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(0)Justin Lin
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This Element proposes an alternative framework for rethinking the role of finance in serving the real economy from the perspective of New Structural Financial Economics. It challenges the conventional wisdom that developing countries should take the financial structure of developed countries as the benchmark and financial structure does not matter in spurring long-run economic development. As a sub-discipline of New Structural Economics, New Structural...
Language
English
Formats
Description
After totaling his car in an illegal street race, Shaun Boswell is sent to Tokyo, Japan, to live with his father, who is in the military. By doing so, he avoids going to juvy or even jail. While in school, he befriends Twinkie, a 'military brat.' Twinkie introduces him to the world of racing in Japan. Though forbidden to drive, he decides to race against D.K. (aka 'Drift King'), who has ties to the Yakuza. Shaun loses, totaling the car because of...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Language
English
Description
Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier. Brian is also on the case of the drug smuggler and he...
4) Fast five
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Brian and Mia break Dom out of jail, they find themselves trapped in Rio de Janeiro and on the run from the law. Now one last job stands between them and freedom, but will they make it before the corrupt businessmen, or the feds, catch up to them?
5) Annapolis
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jake Huard, a local kid, is a shipbuilder's son who wants to prove to his father, not to mention himself, that he can cut it as a Naval officer. But at the Academy, he runs afoul of a hard-nosed training officer named Cole who does all he can to drive Huard out of the school. They end up settling their differences in the boxing ring during the Academy's annual competition.
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
7) Fast X
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything and everyone that Dom loves, forever.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dispatched on a rescue mission to the farthest reaches of space, the USS Enterprise is ambushed by Krall, a ruthless enemy sworn against the Federation. Crash-landing on an uncharted hostile world, Captain Kirk, Spock, and the crew are separated with no means of escape. Only Jaylah, a rebellious alien warrior, can help them reunite and find a way off the planet in a race against time to stop Krall's deadly army from triggering all-out galactic war....
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fast & furious: Brian O'Conner, now working for the FBI in LA, teams up with Dominic Toretto to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating his operation.
Fast five: Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lord and a dangerous federal agent.
Furious 6: Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly...
10) F9
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 149 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dom Toretto is leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon. This time, that threat will force Dom to confront the sins of his past if he's going to save those he loves most. His crew joins together to stop a world-shattering plot led by the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: a man who also happens to be Dom's...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
9 videodiscs (approximately 966 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fast and the furious: A speed demon detective goes undercover among Los Angeles street racers in order to break up a theft ring.
2 fast 2 furious: Federal agents recruit the street racing ex-detective to help them catch an international drug lord.
The fast and the furious : Tokyo drift: After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.
Fast & furious: Brian O'Conner,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 1255 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fast and the furious: A speed demon detective goes undercover among Los Angeles street racers in order to break up a theft ring.
2 fast 2 furious: Federal agents recruit the street racing ex-detective to help them catch an international drug lord.
The fast and the furious : Tokyo drift: After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.
Fast & furious: Brian O'Conner,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 1114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fast and the furious: A speed demon detective goes undercover among Los Angeles street racers in order to break up a theft ring.
2 fast 2 furious: Federal agents recruit the street racing ex-detective to help them catch an international drug lord.
The fast and the furious : Tokyo drift: After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.
Fast & furious: Brian O'Conner,...
