British gangster film based on the London-set crime novel by J.J. Connelly. 'X' (Daniel Craig) is a successful, smooth-talking cocaine dealer
- respected among London's crime elite
- whose plan is to bankroll enough cash to make an early retirement from 'business' & lead a quiet, crime-free life. He sees the opportunity to make a final score when big crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) asks him to track down Charlotte Ryder (Nathalie Lunghi), the wayward daughter of his old friend Eddie (Michael Gambon). But complicating matters are 2 million pounds' worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect & endless 'layers' of deals & double-deals...

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British gangster film based on the London-set crime novel by J.J. Connelly. 'X' (Daniel Craig) is a successful, smooth-talking cocaine dealer
- respected among London's crime elite
- whose plan is to bankroll enough cash to make an early retirement from 'business' & lead a quiet, crime-free life. He sees the opportunity to make a final score when big crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) asks him to track down Charlotte Ryder (Nathalie Lunghi), the wayward daughter of his old friend Eddie (Michael Gambon). But complicating matters are 2 million pounds' worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect & endless 'layers' of deals & double-deals...

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Helps you discover how to make clever quilts with layer cakes, jelly rolls & charm packs that are a million miles from simple strip quilts or scrap charm quilts. This title features 17 projects, from lap quilts to full-sized, that show you how to get the most from pre-cut fabric bundles. It offers step-by-step instructions & illustrations. ...

Double bill featuring two hard-hitting British thrillers. ' Layer Cake' (2004) is based on the London-set crime novel by J.J. Connelly. 'X' (Daniel Craig) is a successful, smooth-talking cocaine dealer
- respected among London's crime elite
- whose plan is to bankroll enough cash to make an early retirement from 'business' & lead a quiet, crime-free life. He sees the opportunity to make a final score when big crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) asks him to track down Charlotte Ryder (Nathalie Lunghi), the wayward daughter of his old friend Eddie (Michael Gambon). But complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect & endless 'layers' of deals & double-deals. In ' Green Street' (2005), Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) is a Harvard journalism student who has just been expelled from college. Drifting across the Atlantic to London to stay with relatives, Matt meets Pete Dunham (Charlie Hunnam), the leader of a local West Ham 'firm', & finds himself gradually drawn into the violent underworld of football hooliganism. Meanwhile, Pete's oldest friend & second in command of the firm, Bovver (Leo Gregory), starts to resent Matt's new position in the group & secretly plots to take him down.

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A collection of three popular British gangster movies. In ' Layer Cake' (2004), 'X' (Daniel Craig) is a successful, smooth-talking cocaine dealer
- respected among London's crime elite
- whose plan is to bankroll enough cash to make an early retirement from 'business' & lead a quiet, crime-free life. He sees the opportunity to make a final score when big crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) asks him to track down Charlotte Ryder (Nathalie Lunghi), the wayward daughter of his old friend Eddie (Michael Gambon). But complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect & endless 'layers' of deals & double-deals. In ' Snatch' (2000), writer/director Guy Ritchie continues in mockney gangster vein with this follow-up to his 1998 hit ' Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels'. In London, en route to deliver a stolen diamond to his employer Avi (Dennis Farina), thief Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) is ambushed by Russian mobster Boris the Blade (Rade Sherbedgia). At the same time, boxing promoters Turkish (Jason Statham) & Tommy (Stephen Graham) enter Irish gypsy fighter Mickey (Brad Pitt) in a fight run by local kingpin Brick Top (Alan Ford). Instead of throwing the fight as arranged, Mickey earns Brick Top's enmity by beating his fighter fair & square. Meanwhile, Avi travels to London & hires Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to track down Franky & the diamond
- which Brick Top has now found out about & decided to appropriate from Boris. Finally, in ' Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels' (1998), after losing all their money to London crime boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty) in a card game, twenty-something friends Eddy (Nick Moran), Tom (Jason Flemyng), Soap (Dexter Fletcher) & Bacon (Statham) decide to steal from their drug-dealing neighbour, Dog (Frank Harper). Using guns stolen from burglars in the employ of Harry, the quartet of geezers carry out their heist, leaving the money at Eddy's. However, as they set about disposing of the evidence, they are unaware that there is more to their firearms than they thought.


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In manufacturing today more complex products must be brought to the market at a dramatically reduced time. In order to achieve this, efficient tools must be used such as CAD/CAM in combination with rapid prototyping. This work examines layer manufacturing & these related issues. ...

After being introduced to the materials to be used in the projects, this title offers the reader an introduction into how poetry (or prose or journaling) is used throughout the book to inspire the stepped-out art projects. It begins each project with a writing prompt, such as a quick haiku or a list of self attributes. ...

This book provides a comparison of the different chemical structures, normal state properties, & simplest superconducting properties of all known classes of layered superconductors. It introduces the three phenomenological models used to describe such systems, & will guide young researchers hoping to produce a room-temperature superconductor. ...