Matt Damon
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Language
English
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Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system -- the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across our country.
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Physical Desc
224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good. When Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon visited rural Zambia in 2006, the last thing he expected was to become a life-long champion for the battle to end the global water and sanitation crisis. He quickly realized that to make a real impact, he'd need additional expertise....
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
"Chronicling the stories of five teachers in different areas of the country, American teacher reveals the frustrating realities of today's educators, the difficulty of attracting talented new teachers, and why so many of our best teachers feel forced to leave the profession altogether"--Container.
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Life and times of a historian, activist, and author. With archival materials and interviews with Zinn and colleagues such as Noam Chomsky, this captures the essence of an extraordinary man who has been a catalyst for progressive change for 60+ years.
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Betrayed by the Army's legendary "Indian fighter" General George Crook, Geronimo leads a small band of warriors in escape, but is pursued by a principled officer, a grizzled army scout, and a gung-ho West Point graduate.
6) School ties
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep. school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship...
7) Suburbicon
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Ocean's Twelve reintroduces Ocean and his perfectly trained team of con men. Dividing forces to hit Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome, the heist-meisters move beyond casinos to tackle new objectives, one of which involves stealing a famous painting.
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
"When Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling is asked to review the posthumous candidacy of the first woman to receive a Medal of Honor, he finds himself plunged into an apparent cover-up surrounding the actions that led to her death. As he struggles to uncover the truth, he also finds himself forced to confront his own tormenting demons."--Container.
12) Titan A.E
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Fifteen years after an alien race destroyed Earth, Cale searches for the spaceship Titan, which holds the secret to the salvation of the human race, before the Drej can destroy it.
13) Syriana
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1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead. Career CIA field operative Bob Barnes is sorting out his midcareer issues -- his bosses want him quietly confined to a desk job. Bryan Woodman, an expatriate in Geneva, becomes the financial adviser to idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir. Corporate lawyer Bennett Holiday is finessing the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. In Prince Nasir's...
14) The last duel
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1 videodisc (approximately 153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
King Charles VI declares that knight Jean de Carrouges must settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
15) Elysium
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1 videodisc (approximately 109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
16) Stillwater
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1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
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English
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A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
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9 videodiscs (approximately 21 hours, 21 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The legendary tales of a wild mustang named Spirit hits its stride in Spirit: The Ultimate Collection. Beginning with Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, follow our brave hero as he journeys across the untamed wilderness in search of new friends, thrilling adventures, and true love. Then prepare for eight hair-raising seasons of Spirit: Riding Free where three best friends and their extraordinary horses take on the frontier, one amazing gallop at a...
18) Rounders
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1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks."--IMDB web site.
19) Air
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1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son's immense...
20) Ponyo
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embarkon a fantastic journey of friendship and discovery before Ponyo's father, apowerful sorcerer, forces her to return to her home in the sea. Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the delicate balance of nature and triggers a giganticstorm. Only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.