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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 46 min.)
Language
English
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For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land, acclaimed author David Bollier, a leading figure in the global movement to reclaim the commons, bucks the rising tide of anti-government extremism and free market ideology to show...
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ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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A 2017 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist!
American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a haven for the poor and oppressed; anyone, no matter his or her background, can find freedom here and achieve the "American Dream." On the other hand, depending on prevailing economic conditions, fluctuating feelings about race and ethnicity, and fear of foreign political and labor agitation, we set boundaries...
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English
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"There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and rancor these days than immigration. In [this book], the renowned author Suketu Mehta offers a reality-based polemic that vitally clarifies the debate. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the globe, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. As he explains, the West...
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English
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Today, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth - a community founded on the well-being of all people and the natural world. In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful book, Jedediah Purdy, one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, explores...
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English
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Throughout the stories here is information on how places, cities, and states got their names. However, questions arise because Native American tribes of the day didn't yet have a written alphabet, and none of those came along until Sequoyah invented one in 1821, one that was actually more of a syllabary with symbols that stood for consonant/vowel sequences and could make words, basically just a writing system.One such word example is Tsa-La-Gi in...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Marine Le Pen was defeated in the French election that brought Emmanuel Macron to power, but her far right-wing party, with its nationalist, anti-immigrant platform, lives on to feed the fear and resentment that begot Donald Trump’s election. THIS IS OUR LAND is a fictionalized story of an attractive working-class single mother in the North of France who naively agrees to run for mayor, representing the Patriotic Bloc. Nominated for the Golden Tulip...
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The Aleph were nearly wiped out for tampering with technology borne from Jukal Portals. The Demons of Devil Crater were almost turned to a footnote in history for rebelling against the Dark God. The Beast Kin were seen as a threat with their natural high affinities.
Now all of these races have started to come back, the first stage in Bob's plan to save Emerilia.
With the Stone Raider's help the Aleph have recovered their cities, stepping down the...
10) This is our land
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Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An engaged but apolitical nurse gets involved in a far-right political party. Based on numerous recent events in France, it becomes about how Front National operates and how it is perceived by the French.
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Language
English
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Michael Davitt was born in Straide, County Mayo, Ireland in 1846 at the height of the "Great Hunger". Overcoming many hardships, he rose to become an international figure and one of Ireland's most beloved patriots. This fictionalized biography brings back to life the beginning of the fight for Irish independence. Travel the journey with Michael Davitt as he struggles to break the power of the landlords and take Ireland out of the feudal system imposed...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 26 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Set in the foothills of the Appalachians, this film explores one man's vision of using green burials to conserve land. Dr. Billy Campbell, the town's only physician, and his efforts have radically changed our understanding of burials in the United States. Dr. Campbell's dream is to conserve one million acres of land. Dying green focuses on the revolutionary idea of using our own death to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file)
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English
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A video from ECU's archive of documentaries and teaching films. This episode shows the viewer how mapping, naming and other processes help individuals to make 'the land' meaningful. The idea is developed that landscape is primarily a cultural construction, that we progress from the fact of 'land' to our concepts of 'landscape'. Produced by George Karpathakis.
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English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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English
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Food security and housing a nation with an expanding population should be key priorities for a small island like Britain. Yet both are being thwarted by record land prices. In the last 10 years, farm land has risen by almost 200% - with feeding the nation a secondary consideration to speculators buying up thousands of acres annually to avoid tax. If planning permission is given for new housing, prices can rise fifty-fold - making a vast profit for...
17) Ningla ANa
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 72 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
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A rare additon to the study of Australian History. Made in 1972, this documentary records the events surrounding the establishment of the Aboriginal tent embassy on the lawns of Parliament House. It incorporates interviews with black activists, the work of the National Black Theatre, Aboriginal Legal Service and Aboriginal Medical Service, plus footage from the demonstrations and arrests at the embassy. This is the only film to focus on the tent...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (1118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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With a rich history stretching back over 3,000 years, the Holy Land is sacred for three major faiths and the setting for defining events in religious history. Historians have shed intriguing new light on our understanding of this area-and its powerful role in religious history. Comb through these remains for yourself and travel deep beneath the pages of the Bible.
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English
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"Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" is one of the best-loved folk songs in America, inspiring activism and patriotism for all. This classic ballad is now brought to life in a richly illustrated edition for the whole family to share. Kathy Jakobsen's dazzlingly detailed paintings invite readers on a journey across the country, creating an unforgettable portrait of our diverse land and the people who live it. It includes the complete lyrics and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Language
English
Description
Europeans declared Australia terra nullius - an empty land. This lie enabled them to take possession of land occupied for thousands of years by Aboriginal people, yet the number of whites in Australia remained small until after the Second World War. In the post-war years, government sponsored immigration schemes brought many more Europeans to Australia. "Populate or perish" became the catch cry of those who sought to achieve their vision of a secure...
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