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New Zealand Film Commission
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
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A visionary boy leads five men from the 14th Century into a 20th Century city. Their quest: to save their village before sunrise. It is Cumbria 1348, the year of the Black Death. A medieval mining village lives in fear of the advancing plague. Griffin's older brother Connor returns from the outside world in a state of despair, until Griffin tells of his dream - and reveals the only hope of survival. Make a tribute to God. Place a spire on a distant...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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From the author of Away with Words, a deeply hilarious and unexpectedly insightful deep-dive into a cultural and culinary phenomenon: cheese.
"Who knew it was possible to enjoy reading about cheese as much as eating it? Remarkably entertaining, deeply insightful, and downright hilarious, American Cheese goes far beyond the plastic yellow slices we all know, and some love, revealing a community
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Professor Vandiver makes it clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Homeric epics remain not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told, but also two of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written. Questions include, why does Odysseus long so powerfully to go home? What are the limits of our freedom? Who or what shapes our actions and our ends? What holds people together and keeps them going--or drives them apart...
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
For as long as he has served at the highest levels of business and government, Vice President Dick Cheney has also been one of the world' s most prominent heart patients. Now, for the first time ever, Cheney, together with his longtime cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner, MD, shares the very personal story of his courageous thirty-five-year battle with heart disease, from his first heart attack in 1978 to the heart transplant he received in 2012. In
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose poetry was at the heart of the American Revolution"--
"Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the...
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season. In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet-and Paris Review sports columnist-Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, it's divided into four seasons, each...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
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The Arctic is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the planet; its frozen world is one of the last refuges of the unknown land on Earth and the Arctic, as we know it, is, literally, disappearing. Under the threat of global warming, this vast expanse of water and ice, and its inhabitants, are facing unprecedented upheavals. This timely documentary, the first of two on climate change, follows the year-round trip of the CCGS Amundsen, a Canadian research...
Publisher
SAVEarth Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This series follows brothers Lorne & Lawrence Blair over 10 years through the mysterious islands of Indonesia that form a chain of volcanoes around into the Pacific, “the ring of fire.” They sail with pirates, search for elusive nomadic tribes, witness human sacrifice, and find themselves immersed in a magic land where myths still flourish. Originally cut from 80 hours of 16mm film in co-production with WGBH Boston, Ring of Fire was digitally...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an unprecedented cinematic event, an epic journey through the history of world cinema that is a treat for movie lovers around the globe. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, this bold 15-part love letter to the movies begins with the invention of motion pictures at the end of the 19th century and concludes with the multi-billion dollar globalized digital industry of the 21st.. The Story of Film: An Odyssey heralds...
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 122
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work The Republic, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc. (Ignition)
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Designed for the studious and dabblers alike" this unique graphic novel offers "an accessible primer on one of the 20th century's weightiest thinkers" (Publishers Weekly).
Life can often feel like a rat race. To make sense of it all, generations of truth seekers have turned to the works of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Now a fellow seeker shares a charming and accessible introduction to Sartre's profound and complex ideas—told...
Life can often feel like a rat race. To make sense of it all, generations of truth seekers have turned to the works of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Now a fellow seeker shares a charming and accessible introduction to Sartre's profound and complex ideas—told...
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel...
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
One of the Modern Scholar's most popular professors, Timothy B. Shutt, brings his literary acumen and trademark enthusiasm to the study of the epic poems that sit at the very wellspring of Western culture. The earliest surviving works of Greek literature, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey exert a continuing influence on modern culture, even today shaping people's values and conduct. In the tales of Achilles and Hector, of Odysseus and Penelope, Homer explored...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1943 a group of 1434 Polish refugees from the Soviet Russia, including a few hundred orphans, arrived in an abandoned ranch of Santa Rosa at the invitation of the Mexican President. Santa Rosa, near Leon, Mexico became their home for the few years to come. Earlier in December 1942, Prime Minister of Polish Government in Exile - General Władysław Sikorski arrived in Mexico to sign an agreement with President of Mexico Avila Camacho to set up such...
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Publisher
Viva Editions
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Who knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden...
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English
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"From the author of Fire and Fortitude, the continuation of the US Army's epic crusade in the Pacific War, from the battle of Saipan to the occupation of Japan"--
After some two years at war, the Army in the Pacific held ground across nearly a third of the globe. The challenges ahead were enormous: supplying a vast number of troops over thousands of miles of ocean; surviving in jungles ripe with dysentery, malaria, and other tropical diseases; fighting...
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Dena was a busy midwife trapped on the hamster wheel of working motherhood. Adam was an eccentric Buddhist yogi passing as a hard-working dad. Bella was fourteen and wanted to be normal. Sophia was up for anything that involved skipping school. Together, they shouldered backpacks, walked away from their California life of all-night births, carpool schedules, and Cal Skate, and criss-crossed India and Nepal for eight months--a journey that led them...
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