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2016.
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The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. DVD format.
2) Sidewinder
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Cattle rancher Brad Storm was tracking one of his herd when fate set him within the lethal striking distance of a rattlesnake. Bitten and poisoned, he sent the serpent to meet its Maker but then lost consciousness. Saved by a Hopi medicine man who believes Brad has inherited the spirit of the snake, he is given a new name - Sidewinder - and a totem. Brad doesn't believe in spirits, and just wants to put the incident behind him. But when rustlers torch...
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[2019]
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"Published in the aftermath of Mozambique's bloody civil war, Mia Couto's third collection seeks out the places violence could not reach, the places where, the author writes, "every man is the same: pretending he's here, dreaming of going away, and plotting his return." Shifting masterfully between forms--creation tale to meditation, playful comedy to magical twist--these stories grapple with questions of what's been lost and what can be reclaimed,...
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[2022]
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An impassioned case for argument's central role in human life, by one of America's most distinguished cultural critics.
From Eve's crafty exchange with the serpent, to Martin Luther King's soaring, subtle ultimatums, to the throes of Twitter-argument's drainpipe-the human desire to prevail with words has been not just a moral but an existential compulsion. In this dazzling reformulation of argument, renowned critic Lee Siegel portrays the true art...
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2010
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"Ginko sees what most cannot - Mushi, unexplainable forces which have altered the course of mankind since the genesis of life. Walking quietly through nature, Ginko investigates these rare embodiments of the primeval, aiding those plagued by the supernatural phenomena which surround the Mushi for reasons yet unknown. He is a Mushi-shi, one with the ability to peer into the places where the Mushi hide in plain sight"--Container
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