This text contains over 1500 lexical items, divided into topic areas, with exercises to provide the practice students need to build their vocabulary in an interesting way. The material can be used in pairs or groups, as well as by students working individually, at elementary to advanced level. ...

A collection of essays exploring the issues that arise when securities are held via an intermediary, & in particular assessing the solutions put forward by the Geneva Securities Convention 2009 on this issue. It is suitable for reading for practitioners & academics. ...

An unhappily-married violinist has an affair with his children's piano teacher, but eventually makes the heart-breaking choice to return to his wife & children. Ingrid Bergman appears in her first English-speaking part, in this remake of the 1936 Swedish film in which she first played the role. ...

John Crowley's black-comedy (and directorial debut) is set in the suburbs of Dublin & centres around a group of characters all interlinked by a chain of events. A trial break-up between John (Cillian Murphy) & Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald) sees Deirdre taking up with bank manager Sam (Michael Mc Elhatton). John's friend
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- Lehiff (Colin Farrell) encourages John to help set Sam up, by robbing the bank's vaults. Lehiff, meanwhile, is being tailed by Jerry (Colm Meaney), a Dublin cop who is himself being followed by a TV news-crew...

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Encompasses the structural, physiological, pathophysiological, biochemical, genetic, metabolic, & therapeutic aspects of intermittent hypoxia, & provides an open forum to promote the bench-to-bed translational implications of both adaptive (beneficial) & maladaptive (detrimental) responses to intermittent hypoxia in animals & humans. ...

Providing an introduction to the concept of intermodal freight transport, this work recounts both European experience & UK developments. It shows the political influences on this form of transport, & also

Includes:: explanations of the road & rail vehicles, the loading units & the transfer equipment used in such operations.

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