Justin Lin
Author
Language
English
Description
Justin Yifu Lin is founding director and professor at the China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University. From 2008 to 2012, he served as chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. His many books include Demystifying the Chinese Economy and Economic Development and Transition. He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.
Justin Yifu Lin's groundbreaking...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Shortlisted for the 2018 Africa-Asia ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars and Association for Asian Studies in Africa" Justin Yifu Lin, former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, is director of the Center for New Structural Economics and dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University. His books include The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Countries Can Take...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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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.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
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...
8) Fast five
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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? Contains both PG-13 Rated and unrated version.
9) Annapolis
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 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.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (15 hrs. 16 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows Walter O'Brien and his team of genius outcasts who protect the nation from high-tech threats while working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To avoid jail time, street racer Sean Boswell is sent to live with his father, who is in the military and serving in Tokyo. There he discovers drift racing. 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.
12) Fast X
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.