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Tystnaden = [videorecording] The silence / by Bergman, Ingmar,1918-2007,screenwriter,film director.(CARDINAL)723734; Jahnberg, Håkan,1903-1970,actor.; Lindblom, Gunnel,1931-actor.; Lindström, Jörgen,actor.; Malmsten, Birger,1920-1991,actor.; Nykvist, Sven,director of photography.; Ryghe, Ulla,editor of moving image work.; Thulin, Ingrid,actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269; Svensk filmindustri,production company.;
Photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Ulla Ryghe.Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindström."Traveling home by train through a country seemingly on the brink of war, two sisters--the sickly, intellectual Ester and the sensual, pragmatic Anna--along with Anna's young son, Johan, are forced to disembark in an unknown city in order for Ester to rest. Attempting to cope with their alien surroundings, the sisters resort to their personal vices while vying for Johan's affection, and in so doing sabotage what little remains of their ambiguous relationship."--Container.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, region 1, full screen presentation, 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital mono.Swedish Academy Award, Best film of the year.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Sisters; Social isolation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Disaffiliated man; essays and bibliography on skid row, vagrancy, and outsiders / by Bahr, Howard M.(CARDINAL)141592;
"Annotated bibliography": pages 94-394.
Subjects: Bibliographies.; Tramps; Alcoholism; Social isolation; Social isolation.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Lazarus Hotel / by Bannister, Jo,author.(CARDINAL)728514;
A seemingly random group of people are invited to spend the weekend at a new luxury hotel where they discover they are all linked in one way or another to a woman who committed suicide. Just as they find out they are "trapped" until Monday, bizarre "accidents" begin to occur.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Social isolation;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Catherine house / by Thomas, Elisabeth(Novelist);
Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three years--summers included--completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises a future of sublime power and prestige, and that its graduates can become anything or anyone they desire.
Subjects: Campus fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Privilege (Social psychology); Social isolation; Social privilege.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Catherine House [large print] : a novel / by Thomas, Elisabeth,1960-author.(CARDINAL)476810;
Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three years--summers included--completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises a future of sublime power and prestige, and that its graduates can become anything or anyone they desire. Among this year's incoming class is Ines Murillo, who expects to trade blurry nights of parties, cruel friends, and dangerous men for rigorous intellectual discipline--only to discover an environment of sanctioned revelry. Even the school's enigmatic director, Viktória, encourages the students to explore, to expand their minds, to find themselves within the formidable iron gates of Catherine. For Ines, it is the closest thing to a home she's ever had. But the House's strange protocols soon make this refuge, with its worn velvet and weathered leather, feel increasingly like a gilded prison. And when tragedy strikes, Ines begins to suspect that the school--in all its shabby splendor, hallowed history, advanced theories, and controlled decadence--might be hiding a dangerous agenda within the secretive, tightly knit group of students selected to study its most promising and mysterious curriculum.
Subjects: Campus fiction.; Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Privilege (Social psychology); Social isolation; Social privilege.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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A clearing in the wild / by Kirkpatrick, Jane,1946-(CARDINAL)345983;
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Western fiction.; Social isolation; Women pioneers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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A clearing in the wild [large print] : a novel / by Kirkpatrick, Jane,1946-(CARDINAL)345983;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-570).Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue{150}and often doesn't even try to do so, fueling the animosity between her and the colony's charismatic and increasingly autocratic leader, Wilhelm Keil. Eventually Emma and her husband, Christian, are sent along with eight other men to scout out a new location in the northwest where the Bethelites can prepare to await the last days. Christian believes they've found the ideal situation in Washington territory, but when Keil arrives with the rest of the community, he rejects Christian's choice in favor of moving to Oregon. Emma pushes her husband to take this opportunity to break away from the group, but her longed-for influence brings unexpected consequences. As she seeks a refuge for her wounded faith, she learns that her passionate nature can be her greatest
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Large print books.; Western fiction.; Social isolation; Women pioneers;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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The runaway restaurant / by Yang, Tessa,author.;
"A young woman falls in love with a biohacked model, a woman with gadgets implanted in various parts of her body. A mother searches for her missing daughter by taking on a hitchhiker in the hopes of finding a restaurant rumored to be a destination for runaways. A man suddenly starts dreaming the dreams of his girlfriend, but is she dreaming his? After a pandemic wipes out modern civilization, a group of survivors must decide whether to merge with the Mother Earthlings, a clan determined to repopulate the Earth."--
Subjects: Short stories.; Social isolation; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Less than human : why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others / by Smith, David Livingstone,1953-(CARDINAL)779597;
MARCIVE 5/02/11Preface: Creatures of a kind somewhat inferior -- Less than human -- Steps toward a theory of dehumanization -- Caliban's children -- The rhetoric of enmity -- Learning from genocide -- Race -- The cruel animal -- Ambivalence and transgression -- Questions for a theory of dehumanization.A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines. "Brute." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans--for political, religious, ethnic, or sexist reasons. Human beings have a tendency to regard members of their own kind as less than human. This tendency has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and the slave trade possible, and yet we still find it in phenomena such as xenophobia, homophobia, military propaganda, and racism. This book draws on a mix of history, psychology, biology, anthropology and philosophy to document the pervasiveness of dehumanization, describe its forms, and explain why we so often resort to it. Psychologist David Livingstone Smith posits that this behavior is rooted in human nature, but gives us hope in also showing us that change is possible.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Humanity; Social isolation.; Marginality, Social.; Social status.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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What isn't remembered : stories / by Gorcheva-Newberry, Kristina,author.;
Boys on the Moskva River -- All of me -- The heart of things -- A lullaby for my father -- Heroes of our time -- Simple song #9 -- Nepenthe -- Beloveds -- The suicide note -- Second person -- Gene therapy -- And what rough beast -- No other love -- Pictures of the snow -- Champions of the world -- What isn't remembered."The stories in the collection explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot find a home"--
Subjects: Fiction.; Short stories.; Identity (Psychology); Social isolation;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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