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22) Alcohol
Series
Publisher
Cambridge Educational
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of alcohol, including its use as a medicine; the effects of alcohol on the body and the short - and long-term health impacts; and teeage attitudes toward alcohol and trends such as binge drinking. Also examines the prevalence of alcohol in American culture and discusses - alcoholism - how to identify it and how to treat it
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The author takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey--this time burrowing deep inside the impassioned, secretive world of art and artists. An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world--and couldn't look away. Intrigued by artists who hyperventilate around their favorite colors and art fiends who max out credit cards to show hunks of metal...
25) Blackfish
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures/CNN Films
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Killer whales – beloved, yet infamous for their capacity to kill viciously – lie at the heart of BLACKFISH, which expands on the discussion of keeping such intelligent creatures in captivity. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **San Francisco International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Alpyn Health Education
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Presents information about diabetes, covering the types of diabetes, complications of the disease and how to avoid them, effective management of the condition, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, psychological aspects, self-monitoring blood sugar, and the future of diabetes.
29) Scrap
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap. SCRAP is a love letter to the things we use in our daily lives. This cinematic documentary tells the stories of people who have deep connections to objects that have reached their end of life. The stories convey a deeper environmental and human message about our relationship to things, the sadness we feel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies, and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society's role in shaping the individual, and demonstrates the value of sociology for understanding the modern world.
In this new edition Steve Bruce discusses the continuing arguments for social egalitarianism,...
Author
Publisher
Albatross Funnybooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Killer Files, Hell's Princess), teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell (The Goon, Big Man Plans, Hillbilly) to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history, Ed Gein. This graphic novel is an in-depth exploration of the Gein family and what led to the creation of the necrophile who...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
Description
", The World as Will and Idea" is a major work in Western philosophy, first published in 1818, in which Schopenhauer presents his unique philosophy of the world as being fundamentally driven by an irrational, insatiable will that underlies all phenomena. He argues that this will is the source of all human suffering and that the only way to attain true happiness and liberation from this suffering is to transcend one's individual will and identify with...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He has written more than 20 books of literary criticism. From a lifetime of writing and teaching about literature, this great scholar exhorts readers to consider the pleasures and benefits of reading well. Beginning with a basic question, "Why read?" Bloom offers his thoughts...
34) Viva maestro
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When conductor Gustavo Dudamel's international tours are disrupted by deadly protests across his native Venezuela, one of the world's finest and most beloved musicians faces a daunting set of challenges to his commitment to the mentor who changed his life, to friends and musicians he's led since his teens, and to his belief in art's transformative capacity. The uplifting and timely new documentary from acclaimed director Ted Braun (Betting on Zero),...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Final Exit is the most famous book on voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide. There is unique step by step language for the competent adult who is terminally or hopelessly ill to bring their life to a peaceful, non-violent end if they wish. Final Exit outlines the legal complications connected with dying, death, hastened death, euthanasia laws, suicide, living wills, and advance directives. Derek Humphry explores the problems with life insurance,...
37) Mountain
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Only three centuries ago, setting out to climb a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, an upper world to be shunned, not sought out. Why do mountains now hold us spellbound, drawing us into their dominion, often at the cost of our lives? From Tibet to Australia, Alaska to Norway armed with drones, Go-Pros and helicopters, director Jennifer Peedom has fashioned an astonishing symphony of mountaineers,...
Publisher
Insignia Films
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammed Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the...
40) Mythic journeys
Publisher
Alive Mind
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Despite the fact that myth has always existed, surprisingly few people today are aware of even the classic myths or the potential myths have to impact their lives. Myths are the reservoir of human wisdom - the story and the meaning of life. Every human being has asked the questions who am I, what is my purpose, why am I here? The answers are in the myths that have been passed on from generation to generation.
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