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"The seven-foot Dirk Nowitzki is one of the great players in basketball history. With a devastating fadeaway and unexpected agility, the Dallas Mavericks superstar helped to pioneer the modern three-shooting game and became a global ambassador for the sport. Award-winning novelist and sportswriter Thomas Pletzinger traveled with Nowitzki for more than seven years, seeking the secret of his success and longevity. In novelistic detail, Pletzinger tells...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal...
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Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward. At the heart of his theory, known as logotherapy, is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure...
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"An international bestseller, the story behind Henry Markram's breakthrough theory about autism, and how a family's unconditional love led to a scientific paradigm shift. Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind...
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Capitol Music
Pub. Date
[2016]
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2 videodiscs (207 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A two part documentary on the fascinating career of Bob Dylan in the early sixties. Scorsese's film chronicles the early years of Dylan, collecting clips of the singer-songwriter from 1961-66, as he went from being a rising star on the New York City folk scene to one of the country's greatest protest singers to, in the words of one irate concertgoer, a Judas for plugging in and going electric.
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FilmRise
Pub. Date
℗2016
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek through a personal, intimate look at the life and career of Leonard Nimoy and the enduring appeal of his alter ego, Mr. Spock, as told by his son, Adam Nimoy.
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2014
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1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col., with b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The only up-close and personal film about the juggernaut band The Clash and their meteoric trajectory through rock 'n' roll history. The rise and fall of The Clash features previously unseen footage of the band at work and at play as well as interviews with the individual band member and with those who knew them well--Container.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog's mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running water, in deep poverty. It was there, as the new postwar...
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Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A documentary about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart told through dramatic readings from his personal letters. Includes interviews with noted personalities and excerpts from numerous musical performances.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2014.
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xxv, 579 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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A total re-assessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann that reveals his activities and notoriety amongst a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich, and permanently undermines Hannah Arendt's often-cited notion of the banality of evil.--
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New Directions
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English
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"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund
A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund
The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of...Author
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NorthSouth
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Presents a narrative biography of Ada Lovelace, a woman who didn't attend school as a child but became one of history's greatest mathematicians and first computer programmers.
20) A life ascending
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Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follows acclaimed mountaineer Ruedi Beglinger, who lives with his wife and two young daughters on a remote glacier in the mountains of British Columbia. Beglinger has built a reputation as one of the top ski mountaineering guides in the world. Viewers follow his family's unique life off the grid and their journey in the years following a devastating avalanche that killed seven people.
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