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Pub. Date
2021.
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Joe (Daniel Craig) is an accomplished writer and professor whose rational life is thrust into a downward spiral of guilt after witnessing a freak, fatal ballooning accident while picnicking with girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton). Jed (Rhys Ifans), another man involved in that fateful day, seeks out Joe looking for consolation and a way to make sense of this tragedy they’ve both witnessed. Jed soon becomes as inescapable to Joe as his guilt, and...
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2016.
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The Enduring Passion for Ink: A Project on Contemporary Ink Painters (or the "Project”) is a proposed exhibition, book, and film series designed to introduce the viewing public to the burgeoning field of contemporary ink painting in China today. The key to the exhibition lies in a series of documentary films, one for each featured artist, to be shown adjacent to that artist’s works. The films will address the fundamental artistic choices confronting...
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Love comes softly volume 2
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Continues the pioneer adventures of Clark and Marty as they face the joys and trials of life on a homesteader's farm and the marriage of their daughter.
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Pub. Date
2006
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Unabridged
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"Just be yourself!" People say it all the time, but how do we actually live it? For more than a decade Matthew Kelly has been helping people discover the best-version-of-themselves. Now, in Perfectly Yourself, he addresses the opportunities and obstacles that we encounter once we decide to ask life's big questions: Who am I? What am I here for? Focusing on nine powerful and practical lessons, Kelly shows us how to find lasting happiness in a changing...
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2015.
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TarraWarra Museum of Art: An Enduring Passion tells the story of the birth of Australia's first significant privately funded public art museum. Designed by architect Allan Powell, the museum was the vision of Eva Besen and Marc Besen who began collecting Australian art in the 1950s. Their friendships with artists included Leonard French, John Olsen, Jeffrey Smart and Fred Williams. "The Besen Collection is the dream collection of Australia. I'm able...
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2021
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National Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist
53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography
“[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Brilliantly constructed to be both forward and backward looking, Blain’s book functions simultaneously as a much needed history lesson and an indispensable guide for modern activists.”—New York...
53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography
“[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Brilliantly constructed to be both forward and backward looking, Blain’s book functions simultaneously as a much needed history lesson and an indispensable guide for modern activists.”—New York...
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2017
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Trayvon Martin’s parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement.
“A reminder—not only of Trayvon’s life and death but of the vulnerability of black lives in a country that still needs to be reminded they matter.”—USA Today
Now a docuseries on the Paramount...
“A reminder—not only of Trayvon’s life and death but of the vulnerability of black lives in a country that still needs to be reminded they matter.”—USA Today
Now a docuseries on the Paramount...
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2013.
Description
End your journey through the story of Eastern civilization by reflecting on the role of East Asia in the world today. What insights do the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989 shed on the people of China? Will China eventually democratize? What will become of China's One Child Policy? How will the story of Eastern civilization continue to unfold?
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2022.
Description
In the 1960s, India and Pakistan went to war over the northern territory of Kashmir. But why? What can history reveal about the territorial anxieties facing both nations? And how did global powers like the United States respond to the violent conflicts that engulfed the subcontinent after World War II? Answer these key questions here.
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Pub. Date
2012
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Patrick Thibeault has served in the US Army in various capacities since the 1990s, originally training as an Airborne soldier before specialising as a combat medic.
My Journey as a Combat Medic covers his original training and deployment before providing a look at the roles he's since played in the US Army's forces, including his recent deployment to Afghanistan.
It is a no-holds bar look at the modern medic in the...
My Journey as a Combat Medic covers his original training and deployment before providing a look at the roles he's since played in the US Army's forces, including his recent deployment to Afghanistan.
It is a no-holds bar look at the modern medic in the...
17) The Skeptic's Guide to American History: Episode 7,The Second Great Awakening - Enduring Impacts
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Grasp how the links between religion and politics that today inspire such powerful positive and negative emotions are nothing new. See how issues born out of the 19th-century's evangelical upheaval - from prison reform to women's suffrage - still engage us today.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Both Jane Austen's reputation for literary greatness and her pop-culture cachet continue to grow with each new adaptation and every new generation that encounters her work. How has pop culture helped shape Austen's long afterlife? Answer this question and more as you close the series with an examination of the lesser-known twists and turns of Austen's popularity in the 20th and 21st centuries.
19) The book of eels: our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world
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2020.
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"Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, THE BOOK OF EELS is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish -- the eel -- and a reflection on the human condition." -- Provided by publisher.
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