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Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make some of them right when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.
A dramatization of the development of the atomic bom by the Manhattan Project, during World War II, with emphasis on the relationship between...
Publisher
Microids
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"It all begins when Wendy decides to throw an end-of-year party at home with her friends. Before she gets a chance to ask her parents, her unbearable little sister Maureen steals her idea and asks their parents first. Unfortunately, the parents will allow only one party! Maureen and Wendy start a series of crazy challenges to decide which one of them will host the party. With sister against sister, there is going to be trouble! There are 24 crazy...
Publisher
Microids SA
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For the first time in the video game history, climb aboard Grendizer the Legendary Robot and fight the forces of evil to defend our planet Earth! Get ready to experience an unforgettable adventure with Grendizer the famous giant robot This action/adventure game adapted from the cult animated series will immerse you in the heart of the universe of its creator, Go Nagai, and will give you the chance to pilot the most powerful robot and fight the forces...
245) Miracle planet
Publisher
Distributed by Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Miracle planet is a five-part series that recounts the profound and gripping story of Earth's mysterious evolution. Narrated by Christopher Plummer, it reveals the surprising role that sheer chance has played in the development of life. Over its more than 4-billion-year history, Earth has been home to repeated violent climactic changes, which have caused mass extinctions. And yet, life has survived. In fact, these same catastrophes that devastated...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the President of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the...
Series
DHHS publication volume no. (SMA) 14-4781ENG
Publisher
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
248) The privilege
Author
Series
Joseph Antonelli novels volume 9
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Joseph Antonelli, who never lost a case he should have won and won nearly every case he should have lost, is about to see his client, Justin Friedrich, convicted for a crime he did not commit. His wife was found shot to death in the bedroom of their yacht in the San Francisco marina, and Friedrich does not have a chance. But then the real killer approaches Antonelli… Famous and enigmatic, James Michael Redfield, the head of a high tech company that...
Series
Publisher
TMW Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance, and art. The Harlem Renaissance gave African Americans a chance to live their...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Mork, a misfit on Ork because of his sense of humor, was sent off to study Earthlings, whose "crazy" customs the "Orkans" had never been able to understand. Mork landed in a giant eggshell near Boulder, Colorado and was befriended by pretty Mindy McConnell, a music store clerk. Mork looked human but his strange mix of Orkan and Earthling customs led most people to think of him as just some kind of nut. Aware of his origins, Mindy helped him adjust...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A bunch of kids get together to turn a run-down old theater into a community center. "Miracles," an East L.A. hangout where locals lock, pop, and break dance is run by a nice old guy, and Kelly, Ozone, and Turbo help by offering dance related activities. Now a real estate developer wants to tear down the center and put up a big retail development. To save the center, a big extravaganza of a benefit is organized--providing an excuse for lots of song...
Author
Publisher
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Pub. Date
2008]
Language
English
Description
Security and stability in the 21st century have little to do with traditional power politics, military conflict between states, and issues of grand strategy. Instead they revolve around the disruptive consequences of globalization, declining governance, inequality, urbanization, and nonstate violent actors. The author explores the implications of these issues for the United States. He proposes a rejection of "stateocentric" assumptions and an embrace...
Author
Series
Occasional paper. Center for Strategy and Technology) volume no. 55
Publisher
Center for Strategy and Technology, Air University
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Joint Strike Fighter international program is unique; indeed there is no other example of a U.S. major prime contractor co-developing and co-producing a U.S. combat aircraft with other foreign entities. Consequently, the program provides an excellent model to evaluate in view of the new Department of Defense international acquisition strategy requirements. This paper is a preliminary analysis that seeks to answer the questions: what are the benefits...
Author
Series
Research report volume 1804
Publisher
Reserve Component Training Research Unit, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
To determine the relation between simulation- (Laser Marksmanship Training System LMTS) and live-fire-based rifle marksmanship performance, 186 Reserve Component (RC) soldiers from Idaho and Oregon fired for qualification on a scaled LMTS version and live-fire version of the Army's standard pop-up target qualification course. LMTS was fired under either a dry-fire mode or a Blazer (i.e., sound/recoil replicator) mode. Statistically significant positive...