Although aimed at toddlers, this captivating series will appeal to train fans of any age. Footage of award-winning model trains and some of their real-life counterparts is set to upbeat music and narration by a young railroad enthusiast. This volume features numerous inductees into the Toy Train Hall of Fame, plus real locomotives such as Hawaii's Sugar Cane Train, the Empire State Express, the Commodore Vanderbilt and the 20th Century Limited.
In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate Jack to rescue her—only to uncover a terrifying curse that turns Barbossa’s crew into the undead.
200 km follows the marches carried out by Sintel workers to reach Madrid on May 1, 2002. Sintel was a subsidiary of Telefónica that, when it was privatized, was closed, leaving its 1,800 workers on the streets.
Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.
News anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.
