Ten full-cast dramas featuring some of the best known names in British comedy.In these ten witty, dark and disturbing episodes some of Britain’s best comedians come together to perform simultaneously hilarious and unsettling stories that will have you gripped. Sticky situations on ski slopes, placating an unruly ghost, a boy stuck at the bottom of well and an unusual adventure weekend with romantic overtones - are just some of the scenarios from comedy writers Mark...

Now updated for web-based research, the third edition of The Data Game introduces students to the collection, use, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the national economy, wealth, income and poverty, labor, business, government, and public opinion polling. The concluding chapter is devoted to the common problem of ambiguity in social science statistics.

This book introduces students to the collection, uses, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. It would suit all social science introductory statistics and research methods courses. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the economy, wealth, income, poverty, labor, business statistics, and public opinion polling, with a concluding chapter devoted to the common problem of ambiguity. Each chapter includes m...

All six episodes of the fashionable comedy set in a top London hair salon, starring Rainer Hersch, Mark Maier and Catherine TateQuando, Quando, Quando is Clapham’s premier hairdressing establishment, where brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando cleverly clip, chop and crimp their lucky clients into shape. With three floors, 200 pairs of scissors and more mirrors than the Palace of Versailles, it’s truly a cut above – but all is not well at this emporium of excelle...

The “astonishing” (People) and definitive biography that unlocks the “riveting” (Vogue) story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life.Vivian Maier, the photographer nanny whose work was famously discovered in a Chicago storage locker, captured the imagination of the world with her ma...

Nella periferia di Los Angeles, il 17 luglio 1955, apriva per la prima volta i suoi cancelli Disneyland. Quasi trentamila persone si riversarono nei viali mai calpestati prima, un fiume in piena di bambini pronti a lasciarsi meravigliare. Lì, tra famiglie, figuranti e pupazzi, c'era Vivian Maier, una tata di origine francese da poco trasferitasi sulla West Coast in cerca di un nuovo incarico. La donna girovagava da sola tra la folla con una macchina fotografica in mano: dopo anni di scatti...

Parole officers (POs) support rehabilitation and desistance but face mental health challenges and occupational stressors. Parole Work in Canada provides novel insight into the occupational routines, mental health impacts, and identities of this oft-overlooked group of correctional workers. The authors conducted 150 interviews with POs employed in Canada’s federal correctional system and traverse prison and community spaces in their analyses. They also examined how workplace cultur...

Sans l'improbable découverte d'un lot de photographies anonymes lors d'une vente aux enchères en 2007, le travail de Vivian Maier n'aurait jamais été connu. Cette photographe hors norme (New York, 1926 ¿ Chicago, 2009) a produit, tout au long de sa vie, une œuvre considérable (plus de 140 000 images), jamais montrée de son vivant. Fine observatrice de son époque, elle a su saisir avec acuité l'universalité de la condition humaine. Reconnue comme l'une des artistes majeures du XXe siècle, l...

Stell dir vor, du machst eine Reise und findest dabei die Liebe deines Lebens. Ihr seid füreinander bestimmt und habt gemeinsame Zukunftspläne. Doch dann kommt alles anders. Du wachst eines Tages auf und kannst dich an nichts von alledem erinnern. Nicht an die Reise und auch nicht an die Person, der du dein Herz geschenkt hast. Dein Leben ist wieder so, wie es immer war. Nur in deinen Träumen erwachen Erinnerungen und Sehnsüchte, denn Träume vergessen nie. Aber reichen Träume aus, um alles...

The Art of Systems Architecting, Fourth Edition, provides structured heuristics to improve the least structured, most art‑like elements of systems design. It offers unique techniques to bridge the difference between scientific engineering and qualitative design along with comprehensive methods for combining architectural design with digital engineering. This book illustrates how to go from model‑based systems architecture to model‑based systems engineering and includes case studie...

Durante uno scavo, un teschio viene gettato da una benna dentro il cassone di un camion. Saranno i resti di Guido Astolfi?La famiglia dell'imprenditore e l'intera comunità di Litore ne sono certi.Astolfi era sparito nel nulla una sera di settembre di trentasei anni prima, ma le indagini erano state archiviate per l'impossibilità di trovare l'uomo o il suo corpo e non c’erano prove sufficienti per inchiodare un colpevole.La scoperta dell'intero scheletro poco al di sott...

Deve accadere ora.Non può tornare indietro, ma soprattutto, non vuole**.**Un casolare incendiato nelle colline attorno a Litore; un tavolo da gioco con tre vittime semicarbonizzate, questa è la scena che si trovano di fronte l'ispettore Alex Maier e la sua squadra investigativa che dovranno indagare mentre una terribile tempesta che proviene dal mare sta per abbattersi sulla città e minaccia di distruggere la scena ...