Rebecca Jenkins
2) 10.5
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Disaster strikes the United States when a 10.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest causing the West Coast to separate from the rest of the continent. The situation is made worse by aftershocks and a tsunami. Now it's up to one geologist to save the Coast and the 50 million people who live there from annihilation.
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English
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Joel Bakan, an eminent law professor and legal theorist, contends that "the corporation" is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality, whose destructive behavior, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin. Mandated to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, their own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others-a concept endorsed by no less a luminary than the Nobel Prize-winning...
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English
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In Childhood Under Siege, Joel Bakan reveals the callous and widespread exploitation of children by profit-seeking corporations and society's failure to protect them.
Focusing on the United States, Bakan looks at: how marketers target children to manipulate their vulnerable emotions, cultivate compulsive behavior, and addle their psyches with violence, sex, and obsessive consumerism; the dramatic increase in children's chronic health while corporations...
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English
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Robin MacFarland is a somewhat eccentric and highly intelligent journalist for the Home and Garden section of a Toronto paper, who at age fifty-five looks aghast in the mirror and pronounces herself, "Old. Fat. Alcoholic. Alone. Failure." She resolves to lose weight, quit drinking, and try online dating, although not, perhaps in quite that order. The intrigue begins when Robin chooses to cover a water cooling system conference where she thinks there...
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English
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Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time.
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English
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In the tradition of Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, an eye-opening work of investigative journalism that challenges our common wisdom about pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year of a baby's life, showing how the mother and child's wellbeing are often undermined by corporate profit margins and the private interests of the medical community.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A "genre-twisting film by director Sarah Polley, who investigates the elusive truths of her eclectic family of storytellers as she playfully interrogates a cast of characters who each relate their version of the family mythology. Polley reveals the essence of family as she uncovers the secrets buried deep within-- "--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This film provides an amazing encounter with the mountain gorilla in Rwanda, a highly social species and one of the world's largest primates. Eat, nap, travel, eat is the routine for adult gorillas, but the young members of the troop see everything as play, play, play! Watch a young silverback challenge the leader for dominance of the troop.
10) Wilby wonderful
Series
Film Movement ; 3, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town during the course of a strange twenty-four hours.
11) Marion Bridge
Series
Film Movement ; 1, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behavior, the youngest of three sisters, Agnes (Molly Parker), returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia determined to confront the past. Her arrival sets in motion a chain of events that allows a family of women to re-connect with the world and each other in their own ways." --
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Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003-2004.
Language
English
Description
"10.5: Fictional account of a national crisis in the form of three disasterous weather systems." --
"Category 6 : day of destruction: Disaster strikes the United States when a 10.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest causing the West Coast to separate from the rest of the continent. The situation is made worse by aftershocks and a tsunami. Now it's up to one geologist to save the Coast and the 50 million people who live there from annihilation."...
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English
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Sydney Clarke (Sela Ward) is a spoiled famous actress who is shooting a film when she walks in on her cheating fiancé. She storms off the set and finds herself stranded in a small mill town. There, she takes refuge for a while, and in so doing discovers the true meaning of love and friendship. Sydney must decide between wanting a normal life or the high-profile career she's worked so hard for.