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My stories, my times / by Chrétien, Jean,1934-author.; translation of:Chrétien, Jean,1934-Mes histoires.English.; Fischman, Sheila,translator.; Winkler, Donald,translator.;
"One of the most popular Canadian Prime Ministers in recent history, elected to government for three consecutive majority terms, Jean Chrétien has some stories to tell. Recounted with warmth, insight and his distinctive sense of humour, these brief and candid essays feature many behind-the-scenes stories from a long, distinguished and colourful career. October 2018 marks twenty-five years since Jean Chrétien took the helm as Prime Minister. In this collection of short essays, he has picked up his pen to reminisce about his long years in the public eye, and the many luminaries he met and worked with. Readers will learn why his commonsense judgment continues to influence our lives to this day, in ways both profound and subtle: from forging long-lasting relationships with foreign countries to making it easy to identify our national airline when we travel. He recalls a memorable trip with the royal family to the Northwest Territories in 1970, and how Ross Perot tried to influence his views on free trade in 1992. Of course, many familiar names figure into these stories, including George W. Bush, Boris Yeltsin, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Pierre Trudeau, and Bill and Hillary Clinton. There are reflections on the many different posts over Chrétien's career, including becoming Canada's first-ever francophone finance minister. He pays tribute to old friends and colleagues, where the values of honour and dedication to public service transcend political views. He reserves his greatest admiration for his wife of more than sixty years, Aline, whom he calls his Rock of Gibraltar. These stories offer his unique perspective: we are at the Prime Minister's side on 9/11 when he is asked to give authorization to shoot down a passenger airliner that has not responded to identification requests. We learn how he attempted to correct the record as explained in his grandson's history book on the so-called "Night of the Long Knives" (Despite having special access to an eyewitness to history, his grandson got a failing grade on his paper.) There are even glimpses of the young Jean, as a teen canvassing with his father, and as a young man who dared complain personally to Premier Maurice Duplessis about the food at his seminary. Survival in politics requires stamina, creativity and toughness, as well as the ability to share a laugh now and again: qualities that the self-described "little guy from Shawinigan" never lost. In these days of "alternative facts" and politics-by-Tweet, these stories are a necessary antidote, told by a leader who always held fast to his vision of what Canada was and what it could be."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Chrétien, Jean, 1934-; Prime ministers; Prime ministers;
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Playing the long game : a memoir / by Sinclair, Christine,1983-author.; Brunt, Stephen,author.;
For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. 'Playing the Long Game' is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport. Sinclair was born and raised in Burnaby, BC.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Sinclair, Christine, 1983-; Soccer players; Women soccer players;
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The High 5 Habit Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit [electronic resource] : by Robbins, Mel.aut; cloudLibrary;
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER TO HELP YOU OVERCOME ANXIETY AND BECOME MORE CONFIDENT, EFFECTIVE, AND FULFILLED From Mel Robbins, #1 podcast host, best-selling author and expert on change and motivation. In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions the five second secret to motivation. Now she's back with another simple, proven science-backed tool you can use to take control of your life: The High 5 Habit. Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. Cheering for your favorite teams. Celebrating your friends. Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life. Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit. You'd be unstoppable. In this encouraging book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF. If you are: · Struggling with self-doubt (and who doesn't?) … · Tired of that nagging critic in your head (could somebody evict them already?) … · Successful but all you focus on is what's going wrong (you're not alone) … · Sick of watching everybody else get ahead while you sit on the couch with your dog (don't bring your dog into this) … ...Mel dedicates this book to you. Chapters Include: You Deserve a High 5 Life Science Says This Works I Have a Few Questions... Why Do I Torture Myself? Am I Broken? Where's All This Negative Crap Coming From? Why Am I Suddenly Seeing Hearts Everywhere? Why Is Life So Easy for Them and Not Me? Isn’t It Easier If I Say Nothing? How About I Start . . . Tomorrow? But Do You Like Me? How Come I Screw Everything Up? Can I Actually Handle This? Okay, You May Not Want to Read This Chapter Eventually, It Will All Make Sense It's time to give yourself the high fives, celebration, and support you deserve. With this book, you'll learn how to: · Use the High 5 Habit to overcome negative self-talk and limiting beliefs · Create a clear vision for your life and set goals that align with your values · Take consistent action towards your goals, even when you don't feel like it · Develop a mindset of resilience and perseverance · Achieve more success and happiness in all areas of your life “When I stopped trashing myself and started giving my reflection a high five instead, it was more than an encouraging gesture on a low day. It flipped that self-criticism and self-hatred on its head. It changed the lens through which I viewed my life. That was the beginning of a massive shift in my life. A line in the sand. The beginning of a brand-new connection to the most important person in my life—myself. A new way of thinking about myself and about what was possible for me. It inspired me to create an entirely new way of experiencing life. That’s why I wrote this book. It’s time to cheer for YOU.” Love, Mel Robbins Using her signature science-backed wisdom, deeply personal stories, and the real-life results that The High 5 Habit is creating in people's lives around the world, Mel will teach you how to make believing in yourself a habit so that you have more confidence, transform your mindset, and achieve your dreams.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Personal Success; Motivational; Success;
© 2021., Hay House,
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The Berenstain Bears. [videorecording] / by Nelvana (Firm),production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.;
Join the Bear Family for fun-filled adventures in volume 3 of Tree House Tales! When Sister must write about a bear she admires the most for a school project, she learns just how many awards Grizzly Gran won in her younger years. Then, the cubs are excited for a family trip! This value-packed DVD collection covers important topics including compromising, helping those in need, and much more!G.DVD; full screen presentation; region 1 NTSC, Stereo.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bears; Berenstain Bears (Fictitious characters); Brothers and sisters;
For private home use only.
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Gambler : secrets from a life at risk / by Walters, Billy,author.; Keteyian, Armen,author.;
Anybody can get lucky. Nobody controls the odds like Billy Walters. Widely regarded as "the Michael Jordan of sports betting," Walters is a living legend in Las Vegas and among sports bettors worldwide. With an unmatched winning streak of thirty-six consecutive years, Walters has become fabulously wealthy by placing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in gross wagers, including one Super Bowl bet of $3.5 million alone. Competitors desperate to crack his betting techniques have tried hacking his phones, cloning his beepers, rifling through his trash, and bribing his employees. Now, after decades of avoiding the spotlight and fiercely protecting the keys to his success, Walters has reached the age where he wants to pass along his wisdom to future generations of sports wagerers. Gambler is more than a traditional autobiography. In addition to sharing his against-all-odds American dream story, Walters reveals in granular detail the secrets of his proprietary betting system, which will serve as a master class for anyone who wants to improve their odds at betting on sports. Walters also breaks his silence about his long and complicated relationship with Hall of Fame professional golfer Phil Mickelson. On a typical weekend gameday packed with college and pro sports, Walters will bet $10 million-a small sum for someone as wealthy as he is today, but an unbelievable fortune for the child who was raised by his grandmother in extreme poverty in rural Kentucky. By the age of nine, Walters became a shark at hustling pool and pitching pennies. As a young adult, he set records as a used-car salesman, hustled golf, and dabbled in bookmaking. He eventually moved to Las Vegas, where he revolutionized sports betting strategy and became a member of the famed Computer Group, the first syndicate to apply sophisticated algorithms and data analysis to sports gambling. He became extraordinarily wealthy while overcoming addictions and outmaneuvering organized crime figures made infamous by Martin Scorsese's film Casino. In Gambler, Walters passes along everything he's learned about sports betting. First, he shows bettors how to mine the information we have at our fingertips to develop a sophisticated betting strategy and handicapping system of our own. He explains how even avid bettors often do not grasp all of the variables that go into making an informed wager -- factors such as home field advantage, individual player values, injuries or illness, weather forecasts, each team's previous schedule (bye weeks, multiple away games in a row, etc.), travel distance/difficulty, stadium quirks, turf types, and more. Not every bettor has access to Walters's team of expert analysts, but every bettor can follow his guidelines on how to measure the detailed information available online and look for unique situations that could affect a game's outcome more than usual. Variable by variable, Walters breaks down the formulas, point systems, and principles that he's developed over decades of improving his craft. A self-made man who's repeatedly won it all, lost it all, and earned it all back again, Walters has lived a singular and wildly appealing American life, of the outlaw variety. Gambler is at once a gripping autobiography, a blistering tell-all, and an indispensable playbook for coming out on top.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Walters, Billy.; Gamblers; Gambling.; Gambling; Sports betting.; Sports betting;
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Miss representation [videorecording] / by Cho, Margaret.; Congdon, Jessica,1972-; Couric, Katie,1957-; Cvetko, Svetlana.; Davis, Geena.; Dawson, Rosario.; Durham, Meenakshi Gigi.; Feinstein, Dianne,1933-; Fonda, Jane,1937-; Heldman, Caroline,1972-; Holland, Eric.; Huerta, Dolores,1930-; Katz, Jackson.; Kilbourne, Jean.; Lauzen, Martha M.; Ling, Lisa.; Maddow, Rachel.; Mitchell, Pat,1943-; Newsom, Jennifer Siebel,1974-; Pelosi, Nancy,1940-; Pozner, Jennifer L.; Rice, Condoleezza,1954-; Scully, Regina Kulik.; Steinem, Gloria.; Girls Club Entertainment.; Roco Films Educational (Firm); Virgil Films (Firm);
Director of photography, Svetlana Cvetko ; editor, Jessica Congdon ; composer, Eric Holland.Featured in the film: Caroline Heldman, Condoleezza Rice, Dianne Feinstein, Dolores Huerta, Geena Davis, Gloria Steinem, Jackson Katz, Jane Fonda, Jean Kilbourne, Jennifer Pozner, Katie Couric, Lisa Ling, M. Gigi Durham, Margaret Cho, Martha Lauzen, Nancy Pelosi, Pat Mitchell, Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson.As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential. The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken and armed with a new perspective.E.DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation (16:9) aspect ratio; Dolby digital 2.0.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Gender identity in mass media.; Leadership in women.; Women in mass media.; Women in popular culture; Women; Women;
© c2012., Virgil Films,
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Sex, lies & serious money / by Woods, Stuart,author.;
"Fresh off the runway at Teterboro, Stone Barrington arrives home to find an unexpected new client on his doorstep, anxiously soliciting his help. But everything is not as it seems, when the client reveals the true nature--and value--of his recent turn of fortune. From luxury New York high-rises to the sprawling New Mexico desert, his client is pursued from all angles. and Stone quickly learns that easy money isn't always so easy"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character); Private investigators;
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Blood diamond [videorecording] / by Coleman, Antony.; Connelly, Jennifer.; Connelly, Jennifer.; DiCaprio, Leonardo.; Gorfil, Gillian.; Harewood, David.; Herskovitz, Marshall.; Hounsou, Djimon,1964-; Howard, James Newton.; King, Graham.; Kuypers, Kagiso.; Leavitt, Charles.; Lukola, Anointing.; Mbhena, Benu.; Mistry, Jimi,1973-; Mitchell, C. Gaby.; Roodt, Darrell.; Vosloo, Arnold.; Wallace, Basil.; Weinstein, Paula.; Zwick, Edward.; Bedford Falls Productions (Firm); Initial Entertainment Group.; Spring Creek Productions.; Virtual Studios.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Director of photography, Eduardo Serra ; editor, Steven Rosenblum ; music, James Newton Howard ; costume designer, Ngila Dickson ; production designer, Dan Weil ; special effects supervisor, Neil Corbould ; visual effects supervisor, Jeffrey A. Okun.Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Arnold Vosloo, Antony Coleman, Benu Mabhena, Anoiting Lukola, David Harewood, Basil Wallace, Jimi Mistry.Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Diamonds; Draft; Feature films.; Fishers; Smugglers; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2007., Warner Home Video,
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Sex, lies & serious money [sound recording] / by Woods, Stuart,author.; Roberts, Tony,1939-narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Tony Roberts."Fresh off the runway at Teterboro, Stone Barrington arrives home to find an unexpected new client on his doorstep, anxiously soliciting his help. But everything is not as it seems, when the client reveals the true nature--and value--of his recent turn of fortune. From luxury New York high-rises to the sprawling New Mexico desert, his client is pursued from all angles. and Stone quickly learns that easy money isn't always so easy"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character); Private investigators;
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Battle for the elephants [videorecording] / by National Geographic Society (U.S.); National Geographic Television.; Vivendi Entertainment (Firm);
The elephant, perhaps Earth's most charismatic and majestic land animal, faces market forces driving the value of its tusks to levels once reserved for gold. As National Geographic goes undercover to expose the criminal networks behind ivory's supply and demand, scientists reveal how the elephant, with its highly evolved society, keen intelligence, ability to communicate across vast distances and to love, remember and even to mourn, is far more complex than ever imagined.E.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: African elephant.; Elephants; Wildlife conservation.;
© c2013., National Geographic Society ; Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment,
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