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Shalom Sesame volume 4
Description
It's Tu Bishvat! Grover, Brosh and Avigail get back to nature as they learn how to plant trees and make the world a better place.
Pub. Date
[2020]
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4 videodiscs (716 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of survivors led by Morgan Jones and Alicia Clark have a clear mission: locate survivors and provide help for others in an effort to make up for the wrongdoings of their pasts and make what's left of the world a slightly better place.
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I Love the 1880s volume 7
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Our cast of comedians tackles Edison, Einstein, the Wright Brothers, and many other nerds whose scientific genius have made the world a better place. Learn how shocking an elephant helped decide how we get electricity today.
4) Justin time
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ancient stone amulet and calendar disc has the power to stop time. Passed from generation to generation, these magical artifacts end up in the hands of an 18-year-old half-Shoshoni Indian named Justin, who chooses to use his power to make the world a better place. But on the other side of the equation is the power-seeking philanthropist, Michael Romano, who seeks to indulge in the riches of the world.
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Great Courses volume 20
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Explore how education in countries around the world develops global citizens by imparting a combination of identity, knowledge, skills, and action-both explicitly and implicitly-to engender concern for making the world a better place. Examine curricula designed to focus on global citizenry, including the International Baccalaureate and instruction created by Oxfam.
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Reel South volume 2
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After spending 15 years working in the conventional funeral industry, a passionate mortician is paving uncharted territory to help create the first natural burial ground of its kind in Tennessee. Bury Me at Taylor Hollow recounts his personal journey from mortuary traditionalist to global-thinking environmentalist, as he seeks a better place for his community to lay to rest.
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Teenager The Orphan wants to meet her hero, notorious vigilante The Bad Samaritan. But when she finally comes face-to-face with her idol she finds he's not the man, or the superhero, she had seen on TV - and sets out to kill him. But In a world where peace and justice are a thing of the past, these two souls will have to join together to make this futuristic world a better place.
8) Zama
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors' who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama...
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Some say that to embrace one's greatest talent is to make the world a better place. Others see a grown man spinning a twelve-foot hula hoop and snicker about trivial obsessions. Breaking world records is a mysteriously seductive tradition, alternately inspiring, reckless, and bizarre. Follow a joggler, a grape catcher, and a man who cycles nowhere as they battle the odds and their respective nemeses in pursuit of global dominance. Since when is it...
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Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier), an itinerant handyman, is driving through the desert when he meets five nuns. Stopping to fix their leaky farmhouse roof, Homer discovers the Mother Superior also wants him to build their chapel - for free! Hesitant at first, Homer soon finds himself single-handedly raising the chapel and the financing. But although he will not receive a monetary reward, Homer knows that when his work is done, he'll leave the desert town...
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Grandpa In My Pocket volume 3
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Celebrity film star Princess Purpelovna is visiting Sunnysands apparently she has plans to make the town a better place. Determined to see her and find out what her plan is, Grandpa shrinks, but hides in the wrong backpack and ends up in the bike shop. // Mr Krumpgrumble, the Taste Tester from the Town Hall is coming to inspect Miss Smiley's Café. Mum, Jason, Jemima, Great Aunt Loretta and Grandpa turn up to support Miss Smiley in the hope that Mr...
12) One day
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"After one day together -- July 15th, 1988, their college graduation -- Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that lasts a lifetime. She's a working-class girl who dreams of making the world a better place. He's a wealthy charmer who thinks the world is his playground. Somewhere over the next two decades, these two very different people realize that the love they've been hoping for has been there for them...
13) About time
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
1 DVD-video (118 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Description
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life, so he decides to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend. But as his unusual life progresses, Tim discovers that, in the end, making the most of life may not need time travel at all.
14) Good fortune
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Born into impoverished beginnings in East LA, at times homeless and living in his car, John Paul DeJoria spent his early adulthood in and out of motorcycle gangs but transformed his life and built a wildly successful line of hair care products with stylist Paul Mitchell. He then created the largest tequila brand in the world - Patrón. Good fortune reveals the secret of one of America's most celebrated entrepreneurs: giving back. His motto is "success...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 490 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The television series is a spinoff from the popular Breaking Bad television show. The series takes place six years before the events of Breaking Bad and features small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill. The series follows the exploits of Jimmy and the circumstances that lead to his metamorphosis into criminal-minded lawyer Saul Goodman.
Pub. Date
[2015]
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3 videodiscs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman, in the time leading up to establishing his strip-mall law office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A spinoff from the Breaking Bad television show, it takes place six years before the events of Breaking Bad and follows small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill and the circumstances that lead to his metamorphosis into criminal-minded lawyer Saul Goodman.
Pub. Date
2022.
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4 videodiscs (690 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's been a complicated journey for compromised hero, Jimmy McGill, to transform into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. Kim is in the midst of her existential crisis while Gus, Nacho, and Lalo are locked into a game of cat and mouse with mortal stakes.
Pub. Date
[2019]
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3 videodiscs (519 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the final season, Sarah Nordmann finally marries wealthy landowner George Bligh. But as Sarah takes her place as lady of Ash Park, George's mother, Elizabeth, feels pushed out of the household. George's son, James, returns from abroad to start a business, while his daughter, Anna, lives in Hawaii with her sister-in-law, hiding a secret from the family. The Bligh's face tragedies, betrayals, and new beginnings that will challenge their relationships...
20) Sharkfest 2021
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Not only does this program shine a light on the science of sharks, giving audiences a better understanding of the ocean's top predator, but it also features their true beauty, power, and mystery.
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