Summary: Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm, LLC 2008

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Summary: Program 1: The End of the Earth: Shows the fierce, remote, and astonishingly beautiful part of the earth. Look into the face of the Katabatic, the downward sloping wind that decimates life and dictates the weather. Then look at icebergs at the edge of the sea, these vast platforms of ice are the source of life for seals, whales, krill, penguins and petrels, but they also have a life of their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2003

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Ryberg, Roben.

Summary: "This book is a friendly yet authoritative cookbook that simplifies the challenges of a gluten-free diet. It's a common-sense approach to the sensitive immune system of the reader"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2008

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Mastro, Jim

Summary: Photographs and text describe the varied animal life on the coldest continent, focusing on the Adélie penguin, Weddell seal, and Orca whale.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2003

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Publisher / Publication Date: Comics Lit 2009

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Summary: Over the past sixteen years, an extraordinary group of musicians has come together to celebrate the universal power of music. Named for the ancient trade route linking Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Silk Road Ensemble, an international collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma, exemplifies music's ability to blur international boundaries, blend disparate cultures, and inspire hope for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Ebert, Roger.

Contents: 3 Women -- Ace in the Hole -- Adaptation -- After Dark My Sweet -- After Hours -- The Age of Innocence -- Army of Shadows -- Atlantic City -- Au Revoir les Enfants -- Babel -- The Band Wagon -- Baraka -- The Battle of Algiers -- Bergman's trilogy 1: Through a Glass Darkly -- Bergman's trilogy 2: Winter Light -- Bergman's trilogy 3: The Silence -- The Best Years of Our Lives -- The Big Red One...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2010

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Ebert, Roger.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2007

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Roper, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002

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Ebert, Roger.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2002

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Ebert, Roger.

Summary: A new compilation of one hundred essays by the film critic presents his analyses of the films that epitomize the finest examples of cinematic art.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005

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Wu, Tim

Summary: "We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms -- big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the "curse of bigness" can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers and economists, for it has spilled over into policy and politics, even threatening...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2018

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Ebert, Roger

Summary: Life and career of film critic Roger Ebert.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015

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Ebert, Roger.

Summary: The influential, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic offers four decades of his personal insights, encounters, and experiences in the world of motion pictures.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2006

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Wu, Tim

Summary: "From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--A revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016

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Wu, Yangmu

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Amsterdam 1990

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Lebert, Stephan

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001

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Rogers, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Purple Mountain Press 2002

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