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Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Focuses on two the families with young deaf children and their conflict over whether or not to give their children cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that may improve their ability to hear but may threaten their Deaf identity.
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When New York City’s Chinatown was hit hard early on in January 2020 due to the coronavirus, partners Moonlynn Tsai and Yin Chang weren’t content to just be bystanders. Local businesses were closing their doors, and members of the community were being violently attacked due to racism and xenophobia. Tsai, as co-owner of Malaysian restaurant Kopitiam, decided to use her restaurant as an anchor for “Heart of Dinner,” a community relief effort...
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As mankind is moving onto the next stage of its evolution, spiritual maturity in order to reach balance, which will be a golden age, human beings will have to choose, with a united voice, to transcend the current paradigm of division and violence. It is thus paramount that each individual understands his or her role for the advent of this future. There are decisions to be made at two levels: collective action and individual action. At the collective...
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English
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From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.
Using materialist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches, Cremin shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a mutually supporting relationship. He identifies three ways in which...
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English
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?
In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...
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English
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Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.
Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid understanding of Foucault's key terms, which have become...
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Español
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Este libro no trata, como muchos otros, de cómo afectará la pandemia a la humanidad, si la mejorará, empeorará o la dejará igual. Tampoco trata de cómo emergerá el neoliberalismo tras ella o de cómo responderá el Estado a sus exigencias. El libro que el lector tiene entre sus manos apuesta por un cambio de rumbo en la Filosofía, menos pendiente de los propios juegos especulativos y más atenta a la crítica y a la reflexión social posicionada...
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Español
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La sistematización -en este nuevo siglo- es una posibilidad para producir conocimiento a partir de la intervención en la realidad, como una teorización de la práctica vivida. Esa sistematización de experiencias tiene un gran significado para el trabajo social; de algo que se consideraba secundario pasó a ser una actividad relevante en la profesión que convoca sus propios discursos, instituciones y una comunidad de especialistas.
El libro Teoría...
9) Ciudadanía digital y desarrollo local: Experiencias y procesos de participación en la Unión Europea
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Español
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Hoy las Nuevas Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación ofrecen múltiples herramientas para la gobernabilidad y el desarrollo de las ciudades. Con la irrupción de estas tecnologías se han roto las formas tradicionales de articulación ciudadana, proliferando distintas iniciativas de apropiación tecnológica y autonomía por parte de los movimientos sociales, además de más o menos acertadas políticas públicas que persiguen la integración...
10) Long Haulers
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From 77 year-old Sandi, to formerly incarcerated Lori, to guinea pig lover Tracy, LONG HAULERS defies stereotypes and gives a platform to women who have often been marginalized and type-casted. Sharing their sorrows and triumphs, viewers learn who these women are, and what keeps them trucking.
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Español
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Learn to solve problems together with this Spanish nonfiction book. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a connected project, glossary, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color Spanish book explores real-world problems and how individuals have come together to find solutions. It also covers key topics like creative problem-solving and brainstorming, and includes an extension activity...
Publisher
The Film Sales Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Growing up a daughter of Korean immigrants who ran a liquor store in a South LA neighborhood, So Yun Um decided that what she wanted to do more than anything else, was become a filmmaker, much to the bemusement of her father. In this vibrant and bold film, So turns the camera on herself, her community and her friends, and documents a rarely seen slice of the American Dream as she struggles with creating her own path in life.
13) City of Trees
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Since 1990, nonprofit Washington Parks & People has tried to reduce poverty and violence in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods by improving parks. At the height of the recession, the organization received a stimulus grant to create a "green" job-training program in communities hardest hit. They had two years to help unemployed people find jobs and care for parks in their neighborhoods.What sounds like a simple goal — putting people back to work by planting...
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The outbreak of plague in Surat in September 1994 brought to the fore the lopsided urban growth, inefficiency of the delivery system for basic services and incompetence of civic administration in urban India. The epidemic has also highlighted the significant role of urban local bodies in handling the situation in such crises. Plague in Surat: Crisis in Urban Governance is the result of a pioneering work undertaken by the research faculty of the Urban...
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English
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An in-depth analysis of the historical and contemporary contours of black life in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is well-known as a temperate paradise with expansive beaches and mountain vistas, a booming luxury housing market, and the home of glamorous Hollywood. During the first half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles was also seen as a mecca for both African Americans and a steady stream of migrants from around the country and the world, transforming...
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Español
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¿Qué portugués no se ha sentido ofendido, irritado o confundido con los españoles y su forma de ser? ¿Qué español no se ha sentido incomprendido, también irritado o confundido con los portugueses y su forma de ser? Siendo vecinos, los dos países han pasado siglos de espaldas uno al otro y posiblemente no haya dos culturas que, siendo tan cercanas, se conozcan tan poco. A través del humor, de anécdotas reales vividas durante sus años en...
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English
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Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam, which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have populations that are more than a third foreign-born.
These cities have had to deal with the challenge of incorporating hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose cultures, languages, religions, and racial backgrounds differ dramatically from those of many long-established...
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English
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Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the potential of cities to meet the economic, social and political challenges of the current age.
This book seeks to examine the dynamics of urban life, showing that new opportunities can be maximised and social advances realised in...
19) Mighty Ground
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows the journey of Ronald Troy Collins, a gifted songwriter living on the streets of Skid Row, and the impact he makes on those who come to love him. A living example of redemption and what it means to transform oneself from rock bottom. MIGHTY GROUND was an Official Selection at the **LA Film Festival** and an Audience Favorite Award winner at the **Calgary International Film Festival**.
20) Another Body
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Follows a college student’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deepfakes of herself circulating online. Through candid video diaries, synthetic media, and 2D and 3D animation, the film takes you into Taylor's online and offline worlds, humanizing a vast social issue in a compelling personal story.
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