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All 24 episodes from the fifth season of the American romantic
comedy series following young architect Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) as
he searches for love in New York City. Told through a series of
flashbacks, the show is narrated by an older, off-screen Ted (Bob
Saget), who regales his children with tales of his single days with
his best friends, the highs and lows of dating - and how he
ultimately 'met their mother'. Episodes are: 'Definitions', 'Double
Date', 'Robin 101', 'The Sexless Innkeeper', 'Duel Citizenship',
'Bagpipes', 'The Rough Patch', 'The Playbook', 'Slapsgiving 2:
Revenge of the Slap', 'The Window', 'Last Cigarette Ever', 'Girls
vs. Suits', 'Jenkins', 'Perfect Week', 'Rabbit Or Duck', 'Hooked',
'Of Course', 'Say Cheese', 'Zoo Or False', 'Home Wreckers', 'Twin
Beds', 'Robots vs. Wrestlers', 'The Wedding Bride' and
'Doppelgangers'.
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Source Code (Blu-ray disc)
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Russell Peters, …
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The director of the acclaimed 'Moon' (2009), Duncan Jones, helms
this sci-fi action thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Soldier
Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man
and discovers that he is part of a government mission to identify
the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. The experiment, known as
the 'Source Code', enables its subjects to take on a person's
identity for the last eight minutes of their lives. Colter has been
programmed to relive the incident over and over again, piecing
together clues until he can figure out who the suspect is and
prevent another large-scale terrorist attack. Michelle Monaghan,
Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright co-star.
Firefox is down and on thin ice...The unputdownable thriller from a
modern masterBadly damaged and rapidly losing fuel after a brutal
dogfight, stolen Cold War super-plane Firefox is forced to land on
a frozen lake twenty miles from the Norwegian frontier. When the
ice breaks, pilot Mitchell Gant has no choice but to abandon the
aircraft and run for his life. As NATO races against the Soviets to
recover Firefox from its icy tomb, Gant is hunted across Russia by
the KGB. With international tension between East and West mounting,
Gant must evade capture and get Firefox back into the sky before
it's too late... Strap in for the ride of your life. The
extraordinary sequel to the bestselling techno-thriller Firefox,
perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum.
At the height of the Cold War, a new Soviet threat triggers a
daring heist, and the stakes couldn't be higher'A defining novel of
the genre and a lost classic' James SwallowBritish and American
intelligence services have just learned of the Soviet Union's
latest aircraft: the MiG-31. Codenamed "Firefox", the plane is a
marvel of engineering - stealthy, hypersonic, with a thought-guided
weapons system - outclassing anything flown by the West. Faced with
Soviet air domination, MI6 and the CIA launch a daring mission to
steal a Firefox prototype. Veteran US Air Force pilot Mitchell
Gant, is sent to the Soviet Union under an assumed identity. He
seems the perfect man for the job. But, deep within the icy heart
of Soviet power, the stakes are overwhelming: fail this mission,
and lose the war... Blending Cold War espionage suspense with
high-altitude aerial action, Firefox is the original and greatest
techno-thriller, from million-copy bestselling author Craig Thomas.
Perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum. Praise for
Firefox 'Firefox is as tense and exciting as they come' TLS 'Writes
far better than Ludlum' Washington Post
Mitchell Gant has uncovered a secret, and is about to blow it
sky-highWhen a new American airliner crashes mysteriously in the
Arizona desert on its final test flight, suspicions are raised. Is
it simply an accident? Or could it be foul play? Mitchell Gant, the
hero of Firefox, now an expert on aviation accidents, must risk his
life by repeating the test flight to reveal the truth. Meanwhile,
in Britain, plane manufacturer Aero UK is in trouble - no one wants
to purchase their new passenger jet. Aero's head, David
Winterborne, is ruthlessly determined to prevent his empire's
collapse, whatever the cost - and it hasn't gone unnoticed. MP
Marian Pyott has found evidence of a massive fraud involving
hundreds of millions of pounds, and is tracking it back to him.
When a second airliner crashes off the coast of Finland, Gant and
Marian suspect conspiracy, and they must embark on a dangerous
search across Europe and America. Against the merciless global
market of the Nineties, there are lives as well as fortunes at
stake... From master of the genre Craig Thomas, A Different War is
cold, deliberate and thrilling to the very end. Perfect for fans of
Jack Higgins and Ben Macintyre.
A trapped double-agent, an impending world war and a race to
space... Winter Hawk is Craig Thomas at the height of his powers.
With the Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty set to be ratified by the US
and the USSR in Geneva, it seems that international relations have
finally stabilised. But when a double agent reveals that the
Soviets are preparing to launch a series of laser weapons into
space, the West is suddenly defenceless and vulnerable. A
panic-stricken US President puts pilot Mitchell Gant at the head of
a mission, code-named "Winter Hawk". The operation is clear: a
covert dash in and out of the Soviet Union to retrieve the double
agent before the weapons can be launched. But with the clock
ticking and the Russian "Hinds" on his tail, Gant's voyage across
the snowy Russian border is far from simple... Set against a
background of Cold War tension and nuclear threat, Winter Hawk is
another icy Craig Thomas thriller, perfect for fans of Desmond
Bagley and Frederick Forsyth.
Humanity is failing at solving complex socio-ecological problems
like global climate change, biodiversity loss and population
growth. The existing 'sustainable development' paradigm and its
reliance on trade-offs between the three pillars of environment,
economics, and equity is not robust enough to maintain global
carrying capacity. In this timely intervention, Thomas argues that
the holistic and transdisciplinary thinking of four iconic American
naturalists - Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and
Edward O. Wilson - can instead help to solve our biggest
twenty-first century challenges by synthesizing values from four
eras of cultural and environmental history.
Successfully deploy XenDesktop sites for a high performance Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) About This Book * Size the VDI
environment so the administrator has breathing room to design and
build their XenDesktop systems efficiently * Use desktop
virtualization tools to provide users fast, convenient access to
their Windows Desktops * Understand the key pinch points in the
resource layers such as; the Client layer, Network Layer, Access
Layer, Control Layer, Services Layer and Resources Layer Who This
Book Is For Citrix XenDesktop High Performance is written for
administrators who would like to deploy Citrix XenDesktop in their
enterprises with the aim of providing high efficiency. Basic
familiarity with Citrix XenDesktop is assumed. What You Will Learn
* Understand key concepts, terminology, and system requirements *
Discover how components work in regards to virtualization and
performance * Identify architectural resource layers and components
* Explore the hypervisor virtualization software that runs on top
of the hardware and learn how to tune it for maximum performance *
Analyze client hardware and software, including thin clients and
mobile devices In Detail Citrix XenDesktop is a suite of desktop
virtualization tools designed to provide users with fast and
convenient access to their Windows desktops and applications
through any device. Virtual desktops mean that rather than setting
up hundreds or thousands of individual computers in an enterprise,
companies can instead opt to create servers with large amounts of
memory, disk, and processing resources, and use virtualization to
offer these resources to end users. The result of this is that
users are provided with an experience that appears to be identical
to having an individual desktop PC. Each user has some disk space,
processor time, and memory allocated to them, as though it is
present on their own physical machine, when in reality, the
resources are physically present on a centralized server. This book
starts by answering the basic questions you need to ask when
considering XenDesktop, followed by methods of how you can properly
size your server infrastructure for XenDesktop. You'll discover how
to optimize the virtual machines used in XenDesktop, how to
optimize your network for XenDesktop, and how to optimize the
hypervisor and the cloud. You'll also learn how to monitor
XenDesktop to maximize performance. By the end of the book, you
will be able to plan, design, build, and deploy high performance
XenDesktop Virtualization systems in enterprises. You will also
know how to monitor and maintain your systems to ensure smooth
operation. Style and approach This book is an all-inclusive guide
that uncovers hidden and previously unpublished performance
improvement areas for any XenDesktop site.
Eight-part American miniseries about the rise of the New York Mob.
Narrated by Ray Liotta, the programme begins in 1905 and chronicles
the rise of the modern American Mafia and some of its most
notorious gangsters including Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (Rich Graff),
Meyer Lansky (Ian Bell), Bugsy Sigel (Jonathan C. Stewart), Vito
Genovese (Craig Thomas Rivela) and Frank Costello (Anthony
DiCarlo). The episodes are: 'The Education of Lucky Luciano',
'Equal Opportunity Gangster', 'King of New York', 'A Rising
Threat', 'Exit Strategy', 'The Mob at War', 'New Frontiers' and
'End Game'.
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Jade Tiger
Craig Thomas
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Three superpowers, one wall on the brink of collapse, two weeks to
make sure it does…It is the early 1980s, and Berlin and Germany
are on the cusp of reunification. A new treaty is made to pull down
the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War is in sight. But when
politician Wolfgang Zimmerman, the architect of the treaty, is
exposed as a Soviet agent, everything is thrown into chaos. For
espionage veteran Kenneth Aubrey and British agent Patrick Hyde,
the world is suddenly full of clues that don't match up. The
‘evidence’ against Zimmerman seems to have been planted, but by
whom? British Intelligence suspects that China is heavily involved.
The Cold War ending in Europe could mean Russian troops redeployed
from East Germany to the China–Russian border... So when a
Chinese defector is hauled from Hong Kong harbour, trading
information for asylum, Aubrey suddenly has a lead. In six months
Aubrey could crack the defector. But he doesn't have months, he has
just two weeks. Two weeks to save the reunification, and foil
Operation Jade Tiger… Deception, political intrigue and
heart-racing action run throughout this chilling espionage thriller
by Craig Thomas, perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Len Deighton.
The West’s new submarine technology could change the direction of
the Cold War, and the USSR will go through hell and high water to
steal it…The Cold War shows no signs of cooling down. The Royal
Navy is testing new, top-secret technology aboard their nuclear
submarine, Proteus. Known as Sea Leopard, the device can render an
entire submarine invisible to sonar, allowing it to sail anywhere,
undetected. But the secret is out: the Soviets know all about it.
With Sea Leopard presenting an existential threat to the USSR, they
launch a daring, double-pronged operation to steal the technology.
At sea, they will lure Proteus into a trap. In London, KGB agent
Petrunin will track down and capture the Sea Leopard’s inventor,
Quin. With the fate of Sea Leopard, the Proteus and the free world
at stake, spymaster Kenneth Aubrey puts British Intelligence agent
Patrick Hyde on the case. He must rescue the inventor before
Petrunin can get his hands on him. The fact that he’s on UK soil
is no help – KGB agents are hot on his heels, and time is running
out. High-stakes espionage fuses with claustrophobic underwater
adventure in this ice-cold, intense and utterly compelling
technothriller, perfect for fans of Robert Ludlum and Frederick
Forsyth.
This is a step by step, taskbased, practical guide to learning and
getting your basic XenDesktop 7.x site up and running. It is fast,
easy, and makes learning desktop and application virtualization
simple. If you are a system administrator, consultant, or beginner
who wants to implement and administer Citrix XenDesktop sites, then
this book is for you. Familiarity with virtualization of desktops
and applications and datacenter concepts will be helpful. The
ability to read network diagrams and understand servers, data flow,
clients, devices, and the interworking of these pieces will be
beneficial.
This volume contains a detailed, precise and clear semantic
formalism designed to allow non-programmers such as linguists and
literary specialists to represent elements of meaning which they
must deal with in their research and teaching. At the same time, by
its basis in a functional programming paradigm, it retains
sufficient formal precision to support computational
implementation. The formalism is designed to represent meaning as
found at a variety of levels, including basic semantic units and
relations, word meaning, sentence-level phenomena, and text-level
meaning. By drawing on fundamental principles of program design,
the proposed formalism is both easy to read and modify yet
sufficiently powerful to allow for the representation of complex
semantic phenomena. In this monograph, the authors introduce the
formalism and show its basic structure, apply it to the analysis of
the semantics of a variety of linguistic phenomena in both English
and French, and use it to represent the semantics of a variety of
texts ranging from single sentences, to textual excepts, to a full
story.
A brief English to Spanish and Spanish to English dictionary for
use by beginner Spanish speakers in a high school or college
setting. This dictionary eliminates the excessive wording of normal
dictionaries and gives you what you need fast!
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