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Rock bottom : a novel / by Brockovich, Erin.; Lyons, CJ,1964-;

Subjects: Legal stories.; Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Environmental lawyers; Mining corporations; Mountaintop removal mining; Single mothers; Women environmentalists;

© c2011., Vanguard Press,

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Avatar [videorecording (DVD)] / by Cameron, James,1954-; Horner, James.; Lang, Stephen,1952-; Ribisi, Giovanni,1974-; Rodriguez, Michelle.; Saldana, Zoë.; Weaver, Sigourney,1949-; Worthington, Sam,1976-; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;

Music by James Horner.Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang.Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's life, and this changes everything.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Surround.

Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Disabled veterans; Extraterrestrial beings; Feature films.; Human-alien encounters; Indigenous peoples; Life on other planets; Mines and mineral resources; Science fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Na'vi (Fictitious characters);

© c2010., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,

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Blood on the mountain [videorecording] / by Evans, Mari-Lynn,film director,film producer.; Wallace, Deborah,film producer.; Freeman, Jordan,film director,film producer.; Sanchez, Matthew,editor of moving image work.; Abramorama (Firm),presenter.; Evening Star Productions,presenter,production company.; Virgil Films,publisher.;

Editor, Matthew Sanchez.It is a searing investigation into the economic and environmental injustices that have resulted from industrial control in West Virginia. This new feature documentary details the struggles of a hard-working, misunderstood people, who have historically faced limited choices and have never benefited fairly from the rich, natural resources of their land. It delivers a striking portrait of a fractured population, exploited and besieged by corporate interests.E.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Coal trade; Coal mines and mining;

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The Hank show : how a house-painting, drug-running DEA informant built the machine that rules our lives / by Funk, McKenzie,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that changed the course of the future. In The Hank Show, critically acclaimed author and journalist McKenzie Funk relates Asher's stranger-than-fiction story--he careened from drug-running pilot to alleged CIA asset, only to be reborn as the pioneering computer programmer known as the father of data fusion. He was the billionaire whose creations now power a new reality where your every move is tracked by police departments, intelligence agencies, political parties, and financial firms alike. But his success was not without setbacks. He truly lived nine lives, on top of the world one minute, only to be forced out of the companies he founded and blamed for data breaches resulting in major lawsuits and market chaos. In the vein of the blockbuster movie Catch Me if You Can, this spellbinding work of narrative nonfiction propels you forward on a forty year journey of intrigue and innovation, from Colombia to the White House and from Silicon Valley to the 2016 Trump campaign, focusing a lens on the dark side of American business and its impact on the everyday fabric of our modern lives"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Asher, Hank, 1951-2013.; Businesspeople; Criminal investigation; Data mining in law enforcement; Data mining; Data privacy; Multisensor data fusion;

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The ninth metal / by Percy, Benjamin,author.;

It began with a comet. At first, people gazed in wonder at the radiant tear in the sky. A year later, the celestial marvel became a planetary crisis when Earth spun through the comet's debris field and the sky rained fire. The town of Northfall, Minnesota will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This "omnimetal" has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source ... and a weapon. John Frontier--the troubled scion of an iron-ore dynasty in Northfall--returns for his sister's wedding to find his family embroiled in a cutthroat war to control mineral rights and mining operations. His father rightly suspects foreign leaders and competing corporations of sabotage, but the greatest threat to his legacy might be the US government. Physicist Victoria Lennon was recruited by the Department of Defense to research omnimetal, but she finds herself trapped in a laboratory of nightmares. And across town, a rookie cop is investigating a murder that puts her own life in the crosshairs. She will have to compromise her moral code to bring justice to this now lawless community. In this gut-punch of a novel, the first in his Comet Cycle, Ben Percy lays bare how a modern-day goldrush has turned the middle of nowhere into the center of everything, and how one family--the Frontiers--hopes to control it all.

Subjects: Science fiction.; Metals; Comets; Mineral rights; Murder; City and town life;

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The looting machine : warlords, oligarchs, corporations, smugglers, and the theft of Africa's wealth / by Burgis, Tom.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.A curse of riches -- Futungo, Inc. -- "It is forbidden to piss in the park" -- Incubators of poverty -- Guanxi -- when elephants fight, the grass gets trampled -- A bridge to Beijing -- Finance and cyanide -- God has nothing to do with it -- Black gold -- the new money kings -- Complicity.The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per cent of the world's population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent. In his first book, The Looting Machine , Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage. The oil, copper, diamonds, gold and coltan deposits attract a global network of traders, bankers, corporate extractors and investors who combine with venal political cabals to loot the states' value. And the vagaries of resource-dependent economies could pitch Africa's new middle class back into destitution just as quickly as they climbed out of it. The ground beneath their feet is as precarious as a Congolese mine shaft; their prosperity could spill away like crude from a busted pipeline. This catastrophic social disintegration is not merely a continuation of Africa's past as a colonial victim. The looting now is accelerating as never before. As global demand for Africa's resources rises, a handful of Africans are becoming legitimately rich but the vast majority, like the continent as a whole, is being fleeced. Outsiders tend to think of Africa as a great drain of philanthropy. But look more closely at the resource industry and the relationship between Africa and the rest of the world looks rather different.LSC

Subjects: Mineral industries; Mines and mineral resources;

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Last cab to Darwin [videorecording] / by Caton, Michael,actor.; Hamilton, Emma,actor.; Lawford-wolf, Ningali,actor.; Sims, Jeremy,film director.; Weaver, Jacki,1947-actor.; First-Run Features (Firm),publisher.;

Michael Caton, Jacki Weaver, Ningali Lawford-wolf, Emma Hamilton, Mark Coles Smith.Rex is a cab driver who has never left the mining town of Broken Hill in his life. When he discovers he doesn't have long to live, he decides to drive through the heart of the country to Darwin, where he's heard he will be able to die on his own terms; but along the way he discovers that before you can end your life you've got to live it, and to live it you've got to learn to share it.PG.DVD; widescreen presentation.

Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Road films.; Romantic comedy films.; Taxicab drivers; Terminally ill;

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Tarzan economics : eight principles for pivoting through disruption / by Page, Will,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."As the Chief Economist at Spotify, Will Page has had the best seat in the house for witnessing - and harnessing - the power of disruptive change. Music has often been the canary in the coal mine for the major technological and societal shifts that shake the way media companies operate, and if there is one thing Page has learned from the digital revolution it's the businesses must be ready to pivot. Drawing from fascinating music industry case studies, Page examines the ten game-changers that disruption has thrown into sharp relief as keys to survival in any sector. Businesses need to be ready and willing to change - and if necessary, be prepared to rebuild entire organizations and business models to do so. In other words, survival in business over the long haul has everything to do with knowing when revolutionary changes are coming and being prepared to adapt early when those imminent shifts become permanent. A rare book of economics that offers actionable takeaways in easy to understand language, Tarzan Economics is sure to be a must read for anyone looking to failsafe their business"--

Subjects: Corporate reorganizations.; Strategic planning.; Organizational change.;

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Dalziel & Pascoe. [videorecording] / by Buchanan, Colin.; Clarke, Warren,1947-; Hill, Reginald.; Royle, David.; Stockham, Jo-Anne.; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; BBC Worldwide Ltd.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television service.; Portobello Pictures (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);

Disc 1. Walls of silence -- Home truths.Disc 2. Secrets of the dead -- Truth and consequences.Production credit vary by episode.Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, David Royle, Jo-Anne Stockham.In season six of this gritty British crime thriller, grumpy old-school copper Andy Dalziel and his well-mannered university-educated partner Peter Pascoe, face more perplexing cases: The mysterious death of a schoolboy, the bizarre murder of a Sikh woman, the unexplained killing of a solicitor, and the puzzling appearance of a skeleton in a former mining town. On top of which, with Pascoe's wife and daughter now in America, the odd couple find themselves sharing Dalziel's house - a marriage certainly not made in heaven.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound.

Subjects: Criminals; Dalziel, Andy (Fictitious character); Detective and mystery television programs.; Detectives; Pascoe, Peter (Fictitious character); Police;

© c2012., Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc.,

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Free the land : how we can fight poverty and climate chaos / by Lim, Audrea,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."An eye-opening examination of how treating land as a source of profit has a massive impact on racial inequality and the housing, gentrification, and environmental crises. Climate change, gentrification, racial discrimination, and corporate greed are some of the most urgent problems facing our society. They are traditionally treated as unrelated issues, but they all share a common root: the ownership of land. Environmental journalist Audrea Lim began to notice these connections when she reported on the Native communities leading the fight against oil drilling on their lands in the Canadian tar sands near her hometown of Calgary, but before long, she saw the essential role of land commodification and private ownership everywhere she looked: in foreclosure-racked suburbs and gentrifying cities like New York City; among poor, small farmers struggling to keep their businesses afloat; and in low-income communities attempting to resist mines and industrial development on their lands, only to find that their voices counted less than those of shareholders living thousands of miles away. Free the Land is a captivating and beautifully rendered look at the ways that our relationship to the land is the core cause of the most pressing justice issues in North America. Lim expertly weaves together seemingly disparate themes into a unified theory of social justice, describes how the land ownership system developed over the centuries, and presents original reporting from a wide range of activists and policy makers to illustrate the profound impact it continues to have on our society today. Ultimately, this book offers a message of hope: by approaching these socioeconomic issues holistically, we can begin to imagine just alternatives to fossil-fueled capitalism, new ways to build community, and a more sustainable, equitable world"--

Subjects: Climatic changes.; Land use; Race discrimination.;

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