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Ruthless! [videorecording] : the musical / by Morris, Nick; Fitch, Richard,director.; Gardiner, Jason,actor.; Maresca, Kim,actor.; Evans, Anya,actor.; Laird, Marvin.Ruthless! (Musical); Laird, Marvin.Ruthless! (Musical).Two-dimensional moving image.;
Jason Gardiner, Kim Maresca, Anya Evans, Harriet Thorpe, Tracie Bennett, Lara Denning, Peter Land.A talented eight-year-old girl devises a nefarious scheme to land the lead in her school play.Not rated.
Subjects: Musicals.; Televised performances.; Nonfiction television programs.; Internet videos.;
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Ruthless! : the musical / by Morris, Nick,(Director)Film directorDirector(DLC)no2015032366; Fitch, Richard,Film directorDirector(local)tmpaut1708096619486000; Shaw, Austin,1966-Film producerProducer(DLC)no2015152850; Gardiner, Jason,Actor(local)tmpaut1708096628440300; Bennett, Tracie,Actor(DLC)no2004061963; Evans, Anya,Actor(local)tmpaut1708096636882700; Maresca, Kim,Actor(local)tmpaut1708096645129000; Liberator Films,,Publisher(local)tmpaut1708096649517800;
Jason Gardiner, Tracie Bennett, Anya Evans, Kim Maresca.The award-winning show is a hilarious spoof of Gypsy, Mame, and All About Eve. It is a modern cult classic telling the story of talented eight-year-old Tina Denmark who will do anything to play the lead in her school play. ANYTHING!TV rating: Unrated.DVD, region 0; wide screen; 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Drama.; Fiction films.; Musical films.; Films de fiction.; Films musicaux.; Feature films.; Children; Children's plays; Children.; Children's plays.;
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Octopus [videorecording] : making contact / by Fitch, Anna,television director.; Allen, David(Documentary filmmaker),film producer,screenwriter.; Scheel, David,narrator.(CARDINAL)867225; Wilkinson, Richard,editor of moving image work.; Kovacs, Ernie(Director of photography),director of photography.; Purdie, Fraser,composer (expression),conductor.; Passion Planet (Firm),production company.; Thirteen Productions,presenter.(CARDINAL)849774; British Broadcasting Corporation,presenter.(CARDINAL)143648; WNET New York Public Media,presenter.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher.(CARDINAL)189964; PBS Distribution (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)309769;
Editor, Richard Wilkinson ; director of photography, Ernie Kovacs ; music composed and conducted by Fraser Purdie.Narrator, David Scheel.Rating: TV-G.DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation; 5.1 surround.What happens when a professor invites an octopus to live in his home? NATURE follows Dr. David Scheel as he links behavioral discoveries to amazing octopus stories around the world, from the Day octopus that can change color and texture, to the Coconut octopus who carries around its coconut shell to hide. But most fascinating is Scheel's and his daughter's evolving relationship with "Heidi".
Subjects: Science television programs.; Wildlife television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Nature television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Scheel, David.; Octopuses.; Octopuses; Human-animal relationships; Marine biologists.;
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The Criminal justice system and mental retardation : defendants and victims / by Conley, Ronald W.(CARDINAL)204385; Luckasson, Ruth.(CARDINAL)188777; Bouthilet, George N.(CARDINAL)204386;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Ch. 1. Points of view: perspectives on the judicial, mental retardation services, law enforcement, and corrections systems / James G. Exum, Jr. ... [et al.] -- ch. 2. Toward an epidemiology of relevant attributes / John H. Noble, Jr., Ronald W. Conley -- ch. 3. The evaluation of defendants with mental retardation in the criminal justice system / John J. McGee, Frank J. Menolascino -- ch. 4. Defendants with mental retardation in the forensic services system / Russell C. Petrella -- ch. 5. The competency of defendants with mental retardation to assist in their own defense / Richard J. Bonnie -- ch. 6. Mental retardation and criminal responsibility / W. Lawrence FitchCh. 7. Sentencing the offender with mental retardation: honoring the imperative for intermediate punishments and probation / Frank J. Laski -- ch. 8. A model for habilitation and prevention for offenders with mental retardation: the Lancaster County (PA) Office of Special Offenders Services / Hubert R. Wood, David L. White -- ch. 9. Correctional services for inmates with mental retardation: challenge or catastrophe? / Jane Nelson Hall -- ch. 10. Advocacy service systems for defendants with mental retardation / Christine DeMoll -- ch. 11. People with mental retardation as victims of crime / Ruth Luckasson -- ch. 12. Training programs and defendants with mental retardation: history and future directions / Ruth Messinger, Philip W. Davidson -- ch. 13. Where we need to go: perspectives on the judicial, mental retardation services, law enforcement, and corrections systems / James G. Exum, Jr., H. Rutherford Turnbull III, Robert Martin, John W. Finn -- Appendix A. Brief of American Association on Mental Retardation et al. as amici curiae in support of petitioner in re Johnny Paul Penry, petitioner, v. James A. Lynaugh, director, Texas Department of Corrections, respondent James W. Ellis and Ruth Luckasson (with an introductory essay by Richard Burr) -- Appendix B. Observations from the field / Ronald W. Conley.
Subjects: Insanity (Law); Insanity defense; Criminal liability; Mental health laws;
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The Manhattan project : the birth of the atomic bomb in the words of its creators, eyewitnesses, and historians / by Kelly, Cynthia C.(CARDINAL)549263;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-480) and index.From the editor : Preserving the Manhattan Project / Cynthia C. Kelly -- Introduction : The Making of the Atomic Bomb / Richard Rhodes -- Section 1 : Explosive discoveries and bureaucratic inertia -- Thinking no pedestrian thoughts / Richard Rhodes -- The atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands / H.G. Wells -- If only we had been clever enough / Leona Marshall Libby -- What wasn't expected wasn't seen! / Edward Teller -- I had come close but had missed a great discovery / Philip Abelson -- Enlisting Einstein / William Lanouette -- Albert Einstein to F.D. Roosevelt / Albert Einsten and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- A practically irresistible super-bomb / Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls -- Working for Otto Frisch / J. Wechsler -- Likely to lead to decisive results / The MAUD Report, March 1941 -- Wild notions about atomic bombs / G. Pascal Zachary -- Transatlantic travails / Andrew Brown.Section 2 : An unprecedented alliance -- The rather fuzzy state of our thinking / James Hershberg -- The stuff will be more powerful than we thought / Vannevar Bush -- You'll never get a chain reaction going here / Richard Rhodes -- The Chicago Pile-1 : the first chain reaction / Enrico Fermi -- Fermi was cool as a cucumber / Crawford Greenewalt -- Proceeding in the dark / Leslie R. Groves -- Swimming in syrup / Robert Jungk -- The Los Alamos primer : how to make an atomic bomb / Robert Serber -- These were very great men indeed / Richard Feynman -- Misunderstandings and anxieties / Stephane Groueff -- A weapon of devastating power will soon become available / Niels Bohr to Winston Churchill -- One top secret agreement too many / Winston Churchill.Section 3 : An extraordinary pair -- His potential outweighed any security risk / Leslie R. Groves -- Scientific director for the special laboratory in New Mexico / James B. Conant and Leslie R. Groves to J. Robert Oppenheimer -- When you looked at Captain Groves, a little alarm bell rang "caution" / Robert S. Norris -- Decisive, confident and cool / Robert DeVore -- A bureaucratic warrior of the first rank / Robert S. Norris -- The biggest S.O.B. / Kenneth D. Nichols -- Not right, do it again! / John Lansdale, Jr. -- A "Jewish Pan" at Berkeley / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin -- The absent-minded professor / Berkeley Gazette, February 14, 1934 -- His head wreathed in a cloud of smoke / Edward Gerjuoy -- A psychiatrist by vocation, and a physicist by avocation / Jeremy Bernstein -- The most compelling man / Jennet Conant -- Appeasing General Groves / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin -- Visions of immortality / Robert S. Norris -- An audacious gamble / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin -- When Robert Oppenheimer walked onto the page / Joseph Kanon -- Doctor Atomic : the myth and the man / John Adams -- A cascade of different Oppenheimers / Jon Else.Section 4 : Secret cities -- A new and uncertain adventure in the wilderness / Stephane Groueff -- A crazy place to do any war thing / Stirling Colgate -- Excitement, devotion, and patriotism prevailed / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- The case of the vanishing physicists / Stanislaw Ulam -- Learning on the job / Rebecca Diven -- Life at P.O. Box 1663 / Ruth Marshak -- A boy's adventures at Los Alamos / Dana Mitchell -- Something extraordinary was happening here / Katrina Mason -- A relief from the hubbub of the hill / Katrina Mason -- An SED at Los Alamos / Benjamin Bederson -- A bad time to get a new boss / Joseph Kanon -- Tumbleweed and jackrabbits in the Evergreen State / Steve Buckingham -- Making toilet paper / Roger Rohrbacher -- Termination winds / Michele Gerber -- Whoever gets there first will win the war / Leon Overstreet -- The whole project was like a three-legged stool / Walter Simon -- Cover stories / Franklin T. Matthias -- K-25 Plant : forty-four acres and a mile long / William J. Wilcox -- Tennessee girls on the job / Colleen Black -- Ode to life behind the fence / Clifford and Colleen Black -- Operating Oak Ridge's "calutrons" / Theodore Rockwell -- Men, write home for Christmas / Norman Brown -- An answer to their prayers / Valeria Steele -- All-Black crews with white foremen / Robert Bauman -- Manhattan Project sites in Manhattan / Robert S. Norris -- Manhattan Project sites in Washington, D.C. / Robert S. Norris -- Monsanto's playhouse for polonium / Stephane Groueff -- Mysteries at the Met lab / Isabella Karle.Section 5 : Secrecy, intelligence and counterintelligence -- Unprecedented security measures / Robert S. Norris -- Security : a headache on the hill / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin -- Mrs. Farmer, I presume / Laura Fermi -- As if they were walking in the woods / John Lansdale, Jr. -- Electric rocket story fails to launch / Charlotte Serber -- A spy in our midst / Laura Fermi -- Never in our wildest dreams / Lilli Hornig -- The youngest spies / Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel -- Enormoz espionage / Gregg Herken -- Jump start for the Soviets / David Holloway, Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel -- Holes in the security fence / Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel -- A calming role for the counterintelligence corps / Thomas O. Jones -- The Alsos mission : scientists as sleuths / Robert S. Norris -- From France to the Black Forest : seeking atomic scientists / Richard Rhodes -- I have been expecting you / John Lansdale, Jr. -- Section 6 : The Trinity Test -- Leaving the bomb project / Joseph Rotblat -- Anticipating the end of war / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin -- Scientists will be held responsible / Arthur Holly Compton -- Advising against the bomb / The Franck Report, June 1945 -- No acceptable alternative / The Interim Committee Report, June 1945 -- Scientists petition the President / Leo Szilard and other scientists -- Watching Trinity / Thomas Farrell and Leslie R. Groves -- Babysitting the bomb / Donald Hornig -- A handful of soldiers at Trinity / Val Fitch -- Eyewitness accounts of the Trinity Test / Edwin McMillan, Kenneth Greisen, Enrico Fermi, Maurice Shapiro, Robert Serber -- Violence without limit / Joseph Kanon.Section 7 : Dropping the bombs -- Aiming for military and psychological effects / Target Committee -- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz : born too soon / Frederick L. Ashworth -- The 509th Composite Group at Tinian Island / Stephen Walker -- Official bombing order, 25 July 1945 / Thos. T. Handy -- A very sobering event : operational history of the 509th Bombardment -- Massive pain, suffering and horror / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Miss Yamaoka, you look like a monster / Richard B. Frank -- For all we know, we have created a Frankenstein! / Paul Boyer -- The battle of the laboratories / Harry S. Truman -- The culmination of years of Herculean effort / Henry L. Stimson -- Eyewitness over Nagasaki / William Laurence -- It was over! / Frederick J. Olivi -- The atomic bomb's peculiar "disease" / George Weller.Section 8 : Reflections on the bomb -- Outwitting General Groves / Harold Agnew -- Speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- You have done excellent work / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- A citizen's guide to the atomic bomb : The Smyth Report / Henry DeWolf Smyth -- Hersey's Hiroshima / John Hersey -- The decision to use the atomic bomb / Henry L. Stimson -- History is often not what actually happened / Barton J. Bernstein -- A question of motives / Patrick M.S. Blackett -- Thank God for the atomic bomb / Paul Fussell -- The return to nothingness / Felix Morley -- The bomb in national memories / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Hiroshima in History / J. Samuel Walker -- Why does this decision continue to haunt us? / Gar Alperovitz.Section 9 : Living with the bomb -- On the international control of atomic energy / Acheson-Lilienthal Report, March 1946 -- Open letter to the United Nations / Niels Bohr, June 1950 -- I hope not a soul will remember my name / Paul Mullins, "Louis Slotin Sonata" -- Atoms for peace / Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 1953 -- A cold war warning / The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, July 1955 -- A world free of nuclear weapons / George P. Schultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn -- The nuclear threat / Mikhail Gorbachev -- Thoughts on a 21st-century Manhattan Project / George A. Cowan -- Chronology -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index -- Text credits.A collection of writings--including essays, articles, and excerpts from biographies, plays, novels, letters, and oral histories--explores the history of the Manhattan Project and analyzes its legacy.
Subjects: Manhattan Project (U.S.); Atomic bomb;
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