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Phillip Connors returns with the story of what drove him up to the tower in the first place: the wilderness years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy. This is an unforgettable account of grappling with a shattered sense of purpose, from his family's failing pig farm in Minnesota to a crack-addled Brooklyn neighborhood to the mountains of New Mexico, where he puts the pieces of his life back together.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
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"In The Measure of a Man, Vincent Lindon ... gives his finest performance to date as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses that lead to dead ends, interviews via Skype, a workshop critique of his self-presentation by fellow jobseekers; all are mechanisms that seek to break him down and strip him of identity and self respect. In his award-winning performance,...
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Saving lives did not come easily to 15-year-old Jack Andraka. Here, the 18-year-old recounts how he overcame various challenges on his way to developing a life-changing early-detection test to better diagnose pancreatic cancer. Readers discover that, with a lot of hard work and a firm goal in sight, anyone can change the world.
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