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The importance of being Earnest [videorecording] / by Thompson, Barnaby.; Parker, Oliver.; Everett, Rupert.; Firth, Colin,1960-; O'Connor, Frances,1970-; Witherspoon, Reese,1976-; Dench, Judi,1934-; Wilkinson, Tom,1948-; Massey, Anna.; Fox, Edward,1937-; Pierce-Roberts, Tony.; Bensley, Guy.; Mole, Charlie.; Millenotti, Maurizio.; Arrighi, Luciana.; Wilde, Oscar,1854-1900.Importance of being earnest.; Miramax Films.; Ealing Studios.; Film Council (Great Britain); Newmarket Capital Group LP.; Fragile Films.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
DVD, 5.1 Dolby digital, Region 1.Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey, Edward Fox.Director of photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts ; editor, Guy Bensley ; music, Charlie Mole ; costume designer, Maurizio Millenotti ; production designer, Luciana Arrighi.MPAA rating: PG; for mild sensuality.Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for the weekend, and is startled to discover Jack is also there -- except that she knows him as bad-boy Earnest. So just who really is who?
Subjects: Romantic comedy films.; Comedy films.; Film adaptations.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Aristocracy (Social class); Man-woman relationships; Social norms;
© c2002., Miramax Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
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Cranford [videorecording] : return to Cranford / by Birtwistle, Sue,creator.; Conklin, Susie,creator.; Thomas, Heidi,1962-screenwriter.; Curtis, Simon,1960-director.; Dench, Judi,1934-; Atkins, Eileen,1934-; Glenister, Philip.; Gambon, Michael.; Annis, Francesca,1945-; Staunton, Imelda,1953-; McKenzie, Julia.; Wise, Greg,1966-; Manville, Lesley.; Jennings, Alex.; Davis, Carl,1936-; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.Cranford.; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.Mr. Harrison's confessions.; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.My Lady Ludlow.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); Chestermead Ltd.; British Broadcasting Corporation.; BBC Video (Firm); BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
DVD9, region 1; 16x9 enhanced; Dolby Digital stereo; NTSC.Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Philip Glenister, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie, Greg Wise, Lesley Manville, Alex Jennings, Dean Lennox Kelly.Music, Carl David.Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realized in the birth of Tilly, daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. Elsewhere, the shadow of the railway still looms, but the line has been halted five miles outside Cranford, a disaster as far as Captain Brown is concerned. Meanwhile, as Mr. Buxton returns to town with his son, William, and his niece, Erminia, Miss Matty becomes concerned about another young person, Peggy Bell, who lives in an isolated cottage with her mother and domineering brother. She decides to intervene and engineers an invitation that will bring the four young people together. But when tragedy strikes, she fears she has opened a Pandora's box from which Cranford will never recover.Part one : August 1844 -- Part two : October 1844.
Subjects: Television mini-series.; Market towns; Single women; Older women; Gossip; Sisters; Social norms;
© c2010., BBC Video ; Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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Cranford : the original BBC miniseries : Elizabeth Gaskell's classic tale of a Victorian country village / by David, Hugh,television director.; McRae, John,1953-television producer.; Voysey, Michael,screenwriter.; Withers, Margery,1905-1999,actor.; Coombs, Pat,1926-2002,actor.; Culver, Roland,1900-1984,actor.; Penfold, Ann,actor.; Television adaptation of (work):Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.Cranford.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company,broadcaster.; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.,film distributor.;
DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital.Gabrielle Hamilton, Margery Withers, Pat Coombs, Helen Christie, Fabia Drake, Roland Culver, Ann Penfold.Set in the early 1840s, this is the original BBC miniseries of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic tale of a fictional Victorian country village in which the genteel ladies of Cranford struggle to face an uncertain future with dignity and 19th Century decorum.MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Subjects: Television melodramas.; Fiction television programs.; Television mini-series.; Television adaptations.; Market towns; Single women; Older women; Gossip; Social norms;
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The scarlet sisters : sex, suffrage, and scandal in the Gilded Age / by MacPherson, Myra.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336) and index.Describes the adventures of two sisters who tried to overcome the male-dominated social norms of the late nineteenth century and achieved a remarkable list of firsts, including the first woman-run brokerage house and the first woman to run for president.
Subjects: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927.; Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1923.; Feminists; Women social reformers; Women stockbrokers; Stockbrokers;
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Data and Goliath : the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world / by Schneier, Bruce,1963-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Data as a by-product of computing -- Data as surveillance -- Analyzing our data -- The business of surveillance -- Government surveillance and control -- Consolidation of institutional control -- Political liberty and justice -- Commercial fairness and equality -- Business competitiveness -- Privacy -- Security -- Principles -- Solutions for government -- Solutions for corporations -- Solutions for the rest of us -- Social norms and the big data trade-off.Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you're thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we're offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, and chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we've gained? Security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He shows us what we can do to reform our government surveillance programs and shake up surveillance-based business models, while also providing tips for you to protect your privacy every day.
Subjects: Electronic surveillance; Information technology; Computer security.; Privacy, Right of.; Social control.;
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The birth of rock & roll : [electronic resource] : Music in the 1950s through the 1960s / by Wallenfeldt, Jeffrey H.; ProQuest (Firm);
Includes bibliographical references and index.When rock and roll first burst onto the scene in the 1950s, it was more than a new form of music--it was a rebellion against the past. With the music of such artists as Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and the Supremes came a new attitude that allowed fans--many of them young--to look past the social norms of the time, a shift that included a greater interaction with and understanding between the races. This stunning, story-filled volume examines the phenomenon of rock and roll--the way it was before it crept into the mainstream it had once retaliated against--and the many musicians who made it into an art.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Rock music; Rock music; Rock musicians;
© 2013., Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services,
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1069121 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Sexuality : a very short introduction / by Mottier, Véronique.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-142) and index.Before sexuality -- The invention of sexuality -- Virgins or whores? : feminist critiques of sexuality -- The state in the bedroom -- The future of sex.Is our sexuality determined primarily by our genes? Or is it shaped by the social norms and expectations we happen to be born into. This Very Short Introduction provides an accessible, thoughtful and thought-provoking introduction to major debates around sexuality in the modern world, highlighting the social and political aspects of sexuality. It critically explores different ways of defining and thinking about sexuality and shows that many of our assumptions about what is "natural" in the sexual domain have, in reality, varied greatly in different historical or cultural contexts. The volume also examines ways in which governments have tried to regulate citizens' sexualities in the past-through policies and laws concerning public health, HIV/Aids, prostitution, and sex education-paying special attention to the particular zeal with which women's sexuality has been policed. The volume concludes by discussing political activism around sexuality more widely, focusing on the ways in which feminists, lesbians and gay men, as well as religious fundamentalists have transformed our ways of thinking about sexuality in the past few decades.
Subjects: Sex.; Sex; Women and erotica.; Sex;
© 2008., Oxford University Press,
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The history of rock and roll / by Kallen, Stuart A.,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-120) and index.Good rockin' tonight -- Sixties rock and roll and folk and soul -- Rock gets experienced -- The psychotic world of punk -- From pop rock to the heaviest metal -- Alternative rock.Rock and roll: Those three words are understood by people in almost every nation on Earth. They describe a type of music?and an attitude?that made history and continues to change the musical landscape. The music style started out in the United States as a new type of dance music for teenage baby boomers during the mid-1950s. By the 1960s, the music transformed the cultural?and political?landscape of much of the world. Never before in history has a style of music come along that so quickly and so completely changed the world. From the very beginning, rock and roll and the musicians who performed it challenged existing social norms, provoking defiance, disrespect for authority, and, at times, revolution among fans. In the modern world, rock-and-roll music continues to define what it means to be a young person. Rock stars and their songs affect the way people look, dress, act, and talk. In this new addition to the MUSIC LIBRARY, author Stuart Kallen traces the history of rock and roll from its early 1950s beginnings through its most significant developments to date. -- provided by publisher.Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Rock music;
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5538396 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Ethics, aging, and society : the critical turn / by Holstein, Martha.; Parks, Jennifer A.; Waymack, Mark H.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Ethics and aging : challenges to the received view -- The "critical turn" : alternative approaches to thinking about ethics -- Aging and the aged body -- The "third age" : cultural ideals, ethics, and the myth of agelessness -- Anti-aging medicine -- Aging and public policy : a normative foundation -- Care and justice : older people at home -- The nursing home : beyond medicalization -- Working with clients and patients -- What do we do now? abuse, neglect, and self-neglect -- Alzheimer's disease and an ethics of solidarity -- Beyond rational control : caring at the end of life -- Aging and disasters : facing natural and other disasters -- Bringing it all together."This book discusses second-generation issues in ethics, aging, and society by presenting critical outcomes that arise when ethics is applied to the practical concerns that occur in day-to-day elder care." "Key Features:" "Presents the first major work in over 10 years to integrate the disciplines of ethics and aging" "Includes case studies derived from day-to-day practice" "Addresses individual/clinical ethics in health and long-term care and ethical issues raised by public policy, cultural norms, and social attitudes" "Examines such critical issues as Alzheimer's disease, long-term care, ageism, public policy, anti-aging medicine, elder abuse, and natural disasters" "Explores new directions in ethical and social philosophy as they pertain to gerontology and care"--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Aging; Older people; Older people; Aging.; Aged; Bioethical Issues.; Geriatrics; Personal Autonomy.; Social Support.;
© c2011., Springer Pub. Co.,
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Hate crimes in cyberspace / by Citron, Danielle Keats,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-328) and index.Digital hate -- How the Internet's virtues fuel its vices -- The problem of social attitudes -- Civil rights movements, past and present -- What law can and should do now -- Updating the law to enhance the accountability of harassers -- Extending legal reform to site operators and employers -- "Don't break the Internet" and other free speech concerns -- Silicon valley, parents, and schools.The author examines the controversies surrounding cyber-harassment, arguing that it should be considered a matter for civil rights law and that social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it. --Publisher's description.In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media, Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment. She reveals the serious emotional, professional, and financial harms incurred by victims. Persistent online attacks disproportionately target women and frequently include detailed fantasies of rape as well as reputation-ruining lies and sexually explicit photographs."Most Internet users are familiar with trolling--aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site's comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious, often terrifying, online abuse. In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media, Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment. A refutation of those who claim that these attacks are legal, or at least impossible to stop, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace reveals the serious emotional, professional, and financial harms incurred by victims. Persistent online attacks disproportionately target women and frequently include detailed fantasies of rape as well as reputation-ruining lies and sexually explicit photographs. And if dealing with a single attacker's "revenge porn" were not enough, harassing posts that make their way onto social media sites often feed on one another, turning lone instigators into cyber-mobs. Hate Crimes in Cyberspace rejects the view of the Internet as an anarchic Wild West, where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to endure all manner of verbal assault in the name of free speech protection, no matter how distasteful or abusive. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law, Citron contends, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects: Cyberbullying.; Cyberstalking.; Hate crimes.; Computer crimes.;
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