Describes the everyday lives of adults at work to pre-school children. Young children will be delighted by the tale of Tessa Thompson the teacher as she deals with scraped knees, playground problems & a missing actor on the day of the class play. Jo Litchfield's handmade models & the engaging text bring the primary school environment to life. ...

Tense psychological thriller directed by Oxide Pang, based on the bestselling novel by Alex Garland (' The Beach'). Drug courier Sean (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is sweating it out in his room at Bangkok's sleazy run-down Heaven Hotel, watching over a consignment of narcotics awaiting pick-up by a local czar's henchmen. Down the hall, psychologist & recently-bereaved mother Rosa (Saskia Reeves) is interviewing local youngsters as part of her research
- while in the room below Sean's, a mysterious female assassin is slowly dying of wounds sustained during a bungled hit. These three disparate lives are all touched by Wit (Alexander Rendell), a streetwise kid employed by the hotel as a bellboy. Using a labyrinthine, non-linear narrative, the film shows how the destinies of this unlikely quartet collide
- with violent & tragic consequences.

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Features contributions by academic & industrial research groups which are structured into four parts on: static analysis to acquire insight into how the system is supposed to work; testing techniques to sample its actual behavior; monitoring to probe its operational performance; & nonfunctional requirements like reliability & trust. ...

Follows two TDD projects from start to finish, illustrating techniques programmers can use to increase the quality of their work. The examples are followed by references to the featured TDD patterns & refactorings. This book emphasises on agile methods & fast development strategies. ...