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4 film favorites. [videorecording] by Wong, James, 1959-film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Sawa, Devon,1978-actor.; Larter, Ali,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)346622; Smith, Kerr,actor.(CARDINAL)876329; Ellis, David R.(David Richard),1952-2013,film director.; Cook, A. J.,1978-actor.(CARDINAL)543534; Landes, Michael,1972-actor.; Winstead, Mary Elizabeth,actor.; Merriman, Ryan,actor.(CARDINAL)847541; Campo, Bobby,1983-actor.; Todd, Tony,1952-actor.; VanSanten, Shantel,1985-actor.; Scott, Seann William,actor.(CARDINAL)867076; Williamson, Mykelti,actor.(CARDINAL)785882; Coblentz, James,editor of moving image work.; Walker, Shirley,1945-2006,composer (expression); McLachlan, Robert,director of photography.; Reddick, Jeffrey,screenwriter.; Gruber, J. Mackye,screenwriter.; Bress, Eric,screenwriter.; Perry, Craig,film producer.; Zide, Warren,film producer.; Freeborn, Mark S.,production designer.; Morgan, Glen,1961-film producer,screenwriter.; Sears, Eric,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)536491; Capo, Gary,director of photography.; Tyler, Brian(Composer),composer (expression)(CARDINAL)346681; Greene, Justis,film producer.; Bolton, Michael S.,production designer.; Stevens, Mark(Film editor),editor of moving image work.; MacPherson, Glen,director of photography.; Hard Eight Pictures (Firm),production company.; Matinee Pictures (Firm),production company.; New Line Cinema Corporation,presenter.(CARDINAL)340619; New Line Productions, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)528287; Parallel Zide (Firm),production company.; Practical Pictures,production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)218485; Zide/Perry Productions (Firm),production company.;
Music by Brian Tyler; edited by Mark Stevens; production designer, Jaymes Hinkle; director of photography, Glen MacPherson.Music by Shirley Walker; edited by James Coblentz; production designer, John Willett; director of photography, Robert McLachlan.Music by Shirley Walker; editor, Eric Sears; production designer, Michael Bolton; director of photography, Gary Capo.Music by Shirley Walker; production designer, Mark Freeborn; director of photography, Robert McLachlan.Final destination 2: Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes.Final destination 3: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman.Final destination: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Tony Todd, Seann William Scott.The final destination: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Mykelti Williamson.Final destination 2: A teen with mild precognitive powers prevents a gruesome highway accident from killing seven strangers and must protect the ones she saved from Death.Final destination 3: A group of seven high school graduates manages to escape from a deadly roller-coaster disaster, only to discover that their own deaths have been only temporarily avoided.Final destination: While boarding for a cross-country flight with friends, Alex has a premonition of the plane crashing. When he causes a ruckus and gets kicked off the flight, he and his friends watch in horror as the plane crashes, but Alex and his friends learn that they were fated to die on board the airplane, a fate that hunts them down one-by-one.The final destination: When Nick manages to escape a gristly car wreck at a racetrack, he must figure out how to cheat death once and for all.MPAA rating: R; for strong violence/gruesome accidents, language, drug content and some nudity.MPAA rating: R; for strong horror violence/gore, language and some nudity.MPAA rating: R; for violence, terror and language.MPAA rating: R; for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality.DVD, widescreen, 5.1 Dolby surround and surround stereo, region 1.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Horror films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Aircraft accidents; Death; Forecasting; Precognition; Traffic accidents; Roller coasters; High school graduates; Automobile racing; Building failures; Racetracks (Automobile racing);
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What makes a marriage last : 40 celebrated couples share with us the secrets to a happy life / by Thomas, Marlo,author.(CARDINAL)522862; Donahue, Phil,author.(CARDINAL)510267; Kluger, Bruce,editor.(CARDINAL)813721;
President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter -- John McEnroe and Patty Smyth -- Ray and Anna Romano -- Viola Davis and Julius Tennon -- Sting and Trudie Styler -- Alan and Arlene Alda -- Capt. Chesley "Sully" and Lorrie Sullenberger -- Elton John and David Furnish -- James Carville and Mary Matalin -- Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams -- Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan -- Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka -- LLCool J and Simone I. Smith -- Rob and Michele Reiner -- Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest -- Chip and Joanna Gaines -- George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth -- Judges Judy and Jerry Sheindlin -- Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner -- Bryan Cranston and Robin Dearden -- Gloria and Emilio Estefan -- Jesse and Jacqueline Jackson -- Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone -- Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick -- Dr. Mehmet and Lisa Oz -- Billy and Janice Crystal -- Dr. Sanjay and Rebecca Gupta -- Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos -- Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen -- Judith and Milton Viorst -- Al Roker and Deborah Roberts -- Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann -- Patricia Cornwell and Staci Gruber -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Bert Pogrebin -- Deepak and Rita Chopra -- Rodney and Holly Robinson Peete -- John and Justine Leguizamo -- Ron and Cheryl Howard -- Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt -- Bob Woodward and Elsa Walsh -- Bonus chapter: Charlotte and John Henderson."Long-married icons Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue offer a collection of intimate conversations with famous couples about their long marriages and how they have made their partnerships last. What makes a marriage last? Who doesn't want to know the answer to that question? To unlock this mystery, iconic couple Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue crisscrossed the country and conducted intimate conversations with forty celebrated couples whose long marriages they've admired -- from award-winning actors, athletes, and newsmakers to writers, comedians, musicians, and a former U.S. president and First Lady. Through these conversations, Marlo and Phil also revealed the rich journey of their own marriage. What Makes a Marriage Last offers practical and heartfelt wisdom for couples of all ages, and a rare glimpse into the lives of husbands and wives we have come to know and love. Marlo and Phil's frequently funny, often touching, and always engaging conversations span the marital landscape -- from that first rush of new love to keeping that precious spark alive, from navigating hard times to celebrating triumphs, from balancing work and play and family to growing better and stronger together. At once intimate, candid, revelatory, hilarious, instructive, and poignant. Featuring interviews with: Alan and Arlene Alda ; Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick ; President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter ; James Carville and Mary Matalin ; Deepak and Rita Chopra ; Patricia Cornwell and Staci Gruber ; Bryan Cranston and Robin Dearden ; Billy and Janice Crystal ; Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest ; Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen ; Viola Davis and Julius Tennon ; Gloria and Emilio Estefan ; Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan ; Chip and Joanna Gaines ; Sanjay and Rebecca Gupta ; Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann ; Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka ; Ron and Cheryl Howard ; Jesse and Jacqueline Jackson ; Elton John and David Furnish ; John and Justine Leguizamo ; LL Cool J and Simone I. Smith ; Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone ; John McEnroe and Patty Smyth ; Mehmet and Lisa Oz ; Rodney and Holly Robinson Peete ; Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Bert Pogrebin ; Rob and Michele Reiner ; Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos ; Al Roker and Deborah Roberts; Ray and Anna Romano ; Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams ; Judges Judy and Jerry Sheindlin ; George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth ; Sting and Trudie Styler ; Capt. Chesley "Sully" and Lorrie Sullenberger ; Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner ; Judith and Milton Viorst ; Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt ; Bob Woodward and Elsa Walsh."--
Subjects: Marriage.; Interpersonal relations.; Marriage.;
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Andrew Lloyd Webber [videorecording] live musical collection. by Attenborough, Richard,actor.(CARDINAL)725365; Barron, James,1964-actor.; Biggins, Christopher,actor.; Bingham, Jo,actor.; Blumenkrantz, Jeff,actor.; Brent, Jacob,actor.; Brown, Kaye(Actress),actor.; C., Melanie,1974-actor.; Callaghan, Martin,actor.; Casteleyn, Veerle,actor.; Challis, Peter,actor.; Clancy, Patrick(Actor),actor.; Colicos, Nicolas,1962-actor.; Collins, Joan,1933-actor.(CARDINAL)720085; Courtney-Davies, Amanda,actor.; Cullen, David.(CARDINAL)820614; Elton, Ben.(CARDINAL)378706; Ferrand, Rebecca,film producer.; Ford, Rosemarie,actor.; Forsyth, Frederick,1938-(CARDINAL)147670; Foster, Ben,1980-actor.(CARDINAL)786341; Friedman, Maria,actor.; Gardiner, Jason,actor.; Garratt, Geoffrey,actor.; Gibb, Jo,actor.; Gleenson, Simon,actor.; Gruber, Michael,1964 November 1-actor.; Hanson, Alexander,actor.; Hart, Charles.; Holmes, Nick,actor.; Jacobson, Clayton.; Jennings, Alex,actor.(CARDINAL)824462; Knowland, Nicolas D.,director of photography.; Lewis, Ben,actor.; Lloyd Webber, Andrew,1948-composer,film producer.(CARDINAL)161941; Logan, Fergus,actor.; Lucchesi, Gary,film producer.(CARDINAL)539697; Lynne, Gillian,stage director,choreographer.; Mallet, David(Director),film director,film editor.(CARDINAL)848139; Mallet, David(Director),film director.(CARDINAL)848139; May, Aeva,actor.; McIntyre, Gerry,actor.; McKenna, Susie,actor.; McNeice, Ian,actor.; Mercedes, Maria,actor.; Millerchip, Sharon,actor.; Mills, John,1908-2005,actor.(CARDINAL)818998; Minas, Michael,art director.; Minchin, Tim,actor.(CARDINAL)595780; Morgan, Karl,1973-actor.; Morland, Leah Sue,actor.; Morris, Nick(Director); Moyles, Chris,1974-actor.; Murphy, Graeme.; O'Byrne, Anna,actor.; Orrom, Dione,producer.; Osmond, Donny,actor.(CARDINAL)715051; Page, Ken,actor.(CARDINAL)719653; Paige, Elaine,actor.; Partridge, John,1971-actor.; Phillips, Simon.; Picheta, Andy,film producer.; Pimlott, Steven,film director.; Reed, Michael,1953-musical director.; Rice, Tim,1944-lyricist.(CARDINAL)521199; Slater, Glenn.(CARDINAL)537735; Sliiden, Tommi,actor.; Small, Michael(Actor),actor.; Smith, Phyllida Crowley,actor.; Sullivan, Brett,1971-; Tanner, Sue Jane,actor.; Taylor, Femi,actor.; Thompson, Frank(Actor),actor.; Thompson, Mark,1957 April 12-production designer,costume designer.; Timberlake, Tony,actor.; Torkia, Sebastien,actor.; Torti, Robert,actor.; Tylesova, Gabriella.; Van Laast, Anthony,choreographer.; Varley, Drew,actor.; Walters, Bryn,actor.; Wright, Nigel,1955-; Musical theatre adaptation of (work) :Eliot, T. S.(Thomas Stearns),1888-1965.Old Possum's book of practical cats.(CARDINAL)220763; Polygram Visual Programming (Firm),production company.; Really Useful Films,production company.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)344011;
Cats: Polygram Visual Programming ; Really Useful Films presents ; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber ; musical staging and choreography by Gillian Lynne ; produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber ; directed by David Mallet.Director of photography, Nic Knowland ; designed by John Napier ; orchestrations by David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber ; music co-produced by Nigel Wright ; editors, Dave Gardener, David Mallet, Nick Morris ; musical director & conductor, Simon Lee ; art directors, Peter Bingermann, David Munns ; make up designer, Karen Dawson Harding ; wig designer, Jennifer Dean.Jesus Christ superstar: Universal Pictures and the Really Useful Group present ; lyrics by Tim Rice ; directed for the stage by Laurence Connor ; film soundtrack produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nigel Wright ; film produced by Dione Orrom and Brett Sullivan ; film directed by Nick Morris.produced by The Really Useful Group ; directed by Laurence Connor; music, Andrew Lloyd Webber ; lyrics, Tim Rice ; choreography, Kevan Allen.Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat: Universal ; Really Useful Films ; lyrics by Tim Rice ; music by Andrew Lloyd-Webber ; produced by Andrew Lloyd-Webber ; directed by David Mallet and Steven Pimlott ; director of photography, Nic Knowland ; editors, Dave Gardener, David Mallet, Dave Gardener, Nick Morris, Rose Glandfield ; production and costume design by Mark Thompson ; art director, Michael Minas ; choreographer, Anthony Van Laast ; musical director, Michael Reed ; lyrics by Tim Rice ; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.Love never dies: music by Andrew Lloyd Webber ; lyrics by Glenn Slater ; book by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton, with Glenn Slater and Frederick Forsyth ; director, Simon Phillips ; film produced by Clayton Jacobsen, Brett Sullivan ; film directed by Brett Sullivan ; produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber ; [presented by] Universal Pictures and the Really Useful Group ; Set and costume designer, Gabriella Tylesova ; choreographer, Graeme Murphy ; additional lyrics, Charles Hart ; orchestrations by David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber.Cats: Elaine Paige (Grizabella), John Mills (Gus the Theatre Cat), Ken Page (Old Deuteronomy), Rosemarie Ford (Bombalurina), Michael Gruber (Munkustrap), John Partridge (Rum Tum Tugger), Aeva May (Demeter) Geoffrey Garratt (Skimbleshanks), James Barron (Bustopher Jones), Jo Gibb (Rumpleteazer), Drew Varley (Mungojerrie), Susie McKenna (Jennyanydots), Jacob Brent (Mistoffelees), Susan Jane Tanner (Jellylorum), Phyllida Crowley Smith (Victoria), Bryn Walters (Macavity), Veerle Casteleyn (Jemima), Tommi Sliiden (Coricopat), Kaye Brown (Tantomile), Karl Morgan (Pouncival), Leah Sue Morland (Electra), Jo Bingham (Etcetera), Fergus Logan (Tumblebrutus), Tony Timberlake (Asparagus), Jason Gardiner (Alonzo), Femi Taylor (Exotica), Frank Thompson (Rumpus Cat), Rebecca Parker (Cassandra).Jesus Christ superstar: Tim Minchin as Judas Iscariot, Melanie C as Mary Magdalene, Chris Moyles as King Herod, Ben Forster as Jesus Christ, Alex Hanson as Pontius Pilate.Joseph and amazing technicolor dreamcoat: Donny Osmond, Maria Friedman, Richard Attenborough, Ian McNeice, Robert Torti, Joan Collins, Christopher Biggins, Alex Jennings, Nicolas Colicos, Jeff Blumenkrantz, David J. HIggins, Shaun Henson, Patrick Clancy, Martin Callaghan, Sebastien Torkia, Michael Small, Peter Challis, Nick Holmes, Gerry McIntyre, Amanda Courtney-Davies.Love never dies: Ben Lewis, Anna O'Byrne, Maria Mercedes, Simon Gleeson, Sharon Millerchip.Cats: Staged and produced for video recording in 1998; filmed at the Adelphi Theatre in London.Jesus Christ superstar: Filmed during the Live Arena Tour in the UK.Joseph and amazing technicolor dreamcoat: Film version of the broadway musical "Joseph and the amazing Technicolor dreamcoat" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis.Love never dies: Filmed at the Regent Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, September 9-13, 2011.Cats: The Jellicle Cats gather in their junkyard, preparing for the Jellicle Ball, for this is the night when patriarch Old Deuteronomy will choose a cat to be reborn into a new life on the Heavyside Layer. There are stories, songs, and dances from Victoria the White Cat, Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, Grizabella, Jemima, Gus the Theatre Cat, Jellylorum, Skimbleshanks, Macavity, Demeter and Bombalurina, Demeter, Alonzo, Mr. Mistoffelees, and others. The songs explain how Cats are named, whom they fight, how they work and play, entertain, and how they love and why.Jesus Christ superstar: The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical stage production of the classic which tells the story of the last seven days in the life of Jesus.Joseph and amazing technicolor dreamcoat: In this filmed adaption of the long-running humourously musical interpretation of the Biblical story of Joseph, favored son of Jacob of Canaan, and his coat of many colors, Joseph is betrayed by his jealous brothers, sold into slavery, and driven to Egypt where he is beset with adversity but perseveres through wit and faith to become the governor of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh.Love never dies: The year is 1907. It is ten years after the Phantom's disappearance from the Paris Opera House. He has escaped to a new life in New York, where he lives among the screaming joy rides and freak-shows of Coney Island. In this new electrically charged world, he has finally found a place for his music to soar. All that is missing is his love - Christine Daae. Now one of the world's finest sopranos, Christine is struggling in an ailing marriage to Raoul.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD; region 1; NTSC.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Jacob (Biblical patriarch); Jesus Christ; Joseph (Son of Jacob); Phantom of the Opera (Fictitious character); Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965; Bible.; Brothers; Cats; Fathers and sons; Feature films.; Jealousy; Man-woman relationships; Musical films.; Operas; Sibling rivalry; Sopranos (Singers);
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Bing box. [videorecording]. by Singer, Bryan,1965-film director,film producer.(CARDINAL)532457; McQuarrie, Christopher,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)641242; Kelly, Richard,1975-screenwriter,film director.; McKittrick, Sean,film producer.; Darabont, Frank,film producer,screenwriter,film director.(CARDINAL)368964; Lynn, Jonathan,film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)736927; Hill, Debra,film producer.(CARDINAL)882026; Leitch, David(Director),film director.(CARDINAL)357098; Johnstad, Kurt,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)554915; Gitter, Eric,film producer.; Theron, Charlize,actor,film producer.(CARDINAL)786079; Spacey, Kevin,actor.(CARDINAL)347745; Gyllenhaal, Jake,1980-actor.(CARDINAL)537580; Jane, Thomas,actor.(CARDINAL)783387; Brennan, Eileen,actor.(CARDINAL)808352; Binge Box (Firm),publisher.;
The usual suspects / Polygram Filmed Entertainment ; Spelling Films International present ; Blue Parrot/Bad Hat Harry production ; produced by Bryan Singer and Michael McDonnell ; directed by Bryan Singer ; written by Christopher McQuarrie (1995 : 106 min. : R) -- Donnie Darko / Newmarket presents in association with Pandora ; a Flower Films production ; a Richard Kelly film ; written and directed by Richard Kelly ; produced by Sean McKittrick, Nancy Juvonen ; produced by Adam Fields (2001 : 113 min. : R) -- The mist / Dimension Films presents a Darkwoods production ; produced by Frank Darabont, Liz Glotzer ; written for the screen and directed by Frank Darabont (2007 : 126 min. : R) -- Clue / Paramount Pictures presents a Gruber-Peters production, in association with PolyGram Pictures and Debra Hill Productions ; story by John Landis and Jonathan Lynn ; screenplay by Jonathan Lynn ; produced by Debra Hill ; directed by Jonathan Lynn (1985 : 96 min. : PG) -- Atomic blonde / Focus Features presents ; in association with Sierra Pictures ; a Denver & Delilah Productions, Chickie the Cop, TGIM Films and 87/Eleven production ; a film by David Leitch ; produced by Eric Gitter, Peter Schwerin, Kelly McCormick, Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix, Beth Kono ; screenplay by Kurt Johnstad ; directed by David Leitch (2017 : 114 min. R).Atomic blonde: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, Toby Jones.Clue: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Colleen Camp, Lee Ving.Donnie Darko: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, James Duval, Beth Grant, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Seth Rogen.The mist: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Sternhagen, Alexa Davalos, Nathan Gamble, Chris Owen, Sam Witwer, Robert C. Treveiler, David Jensen, Jack Hurst.The usual suspects: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Suzy Amis, Pete Postlethwaite, Stephen Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito.Atomic blonde: The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.Clue: Who killed Mr. Boddy? Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with the gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler?Donnie Darko: Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend -- a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days 06 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowling avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank's maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum.The mist: When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. Later, when his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and he travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. When an elderly man runs into the market with a bloody nose, declaring that something is in the mist, the store immediately becomes besieged by otherworldly creatures which the shoppers and employees must battle.The usual suspects: A $91 million cocaine heist. A devastating boat explosion. Two survivors. U.S. Customs special agent David Kujan is determined to find out who and what's behind the melee. As he pieces the together clues with the help of a half-charred Hungarian gangster and an outspoken, crippled con man from New York, Kujan soon finds out this story actually begins with five criminal minds, and one infamous mastermind.DVD, wide screen.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Horror films.; Action and adventure films.; Crime films.; Feature films.; Crime; Teenage boys; Water vapor, Atmospheric; Murder; Spies;
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This idea must die : scientific theories that are blocking progress / by Brockman, John,1941-editor.(CARDINAL)282534;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-547) and index.The theory of everything / Geoffrey West -- Unification / Marcelo Gleiser -- Simplicity / A.C. Grayling -- The universe / Seth Lloyd -- IQ / Scott Atran -- Brain plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa -- Changing the brain / Howard Gardner -- "The rocket scientist" / Victoria Wyatt -- Indivi-duality / Nigel Goldenfeld -- The bigger an animal's brain, the greater its intelligence / Nicholas Humphrey -- The big bang was the first moment of time / Lee Smolin -- The universe began in a state of extraordinarily low entropy / Alan Guth -- Entropy / Bruce Parker -- The uniformity and uniqueness of the universe / Andrei Linde -- Infinity / Max Tegmark -- The laws of physics are predetermined / Lawrence M. Krauss -- Theories of anything / Paul Steinhardt -- M-theory/string theory is the only game in town / Eric R. Weinstein -- String theory / Frank Tipler -- Our world has only three space dimensions / Gordon Kane -- The "naturalness" argument / Peter Woit -- The collapse of the wave function / Freeman Dyson -- Quantum jumps / David Deutsch -- Cause and effect / W. Daniel Hillis -- Race / Nina Jablonski -- Essentialism / Richard Dawkins -- Human nature/ Peter Richerson -- The Urvogel / Julia Clarke -- Numbering nature / Kurt Gray -- Hardwired=permanent / Michael Shermer -- The atheism prerequisite / Douglas Rushkoff -- Evolution is "true" / Roger Highfield -- There is no reality in the quantum world / Anton Zeilinger -- Spacetime / Steve Giddings -- The universe / Amanda Gefter -- The Higgs particle closes a chapter in particle physics / Haim Harari -- Aesthetic motivation / Sarah Demers -- Naturalness, hierarchy, and spacetime / Maria Spiropulu -- Scientists ought to know everthing scientifically knowable / Ed Regis -- Falsifiability / Sean Carroll -- Anti-anecdotalism / Nicholas G. Carr -- Science makes philosophy obsolete / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- "Science" / Ian Bogost -- Our narrow definition of "science" / Sam Harris -- The hard problem / Daniel C. Dennett -- The neural correlates of consciousness / Susan Blackmore -- Long-term memory is immutable / Todd C. Sacktor -- The self / Bruce Hood -- Cognitive agency / Thomas Metzinger -- Free will / Jerry Coyne -- Common sense / Robert Provine -- There can be no science of art / Jonathan Gottschall -- Science and technology / George Dyson -- Things are either true or false / Alan Alda -- Simple answers / Gavin Schmidt -- We'll never hit barriers to scientific understanding / Martin Rees -- Life evolves via a shared genetic toolkit / Seirian Sumner -- Fully random mutations / Kevin Kelly -- One genome per individual / Eric J. Topol -- Nature versus nurture / Timo Hannay -- The particularist use of "a" gene-environment interaction / Robert Sapolsky -- Natrual selection is the only engine of evolution / Athena Vouloumanos -- Behavior = genes + environment / Steven Pinker -- Innateness / Alison Gopnik -- Moral blank-slateism / Kiley Hamlin -- Associationism / Oliver Scott Curry -- Radical behaviorism / Simon Baron-Cohen -- "Instinct" and "innate" / Daniel L. Everett -- Altruism / Tor Nørretranders -- The altruism hierarchy / Jamil Zaki -- Humans are by nature social animals / Adam Waytz -- Evidence-based medicine / Gary Klein --Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder / David M. Buss -- Romantic love and addiction / Helen Fisher -- Emotion is peripheral / Brian Knutson -- Science can maximize our happiness / Paul Bloom -- Culture / Pascal Boyer -- Culture / Laura Betzig -- Learning and culture / John Tooby -- "Our" intutitions / Stephen Stich -- We're stone age thinkers / Alun Anderson -- Inclusive fitness / Martin Nowak -- Human evolutionary exceptionalism / Michael McCullough -- Animal mindlessness / Kate Jeffery -- Humaniqueness / Irene Pepperberg -- Human being = homo sapiens / Steve Fuller -- Anthropocentricity / Satyajit Das -- Truer perceptions are fitter perceptions / Donald D. Hoffman -- The intrinsic beauty and elegance of mathematics allows it to describe nature / Gregory Benford -- Geometry / Carlo Rovelli -- Calculus / Andrew Lih -- Computer science / Neil Gershenfeld -- Science advances by funerals / Samuel Barondes -- Planck's cynical view of scientific change / Hugo Mercier -- New ideas triumph by replacing old ones / Jared Diamond -- Max Planck's faith / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- The illusion of certainty / Mary Catherine Bateson -- The pursuit of parsimony / Jonathan Haidt -- The clinician's law of parsimony / Gerald Smallberg -- Essentialist views of the mind / Lisa Barrett -- The distinction between antisociality and mental illness / Abigail Marsh -- Repression / David G. Myers -- Mental illness is nothing but brain illness / Joel Gold and Ian Gold -- Psychogenic illness / Beatrice Golomb -- Crime entails only the actions of criminals / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán -- Statistical significance / Charles Seife -- Scientific inference via statistical rituals / Gerd Gigerenzer -- The power of statistics / Emanuel Derman -- Reproducibility / Victoria Stodden -- The average / Nicholas A. Christakis -- Standard deviation / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Statistical independence / Bart Kosko -- Certainty. Absolute truth. Exactitude / Richard Saul Wurman -- The illusion of scientific progress / Paul Saffo.Large randomized controlled trials / Dean Ornish -- Multiple regression as a means of discovering causality / Richard Nisbett -- Mouse models / Azra Raza -- The somatic mutation theory of cancer / Paul Davies -- The linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation dose hypotheses / Stewart Brand -- Universal grammar / Benjamin K. Bergen -- A science of language should deal only with "competence" / N.J. Enfield -- Languages condition worldviews / John McWhorter -- The standard approach to meaning / Dan Sperber -- The uncertainty principle / Kai Krause -- Beware of arrogance! Retire nothing! / Ian McEwan -- Big data / Gary Marcus -- The stratigraphic column / Christine Finn -- The habitable-zone concept / Dimitar D. Sasselov -- Robot companions / Sherry Turkle -- "Artificial intelliggence" / Roger Schank --The mind is just the brain / Tania Lombrozo -- Mind versus matter / Frank Wilczek -- Intelligence as a property / Alexander Wissner-Gross -- The grand analogy / David Gelernter -- Grandmother cells / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Brain modules / Patricia S. Churchland -- Bias is always bad / Tom Griffiths -- Cartesian hydraulicism / Robert Kurzban -- The computational metaphor / Rodney A. Brooks -- Left-brain/right-brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore -- Left-brain/right-brain / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Moore's Law / Andrian Kreye -- The continuity of time / Ernst Pöppel -- The input-output model of perception and action / Andy Clark -- Knowing is half the battle / Laurie R. Santos and Tamar Gendler -- Informaiton overload / Jay Rosen -- The rational individual / Alex (Sandy) Pentland -- Homo economicus / Margaret Levi -- Don't discard wrong theories, just don't treat them as true / Richard H. Thaler -- Rational actor models : the competence corollary / Susan Fiske -- Malthusianism / Matt Ridley -- Economic growth / Cesar Hidalgo -- Unlimited and eternal growth / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- The tragedy of the commons / Luca De Biase -- Markets are bad, markets are good / Michael I. Norton -- Stationarity / Giulio Boccaletti -- Stationarity / Laurence C. Smith -- The carbon footprint / Daniel Goleman -- Unbridled scientific and technological optimism / Stuart Pimm -- Scientists should stick to science / Buddhini Samarasinghe -- Nature = objects / Scott Sampson -- Scientific morality / Edward Slingerland -- Science is self-correcting / Alex Holcombe -- Replication as a safety net / Adam Alter -- Scientific knowledge structured as "literature" / Brian Christian -- The way we produce and advance science / Cathryn Clancy -- Allocating funds via peer review / Aubrey De Grey -- Some questions are too hard for young scientists to tackle / Ross Anderson -- Only scientists can do science / Kate Mills -- The scientific method / Melanie Swan -- Big effects have big explanations / Fiery Cushman -- Science = big science / Samuel Arbesman -- Sadness is always bad, happiness is always good / June Gruber -- Opposites can't both be right / Eldar Shafir -- People are sheep / David Berreby --The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org--"The world's smartest website" (The Guardian)--challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Science in popular culture.; Science;
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Frantz [videorecording] / by Ozon, François,1967-film director,screenwriter.; Piazzo, Phillippe,screenwriter.; Altmayer, Eric,film producer.; Altmayer, Nicolas,film producer.; Beer, Paula,1995-actor.; Arndt, Stefan,film producer.; Niney, Pierre,actor.; Schott, Uwe,film producer.; Stötzner, Ernst,actor.; Gruber, Marie,actor.; Bülow, Johann von,actor.; Lucke, Anton von,actor.; Clair, Cyrielle,actor.; Lencquesaing, Alice de,actor.; Marti, Pascal,director of photography.; Rombi, Philippe,composer (expression); Gargonne, Benoit,editor of moving image work.; Films Distribution (Firm),production company.; Foz (Firm),production company,presenter.; France 2 cinéma (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)332228; Mandarin Productions,production company,presenter.; Mars distribution (Firm),production company.; Music Box Films,publisher.; Universal Pictures (France),production company.; X Filme Creative Pool,production company,presenter.;
Director of photography, Pascal Marti ; music, Philippe Rombi ; editor, Benoit Gargonne.Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber, Johann von Bülow, Anton von Lucke, Cyrielle Clair, Alice De Lencquesaing.Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancee, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.Rating: PG-13; for thematic elements including brief war violence.DVD, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; 5.1, 2.0 Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Feature films.; Historical films.; War films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; World War, 1914-1918; Fiancées; Bereavement; Foreign films; Foreign films;
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Frantz [videorecording] / by Ozon, François,1967-screenwriter,director.; Beer, Paula,1995-actor.; Niney, Pierre,actor.; Stötzner, Ernst,actor.; Berkeley, Reginald,1890-1935.; Lubitsch, Ernst,1892-1947.(CARDINAL)714371; Rostand, Maurice,Motion picture adaptation of (work):1891-1968Homme que j'ai tué.English.;
Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber, Johann von Bülow.In post-World War I Germany, a young woman mourning the death of her fiancé meets a mysterious Frenchman who comes to lay flowers on his grave and claims to be his old friend.MPAA rating: PG-13.This is a Blu-ray disc which can only be played on Blu-ray disc players and will not play on standard DVD players.
Subjects: War films.; Historical films.; Film adaptations.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Rostand, Maurice, 1891-1968; World War, 1914-1918; Musicians; Post-traumatic stress disorder;
For private home use only.
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