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Forbidden Ground (DVD)
Johan Earl, Tim Pocock, Martin Copping, Denai Gracie, Sarah Mawbey, …
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World War I action drama. Set in France during the Great War, the
film follows the story of three British soldiers stranded in no
man's land after a failed attack on enemy lines. Facing heavy
artillery and a relentless onslaught of machine gun fire from enemy
troops, the trio must struggle through the bloody wasteland to
reunite with Allied forces.
Malta is the only country in the European Union, and one of only
six countries in the world, that has not had a banking crisis since
the 1970s. Despite its lack of raw materials, Malta currently has
one of the lowest rates of unemployment and inflation in the EU, as
well as a positive GDP. Yet there are only a few studies on the
development of the industry that contributes most to its economy,
the financial services industry. Drawing upon empirical findings,
archival research, and interviews, Zammit, Spiteri, and Grima fill
a major gap in the literature by delivering a study of the
development of the Maltese insurance industry. The authors collect
literature and insights from prominent figureheads in order to
outline the history of this major sector of the Maltese economy,
tracing its roots back to the earliest inhabitants of the island,
through to the expansion of its maritime trade, and working right
up to the present with the emergence of more complex and
sophisticated insurance services and products. The success of
Malta's specific risk-management practices, generally characterized
by risk-avoidance and prudence, is shown to have implications
beyond Maltese financial policy and regulatory development: it
offers concrete guidance from a small-scale "laboratory" for the
complex policy and development decisions of larger nations. This
study is of interest to students and academics of insurance, risk
management, and financial services, and it offers food for thought
and guidance to practitioners and policy makers.
This title was first published in 2003. Drawing on literary, art
historical and historical studies, this essay collection explores
the complex encounter between culture and politics within
Surrealism. The Surrealist movement was one of the first cultural
movements to question explicitly the relation between culture and
politics, and its attempt to fuse social and cultural revolution
has been a critical factor in shaping our sense of modernity. This
anthology addresses not only the contested ground between culture
and politics within Surrealism itself, and within the subsequent
historical accounts of the movement, but also the broader
implications of this encounter on our own sense of modernity. Its
goal is to delineate the role of radical politics in shaping the
historical trajectory of Surrealism.
This special edition of Contemporary Studies in Economic and
Financial Analysis offers seventeen chapters from invited
participants in the International Applied Social Science Congress,
held in Turkey between the 19th and 21st April 2018. The chapters
included tackle a range of issues, including risk and control in
consumer behavior; augmented reality applications in brand trust;
foreign exchange rates; and brand reputation influence, among many
more. Covering concepts such as retirement planning, the stock
market, and herd behavior, Contemporary Issues in Behavioral
Finance is a fundamental text for any researcher or student of
behavioral finance, with a cast of expert contributors and editors.
This book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted
throughout higher education due to its benefits for students. It
adopts a strengths-based student-centred perspective and offers
practical illustrations of how multicultural education can
instigate students to understand each other and to relate to each
other meaningfully. With the rise of international students in
higher education across the globe it is crucial that institutions
promote multicultural education for their wider communities.
In finance, understanding investors and their motivations is key
for any business and policy-maker. Analyzing financial decisions
and investor behavior can shed light on the major characteristics
and variables behind trading decisions, giving researchers and
investors a better understanding of the influences that affect the
stock market. Understanding the Investor: A Maltese Study of Risk
and Behavior in Financial Investment Decisions offers a nuanced
view of the Maltese investor and the Malta Stock Exchange. In this
in-depth study, author Antonietta Bonello explores the major risk
appetite and tolerance characteristics of decision-taking for local
financial investors. With foreign direct investment (FDI) growing
by around 21% between 2014-2017, Malta's investment activities can
be seen and used as an example of actual investment decisions taken
by active investors. Looking across investor expectations, return
of income, risk and loss aversions, disposition effect, financial
literacy and overconfidence, Bonello offers an exciting perspective
on investors in Malta, and the implications of this on the wider
financial world. For individual investors and researchers in the
area of personal finance, this new case study offers an in-depth
look at investor behavior, allowing readers to understand the
motivations behind emerging investment trends and to draw
far-reaching conclusions on how best to prepare for upcoming
challenges in financial investment.
This book analyses an important phase in the interlingual dubbing
process of audiovisual productions: the elaboration of target
language scripts for the recording studios. Written by a
practitioner in the industry who is also an academic and trainer,
it provides practical know-how and guidelines while adopting a
scholarly, structural and methodical approach. Supported by an
exemplified, analytical and theoretical framework, it is
non-language specific and discusses strategies and tricks of the
trade. Divided into three parts, the book provides a descriptive,
practical and analytical approach to dubbing and dialogue writing.
The author analyses scripts drawn from her own professional
practice, including initial drafts that illustrate the various
transformations of a text throughout the rewriting process. She
also offers a 'backstage' perspective, from first-hand experience
in recording sessions that enabled knowledge of text manipulation,
studio jargon, and the dubbing post production process. This
publication will provide a valuable resource for novice dubbing
translators and dialogue writers, while offering practitioner
insights to scholars and researchers in the field of Audiovisual
Translation, Film and Media Studies.
Social tagging (including hashtags) is used over platforms such as
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, WordPress, Tumblr and
YouTube across countries and cultures meaning that one single
hashtag can link information from a variety of resources. This new
book explores social tagging as a potential form of linked data and
shows how it can provide an increasingly important way to
categorise and store information resources. The internet is moving
rapidly from the social web embodied in Web 2.0, to the Semantic
Web (Web 3.0), where information resources are linked to make them
comprehensible to both machines and humans. Traditionally library
discovery systems have pushed information, but did not allow for
any interaction with the users of the catalogue, while social
tagging provides a means to help library discovery systems become
social spaces where users could input and interact with content.
The editors and their international contributors explore key issues
including: the use of hashtags in the dissemination of public
policy the use of hashtags as information portals in library
catalogues social tagging in enterprise environments the linked
data potential of social tagging sharing and disseminating
information needs via social tagging. Social Tagging in a Linked
Data Environment will be useful reading for practicing library and
information professionals involved in electronic access to
collections, including cataloguers, system developers, information
architects and web developers. It would also be useful for students
taking programmes in library and Information science, information
management, computer science, and information architecture.
Paranormal horror. In the early 20th century a young woman who
became known as Typhoid Mary (Jenny Lee Mitchell) was kept in
solitary confinement in a New York mental institution, having been
blamed for the spread of the fever. Years after her death, two
friends decide to investigate her story, filming as they go. They
soon realise, however, that Mary's spirit is keen to seek revenge
and they will have to fight for their survival if they are to make
it out alive...
A simple, moving, vivid and heartbreaking account of one young
sailor's eventful war. I heard the cries of scared men yelling they
couldn't swim, but they jumped in regardless. I pulled off my new
boots, dropped them on the deck and, clutching my tobacco tin,
jumped overboard, feet first ...We were a good distance away from
the sinking Perth when two more torpedoes slammed into it and we
watched silently as our ship slid under. Suddenly we were alone at
sea in a pitch-black night in an overcrowded Carley float. Someone
said, 'Goodbye, gallant one.' Stoker Munro was just an
inexperienced seventeen year old knockabout kid when he went to
war, but he turned out to be an extraordinary survivor. the sinking
of the Perth was only the beginning of his war. Stoker suffered
through years of harsh imprisonment in Java and the infamous Changi
prison camp, as well as the horrors of the thai-Burma Railway.
then, just as conditions improved, he was shipped off to Japan and
another disaster. Stoker Munro, Survivor is a simple but moving
account of a young sailor's war, as told to his close friend, David
Spiteri. Stoker's voice - clear, distinctive, laidback and
larrikin, with an ability to find the humour in just about any
situation - epitomises everything that is great about the ANZAC
spirit: courage, resilience, and the sheer refusal to lie down and
be beaten. 'the story of Stoker Darby Munro's survival is an epic
of the human spirit ...In our time, when the word hero is flung
around so lightly, this book reflects upon genuine heroism. We
forget these stories and these lives at our peril.' Mike Carlton
Traditional Maltese recipes and other ethnic cuisine such as,
Hispanic, Cajun, French Canadian, African, Bosnien, Polish and
more.
The true story of forty years inside one of Australia's first
outlaw motorcycle clubs as told by its one-time president. With
previously unrevealed insights into the outlaw world of extreme
violence, drugs, corruption, sex, treachery and retribution. All
names have been changed, and identities and events obscured. This
is the only way the story could be told. 'this story is a true
account of the birth of outlaw motorcycle clubs in Australia. there
was no template for us, it just evolved. It shows our simple creed:
loyalty to the club and respect for your brothers.' David Spiteri
was a founding member and long-time President of one of Australia's
first outlaw motorcycle clubs from its inception in the early 1960s
through to the early 2000s. He has been uniquely placed to witness
the clubs develop from loose affiliations of riders to the well
structured and well connected groups we see today, with links to
police, politicians and lawyers. In this never-before-told inside
story, Spiteri puts himself at risk to reveal everything from the
drug trafficking which funds the clubs' operations to the extreme
violence that continues to make them infamous. For the first time,
the true extent of the clubs' corruption will be exposed, and the
treachery and subsequent retribution enforced by their own brand of
law known as 'the code' is brought to light. A truly shocking and
compelling look at a fascinating subculture.
Neglect is a syndrome in which patients fail to attend to or
respond to contralesional stimuli or events. Neglect has
traditionally been considered a disorder of spatial attention. This
book discusses various topics on neglect including neglect as a
disorder of representational updating; trauma of sexual abuse and
the family; the relationship between neglect and other childhood
adversities; dietary neglect and its influence on feeding; landmark
recognition and mental route navigation disorders in patients with
imagery neglect and perceptual neglect; the exploration of
unilateral spatial neglect through the phenomenon of mirror agnosia
and the psychobiological consequences of emotional neglect.
This volume problematizes the intentions of early childhood
education for sustainability (ECEfS) from two new perspectives -
the context of small island states and the bi-directional,
intergenerational learning about the environment and sustainability
that takes place in a variety of contexts, including the family
home and school. It questions how belonging to a small island and
the children's home influence learning in the early years of life.
In doing so, this book offers new insights and new theoretical
perspectives into intergenerational, environmental learning in the
school, family and beyond. Informed by consideration of the most
recent literature in early childhood education and sustainability,
this volume also looks at how these informal learning spaces
provide young children with the opportunities to enhance further
learning in the field, thus portraying the fluidity of
intergenerational learning from different theoretical standpoints.
It provides a deep insight into ECEfS and intergenerational
learning about the environment and environmental issues in early
childhood education from a perspective of a small island state by
adopting a children's rights perspective. It additionally explores
the relationship between early childhood theories, children's
rights and postcolonial theory.
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