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When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on "leather pants, hostile shirts, and pointy shoes"? Or wear something more appropriate to the "tax-paying, property-owning, investment-holding lotus eater" his success has allowed him to become? This dilemma is at the heart of Copeland's memoir. The world knows him as the drummer for The Police, one of the most successful bands in rock history. But they may not know about...
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A mysterious new menace in the realm of the wee folk has sparked an all-out, three-way conflict between the once-peaceful (well, kinda peaceful) Leprechauns, Uompans and Pygmies! Only the Vaultron Force is immune to the battle fever, and with Penelope Pincer-Koss's assistance, they must put an end to the conflict before the McNukes are launched!
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Earth's layer of ambient magic has taken a precipitous spill, and the sprinkle-magic reserves of the wee folk have all dropped dangerously low. The Uompa Luompans, Pygmies and Leprechauns surround the last sprinkle mine on Earth in an armed stand-off! Can Brianna and the Vaultron Force bring the little-peep nations back from the brink of a Global Thermonuclear Wee-War?
8) Oka!
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Twenty-five years ago, ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno traveled from New Jersey to the forests of Central Africa to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. He fell in love with the people, their music, their lifestyle-and a local girl. Despite his failing health and the harsh realities of life in the village, he follows the Bayaka into the heart of the forest. A true story of strength and bravery, uniquely capturing the spirit of a people with music,...
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This film, the first from the Central African Republic, takes us inside the world of the 'pygmies' or more properly BaAka. Le silence de la forêt is a film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European...
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