The Nag Hammadi Library in English: Translated and ...
From Amazon.co.uk: The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophical texts gathered and translated into Coptic by [... more]
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Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Widescreen)
From Amazon.co.uk: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." That's more than the code of a newspaperman in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; it's practically the operating credo of director John Ford, the most honoured of American [... more]
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Recordings 1927-1933
excellent.: This is an excellent collection at the perfect price. My only question: why leave off alternate takes and another track when there is room left on the cds? Oh well, it's excellent anyway. The inimitable Jimmie Rodgers: There's something [... more]
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Mulholland Falls
From Amazon.com: Too much surface. Director Lee (The Edge) Tomahori's noir story serves as a McGuffin to its ripe style. Amid secret agendas and unspeakable acts onscreen you stare at the fall of light across old cops' desks. Musing on super-8 footage of [... more]
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In Gallant Company
One of the best sea-story series around: This is the first Richard Bolitho novel written, and the fourth by the series internal chonology. Bolitho begins the spring of 1777 as Fourth Lieutenant in the eighty-gun Trojan lying in New York harbor. Because [... more]
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: Every statuesque, beautiful blonde woman has spent more time in the company of Neanderthals than she cares to remember. Seems it's always been that way: Clan of the Cave Bear, a 1986 feature scripted by John Sayles and based on Jean Auel' [... more]
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Penguin Classics Epic Of Gilgamesh
From Amazon.com: This edition provides a prose rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third millennium B.C. One of the best and most important pieces of epic poetry from [... more]
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Signal -- Close Action!: The Richard Bolitho Novels, Vol.12
The complexity of command- when you are all there is....: If you loved Forester's "Hornblower" series, as I did, then you will also appreciate Alexander Kent's "Richard Bolitho" tales. You do not get the sense that they are derivative [... more]
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Walk Dont Run
From Amazon.com: This extraordinarily sweet--but thankfully not sappy--film proves once and for all that Cary Grant was devastating, period. Young, mature, or in his golden years. The reason Ian Fleming modeled James Bond after Grant is startlingly clear. [... more]
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Midway (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Six months after the Japanese destroyed the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Americans discovered the Japanese were planning to seize the Naval base at Midway Island--a perfect staging point for invading Hawaii or the mainland. [... more]
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The Inshore Squadron
The continuing adventures of Richard Bolitho: Bolitho is promoted to Rear Admiral and given command of a squadron assigned to the Baltic, where the Tsar of Russia is trying to create an alliance with the scandinavians, and simultaneously make an alliance [... more]
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Stand into Danger
One of the better Royal Navy sea yarn series: My father introduced me to Horatio Hornblower when I was in junior high and I've been a fan of Napoleonic-era sea yarns ever since. C. S. Forester is still the standard against which I measure later creations, [... more]
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