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City of God [videorecording] = Cidade de Deus / by Salles, Walter,film producer.; Ranvaud, Donald,film producer.; Ribeiro, Andrea Barata,film producer.; Ramos, Maurício Andrade,film producer.; Mantovani, Bráulio,screenwriter.; Lund, Kátia,film director.; Meirelles, Fernando,film director.(CARDINAL)852124; Charlone, César,cinematographer.(CARDINAL)848588; Rodrigues, Alexandre,1983-actor.; Firmino, Leandro,1978-actor.; Haagensen, Phellipe,1984-actor.; Silva, Douglas,actor.; Haagensen, Jonathan,1983-actor.; Nachtergaele, Matheus,1969-actor.; Seu Jorge,1970-actor.; Lins, Paulo,1958-Cidade de Deus.; 02 Filmes (Firm)(CARDINAL)852125; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)340297; Globo Filmes (Firm); Lumiere (Firm); Miramax Films.(CARDINAL)436238; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); VideoFilmes (Firm)(CARDINAL)848020; Wild Bunch (Firm)(CARDINAL)848540;

Cinematographer, César Charlone ; editor, Daniel Rezende ; art director, Tulé Peake ; original music, Antonio Pinto and Ed Côrtes.Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Matheus Nachtergaele, Seu Jorge.Originally produced as a Brazilian motion picture in 2002.Built in the 1960s, Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a sprawling housing project built to keep the poor as far as possible from Rio's glamorous beaches and resorts. By the 1980s, it has degenerated into a war zone so dangerous that visitors from outside risk being shot to death on sight, a poisonous stew of poverty, drugs, and crime. "If you run away, they get you, and if you stay, they get you, too," says Rocket, who wants to be a photographer. Rocket's brother, friends, and neighbors begin with truck stick-ups, which lead to brothel hold-ups that lead to murder that leads to coke dealing that leads to street brawls with armies of gun-toting 11-year-olds. Soon a full-scale gang war rages in the City of God--understandably not covered by wary Rio photojournalists--but just the opportunity Rocket needs to make his move, get a job at a newspaper, and get out.MPAA rating: R, for strong brutal violence, sexuality, drug content, and language.DVD; Region 1, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby digital surround; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1, enhanced for 16x9 televisions.Winner, 2003 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize: Melhor Filme (Best Picture); Melhor Diretor (Best Director)--Fernando Meirelles; Melhor Roteiro Adaptado (Best Screenplay, Adapted)--Braulio Mantovani; Melhor Fotografia (Best Cinematography)--César Charlone; Melhor Montagem (Best Editing)--Daniel Rezende; Melhor Som (Best Sound)--Guilherme Ayrosa, Paulo Ricardo Nunes, Alessandro Laroca, Alejandro Quevedo, Carlos Honc, Roland N. Thai, Rudy Pi, Adam Sawelson.

Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Lins, Paulo, 1958-; Young men; Gangs; Urban poor; Photographers; Juvenile delinquents; Squatter settlements; Cities and towns;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7

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Wolf / by Cross, Gillian.(CARDINAL)352894;

Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter's settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves and inadvertently learns that her missing father is a notorious terrorist.

Subjects: Fiction.; Communal living; Terrorism; Wolves;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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Science, conflict, and society; readings from Scientific American. / by Hardin, Garrett,1915-2003.(CARDINAL)150072;

Includes bibliographies.The history and the present state of science fiction -- Communicating with intelligent life elsewhere in the universe / Newman -- The history of man's picture of the universe / Cohen -- The scientists who made the atomic bomb / Wilson -- The psychological wreckage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Bronowski -- The role of two scientists in government / Blackett -- The probability of human survival / Newman -- Love in infant monkeys / Harlow -- Early experience and emotional development / Denenberg -- Opinions and social pressure / Asch -- Cognitive dissonance / Festinger -- The anthropology of manners / Hall -- Experiments in group conflict / Sherif -- The effects of observing violence / Berkowitz -- Population control in animals / Wynne-Edwards -- Population / Davis -- Population density and social pathology / Calhoun -- Cybernetics / Wiener -- Feedback / Tustin -- The culture of poverty / Lewis -- Abortion as a disease of societies / Newman -- Abortion / Tietze and Lewit -- Squatter settlements / Mangin -- The renewal of cities / Glazer -- The social power of the Negro / Comer -- Sickle cells and evolution / Allison -- Teacher expectations for the disadvantaged / Rosenthal and Jacobson -- Radiation and human mutation / Muller -- The effects of smoking / Hammond -- The hallucinogenic drugs / Barron, Jarvik, and Bunnell -- Pleasure centers in the brain / Olds -- An indictment of the wide use of pesticides / Cole -- Third-generation pesticides / Williams -- The control of air pollution / Haagen-Smit -- The safety of the American automobile / Hawkins -- Thermal pollution and aquatic life / Clark -- The fighting behavior of animals / Eibl-Eibesfeldt -- Preventing a Third World War / Newman -- The use and misuse of game theory / Rapoport -- Thermonuclear war / Newman -- Steps toward disarmament / Blackett -- The detection of underground explosions / Bullard -- National security and the nuclear-test ban / Wiesner and York -- The shelter-centered society / Waskow -- A "light" ABM system / McNamara -- Anti-ballistic-missile systems / Garwin and Bethe -- The dynamics of the arms race / Rathjens.

Subjects: Science and civilization.; Science;

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Lima : a cultural history / by Higgins, James,1939-(CARDINAL)730350;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-235) and indexes.

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White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / by Isenberg, Nancy,author.(CARDINAL)278544;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-448) and index.Fables we forget by -- To begin the world anew. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New World ; John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of Carolina and Georgia ; Benjamin Franklin's American breed : the demographics of mediocrity ; Thomas Jefferson's rubbish : a curious topography of class ; Andrew Jackson's cracker country : the squatter as common man -- Degeneration of the American Breed. Pedigree and poor white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters ; Cowards, Poltroons, and mudsills : civil war as class warfare ; Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and bastard stock in the age of eugenics ; Forgotten men and poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression ; The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- The white trash makeover. Redneck roots : Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye ; Outing Rednecks : slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin -- America's strange breed : the long legacy of white trash."A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party,"--NoveList.1220L

Subjects: Poor white people; Social classes; Working class white people;

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White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / by Isenberg, Nancy,author.(CARDINAL)278544;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-446) and index.Introduction: Fables we forget by -- Part I: To begin the world anew. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New World ; John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of Carolina and Georgia ; Benjamin Franklin's American breed : the demographics of mediocrity ; Thomas Jefferson's rubbish : a curious topography of class ; Andrew Jackson's cracker country : the squatter as common man -- Part II: Degeneration of the American breed. Pedigree and poor white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters ; Cowards, poltroons, and mudsills : Civil war as class warfare ; Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and bastard stock in the age of eugenics ; Forgotten men and poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression ; The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- Part III: The white trash makeover. Redneck roots : Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye ; Outing rednecks : slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin ; America's strange breed : the long legacy of white trash.The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers," known for prematurely-aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, history professor Nancy Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society ; where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ's Great Society and they now haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.1220L

Subjects: Social classes; Poor white people; Working class white people; Rednecks; Mountain people; Classism;

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Avenging the people : Andrew Jackson, the rule of law, and the American nation / by Opal, J. M.,author.(CARDINAL)488093;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Most Americans know Andrew Jackson as a frontier rebel against political and diplomatic norms, a 'populis' champion of ordinary people against the elitist legacy of the Founding Fathers. Many date the onset of American democracy to his 1829 inauguration. Despite his reverence for the 'sovereign people, ' however, Jackson spent much of his career limiting that sovereignty, imposing new and often unpopular legal regimes over American lands and markets. He made his name as a lawyer, businessman, and official along the Carolina and Tennessee frontiers, at times ejecting white squatters from native lands and returning slaves to native planters in the name of federal authority and international law. On the other hand, he waged total war on the Cherokees and Creeks who terrorized Western settlements and raged at the national statesmen who refused to 'avenge the blood' of innocent colonists. During the long war in the South and West from 1811 to 1818 he brushed aside legal restraints on holy genocide and mass retaliation, presenting himself as the only man who would protect white families from hostile empires, 'heathen' warriors, and rebellious slaves. He became a towering hero to those who saw the United States as uniquely lawful and victimized. And he used that legend to beat back a range of political, economic, and moral alternatives for the Republican future. Drawing from new evidence about Jackson and the Southern frontiers, Avenging the People boldly reinterprets the grim and principled man whose version of American nationhood continues to shape American democracy."--"With the passionate support of most voters and their families, Andrew Jackson broke through the protocols of the Founding generation, defying constitutional and international norms in the name of the "sovereign people." And yet Jackson's career was no less about limiting that sovereignty, imposing one kind of law over Americans so that they could inflict his sort of "justice" on non-Americans. Jackson made his name along the Carolina and Tennessee frontiers by representing merchants and creditors and serving governors and judges. At times that meant ejecting white squatters from native lands and returning blacks slaves to native planters. Jackson performed such duties in the name of federal authority and the "law of nations." Yet he also survived an undeclared war with Cherokee and Creek fighters between 1792 and 1794, raging at the Washington administration's failure to "avenge the blood" of white colonists who sometimes leaned towards the Spanish Empire rather than the United States. Even under the friendlier presidency of Thomas Jefferson, Jackson chafed at the terms of national loyalty. During the long war in the south and west from 1811 to 1818 he repeatedly brushed aside state and federal restraints on organized violence, citing his deeper obligations to the people's safety within a terrifying world of hostile empires, lurking warriors, and rebellious slaves. By 1819 white Americans knew him as their "great avenger." Drawing from recent literatures on Jackson and the early republic and also from new archival sources, Avenging the People portrays him as a peculiar kind of nationalist for a particular form of nation, a grim and principled man whose grim principles made Americans fearsome in some respects and helpless in others"--Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In Our Blood -- Chapter 1: States of Nature -- Chapter 2: A Nation of Laws -- Chapter 3: Extreme Frontiers -- Chapter 4: I Love My Country and Government -- Chapter 5: The Hour of National Vengeance -- Chapter 6: The People's Choice -- Conclusion: Submit to Nothing -- Notes -- Index.

Subjects: Biographies.; Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.; Democratic Party (U.S.); Lawyers; Presidents; Rule of law; Law; Law.;

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