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Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge / by Ovenden, Richard,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-290) and index.Libraries preserve the knowledge and ideas on which rights depend no wonder they are so often attacked. Richard Ovenden tells the history of this deliberate destruction of knowledge--from library burnings to digital attacks and contemporary underfunding--and makes a passionate plea for the importance of these threatened institutions.
Subjects: Archives; Book burning; Book burning; Book burning; Censorship; Cultural property; Information science; Libraries; Libraries; Libraries; Archives; Books; Libraries;
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Chautauqua at 150. by Robinson, Lynne,film director.; Tunie, Tamara,actor.; PBS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Tamara TunieOriginally produced by PBS in 2025.An inspiring documentary that celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Chautauqua Institution and explores the evolution of American democracy through the powerful stories that have unfolded there. Anchored by a performance of Wynton Marsalis’ symphonic masterpiece All Rise, the film features appearances by Kathryn Hahn, Lewis Black, Denyce Graves Montgomery, Misty Copeland, Otis Moss III, and more.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Social sciences.; Music.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Current affairs.; Political participation.; Concert films.; Performing arts.;
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Every Little Thing. by Aitkin, Sally,film director.; Kino Lorber (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2024.Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit introduces audiences to Terry's diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling. Over the course of director Sally Aitken’s moving documentary, we become deeply invested in baby hummingbirds like Cactus and Wasabi, celebrating their tiny victories and lamenting their tragedies. Through Terry's eyes, each bird becomes memorable, mighty and heroic. Her compassion and empathy serves as a reminder that grace can be found in the smallest of acts and the tiniest of creatures.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Social sciences.; Zoology.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.; California.; Animal welfare.; Birds.;
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Feeding Tomorrow. by English, Oliver,film director.; English, Simon,film director.; Gravitas Ventures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Gravitas Ventures in 2024.Up against a broken food system suffering from ecosystem destruction, climate change, health epidemics, and inequality, a brave group of visionary leaders in agriculture, healthcare and education work to build a more just, regenerative, and resilient system in their local communities.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Social sciences.; Agriculture.; Computer science.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Communities.; Climatic changes.; Food industry and trade.; Food.;
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Where the Wild Men Are with Ben Fogle. by Fogle, Ben,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Ben FogleOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2013.Ben Fogle travels to remote locations in the US, Italy, Zambia and Australia and meets families who’ve turned their backs on the rat race, set up home in some of the most inhospitable places in the world and radically changed their lives.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Social sciences.; Environmental sciences.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Families.; Nature.; Documentary television programs.;
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The Good Life. by Schanze, Jens,film director.; Pragda (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Pragda in 2015.The story of the Colombian village of Tamaquito, told against a global backdrop of rising energy consumption being driven by the pursuit of growth and affluence.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Business.; Science.; Social sciences.; Economic development.; Environmental sciences.; Latin America.; Foreign study.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.;
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The Cowboy and the Queen. by Nevins, Andrea,film director.; Greenwich Entertainment (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Greenwich Entertainment in 2023.Monty Roberts, a nonviolent horse trainer who rejected traditional breaking methods, forms an unlikely friendship with Queen Elizabeth II. Bonding over their shared love for animals, they overcome Monty's doubters to broadcast his gentle approach globally. From Academy Award-nominee Andrea Nevins, this uplifting film shows how trust can build a better world for both horses and humans.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Social sciences.; Zoology.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Animals.; Horses.; Animal welfare.; Monarchy.; England.; Animal intelligence.; British Isles.;
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Super Size Me. by Spurlock, Morgan,film director.; Spurlock, Morgan,actor.; Samuel Goldwyn Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Morgan SpurlockOriginally produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films in 2004.Oscar-nominated director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets and he experiences all sorts of unexpected -- and terrifying -- side effects. He also examines the corporate giant's growing role in the lives of American consumers and explores its methods of indoctrinating young people and its contribution to America's obesity epidemic.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Food industry and trade.; Instructional films.; Sociology.; Social sciences.; Documentary films.; Corporations.; Obesity.; Food.; Nutrition.; Motion pictures.;
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Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis [electronic resource] : by Vance, J. D..aut; cloudLibrary;
Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance’s powerful origin story…. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class.  THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Poverty & Homelessness; State & Local; Rural; 21st Century; Personal Memoirs;
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Go-Go City. by George, Samuel,film director.; Bertelsmann Foundation Documentary Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Bertelsmann Foundation Documentary Films in 2021.For decades, Washington DC has stood as a beacon for Black culture and community. Yet a breakneck wave of gentrification threatens to erase this history. GO-GO CITY dives into this rich tapestry, as well as the forces of gentrification that stand to mute it. The film interweaves scenes of massive 2020 protests against racial inequality that filled the neighborhoods of the nation’s capital. Follow along as displaced communities rally around the city’s beloved Go-Go music to retake the streets.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Human rights.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; African Americans.; Political participation.; Communities.; Gentrification.;
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