Paul Shapiro
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English
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The next great scientific revolution is underway - Discovering new ways to create enough food for the world's ever-growing hungry population. Paul Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat - real meat - without the animals. From the entrepreneurial visionaries to the scientists' workshops to the big business boardrooms - Shapiro details that quest for clean meat and...
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Résumé : Depuis l'apparition de l'Homo sapiens il y a plus de 200 000 ans, nous nous sommes toujours tournés vers les animaux pour satisfaire notre désir de viande. Mais cette habitude séculaire est-elle compatible avec la croissance démographique que connaît notre espèce ? On prévoit que la Terre comptera neuf à dix milliards d'habitants d'ici 2050. Si la plupart auront les moyens d'adopter un régime alimentaire aussi fastueux que les...
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English
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Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939-- the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States. In early 1939, America's rigid immigration laws made it virtually impossible for European Jews to seek safe haven in the United States. As deep-seated anti-Semitism and isolationism gripped...
4) Hockey Night
Publisher
Films We Like
Pub. Date
1984.
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English
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Lovingly restored and digitally remastered, HOCKEY NIGHT features Canadian icon Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables) as Cathy Yarrow, a confident and talented young athlete. Having moved to a small town, the bored and under-challenged Cathy straps on goalie pads and joins the boys’ all-star hockey team—facing substantial criticism from the town, including local broadcaster Bum Johnson (Maury Chaykin) and the team’s sponsor, lumber magnate Bill...
7) Plain truth
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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A newborn is found dead in a serene, simple Pennsylvania Amish farming community. High-profile criminal lawyer Ellie Harrison ditches her self-indulgent city life to head to the rural farm in order to defend Katie, an unmarried 18-year-old Amish girl, who stands accused of killing her baby. Despite the surmounting evidence, Katie insists that she was never pregnant. While trying to learn her client's secrets, Ellie is forced to live with the Amish...
9) Ghost Shark
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English
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When rednecks on a fishing trip kill a great white shark, its spirit comes back for revenge, and soon turns its sights on the town of Smallport.
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Flash Gordon volume 22
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English
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Ming refuses to surrender and Terek's troops take Nacent City by force. Dr. Gordon disables the core of the rift generator and sets it to self-destruct after he, Nora, Flash, Dale and Zarkov ride the final rift back to Earth.
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Series
Flash Gordon volume 3
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English
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Ming's stranded bounty hunter Baylin must form a tense alliance with Flash, Zarkov and Dale -- especially when a barbaric man from her past arrives on Earth to take her back.
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Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Eve Morgan, a workaholic, finds herself tethered to her guardian angel, Pearl, as she learns to become a Christmas angel in Heaven. Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, Eve is assigned the difficult task of helping a struggling singer, Max, use his musical gifts to heal old family wounds. As Max begins to overcome his issues, Eve begins to embrace the meaning of Christmas, heal wounds of her own, and perhaps find love along...
13) Jewel
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English
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Set in the 1940s, the film tells the story a 40-year-old woman living in rural Mississippi, Jewel, who gives birth to a girl with Down Syndrome and raises her amidst immense social stigma and financial hardships.
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Flash Gordon volume 4
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English
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When Nick is bitten by a deadly 'joy bug' after an errant rift sends them to Earth, Flash and Baylin must return to Mongo to obtain the cure in a race against time to save Nick's life.
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Flash Gordon volume 21
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English
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Terek, now confirmed as "The One" spoken of in The Prophecy who is destined to overthrow Ming, enlists the support of the Cantons and prepares for armed rebellion.
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Ring of Fire volume 2
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English
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When an oil rig causes a volcanic eruption in a small town, it's not just an isolated event-as environmental activist Emily Booth and former oil company analyst Matthew Cooper fear. It's just the first in a series that could affect the dangerous Ring of Fire that contains most of the world's volcanos. Before the earth is swallowed whole by a cataclysmic series of eruptions, only Matthew knows how to stop it. It's a suicide mission, but the only alternative...
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Ring of Fire volume 1
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English
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When an oil rig causes a volcanic eruption in a small town, it's not just an isolated event-as environmental activist Emily Booth and former oil company analyst Matthew Cooper fear. It's just the first in a series that could affect the dangerous Ring of Fire that contains most of the world's volcanos. Before the earth is swallowed whole by a cataclysmic series of eruptions, only Matthew knows how to stop it. It's a suicide mission, but the only alternative...
20) The hustle
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.