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Series
Connections volume 9-10
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Description
A series presenting science as a detective story illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Part 9: Traces the discoveries and inventions which gave rise to the motion picture. Incredible events led to Thomas Edison's remarkable invention; the beginnings of limelight on an Irish mountain; George Eastman's production of celluloid; the "magic lantern" of an Austrian ballistics teacher. Concludes by posing questions...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Follow the journey of Becca, a young would-be actress, as she attempts to navigate the seedy underworld of Hollywood. What she doesn't know is that she is about to be conscripted into the even more sinister ecosystem of Internet performance art videos. This woman's dreams of making it on the Big Screen rapidly evolve into something decidedly stranger"--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"At the turn of the century, Paris was a hotbed of creativity. Technology boomed, delivering to the world electric light, the automobile, and new ways to treat disease, while imagination blossomed, creating Art Nouveau, motion pictures, and modernist literature. A pivotal figure during this time, yet largely forgotten today, Loie Fuller was an American performance artist who became a living symbol of the Art Nouveau movement with her hypnotic dances...
24) Human footprint
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Takes a phase-by-phase journey through life from infancy to old age to illustrate the enormous imprint every American makes during his or her time on Earth. Incorporates surprising facts with playful visuals to reveal our level of consumption and the simple changes we can all make to reduce the impact of our ecological footprint on the world.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided by duty, driven by desire, they moved toward lofty destinies: a young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, a gay Brooklyn...
26) The 60's
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From the glamorous years of the Kennedy administration to the triumph of the first moonwalk, viewers are escorted through the period's world-changing events, including the Cuban missile crisis; the civil rights movement; the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.; urban riots; the Vietnam War; and the peace movement it fostered.