English-Hmong/Hmong-English Dictionary, 3rd Edition


		English-Hmong/Hmong-English Dictionary, 3rd Edition Buy now for $49.95 We ship worldwide. Bulk and academic discounts available -- contact us for pricing. Ships in 3 - 5 business days. ks at the engines that changed the world, in this six-episode, three-tape set. Episodes include The V8, The Steam Engine, The Diesel Engine, The Supercharger, The Two Stroke and The Jet Engine. _A portrait of the colorful 82-year-old Norwegian explorer and scientist who became world famous with his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947 when, with a crew of five, he drifted 8000 kilometers on a balsa raft from Peru to Polynesia. 52 mins. 6Director/Author: from Peru to Polynesia. 5 Minutes: 52 }The 10th Mountain Division consisted of an elite group of expert mountain climbers trained by the U.S. Army to combat the Nazis entrenched in the mountains of Italy during WWII. Through rare and unusual film footage, the combined accounts of the Americans, Italians and Germans are woven together to offer a first-hand account of what it was like on the front lines. 45 mins. 5Director/Author: it was like on the front Minutes: 45 = Based on James Clavell's novel, Noble House is an intriguing mini-series saga set in the panoramic backdrop of exotic Hong Kong. Pierce Brosnan stars as Ian Dunross, the all-powerful leader of Hong Kong's most influential international trading organization, Noble House, as he confronts takeover attempts, interlocking intrigues and ancient obligations. "Extravagantly romanticnot only is it as long as life, it's also rich with possibilities" (The New York Times). With Deborah Raffin, Ben Masters, John Houseman and Denholm Elliott. Director/Author: mins. ŚIn this haute couture-designed, futuristic tour-de-force from Luc Besson, Bruce Willis stars as a cab driver who becomes an unsuspecting hero when he picks up the kind of fare that only comes along every 5000 years: a perfect being, a perfect beauty, a perfect weapon (Milla Jovovich). Together they must save the world. The most expensive French film in history. With Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker and fashions by Gautier. In English. 3Director/Author: Luc Besson 1997 Minutes: 126France/USA ~ The Presidents Collection I. Three double-cassette gift set featuring LBJ, the Kennedys and Nixon. \| The Presidents Collection II. Two double-cassette gift set featuring Teddy Roosevelt and FDR. w The Presidents Collection III. Two double-cassette gift set featuring Ike and Truman. A portrait of the first photographer to have an exhibition at the Louvre. Spans the six decades in which Horst set standards in fashion and portrait photography. Includes interviews with Paloma Picasso, Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Marais. 50 mins. 6Director/Author: Karl Lagerfeld and Jean M Minutes: 50 ˙ An illuminating look at one of the most celebrated and controversial fashion and portrait photographers of our time. Highlights Avedon's 50-year career, recalling his work for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and The New Yorker magazines and featuring his signature portraits of Charlie Chaplin, Dorothy Parker, the Windsors and Natassia Kinski (and snake). 59 mins. %Director/Author: 59 mins. Minutes: 59 6Director/Author: tapes. 20 hours, 58 mins. Minutes: 58 U The Nova Scotia International Tattoo is the world's largest indoor show, featuring more than 2,000 international military and civilian performers and the great military bands of the world. Includes the world's best fife and drum corps, as well as singers, dancers, comedians and gymnasts. 90 mins. 6Director/Author: comedians and gymnasts. 9 Minutes: 90 + Hilarious new cartoon short starring Bugs Bunny and directed by Chuck Jones. Collection includes five other classic Looney Tunes cartoons. 41 mins. %Director/Author: 41 mins. Minutes: 41 ę Chuck Jones' wild, all-new Daffy Duck classic. Collection includes five other classic Looney Tunes cartoons. 40 mins. 6Director/Author: five other classic Looney Minutes: 40 T The story of champion distance runner Steve Prefontaine's life, which embodied the spirit of athletic excellence. Meet the man hailed by Sports Illustrated as America's Distance Prodigy, through rare footage and the memories of those who knew him best--his teammates, coaches, family and friends. This four-tape gift set includes Families Are Special, starring Barney; Theodore's Big Adventure; Generosity, featuring Mr. Rabbit's Thanksgiving, from the Adventures from the Book of Virtues series; and Sesame Street's Elmo in Basil Hears a Noise: A Musical Adventure. Venture into the dense forests of coastal Siberia to track the biggest cat on earth, the elusive Siberian tiger, and join a team of Russian and American scientists risking their lives to save this endangered and dangerous creature. Nominated for five Emmys. - Really Wild Animals--Awesome Animal Builders. Check out some amazing animal abodes and how they're built as Spin takes you on a tour of some of the wildest construction sites around. č Really Wild Animals--Secret Weapons and Great Escapes. Detect and inspect the hidden weapons of the animal world with Spin. + Narrated by Joseph Campanella, this powerful film features rare and intimate footage of nature's most mysterious canines in the wild at Yellowstone and Denali National Parks and the Canadian Arctic. 60 Director/Author: mins. This program chronicles the controversial reintroduction of the wolf into Yellowstone National Park, and explores human conceptions and misconceptions of wolves. With unique footage of wolves in the wild. 60 mins. %Director/Author: 60 mins. Minutes: 60 Narrated by Robert Redford, this award-winning documentary retraces John Wesley Powell's historic 1869 pioneering trips down the Colorado and Green Rivers. The film includes some of the first photographs ever taken of the Grand Canyon river territories. 60 mins. 6Director/Author: taken of the Grand Canyon Minutes: 60 ` Narrated by Robert Urich, this film explores the ancient Basketmaker and Pueblo cultures, more commonly known as the Anasazi, who inhabited the Four Corners region for more than 14 centuries. Walk through the scattered Anasazi ruins of national monuments and parks like Hovenweep, Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon. 60 mins. 6Director/Author: Hovenweep, Mesa Verde and Minutes: 60 4Director/Author: Mark Oliver 1997 Minutes: 123USA Ś This documentary follows the Argentinian-born Moyano through his art studies in Argentina as a young boy, to his travels throughout Europe, and finally to his home in Santa Fe. 3Director/Author: Mark Oliver 1997 Minutes: 34USA _ Dennis Potter's musically driven murder mystery masterpiece stars Michael Gambon (Betrayal) as cynical thriller writer Philip Marlow, recovering in a hospital while working through the plot of his greatest detective story, starring himself as a handsome, crooning '40s detective. Perhaps the greatest work ever written for television; a truly original masterpiece. With Janet Suzman (Nicholas and Alexandra). Eight hours on cassette in slipcase. 2Director/Author: Jon Amiel 1986 Minutes: 480Great Britain D Academy Award-winning animated fun from the creators of Wallace & Gromit. In this collection of four claymation shorts, the animals step up to the mic and talk about life on the other side of the cage in Creature Comforts. The Oscar-nominated Wat's Pig is the tale of two brothers--one raised as royalty, the other by a kindly pig. The darkly hilarious Not Without My Handbag shows one dear, deceased Auntie refusing to stay in Hell without a proper purse. The story of Adam is a whimsical "in-the-beginning" tale about a little clay and a lot of + Ravel's enchanting fantasy ballet, choreographed by Jiri Kylian, tells the story of a naughty child whose temper tantrum brings the objects in his room to life. 52 mins. 6Director/Author: in his room to life. 52 m Minutes: 52 4Director/Author: Steve James 1997 Minutes: 107USA All the music, dancing, exotic locales, comedy and drama of the greatest musicals of the 1950s are presented in this program. With clips and revealing interviews with such stars as Shirley Jones, Ann Miller and Debbie Reynolds. 60 mins. 6Director/Author: Miller and Debbie Reynold Minutes: 60 ň This two-volume gift set features four lesser-known gems from the beloved storyteller's vast collection. The heroines in both Andersen's The Wild Swans and The Brave Duckling must overcome great adversity to restore happiness in their lives. The Woodcutter's Wish and The Amazing Gift are two tales in which heroes are given a gift of magic. 128 mins. 'Director/Author: 128 mins. Minutes: 128 6Director/Author: the master and his extrao Minutes: 50 Ü Rudolf Arnheim, Professor Emeritus of the psychology of art, Harvard University, and author of Art and Visual Perception, Film as Art, Towards a Psychology of Art, Visual Thinking and The Power of the Center, reflects on his life and work and explains some of his most important theories on this educational video. Also includes a biographical section. 58 mins. 5Director/Author: biographical section. 58 Minutes: 58 G In this first kitchen grease-powered road movie, five Bay Area women make their way from New York to San Francisco in an '84 Chevy diesel van powered by used vegetable oil. The "Greasy Riders" careen across the nation stopping at greasy spoons, asking for leftover frying oil to fuel their "Lard Car" in this wacky 3,000-mile cross-country adventure. Other pit stops in this documentary include interviews with biofuel engineers, a quick overview of how-to-do-it fuel mixing, and conversations with the American public about our petroleum dependence. Director/Author: mins. OA member of the Chickasaw Nation, Hogan is a poet, novelist, playwright and teacher who inspires hope and healing from the human and global community. On February 7, 1995, she read from The Book of Medicines in Los Angeles and spoke with poet Wendy Rose (The Halfbreed Chronicles). From the Lannan Literary Videos series. 60 mins. 6Director/Author: Chronicles). From the Lan Minutes: 60 _ Chicano poet, essayist and children's book writer Gary Soto was born and raised in Fresno, California. Mr. Soto has published six poetry collections, including Home Course in Religion, The Elements of San Joaquin and Who Will Know Us? He read from his New and Selected Poems on May 2, 1995, and talked with novelist Alejandro Morales, whose books include The Brick People and Death of an Anglo. From the Lannan Literary Videos series. 60 mins. 6Director/Author: Literary Videos series. 6 Minutes: 60 4Director/Author: Anand Tucker 1996 Minutes: 90Great Britain From the producer of The Godfather and the creator of Cool World, Fritz the Cat and The Lord of the Rings. Three hustlers move into Harlem and squeeze the local Godfather out of the racket. Starring Scatman Crothers, Barry White and Phillip Michael Thomas. 4Director/Author: Ralph Bakshi 1975 Minutes: 82USA Ź In this first openly gay action-adventure story, Josh (Troy Sistillio) and Paul (Henry White) are a successful gay couple in the midst of adopting a child when Josh witnesses a mob hit and becomes the next target on their list. Watch as normally mild-mannered Josh maims and kills to protect his loved ones. Will he be able to save his marriage, the adoption, and himself all in one weekend? 7Director/Author: Douglas Langway 1996 Minutes: 85USA xIn 19th-century Turin, an itinerant professor unites a ragtag group of textile workers in a strike against their factory. Crippling accidents have become commonplace in a factory where 14-hour shifts are typical, children work side by side with adults, and no safety standards exist. When one man is maimed, the workers draw up a list of demands, which are summarily dismissed by the bosses. It's only when an outsider (Marcello Mastroianni) stumbles into their midst that they are able to focus their efforts and bring about the possibility of change. With Annie Girardot and Bernard Blier. Italian with English subtitles. 8Director/Author: Mario Monicelli 1954 Minutes: 127Italy +For over 70 years, Al Hirschfeld's drawings have graced the pages of The New York Times, bringing to life the stars of Broadway and the silver screen. This thoroughly engaging portrait of one of America's most beloved illustrators features rare home movies, special appearances by his celebrity subjects and interviews with his late wife Dolly Haas and daughter Nina. The artist emerges as a brilliant, delightful, quirky and compassionate observer of humanity. 9Director/Author: Susan W. Dryfoos 1996 Minutes: 126USA _ In this live performance filmed at the New York Improvisation on April 29, 1971, you'll see the ingenious comic during his earliest stand-up days. The routine is uniquely Prior: interpretative voices and characterizations, material drawn from his outrageous life, and plenty of comments on racial differences, chemical substances and sex. Includes the now famous "Wino Preacher & Willie the Junkie" sequence. Ś The nightmare begins when Captain Lansen (Eric Porter) attempts to transport illegal explosives and a motley group of passengers on a rusty tramp steamer that becomes stranded in the vast floating swamp of the mysterious Sargasso Sea. Under cover of night, the terrified travelers encounter unspeakable monsters, man-eating seaweed, vicious mutant pirates and stupendously endowed women. A Hammer Films classic. Director/Author: mins. : Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith) is a lonely woman in reduced circumstances but is determined to make a fresh start in life. Despite the dreariness of her surroundings, she believes her optimism is rewarded when she meets James Madden (Bob Hoskins). Judith, who craves romance, is flattered by his attention and does not recognize that his main interest in her is as an ideal business partner. When Judith is forced to confront reality she turns to the bottle for consolation and is propelled along a course of self-destruction. 5Director/Author: Jack Clayton 1987 Minutes: 116Great Britain Ş In this Hammer classic, a London subway excavation abruptly halts when construction workers unearth a cluster of prehistoric skulls and skeletons. Anthropologist Dr. Roney (James Donald), his assistant Barbara Judd (Barbara Shelley) and space expert Professor Quatermass (Andrew Keir) are driven by curiosity and dig deeper to discover a strange "missile" that is not of this earth. 6Director/Author: Ray Ward Baker 1967 Minutes: 98Great Britain B A collection of the best short independent features by contemporary American filmmakers. Includes Tom Gilroy's Touchbase, starring Lili Taylor; Dan Wain's Aisle Six, about the joys of bathroom plumbing; Ethan Spigland's The Strange Case of Balthazar, which reinvents the history of cinema; Jadina Lilen's cinema verite documentary Marie; Billy Kent's Egg Salad, an expose of the clownish behavior of the West Coast dating scene; Matt Mennees' animated short Fan-Tasy and David Capurso's Emily's Song, a different take on homelessness. 92 mins. 6Director/Author: Capurso's Emily's Song, a Minutes: 92 ż This extraordinary program focuses on the Marx Brothers everyone knows and loves while showing a side of Groucho, Chico and Harpo rarely seen by the public. Host Leslie Nielsen leads a journey through rare home movies, insightful interviews with family members, never-before-seen outtakes and hilarious film clips to paint an intimate portrait of the influential American comedy troupe. Director/Author: mins. Director/Author: mins. _ Based on Terrence McNally's award-winning play, this "The Big Chill meets The Bird Cage" is the story of eight friends who leave the city behind for three simple weekends of rest and relaxation in the country. What they find is an outrageous mix of laughter, love and surprises. Featuring an extraordinary cast led by Jason Alexander (TV's Seinfeld) and John Glover, reprising his Tony Award-winning role as twin brothers. 4Director/Author: Joe Mantello 1997 Minutes: 90USA Ä Acclaimed filmmaker Hugh Miles captures magnificent, never-before-seen images of this spectacular predator of the Andes. 60 mins. 6Director/Author: images of this spectacula Minutes: 60 + Follow the fascinating lives of a great cat and a curious warthog, intertwined since birth, against the dramatic backdrop of the South African wilderness. 60 mins. 6Director/Author: African wilderness. 60 mi Minutes: 60 + The discovery that rocked the scientific world. Join an expedition in search of ancient dinosaurs. Unearth the fossilized embryo of an Oviraptor and skeletons that reveal an astonishing story. 60 mins. 6Director/Author: Oviraptor and skeletons t Minutes: 60 Really Wild Animals--Hot Dogs and Cool Cats. In this whirlwind worldwide adventure, Spin sets out to prove that our tame house pets have some really rowdy relatives. The wild mixes with the mild as we discover what's behind the dog's growl and the cat's meow. 47 mins. 6Director/Author: discover what's behind th Minutes: 47 ô Really Wild Animals--Farmyard Friends. Join Spin in two episodes about life on the farm and the real-life story of animal rescuers. 46 mins. 5Director/Author: life on the farm and the Minutes: 46 J Years before their acclaimed performances in The English Patient, Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes starred together in this visually stunning, passionate and eerily atmospheric adaptation of Emily Bronte's timeless tale of two families and the doomed love that entwines them. 9Director/Author: Peter Kosminsky 1992 Minutes: 1992Great Britain _ In the tradition of Menace II Society, Fresh and Gridlock'd comes this story of Tyrone, an idealistic Jamaican immigrant (Peter Williams), who, seduced by an opportunity for quick wealth, takes a job with a powerful local entrepreneur (George Harris). But when Tyrone finds that he is assigned the task of collecting an old debt from his irresponsible cousin (David Smith), his loyalties and career ambitions are tested. 8Director/Author: Stephen Williams 1995 Minutes: 89USA + Starship Commander Wendell Corey, Captain John Agar and a crew of hot space bimbos launch an emergency mission to rescue the crew of a hijacked starship stranded on a forbidden planet of alien creatures. 8Director/Author: Arthur C. Pierce 1966 Minutes: 87USA S Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney are long-time pals who make a pact to marry each other if neither is hitched by the time they are 29. When he introduces his fiance (Cameron Diaz) to her, she is set on sabotaging the engaged couple's relationship. With Rupert Everett.%%%mDVD: DV60036. $24.95. 3Director/Author: P.J. Hogan 1997 Minutes: 105USA +Based on events of the Spanish-American War, this critically acclaimed epic drama follows the experiences of a young Teddy Roosevelt (Tom Berenger) and his eclectic group of U.S. Calvary soldiers, called the Rough Riders. Roosevelt led this diverse mix of men through one of the most famous episodes in American military history, the charge on San Juan Hill. With Sam Elliott and Gary Busey. "Perhaps the best war movie ever made" (Vernon Scott, UPI). Two-tape set. 4Director/Author: John Milius 1997 Minutes: 187USA 1Director/Author: John Woo 1997 Minutes: 140USA -In this hip, hilarious sci-fi comedy, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith are the best-kept secret in the universe. Their mission: to monitor extra-terrestrial activity on earth. They are the best, last and only line of defense. They work in secret. They exist in shadow. And, of course, they dress in black. With Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onfrio and Rip Torn and a gallery of creepy aliens, courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic.%%%mDVD: DV60037. $24.95. 8Director/Author: Barry Sonnenfeld 1997 Minutes: 97USA e Alien monsters from outer space threaten to destroy mankind. The evil Gigan and King Ghidrah have been summoned from outer space and mankind is powerless against their vicious wave of destruction. Soon an earth-shattering death struggle rocks Tokyo as Godzilla and Anguiras go head-to-head with the monsters in a ferocious battle. 2Director/Author: Jun Fukuda 1972 Minutes: 89Japan + Godzilla battles his mechanical double. Controlled by evil space invaders, Mechagodzilla rises from the sea and begins a ferocious rampage of death and destruction. Has Godzilla met his match? 2Director/Author: Jun Fukuda 1974 Minutes: 84Japan ^ The story by Anne Bronte that shocked the Victorian world in 1848. Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed Off), Rupert Graves and Toby Stephens star in this story of sensuality and indulgence, of a marriage gone bad and a woman's right to be free and independent, set in a romantic world of wind-swept moors and mysterious manors. 4Director/Author: Mike Barker 1997 Minutes: 160Great Britain ŕ A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm. The Kidsongs Kids take a trip to Old MacDonald's farm in this music-filled story. - Kidsongs: Baby Animal Songs. This charming music video takes kids on a song-filled adventure with the Kidsongs Kids, Billy and Ruby Biggle, and dozens of their adorable baby animal friends. + What I Want to Be. The Kidsongs Kids take to the high seas, the fire station, the police academy, Hollywood and more as they explore through song and dance what they'd like to be when they grow up. Two civilizations are threatened when their twin worlds hea