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Constantine (Blu-ray disc)
Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Djimon Hounsou, Max Baker, …
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R227
Discovery Miles 2 270
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Horror starring Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, a man who was
born with a gift he didn't want - the ability to clearly recognise
the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin.
Constantine was driven to take his own life to escape the
tormenting clarity of his vision, but he failed. Resuscitated
against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the
living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease
on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell,
hoping in vain to earn his way to salvation by sending the devil's
foot soldiers back to the depths. But Constantine is no saint.
Disillusioned by the world around him and at odds with the one
beyond, he's a hard-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns
the very idea of heroism. When a desperate but skeptical police
detective (Rachel Weisz) enlists his help in solving the mysterious
death of her beloved twin sister (also played by Weisz), their
investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels
that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two
become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at
whatever cost.
Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen in the
second instalment of the sci-fi adventure trilogy based on the
novel by Suzanne Collins. Fresh from her triumph in the 74th Annual
Hunger Games, Katniss, along with fellow winner Peeta Mellark (Josh
Hutcherson), returns home to District 12 for some much needed rest.
But soon after, while on a 'Victory Tour' of the other districts,
she becomes aware of growing dissent to the Capitol's rule, and
realises that rebellion is in the air. As Panem prepares itself for
the third 'Quarter Quell' (75th Hunger Games), autocratic ruler
President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland), still smarting from
the Capitol's humiliation in the last games, stacks the deck to
ensure that the upcoming tournament will wipe out any resistance
from the districts once and for all.
Title: Practical Notes on the Cyanide Process ... Second
edition.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GEOLOGY
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a number of maps,
charts, and tables from the 16th to the 19th centuries documenting
geological features of the natural world. Also contained are
textbooks and early scientific studies that catalogue and chronicle
the human stance toward water and land use. Readers will further
enjoy early historical maps of rivers and shorelines demonstrating
the artistry of journeymen, cartographers, and illustrators.
++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++ British Library Bosqui, Francis Lawrence; 1899. ix. 201 p.; 8
. 07108.i.9.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Water for Elephants (DVD)
Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Hal Holbrook, James Frain, …
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R33
Discovery Miles 330
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon star in this drama based on
the historical novel by Sara Gruen, following the adventures of a
young vet working in a travelling circus during America's Great
Depression in the 1930s. After his parents are killed in a car
accident, promising Ivy League student Jacob Jankowski (Pattinson)
suffers an emotional breakdown and runs away before graduating,
eventually finding work as a vet with the down-at-heel Benzini
Brothers circus. There he meets a host of colourful characters
including tyrannical animal trainer August (Christoph Waltz) and
his beautiful wife Marlena (Witherspoon).
A theory of political ambition is developed in which political
actors seek to increase their territorial jurisdiction and/or the
size of their electoral constituency. Ease of entry and advancement
into state and national politics, however, are shown to vary
markedly across the nation. Strategic considerations play an
important role in career decisions. Legislators take into account
whether or not they will face an incumbent, the quality of likely
opponents in primaries, the cost of campaigns, the relative value
of their present office versus a higher office, and looming term
limits. For example, as a result of term limits on state
legislators, patient, highly selective, and successful moves up the
political ladder have been replaced by early exits from office and
riskier challenges for higher office. Those who are too liberal or
conservative for their party and state are less likely to win
statewide races. Distance from the "winning state party position"
serve as a key to understanding which senators are reelected and
which House members enter and win Senate primaries. It also
explains why those preparing for statewide races shift their
positions gradually over many years to improve their odds of
success.
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