Nicholas Farrell
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Eating disorders are serious conditions that can be hard to treat; however, the chances of overcoming an eating disorder increase when exposure therapy is used as part of the overall treatment strategy. Exposure therapy involves confronting (rather than avoiding) challenging scenarios that evoke distress, and though this technique has typically been used mainly by psychotherapists, people struggling with eating disorders can use it on their own to...
Pub. Date
2009.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (343 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Romance, surgery and history combine in this vivid, atmospheric drama based on the lives and case notes of doctors, nurses and patients at the Royal London Hospital a century ago. In this series, the London opens its doors to an East End in turmoil after a bomb explosion - the latest in a series of attacks that have happened all over Europe. Nurse Ada Russell struggles to cope with the difficult but brilliant surgeon Percy Dean. And will Nurse Ethel...
3) Legionnaire
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Alain is a boxer in 1925 Marseille, France. When he doesn't take the dive paid to take by a mob boss, he has to split. He joins the Foreign Legion and is sent to Morocco. He makes 3 friends and they watch each other's backs.
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (229 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Romance, surgery and history combine in this vivid, atmospheric drama based on the lives and case notes of doctors, nurses and patients at the Royal London Hospital a century ago. Set in the heart of the East End amid horrific danger and poverty, when illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, measles, syphilis, diphtheria are rife, Whitechapel life tumbles through the emergency room doors daily in victims of violence, suicide, drink and drugs. Themes...
Pub. Date
1993.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (215 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Ian Richardson returns as conspirator extraordinaire, Francis Urquhart, and takes up the story exactly where House of Cards left off. Urquhart is pitched into Government with a fantastically slim majority and a hatred of his King who is far too liberal to survive the new Government. But the King fights back.
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (229 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Romance, surgery and history combine in this vivid, atmospheric drama based on the lives and case notes of doctors, nurses and patients at the Royal London Hospital a century ago. Set in the heart of the East End amid horrific danger and poverty, when illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, measles, syphilis, diphtheria are rife, Whitechapel life tumbles through the emergency room doors daily in victims of violence, suicide, drink and drugs. Themes...
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In this powerful historical drama about the intersection of faith and reason, a Spanish archaeologist Marcelino (Antonio Banderas) and his daughter Maria (Allegra Allen) discover seemingly impossible paintings of galloping bison adorning the walls of a hidden cave. The discovery brings the world together in amazement, drawing people of all types to see the paintings in person. But, Marcelino soon realizes that the art on the walls must be 10,000 years...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Grace Kelly is a huge movie star with the promise of a glittering career when she marries Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. Six years later, with her marriage in serious difficulty, Alfred Hitchcock offers her the chance to return to Hollywood to play the role of Marnie in his next film. But France is also threatening to annex Monaco, the tiny principality where she became the Princess. Grace is torn and forced to choose between the creative flame...
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Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" was so popular in Victorian times that it is mentioned in many classics of that era including George Eliot's "Middlemarch," Jane Austen's "Emma," Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", amongst others. It is the story of Dr. Charles Primrose, the titular Vicar, his wife Deborah and their six children who live an idyllic life in a country parish. The Vicar...
10) The Prelude
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First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation...
11) The Night Watch
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Those with the job of thinking the unthinkable face the greatest challenge of their lives.
Old orders are failing- tired democracies falter in the face of violence in the streets.
A storm of financial might and technological horror is gathering.
Calvin November, a messianic figure, makes a Presidential bid and an astonishing offer.
Primitive animal fear drives a messenger through a winter night with a warning nobody wants to hear.
The action moves...
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The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback from one of the most versatile and bold writers of our time-a novel inspired by Princess Diana.
What if Princess Diana hadn't died? Diana's life and marriage were fairy tale and nightmare rolled into one. Adored by millions, in her personal life she suffered rejection, heartbreak, and betrayal. Surrounded by glamour and glitz and the constant attentions of the press, she fought to carve a meaningful...