Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's acclaimed drama that blurs the boundary between past & present & explores the subjectivity of memory. Flipping back & forth between the real & surreal, it is a warm & humorous film about the director's recollections of his parents, both doctors, before they fell in love. ...

Charlie Kaufman writes & directs this darkly comic narrative-within-a-narrative drama about a theatre director, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who is producing a new play on Broadway. In his attempt to say something real in a powerful new way, he gathers an ensemble cast together in a Manhattan warehouse & instructs them to live out their ordinary lives in a studio replica of New York City. As the constructed city grows & starts to take on a life of its own, Caden's own life goes into free fall: his relationships with his wife Claire (Michelle Williams), ex-wife Adele (Catherine Keener) & daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) are all in ruins, & even his therapist, Madeline (Hope Davis), has an agenda at odds to his own. As he becomes more & more involved with his masterpiece, the lines between the world he has created & the real world become hopelessly blurred. ...

Charlie Kaufman writes & directs this darkly comic narrative-within-a-narrative drama about a theatre director, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who is producing a new play on Broadway. In his attempt to say something real in a powerful new way, he gathers an ensemble cast together in a Manhattan warehouse & instructs them to live out their ordinary lives in a studio replica of New York City. As the constructed city grows & starts to take on a life of its own, Caden's own life goes into free fall: his relationships with his wife Claire (Michelle Williams), ex-wife Adele (Catherine Keener) & daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) are all in ruins, & even his therapist, Madeline (Hope Davis), has an agenda at odds to his own. As he becomes more & more involved with his masterpiece, the lines between the world he has created & the real world become hopelessly blurred. ...

The core of the decentralisation movement is the idea of giving more autonomy, more control, & more respect to ordinary users of a computing system, or a network, or a product. This book discusses such issues with a focus on bootstrapping & routing of the synergized P2P systems over MANETs. ...

Syngas is the name given to a gas mixture that contains varying amounts of carbon monoxide & hydrogen. This book gathers the research from around the globe in this dynamic field covering topics such as syngas production from biomass generated gases & developments of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalysts. ...

This book uses J.M. Synge's plays, prose, & photography to explore the cultural life of Edwardian Irel&. By emphasizing less familiar contexts, including the rise of a local celebrity culture, the arts & crafts movement, & Irish classical music, it shows how Irish folk culture intersected with the new networks of mass communication. ...