Comic fantasy adventure for the family. When the Pearson family goes to stay in a holiday house in rural Maine, the children discover to their surprise that the house is already occupied - by an alien. Before they know it they are under attack from an army of knee-high alien invaders with world-destroying ambitions. Can they save their parents and the rest of the world from annihilation before bedtime?

Feature-length movie from Aardman Animations following Shaun (voice of Justin Fletcher) and his flock of sheep. After their mischievous behaviour gets their farmer in a spot of bother Shaun and his friends go on a big adventure to the city to save him. While there they get up to all sorts of shenanigans. Will everyone get back to the farm in one piece?

First published in 1998 , This timely book describes the challenges that need to be met in bringing together health and social services into a partnership to create effective and responsive services. It presents the reader with both conceptual frameworks and practical examples on how change can be managed and the momentum maintained towards the development of a quality service. The authors present practical examples and reflect on what worked and what was not successful. Over twenty writers (staff and managers, senior and junior, qualified and unqualified) describe focused work in particular areas which will be of interest to any service for this user group. Throughout, the emphasis is on how to deliver an accessible good quality service and how this can be safeguarded in the future. Fifty years after the establishment of the NHS, and nearly twenty five years since the establishment of British Social Services departments, this book articulates a modern, practical and principled vision of community based services to vulnerable people.

First published in 1998 , This timely book describes the challenges that need to be met in bringing together health and social services into a partnership to create effective and responsive services. It presents the reader with both conceptual frameworks and practical examples on how change can be managed and the momentum maintained towards the development of a quality service. The authors present practical examples and reflect on what worked and what was not successful. Over twenty writers (staff and managers, senior and junior, qualified and unqualified) describe focused work in particular areas which will be of interest to any service for this user group. Throughout, the emphasis is on how to deliver an accessible good quality service and how this can be safeguarded in the future. Fifty years after the establishment of the NHS, and nearly twenty five years since the establishment of British Social Services departments, this book articulates a modern, practical and principled vision of community based services to vulnerable people.

This accessible textbook draws upon progressions in academic, political and global arenas, to provide a comprehensive overview of practical issues in psychological work across a diverse range of community settings. Interest in community psychology, and its potential as a distinctive approach, is growing and evolving in parallel with societal and policy changes. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition covers crucial issues including decolonial approaches, migration, social justice, and the environmental crisis. It has a new chapter on archive research, working with data, policy analysis and development, to reflect the continuously developing global nature of community psychology. Key features include: Sections and chapters organised around thinking, acting and reflecting Case examples and reflections of community psychology in action Discussion points and ideas for exercises that can be undertaken by the reader, in order to extend critical understanding Aiming to provide readers with not only the theories, values and principles of community psychology, but also with the practical guidance that will underpin their community psychological work, this is the ideal resource for any student of community, social, and clinical psychology, social work, community practice, and people working in community-based professions and applied settings.

This accessible textbook draws upon progressions in academic, political and global arenas, to provide a comprehensive overview of practical issues in psychological work across a diverse range of community settings. Interest in community psychology, and its potential as a distinctive approach, is growing and evolving in parallel with societal and policy changes. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition covers crucial issues including decolonial approaches, migration, social justice, and the environmental crisis. It has a new chapter on archive research, working with data, policy analysis and development, to reflect the continuously developing global nature of community psychology. Key features include: Sections and chapters organised around thinking, acting and reflecting Case examples and reflections of community psychology in action Discussion points and ideas for exercises that can be undertaken by the reader, in order to extend critical understanding Aiming to provide readers with not only the theories, values and principles of community psychology, but also with the practical guidance that will underpin their community psychological work, this is the ideal resource for any student of community, social, and clinical psychology, social work, community practice, and people working in community-based professions and applied settings.

Platform Based Design at the Electronic System Level presents a multi-faceted view of the challenges facing the electronic industry in the development and integration of complex heterogeneous systems, including both hardware and software components. It analyses and proposes solutions related to the provision of integration platforms by System on Chip and Integrated Platform providers in light of the needs and requirements expressed by the system companies: they are the users of such platforms, which they apply to develop their next-generation products. This is the first book to examine ESL from perspectives of system developer, platform provider and Electronic Design Automation.

This volume presents a multi-faceted view of the set of problems that the electronic industry currently faces in the development and integration of complex heterogeneous systems (including both hardware and software components). It analyses and proposes solutions related to the provision of integration platforms by SoC and IP providers in light of the needs and requirements expressed by the system companies: they are the users of such platforms which they apply to develop their next generation products. Further, the book tries to draw a comprehensive picture of the current interfaces between the platform providers and users, defined by technical requirements, current design methodology and flows, standards, and finally by the business context and relationships (which should not to be underestimated).

An increasing emphasis on community care and quality of life has important implications for the many people with learning disabilities who are increasingly participating in and contributing to life in local communities.

This book of mine was a recurring dream that only stopped after putting pen to paper. Stunning controversy exists today that's spinning out of control, and we are all in too deep to see the real truths. A powerfully kept secret is contained in this book and one day we sheep must stop following blindly and make a stand, head to head. We must turn the tide before all is lost. The world is in chaos in the mid-21st century, and the predictions of the End Times seem to be coming true. Only the hidden esoteric wisdom of the breathtakingly beautiful Maia, the mystical Wicca Queen, can save the world. Armies are on the march, greedy for expansion and whatever else the Queen's magic can provide. The future hangs in the balance as world powers fight for control. Aided by her tribe, led by warrior Odin, the Templar Knights and the secret Black Pope, the Queen battles for survival, because unless a new world order is achieved, no-one is safe.

One advantage of using a virtual platform over real hardware for embedded software development and testing is the ability of some simulators to take checkpoints of their state. If the entire system model is detailed enough, it might take several minutes (or hours) to simulate booting the O.S. If a snapshot of the simulation is saved just after it has finished booting, each time it is necessary to run the embedded software, designers can simply restore the snapshot and go. Restarting a checkpoint typically takes a few seconds. In this book we present our work on adding a description level language as SystemC to two Virtual Platforms. This work was done for a commercial Virtual Platform, and later translated to a open-sourced Platform. This book also presents a set of modifications to SystemC language to support checkpointing. These modifications will make it possible to take the state of a SystemC running simulation and save it to disk. Later, the same simulation can be restored to the same point it was before, without any change to the simulated modules. These changes would help SystemC to be suitable for use by Virtual Platforms as a description language.