Michael Mann
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"One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis ... is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna. ... Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis's brother in arms Neil McCauley ... in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna's determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley's crew. ... In 1988, seven years earlier,...
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1498, rund um den Indischen Ozean: Die expandierenden europäischen Mächte – Portugal, Spanien, die Niederlande, England – versuchen ihren Anteil an Märkten, Rohstoffen und Schätzen auszubauen. Zur Ausbeutung und Verarbeitung dieser Schätze aber bedurfte es Arbeitskräfte im großen Stil: Sklaven. Michael Mann gelingt erstmals eine Gesamtschau aller Aspekte der südostasiatischen Sklaverei. Dabei legt er nicht nur eine fundierte Zusammenfassung...
3) Heat 2
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Un día después del final de Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) se encuentra escondido en Koreatown; está herido, medio inconsciente y tratando desesperadamente de escapar de Los Ángeles. Lo persigue el detective del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Horas antes, Hanna había matado al compañero de Shiherlis, Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), en un tiroteo bajo las luces estroboscópicas al pie de una pista del...
4) On Wars
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A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them
Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders-people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions-who undertake such decisions,...
5) Blackhat
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2015]
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A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
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China's transition to a market economy has propelled its remarkable economic growth since the late 1970s. In this book, Nicholas R. Lardy, one of the world's foremost experts on the Chinese economy, traces the increasing role of market forces and refutes the widely advanced argument that Chinese economic progress rests on the government's control of the economy's "commanding heights." In another challenge to conventional wisdom, Lardy finds little...
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The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph--a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by Michael E. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with the increase in industrialization and the use of fossil fuels. Here was an easy-to-understand...
8) Manhunter
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Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
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c2000
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A retired detective is coaxed back to catch a serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy."
9) Collateral
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DreamWorks
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c2004
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Max is a cab driver. For twelve years, faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he has long since forgotten--until tonight. When a drug cartel learns of their impending indictment by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness. Vincent is a contract killer. He has one night in L.A.--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Vincent hijacks Max and his cab, making Max collateral--an expendable...
10) Heat
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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[2007]
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Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
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How do you effectively transition your company from qualified vendor status to a trusted partner and advisor to your clients? In "The Journey to Sales Transformation: Twenty-Five Axioms for Becoming a Trusted Partner to your Customers", sales and business expert Bob Nicols Jr. explains exactly what organizations need to do. Told through the fictional parables and the lessons learned by his characters, the story provides a set of 25 truths that help...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2010]
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The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
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Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington of AVATAR FRANCHISE, CLASH OF THE TITANS), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and transplanted New York City Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan of WATCHMEN, TV'S MAGIC CITY) as they track a sadistic serial killer who dumps his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call "The Killing Fields." Before long, the killer changes the...
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