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AFRICA ...... 3 AFRICAN AMERICAN...... 3 AFRICAN STUDIES ...... 3 AMERICAN STUDIES...... 3 ANTHROPOLOGY ...... 4 ART ...... 4 ARTS: ARCHITECTURE ...... 5 ARTS: ART & ARTISTS...... 5 ARTS: INSTRUCTION & HOW-TO ...... 7 ARTS: PERFORMING ARTS ...... 29 ARTS: PHOTOGRAPHY ...... 30 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY ...... 30 BUSINESS CASE STUDIES ...... 31 BUSINESS PRACTICES...... 31 BUSINESS SUCCESS...... 32 CHILDREN ...... 32 CINEMA: FAMILY...... 32 COMPUTER SCIENCE...... 32 COMPUTER SKILL ...... 33 COMPUTER SKILLS...... 33 CRIMINAL JUSTICE ...... 36 CROSS CULTURALISM...... 36 CULTURE...... 36 DEATH ...... 36 DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY ...... 37 DISABILITY...... 37 DIVERSITY ...... 38 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ...... 38 ECONOMICS ...... 38 ENGLISH AND MEDIA STUDIES...... 39 ENGLISH: LITERATURE & WRITING...... 39 ENVIRONMENT...... 39 FAMILY ...... 40 FOOD TECHNOLOGY ...... 40 FRENCH ...... 40 GAMES/HOBBIES ...... 40 GENDER ...... 41 GENERAL SCIENCE ...... 41 GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT...... 41 GUIDANCE ...... 43 HEALTH & SAFETY ...... 43 HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION...... 44 HEALTH: HOLISTIC/SELF-HELP/SPIRITUALITY...... 44 HEALTH: MEDICINE ...... 45 HUMAN RESOURCES...... 46 HUMAN RIGHTS...... 46 IMMIGRATION AND EXILE...... 46 INFECTION CONTROL...... 47 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY...... 48 LEADERSHIP...... 48 LOTE...... 49 MANAGING AND LEADING...... 49 MASS MEDIA & POPULAR...... 50 MATHEMATICS...... 50 MEDIA STUDIES...... 50 MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION ...... 51 NATURAL RESOURCES ...... 52 NATURAL SYSTEMS...... 52 OCEANS AND COASTS ...... 52 PHYS. ED.: RECREATION & SPORTS ...... 53 PHYSICS...... 54 POLITICAL SCIENCE ...... 54 RACISM ...... 54 RELIGIOUS STUDIES ...... 55 SCIENCE: NATURAL & PHYSICAL ...... 55 SEX EDUCATION ...... 60 SO. STUDIES/SCIENCES: GEOGRAPHY/CULTURES ...... 61 SO. STUDIES/SCIENCES: HISTORY...... 62 SO. STUDIES/SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCE ...... 63 SO. STUDIES/SCIENCES: U.S./WORLD ISSUES ...... 63 SO. STUDIES/SCIENCES: WOMEN'S STUDIES...... 63 SOCIOLOGY...... 64 TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY ...... 65 TEXTILES ...... 65 TRAINING, COACHING AND MENTORING ...... 66 VOC. ED.: BUSINESS/CAREER/COMMUNICATIONS...... 66 VOC. ED.: FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCE ...... 67 WOMEN'S STUDIES...... 67 YOUNG WOMEN ...... 67 幼兒課程與教學 ...... 68

the handful (first ones are free, additional AFRICA AFRICAN pills are not) and the prostitutes express AMERICAN the cold hard reality of their situation. At MRS. GOUNDO'S the end of the day, the little money made by the miners is usually lost among the DAUGHTER SAY MY NAME many gambling establishments. By Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater By Nirit Peled Once all the gold is believed to have been Mrs. Goundo is fighting to remain in the In a hip hop and R’n’B world dominated by harvested from a particular site, the entire United States. But it’s not just because of men and noted for misogyny, the town is dismantled and rebuilt within days the ethnic conflict and drought that has unstoppable female lyricists of Say My at a nearby location. plagued her native Mali. Threatened with Name speak candidly about class, race, deportation, her two-year-old daughter and gender in pursuing their passions as Like a modern-day version of a town in the could be forced to undergo female genital female emcees. This worldwide Wild West, The Hillside Crowd profiles the mutilation (FGM), like 85 percent of documentary takes viewers on vibrant tour men and women drawn to this community. women and girls in Mali. Using rarely cited of urban culture and musical movement, Each has their own story to tell, their own grounds for political asylum, Goundo must from hip hop’s birthplace in the Bronx, to reason for coming here. But the underlying convince an immigration judge that her grime on London’s Eastside and all points motivation remains the surrounding daughter is in danger. Philly, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, and L.A. poverty and the dream of a better future. in between. Sensitive and moving, this important film Award reveals how women are profoundly Featuring interviews and musical z Winner, Best Documentary, Brooklyn affected by the legal struggles surrounding performances from a diverse cast of International Film Festival, 2009 immigration. As issues of asylum, women including Remy Ma, Rah Digga, international law and human rights collide Jean Grae, Erykah Badu, Estelle and Item no. : CH05970808 with FGM and its devastating health newcomers Chocolate Thai, Invincible and Format : DVD consequences, filmmakers Barbara Attie Miz Korona, this powerful documentary Duration : 72 minutes and Janet Goldwater travel between an delves into the amazing personal stories Copyright : 2009 FGM ceremony in a Malian village of women balancing professional dreams Price : USD 315.00 involving dozens of girls to the West with the stark realities of poor urban African expatriate community of communities, race, sexism, and , where Mrs. Goundo motherhood, as the more than 18 artist challenges beliefs and battles the featured in Say My Name battle for a place ME BRONI BA (MY WHITE American legal system for her child’s in a society that creates few chances for future. women. From emerging artists filled with BABY) new creativity, to true pioneers like MC Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu Reviews Lyte, Roxxanne Shante, and Monie Love, z “Packs a sharp punch equal to that of these are women turning adversity into art. Weaving together sequences of films twice its length…. The hair-braiding salons in Ghana, voice-over filmmakers seamlessly weave Notes of Oprah rhapsodizing brown-skinned together parallel storylines….. the z South by Southwest Film Festival dolls and animated clips of signature soul-sickening footage of z DOXA Documentary Film Festival hairstyles, Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) is anxious-eyed little Malian girls z Full Frame Doc Film Festival an artfully composed, thought-provoking post-excision that makes Mrs. z AFI Dallas Film Festival work that investigates the fraught Goundo's point more succinctly than z Sarasota Film Festival relationship between images of beauty words ever could.” - Chris Barsanti, z Women of Color Arts & Film Festival and power. Filmcritic.com z International Black Women's Film Festival Set to an energetic, funk-infused score, z “Gracefully depicted and z Roxbury Film Festival Me Broni Ba unfolds through a series of painstakingly observed.” - intricately structured vignettes and potent SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Item no. : YA01880405 images – none more so than that of young Channel Documentary Film Festival Format : DVD (Color) African girls playing with white baby dolls Duration : 73 minutes from the West. The film mixes grainy black z “The filmmakers skillfully interweave Copyright : 2009 & white footage with colorful shots of the legal case, interviews with Price : USD 295.00 billboards and murals advertising various ‘excisers’ in Mali, and candid hair styles. It incorporates audio snippets discussions with Mrs. Goundo and of beauty instruction and tips (circa 1950s) her Malian girlfriends.” - Maria Garcia, as well as an emotionally resonant story of Film Journal International a young child’s migration from Africa to the AFRICAN STUDIES United States and her painful efforts to fit z “Eye-opening…. examines both sides in. of the issue without judgment or HILLSIDE CROWD, THE condescension by letting those This one-of-a-kind documentary subtly Directed by Berni Goldblat closest to the subject matter do the reveals the tangled legacy of European

talking.” - New York Magazine colonialism in Africa in the context of an A makeshift gold mine on the remote illuminating discussion of race, beauty and Diosso hillside in Burkina Faso has Note identity. attracted a swarm of gold-diggers, z Human Rights Watch International prospectors, dynamiters, merchants, holy Film Festival Review men, gamblers, healers and prostitutes. z “Powerful.” – Washington City Paper

Award Living in the promiscuous closeness of a z SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Item no. : TJ05970809 crowded and improvised gold town, these Channel Documentary Film Festival Format : DVD men and women are recklessly Duration : 22 minutes determined to find the gold that will Item no. : ZF01880226 Copyright : 2009 change their lives. Format : DVD (French, Bambara, Price : USD 215.00

Color, With English Yet, in Diosso, nothing is easy: the ‘miners’ Subtitles) are exploited by the ‘bosses’, the Duration : 60 minutes Copyright : 2009 dynamiters risk their lives at each Price : USD 295.00 explosion, the healers distribute pills by AMERICAN ______3 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

hurried films.” - Paste Magazine International Film Festival, 2009 STUDIES z “Deborah Stratman’s films feature Item no. : CH05970808 O'ER THE LAND multiple explosions and a jarring mix Format : DVD Directed by Deborah Stratman of noises and near-silent drones, so it Duration : 72 minutes is curious to also discover that an Copyright : 2009 With the excuse of freedom, we lose so endearing innocence often prevails, a Price : USD 315.00 many things. — Silvio Barile longing for some kind of miracle—a flying saucer or a goblin—just around Taking its title from the last line of the first the bend. This sense of wonder stanza of the National Anthem, O’er The remains at the heart of O’er the ART Land is a haunting meditation on Land.” – Artforum patriotism, violence and militarism in American culture. z “Stratman has been steadily crafting a THREE ART MAKERS poetic filmmaking practice rich with By Robert Gardner Directed by noted experimental filmmaker nuance and ripe for reflection, and her Deborah Stratman, this evocative essayistic films reward careful, Making marks, or causing them to be documentary explores the ways in which contemplative viewing.” – LA Weekly made as in the case of filmmakers, is what Americans have come to understand artists do. They see, imagine, hallucinate freedom and the increasingly Awards some shape, color or tone and then pick technological reiterations of manifest z Winner, Best of Festival, Ann Arbor up their tools to render it in steel, light, destiny. Film Festival, 2009 copper or almost anything else. Here are z Winner, Best in Festival, Iowa City three examples of what can happen. In Stratman captures the marching-band International Documentary Film addition to the three films, this special battle cries of the country with a strong, Festival, 2009 edition DVD is complimented by a 16 page controlled tone that proves its point but is z Winner, Best International On Screen full-color booklet containing photographs extremely playful, too. She documents the Film, Images Film Festival, 2009 and personal reflections written by the wild, wild worlds of gun shows—ones filmmaker. where you can fire machine guns in the Item no. : PD05970810 forest and literally blow stuff up, Format : DVD The Great Sail reenactments of famous battles with Duration : 52 minutes Alexander Calder's La Grande Voile was historically accurate weapons and clothes, Copyright : 2009 erected on the Massachusetts Institute of border disputes, and the organized frenzy Price : USD 315.00 Technology campus in 1966 with the artist of cheerleaders and motor homes. directing the work. As the spectacular steel forms of this monumental stabile rise, The documentary is seemingly it is filmed with time lapse and verite ‘interrupted’ by the incredible story of Col. ANTHROPOLOGY photography. One can see that the William Rankin who in 1959, was forced to structure owes its spare elegance to the eject from his F8U fighter jet at 48,000 feet precision of its design and construction. without a pressure suit, only to get trapped HILLSIDE CROWD, THE Calder remains absorbed in quiet for 45 minutes in the up and down drafts of Directed by Berni Goldblat concentration as skeptical students and a massive thunderstorm. Remarkably, he bemused bystanders observe the survived. Rankin's story represents a A makeshift gold mine on the remote somewhat improbable event. This film has non-material, metaphysical kind of Diosso hillside in Burkina Faso has never before been available on DVD. freedom. He was vomited up by his own attracted a swarm of gold-diggers, jet, that American icon of progress and prospectors, dynamiters, merchants, holy Dancing with Miklos strength, but violent purging does not men, gamblers, healers and prostitutes. While watching prolific Hungarian necessarily lead to reassessment or filmmaker Miklos Jancso make his political redirection. Living in the promiscuous closeness of a thriller, The Blue Danube Waltz, Robert crowded and improvised gold town, these Gardner begins to film. Jancso's style O’er the Land is concerned with the men and women are recklessly seeps through to the documentarian's sudden, simple, thorough ways that determined to find the gold that will factual eye to create more than a events can separate us from the system of change their lives. behind-the-scenes exploration; it's an things, and place us in a kind of limbo. insightful, eloquent, and entertaining Like when we fall. Or cross a border. Or Yet, in Diosso, nothing is easy: the ‘miners’ tribute from one filmmaker to another. get shot. Or saved. The film forces are exploited by the ‘bosses’, the together culturally acceptable icons of dynamiters risk their lives at each Good to Pull heroic national tradition with the explosion, the healers distribute pills by This short video is about a collaboration suggestion of unacceptable historical the handful (first ones are free, additional between the artist Michael Mazur and his consequences, so that seemingly benign pills are not) and the prostitutes express master printer, Robert Townsend, as they locations become zones of moral angst, the cold hard reality of their situation. At work on a suite of etchings drawn from the and in the process, raising troubling the end of the day, the little money made celebrated monotypes Mazur made for questions about the hallowed concept of by the miners is usually lost among the Dante's Inferno. The monotypes were freedom that is so deeply ingrained in our many gambling establishments. published in an earlier collaboration culture. between Mazur and Robert Pinsky, the Once all the gold is believed to have been poet and translator. The etchings will Reviews harvested from a particular site, the entire become part of a remarkable history of z “When [Deborah Stratman] raises her town is dismantled and rebuilt within days similar undertakings by such other camera, seeing is already thinking. In at a nearby location. illustrators as Botticelli, Blake, Dore, all her work there is a quality of Lebrun and Phillips. As seen in the literary watchful attention, an outraged politic, Like a modern-day version of a town in the magazine AGNI #68. an experience lived through the body Wild West, The Hillside Crowd profiles the and searched out again through her men and women drawn to this community. Item no. : WL03790661 camera double.” - Millenneum Film Each has their own story to tell, their own Format : DVD (Color) Journal reason for coming here. But the underlying Duration : 48 minutes motivation remains the surrounding Copyright : 2009 z “Deborah Stratman has created a poverty and the dream of a better future. Price : USD 215.00 beautiful meditation on militarized culture, an elegant, logical strand, an Award oasis in a festival of generally more z Winner, Best Documentary, Brooklyn ______4 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

beauty, and eroticism during their times. ARTS: ARTS: ART & Item no. : AC05443108 ARCHITECTURE ARTISTS Format : DVD Duration : 60 minutes ART AND ARCHITECTURE: ART APPRECIATION, THE: Audience : College, Adult Copyright : 2009 ILLUSTRATING BRUSH DANCE WITH XIAO Price : USD 210.00 ARCHITECTURE - PART 1: KEJIA - THE ART OF

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY OF THE TRADE Chinese calligraphy, "Shu Fa" in Chinese, and also called brush calligraphy, has ART THROUGH THE AGES: In this introductory part of the program been a technique for writing Chinese Dick Shook presents the tools and ORIENT - EASTERN ART characters for thousands or years. supplies you will need to draw an Treasured in Japan, Korea, Vietnam and THROUGH THE AGES illustration; then he offers a warm-up of the Singapore as well, it is considered to be a During the 19th century the term Orient various drawing techniques you will use. uniquely East Asian art. Today, the love of described the exotic lands of the East,

calligraphy has spread worldwide. This from Northern Africa to Asia. Rather than Item no. : AH05443102 classic documentary features (Katherine) describing a single geographic or cultural Format : DVD Xiao Kejia, respected as one of China's representation, the term Orient became a Duration : 25 minutes master calligraphers - a distinction among metaphor of the unknown. When Audience : Senior High, College, Chinese women, who introduces viewers Napoleon Bonaparte marched his French Adult to the presentation, style, emotions, army across Egypt in 1798, only to be Copyright : 2009 spirituality and esthetics of calligraphy. driven out by the British, the focus of Price : USD 160.00 Like a great painter, Kejia's brush literally European attention upon these mysterious

dances as she demonstrates a technique, lands sparked the 19th century's

which took years of discipline to achieve. fascination of all things "Eastern." The

We learn how this artistic training was western world's attraction to these exotic ART AND ARCHITECTURE: passed down through generations of her lands was aided by travel improvements, family - her grandfather, Xiao Lao, was such as the spread of the railroad and the ILLUSTRATING well known as a calligrapher and poet; opening of the Suez Canal, allowing artists ARCHITECTURE - PART 2: however, although she has achieved to venture out and witness these unknown worldwide acclaim, this program's focus is ancient worlds. A window upon the BEGINNING YOUR primarily on the appreciation of her mysterious Eastern world was opened to ILLUSTRATION beloved ancient art. We learn of the four the West through compelling paintings by In Part Two Dick Shook introduces a essential tools required to practice artists who would become know as perspective chart used by illustrators; then calligraphy, the ink brush, ink, paper, and "Orientalists." Narrated by Claire Dodin, he focuses on a fountain, the center of inkstone; then, following the handling of this eye-opening documentary focuses on attention in the illustration. her brush, we witness the power and Orientalist paintings from the 19th century, beauty she is able to convey as she paints focusing especially on the artists Item no. : PC05533103 and identifies the characters. Produced by Jean-Leone Gerome, Edwin Lord Weeks, Format : DVD J. Howmark Productions. and Arthur Frederick Bridgeman, while Duration : 25 minutes also including paintings by Lawrence Audience : Senior High, College, Item no. : VL05443105 Alma-Tadema, Rudolf Ernst, John Adult Format : DVD Frederick Goodall, Ludwig Deutsch, Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes Charles Theodore Frere, Gustave Achille Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, Guillaumet, Charles Sprague Pearce, Senior High, College, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Moreau, Adult Edward Lear, Leon Belly, Gustave Copyright : 2009 Boulanger, Franz Xavier Winterhalter, Price : USD 160.00 Alexandre Cabanel, John Frederick Lewis, ART AND ARCHITECTURE: and Edward John Poynter. ILLUSTRATING Item no. : CE05533109 ARCHITECTURE - PART 3: Format : DVD ART THROUGH THE AGES: COMPLETING YOUR Duration : 60 minutes EROS - THE NUDE Audience : Junior High, Senior High, ILLUSTRATION College, Adult In Part Three Dick Shook shows the THROUGH THE AGES Copyright : 2009 drawing of the area around the fountain As art progressed through the ages, Price : USD 210.00 and concludes the program with a review depictions of the human form became the of the steps taken. ultimate representation of art. Always controversial, the nude figure has been both criticized and glorified. Narrated by Item no. : RG05393104 GARDEN OF ARTISTS, THE: Format : DVD Claire Dodin, this engaging program Duration : 25 minutes displays the evolution of the nude in ANDREW ROGERS Audience : Senior High, College, painting as it progresses century to Host Savanna Jackson welcomes one of Adult century from the Renaissance art of the 's most distinguished and Copyright : 2009 15th Century, when early nudes internationally recognized contemporary Price : USD 160.00 revolutionized art, to the early 20th century; sculptors, Andrew Rogers. His critically it features thirty six artists, including acclaimed sculptures are in numerous Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, private and prominent public collections in Peter Paul Rubens, Jacques-Louis David, his home country as well as the U.S., William Bouguereau and John William Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle Waterhouse. Synchronized with a East. Influenced by Rodin, for years he romantic soundtrack, the art of "Eros" is worked as a figurative sculptor, until in brought to life in stunning, compelling 1995 he switched to a unique abstract detail, as the primal elemental form of the style. One of his "Rhythms of Life" human body is captured by master exhibitions, which formed a chain of stone painters who reflected the essence of love, sculptures, or geoglyphs, is the largest ______5 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk contemporary land art undertaking in the College, Adult summer camp. His parents, Simon Hollosy world. Here he discusses how he makes Copyright : 2009 and Csontvary Tivadar Kosztka, were both these three-dimensional structures, Price : USD 160.00 Hungarian artists and completely compiled of natural elements like rock, and supported his choice to be an artist. He explains the process of constructing art has studied painting, drawing, and pieces large enough to be seen from the ceramics, but sculpture remains his air. We learn that he uses the desert GARDEN OF ARTISTS, THE: favorite form of expression. He constantly environments as canvases to show explores and develops new approaches to ancient symbols that represent life, a CAROLE FEUERMAN the human figure, specifically the female metaphor for taking old things and making Host Aylin Green welcomes one of figure. Also his fascination with medieval them new. His one-person show at America's major realist sculptors, Carole armor appears in works such as Kathy B, Grounds for Sculpture, Earthworks and Feuerman, whose work has been selected which is on permanent display at the Geoglyphs, included large-scale for collections of Forbes Magazine, Dr. Grounds for Sculpture; this sculpture's thin, photographs, maquettes, and two Henry Kissinger, President Mikhail overlapping cast metal pieces allows documentaries that chronicled his works Gorbachev, President Bill Clinton and viewers to experience the juxtaposition of on-site in Chile and Israel. Also worth Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well the interior and exterior of the human body. noting, a smaller version of one of his as numerous international collections, Five major commissions by Hollosy signature works, Flora Exemplar, from his including the State Hermitage Museum, St. include: Aspirations for Liberty in Boston, "Rhythms of Life" series, has been on Petersburg, Russia. In this program the Massachusetts; Our Heritage in New exhibit at GFS since 1998. multi-award winning sculptor discusses Orleans, Louisiana; The Family in Peoria, her "painting with fire" sculpture, called Arizona; Cardinal Mindszenty Memorial in Review Zeus and Hera, which was installed in the Cleveland, Ohio; and the Hungarian War z "Andrew Rogers' oeuvre includes not permanent collection of the Grounds for Memorial in North Olmstead, Ohio. He too only small- and large-scale bronzes, Sculpture; she explains the melting of sculpted a portrait of the late sculptor but also significant memorials and many types of metal provides her with the Isaac Witkin, who is also featured in this vast geoglyphs in the desert colors she needs to sculpt the beautiful series. landscape. His frequently used forms, which represent the ancient Greek phrase 'rhythms of life' is an apt gods; the piece demonstrates what she Item no. : EY05393221 choice, because in this age of calls a "dance" between fire and metal. Format : DVD globalization the rhythms of life are no Feuerman's monumental sculpture, Duration : 30 minutes longer limited to our own small circle Olympic Swimmer, was featured in the Audience : Junior High, Senior High, of friends and relatives, no longer "Olympic Fine Arts' Exhibition" at the 2008 College, Adult restricted to our own town or country, Beijing Summer Olympics; also her work Copyright : 2009 we are all part of a complex global (Grande Catalina) has been featured in Price : USD 160.00 pattern." -Ken Scarlett, Sculpture Antony Mason and John T. Spike's book, A Magazine History of Western Art. "The challenge is always to use materials in a new and different way, and make them Reviews GARDEN OF ARTISTS, THE: convey meaning and portray form in a z "Carole A. Feuerman's bronze manner that has not previously been castings are a brilliant example of HELENA LUKASOVA seen." -Andrew Rogers deconstruction/reinvention of the Hosted by Savanna Jackson, this perennial classical/contra classical programs introduces viewers to Helena Item no. : ZW05393218 dialogue. Her work gives Lukasova, an emerging artist from the Format : DVD contemporary meaning to the ancient Czech Republic, and a graduate from the Duration : 31 minutes adage, "out of the fire comes life." Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Audience : Junior High, Senior High, -George Nelson Preston, Ph.D., Dept. Bratislava, Slovakia, who also has College, Adult of Art CCNY/CUNY specialized training in fresco painting, Copyright : 2009 mosaic, woodworking, graphic design and Price : USD 210.00 z "I like the idea that my work inspires clay modeling. Here Helena discusses her the viewer to look closely at what interest in warped and androgynous stands before them. I want the viewer figures as well as how she began her to complete the story." -Carole A. artistry. At the Grounds for Sculpture she GARDEN OF ARTISTS, THE: Feuerman sculpted the larger than life-size, nude female figure she calls Inua, a term from BROOKE BARRI; HELENA Awards Greenland that means "personification." LUKASOVA; BONNIE z Peabody Award Winner Her sculpture stands silently and humbly z Medici Award Winner with hands open, palms forward - ageless, BROWN z Betty Parson Sculpture Award Winner with no garment or hairstyle tying her to Host Savanna Jackson begins this z First Prize -Beijing International Art any identifiable period of time. Employing program interviewing Brooke Barri, a Biennale symbolism in her sculpture, Helena former curator of the Grounds for explains how she sculpted the abstract Sculpture, where visitors of all ages can Item no. : HA05533220 form of a human to demonstrate the enjoy the outdoor permanent collection of Format : DVD internal strength of a person by having a contemporary sculpture as well as various Duration : 30 minutes weak outside made of cement and mostly indoor exhibitions; next sculptor Helena Audience : Junior High, Senior High, hollow on the inside, but filled with gold in Lukasova explains her sculpture that College, Adult its inner organs; then through openings in displays the divine nature of an angel; Copyright : 2009 its face and hands the gold is revealed, then Bonnie Brown, the Membership, Price : USD 160.00 which represents the interior human spirit. Events, Community and Patron Relations' Manager, discusses her role in the event Item no. : DM05443222 planning process of the sculpture park, Format : DVD where visitors learn about sculpture GARDEN OF ARTISTS, THE: Duration : 25 minutes through a variety of educational programs, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, including workshops, tours, and artist GYURI HOLLOSY College, Adult residencies and lectures. Host Aylin Green welcomes artist Gyuri Copyright : 2009 Hollosy, whose career has entered its fifth Price : USD 160.00 Item no. : EH05443219 decade. Born in Bavaria, Germany, his Format : DVD family relocated to the United States when Duration : 26 minutes he was 9, and he was only 12 years old Audience : Junior High, Senior High, when his passion for art was ignited at a

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GARDEN OF ARTISTS, THE: sculptor Steven Siegel, who is primarily Format : DVD known for his large outdoor installations Duration : 30 minutes ISAAC WITKIN made of recyclables or indigenous Audience : Senior High, College, This program documents an exclusive post-consumer materials. His vast oeuvre Adult interview host Savanna Jackson had with includes public art commissions such as Copyright : 2009 the sculptor Isaac Witkin before his death Grass Paper Glass and solo exhibitions Price : USD 160.00 in 2006. Born in 1936 in Johannesburg, such as Wonderful Life. Also, during his South Africa the sculptor moved to London, artist-in-residence at Grounds for PRINCETON FORUM, THE: England when he 21 and attended the St. Sculpture, Siegel was commissioned to Martin's School of Art and studied under create three giant cube outdoor sculptural ART & ARTISTS - MAKOTO sculptor Sir . During his time installations: one consisting of solely FUJIMURA (ARTIST) in the UK, Witkin served as an apprentice newspaper, another of plates of glass, and Artist Makoto Fujimura was born in Boston, to the famed British sculptor, . the final of sod. Here he discusses the Massachusetts, and educated bi-culturally In 1965 Witkin immigrated to the United help that was required to construct the between the US and Japan; graduating States to become an artist-in-residence at cubes, the processes of making each first from Bucknell University; then , Vermont. The prolific unique structure, the location in which they receiving an M.F.A. from Tokyo National sculptor discusses his career and his were built, and the naming of each. The University of Fine Arts and Music; his sculptures at the Grounds for Sculpture, pieces explore such themes as recycling, paintings address the creative process including Garden State, his tribute to the balance, identity in the universe, as well as and explore what it means to see. In 1990 state of ; The Bathers; Linden an anti-anthropomorphic focus on what is he founded "The International Arts Tree; Hawthorne Tree II and Madame the center of the universe. Movement," which hosts a major Butterfly; he also explains why he wanted conference in New York City every to be a sculptor and elaborates on his Review February, attracting notable speakers in all association with Henry Moore. z "With an elegantly simple and the various arts. In this program host numbingly repetitious process Siegel Esther Mills speaks with the artist who Item no. : JK05533223 invites viewers to analyze and accept talks about his belief in absolute beauty Format : DVD the ambiguous relationship of and redemption. He shares his own Duration : 50 minutes technology and nature, and the struggle with faith and meaning in relation Audience : Junior High, Senior High, comparable cycles of consumerism to art in his collections of essays, called College, Adult and geological depositions." - Patricia Refractions, as well as in his book, River Copyright : 2009 C. Phillips, Sculpture Magazine Grace, which traces his journey of Price : USD 210.00 mastering the traditional Japanese art of Award Nihonga. z Outstanding Student Achievement in

Contemporary Sculpture Award -Grounds for Sculpture Item no. : SP05393290 GARDEN OF ARTISTS, THE: Format : DVD JOHNSON DIGITAL Item no. : TH05443225 Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD Audience : Senior High, College, ATELIER - JON LASH AND Duration : 30 minutes Adult JOHN RANNOU Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Price : USD 160.00 The Digital Atelier, founded by the renowned sculptor, J. Seward Johnson Jr., Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 is a model- and pattern-making operation for the Johnson Atelier, a U.S.-based school for sculpture; it was established to ARTS: promote the growing need of technical assistance in producing quality fine art and PRINCETON FORUM, THE: INSTRUCTION & design through the use of digitally produced data. Host Aylin Green ART & ARTISTS - JOANNA HOW-TO introduces viewers to Jon Lash, a sculptor TULLY (PHOTOGRAPHER) and master of "lost wax" casting, and the Joanna Tully is a professional ART FOR KIDS: ARTBOT 1 Director of the Digital Atelier, who photographer whose assignments can be This program introduces young children to describes what Total Project Management for newspapers, magazines, books, nine aspects of art: Line - The importance consists of at the Atelier; also we meet brochures, and public relations, while also of line to art, and various uses such as John Rannou, one of the Atelier's talented she is an accomplished fine art creating patterns and rhythms, and software engineers, who walks us through photographer for DVD, television and expressing movements and emotions. reverse engineering and computerized documentary art programs. Her work has Shape - The types of shapes in art: sculpting. We see how sculptures are been exhibited and published widely in the geometric and organic; what various scanned digitally, redesigned according to United States and she has been shapes represent; and the creative the digital artist's liking, then reconstructed welcomed as a permanent member at the possibilities by combining shapes. Texture through mechanics. Much of the work is Twenty-Two Gallery in Philadelphia, - The meaning of texture; examples of done with classical sculptures made of . Her work covers a wide materials and objects that an artist can stone, but a wide variety of other materials range of subjects, including what she calls, use to give texture; and the appeal of are used as well. Humanistic Photography. In this program incorporating things that "you like to touch"

she expands on that subject with host - or not - into making art. Space - The Item no. : FS05393224 Esther Mills and explains how she uses importance of space in art; how artists Format : DVD photography as a catalyst for social create space; and the uses of "foreground" Duration : 30 minutes change, aiming to make viewers of her and "background" to create a sense of Audience : Junior High, Senior High, work think differently. This type of closeness or distance. Color - An College, Adult photography may encompass themes explanation of primary and secondary Copyright : 2009 regarding vulnerable people, covering colors; how artists use color to convey Price : USD 160.00 topics such as women and aging or people their emotions; color's potential to bring

with disabilities; also it may include definition, depth, and brightness to a work

focused views of beloved landscapes; for of art, and how an artist blends colors.

example, she shares nostalgic shots, Painting - The origins and techniques of GARDEN OF ARTISTS, THE: which she captured of Coney Island prior painting, from prehistoric times, to today's to its renovation. infinite options for artists who paint; the STEVEN SIEGEL important role of painting, such as Host Aylin Green welcomes New York Item no. : PD05533289 recording our history or expanding our ______7 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk imaginations; and artists' revelations on with peyote stitch - just by varying the BEADS, BAUBLES & why they paint. Photography - The origins bead count you can create cool patterns of photography, sometimes described as and textures. Then it's on location with JEWELS 10 (BEADING & "painting with light"; why photography is designer Susan Nestor. Last up, Katie such a powerful medium; and the appeal Hacker is back with an easy way to work JEWELRY MAKING): COLOR of digital cameras, including ease and with multiple strands of seed beads. - A KEY COMPONENT OF immediacy. Drawing - The meaning and value of drawing; how it is a process of Item no. : FJ05393110 DESIGN discovery; and the freedom of expression, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) One of the key components at all levels is flexibility, and convenience it provides the Duration : 30 minutes color - your use of color can really set artist. Sculpture - The definition of Audience : Junior High, Senior High, apart your design style. Today's designers sculpture, and its tactile appeal - both to College, Adult all have a great color sense. First, it's Mark the artist and the "audience"; and the Copyright : 2009 Nelson and color and design using colores pleasures of sculpting with different kinds Price : USD 160.00 resin for a pendant and earrings. Then, of materials, such as glass, wood, and Katie Hacker uses color for crystal clay - as we meet artists who work in each weaving in an hombre design. Next, it's a of these media. fringe fest with Leslie Rogalski - adding tons of fringe to basic peyote for a lush BEADS, BAUBLES & Item no. : WK05533106 look. Then we meet two designers on Format : DVD JEWELS 10 (BEADING & location: first is Gail Crosman Moore and Duration : 30 minutes then Maureen Henrigues - we discover Audience : Children's JEWELRY MAKING): how they use color in their designs. Copyright : 2009 BECOME YOUR OWN Price : USD 160.00 Item no. : RE05393113 DESIGNER Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) It's time for you to become your own Duration : 30 minutes designer. On this show we have five Audience : Junior High, Senior High, designs guaranteed to impress. First up is College, Adult ART FOR KIDS: ARTBOT 2 Leslie Rogalski; you may have seen right Copyright : 2009 This program introduces young children to angle weave before but here added Price : USD 160.00 nine additional aspects of art: Mixed Media embellishments puts this bangle over the - An explanation of mixed media or top. Then it's a tool technique with Katie "collage," which involves using two or Hacker and how to choose the right type more media; the wide range of media of cutter to give a professional edge. Next, BEADS, BAUBLES & available, including paints, photographs, Mark Nelson creates a pierced pendant or newspaper, or found objects; and the brooch using a sawing technique. It's all JEWELS 10 (BEADING & rewards of being a mixed media artist. about tools today; so you'll love to meet Found Art - All junk is potential art, but all author Denis Peck on location. Last up, JEWELRY MAKING): FOCUS art is not potential junk. Landscape - Kristal Wick is here with picture frame ON METAL - WITH A TWIST! Landscape paintings can be a snapshot of charms and fabric instead of photos On this show we focus on metal, but we've another time and place. Careers in Art - finished off with antique chain for a vintage added a twist. First, it's Mark Nelson and Almost every object, building and media in look. mokume gane domed earrings - it's all the modern world is designed by someone about fusing copper and silver. Then Katie with a background in the arts. Portraiture - Item no. : TA05443111 Hacker shows us how to alter silver Portraits are an exciting window into our Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) components for an aged look. Next up, it's past and a model for our future. Duration : 30 minutes Marlene Blessing and using wire wrap Printmaking - Printmaking can be a Audience : Junior High, Senior High, dangles in a new way with a varied colorful and creative way to make multiple College, Adult selection of beads and charms to create works of art. Computers in Art - We Copyright : 2009 jewelry pizzazz. And last up, it's a visit with explore the power as an artistic tool. Price : USD 160.00 Nancy Zeller on location. Pottery - Pottery can be a great tactile way to express yourself in three dimensions. Item no. : PT05443114 Public Art - The whole world can be an art Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) gallery if you know where to look. BEADS, BAUBLES & Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Item no. : FY05393107 JEWELS 10 (BEADING & College, Adult Format : DVD JEWELRY MAKING): Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Children's BOOST YOUR SKILLS Copyright : 2009 Even when we're doing basic stringing Price : USD 160.00 we've added a surprise element that will

boost your skills to a more professional BEADS, BAUBLES & level. We begin with editor and designer Leslie Rogalski, adding a little swagger to JEWELS 10 (BEADING & BEADS, BAUBLES & your stringing. Start out with a simple strand and add swags for that over the top JEWELRY MAKING): GET JEWELS 10 (BEADING & look. Then it's all about glass. Katie ENTHUSIASTIC WITH NEW JEWELRY MAKING): BEADS Hacker shows us how to fasten a center focal section. Next, Mark Nelson creates TECHNIQUES OF ALL SIZES, SHAPES three different fused glass pendants. Last We want you to really get enthusiastic up, we meet Lisa Kan on location for a about creating jewelry and trying new AND COLORS techniques. That step from making a few To describe this show only takes one word different type of inspiration. pieces at home to being a designer is - beads. In all sizes, colors, materials, and easier than you think. Marlene Blessing is shapes - the focus is on beads. First, we'll Item no. : KN05533112 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) here first and shows how to create focal learn the beadliner technique of lining drama. By combining charms and frames glass beads with silver - it's a fascinating Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, you can make the centerpiece of a process with Mark Nelson. Then it's dramatic design and the process is so beaded ornaments with Katie Hacker for a College, Adult Copyright : 2009 easy. Next, it's all about bead reamers, departure from jewelry. Next, Leslie Katie Hacker shows us how to use this Rogalski creates her own cylinder beads Price : USD 160.00 valuable tool. Then it's more tools with ______8 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

Mark Nelson and filing a pattern on to a BEADS, BAUBLES & is here with design tips for using stamped bracelet. Then we meet designer Amy metal components. Mark Nelson visits with Denton on location. Last up, Kristal Wick is JEWELS 10 (BEADING & pendants and earrings made with metal here to show us how to use large hole stamping. Then we travel on location to beads with antiqued copper filigree chain. JEWELRY MAKING): meet designer Clara Walker with more PAYING ATTENTION TO stamped pieces. Last up, Mark Lareau Item no. : WJ05533115 creates fused rings from sterling; he Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) DETAILS makes it easy. Duration : 30 minutes Today's designs are all about paying Audience : Junior High, Senior High, attention to details. First, we learn how to Item no. : LR05443120 College, Adult set stones in a bezel cup with Mark Nelson. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Copyright : 2009 Next, Katie Hacker makes a beaded bezel. Duration : 30 minutes Price : USD 160.00 Then it's layering 1-2-3 with Marlene Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Blessing. Discover how to design three College, Adult unique single strand necklaces that can be Copyright : 2009 layered or worn alone. Last up, it's off to Price : USD 160.00 Philadelphia and an interview with Janice BEADS, BAUBLES & Berkebile. JEWELS 10 (BEADING & Item no. : HW05533118 BEADS, BAUBLES & JEWELRY MAKING): Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) JEWELS 10 (BEADING & NATURE FOR INSPIRATION Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, JEWELRY MAKING): On this show we thought we'd take a look College, Adult at nature for some inspiration. Today, Mark TECHNIQUES AND TIPS Copyright : 2009 Nelson is going to teach us how to carve Today's feature technique is wire wrapping. Price : USD 160.00 materials for a tribal pendant. Then Katie It's probably one of the first techniques

Hacker expands on the use of natural you learn, but there are a lot of variations. materials like wood and bone on memory First, Mark Nelson creates a silver wire. Next up, Marlene Blessing creates wire-wrap necklace and earrings that are natural beauty by designing with motifs BEADS, BAUBLES & anything but basic. Next, Katie Hacker from nature and natural materials. Last up, shows how to create decorative we have Sally Roessler and some JEWELS 10 (BEADING & wire-wrapped links. Leslie Rogalski shows interesting materials from around the JEWELRY MAKING): how to make different components look world. related and combines them into one piece. PROMOTING YOUR WORK Then it's off to Philadelphia and an Item no. : VM05393116 Designers often want to promote and sell interview with Marlene Blessing, whom Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) their work. On this show we have a few you know as an editor and designer, but Duration : 30 minutes different ideas to help you in that quest. she has another role as an author. Last up, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, First, Mark Nelson teaches us how to set Katie Hacker is here with tips for working College, Adult flat stones. Swarovski is a very popular on a multi-strand wood bracelet. Copyright : 2009 stone for making and selling your designs. Price : USD 160.00 Mark will also teach us dapping and an Item no. : JV05533121 intro to metal forming. Then Katie Hacker Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) has another crystal technique, Duration : 30 minutes embellishing crystal cup chain. Marlene Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Blessing talks about designing with BEADS, BAUBLES & College, Adult affordable big, bold stones for a jewelry Copyright : 2009 JEWELS 10 (BEADING & statement. Then we meet designer and Price : USD 160.00 author Melanie Potter in Philadelphia. Last JEWELRY MAKING): NEW up, Viki Lareau talks about the business of MATERIALS AND SECRETS jewelry making - how to price pieces, trunk shows and display - all great information Today's first material is bronze clay, a for new artists. BEADS, BAUBLES & brand new material. Mark Nelson will show us how to create patterns using JEWELS 10 (BEADING & Item no. : NA05393119 plates on a beautiful bracelet. Then Katie Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) JEWELRY MAKING): TIPS Hacker teaches us how to make an ear Duration : 30 minutes wire using German style wire. Next, FOR USING TOOLS Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Marlene Blessing shows us how to add a Don't be intimidated by tools; they can College, Adult subtle touch of asymmetry to a jewelry make your design choices so much easier Copyright : 2009 design. Then we meet Melinda Barta on if you learn their use. And we have an Price : USD 160.00 location in Philadelphia at a bead show. expert, Mark Nelson, to help you. He's

Last up, author Kristal Wick shows us the going to show how to drill beach glass for secrets of fabric beads. great jewelry design. Then Katie Hacker

shows us how to use those drilled beads Item no. : PN05443117 BEADS, BAUBLES & with velour and rubber tubing. Next, Leslie Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Rogalski and "poodle" beads - learn how Duration : 30 minutes JEWELS 10 (BEADING & to fluff out peyote stitch for a furry effect. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, JEWELRY MAKING): Then meet artist Bronwen Helman and a College, Adult contemporary look at design and materials. Copyright : 2009 TAKING JEWELRY MAKING Last up, Katie Hacker is back but this time Price : USD 160.00 TO THE NEXT LEVEL as an author with design inspiration for Taking your jewelry making to the next everyone. level doesn't mean that the techniques are more difficult, it's just allowing yourself to Item no. : TF05393122 try some new ideas and paying attention Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) to the details that makes jewelry Duration : 30 minutes professional. First up is Marlene Blessing Audience : Junior High, Senior High, and the power of rings. Use rings and College, Adult jump rings together with beads to create a Copyright : 2009 fashion savvy design. Then Katie Hacker Price : USD 160.00 ______9 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

BEADS, BAUBLES & Duration : 30 minutes and triangles - but circles too - this jewelry Audience : Junior High, Senior High, tends to have a repetitive shape within the JEWELS 4 (BEADING & College, Adult components or an overall shape. First up, Copyright : 2009 Arbel Shemesh chose circles for a JEWELRY MAKING): Price : USD 160.00 fascinating project using lazer lace - a AFRICAN INSPIRED STYLE finding used in a new way. Beading This style has lots of natural colors, wood Lesson - making your own jump ring and tones and hand carving. Our first guests clasp. Linda Augsburg goes linear with a are Ruth Schaffenburg and Ebrimah Silah; BEADS, BAUBLES & stem pin that's geometric and they own a bead store and Ebrimah is a contemporary too. Fashion Focus - well know expert on African trade beads. JEWELS 4 (BEADING & geometric and linear designs. Iliana Beading Lesson - counters and gauge. JEWELRY MAKING): McGrath uses flat-shaped beads Marlynn McNutt creates a beautiful combined with chain for a great necklace. necklace using natural elements. Fashion CONTEMPORARY STYLE And last up, Debba Hauppert is our Focus - featured pieces with African style. Today's style - bold and modern with art feature designer with a very new pendant Last up, Iliana McGrath with a wood and influences. First up is Mindy Brooks with a technique. bead bracelet - a great beginner project cuff that combines herringbone stitch and and even adaptable for guys. metallic beads; not only is it contemporary, Item no. : MN05393128 but it really is a work of art. Beading Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : YF05443123 Lesson - all about bead bumpers. Judy Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Belcher is our clay expert with Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Duration : 30 minutes kaleidoscope beads; they look like a piece College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, of contemporary art and each one is Copyright : 2009 College, Adult unique. Fashion Focus - examples of Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009 contemporary design for inspiration. Iliana Price : USD 160.00 McGrath with a unique stone that is really popular today - cat's eye. Last up, another contemporary trend with wire jewelry with BEADS, BAUBLES & guest designer, Mark Larue. JEWELS 4 (BEADING & BEADS, BAUBLES & Item no. : NZ05443126 JEWELRY MAKING): MIX IT JEWELS 4 (BEADING & Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes UP JEWELRY MAKING): BOLD Audience : Junior High, Senior High, How about being a little eclectic and AND SASSY College, Adult mixing not only styles but materials, When you want to be noticed, it's time for Copyright : 2009 techniques and color - anything goes bold and sassy. Bright colors, bold designs Price : USD 160.00 today. Linda Augsburg is first - she's - there's nothing shy about this jewelry. mixing crystal, chain and wire all in one First up, Linda Augsburg has a ring that shimmering bracelet. Beading Lesson - will get you noticed. Beading Lesson - all Hip to Bead book by Katie Hacker and a about jump rings and split rings. Sherry BEADS, BAUBLES & cell phone accessory. Judy Belcher is Serafini has a big and beautiful cuff - with mixing techniques, color and clay - to beading around a center cabochon. JEWELS 4 (BEADING & make wonderful polymer tube bracelets. Fashion Focus - Bright and bold designs. JEWELRY MAKING): Fashion Focus - ways to mix it up while Last up, guest designer Mary Juhasz and having a unifying element. Last up, author her specialty, lampwork beads. EUROPEAN INFLUENCE Jeanne Campbell has some easy ideas for Timeless, traditional, old world - these are achieving different looks with the same Item no. : CA05533124 some of the words to describe European beads. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) jewelry design - plus don't forget Czech Duration : 30 minutes glass and Swarovski - two trademarks of Item no. : MH05443129 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, this style. Debba Hauppert is first, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) College, Adult featuring Swarovski crystal for a dramatic Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 and elegant look. Beading Lesson - setting Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Price : USD 160.00 up your worktable. Mindy Brooks - with an College, Adult elegant cocktail ring - the epitome of style. Copyright : 2009 Fashion Focus - the timeless elegance Price : USD 160.00 and old world style of European jewelry.

BEADS, BAUBLES & Tammy Honaman with a technique, which originated in Europe - wire wrapping. JEWELS 4 (BEADING & BEADS, BAUBLES & Item no. : PZ05533127 JEWELRY MAKING): Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) JEWELS 4 (BEADING & CLASSIC STYLE Duration : 30 minutes JEWELRY MAKING): What never goes out of style and is as Audience : Junior High, Senior High, perfect with jeans as they are with a little College, Adult SIMPLE STYLE black dress? Pearls. Mindy Brooks has Copyright : 2009 Simple techniques, simple design. This is our first design - a classic, but using Price : USD 160.00 a case when less is more; understated right-angle weave it's also a very dramatic jewelry to complement a showy outfit. cuff. Beading Lesson - assembling your Simple as a style has clean lines and jewelry toolbox with the right tools. Iliana limited components plus it may be easy to McGrath uses pearls in unique colors for a BEADS, BAUBLES & create. First up is Linda Augsburg with a tiered necklace. Fashion Focus - flower bracelet that is simple to make but classically styled pieces in some new JEWELS 4 (BEADING & has a very complex look. Beading Lesson materials. Last up, Arbel Shemesh is our JEWELRY MAKING): - finishing leather and suede. Tammy special guest with a lesson on jade - Honaman presents a peyote ring - peyote another truly classic stone. GEOMETRIC AND LINEAR stitch would be considered intricate, but the design is very simplistic. Fashion STYLE Focus - simplicity of design. Then Iliana This style revolves around standard Item no. : NZ05393125 McGrath presents a simple yet elegant shapes - most often we think of squares Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) technique using cording and chain. Last ______10 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk up, Lyn Krucke has simple basics for clay. BEADS, BAUBLES & Item no. : NN05443135 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : CY05533130 JEWELS 4 (BEADING & Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Duration : 30 minutes JEWELRY MAKING): College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, TRENDY STYLE Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Some styles are always there and others Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009 come and go based on trends in clothing Price : USD 160.00 or design; this program features today's trends. Knitting is hot and is turning up in jewelry too; Marlynn McNutt has a trendy BEADS, BAUBLES & fiber necklace. Beading Lesson - making BEADS, BAUBLES & your own toggle. Linda Augsburg has our JEWELS 5 (BEADING & next trend - long and skinny chains with JEWELRY MAKING): JEWELS 4 (BEADING & beads. Fashion Focus - examples of JEWELRY MAKING): current, trendy looks and a few warm BANGLES weather trends. Carol Huber Cypher is our To open the show, Anna Elizabeth Draeger SOPHISTICATED DESIGN special guest and she has another key presents a bangle design made from These designs are often gold and many trend that goes along with yarn - fiber and peyote stitch links by Maiko Kage. Katie times have a little glitz - but only in an felting. Hacker takes a little departure from understated way. Tammy Honaman has a bangles in the Beading Lesson - all about technique to share on adding gold to art Item no. : RB05533133 bling rings. Kristy Walden offers a very clay charms for a sophisticated look. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) unique interpretation of the bangle Beading Lesson - satin finish silver and Duration : 30 minutes bracelet. Katie returns demonstrating a gold. Linda Augsburg creates a beautiful Audience : Junior High, Senior High, different style bangle bracelet, featuring briolette drop necklace. Fashion Focus - College, Adult metal slides on memory wire. The last sophisticated jewelry for a little inspiration. Copyright : 2009 segment features Kevin O'Grady, a Last up it's a great day for techniques - Price : USD 160.00 favorite glass designer, at the Bead Show Don Schneider of Glassworks is going to with his amazing bangles. demonstrate how to make millifiori glass. Item no. : PF05533136 Item no. : DW05393131 BEADS, BAUBLES & Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes JEWELS 4 (BEADING & Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult College, Adult JEWELRY MAKING): Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 VINTAGE STYLE Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 What constitutes vintage? Should it be an antique, does it really need to be old? We take the broadest interpretation and today's designers combine both real BEADS, BAUBLES & BEADS, BAUBLES & vintage pieces and new reproductions. First up is Louise McClure - her creation is JEWELS 5 (BEADING & JEWELS 4 (BEADING & truly multimedia and a combination of old JEWELRY MAKING): JEWELRY MAKING): and new looking elements. Beading Lesson - all about earrings. Linda BEADING TRADITIONAL Augsburg recycles a vintage pin into a Opening the show is Tammy Honaman This style usually revolves around gold, brand new necklace. Fashion Focus - demonstrating beautiful tubular peyote silver and pearls. Traditional and classic buttons and beads for a unique vintage stitch bracelets. The weekly Beading are very similar with an understated look. look. Last up, Debba Hauppert creates Lesson with Katie Hacker features an Another key to traditional is standard timeless designs using crystals. easy way to thread seed beads. Next jewelry types like chokers and opera Anna Elizabeth Draeger demonstrates length. First up is Mindy Brooks, who is Item no. : LG05393134 beaded, decorated vessels from Wendy creating a very traditional jewelry style - a Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Elsworth. Lynn Krucke presents the first of chandelier earring - and gold is the feature Duration : 30 minutes two basic clay lessons. Then it's off to the color, but what's different is the addition of Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Bead Show and an interview with June red. Beading Lesson - all about stretchy College, Adult Huber - her specialty is using small beads cord. Then it's Arbel Shemesh - the color Copyright : 2009 as building blocks to her design. An added is traditional with silver and pearls, but the Price : USD 160.00 bonus is another interview from the trade links are actually chain. Fashion Focus - show with Laura McCabe about her memorable designs all in a traditional style. specialty - peyote stitch. Last up - what could be more traditional than the dazzle of Swarovski crystals. BEADS, BAUBLES & Item no. : WD05393137 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : HM05443132 JEWELS 4 (BEADING & Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Duration : 30 minutes JEWELRY MAKING): College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, WHAT'S YOUR STYLE? Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Take a trip to the Far East, incorporate key Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009 stones, and design simplicity for Asian Price : USD 160.00 influence. First, Stephanie Girdlestone incorporates oriental coins into a dramatic two-tiered piece. Beading Lesson - BEADS, BAUBLES & unusual ways to attach a clasp. Mindy Brooks has a jade medallion with corded JEWELS 5 (BEADING & trim. Fashion Focus - inspiration and JEWELRY MAKING): FIBER, sample Oriental designs. Last up, Iliana McGrath incorporates cinnabar into an FELT AND FABRIC Asian inspired necklace. Marcy Tilton if first up and demonstrates a fabric purse embellished with beads. 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Hacker's Beading Lesson is all about JEWELRY MAKING): METAL College, Adult finishing fiber ends. Julia Gerlach has a Copyright : 2009 Linda Augsburg presents a metal clay bead embroidery project on fabric from Price : USD 160.00 washer bracelet by Lindsay Haedt. The Laurie Marcum, surrounding cabochons Beading Lesson with Katie Hacker is how with beaded leaves and vines. Katie is to choose the right crimp bead or tube. back and uses flat back crystals for a Kristy Walden demonstrates her specialty special jewelry treatment. Kristal Wick, a of metal clay and making an art clay chain. BEADS, BAUBLES & favorite fiber artist, appears in the last Then it's off to the Bead Show and segment from the Bead Show. JEWELS 5 (BEADING & interviews with 2 different designers. First

is a visit with artist Kate McKinnon; then Item no. : MN05443138 JEWELRY MAKING): NEW it's a last look at metal clay with Celie Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Fago. MATERIALS Duration : 30 minutes Linda Augsburg recreates a Jane Konkel Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Item no. : ZD05443141 necklace design using rubber washers. College, Adult Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Katie Hacker in her Bead Lesson has Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes another new idea on how to use rubber Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, tubing. Arbel Shemesh offers a big

College, Adult departure in materials - she explores

Copyright : 2009 Bedouin Crochet. Katie returns with

Price : USD 160.00 Swarovski crystals as her medium, using BEADS, BAUBLES & them in a watch design. The closing segment features Linda at the Bead Show JEWELS 5 (BEADING & interviewing Stephanie Sersich, a JEWELRY MAKING): GLASS lampwork bead artist with some new BEADS, BAUBLES & ideas. In our first segment Anna Elizabeth

Draeger presents a necklace featuring the JEWELS 5 (BEADING & Item no. : FE05443144 art glass bead of Stuart Abelman. Then it's JEWELRY MAKING): MIXED Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) a Beading Lesson with Katie Hacker and Duration : 30 minutes easy removable clasps. Tammy Honaman MEDIA Audience : Junior High, Senior High, incorporates unique glass and dichroic Louise McClure is the first designer; she's College, Adult beads in a necklace. At the Bead Show we here with a mixed media necklace in her Copyright : 2009 visit with Larry Scott - and some truly signature look with found objects. The Price : USD 160.00 amazing glass beads. Gail Crosman weekly Beading Lesson with Katie Hacker

Moore creates the beads and designs for is 3 ways to finish a jewelry piece. Julia one-of-a-kind jewelry, featuring her Gerlach presents a Caren Schwartz spectacular beads. Lastly, it's back to the design - a free form peyote necklace with studio and a visit with Don Schneider for a hardware accents. A new feature for the BEADS, BAUBLES & second feature on making glass beads. show, the Bead Show, will focus on JEWELS 5 (BEADING & designers - today's interview features Item no. : KC05533139 Cynthia Rutledge and her unbelievable JEWELRY MAKING): Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) beaded jewelry. Lastly, Carol Cypher Duration : 30 minutes presents her unique felted jewelry. POLYMER Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Returning guest Judy Belcher dazzles College, Adult Item no. : SN05533142 viewers with her clay creations - today is Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) contemporary rectangular pendants. Katie Price : USD 160.00 Duration : 30 minutes Hacker's Beading Lesson is all about Audience : Junior High, Senior High, sterling silver. Julia Gerlach features College, Adult beads designed by Kim Otterbein. Next is Copyright : 2009 Part 2 of basic clay tips from expert Lynn Krucke. Finally a visit to the Bead Show BEADS, BAUBLES & Price : USD 160.00 with a switch to glass for an interview with JEWELS 5 (BEADING & artist Nancy Geddes.

JEWELRY MAKING): LONG Item no. : YU05533145 N LEAN BEADS, BAUBLES & Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Marcy Tilton opens the show JEWELS 5 (BEADING & Audience : Junior High, Senior High, demonstrating a long and lean necklace of JEWELRY MAKING): College, Adult different shaped turquoise beads. The Copyright : 2009 Beading Lesson with Katie Hacker NATURE Price : USD 160.00 focuses on twisted wire. Linda Augsburg Linda Augsburg introduces a sea charms' recreates a lariat seed bead necklace necklace and earring set designed by designed by Andrea Kolasinki Marcinkus. Shannon Reeves. Katie Hacker's Beading

Katie returns with an opera length design Lesson explains everything a beader featuring crystal. The last segment is off to needs to know about tweezers. Arbel BEADS, BAUBLES & the Bead Show and an interview with artist Shemesh has a special segment about JEWELS 5 (BEADING & and designer Barb Switzer. turquoise - including lots of information about this naturally beautiful stone and JEWELRY MAKING): WIRE Item no. : DH05393140 demonstrating how to make a beautiful Anna Elizabeth Draeger creates a cluster Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) necklace of turquoise components. Trish bangle designed by Jennifer Cook. Katie Duration : 30 minutes McAleer is interviewed at the Bead Show Hacker's Beading Lesson is about the Audience : Junior High, Senior High, while demonstrating a fascinating metal hottest, new jewelry metal - copper - on its College, Adult technique simulating the coils in nature. own or mixed with gold and silver. Tammy Copyright : 2009 During a second interview on the show Honaman demonstrates what she terms Price : USD 160.00 floor, we meet Christy Friesen displaying her "base" bracelet. Katie returns with a her organic, sculptural art beads. crystal necklace with metal accents. The show closes with a segment featuring Item no. : EK05393143 Anne Mitchell at the Bead Show BEADS, BAUBLES & Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) demonstrating the correct way to open Duration : 30 minutes and close jump rings - especially for JEWELS 5 (BEADING & Audience : Junior High, Senior High, making metal jewelry. ______12 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

Item no. : NB05393146 type of beading pattern from Marlynn Tammy Honaman's featured finding is Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) McNutt - using netting around satin cord. chandelier parts. The last color story is Duration : 30 minutes Lastly, the featured findings from Tammy from Mary Hettsmanberger and copper Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Honaman are tubes and bails. painted watercolors. College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Item no. : FH05393149 Item no. : BE05393152 Price : USD 160.00 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult College, Adult BEADS, BAUBLES & Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 JEWELS 5 BEADING &

JEWELRY MAKING): CORDING BEADS, BAUBLES & BEADS, BAUBLES & Linda Augsburg opens the show creating a corded design by Jane Konkel. Katie JEWELS 6 (BEADING & JEWELS 6 (BEADING & Hacker's Beading Lesson focuses on JEWELRY MAKING): CHAIN JEWELRY MAKING): designing with jump rings. Kristy Walden is First up is Linda Augsburg and a scroll link next with a Marlynn McNutt design that CRYSTAL VISION bracelet - we'll be making our own links. features cording and knotting - for a piece First up is Katie Hacker with a double Then it's our Beading Lesson with Katie with lots of texture. Author Jeanne needle weave technique on a crystal Hacker; she'll teach us how to make chain Campbell introduces beaded wedding bracelet. Then Katie is has a lesson on using twisted jump rings. Next is Marlynn designs, not just jewelry. Last up, a visit using pinch bails. Next is Jean Campbell McNutt with a great chain lariat. Then we with Mark Larue at the Bead Show - he with a spring bracelet featuring a favorite have a new special segment with Tammy has a new book and technique to share. stone - peridot. Tammy Honaman's finding Honaman - everything you need to know feature is bead caps and cones. Last up, about the different types of findings - today Item no. : YG05443147 Linda Augsburg has a crystal and pearl is clasps. Then, last up, Katie is back with Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) necklace made with a 2-needle technique. a beaded chain necklace featuring crystals Duration : 30 minutes and crystal connectors. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Item no. : NN05443153

College, Adult Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : PD05443150 Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Duration : 30 minutes College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009

BEADS, BAUBLES & Price : USD 160.00

JEWELS 5 BEADING & JEWELRY MAKING): BEADS, BAUBLES & EARRINGS BEADS, BAUBLES & JEWELS 6 (BEADING & The first segment features a Lea Rose JEWELS 6 (BEADING & JEWELRY MAKING): Nowicki design for 3 different earrings presented by Linda Augsburg. Wire wrap JEWELRY MAKING): CLAY FINDINGS basics is the topic for Katie Hacker's First up, Linda Peterson, our clay expert, Our first guest is Tammy Honaman - Beading Lesson. Louise McClure is next joins us for basic and not so basic clay findings are an all important element of with a chandelier design from one of our techniques. Then Katie Hacker features this bracelet - or is it a necklace? Actually, favorite designers, Marlynn McNutt. Katie the daisy chain stitch on her Beading it's both. Then learn about round peyote in is back and provides a different view of Lesson. Next it's a fascinating look at our Beading Lesson with Katie Hacker. chandelier earrings - using pre-made colorizing clay with pigments, stamps and Next it's Linda Augsburg and a very quick design elements and adding crystals. The foil from Tammy Honaman. And right after, curved tube bracelet - findings are an last stop is the Bead Show and a visit with Tammy is back with a feature on spacer integral part of this piece. Then it's the Charlotte Dixon of Nguni and an bars. Last up, Linda Augsburg shows us weekly findings' feature from Tammy with introduction to many designers from South how to transfer images to clay. head and eye pins. Last up, Katie is back Africa. with 3 ways to use crystal link findings in a Item no. : EG05533151 unique way. Item no. : YW05533148 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : YJ05533154 Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult Duration : 30 minutes College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 College, Adult Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00

BEADS, BAUBLES & BEADS, BAUBLES & JEWELS 6 (BEADING & BEADS, BAUBLES & JEWELS 6 (BEADING & JEWELRY MAKING): COLOR JEWELRY MAKING): JEWELS 6 (BEADING & STORY JEWELRY MAKING): METAL BEADING Up first, Linda Augsburg explores different Up first is Linda Augsburg with a piece that color variations of the same stone in a AND WIRE mimics needlework using the peyote stitch. garnet necklace. Our Beading Lesson with Our first metal design is metal clay made Then Katie Hacker's Bead Lesson follows Katie Hacker is a tutorial on the flat peyote into charms from Tammy Honaman. Then our theme with the right angle weave. Next stitch. Next Sherry Serafini shows a it's on to wire and macrame techniques we have a very unique take on a different gemstone cabochon with a color theme. from Katie Hacker on today's Beading ______13 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

Lesson. Next Linda Augsburg has a wire combining different mediums - pearls, BEADS, BAUBLES & wrapped bracelet. Then it's a lesson on shells, crystals, strung and knotted with earrings from Tammy in our finding feature. cord and ribbon for a mixed media JEWELS 7 (BEADING & Last up, Mary Hettmansberger joins us for extravaganza. Tammy Honaman has our a crystal cone necklace. finding feature and bead tips. Last up, JEWELRY MAKING): we're happy to meet designer Winnie Van BALANCE Item no. : MH05393155 Der Rhyn - she has one set of materials When it comes to jewelry, balance has a Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) but 3 different looks. lot of different meanings; it can be a Duration : 30 minutes balance between sizes of beads or Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Item no. : PW05393158 between styles of components; but, overall, College, Adult Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) it means achieving the right feel between Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes the various elements that make up your Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, design. Our first artist, Linda Augsburg, College, Adult illustrates the concept with a very eclectic Copyright : 2009 mix of beads - everything doesn't have to Price : USD 160.00 be the same to achieve balance. Then BEADS, BAUBLES & today's bead lesson with Katie Hacker is designing with polyester chain. Next, JEWELS 6 (BEADING & Debba Haupert illustrates balance JEWELRY MAKING): BEADS, BAUBLES & between size and color. Then we join Stephanie Eddy at the bead show for a PENDANTS JEWELS 6 (BEADING & lesson on balance by using individual Our first designer on this show is Linda JEWELRY MAKING): pieces joined together. Then it's cell phone Peterson; she's here with techniques for straps on our "Focus on Findings." Last up, making a clay pendant. Then it's our TRENDS author Sherri Haab creates a colorful Beading Lesson with Katie Hacker - how First up, Cathy Jakicic looks in her crystal earring style, featuring balance with bead about trying a seed bead tassel - perfect ball for a fashion forecast based on her size and color. for a pendant. Next Louise McClure joins experience as an editor. Then it's today's us to make a unique pendant. Tammy Beading Lesson with Katie Hacker and a Item no. : SP05443162 Honaman's featured-findings are drops new trendy technique of weaving solid Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) and links. Last up, we have a new guest - rings. Next Jean Campbell has what's hot Duration : 30 minutes Cathy Jakicic; now that you've made some - rings, charms and most of all cuffs. We Audience : Junior High, Senior High, great pendants, she'll teach us how to join Tammy Honaman for a feature on College, Adult optimize a choker with multiple pendants. jump and split rings. Last up, we can't Copyright : 2009 forget crystal when we're talking about Price : USD 160.00 Item no. : AB05443156 trends and Katie has a crystal embellished Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) shell pendant. Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Item no. : GY05533160 BEADS, BAUBLES & College, Adult Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes JEWELS 7 (BEADING & Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult JEWELRY MAKING): Copyright : 2009 BROWN - THE NEW BLACK Price : USD 160.00 Brown is now a basic and combines or BEADS, BAUBLES & accents so many other shades. Linda Augsburg is first with big baubles and JEWELS 6 (BEADING & necklaces in less than one hour. Then JEWELRY MAKING): SEED BEADS, BAUBLES & Katie Hacker has our first beading lesson and how to work with leather. Next it's BEADS JEWELS 6 (BEADING & Linda Peterson and a brown clay pendant Up first is Sherry Serafini with a square JEWELRY MAKING): and beads. Then it's off to a consumer stitch bracelet with fringe. Then Katie show to meet Alethia Donathan and a Hacker's Beading Lesson is all about the VINTAGE AND fascinating braiding technique from Japan. brick stitch. Then it's Linda Augsburg with REPRODUCTIONS Then Katie is back with a new short the ladder stitch and bracelets using feature, called "Focus on Findings," and a Linda Augsburg is our first guest; she's different color variations. Last up, it's lesson on how to use bead bumpers. Last here with a nod to the glamour days and a settings with Tammy Honaman. up, Debba Haupert creates a fashion look jet necklace and bracelet set. Then its time in brown. for Katie Hacker and today's Beading Item no. : VR05533157 Lesson on the herringbone stitch - it's a Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : ZS05533163 design that's been popular for a long time. Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Next Louise McClure joins us; she's going Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Duration : 30 minutes to teach us how to make a mold from College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, vintage pieces. Charms are the topic of Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Tammy Honaman's feature on findings. Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009 Last up, Katie is back with a multi-strand Price : USD 160.00 necklace using chandelier components. -

a vintage and contemporary look all at the

same time.

BEADS, BAUBLES & JEWELS 6 (BEADING & Item no. : AF05393161 BEADS, BAUBLES & Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) JEWELS 7 (BEADING & JEWELRY MAKING): SOFT Duration : 30 minutes AND SILKY Audience : Junior High, Senior High, JEWELRY MAKING): COLOR College, Adult Color is one of the most important design Cathy Jakicic introduces us to silken knots Copyright : 2009 elements and our designers will give tips with an Asian influence. Then it's a fun Price : USD 160.00 for choosing colors and combining shades. look at beaded fringe with Katie Hacker's First up, Stephanie Eddy introduces us to Beading Lesson. Next Marlynn McNutt is seed beads and a unique style for joining back with one of her specialties; she's multiple parts of a piece together. Then ______14 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk our bead tip features silver wire with Katie College, Adult earrings or necklaces or bracelets. But Hacker. Then Anna Elizabeth Draeger Copyright : 2009 how about a belt made from shells from shows us how to blend colors in a Price : USD 160.00 Linda Augsburg? Then it's a jump-start for modified herringbone bracelet. Next it's off your designing, with bead-ready chain to a bead show with ceramic designer from Katie Hacker. Next is Mary Jennifer Heynen. Then our "Focus on Hettmansperger - she's known for metal Findings" features removable and BEADS, BAUBLES & work - but wait until you see how it reusable claps. Last up, Carol Bauer has coordinates with various organic charms an elegant necklace and bracelet featuring JEWELS 7 (BEADING & and beads in a necklace. Then meet color blending on multiple strands. Alison and Tracy Stilwell - the art girls - JEWELRY MAKING): with their unique approach to design and Item no. : TA05393164 LINEAR their latest focus on felt. Next learn how to Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) You may be familiar with the linear look in attach a swivel tie clasp on "Focus on Duration : 30 minutes earrings - straight drops; but today we're Findings." Then Katie is back with a shell Audience : Junior High, Senior High, interpreting that linear look in necklaces bracelet combined with a new element. College, Adult and bracelets too. First up is Mary Copyright : 2009 Hettmansperger and a necklace drop Item no. : ZD05533169 Price : USD 160.00 featuring parallel lines of beads. Then our Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) beading lesson is quick bead stringing Duration : 30 minutes with Katie Hacker. Next it's a totally Audience : Junior High, Senior High, different interpretation of linear with great College, Adult BEADS, BAUBLES & bracelets from Anna Elizabeth Draeger. Copyright : 2009 Then we'll meet designer Joy Thomas - Price : USD 160.00 JEWELS 7 (BEADING & she has an interesting story about how JEWELRY MAKING): she got started. Next learn how to attach a cone on our "Focus on Findings." Last up, ELEGANCE Carol Bauer has a fascinating story about BEADS, BAUBLES & Get out your pearls and crystal because the manufacturing process of Czech seed this show is all about elegance. What's beads. JEWELS 7 (BEADING & new about this look is that you don't have JEWELRY MAKING): to be all dressed up to enjoy elegance. Item no. : JA05393167 First up is Kristal Wick and the "timeless" Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) NOVELTY OR WHIMSICAL elegance of crystal in a watch. Then Katie Duration : 30 minutes Add a little fun to your designing and add a Hacker introduces us to designing with Audience : Junior High, Senior High, touch of whimsy. Heather Lancaster is up cubic zirconium in our beading lesson. College, Adult first with a new approach to jewelry design Then meet author Sherri Haab for a pearl Copyright : 2009 and a crochet bracelet. Then Katie Hacker and crystal treasure. Next we travel to a Price : USD 160.00 shows how to add texture to your beading show to meet Fernando Dasilva - the wire in the beading lesson. Next have keyword for his design style is elegance. some fun when Anna Elizabeth Draeger Then it's bead caps on our "Focus on presents a Carmen Miranda inspired Findings." Last up is Linda Augsburg with BEADS, BAUBLES & design. Mary Hettmansperger is next, in coin pearls for an easy shimmery strand. Milwaukee at a show, with a novel JEWELS 7 (BEADING & approach to metal. Then the "Focus on Item no. : WV05443165 Findings" is decorative head pins. Last up, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) JEWELRY MAKING): Susan Lenart Kazmer inspires us all with Duration : 30 minutes MENSWEAR LOOK her eclectic sense of design. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Think Katherine Hepburn and you think of College, Adult classic silver and gold, and simple designs, Item no. : GU05393170 Copyright : 2009 many times featuring chain. First up, it's Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 Linda Augsburg and a wirework chain Duration : 30 minutes necklace. Then take a look at your toolbox Audience : Junior High, Senior High, with Katie Hacker on today's beading College, Adult lesson. Then author Scott David Plumlee Copyright : 2009 BEADS, BAUBLES & makes a Byzantine chain bracelet set with Price : USD 160.00 stones. Next it's off to the bead show and JEWELS 7 (BEADING & more silver - but this time it's art clay with JEWELRY MAKING): Jackie Truty. Then today's "Focus on Findings" is magnets. Last up, Winnie van BEADS, BAUBLES & JEWELRY WITH MEANING der Rijn is our feature designer. The designs you create can have meaning, JEWELS 7 (BEADING & whether it's actual words, or sentiments on Item no. : DC05443168 JEWELRY MAKING): OVER your beads, or the meaning behind a Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) particular stone or color. First up, Linda Duration : 30 minutes THE TOP Augsburg introduces us to an international Audience : Junior High, Senior High, These ideas are not necessarily difficult - specialty bead with important cultural and College, Adult but the net effect is something that will get historical meaning. Then our beading Copyright : 2009 noticed. First up is crystal and more crystal, lesson with Katie Hacker shows us how to Price : USD 160.00 but this time it's on a purse instead of make multi-strand necklaces the easy way. jewelry. Kristal Wick will show us how to Next Susan Lenart Kazmer is here with add that over-the-top element to all of our her unique talisman jewelry. Then join Lisa clothing and accessories. Then our Niven Kelly at a bead show for a quick BEADS, BAUBLES & beading lesson is way cool watches with technique for stamping words on to metal. Katie Hacker. Next it's amazing earrings Then creative connectors are our "Focus JEWELS 7 (BEADING & with Anna Elizabeth Draeger; crystal and on Findings." Last up, Kristal Wick has a bling really add that over-the-top element. lesson on stones and their meaning. JEWELRY MAKING): Next, meet a fascinating glass artist - NATURAL AND ORGANIC Stuart Abelman, his beads and other Item no. : VT05533166 It's time to get back to nature. Whether pieces are over the top. Then it's a last Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) shells, stones, metal or wood; interesting "Focus on Findings" - earring components. Duration : 30 minutes beads are often the focal point of design. Last up is Stephanie Eddy with Audience : Junior High, Senior High, When you think jewelry - it's usually over-the-top, seed bead creations. ______15 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

Item no. : EF05443171 BEADS, BAUBLES & Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 Duration : 30 minutes JEWELS 7 (BEADING & Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult JEWELRY MAKING): Copyright : 2009 UNCONVENTIONAL OR BEADS, BAUBLES & Price : USD 160.00 ECLECTIC JEWELS 8 (BEADING & Mix things up and try something new, our designers will show you how to add one JEWELRY MAKING): COLOR element to make your pieces stand out. The FAQs of this program include: What BEADS, BAUBLES & First up is Kristal Wick and an interesting colors work together? How can I choose JEWELS 7 (BEADING & mix of crystal and resin. Then our beading colors? Answered by author Margie Deeb. lesson is something we can all use - how What are the basics of peyote stitch? JEWELRY MAKING): to get organized. Next, Linda Augsburg Answered by designer, Katie Hacker. How ROMANCE has an unconventional way to finish a cord can I make my own beads from seed without a clasp. Then it's off to the beads? Answered by editor, Leslie When you want feminine and pretty, consumer show and Lisa Pavelka - clay Rogalski. What are thread cutters and how romantic accessories match that mood. and crystal - a very different combination do you use them? Answered by Katie Chokers and crystal are two elements that of materials. Then it's a new finding on our Hacker. say romance are the features of the first "Focus on Findings," a combination of piece with Katie Hacker crystal are two gem drops and sterling. Last up - our Item no. : NA05443177 elements that say romance are the jewelry gets very unconventional with Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) features of the first piece with. Then Katie Heather Lancaster - and wall art using Duration : 30 minutes is right back with organza and velour, and beads and wire. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, designing with texture on our beading College, Adult lesson. Next crystal are two elements that Item no. : HD05443174 Copyright : 2009 say romance are the features of the first Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 piece with Heather Lancaster Duration : 30 minutes accessorizes our home with beaded Audience : Junior High, Senior High, pillows and a romantic feel. Then it's off to College, Adult the bead show to meet Jill Mackay - she Copyright : 2009 has a new line of custom findings, BEADS, BAUBLES & Price : USD 160.00 featuring crystal. Then it's "Focus on JEWELS 8 (BEADING & Findings" and making bails for pendants and drops. Last up, Anna Elizabeth JEWELRY MAKING):

Draeger uses gemstones to echo the pointed arches of gothic architecture - for BEADS, BAUBLES & COMBINING MATERIALS the best of a very romantic era. The FAQs of this program include: How JEWELS 8 (BEADING & can I mix different types of beads in the Item no. : RH05533172 JEWELRY MAKING): same piece? Answered by editor, Marlene Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Blessing. How do I end a bracelet with Duration : 30 minutes BEADING BASICS stretch cord so it stays finished? Answered Audience : Junior High, Senior High, The FAQs of this program include: How by designer, Katie Hacker. What are the College, Adult can I use the brick stitch in my beading? trends for retro jewelry? Answered by Copyright : 2009 Answered by editor, Leslie Rogalski. How designer, Iliana McGrath. When do you Price : USD 160.00 can I make perfect crimps? Answered by use a bead counter? Answered by Katie designer, Katie Hacker. How can I Hacker. combine different mediums? Answered by designer, Sherri Haab. Lastly, Katie Item no. : SA05533178 returns for our Tool Feature: crimping Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) BEADS, BAUBLES & pliers. Duration : 30 minutes JEWELS 7 (BEADING & Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Item no. : WL05533175 College, Adult JEWELRY MAKING): Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Copyright : 2009 SYMMETRY Duration : 30 minutes Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Symmetry is related to balance, proportion College, Adult and a regular pattern. Scott David Plumlee Copyright : 2009 starts out with Byzantine chain techniques BEADS, BAUBLES & Price : USD 160.00 and creates a beautiful star-shaped JEWELS 8 (BEADING & pendant. Then it's beads-to-go and travel techniques on our beading lesson with JEWELRY MAKING): GLASS

Katie Hacker. Next up, Linda Peterson The FAQs of this program include: How do uses the concept of symmetry to create BEADS, BAUBLES & you use cones and chain on a multi-strand clay focal pendants. Then join us at the JEWELS 8 (BEADING & necklace? Answered by editor, Marlene bead show for an interview with Dawn Blessing. What type of wire do you use for Harbor, a wonderful glass artist. Then it's JEWELRY MAKING): CLAY bead crochet? Answered by designer, how to use a fold-over clasp on "Focus on The FAQs of this program include: How do Katie Hacker. What are dichroic beads? Findings." Last up, two identical bracelets I transfer designs to clay? Answered by Answered by Paula Radke Designs with and perfect symmetry have a double life Donna Kato, designer and clay expert. Kathie Stull. How do I modernize a charm as a choker with Linda Augsburg. When do I use thread vs. wire? Answered bracelet? Answered by Katie Hacker; also by designer, Katie Hacker. How do I create Katie returns for our Tool Feature: wire Item no. : HT05393173 unique pendants? Answered by editor, twister. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Marlene Blessing. Lastly, Katie returns for Duration : 30 minutes our Tool Feature: bead spinner. Item no. : PG05393179 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) College, Adult Item no. : LW05393176 Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Price : USD 160.00 Duration : 30 minutes College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Price : USD 160.00 ______16 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

BEADS, BAUBLES & BEADS, BAUBLES & BEADS, BAUBLES & JEWELS 8 (BEADING & JEWELS 8 (BEADING & JEWELS 8 (BEADING & JEWELRY MAKING): JEWELRY MAKING): METAL JEWELRY MAKING): RINGS INNOVATIVE DESIGNS BASICS The FAQs of this program include: How do you fit varying sizes of beads together? The FAQs of this program include: How The FAQs of this program include: How do Answered by editor, Leslie Rogalski and can I use peyote stitch in a new way? I dress up plain chain? Answered by editor, the swatch ring. How do you match the Answered by editor, Leslie Rogalski. Marlene Blessing What are the right stringing material to crystal? When and why do I use knotting in my alternatives to crimping? Answered by Answered by designer, Katie Hacker. How necklaces? Answered by designer, Katie designer, Katie Hacker. How do you join do I add meaning to my jewelry? Hacker. I'm intimidated by metal clay, what metal to metal? Answered by designer, Answered by designer, Iliana McGrath. are the basics? Answered by art clay Mary Hettmansperger. Lastly, Katie Lastly, Katie returns for our Tool Feature: expert, Jackie Truty. How do I use a returns for our Tool Feature: beading awl. adjustable pliers. knotting tool? Answered by Katie Hacker.

Item no. : HH05443183 Item no. : TR05443186 Item no. : ET05443180 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult College, Adult College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00

BEADS, BAUBLES & BEADS, BAUBLES & BEADS, BAUBLES & JEWELS 8 (BEADING & JEWELS 8 (BEADING & JEWELS 8 (BEADING & JEWELRY MAKING): MORE JEWELRY MAKING): JEWELRY MAKING): METAL TECHNIQUE RENAISSANCE JEWELRY SHORTCUTS The FAQs of this program include: How do The FAQs of this program include: How do The FAQs of this program include: How do I make fringe? Answered by editor, Leslie I make a personalized charm bracelet? I use leftover beads? Answered by editor, Rogalski. How do I finish the ends of a Answered by editor, Marlene Blessing. Marlene Blessing. How do I create the chain necklace? Answered by designer, How do I work with crystals or other sharp look of an illusion necklace? Answered by Katie Hacker. How do I braid metal? stones? Answered by designer, Katie designer, Katie Hacker. What are some Answered by metal clay expert, Jackie Hacker. What is needle felting? Answered ideas for making quick gifts? Answered by Truty. Lastly, Katie returns for our Tool by author, Sherri Haab. Lastly, Katie designer, Mary Hettmansperger. Why do I Feature: jump ring maker. returns for our Tool Feature: bead reamer. need a bead board? Answered by Katie

Hacker. Item no. : NA05533184 Item no. : YY05533187 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : DB05533181 Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Duration : 30 minutes College, Adult College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009

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BEADS, BAUBLES & BEADS, BAUBLES & BEADS, BAUBLES & JEWELS 8 (BEADING & JEWELS 9 (BEADING & JEWELS 8 (BEADING & JEWELRY MAKING): JEWELRY MAKING): JEWELRY MAKING): PENDANTS AND GEM APPETIZING AND MEMORY WIRE TRENDS AFFORDABLE DESIGNS The FAQs of this program include: How do The FAQs of this program include: How Appetizing and affordable designs are on I show off a large or bold pendant without can I make a memory wire project the menu today. We're partnering great overpowering it? Answered by editor, sophisticated? Answered by editor, Leslie designs with inexpensive components. Marlene Blessing. Are there tips for Rogalski. Can you change the size of First up, it's Mark Nelson and a chain mail working with magnetic beads? Answered memory wire? Answered by designer, bracelet created from inexpensive jump by designer, Katie Hacker. What are the Katie Hacker. What are some ideas for rings. Then Katie Hacker teaches us how trends in gemstones? Answered by Katina using leather cuffs? Answered by designer, to make our own chain - a great cost and Forte, registered gemologist. Why do I Mary Hettmansperger. What is a spiral time saver. Next, Leslie Rogalski has a need special needles for beading? maker and how do I use it? Answered by great pair of zig-zag earrings. Learn how Answered by Katie Hacker. Katie Hacker. to turn right angles in flat right-angle

weave to create a zig-zag shape; it's Item no. : SH05393185 Item no. : JB05393182 amazing how such a small and affordable Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) number of crystals can look so rich. Then Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes we visit with Connie Fox at a bead show. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Lastly, Katie Hacker is here, and there's College, Adult College, Adult nothing like peyote stitch to create an Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 elaborate bracelet of seed beads without Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 breaking the bank.

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Audience : Junior High, Senior High, BEADS, BAUBLES & use of an unexpected element. In this College, Adult program we're having fun with some Copyright : 2009 JEWELS 9 (BEADING & trendy materials, luscious Lucite and resin. Price : USD 160.00 First, Mark Nelson introduces us to JEWELRY MAKING): doming resin in a "super" pendant. Then CHEF'S SPECIAL - WINNING it's a viewer question about attaching magnetic clasps, answered by Katie DESIGN BEADS, BAUBLES & Hacker. Next, we cook up a trendy Our beading recipe theme continues in bracelet with Marlene Blessing, featuring JEWELS 9 (BEADING & this program with the chef's special or how Lucite beads as the main ingredient, and to become a winning designer. First up is lots of charms to infuse it with fun. Then JEWELRY MAKING): Mark Nelson to introduce the Saul Bell we travel on location to meet wire and ASYMMETRICAL DESIGNS awards from the judge's perspective. What glass bead artist Sally Stevens of do they look for and how can your designs In our recipes for great beading it's time to Sunroom Studios. Last up, noted designer compete? Then it's Katie Hacker and our choose off the a la carte menu with Paula Radke has a beautiful textured beading lesson on choices for connecting asymmetrical designs and a touch of necklace with special glass beads. multiple strand necklaces. Next, Leslie mismatch. First, Marlene Blessing adds a Rogalski has a key tip for aspiring artists: little design heat to a bracelet design by Item no. : TP05533193 she creates a beautiful starburst pendant making it asymmetrical. Choose focal Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) and shows us how just a small amount of elements with a related style or theme to Duration : 30 minutes high-end ingredients can make a very season your bracelet with surprise. Then Audience : Junior High, Senior High, unique piece. Then we meet designer and Katie Hacker has simple ideas for making College, Adult TV personality Dale Cougar Armstrong for a necklace to display a special art bead on Copyright : 2009 a take on personal style. Last up, designer today's beading lesson. Then it's time for a Price : USD 160.00 Mary Hettmansperger shows us how to little fire and ice from Mark Nelson with use metals to complement unusual beaded earrings. Last up, we meet Steve charms and beads. Rhoades on location in Philadelphia.

Item no. : HB05393191 BEADS, BAUBLES & Item no. : TM05443189 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) JEWELS 9 (BEADING & Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, JEWELRY MAKING): Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult College, Adult MOUTH WATERING Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 METALS Price : USD 160.00 Mouth watering metals are the key

ingredients for thee designs in this

program. Up first is Mark Nelson and a

BEADS, BAUBLES & fabulous bolo tie using reticulated silver. BEADS, BAUBLES & Then it's time for Katie Hacker and the JEWELS 9 (BEADING & JEWELS 9 (BEADING & answer to: "How do I prevent beading wire from breaking?" Next, Marlene Blessing JEWELRY MAKING): BIG JEWELRY MAKING): satisfies your appetite for metal by mixing AND BOLD DESIGNS HEALTHY BEADING copper, brass, silver and more in a Whether you call it eco-friendly, natural or necklace featuring easy wire wrapping Indulge yourself with big and bold designs. environmentally safe, we all want to take techniques. Then it's off to Philadelphia to Big beads make a bold statement. Our first care of ourselves and our world; so the meet Greg Ogden, who offers some recipe features the hot trend of big beads theme of this program is healthy beading. background on making metal components. with Leslie Rogalski. They can be First up is Marlene Blessing to make a Last up is our favorite metal artist, Mary intimidating, but fear not, everyone can delectable necklace with beads made from Hettmansperger, with a recipe for stitching make and wear big beads. Learn how to recycled bottle caps and natural wood. metal. use these beads in smart and Then it's time for Katie Hacker and a fashion-forward designs. Then join expert beading lesson on how to make easy drop Item no. : FN05393194 Katie Hacker for key techniques and earrings. Next, Mark Nelson creates a Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) answers to viewers' questions. We'll learn natural materials' necklace featuring Duration : 30 minutes how to finish the ends of memory wire. leather and semi-precious stones. Then Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Next, it's time for a brand new expert, we visit a bead show and meet Tony College, Adult Mark Nelson, who will be joining us in this Shafton on location with his river stone Copyright : 2009 series with the recipes and ingredients for beads. Last up, Mary Hettmansperger Price : USD 160.00 bringing your jewelry making to the next makes a coiled pine needle pendant. level. Today, make large hoop earrings for a bold statement, featuring wire wrapping Item no. : MA05443192 as the key technique. Then we're on Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) location with designer Pam Brown. Finally, BEADS, BAUBLES & Duration : 30 minutes Katie brings you a project with a unique Audience : Junior High, Senior High, JEWELS 9 (BEADING & accessory. You'll never lose your beads College, Adult again, whatever the size - but especially JEWELRY MAKING): Copyright : 2009 on this graduated necklace. Price : USD 160.00 POLYMER AND CLAY DU

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Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Polymer and clay du jour is this show's

Duration : 30 minutes theme; they are versatile mediums that Audience : Junior High, Senior High, BEADS, BAUBLES & allow you to create your own beads. Our College, Adult JEWELS 9 (BEADING & menu includes a bronze clay pendant from Copyright : 2009 Mark Nelson; this is probably the first time Price : USD 160.00 JEWELRY MAKING): you've ever seen bronze clay. Then it's Katie Hacker and answers on a viewer's LUSCIOUS LUCITE AND basic tool question. Next, Marlene RESIN Blessing creates a beautiful two-strand The secret to great food and great jewelry necklace with polymer beads plus pearls is great ingredients and sometimes the and crystals; this simple stringing project ______18 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk shows how polymer can add an artistic Junior High, Senior High, BEADS, BAUBLES & edge to a glamorous piece. Finally, we College, Adult catch up with some wonderful designers Copyright : 2009 JEWELS 9 (BEADING & on location at the bead show; first with Price : USD 160.00 Dee Perry and Karen Jones and then with JEWELRY MAKING): Grace Ma. VINTAGE OR CLASSIC

DESIGN Item no. : YC05443195 BEADS, BAUBLES & Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Classic or tried and true recipes are the Duration : 30 minutes JEWELS 9 (BEADING & main stay of most cooks' repertoire; the Audience : Junior High, Senior High, same is true for beading. We all have a College, Adult JEWELRY MAKING): TASTY favorite "go to" look, so this show is about Copyright : 2009 TEXTURED METAL vintage or classic design. Everything old is fresh again as Marlene Blessing shows Price : USD 160.00 Tasty textured metal is the focus of this you how to create a trendy but timeless show. Metal work requires different tools necklace with retro style and a fashion and exposes you to new techniques you edge; the ingredients are pearls, seed might not have tried before. Mark Nelson beads, and metal with a patina. Next it's a starts us out with micro-fold earrings and a BEADS, BAUBLES & beading lesson with Katie Hacker and lesson on creating textures. Then it's answers to a viewer's question on beading JEWELS 9 (BEADING & answers to viewers' questions with Katie thread: why do you need special threads? Hacker and how to use crimp covers. Next, JEWELRY MAKING): Then it's time for Mark Nelson, who has a Marlene Blessing is here and shows us really interesting component that links REMAKING, RECYCLING how to create extra richness in your together for a modern take on a vintage jewelry by pairing textured metal rings into AND REMIXING look. Last up, we meet jewelry designer a focal flair on a sassy chain necklace. What's cooking without leftovers? We're Deb Huber on location in Philadelphia. Next it's a visit to the bead show with Saki focusing on remaking, recycling and Silver for some unique findings. Last up, remixing using leftover beads and supplies. Item no. : DZ05393200 Tami Morrison, a Houston retailer, has the Don't be afraid to take an older piece apart Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) next steps in transferring designs to metal and reuse those beads in something new. Duration : 30 minutes clay. First up is Leslie Rogalski, who hates Audience : Junior High, Senior High, running out of beads in the middle of a College, Adult Item no. : HF05443198 project, but she shows us a way to use the Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) incomplete sections of spiral peyote to Price : USD 160.00 Duration : 30 minutes make a finished piece. Next is our beading Audience : Junior High, Senior High, question; also Katie Hacker has ideas on College, Adult how to organize seed bead projects. Then Copyright : 2009 Mark Nelson is here with a bracelet Price : USD 160.00 BEGINNING ARTISTS: featuring a recycled, metal tape measure.

Then it's off to a bead show to visit with CARTOONING AND designer Marsha Neal. Last up, it's Glynna

White, a Houston retailer, who shows how CARICATURE 1 - DRAWING to photo transfers to metal clay using BEADS, BAUBLES & HEADS recycled artwork. JEWELS 9 (BEADING & Some say drawing portraits is the most difficult thing for an artist to learn. One Item no. : FA05533196 JEWELRY MAKING): TASTY thing is for certain, before you try, you Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) TIDBITS - GREAT GIFTS need to know some basic steps to follow. Duration : 30 minutes In this program Walt Owen shows viewers Tasty tidbits or great gift giving ideas is the Audience : Junior High, Senior High, how to create a caricature from one simple theme for this program. The prerequisites College, Adult line; then he draws a series of heads to for each project are: easy to make, fast, Copyright : 2009 reveal "tricks of the trade," which will help good for making multiples, and, most of all, Price : USD 160.00 beginning artists visualize the true "art" of great design style. Leslie Rogalski is first cartooning. with earrings at their easiest - two simple

techniques turn a pair of beads into Review earrings in less than a minute. Then it's z "Highly Recommended. The key to BEADS, BAUBLES & viewers' questions with Katie Hacker and learning any skill is to start with the how to organize your workspace. Next up, JEWELS 9 (BEADING & basics, which is what makes these it's more earrings with Mark Nelson: these two how-to programs easy to JEWELRY MAKING): RINGS are five-minute earrings using metal clay. recommend. Walt Owen is an You'll want to be sure to keep at least one FINGER FOODS accomplished artist with a pair for yourself! Then it's time to go on Rings - or finger foods - are a fun, fashion background in education and an location with glass artist Barb Swift in accessory and small enough that we're not overall pleasant manner; plus he's Philadelphia. Last up, Katina Forte has a afraid to be a little different. Mark Nelson is devised methods of teaching the tutorial on diamonds. our first designer with a very geometric basics of drawing that makes learning design that uses only two materials; he these skills doable and enjoyable, Item no. : WJ05533199 calls them squiggle rings. Then today's which is certain to build one's Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) beading question is: "What do you do with confidence and self-esteem after Duration : 30 minutes crinkled beading wire?" Katie Hacker has following the steps."" -National Media Audience : Junior High, Senior High, the answer. Next, Leslie Rogalski is here Review College, Adult with simple, peyote-stitch striped rings; Copyright : 2009 they're perfect for beginners and almost Item no. : AL05443201 Price : USD 160.00 instant gratification for fans of peyote. Format : DVD

Then meet both Noel Yovovich and Duration : 21 minutes

Meredith Arnold as we travel on location to Audience : Primary, Intermediate,

Philadelphia and a bead show. Junior High

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BEGINNING ARTISTS: HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR CARTOONING AND KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - CARICATURE 2 - DRAWING AT SCHOOL IN THE CLASSROOM FIGURES In this skills-for-a-lifetime program we In this series it's all about skills for life, and head to school. Learning is happening all let's face it a big part of your day is spent Almost everyone has resorted to drawing over school but first we need to take care in school sitting at your desk; so today we stick figures when attempting to draw a of the basics. First up is a locker organizer; have some personal accessories for your human form, and that's not a bad start. In keeping your supplies together is a skill we desk, you can even use them at home. this program Walt Owen continues his all need every day. Then we meet Prudy First is a mailbox - send notes back and cartooning workshop as he shows viewers Vannier with a treasure box project for forth to your friends or create a message how easy it is to draw figures using his charity. Next it's book covers to keep those center for your class. Then it's a basic trademarked "14-point system," a series of schoolbooks clean and cared for and lesson on clay and making a pendant. specially-placed dots which, when personalized. Finally, personalize your Next it's marbleizing paper for cards and connected, create a whole character. pencils with portrait toppers. tags or place cards for your desk. Last up, Produced by Chip Taylor. make a desk blotter and make sure

Item no. : DW05533241 everyone knows this is your desk! Item no. : PA05533202 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : PC05533244 Duration : 42 minutes Audience : Children's Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Children's Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Children's Price : USD 210.00 Copyright : 2009

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HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR AFTER SCHOOL GOING GREEN KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - Our first skill for life is: knowing the It's 3 pm you, just got home from school, importance of protecting and preserving IN THE KITCHEN it's too early to start homework, your the environment by going green! We're Everyone needs to eat; so it's off to the friends aren't home and there's nothing to learning about recycling and reusing kitchen. First, meet Angie Thayer and do; Hands On to the rescue with some things we already have. Our first project is learn a lesson on measuring all sorts of great ideas for after school. First, combine a set of lanterns made from recycled ingredients. Then it's a little kitchen nature with the kitchen for a fun plastic cups - perfect for outdoors or at a decorating with a new technique called iris paperweight or decoration. We've got a party. Next Prudy Vannier introduces us to folding - one that's applicable to lots of new skill for you to learn after school and using our crafting for charity with a project designs. Then Angie is back with a recipe that's sewing on a machine. Then we've making birdhouses for our feathered that uses all of your measuring skills. Last got a great decor project - for a party, room friends. Then it's cards that can be planted up, make your own herb garden for the decoration or even outdoors - paper with handmade paper. Last up, store your kitchen window sill. lanterns are easy and fun. Last up, let's treasures in a stained glass design box take those machine skills and try a sewing made from recycled cardboard. Item no. : WM05393245 project. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned)

Item no. : TH05393242 Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : DH05393239 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Children's Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Children's Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Children's Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00

HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR

HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - ON THE ROAD AT HOME This program comes to the rescue for IN MATH CLASS going on the road with some great ideas There is no place like home - and no place Whether math is your most favorite or for traveling - whether by car, train or better to make great crafts and learn new least favorite subject, in this program we plane. So on that next long car ride how skills. Our first Hands On project in this have some ideas that will make math class about bringing along a magnetic game program is a rolled paper frame - so get and math skills more fun. First, the game and carrying case. Then we have a new out those family pictures. Then learn a of dominoes is a fun way to learn numbers. life skill to share with Kathleen Sams, who new skill guaranteed to be one that's Then put your math and counting skills to has previously shown us beginning useful for your whole life and that's hand good use and learn knitting. Kathleen crochet; this time she takes it one step sewing - next time you have a button fall Sams is back with next steps in knitting. further with different stitches. Then we off you'll be ready. Then Prudy Vannier is Then we create a calendar that fits right on have a fortune-teller - you may have seen back - the saying is that charity begins at your math notebook. Last up, Kathleen is something like this before, but here's a home and this pillowcase project is a back with a project using your newfound new spin and a great game for in the car. perfect way to help kids in shelters. Last math and knitting skills. Last up, Kathleen has a hat project to use up, we have a project that uses your your newfound crochet skills. And did we newfound sewing skills - a cell phone Item no. : KB05443243 mention that crocheting is a great travel case. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) craft?

Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : PA05443240 Audience : Children's Item no. : FM05443246 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Price : USD 160.00 Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Primary, College Audience : Children's Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 ______20 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - REMEMBER WHEN - ON VACATION WITH FRIENDS HERITAGE This program's about going on vacation Friends are one of the most important Our special guest is Wendy Smedley of and we hope you can join us. One basic parts of life and being a good friend is Simple Scrapbooks, whose feature is the lesson is that it's important to remember something everyone needs to learn. This concept of remembering important people and keep memories of fun events in your program's crafts all center on friendship. and events from our past. Next Laurie life. Our first project is a travel album for First, show your friends you care with a Smith is here with our beginner segments; pictures and mementos. Next it's the get well, or just a friendship photo gift. plus Step 2 in building an album: basics of making lanyards and working Then it's a lesson on pens - your projects developing a color scheme. Then Nancy with plastic lacing. Then Prudy Vannier is will be more successful if you match your Hill has a feature project using embossing back with another charitable project tools to the surface. Next it's a window and chalk. Next is making digital ribbon making postcards for members of the card for any occasion you want to let your with Barbra Kotsos. Last up, Beth Madland military who are far from home. Last up, friends know you care. Last up, it's joins us for another embossed look and a identify and personalize your backpack or bracelets for each of your friends. wedding heritage photo. suitcase with a lanyard key chain. Item no. : TR05533250 Item no. : PR05393302 Item no. : GA05533247 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Children's Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Children's Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00

HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - YOUR ROOM REMEMBER WHEN - HIGH OUTDOORS When it comes to learning skills for life, SCHOOL We're heading outside; in our quest for one of the things you always hear about is This program is all about remembering lifelong skills it's good to spend time with taking of your space, or as it's more high school. Our first guest is Melanie nature. First, we create a sit-upon for commonly known - cleaning your room. In Bauer with a layout sure to inspire. Then around the campfire or just quiet time this program we have some ideas for your Step 3 of building an album with our outside enjoying nature. Then it's a room. First, keep your jewelry organized beginner's expert Laurie Smith: basic birdhouse for our feathered friends; this is and untangled; and if you're a boy - make layouts. Next it's Sarah Neumann and a skill that can provide lots of enjoyment a great gift for mom. Then a bulletin board fabulous folds. Then it's word art and our for years to come. Next we take what for your room to keep track of dates, digital segment with Barbara Kotsos. Last we've learned about watercolors one step appointments, and pictures - we have 2 up is Nancy Hill with a great project, further with the addition of salt and create versions. Last up, it's an instant style featuring ribbon in a new way. a 3D lizard. Last up, we feature clay in a update with clay knobs for dressers and tile project using embossed images from desks. Item no. : ZW05443303 nature. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : WC05393251 Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : TA05393248 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes College, Adult Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Children's Copyright : 2009 Audience : Children's Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00

SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10:

SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: REMEMBER WHEN - MORE HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR REMEMBER WHEN - BACK KIDS 11: SKILLS FOR LIFE - THAN MEMORIES TO BASICS How has scrapbooking changed? Heritage SPORTS Julie Stephani from HomeArts magazine scrapbooking was a big part of the roots of On our last program on skills for life we helps us get back to basics; she takes our scrapbooking series; so Julie Stephani, feature a favorite activity: sports. Today is scrapbook to its simplest level with basic our guest host, starts out with a family tree all about making things to celebrate your layouts for 1-5 pictures. Then Laurie Smith design. Then Laurie Smith starts a 6-Step favorite sport. First up, we're decorating - our beginner expert - has Step 4 of lesson just for beginners; over 6 shows in socks with your name, team logo or building your first album: journaling. Next, the series she's going to build a beginner whatever you like. Then Prudy Vannier Suzanne Walker joins us for making your album - Step 1: choosing the album. Next has another charitable project: learning to own embellishments. Then its basics with it's a ribbon project - ribbon used to be help those less fortunate is a true life-skill. a digital twist - easy photo books using only for hair bows and dress up - but now Next we're making sports charms for your your computer. Last up, we have a new it's on our pages too. Up next, do you like shoes. Then it's a sports wallet for your type of album from Deja Views - to doodle? You'll love digital doodling with gym bag, which is perfect for keeping your incorporating pockets and hinges. Barbara Kotsos. Last up, it's one of our ID or emergency cash. Last up, it's a favorite tools - decorative edge scissors watercolor pennant featuring your favorite Item no. : GF05533301 are always a basic. team. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : PH05533304 Item no. : NK05443249 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) College, Adult Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Children's Price : USD 160.00 College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 ______21 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: REMEMBER WHEN - OUR REMEMBER WHEN - THE REMEMBER WHEN - KIDS AND SPORTS 60S AND THE WEDDINGS This program's focus is on remembering RETRO-TREND (CC) Scrapbooking is all about preserving our kids and sports, and our special guest memories and by remembering some of Take a step back in time and remember host is designer Heather Lancaster. First the big and small moments of our lives; the 60s, the era of flower power and bold is a soccer page from Fiskars. Sports are this program remembers weddings - your color. First, Stacy Croninger is our guest all about shapes - like round baseballs and own, your parents, your friends. First up is host showing us a great card with leather soccer balls - and shapes are what make Ginger Adams - with a watering can fringe to match that favorite jacket from the this page. Then Barbara Kotsos goes project for a wedding, shower and so 60s.Then Barbara Kotsos has a digital skating and surfing on our digital segment. many other occasions. Next is the 5th Step segment, how to colorize your Next, Ginger Edwards has a keychain rack of the beginner's idea from Laurie Smith embellishments. Next Nancy Martines to personalize for kids and adults. Then, as she builds an album: titles and stickers. joins us for a mini-clipboard album. Then how about when kids do the scrapbooking? Next is Melanie Bauer with a Heidi Grace we'll show you just how to make We have some sports' pages for kids to design. Then it's Barbara Kotsos with retro-letters. Last up, it's Nancy Hill and a create themselves. Last up it's a scanner tips. Last up, Julie McGuffee and unique idea using cans. handmade album from Deja Views. Sarah Neumann offer scrapbook projects

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SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: REMEMBER WHEN - REMEMBER WHEN - THE SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: REMEMBERING KIDS WERE LITTLE REMEMBER WHEN - WHEN Suzanne Walker is first with a page that LIFE WAS SIMPLER VACATIONS features some of her favorite kids. Next it's Wendy Smedley of Simple Scrapbooks is This program looks at remembering kids camp and digital scrapbooking with here as our guest host to help us with vacations, offering a number of excellent Barbara Kotsos. Then it's Stacy Caron and today's topic - when life was simpler; she techniques. First up, our special guest a technique using rubber stamps and dies. offers some "simple" ideas. Then Barbara host Suzanne Walker has memories of a Next it's a matchbook-style album for the Kotsos keeps it simple with quick digital very special vacation. Then it's resizing little ones - but adults love it too! And, last matting tips. Next Melanie Bauer presents photos on our digital segment with up, Nancy Hill is here with a little Chip another very simple project. Then Heather Barbara Kotsos. Next, Heather Lancaster Chatter - tune in and find out just what we Lancaster offers some really simple and is back with a memory-tin album designed mean. unique ideas too. Last up, Julie McGuffee for a vacation. And, last up, Nancy Hill has a project from Deja Views - an stitches up a page. Item no. : PA05443309 incredible envelope album technique. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned)

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REMEMBER WHEN - SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 10: TRADITIONAL CRAFT REMEMBER WHEN - REMEMBER WHEN - WHEN SPECIAL DAYS TECHNIQUES Our guest host is Leslie Ayres of THEY WERE BABIES This program focuses on lots of special Scrapbook Answers, who helps us This program's topic is babies and our days. Our special guest host, Stacy rediscover traditional craft techniques guest host is Leslie Ayres of Scrapbook Croninger of Paper Crafts, has some presenting a glass etching technique. Answers who is here with an adorable Sweet 16 birthday cards. Next a few of the Then Barbara Kotsos teaches us about baby page and a technique for making newest scrapbook titles. Then Stacy making using of your computer. Stacy plush pillows. Then it's Step 6 of Laurie Caron has a foil technique for any special Caron joins us with a project featuring Smith's beginner ideas for her album: day - metal makes a great award. Then it's paint and dies in a very new way. Then adhesives. Next, Heather Lancaster is our digital segment and photo journaling decoupage is back, better than ever, with here with a dimensional frame perfect for with Barbara Kotsos. Last up, Nancy Nancy Hill. And, last up, Suzanne Walker baby photos. Then it's silhouetting from Martines has a matchbook mini-album. has one last crafty technique on a Barbara Kotsos - a fascinating technique

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Copyright : 2009 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: Price : USD 160.00 EMBELLISHMENTS METAL AND METALLICS Stacy Julian brings us back to the basics Stacy Julian has a tip on people and with how to make scrapbooking personal. relationships. Then Julie Stephani shows SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: Next, Sara Naumann is here with all about how to make your own metallic paper. distressing and altering. Then it's time to Next, Barbara Kotsos has a digital tip on 3D match fonts to the theme page with digital repurposing your photos. Stacey Caron Stacy Julian has the big picture and using tips from Barbara Kotsos. Sonja Cox is embosses and cuts metal in just a few memory triggers in your scrapbooking. here with a technique to alter chipboard. short steps. On our second digital tip Linda Then Julie Stephani features Linda Sattgast shows us a variation on the Sattgast shows how to make a metal scrapbooking on 3D objects like blocks, postage stamp technique, using any frame digitally. Last up - how to create a purses and even lampshades. Next, shape. Last of all, we've got ways to alter metallic deckle edge; plus a few other tips. Barbara Kotsos has a digital segment with any surface - metal, plastic, glass and, of a baby theme. Jinger Adams creates a course, paper. Item no. : NT05393320 unique shadow box. Linda Sattgast shares Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) another software technique for creating Item no. : JM05393317 Duration : 30 minutes theme pages. Last up, Amy Pilkington Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Junior High, Senior High, creates a lasting impression. Duration : 30 minutes College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Copyright : 2009 Item no. : JE05393314 College, Adult Price : USD 160.00 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: SMALL, SMALLER,

FINISHES SMALLEST Stacy Julian's big picture message is It's all about visual communication with colorful you. Heather Lancaster starts big Stacy Julian. Then Sonja Cox introduces SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: with a journal, but scales down to a note different ways to use white core cardstock. pad and sticky note pad - all in the same ALBUMS Next it's garden theme templates - the design. Barbara Kotsos has a digital tip on Stacy Julian shows how to make a layout is all done for you with Barbara how to fade part of a photo to create a scrapbook quick and easy by working Kotsos. Ann Cabrera shows how to space for journaling. Guest Kristine ahead of time. Wendy Smedley has album transfer images using a hot laminator. Widtfeldt creates mini-card albums. Then solutions. Then we visit ancestry.com with Linda Sattgast is next creating a sepia it's more digital scrapbooking with Linda Barbara Kotsos. Next it's paper flowers finish on photos and pages using a Sattgast and adding a touch of color with with Kristine Widtfeldt - one flower, lots of computer. Last up, it's a glaze finish using your computer. Our last small project is a different colors. Linda Sattgast creates a rubber stamps and no embossing powder tag, card and mini-album, all featuring mini-album using a computer and existing or heat. outdoor patterns. pages. Last up. it's a plastic album cover and easy decorating. Item no. : HK05443318

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SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: LETTERS SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: Stacy Julian discusses the big picture on SPARKLE AND GLITTER BEGINNERS scrapbooking with an idea on celebrating Stacy Julian joins the show with inspiration Stacy Julian introduces a theory on color your personality. Then Wendy Smedley behind why we scrapbook - the concept is organization. Then Katie Nugent and has a feature letter project. Next, Barbara how to keep it simple. Melissa Inman Corrie Risting join us with an easy Kotsos shows how to use text or even shows how to add glitter to chipboard. beginner technique using stencils. Next, photos as background paper. Our Barbara Kotsos is here this season with Barbara Kotsos talks about themes as scrapbooking is off the page with Heather digital scrapbook ideas; her first segment they relate to digital pages. Sara Naumann Lancaster and a fantastic personalized tin is using index sheet prints in your pages. shows how to use coordinated materials to purse. Linda Sattgast creates a monogram; Wendy Hudnall features clear stamps and take the guesswork out of planning a page. then Amy Pilkington has one last letter patterned paper on a page. Linda Sattgast Linda Sattgast has a beginner technique idea. has the show's second digital project, that makes pages stand out - making them showing how to turn a photo into a pencil monochromatic. Last up, Jinger Adams Item no. : CR05533319 drawing. Last up, we finish up with how to has a perfect first project - an ABC Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) make your own custom glitter paper. pre-school book. Duration : 30 minutes

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SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: what she calls, "the digital triage." Then your hand with a decorative brush - on the Ann Cabrera demonstrates a mini book - a computer, of course, with Linda Sattgast. STAMPING very new and trendy one. Barbara Kotsos Next create flowers with Sara Naumann. Stacy Julian gets us started in this has the cure for writer's block. Next it's the Then continue that outdoor theme with program by making a plan and sticking to hot technique of doodling. Linda Sattgast Barbara Kotsos and outdoor templates. it with the big picture. Stacy Croninger shows how to fix color cast. Last up, Katie Finally, it's back to school with a page presents a feature stamping project - a Nugent and Corrie Risting show us glaze featuring "dec edges" plus quite a few "Miss U" card. The digital segment is how and pastel techniques. other techniques. to make fake postage stamps - not for mailing but for our pages! Then we learn Item no. : HZ05393326 Item no. : TF05393329 how to stamp on acetate and other Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD surfaces. Linda Sattgast uses software for Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes cropping to enlarge - not reduce. Last up, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Sonja Cox features wildlife stamps. College, Adult College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Item no. : PJ05393323 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 BLACK AND WHITE - THE FAMILIES - MAKE A ABSENCE OF COLOR IS A CONNECTION TO YOUR

REFRESHING CHANGE FAMILY THROUGH SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: First it's inspiration time and silly SCRAPBOOKING silhouettes with Stacy Julian. Then it's First, Stacy Julian creates a library of STICKERS creating your own embellishments on the memories. Then Julie Stephani links First up, it's inspiration time and the big computer. Next Barbara Kotsos has relationship words to photos. Next Barbara picture on sharing pictures with Stacy photos in both b/w and color, but they turn Kotsos has cards and tags with family Julian. Then Melissa Inman has more into their own mini book. Then meet April themes. Then April Oakes returns with sticker fun and how to create frames and Oakes and changing layouts from color to easy gift-giving ideas for your family. Next shapes from word strip stickers. Barbara b/w. Next we play silhouette tag with Linda it's a Circle of Love with Linda Sattgast. Kotsos shows how to create an Andy Sattgast and her computer. Last up - we And, finally, paper crafts for baby - one of Warhol effect with your computer. Next it's have quite a bit of white, but also other the most important family members. more digital with Wendy Hudnall and a pastels on wedding paper crafts. digital album. Linda Sattgast continues the Item no. : NF05443330 trend with software and how to use a "high Item no. : NK05443327 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) pass filter" - it sounds technical, but is so Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes easy. Last up, we have the newest look in Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, stickers. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Item no. : NG05443324 Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00

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College, Adult Copyright : 2009 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: Price : USD 160.00 BOOKS - BECOME YOUR FELT AND FLOCKING - TODAY'S TRENDS ON OWN SCRAPBOOK AUTHOR Stacy Julian has books that start out with TEXTURE SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 11: ready-made elements. Then Renee Stacy Julian gets us started with her TEXTURE Pearson explores the topic of books and thoughts on the theme "no photos albums from a digital standpoint. Then Stacy Julian starts us out with her concept required." Then Michele Rubin has a create a picture-book cutout with Linda of "having fun" scrapbooking. Then Stacy project featuring felt flowers for a Sattgast. Next Iliana McGrath makes the Croninger shows more textured pages. patchwork effect. On our digital segment perfect stamped page for your next album. Next is summer vacation time with Barbara Kotsos scans felt and then uses And kids can scrapbook too with Barbara Barbara Kotsos and digital scrapbooking. the cookie cutter to make her own Kotsos. Last up - it's a clear album. Kristine Widtfeldt has a lesson on creating embellishments. Then it's how to make your own textured paper. Linda Sattgast your own felt embellishments. Next it's Item no. : PC05533328 teaches us how to use the digital cookie software with Linda Sattgast and making Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) cutter. Last up is one more look at creating photo edges. Last up - get ready for a Duration : 30 minutes the look of texture in a unique way. parade and a great page featuring surface Audience : Junior High, Senior High, embellishment. College, Adult Item no. : TH05533325 Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : LC05533331 Price : USD 160.00 Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned)

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SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: HOME DEC - OFF THE SIMPLE AND DOABLE - WILD AND CRAZY - NEW PAGES AND INTO OUR TAKE A STEP BACK AND IDEAS AND HOUSE REMEMBER WHY YOU EMBELLISHMENTS WITH A Stacy Julian creates kids' doorframes. SCRAPBOOK "WILD" THEME Then Stacy Croninger makes a great Stacy Julian puts our theory to the test with Stacy Julian plays with proportion on our frame for any room. Next create photo album scrapbooking. Then Linda first segment. Then Julie Stephani has one-of-a-kind photo mats with Linda Sattgast introduces us to reusable pages - some wild subjects - wild animals, wild Sattgast. Then Dana Smith creates a what could be simpler. Then Stacy is back flowers and wild activities. Then it's Linda mosaic frame using paper. Next learn what and the theme is letting go of perfection. Sattgast and blend-mode madness on her foofing means - do you have any ideas? Next we have books that are both simple computer. Next Iliana McGrath layers Last up it's "home dec" in a whole new and doable. Then eliminate color cast with rubber stamps for a new technique and a way. Barbara Kotsos. Last up - it's bags, tags great page. Then it's into the funhouse and

and cards - the easy way - we start out crazy captions for your photos from Item no. : HA05393332 with pre-made! Barbara Kotsos. Last up - it's a wild Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) technique to make your own background Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : HW05393335 paper. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) College, Adult Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : EH05393338 Copyright : 2009 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 College, Adult Duration : 30 minutes

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Copyright : 2009 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: Price : USD 160.00 JOURNALING - NEW WAYS SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: TO WRITE! First up is Stacy Julian and listening to SIMPLICITY - TIME SAVING SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: yourself talk. Then Heidi Harrelson, a TIPS FOR SCRAPBOOKERS handwriting expert, is here to tell us the WOMEN AND First, it's Stacy Julian and every-day hidden messages in our writing. Barbara expressions. Then Wendy Smedley has CONNECTIONS - Kotsos has today's digital feature and a the simple way to time saving layouts new way to use software. Next Wendy FRIENDSHIPS AND WHY based on a scheme. Then join Barbara Smedley has playful ways to hand journal. Kotsos to learn how to use layered Lastly, on our second digital tip, Linda WE SCRAPBOOK templates - computer scrapbook is the Sattgast introduces us to crystal clear First, Stacy Julian joins us weekly with the ultimate time saver. Next Shelly Stokes type. inspiration behind why we scrapbook. has a quicker and cleaner way to stencil Then Stacy Croninger has a gift-card with paint sticks. Lastly it's the crop top Item no. : SP05443333 holder with words of encouragement. On tool with Linda Sattgast on her computer. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) the first of our digital segments, Barbara

Duration : 30 minutes Kotsos is here with printing multiple photos Item no. : KV05443336 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, on one page. Next we have a special Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) College, Adult guest, Shiela Ryman, who represents Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 "Live Your Life, Not Your MS" Scrapbook Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Price : USD 160.00 Club, and had ideas for scrapbooking for College, Adult people with disabilities. Last is Linda Copyright : 2009 Sattgast with our second digital project Price : USD 160.00 and how to add outlines to type.

SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: Item no. : RH05443339 OLD IS NEW - DIGITAL Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 12: Duration : 30 minutes SCRAPBOOKING AND Audience : Junior High, Senior High, OTHER NEW IDEAS UNUSUAL CARDS - HOW TO College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Stacy Julian talks about capturing change EXPRESS JUST THE RIGHT Price : USD 160.00 and growth on our first segment. Then SENTIMENT Renee Pearson has more computer ideas. Stacy Julian has a greeting card Then it's how to print a layout in custom inspiration notebook. Then cut and sizes with Barbara Kotsos. Next add a little SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: embellish a refrigerator magnet frame pizzazz with Sara Naumann and stitching using a digital craft cutter. Next Linda FAMILY on your pages - what could be newer? Sattgast shows us a versatile card Family holds our life and scrapbooking Then everything old is new again with template. Then Dana Smith creates together. Author Barbara Smith features Linda Sattgast and heritage memorabilia. unique cards with magnetic closures. Last projects from her book, Baby Face. Then Last up - it's a new use for color and paint. up - it's creative templates with Barbara Wendy Smedley has layouts about

Kotsos. relationships and connections in your Item no. : NS05533334 family. Last up, it's off to the Pumpkin Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : HJ05533337 Patch with an adorable page of a favorite Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) family member. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Duration : 30 minutes College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Item no. : HP05533340 Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes

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SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: cameras. Renee Pearson is going to help Audience : Junior High, Senior High, us get comfortable with a pen tablet. Then College, Adult FAVORITE CHILDHOOD Christina Treu has a new favorite mini Copyright : 2009 machine - a voice recorder for your Price : USD 160.00 MEMORIES albums. Then it's cutting machines to Remember your childhood or chronicle the create stencils. days that go by so fast with your children. Michele Snyder has a page entitled "I Love Item no. : YT05393344 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: Nature," combining journaling from the Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) "kids" with pictures. Next it's the digital Duration : 30 minutes FRIENDSHIP segment featuring software ideas. Then Audience : Junior High, Senior High, One of the most important and, of course, Wendy Smedley has some great layouts College, Adult favorite things in life is friendship. Katie for every day moments with your kids. The Copyright : 2009 Nugent shows us how to use journaling last guest is Christina True and pre-school Price : USD 160.00 cards to get your friends' perspective on milestones with an added bonus: these your pages. Then Lisa Rapo has a digital pages talk! project with software solutions to great

pages. Finally, Holly Vander Woude treats Item no. : NG05393341 us to a project entitled, "Things I Love." Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13:

Duration : 30 minutes FAVORITE PHOTOS Item no. : HD05443348 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, What's scrapbooking without your favorite Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) College, Adult pictures! First, Naomi Smith has a great Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 project and an even greater photo - it's Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Price : USD 160.00 called "just add water." Then Julie College, Adult

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Kim Hupke and treasured wedding photos SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: in a great project. FAVORITE COLORS Item no. : YG05443345 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: Get out your paint box and add your Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) favorite colors to your scrapbooking. First, Duration : 30 minutes GREEN AND HYBRID Tina Sutton wants us to focus on the color Audience : Junior High, Senior High, The environment is a favorite thing for all in our photos and embellishments. Then College, Adult of us - and one all of us need to work on to Stacy Croninger has one of her favorite Copyright : 2009 preserve. First, Susan McShirley has a color combos: pink and gray. Last up is Price : USD 160.00 great project featuring a clear album and colored markers as an accent paper natural fibers. Then Sally Griswold crafting. features a different look at hybrid pages.

Next Cindy Wykoff lets us in on the latest Item no. : WA05443342 hybrid trends. Finally, we combine Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: traditional and computer scrapbooking for Duration : 30 minutes FAVORITE TECHNIQUES hybrid ideas. Audience : Primary, Junior High, We all have tried and true techniques that Senior High, College, we return to every day in our scrapbooking. Item no. : DY05533349 Adult Tina Sutton had trouble picking just one Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Copyright : 2009 favorite; so she has all of her distressing Duration : 30 minutes Price : USD 160.00 techniques on one project. Jeannie Audience : Junior High, Senior High,

Sumrall Ajero's favorite technique is a College, Adult

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Then Stacy Croninger has a new Price : USD 160.00 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: technique for embossing glue dots. And finally Sara Naumann's technique is paper FAVORITE HOLIDAYS engineering and folding. Holidays are such a favorite we needed a SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: second show for these great scrapbook Item no. : TW05533346 ideas. First off, Susan McShirley has a Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) HOLIDAYS birthday wall hanging; everyone's birthday Duration : 30 minutes Holidays are the perfect photo opportunity! should be a personal holiday. Then Lisa Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Renee Pearson introduces card ideas Rapo is back with digital software to scan College, Adult using your computer. Then one of our and stitch. Then Michele Rubin has a Copyright : 2009 favorite guests, Jeannie Sumrall Ajero, lesson on how to take cards you receive Price : USD 160.00 returns with digital holiday ornaments with and make them into a mini album. Last up a kaleidoscope effect. Lastly, we have Kim Hupke makes a heart card for matting ideas for your photos. Valentine's Day or Mother's Day or maybe just every day. Item no. : PJ05393350 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : TS05533343 FAVORITE VACATIONS Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Remember those favorite family trips? Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Duration : 30 minutes Katie Nugent has a perfect idea for a quick College, Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, vacation album using pockets. Then we Copyright : 2009 College, Adult join special guest Lisa Rapo for a digital Price : USD 160.00 Copyright : 2009 scrapbook tip - today's features album Price : USD 160.00 pages and software. Lastly, Helen Chu

works some scrapbook magic using the

same materials for a card, page and SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: project. SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: MILESTONES OR Item no. : YU05393347 FAVORITE MACHINES Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) ACHIEVEMENTS We all have our favorite scrapbook Duration : 30 minutes Key events are a favorite topic for "machines," like computers, printers and scrapbooking for those we love and ______26 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk ourselves. Naomi Smith commemorates a Copyright : 2009 Peleman-Vantiegham is back to the common childhood event. Then Sara Price : USD 160.00 computer and creating an entire album Naumann is back with pages that include digitally. mini folders and pockets to store the mementos of events honoring Item no. : TW05533358 achievements. Lastly, Michele Rubin has a SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) card box for a graduation open house. Duration : 30 minutes ALBUMS Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Item no. : AT05443351 Denise Anderson-Turley has a lesson on College, Adult Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) chipboard as an embellishment. Then we Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes have a new tool to share - and we'll show Price : USD 160.00 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, you how to bind your own album or journal. College, Adult Then it's Paulette Jarvey and using color Copyright : 2009 to support your photos. Last up, it's Price : USD 160.00 another type of album; this one is clear, SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: which requires a new way of embellishing. HOME DEC Item no. : BG05533355 Julie Stephani has a whole household of SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 13: Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) memory projects: wall art, canisters, note Duration : 30 minutes boxes and more. Then Julia Fei-Fen NATURE Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Balzer returns with more doodling; this We all love to spend times outdoors, College, Adult time it's a frame drawn right on a photo. whether it's soaking up the sun, hiking in Copyright : 2009 Last up, Cindy Tobey creates an easy the woods or just enjoying the flowers. Price : USD 160.00 calendar to keep you on schedule. First, Michel Snyder treats us to a page called "Blue Jean Girl" - the perfect Item no. : HG05393359 outdoor lover. Then Jeannie Sumrall Ajero Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) treats us to a different way of looking at SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Duration : 30 minutes the outdoors through a kaleidoscope on Audience : Junior High, Senior High, our digital segment. Then Julie Stephani BEGINNERS College, Adult has a beautiful flower album featuring First, Brittany Zeller-Holland has a great Copyright : 2009 botanical captions. kid-friendly door decor project - in fact Price : USD 160.00 scrapbooking with your kids is a great way Item no. : NH05533352 to get started. Then Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) is back with how to create embellishments Duration : 30 minutes and borders from photos. Next, Sherri SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Tozzi introduces us to new ways to use College, Adult ribbon. And last up, Michele Granger HYBRID SCRAPBOOKING Copyright : 2009 creates a three-panel home dec project. First up, Cindy Wyckoff is back with all Price : USD 160.00 about blogging - it's an alternate memory Item no. : TE05393356 crafting idea. Then it's the final doodling Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) segment of the series with Julie Fei-Fen Duration : 30 minutes Balzer - this time it's on fabric. Last up, Klo SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Oxford returns with an interesting College, Adult wordbook. "SCRAP" BOOKING Copyright : 2009 On this show we discover who put the Price : USD 160.00 Item no. : JV05443360 "scrap" in scrapbooking. We welcome Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Wendy Smedley, who has economical and Duration : 30 minutes creative ways to use scraps. Then we Audience : Junior High, Senior High, meet Cathy Burnell for a digital party SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: College, Adult invitation. Last up, it's Klo Oxford and a Copyright : 2009 trendy acrylic album. DIGITAL Price : USD 160.00 This program's theme is "digital." Renee Item no. : HP05393353 Pearson is first with "bling for your blog" or Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) creative ways to personalize your blog. Duration : 30 minutes Then it's more doodling with Julie Fei-Fen SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Balzer - this time featuring paisley. Last up, College, Adult it's a birthday mini album with Cindy INKS Copyright : 2009 Tobey. First, Stacey Caron is here with a very Price : USD 160.00 unique technique; she's going to show us Item no. : RW05443357 airbrushing. Then Robert McDonald joins Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) us on the computer for how to convert a Duration : 30 minutes photo to a painting. Last up, Ellen Marden SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Audience : Junior High, Senior High, creates another type of mini album on her College, Adult computer. ACID FREE Copyright : 2009 First up is Lisa Singer and embellishing a Price : USD 160.00 chipboard album. Then Julie Fei-Fen Item no. : WY05533361 Balzer is back with more doodling - this Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) week is text. Then we join Denise Duration : 30 minutes Anderson-Turley for a lesson on blending SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Audience : Junior High, Senior High, pens. Last up is Ellen Marden and how to College, Adult create a digital slide show. DIGITAL TEMPLATES Copyright : 2009 Cindy Wyckoff introduces digital template Price : USD 160.00 Item no. : TA05443354 projects. Then, sticking with digital, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Jeannie Sumrall-Ajero creates a card with Duration : 30 minutes transparencies. Next it's time for Holly Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Vaselenak and the "rock and roll" College, Adult stamping technique. Last up, Brigitte ______27 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Copyright : 2009 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: Price : USD 160.00 ONE THEME DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Julie Stephani is first with three one-theme Our first guest is Ellen Marden with a albums. Then it's doodling on fantastic mini-album, and it's digitally shrink-plastic with Julie Fei-Fen Blazer. SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: created. Then Laurie Smith is here with a Next Lisa Singer has a photo-collage beginner tip on distressing. Beth Madland project for home dec. And last up, Ellen COLOR presents a card using pop-up punches. Marden creates a unique digital mini Stacy Croninger introduces a special card; Next it's the digital expert, Barbara Kotsos, album. change the color and change the occasion. turning a Word file into a jpeg. Then one Next, Laurie Smith has a lesson on the more digital idea from Terese White; plus a Item no. : EB05393362 color wheel with our beginner tip. Then page entitled, "Daddy's Little Girl." Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) we're "in the pink" with a page created by Duration : 30 minutes Stephanie Barnard. Technology is next Item no. : LP05443369 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, with Barbara Kotsos, cropping photos Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) College, Adult digitally. And, last up, Terese White keeps Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 it digital with personal embellishments Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Price : USD 160.00 from photos on a 12 x 12 page. College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Item no. : PN05443366 Price : USD 160.00 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, ORGANIZATION College, Adult SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: First, Brittany Zeller-Holland joins us with a Copyright : 2009 great scrapbook spread - with simple Price : USD 160.00 FLAT EMBELLISHMENTS additions and very few tools. Then we Melissa Inman features chipboard create ornaments and jewelry from your techniques; then Barbara Kotsos has our photos. Next it's family project ideas with technology tip and a quick and easy Paulette Jarvey. And last up, Holly SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: sports' idea. Suzanne Walker has a Vaselenak is back with a great clear album beautiful mother-daughter page. Terese entitled "Sunday in the Park." CRAFT TECHNIQUES White has her printer out for digital Paula Hallinan is a scrapbooker first, but embellishments on a 12 x 12 page. Last Item no. : KJ05443363 also a crafter at heart; she uses paints, up, Mary Norwood has a graduation page Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) stamps, stencils and so many other featuring a shrink plastic, gemstones and Duration : 30 minutes products on her page. Next it's our micro beads for a different type of flat Audience : Junior High, Senior High, technology tip with Barbara Kotsos, using embellishment. College, Adult a straightening tool. Then Beth Madland Copyright : 2009 has a project using a new die cut machine Item no. : PM05533370 Price : USD 160.00 to make fabric frames right on your Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) scrapbook page. Next Heather Lancaster Duration : 30 minutes creates a gift bag, combining scrapbook Audience : Junior High, Senior High, and craft techniques. Last up is Suzanne College, Adult SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Walker - sewing and scrapbooking with a Copyright : 2009 stitched page. Price : USD 160.00 PLAYFUL PROJECTS Wendy Smedley creates pages featuring Item no. : PC05533367 buttons and playful scrapbooking. Next, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) meet Julie Fei-Fen Balzer for segment on Duration : 30 minutes SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: doodling in all different forms. Then we've Audience : Junior High, Senior High, got a beautiful frame featuring leaves that College, Adult FORGOTTEN HOLIDAYS are cut and embossed at the same time. Copyright : 2009 AND CARD MAKING And last up, Sherri Tozzi shows us some Price : USD 160.00 First, Suzanne Walker has two forgotten masking techniques. holiday cards. Then today's technology tip

is "cattitude"; pages with cat designs. Item no. : LW05533364 Then we have a card featuring Friendship Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: Day - in fact, couldn't that be every day? Duration : 30 minutes That is the uniqueness of this card; it can Audience : Junior High, Senior High, DIE CUTS be altered for all different occasions. College, Adult Heather Lancaster demonstrates Heather Lancaster has a Grandparent's Copyright : 2009 monogram stationary using die cuts. Then Day card. And last up, Terese White has Price : USD 160.00 Laurie Smith has a beginner tip for an invitation, place card and even a page accordion folding. Suzanne Walker is here for the 4th of July. with a birthday page. And when is a die cut

not a cut out? When it's done digitally by Item no. : WH05393371 Barbara Kotsos; she'll show us letters and SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 14: Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) monograms. Last up, Melissa Inman Duration : 30 minutes TECHNOLOGY creates foam stamps from die cuts and Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Renee Pearson presents custom skins for dresses up purchased die cuts. College, Adult your iPod, laptop and cell phone. Then we Copyright : 2009 join Julie Fei-Fen Balzer for Zentangles, a Item no. : PK05393368 Price : USD 160.00 new way to doodle. Last up, Marianne Format : DVD (Closed Captioned)

Walker alters foil with ink for a creative Duration : 30 minutes page idea. Audience : Junior High, Senior High,

College, Adult Item no. : HN05393365 Copyright : 2009 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 HOME DEC Duration : 30 minutes First up, Amy Brinkman and Nancy Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Martines, and their home dec project is College, Adult going downtown with a ______28 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk mini-girlfriend-album. Next is Barbara Item no. : TN05443375 Kotsos with our technology tip, turning Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) ARTS: frowns into smiles. Then Stacy Julian Duration : 30 minutes shows us home dec with a style all her Audience : Junior High, Senior High, PERFORMING own. Judy Coltman introduces us to a College, Adult whole new sound for scrapbooking; she'll Copyright : 2009 ARTS show us how to add audio to our pages. Price : USD 160.00 Last up, Heather Lancaster creates a word PERFORMING ARTS - search wall picture. LEVEL 2: TEEN - ADULT - Item no. : KK05443372 SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: THE TERRIBLE MEEK (WAR Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes SOFT LOOKS AND HUMAN VALUES) Audience : Junior High, Senior High, First up is Sara Neumann with her This is a 40-minute dramatic film College, Adult signature look of romantic and soft adaptation of a one-act stage play of the Copyright : 2009 designs. Next is a special beginner tip same name written in 1911 by playwright Price : USD 160.00 from Julie McGuffee. Then it's Melanie Charles Rann Kennedy, who dedicated Bauer with a decorative journal featuring a the original script to world peace; its soft palette of color. Then it's time for universal themes of spirituality, authority Barbara Kotsos and the technology tip - and morality echo as loudly today as ever. Here we meet three characters during a SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: moving and changing faces on your photographs. Last up is Kathleen time of war: a steadfast military Captain JOURNALING Hampton and a very different project, (Bill Humphreys), who is responsible for First up, journaling doesn't have to be in using cotton paper for a bracelet. the fulfillment of an execution but writing, how about sound? Sherry Cook struggles with his obligation to duty over shows us how. Then it's Laurie Smith and Item no. : JR05533376 the ethics of taking a human life; a Soldier some beginner journaling tips. Next Julie Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) (Don LaBranche), who carried out the McGuffee has a technique for creating a Duration : 30 minutes order but now contemplates his role as custom window in a mini-album. Then it's Audience : Junior High, Senior High, one who in obligated to follow orders; and a little magic with Barbara Kotsos on our College, Adult a Woman (Kathy Somssich), the mother of technology tip. Last up, tell your story in Copyright : 2009 the executed, who grieves for her son who pictures with Ellen Marden and an Price : USD 160.00 lost his life at the hands of a higher amazing album technique. authority. Throughout the story we witness the conflict of ideals, the development of Item no. : PU05533373 human values and the triumph of spiritual integrity. The remaining cast includes: Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: Duration : 30 minutes Karen Abrami Fitzgerald; Brad Branch; Audience : Junior High, Senior High, TEXTURED AND Indira Sivaprasad; Sandi Seals Clark; College, Adult Gary Ng; Bill Butler and Rob Scullin. Copyright : 2009 PATTERNED PAPER Price : USD 160.00 Leslie Ayres creates a very unique photo Review frame. Then Laurie Smith has our z "Two Thumbs Up! This film deals with beginner idea and tips for using patterned universal themes such as spirituality, paper. Suzanne Walker has a page that's authority and morality, and there will "pure girl." On our technology tip, Barbara always be an interest in films like this SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: Kotsos creates digital brads. Last up, because of the transcendent nature of PAPER CRAFTS Kathleen Hampton has a feature card those themes. The fact that the film where you can create your own texture was adapted from a century-old play Melanie Bauer demonstrates a wonderful using vellum. supports my assertion. I believe the decorative box with cards. Then Barbara film is well made and has staying Kotsos gives equal time to dogs with Item no. : TC05393377 power. Bill Humphreys does a good theme pages for pet lovers. Kathleen Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) job adapting the script for a modern Hampton joins us with a collage card with Duration : 30 minutes audience and keeps them invested in vellum quotes and paper. Terese White Audience : Junior High, Senior High, the plot throughout." -MicroFilmmaker expands our notion of paper crafting with a College, Adult Magazine gift box and coordinated tag. And, last up, Copyright : 2009 Stacy Croninger has a travel tag. Price : USD 160.00 Item no. : LG05443285

Format : DVD Item no. : ZP05393374 Duration : 40 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Senior High, College, Duration : 30 minutes Adult Audience : Junior High, Senior High, SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: Copyright : 2009 College, Adult Price : USD 210.00 Copyright : 2009 THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Price : USD 160.00 Nancy Martines and Amy Brinkman add

the soft palette of the oudoors to a page.

Next Barbara Kotsos shows us how to add texture using a scanner. Terese White is PRINCETON FORUM, THE: here with a page in two sizes, entitled "Ms. SCRAPBOOK MEMORIES 9: Lela's Class." Julie McGuffee introduces ART & ARTISTS - BARB RECIPE FOR us to a new technique, featuring masking. JUNGR (SINGER, Last up, Lynelle Harlowe introduces us to SCRAPBOOKING a wonderful new technique with spray PERFORMER, Suzanne Walker has a kitchen bridal color and bleach. shower invitation. Next Laurie Smith's SONGWRITER) beginner tip is basic rubber-stamping Item no. : YM05443378 Singer, performer and songwriter Barb techniques. Then Paula Hallinann has a Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Jungr is renowned for her unique vocal recipe for two new techniques and tools. Duration : 30 minutes style, as well as her approach to Next Barbara Kotsos presents the Audience : Junior High, Senior High, arrangements and interpretation of songs. technology tip - creating a book - maybe of College, Adult She has been compared to Nina Simone favorite recipes. Last up is Sara Neumann Copyright : 2009 and Peggy Lee, and critics have called her with more recipes in a special binder. Price : USD 160.00 "a British Edith Piaf." The Village Voice in ______29 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

New York City raved, "she is one of the connects with the places, the people, and best interpreters of Jacques Brel and Bob her Jewish roots. AUSTRALIAN Dylan anywhere on this angst ridden planet today." In this program she sits Award HISTORY down with host Esther Mills to talk about z OOBR Winner! (Songs Are Like her career and love of music; she also Friends) DECONSTRUCTING treats us with a bit of song. Item no. : PN05533292 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: Awards Format : DVD EUREKA z Nightlife Award - Outstanding Cabaret Duration : 30 minutes This Australian-made, curriculum fit Vocalist Audience : Senior High, College, program is an in-depth examination of the z Backstage Award -Best International Adult Eureka stockade - one of white Australia's Artist Copyright : 2009 early defining political and social events. Price : USD 160.00 More than a century and a half on, the Item no. : RH05443288 Eureka story still captures the imagination Format : DVD of Australians everywhere. Many hail it Duration : 30 minutes as the time when a number of fundamental Audience : Senior High, College, egalitarian values upheld by our nation Adult ARTS: today were vigorously fought for and Copyright : 2009 claimed. A range of insightful perspectives Price : USD 160.00 PHOTOGRAPHY explore many angles of the Eureka story, including the social and political climate of BIOGRAPHIES, THE: the times, the events leading up to the

PHOTOGRAPHY - THE stockade, notable people and events PRINCETON FORUM, THE: during the stockade, women of Eureka, HOLLYWOOD LENS OF and Eureka's legacy. Throughout the ART & ARTISTS - SEAN YOX MURRAY GARRETT: IN program, we hear from notable historians, (SINGER, GUITARIST, THE Dr Clare Wright, Humphrey McQueen and FOCUS Professor Marian Quartly. STREAMERS) The stars are iconic: Marilyn Monroe, Bob A lot of people say Sean Yox remind them Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Item no. : TJ11100032 of John Lennon, which is probably not a Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Format : DVD coincidence. Yox, whose full last name is Red Skelton, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Duration : 40 minutes Yoxovic, was born and raised in Serbia, Burton - to name just a few. And the Audience : Senior Secondary - Tafe where he became infatuated with Western photojournalist on assignment in Copyright : 2009 rock music, and especially The Beatles, Hollywood from 1946 to the 1970s to Price : AUD 125.00 after seeing their movie A Hard Day's capture pictures that would run exclusively Night on television. His attempts at a in magazines, such as Time and LIFE, and musical career started in Europe, then he immortalize these legends of the big relocated to New York City and started the screen was Murray Garrett. It was through DECONSTRUCTING group, The Streamers, which also features his able camerawork that a star's Kent Carter and Joff Wilson. Host Esther personality, his or her true character, was AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: Mills speaks with Sean about the group's presented to the public. In this ORGANISED LABOUR success; he also shares several of his biographical documentary we are offered This Australian-made, curriculum fit songs, as well as his remake of the John a candid look at the man behind the program examines the origins and spread Lennon song, Imagine. camera, who also provides memorable of the organised labour movement in reflections of the people behind their Australia between the early 1800s and the Item no. : JZ05443291 celebrity status. Here we are privy to 21st century. From the time the eight hour Format : DVD first-hand accounts of the photographer's day became the workers' benchmark and Duration : 30 minutes matchless adventures with the stars, the actions of the stonemasons in Audience : Junior High, Senior High, which are paralleled by interviews with a that prompted this movement, College, Adult select host of family, friends and to the origins of the . Copyright : 2009 colleagues, including the Honorary Mayor A range of fascinating reflections and Price : USD 160.00 of Hollywood, Johnny Grant, Phyllis Diller, insights demonstrate how, over the course Dick Martin, Beverly Garland, Don Knotts, of Australian History, the structure, levels A.C. Lyles, as well as Charles Champlin, of membership and political influence of Bob Thomas, Terry Moore and Morgan unions and other worker organisations Woodward. Collectively, we gain a unique PRINCETON FORUM, THE: have changed often. Throughout the behind-the-scenes' glimpse of the Golden program, we hear from academics and ART & ARTISTS - VICKIE Era of Hollywood, while learning the other notable Australians, including: incredible story of the man whose PHILLIPS ("A SINGER'S former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, legendary work helped ensure its legacy. former ACTU secretary and now Labor MP JOURNEY" AND THE Greg Combet, former Victorian MP Joan Review HOLOCAUST) Coxsedge, Professor Marilyn Lake, z "There are photographers, and then Vickie Phillips is an award-winning singer Professor Marian Quartly, author, historian there is Murray Garrett; he captures and actress, who, in her one-woman show and broadcaster Michael Cathcart, and something different, something A Singer's Journey, singing internationally Humphrey McQueen. special that is missed by other acclaimed songs by Jacques Brel, Kurt photographers." -Bob Hope Weill and Charles Aznavour, captures the Item no. : WJ11100033 charm, intimacy, magic and tragedy of her Format : DVD Item no. : MN05533205 travels. In this program she speaks with Duration : 45 minutes Format : DVD host Esther Mills about this musical Audience : Senior Secondary - Tafe Duration : 80 minutes journey, offering mini-portraits of her Copyright : 2009 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, travels from Pennsylvania to Transylvania. Price : AUD 125.00 College, Adult Also she explains how, in war-ravaged Copyright : 2009 cities such as Arad, Bucharest, Budapest, Price : USD 210.00 Amsterdam, Vienna, Brussels, Brugge and

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He also shows old hands Copyright : 2009 video workflow, round-tripping with Final the new features that can get a creative StdBkNo : 1596715820 Cut Pro and sending a final project to vision out of the head and onto the canvas. Price : USD 140.00 Compressor. Exercise files accompany John demonstrates how to establish an this course. easy workflow in Painter by using a Wacom tablet, and he explains how to Item no. : SM03800387 create, edit, and publish projects. KEYNOTE ’09 ESSENTIAL Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser, Closed Captioned) Item no. : SH03610391 TRAINING Duration : 6 hours 15 minutes Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser, With Craig Syverson Copyright : 2009 Win, Closed Captioned) StdBkNo : 1596715790 Duration : 8 hours 45 minutes Keynote is Apple's iWork application for Price : USD 140.00 Copyright : 2009 creating effective and impressive StdBkNo : 1596715758 presentations. 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PHOTOSHOP CS4 POWER Win, Closed Captioned) effective Soundtrack Pro system and Duration : 10 hours 30 minutes establish a fundamental workflow, from SHORTCUTS Copyright : 2009 simple audio processing to final mixdown With Michael Ninness StdBkNo : 1596715723 and exporting. Rick explains how to Price : USD 112.00 roundtrip from Final Cut Pro to Soundtrack Photoshop CS4 offers an abundance of Pro to perform noise reduction and helpful shortcuts and hidden tricks that sweeten audio, and shows how to use the allow designers and photographers to get provided loops and sound effects to more done in less time. In Photoshop CS4 PRO TOOLS 8: MIXING AND enhance a project. He also demonstrates Power Shortcuts, Michael Ninness reveals how simple it is to create a podcast with hundreds of tips to boost productivity, MASTERING Soundtrack Pro 3, and to record including the top 20 power shortcuts every With Brian White voiceovers and vocals directly into the Photoshop user must know. He covers system. strategies for better document and panel Once recording and editing are finished, management, and offers techniques for audio engineers can take advantage of the Item no. : HS03740398 becoming quicker and more nimble when training in Pro Tools 8: Mixing and Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser, using layers, adjustment layers, and layer Mastering to punch up the final output. Closed Captioned) masks. Digidesign Certified Expert Brian White Duration : 3 hours 45 minutes covers all the basic mixing tools that every Copyright : 2009 Item no. : HC03800393 producer and engineer should know, from StdBkNo : 1596715839 Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser, using EQ to add clarity and focus to using Price : USD 70.00 Win, Closed Captioned) compression and limiting to maximize Duration : 6 hours 30 minutes track levels within a mix. Brian stresses Copyright : 2009 the importance of setting up a solid mixing Price : USD 70.00 plan prior to any work in Pro Tools, and SQL ESSENTIAL TRAINING gives advice on the best plug-ins for each With William E. Weinman stage of the process.

Whatever a database is being used Item no. : PG03800396 PICASA 3 ESSENTIAL for—web sites, bookkeeping, sales and Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser, inventory, or even the lowly to-do list—it’s Win, Closed Captioned) TRAINING all about the data. SQL Essential Training Duration : 9 hours 15 minutes with Dane Howard is designed to help users understand the Copyright : 2009 most common language for database StdBkNo : 1596715782 Organizing images and showing them to wrangling--SQL. Beginning with a brief Price : USD 112.00 friends and family are the most important introduction, instructor Bill Weinman functions of a successful photo-sharing teaches the major features of SQL; he program. In Picasa 3 Essential Training, offers a solid working knowledge of the

Dane Howard demonstrates how the latest language, and how to retrieve and upgrade of this free program from Google QUARKXPRESS 8 manage data efficiently. He also works will allow photographers to organize, through a real-world example of building a share, and edit digital photos more easily ESSENTIAL TRAINING CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) and effectively than ever before. Dane With Jay Nelson application using SQL. shows newcomers and experienced users how to archive and share photos from a QuarkXPress has always been the perfect Item no. : DT03800399 desktop or online. , but using personal tool for creating and publishing documents. Format : CD-ROM (SingleUser, media is encouraged. In QuarkXPress 8 Essential Training, Jay Closed Captioned) Nelson—the publisher of Design Tools Duration : 2 hours 30 minutes Item no. : TT03610394 Monthly and a QuarkXPress Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser, expert—covers all the tools and features StdBkNo : 1596715448 Win, Closed Captioned) in this updated version of the program, Price : USD 70.00 Duration : 3 hours 45 minutes from basic page layout to Flash integration Copyright : 2009 and web page creation. Throughout this StdBkNo : 1596715634 comprehensive training, Jay shows what’s Price : USD 70.00 needed to produce professional-quality projects that integrate text, pictures, XHTML AND HTML graphics, and tables. He also offers ESSENTIAL TRAINING real-world page layout techniques that With Bill Weinman designers can apply to their own projects. PRO TOOLS 8 ESSENTIAL

In XHTML and HTML Essential Training, Item no. : AF03610397 TRAINING Bill Weinman helps designers and coders Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser, with David Franz understand XHTML and HTML. In the Win, Closed Captioned) process, Bill covers document structure, Duration : 8 hours Pro Tools 8 Essential Training unveils the block- and inline-level tags, floating Copyright : 2009 inner workings of the industry-standard images, controlling white space, phrase StdBkNo : 1596715618 software for music and post-production. and font markup, and tables and frames. Price : USD 140.00 Musician, producer, and educator David He even provides a good introduction to

Franz demonstrates all the concepts and CSS. Bill offers step-by-step guidance for techniques necessary for recording, building a complete working web site. editing, mixing, and mastering in Pro Tools 8. He teaches how to create music with SOUNDTRACK PRO 3 Item no. : YG03610400 virtual instruments and plug-ins, edit with Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser, elastic audio for time and pitch ESSENTIAL TRAINING Win, Closed Captioned) manipulation, create a musical score, and with Rick Allen Lippert Duration : 4 hours 30 minutes mix with effects loops. This course can Copyright : 2009 help any music producer, sound engineer, Soundtrack Pro 3 Essential Training StdBkNo : 1596715731 or hobbyist become proficient in Pro Tools explains the importance of this audio Price : USD 70.00 8. component of Final Cut Studio in a professional video workflow. Apple Item no. : NR03740395 Certified Final Cut Studio Trainer Rick Format : DVD-ROM (SingleUser, Allen Lippert shows how to set up an

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Alternatives to Violence responsible media for our youth. CRIMINAL z “Sparks important conversations and COVER GIRL CULTURE pairs images of JUSTICE squashes that voice in your head that girls and women in television and print ads tells you nothing like this could ever with footage from the catwalks and SIN BY SILENCE happen to you.” - FilmArcade.net celebrity media and juxtaposes shocking By Olivia Klaus interviews with models and editors from Awards major magazines like Teen Vogue and From behind prison walls, a group of z Sacramento Film and Music Festival, ELLE with revealing insights from parents, extraordinary women are shattering Audience Award for Best teachers, psychologists, body image misconceptions of domestic violence. An Documentary experts and most importantly, the voices important new release that profiles z Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, Audience and heartfelt testimonies of girls Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA), Award 2nd Runner Up themselves. the first group initiated and led by inmates in the US prison system, SIN BY SILENCE Item no. : NN01880414 With rarely seen access into the beauty, is an essential tool, featuring more than Format : DVD (Color) fashion and advertising industries, the film two hours of DVD extras, including bonus Duration : 49 minutes addresses issues like today’s increasingly discussion videos, additional Copyright : 2009 invasive media and sexualization of girls behind-the-scenes stories from the Price : USD 325.00 and how consumer culture serves to women in the film, interviews with experts disempower young women. An important on domestic violence, and more. examination of how advertising and the cult of celebrity have deeply and Created by Brenda Clubine in 1989, negatively impacted teens and young CWAA has changed laws for battered CROSS women, COVER GIRL CULTURE is a women, raised awareness for those on the CULTURALISM wake-up call for consumers and everyone outside, and educated a system that does affected by media. not fully comprehend the complexities of domestic abuse. Like many CWAA NGAT IS DEAD: STUDYING Reviews z “A hugely important piece for young members, Brenda’s years of inflicted MORTUARY TRADITIONS abuse were never fully revealed. But girls everywhere…. [H]elps us By Christian Suhr and Ton Otto because of CWAA’s work and advocacy, understand why it is so imperative to new laws were enacted that now allow guide our girls towards a healthy What do anthropologists mean when they incarcerated survivors to challenge their appreciation for the unique and claim to study the cultural traditions of original conviction. beautiful aspects of themselves as others by participating in them? This film individuals.” - Mariel Hemingway, follows the Dutch anthropologist Ton Otto, With unprecedented access inside the Actress who has been adopted by a family on California Institution for Women, SIN BY Baluan Island in Papua New Guinea. Due SILENCE is an emotionally packed z “Clark does not focus on the to the death of his adoptive father, he has documentary that tells the personal and manipulation of women’s bodies, but to take part in mortuary ceremonies, shocking stories of these courageous of our minds…. Funny… [and] whose form and content are passionately women who have learned from their past, heartbreaking.” - Celeste Fraser contested by different groups of relatives. are changing their future, and teaching us Delgado, MOLI View Through prolonged negotiations, Ton how domestic violence affects each and learns how Baluan people perform and every person. Item no. : TD01880406 transform their traditions and not least Format : DVD (Color) what role he plays himself. The film is part Reviews Duration : 80 minutes of long-term field research, in which z “Shows that intimate violence can Copyright : 2009 filmmaking has become integrated in the happen to anyone—these women are Price : USD 295.00 ongoing dialogue and exchange between every woman.” - Dr. Elizabeth the islanders and the anthropologist. Dermody Leonard, Professor of

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Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD being prepared for spinning plus finished Price : USD 215.00 Duration : 22 minutes slivers. Primitive methods of spinning such Audience : Junior Secondary - Tafe as drop spindle and spinning wheels are Copyright : 2009 shown and related to industrial methods Price : AUD 125.00 including wool and cotton spinning. Students will also witness fancy yarns DESIGN AND production - slub, boucle and chenille - TECHNOLOGY and the properties of these, with the final TALKING TEXTILES: chapter referring to synthetic filaments which can be created exploiting the INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL thermoplastic qualities of the polymer.

EMERGING AND ECONOMIC ISSUES IN Item no. : WD11100102 TECHNOLOGIES TEXTILES Format : DVD Throughout history, there have been many The third program in the Talking Textile Duration : 20 minutes wondrous, unique and important series considers the effect that the Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary innovations. But never have there been so manufacturing of cotton has on the planet Copyright : 2009 many technological advances in a specific from an environmental, social and Price : AUD 125.00 time period than in the past hundred years. economic perspective. We see that the This Australian-made, curriculum fit seemingly harmless manufacturing of program examines the concept of fibres to satisfy human needs turns out to innovation and what makes for successful hold some less than honourable TIMBER FURNITURE: THE innovation. Through a case study of credentials. The large scale demand for nanotechnology, we study the application textile related products gives the industry DESIGN PROCESS of innovation to the design and tremendous power to control what people The skills involved in making quality timber development process within an emerging see, feel, and think about themselves, the furniture are sought after and a solid strand of technology. Nanotechnologist, Dr environment, and the welfare of society. understanding of core design and Sarah Morgan, gives her expert insight Alternative fibres are considered in this construction principles underpins a into the research and development of program as are the ever changing needs student's future success. This nanotechnology, how it is used in the and wants of customers' when buying Australian-made curriculum fit program present day and its increasing prevalence clothing, textiles and fashion. clearly and engagingly demonstrates the in years to come. design process as applied to the Item no. : JZ11100100 construction of timber furniture. Chris Beck, Chapters: Format : DVD Applied Design Lecturer at Holmesglen 1. Introduction Duration : 23 minutes TAFE, shows us around the workshop, 2. Innovation: What is it? Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary demonstrating conceptualization and 3. What Makes Successful Innovation? Copyright : 2009 model making, safe construction of joints, 4. Emerging Technologies Price : AUD 125.00 measuring and marking techniques, 5. Nanotechnology - Case Study finishing the piece, and evaluation of the 6. Impacts of Innovation final result.

Item no. : GA11100064 TALKING TEXTILES: Chapters: Format : DVD 1. Introduction Duration : 26 minutes NATURAL FIBRES 2. From Concept to Model Making Audience : Junior - Senior Secondary The first program in the Talking Textiles 3. Construction of the Housing Joint Copyright : 2009 series introduces students to fibres and 4. Measuring and Marking Techniques Price : AUD 125.00 how we classify them as natural or 5. Finishing the Project man-made, before further categorising the 6. Evaluation former as animal, vegetable or mineral. A 7. Conclusion range of animal (protein) fibres are shown, as are the animal sources from which they Item no. : WZ11100103 SAFETY IN THE are obtained, and methods of preparation Format : DVD WORKSHOP - AVOIDING and production of these fibres are given, Duration : 21 minutes examples including shearing, washing and Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary ACCIDENT AND INJURY carding in both hand and manufacturing Copyright : 2009 The workshop is an inherently dangerous situations. Silk production is also Price : AUD 125.00 place and as such safety and safe work discussed. A range of vegetable (cellulose) practices must be the first priority in the fibres are introduced, as are their sources, layout of a workshop, and always in the properties and common usage, and there minds of those who use it. This is a brief discussion of mineral fibres. Australian-made, curriculum fit program DISABILITY examines the main considerations when it Item no. : DH11100101 comes to safety in the workshop. Using a Format : DVD WHEN MEDICINE GOT IT woodworking workshop to demonstrate Duration : 24 minutes universal safety principles, Philip Ashley Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary WRONG and Chris Beck from Holmesglen TAFE Copyright : 2009 By Katie Cadigan & Laura Murray stress the importance of using safety Price : AUD 125.00 equipment, setting up a well-designed In 1974 a small group of parents became work area, correct use of hand and power the first in the nation to publicly refuse tools, ongoing maintenance and first aid. blame for causing their children to have schizophrenia. They formed Parents of Chapters: TALKING TEXTILES: YARN Adult Schizophrenics and their activism 1. Introduction CONSTRUCTION AND led to parents around the nation 2. Safety Equipment demanding changes in how the disease is 3. Work Area SPECIALIST YARNS understood and treated. 4. Hand Tools The second program in the Talking 5. Power Tools Textiles series outlines yarn production Parents of Adult Schizophrenics waged 6. Maintenance and First Aid and the properties of different woven and their battles in an era when mental 7. Conclusion knitted fabrics. It gives the reasons for hospitals were shutting down and the most twisting yarns, discussing the 'S' and 'Z' severely ill patients were turned over to Item no. : WG11100095 twists and plying yarns, and shows fibres ______37 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk the promise of community care. Yet that Notes z “The women of SIN BY SILENCE community care rarely materialized. z South by Southwest Film Festival eloquently speak about why they z DOXA Documentary Film Festival couldn’t get away from their violent When Medicine Got it Wrong shows how z Full Frame Doc Film Festival partner and the devastating these families launched one of the fastest z AFI Dallas Film Festival psychological effects of battering.” - growing grassroots movements the nation z Sarasota Film Festival Nancy Kaser-Boyd, PhD, Geffen had seen to date, ushering in an era of z Women of Color Arts & Film Festival School of Medicine at UCLA dramatic advances in understanding, z International Black Women's Film treatment and brain research. Festival z “Not only raises awareness about z Roxbury Film Festival violence and abuse in intimate Medicine now knows that recovery is relationships, but offers hope to every possible, and happens for the vast Item no. : YA01880405 survivor who views it. We were in majority who receive treatment. Most Format : DVD (Color) tears.” - Linda Dooley Johanek, communities, however, still wrestle with Duration : 73 minutes Executive Director, Domestic mental healthcare policies based on Copyright : 2009 Violence Center debunked theories from the 1960s and Price : USD 295.00 '70s - pushing many with severe mental z “A film that touches the soul of any illness directly into homelessness or human concerned with justice and fair incarceration. treatment…. [A] cry for social action.” - Alyce LaViolette, Author, It Could Reviews DOMESTIC Happen to Anyone; Founder, z "You could not run a business on the Alternatives to Violence organizational and management VIOLENCE AND structure of the mental health system" SEXUAL ASSAULT z “Sparks important conversations and - Tony Hoffman, 1978 testimony squashes that voice in your head that

California State Legislature tells you nothing like this could ever SIN BY SILENCE happen to you.” - FilmArcade.net z "We failed to understand why parents By Olivia Klaus of a child with leukemia were treated Awards with sympathy and understanding, From behind prison walls, a group of z Sacramento Film and Music Festival, while parents of a child with extraordinary women are shattering Audience Award for Best schizophrenia were treated with scorn misconceptions of domestic violence. An Documentary and condemnation" - Eve Oliphant, important new release that profiles z Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, Audience 1977 speech, World Congress of Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA), Award 2nd Runner Up Psychiatry the first group initiated and led by inmates in the US prison system, SIN BY SILENCE Item no. : NN01880414 Item no. : KB03790670 is an essential tool, featuring more than Format : DVD (Color) Format : DVD (Color) two hours of DVD extras, including bonus Duration : 49 minutes Duration : 53 minutes discussion videos, additional Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 behind-the-scenes stories from the Price : USD 325.00 Price : USD 215.00 women in the film, interviews with experts on domestic violence, and more.

Created by Brenda Clubine in 1989, CWAA has changed laws for battered ECONOMICS DIVERSITY women, raised awareness for those on the outside, and educated a system that does POTO MITAN: HAITIAN not fully comprehend the complexities of SAY MY NAME WOMEN, PILLARS OF THE By Nirit Peled domestic abuse. Like many CWAA members, Brenda’s years of inflicted GLOBAL ECONOMY In a hip hop and R’n’B world dominated by abuse were never fully revealed. But By Renee Bergan and Mark Schuller men and noted for misogyny, the because of CWAA’s work and advocacy, unstoppable female lyricists of Say My new laws were enacted that now allow Told through the compelling lives of five Name speak candidly about class, race, incarcerated survivors to challenge their courageous Haitian women workers, Poto and gender in pursuing their passions as original conviction. Mitan gives the global economy a human female emcees. This worldwide face. Each woman's personal story documentary takes viewers on vibrant tour With unprecedented access inside the explains neoliberal globalization, how it is of urban culture and musical movement, California Institution for Women, SIN BY gendered, and how it impacts Haiti. And from hip hop’s birthplace in the Bronx, to SILENCE is an emotionally packed while Poto Mitan offers in-depth grime on London’s Eastside and all points documentary that tells the personal and understanding of Haiti, its focus on Philly, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, and L.A. shocking stories of these courageous women's subjugation, worker exploitation, in between. women who have learned from their past, poverty, and resistance makes it clear that are changing their future, and teaching us these are global struggles. Featuring interviews and musical how domestic violence affects each and performances from a diverse cast of every person. Marie-Jeanne details her dual struggles as women including Remy Ma, Rah Digga, a woman and worker: employed in a Jean Grae, Erykah Badu, Estelle and Reviews garment factory, she toils under miserable newcomers Chocolate Thai, Invincible and z “Shows that intimate violence can conditions to give her children the Miz Korona, this powerful documentary happen to anyone—these women are schooling she was denied because of delves into the amazing personal stories every woman.” - Dr. Elizabeth education's high costs and gender of women balancing professional dreams Dermody Leonard, Professor of discrimination. Living and braving death in with the stark realities of poor urban Sociology, Vanguard University; Cite Soleil, Solange spells out how Haiti's communities, race, sexism, and author, Convicted Survivors current violence stems from a motherhood, as the more than 18 artist long-brewing economic crisis and the featured in Say My Name battle for a place z “Brenda Clubine[’s]… personal story global apparel industry's inherent in a society that creates few chances for of loss, suffering, betrayal and instability. Frustrated with male-dominated women. From emerging artists filled with courage could inspire a season of unions, Frisline joined a woman's new creativity, to true pioneers like MC movies on Lifetime.” - Cleveland Free organization. She offers a gendered and Lyte, Roxxanne Shante, and Monie Love, Times class analysis of Haiti's contemporary these are women turning adversity into art. situation. Working for thirty years, Therese ______38 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk brings a perspective that is historical and culture and identity. However, in practice, fought in Winchester, Virginia, of the Battle comparative. Her ailments also highlight are Australians really all treated equally? of Olustee, the largest battle fought in the critical state of public health. Pushed There are many marginalized groups in Florida during the Civil War. And to close, off her land by foreign agricultural policies, Australia, such as the indigenous we are further moved when he reads from Helene leads a new grassroots campaign population, migrants and single parents. the epilogue of his most definitive book. against violence, encouraging women to Do these groups really have equal access Co-produced by Chip Taylor, BBTFilms defend themselves. These five brave to health, education, legal representation and Myles Jaeschke. women demonstrate that despite and other resources that society has to monumental obstacles in a poor country offer? Who makes decisions about how Item no. : KN05443204 like Haiti, collective action makes change Australian society is run? This Format : DVD possible. Australian-made, curriculum fit program Duration : 40 minutes examines these important issues, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Initiated by the women themselves, Poto demonstrating that while on the surface College, Adult Mitan aims to inspire solidarity activism to Australians appear to have a very fair Copyright : 2009 end injustice in the global economy. Our society and high standards of living; we Price : USD 210.00 struggles have a common thread. Fighting should not simply accept this on face for justice: for women, workers, or Haiti value. can't help but bring about our own liberation. Chapters: 1. Introduction ENVIRONMENT 2. Social Justice in Australia Reviews 3. Ways in Which Australia is a Just SPLIT ESTATE z "A moving and stirring film, showing Society Documents the devastating effect that oil Haitian women speaking for 4. Ways in Which Australia is an Unjust and gas drilling is having on the health of themselves. A must see." - Edwidge Society families and the environment in the Rocky Danticat 5. How Can We Make Australia a More Mountain West. Just Society? z "For many years now I've been telling Imagine discovering that you don't own the people that fanm se poto mitan tout Item no. : RB11100024 mineral rights under your land, and that an sosyete (women are the central pillars Format : DVD energy company plans to drill for natural of society). This wonderful film is Duration : 16 minutes gas two hundred feet from your front door. definitely a testimony of the courage, Audience : Senior Secondary Imagine another shocking truth: you have resilience and determination of Copyright : 2009 little or no recourse to protect your home Haitian women. Needless to say that Price : AUD 125.00 or land from such development. SPLIT I'm very thrilled! I encourage ESTATE maps a tragedy in the making, as everyone to support this great citizens in the path of a new drilling boom endeavour!" - Marleine Bastien, MSW, in the Rocky Mountain West struggle LCSW, Founder/Executive Director, ENGLISH: against the erosion of their civil liberties, FANM (Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami) their communities and their health. LITERATURE & z "Poto Mitan will be a valuable tool. Exempt from federal protections like the Indeed, the value of the film for Clean Water Act, the oil and gas industry advocacy and education results not WRITING has left this idyllic landscape and its rural just from the quality of the story telling communities pockmarked with abandoned but also from the quality of the film BIOGRAPHIES, THE: homes and polluted waters. One resident itself. People will want to see this film, LITERATURE - SHELBY demonstrates the degree of benzene and?.be open to demanding change contamination in a mountain stream by from the policymakers." - Quixote FOOTE: THE MAN AND THE setting it alight with a match. Many others, Center gravely ill, fight for their health and for the CIVIL WAR Shelby Foote: Winner of the 'Peggy V. health of their children. Note z Nominated for Social Justice Award, Helmerich Distinguished Author Award' and 'Dos Passos Prize for Literature SPLIT ESTATE zeroes in on Garfield Santa Barbara International Film County, Colorado, and the San Juan Basin, Festival, 2009 Award' but the industry is aggressively seeking new leases in as many as 32 states. They Award One of the most prolific historians on the subject of the Civil War was Shelby Dade are even making a bid to drill in the New z Indie Spec Best Documentary Award, York City watershed, which provides Boston International Film Festival, Foote, Jr. (1916 - 2005), an American novelist whose non-fiction work is drinking water to millions. 2009 highlighted by his massive 3-volume history entitled The Civil War: A Narrative. 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Treating Greenville, Mississippi, of his chance will be changed by the experience - each other equally and giving each other a encounter with Nobel Prize winning author for the better." - Brian Egolf, New 'fair' go' are an important part of Australian William Faulkner, of the Battle of Opequon, Mexico State Representative ______39 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk z "We are fighting for our lives here in possible, and happens for the vast Playtime', is made. In 'Fuel' we see how the Marcellus Shale in NY & PA. Your majority who receive treatment. Most different types of fuel are used for many film may save us." - Diane MacInnes communities, however, still wrestle with purposes, how our current reliance mental healthcare policies based on oil-based fossil fuels is damaging the Item no. : LW02560609 debunked theories from the 1960s and environment and see a glimpse of the Format : DVD (Color, Closed '70s - pushing many with severe mental possible fuels of the future. In 'Water' Captioned) illness directly into homelessness or we see and learn many interesting things Duration : 76 minutes incarceration. about water, from the water cycle, to a fun Audience : Grades 7-12, College, experiment, to conserving water at home. Adult Reviews Finally, in 'Bread' we see how bread is Copyright : 2009 z "You could not run a business on the made, from planting and harvesting, to StdBkNo : 159458897X organizational and management processing and baking, delivery to Price : USD 295.00 structure of the mental health system" supermarkets and shops, and finally to our - Tony Hoffman, 1978 testimony homes (we even learn how easy it is to California State Legislature make our own bread at home!). Aimed at students of age 8+, the age-appropriate z "We failed to understand why parents and highly engaging delivery helps FAMILY of a child with leukemia were treated develop vocabulary and general with sympathy and understanding, knowledge. NGAT IS DEAD: STUDYING while parents of a child with schizophrenia were treated with scorn Chapters: MORTUARY TRADITIONS and condemnation" - Eve Oliphant, 1. TV Show By Christian Suhr and Ton Otto 1977 speech, World Congress of 2. Fuel Psychiatry 3. Water What do anthropologists mean when they 4. Bread claim to study the cultural traditions of Item no. : KB03790670 others by participating in them? This film Format : DVD (Color) Item no. : WH11100057 follows the Dutch anthropologist Ton Otto, Duration : 53 minutes Format : DVD who has been adopted by a family on Copyright : 2009 Duration : 17 minutes Baluan Island in Papua New Guinea. Due Price : USD 215.00 Audience : Middle - Senior Primary to the death of his adoptive father, he has Copyright : 2009 to take part in mortuary ceremonies, Price : AUD 125.00 whose form and content are passionately contested by different groups of relatives. Through prolonged negotiations, Ton FOOD learns how Baluan people perform and transform their traditions and not least TECHNOLOGY FRENCH what role he plays himself. The film is part of long-term field research, in which FAIRTRADE: WHO CLASSROOM VIDEO filmmaking has become integrated in the ongoing dialogue and exchange between BENEFITS: BECAUSE FOOD FRENCH 1: LA MODE ET LA the islanders and the anthropologist. MATTERS CUISINE

The Fairtrade scheme ensures a fair price Students of the French language are Item no. : YD03790613 for food producers in poor countries. This always interested in their fashion and Format : DVD (Color) program explains the Fairtrade scheme, cuisine. Perhaps no other two facets of Duration : 59 minutes identifying how it benefits farmers in French culture are more synonymous with Copyright : 2009 poorer countries and how the Fairtrade the nation's fame and greatness than the Price : USD 215.00 Organisation invests in farming food and fashion industry, with the French

communities. Hear from members of one being known as trendsetters of style, in

such community in St Lucia, as well as clothing and cuisine for centuries. This

consumers and retailers of Fairtrade Australian-made, curriculum fit program WHEN MEDICINE GOT IT products. Students give their own views on will enable you to bring French fashion Fairtrade and members of a Fairtrade WRONG and food into your classroom and add Town in Britain are interviewed, before another dimension to the topic. In two By Katie Cadigan & Laura Murray discussion concludes with consideration of distinct parts, it provides an engaging

potential disadvantages of, and the future overview of French fashion and cuisine In 1974 a small group of parents became for, the Fairtrade scheme. over the centuries, giving students a new the first in the nation to publicly refuse perspective and appreciation of their blame for causing their children to have Item no. : PT11100048 cultural implications. schizophrenia. They formed Parents of Format : DVD Adult Schizophrenics and their activism Duration : 23 minutes Item no. : CN11100021 led to parents around the nation Audience : Junior - Senior Secondary Format : DVD demanding changes in how the disease is Copyright : 2009 Duration : 21 minutes understood and treated. Price : AUD 125.00 Audience : Middle - Senior

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CHAMPION) significant in Spanish culture.” - Anna Fund and a Zoologist highlight the Pinkert, Still Indie importance and necessity of biodiversity in What do Glenn Bady and Benjamin Australia. This program also offers Franklin have in common? Franklin loved z “Demonstrates poignantly the suggestions on what we can do to chess just as Bady does. After playing the difficulty that women matadors face conserve biodiversity on a day-to-day game for over 50 years, Franklin in 1786 when trying to break in and succeed basis and gives a real world published an essay called "The Morals of in the masculinized sport of demonstration of such conservation in Chess" in the Columbian Magazine in bullfighting.” - Sandie Holguin, action with the recovery and rebuilding of Philadelphia. Coincidentally, Bady is from Associate Professor Spanish the natural habitats of the endangered Philadelphia. He and a fellow student of /European History, University of helmeted honey-eater. West Philadelphia High School, Wilbert Oklahoma Paige, played and studied the game for Chapters: hours; eventually, Glenn joined the U.S. Award 1. Introduction Air Force and played chess around the z Tribeca All Access, Creative Promise 2. What on Earth is Biodiversity? world, becoming so expert at the game Award 3. Biodiversity in Australia that the United States Chess Federation 4. Long Term Effects on Biodiversity awarded him the title of Advance Life Item no. : HC01880412 5. What Can You Do to Conserve Master. In this program he speaks with Format : DVD (Color, Spanish and Biodiversity? host Esther Mills about his favorite subject; Italian, With English 6. Conclusion he discusses the different possibilities that subtitles) chess offers to various people; he reveals Duration : 62 minutes Item no. : WS11100007 his favorite chess piece, and also explains Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD that although he has played chess for over Price : USD 295.00 Duration : 23 minutes 33 years he has still not mastered the Audience : Junior Secondary game. Copyright : 2009

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Format : DVD GENERAL SCIENCE Duration : 30 minutes

Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult ACIDS AND BASES IN THE WHAT'S SO SPECIAL Copyright : 2009 HOME ABOUT SCIENCE? Price : USD 160.00 This program familiarises students with Very few parts of our everyday lives are

the features of acids and bases, and untouched by science in some form or

discusses their physical and chemical other. This Australian-made, curriculum fit

properties. The pH scale is introduced with program is designed to inspire and GENDER examples of strong and weak acids and educate upper primary and junior bases and the concept of neutral secondary level students about science - substances is explored. The use of the scientific method, and the three major ELLA ES EL MATADOR (SHE indicators to test the pH of acids and streams taught in secondary school - IS THE MATADOR) bases is explained, as well as showing the chemistry, physics and biology. It also variety of indicators available and their By Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco introduces a range of jobs and other roles specific uses. Students are shown how to performed by scientists in many areas of make their own red cabbage indicator in For Spaniards—and for the research, technology and enterprise. This the kitchen, and examples of acids and world—nothing has expressed the is an ideal learning resource to introduce bases commonly found in the home are country’s traditionally rigid gender roles students to science as a discipline, and discussed. A description of neutralisation more powerfully than the image of the provides great scope for further discussion reactions and their products concludes the male matador. So sacred was the and student research. program. bullfighter’s masculinity to Spanish identity that a 1908 law barred women from the Chapters: Chapters: sport. 1. What is Science? 1. Introduction 2. The Scientific Method 2. What are Acids? ELLA ES EL MATADOR (SHE IS THE 3. Chemistry 3. What are Bases? MATADOR) reveals the surprising history 4. Biology 4. pH and Indicators of the women who made such a law 5. Physics 6. The Scientists 5. Acids and Bases in the Home necessary, and offers fascinating profiles 6. Mixing Acids and Bases of two female matadors currently in the Item no. : TK11100110 arena, the acclaimed Maripaz Vega and Format : DVD Item no. : NC11100001 neophyte Eva Florencia. These women Duration : 21 minutes Format : DVD are gender pioneers by necessity, Audience : Senior Primary - Junior Duration : 17 minutes confronting both bull and social code. But Second Audience : Junior Secondary what emerges in the film as their truest Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 motivation is their sheer passion—for Price : AUD 125.00 Price : AUD 125.00 bullfighting, and in their pursuit of a dream.

Reviews z “Blends history with up-to-the-minute GEOGRAPHY AND profiles…. A universal saga.” - INTRODUCTION TO Michael Fox, SF360 (San Francisco BIODIVERSITY, AN ENVIRONMENT Film Society) Biodiversity, why is it so crucial to our

survival and the planets? Biodiversity z “It’s impossible not to immerse FAIRTRADE: WHO makes up our many interrelated yourself in the action.” - Sarah ecosystems and is something we must BENEFITS: BECAUSE FOOD Godfrey, Washington City Paper strive to sustain. This Australian made, MATTERS curriculum fit program explores what z “Beautiful—watching it, I had an The Fairtrade scheme ensures a fair price biodiversity is, with a focus on the long incredible sense of the two women for food producers in poor countries. This term effects in Australia. Key interviews not only as devoted athletes and program explains the Fairtrade scheme, from University lecturers, the trailblazers, but also as people who identifying how it benefits farmers in Threatened Species Network Wildlife are passionate about an art that is poorer countries and how the Fairtrade ______41 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

Organisation invests in farming 2. The Australian Health System 2. What is Racism? communities. Hear from members of one 3. Medicare 3. Why Does Racism Exist? such community in St Lucia, as well as 4. Private Health Insurance 4. Racism in Australia - Aboriginal consumers and retailers of Fairtrade 5. Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Australians products. Students give their own views on 6. A Critique of the System 5. Racism in Australia - Migrants Fairtrade and members of a Fairtrade 6. Preventing Racism Town in Britain are interviewed, before Item no. : HC11100061 7. Conclusion discussion concludes with consideration of Format : DVD potential disadvantages of, and the future Duration : 23 minutes Item no. : AL11100088 for, the Fairtrade scheme. Audience : Senior Secondary Format : DVD Copyright : 2009 Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : PT11100048 Price : AUD 125.00 Audience : Senior Secondary Format : DVD Copyright : 2009 Duration : 23 minutes Price : AUD 125.00 Audience : Junior - Senior Secondary Copyright : 2009 POPULATION GEOGRAPHY Price : AUD 125.00 With a global population of 6 billion and

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overcrowded as our current population MURRAY-DARLING BASIN, places strain on the planet's resources. GEOGRAPHERS IN THE The issue of where and how people live THE FIELD has crucial implications for our planet and Is irrigation in the Murray-Darling Basin is one of the biggest challenges we face sustainable? While irrigation produces Fieldwork is a critical part of geography, as a global community. This Australian 36% of the agricultural profits from and involves a range of techniques. In this made, curriculum fit program explores the Australia's "food bowl", it does not come Australian-made, curriculum fit program, study of population geography as a way of without a cost to the environment. Salinity two young commandos are on a fieldwork understanding the world we live in, as well and degradation of the Murray-Darling mission to research and report on the as a way of working towards harmony with Basin can have disastrous consequences human impact in two geographical regions our planet. We look at how population for the future of this very precious - one urban and one within a National Park. trends eventuate through birth and death resource. This Australian-made, Along the way they learn about rates with the Demographic Transition curriculum fit program examines the preparation, collecting primary and Model as well as the effect social values development of irrigation and irrigation secondary data, equipment, note taking, have on population growth. This is an methods to give students an photographic recording, surveying and excellent program for any student. understanding of the use of water in the interviewing, and presenting findings. Murray-Darling Basin for the production of They also talk to park rangers who work in Chapters: fruit, pastures, rice and cotton. The CEO both areas and ultimately come to 1. Introduction of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission understand the importance of accurate, 2. Six Billion and Counting and farmers who produce crops using well prepared fieldwork. 3. Population Changes irrigation add expert insight and a personal

4. Birth Rates perspective to the issue. Possible future Chapters: 5. Death Rates developments for this vital river system are 1. Field Work 6. All the Pieces also outlined. 2. Preparation 7. Conclusion 3. Collecting Primary Data: Physical Chapters: Geography Item no. : FZ11100083 1. Introduction 4. Collecting Your Data: Human Format : DVD 2. Horticulture Geography Duration : 28 minutes 3. Viticulture 5. Presenting Your Findings Audience : Senior Secondary 4. Salinty 6. Conclusion Copyright : 2009 5. Rice and Cotton

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Format : DVD Item no. : JS11100107 Duration : 33 minutes Format : DVD Audience : Junior - Senior Secondary Duration : 19 minutes Copyright : 2009 RACISM IN 21ST CENTURY Audience : Senior Secondary Price : AUD 125.00 AUSTRALIA Copyright : 2009

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societies millions of years ago. But where HOW THE AUSTRALIAN does racism come from? What is it about HEALTH SYSTEM WORKS human nature that inclines some people to WEATHER AND CLIMATE stereotype and vilify other races? This The Australian health system is often It affects everything we do, from our day to Australian-made, curriculum fit program called one of the best in the world, in that it day plans of what clothes to wear to explores these questions in a range of allows easy access to basic health care for affecting the way we feel. Weather is a different ways - through the eyes of three all Australians that is either free or low cost. giant continuum of change and is crucial to key experts, through the presentation of Using a young person's encounter with the the planet's survival. But how is it various facts and figures about racism in health system, brought about by an measured and why is it sunny one day and Australia and around the world, and unfortunate accident while climbing a raining the next? This Australian-made, through a simple drama, set in an ladder, this Australian-made, curriculum fit curriculum fit program explores what is Australian secondary school, that program provides an excellent overview of weather and how is it measured; how do illustrates how exclusion of people for the Australian health system, from we forecast weather; weather warnings baseless reasons impacts on all Medicare to private health insurance and and finally the global climate. Including individuals concerned. Racism is a the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. interviews from key senior personnel at sensitive issue, and this program Throughout the program, expert the Bureau of Meteorology this program encourages students to explore, and comments are offered by vice president of gives excellent insight into the recording maybe confront, a societal issue that has AMA Victoria, Dr Harry Helmley. and forecasting of weather. been around as long as we have.

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Duration : 27 minutes TEENS AND YOUNG TEENS AT-RISK: L.A. Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary Copyright : 2009 ADULTS WHO VOLUNTEER HOMICIDE (GANGS AND Price : AUD 125.00 2 VIOLENCE) - LEVEL 1 This program presents six volunteer This is an investigative documentary, situations: Bloorview MacMillan: which explores the inner working of the Swimming - Katie, 19, volunteers in an Los Angeles Coroner's Department. For GUIDANCE aquatics' program, where she provides the first time ever the L.A. Forensic one-on-one support and instruction to Department opens up the doors of its physically challenged children and autopsy rooms. Totally independent from TEENS AND YOUNG children with special needs. She the law and from the police, the scientists ADULTS WHO VOLUNTEER discusses why this volunteer role is a good who work here are eminently credible and fit for her, and what the children teach her. respected. With over 80,000 known gang 1 Piano Tutor - Michelle, 20, volunteers as a members in Los Angeles, street violence This program presents six volunteer piano instructor at a neighborhood health is a serious problem; death occurs here situations: Humane Society - Lisa, 18, and center, helping children from an every day. This eye-opening documentary Sharzad, 16, volunteer at an organization underprivileged area learn music; she follows the lives of the ambulance workers, that takes care of stray or abandoned describes the joy she feels helping share police, judges and doctors who know the animals, as it tends to their health and her knowledge with young students. Californian megalopolis and its excesses rehabilitative needs until they are ready for T.E.A.C.H. - Mark, 21, works as a better than anyone. And in looking at this adoption. Lisa, a "bunny cuddler" and volunteer, helping to dispel stereotypes side of death, the program hopes to help Sharzad, an information agent, discuss and promote understanding, in a program the living address the serious issue of their roles and the value that each derives. called T.E.A.C.H. (Teens Educating and gangs and violence. Seniors in Cyberspace - Quincy, 20, and Confronting Homophobia). As he speaks Fahmida, 18, volunteer at an to groups of students and discusses Review Intergeneration Partnership program, issues that they are struggling with, he z "Highly Recommended! Throughout Seniors in Cyberspace. Here they help brings his own experience to the program. the United States in cities with a seniors develop skills and learn to be He also gains confidence and skills to population over 25,000 gang activity comfortable with computers, e-mail, and prepare him for his future, desired career remains at peak levels, and, more. In the process, the volunteers and as a teacher. Kid Print - Clara, 16, unfortunately, many youth gangs are the seniors gain valuable insights about volunteers at "Kid Print," a program that linked to serious crime in America's one another, and each gain a sense of offers talented young writers a chance for schools. This documentary offers one satisfaction. The Route - Jasmin and Tim, other people to hear their voices. A writer approach that hopefully after viewing both 18, volunteer at a charitable, student herself who wishes to see her words in would dissuade today's youths from run-organization, "The Route," preparing print, Clara describes what inspired her to joining violent gangs." -National and distributing sandwiches to homeless start the program. She conveys her Media Review people on the streets. As Jasmin remarks, enthusiasm for her work in helping "We're just a group of friends who decided children express themselves. 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At her two new friends adjust to a new the center, he offers encouragement and country and improve their English. HEALTH & SAFETY motivation to the children, whose Spending time together in other enjoyable frustration he can relate to. He also activities such as skating and board RESISTING THE FLU: HOW describes what he learns from the games, Karolina finds her volunteering youngsters, and his plans for a related immensely rewarding, providing her with TO MINIMIZE YOUR RISK career. L.O.V.E. - Erika, 17, a high school "a great lifelong friendship." Children's Every year it returns, and every year it student and former bully, volunteers in a Own Museum - Lyndsey, 18, volunteers at costs employers billions of dollars in sick program called "L.O.V.E.," speaking to "Children's Own Museum," a place for pay, lost sales and decreased productivity. groups of young people in the community, "hands-on learning," where children can to help stop violence. She explains how develop their senses and engage with This year could be worse. volunteering has changed her for the their environment. She is passionate better, and describes the skills she has about this not-for-profit organization, We've all heard about the threat of H1N1 developed. Belmont Seniors Home - where kids can come and use their or "swine flu." How it's spreading across Constance, 18, and Cassandra, 19, imaginations and interact with their the globe. How it's expected to hit hard volunteer at a seniors' home where, in parents. While Lyndsey relates to the this fall and winter as the flu season addition to helping with practical tasks, children as they dress up in the "theater," develops. How 40% of the population they also lift the residents' spirits. The teen buy and sell in the "market", or order food could eventually catch it. volunteers, as well as the seniors, discuss in the "cafe," Lyndsey benefits, too. She the significance of the young people's learns from the children how to live in the But here's some good news. You can presence. moment, and gains valuable experience reduce infection rates in your workplace for her future ambition as a pediatric by training your employees to follow a few Item no. : HU05393380 nurse. simple habits that stop them from Format : DVD spreading sickness to their Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : BU05443381 coworkers--and help them avoid getting Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, Format : DVD sick in the first place. Senior High Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, Some of these habits are just common Price : USD 160.00 Senior High, College, sense: wash your hands, don't use your Adult coworker's telephone or computer Copyright : 2009 keyboard, cover your coughs and sneezes. Price : USD 160.00 But how do you get people to remember and actually do these things, day after ______43 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk day? Audience : Junior Secondary Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Price : AUD 125.00 Video training is an effective way to get Price : AUD 125.00 through to employees and change their behavior. And our new release from Stanford, "Resisting the Flu" is designed to HEALTH: do just that. Your employees will respond AGAINST BULLYING 2: THE to this documentary-style short film with its straight talk from Dr. Eric A. Weiss, BYSTANDER HOLISTIC/SELF-H Medical Director of Disaster Planning and Does simply ignoring bullying make ELP/SPIRITUALIT Associate Professor, Stanford University someone an innocent bystander? Or is School of Medicine. there something that they can do to help Y the situation. This Australian-made, In plain terms, Dr. Weiss lays out a curriculum fit program looks at the different blueprint for keeping your employees behaviours demonstrated by bystanders, WOMEN BRINGING FORTH healthy and for resisting infection by the and focuses on the fact that all bystanders CHANGE: A SPIRITUAL H1N1 virus. His practical advice extends have a role to play in preventing bullying. to taking care of sick family members in Featuring expert interviews with Clinical TRILOGY - SPIRITUALITY 1: ways that protect the caregiver and stop Psychologist Andrew Fuller and BLOODTIME - CLAIMING the spread within employees' households. Counseling Psychologist Roslyn And if things take a turn for the worse, Dr. Berkovitch as well as dramatised THE TERRITORY Weiss also describes clear danger signs scenarios in the school yard and on public Spirituality 1: Bloodtime - Claiming the that help viewers know the difference transport. This second program in the Territory brings to light the ironies between symptoms that are typical--and Against Bullying Series illustrates what we embedded in a culture that seems those that require immediate medical help. can do to assist in the fight against simultaneously repelled by, yet drawn to, bullying. images of blood in television shows, Do your part to limit the reach of this new movies and video games. Archival pandemic, and protect your business by Chapters: segments, still images and live-action training all your employees. Working 1. Introduction footage interweave with commentaries together, we can all contribute to lessening 2. Are You Seeing Bullying Happening? that evolve an appreciation for these the impact of this uniquely threatening 3. How Would You Feel? contradictions. Women pay homage to illness. 4. The Bystander - What Can You Do? their blood, identifying their own 5. Being a Supportive Bystander associations with and attitudes toward Item no. : AA00300302 6. The Wrap Up blood, noting where they are on the Format : DVD life-cycle continuum, bringing the very Duration : 13 minutes Item no. : TA11100004 subject into the light, and suggesting that Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD an embrace of the feminine is the needed Price : USD 95.00 Duration : 22 minutes return to wholeness. Audience : Junior Secondary Copyright : 2009 Review Price : AUD 125.00 z "Highly Recommended. A beautifully done, emotionally-evocative and very HEALTH AND informative documentary about PHYSICAL repressed sources of women's AGAINST BULLYING 3: wisdom, rituals and power that flow EDUCATION from an embodied Goddess spirituality." -Jean Shinoda Bolen, BETTER WAYS TO M.D., author of Crossing to Avalon AGAINST BULLYING 1: COMMUNICATE and Goddesses in Every Woman Bullying is the deliberate and intentional UNDERSTANDING desire to hurt or frighten another person or Award BULLYING group less powerful than the bully. Many of z Finalist Award -Moondance Intl. Film us may have experienced bullying and Bullying is the act of intentionally causing Festival know how damaging it can be to our harm to others, through verbal harassment, self-esteem and confidence. But there are physical assault, or other non-verbal Item no. : YZ05443396 better ways to communicate, this methods such as manipulation or Format : DVD Australian-made, curriculum fit program exclusion. Such behaviour can have deep Duration : 20 minutes explores various ideas and strategies that long term negative effects on the victim. Audience : College, Adult young people can adopt to boost Technology has also influenced the Copyright : 2009 resilience, assertiveness and self esteem. methods and means by which bullies inflict Price : USD 160.00 Areas covered include personal identity; their harassment. This Australian made, the temptation of bullying; cyber bullying; curriculum fit program provides an being yourself and your place in the world. introduction to bullying - what it is, why it is This program also includes interviews with wrong and strategies to deal with it. It two Psychologists and dramatised WOMEN BRINGING FORTH includes comments from bullying expert scenarios to generate class discussion. and Clinical Psychologist Andrew Fuller as CHANGE: A SPIRITUAL well as interviews from students who have Chapters: TRILOGY - SPIRITUALITY 2: been victims of bullying in the past. 1. Introduction MOONTIME - CELEBRATING 2. Who Am I? Chapters: 3. What Is Bullying? 1. Introduction THE BLESSING 4. The Temptation of Bullying 2. What Is Bullying? Spirituality 2: Moontime - Celebrating the 5. When to Step in 3. Myth and Reality Blessing incorporates documentary 6. Cyber Bullying 4. Who Gets Bullied? content and visually poetic elements to 7. Being Yourself 5. Who Are Bullies? celebrate a girl's entrance into 8. Your Place in the World 6. There Is Help Available womanhood. It shifts the meaning of the

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Women's DISEASE PREVENTION: mysteries are blood mysteries, for AIDS AWARENESS FOR Item no. : JC05393275 women bleed without dying. This Format : DVD program dives deep into the mystery. CHILDREN Duration : 60 minutes Look if you dare, learn if you will." AIDS is a terrible disease that continues to Audience : College, Adult -Susun Weed, author of New infect and kill people throughout the world. Copyright : 2009 Menopausal Years: The Wise Woman Although there are drugs to battle AIDS Price : USD 210.00 Way and HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, no vaccine or cure Award has yet been found; the key to preventing infections and helping control the spread z Finalist Award -Moondance Intl. Film PRINCETON FORUM, THE: Festival of AIDS and HIV is education. The best time to begin teaching people about AIDS HEALTH & MEDICINE - Item no. : BH05533397 and HIV is when they are young. Of Format : DVD course, because AIDS can be spread by BOBBY SCHINDLER Duration : 36 minutes sex and infected-needle exchange, how (BROTHER OF TERRI Audience : College, Adult AIDS and HIV are presented to young Copyright : 2009 children must be addressed appropriately. SCHIAVO SCHINDLER) Price : USD 210.00 This program features the performance Terri Schindler Shiavo died on March 31, group "Kids and Company" and their 2005, 13 days after a court order to professional guests who tackle the very remove her feeding tubes, fifteen years serious concerns young children face after suffering brain damage due to about AIDS and HIV with care and concise experiencing respiratory and cardiac WOMEN BRINGING FORTH information. "Kids and Company" perform arrest on February 25, 1990. There were CHANGE: A SPIRITUAL two original songs: Don't Worry, which many right-to-life controversies assures children they can continue doing surrounding her case, which received TRILOGY - SPIRITUALITY 3: their everyday activities without fear of nationwide recognition. Although Terri died, DREAMTIME - CREATING becoming HIV-infected, and Be Aware, the controversies remain. Her brother, which emphasizes that anyone at any age Bobby Schindler, who is the executive ART AND RITUAL can make positive choices for a safe, director of the Terri Schindler Schiavo Spirituality 3: Dreamtime - Creating Art healthy life. Educators and parents are Foundation Center for Health Care Ethics and Ritual depicts the expressive arts' advised that this version of the program in St. Petersburg, Florida, and also the movement and body politics as we see includes the four proven ways a person host of the radio program "America's how women are using art-making and can become HIV-infected. Lifeline" in Tampa, is a leading personalized or invented rituals to honor spokesperson committed to causes that their bodies and celebrate themselves and Item no. : HP05443096 protect the lives of the medically the life passage events in their lives. Format : DVD vulnerable and disabled from the threat of These activities are seen as gateways to Duration : 20 minutes euthanasia. In this program host Esther empowerment, and personal and spiritual Audience : Intermediate, Junior High Mills talks with Bobby, who speaks transformation. By using the imagination Copyright : 2009 passionately about how he and his family and expressing through art and ritual the Price : USD 160.00 still carry the pain and grief that followed women mark the milestone events as they the public dehydration of his sister; he cross the various thresholds of their lives provides personal details of Terri's case and chart the pathways to becoming more and elaborates on the controversial vocal leaders and healers of the world. diagnosis of PVS (Persistent Vegetative Viewers are advised that Dreamtime MEDICAL STUDIES: State); he also offers his hope and vision includes images of nudity. BURNED KIDS ARE PEOPLE for the future regarding this sensitive issue. Review TOO! z "Highly Recommended. We are This program was produced to show the Item no. : YJ05443294 reminded, elegantly and generously, miraculous steps that have been taken in Format : DVD how rites of passage can support our the physical, emotional and social Duration : 30 minutes transitions, and why values of the treatment for young burn patients. Audience : Senior High, College, feminine are being recalled, revalued 4/15-minute parts include: Part 1. Getting Adult and put to work." -Karen Hawthorne to Know Us- Dr. James Betts explains how Copyright : 2009 Ph.D., Alliant Intl. University to deal with two patients, the child and the Price : USD 160.00 family; Patti Taggert, PT, explains wound Award care; and Social Worker Linda Passey z Finalist Award -Moondance Intl. Film helps burned children accept themselves. Part 2. 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Back on the Track - This ophthalmology, and specializes in small program offers hope for burned children incision cataract surgery and laser surgery. and their parents as we are shown He graduated from Columbia University examples of the triumphant human spirit; and the NYU School of Medicine; he is ______45 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk certified by the American Board of Do your part to limit the reach of this new Note Ophthalmology, and is an assistant clinical pandemic, and protect your business by z Human Rights Watch International professor of surgery at the Robert Wood training all your employees. Working Film Festival Johnson Medical School, and a member together, we can all contribute to lessening of the attending staff at CentraState the impact of this uniquely threatening Award Healthcare System in New Jersey. 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Threatened with By Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater deportation, her two-year-old daughter TO MINIMIZE YOUR RISK could be forced to undergo female genital Mrs. Goundo is fighting to remain in the Every year it returns, and every year it mutilation (FGM), like 85 percent of United States. But it’s not just because of costs employers billions of dollars in sick women and girls in Mali. Using rarely cited the ethnic conflict and drought that has pay, lost sales and decreased productivity. grounds for political asylum, Goundo must plagued her native Mali. Threatened with convince an immigration judge that her deportation, her two-year-old daughter This year could be worse. daughter is in danger. could be forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), like 85 percent of We've all heard about the threat of H1N1 Sensitive and moving, this important film women and girls in Mali. Using rarely cited or "swine flu." How it's spreading across reveals how women are profoundly grounds for political asylum, Goundo must the globe. How it's expected to hit hard affected by the legal struggles surrounding convince an immigration judge that her this fall and winter as the flu season immigration. As issues of asylum, daughter is in danger. develops. How 40% of the population international law and human rights collide could eventually catch it. with FGM and its devastating health Sensitive and moving, this important film consequences, filmmakers Barbara Attie reveals how women are profoundly But here's some good news. You can and Janet Goldwater travel between an affected by the legal struggles surrounding reduce infection rates in your workplace FGM ceremony in a Malian village immigration. As issues of asylum, by training your employees to follow a few involving dozens of girls to the West international law and human rights collide simple habits that stop them from African expatriate community of with FGM and its devastating health spreading sickness to their Philadelphia, where Mrs. Goundo consequences, filmmakers Barbara Attie coworkers--and help them avoid getting challenges beliefs and battles the and Janet Goldwater travel between an sick in the first place. American legal system for her child’s FGM ceremony in a Malian village future. involving dozens of girls to the West Some of these habits are just common African expatriate community of sense: wash your hands, don't use your Reviews Philadelphia, where Mrs. Goundo coworker's telephone or computer z “Packs a sharp punch equal to that of challenges beliefs and battles the keyboard, cover your coughs and sneezes. films twice its length…. 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who are researching the gaming industry, engines, verifying information, and Item no. : RZ08050792 looking at designing their own games, or emerging developments in searching and Format : DVD interested in a career in the electronic internet use. Duration : 16 minutes 30 seconds gaming industry. Copyright : 2010 Chapters: Price : USD 266.00 Chapters: The Gaming Industry Types of 1. Introduction Games Making Games Games in 2. How Searching Was Able to Replace Education The Future of Games Surfing 3. What is Really Relevant and What is ANTI-INFECTIVE Item no. : BN11100055 Really Real? Format : DVD 4. The Risks Involved with Surfing MEDICATION THERAPY: Duration : 30 minutes 5. Getting Smart About Searching Audience : Senior Secondary - Tafe 6. Web 2.0 and Challenges for the Future SULFONAMIDES AND Copyright : 2009 7. Conclusion PENICILLINS Price : AUD 125.00 Since the advent of penicillin in the 1940s, Item no. : LB11100090 medications have played an important role Format : DVD in the treatment of infectious diseases. Duration : 26 minutes Initially focused on the development and HEALTH AND SAFETY Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary use of antibiotics to treat bacterial Copyright : 2009 infections, in recent decades, the focus ISSUES IN ICT Price : AUD 125.00 has broadened to include antifungal and It's probably not immediately obvious to antiviral agents. Because nurses are the average person, but moderate to frequently called upon to administer heavy computer use brings with it a anti-infective agents, this series was number of areas of risk when it comes to developed to provide the information they health and safety. This Australian-made, LEADERSHIP need to recognize the signs and curriculum fit program explains a wide symptoms of infection, the medications range of aspects of health and safety in INSPIRING LEADER, THE typically used in treatment, and the the use of ICT - including ergonomic By Jack Zenger, PhD associated precautions and side effects. chairs, the positioning of furniture and computer hardware, use of keyboard and Program Highlights There are a wide variety of infectious mouse, posture, the need for breaks, and pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, includes a range of exercises designed to z What one critical competency must and fungi. This program covers an prevent injury. Expert comments from leaders possess? overview of types of antibiotics, and a Stuart Capel, OHS Officer from Aviva, z The business case for inspiring and detailed look at the sulfonamides and address key areas relating to health and engaging your employees. penicillins. safety in ICT at home, at school and at z How charismatic leaders connect with work. This program is especially useful in others. Item no. : KL08050793 helping to place personal health and Format : DVD (With Workbooks) safety uppermost in the minds of all What defines great leadership? Using Duration : 20 minutes computer users. original research on 360-degree feedback Copyright : 2010 data for thousands of managers, Jack Price : USD 296.00 Chapters: Zenger, with colleagues Joseph Folkman 1. Introduction and Scott Edinger, identified 16 specific 2. Computers and People competencies the most effective leaders 3. Occupational Overuse share. Of these, the ability to inspire and 4. Ergonomics and Computers motivate others to high performance had Item no. : KL08050794 5. Monitoring the Workplace the most significant, positive impact on the Format : DVD 6. Conclusion performance of the organization. And yet, Duration : 16 minutes 30 seconds it was the area in which managers were Copyright : 2010 Item no. : MN11100059 weakest. Price : USD 266.00 Format : DVD Duration : 19 minutes Inspiring others is a "soft skill," one that Audience : Middle Secondary - Tafe many believe you need to be born with to Copyright : 2009 possess. But in evaluating the research, Price : AUD 125.00 Dr. Zenger and his colleagues determined INFORMATION that inspiring others to greatness is, in fact, TECHNOLOGY something that can and should be learned. The attributes of inspiring leaders, such as

RESEARCH ON THE being a role model or a change champion, GETTING INTO GAMES can be acquired. The skills, ranging from Electronic gaming has progressed a long INTERNET goal setting to developing staff to being a way since the days the first Space Search engines have become a major tool good communicator, are learnable. And Invaders machines began to appear in for anyone seeking information of just even the most critical characteristic of an local shopping centres. Today, electronic about any type on the internet. inspiring leader—the ability to make an games are highly sophisticated and Understanding how search engines work emotional connection with a team—is interactive, part of a multi-billion dollar and how best to use them as powerful achievable, by building on key strengths in industry worldwide - an industry that is research tools is essential in order to your own personality and leadership now larger than the film and music maximize the benefits of internet research. approach. industries combined. Ask many keen This Australian-made, curriculum fit game players about their ideal job, and the program examines internet research, with Item no. : KF02500298 answer would be designing or testing a particular focus on the world's most Format : DVD electronic games. This Australian-made, commonly used search engine, Google. Duration : 55 minutes curriculum fit program hears from gamers With expert comments from Michael Copyright : 2009 and game developers alike, taking a look Tancredi, co-founder of the Australian Price : USD 95.00 behind the scenes at the gaming industry, search engine Web Wombat and Peter the making of games, use of games for Benda and Justin Zobel from Melbourne leisure and education, and taking a University, the program looks at how glimpse into the future of games. This search engines work, the risks and program is essential viewing for students potential problems in the use of search ______48 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

Item no. : CE11090012 z Benefits for the employee LOTE Format : DVD z Effective management strategies in Duration : 18 minutes an age diverse workplace CLASSROOM VIDEO Copyright : 2009 Price : AUD 695.00 Item no. : PT11090011 JAPANESE: GAKUSEI Format : DVD (With Leaders Guide, SEIKATSU! Workbook) Duration : 8 minutes Meet Yui and Yayoi - two Japanese Copyright : 2009 teenage students who tell us all about TRAINING POINT ISSUES Price : AUD 395.00 student life in Japan. We learn about their school and the subjects they study; IN MANAGEMENT 3: THE what they do in their spare time; what they AGEING WORKFORCE eat; and about their families and friends. Fewer young people coming into the The girls also take us step by step through workforce has serious implications for TRAINING POINT preparing and cooking okonomiyaki employers, business owners and LEADERSHIP 1: (Japanese pancakes), and the correct way management. Coupled with this, there is a to use chopsticks. This Australian-made, hidden and under-utilised pool of workers LEADERSHIP IN ACTION curriculum fit program is spoken entirely in aged over 45. This program provides Leaders in the workplace are often Japanese and provides exposure to insights into the changing age managers and supervisors, but they can Japanese native speakers as well as demographic in the workforce and be found at all levels within an cultural aspects of life in Japan. It is an considers the benefits that older workers organisation. This program investigates excellent learning resource and is bring to organisations. leadership traits and explores strategies particularly helpful in aiding the for enhancing leadership potential. development of vocabulary and grammar. The DVD enables users to explore the Participants are encouraged to reflect on characteristics of an ageing workforce, their own behaviour and to consider Chapters: dispel some of the myths that exist, and to personal development pathways. This 1. Introduction identify a range of strategies that might be program will benefit decision-makers, 2. My School 3. Sports implemented to harness the power of the managers and team leaders and those 4. My Grandparents current and future workforce. This will in aspiring to leadership roles. 5. Japanese School Life turn assist organisations to become more 6. Cooking sustainable and service industries to Key Learning Points 7. Conclusion remain viable. z Examines the differences between management and leadership Item no. : ZE11100025 Key Learning Points z Explores the qualities of effective Format : DVD z The demographics of the modern leaders and strategies for enhancing Duration : 13 minutes workforce leadership potential Audience : Senior Secondary z The advantages brought to Copyright : 2009 workplaces by older workers (aged 45 Item no. : KC11090040 Price : AUD 125.00 and over) Format : DVD (With Leader's Guide, z Successful management strategies Workbook) for an ageing workforce Duration : 13 minutes Copyright : 2009 Item no. : TC11090039 Price : AUD 395.00 MANAGING AND Format : DVD (With Workbook) LEADING Duration : 10 minutes Copyright : 2009

Price : AUD 395.00 TRAINING POINT GREENER WORKPLACE, A: LEADERSHIP 2: PLANNING AND MANAGING ENHANCING MORALE SUSTAINABILITY TRAINING POINT ISSUES Morale is embedded into every workplace The 'green’ approach to life started as a and has an all-pervasive effect on how grass-roots, community-based movement. IN MANAGEMENT 4: employees communicate and perform, but It has now permeated the mainstream to GENERATIONAL it is not always obvious or easy to explain. the point where businesses across the This program investigates the link globe realise that adopting an DIVERSITY between workplace culture and morale, environmentally sound philosophy is Different ages working together is not new, and the role that leaders play in creating essential – not only to maintain credibility but the phenomenon of three and maintaining morale. Featuring and protect the bottom line, but also to 'generations’– Baby Boomers, Gen X and dramatised scenarios and panel attract the best employees. People Gen Y - all working together is both discussion, this program will assist in expect business to be at the fore with complex and fascinating. This program identifying current and potential issues regard to sustainability – to lead changes highlights the key features of different and offers practical steps to develop a in thinking and behaviour. workforce age groups and the resulting positive workplace culture that engenders issues for managers and those involved in good morale. This program discusses the benefits of recruiting, developing and retaining staff.

'green’ workplaces. The lead must come The program create a complete package Key Learning Points from the top - managers and business of 'generation basics’ which can be used z Explores the links between morale owners find themselves needing to be to build a higher level of awareness and and workplace culture increasingly in tune with sustainable and develop strategies to improve workplace z Discusses strategies for building and ecological thinking. We hear from leading relationships, tap into expertise, and retain enhancing morale business people and sustainability experts talent. This program will be beneficial about environmental corporate culture and across many levels of an organisation, Item no. : WU11090041 practices and gain an insight into how to from business owners to trainers to team Format : DVD (With Leader's Guide, effectively implement a policy and strategy. members working in cross-generational Workbook) Featured in the program are Geoff Gourley groups. Duration : 12 minutes a leading business environmentalist and Copyright : 2009 consultant, representatives from Fujitsu, Key Learning Points Price : AUD 395.00 and Australian Environment Minister, z Understanding the different

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MASS MEDIA & MATHEMATICS UNDERSTANDING RATIO POPULAR AND PROPORTION LINEAR FUNCTIONS: AN This Australian-made, curriculum fit program explores ratio and proportion with COVER GIRL CULTURE: INTRODUCTION the aid of real world practical examples. This Australian-made, curriculum fit From mixing paint to using basic ratio and AWAKENING THE MEDIA program is an excellent introduction to proportion to estimate time, students will GENERATION linear functions. Students with the aid of be engaged and entertained by this By Nicole Clark "Sharpy the Pencil" learn to plot and informative program. sketch graphs from linear equations as Being thin, pretty and sexy brings well as deriving linear equations from Chapters: happiness. Style over substance. Young existing graphs. 1. Introduction girls receive these messages hundreds of 2. Ratio and Proportion - Simplest Form times each day. But who sets these Chapters: and Comparing Ratios impossible beauty standards—and how 1. Introduction 3. Problem Solving With Ratio and can they be changed? In this eye-opening 2. Plotting a Linear Graph from a Linear Proportion documentary, filmmaker Nicole Clark, a Equation 4. Credits former Elite International fashion 3. Sketching a Linear Graph model-turned champion for young girls 4. Deriving a Linear Equation from a Review and their self-esteem, gets in the face of Linear Graph z The approach is in simple easy to advertisers and fashion industry leaders follow and logical steps. The program and calls for something new: integrity and Review draws on practical examples which responsible media for our youth. z This DVD tackles the important but clearly illustrate the usefulness and basic concept of straight line (linear) importance of the concepts. - Gregory COVER GIRL CULTURE pairs images of relationships between two variables. It Norman, Sheffield School, Tasmania girls and women in television and print ads does this in a clear, uncomplicated with footage from the catwalks and manner which is one of its strengths. celebrity media and juxtaposes shocking It covers gradients, intercepts, plotting Item no. : KH11100104 interviews with models and editors from and sketching linear graphs. - Format : DVD major magazines like Teen Vogue and Gregory Norman, Sheffield School, Duration : 16 minutes ELLE with revealing insights from parents, Tasmania Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary teachers, psychologists, body image Copyright : 2009 experts and most importantly, the voices Item no. : LP11100072 Price : AUD 125.00 and heartfelt testimonies of girls Format : DVD themselves. Duration : 21 minutes Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary With rarely seen access into the beauty, Copyright : 2009 fashion and advertising industries, the film Price : AUD 125.00 MEDIA STUDIES addresses issues like today’s increasingly invasive media and sexualization of girls O'ER THE LAND and how consumer culture serves to Directed by Deborah Stratman disempower young women. An important PYTHAGORAS' THEOREM: examination of how advertising and the AN INTRODUCTION With the excuse of freedom, we lose so cult of celebrity have deeply and many things. — Silvio Barile In this Australian-made, curriculum fit negatively impacted teens and young program we discover Pythagoras' women, COVER GIRL CULTURE is a Taking its title from the last line of the first Theorem and see how it is used to solve wake-up call for consumers and everyone stanza of the National Anthem, O’er The real world problems by finding unknown affected by media. Land is a haunting meditation on values in right angled triangles. And who patriotism, violence and militarism in better to introduce and demonstrate the Reviews American culture. theorem than Pythagoras himself? z “A hugely important piece for young

girls everywhere…. [H]elps us Directed by noted experimental filmmaker Chapters: understand why it is so imperative to Deborah Stratman, this evocative 1. Pythagoras Right-Angled Triangles and guide our girls towards a healthy documentary explores the ways in which the Hypotenuse appreciation for the unique and Americans have come to understand 2. Using Pythagoras to Find Shorter beautiful aspects of themselves as freedom and the increasingly Triangle Sides individuals.” - Mariel Hemingway, technological reiterations of manifest 3. Problem Solving Using Pythagoras Actress destiny.

Review z “Clark does not focus on the Stratman captures the marching-band z This DVD provides very useful manipulation of women’s bodies, but battle cries of the country with a strong, stimulus for students who are of our minds…. Funny… [and] controlled tone that proves its point but is encountering Pythagoras for the first heartbreaking.” - Celeste Fraser extremely playful, too. She documents the time. The approach is in simple, easy Delgado, MOLI View wild, wild worlds of gun shows—ones to follow steps and clearly where you can fire machine guns in the demonstrates the geometrical Item no. : TD01880406 forest and literally blow stuff up, concept and its algebraic Format : DVD (Color) reenactments of famous battles with representation. - Gregory Norman, Duration : 80 minutes historically accurate weapons and clothes, Sheffield School, Tasmania Copyright : 2009 border disputes, and the organized frenzy

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Format : DVD The documentary is seemingly Duration : 20 minutes ‘interrupted’ by the incredible story of Col. Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary William Rankin who in 1959, was forced to Copyright : 2009 eject from his F8U fighter jet at 48,000 feet Price : AUD 125.00 without a pressure suit, only to get trapped

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O’er the Land is concerned with the filmmaker. sudden, simple, thorough ways that The final program will discuss identifying events can separate us from the system of The Great Sail conditions present on admission, plus the things, and place us in a kind of limbo. Alexander Calder's La Grande Voile was quality measures that need to be reported Like when we fall. Or cross a border. Or erected on the Massachusetts Institute of to CMS in order to qualify for the updated get shot. Or saved. The film forces Technology campus in 1966 with the artist payment schedule. together culturally acceptable icons of directing the work. As the spectacular heroic national tradition with the steel forms of this monumental stabile rise, Item no. : SD08050795 suggestion of unacceptable historical it is filmed with time lapse and verite Format : DVD consequences, so that seemingly benign photography. One can see that the Duration : 15 minutes locations become zones of moral angst, structure owes its spare elegance to the Copyright : 2009 and in the process, raising troubling precision of its design and construction. Price : USD 249.00 questions about the hallowed concept of Calder remains absorbed in quiet freedom that is so deeply ingrained in our concentration as skeptical students and culture. bemused bystanders observe the somewhat improbable event. This film has Reviews never before been available on DVD. Item no. : SD08050796 z “When [Deborah Stratman] raises her Format : DVD (With Workbooks) camera, seeing is already thinking. In Dancing with Miklos Duration : 18 minutes all her work there is a quality of While watching prolific Hungarian Copyright : 2009 watchful attention, an outraged politic, filmmaker Miklos Jancso make his political Price : USD 279.00 an experience lived through the body thriller, The Blue Danube Waltz, Robert and searched out again through her Gardner begins to film. Jancso's style camera double.” - Millenneum Film seeps through to the documentarian's Journal factual eye to create more than a NEVER EVENTS AND behind-the-scenes exploration; it's an z “Deborah Stratman has created a insightful, eloquent, and entertaining HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED beautiful meditation on militarized tribute from one filmmaker to another. culture, an elegant, logical strand, an INFECTIONS: IDENTIFYING oasis in a festival of generally more Good to Pull THE DANGER hurried films.” - Paste Magazine This short video is about a collaboration A "Never Event" is an adverse medical between the artist Michael Mazur and his event, occurring during care that is z “Deborah Stratman’s films feature master printer, Robert Townsend, as they unambiguous, serious, and preventable. multiple explosions and a jarring mix work on a suite of etchings drawn from the These are shocking medical errors, such of noises and near-silent drones, so it celebrated monotypes Mazur made for as wrong-site surgery, that should never is curious to also discover that an Dante's Inferno. The monotypes were occur. The Centers for Medicare and endearing innocence often prevails, a published in an earlier collaboration Medicaid Services (CMS), has moved longing for some kind of miracle—a between Mazur and Robert Pinsky, the aggressively to improve patient safety by flying saucer or a goblin—just around poet and translator. The etchings will adopting a policy of actively addressing the bend. This sense of wonder become part of a remarkable history of some of these identified Never remains at the heart of O’er the similar undertakings by such other Events—and in fact denies payment to Land.” – Artforum illustrators as Botticelli, Blake, Dore, providers for some of them, when they do Lebrun and Phillips. As seen in the literary occur. This series identifies specific Never z “Stratman has been steadily crafting a magazine AGNI #68. Events and describes practices that can poetic filmmaking practice rich with prevent them. nuance and ripe for reflection, and her Item no. : WL03790661 essayistic films reward careful, Format : DVD (Color) This program identifies specific Never contemplative viewing.” – LA Weekly Duration : 48 minutes Events, and provides background Copyright : 2009 information on the CMS’s decision to Awards Price : USD 215.00 withhold payment of specific never events. z Winner, Best of Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2009 Item no. : DZ08050797 z Winner, Best in Festival, Iowa City Format : DVD (With Workbooks) International Documentary Film Duration : 18 minutes Festival, 2009 MEDICATION Copyright : 2009 z Winner, Best International On Screen Price : USD 279.00 Film, Images Film Festival, 2009 ADMINISTRATION

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NEVER EVENTS AND ecosystems. Chapters: 1. Wild Weather HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED A Sea Change is both a personal journey 2. Volcano and a scientifically rigorous, sometimes 3. Fire and Drought INFECTIONS: PREVENTION humorous, unflinchingly honest look at 4. Earthquake PRACTICES reality. It offers positive examples of new A "Never Event" is an adverse medical technologies and effective changes in Item no. : PL11100058 event, occurring during care that is human behavior that we all must choose Format : DVD unambiguous, serious, and preventable. before the oceans are lost. Duration : 26 minutes These are shocking medical errors, such Audience : Middle - Senior Primary as wrong-site surgery, that should never Reviews Copyright : 2009 occur. The Centers for Medicare and z "Sounds the alarm about ocean Price : AUD 125.00 Medicaid Services (CMS), has moved acidification while offering hope for aggressively to improve patient safety by the future." - Chuleenan Svetvilas, adopting a policy of actively addressing San Francisco International Film some of these identified Never Festival Program Events—and in fact denies payment to OCEANS AND providers for some of them, when they do z "Ocean acidification is a significant occur. This series identifies specific Never part of the climate change story. A COASTS Events and describes practices that can Sea Change does a unique and prevent them. excellent job of conveying this SEA CHANGE, A: IMAGINE complex scientific issue to the public." This program will discuss nursing - Dr. Richard W. Spinrad, NOAA A WORLD WITHOUT FISH practices that can prevent Never Assistant Administrator for Oceanic Ocean acidification threatens over one Events — many of which are already in and Atmospheric Research million species with extinction--and with place in healthcare institutions. them, our entire way of life. z "A magnificent synthesis of science Item no. : MA08050799 and heart." - Anne Alexander Rowley, A Sea Change documents how the pH Format : DVD (With Workbooks) Chair, Oceana's Ocean Council balance of the oceans has changed Duration : 18 minutes dramatically since the beginning of the Copyright : 2009 Awards Industrial Revolution: a 30% increase in Price : USD 279.00 z Grand Prize, Feature Documentary, acidification. With near unanimity, FICA International Environmental Film scientists now agree that the burning of Festival, Goias, Brazil fossil fuels is fundamentally reshaping z Best Coastal Film, Cottonwood Creek ocean chemistry. Experts predict that over Environmental Film Festival the next century, steady increases in Item no. : MA08050800 z Best Nordic Country Documentary, carbon dioxide emissions and the Format : DVD Polar Film Festival, Finland continued rise in the acidity of the oceans Duration : 17 minutes z Green Docs Award, Kosovo will cause most of the world's fisheries to Copyright : 2009 International Documentary Film experience a total bottom-up collapse--a Price : USD 249.00 Festival state that could last for millions of years.

Item no. : DR02790607 A Sea Change broadens the discussion Format : DVD (Color, Closed about the dramatic changes we are seeing Captioned) in the chemistry of the oceans, and NATURAL Duration : 83 minutes conveys the urgent threat those changes Audience : Grades 7-12, College, pose to our survival, while surveying the RESOURCES Adult steps we can take to reduce the severity of Copyright : 2009 climate change. The film's protagonist SEA CHANGE, A: IMAGINE StdBkNo : 1594588929 Sven Huseby asks how will he explain to Price : USD 295.00 his oldest grandchild, Elias, what is A WORLD WITHOUT FISH happening to the oceans and their Ocean acidification threatens over one ecosystems. million species with extinction--and with them, our entire way of life. A Sea Change is both a personal journey NATURAL and a scientifically rigorous, sometimes A Sea Change documents how the pH humorous, unflinchingly honest look at balance of the oceans has changed SYSTEMS reality. It offers positive examples of new dramatically since the beginning of the technologies and effective changes in Industrial Revolution: a 30% increase in GO FACTS: NATURAL human behavior that we all must choose acidification. With near unanimity, before the oceans are lost. scientists now agree that the burning of DISASTERS - WILD fossil fuels is fundamentally reshaping WEATHER, VOLCANO, FIRE Reviews ocean chemistry. Experts predict that over z "Sounds the alarm about ocean the next century, steady increases in & DROUGHT, EARTHQUAKE acidification while offering hope for carbon dioxide emissions and the The natural world that we live in can the future." - Chuleenan Svetvilas, continued rise in the acidity of the oceans amaze us with its beauty and wonder, San Francisco International Film will cause most of the world's fisheries to however it can also be destructive and Festival Program experience a total bottom-up collapse--a terrifying. This Australian-made series state that could last for millions of years. looks at natural disasters and the effect z "Ocean acidification is a significant they have on our environment and on our part of the climate change story. A A Sea Change broadens the discussion communities. The series is broken into Sea Change does a unique and about the dramatic changes we are seeing four sections: Wild Weather, Volcanoes, excellent job of conveying this in the chemistry of the oceans, and Fire and Drought, and Earthquakes. Each complex scientific issue to the public." conveys the urgent threat those changes section explores the effects, possible - Dr. Richard W. Spinrad, NOAA pose to our survival, while surveying the measures to minimise damage, and how Assistant Administrator for Oceanic steps we can take to reduce the severity of they naturally occur. Eye opening footage and Atmospheric Research climate change. The film's protagonist is used to illustrate the awesome power of Sven Huseby asks how will he explain to nature and fun, easy experiments are z "A magnificent synthesis of science his oldest grandchild, Elias, what is demonstrated that students can re-create and heart." - Anne Alexander Rowley, happening to the oceans and their in the classroom. Chair, Oceana's Ocean Council ______52 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

Awards for all types of inland-water fishing; this is Senior High, College, z Grand Prize, Feature Documentary, a place where one can go fishing Adult FICA International Environmental Film practically anywhere there is water. In this Copyright : 2009 Festival, Goias, Brazil program expert angler Shannon Long, Price : USD 160.00 z Best Coastal Film, Cottonwood Creek co-owner of the Hook Fly Fishing Shop, Environmental Film Festival begins by showing viewers the easiest z Best Nordic Country Documentary, way to get started, spin casting with a rod Polar Film Festival, Finland and spin cast reel, which allows any COLORADO ADVENTURES: z Green Docs Award, Kosovo fishing enthusiast to use lures instead of International Documentary Film having to use bait. Then we travel to Clear RAFT COLORADO Festival Creek, outside Golden, where Shannon, Eileen Dakta, the General Manager of sporting his fly-fishing reel, shares his River Runners asks, "Have you been Item no. : DR02790607 expertise on how to catch fish; then he white water rafting in Colorado yet?" And Format : DVD (Color, Closed demonstrates the finer points to fly-fishing; for good reason, Colorado offers some of Captioned) also he carefully explains what to look for the greatest river rafting in the whole world. Duration : 83 minutes when buying fly-fishing equipment and First, the Arkansas River, which is the Audience : Grades 7-12, College, lures. Next, we move to the Arkansas most popular river for whitewater rafting in Adult River, where Greg Felt, guide and the U.S.; it is a State Park with 148 miles Copyright : 2009 co-owner of ArkAnglers Fishing Ship, of rafting and offers something for StdBkNo : 1594588929 describes the Caddisfly Hatch, a natural everyone at every rafting skill level. Price : USD 295.00 phenomenon that occurs every spring and Viewers are advised to gear up with a lures fly-fishing enthusiasts here annually. licensed outfitter; then the key questions to Lastly, Shannon returns to demonstrate ask before choosing an outfitter are three types of fly-casting techniques: flip outlined. Footage highlights include Pine cast; overhead cast; haul cast. Also he Creek Rapids, Numbers, Browns Canyon, PHYS. ED.: offers helpful advice about guides, clothing Big Horn Sheep Canyon,;Royal Gorge and and safety. the Royal Gorge Bridge, the highest RECREATION & suspension bridge in the world; also we SPORTS Item no. : JS05443210 visit FIBark, the oldest whitewater festival Format : DVD in the country, which takes place in Salida;

Duration : 30 minutes we view incredible freestyle kayaking; then COLORADO ADVENTURES: Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, delight in the Hooligan Race. Next, the CLIMB COLORADO Senior High, College, 5-day, 72-mile journey on the free flowing Adult Yampa River takes you through the heart Colorado's Rocky Mountains provide Copyright : 2009 of the famous Dinosaur National some of the best and various types of rock Price : USD 160.00 Monument to view incredible canyons; it climbing, which is why people come from also includes the exciting Warm Springs all around the world to climb Colorado. Rapids. Then we journey as John Wesley This program takes us to Eldorado Powell did in 1869, exploring the Gates of Canyon State Park where we meet Jenny Ladore on a 4-day, 44-mile trip on the Herman, who is relatively new to climbing, COLORADO ADVENTURES: Green River into Utah. Lastly, just north of and Adam Hufford, an experienced rock MOUNTAIN SKI Gunnison National Park, we take in the climber, who explains that the great thing sites of a 3-day, 9-mile journey through about climbing in Colorado is that there OPERATIONS - HOW A SKI Gunnison Gorge and Black Canyon on the are challenges for every skill level; some RESORT WORKS Gunnison River. of which require little or no equipment, Skiing and snowboarding today are big while costs for serious climbing can add business. Of course it wasn't always that Item no. : HN05393212 up. Viewers are introduced to the various way. 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This unique way of seeing rich with political satire, is sure to Review the laws of motion in action is informative stimulate discussion and reflection." - z "When it comes to motorsports, as well as entertaining and will enhance Peter M. Haas, Professor, nobody knows the landscape better the understanding of movement with real Department of Political Science, than Bandimere, the last remaining world situations and scenarios. University of Massachusetts Amherst host of an elite-level national series." -The Denver Post Chapters: z "Hilarious, therapeutic, inspiring. The 1. Introduction Yes Men are geniuses." - Naomi Klein, Item no. : FG05533379 2. Forces author of The Shock Doctrine and No Format : DVD 3. Newton's Laws of Motion Logo Duration : 45 minutes 4. Projectile Motion Audience : Primary, Intermediate, 5. Circular Motion and Centripetal Forces z "This is the year's top documentary Junior High, Senior High, 6. The Pool Table film." - New Scientist College, Adult 7. 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PHYSICS OF POLITICAL Awards CONSTRUCTION z Audience Award at Panorama Selection, Berlin International Film Using physics to build a bridge between SCIENCE Festival design and construction, how we get from z Audience Award, Planete Doc Film point A to B. This Australian-made, Fetival (Warsaw) curriculum fit program explores how YES MEN FIX THE WORLD, z Audience Award, Berkshires bridges are made, with a focus on the THE Independent Film Festival physics used in design and construction. Two daring political activists, posing as top The elements of bridge building are executives, infiltrate conferences and pull Item no. : AC02790610 explored step by step, from conception to off pranks designed to provoke better Format : DVD (Color) completion - including factors such as business practices. Duration : 87 minutes materials used and how costs are Copyright : 2009 governed by environmental, aesthetic and THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a StdBkNo : 1594588996 functional elements. These key issues are screwball true story that follows two daring Price : USD 295.00 discussed by Technical Manager Cliff and imaginative political activists - Andy Sagot and Senior Structural Engineer Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno -- as they Natalie Balcott from The Robert Bird infiltrate the world of big business and pull Group. Their first hand knowledge gives off outrageous pranks that highlight how an invaluable look into how these corporate greed is destroying the planet. RACISM structures bring land and people together but also illustrate the shortfalls of bad One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow design. Chemical spokesperson, gets on the SAY MY NAME biggest TV news program in the world By Nirit Peled Chapters: (BBC World News) and announces that 1. Introduction Dow will finally clean up the site of the In a hip hop and R’n’B world dominated by 2. What Do You Want a Bridge for? largest industrial accident in history, the men and noted for misogyny, the 3. Know Your Materials (Stress, Strain, Bhopal catastrophe. The result: as people unstoppable female lyricists of Say My Young's Modulus) worldwide celebrate, Dow's stock value Name speak candidly about class, race, 4. So What Kind of Bridge Do You Want to loses two billion dollars. People want Dow and gender in pursuing their passions as Build? to do the right thing, but the market female emcees. This worldwide 5. Torque About It: Designs That Work decides that it can't. The reality hits Andy documentary takes viewers on vibrant tour 6. Getting over it: Challenges now and in and Mike like a ton of bricks: we have of urban culture and musical movement, the future Credits created a market system that makes doing from hip hop’s birthplace in the Bronx, to the right thing impossible, and the people grime on London’s Eastside and all points Item no. : PE11100018 who appear to be leading are actually Philly, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, and L.A. 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From emerging artists filled with ______54 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk new creativity, to true pioneers like MC part of their lives. We are invited into the documents the life cycle of the northern Lyte, Roxxanne Shante, and Monie Love, homes and lives of these two Australian herd of elk in Yellowstone National Park, these are women turning adversity into art. teenagers and learn out about their beliefs, which once was endangered by poachers, rituals, worship, holy days and holy sites. but today is protected by the National Park Notes We see the Naomi's bat mitzvah - her Service; these new policies emphasize the z South by Southwest Film Festival coming of age celebration - and discover natural process and cycles of life, which z DOXA Documentary Film Festival that in many respects, their lives are no has helped the herd's size increase z Full Frame Doc Film Festival different from any other teenager in 21st three-fold. Viewers will be enthralled z AFI Dallas Film Festival century Australia. seeing a cow elk defending her calf time z Sarasota Film Festival and time again from a coyote; a grizzly z Women of Color Arts & Film Festival Chapters: bear chasing down a calf and catching it; z International Black Women's Film 1. Introduction big bulls during a rutting season battle; elk Festival 2. Jewish Beliefs calves at play; and views of the elk as they z Roxbury Film Festival 3. Ritual and Worship battle the elements in all seasons. 4. Holy Days, Holy Sites Collectively, these rare views of the Item no. : YA01880405 5. Holy Rituals: Becoming Bat Mitzvah animals in their natural setting are the high Format : DVD (Color) 6. Judaism Through My Eyes point of any visit to the park at any time of Duration : 73 minutes year. Copyright : 2009 Item no. : SZ11100014 Price : USD 295.00 Format : DVD Review Duration : 29 minutes z "Highly Recommended. This Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary documentary documents the life cycle Copyright : 2009 of the northern herd of elk in Price : AUD 125.00 Yellowstone National Park. The herd's RELIGIOUS size, once fluctuating due to poachers and predators, is now maintained by a STUDIES modern; it illustrates the difficulties of

BEING MUSLIM IN 21ST survival posed by predators and BEING CHRISTIAN IN 21ST weather and shows various aspects CENTURY AUSTRALIA of elk behavior such as maternal care, CENTURY AUSTRALIA Multicultural nations like Australia are dominance relationships among "We live in a Christian country"… or do we? home to people from many cultures with males, and reproductive activities; Christianity might be the religion that most many different religious beliefs. In thus the dynamic interaction of all life Australians nominate as their faith, but Australia, Islam has grown in prominence processes is made clear. The elk's what does being a Christian mean? There as many people from Muslim countries chief predators are the grizzly bear, are many different ways in which people make Australia their home. In this the coyote, and the wolf. The program practise their Christian faith and in this Australian-made, curriculum fit program is informative, the science is sound, Australian-made, curriculum fit program we are invited to see what it is like to be and the narrative is clear." -Gary we meet an average Christian teenager, Muslim in Australia, through the eyes of Greenberg, Wichita State University Caleb Vines, and discover how his faith two Muslim teenagers. Mohammed moved impacts on his everyday life. We explore to Australia from Iraq when he was age Award the beliefs and principles of Christianity, five, and Jazra, who originates from Sri z Best Environmental Ecological Film the importance of the Bible, various forms Lanka, moved here when she was four. -Mountainfilm Film Festival of worship, and sacred structures. This is We get an intimate insight into what a rare opportunity to see through the eyes everyday life is like for Mohammed and Item no. : FA05443099 of a young person living out a faith that Jazra: their beliefs, ritual and worship, Format : DVD dates back thousands of years, in sacred places, sacred times, and the five Duration : 30 minutes contemporary Australian society. pillars of Islam - Shahadah, Prayer, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Fasting, Zakat and Hajj. College, Adult Chapters: Copyright : 2009 1. Introduction Chapters: Price : USD 160.00 2. What Do Christians Believe? 1. Introduction 3. Spreading the Word and Observing 2. What do Muslims believe? Rituals 3. Ritual and worship 4. Rituals and Worship 4. Sacred times ANIMAL STUDIES: 5. Sacred Structures 5. Sacred places 6. How Others See Us and Popular 6. Islam through our eyes YELLOWSTONE'S OTTERS Misconceptions AND FRIENDS Item no. : NH11100015 Millions of people have visited Yellowstone Item no. : AC11100013 Format : DVD National Park, but there is another region Format : DVD Duration : 26 minutes in this area where relatively few humans Duration : 23 minutes Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary have traveled, the Yellowstone Lake Audience : Junior - Middle Secondary Copyright : 2009 region, which contains an immense variety Copyright : 2009 Price : AUD 125.00 of wildlife and unusual geologic features Price : AUD 125.00 that create a truly unique habitat. This

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offers superb cinematography on land and SCIENCE: beneath water, while using one of BEING JEWISH IN 21ST Yellowstone's most adorable creatures, CENTURY AUSTRALIA NATURAL & river otters, to help guide us through this The ancient religion of Judaism is incredible wilderness that is truly like no practised in many parts of the world, PHYSICAL other place in the world. Narrated by comprising an integral part of the everyday Sandy Mortimer, we follow the otters lives of Jewish people - providing a deep ANIMAL CONSERVATION: through all four seasons, and on our connection with rich ancestral traditions journey we are introduced to bison, wolves, and observances. In this Australian-made, ELK OF THE NORTHERN coyotes, fox, elk, bighorn lambs, and curriculum fit program we gain a HERD antelope, and we view the migration of the fascinating insight into the lives of two cutthroat trout on the most important Offering exceptional wildlife footage, this journey of their lives. Jewish teenagers - Anton and Naomi. For classic award-winning program both, their faith is a very real and important ______55 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

Item no. : YP05533100 HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR Format : DVD Duration : 82 minutes KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, Senior High, College, ANIMALS - ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: Adult INVERTEBRATES: BIRDS Copyright : 2009 CRUSTACEANS AND Our first category of living things is Price : USD 210.00 animals with a backbone or vertebrates. MOLLUSKS This is the one thing they have in common Soft-bodied invertebrates that live in water and their other characteristics can be very or on land are grouped as mollusks. Snails, different. We start out with birds. These HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR clams, mussels and squid are an example. are warm-blooded animals. No matter Mollusks usually have a shell and a fleshy what the temperature outside, their body KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - living part; this body has a very distinctive temperature stays the same and they have ANIMALS - foot or way to move itself. Mollusks are feathers to help keep them warm. They one of the most varied life forms and can vary in size from the tiny hummingbird to a INVERTEBRATES: be found in places from mountains to huge ostrich. Birds have 2 legs and 2 ARTHROPODS - oceans. Crustaceans are also wings. They also have a beak and no invertebrates with a tough coating or shell teeth. Birds are hatched from eggs. Many ARACHNIDS on the outside of their body. Shrimp, birds can fly, but not all flying animals are Arachnids or spiders are an animal and lobster and clams are an example. Our birds, and there are even some birds that invertebrate or without a backbone. They first project is a contemporary octopus can't fly. Our first project is a colorful, have an exoskeleton, a two-part with a very dominant eye. Then it's a wall paper toucan mask. Next is a beautiful segmented body, and 8 jointed legs; they decoration of your favorite crustaceans watercolor bird mobile featuring commonly are also predators and attack other using glue. Last, create pearl and shell seen birds. Last, we create a clay bird's animals. First, what's a spider without a beads from clay. nest filled with different types of eggs. web? Create your own glittery window cling. Then it's time for a very whimsical Item no. : KF05393254 Item no. : WA05533256 interpretation of a spider from found Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) materials. Last, we take an in-depth look Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes at a real spider with a drawing technique. Audience : Primary, Intermediate, Audience : Primary, Intermediate, Adult Adult Item no. : TU05443252 Copyright : 2009 Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Primary, Intermediate, Adult Copyright : 2009 HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR Price : USD 160.00 KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR AMPHIBIANS FISH Amphibians are our next category of This programs' category is fish - these are KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - animals with a backbone. They hatch from vertebrates that live in water and are ANIMALS - jelly covered eggs and start out their lives typically cold blooded, which means their under water, breathing with gills. The body temperature changes depending on INVERTEBRATES: babies look very different from adult the temperature around them. Fish have ARTHROPODS - INSECTS amphibians. One example is tadpoles and scales and 2 sets of paired fins and adult frogs. They usually live on or near several unpaired fins. Fish also use gills to Our next classification of animals is water and adults can breathe through breathe and most lay eggs. Our first insects. These are invertebrates, which lungs or gills. They are cold blooded which project is a tropical fish bowl that never mean they do not have a backbone, but means their body temperature depends on needs food! Then we join Heather they are arthropods, which mean they the temperature of their environment. Lancaster for a clay fish fossil. Next, we've have a hard exoskeleton or tough coating They have smooth skin and no scales. caught a rainbow trout that we can keep on the outside of their body. Their body Some examples are frogs, toads and forever. Last, we learn machine sewing to has 3 parts: the head, thorax and salamanders. Our first project is with create a crazy quilted fish. abdomen. Insects have 3 pairs of jointed Heather Lancaster, a hinged salamander legs, compound eyes and 2 antennae or made from foam board. Then it's time for a Item no. : PB05393257 feelers and also one or two pairs of wings. fun, "dancing" frog made from Styrofoam. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Insects are cold blooded and many have a Next, it's another type of salamander Duration : 30 minutes life cycle called metamorphosis. Some made from clay and this one is perched on Audience : Primary, Intermediate, insects that you might have seen are: your pencil! Last, it's a crazy quilt card Adult crickets, wasps, bees, grasshoppers, featuring your favorite amphibian. Copyright : 2009 beetles, moths, and flies, but there are Price : USD 160.00 thousands more. Our first project is a clay Item no. : ZH05443255 dragonfly with great iridescent wings. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Then we make a personal mouse pad by Duration : 30 minutes creating your own butterfly stamps. Next, Audience : Primary, Intermediate, it's a giant Styrofoam ant. And last, we HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR Adult have a cute bumblebee made from felt. Copyright : 2009 KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS -

Price : USD 160.00 Item no. : HG05533253 ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES:

Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) MAMMALS Duration : 30 minutes This program's category of animals is Audience : Primary, Intermediate, mammals. These are animals with a Adult backbone. Mammals also have 4 limbs, Copyright : 2009 which can be arms, legs or even flippers. Price : USD 160.00 We look at a broad category of mammals.

Here are some facts: Female mammals

______56 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk have the ability to produce milk to feed squirrel sock puppet. Then we've got more HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR their babies. Mammals have hair or fur fuzzy, giant pipe cleaners to transform into that help them adapt to temperature a Zebra. Last, it's your favorite mammal KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - changes. Almost all mammals give birth to t-shirt: from panthers to birds made into a live young instead of laying eggs. They tote or duffel bag. PLANTS - TRUE PLANTS: breathe though lungs. Mammals are the FRUITS AND VEGETABLES most intelligent creatures on earth. They Item no. : WL05393260 This program focuses on another common learn to adapt to many different climates Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) way we see plants everyday - fruits and and living conditions. Some mammals are Duration : 30 minutes vegetables. Fruits are a part of the plant tame, some are wild, some are very large Audience : Primary, Intermediate, and the way that flowering plants spread and some are small. First, we create an Adult seeds for new plants. Vegetables are interchangeable mammal using clay - Copyright : 2009 actual parts of the plants - they can be the you'd be surprised how many animals you Price : USD 160.00 stem or stalk like celery, the leaves like can create from a few shapes. Next, get lettuce, roots like carrots or the bulb like an fuzzy with a wired dog or maybe you have onion. First, we have a new use for old another animal in mind? Then it's time for t-shirts: learn how to transform them into more clay. Learn how to create beads that HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR aprons with a real fruit stamp. Then corn copy the hide or fur of your favorite turns into a paintbrush for creating a frame. mammal. Last, it's a pop-up book featuring KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - Next, we create jewelry using clay beads whales. ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: that mimic orange slices. Last, we create an overhead look at a farm or garden Item no. : VT05443258 REPTILES using beans and seeds. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) This program's animal group is reptiles. Duration : 30 minutes The word reptile means to creep. This Item no. : WA05393263 Audience : Primary, Intermediate, group of animals has dry, scaly skin, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Adult breathes air and most lay eggs, though Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 many snakes have live babies. They are Audience : Primary, Intermediate, Price : USD 160.00 also cold blooded; their body temperature Adult changes with their environment. They Copyright : 2009 have 4 short legs or no legs at all. Some Price : USD 160.00 examples are crocodiles, alligators, lizards, HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR turtles and snakes. First, we have a stained-glass snake. Use the pattern from KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - its skin to contrast with the background. HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: Then it's an alligator; its rough skin is created with an egg carton technique. KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - MAMMALS - CARNIVORES Next, it's a clay turtle with a hidden This program's animal category is surprise. And last, we learn how the PLANTS - TRUE PLANTS: carnivores. These are mammals with a chameleon changes color. TREES AND BUSHES backbone that feed mostly on meat. What Some of the most familiar plants are trees an animal eats is influenced by how it Item no. : WC05443261 and bushes. Trees are a woody plant with looks. Meat eaters have strong jaws and Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) a distinct main stem, or trunk. At maturity, teeth designed for tearing and crushing. Duration : 30 minutes trees are usually the tallest of plants, and Usually carnivores prey on other animals Audience : Primary, Intermediate, their height and single main stem are what for food rather than grazing on plants. Our Adult make them different from shrubs, which first carnivore is an owl made from paper. Copyright : 2009 are shorter and have many stems. Trees Then it's a matching game - match paws Price : USD 160.00 are perennials, plants that live for at least and fur patterns in this easy game. Last, three years. Our first project is a seed it's the wild cats of the jungle. Learn a new container made to look like a tree. Then fabric technique for giant wall art. HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR we create clay letters as room decor with a fun technique for creating texture. Last. it's Item no. : PH05533259 KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - some of the products made from trees in Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) PLANTS - TRUE PLANTS: one project. Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Primary, Intermediate, FLOWERS Item no. : FG05443264 Adult Our study of living creatures in this Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Copyright : 2009 program is about plants. The plants we Duration : 30 minutes Price : USD 160.00 feature are all known as land plants. Most Audience : Primary, Intermediate, plants have the process of photosynthesis Adult in common; this is the process that allows Copyright : 2009 plants to take energy from the sun. Plants Price : USD 160.00 HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR also have cell walls. Instead of dividing plants by scientific classes, we feature 3 KIDS 12: LIVING THINGS - ways we see plants every day. The first ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: type is flowers. Flowers or blossoms are a HUMMINGBIRDS, THE: A part of the plant - usually the prettiest! We MAMMALS - HERBIVORES start out with creating canes from clay to GUIDE TO HUMMINGBIRDS Our first classification of mammals is make flowers. Then we use color pounded herbivores. These are animals with a from real flowers to make artwork. Next, 1 backbone that eat only plant materials. it's a sewing technique with ribbon to Filmmaker and author Dr. Carlo Ferraro Plant eaters usually have large incisor make rosettes. Last, we learn to make (Venezuela: Paradise for Birds) presents a teeth for cutting and chewing plants. They spirelli flower shapes. high-definition digital guide to 113 have large molars for grinding tough plants hummingbirds (62 in Disk 1 and 51 in Disk and they have a different digestive system Item no. : NB05533262 2) recorded in their natural habitats, to allow for slow digestion of plant fibers. Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) showing the birds' fieldmarks and behavior Elephants are our first project - it's hard to Duration : 30 minutes through territorial displays, perching, believe that an animal this large eats Audience : Primary, Intermediate, nesting, feeding and/or hovering. plants. We've designed a clay frame that Adult Produced with no narration as a precise copies an elephant's hide. From large to Copyright : 2009 guide to hummingbird identification, small, the next herbivore is a comical Price : USD 160.00 viewers will see a variety of wide, medium and close-ups shots, which show the ______57 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk incredible colors hummingbirds are able to Swallow-tailed Hummingbird, Amazilia animation and in-field demonstrations to produce on their forehead, throat, gorget, Hummingbird and the Olive-spotted explain the genetics and techniques of chest, belly, tail and/or back. A Bonus Hummingbird. inbreeding, chronicling the development of Section of stills is included; also a PDF hybrid seed corn and its role in the that lists the English and scientific name of Item no. : ZF05533268 productivity of the modern corn plant. each hummingbird may be accessed Format : DVD using a computer. . Duration : 30 minutes Award Audience : Primary, Intermediate, z CINE Golden Eagle Award Item no. : GP05393266 Junior High, Senior High, Format : DVD College, Adult Item no. : BN05533280 Duration : 62 minutes Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Price : USD 160.00 Duration : 10 minutes College, Adult Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, Copyright : 2009 Senior High, College, Price : USD 210.00 Adult HUMMINGBIRDS, THE: Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 HUMMINGBIRDS OF THE HUMMINGBIRDS, THE: A TROPICS GUIDE TO HUMMINGBIRDS Filmmaker and author Dr. Carlo Ferraro (Venezuela: Paradise for Birds) takes WILD GARDENS: 2 viewers on a hummingbird journey in the ANZA-BORREGO DESERT - Filmmaker and author Dr. Carlo Ferraro tropics, where some of the most beautiful (Venezuela: Paradise for Birds) presents a hummingbirds species in the world can be WILDFLOWERS 1 high-definition digital guide to 113 found. In Costa Rica we view the birds at Host Martin Hale introduces California as hummingbirds (62 in Disk 1 and 51 in Disk the Rancho Naturalista, the Savegre one of the world's premier wild gardens. 2) recorded in their natural habitats, Lodge, the La Paz Waterfalls, the Bosque For every four flowering plants in the showing the birds' fieldmarks and behavior del Tolomuco, the Dantica Lodge, the United States, one is found in California; it through territorial displays, perching, Paraiso del Quetzal and the Reserva de is one of the world's botanical hot spots. nesting, feeding and/or hovering. Monteverde; in Panama at the Lodge Los Our first visit is to the Anza-Borrego State Produced with no narration as a precise Quetzales, the Canopy Tower Lodge and Park, located in the western Sonoran guide to hummingbird identification, the Sierra Llorona Lodge; in Ecuador at Desert about 140 miles southeast of Los viewers will see a variety of wide, medium the Mindo Cloud Forest, the Posado El Angeles. We explore Coyote Canyon and and close-ups shots, which show the Escanso, and the Cabanas San Isidro. Mountain Palm Springs and discover a incredible colors hummingbirds are able to variety of familiar as well as hard-to-find produce on their forehead, throat, gorget, Item no. : VM05393269 wildflowers. Collectively, the desert bloom chest, belly, tail and/or back. A Bonus Format : DVD is a breathtaking sight. Flora observed Section of stills is included; also a PDF Duration : 30 minutes include: Sand Verbena; Dune Evening that lists the English and scientific name of Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Primrose; Desert Hibiscus; Desert each hummingbird may be accessed College, Adult Tobacco Plant; Rattlesnake Weed; using a computer. Copyright : 2009 Broad-Leafed Gilia; Beavertail Cactus; Price : USD 160.00 Lax-Flower; Ajo Lily; Desert Sunflower; Item no. : GH05443267 California Fan Palms; Desert Chicory; Format : DVD Twining Snapdragons; Bigelow Duration : 52 minutes Monkeyflower; Ghost Flower. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, NATURAL AND PHYSICAL College, Adult Item no. : NV05393383 Copyright : 2009 SCIENCE - LEVEL 2: Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 210.00 Duration : 30 minutes BIOLOGY - CORN 1: THE Audience : Junior High, Senior High, MIRACLE OF CORN College, Adult This award-winning program allows Copyright : 2009 HUMMINGBIRDS, THE: viewers to visualize the miracle of corn Price : USD 160.00 coming to life by combining time-lapse HUMMINGBIRDS - sequences, cinematography, and clear DAZZLING JEWELS footage in a descriptive introduction to seed germination, pollination, As the title points out, hummingbirds truly WILD GARDENS: photosynthesis, and plant maturation. are nature's "dazzling jewels." This ANZA-BORREGO DESERT - documentary, shot on location in Costa Award Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil WILDFLOWERS 2 z CINE Golden Eagle Award and Peru, in high-definition by filmmaker Host Martin Hale continues our Sonoran and author Dr. Carlo Ferraro (Venezuela: Desert journey through the Anza-Borrego Item no. : TA05443279 Paradise for Birds), provides Desert, one of the most spectacular desert Format : DVD never-before-seen close-ups of these wildflower regions in the world. Here we Duration : 10 minutes extraordinary birds, which includes their are taken to Jojoba Wash, Canyon Sin Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, morphology, their nutrition and metabolism, Nombre, Alta Bisegna Wash and Split Senior High, College, scenes of their behavior, their relationship Mountain; in each sight we discover Adult with flowers, and their adaptability to the beautiful scenery and find nature's Copyright : 2009 environment. 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Item no. : PF05443384 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, WILD GARDENS: EAST Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) College, Adult Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 MOJAVE DESERT - Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Price : USD 160.00 College, Adult WILDFLOWERS Copyright : 2009 Thousands of people drive through the Price : USD 160.00 East Mojave Desert every day on their way to or from Las Vegas, Nevada. As WILD GARDENS: they go down the highway from Baker, CHAPARRAL (ELFIN California, many are unaware they are passing through one of the great natural WILD GARDENS: FOREST) - WILDFLOWERS 2 treasures of California. As host Martin ANZA-BORREGO DESERT - Host Martin Hale delves deeper in the Hale explains, "prepare yourself for Chaparral landscape, aka the Elfin Forest, jaw-dropping scenery"; this vast preserve WILDFLOWERS 3 visiting the Santa Ana/Elsinore Mountains' and surrounding area is the most Host Martin Hale continues our Sonoran area, starting with a surprising find of magnificent desert in the state. It has its Desert journey through the Anza-Borrego wildflowers in the nearby Gavillan Hills, own unique flora and sights and once Desert to reveal more wonders of this which are northeast of Lake Elsinore. Also you've seen it you'll never forget it. On one fabulous desert locale. We begin at Pinyon old movies of some Santa Ana/Elsinore hand are volcanic cones and lava flows, Mountain Road, a little known treasury of Mountains waterfalls are featured; plus we while on the other are the Kelso dunes, wildflowers; then it's Mine Canyon, where visit some rare riparian habitats in the and, of course, eye-popping wildflowers we find the remains of a Native American lower elevations. Flora observed include: are featured along with majestic vistas and village and see pictographs drawn by California Poppy; Cream Cups; Baby Blue a Joshua tree forest. Flora observed ancient Native Americans. Mine Wash is Eyes; Golden Fields; Tidy Tips; Caterpillar include: Giant Four-O-Clock; Yellow awash in flowers and the scenery here Phacelia; Indian Paintbrush; Chinese Desert Primrose; California Butterweed; combines to make this a unique and Houses; Parry's Larkspur; California Plum Fried Egg Flowers; Mojave Aster; memorable experience. Flora observed Seed; Yellow Pincushion; Fiesta Flower; Common Phacelia; Spotted Langloisias include: Wishbone Bush; Freckled Chaparral Gilia; Miniature Lupine; (Lilac Sunbonnet); Humble Gilia; Bigelow's Milkvetch; Hedgehog Cactus; Blackbush; Common Muilla; Mariposa Lily; Grass Iris; Monkeyflower; Spiny Menodora; Desert Desert Rock Daisy; Purple Mat; Ephedra; Owl's Clover; Miner's Lettuce; Bush Thistle; Desert Plantain; Banana Yucca; Lacepod Mustard; Yellow Heads; Desert Sunflower; California Bee Plant; Wild Scarlet Gaura; Bristly Langloisia; Palmer's Hyacinth; Sweetbush; Chinese Houses; Cucumber. Penstemon; Desert Marigold; Desert Parish Larkspur; Lark's Claw; Brittlebush; Globe Mallow; Antelope Bush; Heath Aster; Chuparosa; Groundcherry; Woolly-Daisy; Item no. : ZT05443387 Claret Cup Cactus; Gooding's Verbena; Desert Lavender; Whispering Bells; Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Purple Or Gray Ball Sage; Mariposa Lily; Apricot Mallow; Cheese Bush; Desert Duration : 30 minutes Apache Plume; Desert Five-Spot; Poppy; California Buckwheat. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Hedgehog Cactus. College, Adult Item no. : WE05533385 Copyright : 2009 Item no. : KA05393389 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : 30 minutes Duration : 30 minutes Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Audience : Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult College, Adult Copyright : 2009 WILD GARDENS: Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 Price : USD 160.00 CHAPARRAL (ELFIN

FOREST) - WILDFLOWERS 3 Host Martin Hale delves deeper in the WILD GARDENS: Chaparral landscape, aka the Elfin Forest, WILD GARDENS: JOSHUA CHAPARRAL (ELFIN visiting the Santa Ana/Elsinore Mountains' TREE NATIONAL PARK - area, starting with a surprising find of FOREST) - WILDFLOWERS 1 wildflowers in the nearby Gavillan Hills, WILDFLOWERS Chaparral, the name conjures visions of which are northeast of Lake Elsinore. Also Host Martin Hale continues our Sonoran the old west, but actually the Chaparral old movies of some Santa Ana/Elsinore Desert journey through the Anza-Borrego landscape makes up a good part of the Mountains waterfalls are featured; plus we Desert to reveal more wonders of this California countryside. Called by some an visit some rare riparian habitats in the fabulous desert locale. We begin at Pinyon "Elfin Forest," it consists of oak, sage and lower elevations. Flora observed include: Mountain Road, a little known treasury of scrub; it's also the home of many species California Poppy; Cream Cups; Baby Blue wildflowers; then it's Mine Canyon, where of gorgeous wildflowers. Host Martin Hale Eyes; Golden Fields; Tidy Tips; Caterpillar we find the remains of a Native American guides us on our Chaparral visit, which Phacelia; Indian Paintbrush; Chinese village and see pictographs drawn by begins in the Santa Ana, Elsinore and the Houses; Parry's Larkspur; California Plum ancient Native Americans. Mine Wash is Santa Margarita Mountain Range, which Seed; Yellow Pincushion; Fiesta Flower; awash in flowers and the scenery here extends down part of the coast of Chaparral Gilia; Miniature Lupine; combines to make this a unique and Southern California, and includes the San Common Muilla; Mariposa Lily; Grass Iris; memorable experience. Flora observed Mateo Canyon Wilderness Area. Flora Owl's Clover; Miner's Lettuce; Bush include: Wishbone Bush; Freckled observed include: Skullcap; Red Maids; Sunflower; California Bee Plant; Wild Milkvetch; Hedgehog Cactus; Blackbush; Purple Nightshade; Star Lily; Hog Potato; Cucumber. Desert Rock Daisy; Purple Mat; Ephedra; Virgin's Bower; Yerba De Chivato (Herb Of Lacepod Mustard; Yellow Heads; Desert The Kid Goat); Engelmann Oak; Item no. : LG05533388 Hyacinth; Sweetbush; Chinese Houses; Thread-Leaved Brodiaea; Dwarf Checker Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Parish Larkspur; Lark's Claw; Brittlebush; Bloom; Tomcat Clover; Pacific Pea; Duration : 30 minutes Chuparosa; Groundcherry; Woolly-Daisy; Sharp-Toothed Black Snakeroot; Shooting Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Desert Lavender; Whispering Bells; Stars; Melilotus Indica; California College, Adult Apricot Mallow; Cheese Bush; Desert Buckwheat; California Buttercup; Copyright : 2009 Poppy; California Buckwheat. Johnny-Jump-Up; Suncup; Chocolate Lily; Price : USD 160.00 Sticky Monkey-Flower. Item no. : AR05443390 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Item no. : HN05393386 Duration : 30 minutes Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Duration : 30 minutes College, Adult

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WILDFLOWERS MOJAVE DESERT - WILD GARDENS: SAN Host Martin Hale confirms what John Muir BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS once said about California's San Gabriel WILDFLOWERS Mountains, "they are the most up and Like the East Mojave Desert the West - WILDFLOWERS 1 down range he ever traveled." Part of Mojave Desert is volcanic and occurs at Just east of the San Gabriel Mountains Southern California's transverse range, higher elevations; it is a hotbed of and part of the same transverse range are these mountains sit astride some of the wildflowers and natural beauty. Host the San Bernardino Mountains. Once most populous areas in the world. They Martin Hale guides us from the volcanic mined for gold and logged for timber, are an inescapable presence here, area known as Fossil Falls, through the El these mountains today offer all of us situated east and north of Los Angeles. Paso Mountains, then into Red Rock another kind of natural treasure: They rise up very steep and the tallest Canyon State Park, where we see unique wildflowers. Here our host Martin Hale peak is Mount San Antonio, locally known and beautiful wildflowers of the region, takes us down a little known forest service as Mount Baldy, because of the scarcity of including two of the desert's most beautiful road, called IN08, which winds through trees. However, as we happily discover, wildflower species. Flora observed include: some amazing wildflower country ending this rugged range has almost Desert Aster; Interior Goldenbush; finally at a beautiful little waterfall. After indescribable beauty, with more waterfalls Fremont's Pincushion; Desert Chicory; that, our visit to an Aspen grove yields up than any other region in Southern Prince's Rock Cress; Indigo Bush; Wallace even more floral delights and spectacular California; also it is home to many Woolly Daisy; Mariposa Lilies; Desert scenery. Flora observed include: Creek beautiful chaparral and mountain Parsley; Parish's Larkspur; Desert Candle; Monkeyflower; Woodland Star; California wildflowers. Flora observed include: Early Thistle Sage; Broad-Flowered Gilia; Saxifrage; Blue Dick; Littlefoot Nemophila; Onion; Narrowleaf Goldenbush; Gilia; Parry's Linanthus; Purple Owl's Clover; Child's Blue-Eyed Mary; Bush Poppy; Fleabane Daisy; Bishop Lotus; Snow Plant; Palmer's Monkeyflower; Bush Poodle Dog Bush; Smoothleaf Yerba Western Wallflower; Giant Blazing Star; Peppergrass; Scalebud; Layne's Milkvetch; Santa Plants; Plummer's Mariposa Lily; Indian Pinks; Scarlet Larkspur; Chaparral Yellow Peppergrass. Hartweg's Iris; Gilia; Dark Blue Delphinium; Plant; Gunsight Clarkia; Santa Cruz Island Pale-Leaved Serviceberry; Snowdrop Suncup; Scarlet Bugler; Grinnell's Item no. : FU05393395 Bush; Showy Penstemons. Beardtongue; Yellow Yarrow; Hoaryleaf Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Ceanothus; California Bell; Martin's Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : LD05533391 Paintbrush; Caterpillar Phacelia. Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) College, Adult Duration : 30 minutes Item no. : ZD05443393 Copyright : 2009 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Price : USD 160.00 College, Adult Duration : 30 minutes Copyright : 2009 Audience : Junior High, Senior High, Price : USD 160.00 College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 160.00 SEX EDUCATION

WILD GARDENS: SAN HIS AND HERS: GENDER BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS WILD GARDENS: THE AND SEXUALITY SANTA ROSA MOUNTAINS, Body hair, muscles, changing body shape, - WILDFLOWERS 2 periods, mood swings, indecision over the Host Martin Hale concludes the series in BOX CANYON, PAINTED most trivial things… erections, wet dreams, the scenic San Bernardino Mountains, CANYON - WILDFLOWERS breaking voices, hormones running home to the tallest peak in Southern Palm Springs, California, is an epicenter of rampant, the maturation of sex organs… California, San Gorgonio Mountain. We three great wildflower sites and host it's puberty, and it's all happening… For begin in Holcomb Valley, which was Martin Hale expertly guides us through all both males and females, it can be a named for the miner who discovered gold three. The range of mountains closest to daunting stage of life, but the good news is here in 1860; today, it's a wonderful place Palm Springs is the Santa Rosa/San - it's normal and it happens to everyone! In to discover wildflowers. Exploring Jacinto Mountains, which are the this Australian-made, curriculum fit mountain slopes and backcountry trails, westernmost reach of the Sonoran Desert. program, a teenage female and a teenage we are introduced to unique species of Some of the wildflowers we discover here male presenter candidly and comfortably flowering plants, along with a variety of are transitional; also we find a waterfall in explain the changes that go on for more common wildflowers. Flora observed the desert. Nearby, Box Canyon and adolescents during puberty, making these include: Violets; Slender Phlox; San Painted Canyon, though relatively sometimes difficult topics accessible for Gabriel Beardtongue; Baldwin Lake; unknown, offer beautiful desert habitat older children and teenagers alike. Mojave Linanthus; Flannelbush with areas full of wildflowers if the rains (Fremontia); Ydbergs' Horkelia; Indian have been good. Flora observed include: Chapters: Tobacco; Desert Eriastrum; Elegant Giant Woolystar; California Thistle; 1. Introduction Lupine; Miniature Lupine; Prickly Poppy; Mariposa Lily; Granite Gilia; Phacelia; 2. What is Puberty? Common Goldenstars; Mariposa Lily; Woolly-Daisies; Monardella Nana; Lord's 3. What Changes Can't We See? Yellow-Throated Phacelia; Bush Mallow; Candle; Golden Yarrow; Desert 4. What Changes Can We See? Dwarf Brodiaea; California Fuchsia; Sunflowers; Interior Goldenbush; Rose 5. Reproductive Changes Mountain Dogwood. Mallow; Indian Paintbrush; Desert 6. Puberty Ups and Downs

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Norman castle in the country, where the and groom may receive a new handmade SO. movie Braveheart was filmed. On the buggy as a cherished wedding gift. In the Cooley Peninsula we learn of its legends highlands of Guatemala, ancient rituals STUDIES/SCIENCE of the Children of Lir, the Brown Bull of are still practiced, where chickens are Cooley, and prehistoric stone monuments. sacrificed, rather than humans, to old S: Next, to the town of Clones with it's stories Mayan deities. Christian beliefs are often GEOGRAPHY/CULT of the 1840's Irish Famine and traditional mixed with those ancient and obscure Irish lace; then Lisburn with its history of practices in quixotic ways; sometimes on URES Irish Linen; Limavady, where the tale of mountaintops, sometimes on the steps of the beloved Irish ballad, Danny Boy, a cathedral. Copan, in Honduras, was began; Londonderry, which is famous for found buried in the jungle in the 1830's; it ALASKA, THE: VENTURE its huge political murals; then one of the is a magnificent complex of temples TO ALASKA great Anglo Norman castles in the world is underlain by recently discovered tunnels. Alaska is many things to many people; it's at Carrickfergus Castle. Traveling south, Here we find the great Hieroglyphic a destination, an attitude, and an escape. along the Shannon River, is the legendary Stairway of Copan, which is perhaps the The name itself speaks to us of unfettered medieval monastery of Clonmacnoise; largest single text in the world, certainly wilderness and limitless ambition; it along the coast at Annestown young the longest text from pre-Columbian embodies many dreams. It has been lasses show their skills on horseback; we America. The Barrier Reef of the tamed today in many ways, yet there is still tour Wexford and relive the tragic Caribbean, along the eastern shore of adventure and challenge there. There are experience of the famine emigrants Belize, is a contrast to the ancient Mayan unusual lifestyles still lived in remote aboard the ship Dunbrody. Along the world. Submerged with the fish, we get a locations here, keeping faith with old ideas Lakes of Kilarney is Muckross House and chance to see a surprising variety of and ideals. While wildlife is no longer as Abbey. In the Shannon region is Limerick underwater life that thrives here, even visible from the highways, a Castle and the beautiful towns of Adare though the reef itself faces a list of threats disappointment to hurried visitors, the wild and Ennis. In County Galway stands the to its very existence. Lastly, modern cities creatures are there; they survive and mythical and mysteriously carved Turoe contrast with remote villages, and both are thrive in lonely, secluded places. This Stone from the 3rd century BC. Knock part of this thriving world today that has stunning documentary takes us along the Shrine is a famous pilgrimage site, called emerged from a jungle beginning. byways of the past, to meet the people, to the "Lourdes of Ireland"; in Connemara is view the wildlife and to find the Kylemore Abbey; at Ballymount we visit a Item no. : PK05533271 adventuring spirit that has drawn seekers, carriage-making shop; and in County Format : DVD sourdoughs, saints and sinners, to the Mayo we find Ceide Fields, the most Duration : 80 minutes adventure that is Alaska. extensive Stone Age monument in the Audience : Junior High, Senior High, world. Heading northwest we learn of the College, Adult Item no. : WC05533097 holy well of Tobernalt, Carrowmore, the Copyright : 2009 Format : DVD largest group of megalithic monuments in Price : USD 210.00 Duration : 76 minutes all the British Isles and the reputed resting Audience : Junior High, Senior High, place of the legendary Queen Maeve. College, Adult Copyright : 2009 Item no. : ZG05533217 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES: Price : USD 210.00 Format : DVD Duration : 78 minutes CUBA ON FIRE - Audience : Junior High, Senior High, MYTHOLOGIES AND College, Adult Copyright : 2009 ORIGINS OF CARNIVAL AROUND THE WORLD Price : USD 210.00 Santiago is Cuba's second largest city, ADVENTURES: NEW after Havana, and it is the country's most exotic, filled with various ethnic groups ZEALAND from Europe, African and Asia. With such Steven and Elin begin their adventure of LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES: a mixture of cultures it is no wonder the New Zealand visiting the volcanic sites of Carnival of Santiago de Cuba is the North Island, seeing craters, mud baths BENEATH THE JUNGLE largest and most spectacular of all the and geysers; next, near the eastern sea AND BEYOND island's carnivals; it is an explosion of coastal town of Kaikoura, they get the color, music and dance. What is beneath chance of a lifetime to swim with about (MESOAMERICA) the surface of this event that is filled with 500 wild dolphins. Mesoamerica. About 1,000 years before profound and spiritual meaning? And what the time of Christ a consortium of compels and inspires people to be a part Item no. : PN05393101 autonomous city/kingdoms developed and of it? 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This engrossing documentary welcomes day was "Victory," and the centerpiece of Item no. : PL05393278 you to the many worlds of the Maya, the memorial is "Lady Victory," a 12-foot, Format : DVD exploring Belize and Guatemala, which one-ton bronze sculpture who stands on a Duration : 25 minutes hold the stories and sites of the great 5-foot granite pedestal beneath a copper Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, classical Maya past, as well as their dome supported by granite pillars, holding Senior High, College, culture today. We begin in the Caribbean a sword in her left hand and a wreath of Adult port of Belize City and Belize's eastern peace in her right; beneath her striding Copyright : 2009 coastline, which features the world's feet are the flags of the defeated. The Price : USD 160.00 second largest barrier reef. Nearby we pillars represent the Army, Marine Corps, explore the ancient city of Altun Ha; then Navy, Air Corps, Coast Guard and visit a Mayan home in Santa Rita. We Merchant Marine and bear the names of journey by boat to Lamanai, a large the state's 16 WW II Medal of Honor ceremonial center with ancient Mayan SO. recipients. Behind the statue are two more architecture; then through treeless bronze sculptures: the "Lone Soldier"; also savanna and rainforests to Placencia. We STUDIES/SCIENCE a battlefield grave marker, which visit the Mennonite community of Spanish symbolize the fallen warrior. The Outlook, then the ancient city of Cahal S: HISTORY sculptures are the work of Thomas Jay Pech. In Nim Li Punit we examine ancient Warren of Rogue River, Oregon, who tombs; hike through the Cockscomb PRINCETON FORUM, THE: previously worked on the state's Vietnam Nature Reserve, the only Jaguar preserve Veterans' Memorial in Holmdel and in the world; then return to the Mopan HISTORY - DR. LESLIE Korean War Veterans' Memorial in Atlantic Maya village and witness a traditional City. thanksgiving. We tour famous sites in HAYLING (TUSKEGEE Guatemala City; visit the ruins of Quirigua; AIRMEN) Item no. : WG05393401 take a boat trip to a Maya Research center; Dr. Leslie Hayling spent the majority of his Format : DVD explore La Antigua and Chichicastenango professional adult life being a dentist; Duration : 90 minutes with its wonderful market; visit a renowned however, when he was 18. he did what Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, mask maker's shop; then admire women's millions of Americans, who were part of Senior High, College, distinctive halo-type headdresses in what is called "The Greatest Generation," Adult Santiago. Lastly, in Peten province, we did and enlisted in the military during Copyright : 2009 explore the ruins and wildlife of Tikal World War II. In fact, he trained in the Air Price : USD 210.00 National Park, one of the most important Force at Tuskegee Army Air Field in cultural and natural reserves in the world. ______62 Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: [email protected] Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk

WORLD WAR II - THE NEW positions for the US State Department, Professional Counselor, Susan I. including the Near Eastern Bureau's Josephson, M.S.W., Clinical Social Worker, JERSEY WORLD WAR II Director for Jordan, Lebanon, & Syria. Mindy Milam, M.S.W., Clincal Social Worker, Rebecca Stilling, M.S.W., Clinical MEMORIAL: A VETERAN'S Item no. : RW05443297 Social Worker, Reverend Grant E. Storms, DAY TRIBUTE - LEVEL 1 Format : DVD Pastor, Karen Weissbecker, Ph.D., This program documents the 2008 Duration : 30 minutes Genecist. In Chapter 2, Coming Out, Veteran's Day Dedication Ceremony in Audience : Senior High, College, segments include: The Process of Coming Trenton of the New Jersey World War II Adult Out; Telling Our Parents; Coming Out As Memorial, which honors the more than Copyright : 2009 An Adult. In Chapter 3, Media Stereotypes, 560,000 New Jersey men and women who Price : USD 160.00 segments include: Images in the Media; served in the armed forces during the war, Stereotypes; In Chapter 4, Christianity, and especially the more than 13,000 who segments include: Is Homosexuality gave their lives in support of a cause they Natural?; Is Homosexuality an believed in; it also interweaves actual PRINCETON FORUM, THE: Abomination?; Does God Love Me? archival footage shot to help viewers Fundamentalism and Responses. In better understand the courage and grace POLITICAL SCIENCE - Chapter 5, Advice, segments include: You of the men and woman known as the STEVE FORBES Are Not Alone; Be True to Yourself. "Greatest Generation." The theme of the Steve Forbes is the CEO of Forbes, Inc. day was "Victory," and the centerpiece of Item no. : YJ05443270 and the editor-in-chief of the business the memorial is "Lady Victory," a 12-foot, Format : DVD magazine Forbes; he serves on the board one-ton bronze sculpture who stands on a Duration : 50 minutes for Defense for Democracy, as well as the 5-foot granite pedestal beneath a copper Audience : Senior High, College, board of overseers for the Memorial Sloan dome supported by granite pillars, holding Adult Kettering Cancer Center; he's received the a sword in her left hand and a wreath of Copyright : 2009 prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times; peace in her right; beneath her striding Price : USD 210.00 he appears as a regular guest on Forbes feet are the flags of the defeated. The on Fox; and he's the author of A New Birth pillars represent the Army, Marine Corps, of Freedom and The Flat Tax Revolution. Navy, Air Corps, Coast Guard and He is a graduate of Princeton University, Merchant Marine and bear the names of where as a student he and three other the state's 16 WW II Medal of Honor SO. students founded the magazine Business recipients. Behind the statue are two more Today, which is currently the largest bronze sculptures: the "Lone Soldier"; also STUDIES/SCIENCE student-run magazine in the world; also he a battlefield grave marker, which was a Republican candidate in the U.S. S: WOMEN'S symbolize the fallen warrior. The Presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000. sculptures are the work of Thomas Jay In this program he speaks with host Esther STUDIES Warren of Rogue River, Oregon, who Mills about two topics close to his heart: previously worked on the state's Vietnam politics and the economy; also he Veterans' Memorial in Holmdel and WOMEN'S STUDIES: discusses the health savings' account he Korean War Veterans' Memorial in Atlantic uses for his own employees and expounds CLOTHESLINES City. on the Flat Tax used successfully in other With verve and humor this multi-award

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Audience : Junior High, Senior High, A makeshift gold mine on the remote colonialism in Africa in the context of an College, Adult Diosso hillside in Burkina Faso has illuminating discussion of race, beauty and Copyright : 2009 attracted a swarm of gold-diggers, identity. Price : USD 210.00 prospectors, dynamiters, merchants, holy men, gamblers, healers and prostitutes. Review z “Powerful.” – Washington City Paper Living in the promiscuous closeness of a crowded and improvised gold town, these Item no. : TJ05970809 SOCIOLOGY men and women are recklessly Format : DVD determined to find the gold that will Duration : 22 minutes ELLA ES EL MATADOR (SHE change their lives. Copyright : 2009 Price : USD 215.00 IS THE MATADOR) Yet, in Diosso, nothing is easy: the ‘miners’ By Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco are exploited by the ‘bosses’, the dynamiters risk their lives at each For Spaniards—and for the explosion, the healers distribute pills by O'ER THE LAND world—nothing has expressed the the handful (first ones are free, additional Directed by Deborah Stratman country’s traditionally rigid gender roles pills are not) and the prostitutes express more powerfully than the image of the the cold hard reality of their situation. At With the excuse of freedom, we lose so male matador. So sacred was the the end of the day, the little money made many things. — Silvio Barile bullfighter’s masculinity to Spanish identity by the miners is usually lost among the that a 1908 law barred women from the many gambling establishments. Taking its title from the last line of the first sport. stanza of the National Anthem, O’er The Once all the gold is believed to have been Land is a haunting meditation on ELLA ES EL MATADOR (SHE IS THE harvested from a particular site, the entire patriotism, violence and militarism in MATADOR) reveals the surprising history town is dismantled and rebuilt within days American culture. of the women who made such a law at a nearby location. necessary, and offers fascinating profiles Directed by noted experimental filmmaker of two female matadors currently in the Like a modern-day version of a town in the Deborah Stratman, this evocative arena, the acclaimed Maripaz Vega and Wild West, The Hillside Crowd profiles the documentary explores the ways in which neophyte Eva Florencia. These women men and women drawn to this community. Americans have come to understand are gender pioneers by necessity, Each has their own story to tell, their own freedom and the increasingly confronting both bull and social code. But reason for coming here. But the underlying technological reiterations of manifest what emerges in the film as their truest motivation remains the surrounding destiny. motivation is their sheer passion—for poverty and the dream of a better future. bullfighting, and in their pursuit of a dream. Stratman captures the marching-band Award battle cries of the country with a strong, Reviews z Winner, Best Documentary, Brooklyn controlled tone that proves its point but is z “Blends history with up-to-the-minute International Film Festival, 2009 extremely playful, too. She documents the profiles…. A universal saga.” - wild, wild worlds of gun shows—ones Michael Fox, SF360 (San Francisco Item no. : CH05970808 where you can fire machine guns in the Film Society) Format : DVD forest and literally blow stuff up, Duration : 72 minutes reenactments of famous battles with z “It’s impossible not to immerse Copyright : 2009 historically accurate weapons and clothes, yourself in the action.” - Sarah Price : USD 315.00 border disputes, and the organized frenzy Godfrey, Washington City Paper of cheerleaders and motor homes.

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SHOW HOST) dollars, dollar coins; did you ever wonder Item no. : TJ05970809 Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr. where they all come from? Of course, from Format : DVD must have been thinking of Geraldine facilities such as the Mint in Denver, Duration : 22 minutes McSorley when they wrote the lyrics to the Colorado, which is one of six branch Copyright : 2009 popular Irish song, When Irish Eyes Are facilities of the United States Mint, and is Price : USD 215.00 Smiling; this lady, along with her co-host, the single largest producer of coins in the

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Radio Program for over 22 years, through this historical landmark, which spreading cheer for people with a variety struck its first coins back on February 1, of Irish music, topics and guests. Always 1906, to show us exactly how the process up-to-date with information on local Irish YOUNG WOMEN of making coin money is done. Tour Guide activities, this mother of seven, when Ron Aguiar immediately informs us that asked by host Esther Mills to what she paper money is not made at the Mint but at COVER GIRL CULTURE: attributes the show's success, explains the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The AWAKENING THE MEDIA with a bit of an Irish twinkle in her eyes, Chief of Public Affairs, Guillarmo there's a fine line between allowing the Hernandez, explains the functions on the GENERATION listening audience to get to know you, yet Mint, which produces coins for circulation, By Nicole Clark remaining a mystery to them. up to 20 - 30 million a day, as well as mint sets and commemorative coins; it also Being thin, pretty and sexy brings Item no. : CA05393299 stores gold and silver bullion. Tour Guide happiness. Style over substance. Young Format : DVD Tom Fesing enlightens us about the girls receive these messages hundreds of Duration : 30 minutes metals used to make the coins and we see times each day. But who sets these Audience : Junior High, Senior High, stamping presses that can turn out up to impossible beauty standards—and how College, Adult 530 coins per minute; also Jennifer can they be changed? In this eye-opening Copyright : 2009 Debroekert explains the Mint's effective documentary, filmmaker Nicole Clark, a Price : USD 160.00 outreach program. Overall, we see how former Elite International fashion efficiently the Mint is run, making an model-turned champion for young girls incredible profit each year, which, to coin and their self-esteem, gets in the face of an old play on words, "only makes cents." advertisers and fashion industry leaders PRINCETON FORUM, THE: and calls for something new: integrity and Item no. : MA05443216 responsible media for our youth. VOC. ED. - Format : DVD BUSINESS/CAREER/COMM Duration : 25 minutes COVER GIRL CULTURE pairs images of Audience : Intermediate, Junior High, girls and women in television and print ads UNICATIONS: LEE Senior High, College, with footage from the catwalks and SPINELLI (TALK SHOW Adult celebrity media and juxtaposes shocking Copyright : 2009 interviews with models and editors from HOST) Price : USD 160.00 major magazines like Teen Vogue and Lee Spinelli is a broadcast journalist with a ELLE with revealing insights from parents, distinguished career in television and radio; teachers, psychologists, body image she has produced innumerable media experts and most importantly, the voices projects and is currently the Executive WOMEN'S STUDIES and heartfelt testimonies of girls Producer and Host of a news magazine for themselves. women, Changing Images. In this program ME BRONI BA (MY WHITE she speaks with host Esther Mills about With rarely seen access into the beauty, her desire to assist women in being BABY) fashion and advertising industries, the film successful in all walks of life. Staying on Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu addresses issues like today’s increasingly the forefront of new media, she invasive media and sexualization of girls established the Puma Education Weaving together sequences of and how consumer culture serves to Corporation, a non-profit organization hair-braiding salons in Ghana, voice-over disempower young women. An important designed specifically for this purpose. Lee of Oprah rhapsodizing brown-skinned examination of how advertising and the explains that she is currently developing a dolls and animated clips of signature cult of celebrity have deeply and series of workshops and seminars dealing hairstyles, Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) is negatively impacted teens and young with women's issues designed to an artfully composed, thought-provoking women, COVER GIRL CULTURE is a empower women to make positive work that investigates the fraught wake-up call for consumers and everyone changes in their lives; also she adds that relationship between images of beauty affected by media. women need to learn more from men on and power. how they conduct business and shares Reviews several ideas on how to accomplish this. Set to an energetic, funk-infused score, z “A hugely important piece for young Me Broni Ba unfolds through a series of girls everywhere…. [H]elps us Item no. : PZ05443300 intricately structured vignettes and potent understand why it is so imperative to Format : DVD images – none more so than that of young guide our girls towards a healthy Duration : 30 minutes African girls playing with white baby dolls appreciation for the unique and Audience : Senior High, College, from the West. The film mixes grainy black beautiful aspects of themselves as Adult & white footage with colorful shots of individuals.” - Mariel Hemingway, Copyright : 2009 billboards and murals advertising various Actress Price : USD 160.00 hair styles. It incorporates audio snippets of beauty instruction and tips (circa 1950s) z “Clark does not focus on the as well as an emotionally resonant story of manipulation of women’s bodies, but VOC. ED.: FAMILY a young child’s migration from Africa to the of our minds…. Funny… [and] United States and her painful efforts to fit heartbreaking.” - Celeste Fraser & CONSUMER in. 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Item no. : SC10650012 Format : DVD (English, With Traditional Chinese Subtitles, Handbooks) Duration : 37 minutes Copyright : 2009 Price : TWD 500.00

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