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 interest in polymer composites study is due to an even greater degree of their application. The filling by hard disperse particulates or fibres gives to polymers a desirable properties number: increases stiffness, reduces thermal expansion coefficient, rises resistance to yield & fracture toughness & so on. ...

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. ...