Search:

Results 1 to 10 of 13 |

Outside bet [videorecording] / by Agutter, Jenny.; Atack, Emily.; Davis, Phil.; Hoskins, Bob.; Magowan, Kate,1975-; Regan, Vincent.; Inception Media Group.;
Emily Atack, Bob Hoskins, Phil Davis, Vincent Regan, Jenny Agutter, Kate Magowan.Set against the turbulent mid 80's of money, privatization, unions and dramatic media evolution: A life-long group of friends find themselves at the bad end of a redundancy pay-out and invest their savings into a racehorse, hoping that one final race can turn their fortunes around.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Horse racing; Race horses; Severance pay;
© 2015., Inception Media Group,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Up in the air [videorecording (DVD)] / by Bateman, Jason.; Clifford, Jeffrey.; Clooney, George.; Dubiecki, Daniel.; Elliott, Sam,1944-; Farmiga, Vera.; Kendrick, Anna.; Kent, Rolfe.; Kim, Walter.Up in the air.Videorecording.; Lynskey, Melanie.; Morton, Amy.; Reitman, Ivan.; Reitman, Jason,1977-; Simmons, J. K.; Turner, Sheldon.; Cold Springs Pictures (Firm); DW Studios (Firm); Montecito Picture Company.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm); Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Rickshaw Productions (Firm); Right of Way Films (Firm);
Director of photography, Eric Steelberg ; editor, Dana E. Glauberman ; music, Rolfe Kent.George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton, Melanie Lynskey, J. K. Simmons, Sam Elliott.Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn't about the journey, but about the connections made along the way.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, widescreen ([1.85:1]) presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Kim, Walter.; Brothers and sisters; Comedy films.; Downsizing of organizations; Feature films.; Frequent flyer programs; Man-woman relationships; Romantic comedy films.; Severance pay; Specialists; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2010., Paramount Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The night tiger [sound recording] / by Choo, Yangsze,author,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author.In 1930s colonial Malaysia, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master's severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ren has forty-nine days, or else his master's soul will roam the earth forever. Ji Lin, an apprentice dressmaker, moonlights as a dancehall girl to pay her mother's debts. One night, Ji Lin's dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir that leads her on a crooked, dark trail. As time runs out for Ren's mission, a series of unexplained deaths occur amid rumours of tigers who turn into men. In their journey to keep a promise and discover the truth, Ren and Ji Lin's paths will cross in ways they will never forget.
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Superstition;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Sonny Assu : a selective history / by Assu, Sonny,author.; Hopkins, Candice,1977-author.;
"Stunning retrospective highlighting the playfulness, power, and subversive spirit of Northwest Coast Indigenous artist Sonny Assu. Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective spans over a decade of Assu's career, highlighting more than 120 full-colour works, including several never-before-exhibited pieces. Through analytical essays and personal narratives, Richard Van Camp, Marianne Nicolson, Candice Hopkins, and Ellyn Walker provide brilliant commentary on Assu's practice, its meaning in the context of contemporary art, and its wider significance in the struggle for Indigenous cultural and political autonomy. Exploring themes of Indigenous rights, consumerism, branding, humour, and the ways in which history informs contemporary ideas and identities, Sonny Assu: a selective history is the first major full-scale book to pay tribute to this important, prolific, and vibrant figure in the Canadian contemporary art world"--
Subjects: Assu, Sonny; Indian artists; Indian art; Art, Canadian.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Metroid prime remastered [electronic resource]. by Nintendo of America Inc.;
Game.Get behind the visor of intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran in her critically-acclaimed first-person adventure Step into the boots of Samus Aran as you navigate the winding paths and interconnected environments of an alluring-yet-dangerous alien planet. Use powers like the iconic Morph Ball and Grapple Beam to revisit hard-to-reach areas and find a path forward. With revamped graphics, sound, unlockable art, and updated control schemes, Samus' 3D platforming debut has reached greater heights. Calm and capable, Samus takes on this solo mission...but she is far from alone. Explore the alien environments and eerie isolation of planet Tallon IV Journey through the diverse biomes of planet Tallon IV as you uncover the Space Pirates' sinister experiments and gather information about the toxic substance that left the planet in ruin. Blast forward to your next objective or take time to stop and scan your surroundings and delve into the creatures and culture of Tallon IV. From the quiet stillness of the snowy Phendrana Drifts to the magma geysers of Magmoor Caverns, this alien planet introduces beautifully harsh landscapes and labyrinths. Upgrade your arsenal to take on extraterrestrial terrors Use Samus' Arm Cannon and go head-to-head against otherworldly creatures, bolstered Space Pirates, and Ridley, revived with cybernetic and genetic enhancements. Backtrack through areas and pay close attention to your environment to solve puzzles and get more upgrades. You'll need the help of abilities like the Ice Beam, Missiles, and several visors to dispatch the alien threats lurking on Tallon IV.ESRB Content Rating: T, Teen (Violence, animated blood).Cartridge compatible with Nintendo Switch video game system ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p ; in game surround sound ; Nintendo Switch Pro controller compatible.
Subjects: Action adventure video games.; Science fiction video games.; Video games.; Nintendo video games.; Role playing video games.; Aran, Samus (Fictitious character); Nintendo Switch (Video game console); Nintendo Switch video games.; Video games.; Computer games.; Space warfare; Interplanetary voyages; Metroid prime remastered (Game);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

No rules rules : Netflix and the culture of reinvention / by Hastings, Reed,1960-author.; Meyer, Erin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it generates billions of dollars in annual revenue; or even because it is watched by hundreds of millions of people in nearly 200 countries. When Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix, he developed a set of counterintuitive and radical management principles, defying all tradition and expectation, which would allow the company to reinvent itself over and over on the way to becoming one of the most loved brands in the world. Rejecting the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate, Reed set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance and hard work is irrelevant. At Netflix, you don't try to please your boss, you practice radical candor instead. At Netflix, employees never need approval, and the company always pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these principles, the implications were unknown and untested, but over just a short period of time they have led to unprecedented flexibility, speed, and boldness. The culture of freedom and responsibility has allowed the company to constantly grow and change as the world, and its members' needs, have also transformed. Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of The Culture Map and one of the world's most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial philosophies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from his own career, No Rules Rules is the full, fascinating, and untold story of a unique company making its mark on the world"--
Subjects: Netflix (Firm); Netflix (Firm); Corporate culture.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Sleep no more : six murderous tales / by James, P. D.,author.;
"A holiday gift for all P.D. James fans to stand alongside her bestselling The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories: six previously uncollected stories from the beloved "Queen of Crime"--swift, cunning murder mysteries from throughout her extraordinary career. Put your feet up and enjoy a good read! Longtime P.D. James fans will devour these short tales of criminality and deception, each one a pleasure, evocative and engrossing. Including several stories originally published in magazines, this enchanting arrangement of memorable whodunits treats the reader to atmospheric storytelling, mysteries to be solved, and enjoyable puzzles that will keep you guessing. With wit and warmth, P.D. James pays tribute to her English crime-writing forebears, delighting in the dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of quintessentially English settings. Sleep No More is a beautifully produced, rare gift book, and an exciting addition to the P.D. James library, offering her devoted readers a glimpse of earlier work never before collected between two covers, and--for those who come newly to it--a delightful place to begin."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Short stories.; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The last girl : my story of captivity, and my fight against the Islamic State / by Murad, Nadia,author.; Clooney, Amal,writer of foreword.;
"In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia's brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story--as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi--has forced the world to pay attention to the ongoing genocide in Iraq. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Murad, Nadia.; IS (Organization); Detention of persons; Human rights workers; Prisoners; Women and war; Women; Yezidis;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Sleep no more [sound recording] : six murderous tales / by James, P. D.,author.; Weyman, Dan,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.; Books on Tape, Inc.,publisher.;
Read by Daniel Weyman."A holiday gift for all P.D. James fans to stand alongside her bestselling The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories: six previously uncollected stories from the beloved "Queen of Crime"--swift, cunning murder mysteries from throughout her extraordinary career. Put your feet up and enjoy a good read! Longtime P.D. James fans will devour these short tales of criminality and deception, each one a pleasure, evocative and engrossing. Including several stories originally published in magazines, this enchanting arrangement of memorable whodunits treats the reader to atmospheric storytelling, mysteries to be solved, and enjoyable puzzles that will keep you guessing. With wit and warmth, P.D. James pays tribute to her English crime-writing forebears, delighting in the dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of quintessentially English settings. Sleep No More is a beautifully produced, rare gift book, and an exciting addition to the P.D. James library, offering her devoted readers a glimpse of earlier work never before collected between two covers, and--for those who come newly to it--a delightful place to begin."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Short stories.; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The farmer's lawyer : the North Dakota Nine and the fight to save the family farm / by Vogel, Sarah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel in North Dakota. Sarah, a young lawyer and single mother, listened to farmers who were on the verge of losing everything and, inspired by the politicians who had helped farmers in the '30s, she naively built a solo practice of clients who couldn't afford to pay her. Sarah began drowning in debt and soon her own home was fac0ing foreclosure. In a David and Goliath legal battle reminiscent of A Civil Action or Erin Brockovich, Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' Constitutional rights. It was her first case. A courageous American story about justice and holding the powerful to account, The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on for our daily bread almost fell apart due to the willful neglect of those charged to protect it, and what we can learn from Sarah's battle as a similar calamity looms large on our horizon once again.
Subjects: Vogel, Sarah.; North Dakota. Department of Agriculture.; United States. Department of Agriculture.; United States. Farmers Home Administration.; North Dakota Farmers Union.; Agricultural credit; Agricultural laws and legislation; Agriculture; Bankruptcy; Debtor and creditor; Farm foreclosures; Farm ownership; Farmers; Farmers; Farms; Land use, Rural; Lawyers; Legal assistance to farmers; Liens;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 1 to 10 of 13 |