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A triple bill of the 'Look Who's Talking' films. In 'Look Who's
Talking' (1989), Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is pregnant by Albert
(George Segal), a married man who won't leave his wife. When her
contractions start, she leaps into a taxi, driven by James (John
Travolta) who accompanies her not only to the hospital but into the
delivery room. Mollie gives birth to a healthy boy, Mikey (voice of
Bruce Willis), and soon James is baby-sitting for her while she
goes in search of a suitable father. The sequel, 'Look Who's
Talking Too' (1990), picks up where the first film left off, with
James and Mollie having another baby. Meanwhile, Mikey deals with
growing up, the intrusion of a new baby sister Julie (voice of
Roseanne Barr) and that daunting rite of passage - toilet training.
In 'Look Who's Talking Now' (1993), Mollie is fired from her job,
and takes a position in a toy department as a Christmas elf and
James lands a job as a private pilot for the vampy socialite
Samantha (Lysette Anthony). When the local street dog Rocks (voice
of Danny DeVito) is taken home for son Mikey (David Gallagher),
Samantha also turns up with her pampered poodle Daphne (voice of
Diane Keaton) who Julie (Tabitha Lupien) instantly takes to. The
dogs take an instant dislike to each other, but the parents are too
tied up with their own problems to notice. When Mollie discovers
that Samantha has whisked her husband off for a secret rendezvous
on Christmas Eve, she determines to intercept them with kids and
dogs in tow.
A thoroughly contemporary approach to teaching essential
engineering graphics skills has made Fundamentals of Solid Modeling
and Graphics Communication the leading textbook in introductory
engineering graphics courses. The seventh edition continues to
integrate design concepts and the use of 3D CAD modeling into its
outstanding coverage of the basic visualization and sketching
techniques that enable students to create and communicate graphic
ideas effectively. The primary goal of this text is to help the
engineering and technology student learn the techniques and
standard practices of technical graphics, so that design ideas can
be adequately communicated and produced. As in past editions, the
authors have included many examples of how graphics communication
pertains to "real-world" engineering design, including current
industry practices and breakthroughs.
In the ancient Mediterranean world, the sea was an essential domain
for trade, cultural exchange, communication, exploration, and
colonisation. In tandem with the lived reality of this maritime
space, a parallel experience of the sea emerged in narrative
representations from ancient Greece and Rome, of the sea as a
cultural imaginary. This imaginary seems often to oscillate between
two extremes: the utopian and the catastrophic; such
representations can be found in narratives from ancient history,
philosophy, society, and literature, as well as in their
post-classical receptions. Utopia can be found in some imaginary
island paradise far away and across the distant sea; the sea can
hold an unknown, mysterious, divine wealth below its surface; and
the sea itself as a powerful watery body can hold a liberating
potential. The utopian quality of the sea and seafaring can become
a powerful metaphor for articulating political notions of the ideal
state or for expressing an individual's sense of hope and
subjectivity. Yet the catastrophic sea balances any perfective
imaginings: the sea threatens coastal inhabitants with floods,
tsunamis, and earthquakes and sailors with storms and the
accompanying monsters. From symbolic perspectives, the catastrophic
sea represents violence, instability, the savage, and even
cosmological chaos. The twelve papers in this volume explore the
themes of utopia and catastrophe in the liminal environment of the
sea, through the lens of history, philosophy, literature and
classical reception. Contributors: Manuel Alvarez-Marti-Aguilar,
Vilius Bartninkas, Aaron L. Beek, Ross Clare, Gabriele Cornelli,
Isaia Crosson, Ryan Denson, Rhiannon Easterbrook, Emilia Mataix
Ferrandiz, Georgia L. Irby, Simona Martorana, Guy Middleton, Hamish
Williams.
First published in 1853, this book chronicles the personal
experience of the 'Kaffir' war of 1851 2 (now known as the eighth
Xhosa or frontier war), between the European settlers and the
native inhabitants of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Serving as
a lieutenant, William Ross King (1822 90) sailed to South Africa
from Cork with the 74th Highlanders in March 1851 and remained
there until late 1852. His memoir was not intended as a detailed
history of military operations in the Kaffir war and in fact
encompasses all of King's experiences in South Africa rather than
focusing solely on the conflict. The book is especially notable for
its extremely one-sided account of events: King exhibits a
particularly scathing attitude towards the Xhosa people, who were
'committing the most deliberate outrages and murders' and
displaying 'cowardly treachery' towards the European settlers.
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