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Series
Invisibles volume 1
Language
English
Description
Behind the curtain of everyday existence, a vast and unholy Conspiracy is at work, twisting and deforming reality to pave the way for colonization by hideous extradimensional powers. Facing this onslaught is a laughably small resistance movement scattered across space and time - a handful of subversives known as the Invisibles. This silent guerrilla war has raged for millennia, shaping the very fabric of the universe. But now the countdown to the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The uprising of '34 is a startling documentary which tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression. The mill workers' defiant stance, and the remarkable grassroots organizing that led up to it, challenged a system of mill owner control that had shaped life in cotton mill communities for decades. Sixty years after the government brutally...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Behind the curtain of everyday existence, a vast and unholy Conspiracy is at work, twisting and deforming reality to pave the way for colonization by hideous extradimensional powers. Facing this onslaught is a laughably small resistance movement scattered across space and time - a handful of subversives known as the Invisibles. This silent guerrilla war has raged for millennia, shaping the very fabric of the universe. But now the countdown to the...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Power, politics, and money are all in the family in this bitingly funny series about a highly dysfunctional dynasty. With aging, uber-wealthy patriarch Logan Roy, CEO of one of the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerates, considering retirement as he deals with health concerns, each of his four grown children follows a personal agenda.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centerpiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers and mandolin players hammered out old mountain ballads while legends from the dawn of country music performed their classic hits. Most of the musicians who showed up have long since passed, but Nashville stars Ricky Skaggs and Marty Stuart survive....
7) Random acts of medicine: the hidden forces that sway doctors, impact patients, and shape our health
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Language
English
Description
"Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible--a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local community college, and a cozy house in a quaint little beach town. It may not look like much, but it's more than she ever dreamed of or what her difficult childhood promised. Her life's mantra is to be good, quiet, grateful. Until something shifts and Cinnamon is suddenly haunted by a terrifying question:...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Atheist Experience," produced in Austin, Texas, is the only atheist TV show in the United States. Every Sunday afternoon, two atheists debate callers for one hour, on camera. ATHEIST AMERICA portrays the show, its protagonists, and the discussions between the hosts and callers. The debates between believers and skeptics are funny, touching and shocking in turn, and they're interspersed with footage of the very public religious displays common...
10) Salsa magic
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Language
English
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"Thirteen-year-old Maya Beatriz Montenegro Calderon has vivid recurring dreams where she hears the ocean calling her. Mami's side of the family is known as "Los Locos," so maybe she actually is going crazy. But no time for that; the family business is where it's at. Whenever Maya, her sister Salma, and her three cousins, Ini, Mini, and Mo, aren't at school, you can usually find three generations of Calderones at Café Taza, serving up sandwiches de...
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Everyday, consumers are being fooled by dubious “scientific” studies. Whoever has science on his side can sell almost anything today: Whether it be yoghurt, cornflakes, milk, soy products – or diets. Honourable researchers have conducted extensive studies to “prove” so. But how scientific are these studies really? The advertising slogans are promising, the results – however – sobering. Exceedingly few obese people lose long-term weight...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning, US documentary explores the advertising and marketing techniques behind Coca-Cola's historic success. Drawing on a wealth of archive material and interviews with key industry figures, the film offers a powerful insight into Coke's commercial and social impact. Birth of modern advertising: Coke begins life as a "brain tonic" for business people. But the secret of the new drink's success lie in its marketing. Revolutionary mass advertising...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
1. Father Junipero Serra "Highly Recommended. Shot on location in California, this program discusses the historical importance of Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra, who is considered the founder of the California missions. The program is well documented and offers a lot of information in a short time. The illustrations are excellent, making the viewer feel like he or she is actually there. At the end, scholar Richard Menn gives a short summary...
Publisher
Canyon Cinema Foundation
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
"A frog that sits at the bottom of a well thinks that the whole sky is only as big as the lid of a pot.". When two American sisters travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history. Lynne and Dana Sachs' travel diary of their trip to Vietnam is a collection of tourism, city life, culture clash, and historic inquiry that's put together with the warmth of...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Energy is, without a doubt, the very foundation of the universe. It’s the engine that powers life and fuels the evolution of human civilization...Yet for all its importance, what energy really is and how it works remains a mystery to most non-scientists. For example:..• Where does most of our energy come from, and how is it sourced?.• How do energy technologies, both primitive and cutting-edge, generate power?.• How do we store energy—and...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lamba Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters and what it means to be different. Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor...
Author
Publisher
Artisan, an imprint of Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Americans eat more tomatoes than any vegetable except for the potato. But what do we do with all those tomatoes? Acclaimed chef, cooking teacher, and author Martha Holmberg shares 75 recipes to turn the tomato into glorious dishes. Whether it's a fresh-off-the-vine tomato or a just-picked-from-the-supermarket-shelf tomato, Holmberg has ideas to make the best of our favorite summer fruit. There are three versions of gazpacho, five ways to top roasted...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Emmy Award winner THE GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB told the horrific story of abuse and torture at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Academy award-nominated film ZERO DARK THIRTY generated controversy for its portrayal of alleged torture of detainees in order to gain information important to the U.S regarding the location of Osama bin Laden. Now comes a new and more shocking part of the story you haven't heard before - the role American doctors had in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very different China where the infamous One Child Policy has had the horrific side effect of a boom in stolen children. With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his own offspring; and prospective parents grappling with giving up their soon-to-be-born daughter...
20) Woubi Cheri
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
A cross-section of gender-bending pioneers describe in their own words their lives as homosexual Africans in Abijan. Woubi Chéri is the first film to give African homosexuals a chance to describe their world in their own words. Often funny, sometimes ribald, but always real, this documentary introduces us to gender pioneers demanding their right to construct a distinct African homosexuality. One needs a new language to create a new world; therefore...
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