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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A critic and historian who has been watching cinema for seventy years and has seen almost nineteen thousand films presents a tour of his favorite movies, highlighting forgotten treasures and explaining what makes a film a hit or a flop.
Language
English
Formats
Description
50 million people in the U.S. - one in four children - don't know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people who are struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The four Pevensie children--Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy--return to Narnia, only to discover that hundreds of years have passed since they ruled there. Now, crowning himself king, the evil General Miraz has taken charge. The children enlist the help of a heroic mouse called Reepicheep. They set out to find the exiled Prince Caspian, determined to see him rightfully named king.
Publisher
Aldo Leopold Foundation
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Examines the conservationist's life and legacy, examining ways his land ethic philosophy and vision of a community that cares about both people and land lives on in the work of individuals and organizations around the country today.
6) Food, Inc
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Explores the U.S. commercial food industry, examining corporate control of supply and market. The film seeks to demonstrate how the incentive for corporate profit can overwhelm consumer health needs, as well as the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and the environment. Reveals various details of food ingredients and additives, and how contemporary mass production methods of food affects U.S. culture.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
One year. One class. One play. The Latino-and Asian-American children crowding Los Angeles' sprawling Hobart Boulevard Elementary face daunting odds: low-income households, under-funded, overcrowded school, and a neighborhood known for crime, not opportunity. Teacher Rafe Esquith expects the best from these kids, leading his fifth-graders through a rigorous core curriculum of English, mathematics, geography, and literature. The pinnacle of each...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the ocean, there is a town called Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob SquarePants is a fry cook who works at the town's most popular restaurant The Krusty Krab. He lives a crazy life with his hard-headed neighbor, and best friend, Patrick. His next door neighbor, Squidward, is a sarcastic, boring squid who can't stand SpongeBob and Patrick. Mr. Krabs is SpongeBob's boss at the Krusty Krab. Mr. Krabs is one of the most money-greedy men alive.
Publisher
Greenwood, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Ghosts are the only monsters that most people actually believe in." A folklorist friend of mine said this to me when I was in the early stages of working on this project. His words really colored the scope of this book, which in its entries not only explains certain ghost lore and ghost-related phenomena, but considers the psychological and sociological reasons that representations of the ghost exist almost by necessity in different cultures and...
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