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1) Boys among men: how the prep-to-pro generation redefined the NBA and sparked a basketball revolution
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"In compelling, masterfully crafted prose, Boys Among Men goes behind the scenes and draws on hundreds of firsthand interviews to paint insightful and engaging portraits of the most pivotal figures and events during this time. Award-winning basketball writer Jonathan Abrams has obtained remarkable access to the key players, coaches, and other movers and shakers from that time, and the result is a book packed with rare insights and never-before-published...
3) The recruit
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Clayton recently completed his studies at MIT. One evening, Clayton is approached by Walter Burke, a recruiter for the CIA, who believes Clayton is just the sort of man the CIA is looking for. Clayton, who has little interest in an ordinary nine-to-five career accepts the offer. Clayton has to keep in mind Burke's dictum that "nothing is as it seems," especially when Clayton is given a special assignment--find the mole within the Agency's training...
4) Paradise now
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
6) Profile
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
"Inspired by true events, Profile follows an undercover British journalist on her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured in to becoming a militant extremist herself."--container.
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Talal Derki returned to his Syrian homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Osama and his brother Ayman both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems content to follow the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Formats
Description
"Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced to reflect on her...
10) The German wife
Author
Description
"Berlin, Germany, 1930--When the Nazis rise to power, Jürgen Rhodes is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. Jürgen and his wife Sofie fiercely oppose Hitler's radical views, and joining his ranks is unthinkable. Yet it soonbecomes clear that if Jürgen does not accept the job, their income would be put on the line, and so would their lives. Huntsville, Alabama, 1950--Jürgen is one of many German scientists pardoned...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Edward, the only witness to his father's suicide and a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes...
Author
Formats
Description
During the bloodiest days of World War I, no soldiers served more valiantly than the African American troops of the 369th Infantry-the fabled Harlem Hellfighters-and the legendary 77th "lost battalion" composed of New York City immigrants. Though these men had lived up to their side of the bargain as loyal American soldiers, the country to which they returned solidified laws and patterns of social behavior that had stigmatized them as second-class...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alex is an 18-year old Earthling who has an extraordinary talent for video game wizardry and conquers the Starfighter game. He is then recruited by alien Centauri to be part of an elite legion of fighters. Leaving behind his trailer park existence, he heads to the outer regions of space. Alex becomes the last hope for the beleaguered Star League and hundreds of worlds, including Earth.
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