Based on the many approaches available for dealing with large-scale systems (LSS), this book provides a rigorous framework for studying the analysis, stability, & control problems of LSS while addressing the dominating sources of difficulties due to dimensionality, information structure constraints, uncertainties, & time delays. ...

Decentralization has become a fashionable policy prescription among reformers in Latin America. But how does it work in practice? This book seeks to answer this question by examining the experience of seven medium-sized provincial towns in Colombia & Chile. ...

A famous writer & his mistress meet in a room without a bed. They talk, they play games with each other, they have sex, they tell lies. This work since " Complaint", explores adultery & the unmasking of illicit lovers in a novel that exposes the tenderness & uncertainty underlying all affairs of the heart. ...

Thriller starring Hugh Jackman & Ewan Mc Gregor. Jonathan Mc Quarry (Mc Gregor) is an accountant who is growing tired of his mundane life. When his new lawyer friend, Wyatt Bose (Jackman), introduces him to an underground sex club known as The List, he becomes besotted by a mysterious woman known as 'S' (Michelle Williams). However, Jonathan's life is turned upside down when the woman vanishes & he is named as the prime suspect in her disappearance. ...

Thriller starring Hugh Jackman & Ewan Mc Gregor. Jonathan Mc Quarry (Mc Gregor) is an accountant who is growing tired of his mundane life. When his new lawyer friend, Wyatt Bose (Jackman), introduces him to an underground sex club known as The List, he becomes besotted by a mysterious woman known as 'S' (Michelle Williams). However, Jonathan's life is turned upside down when the woman vanishes & he is named as the prime suspect in her disappearance. ...

Ex-jailbird Rudy (Ben Affleck) decides to pose as his old cell mate Nick in order to get together with Nick's pen pal Ashley (Charlize Theron). But Ashley has already been double-crossing Nick & when Rudy eventually realises this it is too late to stop himself from being drawn into a dangerous armed robbery plot organised by Ashley's evil brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise). Directed by John Frankenheimer (' Ronin', ' The Manchurian Candidate'). ...