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Jack C. from Maryland was the Keynote speaker at the 39th Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous in Nashua, NH, in April, 2005. In this recording of his speech, Jack tells about his career as a police officer, attorney, and eventually judge. It is a story that is no less than amazing; he talks about a pipe bomb package which critically injured him, and how he dedicated his life ever since to helping other AA's in any way he can. ... Mark Urso traveled...
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Storytelling at its best!
Chuck's presentation at the 2008 New Hampshire AA convention in North Conway brought the audience from shock to tears, with lots of laughs, too, as he described "hitting bottom," followed by a seemingly impossible plan of action with Alcoholics Anonymous. With the help of many friends, his journey was one of success in the face of great difficulty and his storytelling skills are well sharpened. Chuck's wife, Beth, is well...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Learn how essays can break the rules of conventional writing, allowing you to design essay forms to match your needs rather than being forced to fit the rules of more conventional forms. Examine structures that reimagine the essay, such as the microessay and the prose poem or “proem.” Professor Cognard-Black shares her own students’ work to explore what elements went into these examples to make them successful essays.
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2024.
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"Why do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet all our needs? And what can we learn about commitment, love, and family from people who put deep friendship at the center of their lives? In The Other Significant Others, NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner--these are friends who are home co-owners,...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Shift your attention from rural American utopias to explore from a different perspective: Victorian anxieties about technology and the vanishing frontier. Analyze these fears in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, which utilizes utopian conventions and heavy doses of satire to critique religion, health, education, and humanity's increasingly complex relationship to machines.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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This atmospheric short drama was made on film in 1998 and serves as a showcase for some of the outstanding talent nurtured by CAAMA at that time, supported by filmmaking talent from elsewhere including Safina Uberoi and Jackie McKimmie. In a sequence of simple, emotionally charged scenes, MY COLOUR, YOUR KIND gives a powerful impressionistic insight into the feelings of alienation experienced by a teenaged albino Aboriginal girl. In a convent boarding...
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"In Soap & Soul, Lisa Bronner presents dozens of ideas beyond those promised on the Dr. Bronner labels. Drawing on years of customer engagement, Lisa shares what customers want to know most: how to use Dr. Bronner's versatile products and live a simple, low-tox life. Fans of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps will find usages and dilutions for the products as Lisa covers popular topics such as hair washing, skin health, dog washing, laundry, carpet care, and...
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Gravitas
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross was at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. With doctors and conventional medicine unable to help, Joe traded in junk food and hit the road with a juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days. Across 3,000 miles Joe had one goal in mind: To get off his pills and achieve a balanced lifestyle. "*This...
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Simon Element
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Calm the Chaos is a clearly organized, methodical approach to parenting. Dayna has created a road map to help parents find peace and meet their kids where they are at when conventional parenting tools have failed. There are five steps to calming the chaos--Getting to Safety, Restoring Trust and Energy, Finding Calm in the Moment, Getting Ahead of the Moment, and Defining Family Success. Each step employs a framework that is easy to remember, even...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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In the last few decades, a wide array of practices have gained greater acceptance as forms of treatment and healing. If you've ever considered herbal supplements, meditation, acupuncture, yoga, or a change of diet to promote better health, then you're already familiar with integrative medicine...Integrative medicine describes the addition of natural or holistic practices into the health-care paradigm to complement conventional Western medicine and...
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"Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing-and least understood-people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of an evangelical preacher, paints an expansive and profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. Through the eyes of televangelists and small-town preachers, celebrity revivalists and everyday...
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"Over the past few years, Sheena Iyengar and William Duggan have developed and taught original course material at Columbia Business School that applies a new method of creative thinking to innovation problems of all kinds. It draws from recent advances in cognitive psychology and gives guidance on converting the natural methodology of creative thinkers throughout history to a formal method readers can teach and learn in a conventional classroom workshop...
13) Old Goats
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cinequest Film Festival, Old Goats is the hilarious and heartfelt story of a trio of spirited senior citizens who “refuse to go quietly into that good night.” Britt, Bob, and Dave say what they please and don’t hold anything back on their quest to make the most of their sunset years. Opinionated and set in their ways, each man confronts aging in his own unique fashion: conventional Dave quietly rebels against...
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"From the depths of the '70s rock 'n' roll excesses through unimaginable personal losses to an inspiring late-life transformation, Cidny Bullens's story is an utterly compelling journey about living and singing with your authentic voice. An androgynous gender-bending musician from the get-go. Bullens toured extensively with Sir Elton John and performed with Bob Dylan, undergoing a complete immersion in the drug-fueled excesses of 1970s rock 'n' roll....
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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When children begin to read and write they are as interested in information as they are in fiction. But information is not conveyed only with print; the wealth of visual texts are often the clearest communicators of information. Charts, diagrams, cross sections, and maps are a few of the elements that are as critical as the words they supplement. In many cases, the visual text is the clearest way to present information. In this video, Steve Moline...
16) Holy Land
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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Undetermined
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On a desolate West Bank hilltop, 50 Israeli families live in house trailers, yards littered with rusting tricycles and old furniture. This is Migron, the largest illegal settlement outpost, built in defiance of international law and the Israeli courts. From 2011 through 2012, a battle about the fate of Migron rages through Israel's politics and Supreme Court. Israeli anti-settlement activist Hagit Ofran leads the struggle against Migron....
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Corax trilogy volume 2
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It's important to look after your crew when you're in the battlefield salvage business. It's stressful work at the best of times, and although your employees are unlikely to be happy it makes sense to keep them alive. So when Saevus Corax finds himself having to capture a castle to stop his men from being killed, he has no choice but to give it a try. Needless to say, the conventional rules of siegecraft are unlikely to be followed"--Back cover.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From the best-selling author of Into the Raging Sea comes a moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why doing so is vital to our well-being as a nation, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically. Ben and Whitney Waxman are two tireless idealists trying to do the impossible: make an American-made,...
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Film Ideas
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Modern Love looks at remarkable individuals who are forging new relationship trends in the 21st century. The award-winning documentaries examine couples who have found new alternatives for building lasting love in our post-modern world. We see swingers; a multiple partner marriage; a marriage with one gay partner and one straight; and a lasting marriage of two women, one of whom used to be a man. Who said love was simple?Titles include:Same Sex MarriageNelly...
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate. Featured in Food and Country, premiering at Sundance 2023. Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited White Oak Pastures he was a full-time commodity cowboy who played hard and fast with every tool the system offered - chemicals, antibiotics,...
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