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Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
xiv, 497 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
To examine the sacrifice of culture at the hands of technology, Critchfield travels to Poland, Indonesia, South Korea, and India to illustrate the closing of the urban-rural population gap and to assess the changed values and altered lives global villagers now inherit.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In rural Gaotai County, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao, except for a small, abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; similarly, an unexpected bond between them starts to blossom. As seasons pass, their dedication to each other grows stronger, but...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An expatriate French couple operates an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of 'hill people' families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
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