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- Last resort. [videorecording] / by Betts, Daisy.; Braugher, Andre.(CARDINAL)220371; Higgins, Jean(Jean Louise); Lachman, Dichen.; Pazzis, Camille de.; Speedman, Scott.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)282399;
Andre Braugher, Scott Speedman, Daisy Betts, Camille de Pazzis, Dichen Lachman.After Navy SEALs are picked up in a US submarine, they receive orders to launch a nuke. The Captain refuses to fire, even though he was ordered to do so. The US sub is then attacked. When they escape the attack, the crew and the Navy SEALs find a small island to take refuge on.Not rated; CHV rating: PG.DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital (English), Dolby surround (Spanish).
- Subjects: DVD-Video discs.; DVDs.; Videodiscs.; Action and adventure television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; United States. Navy. SEALs; Nuclear warfare; Submarines (Ships);
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- The Ernest Green story [videorecording] / by Chestnut, Morris.; Davis, Ossie.(CARDINAL)164905; Dee, Ruby.(CARDINAL)167995; Grubbs, Gary,1949-; Higgins, Jean(Jean Louise); Laneuville, Eric.; Lifford, Tina.; Pounder, C. C. H.(CARDINAL)271206; Disney Educational Productions.(CARDINAL)196898;
Writer, Lawrence Roman ; executive producers, Carol Abrams, Adrienne Levin ; producer, Jean Higgins ; director, Eric Laneuville.Morris Chestnut, CCH Pounder, Gary Grubbs, Tina Lifford, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis.Dramatization of the struggles of the Little Rock Nine. Ernest Green and eight other black students enrolled in an all-white school in 1957 and triumphed over the harassment and restrictive conditions they encountered.Grade level: 5-12.DVD.
- Subjects: Made-for-TV movies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Green, Ernest G. (Ernest Gideon), 1941-; High school students; Public schools; School integration;
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- Women in communication : a biographical sourcebook / by Signorielli, Nancy.(CARDINAL)181960;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Mary Clemmer Ames (1831-1884) / Patricia L. Dooley -- Sandra Jean Ball-Rokeach (1941- ) / Amy I. Nathanson -- Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) / Ginger Rudeseal Carter -- Helen Gurley Brown (1922- ) / Candace Lewis -- Judee K. Burgoon (1948- ) / Beth A. Le Poire -- Joanne Cantor (1945- ) / Amy I. Nathanson -- Peggy Charren (1928- ) / Ellen A. Wartella -- Constance (Connie) Yu-Hwa Chung (1946- ) / Susan G. Kahlenberg -- Ruth Franklin Crane (1902-1989) / Norma Pecora -- Dorothy Day (1897-1980) / Pamela J. Shoemaker and Michael Breen -- Brenda L. Dervin (1938- ) / Carole A. Barbato -- Nancy Dickerson (1927- ) / Christine L. Ogan -- Dorothy Dix (Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) (1861-1951) / Roger D. Haney -- Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) / Julia R. Dobrow -- Mary Anne Fitzpatrick (1949- ) / Beth Haslett -- Pauline Frederick (1908-1990) / Louise Benjamin -- Ellen Goodman (1941- ) / Julia R. Dobrow -- Doris Appel Graber (1923- ) / Douglas M. McLeod -- Katharine Graham (1917- ) / Candace Lewis -- Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879) / Diane Zimmerman Umble -- Herta Herzog (1910- ) / Elizabeth M. Perse -- Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) / Jessica Staples -- Hilde Himmelweit (1918-1989) / Scott E. Caplan -- Aletha C. Huston (1939- ) / John P. Murray -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1946- ) / David S. Birdsell -- Jean Kilbourne (1943- ) / Juliet Dee -- Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (1913-1965) / Sheila Clough Crifasi -- Gladys Engel Lang (1919- ) / William P. Eveland, Jr. -- Mary Margaret McBride (1889-1976) / Sheila Clough Crifasi -- Anne O'Hare McCormick (1880-1954) / Margot Hardenbergh -- Sara Miller McCune (1941- ) / Candace Lewis -- Margaret L. McLaughlin (1943- ) / Wendy Samter -- Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916- ) / K. Viswanath -- Helen Rogers Reid (1882-1970) / Elizabeth V. Burt -- Cokie Roberts (1943- ) / Juliet Dee -- L. Edna Rogers (1933- ) / Carol Wilder -- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) / Maurine H. Beasley -- Anne Newport Royall (1769-1854) / Carol Sue Humphrey -- Rebecca Boring Rubin (1948- ) / Elizabeth E. Graham -- Jessica Savitch (1947-1983) / Sue Lawrence -- Dorothy G. Singer (1927- ) / Robert Miller -- Gloria M. Steinem (1934- ) / Johnna M. Moyer -- Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857-1944) / Amy Sarch -- Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) / James W. Tankard, Jr. -- Judith Cary Waller (1889-1973) / Louise Benjamin -- Barbara Walters (1931- ) / Suzanne Marcus -- Ellen Wartella (1949- ) / Alison Alexander -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) / Dorothy Zeccola -- Short biographies of notable women in communication.Focusing on pioneers in journalism, contemporary media professionals, and scholars in interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, this book provides full profiles of 48 outstanding women in communication. Each profile examines the woman's family background, education, mentors, career path, major contributions and achievements, and concludes with a bibliography of the most important scholarly publications. Since communication is a relatively young discipline, many of the women included are at the prime of their professional career. Subjects were selected by a peer-review process. An appendix provides brief highlights of the lives of an additional 29 communication scholars.1320L
- Subjects: Dictionaries.; Biographies.; Women in communication; Communication specialists;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The Book that changed my life : 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them / by Coady, Roxanne J.(CARDINAL)480984; Johannessen, Joy.(CARDINAL)513309;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction / Roxanne J. Coady -- Dorothy Allison on Toni Morrisons's The Bluest Eye -- Kate Atkinson on Robert Coover's Pricksongs and Descants -- Atlas on Gwendolyn Brooks's Selected Poems -- Robert Ballard on Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth -- Gina Barreca on Jean Kerr's The Snake Has All the Lines -- Nicholas A. Basbanes on the Works of Shakespeare -- Graeme Base on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings -- Jeff Benedict on The Little Engine That Could -- Elizabeth Berg on J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye -- Amy Bloom on The Most of P. G. Wodehouse -- Harold Bloom on John Crowley's Little, Big -- Lary Bloom on John Hersey's Hiroshima -- Chris Bohjalian on Joyce Carol Oates's Expensive People and More -- Steven Brill on Theodore H. White's The Making of the President, 1960 -- Benjamin Cheever on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death -- Da Chen on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo -- Harriet Scott Chessman on Gertrude Stein¿s Ida -- Brother Christopher on Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain -- Carol Higgins Clark on Mary Higgins Clark's A Stranger Is Watching -- Billy Collins on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling -- and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- Claire Cook on the Nancy Drew Mysteries -- Caroline B. Cooney on Caesar's Gallic Wars -- Patricia Cornwell on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Maureen Corrigan on Charles Dickens' David Copperfield -- Nelson DeMille on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and More -- Tomie dePaola on Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter -- Anita Diamant on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own -- Dominick Dunne on Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now -- Carlos Eire on Thomas á Kempis's The Imitation of Christ -- Linda Fairstein on Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August -- Linda Greenlaw on Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm -- David Halberstam on Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why -- Alice Hoffman on J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye -- Sebastian Junger on Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- Tracy Kidder on Ernest Hemingways Collected Stories -- Robert Kurson on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death -- Wally Lamb on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird -- Anne Lamott on Ram Dass's The Only Dance There Is and More -- Barbara Leaming on Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams -- Senator Joe Lieberman on the Bible -- Margot Livesey on Charolotte Brontës Jane Eyre -- Senator John McCain on Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Frank McCourt on Shakespeare's Henry VIII -- Faith Middleton on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby -- Jacquelyn Mitchard on Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- Leigh Montville on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct Series -- Sara Nelson on Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs' Compromising Positions -- Sherwin B. Nuland on William Lewis Nida's Ab the Cave Man -- Laura Numeroff on Kay Thompson's Eloise -- Stewart O'Nan on William Maxwells So Long, See You Tomorrow -- Jacques Pépin on Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus -- Anne Perry on G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday -- Jack Prelutsky on Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and More -- Ian Rankin on Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange -- Richard Rhodes on Albert Schweitzer's Out of My Life and Thought and Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle Series -- Frank Rich on Moss Hart's Act One -- SARK on Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Lisa Scottoline on Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes -- Bernie S. Siegel on William Saroyan's The Human Comedy -- Liz Smith on Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore's Voltaire! Voltaire! -- Edward Sorel on Stendhal's The Red and the Black -- Jane Stern on John Barth's The End of the Road -- Michael Stern on the Sears Catalogue -- Alexandra Stoddard on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet -- Paco Underhill on C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower Series -- Susan Vreeland on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird -- Kate Walbert on E. B. White's Charlotte's Web -- Katharine Weber on Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse -- Jacqueline Winspear on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby -- The Books That Changed Their Lives : A Reading List of the Books Selected by the Contributors -- Roxanne's Very Opinionated Reading List -- Joy's Very Opinionated Reading List -- Acknowledgments.Sixty-five concise and lively essays by some of today's most successful writers identify the books that proved pivotal to the shaping of their careers, in a volume that includes Harold Bloom on "Little, Big," Nelson DeMille on "Atlas Shrugged," and Sebastian Junger on "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."
- Subjects: Authors, American; Authorship.;
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- The Newbery companion : booktalk and related materials for Newbery Medal and Honor books / by Gillespie, John Thomas,1928-(CARDINAL)127837; Naden, Corinne J.(CARDINAL)269638;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-450) and indexes.Compiles information on Newberry Award-winning books and Honor Books (runners up to the Newberry Award). Arranged chronologically from 1922, each year's medal recipient is introduced by a brief paragraph about the author, often telling of the origins and inspiration behind the writing of the prize-winner. This is followed by a plot summary, a description of themes and subjects within the book, suggestions on how to stimulate interest through booktalks, and lists of related titles. Honor Books are described in brief plot outlines. There is also a history of the award and discussion of the award process.
- Subjects: Bibliographies.; Children's literature, American; Children; Newbery Medal; Children.;
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