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Mégantic : a deadly mix of oil, rail, and avarice / by Saint-Cerny, Anne-Marie,1954-author.; translation of:Saint-Cerny, Anne-Marie,1954-Mégantic.English.; Wilson, W. Donald,1938-translator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Lac-Mégantic, Québec, Canada--July 6, 2013. During a hot summer night, a driverless, out-of-control train, firing explosive crude-oil bombs, descends the slope that leads to the scenic town below, pulverizing the downtown area, charring forty-seven trapped victims. The devastation leaves the people dazed ... but is quickly the object of an intentional and tortuous cover-up. Who are the tragedy's real culprits? How did the accident lead to the brutal death of forty-seven people, the suicides of several others, and the devastation of a whole community? Who took control of the crime scene? Who carried out the reconstruction, and for whose good? In this fascinating piece of investigative journalism, written like a thriller, Saint-Cerny reveals the inner workings of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. She reveals how the tragedy, far from being just the "error of a faulty system," was knowingly caused by powerful people and institutions distant from the town itself. Iconic in more ways than one, Lac-Mégantic is a perfect capitalist tale. Conceived in the offices of Wall Street hedge funders, of Dakota black-gold cowboy magnates, of oil conglomerates, and set up by a political class entirely devoted to the interests of the rail industry, the disaster hit a population which, while still in shock, found itself at the mercy of local predators--the perfect illustration of Naomi Klein's shock doctrine. Despite everything, the transport of crude oil and dangerous products today has increased so much that it constitutes the rail industry's main source of profit. But the Government of Canada stubbornly refuses to shed light on the 2013 tragedy and identify its causes. The fruit of five years of work and interviews with nearly a hundred people from various backgrounds, including victims and their relatives, Mégantic: A Tragedy in Waiting, tells the story of the disaster in three acts--before, during, and after--in an investigation whose ultimate goal is to prevent the preventable."--
Subjects: Disaster victims; Lac-Mégantic Derailment, Lac-Mégantic, Québec, 2013.; Railroad accidents;
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Barack Obama / by Britton, Tamara L.,1963-;
"This biography introduces readers to Barack Obama including his early political career and key events from Obama's administration including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Affordable Care Act, and the Clean Power Plan. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information."--Publisher's website.LSC
Subjects: Obama, Barack; Presidents; Racially mixed people;
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Losing Earth : a recent history / by Rich, Nathaniel,1980-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. This is their story"--
Subjects: Global warming; Global environmental change; Carbon dioxide; Petroleum industry and trade;
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Not on my watch : how a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon / by Morton, Alexandra,1957-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada." Here is her brilliant account of her thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon, inspiring in its own right but also a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are saying to each other. She was also lucky enough to get there just in time to witness a place of true natural abundance, and learned how to thrive in the wilderness as a scientist and a single mother. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her First Nations neighbours, whose people had depended on the bounty of wild salmon for 10,000 years, asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government protesting the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't recognize their own laws. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon--a story that reveals her own doggedness and bravery but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account: for their sake, as much as ours, they need to listen to the wisdom of the wild salmon and of the people who have lived with them for 10,000 years."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Morton, Alexandra, 1957-; Marine biologists; Pacific salmon; Salmon farming;
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The program : inside the mind of Keith Raniere and the rise and fall of NXIVM / by Natalie, Toni,author.; Hardin, Chet,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, an unassuming Albany man who prosecutors say ensnared tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico and elsewhere, to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology. What is not known is how many more people came under the thrall of this man in the years leading up to and including his founding of NXIVM. Where did Keith Raniere begin? How did he build NXIVM and its prior incarnations? And, most notably, how was this relatively far-flung entrepreneur able to get and keep his access to the wealth and power that allowed him to lure so many successful, sophisticated people? Enter single mother Toni Natalie, Keith's Patient Zero, the first one indoctrinated into Raniere's methodology and the first one to escape. Told in three parts, the narrative uniquely walks us through the origin story to the fall of Raniere through Toni's eyes and ears. During this time, she bore witness to the evolution of his methodology, including his use of sexual coercion and entrapment, blackmail, and employment of psychological tools such as hypnosis and neuro linguistic programming to ambush, control, and punish those who would not heed his wishes ... most of all Toni. Though unaware of Raniere's true motives and the extent of his involvement until she reconnected with others, Toni can uniquely detail the thousands of fortunes lost and the lives left in disarray that she witnessed contemporaneously, as she pulls back the curtain on the mind control techniques used on members of NXIVM and DOS, a group of women allegedly coerced into sexual acts under the guise of a "women's empowerment" inner circle, whom Raniere exercised extreme control over directly and through his lieutenants. But far from being a victim's story, in the spirit of Erin Brockovich, Toni's is a nuanced narrative of a multi-dimensional woman saving herself, and then working tirelessly to help other women do the same for themselves. Today, Toni is happy, reunited with her son, and surrounded by friends and family--it is this perspective that makes her such a unique storyteller"--
Subjects: Raniere, Keith.; Natalie, Toni.; NXIVM (Firm); Cult members.; Ex-cultists.; Human trafficking.;
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This country is no longer yours : a novel / by Jain Chatlani, Avik,author.;
"In Avik Jain Chatlani's This Country Is No Longer Yours, a chorus of disparate voices comes together to explore how idealists and opportunists betray ordinary people in war-torn Peru. One of our dead writers liked to say, "Peru is a beggar sleeping on a bench made of gold." It's a cute phrase, but it's not really true. There's hardly any gold left, and none of us get much sleep. Based on real events in 1970s-2000s Peru, This Country Is No Longer Yours tells the story of people living through the terrorist campaign of the Maoist Shining Path, while struggling to survive amid economic crisis and state collapse. A student of the revolution's leader is dispatched to Cambodia to learn from the Khmer Rouge, sending him spiralling into a world of unfathomable political violence that both inspires him and will be his undoing. Then, as the terror spreads across Peru, a ruthless security agent of the newly-elected neoconservative government works to squash the growing insurgency now threatening the halls of power, while applying his surveillance training to romantic pursuits--with chilling results. When the war is over, a journalist committed to exposing a brewing nationalist counter-revolution is too preoccupied to help a reader desperately pleading for help outing a sexual predator, who is seeking the presidency. And, in the country that remains, two former guerrillas meet again, one now a teacher stuck in the past, the other living on the margins and still fighting for her future. Depicting a place and time ravaged by terror but alive with new ambitions and enduring love, Jain Chatlani explores the intersection of political breakdown and human endurance, as well as the unbearable choices demanded of those living in a society at war with itself. With incisive and haunting prose, combined with deeply personal insight, Jain Chatlani offers a stinging indictment of the ideologies that brutalize the very people they claim to represent, and relays an urgent warning about the dangers of zealotry, political messianism and acts of violence justified in the name of a cause."--
Subjects: Political fiction.; Novels.; Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group); Journalists; Violence;
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Moon rush : the new space race / by David, Leonard(Space journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index."It seems a foregone conclusion: We will set foot on the Moon once more. Let this provocative, timely book by veteran space journalist Leonard David be your guide as it happens. Against an inspiring backdrop of history, science, and technology, he explains the explorations, enterprises, and most pressing issues surrounding our lunar satellite today."--Back cover.
Subjects: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Project Apollo (U.S.); Space flight to the moon; Space flight to the moon; Space race; Lunar geology.;
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Scott and Bailey. [videorecording] / by Haywood, Pippa,actor.; Jones, Suranne,1978-actor.; Mooney, Tony,1965-actor.; Sharp, Lesley,1964-actor.; Taylor, Diane.; Wainwright, Sally,1964-; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; BBC Worldwide Ltd,publisher.; British Broadcasting Corporation.; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.;
Suranne Jones, Lesley Sharp, Pippa Haywood, Delroy Brown, Tony Monney, David Prosho, Jing Lusi.Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott are back for another season. Upon stepping into the position of acting DI, Rachel senses the growing divide amongst her team. With Janet preoccupied by the arrest of her daughter and unable to advise on the situation, the two are left struggling to refocus on the horrific case at hand, the sinister world of Darknet.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 2.0.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television crime shows.; Television programs.; Criminal investigation; Police; Women detectives;
For private home use only.
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Mad men. [videorecording] / by Abraham, Phil.; Hamm, Jon,1971-; Moss, Elisabeth,1983-; Slattery, John,1963-; Weiner, Matthew.; Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.; Alliance Films.; Lions Gate Films.; Lions Gate Television (Firm);
Disc 1: Episode 1: A little kiss -- Episode 2: A little kiss part 2 -- Episode 3: Tea leaves.Disc 2: Episode 4: Mystery date -- Episode 5: Signal 30 -- Episode 6: Far away places.Disc 3: Episode 7: At the Codfish Ball -- Episode 8: Lady Lazarus -- Episode 9: Dark shadows.Disc 4: Episode 10: Christmas Waltz -- The other Woman -- Commissions and fees -- The phantom.Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, Vincent Kartheiser.Mad Men is back and plunges into the seductive and intriguing world of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Jon Hamm and the rest of the award-winning cast continue to mesmerize as they adapt .to changing times, social revolution, and a radical world. Lust is back. Adultery is back. Deception is back.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, 16 x 9 widescreen presentation ; 5.1 Dolby digital.
Subjects: Advertising agencies; Advertising campaigns; Executives; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen sixties; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2012., Lionsgate ; Distributed by Alliance Films,
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1917 : Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder / by Herman, Arthur,1956-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924; Nineteen seventeen, A.D.; World War, 1914-1918;
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