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Author
Series
Timothy Goes to School volume 3
Language
English
Description
Nora doesn't like change. Today, everything is changing, her favorite shirt, her favorite breakfast, even Dad is repainting her room. Thankfully at Hilltop, nothing changes. However, when a surprise game of musical tables forces Nora to change her seat and sit next to Lilly, she learns new and interesting things, and begins to embrace change. / When it becomes clear that Charles enjoys spending time alone, he develops a reputation for being shy and...
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 24
Language
English
Description
Time to get started! Identify a few small changes to make to your nutrition and exercise programs, ones that seem the easiest to fit into your lifestyle. Set small, reachable goals that you're confident you can stick with-and you will be successful.
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 16
Language
English
Description
While caloric expenditure above resting levels is proportional to the duration and intensity of your exercise, small changes will make a difference, too-like consistently taking the stairs instead of the elevator. The most important aspect of your exercise program is to develop a plan you can stick to!
Author
Language
English
Description
Sustaining the world's resources for future generations can start with small changes around your home. Watch as a group of students - The Go Green Team - go into action after they learn statistics about waste. See how they come up with ways to reduce, reuse and recycle products to create a healthier lifestyle and environment. Viewers will discover:•Tips to minimize waste• Small ways to save a lot of energy• Important items to recycle• Environmentally-safe...
7) Chaos
Author
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Chaos theory, according to Dr. Steven Strogatz, Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, "is the science of how things change." It describes the behavior of any system whose state evolves over time and whose behavior is sensitive to small changes in its initial conditions.
11) Gun Hill Road
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After three years in prison, Enrique returns home to the Bronx to find the world he knew has changed. His wife, Angela, struggles to hide an emotional affair, and his teenage son, Michael, explores a sexual transformation well beyond Enrique?s grasp and understanding.
12) Small axe
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Five original films, set between 1969 and 1982, celebrate the courage and solidarity of London's West Indian community. From a group of activists taking on a seemingly hopeless battle against police persecution, to a teenager experiencing a blues party full of dance, danger and romance, they're a powerful reminder of how brave individuals can spark change.
Publisher
Pavilion Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In an off-beat nuanced film, Rocksy, a small-time hustler, journeys into chaos to steal a car while his lady friend Rosie hangs a watercolor painting in their modest room and dreams of peace. The fight to survive their broken dreams and aspirations forces them to commit a crime that changes their lives forever. Shot on the streets of Kingston where poverty, beauty and desperation collide, this Jamaican story transcends its Island locale to become...
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. Yung Chang's This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action--feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions. The process of translating raw experience into incisive and passionate dispatches requires the...
15) New in Town
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Language
English
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Description
A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire...
16) Elizabethtown
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
After causing the company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew is fired from his job. After being fired, he is promptly dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. On the verge of suicide, Drew is given a new purpose in life. Following the death of his father, Drew has to fly back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown in order to make certain that his father's dying wishes are fulfilled. On the way home, Drew meets a...
17) Utama
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the...
19) No sudden move
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1950s Detroit, the movie centers on a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes wrong, their search for who hired them and for what ultimate purpose weaves them through all echelons of the race-torn, rapidly changing city.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There's no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own...