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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Use a black hole to test the laws of thermodynamics, taking a deeper look at the capacity of gravity to pull matter together and increase entropy at the same time. Probe Stephen Hawking's most surprising discovery, and then learn that the same force that pulls the apple down and steers the stars in their courses is also nature's ultimate source of order and complexity.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Explore the physics of stars, which are balls of gas in a billion-year battle between the inward pull of gravity and the outward pressure produced by nuclear fusion. Follow this story to its ultimate finish""the triumph of gravity in massive stars that end their lives as black holes.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Explore two other indirect approaches for finding exoplanets: first, by measuring the Doppler shift in the color of a star due to the pull of an unseen orbiting planet; and second, by measuring the tiny drop in the brightness of a star as a planet transits in front of it..
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A pulsar's spin begins with its birth in a supernova and can be altered by transfer of mass from a companion star. Learn how pulsars, these precise interstellar clocks, are used to confirm Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves by observations of a double-neutron-star system, and how we pull the pulsar signal out of the noise.
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. One day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists an old friend who sculpts and manufactures paperweights. Once the gold is hijacked, it's molded into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped off to Paris. Panic ensues when six...
7) Toe to Toe
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jesse (Louisa Krause of The Girlfriend Experience) is a privileged but troubled white girl whose promiscuous tendencies pull her towards self-destructive behavior. Tosha (Sonequa Martin Green of Star Trek: Discovery) is a fiercely determined African-American from Anacostia, one of DC's most impoverished areas. Both new seniors and star players on their school's lacrosse team, the two girls click despite their differences. Their fledgling friendship...
8) The Oath
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Icelandic
Description
In THE OATH, Baltasar Kormákur plays the part of a father who sets off on a mission to try to pull his daughter away from the world of drugs and petty crime, only to discover that danger can be found in unexpected places. From acclaimed filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, who also stars in THE OATH, making his first appearance in front of the camera in eight years. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
9) Luther
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Idris Elba stars as maverick detective John Luther in this gripping, smart and entertaining thriller. A detective working for London's Serious Crime Unit, Luther is a dedicated policeman, an inspired maker of connections and a whirlwind genius. He is dazzling, obsessive and sometimes dangerous in the violence of his fixations. Throughout the series, Luther faces a succession of psychological duels between hunter and hunted, predator and prey. But...
10) Luther: S1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Idris Elba stars as maverick detective John Luther in this gripping, smart and entertaining thriller. A detective working for London's Serious Crime Unit, Luther is a dedicated policeman, an inspired maker of connections and a whirlwind genius. He is dazzling, obsessive and sometimes dangerous in the violence of his fixations. Throughout the series, Luther faces a succession of psychological duels between hunter and hunted, predator and prey. But...
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious and labyrinthine psychological drama in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. In one of his finest latter-day performances, the great Malcolm McDowell stars as Timofeyev, a severe schizophrenic in a dreary Soviet mental hospital who is convinced that, impossibly, he's the killer of two Tsars: Alexander II in 1881 and Nicholas II in 1918. The thoughtful new...
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A Musical Romance starring Academy Award Winner Marisa Tomei, Robert Carlyle and John Goodman that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Frank has been consumed by grief over his wife's death. But everything changes when he pulls over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck. En route to fulfill a forty-year promise to his childhood sweetheart, the stranger shares a compelling tale of adolescent love replete with first...
13) Neon Bull
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Wild, sensual and utterly transporting, NEON BULL unfolds within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails. NEON BULL explores the vaquejada through the eyes of Iremar, a handsome cowboy who works the events. While he's not afraid to get his hands dirty, Iremar's real dream is to design exotic outfits for dancers. Winner of a Venice Horizons Award at the **Venice Film...
14) All Together
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Five aging friends decide to ditch assisted living and move in with each other in the crowd-pleasing comedy ALL TOGETHER, starring screen legend Jane Fonda. When elderly lothario Claude is put into an old folks home, his friends bust him out and start a cranky commune together, thinking they can care for each other better than anyone else. The group is joined by a young graduate student (Daniel Brühl) who films their experiment for his research project,...
15) Youngers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Youngers is the journey of two young boys, Yemi and Jay, in their quest to break into the music industry. Yemi, 16, has just received straight A's in his GSCE's. He is destined for great things - but his love of music keeps pulling him in. Jay, a school dropout who didn't even attend his school exams is his best friend. The boys are opposites in every way apart from their love of music. The boys decide to enter a competition in a local club for upcoming...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Tru Davies, a medical grad student in Boston whose grant is suddenly pulled out from under her, takes a job at a local morgue. There, she discovers that she has the power to "re-live" the previous day over again to help the people who wrongly ended up dead.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Sees stars: When the kids see Horace Scope on the Star Shopping Network, they decide to buy Dorothy Ann a real twinkling star for her birthday. But Keesha doesn't want to buy anything sight unseen. So, Ms. Frizzle rockets the class off on a field trip to outer space.
Gains weight: Phoebe is chosen to give a slam-dunk exhibition during the big basketball game. When she finds she can't jump high enough because gravity is "pulling on" her, Ms. Frizzle...
20) Teenick picks: 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Zoey 101": This semester, it's boys vs. girls when it comes to pulling the perfect prank. "Drake & Josh": Josh's e-pal is visiting from Yudonia. "Ned's declassified school survival guide": The gang get banned from the computer lab. "Romeo!": Although Romeo and Peyton are "officially" a couple, Romeo denies having a girlfriend during a radio interview. "Unfabulous": To get out of Ben's shadow, Addie sets our to do something she has never done before....
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