Box set featuring eight Mel Gibson movies. In ' Lethal Weapon' (1987) family-man cop Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is less than happy to be partnered with Martin Riggs (Gibson) when he is assigned to investigate Californian drug baron ' The General' (Mitchell Ryan). Following the death of his wife, Riggs has become a manic loner who no longer cares whether he lives or dies; an approach which causes more than a few problems as he & Murtaugh attempt to bring the General to justice. In ' Payback' (1998) Porter (Gibson) is shot & left for dead by his partner Resnick (Gregg Henry) & his wife Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger) after the three of them carry out a $140, 000 heist. Vowing revenge, a recovered Porter sets off in pursuit, but in so doing attracts the attention of corrupt cops Hicks (Bill Duke) & Leary (Jack Conley), who want the money for themselves. ' Mad Max' (1979) is set in a post-apocalyptic future where law & order is breaking down & the police have their hands full fighting roving motorcycle gangs. When the wife & child of cop Max (Gibson) are murdered by one of the gangs, he sets out to get revenge. In ' Conspiracy Theory' (1997) taxi driver Jerry (Gibson) is traumatized by a past he cannot remember, & spends all his spare time assembling information on conspiracies. He takes his 'evidence' to attorney Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), who is investigating a conspiracy theory of her own relating to the murder of her father. Jerry then receives some unwanted attention from psychiatrist Dr Jonas (Patrick Stewart), & soon he & Alice find themselves running for their lives, their fates somehow inextricably connected. In ' Tequila Sunrise' (1987) best friends Dale (Gibson) & Nick (Kurt Russell) grow up on opposite sides of the law. Dale is a cocaine dealer, trying to go straight, & Nick is a drug-busting cop, determined to nail his friend if he insists on doing one final deal with a Mexican drug baron (Raul Julia). Michelle Pfeiffer plays the restaurant owner caught between them. In ' Lethal Weapon 2' (1989) Riggs (Gibson) & his partner Murtaugh (Danny Glover) once again tackle the evils of drug smuggling, this time coming up against a South African syndicate whose kingpins are protected by diplomatic immunity. In ' What Women Want' (2000) Gibson plays Nick Marshall, a hot-shot advertising executive who is convinced that he is God's gift to women & can get anyone he wants. After an accident he discovers that he can hear what women are really thinking about & is upset that his showing-off techniques are not popular with his female colleagues. To make matters worse, his dream of being promoted to a higher position has been thwarted by the man-eating new team member Darcy (Helen Hunt). Finally, ' Maverick' (1994) stars Gibson as the eponymous gambling hero in a big-screen version of the successful TV series. The convoluted plot has Maverick struggling to raise the $25, 000 entrance stake for a poker game by ripping off as many people as he can. During his quest to reach the game he narrowly escapes being lynched by baddies, shot by safari hunters & Indians, & robbed several times by the beautiful adventuress, Annabelle (Jodie Foster). James Garner, who played the original TV Maverick, stars as too-good-to-be-true lawman, Coop. ...

Suitable for those who want to learn the fundamentals of Maya, how to automate tasks, personalize user interfaces, build custom tools & solve problems with MEL, this work features chapters on fixing programming bottlenecks, advanced user interface techniques & optimizing character rigs. ...

Food contamination & carcinogenesis are of great public interest. The situation concerning melamine contamination in China became a wakeup call to nations around the world. It is time to be extremely concerned with food safety. This book presents & discusses information concerning food contamination relating to carcinogenesis. ...

Offers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, & anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized & framed by the township, & how these residents domesticated & inhabited this urban space. ...

An analysis of the relationship between memory, history & the protocols of mourning in key novels by Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, David Mitchell, &, Haruki Murakami. It explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory & the self that has been subjected to various traumas, & various losses. ...

Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought & expression, & of attempts to describe & live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience. ...

All 14 episodes from the first season of the anime series about an out of the ordinary schoolgirl. Starting his first year at his new school, high school student Kyon sits down beside the pretty & smart Haruhi Suzimiya. Kyon soon realises that life at his new school is going to be anything but dull when Haruhi stands up & announces that she's not interested in normal people, only 'time-travellers, aliens, & ESP-ers'. Forming her own club, the 'SOS Brigade', to check out 'unusual occurences', Haruhi soon surrounds herself with an assortment of the school's most unusual students. Episodes comprise: ' Mikuru Asahina's Adventure', ' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I', ' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya II', ' The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya', ' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya III', ' Remote Island Syndrome (Part 1)', ' Mysterique Sign', ' Remote Island Syndrome (Part 2)', ' Someday In The Rain', ' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya IV', ' The Day Of Sagittarius', ' Live Alive', ' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya V' & ' The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI'. ...