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1) Kung fu
Author
Publisher
Rourke Corp
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Between 1950 and 1958, John Marshall made four expeditions to film the Ju/'hoansi (a group of !Kung Bushmen) of the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia (then South West Africa). Marshall and his family, who together undertook an extensive multi-disciplinary study of Ju/'hoansi, spent the greatest amount of time with the people of /Gautcha, including ?Oma, !U, Tsamko, N!ai, and /Gunda. During this time, Marshall shot over 300,000 feet of 16mm film (157 hours)....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of his career, filmmaker John Marshall shot more than one million feet of film and video (722 hours) of the Ju/'hoansi (!Kung Bushmen) of Namibia's Kalahari Desert. This body of work is unrivalled as a long-term visual study of a single group of people. Contained in Marshall's footage are the personal histories of individuals, documents of a now non-existent way of life, and the unfolding of massive social and economic change as experienced...
5) Kung fu
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the history, basic moves, and terminology of this martial art.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bitter roots: the ends of a Kalahari myth is set in Nyae-Nyae, a region of Namibia located in southern Africa's Kalahari desert, traditional home of the Ju/'hoansi. It updates the ethnographic film record begun in the 1950s by John Marshall, whose films documented 50 years of change, and who together with Claire Ritchie, established a grass-roots development foundation, which Adrian Strong (the filmmaker) joined in the late 1980s. Shot in 2007, two...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"The Furious Five is legendary in the world of kung fu--everyone knows one of them will become the all-powerful Dragon Warrior. Viper, Mantis, Monkey, Tigress, and Crane are shocked when a panda named Po is chosen over them to be the Dragon Warrior..."--Cover back.
8) Kung fu
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
10) Kung fu
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents information about Kung fu, including its history, equipment, safety, and technique.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/'hoan life over a thirty year period. "Before the white people came we did what we wanted," N!ai recalls, describing the life she remembers as a child: following her mother to pick berries, roots, and nuts as the season changed;...
14) Sign of the Qin
Author
Series
Outlaws of Moonshadow Marsh volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
In long-ago China, Prince Zong, the mortal young Starlord chosen to save humankind from destruction, joins the twin outlaws, White Streak and Black Whirlwind, to fight the Lord of the Dead and his demon hordes.
Author
Series
Novels.Jing pin ji volume 41-43
Publisher
Feng yun shi dai chu bian gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2008
Language
中文(繁體)
17) Bitter Melons
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana. The hardships of their everyday survival are woven into the songs of a blind musician, Ukxone, who composes music on a hunting bow.
Author
Series
Extreme team volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
While studying kung fu to try to overcome his clumsiness, Mark learns something that may interfere with his friends' plans for a group Halloween costume.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After twelve decades of colonial rule, South West Africa is about to become the independent nation of Namibia and people are looking forward to democratic rule. Members of the newly formed, Ju/'hoan Farmers' Co-op travel throughout white ranching districts and black ethnic homelands to find long-lost relatives. Following Namibia's first national elections, United Nation troops help relocate these families to traditional Ju/'hoan territory.
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