Scott Adkins and Dolph Lundgren star in this action thriller directed by Eric Styles. When a mysterious river monster in China attacks and kills several people, scientist Travis Preston (Adkins) travels out to investigate. When he arrives in the small fishing village he discovers, to his dismay, notorious hunter Harker (Lundgren) is also searching for the creature but with very different methods. If Travis can find the monster first he intends to capture it and study its existence; if Harker finds it he intends to kill it. Who will get there first?

Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman star in this sumptuous Paris-set period drama based on the novella by Guy de Maupassant. Georges Duroy (Pattinson) is a suave and handsome young journalist using his wits and powers of manipulation to make his way in 1890s Paris. In order to ascend the social ladder, Duroy seduces a string of influential society beauties including Madeleine Forestier (Thurman), Virginie Walters (Kristen Scott Thomas) and Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci). His peasant background has soon become a distant memory as he achieves dizzying success both in his career and in fashionable society.

America's drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences. In this volume, contributors ask how would marijuana legalization affect communities of color? Is legalization of marijuana necessary to safeguard minority families from a lifetime of hardship and inequality? Who in minority communities favors legalization and why, and do these minority opinions differ from the opinions held by White Americans? This volume also includes analyses of the policy debate by a range of scholars addressing economic, health, and empowerment issues. Comparative lessons from other countries are also analyzed.

America's drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences. In this volume, contributors ask how would marijuana legalization affect communities of color? Is legalization of marijuana necessary to safeguard minority families from a lifetime of hardship and inequality? Who in minority communities favors legalization and why, and do these minority opinions differ from the opinions held by White Americans? This volume also includes analyses of the policy debate by a range of scholars addressing economic, health, and empowerment issues. Comparative lessons from other countries are also analyzed.

The Beginner's Guide to Engineering series is designed to provide a very simple, non-technical introduction to the fields of engineering for people with no experience in the fields. Each book in the series focuses on introducing the reader to the various concepts in the fields of engineering conceptually rather than mathematically. These books are a great resource for high school students that are considering majoring in one of the engineering fields, or for anyone else that is curious about engineering but has no background in the field. Books in the series: 1. The Beginner's Guide to Engineering: Chemical Engineering 2. The Beginner's Guide to Engineering: Computer Engineering 3. The Beginner's Guide to Engineering: Electrical Engineering 4. The Beginner's Guide to Engineering: Mechanical Engineering

The Business of Environmental Health and Safety Management. Your guide to creating powerful arguments to communicate where financial investments coincide with corporate environmental health and safety (EH&S) needs. It is called persuasion, and great EH&S managers are learning the language of business to communicate the value of their programs and ideas to executive management. We have the opportunity to transform our company's requests, needs, good practices, and sustainability concepts into objective business statements that can stand the scrutiny of employees, managers, environmentalists, and shareholders. We can transform the paradox from managers begging for financial resources to a place where management can see the value in a return on investment. The business of environmental health and safety management is a groundbreaking book that charts the rise of demonstrating value from EH&S investments within the business world. The book takes the reader on a step-by-step journey to empower them to objectify subjective data and to show how financial success will go hand in hand with responsible stewardship of environmental health, safety, and sustainability achievements. James Lieberman chronicles both the challenges that companies and managers face and the path forward to create solutions using tried and true financial tools. His vision will illuminate the path for the next generation of managers to make a real impact in their organizations and communities. Lieberman identifies and explains the underlying concepts to use clearly, with plenty of realistic examples. Readers will be able to grasp and use financial concepts and calculations like seasoned managers. His book will help managers from organizations of all sizes and industries make their case. In the final analysis, managers will come to realize that demonstrating value in financial terms is the fundamental approach to success. Author Bio: James L. Lieberman knows about environmental health and safety management from over 25 years of practice in the field. He has been the president of his own consulting business, Environmental Information Services, for ten years, and has experience helping both large and small companies come into compliance in cost effective ways. For ten years, he was the EH&S manager for Array BioPharma, a Colorado drug discovery company. Lieberman is again a consultant and lives in Boulder, CO.

Gay themed rom-com that follows the lives and loves of a group of metrosexual males. Sick of his life as a TV producer, Harry (James Lance) would sooner leaver it all behind and travel the globe, though he's currently in a relationship with struggling actor Alex (Luke de Woolfson). Meanwhile, William (Rocky Marshall) is finding it hard letting his new love interest Lawrence (Leon Ockenden) into his life, especially as his nine-year old daughter keeps throwing a spanner in the works. Finally, successful artist Tom (David Morris) is quite happy to provide for occasional model Lars (Benjamin Hart) just as long as he can keep him interested, even if there are a few betrayals along the way.

Brit flick looking at the lives and loves of four young nightshift workers in present-day Glasgow. Sean (Luke de Woolfson) works as a porter in a hospital; Vincent (James Lance) stacks shelves in a supermarket; Jody (Kate Ashfield) is an assembly line worker; and Lenny (Enzo Cilenti) is employed in a call centre. The four of them meet up regularly in an all-night cafe, but things become more complicated when their love lives intertwine.

All ten episodes from the second season of the popular Channel 4 drama series set in the fictional Summerdown Comprehensive, where the teachers are just as juvenile (if not more so) than the teenagers they are supposed to be educating. In Episode 1, Simon (Andrew Lincoln) breezes into school after getting back late from a holiday in Tenerife with Brian (Adrian Bower) and Kurt (Navin Chowdhry). In Episode 2, Simon is so jealous of popular new languages tutor JP (Shaun Evans) that he refuses to go out for a drink with the usual crowd. Episode 3 finds Simon getting increasingly sexually frustrated after nine weeks without sex. In Episode 4, JP comes out to his new flatmates, and Kurt and Simon try to convince Brian that he is gay, too. Episode 5 finds Susan (Raquel Cassidy) being driven crazy by Alec (Damien Goodwin), who walks around the flat with nothing on in between his very noisy sex sessions with her flatmate, Jenny (Nina Sosanya). In Episode 6, head of department Bob (Lloyd McGuire) is doing all he can to catch Penny's (Tamzin Malleson) eye. Episode 7 sees Susan getting broody after holding the baby of a schoolgirl mum - but when she meets the single mother of another problem pupil, she soon changes her mind. In Episode 8, Simon is feeling bored and dissatisfied with his life, and decides to take a drastic step to change things. In Episode 9, Simon has taken off for South America, leaving his colleagues to cover his classes. Finally, in Episode 10, Christmas is just around the corner, and Simon's replacement, Matt (James Lance) arrives to step into his shoes.

CHOICE outstanding academic book! Black nationalism. Is it an outdated political strategy? Or, as James Taylor argues in his rich, sweeping analysis, alogical response to the failure of post-civil rights politics? Taylor offers a provocative assessment of the contemporary relevance and interpretation of black nationalism as both a school of thought and a mode of mobilization. Fundamental to his analysis is the assertion that black nationalism should be understood not simply as a separatist movement - the traditional conception - but instead as a common-sense psychological orientation with long roots in US political history. Providing entirely new lines of insight and analysis, his work ranges from the religious foundations of black political ideologies to the nationalist sentiments of today's hip-hop generation.

Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Politics: Ten Profiles offers a powerful and timely analysis of the dynamic relationship between religious leaders of all faiths and political activism in the United States. By examining the lives and works of such prominent leaders as Reverend Floyd Flake, Bishop T. D. Jakes, Reverend Al Sharpton, Elder Dallin H. Oakes, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Reverend Benjamin Chavis-Muhammed, and Sister Maureen Fiedler, this volume reveals an American tradition of religious influence on public policy that continues to be an important hallmark of our democracy. From the colonial era to the present, religious leaders have raised AmericansO moral and political awareness of countless issues, including revolution, slavery, temperance, civil rights, and, most recently, the culture wars. This book is the first to explore the renewed and intense commitment of evangelicals, Catholics, Muslims, and Jews to preach, teach, and participate in politics today. Among the questions answered in this book: are religious leaders today as active and vocal as the radicals of the turbulent 1960s? Are these activists still involved in civil rights or have other contentious topics such as abortion and traditional family values preempted such issues? In the wake of the 2000 election and at the start of a new administration committed to elevating the role of religion in politics, Jo Renee Formicola, Hubert Morken, and this prominent collection of contributors ask might we expect greater American religious involvement in the years ahead? This is essential reading for anyone interested in religious and political activism, or the evolving relationship between church and state in America.