In the futuristic world of Avatar, Jake, a wounded ex-marine is thrust into an elaborate scheme to mine an exotic planet for its rare and valuable natural resources. Scientists have created Avatars -- bodies designed to look like the planet′s alien inhabitants that have to be operated by a human consciousness. Walking in his Avatar body, Jake finds himself drawn to the planet′s way of life. But as the threat of war grows ever closer, Jake finds himself torn between his human roots and the new friends he wants to protect.
 Ages:3 - 7

James Cameron's Avatar: The Movie Scrapbook

Children's Books

Wilhelm, Maria

Mathison, Dirk

Arts, Music & Photography

HarperFestival

A field guide to Pandora—the mesmerizing world of James Cameron's Avatar.
Four years in the making—and 15 years since its conception—Avatar is a live action film with a new generation of special effects, delivering a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.
In Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora we are introduced to Pandora—a pristine and beautiful moon in a distant solar system—its exotic ecosystems, and the indigenous race called the Na'vi. By piecing together photographs, scientific field notes, and research data, citizens on Earth have collected the information in this field guide as a way to highlight the lessons Pandora can teach the people of Earth, who have struggled to survive as their planet's critical resources are depleted. 
Though Pandora has proven to be an exceedingly profitable source of natural resources, the environment—from its gravity-defying floating mountains to the small but venomous hellfire wasps and the gigantic carnivorous thanator—poses continual dangers to RDA. Catalogued with unparalleled precision and access, this field guide provides highly detailed descriptions of the unique creatures and plants found on Pandora, the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, as well as RDA technology and weapons.
Eager to save the Earth, the activists have culled this information in hopes to expose the corporate greed and disregard for the native inhabitants and their environment that governs RDA's presence on the foreign moon. 
This is the evidence in their case to save Pandora—and themselves.

Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Harper Paperbacks

A story of courage, sacrifice, and individual heroism--a noble episode in the history of a great people. The story of the underground battle of the Italians against the Nazis and Fascisti, largely unknown outside Italy, was, unlike the French Resistance, a spontaneous, city-by-city, region-by-region uprising. This book traces the the growth of the wartime Resistance from its birth in 1943, against overwhelming odds, to its dramatic triumph two years later. Here are Neapolitan youngsters fighting German tanks; patriots operating an underground radio station inside Nazi-occupied Florence; Romans ambushing a Nazi patrol; mountain fighters blasting enemy convoys; peasants who hid partisans and Allied escapees; and priests and nuns who outfoxed Nazi and Fascist patrols. It was a moving episode, a lesson for all of us who live so easily in the kind of society dreamed of by the partisans.

The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II

History

Europe

W.W.Norton&Company

On June 22, 1940, France surrendered to Nazi Germany. Her armies beaten, her leaders and people demoralized, France seemed utterly vanquished. Soon however it became clear to both the German conquerors and an astonished world that the spirit of this great nation was far from broken. With each passing month, up to the time the Allies invaded France, the tide of resistance rose. Clandestine newspapers flourished, a network of sabotage and espionage spread and a secret army came into being, ready to wage war against their hated oppressors. This is the inspiring and unforgettable story of patriots fighting for their country, and free men refusing to be enslaved.

For the Glory of France The Story of the French Resistance

Ishi Press

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