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Agent Carter - Season 2 (DVD)
Hayley Atwell, James D'arcy, Enver Gjokaj, Chad Michael Murray, Wynn Everett, …
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R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
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All ten episodes from the second season of the action adventure show starring Hayley Atwell as the Marvel Comics character Peggy Carter.
Following the Second World War, Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) agent Peggy moves to Los Angeles intent on stopping new, atomic age threats to humanity.
In this season, Peggy finds links to Isodyne Energy after a powerful new substance is discovered, which, in the wrong hands, could have potentially catastrophic results.
In November 2010, the Ius Commune Research School devoted the
Liability and Insurance workshop on its annual conference to 'the
Power of Punitive Damages'. In their search for better ways to
enforce private and public legal rules, prevent damage, and
compensate victims of grave wrongdoing, European legal scholars and
policy makers show an increased interest in this particular private
law remedy. The twenty-two authors of this book reflect on the pros
and cons, applicability, aims and limitations of punitive damages
in terms of different legal themes. Some of the authors are,
because of their legal background, familiar with punitive damages,
whereas others are not. Likewise, some take an enthusiastic stance,
whereas others remain prudent. The result is a unique collection of
thoughts, suggestions and critical questions which takes the
European punitive damages debate to the next level. It improves
perception of the private law sanction, which is often feared by
Europeans, and its common law background, but also gives new
insights as regards the question whether European societies are
missing out by not adding this powerful penal incentive to the
already existing array of private law remedies.
German artist Liza Lott creates eclectic, freehand drawings with
engagingly intricate designs. Because of the incredibly detailed
nature of her hand-drawn artwork, Lott encourages colourers to
slowly savor the experience and to take their time exploring this
fun, funky and thoroughly modern colouring book. By filling in the
pictures thoughtfully and gradually, users can fully enter the
dreamscapes created by Lott's whimsical, modern drawings as they
unfold in colour.
This enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting and overlapping
governance paradigms that inform public administration reforms.
Exploring the models that shape and reshape the daily operation of
public organizations, it explains the core features of public
bureaucracy and professional rule in the modern day. From the rise
to supremacy of New Public Management to the growing preference for
alternatives, such as Digital Era Governance, Public Value
Management and New Public Governance, four world-renowned authors
launch a powerful and systematic comparison of the competing and
co-existing paradigms. Advancing the 'public governance diamond' as
a critical tool for comparing the core features of governance
paradigms, this insightful book discusses the underlying
behavioural assumptions of these models and the challenges faced by
leaders when managing in a public sector. Informed by both key
theory and empirical analysis, this book will be crucial reading
for students and researchers seeking an authoritative voice on
competing and co-existing modes of governance. Public leaders and
managers, as well as public employees, will also benefit from its
insights into the varying and multifaceted dynamics of public
governance.
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The Borgias - Season 1 (DVD)
Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Lotte Verbeek, David Oakes, …
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Discovery Miles 510
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The first season of the drama series starring Jeremy Irons as
Rodrigo Borgia, the head of the powerful family that dominated
Italy in the Renaissance. When the Borgia family use their
influence to gain Rodrigo, the rising power within the family, the
position of Pope, perhaps even they are unprepared for the manner
in which their relative will abuse his position. As Pope Alexander
VI, Rodrigo sets about using his power to ruthlessly increase the
family's wealth and status, while committing almost every sin
imaginable. François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger and Lotte Verbeek
co-star.
Filipinos arrived in the Washington, D.C., area shortly after 1900
upon the annexation of the Philippines to the United States. These
new settlers included students, soldiers, seamen, and laborers.
Within four decades, they became permanent residents, military
servicemen, government workers, and community leaders. Although
numerous Filipinos now live in the area, little is known about the
founders of the Filipino communities. Images of America: Filipinos
in Washington, D.C. captures an ethnic history and documents
historical events and political transitions that occurred here.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
A gorgeous literary debut about second chances, New England Book
Festival prize winner "The Rest of Us" is an indelible love story
that explores the legacy of an affair between a young student and
her older professor.
As a college student, Terry fell madly and destructively in love
with Rhinehart, her famous poetry professor--a relationship from
which she never fully recovered. Now, fifteen years later, she is
single, still living in the New York City walk-up she moved into
after college, and languishing as a photographer's assistant,
having long since abandoned her own art. When she stumbles on
Rhinehart's obituary online, complete with litany of his many
accomplishments, she finds herself taking stock of the ways she has
not lived up to her youthful expectations--and surprisingly
distraught at the thought of never seeing him again.
And then, a few weeks later, she bumps into Rhinehart himself: very
much alive, married, and Christmas shopping at Bloomingdale's. What
ensues is an intense and beautiful friendship, an unexpected second
act that inspires Terry to come to terms with the consequences of
their past and the depth of her own aspirations--and to begin to
grow again, as an artist and a woman.
A captivating read to the last page, "The Rest of Us "explores
those nagging questions that haunt us when we think of who we are,
and who we might have been--a love letter to New York City and the
struggles of its artists, and a sharp and stirring novel of the
heart from a "promising new voice in fiction" ("The Daily Beast").
Almost 100 years have passed since Carl Schmitt gave his
controversial definition of the sovereign as the one who decides on
the exception in his by now classic Political Theology (1922).
Written at a time of crisis, the book sought to establish the
institution of sovereignty, not from within a well-functioning
governing machine of the state in a situation of normality, but
rather as the minimal condition of state order in the moment of
governmental breakdown. The book appeared anachronistic already at
its publication. Schmitt went against Max Weber's popular thesis
defining secularization as a disenchantment of the world
characterizing modern societies, and instead suggested that the
concepts of modern politics mirrored a metaphysics originating in
Christianity and the church. Nevertheless, the concept of political
theology has in recent years seen a revival as a field of research
in philosophy as well as political theory, as studies in the
theological sub-currents of politics, economics and sociality
proliferate.
The Neurobiology of Aging and Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome
provides a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of aging
and Alzheimer disease in Down syndrome that is synergistic and
focused on efforts to understand the neurobiology as it pertains to
interventions that will slow or prevent disease. The book provides
detailed knowledge of key molecular aspects of aging and
neurodegeneration in Down Syndrome by bringing together different
models of the diseases and highlighting multiple techniques.
Additionally, it includes case studies and coverage of
neuroimaging, neuropathological and biomarker changes associated
with these cohorts. This is a must-have resource for researchers
who work with or study aging and Alzheimer disease either in the
general population or in people with Down syndrome, for academic
and general physicians who interact with sporadic dementia patients
and need more information about Down syndrome, and for new
investigators to the aging and Alzheimer/Down syndrome arena.
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