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A soldier first : bullets, bureaucrats and the politics of war / by Hillier, Rick,1955-;
Subjects: Hillier, Rick, 1955-; Canada. Canadian Armed Forces; Canada. Chief of the Defence Staff.; Generals;
© c2009., HarperCollins Canada,
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Living [videorecording] / by Burke, Tom,1981-actor.; Burton, Hubert,actor.; Chris, Oliver,1978-actor.; Cochrane, Michael,actor.; Hermanus, Oliver,film director.; Nighy, Bill,1949-actor.; Rawlins, Adrian,actor.; Sharp, Alex,1989-actor.; Wood, Aimee Lou,1995-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch ; editor, Chris Wyatt ; director of photography, Jamie D. Ramsay.Alex Sharp, Adrian Rawlins, Hubert Burton, Oliver Chris, Bill Nighy, Michael Cochrane, Aimee Lou Wood, Tom Burke.In a career-defining performance, Bill Nighy (Love Actually) plays Williams, a 1950's London civil servant who struggles to maintain order under mountains of paperwork. Overwhelmed at work and lonely at home, his life takes a heartbreaking turn when a medical diagnosis tells him time is short. Influenced by a local decadent (Tom Burke) and the vibrant Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood), Williams continues to search for meaning until a simple revelation gives him the purpose to create a legacy for the next generation.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bureaucrats; Cancer; Life change events; Older men; Terminally ill;
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Down inside : thirty years in Canada's prison service / by Clark, Robert,1955-;
Both a personal memoir of author Robert Clark's three decades in Canada's federal prisons in Ontario, and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.LSC
Subjects: Clark, Robert, 1955-; Prison wardens; Criminals;
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The other Olympians : fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports / by Waters, Michael,1997-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of the groundbreaking trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who set the stage for today's culture wars"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; De Bruyn, Willy.; Koubek, Zdenĕk, 1913-1986.; Smętek, Witold, 1910-1983.; Weston, Mark, 1905-; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.; Antisemitism; Intersex athletes; Olympic athletes; Sexism in political culture; Transgender athletes;
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Line of duty. [videorecording] / by Ashfield, Kate.; Caffrey, David.; Compston, Martin.; James, Lennie.; McCardie, Brian.; McClure, Vicky,1983-; McKee, Gina,1964-; Mercurio, Jed.; Content Television.; RLJ Entertainment.;
Lennie James, Vicky Mcclure, Martin Compston, Gina Mckee, Kate Ashfield.Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott is a London police officer who refused to participate in a bureaucratic cover-up following a botched counterterrorism raid. Made a pariah by his colleagues, Arnott is forced to transfer to the anti-corruption department, where he quickly discovers that a celebrated officer, DCI Gates, has much to hide in both his personal and professional lives.14A.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Police corruption; Police internal investigation; Police; Television programs.;
© c2013., RLJ Entertainment,
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Still mine [videorecording] / by Bujold, Geneviève.; Cromwell, James.; McGowan, Michael.; Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;
James Cromwell, Geneviève Bujold.Based on true events and laced with wry humour, Still Mine tells the heartfelt tale of Craig Morrison, who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife Irene. Although Morrison uses the same methods his father, an accomplished shipbuilder, taught him, times have changed. He quickly gets blindsided by local building codes and bureaucratic officials. As Irene becomes increasingly ill - and amidst a series of stop-work orders - Craig races to finish the house. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance against all odds in a truly inspirational story.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Married people; Older couples;
© c2013., Distributed by Mongrel Media,
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We chose to speak of war and strife : the world of the foreign correspondent / by Simpson, John,1944-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In corners of the globe where fault lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, since the early nineteenth century, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and--despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, and violent--reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is difficult, exciting, and glamorous. These stories from the last two hundred years celebrate an endangered tradition. Where once dispatches were trusted to the hands of a willing sea captain, telegraph operator, or stranger in an airport line prepared to spirit a can of undeveloped film back to New York, today the digital realm has transformed the relaying of the news--if the work of gathering it in the field has changed little.
Subjects: Foreign correspondents.; Foreign news.;
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The U.S. and the Holocaust [videorecording] / by Arkin, Adam,voice actor.; Botstein, Sarah,1972-television director,television producer.; Burns, Ken,1953-television director,television producer.; Coyote, Peter,narrator.; Davis, Hope,1967-voice actor.; Giamatti, Paul,voice actor.; Gilliatt, Olivia,voice actor.; Gould, Elliott,voice actor.; Guyer, Murphy,voice actor.; Herzog, Werner,1942-voice actor.; Lucas, Josh,voice actor.; McCormick, Carolyn,voice actor.; Morton, Joe,1947-voice actor.; Neeson, Liam,voice actor.; Novick, Lynn,television director,television producer.; Rhys, Matthew,1974-voice actor.; Streep, Meryl,voice actor.; Ward, Geoffrey C.,screenwriter.; Welt, Mike,television producer.; Whitford, Bradley,voice actor.; Zengel, Helena,2008-voice actor.; Florentine Films,production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster.;
Cinematography, Buddy Squires and Wojciech Staroń ; edited by Tricia Reidy and Charles E. Horton.Narrated by Peter Coyote ; voices: Adam Arkin, Hope Davis, Paul Giamatti, Olivia Gilliatt, Elliott Gould, Murphy Guyer, Werner Herzog, Josh Lucas, Joe Morton, Carolyn McCormick, Liam Neeson, Matthew Rhys, Meryl Streep, Bradley Whitford, Helena Zengel.The U.S. and the Holocaust examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a "nation of immigrants," but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution, violence and flight as their families tried to escape Hitler, this series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 5.1 surround sound, 2.0 stereophonic.
Subjects: Television mini-series.; Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; War television programs.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Mass media; National socialism in popular culture; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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The raging 2020s : companies, countries, people--and the fight for our future / by Ross, Alec,1971-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives. The state holds the power to make them fall in line. And the people hold the power to choose their leaders. But now, this balance has shaken loose. As the market consolidates, the lines between Walmart and the Halls of Congress have become razor-thin. Private companies have begun to behave like nations, and with the government bogged down in bureaucratic negotiations and partisan wars, people look to nimble, powerful firms to solve societal problems-and to be our moral standard-bearers. As Walter Isaacson said about Ross's first book, "The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows how it can be exciting rather than frightening." Through interviews with the world's most influential thinkers and stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models, Alec Ross proposes a new social contract-one that resets the equilibrium between corporations, the governing, and the governed"--
Subjects: Corporate power; Business and politics; Corporations;
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Good citizens need not fear / by Reva, Maria,1989-author.;
"A bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal records. So begins Reva's ingenious novel-in-stories, intertwined narratives that span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union. But even as the benighted denizens of 1933 Ivansk Street weather the official neglect of the authorities, they devise ingenious ways to survive. In "Bone Music," an agoraphobic woman survives by selling contraband LPs, mapping the vinyl grooves of illegal Western records into stolen x-ray film. A delusional secret service agent in "Letter of Apology" becomes convinced he's being covertly recruited to guard Lenin's tomb, if only he can convince a contrarian poet to officially apologize for reciting a forbidden joke. Weaving the narratives together is an unforgettable, chameleon-like girl named Zaya: a disfigured orphan in "Little Rabbit," a beauty-pageant crasher in "Miss USSR," and, when she reaches adulthood, a sadist-for-hire to the Eastern bloc's newly minted oligarchs in "Homecoming." Good Citizens Need Not Fear takes us from moments of intense paranoia to surprising tenderness and back again, exploring what it means to be an individual amidst the roiling forces of history. Inspired by her and her family's own experiences in Ukraine, Reva brings the black absurdism of early Shteyngart and the sly interconnectedness of Anthony Marra's The Tsar of Love and Techno to a fictional world that is as clever as it is heartfelt."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Political fiction.; Apartment houses;
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