Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) has to put it mildly anger management issues His quiet life as a brilliant researcher working with cutting edge genetic technology conceals a nearly forgotten & painful past His ex-girlfriend & equally brilliant fellow researcher Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly) has tired of Bruce&s cordoned off emotional terrain & resigns herself to remaining an interested onlooker to his quiet life Which is exactly where Betty finds herself during one of the early trials in Banner&s groundbreaking research A simple oversight leads to an explosive situation & Bruce makes a split-second decision; his heroic impulse saves a life & leaves him apparently unscathed-his body absorbing a normally deadly dose of gamma radiation Acclaimed Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee turns his masterful eye to adapting the classic Marvel Comics character for the big screen Setting out to faithfully transfer the Hulk comic book character from four-color paneled page to motion picture screen Lee combines all the elements of a blockbuster visual effects-intensive superhero movie with the brooding romance & tragedy of Universal&s classic horror films Staying true to the early subversive spirit of the Hulk as envisioned by its creators (Stan Lee & Jack Kirby) while also tuning the tale to current dangerous times Lee presents a portrait of a man at war with himself & the world both a superhero & a monster a means of wish fulfillment & a nightmare Actors Eric Bana Jennifer Connelly Sam Elliott Joshua Lucas Nick Nolte Celia Weston Brooke Langton Cara Buono Todd Tesen Kevin Rankin Mike Erwin Lou Ferrigno & Stan Lee Director Ang Lee Certificate 12 years & over Year 2003 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish ; Japanese Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; French ; Italian ; German ; Spanish ; Japanese ; Korean ; Swedish ; Danish ; Finnish ; Dutch ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Mandarin Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hours & 18 minutes (approx)
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This is a resource book for teaching about animals in comparison to human beings It is recommended for Classes 4 & 5 (age 9 to 11) in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Charles Kovacs taught in Edinburgh so there is a Scottish flavour to the animals discussed in the first half of the book including seals red deer & eagles In the later chapters he covers elephants horses & bears ...

A concise & illuminating tour of the human body
- learn about how our bodies work & why they work the way they do in minutes From
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Building on the success of their previous book White & Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory & classroom by professional forensic scientists anthropologists & researchers The compact volume

Includes:: all the key information needed for identification purposes including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Tom Six&s follow up to the cult horror smash hit of 2010 ups the ante with a brute force unparalleled in film today The iconic Dr Heiter has inspired a real-life protege the sickly disturbed car park attendant
- Martin
- who takes his gory inspiration from the original film to horrific new extremes! Martin a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his nagging mother on a bleak London council estate where loud neighbours & squalid living conditions threaten to plunge this victim of sexual & psychological abuse over the edge Working the night shift as an attendant at an underground car park he indulges his obsession with The Human Centipede (First Sequence) watching the film over & over on a laptop in his office & meticulously examining the scrapbook he has lovingly filled with memorabilia from the film including the ass-to-mouth surgery instructions made famous by Dr Heiter the mad scientist from Martin&s favourite movie Pushed to the brink by his harridan mother & haunted by the teasing voices of his abusive & imprisoned father Martin sets into motion his plan to emulate Heiter&s centipede by creating his own version In a rented warehouse he begins to acquire victims including his loud violent neighbour a prostitute & her lecherous client & several more including Martin&s pièce de resistance one of the actresses from The Human Centipede (First Sequence) Although lacking the medical skills of his hero Martin soldiers on with grotesque DIY gusto along with a healthy supply of duct tape household tools & staple guns! What follows is one of the most harrowing & terrifying films ever conceived featuring a central character that makes Dr Heiter seem tame in comparison The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is a triumph in biological horror by one of the new masters of the horror film

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A demented surgeon will wield any instrument to perform the unspeakable No conscience no mercy & no hope! Two pretty American girls on a road trip across Europe end up alone in the woods at night when their car breaks down in rural Germany As they search for help they find an isolated house Offering to call them a taxi the house&s owner Dr Heiter a retired surgeon invites the girls inside with the promise of a drink & dry place to wait until help arrives However they realise that there is something not quite right about the formidable Dr Heiter As their demented host explains his twisted vision the two girls discover that they are soon to become a lot closer to each other than they ever wanted to be Heiter&s plan is to connect the two girls to each other with a third person a hapless Japanese tourist via their gastric systems in a daring bid to be the first person to create a Siamese triplet -bringing to life his sick lifetime fantasy &the human centipede& Truly one-of-a-kind Tom Six&s twisted biological horror film The Human Centipede confidently goes where few films have dared to go The sick vision of a demented surgeon a role portrayed so brilliantly by Dieter Laser it is sure to join Freddy Jason & Leatherface in the horror pantheon is a 100 medically accurate nightmare Actors Dieter Laser Ashley C Williams Ashlynn Yennie Akihiro Kitamura Andreas Leupold & Peter Blankenstein Director Tom Six Certificate 18 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 1881 Languages English ; German ; Japanese Duration 1 hour & 32 minutes (approx) ...

In this text Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable The problems are identified as diminishing human agency & political freedom
- the paradox that as human powers increase through technological & humanistic inquiry we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions This edition contains an expanded index & an introduction that analyzes the text's argument & its present relevance
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Corporate player Julian Wright is a charming & mega successful businessman who hides a secret from the rest of the world which tears him apart every day While he stands on the verge of the deal of his career his life crosses paths witha woman who will turn his world upsidedown As he pursues her in a dangerous game of seduction he is forced to confront his past Julina must face the dark family secrets that continue to haunt him & his troubled sister Actors Jada Pinkett Smith Jason Clarke Paz Vega Idris Elba TJ Thyne Joanna Cassidy Steven Brand Ted Danson & Anne Ramsay Director Jada Pinkett Smith Certificate 18 years & over Year 2008 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 43 minutes (approx) ...

This book explores the human contribution to the reliability & resilience of complex well-defended systems Usually the human is considered a hazard
- a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns However there is another perspective that has been relatively little studied in its own right
- the human as hero whose adaptations & compensations bring troubled systems back from the brink of disaster time & again What if anything did these situations have in common? Can these human abilities be 'bottled' & passed on to others? The Human Contribution is vital reading for all professionals in high-consequence environments & for managers of any complex system The book draws its illustrative material from a wide variety of hazardous domains with the emphasis on healthcare reflecting the author's focus on patient safety over the last decade All students of human factors
- however seasoned
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John Scalzi's The Human Division is the fifth in The Old Man's War series Lieutenant Harry Wilson has an impossible mission He must help preserve the union of humanity's colonies in the wake of a terrible revelation For years the Colonial Union has protected its citizens from the dangerous universe around them But the people of Earth now know the ugly truth The Union deliberately kept Earth as an ignorant backwater
- & as a source of recruits for its war against hostile aliens Now other alien races have formed a new alliance against the Union & they've invited the incensed people of Earth to join them Managing the Colonial Union's survival will take all the political cunning & finesse its diplomats can muster & Harry & his team will be deployed to deal with the unexpected
- for failure is unthinkable

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