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Publisher
YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The DVD was developed especially for beginners, using a mirror-view workout that allows viewers to follow along with ease. This will help improve strength, flexibility, balance, and posture, and develop graceful movement. Master Helen guides viewers through a qigong warm-up, an easy tai chi class, and a cooldown meditation. In a separate chapter, she gives clear step-by-step instruction of the sixteen-movement tai chi form indoors and out, with multiple...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Transports you coast to coast and across the continents for encounters with the amazing creatures with whom we share our planet and the people behind the scenes charged with their care, protection and maintenance. You'll visit America's national parks, world-class zoos, and aquariums to witness amazing sights tourists never get to see.
4) John Q
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
John Q. is a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. He and his wife soon discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although they have an HMO, they are informed that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money for the surgery himself and with no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the...
5) Patch Adams
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Publisher
The Cinema Guild Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Responding to the increase of noise pollution, a 'major environmental and public health burden' according to the World Health Organization, In Pursuit of Silence is a meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. This critical acclaimed documentary takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe - from Denali National Park in Alaska to a forest outside of Tokyo, where a researcher...
Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin (HBO's Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) shines a well-deserved light on Puentes de Salud, a health-care clinic serving a population that all-too-easily slips through the cracks: undocumented immigrants. Clínica de Migrantes counters the often dehumanizing and highly politicized rhetoric surrounding America's immigrant population, providing a compassionate profile of patients at Puentes, many of whom have left their families...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
11) Operation wild
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Join veterinarian teams around the world as they undertake groundbreaking operations to try to save animals' lives. Find out how pioneering human medicine is transforming ways to look after animals in some of the most remote places on earth.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
With his beloved Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time off the air for the first time in 30 years, Jeff Pickles must find a way to communicate with his many fans who still need him. Jeff creates a new and controversial method to talk directly to children across the world only to become the target of animosity for the first time in his career. As Jeff navigates the most complicated moral gray areas of his life, he discovers a new side of himself.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An intensely intimate look at one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands of all time, with over 90 million albums sold. Takes you inside the studio, the counseling sessions the band went through together and the difficult process of finding a new band member.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, is an icon of children's television, who for the last three decades has been a beacon of kindness and optimism to children and adults alike. But when his family life starts to unravel, Jeff discovers that keeping it all together isn't as easy as one-two-three. The result: a kind man in a cruel world facing a slow leak of sanity that asks the question, can one keep a good man down?
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort, enlisting the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are coming to understand fat as a fascinating and dynamic organ - one whose size has more to do with biological processes than personal choices. Through real life stories of hunter-gatherers, sumo wrestlers, and supermodels, Nova explores the complex functions of fat and role it plays in controlling hunger, hormones, and even reproduction.
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. Includes all 22 episodes.
"...a terrific performance from Laurie, who makes a stronger claim on an Emmy nomination every week."--USA Today.
"'House' is a brilliant show."--TV Guide.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Tara Allmen provides the tools every woman needs to enter this phase of their lives triumphantly. Dr. Allmen and other women's health experts explain common symptoms, health risks, and therapeutic options. Also, women share their firsthand experiences, personal journeys, and successful strategies to effectively cope with perimenopause and menopause.
Publisher
Valerie Hall Nutrition/Lenny Magill Productions
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Discusses painful joint conditions and bone health, how to strengthen and support these areas naturally, foods that increase and decrease inflammation, beneficial nutritional supplements for bone and joint health, and which supplements are helpful for rebuilding, inflammation, and pain management.
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