Michael Fox
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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At the turn from our bedroom into the hallway, there is an old full-length mirror in a wooden frame. I can't help but catch a glimpse of myself as I pass. Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael...
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Series
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite of, or perhaps even because of these trends, ideas about...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 498
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of prewar and postwar power relations in Russia'sSmolensk amid Stalinism and Nazism in Russia's Smolensk. The book investigates how lived experiences shaped people's fateful choices and how ordinary people sustained the twentieth century's two most murderous regimes"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But behind the scenes, Kim was dealing with a tragic secret: her mother, Linda, was suffering from a rare form of dementia that slowly crippled her ability to talk, write and eventually recognize people in her own family. Where the Light...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1989, the Brazilian Worker's Party altered the concept of local government when they installed participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, allowing residents to participate directly in the allocation of city funds. Ten years later, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was swept into power with the promise of granting direct participation to the Venezuelan people; who have now formed tens of thousands of self-organized communal councils. In the Southern...
10) Spin City: S1
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A New York City Deputy Mayor, supported by an unusual staff, must constantly bail out the Mayor who never knows what is going on.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Drew: the man behind the poster" is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the career of poster artist Drew Struzan, whose most popular works include the Indiana Jones, Back to the future and Star wars movie posters. Telling the tale through exclusive interviews with George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox, Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Spielberg and many other filmmakers, artists and critics, the journey spans Drew's early...
12) Spin City: S3
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A New York City Deputy Mayor, supported by an unusual staff, must constantly bail out the Mayor who never knows what is going on.
13) Spin City: S2
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A New York City Deputy Mayor, supported by an unusual staff, must constantly bail out the Mayor who never knows what is going on.
14) Spin City: S4
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
A New York City Deputy Mayor, supported by an unusual staff, must constantly bail out the Mayor who never knows what is going on.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Marty McFly accidentally travels back to 1955 and interferes with the teen versions of his parents; Doc Brown and Marty McFly travel between 2015 and 1955 to fix the space-time continuum; new adventures of Marty McFly and his friend Doc Brown as they travel through time to the Old West.
Author
Publisher
Harper Design
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Great Scott! Go Back to the Future with Doc Brown and Marty McFly in this visually stunning look at the creation of one of the most beloved movie trilogies of all time. Few films have made an impact on popular culture like the Back to the Future trilogy. This deluxe, officially licensed book goes behind the scenes to tell the complete story of the making of these hugely popular movies and how the adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown became an...
Author
Series
Women of Troy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1925. Momentous changes threaten the great house, its owners, and its servants, while past scandals continue to loom. Return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season to discover what will finally become of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world. Secrets and rifts threaten the unity of the family, while...
19) The Alteration
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Language
English
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BOOKER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR
Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction novel is “one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence” (Philip K. Dick).
In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth...
Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction novel is “one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence” (Philip K. Dick).
In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth...
20) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
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