Nyambi Nyambi
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Primates volume 3
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More than half of the world's primates are under threat. Meet the scientists making ground-breaking discoveries to safeguard their future.
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Primates volume 1
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Discover the survival strategies used by primates, often in the most unexpected places.
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Primates volume 2
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Family is everything for primates. Meet devoted monkey dads, playmate apes and tender troops.
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2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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United by a hooked beak, a taste for flesh and a set of razor-sharp talons, raptors have conquered the globe. Learn more about eagles, hawks, owls and falcons as well as the lesser-known hunters like gymnogenes, caracaras and seriemas. Explore the question of what the future holds for these remarkable birds in a rapidly changing world due to habitat loss, climate change, persecution and pollution.
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2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (159 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Filmed over two years on 28 filming expeditions across the globe - from Argentina to Borneo to Madagascar – Primates, A NATURE Miniseries captures primates’ survival skills and relationship dynamics with the latest science and technology.
9) In Her Name
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2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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An art house dramedy, about estranged sisters bonding as thirty-somethings forced to confront reality. While dealing with their egomaniacal formerly-important artist father’s descent, they experience a somewhat psychedelic liberation from the pain of their past and find themselves in a vortex of awareness of what matters most. Love.
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2019
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3 videodiscs (545 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Diane Lockhart tries to figure out whether she can resist a crazy administration without going crazy herself, while Adrian Boseman and Liz Reddick-Lawrence struggle with a new post-factual world where the lawyer who tells the best story triumphs over the lawyer with the best facts. Meanwhile, Lucca Quinn balances a new baby with a new love, and Maia Rindell finds a new Mephistopheles in Roland Blum, a lawyer who is corruption incarnate.
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[2022]
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3 videodiscs (517 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Diane is forced to question whether it's appropriate for her to help run an African American law firm with Liz when the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa and the firm become entangled with Hal Wackner, a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his courtroom in the back of a copy shop.
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[2018-
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videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When her friend's multimillion-dollar investment scam ruins Diane Lockhart's plan for retirement, wipes out her savings and taints her reputation, she is literally at a loss. In Season 1 of The Good Fight (from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King), a disgraced Diane is forced out of her own law firm and joins another distinguished company as a junior partner. She recruits Maia Rindell, a promising young attorney with her own baggage: Maia's...
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A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan.
Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London...
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This Caldecott Medal winner from prolific children's book author and illustrator Gail E. Haley is steeped in colorful African and Caribbean language and folklore. It is the legendary tale of Kwaku Ananse, the spider man-and how he bargained with Nyame the Sky God to give his treasure of stories to the world.
17) Snakepit
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Bat Katanga, a Cambridge University post-graduate, returns to his dictator-oppressed African homeland in the 1970s. Rising rapidly through the government's bureaucratic ranks, Bat must navigate-and survive-a world rife with bribery, seduction, conspiracy and execution.
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"There's no easy way to say this, Kubu. Your father's dead. I'm afraid he's been murdered."
Faced with the violent death of his own father, even Assistant Superintendent David "Kubu" Bengu, Botswana CID's keenest mind, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man? The picture becomes even murkier with the apparent suicide of a government official. Are Chinese mine-owners involved? And what role does the US Embassy have to play?
Set amidst the...
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Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana.
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . ....
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . ....
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No Choirboy takes readers inside America's prisons, and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices-raw and uncensored-they talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.
This is a searing,...