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Homeland - Season 1 (Blu-ray disc)
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All 12 episodes from the first season of the Golden Globe-winning
US drama about a CIA officer determined to prove that a returned
hero is actually an Al-Qaeda mole. Out of favour with her superiors
after returning home from an unauthorised operation in Iraq, CIA
officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) is warned by one of her
contacts that an American prisoner has been turned by his terrorist
captors. When she subsequently learns of the rescue of US Marine
sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) after eight years in
captivity, Carrie's suspicions are immediately raised. But with the
returning Brody hailed a hero, and her concerns falling on deaf
ears, she's soon forced to break ranks to prove her theory.
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You Make Me Sneeze!
Sharon G. Flake; Illustrated by Anna Raff
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Perfect for fans of Mo Willems and Jon Klassen, award-winning
author Sharon G. Flake’s story about a very serious cat and a
very silly duck will inspire giggles with every reading. Best
friends Duck and Cat have a problem—Cat makes Duck sneeze! “I
think—achoo!—I’m allergic to you,†Duck declares. Hilarity
ensues as Cat keeps trying to solve the problem—but Duck keeps
sneezing! Is Duck really allergic to Cat or is something else going
on? Written completely in dialogue, this text is fun to read
aloud and easy enough for newly independent readers to enjoy on
their own. Humorous illustrations highlight the characters'
personalities, emphasizing Duck's quirky humor and Cat's
earnestness. This dynamic duo will charm readers as the sly
friendship tale keeps them laughing.
The thoroughly revised edition of Vander's Human Physiology is an
integrated package of textual and digital material that delivers
basic and clinical content, real-life applications, and educational
technologies. All these pieces come together to facilitate learning
and enthusiasm for understanding the mechanisms of body function.
Key focus areas include homeostasis, exercise, and human health.
These and other areas of interest are elaborated upon, beginning
with Chapter 1, where the key "General Principles of Physiology,"
an underlying theme in the book, is first introduced. Unifying
themes, such as homeostasis, are explored throughout the book at
all levels of system, organ, tissue, and cellular function-themes
that are always related to pathophysiology through the use of
compelling clinical case studies in all chapters, and a final
chapter with several cases that integrate material across the
entire book.
As the amount of information in biology expands dramatically, it
becomes increasingly important for textbooks to distill this vast
amount of scientific knowledge into concise principles and enduring
concepts. Molecular Biology of the Cell, Sixth Edition accomplishes
this goal with clear writing and beautiful illustrations. The Sixth
Edition has been extensively revised and updated with the latest
research in cell biology and it provides an exceptional framework
for teaching and learning.
British secondary education has changed in major ways since
1945. This book examines some consequences and implications of both
change and stability, drawing on a unique series of national
surveys of school leavers in Scotland. The authors provide an
empirical and theoretical account of central problems of
contemporary schooling. Their analysis covers: certification,
curriculum and selection; the effects of educational expansion;
trends in educational inequality; the impact of comprehensive
reorganisation; truancy and alienation from schooling; the
explanation of differences in performance between schools and the
implications for the public accountability of schools. From these
analyses the authors develop a critique of the theory of the
education system that underpinned expansion. They examine this
theory 's logical and empirical status as myth and elaborate how
the political system and social science might jointly overcome some
of the methodological difficulties that beset social and
educational research.
This book brings together three distinct areas of International Law
- namely Environmental, Heritage and Ocean Law - to address the
international legal protection of historically significant wrecks,
with particular focus on the environmental hazards they may pose.
The confluence of Heritage Law and the Law of the Sea with
International Environmental Law represents an important development
in international governance strategies for the twenty-first
century, in particular those legal and administrative regimes that
concern the world's oceans and underwater cultural heritage
protection. Importantly, connections between international legal
regimes, such as the 1982 Law of the Sea, and institutions like the
International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and United Nations
Education Scientific Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), can play a
crucial part in governance strategies that involve the regulation
of marine pollution and historic shipwrecks.
All 12 episodes from the sixth season of the critically acclaimed
US drama centred around the life of former CIA agent Carrie
Mathison (Claire Danes). Set several months after the end of the
fifth season, Carrie returns home to work for a foundation
supplying aid to Muslims living in the United States, just as the
country elects a woman, Elizabeth Kean (Elizabeth Marvel), into the
Oval Office. The episodes are: 'Fair Game', 'The Man in the
Basement', 'The Covenant', 'A Flash of Light', 'Casus Belli', 'The
Return', 'Imminent Risk', 'Alt. Truth', 'Sock Puppets', 'The Flag
House', 'R for Romeo' and 'America First'.
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Homeland - Season 2 (Blu-ray disc)
Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, David Harewood, Jackson Pace, …
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Homeland makes its triumphant return after winning six Emmy Awards in season 1, including Outstanding Lead Actress for Claire Danes, Outstanding Lead Actor for Damian Lewis and Outstanding Drama Series.
Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Lewis) is now a U.S. congressman, and former CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Danes) has returned to civilian life. But when a new and potentially devastating terrorist threat emerges, Brody and Carrie’s lives become intertwined once again and they resume their delicate dance of suspicion, deceit and desire.
Delve deeper into the edge-of-your seat suspense and mystery with the thrilling second season of TV’s most acclaimed show. Contains all 12 episodes and prologue to Season 3.
For more than four decades, Molecular Biology of the Cell has
distilled the vast amount of scientific knowledge to illuminate
basic principles, enduring concepts, and cutting-edge research. The
Seventh Edition has been extensively revised and updated with the
latest research, and has been thoroughly vetted by experts and
instructors. The classic companion text, The Problems Book, has
been reimagined as the Digital Problems Book in Smartwork, an
interactive digital assessment course with a wide selection of
questions and automatic-grading functionality. The digital format
with embedded animations and dynamic question types makes the
Digital Problems Book in Smartwork easier to assign than ever
before-for both in-person and online classes.
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You Are Not a Cat!
Sharon G. Flake; Illustrated by Anna Raff
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For fans of Mo Willem's Elephant and Piggie and Pigeon series, this
clever and hilarious story stars Cat, who starts out perfectly
content and relaxed, and Duck, who infuriates him by meowing like a
cat instead of quacking like Cat thinks he should. Written
completely in dialogue, this minimalist text is fun to read aloud
and easy enough for newly independent readers to enjoy on their
own. Humorous and deceptively simple artwork highlights the
characters' personalities, showing Duck's quirkiness and good humor
and Cat's rising frustration as Duck impersonates a variety of
animals, refusing to concede that he is, indeed, a duck. Duck's
silliness will appeal to children who enjoy pretend play, and older
siblings will relate to Cat's annoyance as Duck refuses to leave
his side. Ideal for multiple readings, here is a concise,
funny story by award-winning author Sharon G. Flake with playful
details in the artwork and humor that never fades.
The second of four volumes containing the edited texts,
commentaries and source notes for each of the nearly nine hundred
occasions of special worship and for each of the annual
commemorations in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Since
the sixteenth century, the governments and established churches of
the British Isles have summoned the nation to special acts of
public worship during periods of anxiety and crisis, at times of
celebration, or for annual commemoration and remembrance. These
special prayers, special days of worship and anniversary
commemorations were national events, reaching into every parish in
England and Wales, in Scotland, and in Ireland. They had
considerable religious, ecclesiastical, political, ideological,
moral and social significance, and they produced important texts:
proclamations, council orders, addresses and - in England and
Wales, and in Ireland - prayers or complete liturgieswhich for
specified periods supplemented or replaced the services in the Book
of Common Prayer. Many of these acts of special worship and most of
the texts have escaped historical notice. National Prayers. Special
Worship since the Reformation, in four volumes, provides the edited
texts, commentaries and source notes for each of the nearly nine
hundred occasions of special worship, and for each of the annual
commemorations. The second volume,General Fasts, Thanksgivings and
Special Prayers in the British Isles 1689-1870, contains the texts
and commentaries for the numerous and frequent special prayers,
fast days and thanksgivings during the wars which consolidated the
1688 revolution, through the long imperial wars of the eighteenth
century, and the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France,
as well as prayers and thanksgivings associated with Jacobite
risings, epidemics, socialunrest, and episodes in the lives of the
kings and queens.
This book investigates the extent to which various scholarly labels
are appropriate for the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As Louis
Menand wrote, "Holmes has been called a formalist, a positivist, a
utilitarian, a realist, a historicist, a pragmatist, (not to
mention a nihilist)." Each of the eight chapters investigates one
label, analyzes the secondary texts that support the use of the
term to characterize Holmes's philosophy, and takes a stand on
whether or not the category is appropriate for Holmes by assessing
his judicial and nonjudicial publications, including his books,
articles, and posthumously published correspondences. The thrust of
the collection as a whole, nevertheless, bends toward the stance
that Holmes is a pragmatist in his jurisprudence, ethics, and
politics. The final chapter, by Susan Haack, makes that case
explicitly. Edited by Seth Vannatta, this book will be of
particular interest to students and faculty working in law,
jurisprudence, philosophy, intellectual history, American Studies,
political science, and constitutional theory.
This monograph presents recent advances in neural network (NN)
approaches and applications to chemical reaction dynamics. Topics
covered include: (i) the development of ab initio potential-energy
surfaces (PES) for complex multichannel systems using modified
novelty sampling and feedforward NNs; (ii) methods for sampling the
configuration space of critical importance, such as trajectory and
novelty sampling methods and gradient fitting methods; (iii)
parametrization of interatomic potential functions using a genetic
algorithm accelerated with a NN; (iv) parametrization of analytic
interatomic potential functions using NNs; (v) self-starting
methods for obtaining analytic PES from ab inito electronic
structure calculations using direct dynamics; (vi) development of a
novel method, namely, combined function derivative approximation
(CFDA) for simultaneous fitting of a PES and its corresponding
force fields using feedforward neural networks; (vii) development
of generalized PES using many-body expansions, NNs, and moiety
energy approximations; (viii) NN methods for data analysis,
reaction probabilities, and statistical error reduction in chemical
reaction dynamics; (ix) accurate prediction of higher-level
electronic structure energies (e.g. MP4 or higher) for large
databases using NNs, lower-level (Hartree-Fock) energies, and small
subsets of the higher-energy database; and finally (x) illustrative
examples of NN applications to chemical reaction dynamics of
increasing complexity starting from simple near equilibrium
structures (vibrational state studies) to more complex
non-adiabatic reactions.
The monograph is prepared by an interdisciplinary group of
researchers working as a team for nearly two decades at Oklahoma
State University, Stillwater, OK with expertise in gas phase
reaction dynamics; neural networks; various aspects of MD and Monte
Carlo (MC) simulations of nanometric cutting, tribology, and
material properties at nanoscale; scaling laws from atomistic to
continuum; and neural networks applications to chemical reaction
dynamics. It is anticipated that this emerging field of NN in
chemical reaction dynamics will play an increasingly important role
in MD, MC, and quantum mechanical studies in the years to come.
First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares
and dates the development of product differentiation and variety.
This book also analyses' how firms have embraced a variety of ways
of efficiently managing this verity though production, the design
of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and
distributors.
Raff sets her study in the early nineteenth century world,
depicting the cultural debates and literary fandom that provided
Austen a fertile playing field. She traces Austen's increasingly
libidinal narrative presence (from early experiments in the
narrator-reader relationship, to the seductive appeal of Mr. Darcy
and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, and on to the outright
authorial titillation of Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey),
while simultaneously offering analysis of her biography that
connects prose and life. She targets Austen's experience in 1814 as
romantic advisor to her niece Fanny Knight as pivotal to her shift
to teacher-cum-paramour. The revelation of Austen's thoughts about
writing and love-making and of the techniques she employed to
seduce readers, display Austen's command over not just her famously
effervescent prose, but also her notorious fan base. Raff's
original and audacious argument is combined with a lively,
conspiratorial style that will delight many readers, especially
Jane Austen mavens, the bewitched Janeites, who will be gratified
to find out that Austen doesn't just seem to be speaking to
them-she was, in fact, consciously courting their affection all
along.
What did it mean to be a Covenanter? From its first subscription in
1638, the National Covenant was an aspect of life that communities
across Scotland encountered on a daily basis. However, how
contemporaries understood its significance remains unclear. This
edited collection assesses how people interacted with the National
Covenant's infamously ambiguous text, the political and religious
changes that it provoked, and the legacy that it left behind. This
volume contains eleven chapters divided between three themes that
reveal the complex processes behind Covenanting: the act of
swearing and subscribing the Covenants; the process of self
fashioning and identity formation, and, finally, the various acts
of remembering and memorialising the history of the National
Covenant. The collection reveals different narratives of what it
meant to be a Covenanter rather than one, uniform, and unchanging
idea. The National Covenant forced contortions in Scottish
identities, memories, and attitudes and remained susceptible to
changes in the political context. Its impact was dependent upon
individual circumstances. The volume's chapters contend that
domestic understanding of the National Covenant was far more
nuanced, and the conversations very different, from those occurring
in a wider British or Irish context. Those who we now call
'Covenanters' were guided by very different expectations and
understandings of what the Covenant represented. The rules that
governed this interplay were based on local circumstances and
long-standing pressures that could be fuelled by short-term
expediency. Above all, the nature of Covenanting was volatile.
Chapters in this volume are based on extensive archival research of
local material that provide a view into the complex, and often
highly personalised, ways people understood the act or memory of
Covenanting. The chapters explore the religious, political, and
social responses to the National Covenant through its creation in
1638, the Cromwellian invasion of 1650 and the Restoration of
monarchy in 1660.
First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares
and dates the development of product differentiation and variety.
This book also analyses' how firms have embraced a variety of ways
of efficiently managing this verity though production, the design
of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and
distributors.
Illuminating the development and character of Scottish
Protestantism, The Culture of Controversy proposes new ways of
understanding religion and politics in early modern Scotland. The
Culture of Controversy investigates arguments about religion in
Scotland from the Restoration to the death of Queen Anne and
outlines a new model for thinking about collective disagreement in
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies. Rejecting
teleological concepts of the 'public sphere', the book instead
analyses religious debates in terms of a distinctively early modern
'culture of controversy'. This culture was less rational and less
urbanised than the public sphere. Traditional means of
communication such as preaching and manuscript circulation were
more important than newspapers and coffeehouses. As well as verbal
forms of discourse, controversial culture was characterised by
actions, rituals and gestures. People from all social ranks and all
regions of Scotland were involved in religious arguments, but
popular participation remained of questionable legitimacy. Through
its detailedand innovative examination of the arguments raging
between and within Scotland's main religious groups, the
presbyterians and episcopalians, over such issues as Church
government, state oaths and nonconformity, The Culture
ofControversy reveals hitherto unexamined debates about religious
enthusiasm, worship and clerical hypocrisy. It also illustrates the
changing nature of the fault line between the presbyterians and
episcopalians and contextualises the emerging issues of religious
toleration and articulate irreligion. Illuminating the development
and character of Scottish Protestantism, The Culture of Controversy
proposes new ways of understanding religion and politics in late
seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Scotland and will be
particularly valuable to all those with an interest in early modern
British history. Alasdair Raffe is Lecturer in History at
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Comparative Law The concept of absolute private property - by which
an owner can do whatever he wishes with what "belongs" to him - has
been attacked in many ways, but no challenge undermines it as
severely as the awareness of continuing environmental degradation
in virtual contempt of sustainable development. Throughout the
twentieth century and into our own era, legal property rights have
time and time again been successfully invoked by polluters and
others interested in evading ecological imperatives. However, most
jurists today would agree that the internationally acknowledged
necessity for land use to be administered in ecologically
sustainable ways is plainly a principle that should be harmonized
across national boundaries. This remarkable new book is not a
radical text, but seeks to find a concept of responsible
proprietorship in our existing legal systems. And in fact it
presents an excellent case for the universal adoption of the real
property provisions of the German civil code, with their roots in
the Hanseatic model and counterparts in the Australian Torrens
system that pervaded the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth
century on. In great detail, the author demonstrates that this
system offers a firm foundation on which a truly responsible
environmental law of property can be established. For Professor
Raff, the key to responsible proprietorship can be found in the
land title registration system embodied in the German real property
provisions - a system which is indeed already the globalizing
trend. Although its ostensible rationale is that of certainty in
land transactions, Raff shows that the land title registration
obligation necessarily creates responsibility of the owner for the
land, thus opening a juridical avenue to environmental imperatives.
Land title registration is also far more likely to find common
ground with local or indigenous systems than old European ideas of
inheritance and equity. In this connection, Professor Raff's
comparative law methodology is functional, emphasising what local
norms and customs have in common rather than how they differ.
Private Property and Environmental Responsibility offers a rigorous
and persuasive approach to a major current issue that finds,
through the legitimate processes of legal reasoning within our own
existing systems, viable solutions to the unprecedented
environmental problems posed by our technological age. It is a
seminal work that will be valued and consulted for decades to come
by environmentally-conscious lawyers at every level of national and
international law.
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