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The Devil's Double (DVD)
Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi, Mem Ferda, Dar Salim, …
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R33
Discovery Miles 330
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Thriller tracing the story of an Iraqi soldier forced to be the
body double of Saddam Hussein's sadistic son Uday. With his family
threatened with death if he fails to comply, soldier Latif Yahia
(Dominic Cooper) undergoes surgery and studiously studies Uday
(also played by Cooper)'s personal habits, determined not to make
any mistakes that may provoke the rage of the notorious playboy. As
the months pass, Latif's constant exposure to Uday's sadistic
excesses leads him to search for a way out, but his plans to escape
are complicated when he begins to fall for the attentions of Uday's
mistress Sarrab (Ludivine Sagnier).
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Eleven Poems
Thomas Walsh, Rubén DarÃo, Salomon de la Selva
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R753
Discovery Miles 7 530
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The design of mechanical components for various engineering
applications requires the understanding of stress distribution in
the materials. The need of determining the nature of stress
distribution on the components can be achieved with experimental
techniques. Applications and Techniques for Experimental Stress
Analysis is a timely research publication that examines how
experimental stress analysis supports the development and
validation of analytical and numerical models, the progress of
phenomenological concepts, the measurement and control of system
parameters under working conditions, and identification of sources
of failure or malfunction. Highlighting a range of topics such as
deformation, strain measurement, and element analysis, this book is
essential for mechanical engineers, civil engineers, designers,
aerospace engineers, researchers, industry professionals,
academicians, and students.
Leni crossed her arms, said nothing, and watched the fight unfold.
She was like a bored onlooker at a boxing trial, wasting no energy
on the undercard, saving her passion for the moment when the real
champions would step into the ring. And yet, at some point, she
began to cry. Just tears, without any sound. Water falling from her
eyes as water was falling from the sky. Rain disappearing into
rain._The Wind That Lays Waste _begins in the great pause before a
storm. Reverend Pearson is an evangelist preaching the word of God
across northern Argentina with Leni, his teenage daughter, in tow.
When their car breaks down, fate leads them to the workshop of an
ageing mechanic, Gringo Brauer, and his assistant, a boy called
Tapioca. Over the course of a long day, curiosity and a sense of
new opportunities develop into an unexpected intimacy. Yet this
encounter between a man convinced of his righteousness and one
mired in cynicism and apathy will become a battle for the very
souls of the young pair: the quietly earnest and idealistic
mechanic's assistant, and the restless, sceptical preacher's
daughter. As tensions among the four ebb and flow, beliefs are
questioned and allegiances tested, until finally the growing storm
breaks over the plains.Selva Almada's exquisitely crafted debut,
with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a
near-tangible experience of the landscape amid the hot winds,
wrecked cars, sweat-stained shirts and damaged lives, told with the
cinematic precision of a static road movie, like a _Paris, Texas
_of the south. With echoes of Carson McCullers, The Wind That Lays
Waste is a contemplative and powerfully distinctive novel that
marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise
are undeniable.
For courses in engineering and technical management System
architecture is the study of early decision making in complex
systems. This text teaches how to capture experience and analysis
about early system decisions, and how to choose architectures that
meet stakeholder needs, integrate easily, and evolve flexibly. With
case studies written by leading practitioners, from hybrid cars to
communications networks to aircraft, this text showcases the
science and art of system architecture.
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Brickmakers (Paperback)
Selva Almada; Translated by Annie McDermott
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R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Two young men, Pajaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a
deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just
after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight: the
culmination of a rivalry that has pitted them against one another
since childhood. The present in Brickmakers is a state of impending
death, at moments marked by dream-like visions: Marciano is visited
by the ghost of his father, who was murdered when he was a
teenager, a father he had sworn to avenge, in a promise he could
not keep. Pajaro is also visited, in a recurring nightmare, by his
abusive father who disappeared years earlier. Narrated with fury
and passion, reminiscent of William Faulkner or Katherine Anne
Porter, Brickmakers is a rural tragedy in the great American
tradition, a story of love, honour and violence where everything is
at stake. Reprising the powerful imagery and the filmic landscape
of The Wind That Lays Waste, and the threatening atmosphere of Dead
Girls, Brickmakers is yet another proof of Almada's extraordinary
talent.
Popular Christianity in India explores Indian Christianity as
crafted and expressed through lived experience, providing an
important balance to currently available, typically theological,
studies. Drawing from many disciplines, this volume unearths the
multifaceted terrain of festivals, rituals, saints, miracle
workers, missionaries, and visionaries in Christian India,
providing a wonderful glimpse of its richness and complexities. The
contributors reveal the ways in which local Christian traditions
deftly challenge assumed divisions and power imbalances between
East and West, Hindu and Christian, foreign and indigenous, and
elite and local expressions. Whether forging complicated religious,
caste, and national identities, employing religious hybridity to
promote well-being, or asserting autonomy within oppressive social
and religious structures, local Christianity provides a crucial
means for its participants to manage their earthly needs and
desires.
European leaders faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very
different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches
to crisis communication, power management, and
relationship-building with actors and stakeholders in the public
sphere. The pandemic also highlighted the importance of the
already-existing cleavage between populism and technocracy,
positioning it at the centre of the political scene. These complex
circumstances required a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in
political sociology and communication studies. To address these
issues, this book analyses the communication and leadership styles
of seven European leaders, grouped into ‘political families’.
It analyses the cases of Angela Merkel and Erna Solberg to
understand if and how female leaderships differentiated from their
male counterparts. It then analyses the relationship between
techno-populism and professional politics by comparing the cases of
Giuseppe Conte, Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sanchez. Finally, it
focuses on populist leaders Boris Johnson and Victor Orbán, who
represent emblematic cases with opposite outcomes.
White matter injury can result from both ischemic and hemorrhagic
stroke as well as a host of other CNS diseases and conditions such
as neonatal injuries, neurodegenerative disorders including
Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injuries, carbon monoxide
poisoning, and drug or alcohol overdoses. The extent of white
matter injury is extremely important to patient outcomes. Several
recent technological developments including advanced neuroimaging
and the breeding of new rodent models of white matter injury have
provided growing insight into initial damage and repair after a
stroke or other damaging event. The proposed book will be the first
to provide a systematic expert summary of normal white matter
morphology as well as white matter injury following stroke and
other CNS injuries.
In addition to a review of the literature on psychotherapy process
and outcome, this book contains detailed clinical accounts of seven
patients treated by an immensely powerful method of dynamic
psychotherapy (intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy). This
treatment is capable of producing major improvements, and even
cure, in a wide range of patients. The authors believe that the
scientific study of psychotherapy must include highly subjective
judgments, provided the evidence upon which they are based is
provided in great detail. In the present volume, verbatim
transcripts from therapy sessions and follow-up interviews provide
this kind of data, which can be evaluated by all who read them.
Relying solely on paper and pencil tests, which evaluate only
conscious material, is extremely limited and needs to be fortified
by the kind of data provided here. This volume gives an account of
what dynamic psychotherapy can achieve at its best. It combines
detailed clinical case studies with the scientific research and
also gives an overview of the literature available. It is based on
the authors' extensive experience of researching and using
psychodynamic psychotherapy.
This book is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the theory
and practice of short-term treatment. It opens with a chapter on
the theoretical foundations of the method before leading to its
practical applications in clinical practice. It is highly
recommended for all mental health professionals.Traditionally,
psychoanalytic treatment has been a lengthy endeavour, requiring a
long-term commitment from patient and analyst, as well as vast
financial resources. More recently, short-term approaches to
psychoanalytic treatment have proliferated. One of the most
well-known and thoroughly-studied is the groundbreaking method of
Intensive Short term Dynamic Psychotherapy, developed by Dr Habib
Davanloo. Having trained directly with Dr Davanloo, the author has
written a clear, concise outline of the method that has come to be
regarded as a classic in the field. The book is organized in a
systematic fashion, analogous to the process of the therapy itself,
from initial contact through to termination and follow-up. Detailed
clinical examples are presented throughout the text to illustrate
how theory is translated into techniques of unparalleled power and
effectiveness.(Previously published 1996 by John Wiley & Sons
Inc)
This book pinpoints continuities and changes in U.S. foreign
economic policy from the fixed exchange rate system of the 1960s
through to the period between the two oil crises of the 1970s.
Chapters pay close attention to the interconnectedness between the
long lasting decline of the U.S. Dollar on foreign exchange markets
and the U.S. balance of payments, transformations in international
capital markets, and international oil developments. The book
charts the prolonged failure of Washington's foreign economic
policies to restore U.S. financial and monetary leadership through
to the Carter Administration.
Vukelich-Selva gives voice to young Latino immigrant students from
a school, Prairie Heights, in the upper Midwest. While the
students' presence is growing exponentially, they have not been
granted full participation in the school's circles of power.
Vukelich-Selva takes their stories out of the shadows and places
them in the larger historical context of immigrant students and
education. She offers insight regarding the importance of the
border and related issues of citizenship for Latino immigrant
students. She urges educators to listen to and respect the stories
of their Latino students and to understand the crucial ways that
race, culture, and legal status impact student identity and
success.
The South Asian Christian diaspora is largely invisible in the
literature about religion and migration. This is the first
comprehensive study of South Asian Christians living in Europe and
North America, presenting the main features of these diasporas,
their community histories and their religious practices. The South
Asian Christian diaspora is pluralistic both in terms of religious
adherence, cultural tradition and geographical areas of origin.
This book gives justice to such pluralism and presents a
multiplicity of cultures and traditions typical of the South Asian
Christian diaspora. Issues such as the institutionalization of the
religious traditions in new countries, identity, the paradox of
belonging both to a minority immigrant group and a majority
religion, the social functions of rituals, attitudes to language,
generational transfer, and marriage and family life, are all
discussed.
The religious landscape of South Asia is complex and
fascinating. While existing literature tends to focus on the
majority religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, much less attention is
given to Jainism, Sikhism, Islam or Christianity. While not
nelecting the majority traditions, this valuable resource also
explores the important role which the minority traditions play in
the religious life of the subcontinent, covering popular as well as
elite expressions of religious faith. By examining the realities of
religious life, and the ways in which the traditions are practised
on the ground, this book provides an illuminating introduction to
religion in South Asia.
The world has long awaited compelling and unmistakable evidence for
the validity of dynamic psychotherapy. A review in the present book
shows that such evidence has been accumulating over the past ten
years. It comes from clinical trials, process research, case
studies, and objective physiological measurements concerned with
the importance of ex
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