Crime comedy by maverick French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Dany Boon stars as Bazil, a video shop assistant who ends up with a bullet permanently lodged inside his brain after a gangland shootout. Emerging from hospital without a job or a home, Bazil is taken in by a band of colourful misfits living in a Paris junkyard, led by matriarch Tambouille (Yolande Moreau). With the help of his new friends, Bazil takes on two arms manufacturers, one of whom made the bullet that so nearly cost him his life, & the other of whom manufactured the landmine that killed Bazil's soldier father, leaving him to spend his childhood in an orphanage. The gang devises a sequence of cunning plans & ingenious tricks that pitch the two rival firms against each other & ultimately threaten to bring them both down. ...

Nowadays, the use of microcomponents & miniaturised functional products from metals, polymers, ceramics, composites & advanced materials has increased in various areas of science & technology due to their special properties. This book reviews research developments in micro & nanomanufacturing. ...

Sulfide solid lubrication is a vital field of tribology with the potential to save both energy & materials. This book examines the low-temperature sulfuration technology developed in China, as well as two-step methods for preparing sulfide lubrication films. ...

Explores the technology which makes this analysis possible, investigating the worlds of microfluidics & nanotechnologies, & examining physical science techniques for the separation, detection, manipulation, & analysis of biomolecules. This book is suitable for cellular biologists, biochemists, microbiologists, & medical researchers. ...

Starts with a general introduction to the role of Business Development Services & the principles of good practice in this field, followed by chapters dealing with such subjects as: voucher programmes for training, the use of matching grants & the review of the training market in Argentina. ...