San Antonio College Library

In the Himalayas of northern India, the Ladakhi and their exiled Tibetan cousins follow a nomadic lifestyle that is on the verge of disappearing, their sole livelihood shepherding and the making of cashmere wool. This program combines location footage and interviews to present an intimate portrait of the daily life of the Ladakhi people, as well as their rituals, customs, and history.

A biography of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, drawing from interviews, letters, and archival material to provide information about his childhood and his life. Also includes his relationships with other Spanish artists and his political involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Shows the poet's struggle with life.

The author discusses his dream experiences that led him to the knowledge that he had thyroid cancer, and outlines an in-depth method of dream interpretation designed to help people discover the life-altering messages encoded in their nightly dreams.

These nine unforgettable stories, all set in and around Cape Canaveral, showcase Patrick Ryan's masterly understanding of regret and hope, relationships and family, and the universal longing for love.

American Dreaming chronicles in rich detail the struggles of immigrants who have fled troubled homelands in search of a better life in the United States, only to be marginalized by the society that they hoped would embrace them. Sarah Mahler draws from her experiences living among undocumented Salvadoran and South American immigrants in a Long Island suburb of Manhattan. In moving interviews they describe their disillusionment with life in the United...

"Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson's Suburban Dreams offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the 'good life' their residents pursue. Dickinson's analysis suggests that the good life is rooted in memory and...

Explains how to learn to remember one's dreams and how to understand them, suggests that dreams connect the individual with another dimension, and discusses ancient traditions, shamanic dreaming, and dreams of healing, angels, and spirits.

"Why, despite so many reform efforts, has death remained acutely troubling in our common life? Why has modern medicine remained so ambivalent, so torn, in its stance toward death? And most important, why has it become so hard for most of us to understand the place of death in our own lives and self-conception, and to know how to pursue a peaceful death?" "By exploring his own life and the lives and deaths of loved ones, by sharing his own emotions...