Family man Marlon Villar - a longtime chauffeur to corrupt Filipino politician Manuel Chango - is faced with an unthinkable predicament when he is ambushed while driving both his boss's and his own daughter home from school one afternoon. In the chaos of the kidnapping attempt, things go horribly awry and Marlon's daughter is taken and held for ransom instead. Desperate to save his daughter, Marlon must navigate the conflicting motives between the ruthless kidnappers, untrustworthy Chango and determined detectives eager to name him a suspect without letting on the wrong girl was taken hostage. As events spin wildly out of control, Marlon, Chango and their families are forced into a rapid downward spiral of deceit and betrayal that will leave no one innocent.

The North American anti-terrorist force Team America attacks a group of terrorist in Paris. Later, the leader of the organization, Spottswoode, invites the famous Broadway actor Gary Johnston to join his world police and work undercover in Cairo in a terrorist organization and disclose their plan of destroying the world. The Team America destroy the cell of terrorists, but then the Panama Canal is attacked by the criminals as a payback. Gary feels responsible for the death of many innocents and leaves the counter-terrorism organization. When the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, joins a group of pacifist actors and actresses with the intention of using weapons of massive destruction, the Team America tries to avoid the destruction of the world.

The theory of singular perturbations has evolved as a response to the need to find approximate solutions (in an analytical form) to complex problems. Typically, such problems are expressed in terms of differential equations which contain at least one small parameter, and they can arise in many fields: fluid mechanics, particle physics, and combustion processes, to name but three.

Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies describes the core competency areas in providing psychological services relevant to practitioners as well as clinical researchers. It covers assessment and conceptualization of cases, the application of evidence-based methods, supervision, consultation, cross-cultural factors, and ethics.

In postwar Hong Kong, legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more, when what begin as simple challenges from rival kung fu styles soon draw him into the dark and dangerous underworld of the Triads. Now, to defend life and honor, he has no choice but to fight one last time…

Der Leser erhält mit diesem Tabellenbuch einen schnellen und übersichtlichen Einblick in die Bewehrung von Stahlbetonbauteilen. Wie viele Rundstähle kommen in einen Balken? In welche Richtung wird eine Q-Matte verlegt? Der Autor erklärt mit anschaulichen Abbildungen, wie der Stahl im Beton verlegt und auch zeichnerisch dargestellt wird.

Imaginative Projects is a photocopiable supplementary resource book for teachers of EFL learners aged 11-17. This book provides a bank of ten projects, on themes designed to capture the imagination of students and encourage them to use English naturally in groups to work on the projects end product such as a poster, radio programme, or performance.

Communication protocols form the operational basis of computer networks and tele­communication systems. They are behavior conventions that describe how com­munication systems inter­act with each other, defining the temporal order of the interactions and the formats of the data units exchanged – essentially they determine the efficiency and reliability of computer networks.

Filmed between 1949 and 1963, Lost, Lost, Lost looks back at Mekas’ earliest years in New York. As Mekas adjusts to a life in exile, he searches for a sense of community among Lithuanian émigrés in Brooklyn before finding kinship in the burgeoning arts scene. A sense of melancholy permeates the film but by the end, Mekas finds ecstasy: paradise regained through cinema. Mekas connects with Lower Manhattan’s poets and filmmakers, and the 60s adventure begins.

Despite the explosion of networking services and applications in the past decades, the basic technological underpinnings of the Internet have remained largely unchanged. At its heart are special-purpose appliances that connect us to the digital world, commonly known as switches and routers.

Das Lehrbuch präsentiert eine Betrachtung sämtlicher kognitiver Leistungen: von Wahrnehmung, Aufmerksamkeit, Orientierung über Sprache, Denken, Vorstellung, Gedächtnis, Handeln, Reaktion bis zu Motorik und Emotion. Dafür werden Beiträge aus den Bereichen Psychologie, Biologie und Medizin hinzugezogen.

1897 wurde unter dem ersten Ordinarius für Kinderheilkunde der Medizinischen Fakultät Graz, Prof. Theodor Escherich, die erste Röntgeneinrichtung in einem Kinderkrankenhaus in Europa installiert. Bis in die 50er Jahre gehörte das Erlernen der gebräuchlichen Röntgenuntersuchungen zur Ausbildung eines Kinderarztes.

SERVO Magazine is a monthly robotics publication produced by T&L Publications.It has been an active member of the robotics community, sponsoring such events as the FIRST Robotics Competition, the Robonexus robotics convention and the Tetsujin robotics competition.

Kaum ein diagnostisches Verfahren sorgte in den letzten Jahren für so viel Furore wie die funktionelle Bildgebung in Psychiatrie und Neurologie. Schon immer faszinierte es, dem Gehirn bei der Arbeit zuzusehen. Einsteiger erfahren wie ein fMRT funktioniert.