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Men in Black 2 (DVD)
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Sequel to the successful sci-fi-cop, comedy-drama. Some four years
after the Men in Black averted a major intergalactic disaster, K
(Tommy Lee Jones) has returned to a civilian life, working as a
postman and quite unaware of his former heroics alongside Agent J
(Will Smith). But when J uncovers a secret alien plot organised by
the seemingly seductive Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle) he has to call
on K again. Unfortunately K has no memory of his former role as
'Saver-of-the-World', but somewhere in his head is the expertise
that can save the Earth, if only J can get him onside in time.
A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman's songs." -Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters-who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and-roll band and its wild lifestyle-is chronicled with rare vividness in Robert Gordon's widely praised biography.
First comprehensive overview and analysis of Buddhist architecture
in North America following the parallel history of the religion's
emergence in the U.S. since the California Gold Rush to the present
day. A ground-breaking investigation of Buddhist structures with
respect to the humanistic qualities associated with Buddhist
doctrine and how Buddhist groups promote their faith and values in
an American setting. A unique study of interest to religion,
architecture, space and place, US history, Asian Studies and
Buddhist Studies.
New Directions in Restorative Justice addresses a number of key
themes and developments in restorative justice, and is based on
papers originally presented at the 6th International Conference on
Restorative Justice in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is concerned
with several new areas of practice within restorative justice, with
sections on restorative justice and youth, aboriginal justice and
restorative justice, victimization and restorative justice, and
evaluating restorative justice. Contributors to the book are drawn
from leading experts in the field from the UK, US, Europe, Canada,
Australia and New Zealand.
New Directions in Restorative Justice addresses a number of key
themes and developments in restorative justice, and is based on
papers originally presented at the 6th International Conference on
Restorative Justice in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is concerned
with several new areas of practice within restorative justice, with
sections on restorative justice and youth, aboriginal justice and
restorative justice, victimization and restorative justice, and
evaluating restorative justice. Contributors to the book are drawn
from leading experts in the field from the UK, US, Europe, Canada,
Australia and New Zealand.
Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect
Size illustrates the use of effect size measures and corresponding
confidence intervals as more informative alternatives to the most
basic and widely used significance tests. The book provides you
with a deep understanding of what happens when these statistical
methods are applied in situations far removed from the familiar
Gaussian case. Drawing on his extensive work as a statistician and
professor at Cardiff University School of Medicine, the author
brings together methods for calculating confidence intervals for
proportions and several other important measures, including
differences, ratios, and nonparametric effect size measures
generalizing Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests. He also explains
three important approaches to obtaining intervals for related
measures. Many examples illustrate the application of the methods
in the health and social sciences. Requiring little computational
skills, the book offers user-friendly Excel spreadsheets for
download at www.crcpress.com, enabling you to easily apply the
methods to your own empirical data.
The revised, updated version of this book includes an analysis of
the sweeping political changes in South Africa since its original
publcation in 1992. Other new material covers more theoretical
issues and contemporary developments in scholarship, including a
reconsideration of the film ?The Gods Must Be Crazy?; a discussion
of ?expos thnography? and its attendant political/moral
positioning; and an examination of the political situation in
Namibia, with a close study of the near collapse of the Nyae Nyae
Development Foundation.
Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect
Size illustrates the use of effect size measures and corresponding
confidence intervals as more informative alternatives to the most
basic and widely used significance tests. The book provides you
with a deep understanding of what happens when these statistical
methods are applied in situations far removed from the familiar
Gaussian case. Drawing on his extensive work as a statistician and
professor at Cardiff University School of Medicine, the author
brings together methods for calculating confidence intervals for
proportions and several other important measures, including
differences, ratios, and nonparametric effect size measures
generalizing Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests. He also explains
three important approaches to obtaining intervals for related
measures. Many examples illustrate the application of the methods
in the health and social sciences. Requiring little computational
skills, the book offers user-friendly Excel spreadsheets for
download at www.crcpress.com, enabling you to easily apply the
methods to your own empirical data.
Published in 1998, this work focuses on the practical issues and
policies relating to planning and managing both built and natural
environments. It addresses the needs to pursue a greater degree of
integration between the subject matter and the international
frameworks of environmental planning.
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Heathcliff's Fortune
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It is late summer 1780 and Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights
after overhearing Catherine say how it would degrade her to marry
him. The few possessions he takes with him include an amulet; his
only possession other than the rags he wore when found as an urchin
in Liverpool. When he wears it, the amulet seems to bring him luck.
Heathcliff travels to Liverpool, where he makes his way to India as
a deck hand on a ship of the East India Company. On arrival in
Madras, Heathcliff finds work, love and wealth, but will his luck
last and will he ever be able to put his past behind him? Imagining
the short period of Heathcliff’s absence in Emily Brontë’s
acclaimed novel, Heathcliff’s Fortune depicts the events which
sees him transformed from a rough farm boy to a wealthy gentleman,
and relates how he acquired, in India, the great wealth that made
enacting his terrible revenge on those who wronged him possible.
Macroeconomics is widely praised for its ability to present theory
as a way of evaluating key macro questions, such as why some
countries are rich and others are poor. Students have a natural
interest in what is happening today and what will happen in the
near future. Macroeconomics capitalizes on their interest by
beginning with business cycles and monetary-fiscal policy in both
closed and open economy. After that, Gordon presents a unique
dynamic analysis of demand and supply shocks as causes of inflation
and unemployment, followed by a dual approach to economic growth in
which theory and real-world examples are used to compare rich and
poor countries.
Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the
most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by
an international range of expert contributors, represent the
diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic
theorists and more recent anthropological thinkers. Names discussed
include: Clifford Geertz, Bronislaw Malinowski, Zora Neale, Hurston
Sherry B. Ortner, Claude Levi-Strauss, Rodney Needham, Mary
Douglas, and, Marcel Mauss. This accessible A-Z guide contains
helpful cross-referencing, a timeline of key dates and schools of
thought, and suggestions for further reading. It will be of
interest to students of anthropology and related subjects wanting a
succinct overview of the ideas and impact of key anthropologists
who have helped to shape the discipline.
Published in 1998, this work focuses on the practical issues and
policies relating to planning and managing both built and natural
environments. It addresses the needs to pursue a greater degree of
integration between the subject matter and the international
frameworks of environmental planning.
Methods for determining, isolating and identifying human milk
lipids, together with problems associated with sampling and
analysis, are described in some detail in the first 3 chapters of
this book. Factors affecting total lipid content of human milk,
lipid classification, fatty acids, the milk fat globule membrane,
fat-soluble vitamins and nutritional aspects of human milk lipids
are also extensively reviewed in Chapters 4-9.
"The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010" is the first major
study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the
Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and
Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But
Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution
after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Many
thousands of Italians--Jews and others--were deported to
concentration camps throughout Europe. After the war, Italian
culture produced a vast array of stories, images, and debate
through which it came to terms with the Holocaust's difficult
legacy. Gordon probes a rich range of cultural material as he
paints a picture of this shared encounter with the darkest moment
of twentieth-century history. His book explores aspects of Italian
national identity and memory, offering a new model for analyzing
the interactions between national and international images of the
Holocaust.
Intelligent Transportation Systems: Functional Design for
Economical and Efficient Traffic Management provides practical
guidance on the efficient use of resources in the design of ITS.
The author explains how functional design alternatives can meet
project objectives and requirements with optimal cost effectiveness
and clarifies how transportation planning and traffic diversion
principles relate to functional ITS device selections and equipment
locations. Methodologies for translating objectives to functional
device types, determining device deployment densities and
determining the best placement of CCTV cameras and message signs
are provided, as are models for evaluating the benefits of design
alternatives based on traffic conditions. Readers will learn how to
reduce recurrent congestion, improve incident clearance time in
non-recurrent congestion, provide real-time incident information to
motorists, and leverage transportation management center data for
lane control through important new active transportation and demand
management (ATDM) methods. Finally, the author examines exciting
developments in connected vehicle technologies, exploring their
potential to greatly improve safety, mobility and energy
efficiency. This resource will greatly benefit all ITS designers
and managers and is of pivotal importance for operating agencies
performing evaluations to justify operational funding and system
expansions.
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pits the siblings against each other, and the brother abandons his sister for a visionary African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, the heights they achieve result in their tragic demise. They fall, losing everything, and the sanctuary they created is torn to the ground. A generation later, Stax is rebuilt brick by brick and is once again transforming disenfranchised youth into stellar young musicians.
Set in the world of 1960s and '70s soul music, "Respect Yourself" is a character-driven story of racial integration, and then of black power and economic independence. It's about music and musicians--Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, and Booker T. and the M.G.'s, Stax's interracial house band. It's about a small independent company's struggle to survive in an increasingly conglomerate-oriented world. And always at the center of the story is Memphis, Tennessee, an explosive city struggling through volatile years. Told by one of our leading music chroniclers, "Respect Yourself" is the book to own about one of our most treasured cultural institutions and the city that created it.
Intelligent Freeway Transportation Systems: Functional Design
focuses on the efficient use of resources in the design of ITS. It
discusses the principles of top down design starting with
objectives and requirements, and provides guidance for the
development and evaluation of functional design alternatives
according to cost effectiveness principles. It shows how
transportation planning principles such as Wardrop's Laws and
traffic diversion principles relate to functional ITS device
selections and equipment locations. Methodologies for translating
objectives to functional device types are provided. Application
factors to identify device deployment densities (e.g. number of
detectors per mile) as a function of traffic conditions are
provided, as are evaluation models for evaluating the benefits of
design alternatives based on traffic conditions. Design guidance
and benefits evaluation include the following functions: (1)
Non-recurrent congestion - Improvement of incident clearance time,
(2) Non recurrent congestion - Incident information to motorists,
(3) Recurrent congestion - Information to motorists, (4) Ramp
metering, (5) Motorist service patrols.
African research played a major role in transforming the discipline
of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in
turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa
approached subject peoples. Ordering Africa provides the first
comparative history of these processes. With essays exploring
metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, the
transnational features of knowledge production, and the
relationship between anthropology and colonial administration, this
volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research
questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. Specific
chapters examine French West Africa, the Belgian and French Congo,
the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian Northeast Africa, Kenya, and
Equatorial Africa (Gabon) as well as developments in Britain,
France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. A major collection of
essays that will be welcomed by scholars interested in imperial
history and the history of Africa. -- .
Charting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the
American South, and focusing on the key musicians and singers who
brought it recognition worldwide, The Blues: A Visual History is a
unique and fully illustrated account of the development of the
blues. This deceptively simple, 12-bar musical form has become the
common denominator that has driven the popular music of the last
hundred years. As John Lee Hooker put it: "The music we play . . .
that music is the roots. Rock music, everything else, is like a
branch on the same tree. It all comes from the Blues."
Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the
most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by
an international range of expert contributors, represent the
diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic
theorists and more recent anthropological thinkers. Names discussed
include: Clifford Geertz, Bronislaw Malinowski, Zora Neale, Hurston
Sherry B. Ortner, Claude Levi-Strauss, Rodney Needham, Mary
Douglas, and, Marcel Mauss. This accessible A-Z guide contains
helpful cross-referencing, a timeline of key dates and schools of
thought, and suggestions for further reading. It will be of
interest to students of anthropology and related subjects wanting a
succinct overview of the ideas and impact of key anthropologists
who have helped to shape the discipline.
The revised, updated version of this book includes an analysis of
the sweeping political changes in South Africa since its original
publcation in 1992. Other new material covers more theoretical
issues and contemporary developments in scholarship, including a
reconsideration of the film "The Gods Must Be Crazy"; a discussion
of "expose ethnography" and its attendant political/moral
positioning; and an examination of the political situation in
Namibia, with a close study of the near collapse of the Nyae Nyae
Development Foundation.
The ultimate reference book for any "Phillie phanatic," this book
provides a behind-the-scenes peek into the private world of the
players, managers, broadcasters, and executives, taking readers
into the clubhouse and onto the field. Author Robert Gordon takes
fans inside the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies' run to the World
Series, when first baseman John Kruk once told a fan, "I ain't an
athlete, lady, I'm a baseball player;" back to 1980, when Mike
Schmidt, Steve Carlton, and Larry Bowa delivered the team's first
World Series title; and to 2008, when a new generation experienced
the ecstasy of a World Series win. Written for every fan who
follows the Phillies, this unique book captures the memories and
great stories from more than a century of the team's history.
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