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Just eat it [videorecording] : a food waste story / by Baldwin, Grant(Composer),film director,composer,editor of moving image work,interviewer.; Rustemeyer, Jenny,film producer,interviewer.; Battle, Murray,film producer.; Bloom, Jonathan,1976-interviewee.; Gunders, Dana,interviewee.; Stuart, Tristram,interviewee.; Wood, Melanie,film producer.; Knowledge Network (B.C.),production company.; Peg Leg Films,production company.; Bull Frog Films,publisher.;
Executive producers, Melanie Wood and Murray Battle ; camera, Grant Baldwin, Jenny Rustemeyer ; original music, Grant Baldwin.Jenny Rustemeyer, Grant Baldwin ; featuring: Tristram Stuart, Dana Gunders and Jonathan Bloom."Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping cold turkey and survive only on foods that would otherwise be thrown away. In a nation where one in 10 people is food insecure, the images they capture of squandered groceries are both shocking and strangely compelling. But as Grant's addictive personality turns full tilt towards food rescue, the 'thrill of the find' has unexpected consequences. Featuring interviews with TED lecturer, author and activist Tristram Stuart and acclaimed author Jonathan Bloom, Just Eat It looks at our systemic obsession with expiry dates, perfect produce and portion sizes, and reveals the core of this seemingly insignificant issue that is having devastating consequences around the globe. Just Eat It brings farmers, retailers, inspiring organizations, and consumers to the table in a cinematic story that is equal parts education and delicious entertainment"--foodwastemovie.com.E.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Educational films.; Environmental films.; Food waste.; Food waste; Waste minimization.; Waste minimization; Food industry and trade; Food industry and trade; Surplus agricultural commodities.; Source reduction (Waste management); Food preferences; Food preferences; Food supply; Food supply; Food consumption; Food consumption; Food habits; Waste (Economics); Waste (Economics); Consumption (Economics); Consumption (Economics); Waste products; Salvage (Waste, etc.); Sustainable living; Thriftiness.; Gleaning.; Consumer education.;
For private home use only.

Rebel : my escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom / by Mohammed, Rahaf,author.; Armstrong, Sally,1943-author.;
In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia--but made it only to Bangkok before being stripped of her passport. If forced to return home, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women in her country. As men pounded at the door of her barricaded hotel room, she created a Twitter account. The teenager reached out to the world, and the world answered--she gained 45,000 followers in one day, and those followers helped her seek asylum in the West. Now, Rahaf Mohammed tells her remarkable story in her own words, revealing untold truths about life in the closed kingdom, where young women are brought up in a repressive system that puts them under the legal control of a male guardian. Raised with immense financial privilege, but under the oppressive control of her male relatives--including her high-profile politician father--Rahaf endured an abusive childhood in which oppression and deceit were the norm. Moving from Rahaf's early days on the underground online network of Saudi runaways who use coded entries to learn how to flee the brutalities of their homeland, to her solo escape to Canada, Rebelis a breathtaking and life-affirming memoir about one woman's tenacious pursuit of freedom.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Mohammed, Rahaf.; Muslim women; Muslim women; Muslim women; Refugees; Refugees; Women refugees; Women refugees; Women; Women; Women;

Hello! I want to die, please fix me : depression in the first person / by Paperny, Anna Mehler,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Frank, eye-opening, heartbreaking and disarmingly funny, Anna Mehler Paperny is a fabulous, vibrant new voice. In her galvanizing memoir-meets-exposé, writing with riveting vitality and intelligence about surviving suicide and the ways we try to talk about and treat depression, she has discovered what eludes many: a way to reach out to us to talk about one of the increasingly concerning medical issues today. An energetic tour-de-force of empathy and desire for understanding, Hello! I Want to Die, Please Fix Me is compelling reading, as well as essential for anyone curious to understand how it feels to be depressed, or whose life, family or friends has been touched by depression. Anna Mehler Paperny is a young journalist from Toronto--a smart, passionate reporter who has contributed to the Toronto Star, Global News, The Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and just about every major news outlet you can think of. In her early-twenties, while thriving in her dream job, enjoying warm familial support and a strong social network of friends and colleagues, Anna found herself trapped by feelings of failure and despair. In September 2011, she made her first attempt to kill herself by ingesting a deadly mix of sleeping pills and antifreeze, landing her in the ICU followed by weeks of enforced detention in two different big-city psych wards. This was Anna's entry point into the labyrinthine psychiatric care system--one that is nominally responsible for providing the best reasonable care to millions of Canadians suffering from severe, life-threatening mental illness. Her first stay in the psych ward--at times horrifying, other times boring, hilarious and absurd--was just the beginning of a long recovery and a journey towards understanding, first-hand, the myriad ways our systems and medical practitioners treat--and fail to treat--a disease that afflicts a full fifth of the population. While trying to be a good patient, Anna cannot help but turn her intrepid journalist's eye on the world around her--in the psych ward, as an outpatient, as a survivor enduring the gruelling ordeal of facing concerned family, friends and co-workers; of finding the right meds, the right therapist; of staying insured and employed. Anna's personal account of life in the shadow of self-obliteration explores in searing detail her individual experience of depression, close encounters with fatal self-harm, and the trials and errors of treatment. It is at the same time an illuminating, profound, and utterly original analysis of how we approach mental illness in North America; the novel hypotheses specialists are putting forward to tackle it; and the truth about how primitive our methods of healing sick brains still are."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Paperny, Anna Mehler.; Paperny, Anna Mehler; Mental health services; Depressed persons; Depressed persons; Depression, Mental; Journalists; Depressed persons;

Cranford [videorecording] / by Annis, Francesca,1944-; Atkins, Emily.; Birtwistle, Sue.; Conklin, Susie.; Curtis, Simon,1960-; Dench, Judi,1934-; Etel, Alex.; Gambon, Michael.; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.Cranford.Videorecording.; Hudson, Steve.; Staunton, Imelda,1953-; Thomas, Heidi,1967-; Woods, Simon,1980-; 2 Entertain (Firm); BBC Video (Firm); British Broadcasting Corporation.; Chestermead Ltd.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Director of photography, Ben Smithard ; editors, Frances Parker, Dan Roberts ; music, Carl Davis ; series costume designer, Jenny Beavan ; series production designer, Donal Woods.Francesca Annis, Eileen Atkins, Simon Woods, Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Alex Etel.Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her demurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move in across the street and preparations for Lady Ludlows garden party are underway. The town has some secrets which are about to be revealed. But news comes that shakes the town, a railway line from Manchester is coming to Cranford.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.; Gossip; Man-woman relationships; Market towns; Single women; Sisters; Television mini-series.;
© c2008., BBC Video ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,

The job-ready guide : how to set yourself up for career success / by Waal, Anastasia de,author.;
A complete resource for standing out from the crowd and getting a job offer. Shows you how to build a strong CV, write an impressive cover letter, excel at interviews, and cultivate the professionalism that employers want.
Subjects: Vocational guidance.; Résumés (Employment); Job hunting.;

The purpose of power : how we come together when we fall apart / by Garza, Alicia,1981-author.;
"Coupled with the speed and networking capacities of social media, #blacklivesmatter was the hashtag heard round the world. But Alicia Garza well knew that the distance between a hashtag and real change would take more than a single facebook to cover. It would take a movement. Garza was a lifelong activist who had spent the previous decades educating herself on the hard lessons of organizing. She started as a kid, working on sexual education for her peers, and then moved on to major campaigns around housing, policing, and immigrant and labor rights in California and then nationally. The lessons she extracted were different from the "rules for radicals" that animated earlier generations of lefitists; they were also different than the charismatic, patriarchal model of the American Civil Rights Movement. She instead developed a mode of organizing based on creating deep connections with communities, forging multiracial, intersectional coalitions, and, most of all, calling in all sorts of people to join the fight for the world we all deserve. This is the story of an activist's education on the streets and in the homes of regular people around the country who found ways to come together to create change. And it's also a guide for anyone who wants to share in that education and help build sustainable movements for the 21st century at any level, whether you're fighting for housing justice in your community or advocating for a political candidate or marching in the streets or just voting. It's a new paradigm for change for a new generation of changemakers, from the mind and heart behind one of the most important movements of our time"--
Subjects: Political participation.; Social movements.;

The Wolfpack : the millennial mobsters who brought chaos and the cartels to the Canadian underworld / by Edwards, Peter,1956-author.; Nájera, Luis(Luis Horacio),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Joined by an award-winning Mexican journalist, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards reveals the successors to Vito Rizzuto's criminal dominance, a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival on Canada's doorstep of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico. Following the death of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in 2013, a group of young criminals rose to fill the vacuum in power on his old turf. Targetting the old guard of Mafia and 'Ndrangheta, still led in many cases by men in their seventies and eighties and steeped in a highly structured, quasi-religious criminal tradition, the newcomers were nothing like their predecessors. The impatient millennials leading this self-styled 'Wolfpack' were organized-crime disruptors who grew up with technology at their fingertips in a socially networked criminal underworld. They're part of Canada's most ethnically diverse generation, and their organization was as inclusive as it is criminal. They shared an overwhelming sense of entitlement, with a self-assuredness that astonished their rivals but left them foolishly exposed to law enforcement, enemies and the force in global crime they were arrogant enough to think they could handle doing business with. The dominant and most violent force in the global narcotics trade through the 2000s, Mexico's Sinaloa and Los Zetas drug cartels, recognized the naivety of their eager new customers up north and invited themselves to Canada to take advantage. In times of chaos and collapsing orders, disruptors rule. But was this new gang the new underworld order, or just the latest challenger in an ongoing upheaval in the wake of Rizzuto's death? The bloody answers are in The Wolfpack."--
Subjects: True crime stories.; Wolfpack Alliance (Gang); Gangs; Organized crime;

Everyday utopia : what 2,000 years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life / by Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A spirited tour through 2,500 years of utopian thinking and experiments to tease out better ways of imagining our domestic lives - from childrearing and housing to gender roles and private property - and a look at the communities putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today"--
Subjects: Communal living; Utopian socialism; Utopias;

Pride and prejudice [videorecording (DVD)] / by Austen, Jane,1775-1817.Pride and prejudice.Videorecording.; Ehle, Jennifer.; Firth, Colin,1960-; A & E Home Video (Firm); Arts and Entertainment Network.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television Service.; New Video Group.;
Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Alison Steadman, Benjamin Whitrow, Susannah Harker.A&E's adaptation of Jane Austen's story of a feisty young woman's romantic adventures and misadventures in the society of the 19th century English gentry.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.; Courtship; Family; Historical television programs.; Television mini-series.; Young women;
© c2001., A & E Home Video : Distributed by New Video,

The brain at rest : how the art and science of doing nothing can improve your life / by Jebelli, Joseph,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A narrative exploration of the science of "doing nothing" and its astonishing benefits for the brain and body, from neuroscientist and author of How the Mind Changed Everything Dr. Joseph Jebelli. We are living in the age of burnout -- even in our quietest moments, we are busier than ever, overwhelmed, and unable to disconnect from work, relationships, and current events. We view productivity as good, and idleness as bad, yet the secret to enhancing intelligence, creativity, social empathy, and emotional processing lies in a single act -- doing nothing. In The Brain at Rest, Dr. Joseph Jebelli blends science, stories, and practical tips in a nuanced exploration of the "default network," a brain system that participates in daydreaming, reflective thinking, and visualizing the future. In doing so, he shows the benefits of harnessing this network, such as reducing chances of developing depression and dementia, and helps us put these findings into practice. Perfect for readers interested in science and creativity, or anyone feeling overwhelmed in their day-to-day life, The Brain at Rest is a deeply-researched and entertaining antidote to burnout that definitively proves how even 5 to 10 minutes of doing nothing can better our lives"--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Brain.; Burn out (Psychology); Rest;

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