Benson Lee directs this drama starring Josh Holloway and Chris Brown in which a down on his luck basketball coach attempts to rally a team of breakdancers to win a major competition. Though America initially set up the 'Battle of the Year' competition, where the best b-boying (or breakdancing) performers from a number of countries square off, a team from the US hasn't taken the trophy home for 15 years. This greatly concerns L.A. rap mogul Dante (Laz Alonso) who attempts to convince his friend Blake (Holloway), a top basketball coach who has fallen on hard times, to take charge of this year's team. Though Blake is initially sceptical, he quickly realises that his ability to build team spirit may be the missing ingredient. Can his team, which includes Rooster (Brown), prevail in this year's competition?

From Battle of Britain fighter station to commercial airport, this is the inspiring story of Biggin Hill.   Biggin Hill, world-famous as a Battle of Britain fighter station, has had many lives. First used as an airfield in 1917, Biggin Hill saw brutal action in both World Wars, never losing a day’s operations despite devastating enemy attacks. Since 1959 two dynamic figures have kept this historic airfield open against the odds: fighter ace Jock Maitland, creator of the renowned Biggin Hill International Air Fair, and army pilot Andrew Walters, who has turned it into London’s No 1 business airport, with a thriving aviation community that includes air charter companies, engineering firms, flying schools, storage and restoration, and major Formula 1 and Bombardier operations. Meanwhile a new Museum and St George’s Memorial Chapel keep memories of its days as a Royal Force Station alive.   The first full history of this great airfield, Nine Lives looks behind the scenes of a busy modern airport, digs deep into its dramatic past, and tells an inspiring tale of enterprise, innovation, teamwork and determination.

The authors bring their wit and monstrous imaginations to play across the entire history of sport, with chapters ranging from the Greek athletic ideal and its perversions to the Nazi Olympics of 1936 and the use of drugs, alcohol and visionary states of being.

Contents:
Martin, Caramazza, Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Perspectives on Conceptual Knowledge: An Introduction. Capitani, Laiacona, Mahon, Caramazza, What are the Facts of Semantic Category-specific Deficits? A Critical Review of the Clinical Evidence. Humphreys, Riddoch, A Case Series Analysis of 'Category-specific' Deficits of Living Things: The HIT Account. Lambon Ralph, Patterson, Garrard, Hodges, Semantic Dementia with Category Specificity: A Comparative Case Series Study. Borgo, Shallice, Category-specificity and Feature Knowledge: Evidence from New Sensory-quality Categories. Crutch, Warrington, The Selective Impairment of Fruit and Vegetable Knowledge: A Multiple Processing Channels Account of Fine-grain Category Specificity. Samson, Pillon, A Case of Impaired Knowledge for Fruit and Vegetables. Farah, Rabinowitz, Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Organisation of Semantic Memory in the Brain: Is "Living Things" an Innate Category? Tranel, Kemmerer, Adolphs, Damasio, Damasio, Neural Correlates of Conceptual Knowledge for Actions. Mahon, Caramazza, Constraining Questions about the Organisation and Representation of Conceptual Knowledge. Kyle, Simmons, Barsalou, The Similarity-in-topography Principle: Reconciling Theories of Conceptual Deficits. Dehaene, Piazza, Pinel, Cohen, Three Parietal Circuits for Number Processing. Gauthier, James, Curby, Tarr, The Influence of Conceptual Knowledge on Visual Discrimination. Kan, Barsalou, Solomon, Minor, Thompson-Schill, Role of Mental Imagery in a Property Verification Task: fMRI Evidence for Perceptual Representations of Conceptual Knowledge. Tyler, Bright, Tavares, Pilgrim, Fletcher, Greer, Moss, Do Semantic Categories Activate Distinct Cortical Regions? Evidence for a Distributed Neural Semantic System. Price, Noppeney, Phillips, Devlin. How Is the Fusiform Gyrus Related to Category-specificity? Martin, Weisberg, Neural Foundations for Understanding Social and Mechanical Concepts.

Do you feel stressed? Does your anxiety get in the way of life? Are you ready for change? It's time to say 'f*ck stress' and transform yourself from a worrier to a warrior! This no-nonsense guide will help you explore what is actually causing you stress and reprogramme your brain to cope positively and rationally with what life throws at you. Packed with easy-to-follow advice, useful tips and empowering statements, this essential stress-busting toolkit will help you master your own thoughts and confidently give stress the middle finger.

This is the story of Cuba's forests.In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction, for cane fields and sugar production. This book is the first to consider Cuba's vital sugar industry through the lens of environmental history. Funes Monzote demonstrates how the industry that came to define Cuba - and upon which Cuba urgently depended - also devastated the ecology of the island.The original Spanish-language edition of the book, published in Mexico in 2004, was awarded the UNESCO Book Prize for Caribbean Thought, Environmental Category. For this first English edition, the author has revised the text throughout and provided new material, including a glossary and a conclusion that summarizes important developments up to the present.

Category-specific knowledge disorders are among the most intriguing and perplexing syndromes in cognitive neuropsychology. The past decade has witnessed increased interest in these disorders, due largely to a heightened appreciation of the profound implications that an understanding of concept representation has for such diverse topics as object recognition, the organisation of the lexicon, and storage of long-term memories. Until recently, information about the representation of concepts was limited to findings from patients with brain injury and disease. This state of affairs has now changed with the advent and wide-spread availability of functional imaging for studying cognition in the normal human brain. The purpose of this special issue is to provide a forum for new findings and critical, theoretical analyses of existing data from patient and functional brain imaging studies. The contributions, all from major investigators in the field, range from studies of specific object categories such as animals, tools, fruit and vegetables, and faces, to the more general domains of number processing, social interaction, and mechanical knowledge. A unifying theme of these papers is the extent to which the findings can be best understood within the context of models that posit an innate, domain-specific organisation, those that appeal to an organisation by sensory- and motor-based features and properties, and those that propose an undifferentiated, distributed neural organisation.

In the same style as The Decadent Cookbook a nd The Decadent Gardener, this book sees the hedonists Medla r Lucan and Durian Gray laying bare the transgressive nature of another bourgeois passion - travel. '

"There is an odd, subversive book called The Decadent Gardener by Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray. The introduction describes the decadent gardening ethos thus: 'In the garden, the decadent seeks to create a moment of beauty, which should be allowed to fall into decay and ruin.'Gardening, Lucan and Gray believe, is 'little more than systematic violence in pursuit of beauty', and the gardener is first and foremost a sadist. These two, the Kropotkin and De Sade of horticulture, understand that'nowhere are sex and death more intimately bound together than in the garden.' For them the garden is a place of 'agony, self-doubt and betrayal.' They remind us that, if we are to believe the Bible - not that they would be inclined to - the first murder was carried out by a gardener.And the first garden was a place where sin beckoned wherever you turned.The book abounds with piercing, pricking truths.The flower, they remind us, for example, is nothing but a sexual organ.The Decadent Garden consists of the plans for a series of thematic gardens that Lucan and Gray had conceived for a wealthy patroness. Each garden would symbolise an aspect of nature as they saw it. The Cruel Garden would consist largely of impenetrable thickets of thorns.The Fatal Garden would contain only representatives of the vegetable world's many poisonous denizens: among them, black bryony, dropwort and, of course, deadly nightshade.In the Narcotic Garden, by the side of the opium poppy and cannabis sativa, would grow more obscure mind-altering plants such as mandrake, henbane and thornapple. The Priapic Garden would be populated by those species whose flowers and foliage assumed the most suggestive phallic and vulvic shapes.Their Torture Garden carried the libertine ideas of Lucan and Gray furthest and is perhaps best left to the reader's imagination.Because Lucan and Gray barely realised their designs(they were too decadent to bother), their gardens flourish mainly in the mind."

Do your worries get in the way of life? Does your troubled mind stop you from sleeping? Are you ready for change? It's time to say "f*ck worry" and transform yourself into a new, more confident you. This no-nonsense guide will help you ward off unwanted thoughts as you explore what is actually causing you to worry. Packed with useful advice, easy-to-follow tips and powerful statements, this essential self-help toolkit will help you improve your self-esteem and confidently give worry the middle finger.

A vital part of any southern football fan’s personal library, SEC Football's Greatest Games is both engaging and comprehensive; a collection that contextualizes readers’ favorite games while introducing them to important moments they never knew existed. Broken down into “The Games That Changed the South�; “The Iron Bowl�; “Hail Mary and Other Prayers�; “The Classics�; “Atlanta, Here We Come�; and “Championship Moments� . . . this book covers a century-plus of Southern football through games covered with depth, outstanding photography, and fascinating sidebars. Every entry takes the reader through history with the matchups that healed a South stripped of its pride, made coaches like Bear Bryant and Nick Saban regional heroes, forced the sport to change, created superstars, crowned champions, and revolutionized football.

An airline is supposed to make the experience of booking a flight easy, trouble free, and reliable. But when scheduling software breaks down and flights get canceled, customers will walk, and heads will roll. That's what Leigh Freemark faces the day she and her team launch a software upgrade that fails spectacularly and hits the media immediately. As Senior Director of Quality Assurance, her job is to make sure that code is market ready. And she's the one who must face the music when it doesn't. Tasked by senior management to find and fix the source of the failure, Leigh discovers just how essential it has become to radically improve the process of software development by introducing a concept called continuous testing. She must quickly learn what it means, how it works, and how to build it into her company's legacy system. But she soon discovers that managing change is much more difficult than it first appears. The airline business is changing fast, yet old traditions and loyalties still dominate. As she fights to convince her team to change or perish, she discovers that obstructions and opportunities come in surprising forms. *** In The Kitty Hawk Venture, the authors deliver a sound lesson in the importance of continuous testing while taking the reader inside the world of commercial aviation. Each chapter delivers distinct and vital learning opportunities wrapped inside a fast-moving narrative complete with interesting characters, intriguing situations, and even some humor. The book concludes with a "Flight Plan for Continuous Testing" that stands on its own as a valuable resource guide for digital leaders in their continuous testing journey. The story is immediately relatable to anyone who has worked in software development or for the companies that rely on it. Who This Book Is For C-level executives, VPs of apps and quality, VPs of DevOps, architecture and strategy managers, and SMB and enterprise professionals

A British cultural studies course for young adults with an interactive focus. The Audio CD provides students with a fascinating insight into what it is like to live in Britain today, using recordings of young people from various parts of the country talking about their lives.

A vital part of any southern football fan's personal library, SEC Football's Greatest Games is both engaging and comprehensive; a collection that contextualizes readers' favorite games while introducing them to important moments they never knew existed. Broken down into "The Games That Changed the South"; "The Iron Bowl"; "Hail Mary and Other Prayers"; "The Classics"; "Atlanta, Here We Come"; and "Championship Moments" . . . this book covers a century-plus of Southern football through games covered with depth, outstanding photography, and fascinating sidebars. Every entry takes the reader through history with the matchups that healed a South stripped of its pride, made coaches like Bear Bryant and Nick Saban regional heroes, forced the sport to change, created superstars, crowned champions, and revolutionized football.