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Casinos Nevada Las Vegas Drama Casinos Security measures Nevada Las Vegas Drama Electronic surveillance Nevada Las Vegas Drama Gambling Nevada Las Vegas Drama Hotels and motels Nevada Las Vegas Drama Las Vegas (Nev.) Drama Law students Law students Drama Private security services Nevada Las Vegas Drama Siegel, Bugsy 1906-1947 DramaSummary: Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REASummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Summary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAPChertoff, Michael
Summary: "Chertoff [posits] that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be ... overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data--more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343 CHESummary: When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Bank in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Bank. Bank even goes so far as to find amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ocean's 2007Summary: Follows the war crimes hearings from accusation to sentencing, offering insight into the cases of such defendants as Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORHouseman, John
Summary: Midwesterner James Hart struggles to survive an Ivy League law school and to meet the expectations of imperious Prof. Charles Kingsfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAPHouseman, John
Summary: Midwesterner James Hart struggles to survive an Ivy League law school and to meet the expectations of imperious Prof. Charles Kingsfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAPSummary: "Glenn Close ... commands the courtroom and the screen as win-at-all-costs attourney Patty Hewes, staking out her turf against an ambitious ex-protégée Ellen Parsons ... The former legal allies battle each other in high stakes cases involving ruthless billionaires, government conspiracies, economic crises, multinational corporations and military scandals"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DAMSummary: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEVSummary: Serious and hard-working Harvard Law School student Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes the fearful adversary of Kingsfield, the school's most imperious, witheringly sarcastic yet brilliant professor. Terrorizing some, inspiring others, the professor easily separates the men from the boys by the time the term is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPSummary: College freshman Michaela suffers a breakdown that looks less like her diagnosed condition of epilepsy than a form of demonic possession. Seeking a priest's aid, Michaela enters a very personal hell while her family watches in horror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REQSummary: Set in a dreary, unforgiving mid-nineteenth century German village in Hunsruck, it captures the plight of hundreds of thousands of Europeans who immigrated to faraway South America to escape the famine, poverty and despotism that ruled at home. Edgar Reitz's film is a heart-wrenching drama and love story set against the backdrop of this forgotten tragedy. Jakob, our protagonist, tries to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOMSummary: School is back in session, law school that is. Based on the 1973 film The Paper Chase, the TV series. Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. is the almighty voice of law and order on the Ivy League campus. He presides over second year student James T. Hart and a class of driven, intelligent, and morally challenged students who always seem to rise through the pressures of life and law in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAPSummary: A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. This unpredictable journey careers from slapstick to tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SORSummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: Ed Deline and his top-notch surveillance team are back, making sure that all is well in the Montecito Resort & Casino.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASSummary: This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tetra Media Fiction 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGSummary: In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 WHISchlink, Bernhard.
Summary: A German teenager has an affair with an emotionally remote older woman and only years later, when he is a law student and she is on trial, does he discover that she was involved in the Holocaust. She refuses to defend herself when she is accused of a hideous crime. The young law student gradually realizes that the woman may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999