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Year in Review for Dealers Year in Review For Dealers Anthropology…………………........ 1 Guidance & Counseling…… 28 Area Studies……………………….. 2 Health……………………… 28 Art & Architecture…………………... 7 History…………………….. 31 Biology……………………………... 13 Mathematics……………….. 36 Business & Economics……………… 15 Music & Dance……………... 37 Careers & Job Search……………… 18 Philosophy & Religion…….. 37 Communication…………………..... 18 Physical Science…………… 38 Criminal Justice…………………..... 19 Political Science……………. 39 Earth Science……………………...... 20 Psychology………………… 41 Education………………………….. 21 Sociology…………………... 43 Engineering…………….…….......... 22 Sports & Fitness…………….. 46 English & Language Arts………...... 24 Technical Education……….. 46 Environmental Science…………...... 24 Technology & Society………. 46 Family & Consumer Sciences……… 27 World Languages…………... 49 Free Preview Clips Online! www.films.com/dealers T: (800) 257-5126, x4270 • F: (212) 564-1332 Anthropology 8th Fire Item # 58430 The Himbas are Shooting Subject: Anthropology This is a provocative, high-energy journey Item # 54408 through Aboriginal country showing why we Subject: Anthropology need to fix Canada's 500-year-old relationship with Indigenous In Namibia, a group of Himbas men and peoples—a relationship mired in colonialism, conflict, and denial. women of all ages have decided to make a film (4 parts, 180 minutes) showing who they are and what their life is like: incorporating key © 2012 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-535-4 moments in their history, daily life, ceremonies, and ancestral ties, Indigenous In the City: 8th Fire the attractions and dangers of modernity, forced and chosen changes, etc. For the Himbas, a people of oral tradition, making a Item # 58431 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-536-1 film about themselves will be a first. Contains nudity associated It’s Time: 8th Fire with indigenous cultures. (52 minutes) Item # 58432 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-537-8 © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-675-6 Whose Land Is It Anyway? 8th Fire Item # 58433 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-538-5 At the Crossroads: 8th Fire Easter Island: Aging Rock Stars Item # 58434 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-539-2 Item # 55671 Subject: Anthropology $169.95 each They’re rock stars growing old. Very, very old. And while some of them are holding up pretty well for their age others have led such a destructive existence, Bridge the Gap they’re falling apart, dissolving where they stand, crumbling into Item # 93804 fragments of their former selves. They’re the stones standing Subject: Anthropology perfectly still and enigmatically straight-faced, on the bare, “Chris is one of the most inspiring new voices windswept hills of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. Can a long-term on TV. He’s part Anthony Bourdain, part archaeological dig crack their mysterious past and can foreign and Anderson Cooper and 100% fresh.” Jerry Kolber, Executive local experts agree on a way to preserve them, before it’s too late? Producer of Brain Games on National Geographic Join Global (28 minutes) Explorer, United Nations Moderator, and accidental funnyman, © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-745-6 Chris Bashinelli, on an introspective adventure across continents. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Chris Bashinelli gave up his acting career to pursue his real passion- using media to bridge Michael Johnson: Survival of the Fastest intercultural gaps around the world. In this series, featured on Item # 57599 National PBS television, Bashinelli traverses the globe from Subject: Anthropology Uganda to Haiti to discover what it’s like to walk in someone else’s In this landmark documentary, Olympian gold shoes for one day. Chris gives new meaning to the term “cultural medalist Michael Johnson embarks on a exchange”. He’s willing to do just about anything in order to make a personal genealogical and scientific journey in a bid to understand genuine human connection. Whether he’s sliding his arm shoulder if he and other world-class athletes are successful as a result of deep up a cow’s backside on an Indian Reservation or screaming slavery. He discovers some disturbing truths about the lives of his like a 12-year-old girl while escaping from venomous bees in enslaved ancestors as he confronts this appalling history and Uganda, he offers viewers a glimpse inside a world they might investigates the role slavery may have played in altering the otherwise never see. He plays, parties, and works side by side with genomes of their descendants. (47 minutes) locals in order to better understand their way of life firsthand. © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-494-3 Bridge the Gap paints a brief, yet colorful picture of life in each country. Chris competes in a rap battle in a Haitian slum, rides It’s Wrong to Pay for Sex: A Debate motorcycles across the mountains of East Africa and harvests Item # 58302 buffalo with the Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge. He discovers how people live, what they care about, and how their lives relate to Subject: Anthropology ours. While we all look, talk and act a little different, at the end of It is an age-old question about what is often the day, we are all the same. (4 parts, 208 minutes) called the world's oldest profession. The notion of paying for sex © 2012 • $519.80 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-890-8 can encompass an incredibly broad range of ideas, from patrons of child prostitutes in Thai brothels to rich Wall Street executives who *Bridge the Gap to Pine Ridge: A Visit with the Oglala support their girlfriends in graduate school. But is it morally and Lakota People-Coming Soon ethically wrong—and should it be legally wrong—to pay for sex? Item # 93805 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-929-9 (114 minutes) *Bridge the Gap: Mongolia-Coming Soon © 2009 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-881-1 Item # 93806 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-058-5 Bridge the Gap: Uganda Item # 93806 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-059-2 Norse: An Arctic Mystery Bridge the Gap: Haiti Item # 58451 Item # 93807 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-060-8 Subject: Anthropology Arctic archaeologist Dr. Pat Sutherland started $129.95 each finding artifacts that weren’t made by indigenous hands, but by Norse traders, possibly as far back as a thousand years ago. Is it possible that this is the site of first contact between native North Americans and Europeans? This program follows Sutherland from the south shore Baffin Island to the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, the departure point for Norse sailing west, searching for trade goods like ivory and furs across the North Atlantic to Canada. (45 minutes) © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-556-9 2 Area Studies Love and Sex in China Item # 53760 Subject: Area Studies The massive imbalance in the sexes due to the From the Series China on China penchant for male offspring since China's single-child policy was Item # 53090 introduced in 1980, means brides are in short supply and the men Subject: Area Studies most likely to find a wife are those in a strong financial position. © 2012 • $1359.60 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-807-2 With the economic liberalization of China and the rise of the The People and the Power: China on China wealthy businessman, an ancient tradition has resurged: the Item # 53095 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-812-6 concubine. Young women, often students from poorer families, This film presents stories and discussions about China’s one-party seek positions as mistresses at the beckoning call of wealthy men. system, how an individual NPC appointee participates in it, and Hidden away in lavish apartments and given large sums of pocket what alternative forms of political expression are possible. Viewers money, they enjoy a life of ease and luxury. The wives of these meet Dilina’er Abudulah, a delegate from the Xinjiang autonomous men have gone to drastic measures to unveil their fickle husbands’ region who represents the Uyghur ethnic minority. Her thoughts crimes. We take a ride with private detectives and meet the one and daily activities are presented alongside commentary from dubbed, ’The Concubine Killer’. (59 minutes) scholars, everyday citizens, and government supporters, including © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-775-3 Xie Chuntao, author of How and Why the CPC Works in China. Everything Has a Price Tag: China on China Haiti: Year Zero Item # 53096 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-813-3 Item # 54355 This film looks at emerging class differences in what was originally designed to be a classless state, with discussions focusing on Subject: Area Studies multigenerational poverty in rural areas and the precarious Haiti is a country in ruins. The earthquake existence of hundreds of millions of migrant workers on the fringes killed more than 200,000 people, left millions more homeless, of China’s cities. For street-level insight, viewers are invited into destroyed the country’s infrastructure and most of it’s buildings and the household of two apartment tenants who are most likely living left it reliant on foreign aid. Amidst all of this, local people are paycheck to paycheck, but who have high ambitions for their young tackling child trafficking gangs that are preying on the poor and son. Expert commentary comes from Fudan University professor needy, marauding gangs of thieves—many of them prisoners who Zhou Dunren, writer Xie Chuntao, and other observers of China’s escaped from jail when the prison was destroyed by the quake and rapidly evolving social landscape. a lack of police. We travelled to Haiti and found a proud people Culture for Billionaires: China on China who are trying to make the best of a terrible situation. We witnessed some remarkable rescue efforts by Mexico’s famous Item # 53097 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-814-0 “Los Topos” (moles). We also saw some businesses re-opening in This program shows how far the country has come in terms of difficult conditions, orphanages springing up to give shelter to cultural production and how it is poised to rival the U.S.
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