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Grand Piano (DVD)
Kerry Bishé, Don McManus, Jim Arnold, Tamsin Egerton, Alex Winter, …
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Eugenio Mira directs this thriller starring Elijah Wood, John
Cusack and Kerry Bishé. Tom Selznick (Wood) is the most talented
concert pianist of his generation. However, lately Tom's career has
stalled due to crippling bouts of stage fright, which interfere
with his ability to perform at the highest level. After seeking
help for his issues, Tom returns to the stage for a sold out
comeback performance, supported by his wife Emma (Bishé). All is
going well until Tom turns the page on his sheet music and finds a
threatening message scrawled there. Soon, via an earpiece, Tom is
put in touch with his tormenter, Clem (Cusack). Clem assures him
that he has a high-powered rifle trained on him and will open fire
if Tom hits one wrong note. How will the virtuoso cope under a very
different kind of performance pressure?
Never has Tommy Noble been to another world or raced air-speeder
boards over the ocean. Never before has Tommy met his mother or
befriended a synthetic person. All Tommy knows is his plain boring
life with his new stepmother Cathy who makes him clean all the
time. All that is about to change when a mysterious box in the
attic goes off. With it comes an invitation to Andor where he can
finally meet his mother. Once there he finds his mother, aerial
sports and friends with dangers lurking all around him. Can he
solve Andors mysteries before it is too late? For children 9-16
years old.
Never has Tommy Noble been to another world or raced air-speeder
boards over the ocean. Never before has Tommy met his mother or
befriended a synthetic person. All Tommy knows is his plain boring
life with his new stepmother Cathy who makes him clean all the
time. All that is about to change when a mysterious box in the
attic goes off. With it comes an invitation to Andor where he can
finally meet his mother. Once there he finds his mother, aerial
sports and friends with dangers lurking all around him. Can he
solve Andors mysteries before it is too late? For children 9-16
years old.
Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top
priorities to be "making sure that people are able to get enough to
eat." The United States spends about five billion dollars on food
aid and related programs each year, but still, both domestically
and internationally, millions of people are hungry. In 2006, the
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations counted
850 million hungry people worldwide, but as food prices soared, an
additional 100 million or more who were vulnerable succumbed to
food insecurity.
If hunger were simply a matter of food production, no one would
go without. There is more than enough food produced annually to
provide every living person with a healthy diet, yet so many suffer
from food shortages, unsafe water, and malnutrition every year.
That's because hunger is a complex political, economic, and
ecological phenomenon. The interplay of these forces produces a
geography of hunger that Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson
illuminate in this empowering book. "The Atlas of World Hunger"
uses a conceptual framework informed by geography and agricultural
economics to present a hunger index that combines food
availability, household access, and nutritional outcomes into a
single tool--one that delivers a fuller understanding of the scope
of global hunger, its underlying mechanisms, and the ways in which
the goals for ending hunger can be achieved. The first depiction of
the geography of hunger worldwide, the" Atlas" will be an important
resource for teachers, students, and anyone else interested in
understanding the geography and causes of hunger. This knowledge,
the authors argue, is a critical first step toward eliminating
unnecessary suffering in a world of plenty.
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