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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A film by George Lucas that was his directorial debut and used gripping special effects that would later be showcased in Star Wars. Includes commentary by George Lucas and sound editor Walter Murch, a documentary, a making-of featurette, and much more.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Through this authoritative account of the historical record and important new findings, Abramitzky and Boustan will help shape our thinking and policies about the fraught topic of immigration with findings such as: Where you come from doesn't matter. The children of immigrants from El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala today are as likely to be as successful as the children of immigrants from Great Britain and Norway 150 years ago. Children of immigrants...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"COVID-19 was used to launch the worst tyranny in American history, which we're still facing even now. It was also the worst oppression in global history since the Third Reich. Just as that evil required a reckoning at Nuremberg, this one does as well. Inthis Nuremberg 2.0, we call witnesses that our elected representatives and law enforcement agents need to hear from in order to know the full extent of the evil, and who is responsible for it-so that...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspanol
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
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Description
De una madre cuyos hijos le fueron arrebatados en la frontera de los Estados Unidos por el gobierno estadounidense en 2018 y otra madre que ayudo a reunir a la familia, una historia crucial y ardiente sobre la odisea de la inmigracion, la separacion y la reunificacion familiar, y el poder de las personas para unirse para superar incluso las circunstancias mas crueles e injustas. "
8) District 9
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: A graphic novel of the report of the 9/11 Commission reveals the Commission's findings regarding the terrorist attacks on the United States and its recommendations concerning what the United States government needs to do in its wake
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