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(500) Days of Summer (DVD)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler, …
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in this offbeat
romantic comedy, the feature debut of music video director Marc
Webb, which chronicles 500 days in the on/off relationship of
Summer (Deschanel) and Tom (Gordon-Levitt). While Summer
steadfastly refuses to believe in true love, asserting that real
life will always get in the way in the end, Tom has thrown caution
to the wind and fallen hook, line and sinker in love with her.
Where can their so-called relationship lead?
When the original edition of British Hoverflies was published in
1983, it established a popular style of user-friendly
identification keys that resulted in many more people taking an
interest in these colourful and attractive insects. This second
edition retains the layout and approach of the original but it also
includes much additional information about the family as a whole,
as well as extended and revised species accounts. Revised by Stuart
Ball, Alan Stubbs, Ian McLean, Roger Morris, Steven Falk and Roger
Hawkins, the new edition includes all 276 species known from
Britain, compared with 256 in the first edition. The keys and text
have been updated extensively to take account of our increased
knowledge of hoverflies, and some species from continental Europe
that might be expected to occur here are described in the keys and
species accounts. The second edition comprises 469 pages, including
the 12 widely-acclaimed, original colour plates by Steven Falk, as
well as 17 new detailed black and white plates of Cheilosia
genitalia (by Steven Falk) and Sphaerophoria genitalia (by Stuart
Ball). The summaries of the distribution of species and their
flight periods have been updated following the publication of the
Provisional Atlas of British Hoverflies in 2000. A check list of
all British species gives the current nomenclature for the family,
while a bibliography of over 800 references facilitates access to
much of the published literature on hoverflies. This new edition
will appeal both to experienced dipterists and to those starting to
study flies for the first time.
Recent discussions of Thomas Aquinas's treatment of natural law
have focused upon the ""self-evident"" character of the first
principles, but few attempts have been made to determine in what
manner they are self-evident. On some accounts, a self-evident
precept must have, at most, a tenuous connection with speculative
reason, especially our knowledge of God, and it must be untainted
by the stain of ""deriving"" an ought from an is. Yet Aquinas
himself had a robust account of the good, rooted in human nature.
He saw no fundamental difference between is-statements and
ought-statements, both of which he considered to be descriptive.
Knowing the Natural Law traces the thought of Aquinas from an
understanding of human nature to a knowledge of the human good,
from there to an account of ought-statements, and finally to
choice, which issues in human actions. The much discussed article
on the precepts of the natural law (I-II, 94, 2) provides the
framework for a natural law rooted in human nature and in
speculative knowledge. Practical knowledge is itself threefold:
potentially practical knowledge, virtually practical knowledge, and
fully practical knowledge. This distinction within practical
knowledge, typically overlooked or underutilized, reveals the steps
by which the mind moves from speculative knowledge all the way to
fully practical knowledge. The most significant sections of Knowing
the Natural Law examine the nature of ought-statements, the
imperative force of moral precepts, the special character of per se
nota propositions as found within the natural law, and the final
movement from knowledge to action.
How do some organizations break away from the pack while others
fall further behind? After researching the successes and failures
of organizations from the last 150 years, award-winning authors
Gene Kim and Steven J. Spear, DBA, have unlocked the key to
success.In their eagerly awaited book, Kim and Spear bring to light
a new theory of high-achieving organizations. They examine how
companies solve the most important problems better, faster, and
easier than their competitors by quickly and regularly closing the
gap between aspirations and real-world success. This book shows
companies that are struggling to perform how to achieve the
continual greatness seen in the best of the best. This
groundbreaking theory of organizational advantage details three
components: simplification, slowification, and amplification. These
create coherence across large, complex organizations, empowering
them to architect enviable success in the market.
Christianity Today 2023 Book Award (Academic Theology) In both
biblical studies and systematic theology, modern treatments of the
person of Christ have cast doubt on whether earlier Christian
descriptions of God--in which God is immutable, impassible,
eternal, and simple--can fit together with the revelation of God in
Christ. This book explains how the Jesus revealed in Scripture
comports with such descriptions of God. The author argues that the
Bible's Christology coheres with and even requires the affirmation
of divine attributes like immutability, impassibility, eternity,
and simplicity.
An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army – the
Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in
German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in
military history by the tanks and aircraft of Blitzkrieg,
Germany’s artillery was key to its methods of waging war
throughout World War II. Field artillery remained the primary
killer on the battlefield, often responsible for three-quarters of
combat casualties inflicted. Redressing the balance, this book
surveys the major Wehrmacht guns of the war, and the basic
organizational structure of the German field artillery. Its primary
focus is on the divisional field guns, especially the lFH 18 10.5cm
field howitzer and the 15cm sFH 18 field howitzer that formed the
backbone of German artillery. A brief survey is also made of the
infantry guns used at the regimental level, and of corps-level
heavy artillery. The issue of the use of"Beutewaffen,†captured
war-booty field guns, is also looked at, as is the Nebelwerfer and
schwere Wurfgerät rocket artillery. With archive photos and
meticulously detailed new illustrations, this book provides a
concise study of the German Army’s big guns of World War II, how
they were organized and how they were used, both on the Eastern and
Western fronts.
The field of education policy research is a dense, crowded space
owing to its complicated relationship to different intellectual
histories and the influence of various ontologies or ‘turns’.
To aid comprehension and clarity, this book describes the history,
contribution and application of over 90 keywords in the field of
education policy research. It is designed as a reference, learning
and teaching tool to assist students, educators and researchers
with: • complex learning and teaching; • wider and background
reading and knowledge building; • critical scholarship and
research; • interdisciplinary thinking and writing; • theory
development and application.
An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental
conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of
evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two
perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until
recently, their compatibility has resisted rigorous scholarly
inquiry. Evolutionary psychology documents many ways in which
genetic adaptations govern the operations of the human mind. But
evolutionary inquiries only occasionally grapple seriously with
questions about human culture and cross-cultural differences. By
contrast, cultural psychology documents many ways in which thought
and behavior are shaped by different cultural experiences. But
cultural inquires rarely consider evolutionary processes. Even
after decades of intensive research, these two perspectives on
human psychology have remained largely divorced from each other.
But that is now changing - and that is what this book is about.
Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind is the first scholarly book
to integrate evolutionary and cultural perspectives on human
psychology. The contributors include world-renowned evolutionary,
cultural, social, and cognitive psychologists. These chapters
reveal many novel insights linking human evolution to both human
cognition and human culture - including the evolutionary origins of
cross-cultural differences. The result is a stimulating
introduction to an emerging integrative perspective on human
nature.
The first "Big History" written from the perspective of a biologist
Summarizes multiple perspectives of history Documents the unique
conditions for the emergence of life Speculates on the future
The field of education policy research is a dense, crowded space
owing to its complicated relationship to different intellectual
histories and the influence of various ontologies or ‘turns’.
To aid comprehension and clarity, this book describes the history,
contribution and application of over 90 keywords in the field of
education policy research. It is designed as a reference, learning
and teaching tool to assist students, educators and researchers
with: • complex learning and teaching; • wider and background
reading and knowledge building; • critical scholarship and
research; • interdisciplinary thinking and writing; • theory
development and application.
James VI and Noble Power in Scotland explores how Scotland was
governed in the late sixteenth century by examining the dynamic
between King James and his nobles from the end of his formal
minority in 1578 until his accession to the English throne in 1603.
The collection assesses James' relationship with his nobility,
detailing how he interacted with them, and how they fought,
co-operated with and understood each other. It includes case
studies from across Scotland from the Highlands to the Borders and
burghs, and on major individual events such as the famous Gowrie
conspiracy. Themes such as the nature of government in Scotland and
religion as a shaper of policy and faction are addressed, as well
as broader perspectives on the British and European nobility,
bloodfeuds, and state-building in the early modern period. The ten
chapters together challenge well-established notions that James
aimed to be a modern, centralising monarch seeking to curb the
traditional structures of power, and that the period represented a
period of crisis for the traditional and unrestrained culture of
feuding nobility. It is demonstrated that King James was a
competent and successful manager of his kingdom who demanded a new
level of obedience as a 'universal king'. This volume offers
students of Stuart Britain a fresh and valuable perspective on
James and his reign.
* Features/Benefits o Provides a hands-on methodological guide and
overview for understanding the data/results of longitudinal
research in SLA/applied linguistics and for conducting one's own
such studies, illustrating these methods with exemplary studies of
language learning outcomes over a long term. o Original reportings
of unique large-scale research studies offer the best one-stop shop
for reading and understanding current quantitative longitudinal
studies in language learning. o Appendices with data and
pedagogical features make it useful for course use by instructors
and students. * Demand/Audience o Meets the need for methodological
clarity in collecting, managing/organizing, and analyzing
quantitative longitudinal data on language learning by offering
students and researchers of applied linguistics, testing, and
education a practical guide to conducting this research along with
unique exemplar studies. * Competition o The only book to focus on
quantitative longitudinal data analysis specifically for an
SLA/applied linguistics readership. One older book focuses on
qualitative and other methods with a narrower focus, and no other
book comes very close to doing what this book does.
Latin was Scotland's third language in the early modern period,
alongside Scots and Gaelic, and the reign of King James VI and I is
considered to be a golden age of Scottish neo-Latin literature.
Corona Borealis considers Latin texts by Scottish authors written
between James's birth in 1566 and his removal to England in 1603,
and highlights the role of Latin in Scottish cultural life. The
production of Latin poetry by Scots grew exponentially in the
decades immediately following the Protestant Reformation (1560),
bolstered by a new focus on renaissance education in Scotland's
schools and universities, and Scottish neo-Latinists were part of a
European community of humanist scholars fascinated by the Classical
past. Verses by George Buchanan, Patrick Adamson, Thomas Craig of
Riccarton, Thomas Maitland, Hercules Rollock, Henry Anderson, and
Andrew Melville - most of which have never appeared in translation
before - are presented with facing English translations. Steven J.
Reid and David McOmish provide clear, accessible editions of each
text, along with scholarly introductions and detailed linguistic
and historical notes.
A fascinating exploration of the often-overlooked gunnery duels
between the formidable artillery weapons in the Atlantic Wall
defences and the mighty US and Royal Navy battleships. Amphibious
landings were an essential tool of Allied military strategy in
World War II. The Royal Navy and the US Navy provided operational
mobility that allowed the Allies to strike unexpectedly across the
vast coastlines of the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Nazi Germany did
not have sufficient naval power to seriously contest this, and
consequently relied heavily on the huge and costly Atlantic Wall
fortification programme. By 1944, the French coast featured more
than 1,900 coastal guns over 75mm in calibre. At the heart of this
fascinating book by renowned military historian Steven J. Zaloga is
the clash between Batterie Hamburg (defending Cherbourg) and the
Allied naval bombardment group led by the battleship USS Texas on
25 June 1944. Stunning artworks reveal details of the design,
construction and ammunition of the weapons involved, and the
locations of important sites are shown on maps. The author also
explores the evolution of Allied naval doctrine, which was based on
repeated experiences during a succession of amphibious operations,
and which enabled the Allies to successfully overcome the coastal
gun threat. Illustrated with over 50 period photographs, the result
is a fascinating exploration of a key battle during the Allied
invasion of mainland Europe.
How do we know God? Can we know God as he is in himself? These
longstanding questions have been addressed by Christian theologians
throughout the church's history. Some, such as Thomas Aquinas, have
argued that we know God through both natural and supernatural
revelation, while others, especially Karl Barth, have argued that
we know God only on the basis of the incarnation. Contemporary
discussions of these issues sometimes give the impression that we
have to choose between a speculative doctrine of God driven by
natural theology or metaphysics and a Christ-centred doctrine of
God driven by God's work in the history of salvation. In this
volume in the Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture series,
Steven J. Duby casts a vision for integrating natural theology, the
incarnation and metaphysics in a Christian description of God in
himself. In addition to reasoning from Holy Scripture, Duby
incorporates insights from the catholic theological tradition,
including patristic and medieval authors and also the Reformed
orthodox.
Globalization is effecting a close convergence of sport and foreign
policy. In order to respond to novel social, political, cultural
and economic pressures, states are increasingly turning to sport as
a foreign policy instrument; and they cannot ignore the
corresponding influence that global sport has on their core
interests. This book is devoted to exploring this relationship in
detail. Although any examination of sport and foreign policy
inevitably focuses on issues related to both politics and
international relations, the primary intention here is to consider
the dimensions associated with foreign policy. This book was
previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
The first edition of Quantitative Feedback Theory gained enormous
popularity by successfully bridging the gap between theory and
real-world engineering practice. Avoiding mathematical theorems,
lemmas, proofs, and correlaries, it boiled down to the essential
elements of quantitative feedback theory (QFT) necessary to readily
analyze, develop, and implement robust control systems. Thoroughly
updated and expanded, Quantitative Feedback Theory: Fundamentals
and Applications, Second Edition continues to provide a platform
for intelligent decision making and design based on knowledge of
the characteristics and operating scenario of the plant. Beginning
with the fundamentals, the authors build a background in analog and
discrete-time multiple-input-single-output (MISO) and
multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) feedback control systems
along with the fundamentals of the QFT technique. The remainder of
the book links these concepts to practical applications. Among the
many enhancements to this edition are a new section on large wind
turbine control system, four new chapters, and five new appendices.
The new chapters cover non-diagonal compensator design for MIMO
systems, QFT design involving Smith predictors for time delay
systems with uncertainty, weighting matrices and control authority,
and QFT design techniques applied to real-world industrial systems.
Quantitative Feedback Theory: Fundamentals and Applications, Second
Edition includes new and revised examples and end-of-chapter
problems and offers a companion CD that supplies MIMO QFT
computer-aided design (CAD) software. It is the perfect guide to
effectively and intuitively implementing QFT control.
Israelis form a unique case in the field of diaspora studies. When
the State of Israel was founded in 1948 it was seen as the
longed-for end to the wandering and oppression which had
characterised the Jewish diaspora over the centuries. For various
reasons, however one per cent of the Israeli population chooses to
live abroad despite the condemnation of those who see emigration as
a threat to the ideological, demographic and moral viability of
Israel itself. In this study, based on extensive field work in the
major Israeli communities of New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris
and Sydney, Steven J. Gold looks at their reasons for leaving -
existing links abroad, political and economic dissatisfaction at
home and in the case of the Sephardim or Israelis of non-European
origin often a feeling of being treated as second class citizens -
the tensions, compromises and satisfactions involved in their
relations with Israelis who have not left and with the Jewish and
non Jewish communities in the countries in which they settle. In a
final chapter, he talks to those who after years as emigrants have
made the decision to return. The end result is a contribution to
the study not just of the Isra
The Theory of Constraints (TOC) - as developed by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt - has seen a rapid expansion since the publication of his book, The Goal. As with most fast growing areas, you can quickly feel out of touch with new developments. The World of the Theory of Constraints provides a summary of recently published research on TOC. The authors explored databases, and sought out papers and books drawing on as wide a range as possible. Aside from the works by Dr. Goldratt himself, the authors focus on items published since 1990, highlighting the most recent developments in TOC. The scope of the material covers works containing specific reference to TOC, including Synchronous Manufacturing and Constraint Management. The book is organized into three sections. The first section contains an analysis and interpretation of the results of the search. The second provides abstracts on all the material. The third supplies author, keyword, and subject indexes along with a list of books, journals, websites, and publishers. Extensively researched and referenced, The World of the Theory of Constraints furnishes comprehensive material on TOC. The multi-search approach has made this arguably the most exhaustive bibliography on this subject available. If you are researching TOC, this is the best place to start. If you use or teach TOC, you will want this resource.
Features
In February 1979, China launched a full scale attack on Vietnam
bringing to the surface the deep tension between the two socialist
neighbours. The importance of the resultant war is often
overlooked. Millions of people throughout the region were affected,
and the frictions that remain in the wake of the war threaten the
prospects for peace not only in Southeast Asia, but also the whole
Asia-Pacific region as well. This is a full scale examination of
the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War - the events that led to it, the Cold
War aftermath, and the implications for the region and beyond.
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