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41) The November man
Pub. Date
[2014]
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2 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Codenamed The November Man, Peter Devereaux is a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent who has been enjoying a quiet life in Switzerland. When Devereaux is lured out of retirement for one last mission, he must protect valuable witness Alice Fournier. He soon finds this assignment makes him a target of his former friend and CIA protege David Mason. With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules, and...
42) Bullitt
Pub. Date
2007
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3 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bullitt (McQueen) needs to keep a trial's star witness, Johnny Ross, out of sight and out of danger for 48 hours. However, before the night is out, the witness is dying of gunshot wounds in a San Francisco hospital.
43) Familiar places
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 50 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Narrated by the linguist and anthropologist Peter Sutton, this documentary observes his work with a family in far north Queensland, outside Aurukun, to map their hereditary "clan country". The aim of the older members of the family is partly to protect their land and prove their attachment to it, for purposes of dealing with the government and industry, and also to demarcate the country from claims by other Aboriginal groups. Angus Namponen, with...
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In Now or Never, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers returns to the subject of climate change with a book that is at once a forceful call to action and a deeply (and often surprisingly) pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability. Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail....
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The best-selling author of more than 200 children's books, David A. Adler has enthralled kids with the memory-clicking antics of girl detective Cam Jansen. Cam can hardly wait for her school's Green Day assembly. That's when she and her fellow students will learn how many dollars they have harvested in their recycling campaign. But when all their hard-earned money disappears without a trace, Cam determines to use her photographic memory to solve this...
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 48 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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This AGTA 2008 award winning program looks at issues related to management of beaches and development near beaches in NSW, Queensland and Western Australia. Case studies include Duranbah Beach and sand pumping at the Tweed, The Gold Coast, new housing developments at "Salt" and "Casuarina" near the Tweed and how developers and communities reached agreement, Sydney-inappropriate development near beaches, pollution and protecting ecosystems, SW Western...
47) Hidden Mountain
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Hardy Boys volume 186
Pub. Date
2004
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154 p. ; 20 cm.
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Frank and Joe have gone hunting--but instead of sniffing out wildlife, they're out to find the Wilkerson family.
48) Killshot
Pub. Date
2009
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Armand 'Blackbird' Degas is a Mafia hit man who shoots to kill and never leaves witnesses, until now. When Carmen and Wayne Colson see him at the scene of a botched murder attempt, they become his next targets. After entering witness protection, they discover the law isn't on their side and decide to take matters into their own hands"--Container.
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 20 min. 15 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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Online and mobile technologies profoundly influence how we read, write, learn and work. Online behaviour follows us all through our schooling and careers. Explore skills for communicating smartly across many digital technologies, how multitasking affects learning and work and how online posts can become skeletons in a digital closet, causing school expulsions, destroying college admissions, and blowing job offers. Discover how to protect your privacy,...
50) Mission Erde
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Robert Marc Lehmann ist auf einer Mission: »Mission Erde« - gewidmet dem Erhalt unserer Erde mit ihrer einzigartigen Natur und Tierwelt. Der Meeresbiologe, Fotograf und Umweltschützer ist weltweit in Einsätzen zur Rettung von Wildtieren und im Kampf gegen Umweltkriminalität unterwegs. Er nimmt uns mit auf sehr emotionale Wal-Rettungen, gefährliche Schildkröten- und Schuppentier-Befreiungen im Dschungel oder teils lebensgefährliche Missionen,...
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Die Böden unter unseren Füßen sind unsere Lebensgrundlage. Wir leben auf und von ihnen. Ein Millimeter fruchtbarer Boden kann dreihundert Jahre zum Aufbau benötigen. Waren die Landwirte vor der Industrialisierung noch darauf angewiesen, Humus aufzubauen, um die Böden lebendig zu erhalten, nutzt die moderne Landwirtschaftsindustrie den Boden nur noch als bloßes Substrat, in das die Überproduktion von Exkrementen der industriellen Fleischfabrikation...
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Pub. Date
2009
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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When Miss Fox shows up at school riding her bicycle, Mouse asks, "Do you have a flat tire?" "No," Miss Fox tells her students. "I am going green!" Soon everyone in the class is working to keep the earth healthy. Mouse takes shorter showers (and does her singing after!), Bunny brings a cloth bag to the supermarket, and Possum turns the lights off when he goes out. And, Miss Fox's simple act has ripples even beyond her own students... soon the whole...
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2022.
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"Sparked by long-forgotten gifts and memorabilia discovered in an old trunk, the now ninety-year-old Hill reminisces about private moments, shared laughs, and crazy adventures with one of the world's most iconic women during her time as First Lady and the excruciating year following the assassination of her husband. After all, he notes that "when you travel with someone...you experience things that can't be fully appreciated by anyone who wasn't there""--...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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viii, 406 pages ; 25 cm
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"Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from the nation's foremost healthcare journalist. The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another, for better or worse, and become the defining political...
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A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past fifty years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial progress is ongoing on others. The Optimistic Environmentalist chronicles these remarkable success stories....
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2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 30 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Driven by intensely personal testimony and painstaking research, Deadly Deception exposes what GE never wanted its customers to know: a shocking pattern of negligence and misinformation spanning several decades. These tragic stories are answered by the inspiring activism of the GE Boycott, a grassroots campaign run by corporate accountability organization, Corporate Accountability International, to pressure GE out of the nuclear weapons industr. Nine...
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