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The Departed (DVD)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, …
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Rookie cop Billy Costigan grew up in crime. That makes him the perfect mole, the man on the inside of the mob run by boss Frank Costello. It's his job to win Costello's trust and help his detective handlers bring Costello down. Meanwhile, detective Colin Sullivan has everyone's trust. No one suspects he's Costello's mole within the police department.
How these covert lives cross and collide is at the ferocious core of the Academy Award-winning The Departed. Martin Scorsese directs, guiding a cast for the ages in a visceral tale of crime and consequences. This is searing, can't-look-away filmmaking: like looking into the eyes of a con - or a cop - with a gun.
Academy Award Winner
- Best Picture Of 2006
- Best Director
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Editing
Software engineering is playing an increasingly significant role in computing and informatics, necessitated by the complexities inherent in large-scale software development. To deal with these difficulties, the conventional life-cycle approaches to software engineering are now giving way to the "process system" approach, encompassing development methods, infrastructure, organization, and management. Until now, however, no book fully addressed process-based software engineering or set forth a fundamental theory and framework of software engineering processes. Software Engineering Processes: Principles and Applications does just that. Within a unified framework, this book presents a comparative analysis of current process models and formally describes their algorithms. It systematically enables comparison between current models, avoidance of ambiguity in application, and simplification of manipulation for practitioners. The authors address a broad range of topics within process-based software engineering and the fundamental theories and philosophies behind them. They develop a software engineering process reference model (SEPRM) to show how to solve the problems of different process domains, orientations, structures, taxonomies, and methods. They derive a set of process benchmarks-based on a series of international surveys-that support validation of the SEPRM model. Based on their SEPRM model and the unified process theory, they demonstrate that current process models can be integrated and their assessment results can be transformed between each other. Software development is no longer just a black art or laboratory activity. It is an industrialized process that requires the skills not just of programmers, but of organization and project managers and quality assurance specialists. Software Engineering Processes: Principles and Applications is the key to understanding, using, and improving upon effective engineering procedures for software development.
8 books condensed into one, this compendium writing guide is for
everyone looking to improve their writing skills, grammar, spelling
and punctuation in one easy step. Whether you want to write a
novel, draft a report, create a compelling CV, write a letter of
protest to the council, or sign off an email, this book is for you
and all the family. This latest edition of the Writing Guide is the
essential desk companion for anyone requiring a friendly guide to
modern communication.
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Hugo (Blu-ray disc)
Frances De La Tour, Chloë Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law, Richard Griffiths, …
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Martin Scorsese makes his first foray into children's cinema with
this semi-fantastical drama based on a book by Brian Selznick. Asa
Butterfield stars as Hugo, an orphan who lives in the hidden nooks
of a train station in 1920s Paris. With the help of his friend,
Isabelle (Chloë Moretz), he sets out to solve a mystery left behind
by his late father (Jude Law): a curious puzzle involving a
heart-shaped key, a cranky toy shop owner (Ben Kingsley) and a
broken automaton. Along the way, the tangled lives of the staff and
passengers at the station provide numerous colourful detours, and
Scorsese pays homage to early pioneers of cinema including the
Lumiere brothers and Georges Méliès. The film was nominated for
eleven Oscars and won five awards including Best Cinematography and
Best Visual Effects.
Crime drama, directed by Ben Affleck and based on the award-winning
novel, 'Prince of Thieves', by Chuck Hogan. Affleck also stars as
Doug MacRay, one of four masked criminals who rob a bank. Doug
falls for one of the bank workers, Claire (Rebecca Hall), who is
distressed after the robbery. Claire, unaware Doug was one of the
robbers, reciprocates his feelings. Can Doug keep up the facade or
will the law catch up with him?
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Gatecrasher (Paperback)
Stephen Graham King
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Soul's Blood (Paperback)
Stephen Graham King
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Collection of four films starring Johnny Depp. In 'The Astronaut's
Wife' (1999), on a seemingly routine mission to repair a space
satellite, astronaut Spencer Armacost (Depp) loses contact with
Mission Control for a period of time. Once Spencer has returned to
Earth his wife Jillian (Charlize Theron) falls pregnant with twin
boys, but her joy is tempered by the suspicion that something
terrible happened to her husband in space - something which could
threaten the entire human race. In 'Dark Shadows' (2012), when
playboy Barnabas Collins (Depp) breaks the heart of the beautiful
Angelique Brouchard (Eva Green), an old family curse is released as
Angelique, a witch, turns Barnabas into a vampire before burying
him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed and
emerges into the very changed world of 1972. Returning to his
former home at Collinwood Manor, he finds his estate in ruins and
the dysfunctional dregs of his family in tatters. Matriarch
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has enlisted the
services of live-in psychiatrist Dr Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham
Carter) to help with her numerous family problems - but between
Elizabeth's loser brother, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller), her
rebellious teenage daughter, Carolyn Stoddard (Chloë Moretz), and
Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver
McGrath), Dr Hoffman has certainly got her work cut out. 'Sweeney
Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' (2007), Tim Burton's film
version of the Stephen Sondheim musical, is based on a 'penny
dreadful' tale (which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th
Century. The story centres around Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber
who returns to London after spending years in exile for a crime he
didn't commit. He soon discovers from pie-maker Mrs Lovett (Bonham
Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken her own life and
his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him sent away -
the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking revenge and
filled with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a barber's shop above
Mrs Lovett's premises. Now calling himself Sweeney Todd, Barker
kills off all his customers with a razor to the throat and sends
their cadavers to the shop below to be used as a tasty new filling
for Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once the worst pie shop in
London quickly becomes one of the city's most popular eateries, but
Barker won't be satisfied until he can lure Judge Turpin into the
barber's chair... In 'Don Juan DeMarco' (1994) Marlon Brando plays
a psychiatrist whose last case, that of Don Juan (Depp), is his
most difficult. Don Juan is the world's greatest lover, having
seduced over 1000 women, and his amorous tales totally captivate
the analyst, re-awakening passions which he thought had been lost
forever.
On the tiny, frozen world of Frostbite, Rogan Tyso is the Mailmail,
responsible for the communications array that keeps his home in
contact with the other human Refuges scattered across known space.
It has been a century since the Cluster--the great union of
Earth-like colonies--fell to an alien race known only as the
Flense, and human civilization has been reduced to an afterthought.
Rogan's correspondence with Nathe Mylan, a man thousands of light
years away, offers him both the possibility of a love he has never
found, and a chance to work on a project that may help humanity
escape the influence of the Flense for good.
In the year 2000, Stephen Graham King was diagnosed with a rare,
aggressive cancer known as synovial sarcoma, beginning a four-year
ordeal of radiation, chemotherapy, physiotherapy, and multiple
recurrences. After having trouble with his left knee for much of
his adult life, King finally saw a doctor following a bump to the
leg that almost made him pass out from the excruciating pain. After
the diagnosis, he endured five major, invasive surgeries that cost
him a large portion of his left leg and half of his left lung,
radically changing his body, mind, and self-image forever. And in
the end, forcing him to relearn many things: some as basic as
re-learning how to walk. As a gay man who is part of an
image-conscious subculture within our image-driven society, he was
forced to confront his feelings about his body on the long road
back to health. Now, in Just Breathe, King shares his journey from
health to illness and back to health again through prose and
journal entries written during the battle. Told with candour and
humour, this is the story of his challenging recovery and the love
of life, friends, and family that helped him to survive.
Beloved theologian and bishop Graham Kings has been writing poetry
for thirty-five years, with many of his poems used in retreats and
preaching throughout the Anglican Communion. This collection brings
together Graham's poems on a range of devotional subjects, looking
on the world with the eyes of faith and observing the sacred in the
ordinary. With this perspective, all things are capable of pointing
beyond themselves to the truth and beauty of God. Graham's poetry
celebrates the people, places, art, past and present, the practice
of prayer, the stories that shape our lives, the rhythms of the
spiritual year that have been for him doorways to the divine.
The theological treasures gathered here show the intriguing
coherence of an unfolding vision. Earthed in the ministry of a
priest, missionary, academic theologian, and well-travelled bishop,
the five settings provide 16 chapters written over 34 years in
Kenya, Cambridge, Islington, Sherborne and Lambeth. Art, poetry and
archives mingle with theology, history and spirituality. Memorable
scenes include a Kenyan liturgy on the environment and Bishop
Gitari's preaching, the drama of worship on the streets of London,
a Deuteronomic prequel to the Prodigal Son, flashes from the lives
of Henry Martyn and Stephen Harding, the birth of South Sudan and
the historic dialogue of John Stott and Basil Meeking.
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