Editorial Product Review: :Anne Lamott is your run-of-the-mill recovering alcoholic and drug addict, born-again Christian, left-wing liberal, and single mother who just so happens to have written New York Times-bestselling books, including the inspiring writing guide Bird by Bird. Very ordinary. This hour-long video follows Lamott around for a year as she gives readings, raises her son, and participates in church. Topics great and small are covered, from the difficulty in doing anything with her kinky hair and how she became the class clown to her nightly ...
Editorial Product Review: :Michael Moore's superb documentary (following in the footsteps of Roger & Me and The Big One) tackles a meaty subject: gun control. Moore skillfully lays out arguments surrounding the issue and short-circuits them all, leaving one impossible question: why do Americans kill each other more often than people in any other democratic nation? Moore focuses his quest around the shootings at Columbine High School and the shooting of one 6-year-old by another near his own hometown of Flint, Michigan. By approaching the headquarters of ...
Editorial Product Review: :The legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine blazed across tracks and into America's consciousness before meeting a tragic death in an auto accident at the age of 24. In this tribute to 'Pre,' narrated by writer Ken Kesey, a number of his contemporaries speak movingly of him as an athlete and a person. After setting high school running records in his native Oregon, Prefontaine went on to the University of Oregon, where as a freshman he began to dominate the American track scene and appeared ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Fifty million people in over 150 nations have seen the award-winning documentary Transformations. What began as 5,000 copies of a one-hour report on the transforming power of prayer has exploded into a world-wide call for unity within communities What do so many in so many different places see in the award-winning one-hour documentary? Join the journey as you see for yourself how God's grace and the power of prayer have transformed four communities from around the globe. You'll see ... · Why 60,000 Taiwanese ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:NARRATED BY SUSAN SARANDON. How could America call itself the world's greatest democracy but deny the right to vote to more than half its citizens? Why did so many people of both genders vehemently oppose giving women the vote, and how was this attitude overcome? ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTE documents the seventy-year battle for woman suffrage, which finally culminated in the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. From Elizabeth Cady Stanton's electrifying call for women's rights at Seneca Falls in 1848, to ...
Editorial Product Review: :As the Nazi war machine marched across Europe and Jews were rounded up and killed, a small town in France became an unlikely haven for the persecuted. The small village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, which was inhabited mostly by Huguenots (devout Protestants whose own history involved being persecuted), became a place where families took in Jews and hid them in their houses and on their farms. The villagers risked their lives, and their bravery is evident in interviews with residents who recall the Nazis searching ...
Editorial Product Review: :As the Nazi war machine marched across Europe and Jews were rounded up and killed, a small town in France became an unlikely haven for the persecuted. The small village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, which was inhabited mostly by Huguenots (devout Protestants whose own history involved being persecuted), became a place where families took in Jews and hid them in their houses and on their farms. The villagers risked their lives, and their bravery is evident in interviews with residents who recall the Nazis searching ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Hosted by Dustin Hoffman, the film portrays Franz Kline, best known for his vigorous, large-scale black and white abstractions. Kline (1910-1962) is one of the preeminent painters of our century. Rare personal interviews with Kline's contemporaries explore the iconoclastic spirit of the artist. Beginning in his childhood in Pennsylvania's coal towns to his bohemian lifestyle in the Greenwich Village of the 1930's and 40's, Franz Kline Remembered documents the struggles, innovations, and triumphs of one of the New York School's most daring artists.This film ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:This video set is a combination of our two best-selling videos: Basic Massage Therapy and Massage Therapy for Professionals. Basic Massage Therapy covers basic and intermediate massage techniques and touches upon some advanced maneuvers. The Massage Therapy for Professionals video is designed for massage therapists who want to learn more about bodywork and advanced techniques. These videos work perfectly together and complement each other to provide complete instruction on massage. This is a video class series which teaches everything needed from beginning to end. ...
Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 offers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen in a desktop chip. For half the cost of AMD's top-of-the-line chip, you get identical if not superior performance and better power efficiency. AMD surprised us last year with its completely dominant dual-core chips, but Intel regains the crown with Core 2 Duo.
India expects to see rough diamond supplies fall by up to a fourth after the Diamond Trading Co (DTC), the distribution arm of De Beers, cuts down on Indian clients, an industry body said on Wednesday.