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Year in Review For Dealers Anthropology…………………........ 1 Guidance & Counseling…… 49 Area Studies……………………….. 2 Health……………………… 50 Art & Architecture…………………... 13 History…………………….. 58 Biology……………………………... 15 Mathematics……………….. 62 Business & Economics……………… 18 Music & Dance……………... 63 Careers & Job Search……………… 27 Nursing…………………….. 64 Communication…………………..... 28 Philosophy & Religion…….. 64 Computers & Technology…….......... 31 Physical Science…………… 67 Criminal Justice…………………..... 32 Political Science……………. 70 Earth Science……………………...... 33 Psychology………………… 76 Education………………………….. 34 Sociology…………………... 83 English & Language Arts………...... 36 Technical Education……….. 90 Environmental Science…………...... 39 Technology & Society………. 92 Family & Consumer Sciences……… 44 Travel & Recreation………… 94 Geography……………….………… 47 World Languages…………... 95 Free Preview Clips Online! www.films.com/dealers T: (800) 257-5126, x4270 • F: (212) 564-1332 Anthropology From the Series Disappearing World Item # 49216 How to Build a Dinosaur Subject: Anthropology In this classic, long-running anthropological Item # 52493 series, Granada TV documents Subject: Anthropology "disappearing" or forgotten peoples, Reconstructing a dinosaur skeleton for a communities, and customs—recorded museum is a balance of art and science— between 1970 and 1991, often for the first time by a Western film enough science to keep the experts happy, enough artistic license crew. With leading authorities and anthropologists of the day, such to excite the visitors. But as it turns out, diplomacy is part of the as Elizabeth Fernea and Owen Lattimore, the 35-part series spans balance as well. In this program, bioarchaeologist Alice Roberts the globe to study rituals and ways of life, exploring critical issues goes to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to of transition or survival facing ancient tribes, indigenous cultures, follow the creation of its 2011 dinosaur exhibit, from the raw bones and other minority groups. From the Mursi nomads of Ethiopia and to the final colossal models. A BBC Production. (51 minutes) Asante market women of Ghana to the Vlach Gypsies of Hungary © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-324-2 and sherpas of Nepal, Disappearing World presents gripping footage of peoples, events, and places—before then rarely seen The Man Who Discovered Egypt by Western eyes—amid profound and irreversible change. 35-part Item # 52537 series, 25–65 minutes each. Subject: Anthropology © 1991 • $5948.25 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-535-5 Flinders Petrie’s pioneering excavation The Last of the Cuiva: Disappearing World technique—to examine soil inch by inch Item # 49218 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-537-9 instead of heaving shovelfuls of dirt around a site—elevated Embera—The End of the Road: Disappearing World archaeology from an activity for tomb raiders and treasure hunters Item # 49219 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-538-6 to a true science. He conducted the first mathematical analysis of Dervishes of Kurdistan: Disappearing World the architecture of the pyramids, discovered the oldest portraits in Item # 49223 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-542-3 the world, and unearthed ancient Egypt’s prehistoric roots. In this The Quechua: Disappearing World program, Chris Naunton, director of the Egypt Exploration Society, Item # 49225 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-544-7 travels to the key sites of Petrie’s discoveries and draws on his The Mursi: Disappearing World extensive correspondence, work journals, and photos to chart the Item # 49227 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-546-1 man’s remarkable achievements. A BBC Production. (52 minutes) The Sakuddei: Disappearing World © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-368-6 Item # 49228 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-547-8 Mongolia II—The City on the Steppes: Disappearing World A Bride for Barter? Traditional Item # 49229 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-548-5 Customs of the Huli People of The Shilluk: Disappearing World Item # 49230 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-549-2 Papua New Guinea The Rendille: Disappearing World Item # 49973 Item # 49233 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-552-2 Subject: Anthropology The Kwegu: Disappearing World For hundreds of years, the Huli people of Papua New Guinea lived Item # 49237 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-556-0 by their ancient customs, relying on tradition to govern all aspects of life. Then the white man came, threatening their unique culture. Inside China—The Newest Revolution: Disappearing Stuck between ancestral values and an ever-changing modern World world, they found themselves struggling to maintain their tribal Item # 49238 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-557-7 identity. This documentary describes how the Huli try to cope with Inside China—The Kazakhs: Disappearing World radical changes while clinging to their past. Bride price, one such Item # 49239 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-558-4 historic practice, still persists. This involves the bridegroom’s The Migrants—In Search of Cool Ground III—The Mursi payment of a suitable price, usually 15 to 30 pigs, before a Trilogy: Disappearing World marriage can occur. Pigs are more important than women, Item # 49240 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-559-1 explains one Huli. Today the government encourages the Huli to The Mursi—In Search of Cool Ground I—The Mursi maintain their traditional customs to encourage a valuable tourist Trilogy: Disappearing World trade. Viewer discretion is advised. (51 minutes) Item # 49241 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-560-7 © 2004 • $169.95• ISBN: 978-1-62290-793-9 The Kwegu—In Search of Cool Ground II—The Mursi Trilogy: Disappearing World Trobriand Cricket: The Sport Catches on in New Item # 49242 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-561-4 Guinea The Basques of Santazi: Disappearing World Item # 50013 Item # 49243 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-562-1 Subject: Anthropology The Wodaabe: Disappearing World The people of the Trobriand Islands of Papua Item # 49247 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-566-9 New Guinea have a rich history of rituals and The Kalasha—Rites of Spring: Disappearing World war that has inspired study and intrigue for Item # 49249 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-568-3 over 70 years. Western explorers discovered the islands in 1793, The Albanians of Rrogam: Disappearing World and the British came to the area in the early 20th century, seizing Item # 49250 • ISBN: 978-1-62290-569-0 the southern portion of New Guinea. When their new settlement was established, many traders, anthropologists, and missionaries $169.95 each followed. As seen in this documentary, the missionaries had the most influence, for they introduced the sport of cricket to the islands. This sport was quickly adopted and soon served as a replacement for the tribal battles that had decimated the indigenous population for so many years. (51 minutes) © 1979 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-193-4 1 Vivamazonia: The Jungle Book of Teaching Origins of Us Item # 50021 Item # 52547 Subject: Anthropology Subject: Anthropology In the heart of the Amazon rain forest, a Within the human body lies evidence of how we British couple runs a different kind of evolved away from the early apes to become primary school. Each lesson relates to the the most successful species on Earth. But each pupils’ remote jungle environment. The anatomical advantage that put us ahead of children can’t see themselves in the cityscapes of the textbooks predators and competitors came at a cost, sent by the local authorities, so they make all their books from which many of us are still paying today. Bad scratch. In mathematics they find fractions in rivers, and the fishing backs, painful childbirth, and impacted wisdom teeth are all by- ban soon to expire on their beloved river becomes a subject for products of our evolutionary triumph. In this three-part series, history. They learn not just facts and figures, but a responsibility for anatomist and physical anthropologist Dr. Alice Roberts reveals their natural heritage, and they come to understand the impact the the key adaptations to the human body that led to our dominance, end of the fishing ban will have on their families. (55 minutes) and how these play out in our lives today. A BBC Production. 3- © 2010 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-201-6 part series, 52 minutes each. © 2011 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-378-5 Baka: Cry from the Rainforest Bones: Origins of Us Item # 52548 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-379-2 Item # 52441 Guts: Origins of Us Subject: Anthropology Item # 52549 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-380-8 Award-winning filmmaker Phil Agland returns to the African rainforest to find the Brains: Origins of Us pygmy family who captivated viewers around the world as the stars Item # 52550 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-381-5 of his acclaimed documentary Baka: People of the Rainforest. Twenty-five years on, Agland is back in Cameroon to chart the $169.95 each experiences of the Baka family’s next generation. Discovering that pressures beyond their forest world are irrevocably changing their Skin Deep: Nina Jablonski's Theory of Race centuries-old way of life, Agland witnesses the testing of the Item # 52821 Baka’s limits and the human dramas of their everyday lives. Their Subject: Anthropology sparkling sense of humor and unique charm shines through as this Students of evolution understand that when our compelling film draws viewers into their extraordinary world. A ancient African ancestors lost their body hair BBC Production. (29 minutes) and ventured out onto the hot savannah, their © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-273-3 skin became dark to protect against UV radiation, while subsequent migration away Being Myself: Bilingualism and Identity from the equator yielded paler people. But in Item # 52771 2000, Penn State University anthropologist Nina Jablonski Subject: Anthropology proposed a startling new theory as to why human pigmentation is In this program, three bilingual and so diverse. In this program, Jablonski suggests that skin color bicultural women discuss their experience evolved mainly to allow for the production of vitamin D and folic with language and identity, and the ways in acid, both necessary for reproductive success. Focusing on which culture has influenced both.