Offers an overview of the characterizations of real normed spaces as inner product spaces based on norm derivatives & generalizations of the most basic geometrical properties of triangles in normed spaces. This book presents various methods of characterizing inner product spaces by means of norm derivatives. ...

Made-for-TV biopic casting an unusual slant on the life & career of Hollywood goddess Marilyn Monroe. The film uses dream-like sequences to portray Marilyn as she was before she changed her name & became a star, with Ashley Judd in the Norma Jean Baker role, & Mira Sorvino as Marilyn. In these sequences, the two characters appear together, & Norma Jean taunts Marilyn for not living up to her earlier aspirations. The film also chronicles the star's troubled childhood & adolescence, her films, her addiction problems, her famous marriages to playwright Arthur Miller (David Dukes) & baseball star Joe Di Maggio (Peter Dobson), & her rumoured affair with US President John F Kennedy (Steven Culp). ...

Guy Joosten's production of Bellini's classic opera, recorded live at the Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam in 2005. The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra & Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera are conducted by Julian Reynolds, while performers include Hasmik Papian, Hugh Smith & Irini Tsirakidis. ...

Drama in which a fatal car crash affects several strangers in different & unexpected ways. Grieving mother Catherine (Carrie-Anne Moss), disillusioned literary professor Walt (Callum Keith Rennie) & troubled teenager Jordie (Kevin Zegers) must all deal with the emotional fallout of the tragic incident that shattered their lives two years ago. ...

Explores sex & gender through portraits of people who are widely considered not normal
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Analyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety
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