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Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
After decades of quiet living, 89- year-old former senator and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Gravel comes out of retirement when a group of teenagers convince him to run for president. Through Senator Gravel's official Twitter account, the Gravel teens embark on an unlikely adventure to qualify him for the Democratic debates in order to advance an anti-war, anti-corruption, and direct democracy agenda in the 2020 presidential race.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Investigate glaciers, which now cover about 10% of Earth's land area; 25,000 years ago, they covered 30%. Learn how to spot evidence of past glaciation—from sculpted valleys in Yosemite National Park, to the cliffs at Vicksburg, Mississippi (which formed far from glaciers), to Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. Dig into the physics of glaciers: how they develop and the forces they exert.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sedimentary rocks make up a substantial majority of rocks at Earth's surface. In this episode, focus on clastic rocks, which are composed of broken fragments of pre-existing rocks. The fragments can vary in size from clay particles to silt, sand, gravel, and larger pieces. Learn how these rocks form and the rich stories they tell about the past.
6) Full Time
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Single mother Julie (Laure Calamy) needs reliable transit to get to work–and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike. Out of desperation, Julie turns to neighbors and her own gutsy resourcefulness to stay afloat in a ruthless society as her responsibilities pile up. FULL TIME is an impossible race against time and a kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Especially popular with the aristocracy and the aspiring middle classes, the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens were 12 acres of woods and gravel walks on the South Bank of the Thames. Experience some of the scandalous stories of overindulgence, social interaction, sex, pleasure, and danger that abounded in and around this quintessentially 18th-century public place.
9) Joe
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
10) Full time
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
11) C.R.A.Z.Y
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
One of five brothers, Zachary begins life on a charmed note: born in Montreal on Christmas, he almost dies but miraculously pulls through. His hard-working father seems to favor him. That is until his dad detects there's something a little queer about the boy. Indeed, Zac shows even more queer signs come adolescence, aping David Bowie's glam looks and sexually experimenting with a boy from the neighborhood. Ultimately, dad's conservative, macho values...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this gripping Cold War noir, tensions simmer between residents of a small German village and the soldiers of a U.S. military base. Postwar economic hardship has turned the town of Sohnen into a vice district. The women serve as entertainment for the GIs, while the men struggle for survival in the black market.
Series
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Although he came to prominence when most young trumpet players tended to be brash and extroverted, Art Farmer developed a style that is lyrical and wistful, but still swings. He has a great musical versatility that enables him to play up-tempo blues, subdued ballads and experimental sounds with equal ease. Here on trumpet and flugelhorn, he brings a refined soft-edged tone to favorites. Art also gives an inside look at his life and music as he reflects...
15) Sand wars
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Sand Wars is a surprising investigation into one of the most consumed natural resources on the planet. The planet₂s sand reserves are being threatened. Three-quarters of the world's beaches are in decline as victims of erosion or 'sand mafias.' But what will be the consequences of sand extraction on the environment and life on the planet?
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In The NeverEnding story, the Nothing threatens to destroy Fantasia and its Child-Empress and a young warrior sets out to save them. In The Witches, a nine-year-old boy and his grandmother confront a witch who is planning to turn all of England's children into mice. In The Secret garden, a young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was abandoned after...
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