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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people's experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 On a flight to Long Beach, a woman was reassigned to a middle seat because her size 28 body took up too much space. She had spent her life avoiding touching men's hot stoves of anger.
#2 I have found ways to minimize the likelihood of humiliation. I don't fly often, and when I do, the experience remains punishing at every turn. Still, couples stare at me while I wait to board at...
4) Up periscope
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Navy frogman under secret orders is whisked from a stateside romance to the perils of warfare in the South Pacific in 1942.
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Pastors around the country continue to look for the program, the book, or the sermon series that will turn their plateaued or declining churches around. But what if the answer to revitalizing the church was closer to home? According to trusted church leadership expert Aubrey Malphurs and veteran pastor Gordon E. Penfold, it is. They believe that pastors themselves are the key. In a time when many pastors are jumping from church to church every two...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
7 DVDs : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
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Series
LBX volume 6
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
Trouble arises when Eden's two computers, Adam and Eve, awaken Misère--an android that Gordon had originally planned on using to achieve world dominance.
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The year is 1805 and Europe has fallen to Napoleon. The Royal Navy is the only thing standing in his way to total victory. Off the coast of South America, a new conflict is brewing. Captain Jack 'Lucky Jack' Aubrey and his Man-of-War HMS Surprise is under orders to sink or capture the French privateer Acheron, which has been deployed to the region. After seven weeks of uneventful sailing, the Acheron strikes first, all but crippling the Surprise in...
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Elegance Bratton's deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows an bumbling but earnest city employee as she attempts to build a park. A new mockumentary that looks at the exciting world of local government. Examines the mundane but necessary ways that people interact with their government, and asks why it's frequently so complicated - standing in line at the DMV, applying for home construction permits, or trying to get the city to fix a pothole.
11) Horror
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (375 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
House of Wax: in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum.
The Haunting: in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena.
Freaks: featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: the classic tale of one man's disastrous attempts to harness the evil that resides in everyone.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic...
Publisher
Kl Studio Classics
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
5 blu-rays (255 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Witness to murder: A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder. One sleepless night, Cheryl Draper witnesses a young woman being strangled to death in an apartment across the street. She reports the killing to the police, but when the police arrive there's no body to be found. The policemen are convinced the Cheryl probably dreamt the murder and leave ignoring her pleas.
He ran all the way: Two men plan to rob a bank but then...
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