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Belgium Brussels Counterinsurgency Uruguay Drama Kidnapping Uruguay Drama Latin America Politics and government Drama Marine biology Prostitution Underwater archaeology United States. Agency for International Development Officials and employees Drama Uruguay Politics and government Drama WidowsCousteau, Jacques Yves.
Summary: Relates the projects in undersea research to which the former minesweeper Calypso has contributed since 1951 under the captaincy of Jacques Cousteau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 551.46 COUCousteau, Jacques Yves.
Summary: Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the leader of fascinating, often dangerous expeditions all over the planet, he discovered firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea--and watched the toll taken by human activity. In his last book, written over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.95 COUCousteau, Jacques Yves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 599.51 COUCousteau, Jacques Yves.
Summary: Covers all aspects of sea life including evolution, reproduction, foodgetting, communication, attack and defense mechanisms, legends and tales, life in the polar regions and the future of the oceans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 574.92 COUSummary: Betty is a best selling novelist who has invented her name to escape a troubled past made worse by her emotionally unstable and violent mother. When her young son is killed in an accident, her mother brings her a "replacement", a boy she kidnapped off the street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: Calypso's search for the Britannic: For 70 years, the sudden sinking of the mighty British ship Britannic, larger than her sister ship Titanic, has been shrouded in mystery. Jacques Cousteau reveals the full story of November 21, 1916 when, on her 6th journey as a hospital ship, Britannic exploded and sank into the Aegean Sea. With recollections of a survivor, then a young nurse, Cousteau and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 919.53 COUSummary: Blind prophets of Easter Island: Since the Polynesian island's discovery in 1722, the lost, ancient civilization of Easter Island has left a baffling legacy of riddles. Jacques Cousteau and the Calypso crew undertake land and underwater explorations and interview leading experts. Among the questions they tackle: who created the ancient, once-revered giant stone figures? Why do volcanic rock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jacques and Philippe Cousteau embark on a 10-month expedition along the entire course of the world's largest river, capturing on film the Nile's astonishing natural beauties, dangers, primitive cultures and animal sanctuaries. Wild hippopotami, the mysteries of the deadly tsetse fly, the ancient Dinka and Shilluk African tribes and the Sudd--a swamp as large as England--are among the natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lost relics of the sea: Jacques cousteau and the Calypso crew journey across two seas, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, to recover the remains of great ships. Off northern Crete they find skulls, scattered bones and round pellets of grape-shot fired in a 300-year-old battle and at another site, 1st-century Roman jars. Their biggest wreck is uncovered at Martinique. In 1902, 30,000 people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2005
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Summary: "The environment is an essential but sometimes tough and weighty concept to grasp. This engaging nonfiction book takes readers back to the basics, offering an accessible overview of what makes up our environment, how those parts work, and why they matter. Divided into five sections--water, air, soil, energy, and climate--the book uses facts, figures, and simple language to give an overarching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577 PASSummary: Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN JEASummary: Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015