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Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald’s growing legion of followers.
But with the stakes so high, how long can Dumbledore remain on the sidelines?
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald’s growing legion of followers.
But with the stakes so high, how long can Dumbledore remain on the sidelines?
Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII, is the first American Pope in history. Young and charming, his election might seem the result of a simple and effective media strategy by the College of Cardinals. But, as we know, appearances can be deceptive.
Especially in the place and among the people who have chosen the great mystery of God as the guiding light of their existence. That place is the Vatican and those people are the leaders of the Catholic Church. And the most mysterious and contradictory figure of all turns out to be Pius XIII himself.
Shrewd and naïve, old-fashioned and very modern, doubtful and resolute, ironic, pedantic, hurt and ruthless, Pius XIII tries to walk the long path of human loneliness to find a God for mankind. And for himself.
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Belfast (DVD)
Kenneth Branagh; Starring Jude Hill, Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, …
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R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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Ships in 15 - 30 working days
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Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay.
Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, Belfast is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
Buddy’s family lives in a largely Protestant district with a few Catholic families, but one day his community and everything he thought he understood about life is suddenly turned upside down. Buddy’s family gets caught in the mayhem and must decide to stay or leave the only place they have ever called home.
Through it all, his passionate parents and quick-witted grandparents keep the joy alive through music and the magic of movies in this feel-good story that reminds us that no matter how far you go, you never forget where you came from.
Academy Award nominations for:
- Best Picture
- Best Director
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Sound
- Best Original Song
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House of the Rising Sun (DVD)
Dave Bautista, Lyle Kanouse, Dominic Purcell, Amy Smart, Danny Trejo, …
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R92
Discovery Miles 920
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Ships in 20 - 40 working days
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Action movie starring former WWE wrestler Dave Bautista as a
disgraced ex-cop trying to get to the bottom of a murder he is the
prime suspect for. Ray (Bautista)'s career has followed an unusual
trajectory. Both an ex-cop and now, having been released from
prison, an ex-con, Ray struggles to find work and finally takes a
job as a bouncer for a strip club called The House of the Rising
Sun. When the son of the club's owner, Vinnie (Lyle Kanouse), is
found murdered, Ray's boss, Tony (Dominic Purcell), suggests that
Ray use his policing skills to track down the killer. However, the
police themselves are on the case and already have a killer firmly
in mind: Ray.
Intelligent Edge Computing for Cyber Physical Applications
introduces state-of-the-art research methodologies, tools and
techniques, challenges, and solutions with further research
opportunities in the area of edge-based cyber-physical systems. The
book presents a comprehensive review of recent literature and
analysis of different techniques for building edge-based CPS. In
addition, it describes how edge-based CPS can be built to
seamlessly interact with physical machines for optimal performance,
covering various aspects of edge computing architectures for
dynamic resource provisioning, mobile edge computing, energy saving
scenarios, and different security issues. Sections feature
practical use cases of edge-computing which will help readers
understand the workings of edge-based systems in detail, taking
into account the need to present intellectual challenges while
appealing to a broad readership, including academic researchers,
practicing engineers and managers, and graduate students.
The title poem-about a group of schoolchildren illustrating
Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark"-ends with the following assertion:
"these are the only / lessons they will ever need to learn: that
life / is not artifact, but aperture-a stepping into / and a
falling away; that to sing is to rise / from the grave of the body.
And still / say less than nothing." This idea of the aperture, the
gap, the silence that exists between what we want to say and what
we actually do say pervades The Curator of Silence. The paradox, of
course, is that the creation of art itself makes this gap, as there
is always a gulf between the impulse and the gesture, the vision
and the poem. Nutter's experience of living for two months in the
Antarctic, perhaps the greatest silence and solitude possible on
earth, is the archetype of silence whose many dimensions she
explores in this volume. She considers both literal, obvious
silences-death, abandonment, loneliness, the silence into which
lost things vanish-and silences of a more mysterious and
paradoxical nature: the (mis)perceptions of childhood, the erasures
of addiction and brain damage, the isolation of Antarctic
explorers, and the seemingly distant, and often fearsome, lives of
animals. In the end, this great silence we batter our hearts
against-call it the grave or god or the universe or the intimate
silence of the white page-is the silence these poems are singing to
and with, not against.
Wearable Telemedicine Technology for the Healthcare Industry:
Product Design and Development focuses on recent advances and
benefits of wearable telemedicine techniques for remote health
monitoring and prevention of chronic conditions, providing real
time feedback and help with rehabilitation and biomedical
applications. Readers will learn about various techniques used by
software engineers, computer scientists and biomedical engineers to
apply intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, machine
learning, virtual reality and augmented reality to gather,
transmit, analyze and deliver real-time clinical and biological
data to clinicians, patients and researchers. Wearable telemedicine
technology is currently establishing its place with large-scale
impact in many healthcare sectors because information about patient
health conditions can be gathered anytime and anywhere outside of
traditional clinical settings, hence saving time, money and even
lives.
Telemedicine Technologies: Big Data, Deep Learning, Robotics,
Mobile and Remote Applications for Global Healthcare illustrates
the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will
increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system. The
book also focuses on showcasing prototypes of remote healthcare
systems, thus emphasizing the data processing side that is often
recognized as the backbone of any telemedicine system.
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Ratio et Fides (Hardcover)
Robert E Wood; Foreword by Jude P. Dougherty
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R1,089
R917
Discovery Miles 9 170
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