestyle guru Toria (Joanna Scanlon).

This remake of Sam Peckinpah's classic 1971 psychological thriller transposes the events of the first film from Cornwall to the American Deep South.

James Marsden stars as David Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter who moves with his wife, Amy (Kate Bosworth), from LA to a house in his wife's small rural hometown to write his new script in peace and quiet.

But tensions brew between the two amid the intense heat and isolation, and an escalating conflict with the locals eventually drives a naturally even-tempered David to violent and drastic measures.

Thriller tracing the story of an Iraqi soldier forced to be the body double of Saddam Hussein's sadistic son Uday. With his family threatened with death if he fails to comply, soldier Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) undergoes surgery and studiously studies Uday (also played by Cooper)'s personal habits, determined not to make any mistakes that may provoke the rage of the notorious playboy. As the months pass, Latif's constant exposure to Uday's sadistic excesses leads him to search for a way out, but his plans to escape are complicated when he begins to fall for the attentions of Uday's mistress Sarrab (Ludivine Sagnier).

Second series of the cult US prison drama, following the fortunes of a group of prisoners plotting a big breakout. This second season continues where the first left off, eight hours after the prison breakout. A significant development in this series is the introduction of FBI agent Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner), given the task of tracking down the eight escapees. The fugitives each follow their own journeys, which lead them across America, hotly pursued by the authorities. Episodes comprise: 'Manhunt', 'Otis', 'Scan', 'First Down', 'Map 1213', 'Subdivision', 'Buried', 'Dead Fall', 'Unearthed', 'Rendezvous', 'Bolshoi Booze', 'Disconnect', 'The Killing Box', 'John Doe', 'The Message', 'Chicago', 'Bad Blood', 'Wash', 'Sweet Caroline', 'Panama', 'Fin Del Camino' and 'Sona'.

Triple bill of crime dramas. In 'Bad Karma' (2012), starring Ray Liotta and Dominic Purcell, a criminal's attempts to go straight are sabotaged by his former partner. Relocating from Sydney to the Gold Coast to start afresh, Molloy (Liotta) is remarkably successful and even finds something approaching domestic bliss with a new girlfriend. Naturally, when his old crime partner Mack (Purcell) tracks him down he finds that Molloy is reluctant to return to his past life. Unfortunately, this doesn't deter the increasingly deranged Mack as he sets about convincing Molloy to help him pull off one last job. In 'The Entitled' (2011) social misfit Paul (Kevin Zegers) is driven to desperate measures when he is turned down for yet another job and his ill mother is given a foreclosure notice on the family home. He enlists the help of two friends to abduct three kids from rich families and hold them ransom for a million dollars each, but the plan goes badly wrong and they soon find themselves in way over their heads. 'Officer Down' (2012) follows Detective David Callahan (Stephen Dorff), known as 'Cal' on the force, who has had a mixed career as a police officer, struggling with drink problems and straying to the wrong side of the law himself at times. When he finds himself caught up in a murder investigation, Cal must attempt to overcome the demons from his own past as well as the challenges of the case.

Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new cutting edge essays focusing on Song and Dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theatre, opera, theatre and other artistic practices, from Glee to Gardzienice, Beckett to Disney, Broadway to Turner Prize winning sound installation. The chapters draw together these diverse examples of vocality and physicality by exploring their affect rather than through considering them as texts. This book considers performativity in relation to Dramaturgy, Transition, Identity, Context, Practice, Community and finally, Writing. The book reveals how the texture of music theatre, containing as it does the gestures of song and dance, is performative in dense, interwoven, dialogical and paradoxical ways, partly caused by the intertextual and interdisciplinary energies of its make-up, partly by its active dynamism in performance. The book's contributors derive methodologies from many disciplines, seeking in many ways to resist and explode discrete discipline-based enquiry. They share methodologies and performance repertoires with discipline-based scholarship from theatre studies, musicology and cultural studies, but there are many other approaches and case studies which we also embrace. Together, they view these as neighboring voices whose dialogue enriches the study of contemporary music theatre.

Action movie starring former WWE wrestler Dave Bautista as a disgraced ex-cop trying to get to the bottom of a murder he is the prime suspect for. Ray (Bautista)'s career has followed an unusual trajectory. Both an ex-cop and now, having been released from prison, an ex-con, Ray struggles to find work and finally takes a job as a bouncer for a strip club called The House of the Rising Sun. When the son of the club's owner, Vinnie (Lyle Kanouse), is found murdered, Ray's boss, Tony (Dominic Purcell), suggests that Ray use his policing skills to track down the killer. However, the police themselves are on the case and already have a killer firmly in mind: Ray.

For the First Time in History, the very noble, courageous & charismatic leadership of the mystical & legendary 6th Century Anglo-Romano KING ARTHURE of Wessex, Avalon & Angleland is revealed to a Spiritual Medium in Glastonbury, to be published in Two Books, Part I & Part II of HIS fascinating Channelled Autobiography. In Part 1 here, HE reveals a previously unknown window into HIS Life as the Merlin of HIS Day, lived in Bronze Age Britain, in Tintagara (Tintagel), a town HE founded on the North Coast of Dumnonia (Cornwall): to prepare the way for the Coming of LORD YESHUA THE MESSIAH, know as 'The NAZARENE' with HIS Great-Uncle, St JOSEPHUS The ARIMATHEAN to this Sacred Isle. Known then as ARA The GOOD, HE describe how HE built the First Nazarean Essene Monastery & Cathedral in this Ancient Land & started the Spiritual Training of some of HIS later to be Knights of the Round Table as the First Celtic Saints. To quote ARA, "The ESSENE were BORN here in these ISLES" ARA gives a vivid description of what happened when HE received the Miraculous 'HOLY GRAIL' of great renowned & describes who was present with HIM at that Time in Avalon; what IT looked like; who made IT; what ITS structure is made up of; the Divine Purpose for IT being gifted to this Planet; & where IT is buried.

For the First Time in history, the very noble, courageous & charismatic leadership of the mystical & legendary 6th Century Anglo-Romano KING ARTHURE of Wessex, Avalon & Angleland is revealed to a Spiritual Medium in Glastonbury, to be published in Two Books, Part I & Part II of HIS fascinating Channeled Autobiography. In Part 1 here, HE reveals a prevoiusly unknown window into HIS Life as the Merlin of HIS Day, lived in Bronze Age Britain, in Tintagara (Tintagel), a town HE founded on the North Coast of Dummonia (Cornwall): to prepare the way for the Comiong of LORD YESHUA THE MESSIAH, know as 'The NAZARENE@ with HIS Great-Uncle, St JOSEPHUS The ARIMATHEAN to this Sacred Isle. Known then as ARA The GOOD, HE describe how HE built the First Nazarean Essene Monastery & Cathedral in this Ancient Land & started the Spiritual Training of some of HIS later to be Knights of the Round Table as the First Celtic Saints. To quote ARA, "The ESSENE were BORN here in these ISLES" ARA gives a vivid description of what happened when HE recieved the Miraculous 'HOLY GRAIL' of great renowned & describes who was present with HIM at that Time in Avalon; what IT looked like; who made IT; what IRS structure is made up of; the Divine Purpose for IT being gifted to this Planet; & where IT is buried.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Controversial new book by an internationally respected expert on Jesus and his time. Argues that Jesus' parables became the inspiration and model for the way he is presented in the Gospels.

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the Viking Age. We'll encounter gods and giants, axemen and shield-maidens, from the warlords rampaging through King Alfred's England to the sea-captains who first glimpsed the mountains of Iceland. For even in the most glittering cities on earth, no one is safe from the Northmen's fury... The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened...