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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 Love and Sex in China Area Studies 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. as the children, make-shift homes being built and went on tour with the world’s filmmaking center. Contemporary Chinese literature and Justice Minister. But it will be a long fight back to normality for a the market for books are also important topics, as are censorship, people who have lost virtually everything. Portions with English self-censorship, and why certain motifs are recurrent in Chinese subtitles. (39 minutes) stories. Expert commentary comes from director Eva Jin, film critic © 2011 • $149.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-984-0 Raymond Zhou, film industry analyst Leon Gao, stunt man Zeng Dong, and author Yan Lianke. Sun and Wind but No Water: China on China Syria: Ibrahim's War Item # 53098 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-815-7 Item # 55023 “Promoting growth and protecting the environment is a Subject: Area Studies contradiction,” says Chinese ambassador Chen Mingming, Eleven-year-old Ibrahim just wants to go to insisting that the opulent lifestyle of “people overseas” should school, play soccer with his friends, and help his dad with his work figure into any assessment of his country’s environmental policies. as a laundryman. Instead, he’s ferrying his best friend to a hospital “Isn’t it legitimate for the Chinese to seek the same quality of life? after a missile attack, staying alert for bombs that could fall on his That means economic development.” Others who support the classroom, and spending his spare time scrounging for firewood. government’s approach to ecological problems also appear in this Can he hold out hope for the future? This program journeys to film, such as political observer Xie Chuntao—although he does Aleppo, Syria, to follow the daily ordeals endured by young Ibrahim acknowledge tangible policy splits within China’s leadership and and his family in the midst of the country’s brutal civil war. Viewers the difficulty of balancing environmental protection with the also learn about the rifts in Syrian society brought about by war, constant need for energy and raw materials. For a less ambivalent illustrated by Aleppo's government and rebel-held zones. (28 view, the film turns to activist Chen Faqing as he meets with angry minutes) suburbanites outside Hangzhou—a supposedly “model city” now © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-062-4 plagued by factory pollution.
$169.95 each (Portions with English subtitles, 29 minutes each) The Other China Boom: Part 2—The Drug Squad Item # 55435 Subject: Area Studies The Chinese Hajj The size and industrial scale of the new Item # 55354 Asian drug supply is staggering. Intercepts of Subject: Area Studies the methamphetamine Ice or the ingredients The Hajj, the largest pilgrimage in the world and necessary for its manufacture measure in the fifth pillar of Islam, is a religious duty for every able-bodied tons. Authorities are only managing to uncover a fraction of the Muslim. Follow five Chinese Muslims as they undertake this trade that begins in Myanmar, enters China, and flows on to journey of a lifetime. A major event organized by the Islamic Australia. Foreign Correspondent concludes its investigation of The Association of China, this film tells stories of the event’s Other China Boom by tracing its trail to Australia's front door. (26 organizers, pilgrims and service personnel. Using montage editing minutes) techniques, the film presents this sacred journey by combining © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-735-7 parallel sequences into a unified thread. (45 minutes) © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-098-3
3 Suad Amiry: Thinking Existenz Vietnam: Assessing the Millennium Item # 55443 Development Goals Subject: Area Studies Item # 58226 Born in 1951 in Damascus, Syria. Educated in Subject: Area Studies Architecture at the universities of Beirut and Michigan. Between Vietnam, one of the few Marxist-Leninist states, is still standing. 1991 and 1993 she was a member of the Palestinian peace The Communist Party of Vietnam faithfully represents the rights delegation in Washington. She is the director of the Centre for the and interests of the working class and the nation. Just over thirty Conservation of Palestinian Architectural Heritage and the author years after the country was devastated by war, leaving between of several books. Suad Amiry became a writer by accident, but by one and two million dead, its economy is storming ahead. In 1993, nature she is a true story teller. She tells us about the human side poverty levels were at 58%; now that figure has dropped to 12%. of the occupation, the daily life of Palestinians that live under the (26 minutes) scrutiny and control of the state of Israel. To be able to write, all © 2011 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-810-1 that is needed is to have a story to tell, and Amiry tells us the story of millions of people that one day found their lives usurped, while she reflects on the conflict existing in the region—a conflict that is Democratic Republic of the Congo: essentially about territorial control. A conflict that irremediably Leaving the Conflict Behind? divides two peoples forced to become neighbors by our recent Item # 58228 collective history. (31 minutes) Subject: Area Studies © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-693-0 For many people, the Congo will always be associated with Joseph Conrad’s early twentieth-century novel Heart of Darkness, a title Sweet Poison that has become a by-word for the country. The metaphor remains Item # 55977 a daily reality for former child soldiers Benjamin and David, and Subject: Area Studies Funaha, a young woman held as a sex slave by one of the many Half a trillion dollars have been spent on militias that continue to terrorize the country. The film explores how international aid in the last 50 years. It’s an industry that's this seemingly never-ending conflict impacts on the people of North unquestionable and supported by the world’s biggest celebrities Kivu. (25 minutes) including Bono, Bob Geldof, and Angelina Jolie. But recently, an © 2012 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-812-5 increasing number of experts have begun to criticize the giving game. This documentary dissects the aid industry and reveals Timor Leste: Timor’s Trauma some difficult home truths about “Aid as Business” in the Item # 58230 developing world. Portions with English subtitles. (89 minutes) Subject: Area Studies © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-638-1 For over 24 years, East Timor (now known as Timor Leste) endured a crushing occupation inflicted on them by The Consul's List neighboring Indonesia on the pretext of the fight against Item # 55978 communism. The war was brought to a controversial conclusion in Subject: Area Studies 1999. However, trauma from that period lives on as evidenced by Pierantonio Costa saved nearly two thousand the testimonies of Nelson Belo, Gregorio Saldanha, and Pascal lives during the 1994 Rwandan genocide—those infamous 100 Oliveira, survivors of the infamous 1991 Santa Cruz Massacre. days of terror and bloodshed where almost a million lives were lost. This film recalls the trauma of Timor Leste on the tenth anniversary Risking his own life, Costa traveled in and out of the country, using of its independence. (25 minutes) his own money to get people across the border to safety. This © 2012 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-814-9 beautifully made film pays tribute to the courage of a man who until now has been an unsung hero and who has been compared to Chile: Facing the Past Oskar Schindler. Produced by SGI, Directed by Alessandro Rocca. Item # 58236 (60 minutes) Subject: Area Studies © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-639-8 Few in a suburban Australian neighborhood would know that a part-time nanny and cleaner, living here for Closed Sea many years, is wanted in her native Chile where she’s accused of Item # 57205 violent crimes committed in the service of General Augusto Subject: Area Studies Pinochet’s intelligence agency. As Chile prepares extradition Closed Sea reveals the untold story of papers, Foreign Correspondent follows a twisted trail leading from migrants who attempted to escape Libya to Italy during the 2011 Santiago to Sydney and a woman named Adriana Rivas. (26 war, only to be returned to Gaddafi as a result of a prior agreement minutes) with Berlusconi. This film witnesses abuses faced by those who © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-818-7 dare to attempt an escape. Families are divided and in limbo as Gaddafi’s regime crumbles and the revolution gains pace, though it Aid to Africa Is Doing More Harm is the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg that truly Than Good: A Debate determines the final fate of our protagonists. (63 minutes) Item # 58288 © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-191-1 Subject: Area Studies Advocates of aid to Africa often point out that, because the Inside Fukushima: Beyond the ‘No continent's poverty is so deep and its problems so great, even a Go’ Zone Linear relatively small amount can accomplish a great deal. Skeptics, Item # 57399 however, charge that much of the money given to help Africa has Subject: Area Studies been stolen by corrupt African leaders and actually keeps the Nightline was given rare access to Japan’s shuttered power plant continent from advancing. Does aid to Africa undermine people's and surrounding areas. Radiation experts test Pacific Ocean ability to fend for themselves and do more harm than good? waters surrounding the plant for signs of unsafe levels. (16 Rethink your point of view with this Intelligence Squared U.S. minutes) Oxford-style debate. (107 minutes.) © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-195-9 © 2007 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-867-5
4 Afghanistan Is a Lost Cause: A Debate Laos: The Legacy Item # 58318 Item # 59646 Subject: Area Studies Subject: Area Studies Soon after taking office in 2009, President Obama The locals call them 'bombies'—small bombs only about the size of ordered an additional 17,000 troops and another a tennis ball. But, these tiny munitions have left a deadly legacy in 30,000 at year’s end in the hopes of stanching a rapidly Laos. The United States dropped a staggering 260-million bombies deteriorating situation. Panelists debate the consequences of U.S. on Laos during the Vietnam War. Many didn't explode on impact, withdrawal, the degree of progress, and the chances of success of leaving Laos contaminated with millions of unexploded ordnance. counterinsurgency. They debate whether the Taliban is a threat to Forty years after the end of the war, the 'bombies' are still taking the U.S. and discuss whether it is still a movement of ideological lives and limbs – many of the victims are children. Now, a brave religious zealots. Are its lessons applicable in Afghanistan? They band of women is going where others fear to tread, to find and debate whether Afghan public opinion is on the side of the U.S. destroy the explosives that litter their precious land. (28 minutes) and the Karzai government. (101 minutes) © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-403-0 © 2010 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-897-2 Adrift in Old Age Tiananmen: Australia's Witnesses Item # 60242 Item # 58370 Subject: Area Studies Subject: Area Studies Over 5 million senior citizens live by themselves in Japan. Now, the They had front row seats to one of the most reality is that increasing numbers of them who need care are shocking and oppressive dramas to unfold in modern China: the unable to live out their final days peacefully in one place. They’re Tiananmen Square Massacre. They were the men and women not permitted to stay in either hospitals or care facilities and end up stationed at Australia’s embassy in Beijing, who saw the very best drifting from place to place. There are some free or low-cost and the very worst of human behavior. 25 years later, Australia’s lodgings that were previously homeless shelters and psychiatric eye-witnesses to that dark chapter tell how they hid from gunfire, hospitals which will temporarily accept patients with dementia, but harbored and helped key targets, and smuggled media footage out many seniors have lost any control over their own lives. This of China. (28 minutes) program depicts the reality of Japan’s “drifting” seniors tossed by © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-949-8 the winds of fate – a fate that could befall on anyone. (50 minutes) © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-412-2 Burma (Myanmar): A New Dawn Item # 58382 The Great Japanese Retirement linear Subject: Area Studies Item # 60460 Since the curtain came down and the military junta Subject: Area Studies eased its grip on the nation, dramatic change is evident in some In this irreverent and thought-provoking look parts of Myanmar while in other corners deprivation and dislocation at Japanese society, reporter Anita Rani prevail. Foreign Correspondent’s Sally Sara explores the old and travels across the country to investigate how a nation copes when the new, the past and the prospective future for the new there are simply too many people living to a ripe old age and too democracy in this revealing excursion through Yangon. (26 few having children. What is the effect on the economy with a minutes) massive pension and welfare bill falling on a shrinking workforce? © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-984-9 And what does the fate of this creaking population mean for the rest of the world? While the global population grows, Japan's is Africa On the Move decreasing—and resistance to mass immigration may have Item # 58417 staggering economic and social implications. A BBC Production. (50 minutes) Subject: Area Studies © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-504-4 This documentary series examines the changing face of Africa. Filmed in high definition, these documentaries are a welcome change from the usual bad news we get from that China: The Corrupt Republic continent. What unites these films is each focuses on how an Item # 60781 individual is perhaps able to change Africa. (4 parts, 180 minutes) Subject: Area Studies © 2010 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-999-3 They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts A Dream of Millions: Africa On the Move absolutely. In China, where local Communist officials are Item # 58418 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-523-1 omnipotent and everything from moving to a new house to having A Woman’s World: Africa On the Move a second child requires a permit, corruption has reached Item # 58419 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-524-8 unprecedented levels. Billions of dollars have been embezzled and The Modern Warrior: Africa On the Move getting anything done usually involves paying a bribe. Realizing Item # 58420 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-525-5 that public anger at corruption was threatening Communist Party The Power of Song: Africa on the Move legitimacy, President Xi Jingping launched a wave of investigations Item # 58421 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-526-2 when he came to power in 2012. ‘Economic crimes’ still carry the death penalty and in the past two years, over 300,000 officials $169.95 each have been punished—including ‘Red Prince’ and Politburo member, Bo Xilai. But is this enough to save the system? © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-631-7 China in Turmoil Item # 60245 Subject: Area Studies Demonstrations and riots are erupting with greater frequency throughout China. Ordinary citizens are becoming increasingly outraged by the gap between rich and poor and the corruption of local officials. Will China be able to continue stable economic growth? This program paints the portrait of a nation searching for answers in the midst of turmoil. (50 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-415-3 5 China: Crackdown A Cuban Legend: The Story of Item # 65067 Artist Salvador Gonzalez Subject: Area Studies Item # 92094 As several nations join the fight against Subject: Area Studies ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—China is intensifying its A journey into the realm of Afro-Cuban culture, this film explores crackdown on a resident Muslim community in the remote the world of the celebrated Cuban muralist Salvador Gonzalez, a northwest of the country in what it claims is its own war on terror. charismatic visionary who has single-handedly transformed an The Uighurs have inhabited the sprawling and spectacular Xinjiang Alley in central Havana called Callejon De Hamel ( Hamel’s Alley ) province for centuries, but cells of violent separatists have brought into a world-renowned outdoor art and performance space. a crackdown from Beijing that's making life extremely difficult for Salvador's murals cover walls , doorways and windows reaching the law-abiding majority. Amid claims the Communist government up 6 stories, and his sculptures hang and stand everywhere for two is trying to erase the Uighur heritage and as authorities impose full blocks. The Alley is a monument to the Yoruba culture, a new barriers to reporting in China, Stephen McDonell heads into fusion of African mysticism and pagan ritual as well as a Silk Road territory. (30 minutes) community performance space. Though his murals have brought © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-921-9 him international recognition, Salvador's art is not limited to painting and sculpture. On Sundays, he presides over drummers Indian Roots of Tibetan Buddhism and dancers who come to listen to and dance rumba as the Item # 86488 drums pulsate with African rhythms. Part community activist, part Subject: Area Studies shaman, and indisputable lord of the barrio he is inspired by the ancient religious traditions of West Africa which he uses to create In 1991, Buddhist expert and art historian Benoy performance pieces featuring dancers he has painted , K. Behl photographed the Ajanta paintings in India, an experience transforming them into living embodiments of the African deities that inspired him to explore the spread of Buddhism throughout known as Orishas. These unforgettable tableaux reveal an artistic Asia. In this film, he focuses on Tibetan Buddhist ideas and sensibility that is dynamic and modern, yet recalls the ancient practices that were developed in the University of Nalanda. Study origins of human culture. (80 minutes) at medieval monastic universities in Eastern India was based not upon faith but on logic and pursuit of truth and knowledge through © 2001 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-798-7 intellectual thought, discussion, and debate. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other experts speak about the Indian roots of Tibetan Sierra Leone: A Culture of Silence Buddhism and culture, including developing a Tibetan written Item # 93328 language to facilitate the transfer of knowledge in the 7th century. Subject: Area Studies (49 minutes) Thirteen years after a vicious civil war forced © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-788-8 him to flee his childhood home of Sierra Leone, director Raouf J. Jacob returns to find meaning in a place once forsaken by the rest The Birth of Empire: The East India Company of the world. Travelling across the country, he explores the Item # 86507 sensitive environmental, social, and cultural issues that, even Subject: Area Studies today, remain taboo. He searches for the lost boys, former child soldiers living in the shadows, to see how sucessful attempts to Over the past 10 years, India and China have reintegrate them in soceity have been. He investigates Sierra been among the fastest growing economies in Leone’s controversial diamond mining industry and the role and the world. But at one time England controlled actions of foreign companies in the country. He asks what he India, helping to create its major cities, and was heavily invested in believes is the most important question in African politics: is there China, It was England’s economy and trade that dwarfed others. is still blood on the stone? (53 minutes) And it was all in the hands of the first and greatest multi-national company: the East India Company. On the ground in India, Dan © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-884-7 Snow sets out to discover the motives of those who set up the company at the beginning of the seventeeth century. A hotbed of In The Shadow of Ebola: A Liberian Family’s corruption and greed, and responsible for the deaths of over one Story million people, just how did the Company manage to attain such Item # 94223 power and what led to its explosive decline? (2 parts, 100 minutes) Subject: Area Studies © 2014 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-741-3 In The Shadow of Ebola is an intimate story of The East India Company: Episode 1 a family and a nation torn apart by the Ebola outbreak. The film Item # 86508 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-835-9 follows a Liberian student and his family living divided between the The East India Company: Episode 2 United States and Monrovia, who open our eyes to the ripple Item # 86509 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-836-6 effects the outbreak is having on Liberians living through this crisis—including famine and threatened social unrest. Caught in an $169.95 each invisible war that is painfully reminiscent of the chaos and confusion they lived through during a fourteen-year civil war, a How China Fooled the World family and a people find the compassion and inner resolve to Item # 86520 combat the virus’s spread. (27 minutes) © 2015 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-085-1 Subject: Area Studies China is now the second largest economy in the world and for the last 30 years its economy has been growing Korea: Education Gangnam Style at an astonishing rate. While the West has been in the grip of the Item # 94234 worst recession in a generation, China’s economic miracle has Subject: Area Studies wowed the world, with spending and investment on a scale never Education has powered South Korea's seen before in human history. But could this mighty economic giant stunning economic success. A country once shackled by mass actually be in serious trouble, with massive debts that may never illiteracy now tops academic league tables. But as North Asia be repaid? Robert Peston travels to China to investigate. A BBC Correspondent Matthew Carney reports, its stressed out students Production (51 minutes) also rank as the unhappiest in the developed world. (26 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-939-4 © 2015 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-089-9
6 E-Waste Tragedy Magritte: Night and Day Item # 94716 Item # 54993 Subject: Area Studies Subject: Art & Architecture Illegal electronics recycling is a toxic business Magritte explores the relationship between on a global scale. Why do three quarters of Europe's electronic objects and their representation with a view to waste disappear from the official recycling system? In the suburbs giving new meanings to familiar objects. “Every visible thing hides of Accra, Ghana, children play at dismantling scrapped electronic something else which is visible.” This film provides an overview of equipment, surrounded by toxic fumes in a sadly-famous, the life of the artist and the man, his memories and places he uncontrolled rubbish dump. The film takes this site as its point of visited. An actor presents contradictions and mystery surrounding departure, and is driven forward by Ghanaian journalist Mike his work. (54 minutes) Anane, who is an expert on the environment. He wants to know © 2009 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-604-6 why his country has become the trash can of the developed countries. This lucid and efficient investigation by Cosima Dannoritzer (The Light Bulb Conspiracy) into several European Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto countries, Asia and the U.S., reveals the apparatus of large-scale Item # 54996 trafficking, as well as a complex chain of responsibility and Subject: Art & Architecture collusion. (53 minutes) This documentary follows 200 days in the life © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-092-9 of contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto--a leading presence in the world of modern art. He is the winner of many prestigious awards and his photographs Art & Architecture are sold for millions of yen at overseas auctions. The film shows the sites of the Architecture series shot in southern France, the From the Series Hidden Lives of huge installation art work at 17th Biennale of Sydney, his new work Mathematics at Provence, his art studio while working on Lightning Works of Art Fields, and more. It thoroughly pursues the question Sugimoto's Item # 53599 works pose - "living in modern times, what are these works trying Subject: Art & Architecture to tell us?" A thrilling look into the world of Hiroshi Sugimoto. (44 © 2012 • $849.75 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-924-6 minutes) Raphael: Hidden Lives of Works of Art © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-607-7 Following his move to Rome, Raphael soon cornered the market in Vatican commissions—but the frescoes and tapestries that display his gifts on a grand scale are not his only legacy. Portraits focusing From the Series Hidden Treasures of Australian, on intimate relationships are among Raphael’s finest creations. African, and Indian Art Inviting some of the world’s leading art experts to scrutinize its Item # 55258 Raphael collection, the Louvre allowed them to come into close Subject: Art & Architecture contact with The Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, the enigmatic © 2011 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-940-6 Self-Portrait with a Friend, and a large work that has survived five Hidden Treasures of African Art centuries of trauma, Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan. This film Item # 55260 accompanies Paul Joannides, professor of art history at the Program host Griff Rhys Jones continues his quest to understand University of Cambridge, and Pierre Curie, director of the painting non-Western art forms by travelling to West Africa. Looking beyond unit at the C2RMF restoration department, as they compare the astonishing monetary worth of antique carvings from the opinions and analysis during the Louvre’s Raphael Study Days. region, Jones asks: what makes a piece “authentic” and are such Viewers will discover what happens when treasured images by the objects still produced by artists today? Is there an exact definition master from Urbino are brought down from the walls and removed for what constitutes African art? Has there ever been? The from their protective enclosures. They can be seen, quite literally, investigation starts on Mali’s Bandiagara Escarpment, a hub of in a new light. (52 minutes) Dogon civilization, which invests certain carvings and sculptures Item # 53601 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-926-0 with spiritual significance. Wondering if belief in the power of these Leonardo da Vinci: Hidden Lives of Works of Art objects can survive the march of modernity, Jones shifts his focus Some art scholars would see it as a kind of Holy Grail to Accra, the capital of Ghana. There he encounters further experience—an invitation from the Louvre to come and scrutinize reasons to think of art in the context of time’s passage, as he works by Leonardo, including the Mona Lisa, La Belle Ferronnière learns more about invention and creativity on the continent that (also referred to as Portrait of an Unknown Woman) and Saint gave birth to the human species. (59 minutes) John the Baptist. This film observes just such a gathering, made up © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-942-0 of some of the world’s leading experts on the life and career of the great Renaissance figure. The guests are given access to major works and allowed to examine them under near-perfect conditions. Art of the Night Inaugurating the two-day study period, each painting is taken down Item # 55556 from the wall, extracted from its wooden frame and glass covering, Subject: Art & Architecture and placed in a room on a simple easel, in natural light, just as the Painting at night is difficult and problematic, artist himself would have labored in. It might be superfluous to call so why have so many great artists taken on this an encounter between mortals and immortal art—but there are the challenge? Renowned art critic and presenter Waldemar undoubtedly insights to be gained by studying in such close Januszczak travels across the globe on a fascinating visual journey proximity to Leonardo’s hand, and these insights are made exploring art’s edgy relationship with the night, celebrating the available by extension to the program’s viewers. (52 minutes) nocturnal art of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Velazquez, Hopper, Item # 53603 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-928-4 Magritte and Monet. From the dramatic stories behind Hopper's iconic Nighthawks and Van Gogh's intruiging Starry Night to the $169.95 each truth behind Monet's genre-defining Impression Sunrise, Januszczak leaves no stone unturned as he tries to discover why the dark adds so much extra drama and mystery to art throughout the ages. (61 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-101-0
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From the Series The Impressionists: Painting Simon Schama’s The Power of Art and Revolution Item # 55748 Item # 55272 Subject: Art & Architecture Subject: Art & Architecture Presented by celebrated historian Simon © 2011 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-944-4 Schama, this eight-part series focuses on iconic Gang of Four: The Impressionists—Painting and artists—Caravaggio, Bernini, David, Rothko, Turner, Rembrandt, Revolution Van Gogh, and Picasso—and the cultural, political, and personal forces that drove each one to create. Sumptuous on-location In this program, British art critic Waldemar Januszczak delves into cinematography, superb dramatizations, and Schama’s the back stories of four of the most influential figures in the spellbinding narratives venture directly into the life of each artist— Impressionist movement: Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Pierre- enabling viewers to witness, as if firsthand, the birth of great Auguste Renoir, and Frédéric Bazille. Viewers learn about the paintings and sculptures. Schama delivers more than colorful social and cultural influences that drove each artist toward a new storytelling, however; his consideration of major works is ripe with style of painting, how the formerly disparate group united behind a earnest, startling, and finely tuned interpretations. The eight works set of common artistic goals, and how the Impressionists ultimately of art included in the series are: Caravaggio’s David With the Head challenged and changed art forever. The film journeys from of Goliath; Bernini’s The Ecstasy of St. Theresa; Rembrandt’s The Pissarro’s birthplace in the Virgin Islands to bustling mid-19th- Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis; David’s Death of Marat; Turner’s century Paris and London—both of which, while hardly overflowing Slave Ship with Slaves Thrown Overboard; Typhoon Coming On; with the bucolic postcard imagery often associated with Van Gogh’s Self Portrait; Picasso’s Guernica, and Rothko’s Impressionism today, served as incubators of a revolutionary way Seagram Building Murals. A BBCW Production. (8 parts, 416 to capture the world on canvas. Technological improvements that minutes) helped the movement develop—most notably paint tubes, which allowed greater portability and quicker application—are also © 2006 • $1359.60 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-746-3 examined. A part of the series The Impressionists: Painting and The Power of Art: Caravaggio Revolution. (60 minutes) Item # 37024 • ISBN: 978-1-4213-6230-4 Item # 55273 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-945-1 The Power of Art: Bernini Painting the People: The Impressionists—Painting and Item # 37025 • ISBN: 978-1-4213-6232-8 Revolution The Power of Art: David Although often associated with landscape painting, the Item # 37026 • ISBN: 978-1-4213-6234-2 Impressionists were determined to portray people with the same The Power of Art: Rothko energy and immediacy they applied to fields, forests, and Item # 37027 • ISBN: 978-1-4213-6186-4 architecture. Contemporaries of Monet and Renoir, while perhaps *The Power of Art: Rembrandt-Coming Soon less widely known than those two artists, were superb practitioners Item # 55749 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-747-0 of this socially minded, humanist aspect of Impressionism. Looking *The Power of Art: Turner-Coming Soon closely at the career of Edgar Degas, British critic Waldemar Item # 55750 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-748-7 Januszczak shows how the artist preoccupied with ballet dancers The Power of Art: Van Gogh was also a challenger of deep-rooted traditions and a passionate Item # 55751 • $ • ISBN: 978-0-81609-749-4 recorder of 19th-century life. Januszczak likewise explores the *The Power of Art: Picasso-Coming Soon unusual viewpoints and dramatic perspectives of Gustave Item # 55752 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-750-0 Caillebotte’s paintings from the Place de L’Europe and the rebellious and revolutionary art of Berthe Morisot, Marie $169.95 each Bracquemond, and Mary Cassatt—three female artists who embraced the progressive movement of Impressionism, although history has not given their achievements proper recognition. A part Cartier-Bresson’s Century of the series The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution. (60 Item # 55969 minutes) Subject: Art & Architecture Item # 55275 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-947-5 Few have revolutionized photography as much as French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has. The $169.95 each father of modern photojournalism contributed spreading the "street photography" or "life reportage", a style that influenced generations of photographers. In this documentary, he narrates the crucial moments of his life, such as his meeting with Gandhi, while his From the Series Treasures of shots illustrate his work. Portions with English subtitles. (53 Ancient Rome minutes) Item # 55727 © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-052-5 Subject: Art & Architecture © 2012 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-962-8 The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood Pomp and Perversion: Treasures of Ancient Rome Item # 57199 Item # 55729 Subject: Art & Architecture In this program, Alastair Sooke goes to caves, villas, and the This Grierson Award-nominated film follows underwater ruins of an emperor’s pleasure palace to find examples Josiah Wedgwood, one of the founding fathers of the Industrial of passion and regal spectacle in Roman art. Sooke explains the Revolution and the man who revolutionized English pottery. political significance of monuments like the Arch of Titus and Wedgwood was a self-made, self-educated creative giant, whose statues of emperors as gods, then explores painted celebrations of other achievements might be better known if he wasn’t so eroticism. The legacy of Hadrian—his art collection at Tibur Villa, celebrated for his pottery. Historian A. N. Wilson shows that the iconic Antinous Mondragone, the rebuilt Pantheon—is also Wedgwood was a man with a hand in every part of the covered. Includes a discussion of the Great Cameo of France, revolutionary pie: invention, transport policy, engineering, politics, Tiberius’ Villa at Sperlonga, the Prima Porta frescoes, Trajan’s marketing, education, industrial relations, trade, human rights—and Column, the Warren Cup, and more. Contains mature themes. A philosophy. (59 minutes) BBC Production. A part of the series Treasures of Ancient Rome. © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-187-4 (Portions with English subtitles, 60 minutes) © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-964-2 8
The Art of Russia From the Series Museum Secrets (Series 2) Item # 57422 Item # 57616 Subject: Art & Architecture Subject: Art & Architecture Art historian Andrew Graham Dixon unlocks © 2012 • $1019.70 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-511-7 the mystery, variety, and history of Russia's Inside the National Museum of unique art in this compelling three-part series. He begins with a Anthropology, Mexico City: Museum celebration of the great age of the icon, when Russia was at its Secrets (Series 2) most intense and inward looking. Andrew then discovers Peter the Item # 57619 Great's artistic revolution; relives the glory days of the Russian high This impressive modern museum, visited by 2 million people every baroque; and assesses the influence of “the Wanderers”—an year, tells the story of Mexico from before the Aztec civilization to extraordinary group of artists comparable to the Impressionists. the Spanish conquest. In this episode, a chemical engineer and The series concludes with a look at the tumultuous period of 20th some Mexican athletes help us discover whether the rubber ball century Russia, from the Revolution of 1917 to the present day. A used on the ancient Aztec playing field contained a human skull. BBC Production. (3 parts, 150 minutes) We dive into a watery cave to discover the Mayan path to the © 2010 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-321-2 afterlife, and then investigate the power of a crystal skull to reveal Smashing the Mold: The Art of Russia the secrets of the dead. We pilot an ancient canoe through Aztec Item # 42086 • ISBN: 978-1-62102-077-6 canals to discover why modern Mexico City is sinking, and then Roads to Revolution: Art of Russia discover how a valiant gladiator defeated a score of Aztec warriors Item # 57423 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-322-9 armed with the world’s sharpest swords. And finally, we discover Out of the Forest: Art of Russia how a dress worn by the most notorious woman in Mexican history Item # 57424 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-323-6 led to a massacre that changed history. A BBC Production. A part of the series Museum Secrets (Series 2). (42 minutes) $169.95 each © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-514-8
From the Series High Art of the Low Countries From the Series Museum Secrets (Series 3) Item # 57501 Item # 57623 Subject: Art & Architecture Subject: Art & Architecture © 2013 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-399-1 © 2013 • $1359.60 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-518-6 Dream of Plenty: High Art of the Low Inside the Chateau of Versailles: Museum Countries Secrets (Series 3) Andrew Graham-Dixon shows how the art of Item # 57630 Renaissance Flanders evolved from the craft Inside the Chateau of Versailles, we take a Musketeer training of precious tapestries within the Duchy of course to discover the real man behind the fictional D’Artagnan. Burgundy into a leading painting school in its own right. Starting his We find out why Champagne bubbles (and if it’s good for you), journey at the magnificent altarpiece of Ghent Cathedral created by then discover that Marie Antoinette was not the frivolous dim-wit the Van Eyck brothers, Andrew explains their groundbreaking that some would have us believe. We examine a strange weapon innovation in oil painting and marvels at how the colors they created by an inventive assassin, then investigate the suspicious obtained can still remain so vibrant today. Andrew describes how, death of a king’s mistress. And finally, we visit an historic French in the early Renaissance, the most urgent preoccupation was not observatory to recreate a discovery that connects humanity to the the advancement of learning, humanist or otherwise, but the Last stars. (43 minutes) Judgment. People believed they were living in the end of days; a © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-525-4 subject popular with preachers and artists and intensely realized in swarming microscopic detail by Hieronymus Bosch. A BBC Production. A part of the series High Art of the Low Countries. (52 Museum Secrets (Specials) minutes) Item # 57632 Item # 57502 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-400-4 Subject: Art & Architecture Boom and Bust: High Art of the Low Countries Two special episodes of Museum Secrets Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at how the seemingly peaceful explore the treasures hidden in two of the countries of Holland and Belgium—famous for their tulips and world's leading museums. The State Hermitage in St. Petersburg windmills, mussels and chips—were in fact forged in a crucible of and the National Archaeological Museum of Greece are renowned conflict and division. He examines how a period of economic boom for their incredibly rich collections, stunning architecture, and the driven for the first time by a burgeoning and secular middle class prominent roles they have played in the history of world art, culture, led to the Dutch golden age of the 17th century, creating not only and achievement. Museum Secrets takes viewers inside these the concept of oil painting itself, but the master painters Rembrandt venerable institutions to see some of the fabulous objects inside— and Vermeer combining art and commerce together as we would from the mysterious tattooed mummies of the Siberian Steppes to recognize it today. A BBC Production. A part of the series High Art the incredibly sophisticated 2000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism. of the Low Countries. (52 minute) A BBC Production. (2 parts, 100 minutes) Item # 57503 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-401-1 © 2012 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-527-8 *Inside the State Hermitage Museum: Museum Secrets $169.95 each (Specials)-Coming Soon Item # 57633 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-528-5 Inside the National Archeological Museum of Athens: Museum Secrets (Specials) Item # 57634 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-529-2
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Private Life of a Masterpiece (Series 6) Great Artists (Series 2) Item # 57641 Item # 59669 Subject: Art & Architecture Subject: Art & Architecture Behind beautiful canvases and sculptures lie tales This 11-part series explores the lives and of political revolution, wartime escapes, massive works of some of art history’s most influential artists including: ego clashes, social scandal, financial wrangling Piero della Francesca; Holbein; Caravaggio; and Whistler. Shot in and shocking violence. In these fascinating programmes, the truth ten countries and in over forty churches and galleries, Tim Marlow behind many seminal works of art is uncovered, illuminating little takes us on a unique tour of the life and times of the artists and known facts and surprising revelations. Series Six focuses on The examines what makes them great. Each episode takes a fresh look Census at Bethlehem by Brueghel which is in fact a political at the artists, their work and the world in which they lived. We see painting in disguise, attacking the Spanish occupation and how Goya’s masterful painting style and haunting visions combined oppression of the Netherlands in the mid-16th Century; The to produce some of the most powerful images in the history of Annunciation by Jan van Eyck, who was at the vanguard of the Western Art. We discover how the American painter Mary Cassatt, Northern Renaissance; and God's Child by Gauguin. A BBC the only female artist in the series, challenged the male dominated Production. (3 parts, 150 minutes) world in which she lived, and against the odds, became the only © 2006 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-536-0 American accepted into the group known as the Impressionists. *The Census at Bethlehem: Private Life of a Masterpiece And why Caravaggio, who lived a life marred by violence and even (Series 6) murder, produced some of the most remarkable art ever made. (11 Item # 57642 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-537-7 parts, 264 minutes) © 2003 • $839.40 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-355-2 The Annunciation: Private Life of a Masterpiece (Series 6) *Piero della Francesca: Great Artists (Series 2) Item # 57643 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-538-4 Item # 59670 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-356-9 *God's Child: Private Life of a Masterpiece (Series 6) *Holbein: Great Artists (Series 2) Item # 57644 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-539-1 Item # 59671 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-357-6
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*Stubbs: Great Artists (Series 2) Great Artists (Series 1) Item # 59673 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-359-0 Item # 59654 *Goya: Great Artists (Series 2) Subject: Art & Architecture Item # 59674 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-360-6 This is a major 14-part series in which art *David: Great Artists (Series 2) historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the Item # 59675 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-361-3 most important artworks of some the greatest artists in history. *Delacroix: Great Artists (Series 2) Shot on location in over 50 galleries, museums, churches, and palaces throughout Europe and the United States, Great Artists Item # 59677 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-363-7 (Series 1) is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. *Whistler: Great Artists (Series 2) Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an Item # 59678 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-364-4 uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the works and artists *Rodin: Great Artists (Series 2) featured. (14 parts, 336 minutes) Item # 59679 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-365-1 © 2002 • $979.30 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-340-8 Cassatt: Great Artists (Series 2) *Giotto: Great Artists (Series 1) Item # 59680 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-366-8 Item # 59655 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-341-5 *Schiele: Great Artists (Series 2) *Leonardo: Great Artists (Series 1) Item # 59681 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-367-5 Item # 59656 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-342-2 *Dürer: Great Artists (Series 1) $129.95 each *-Coming Soon Item # 59657 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-343-9 *Michelangelo: Great Artists (Series 1) The Art of China Item # 59658 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-344-6 Item # 60408 *Raphael: Great Artists (Series 1) Subject: Art & Architecture Item # 59659 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-345-3 Chinese art is increasingly making itself felt *Titian: Great Artists (Series 1) across the world, but while it has long Item # 59660 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-346-0 fascinated people, it still remains little understood in Western *Bruegel: Great Artists (Series 1) culture. Andrew Graham-Dixon sets out to discover what makes Item # 59661 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-347-7 Chinese art and sculpture so intriguing and unique. With access to *El Greco: Great Artists (Series 1) the very best of China’s art over 3000 years, Andrew explores the Item # 59662 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-348-4 historical context in which the paintings, sculptures and other Rubens: Great Artists (Series 1) pieces were created so that we can better appreciate them. The Item # 59663 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-349-1 series takes Andrew on an extraordinary journey around China, Velàzquez: Great Artists (Series 1) visiting stunning locations that inspired Chinese artists over the Item # 59664 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-350-7 centuries as he assesses Chinese art from 1000 BC to the present *Rembrandt: Great Artists (Series 1) day. A BBC Production. (3 parts, 150 minutes) Item # 59665 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-351-4 © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-452-8 *Vermeer: Great Artists (Series 1) The Art of China: Part 1 Item # 59666 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-352-1 Item # 60409 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-453-5 *Turner: Great Artists (Series 1) The Art of China: Part 2 Item # 59667 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-353-8 Item # 60410 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-454-2 *Van Gogh: Great Artists (Series 1 The Art of China: Part 3 Item # 59668 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-354-5 Item # 60411 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-455-9
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The Impressionists, with Tim The Art of Gothic Marlow Item # 86553 Item # 59691 Subject: Art & Architecture Subject: Art & Architecture This absorbing three-part series ventures deep The Impressionists have become the into the heart of 19th-century-Britain to explore how the Gothic international superstars of Western painting. The works of Manet, style rose from ridicule to define the era. It is a period synonymous Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne and the great with progress. But at the same time, a group of men and women successors of Impressionism like Gauguin and Van Gogh appear seemingly spurned the modern age, turning to the medieval past everywhere and are well loved by the public and academics alike. as a source of inspiration. From Horace Walpole to John Ruskin to Despite their popularity and accessibility, Impressionist paintings Bram Stoker, this is the story of how an old, derided style of were radical works of art which instigated a revolution in the art architecture became a defining characteristic of the Victorian age world. The Impressionists broke away from traditional, academic and was as important as the Romantic and Modernist movements art in their technique—by using touches of color to capture that it bridged. Discover how the Gothic style went from vulgar to movement and light and in their subject matter, depicting ordinary the height of fashion; how it first symbolised tradition before people at work and leisure in Paris and on the banks of the Seine. becoming the hallmark of industrial progress; and how it gave In this eight-part series, we are reacquainted with the artists—their voice to the savage horrors of the time. A BBC Production. (3 motivations and loves, triumphs and disappointments, and with parts, 150 minutes) their work. Presenter Tim Marlow takes us on a journey through © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-743-7 late nineteenth-century France and invites us to immerse ourselves Liberty Diversity Depravity in twenty of the greatest Impressionist works of art. (8 parts, 192 Item # 86554 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-964-6 minutes) The City and the Soul © 1998 • $559.60 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-377-4 Item # 86555 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-965-3 Manet: The Impressionists, with Tim Marlow Blood for Sale: Gothic Goes Global Item # 59692 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-378-1 Item # 86556 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-966-0 Monet: The Impressionists, with Tim Marlow Item # 59693 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-379-8 $169.95 each Renoir: The Impressionists, with Tim Marlow Item # 59694 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-380-4 The Story of Women and Art Degas: The Impressionists, with Tim Marlow Item # 86587 Item # 59695 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-381-1 Subject: Art & Architecture Toulouse-Lautrec: The Impressionists, with Tim Marlow Presented by Professor Amanda Vickery, this Item # 59696 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-382-8 three-part series explores the history of women Cézanne: The Impressionists, with Tim Marlow artists in Europe from the Renaissance onwards. Along the way, it Item # 59697 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-383-5 reflects the journey women's creativity has taken, how it has Gauguin: The Impressionists, with Tim Marlow brought intimacy, nature, the domestic and human emotion center Item # 59698 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-384-2 stage and features interviews with the pre-eminent female British Van Gogh: The Impressionists, with Tim Marlow artist of the day, Tracey Emin. Artists featured include Sofonisba Item # 59699 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-385-9 Anguissola, Anne Seymour Damer, Angelica Kauffman, and the 17th-century Dutch paper cutter Joanna Koerten. (3 parts, 180 $69.95 each minutes) © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-724-6 The Story of Women and Art: Episode 1 Bunkers, Brutalism, and Bloody-Mindedness: Item # 86588 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-793-2 The Story of Women and Art: Episode 2 Concrete Poetry with Jonathan Meades Item # 86589 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-794-9 Item # 60441 The Story of Women and Art: Episode 3 Subject: Art & Architecture Item # 86590 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-795-6 Every now and again, architecture goes through a phase of not caring whether it is $169.95 each liked. Employing shock tactics, it asks us to find beauty in what is commonly regarded to be ugly. In this series, writer and journalist Jonathan Meades explores the story of the Architectures—Achievements in Modern Brutalist movement across Europe. He looks for its precursors in Architecture the Baroque and Modern Gothic movements, and the martial Item # 65319 architecture of Freidrich Tamms. At the center of the movement is Subject: Art & Architecture the highly influential postwar work of Le Corbusier who, Meades This series highlights the most remarkable argues, led the way in the search for an impressive architectural achievements in modern architecture, from the style that could match the sublimity often sought in nature. works that heralded the birth of the modern style at the end of the Acknowledging that Brutalist buildings have often proved 19th century to the latest designs by today's top architects. Each unpopular, Meades insists that now is the moment to re-engage program examines the structure of the building, the architectural with their magnificence. A BBC Production. (2 parts, 100 minutes) techniques as well as its cultural and historical influences. By © 2014 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-485-6 examining a key building in detail the series brings light to its role Bunkers, Brutalism, and Bloody-Mindedness: Concrete in the evolution of architecture. (46 parts, 1200 minutes) Poetry with Jonathan Meades—Part 1 © 2011 • $6897.70 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-924-0 Item # 60442 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-486-3 The Alhambra - Granada: Architectures—Achievements in Bunkers, Brutalism, and Bloody-Mindedness: Concrete Modern Architecture Poetry with Jonathan Meades—Part 2 Item # 65321 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-635-5 Item # 60443 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-487-0 *Auditorium Building In Chicago: Architectures— Achievements in Modern Architecture $169.95 each Item # 65322 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-636-2 11 *The Casa Mila - Antonio Gaudi: Architectures— *The Pyramid of The Pharaoh Djoser Saqqara: Achievements in Modern Architecture Architectures—Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 65323 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-637-9 Item # 65347 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-658-4 *The Convento of La Tourette: Architectures— *The Reception and Congress Building in Rome: Achievements in Modern Architecture Architectures—Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 65325 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-638-6 Item # 65348 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-659-1 *The Dessau Bauhaus: Architectures—Achievements in *Roissy 1: Architectures—Achievements in Modern Modern Architecture Architecture Item # 65326 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-639-3 Item # 65349 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-660-7 *The Garnier Opera: Architectures—Achievements in *Royal Saltworks of Arc-Et-Senans: Architectures— Modern Architecture Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 65327 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-640-9 Item # 65350 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-661-4 *The Georges Pompidou Centre: Architectures— *The Saint Pancras Station: Architectures—Achievements Achievements in Modern Architecture in Modern Architecture Item # 65328 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-641-6 Item # 65351 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-662-1 *The German Pavilion in Barcelona: Architectures— *The Sainte Genevieve Library: Architectures— Achievements in Modern Architecture Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 65329 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-642-3 Item # 65352 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-663-8 *The Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao: Architectures— *The Siza School: Architectures—Achievements in Modern Achievements in Modern Architecture Architecture Item # 65330 $ • ISBN: 978-1-60057-712-3 Item # 65353 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-714-7 *Hotel Royal Sas: Architectures—Achievements in Modern *The Stone Thermal Baths: Architectures—Achievements Architecture in Modern Architecture Item # 65331 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-713-0 Item # 65354 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-664-5 *The House of Sugimoto: Architectures—Achievements in *The Vienna Savings Bank: Architectures—Achievements Modern Architecture in Modern Architecture Item # 65332 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-643-0 Item # 65355 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-665-2 *The Igualada Cemetery: Architectures—Achievements in The Villa Barbaro - Villa Di Maser: Architectures— Modern Architecture Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 65333 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-644-7 Item # 65356 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-666-9 *Jean Prouve's House: Architectures—Achievements in *The Villa Dall'Ava: Architectures—Achievements in Modern Architecture Modern Architecture Item # 65334 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-645-4 Item # 65357 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-667-6 *The Jewish Museum Berlin: Architectures—Achievements *The Rolex Learning Center by Kazuyo Sejima et Ryue in Modern Architecture Nishizawa: Architectures—Achievements in Modern Item # 65335 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-646-1 Architecture *The Johnson Building: Architectures—Achievements in Item # 65358 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-668-3 Modern Architecture *The Citadel of Leisure - The Pompeia Social Service Item # 65336 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-647-8 Centre in Sao Paulo: Architectures—Achievements in *The Luxembourg Philharmonie: Architectures— Modern Architecture Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 65359 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-669-0 Item # 65337 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-648-5 *“Wa Shan” Guest House, A Mountain of Tiles on Elephant *La Maison De Verre: Architectures—Achievements in Hill: Architectures—Achievements in Modern Architecture Modern Architecture Item # 94735 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-124-7 Item # 65338 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-649-2 *The National Dance Center: Architectures—Achievements *The Maisons Castle: Architectures—Achievements in in Modern Architecture Modern Architecture Item # 94736 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-100-1 Item # 65339 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-650-8 Itimad Ud Daula, The Little “TAJ”: Architectures— *Vitrahaus: Architectures—Achievements in Modern Achievements in Modern Architecture Architecture Item # 94737 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-101-8 Item # 65340 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-651-5 *The Citadel de Lille: Architectures—Achievements in *The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasium: Architectures— Modern Architecture Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 94738 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-102-5 Item # 65341 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-652-2 *The Van Nelle Factory at Rotterdam: Architectures— *Multimedia Library of Sendai: Architectures— Achievements in Modern Architecture Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 94739 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-103-2 Item # 65342 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-653-9 *The Glasgow School of Art: Architectures—Achievements *The Municipal Center of Saynatsalo: Architectures— in Modern Architecture Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 94740 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-104-9 Item # 65343 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-654-6 *Disaster Utopia: Architectures—Achievements in Modern *Nemausus I: Architectures—Achievements in Modern Architecture Architecture Item # 94741 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-105-6 Item # 65344 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-655-3 *Cologne Cathedral: Architectures—Achievements in *The Parish Priest at Le Raincy: Architectures— Modern Architecture Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 94742 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-106-3 Item # 65345 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-656-0 *Phaeno, Building As Landscape: Architectures— $149.95 each *-Coming Soon Achievements in Modern Architecture Item # 65346 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-657-7 12
Smart Secrets of Great Paintings Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities, Series 2 Item # 94717 Item # 60418 Subject: Art & Architecture Subject: Biology This series of 4 half-hour programs shows how a David Attenborough has spent a lifetime painted image echos the spirit of its time and documenting the natural world, meeting a great relates to a particular historic event. It reveals the poetic, number of extraordinary creatures. In this second sociological and political potential of the picture by penetrating series of Natural Curiosities, he reveals another group of inside the painting and examine the underlining details, thanks to bewildering animals that intrigue him. We discover the amazing work of computer graphics which livens up characters, objects and frog that freezes solid to survive winter, and the female Komodo sets. Each film tells a fascinating story of a creator and the painting dragon’s ability to reproduce without ever meeting a male. Other process. (4 parts, 104 minutes) curiosities include some of nature’s great tricksters and two © 2015 • $519.80 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-034-9 creatures that have attracted an undeserved bad reputation. David *The Moneylender And His Wife (1514) by Quentin Metsys: takes viewers on a special journey through the weird and Smart Secrets of Great Paintings-Coming Soon wonderful natural world to find out more. A BBC Production. (10 Item # 94718 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-093-6 parts, 300 minutes) Las Meninas (1665) by Diego Velázquez: Smart Secrets of © 2014 • $999.50 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-462-7 Great Paintings *Virgin Birth: Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, Series 2- Item # 94719 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-094-3 Coming Soon *Bathers at Asnieres (1884) by Georges Seurat: Smart Item # 60419 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-463-4 Secrets of Great Paintings-Coming Soon Armoured Animals: Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, Item # 94720 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-095-0 Series 2 *The Artist's Studio (1855) By Gustave Courbet: Smart Item # 60420 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-464-1 Secrets of Great Paintings-Coming Soon *Life in the Dark: Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, Item # 94721 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-096-7 Series 2-Coming Soon Item # 60421 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-465-8 $169.95 each *Curious Imposters: Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, Series 2-Coming Soon Biology Item # 60422 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-466-5 *Bad Reputation: Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, Series 2-Coming Soon Item # 60423 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-467-2 Hands & Feet *Shocking Senses: Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, Item # 60461 Series 2-Coming Soon Subject: Biology Item # 60424 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-468-9 Hands and feet have allowed us to *Life on Ice: Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, Series 2- manipulate and master the natural world. In this two-part series, Coming Soon biologist George McGavin joins a team of specialist anatomists in Item # 60425 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-469-6 the dissection room to unpick the secrets of human hands and feet. *Spinners and Weavers: Attenborough's Natural From the evolutionary importance of thumbs to the 52 bones in our Curiosities, Series 2-Coming Soon feet, our hands and feet hold many secrets that set us apart from Item # 60426 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-470-2 every other creature on the planet. Starting with the skin, the series *Strange Parents: Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, moves down through each component layer—muscles, veins, tendons, and bones—and explores their story in more detail, Series 2-Coming Soon revealing the importance of two of the most complex and beautiful Item # 60427 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-471-9 engineered pieces of anatomy in the human body. Contains *Magical Appearances: Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, surgical scenes of a graphic nature. A BBC Production. (2 parts, Series 2-Coming Soon 100 minutes) Item # 60428 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-472-6 © 2014 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-505-1 The Incredible Human Hand: Hands & Feet $99.95 each Item # 60462 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-506-8 The Incredible Human Foot: Hands & Feet Infested! Living with Parasites, with Michael Item # 60463 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-507-5 Mosley Item # 60489 $169.95 each Subject: Biology From the face mites on our eyelashes to the The Magic of Mushrooms amoebae that reproduce in our mouths, we all Item # 60487 act as hosts to parasites—and we barely give Subject: Biology them a second thought. In this program, Michael Mosley infects Mushroom enthusiast Professor Richard himself with some of the most powerful and surprising of these Fortey explores the strange and surprising science of fungi, organisms to find out how this fascinating relationship works, from unlocking the story of their evolution, their mysterious life-cycle, the disgusting tapeworm to head lice and leeches. He is carefully and their value to both the planet and ourselves. He and monitored over a period of weeks as his parasites get used to their mycologist Dr. Patrick Hickey investigate the secret life of fungi, new home, revealing how an infestation takes hold and the effect it revealing why they have the power to heal and to kill, how has on the human body. He also explores the growing scientific mushrooms can form the biggest living organisms on Earth, and evidence that suggests some parasites might even be beneficial. why they are vital to the survival of all life on our planet. The Over the weeks, Michael itches and scratches his way to a new- program reveals why mushrooms are at the forefront of research, found respect for these fascinating organisms. (52 minutes) from penicillin to cancer and environmentally friendly packaging. A © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-533-4 BBC Production. (52 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-531-0 13 Time of Your Life: What Makes Us Tick? Inside the Animal Mind Item # 60526 Item # 60465 Subject: Biology Subject: Biology The body clock: a ticking time-piece that Long-standing theories about how animals lives in our brain and controls the daily think are being overturned. Instead of rhythms of our body in time with the simplistic attempts to rank animals through IQ, zoologists are outside world. On this enlightening and entertaining journey Sir exploring the animal mind on a much broader scale using cutting- Terry Wogan reveals why timing is everything, and why it’s crucial edge technology and experimentation. Ingenious tests reveal both to understand our body clock. Terry discovers there is a right time the similarities to—and differences from—the human mind. What to eat, sleep, and exercise. There’s a wrong time to learn, have are the limits of dolphins extraordinary powers of empathy? Why sex, and go to the dentist. He discovers how our clocks dictate do elephants mourn their dead? And how can scrub jays have when we drive safely, work best, give birth, and die. And he finds memories that manage to recall the individual position of 35,000 out why some of us are early birds while others are night owls, and buried seeds? From the dog’s ability to know when its owner will why throughout our lives our body clocks constantly readjust. Terry return to the cleverest birds in the world and the manipulative reveals tips and tricks that will help us all master our clocks power of dolphins, this series reveals the surprising and fascinating enabling us to get the most out of our lives. A BBC Production. (50 ways in which animals understand the world around them. Each minutes) program explores a separate psychological question, building up © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-570-9 an unprecedented picture of the mind of the animal. How do they understand the world around them? How do they solve problems? Epidemics: the Invisible Threat And how do they interact socially? A BBC/NOVA co-production. (3 Item # 65318 parts, 150 minutes) Subject: Biology © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-509-9 When is a new global epidemic going to You Are What You Sense: Inside the Animal Mind strike? This in-depth investigation Item # 60466 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-510-5 examines the invisible threat of new The Problem Solvers: Inside the Animal Mind viruses emerging in the animal kingdom at an unprecedented rate. Item # 60467 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-511-2 In the space of 60 years, over 350 new infectious diseases have Secrets of the Social World: Inside the Animal Mind appeared, including SARS, H1N1, H5N1 and Ebola. This film Item # 60468 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-512-9 traces three threatening viruses that have been transmitted from animals to humans: the H7N9 flu virus in Asia; the Mers-CoV virus, $169.95 each related to SARS, active in the Middle East; and the Ebola virus, which is striking terror in West Africa. Researchers are recognizing that a "one health" approach, in which we look at habitat loss and ecosystem breakdown as well as human health, will be crucial for Secrets of Bones prevention. (53 minutes) Item # 60512 © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-686-7 Subject: Biology Ben Garrod, primatologist and master skeleton builder, shares his unique passion Secret Life of Babies for bones. He embarks on a very personal journey through the Item # 86547 remarkable and surprising story of how a single, universal body Subject: Biology plan—the skeleton—has shaped the animal kingdom. There are What can a baby see and hear? How over 62,000 species of vertebrate of every size and shape from does a baby explore the world? Why can squirrels to sperm whales and aardvarks to anacondas. Each they swim underwater? How do they communicate? And why do skeleton differs in small, but critical ways and, in Ben's hands, toddlers have temper tantrums? The first three years are the most those differences are decoded to reveal an animal’s complete life important of a human's entire life—it's when we learn to walk, talk, story—not only how it moves, where it lives and what it eats, but and socialize. But as an adult, baby behavior is both mystifying and also its entire evolutionary journey. Secrets of Bones brings the fascinating. Using the latest specialist filming techniques, this remarkable world of bones to life in a unique way. By conducting program reveals the 'natural history' of a baby starting with fascinating experiments, meeting expert contributors, using newborns and following their growth and development as they integrated graphics and a wealth of archive from the BBC's Natural become toddlers. Get ready to see your baby in a whole new way. History Unit, Ben unlocks a fascinating and hidden world we never A BBC Production. (47 minutes) get to see. A BBC Production. (6 parts, 300 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-961-5 © 2014 • $1019.70 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-556-3 Secrets of Bones: Size Matters Surtsey: The Birth of an Island Item # 60513 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-557-0 Item # 94210 Secrets of Bones: Down to Earth Subject: Biology Item # 60514 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-558-7 An Island, way out in the North-Atlantic, Secrets of Bones: Into the Air not far off Iceland, not millions of years old Item # 60515 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-559-4 but only 50. A group of researchers have Secrets of Bones: Sensing the World observed this island these fifty years to see how new life Item # 60516 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-560-0 developed on it. Surtsey is an island that more or less appeared Secrets of Bones: Food for Thought overnight after an underwater volcano eruption. How did this bare Item # 60517 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-561-7 rock turn into a diverse landscape? Which animals and which Secrets of Bones: Sex plants were able to establish themselves? This extraordinary Item # 60518 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-562-4 documentary follows the emergence of an island and the development of an ecosystem that is growing with it. (21 minutes) $169.95 each © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-080-6
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MINDWORKS The Wonder of Animals Item # 74609 Item # 93191 Subject: Biology Subject: Biology Understanding how we think and see by There are more than 10 million species on playing games with our brains, this 13-part the planet, but why have some thrived where others have failed? series explores the way we see and interpret the world around us The Wonder of Animals celebrates the most successful animal with engaging tests, activities, demonstrations, and explanations. groups on Earth—from apes to elephants, ants to bears. Discover In each episode we experience visual and audio illusions, sensory why, despite appearing clumsy and comical, penguins actually puzzles, and brain tricks from the worlds of art, science, nature, have an anatomy that is perfect for their environment and how the and psychology, and learn why they baffle our senses. (13 parts, dominance of big cats is down to more than just their brawn. New 390 minutes) science is combined with the very latest animal behavior research © 2014 • $2209.35 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-805-2 and extensive BBC natural history archive footage to build a The Brain Eye Process complete picture of each animal, revealing how its unique Item # 74610 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-806-9 characteristics have contributed to its success. (12 parts, 360 Our Amazing Brain minutes) Item # 74611 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-725-3 © 2014 • $1199.40 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-814-4 Visual Perception Penguins Item # 74612 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-726-0 Item # 93192 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-863-2 Visual Deceptions Bears Item # 74613 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-746-8 Item # 93193 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-864-9 Altered Views Big Cats Item # 74614 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-747-5 Item # 93194 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-865-6 Auditory Illusions Ants Item # 74615 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-727-7 Item # 93195 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-866-3 Everyday Illusions Foxes Item # 74616 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-748-2 Item # 93196 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-867-0 Mind Over Matter Elephants Item # 74617 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-749-9 Item # 93197 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-868-7 Memory Great Apes Item # 74618 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-728-4 Item # 93198 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-869-4 Illusions of Touch Crocodiles Item # 74619 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-729-1 Item # 93199 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-870-0 Fooling the Tongue and the Nose Dolphins Item # 74620 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-750-5 Item # 93200 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-871-7 Muscle Memory Bats Item # 74621 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-751-2 Item # 93201 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-872-4 Moods, Inspiration, and the Mind Snakes Item # 74622 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-730-7 Item # 93202 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-873-1 Birds of Prey $169.95 each Item # 93203 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-874-8
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Business & Economics Raising Resistance Item # 56289 Mayday! Subject: Business & Economics Item # 55975 Beautifully shot and interweaving interviews with Subject: Business & Economics scenes from soy fields in Paraguay, this film Ryanair was the pioneer of low cost flying, taking explores Latin American farmers’ struggle against the expanding on the old state-sponsored monoliths of aviation through production of genetically modified soy in South America. Biotechnology, aggressive cost-cutting and sharp advertising, bringing easy air mechanization, and herbicides have radically changed the lives of small travel to a new demographic. But is their dramatic success story farmers. For those in Paraguay, this means displacement from their too good to be true? This documentary features testimonies from land, loss of basic food supplies, and a veritable fight for survival. As Ryanair pilots as they speak out about the cost-cutting measures corporate farms seize farmland and rapidly expand production of endangering lives. From flying with too little fuel to pilots unfit to fly, genetically modified soy, farmers like Geronimo Arevelos find they say the airline is riding too close to the edge. (42 minutes) themselves in a life and death struggle. The program illustrates the © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-636-7 mechanisms of a global economy that relies on ‘monocrop’ agriculture and corporate ownership of land. (83 minutes) USA: Cannabis Inc. © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-802-6 Item # 58380 Subject: Business & Economics There’s a new gold rush in America’s west where decades of marijuana prohibition are coming to an end and Wall Street is moving in. With predictions that sales and profits will grow by 64 percent in the next year, thousands of new businesses are entering the market—but there is a growing opposition warning that a new Big Tobacco is being created. (29 minutes) © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-982-5
15 Major Reductions in Carbon Emissions Are Not From the Series How We Made Our Millions Worth the Money: A Debate Item # 57518 Item # 58299 Subject: Business & Economics Subject: Business & Economics © 2013 • $849.75 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-416-5 With awareness of global warming rising, going Timpsons & St. Tropez: How We Made "green" and reducing one's "carbon footprint" have become pop Our Millions culture catchphrases. But addressing climate change on a global, Timpsons & St. Tropez is the last program in governmental level is still a matter of heated debate. With the BBC series How We Made Our Millions, potentially staggering costs involved, are efforts to make major in which Peter Jones, one of Britain’s most reductions in carbon emissions worth the price? Would the money prominent entrepreneurs, questions the be better spent elsewhere? Or, does the amount of money tycoons behind some of the U.K.’s biggest involved become less important when considering the possible brands. In this episode, we meet the owners of Timpsons and St. consequences of climate change? (110 minutes) Tropez. Discussing their successes and failures, their strategies © 2009 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-878-1 and techniques, Peter sets out to discover what makes their business brains tick. (53 minutes) From the Series Ethical Markets Item # 57519 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-417-2 The Range & Lush: How We Made Our Millions 5: Transforming Finance 3.0 Peter Jones, one of Britain’s most prominent entrepreneurs, Item # 58384 questions the tycoons behind some of the UK’s biggest brands. Subject: Business & Economics Discussing their successes and failures, their strategies and © 2013 • $1399.30 • ISBN: 978-0-81609- techniques, Peter sets out to discover what makes their business 954-2 brains tick. This episode focuses on The Range and Lush. (53 Transition to the Green Economy: Ethical Markets 5 minutes) In this program, Hazel Henderson and Michael Grunwald continue Item # 57520 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-418-9 discussing how the cleaner, greener knowledge-rich technologies Moshi Monsters & Jojo Maman Bebe: How We Made Our and companies are affecting the overall market. The stimulus from Millions the Obama administration trickle into many unacknowledged areas Peter Jones, one of Britain’s most prominent entrepreneurs, of everyday life. Listen as they discuss the successes and failures questions the tycoons behind some of the UK’s biggest brands. of the stimulus and compare it to the use of Austerity in other Discussing their successes and failures, their strategies and Nations. Part of the series Ethical Markets 5: Transforming Finance techniques, Peter sets out to discover what makes their business 3.0. (31 minutes) brains tick. This episode focuses on Moshi Monsters & Jojo Item # 58388 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-958-0 Maman Bebe. (51 minutes) Item # 57521 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-419-6 Cobra Beer & Pimlico Plumbers: How We Made Our Million Gain a unique insight into the minds of successful and inspiring Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global business people with this access-all-areas pass into their glossy Financial Collapse and fascinating world. Peter Jones, one of Britain’s most prominent Item # 58422 entrepreneurs, questions the tycoons behind some of the UK’s Subject: Business & Economics biggest brands. In Cobra Beer & Pimlico Plumbers, Peter sets out From Wall Street to Dubai to China, this four-part to discover what makes the business brains of their owners tick. series tells the story of the bankers who crashed (52 minutes) the world, the leaders who struggled to save it, and the ordinary Item # 57522 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-420-2 families who got crushed. CBC's Terence McKenna takes viewers behind the headlines and into the backrooms at the highest levels $169.95 each of world governments and banking institutions, revealing the astonishing level of backstabbing and tension behind the scenes Zambia: Assessing the as the world came dangerously close to another Great Depression. He also tells the stories of desperate U.S. homeowners facing Millennium Development Goals foreclosure, disillusioned Ontario autoworkers, and furious Item # 58227 employees in France who kidnap their own bosses. Since the Subject: Business & Economics financial meltdown began, trillions of dollars have been spent Kenneth Kaunda remains a dominant figure on rescuing banks and jumpstarting economies, yet recovery remains the Zambian and African landscape. One of the first to break the fragile. The millions around the world who lost homes and jobs are silence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, he has been an outspoken demanding answers: How did it all go so wrong? Who is to blame? voice for Africa and has been an arch critic of the European They're still waiting for answers, because to date, only a few colonial enterprise. In this program, he gives us his current smalltime players have been held to account. No major banking, assessment of the country, the continent, and of the Millennium regulatory or government figures have yet been convicted of any Development Goals. Zambia remains one of the poorest countries wrongdoing. This four-part documentary series is the first in the world with almost two-thirds of its population living below the comprehensive portrait of the worst economic crisis of a poverty threshold and over half in extreme poverty. (25 minutes) generation. (4 parts, 180 minutes) © 2011 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-811-8 © 2010 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-527-9 Men Who Crashed the World: Part 1—Meltdown Who’s Minding the Store? Item # 58423 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-528-6 Item # 58492 A Global Tsunami: Part 2—Meltdown Subject: Business & Economics Item # 58424 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-529-3 Thieves are breaking into stores, gas stations, Paying the Price: Part 3—Meltdow and restaurants and actually ripping out the Item # 58425 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-530-9 hard drives attached to the point of sale terminals used to swipe After the Fall: Part 4—Meltdown your credit or debit cards. While retailers are keeping quiet, and Item # 58426 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-531-6 credit card companies cover your losses, in the end, we all pay a price—and for the crooks, it's a windfall. (16 minutes) $169.95 each © 2010 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-597-2 16 Clean Water, Dirty Tricks Nurturing Leadership Item # 58486 Item # 65018 Subject: Business & Economics Subject: Business & Economics This program goes undercover to expose the Are leaders born, or made? This video secret tricks used in door-to-door sales of water purification shows that while certain personality traits may influence leadership systems - devices that can cost thousands of dollars, but which abilities, there are also leadership qualities that can be learned and most people simply may not need. CBC reporter Tom Harrington nurtured. Business leaders, politicians, coaches and others share investigates the dubious scare-tactics used to persuade people to their perceptions of what it takes to be a leader, relating to viewers buy. (22 minutes) that observing certain principles and adopting admirable behaviors © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-591-0 can help develop leadership attributes. Integrity, honesty, dependability and the belief in an organization’s core values are showcased, along with the elements necessary to create a culture Time Bomb: OxyContin Addiction of excellence. A basic definition of leadership as the action of Item # 58503 leading a group of people toward a common goal is the preface to Subject: Business & Economics the importance of creating a vision of the future—the true mark of a It was touted as a miracle pill: a narcotic pain leader. Listening, teamwork, motivation and the ability to engage reliever that could change the lives of people others in a cause are also presented as leadership qualities. Many suffering from chronic pain, but with little risk modern-day or historical capsules of leadership bring to life the of addiction. How did a little pill that appeared in 1996 become so concept of developing the traits to become a leader. A co- big, so fast? In 1998, Canadian sales were just a few million production of Films for the Humanities & Sciences and dollars; twelve years later they had soared to $243 million and U.S. MotionMasters. (35 minutes) sales were $3.5 billion. This film examines why medical schools, © 2015 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-687-4 GPs and specialists in pain clinics readily embraced the drug at first, and why some have now changed their minds. The manufacturer has now stopped making it altogether, replacing it Income Inequality Impairs the American Dream with a new formulation known as OxyNeo. (43 minutes) of Upward Mobility: A Debate © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-608-5 Item # 65941 Subject: Business & Economics The Men Who Made Us Spend In the last 30 years, the wages of the top 1 Item # 58803 percent have grown by 154 percent, while Subject: Business & Economics the wages of the bottom 90 percent have grown by only 17 percent. As the rungs of the economic ladder move further apart, Why do we buy what we buy? Who created some argue that opportunities to achieve the American dream of our world of rampant consumerism and upward mobility could disappear, they assert, as the rich grow how did they do it? Investigative journalist Jacques Peretti richer and the wages of the middle class and the poor hardly grow examines the trends and techniques, revealing that the answer at all. But others consider income inequality a positive doesn’t lie with the people usually associated with selling—the development—a feature of a dynamic and robust economy—that, advertisers and marketeers—but with the men behind three key in the end, helps everyone. And income inequality, they add, is driving forces that changed first the product, and then us. The irrelevant to upward mobility, which, they note, has remained series shows how the long-standing dream of manufacturers to stable over the past few decades. Is rising income inequality a create limitless consumption became a reality once customers growing problem that threatens the American dream? Or is it a bought into the idea of the upgrade. It also explores how they misleading metric for gauging upward mobility and a sign of the targeted the previously untapped children’s market, and discovered nation's economic health? (101 minutes) they could apply what was learnt about selling to children to increase sales to adults. But the biggest cash cow came from © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-688-1 fear—by exploiting consumer anxiety, they opened up a world of demand for products that offered health or safety benefits. A BBC Business Finance Essentials Production. (3 parts, 150 minutes) Item # 93898 © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-307-1 Subject: Business & Economics The Men Who Made Us Spend: Part 1 They say that “numbers don’t lie,” and Item # 58804 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-308-8 while that may not always be the case, The Men Who Made Us Spend: Part 2 evaluating numbers is the best way for a Item # 58805 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-309-5 business to gauge its performance and make plans for its future. In The Men Who Made Us Spend: Part 3 this 2-part series, viewers will learn two of the most important ways Item # 58806 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-310-1 that businesses use numbers to monitor their success or failure. How to Read a Financial Statement covers the basics of reading and $169.95 each understanding business’s ultimate scorecard. Ratio Analysis covers the mathematical tools that businesses use to make the stats in a financial statement tell them stories. A coproduction of Films for the Dying for a Bargain Humanities & Sciences and MotionMasters. (2 parts, 38 minutes) Item # 60453 © 2015 • $259.90 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-902-8 Subject: Business & Economics How to Read a Financial Statement: Business Finance This film investigates how our clothes— Essentials including some of the most popular brands—are really made, Item # 93896 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-900-4 finding evidence of shocking working conditions and an industry that still puts profit before safety. More than a thousand garment Ratio Analysis: Business Finance Essentials workers died when the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh Item # 93897 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-901-1 collapsed in April 2013. But reporter Richard Bilton discovers people working 19-hour days, security guards who lock in the $129.95 each workers, and factory owners who hide the truth from Western retailers. A BBC Production. (30 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-497-9
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Career & Job Search Cold War: Love, Hate & Propaganda Item # 58409 Finding Your Element, with Sir Ken Robinson Subject: Communication After World War II, two powerful blocs, a Item # 59715 democratic and capitalist West led by the Subject: Careers & Job Search United States and a communist world Enjoy your life, don't just endure it! Sir Ken dominated by the Soviet Union faced each other. Each side Robinson, Ph.D, an internationally recognized claimed the other was an implacable ideological foe bent on the leader in the development of education, destruction of their way of life. This battle would never produce creativity, and innovation and a New York Times best-selling direct armed confrontation between the two countries, but it author, brings his noted speaking skills to the screen in this special mobilized minds as never before. In the long psychological battle of program. Sir Robinson talks about how to find your “element” and the Cold War, discover how governments and the industries of do the work you enjoy with a sense of purpose and contentment. persuasion—marketing, advertising and public relations—moulded The program offers practical advice, techniques, and resources the way we see the world today. (4 parts, 168 minutes) that will help you put your ideas into practice, helping you lead a © 2012 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-991-7 more fulfilling life. (57 minutes) Cold War: In the Shadow of Fear—Love, Hate & © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-401-6 Propaganda (Series 2) Item # 58410 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-992-4 Communication Cold War: Turning Up the Heat—Love, Hate & Propaganda (Series 2) Images of Conflict: Item # 58411 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-993-1 Cold War: Cracks in the Wall—Love, Hate & Propaganda Photographers In the War Zone (Series 2) Item # 57530 Item # 58412 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-994-8 Subject: Communication Cold War: War of the Words—Love, Hate & Propaganda In a world where we are constantly bombarded by approved (Series 2) images of censored warfare you might be forgiven for thinking that Item # 58413• ISBN: 978-0-81609-995-5 a modern war could be fought without suffering or pain. What choices must a photographer make when they capture a conflict for the rest of the world? Images of Conflict looks at the work of seven $169.95 each war photographers - from visions of conflict in Vietnam to the current battles in Iraq. A BBC Production. (50 minutes) The Sun Never Sets: The Story of a Small Town © 2009 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-428-8 Newspaper Item # 60246 Good Riddance to Mainstream Media: A Debate Subject: Communication Item # 58306 The Sun Never Sets is a film about the Rio Subject: Communication Grande Sun, published in Española, New The network evening news audience is steadily Mexico, and considered one of the best weekly newspapers in the declining; the big three magazine publishers— country. Known for its integrity and award winning, investigative Time Inc., Condé Nast, and Hearst—have reporting, the Sun consistently attracts young, dedicated closed or consolidated titles; and the newspaper industry has seen journalists. The paper broke the story that its own rural community circulation plummet, with dailies folding across the country. People had the highest per capita heroin overdose rate in the country. It increasingly get their news from new types of media, such as cable has led the fight for open records and open meetings in a county channels and the Internet. Advertisers are moving to Google and where political shenanigans are the rule. In the age of digital media other nontraditional sources. Some argue that the democratization and the 24- hour news cycle, the Sun practices real community of news, in an unfiltered Internet to which all bloggers and news journalism, causing traffic jams when it's hawked on the street. (55 aggregators have equal access, encourages a diversity of voices minutes) competing to provide information and analysis. Others argue that © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-416-0 the public loses when traditional journalistic standards of objectivity are no longer upheld, and where resources to investigate and Across Oceans Among Colleagues: The report critical stories are no longer available. (112 minutes) © 2009 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-885-9 Committee to Protect Journalists Item # 60529 Subject: Communication Barriers to Communication and The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) How to Overcome Them advocates for journalists who struggle around the world to tell the Item # 58375 stories important to their communities. This film chronicles CPJ's Subject: Communication work in the Middle East during 2001–2002, in the aftermath of A closed door, an exasperated expression, a noisy workstation, a 9/11. It focuses on Mazen Dana, a Palestinian cameraperson for cultural misunderstanding—all of these are examples of “noise,” a Reuters who is the first cameraperson to receive a CPJ Press general term for anything that gets in the way of effective Freedom Award for his work covering Hebron; he returns to communication. The key to overcoming communication barriers is Hebron after receiving his award. After the production of this to be able to identify and understand them. This program explains documentary, Mazen Dana was killed by U.S. soldiers in Baghdad the various types of noise and details specific examples of in August, 2003. For more on his story and on the role of physical, organizational, emotional, nonverbal, cultural, language- Palestinian journalists in the production of U.S. news, see the related or written barriers. Through expert interviews and creative ethnography Back Stories: U.S. News and Palestinian Politics vignettes, the video offers solutions to overcoming these common (Stanford University Press, 2013), also by Amahl Bishara. (32 communication barriers. A co-production of Films for the minutes) Humanities & Sciences and MotionMasters. (35 minutes) © 2002 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-572-3 © 2015 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-589-1
18 Cyber Manhunt The Real History of Science Fiction Item # 58468 Item # 60498 Subject: Criminal Justice & Law Subject: Communication Eighteen months after Chinese student Lin Some of science fiction's greatest creative Jun was brutally killed and dismembered, a group of Internet users pioneers tell the story of sci-fi in this stunning attempted to track down Luka Rocco Magnotta, whom they also definitive series spanning all its forms, from linked to online videos showing kittens being slowly suffocated. We time travel to artificial intelligence, from space exploration to alien meet these trackers and witness a re-enactment of their Magnotta encounters. This thoroughly engaging series features filmmakers, investigation. They believe that if police had taken their fears and writers, actors, and graphic artists whose obsession and investigation more seriously, Lin Jun might still be alive today. imagination has taken them into the unknown—and whose These cyber vigilantes tell the story of their manhunt, drawing us creations have captivated audiences around the globe. Having into the twisted world of the murderer they were after. Viewer explored the future, the past, parallel universes, and galaxies far, Discretion Advised. (39 minutes) far away, contributors—including actors William Shatner, Nichelle © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-573-6 Nichols, Rutger Hauer, Zoe Saldana, Nathan Fillion, Richard Dreyfuss, David Tennant, Peter Weller, Christopher Lloyd, Keir Death of the Don Dullea, and Edward James Olmos; filmmakers John Carpenter, Item # 58504 Douglas Trumbull, Paul Verhoeven, John Landis, and Doctor Who Subject: Criminal Justice & Law writer and executive producer Steven Moffat; authors Ursula K. Le With hidden cameras, wiretaps, and Guin, Neil Gaiman, and William Gibson—report back on their undercover footage broadcast here for the first time, CBC reporter experiences. With the help of Professors Brian Cox and Stephen Bob McKeown goes deep inside the Canadian mafia. It's a story of Hawking, the series also explores the key scientific concepts money and the mob that traces the Rizzuto clan’s ruthless rise underpinning sci-fi stories—at one level thrilling adventures packed from their beginnings in New York City to murder and mayhem on with special effects, on another perhaps the only form of pop the streets of Montreal. As the Rizzuto family's control over culture that engages with big ideas about the universe and asks organized crime dissolves in blood and loss, how did it hold onto what it means to be human. A BBC Production. (4 parts, 180 power for so long and what comes next as Vito Rizzuto prepares minutes) for release from prison? (41 minutes) © 2014 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-542-6 © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-609-2 Robots: The Real History of Science Fiction Item # 60499 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-543-3 Space: The Real History of Science Fiction Counterfeit Culture Item # 60500 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-544-0 Item # 58518 Invasion: The Real History of Science Fiction Subject: Criminal Justice & Law Item # 60501 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-545-7 Shot on location in Canada, the U.S., Asia, Time: The Real History of Science Fiction and Europe, the program challenges consumers to take a deeper Item # 60502 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-546-4 look at what would appear to be harmless knock-offs at bargain prices. This thought provoking film provides an insight into what is $169.95 each now a worldwide menace that has been called the crime of the 21st century. (46 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-267-8 The Mobile Revolution
Item # 93327 Subject: Communication Blood Rising This is the story of how the mobile phone Item # 60239 entered our lives and changed everything. In just a few decades, Subject: Criminal Justice & Law we left behind a stationary, slow world where people had to stay in Since 1994, more than 1,400 women in certain places and use clumsy, fixed devices to communicate with Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, have been murdered in the 'feminocidio'. the world around them. The move into the completely mobile and Artist Brian Maguire set out to paint portraits of some of the victims. constantly connected world that we all take for granted happened This film, by Mark McLoughlin, examines the phenomenon of at breakneck speed. But no one has explained how this femicide—the killing of women ostensibly due to their gender—in transformation came about. This is the inside story of how mobile the Mexican city Juárez; a place where femicide has become a telephony was developed and how such a small device could way of life. Brian Maguire, who spent time in Juárez getting to change the world so radically. (58 minutes) know the families left behind, looks at the fallout and follow up to © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-883-0 femicide and whether the families can ever find peace. This video contains content that may not be suitable for all audiences. (53 Criminal Justice & Law minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-409-2
Juárez: Mexico’s Murder City David & Me Item # 58231 Item # 86593 Subject: Criminal Justice & Law Subject: Criminal Justice & Law Situated across the Rio Grande from El David & Me is a gritty, gut-wrenching Paso, Texas, the Mexican city of Juárez has become one of the documentary about two unlikely friends—a convicted murderer and most dangerous cities in the world. It is a major conduit for illegal a young filmmaker. David McCallum has served 29 years of a life drugs passing from Mexico to the United States and a bloody sentence and may never leave prison again. Despite a mountain of battleground as cartels murder each other and innocent civilians. evidence that should exonerate him, filmmaker Ray Klonsky and a People have been strangled, beheaded, dismembered, and stoned pro-bono team are stymied by a justice system that has proven to death: a mere shooting hardly gets any attention. The film tells reluctant to exonerate the wrongly convicted. When news of a DNA the human stories behind these atrocities. Contains graphic match that fingers a new suspect emerges, the team thinks justice images. (25 minutes) will finally be served. Instead, they realize that their fight has only © 2012 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-815-6 just begun. (80 minutes) © 2015 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-797-0 19
Life and Death Row Voyage of the Continents Item # 60478 Item # 58167 Subject: Criminal Justice & Law Subject: Earth Science A striking three part series telling the story of Over the many billions of years of the Earth's capital punishment through the eyes of the history our planet has never stopped changing young people whose lives have been shaped by it. Going inside shape. Massive tectonic forces have sculpted and resculpted our prison walls and meeting America’s youngest Death Row inmates, world in a never ending journey. Tectonics has created life—and the series discovers what it’s like to live with the threat of the death destroyed it as well. Huge volcanoes and devastating earthquakes chamber. Following their trials, appeals and ultimately their continue to dominate human history. This five-part series is a story executions, the films also meet the people the headlines generally of high drama and intense beauty: the interaction of geology and ignore: the young siblings, sons and daughters of victims and life—a true voyage of the continents. (5 parts, 260 minutes) defendants alike, each forced to confront death on an agonizing © 2012 • $849.75 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-771-5 journey through the capital punishment system. Each film in the Asia: The Tectonics of Life and Death—Voyage of the trilogy focuses on a key aspect of the system: Execution, Trial and Continents Crime. These are not just stories packed full of unfolding drama, Item # 58162 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-766-1 jeopardy and intense emotion, but real life tales that provoke Europe: A Turbulent Future—Voyage of the Continents fundamental questions about justice, the right to life and the right to Item # 58163 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-767-8 kill. A BBC Production. (3 parts, 180 minutes) Oceania: The Tectonic Ring of Fire—Voyage of the © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-522-8 Continents Execution: Life and Death Row Item # 58164 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-768-5 Item # 60479 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-523-5 Europe: Tropical Beginnings—Voyage of the Continents Judgment: Life and Death Row Item # 58165 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-769-2 Item # 60480 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-524-2 Asia: Rising Mountains and Sinking Countries—Voyage of Crisis Stage: Life and Death Row the Continents Item # 60481 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-525-9 Item # 58166 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-770-8
$169.95 each $169.95 each Fossil Wonderlands: Nature’s My Brother the Terrorist Item # 93178 Hidden Treasures Subject: Criminal Justice & Law Item # 60456 Award winning filmmaker Robb Leech Subject: Earth Science attempts to discover what changed his stepbrother Rich – subject In this revelatory series Professor Richard of his acclaimed documentary My Brother the Islamist – from a Fortey, Britain’s foremost chronicler of ancient worlds, tells the radical convert to a dangerous convicted terrorist. British man extraordinary history of paleontology through three of the world’s Richard Dart, now known as Salahuddin, received a six year jail greatest fossil sites. These fossil ‘time capsules’ contain entire eco- sentence in April 2013 for preparing acts of terrorism. Having systems of now-vanished worlds. Only a handful of them exist in previously sought to understand what made Rich reject everything the world, but each one of them has overturned generations of his family and country stood for, Robb now wants to know what, if paleontological thinking and reconfigured our understanding of the anything, could have kept him from this fate. Robb’s journey takes past. These ‘super-sites’ are uniquely special not just because of him from London to known hotbeds of Islamic radicalism the scale of the life preserved but because each location reveals a internationally – but his personal investigation starts with Anjem history of evolution of one type of creature and highlights three key Choudary, the controversial cleric who led Rich's conversion to evolutionary moments: early life in the seas, feathered dinosaurs radical Islam. A BBC Production. (54 minutes) and the rise of birds and the birth of mammals. Together they tell a © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-803-8 story not just of the ancient past, but how that past was discovered. A BBC Production. (3 parts, 150 minutes) Earth Science © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-500-6 Weird Wonders: Fossil Wonderlands—Nature’s Hidden Treasures From the Series Fierce Earth Item # 60457 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-501-3 (Series 1) Feathered Dinosaurs: Fossil Wonderlands—Nature’s Hidden Treasures Item # 57480 Item # 60458 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-502-0 Subject: Earth Science The Mammal Hothouse: Fossil Wonderlands—Nature’s © 2013 • $1299.50 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-378-6 Hidden Treasures Volcanoes: Fierce Earth (Series 1) Item # 60459 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-503-7 The Fierce Earth special team take on one of the most feared forces on the planet: the volcano. Dougal explores the secret lava tubes of Mount Etna and climbs Stromboli for a face-to-face $169.95 each encounter with an erupting volcano. Meanwhile, Leo finds evidence of a volcano where you'd least expect it. A BBC Production. (29 minutes) Item # 57487 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-385-4
20 Swallowed By a Sinkhole Peer Mediation Item # 60524 Item # 53716 Subject: Earth Science Subject: Education On February 28 2013, in a quiet residential Preventing bullying in school is a top priority for suburb east of Tampa, Florida, Jeff Bush was asleep in bed when all educators, since the effects felt by the he and his entire bedroom disappeared into an abyss. Terrifyingly, bullied child can last for a lifetime. This video shows how improved there was no warning and Jeff’s body has never been recovered. communication, leadership, and problem solving can lead to a He had been swallowed by a sinkhole. But what causes these solution. Empower students to practice peer mediation with this sinkholes? And is there anything we can do about them? In this five-step mediation strategy. A great tool foe use in teacher training fascinating geological detective story, Professor Iain Stewart and with students ages 8-13. (15 minutes) unearths millions of years of the Earth’s history as he searches for © 2009 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-752-5 the answers and asks if there are more sinkholes coming our way. A BBC Production. (51 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-568-6 Too Many Kids Go to College: A Debate Item # 58329 Subject: Education Education Do too many people go to college? The belief that college is essential to reaching one’s full The Thinking Curriculum potential is under fire. Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt, unemployment for those with Item # 50205 bachelor’s degrees is at an all-time high, and entrepreneurs like Subject: Education the founders of Microsoft and Facebook prove that extraordinary In the Information Age, the ability to think success is possible without graduating college. But recent studies critically is more important than ever. Students show that college is economically beneficial even to those whose need to gain skills in accessing, organizing, analyzing, evaluating, jobs don’t require it. Is it still the best way to ensure social mobility, and using information effectively. This program looks at specific or is America’s love affair with higher education unjustified? (102 higher-order thinking skills that can be applied both in the minutes) classroom and in life beyond it, and shows how a thinking © 2011 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-908-5 curriculum can be introduced to the classroom. The video touches on Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy, Costa and Kallick’s “16 Habits of Mind,” Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, and Edward de Embrace the Common Core: A Debate Bono’s Six Thinking Hats. A viewable/printable worksheet is Item # 65070 available online. (29 minutes) Subject: Education © 2005 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-531-4 Should Americans embrace the Common Core State Standards? Developed by state officials Soccer and educational experts, the Common Core is a set of academic standards in English and math for kindergarten Item # 53265 to 12th-grade students across the country. Supporters claim that Subject: Education they will encourage critical thinking skills and raise student Soccer is considered to be hands-down the most performance, but opponents charge that they are too rigid and popular sport in the world, with the FIFA World based on unproven educational theories. By instituting the Cup netting an audience double that of the Olympic Games. This Common Core, has the federal government overreached and program covers in detail how soccer is played, the clothing and saddled American schools with flawed and misguided standards? protective gear worn, penalty areas, FIFA rules, and the functions Or will the Common Core raise the bar and improve the quality of of the goalkeeper, defense, midfielders, and forwards. Techniques education? (103 minutes) such as receiving the ball, leaving the ball, passing, and shooting, © 2015 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-762-8 and when each may be employed, are also explained. The video also touches on football 11, football 7, and indoor football. (26 minutes) Why We Drop Out: A Video Bridge © 2012 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-862-1 Dialogue between Youth, Teachers, and Administrators Tennis Item # 74163 Item # 53269 Subject: Education Subject: Education In this video-mediated dialogue, seven students in rural The modern game of tennis can be traced back Massachusetts discuss factors that led them to drop out of high to 18th-century France, where it was once school. A video of their intimate conversation is then shown to played using bare hands instead of rackets. An overview of the teachers, counselors, and administrators, whose reactions and game is provided in this program, with information on techniques, responses are filmed and shown back to the students. This unique terminology, types of racquets and tennis shoes, categories, and process allows participants on each level of the educational ladder variations of the field of play according to International Tennis to contribute to a personal and structural understanding of the Federation rules. Viewers learn details such as what constitutes a many factors that derail students from graduating, such as getting set, and the serve, forehand drive, backhand drive, volley, drop held back, confrontation at school, trauma from bullying, and shot, drop shot return, and smash are all demonstrated.(26 problems at home. The participants generate a number of minutes) solutions-based strategies, as each person has the space to be © 2012 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-866-9 heard, to listen, and to respond. This Video Bridge and Screening Guide provide a springboard for further dialogue and problem solving in classrooms, schools, and districts across the country— particularly in rural areas—about how to help students succeed in finishing high school. (36 minutes) © 2015 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-734-5
21 The E-Word: Ebonics, Race and Language Politics Engineering Item # 86445 Subject: Education Voyages of Construction This documentary critically considers the Oakland Unified Schools' Item # 55161 1996 “Ebonics Resolution.” Building on the success of local instructional programming, the Resolution sought to improve Subject: Engineering African-American student performance by acknowledging African Groundbreaking engineering projects are American linguistic patterns and improving “the English acquisition shaping the world we live in and this compelling and application skills of African-American students.” Through the series offers a fascinating and exciting insight into their creation. use of archival footage and contemporary interviews with scholars, Combining unprecedented access and observational documentary educational policymakers and leaders and students who were techniques with powerful CGI footage, Voyages Of Construction directly involved with the Resolution, the documentary pursues a examines three extraordinary engineering projects that are all very coherent and comprehensive engagement of Ebonics. different but have two things in common: incredibly complex The program explores; the African roots of the linguistic patterns technology and people with highly specialized skills. Subjects that define Ebonics, the debate about the name, the adoption, range from building nuclear submarines and jumbo jet engines to revision and local debate about the resolution, and the ways in secret firefighting robots and stealth wind turbines. Each episode which the discussion of Ebonics entered the larger American public reveals how one particular project is planned and executed, through media and public policy. The film aims to raise the topic of exploring the business behind creating the best and most lucrative Ebonics in a contemporary and scholarly context, and is the first technology in the face of fierce worldwide competition. A BBC documentary to address this complex issue through an Production. (3 parts, 150 minutes) engagement with linguistic and educational research. More © 2010 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-226-0 information can be found at www.ewordfilm.com. (62 minutes) *How to Build A Nuclear Submarine: Voyages of © 2015 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-766-6 Construction-Coming Soon Item # 55162 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-227-7 How to Build A Jumbo Jet Engine: Voyages of Liberals Are Stifling Intellectual Construction Diversity on Campus: A Debate Item # 55163 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-228-4 Item # 93837 *Britain's Secret Engineers: Voyages of Construction- Subject: Education Coming Soon What is college for? To many, it’s a place for personal and Item # 55164 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-229-1 intellectual growth, a setting that provides students the opportunity to explore new ideas and philosophies that challenge their beliefs. $169.95 But is it really? Recent cancellations of politically controversial speakers, rescinded honorary degrees, and scrutiny of certain university groups have raised concerns that liberal intolerance From the Series Disaster (Series 1) pervades the nation's campuses. Are liberals shutting down Item # 57466 speech and stifling intellectual diversity on campus? Or is this Subject: Engineering simply a myth propagated by conservatives, based on the © 1997 • $779.70 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-365-6 preponderance of liberals at universities rather than intentionally The Goiania Incident: Disaster (Series 1) discriminatory actions? (83 minutes) In 1989, a mysterious outburst of radioactive contamination in © 2015 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-893-9 Goiania, Brazil brought panic to the streets. Shot on location in Brazil, this film recreates the disaster and the vast emergency clean-up that followed. It also focuses on a group of people who Teaching ESL Students in the found strange glowing crystals which they gave to their friends and Mainstream Classroom family—gifts of death. A BBC Production. (29 minutes) Item # 94153 Item # 57469 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-368-7 Subject: Education Atlantic: Disaster (Series 1) It is vital for teachers to consider the language used in their subject Janet Culver placed a personal ad for a fishing companion, and area from an ESL learner's point of view. This informative program slowly fell in love with the man who replied. But her dreams were helps teachers accommodate ESL learners with real-life classroom shattered when tragedy struck and they were shipwrecked. The examples and practical strategies. Explore how teachers can horrors of being stranded for days in a small dinghy are consider the language demands of their lessons and use non- reconstructed in this film, which includes an interview with Janet verbal cues to enhance language comprehension. Learn how Culver herself. A BBC Production. (29 minutes) language modeling builds learner confidence and how to Item # 57472 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-371-7 differentiate between language and content when correcting. See a demonstration of the "Think-Pair-Share" strategy for concept $129.95 each checking and better understand the importance of integrating cognitive taxonomies and learning styles to build thinking skills. Produced in Australia. (25 minutes) Living With Robots © 2010 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-024-0 Item # 58554 Subject: Engineering Robots are everywhere. They build our cars, entertain our kids, and clean our floors. And as they continue to creep into our lives with ever-greater capabilities and intelligence, they will fundamentally rewrite our relationship with machines. This film takes us to the world’s most advanced androids that look and talk like us, the world’s deadliest robots that kill for us, and the world’s smartest robots that learn from us. Follow the latest developments and peek into a nearby future where robots will be entrusted not only with chores but also with our feelings. (52 minutes) © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-284-5 22 Mission to Mars Breaking the Wall of Traditional Computing: Item # 57607 How the Human Brain Project Can Contribute to Subject: Engineering a Fundamentally New Paradigm NASA's Curiosity Rover is intended to answer the big question about Mars - is it a suitable environment for life? of Information Processing The biggest and most powerful machine ever sent to Mars, Item # 60304 Curiosity is a mobile lab packed with diverse scientific equipment Subject: Engineering and the information it uncovers could change the way we think While it might seem that the processing power of computers will about the iconic red planet forever. But before Curiosity can begin continue to increase endlessly, waste heat, power consumption its mission of discovery, it must first pass the biggest test of all - and the probability of component failures rise at the same time – landing safely on the Martian surface. By 2010, 38 attempts had and potentially to unmanageable levels. Computing needs a new been made to reach the planet. Only 19 had succeeded. Horizon processing paradigm, or its exponential progress of the last fifty tells the story of this unique journey of scientific discovery. A BBC years might slow down soon. What better inspiration than the Production. (53 minutes) human brain to find this new paradigm? Karlheinz Meier, a leader © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-502-5 in the efforts to emulate the human brain on silicon chips, has created prototypes of brain-inspired computers that run up to 100,000 times faster than their biological counterparts, and millions Connected: How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer of times faster than brain simulations on conventional hardware. Item # 57827 Meier is now co-director of the Human Brain Project (HBP), a €1 Subject: Engineering billion EU flagship research project with the goal to simulate the We’ve all heard of “six degrees of human brain with supercomputers. The HBP will provide new tools separation”, the idea that everyone in the to help understand the brain and its fundamental mechanisms, and world can be connected in just few steps. But to apply this knowledge in future medicine and novel computing what if those steps don’t just relate to people but also to viruses, architectures. An expert in illustrating complex physical matters in neurons, cancers, proteins and even to fashion trends? What if this educational short films, Karlheinz Meier explains one of the most “small world theory” allowed us an insight into something at the ambitious research projects of our times in 15 minutes. very core of Nature? We used to think the way in which web © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-432-0 pages, power grids and people tie together was more or less random. But recently a number of scientists working across varied realms have independently discovered that simple yet fundamental Breaking the Wall of Personalized Energy: How laws govern networks. It's a discovery that some are saying may Artificial Leaves Can Solve the prove as important as Newton's observations of gravity or Darwin's Global Energy Crisis theory of evolution. (54 minutes) Item # 60305 © 2009 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-709-8 Subject: Engineering In 2011, Daniel Nocera conquered global media attention when he Crash of the Century Linear presented a cheap coated-silicon sheet which, when placed in a Item # 59322 glass of tap water and exposed to sunlight, is able to split water Subject: Engineering into hydrogen and oxygen. Both gases can be collected, stored as KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 fuel in private households and later be fed to fuel cells to generate were just two of many planes delayed on the Spanish island of electricity. While the dream of artificial photosynthesis has been Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands on March 27, 1977. A series of chased by generations of scientists, it was Nocera who included a events resulted in the two aircraft attempting to take off in dense bottom-up approach in his research, which aims at providing fog from the same runway at the same time. This film is the result energy for the world’s poorest people. “If there is one thing that’s of investigators piecing together the conditions and actions that unique to the technology development I’ve done, it has been doing resulted in the death of 583 people, from eyewitness accounts and science with the super-poor in mind.” Under the impact of the Arab recordings from the cockpits and control tower. (88 minutes) oil embargo and other oil crises of the 70s and 80s, Nocera © 2005 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-335-4 envisioned his scientific career as humanitarian activity focused on the discovery of the "guarded secret of plants", a concept which was introduced to the scientific debate in 1912 by Italian chemist Breaking the Wall to a New Age of Electronics: Ciamician. In order to prepare the artificial leaf for global How Micro- and Optoelectronics Lead to application, Nocera already managed to reduce production costs Transparent and Paper significantly by substituting the rare and expensive platinum used in earlier models with inexpensive and earth-abundant materials. Transistors As a next step, nanotechnology might help make the leaf more Item # 60298 efficient and reduce production costs. At Falling Walls, Daniel Subject: Engineering Nocera speaks about the walls to break on the way to a global If you are happy that your mobile phone does not weigh 1 kilogram energy revolution. (15 minutes) and cost $4000 like the first handheld model from 1973, you will © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-433-7 appreciate the efforts of Elvira Fortunato, who is working on making technology as cheap and light as paper. Fortunato pioneered the Paper-e® concept which is based on the discovery The Greedy Brain: Can Computers Read Inside that paper can be a functional part of electronic devices. In the Our Brains? near future we might see self-updating business cards and price Item # 65011 tags, animated paper billboards and electronic newspapers. Elvira Subject: Engineering Fortunato is now onto “Invisible”, a project that secured her a 2008 In this program, science journalist Rob Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. Using zinc van Hattum explores innovative oxide, a transparent ceramic already used in industrial technologies that are connecting the brain to computers to do applications, her lab aims at producing a new generation of everything from gather information to help disabled people move transistors—transparent, flexible and as thin as paper. The prosthetics with their thoughts. The film highlights the work of resulting electronic components generate less waste heat and are neuroscientists and researchers who map and interact with the cheaper, faster and more resistant than their traditional brain as they contemplate future applications. (50 minutes) counterparts. (14 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-711-6 © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-426-9 23 Breaking the Wall to Living Robots: How Inside Tolkien's The Hobbit Artificial Intelligence Research Tries to Build Item # 55561 Intelligent Autonomous Systems Subject: English & Language Arts The Hobbit is one of the most successful Item # 60312 children's books of all time and it is heartwarming to know that the Subject: Engineering genesis of this book lay in Tolkien's relationship with his children. Can robots be creative enough to build With video footage and recordings of Tolkien and his children, Bob their own language? Computational Carruthers and Humphrey Carpenter take us on a journey behind linguistics explores semiotics, its origins, the creation of The Hobbit. Learn the influences that led to one of evolution and dynamics with an interdisciplinary approach aimed at the most popular literary successes and better understand the man finding out statistics and rules to construct a computational model responsible for creating Middle-earth. (51 minutes) of natural language. Luc Steels, with more than 30 Ph.D. theses © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-741-8 granted under his direction, 200 articles published and 15 books edited (and an opera written about robots!) is one of the world’s leading experts in the area of artificial intelligence. During the last The Secret Life of Books decade, he focused on dialogs for humanoid robots and Item # 75350 fundamental research into the origins of language and meaning. Subject: English & Language Arts Steels is able to interpret and validate the simulations performed Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Mrs. by computers and to compare them with the theories of Dalloway, Frankenstein…just some of the evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience and cultural classic works of fiction that we all know and love. But how well do dynamics. He is currently an ICREA professor at Universitat we really know them? We might remember Rochester and Jane’s Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, director of the Sony Computer Science sparky dialogue in Jane Eyre or the Frankenstein monster jerking Laboratory in Paris and was founding director of the Artificial to life in the classic black and white movies. But these rich and Intelligence Laboratory at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. At Falling vibrant works have much more to offer us, and in this six-part Walls, Steels explains how close we are to understanding how the series our presenters revisit original texts, manuscripts, diaries, human brain evolved to allow the genesis of language, considering and correspondence to reveal new insights into some of the the potential benefits for the further development of artificial greatest works of literature. An Open University Production. (6 intelligence. (15 minutes) parts, 180 minutes) © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-440-5 © 2014 • $779.70 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-736-9 Great Expectations English & Language Arts Item # 75351 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-927-1 Shakespeare's First Folio Item # 75352 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-928-8 Frantic Assembly: A Guide to Mrs Dalloway Devising Item # 75353 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-929-5 Item # 49817 The Mabinogion Subject: English & Language Arts Item # 75354 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-930-1 U.K. theater company Frantic Assembly has emerged as one of Jane Eyre the boldest and brightest stars in the international drama Item # 75355 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-931-8 firmament. Building shows from the ground up—called devising, a Frankenstein form of improvisational, collaborative theater—is at the heart of the Item # 75356 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-763-5 highly acclaimed troupe. This program provides insight into the devising process, from first thoughts to first night. Part celebration, 129.95 each part explanation of Frantic Assembly’s approach to production, it offers in-depth interviews and practical demonstrations that will inspire students as they begin their own devising journey. A viewable/printable worksheet is available online. (24 minutes) Environmental Science © 2011 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-453-9 Taiwan: Standing on Shaky Ground The Tolkien Trilogy Item # 54297 Item # 55557 Subject: Environmental Science Subject: English & Language Arts Taiwan is a heavily industrialized economy Discover the hidden secrets of Middle-earth on a dependent on nuclear power. On the mainland, unique journey into the heart of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic three- concern is growing about the threat posed by volume novel, The Lord of the Rings. Featuring remarkable new reactors on shaky ground. And because of its disputed nationhood, insights into Tolkien by international authorities, including Taiwan cannot ship its waste for offshore processing. Thirty years screenwriter Bob Carruthers and author Patrick Curry, this ago, Tao residents on Orchid Island were told that the island was powerful series takes you deeper into this great book than ever the chosen location for a fish cannery, they received a nuclear before. Using the latest advanced mapping techniques and the waste facility instead. Australian Broadcasting’s Mark Willacy fantastic art of the Brothers Hildebrandt, this magical and highly examines the nuclear industry of Taiwan, drawing several parallels entertaining three-part series plots the journey of the fellowship day with Japan, and investigates Tao concerns that with a by day and reveals the hidden themes and influences which disintegrating nuclear waste dump, Orchid Island will suffer a shaped Tolkien’s remarkable work. (3 parts, 167minutes) Fukushima-style disaster. (26 minutes) © 2002 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-737-1 © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-719-7 The Fellowship of the Ring Item # 55558 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-738-8 The Return of the King Item # 55559 $ • ISBN: 978-0-81609-739-5 The Two Towers Item # 55560 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-740-1
$169.95 each 24 The Lithium Revolution: Rechargeable Batteries Recognizing the Rights of Mother Nature: and the Promise of E-Mobility Natalia Greene Item # 55553 Item # 58254 Subject: Environmental Science Subject: Environmental Science This film tells three stories about the vision of This episode of The Green Interview electronic mobility. Over 50% of lithium features Ecuador’s Natalia Greene, a key figure in the movement resources worldwide are found in Bolivia. Evo Morales wants to for recognition of the rights of Mother Nature or “Pachamama.” break out of the vicious circle of poverty and exploitation and has Greene was a central figure in the creation of Ecuador’s 2008 thrown multinational companies out of the country, in order to constitution and involved in developing Ecuador’s Yasuni ITT industrialize Lithium himself. In China, the government is pumping Initiative, which aimed to keep oil underground in the Amazon millions into the e-technology sector. The aim is to make China a region. Until recently she coordinated an innovative program on leading provider of e-mobility within a few years. Not only are the political plurinationality and the rights of nature at the Fundacion Chinese determined, many members of the Western world are Pachamama in Quito. That appointment ended abruptly when jumping onto the bandwagon: they have realized that e-mobility is Rafael Correa’s government sharply changed course, and the key to the reduction of CO2 emissions and will end unilaterally shut down both the Yasuni ITT Initiative and the dependence on oil. Renault, Nissan and General Motors produced Pachamama Foundation itself. (61 minutes) an electric car suitable for mass production. The question is © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-835-4 whether batteries will make the necessary developmental jump in the near future, or if the dream of e-mobility will fail. (53 minutes) © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-629-9 Équiterre—Linking Environmental and Social Justice: Steven Guilbeault Item # 58255 The Climate Change Denial Industry: James Subject: Environmental Science Hoggan This episode of The Green Interview Item # 56726 features Steven Guilbeault, an author, Subject: Environmental Science science and environmental journalist, consultant to venture This episode of The Green Interview features capitalists, and prominent Quebecois environmentalist. He is James Hoggan, the author of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to currently senior director of Équiterre, a non-governmental Deny Global Warming. He explains how oil and gas companies organization he co-founded in 1994. Équiterre tackles a broad and their PR firms manufactured the false debate on climate range of issues and makes the link between environmental justice change. Hoggan, who works in the public relations industry and social justice—drawing links between human and himself, explains how public relations techniques allow businesses environmental health and encouraging decision makers to adopt to use psychology to shape public opinion. Hoggan discusses the laws and practices that are sustainable and fair. Guilbeault is also climate change deniers, the use of industry-sponsored propaganda behind the new $30 million state of the art “green” building Maison and how ethical business should be conducted. (65 minutes) du Développement Durable (or House for Sustainable © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-137-9 Development). (60 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-836-1 Defending Democracy and the Water Rights: Maude Barlow Speaking the Hard Truths and Getting Heard: Item # 56741 Franke James Subject: Environmental Science Item # 58274 This episode of The Green Interview features Maude Barlow, a Subject: Environmental Science Canadian environmental activist and author who argues that water This episode of The Green Interview is the next oil. As chair of the Council of Canadians, Barlow led a features Franke James, a rabble-rousing artist, author, and activist public fight against the North American Free Trade Agreement who uses her art—a signature style of lively drawings mixed with (NAFTA) in the 1980s and for over a decade, she has focused her photos and hand drawn text—and her written work to campaign for boundless energy on a crisis of global proportions: the looming social and environmental justice. She has over 20 years’ world-wide water shortage, which is accelerated by free-trade experience as a creative designer and marketing professional. deals that privatize water. She says the Canadian government’s Most recently, she made headlines when she discovered that the new free-trade deal with Europe signs away people’s water rights Canadian government under Stephen Harper worked to discredit and gives up local control over provision of water and other her and try to shut down her European art tour because the art provincial-municipal services. In this Green Interview, Barlow focused on stopping climate change. (63 minutes) discusses the world’s dwindling water supplies and explains the © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-854-5 implications of CETA—Canada’s tentative Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Europe. (63 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-152-2 Global Warming Is Not a Crisis: A Debate Item # 58281 Subject: Environmental Science The Politics of Hope: Chris Turner Climate change is big news these days, Item # 58260 from melting mountain glaciers to warming Subject: Environmental Science seas. But is the buildup of carbon dioxide in This episode of The Green Interview features the Earth's atmosphere leading to a crisis? An Intelligence Chris Turner, a journalist who set out on a tour of the world and Squared U.S. Debate. (100 minutes) saw that the messages of environmentalism had proven to be © 2007 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-860-6 completely inadequate as a myth of renewal. He argues that the environmental movement needs a language of hope, rituals of rebirth, and a sense that the battles are worth fighting. His book, The Geography of Hope, is a tour of the world packed with images of possibility, innovation, and renewal. (62 minutes) © 2009 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-840-8
25 No Fracking Way: The Natural Gas Boom Is Doing More Harm Than Good: A Debate Wild Canada Item # 58337 Item # 59055 Subject: Environmental Science Subject: Environmental Science Natural gas is considered by some the fuel that From the filmmakers of the acclaimed series Human Planet and will bridge the nation’s transition from fossil fuels Planet Earth comes Wild Canada that takes place through time such as oil and coal to renewable energy and across the vast scale of the Canadian landscape, revealing sources such as wind and solar. The ability to extract natural gas the country as it has never been seen before. Shot with ultra-high- from shale formations through a method called fracking—short for definition cameras that capture sweeping panoramas and hydraulic fracturing—has unleashed vast, untapped sources. By extraordinary close-ups of Canada’s majestic terrain and diverse some estimates, the United States now sits on a 100-year supply. species, this is the largest natural history survey of Canada in our But contamination from toxic chemicals used in the fracking generation. The stunning visuals are matched by a dramatic process has posed increasing health and environmental concerns. narrative, which tells the story of how humans have made their Can natural gas be part of a clean energy solution, or is it a mark over millennia in often surprising ways. Unlike any nature dangerous roadblock to a fossil-free future that is doing more harm documentary series before it, Wild Canada puts people back in the than good? (99 minutes) picture. (4 parts, 176 minutes) © 2012 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-916-0 © 2014 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-323-1 *Wild Canada: The Eternal Frontier-Coming Soon The Gaia Principle: James Lovelock Item # 59056 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-324-8 *Wild Canada: The Wild West-Coming Soon Item # 58793 Item # 59057 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-325-5 Subject: Environmental Science This episode of The Green Interview features *Wild Canada: The Heartland-Coming Soon James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia Item # 59058 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-326-2 hypothesis. Lovelock's eclecticism and scientific independence for Wild Canada: Ice Edge nearly five decades allowed him to follow the logic of his own Item # 59059 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-327-9 thinking no matter how original and unorthodox its conclusions. In 1979 he published Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, which $169.95 rattled the scientific world and electrified the rest of us by arguing that the Earth behaves like a single living organism that creates STARS and Pop Cans: Sustainability at Nova and maintains a viable environment for life. He has been described as “the most important figure in both the life sciences and the Scotia Community College climate sciences for the past half-century,” and he has been listed Item # 60292 among the world's top 100 public intellectuals. (82 minutes) Subject: Environmental Science © 2010 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-298-2 This short documentary focuses on Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), which provides trades training and vocational education on 13 campuses and in six community learning centers. Getting to the Wild Heart of Earth Rights: The flagship campus was designed to be a model of sustainability Cormac Cullinan that would lead the whole province. The building was constructed Item # 58800 to LEED Gold standards. The building has three living walls (two Subject: Environmental Science inside and one outside) plus 8,000 square feet of green roof This episode of the Green Interview features growing a range of local plants. It has photovoltaic panels, Cormac Cullinan, the director of a leading environmental law firm geothermal and passive solar heating and cooling, and five types based in Cape Town, South Africa, and the author of the of wind turbines. It recently received Gold certification by STARS pioneering book, Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice. The (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System) ranking book calls for what Cullinan describes as earth jurisprudence, well ahead of senior institutions like Dalhousie, McGill, and which places human legal systems within the context of the laws of Concordia. (17 minutes) nature. Cullinan has played an important role in drafting the © 2014 • $69.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-421-4 Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. His anti- apartheid activist has given him an understanding of just how fast The Mendoza Case: A “Green and how completely social change can occur when the circumstances are right. (64 minutes) Rights” Legal ` © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-305-7 Item # 60293 Subject: Environmental Science Bill Moyers speaks with Kelsey Juliana, an 18-year-old Cow Power: Vermonters environmental activist who is fighting against climate change in the Turning Manure Into Energy courts and walking across the country to spread the word on global Item # 58934 warming. She believes that "being green" is not enough and that Subject: Environmental Science laws need to be in place to limit emissions and promote renewable This film focuses on the history and science behind the world’s energy. In this interview, she highlights several reasons to care only utility offering electricity created from cow manure. Vermont is about global climate change, discusses the Great March for the first state to combine policy with citizen generosity in an effort Action, and shares how individuals can make a difference. (27 to support Cow Power farms. Businesses ranging from breweries minutes) to colleges pay an optional tariff to support the program. Farmers © 2014 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-443-6 retrofit their farms with digesters that turn cow waste into a renewable energy source. The process of removing cow manure from the barn floor and collecting the methane gas to produce energy is 75% efficient (compared to 30% efficiency from wind power and 12% efficiency by solar power). The benefits of Cow Power are endless and this renewable energy source could become an option for addressing the U.S energy crisis. (55 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-321-7 26 Deep Down and Dirty: The Science of Soil Aluna: The Kogi People's Message Item # 60452 Item # 93333 Subject: Environmental Science Subject: Environmental Science It takes a thousand years to form a single inch Living on an isolated pyramid mountain in the of soil. It is a fragile layer on the surface of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, land—yet essential to all life on Earth. But where did soil come the Kogi are the last surviving civilization from the world of the Inca from and how was it made? Gardening expert Chris Beardshaw and Aztec, and their cities are untouched by the outer world. The reveals the secrets locked within soil. Traveling around in his mountain is quite literally a micro-cosmos, a mirror of the planet on specially-equipped mobile soil lab, he delves down into dirt to which every ecological zone is represented and in which most of uncover its deepest secrets. He looks into the distant past to the plants and animals of the planet can live. The Kogi believe that reveal the almost miraculous way soil first formed, and takes a they live in order to care for the world and keep its natural order tantalizing glimpse into the future, to reveal soil as a commodity functioning, and they understand that mining and deforestation are more precious than oil or gold. A BBC Production. (52 minutes) destroying the critical interconnections within the natural world. (90 © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-496-2 minutes) © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-886-1 Years of Living Dangerously Item # 60759 Family & Consumer Sciences Subject: Environmental Science This Emmy Award-winning 9-part documentary From the Series Supermarket Secrets series explores the global human impact of climate change, from Item # 55762 the damage wrought by Superstorm Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East. Executive Produced by James Subject: Family & Consumer Sciences Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the programs feature © 2013 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-293-2 celebrity investigators alongside well-known journalists with a Summer: Supermarket Secrets background in environmental reportage. These "correspondents" We buy a staggering 90% of our food from travel to areas around the world affected by global warming, to supermarkets, and they have a huge influence over our lives. interview experts, skeptics, and the ordinary people affected by, Gregg Wallace goes behind the scenes with Britain's biggest food and seeking solutions to, the impacts of climate change. The retailers to discover how they source, make and move the food we celebrities include Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Ian Somerhalder, find on supermarket shelves. With exclusive access to the buyers, Jessica Alba, Don Cheadle, America Ferrera, Michael C. Hall, product developers, food technologists and backroom teams, Olivia Munn and Schwarzenegger. The journalists include Lesley Gregg reveals how much they know about us and our tastes and Stahl, Thomas Friedman, Chris Hayes and Mark Bittman. The final how supermarkets bring us our summer favorites. (60 minutes) episode includes Friedman's interview of President Barack Item # 55763 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-294-9 Obama. (9 parts, 514 minutes) Winter: Supermarket Secrets © 2014 • $1529.55 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-621-8 In this episode Greg Wallace goes behind the scenes to show how Dry Season: Years of Living Dangerously grocery stores prepare for the holidays. From shopping cart Item # 60760 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-622-5 engineering to Brussels sprout farming, major preparation is End of the Woods: Years of Living Dangerously needed to meet consumer demand. (60 minutes) Item # 60761 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-623-2 Item # 55765 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-296-3 The Surge: Years of Living Dangerously Item # 60762 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-624-9 $169.95 each Ice and Brimstone: Years of Living Dangerously Item # 60763 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-625-6 The Masters of Tea True Colors: Years of Living Dangerously Item # 56284 Item # 60764 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-626-3 Subject: Family & Consumer Sciences The Winds of Change: Years of Living Dangerously After water, tea is the most ingested beverage Item # 60765 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-627-0 in the world. Although common, tea requires extensive labor to Revolt, Build, Renew: Years of Living Dangerously make it grow, harvest its leaves and transform them. Like wine in Item # 60766 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-628-7 Europe, there is a deep seated tea tradition in Asia where special A Dangerous Future: Years of Living Dangerously vintages, prime growing areas, centuries old codes, and know how Item # 60767 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-629-4 combine into a refine culture. From the legendary Darjeeling Moving a Mountain: Years of Living Dangerously valleys of India to the Japanese hills of Shizuoka and the province Item # 60768 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-630-0 of Yunnan in China—considered the birthplace of tea—this film follows experts who open the doors to a fascinating world. (52 minutes) $169.95 each © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-755-5
Gunned Down for Dissent in the Peruvian Coffee Trail with Simon Reeve Amazon: Santiago Manuin Item # 60448 Item # 60820 Subject: Family & Consumer Sciences Subject: Environmental Science Globally, billions are spent on coffee each This episode of The Green Interview features year and the drink in its various forms is an essential part of life Santiago Manuin Valera, spokesman for the Awajún indigenous and culture for millions of people. But where does it all come from? community in the Peruvian Amazon. In 2009, he was shot eight Who grows and packs our coffee beans? Adventure journalist times—and almost killed—by the Peruvian army during an epic Simon Reeve embarks on a journey across Vietnam, which in just confrontation over industrial exploitation of indigenous lands by over 30 years has become the second largest coffee producer in foreign oil companies, related to a free trade agreement with the the world. He discovers the impact the rapidly expanding coffee United States. In this Green Interview, Valera discusses protesters' market has had on a nation of small farms. (51 minutes) fight with the army, and the philosophy behind the Awajún © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-492-4 relationship with their land. (53 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-632-4 27 The Tea Trail, with Simon Reeve What Would You Do? Series 3: Instinctive Item # 60525 Reactions and What They Reveal Subject: Family & Consumer Sciences Item # 66470 Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve Subject: Guidance & Counseling heads to East Africa to uncover the stories behind Britain's favorite Encourage students to explore biases and drink. During a fascinating journey, Simon discovers the history stereotypes with this third series of ABC News and issues of the tea trade. Many assume that the leaves that go "What Would You Do?" segments. Each scenario puts actors into into everyday teabags come from India or China but in fact they exchanges with unwitting bystanders, generating a wide range of are bought from an auction in the coastal city of Mombasa in responses—from overt hostility towards other races and cultures to Kenya. From here, Simon follows the tea trail through the epic acts of genuine compassion. Topics explored include disability, landscapes of Kenya and Uganda and meets some of the millions LGBT, homelessness, race and ethnicity, and more. (118 minutes) of people who pick, pack and transport our tea. Drinking tea with © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-693-5 everyone from Masai cattle herders to the descendants of the original white tea planters, Simon learns along the way that the industry is not immune to the troubles of the continent, including Health poverty, low wages and child labor. A BBC Production. (52 minutes) Health Care Drain © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-569-3 Item # 54925 Subject: Health Guidance & Counseling The migration of inhabitants of southern hemisphere countries (commonly called "poor countries") toward the North ("rich countries) deprives these Sex, A Horizon Guide nations of their doctors and nurses. This one-way transfusion can Item # 57514 be seen in movements from Malawi to South Africa and then on to Subject: Guidance & Counseling Europe; leaving a vacuum in the poorest countries. In Mali, various Over the last 40 years, Horizon has followed peripheral economic systems enable certain doctors to stay in the the sexual revolution—from IVF and the country and treat their compatriots, helped by international contraceptive pill, to Viagra, genetic engineering, and frozen funding- one surprising instance of globalization revealing a human embryos. In this Horizon program, Professor Alice Roberts face. (52 minutes) investigates the staggering progress in our understanding of sex © 2003 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-989-5 and asks: can science save the day when sex goes wrong? Contains explicit nudity. A BBC Production. (52 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-412-7 From the Series Second Opinion: Taking Charge of Your Health Care It's All About Me Item # 55290 Item # 65001 Subject: Health Subject: Guidance & Counseling © 2012 • $3198.40 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-064-8 We’ve all heard the sentiment—that Breast Cancer in Young Women: Second Opinion—Taking Generations X, Y and Z have grown increasingly self-absorbed Charge of Your Health Care from over four decades of nurturing and education based on Getting a breast cancer diagnosis is scary at boosting self-esteem. But how did we get here? This program is any age, but unique issues surround this one man’s journey looking at the different generations, including disease when it is diagnosed early in life. Learn their history, cultural identity, traits and trends, to find out how we about the emotional, physical, social and medical issues arrived here. Young people have more freedom and independence surrounding breast cancer in young women. Meet Geralyn Lucas, than ever; but the culture of narcissism is nearly epidemic. Antoine who was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 20s. Hear how her Gaber dissects the very real collision between generational unexpected diagnosis changed her whole perspective on life. (26 expectations and reality, and how to bridge this generational divide minutes) to move toward a better future. (99 minutes) Item # 55320 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-094-5 © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-757-4 A Meaty Issue Work-Life Balance: Success and Happiness in Item # 55355 an Always-Connected World Subject: Health Item # 65064 Meat destroys the environment, forces poor farmers off their land, and is bad for your health. Filmed in China, Subject: Guidance & Counseling India, Europe, and Africa, this film investigates the consequences Not so long ago, people used to go to school of the world's growing appetite for cheap meat. Most meat-eaters or work, then had the rest of the day to enjoy their personal lives. don't think about the social, environmental, and political But in today’s always-connected world, work life and home life are consequences the desire for meat has on other parts of the world. blending. This video looks at the phenomenon with an eye for This film reveals why consumers should think beyond their own keeping a proper balance that leads to happiness, health and dinner plates. Some content may be objectionable. (53 minutes) success both at home and at work. It presents strategies for © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-099-0 coping with stress, taking responsibility, being organized, managing time and maintaining focus with interviews with experts, professionals, seasoned telecommuters and students. A co- production of Films for the Humanities & Sciences and MotionMasters. (31 minutes) © 2015 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-691-1
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The Big 4: Fighting Modern Diseases From the Series Disease and...Ease Item # 56510 Item # 57812 Subject: Health Subject: Health The most common diseases in our society © 2013 • $1499.50 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-673-2 today—cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and Male Infertility: Disease and…Ease diabetes—are a concern for everyone. And yet, Disease and Ease presents 10 of the most prevalent and those who are diagnosed with them often feel helpless as they devastating diseases affecting millions around the world in the 21st search for answers in a muddle of conflicting information. The four- century as reported by the World Health Organization. The series part documentary series accompanies doctors and patients as documents cutting edge ways of treating each disease with they battle illness and despair for a life that is filled with hope. But interviews and commentary from eminent doctors and professors. what successes have been achieved in the battle against the four High quality 2D and 3D graphics illustrate the effect of the disease most common diseases? What can high-tech medicine do and on the human body as well as the function and effect of the what can't it do? This series does not tell stories of heroes in white treatments. This episode covers male fertility causes, diagnosis, coats but of doctors, scientists, and patients who are constantly and treatment; female infertility causes; and IVF procedures. (24 facing new challenges. (4 parts, 180 minutes) minutes) © 2011 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-653-4 Item # 57806 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-671-8 *Cancer: New Treatments for a Longer Life—The Big 4: Female Infertility: Disease and…Ease Fighting Modern Diseases-Coming Soon In this episode, visit an IVF clinic in Greece and learn about the Item # 56511 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-654-1 process that is giving new hope to couples struggling with *Alzheimer’s: Hope in the Battle Against Forgetfulness— infertility. (24 minutes) The Big 4: Fighting Modern Diseases-Coming Soon Item # 57807 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-672-5 Item # 56512 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-655-8 Audio Processing Disorder: Disease and...Ease Heart Disease: The Success Story of Modern Medicine— The Disease and... Ease team traveled to London to meet the The Big 4: Fighting Modern Diseases experts on the diagnosis and treatment of Auditory Processing Item # 56513 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-656-5 Disorder. APD affects both children and adults and usually Diabetes: The Underestimated Threat—The Big 4: Fighting manifests itself as listening or learning difficulties; the brain cannot Modern Diseases process sounds effectively even though the individual's hearing Item # 56514 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-657-2 appears to be normal. With the help of the audiologists of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and a group of specialists on speech, language and hearing disabilities, we learn $169.95 each about the challenges of diagnosis, treatment and management of this affliction. (25 minutes) Fighting for the Right to a Healthy Environment: Item # 58169 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-772-2 Ada Lockridge and Ron Plain Item # 56745 $149.95 each Subject: Health This episode of The Green Interview Ration End-of-Life Care: A Debate features Ron Plain and Ada Lockridge, two Item # 58340 members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, a native community in Subject: Health the heart of Ontario's notorious “Chemical Valley,” who have Just because we can extend life, should we? launched a lawsuit to prove that Canadians have constitutional Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care every year. rights to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment. Medicare alone costs taxpayers over $500 billion, with more than According to the World Health Organization, the area has the 25 percent going toward patients in their last year of life. With the worst air quality in Canada—pumping out more air pollution than costs of health care rising and much of it spent on end-of-life care the entire provinces of Manitoba or Saskatchewan or New for patients with little or no chance of longtime survival, should the Brunswick. Aided by the environmental law organization government step in to ration care, deciding whose life is worth Ecojustice, the pair is arguing that their Charter rights to life, liberty saving? In other words, how much is an extra month or two of life and security of the person—and equality—are being violated by worth? (111 minutes) the Ontario government's permission for the expansion of these © 2012 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-919-1 toxic industries. (91 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-156-0 The FDA’s Caution Is Hazardous From the Series Addicted to Pleasure to Our Health: A Debate Item # 57411 Item # 58349 Subject: Health Subject: Health © 2012 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-310-6 Established in 1906, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Opium: Addicted to Pleasure is charged with protecting public health. Under this mandate, the federal agency regulates drugs and medical devices to ensure Scotland is plagued with over 50,000 drug their safety and effectiveness. But is the FDA failing this mandate? addicts and one of the roots of this Some argue that the FDA’s long and costly approval process addiction is the opium poppy. In this second stifles innovation and keeps life-changing treatments from the episode, actor Brian Cox travels to China to discover how the market, but defenders contend that the process is essential to seeds of this modern-day addiction were planted during the height ensure safety and protect public health. Is the FDA too cautious in of Britain's trading empire. Since then, opium has fueled the approving new drugs and medical devices? Is it ever appropriate world's largest drug-smuggling operation, earned vast fortunes, to sacrifice safety for speed? (103 minutes) triggered war with China, and inspired medical breakthroughs. Brian Cox reveals how Britain unleashed the most dangerous of © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-928-3 addictions on the world and how the consequences still haunt us today. A BBC Production. A part of the series Addicted to Pleasure. (49 minutes) Item # 57413 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-312-0
29 Don’t Eat Anything With a Face: A Debate Fat vs. Sugar Item # 58358 Item # 60454 Subject: Health Subject: Health In a 2009 poll, around 1 percent of American What’s worst for you: fat or sugar? It's a adults reported eating no animal products. In a question that's been generating huge amounts of heat in the poll two years later, that number had risen to 2.5 percent—more world's media, from the outer reaches of the Internet to the front than double—but still dwarfed by the 48 percent who reported pages of The New York Times. So what's the scientific truth? In eating meat, fish, or poultry. Considering issues of health, morality, the greatest traditions of investigative science, twin doctors Chris and the environment, should people be vegetarians or carnivores? and Xand Van Tullekan experimented with their own bodies—with (106 minutes) one on a low fat diet and one on a low sugar diet. What do sugar © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-937-5 and fat do to our metabolism? And which of these twin evils is worse? Horizon investigates and the results are surprising and unsettling. A BBC Production. (54 minutes) Eat, Cook, Love © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-498-6 Item # 58443 Subject: Health This provocative two-part series will surprise you Louis Theroux’s LA Stories: Edge of Life as it shatters some long-held beliefs about food and nutrition. Find Item # 60486 out why eating in front of the television, or eating alone, may be Subject: Health just as bad for you as a visit to Burger King, and what Louis heads to the award winning Cedars governments around the world are doing to to curb our growing Sinai Medical Center to learn more about waistlines. Reignite the fire we've always had for eating well! (2 the American way of death. A huge amount of money is spent on parts, 90 minutes) treatment during the last year of life and Louis follows the stories of © 2012 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-548-4 three patients as they grapple with their seemingly terminal *A Simple, Sustaining Ritual: Eat, Cook, Love-Coming conditions. Should they accept the inevitable and try to pass away Soon in as dignified way as possible? Or should they go down fighting, Item # 58444 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-549-1 trying every last treatment no matter how unlikely it is to succeed Fixing Our Food Habits: Eat, Cook, Love or how bad the side effects may be? Here it's often the latter Item # 58445 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-550-7 because the US medical system continues to pay for treatments that patients want. A BBC Production. (60 minutes) $169.95 each © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-530-3
Sierra Leone: Into the Hot Zone The Power of the Placebo Item # 59651 Item # 60495 Subject: Health Subject: Health The deadly hemorrhagic disease Ebola has Placebos come in all shapes and sizes and wiped out whole villages in Sierra Leone. At the front line are have been shown to help treat pain, depression, and alleviate teams of doctors, nurses, and health workers working tirelessly to some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. In this film, Horizon stop further infections. The epicenter is a town called Kailahun meets the scientists who are trying to find out why they work. From where the International Red Cross, MSF, and the World Health the man who performed fake operations to alleviate back pain to Organization are dealing with the carnage. They’ve set up a crisis the scientist studying the effect of fake oxygen on physical coordination center and allowed Foreign Correspondent to film performance, placebos have been shown to cause real and their daily struggles. (29 minutes) measurable physiological changes. A brain scan reveals that a © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-405-4 placebo can encourage our bodies to release the naturally occurring pain killers in our brains. Tests show that the shape, size, and even the color of a placebo can all have an impact on its Brain Doctors effectiveness. So what happens if we know it’s a placebo? Item # 60433 Surprisingly, it still seems to work. A BBC Production. (53 minutes) Subject: Health © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-539-6 High-risk, extremely skilled and breathtakingly complex, Brain Doctors features surgeons Legalize Assisted Suicide: A Debate working at the very frontiers of their medical expertise and Item # 65942 knowledge. In this special three-part series, cameras follow both pediatric and adult surgeons in John Radcliffe Hospital’s Subject: Health Neurosurgery Department as they carry out high-risk operations on In 1994, Oregon voters passed the Death with the body’s most complex, delicate and important organ, removing Dignity Act, which legalized physician-assisted brain tumors, correcting brain abnormalities and saving the lives of suicide for people with terminal illnesses. trauma victims. A BBC Production. (3 parts, 180 minutes) Since then, more states have passed such laws, and others are © 2013 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-477-1 considering them. Is physician-assisted suicide, as the American Medical Association’s code of ethics states, “fundamentally Emergency: Brain Doctors incompatible with the physician’s role as healer?" Will such laws Item # 60434 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-478-8 lead to a slippery slope, where human life is devalued and *The Decision: Brain Doctors-Coming Soon vulnerable people are pressured to choose death? Or do people Item # 60435 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-479-5 possess a basic right to autonomy and independence regarding *Against the Odds: Brain Doctors-Coming Soon end-of-life decisions that include the right to end pain and Item # 60436 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-480-1 suffering, and the right to choose to die with dignity? Should physician-assisted suicide be legal? (102 minutes) $169.95 © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-694-2
30 Genetically Modified Food: A Debate Nasseredin Shah and His 84 Wives Item # 65943 Item # 55115 Subject: Health Subject: History Genetically modified foods have been around In 1842 the heir to the Persian throne received a for decades. Created by altering the DNA of daguerreotype camera from Queen Victoria of one organism through the introduction of genes England. In the following decades he used it to document his life, from another, they are mainly found in processed foods that use eventually leaving behind portraits of prime ministers, royal corn, soybeans, and sugar beets, and in feed given to farm musicians, foreign dignitaries, and most especially, his 84 animals that people later consume. Supporters argue that genetic concubines and wives. This program provides the names and modification can make food more flavorful, nutritious, and biographical details of the women who posed for Nasseredin Shah abundant and enables plants to fight disease, resist pests, and and reveals the influence that they, along with the colorful Queen survive drought. Opponents, however, question the safety of Mother, had at court. Using the Shah’s photos as well as animated genetically modified foods, contend that their health benefits sequences, the video places harem rivalries within the context of remain unproven, and fear their long-term impact on the the power struggles that marked Nasseredin’s rule as he vacillated environment, the food industry, and the human body. Is the world between isolationism and allowing Persia to become a modern better off with or without genetically modified food? (105 minutes) state. (58 minutes) © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-695-9 © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-938-3
Trust Me…I'm a Doctor: Series 2 Hiroshima Item # 93187 Item # 55148 Subject: Health Subject: History Michael Mosley and his team of doctors return It was the defining moment of the 20th century— to tackle more questions about our health and wellbeing. This the scientific, technological, military, and political gamble of the series finds out why we all need a little bit of sunshine, the truth world's first atomic attack. This two-part drama-documentary about super foods and if caffeine really makes you more alert. It shows what it is like to live through a nuclear explosion, searches for answers to questions like is sugar as toxic as millisecond by millisecond. The action takes viewers into the room tobacco? Can we cheat our way to a healthy diet by preparing food where the crucial political decisions are made; on board the Enola differently? Are e-cigarettes safe? Do computer screens harm our Gay on her fateful voyage; inside the bomb as it explodes; and on eyes? By experimenting on their own bodies and visiting some of the streets of Hiroshima when disaster strikes. Parallel storylines the world's leading research hospitals, this team of doctors gathers interweave, unfolding the action from both U.S. and Japanese the evidence to provide answers to the medical questions we face perspectives, and revealing the tensions and conflicts in the everyday. (3 parts, 150 minutes) actions and minds of people who were making history. Special © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-813-7 effects recreate the reality of the mission, and archive film replays Trust Me…I'm a Doctor: Series 2—Episode 1 the horrific aftermath. A BBC Production. (2 parts, 100 minutes) Item # 93188 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-860-1 © 2005 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-213-0 Trust Me…I'm a Doctor: Series 2—Episode 2 Hiroshima: Part 1 Item # 93189 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-861-8 Item # 55149 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-214-7 Trust Me…I'm a Doctor: Series 2—Episode 3 Hiroshima: Part 2 Item # 93190 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-862-5 Item # 55150 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-215-4
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History The Crimean War Item # 55268 Subject: History Cover-Up at Ground Zero: Atomic Bomb The Crimean War (1853-1856) was crucial to Testing and the “Downwinders” modern European history. Within a few years of Item # 54306 its completion, three new nations had emerged from the ashes— Subject: History Germany, Italy, and Romania. In Russia, defeat sowed the seeds In the early days of the Cold War, peace and of future revolution; in Britain, the mishandling of the war effort led prosperity reigned in America. In the aftermath to the fall of the government. Reports from the front line by the of World War II, American citizens were assured by the world’s first war correspondent, William Howard Russell of The government that the weapon used to defeat the Japanese would Times, hammered home the appalling arrogance of the aristocratic now secure the peace, but at what cost? Prison inmates, mentally British officers and sparked a domestic move towards social retarded teenagers, and pregnant women were all exposed to reform. This three-part series uses these reports, as well as letters radiation so scientists could study its effects. Above-ground testing and diaries, to bring the conflict to life. As the first war to be in the Nevada desert exposed thousands of people to radiation photographed, there is also poignant visual evidence of the harsh clouds. This ABC News program introduces viewers to the people reality of the first ‘modern’ war. (3 parts, 180 minutes) known as the “downwinders,” and discovers why they have come © 1997 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-790-6 to believe they are victims of one of the deadliest cover-ups in the The Reason Why: The Crimean War nation's history. Broadcast date: February 2, 1994. (44 minutes) Item # 55269 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-791-3 © 1994 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-721-0 *The Valley of Death: The Crimean War-Coming Soon Item # 55270 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-792-0 War and Peace: The Crimean War-Coming Soon Item # 55271 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-793-7
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From the Series The British: An Epic Adventure The Men and the Machines that Beat Hitler Through the Ages Item # 57592 Item # 55686 Subject: History Subject: History This is the story of the British veterans who © 2012 • $1189.65 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-241-3 fought in the 5th Royal Tank Regiment: a team Tale of Two Cities: The British—An Epic Adventure of ordinary men who faced the frontline in both Through the Ages Europe and beyond. Their involvement in the Second World War spanned the humiliating defeat at Dunkirk, victory in the deserts of Today, much of the planet's population lives in North Africa, and finally saw resentment and revolt before D-Day. a British-shaped world. How did this clutch of Based on the unpublished diaries and memoirs of the men who islands off the coast of Europe come to were thrust together in extraordinary circumstances to fight Hitler dominate the globe? The British presents the history of the British and his forces, this two-part series uses drama and documentary Isles from Stonehenge to World War Two using gripping drama to bring their stories to life. A BBC Production. (2 parts, 120 reconstruction, the latest CG, time-lapse and aerial footage. A Tale minutes) of Two Cities covers the London Exposition, Industrial Revolution urbanization issues, and Victorian social reforms inspired by John © 2013 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-487-5 Snow, Charles Dickens, Josephine Butler, William Stead, and Men and the Machines that Beat Hitler: Epsiode 1 John Tasker. (44 minutes) Item # 57593 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-488-2 Item # 55692 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-247-5 Men and the Machines that Beat Hitler: Episode 2 Item # 57594 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-489-9
Henry VIII's Enforcer: The Rise and Fall of $169.95 each Thomas Cromwell Item # 57500 Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Subject: History Thomas Cromwell was one of the strongest Time supporters of the English Reformation. Cromwell rose from poor Item # 57636 beginnings to become chief minister to King Henry VIII. However, Subject: History at the moment of his greatest triumph, Cromwell was struck down When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, the and destroyed. He fell victim to the King's anger and was bodies of the people of Pompeii were perfectly preserved in their beheaded on July 28, 1540. Cromwell has gone down in history as final moments. Using 21st century forensics, this film reveals for ambitious and corrupt; a ruthless politician who destroyed people the first time the unique set of circumstances that led to this and institutions. Journey through Tudor England in search of the remarkable preservation. Leading volcanologists, archaeologists, truth about Henry VIII's best servant. A BBC Production. (52 and forensic scientists piece together this incredible mystery. The minutes) program reveals who the victims were and why they were caught © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-398-4 in such life-like poses, apparently not trying to escape. Stunning CGI shows the incredible power of the Vesuvius eruption and for the first time, the faces of the victims are revealed using facial History of the World reconstruction techniques. A BBC/Science Channel Coproduction. Item # 57505 (49 minutes) Subject: History © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-531-5 Bringing 70,000 years of human history to life, this series travels through time to the big stories of history. It is the story of civilizations, cultures, successes and crashing failures, a Treasures of Ancient Egypt story that charts progress and development through the centuries. Item # 57677 Each film explores a crucial turning point in history, featuring Subject: History dramatic reconstruction, computer graphics and gripping story- If you think the treasures of Ancient Egypt telling. From the early settlers in Mesopotamia to the wonders of are just gold, gaudiness and pyramids, Egypt and Rome and from the French Revolution to the Industrial think again. In this epic, visually stunning Revolution, viewers are within history; shoulder to shoulder with adventure through Ancient Egypt, journalist and art critic Alastair the people who have shaped the world as we know it today. (8 Sooke follows on from his hit series Treasures of Ancient Rome, parts, 400 minutes) tracking down the treasures of the longest-lasting civilization in © 2012 • $1359.60 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-403-5 history and uncovering the true story of their rise and fall Survival: History of the World throughout the ages. Stepping aside from the well-worn usual Item # 57506 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-404-2 clichés of this era, he discovers how Egypt’s unique melting pot of Age of Empire: History of the World geography and culture created some of the most remarkable Item # 57507 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-405-9 treasures the world has ever seen. A BBC Production. (3 parts, The Word and the Sword: History of the World 180 minutes) © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-572-8 Item # 57508 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-406-6 The Birth of Art: Treasures of Ancient Egypt Into the Light: History of the World Item # 57678 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-573-5 Item # 57509 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-407-3 The Golden Age: Treasures of Ancient Egypt *Age of Plunder: History of the World-Coming Soon Item # 57679 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-574-2 Item # 57510 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-408-0 A New Dawn: Treasures of Ancient Egypt Revolution: History of the World Item # 57680 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-575-9 Item # 57511 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-409-7
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Infamous Assassinations *The Assassination of John F Kennedy: Infamous Assassinations Item # 57531 Item # 57551 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-449-3 Subject: History Get ready to witness the 20th century's most *The Assassination of Heydrich: Infamous Assassinations damaging and outrageous assassination attempts, first-hand. Item # 57552 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-450-9 From the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the gunning down *The Assassination of Ernst Röhm: Infamous of Mahatma Gandhi, the tragic shooting of John Lennon to the Assassinations brutal bombing of one of Hitler's henchmen, this 26-part series Item # 57553 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-451-6 brings you as close to the killers as the cameramen themselves— *The Assassination of Che Guevara: Infamous which sometimes means just a few feet. Using rare archive Assassinations footage and reconstructions, each episode focuses on a different Item # 57554 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-452-3 story, from attacks on royalty, politicians and guerrilla leaders to The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: media personalities who all, for one reason or another, stepped in Infamous Assassinations the way of an assassin determined to bring their life to an end. Item # 57555 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-453-0 Many of their motives have remained shrouded in mystery—until *The Assassination of Anwar Sadat: Infamous now. A BBC Production. (26 parts, 650 minutes) Assassinations © 2007 • $3898.70 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-429-5 Item # 57556 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-454-7 *The Attempts on De Gaulle: Infamous Assassinations *Princess Anne: Infamous Assassinations Item # 57532 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-430-1 Item # 57557 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-455-4 The Attempt on Ronald Reagan: Infamous Assassinations Item # 57533 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-431-8 $149.95 each *-Coming Soon *The Attempt on Hitler: Infamous Assassinations Item # 57534 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-432-5
*The Assassinations of Indira & Rajiv Gandhi: Infamous Assassinations Item # 57535 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-433-2 Time to Remember *The Assassination of Zia Ul Haq: Infamous Item # 57662 Assassinations Subject: History Item # 57536 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-434-9 A unique exploration of the dramatic social, *The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: Infamous political, and cultural transformation of the Assassinations-Coming Soon Western world during the first half of the 20th century, bringing the Item # 57537 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-435-6 period vibrantly to life for 21st century viewers through the *The Assassination of Verwoerd: Infamous Assassinations exclusive use of British Pathé’s evocative newsreel footage. Time Item # 57538 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-436-3 to Remember captures the iconic and pivotal moments—as well as *The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II: Infamous new and passing social trends—from 1896 through to 1945. Updated from the landmark 1960s series of the same name, these Assassinations twelve themed episodes feature the original narrative from Item # 57539 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-437-0 celebrated actors Sir Michael Redgrave, Sir Ralph Richardson, *The Assassination of Trotsky: Infamous Assassinations Joyce Grenfell, and Sir Anthony Quayle. A BBC Production. (12 Item # 57540 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-438-7 parts, 360 minutes) *The Assassination of Sikorski: Infamous Assassinations © 2011 • $1199.40 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-557-5 Item # 57541 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-439-4 *Pioneers of Aviation: Time to Remember *The Assassination of Robert Kennedy: Infamous Item # 57663 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-558-2 Assassinations *Stage and Screen: Time to Remember Item # 57542 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-440-0 Item # 57664 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-559-9 The Assassination of President McKinley: Infamous *Casualties of War: Time to Remember Assassinations Item # 57665 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-560-5 Item # 57543 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-441-7 *A Woman’s World: Time to Remember *The Attempt on Pope John Paul II: Infamous Item # 57666 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-561-2 Assassinations *Pushing the Boundaries: Time to Remember Item # 57544 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-442-4 Item # 57667 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-562-9 *The Assassination of Michael Collins: Infamous *The Royal Families: Time to Remember Assassinations Item # 57668 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-563-6 Item # 57545 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-443-1 *Nations at Play: Time to Remember The Assassination of Martin Luther King: Infamous Item # 57669 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-564-3 Assassinations The Pursuit of Peace: Time to Remember Item # 57546 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-444-8 Item # 57670 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-565-0 The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Infamous Crime & Prohibition: Time to Remember Assassinations Item # 57671 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-566-7 Item # 57547 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-445-5 *Civilians at War: Time to Remember *The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten: Infamous Item # 57672 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-567-4 Assassinations-Coming Soon *The Need for Speed: Time to Remember Item # 57548 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-446-2 Item # 57673 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-568-1 *The Assassination of King Alexander: Infamous *In Time of Need: Time to Remember Assassinations-Coming Soon Item # 57674 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-569-8 Item # 57549 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-447-9 *The Assassination of John Lennon: Infamous $99.95 each *-Coming Soon Assassinations Item # 57550 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-448-6
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Frost/Nixon Howard Zinn: The People’s Item # 58244 Historian Subject: History Item # 58555 This series of interviews between Sir David Subject: History Frost and U.S. President Richard Nixon filmed This six-part collection features 9 hours of conversation with in May, 1977 delves into the various controversies of Nixon's Howard Zinn, historian and shipyard worker, civil rights activist and presidency including the Watergate scandal. This historic meeting author of the hugely successful A People’s History of the United has been adapted into an award-winning major motion picture by States. The book was a best seller that inspired, and continues to Ron Howard. (6 parts, 462 minutes) inspire, generations of high school and college students to rethink © 1977 • $1019.70 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-826-2 America’s past. Professor Zinn’s brand of history put ordinary Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interview citizens at the center of the story and encouraged readers to Item # 58245 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-827-9 acknowledge that change is possible. In 2007, Howard sat down Frost/Nixon: The Complete Interviews—Watergate with Ray Suarez, a veteran journalist then featured on PBS Item # 58246 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-828-6 Newshour, and their discourse covered many facets of American Frost/Nixon: The Complete Interviews—Nixon and The history, spanning from the Founding Fathers to today's wars in the World Middle East. (6 parts, 524 minutes) Item # 58247 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-829-3 © 2014 • $1019.70 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-285-2 Frost/Nixon: The Complete Interviews—War at Home and Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian—Part 1: A Nation in Abroad Development (1492–1787) Item # 58248 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-830-9 Item # 58556 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-286-9 Frost/Nixon: The Complete Interviews—The Final Days Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian—Part 2: A Nation Item # 58249 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-831-6 Redefined (1750–1864) Frost/Nixon: The Complete Interviews—The Last Roundup Item # 58557 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-287-6 Item # 58250 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-832-3 Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian—Part 3: A Fractured Nation (1800–1865) $169.95 each Item # 58558 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-288-3 Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian—Part 4: Looking Hana’s Suitcase Outward (1863–1915) Item # 58483 Item # 58559 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-289-0 Subject: History Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian—Part 5: In The Great The story of Hana's suitcase, made into an Protector’s Shadow (1913–1948) award-winning radio documentary and children's book, tells the Item # 58560 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-290-6 harrowing true tale of the owner of the suitcase, Hana Brady, who Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian—Part 6: Beneath the died at Auschwitz in 1944 at age 13. In 2000, the Tokyo Holocaust World Power (1948–2005) Education and Resource Center acquired the suitcase but no Item # 58561 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-291-3 information about Hana came with it. Its director, Fumiko Ishioka, made it her mission to scour the world trying to find out more of $169.95 each Hana's story. In the end, her search brought her to Toronto and George Brady, Hana's older brother and the only member of their immediate family to survive the Holocaust. For him, the reappearance of the suitcase in Japan 57 years after Hana's death Byzantium: Tale of Three Cities was absolutely astonishing. The story transformed Hana's only Item # 60444 surviving personal possession into a lesson of tolerance for Subject: History children everywhere who today are drawn to the story of the Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul. One suitcase and the tragedy it represents. (26 minutes) metropolis has been the capital city of three © 2004 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-588-0 empires—Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. Each has brought its own faiths, beliefs, and traditions, and each has left its mark on architecture, traditions, and on the faith-communities who still Expulsion: Story of Acadia populate this vast modern metropolis. In this series, Simon Sebag- Item # 58528 Montefiore unveils Istanbul’s strange and complex past in all its Subject: History vibrancy and color against the backdrop of this modern, living city In 1755, English colonial officials forcibly that spans the gulf between Asia and Europe. It’s a journey expelled 7,000 French-speaking Acadians from their lands in Nova through the history of world faith that takes Simon from the Scotia, lands that had been in Acadian hands for almost 150 pantheon of the Athenian Greeks through the founding of years. Expulsion follows the epic story of a people played as Christianity to the rise of Islam. A BBC Production. (3 parts, 150 pawns in a struggle between two empires. It is a saga of death and minutes) dislocation and resistance that reverberates still. This documentary © 2013 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-488-7 covers the events leading up to the expulsion. Shot in Nova Scotia, Byzantium: Tale of Three Cities—Byzantium New Brunswick, Louisiana, and Boston, re-enactments and Item # 60445 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-489-4 interviews compellingly bring the events to life. (44 minutes) Byzantium: Tale of Three Cities—Constantinople © 2004 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-277-7 Item # 60446 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-490-0 Byzantium: Tale of Three Cities—Istanbul Item # 60447 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-491-7
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34 I Was There: The Great War Interviews Return of the Black Death Item # 60464 Item # 60503 Subject: History Subject: History The Imperial War Museum in London holds an What actually caused the Black Death— extraordinary treasure trove of First World War and how many people died—is still a mystery. Contemporary eyewitness testimony. Filmed 50 years ago for the BBC's accounts tell how the Black Death killed rich and poor, old and landmark series The Great War, only a tiny fraction of this footage young alike; how victims suffered from painful boils, bleeding from ever made it to air. This program delves into this vault of powerful, the ears and black spots. The world has seen nothing like it, before personal interviews with soldiers and civilians, so that their voices or since. Now, a new investigation of recently unearthed skeletons can be heard for the first time. This poignant film brings the conflict from a long-lost plague cemetery discovered beneath the streets of to vivid and shocking new life: from the horrors of artillery London could settle the hottest debate in history once and for all. bombardment and the anguish of young men forced to become Uncovering the crucial clues hidden in the bones of the victims, killers, to fleeting outbreaks of peace on the battlefield, and the this fascinating film reveals exactly why this was the biggest killer heartbreaking stories of the women on the home front who lost in history; and what it can teach us about pandemics to come. A those closest to them. This is the Great War as visceral, lived BBC Production. (47 minutes) experience, with eyewitnesses still spry, alert and passionate. © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-547-1 Finally, they are given their chance to speak directly to us across time. A BBC Production. (51 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-508-2 Gettysburg: An American Story Item # 60614 Subject: History The Pity of War The 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment Item # 60490 was the first regiment to sign up for the Union Subject: History army and arrived at Gettysburg with less than 300 survivors. Many The First World War was one of the great more would sacrifice their lives there as the men of the 1st turning points of modern history. We know—or think we know— Minnesota were twice at the center of a battle that decided where and when it began. In the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on America’s future. This program follows their journey from 1861 to June 28, 1914, a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip murdered 1865, through the milestones of the Civil War into the deciding the heir to the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. But how and why battles of the historic conflict, and asks: What was the war really all did this crisis in the Balkans escalate into a bloody global about? What did the brave men and women fight for, and why is it conflagration? Did Britain really have to fight a war against still relevant to American politics and society today? (70 minutes) Germany? And what did this war say about humankind's © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-620-1 propensity for violence? In this fascinating and fresh take on the Great War, Harvard historian Professor Niall Ferguson argues that much of the responsibility for the scale of the conflict lies with the First Lady of The Confederacy: An Intimate British. He suggests that Britain's decision to enter the war in 1914 Conversation with Varina Howell Davis was not merely tragic for the those who lost their lives, it was also Item # 74164 a catastrophic error that unleashed an era of totalitarianism and Subject: History genocide around the world. A BBC Production. (51 minutes) When the Southern states seceded from the © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-534-1 Union in 1861 to form their own nation with Jefferson Davis as President, his wife Varina became the second first lady, for the first and only time in The Plantagenets American history. It was a position she accepted with dismay and Item # 60491 held for almost the same length of time as her Union counterpart, Subject: History Mary Todd Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln is well remembered by history, but Professor Robert Bartlett explores the Mrs. Davis seems to be forgotten. This film tells Mrs. Davis’ story Plantagenets, England's most dysfunctional, yet longest ruling, from her own perspective in the form of a dramatized conversation royal dynasty. Fifteen of the nation's most famous and infamous held in New York City in 1901, the 40th anniversary of the Civil kings came from this one family. Their story is one of intrigue, War. A compelling docu-memoir of an unusual life, it includes her conflict and brutality, but during their 331-year domination of take on secession, slavery, and war; reconciliation; financial England they shaped the country's politics and culture. Bartlett difficulties; family life and loss; and pursuing a writing career in reveals how Parliament was born, the system of justice was New York after Jefferson’s death. (41 minutes) established through Magna Carta and the foundations of the © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-740-6 United Kingdom were set down. Henry II forges a mighty empire encompassing England and much of France. His sons, Richard the Lionheart and John, then turn on their father and each other, Children of the Holocaust bringing the dynasty to the edge of annihilation. A BBC Production. Item # 86489 (3 parts, 150 minutes) Subject: History © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-535-8 Six remarkable stories of survival from The Devil's Brood: The Plantagenets eyewitnesses of Nazi atrocities during World War 2, brought to life Item # 60492 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-536-5 through animation and a series of follow-up interviews with elderly An English Empire: The Plantagenets survivors who recount their childhood experiences of Nazi Item # 60493 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-537-2 atrocities and the impact on their lives. In thoughtful interviews, The Death of Kings: The Plantagenets they discuss why Holocaust education is important to keep alive Item # 60494 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-538-9 the memory of those who were murdered, and in order to stay vigilant so that the world may never see these horrific events $169.95 each repeated. (59 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-827-4
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Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A In Search of the Trojan War Tale of Three Cities Item # 93170 Item # 86510 Subject: History Subject: History This six-part series, filmed in Greece, This series explores the story of 20th-century culture and the Turkey, and Berlin, features charismatic pivotal moments that influenced it. The story of culture is often cast historian Michael Wood who attempts to discover whether there as a gradual evolution, but for James Fox, art and culture in the was any truth in Homer‘s epic poems. Is Hissalik the site of the 20th century didn't happen like that. It was not a considered and mighty Troy? Did Helen, Achilles, and Agamemnon ever exist? calmly executed process, but a series of cultural earthquakes What was the significance of the famous wooden horse? Prepare centered in particular cities at particular times. Each episode for dramatic new twists to the tale. A BBC Production. (6 parts, 330 appraises the impact of events in one city during one minutes) groundbreaking year. A BBC Production. (3 parts, 50 minutes) © 1985 • $1019.70 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-810-6 © 2014 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-742-0 *The Age of the Heroes-Coming Soon Vienna 1908 Item # 93171 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-849-6 Item # 86511 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-837-3 *The Legend Under Siege-Coming Soon Paris 1928 Item # 93172 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-850-2 Item # 86512 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-838-0 *The Singer of Tales-Coming Soon New York 1951 Item # 93173 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-851-9 Item # 86513 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-839-7 *The Women of Troy-Coming Soon Item # 93174 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-801-4 $169.95 each Empire of the Hittites Item # 93175 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-852-6 *The Fall of Troy-Coming Soon The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire Item # 93176 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-853-3 Item # 86567 Subject: History $169.95 each This thought-provoking series goes back to the battlefields of the First World War to transform our image and understanding of the conflict in The Diary of Anne Frank: A Tale of Two Sisters terms of the people who fought and died in the Great War. Every Item # 93997 major battle of World War One was fought by multi-racial allied Subject: History armies; over a million non-white soldiers died in the conflict. They This film tells the stories of Anne Frank and fell on the Western Front and in the battlefields of Asia, Africa, and Eva Schloss, whose young lives paralleled the Middle East. Yet from the moment the guns fell silent their part each other and whose surviving parents, Otto Frank and Elfriede in the “Great War for Civilization’ was marginalized and then Geiringer, eventually married. It features extensive interviews with forgotten. The war also starkly exposed the contradictions and Eva Schloss to help tell the story of her and Anne's brief hypocrisies that surrounded race in the early 20th century, with friendship, their lives in hiding, and Otto's thinking after huge differences in the behavior of the Allied nations towards non- Auschwitz's liberation and learning of Anne's diary. The film white peoples, and war itself changed those attitudes yet further. examines who Anne Frank was as a person, Otto's decision to The use of black troops by the Allies became the focus of a furious publish the diary, and the way his efforts promoted Anne Frank's German propaganda campaign, yet the Kaiser’s army also ideals and her important legacy. Eva would be one of the first employed thousands of black soldiers in the war in Africa. A people to hear Otto read extracts from Anne's diary, a feat which century later new historical research is bringing their extraordinary he couldn’t manage to do without crying. Eva witnessed the stories out of the historical shadows. (2 parts, 100 minutes) publication and dramatization of the Diary of Anne Frank and © 2014 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-744-4 became involved in the Anne Frank Foundation set up by Otto in Martial Races 1963. In 1989 she created the Anne Frank Trust UK which aimed Item # 86568 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-846-5 to share the message of the Anne Frank foundation to challenge Foreign Legions prejudice and hatred. (46 minutes) Item # 86569 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-971-4 © 2015 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-010-3
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The Vietnam War Mapping the Future: The Power of Algorithms Item # 93998 Item # 93325 Subject: History Subject: Mathematics This three-part series tells the compelling story In the last few years, the data stream from Vietnam’s colonial past to the relentless sequence of events flowing through the internet has turned into that caused American troops to go in under President Kennedy in a tsunami: Ninety percent of the information 1961, until being forced to withdraw from Saigon in 1975. (3 parts, sitting on the world’s servers was created in the last two years. 150 minutes) This total digitization opens up completely new possibilities. © 2015 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-903-5 Suddenly, our entire lives can be modelled mathematically - and Vietnam and the War become predictable. We show how predictive analytics is being Item # 93999 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-011-0 used today and ask how our lives will change if our future The TV War becomes computable. (52 minutes) Item # 94000 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-012-7 © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-882-3 Fallout & Recovery Item # 94001 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-013-4
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Dance on Screen Jesus and Paul and the Word and the Witness Item # 58802 Item # 54903 Subject: Music & Dance Subject: Philosophy & Religion This final episode looks at a defining characteristic of our times: In this ABC News special program, Peter the ability to see and record live events anywhere in the world. It Jennings tells the story of Jesus of Nazareth, makes virtual neighbors of us all and is a fundamental part of our Paul the Apostle, and Christianity in its first modern society. This program tells the story of the inventors who decades. When Rome ruled the world from Europe to the heart of tackled the complexities of chemistry and electronics and the Middle East, the caesars were gods and most people knew discovered how to capture and reproduce still and moving images. nothing about a young Jewish peasant named Jesus of Nazareth. Their brilliance led to our final three genius inventions: still After Jesus’ death and resurrection, Paul becomes the main photography, moving pictures, and finally, television. A BBC character in the Bible story about the birth of Christianity. Trace the Production. A part of the series The Genius of Invention: Ideas story of Jesus and Paul, two men of remarkable faith, iron will, and That Changed the World. (50 minutes) radical vision. Without them the religion we know today as © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-395-3 Christianity would not exist. Broadcast date: January 5, 2004. (79 minutes) In Search of Beethoven © 2006 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-729-6 Item # 59682 Subject: Music & Dance Moyers & Company: The Pope, This two-part series offers a comprehensive and Poverty, and Poetry dynamic account of the life and works of the great composer Item # 56316 Beethoven. The film features 65 performances by the world’s finest Subject: Philosophy & Religion musicians. In addition, 100 interviews were conducted in the Pope Francis has proven to be one of the making of this beautifully crafted film. The program has brought most outspoken pontiffs in recent history, especially when it comes together the world’s leading performers and experts to reveal new to the widening gap between the rich and poor. In this episode of insights into both Beethoven the man and his music. The film is Moyers & Company Bill talks to author and historian Thomas Cahill narrated by Juliet Stevenson and young Royal Shakespeare to get his perspective on what the actions of Pope Francis could Company actor David Dawson. The film delves beneath the mean for the future of the church and why he has some mythical image of the tortured, cantankerous genius to search for conservatives up in arms. Also on the broadcast, poet Philip the real Ludwig van Beethoven. In Search of Beethoven addresses Levine joins Bill to discuss why Americans have lost sight of those the romantic myth that Beethoven was a heroic, tormented figure who really keep the country afloat—the hardworking men and battling to overcome his tragic fate, struck down by deafness, who women who toil, unsung and unknown, in our nation’s fields and searched for his ‘immortal beloved’ but remained unmarried. The factories. Levine himself worked on the assembly lines of Detroit’s results reveal someone quite different and far more interesting. (2 auto plants, and his experience inspired several of his poems. parts, 100 minutes) Described by one critic as “a large, ironic Whitman of the industrial © 2009 • $259.90 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-368-2 heartland,” Levine recently served as the nation’s poet laureate at In Search of Beethoven: Part One the Library of Congress. Broadcast date: December 27, 2013. (57 Item # 59683 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-369-9 minutes) In Search of Beethoven: Part Two © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-307-6 Item # 59684 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-370-5 Churches: How to Read Them $129.95 each Item # 57450 Subject: Philosophy & Religion In Search of Mozart Discover the secret code built into every Item # 59688 British church. To our ancestors, the Christian Subject: Music & Dance message—captured in plaster, paint, and stone—would have been Without resorting to docu-drama or visual re- as immediate as a picture book. Today, the key to unlocking that enactment, this two-part series traces the code has been lost. This authoritative six-part series reveals not composer’s life through his music and extensive correspondence. only the religious symbolism that imbues sacred spaces, but also Over 80 works are featured in chronological order, revealing the rich social history that has bound together Church and people striking parallels between the music and Mozart’s own for so many centuries.. A BBC Production. (6 parts, 180 minutes) experiences. Throughout, it is the musci that takes center stage, © 2010 • $779.70 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-349-6 with the jigsaw of Mozart’s life fitting around it. With rigorous Dark Beginnings: Churches—How to Read Them analysis from musicologists and experts such as Jonathan Miller, Item # 57451 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-350-2 Cliff Eisen, Nicholas Till, Bayan Northcott and the late Stanley Medieval Life: Churches—How to Read Them Sadie, a new, vivid impression of the composer emerges. It dispels Item # 57452 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-351-9 the many common myths about Mozart’s genius, health, Medieval Death: Churches—How to Read Them relationships, death and character, to present a new image, very Item # 57453 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-352-6 different from Milos Forman’s Amadeus. (2 parts) Reformation: Chaos and Creation—Churches: How to © 2006 • $259.90 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-374-3 Read Them In Search of Mozart: Part One Item # 57454 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-353-3 Item # 59689 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-375-0 Restoration and Reason: Churches—How to Read Them In Search of Mozart: Part Two Item # 57455 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-354-0 Item # 59690 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-376-7 The Victorians and After: Churches—How to Read Them Item # 57456 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-355-7
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37 Nepal: The Road Item # 59653 Physical Science Subject: Philosophy & Religion Tibet is out of reach for refugees, who can only Light and Dark dream of return. Musician Tenzin Choegyal has the very vaguest recollections of Tibet, as he was spirited out by his mother and Item # 57588 father as a young boy. But he's determined to see it once again, Subject: Physical Science across the Nepal-China border. He must pass through remote, A landscape filled with mountains, the stars in difficult terrain, including the remote Upper Mustang, where the night sky, or the face of a loved Tibetan culture is still preserved. Along an ancient trade route a one…everything you see is the result of light. But for our familiar major, transformative road is being built up to the Tibetan border. world to exist, more than 95% of the universe has to be dark—dark Some hope for modernization and an end to isolation. We consider matter we can't see and dark energy we can barely comprehend. the tension between modernity and preserving ancient culture. (30 In this thought-provoking two-part series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili minutes) explores the paradox that lies at the heart of physics. By © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-406-1 manipulating light, great scientists like Galileo and Newton have uncovered virtually everything we know about the Universe. But today's search for what lies hidden in the shadows, the mind- Sacred Wonders of Britain bending quest to discover dark matter and dark energy threatens Item # 60508 to overturn our understanding of the cosmos forever. This is the Subject: Philosophy & Religion story of everything we know and everything we don't know about At the edge of Europe the British Isles is home the Universe. A BBC Production. (2-parts, 102 minutes) to one of the world’s richest collections of sacred sites. With © 2013 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-483-7 stunning photography Sacred Wonders of Britain tells the stories of Light and Dark: Light the landmarks that have attracted visitors not just today, but for Item # 57589 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-484-4 thousands of years – from the Orkneys to Canterbury, from Light and Dark: Dark Stonehenge to Glastonbury. Exploring major new discoveries Item # 57590 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-485-1 about what our ancestors believed, this illuminating series reveals how these ancient people’s view of the sacred meets our own $169.95 each today. A BBC Production. (3 parts, 150 minutes) © 2013 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-552-5 Sacred Wonders of Britain: Part 1 What is Reality? Item # 60509 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-553-2 Item # 57687 Sacred Wonders of Britain: Part 2 Subject: Physical Science Item # 60510 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-554-9 What is reality? What is the universe made Sacred Wonders of Britain: Part 3 of, how does it work? In this Horizon program, Theoretical Item # 60511 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-555-6 physicist Leonard Susskind, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek, cosmologist Max Tegmark, quantum mechanic Seth Lloyd, experimental physicist Anton Zeilinger and particle physicist Rob $169.95 each Roser reveal their astonishing visions of reality. It may be vast, beautiful and terrifyingly complex, but understanding the nature of My Brother the Islamist reality is one of the most important quests mankind has ever Item # 93177 undertaken. Welcome to a mind-bending world, full of wild Subject: Philosophy & Religion frontiers, head-spinning paradoxes and brilliant illusions. A A young man sets out to understand why his BBC/Science Channel co-production. (51 minutes) brother has fundamentally changed his life and © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-582-7 beliefs, filming their encounters over 12 months to discover more about the world he has chosen. Like himself, Robb Leech’s step- brother Rich was an ordinary white middle-class boy from an Shedding Light on Atoms English seaside town and, until a couple of years ago, they were Item # 60260 almost inseparable. But then Rich moved away, and the family Subject: Physical Science learned via a press story that he’d become a radical Islamist, This three-part series uses demonstrations changing his name to Salahuddin. Associating with jihadist and animations to take students on a journey fundamentalists, he believes the UK should be ruled by Sharia law. of discovery to explain what we know about atoms—and how we Over the course of the film, Robb attempts to reconnect with his know what we know about atoms. (3-parts, 74 minutes) extremist step-brother, to discover what’s made the person he’d © 2014 • $299.85 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-417-7 looked up to as a teenage role model so strongly reject all that his The Dawn of Modern Chemistry: Shedding Light on family and the Western world stand for. A BBC Production. (58 Atoms, Episode 1 minutes) Item # 60261 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-418-4 © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-802-1 Oxygen Everywhere: Shedding Light on Atoms, Episode 2 Item # 60262 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-419-1 Religion in Contemporary Society The Discovery of Atoms: Shedding Light on Atoms, Episode 3 Item # 94181 Item # 60263 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-420-7 Subject: Philosophy & Religion This video discusses what religion means in today's society and looks at some of the new religious movements that have evolved. $129.95 each We discuss if contemporary society is moving away from the traditional and historical view of religion or if religion and spirituality is merely changing and taking on new forms. It also includes a definition of substantive and functional approaches to religion. This film resource is produced to prompt discussion and debate and comes with worksheets containing questions and activities for the students. (20 minutes) © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-030-1 38 America Should Be the World’s Political Science Policeman: A Debate Item # 58290 Iran: The Hundred-Year War Subject: Political Science Should the United States, with its enormous military might, act as a Item # 53610 global sheriff, policing the world's trouble spots? The proposition Subject: Political Science team argues that a policeman is necessary in an otherwise Iran’s sensitive geographic position and its anarchic international system, and nobody besides the U.S. is oil reserves have made it the object of foreign interest since the capable. The opposition team argues that, necessary or not, the beginning of the 20th century. This penetrating documentary U.S. is in relative decline and has neither the power nor the traces the impact of these factors on the past 100 years of Iran’s legitimacy to play a world police role. (100 minutes) political history, helping viewers understand why the country has © 2008 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-869-9 had such a complicated relationship with the West. The program gives a particularly eye-opening account of Cold War-era maneuvers by the U.S.—the 1953 coup, the introduction of nuclear Two Cheers for Super PACS: Money in Politics reactors under the “Atoms for Peace” program—and examines the Is Still Overregulated: A backlash from traditional Islamists that culminated decades later in the 444-day hostage crisis. (Portions with English subtitles, 92 Debate minutes) Item # 58338 © 2008 • $189.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-931-4 Subject: Political Science Following two major court decisions in 2010, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and SpeechNow.org v. Federal Access to the Danger Zone Election Commission, spending by giant political action Item # 55971 committees known as Super PACS has exploded. These Subject: Political Science organizations may receive and spend unlimited amounts of money In conflict zones far from the eyes of the from individuals, corporations, and unions to advocate for political world it is the wounded and the sick that candidates, as long as they are independent of the candidates' struggle to survive. But as the lines between aid workers and campaigns. (109 minutes) military become blurred, as NGOs are increasingly attacked, the © 2012 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-917-7 rules that protect the innocent and injured are breaking down. The confused relations between military and NGOs introduce ever more suffering into the hell that is war. An intelligent and The U.S. Drone Program Is fascinating insight into the politics of war zone aid. (53 minutes) Fatally Flawed: A Debate © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-054-9 Item # 58352 Subject: Political Science The U.S. drone program has killed terrorists and weakened Al 1973 How Watergate Changed the Government Qaeda. But critics of the drone program argue that the short-term Item # 56323 gains do not outweigh the long-term consequences—among them, Subject: Political Science radicalization of countless numbers outraged over civilian deaths. John Chancellor's report on the changes in Is the U.S. drone program helping in the fight against terrorism, or the White House and the Congress during hurting it? (108 minutes) the Nixon administration includes a © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-931-3 comparison to previous administration scandals. Footage includes taped excerpts of speeches, interviews and statements by President Franklin Roosevelt, President Richard Nixon, John For a Better Future, Live in a Red State: A Ehrlichman, Roy Ash, Caspar Weinberger, Edmund Muskie, Debate Robert Packwood, Peter Dominick, John Anderson, Charles Item # 58354 Colson, Ron Ziegler, John Dean, Alexander Butterfield, H.R. Subject: Political Science Haldeman, John Brademas, Robert Byrd, Gerald Ford, Melvin While gridlock and division in Washington Laird, Howard Baker and unidentified others. (52 minutes) make it difficult for either party or ideology to © 1973 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-021-1 set national policy, single-party government prevails in three- quarters of the states. In 24 states Republicans control the The International Criminal Court governorship and both houses of the legislature, and in 13 states Item # 56523 Democrats enjoy one-party control. Comparing economic growth, Subject: Political Science education, health care, quality of life and environment, and the This documentary follows the International strength of civil society, is it better to live in a red (Republican) Criminal Court and its chief prosecutor state or a blue (Democratic) state? (95 minutes) Luis Moreno-Ocampo. See how his team © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-933-7 prepares a case and learn how he and others at the ICC understand their role and goals. Learn about the operations of the Moyers & Company: America’s ICC, and how it grapples with issues of legitimacy and jurisdiction New War in the Middle East in a world dominated by nation-states. The film covers the preparation and presentation of the case against a Congo rebel Item # 60356 commander, the question of whether ICC should compete with Subject: Political Science Libya over jurisdiction of Gaddafi's son, and Moreno-Ocampo's President Obama announced this week that the US was taking the reluctance to claim jurisdiction over alleged Israeli crimes in lead in bombing jihadists in Iraq and Syria, opening what is being Palestine. (86 minutes) widely interpreted as another long and costly American military © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-666-4 campaign in the Middle East. This week, Bill discusses the latest on the conflict with Jonathan Landay, a veteran national security reporter for McClatchy Newspapers and Matthew Hoh, a former Marine and foreign service officer in Afghanistan. Broadcast date: September 26, 2014. (27 minutes) © 2014 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-444-3 39
International Terrorism since 1945 *Early Israeli Terrorism: International Terrorism since 1945 Item # 57581 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-476-9 Item # 57559 *Colonel Gaddafi and Libya: International Terrorism since Subject: Political Science From the devastation of 9/11 to the horror of the 1945 London bombings, acts of terrorism have left their mark across the Item # 57582 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-477-6 world. Authoritative, balanced and gripping, the series investigates *Chechen Extremist: International Terrorism since 1945 the motives, morals and methods of some of the most infamous Item # 57583 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-478-3 attacks of recent times. The series also looks at the groups behind *Che Guevara: International Terrorism since 1945 the attacks: their potted histories, their leaders and how some Item # 57584 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-479-0 groups even mutated in legitimate political parties. How did terror *Algeria & the OAS: International Terrorism since 1945 groups active in Israel after World War II eventually transform into Item # 57585 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-480-6 modern day Mossad? What factors finally brought an end to the urban warfare, typified by indiscriminate car-bombings and tit-for- $149.95 each *-Coming Soon tat sectarian shootings, in Northern Ireland? Why was Osama Bin- Laden able to cause so much damage to the twin towers? Why is Individuals and Organizations Have a that one terrorist group fails, while another prospers and develops? With the use of rare archive footage, expert testimony and 3D Constitutional Right to Unlimited Spending on graphics, this series seeks to answer those questions and much Their Own Political Speech: A Debate more. A BBC Production. (26 parts, 650 minutes) Item # 58367 © 2009 • $3898.70 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-457-8 Subject: Political Science ETA: A History of Basque Nationalist Terrorism For democracy to work, some argue, citizens— Item # 39836 • ISBN: 978-1-60467-988-5 along with corporations, unions, media outlets, The Mahdi Army: Iraq’s High-Profile Insurgents and other organizations—must be allowed to spend as much Item # 39837 • ISBN: 978-1-60825-055-4 money as they wish to express their views on political candidates Somali Warlords: Strongmen in a Fragile Nation and the issues of the day. But others disagree. If every individual Item # 39838 • ISBN: 978-1-60825-053-0 and organization can spend as much money as they like to *The Weathermen: International Terrorism since 1945 express their views, they argue, the richest people and groups will Item # 57560 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-458-5 drown out everyone else. Restrictions on political expression, *The Tamil Tigers: International Terrorism since 1945 equalize the political process and prevent the rich from dominating Item # 57561 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-459-2 it. Do individuals and organizations have a constitutional right to unlimited spending on their own political speech? (94 minutes) *The Taliban: International Terrorism since 1945 © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-946-7 Item # 57562 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-460-8 The SLA and Patty Hearst: International Terrorism since 1945 U.N. Me Item # 57563 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-461-5 Item # 60231 *The Red Brigades: International Terrorism since 1945 Subject: Political Science Item # 57564 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-462-2 Following the horrors of World War II, there was *The Oklahoma Bomber: International Terrorism since a strong desire for a better world in which peace would be 1945 maintained and human rights respected – the U.N was born. The Item # 57565 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-463-9 image of the U.N. has become severely tarnished. Documentary *The Moluccan Separatists: International Terrorism since filmmaker Ami Horowitz takes us on a brutal tour of a number of 1945 places where the U.N. has intervened. Through interviews with Item # 57566 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-464-6 those involved and archive footage, we uncover facts about abuses and scandals surrounding U.N. missions and personnel. *The Mau Mau: International Terrorism since 1945 The ‘forgotten’ shooting in Côte d’Ivoire, during which U.N. soldiers Item # 57567 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-465-3 opened fire on unarmed demonstrators; the “Oil for Food” program *The Ku Klux Klan: International Terrorism since 1945 in Iraq; and the harrowing case of the U.N. soldiers who stood by, Item # 57569 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-466-0 powerless, during the genocide in Rwanda, are among the stories *The Japanese Sarin Cult: International Terrorism since uncovered in what the Los Angeles Times has called ‘a scathing 1945 take down of the United Nations’. (90 minutes) Item # 57570 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-467-7 © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-408-5 *The IRA: International Terrorism since 1945 Item # 57571 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-468-4 *The Baader-Meinhof Gang: International Terrorism since Italy: The Italian Solution 1945 Item # 65069 Item # 57572 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-469-1 Subject: Political Science The Al-Qaeda Menace: International Terrorism since 1945 For two days, an inflatable dinghy packed full of young African men floats in the middle of the Mediterranean, its occupants Item # 57573 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-470-7 unsure if they will live or die. Suddenly, the San Giusto—an Italian *PLO: International Terrorism since 1945 naval ship—looms into view, plucks the jubilant men from their Item # 57575 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-471-4 sagging rubber boat and they join the 140,000 people rescued at *Nasser and Egyptian Terrorism: International Terrorism sea by Italy, so far this year. When the San Giusto has collected its since 1945 capacity of human cargo, they're taken to a southern Italian port, Item # 57576 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-472-1 subjected to health tests and passed through a processing center *Fidel Castro: International Terrorism since 1945 and, for some, on through the gates to town and onto to a new life Item # 57577 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-473-8 in Europe. Italy's Operation Mare Nostrum is starkly different to *Fatah / Hamas: International Terrorism since 1945 Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders and it has also has its fair Item # 57578 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-474-5 share of critics. Foreign Correspondent takes you aboard this high- *EOKA: International Terrorism since 1945 risk, politically controversial exercise conducted, as you'd expect, Item # 57580 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-475-2 with plenty of Italian passion and dedication. (29 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-923-3 40 Should America Open Its Borders?: A Debate Moyers & Company: American Indians Confront on Immigration "Savage Anxieties" Item # 65919 Item # 66051 Subject: Political Science Subject: Political Science Does America need more or less In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Robert A. immigration? Should we let the free market decide how many Williams Jr., a professor specializing in American Indian law, about immigrant workers the economy can support? Or should a American Indian’s tragic history of dispossession. Williams says responsible government manage the flow of labor? Reason stereotypes about American Indians have been codified into laws Foundation managing editor Tom Clougherty moderates a debate and government policies, with devastating consequences. on immigration reform, featuring Cato Institute immigration policy Williams, who is of Lumbee Indian heritage, says, “very much like analyst Alex Nowrasteh, George Mason University professor of African-Americans, the history of America is taking away economics Bryan Caplan, and Center for Immigration Studies resources, whether labor or land, from one racial group to give executive director Mark Krikorian. Each participant speaks for 10 them to the dominate racial group." Broadcast date: December 26, minutes on what open borders would mean to wages, 2014. (27 minutes) unemployment, and the labor market in America. A Reason TV © 2014 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-706-2 production. (37 minutes) © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-718-5 ISIS, Birth of a Terrorist State Item # 93324 Moyers & Company: Breaking Big Money’s Grip Subject: Political Science on Elections This film covers the rise of Abu Bakr al- Item # 66043 Baghdadi and the Islamic State of Iraq and Subject: Political Science Syria (ISIS), and explains the significance of its proclaimation of a In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Caliphate and its status as a terrorist group controlling vast speaks with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, the only territory and resources. It shows how ISIS unites local Sunni independent member of the US Senate, about purchasing political grievances with international jihadist ambitions. It examines the power. It’s a grave threat, he believes, not only to our electoral future of the war between ISIS and its enemies. (55 minutes) process but to democracy itself. Sanders is angry about what he © 2015 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-804-5 sees as big money’s wholesale purchase. He cites the mayoral election in Richmond, California where Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is Psychology running against a ticket backed by the energy giant Chevron. Broadcast date: October 31, 2014. (27 minutes) © 2014 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-698-0 Out in America Item # 54412 Subject: Psychology Moyers & Company: The Long, Dark Shadows This critically acclaimed PBS documentary is of Plutocracy an uplifting collection of unique, transformative stories and Item # 66047 inspiring personal narratives told through the lens of the country's Subject: Political Science most prominent LGBT figures and pioneers, as well as many In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill average, yet extraordinary, citizens from gay, lesbian, bisexual, points to the changing skyline of Manhattan as the physical and transgender communities. The program weaves together embodiment of how money and power impact the lives and diverse stories— from urban and rural America, from the heartland neighborhoods of every day people. Soaring towers being built at to New England, from San Francisco to Harlem. Deeply moving the south end of Central Park, with apartments selling from $30 and often humorous, viewers will get a glimpse of awakenings, first million to $90 million, are beginning to block the light on the park crushes, unlikely soul mates, intimacy, and liberation. While below. Many of the apartments are being sold at those sky high separated by circumstance and upbringing, the film's subjects are prices to the international super rich, many of whom will only live in all united in their shared experiences of self-discovery, coming out, Manhattan part-time—if at all—and often pay little or no city pride and love as well as a triumph over adversity and a true sense income or property taxes, thanks to the political clout of real estate of belonging. Against the backdrop of historical events, each also developers. Broadcast date: November 28, 2014. (25 minutes) traces their own hopes, struggles, influences and contributions © 2014 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-702-4 towards advancements in equality and broad social change. (79 minutes) Moyers & Company: The United States of © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-600-8
Ferguson Item # 66048 Raw Visions: Art of Survival Subject: Political Science Item # 54417 In the wake of decisions by grand juries in Subject: Psychology both Missouri and New York’s Staten Raw Visions: Art of Survival is a documentary Island not to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed based upon Survivors Art Foundation and its African-Americans, this edition of Moyers & Company is an encore mission of healing through art. This compelling film exhibits the broadcast of Bill’s conversation earlier this year with journalist Ta- artists' creativity by exposing their most profound inner visions and Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic, about his cover truth, and raises public awareness by creating an atmosphere of story “The Case for Reparations” about why America needs to acceptance for trauma survivors with physical, emotional, reconcile with its racist past. Broadcast Date: December 5, 2014. psychological, and cultural disabilities. This ground-breaking film (25 minutes) connects artists and viewers through the universal expression of © 2014 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-703-1 passion and pain, and gives hope to trauma victims. Contains mature themes and artwork portraying nudity. (82 minutes) © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-035-8
41 Rupture: Living with My Broken Brain Item # 55263 Adopted Subject: Psychology Item # 57819 Actress Maryam d’Abo suffered a subarachnoid Subject: Psychology hemorrhage in 2007. Her near-death © 2008 • $339.90 • ISBN: 978-0-81609- experience inspired this film to be made with 703-6 her husband filmmaker, Hugh Hudson who witnessed her illness. *Adopted: The Documentary-Coming Soon Maryam leads us on a personal journey of recovery, giving hope to Adopted reveals the grit rather than the glamor of trans-racial those who are isolated by their condition. First-hand stories adoption. Director Barb Lee goes deep into the intimate lives of celebrate our will to survive and bring awareness of an unseen and two well-meaning families. One family is just beginning the process unpredictable condition that is often misunderstood. (69 minutes) of adopting a baby from China. The other family’s adopted Korean © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-785-2 daughter is now 32 years old. Prompted by her adoptive mother’s terminal illness, she tries to create the bond they never had. From the Series Child of Our Time 2013 Item # 57820 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-704-3 Item # 57446 Adopted: We Can Do Better Subject: Psychology We Can Do Better includes a who’s-who of the adoption © 2013 • $2549.25 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-345-8 community and offers wisdom and advice to help today’s adoptive Growing Up: Child of Our Time 2013 families. With 30-minute sessions on clarifying parental intentions, establishing identity, parenting a mixed-race family, grieving, and Item # 57447 navigating the politics of adoption. Subject: Psychology Item # 57821 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-705-0 Part of a series that has followed a group of children from their birth at the millennium, this $169.95 each program reviews the children's life and challenges as they hit their teenage years. We discover how they have coped with bullying, with having a famous parent or with learning to live with money A Lesson in Discrimination worries. Footage from the archive gives us a view into the Item # 58514 children's past. All our families take part in both programs but this Subject: Psychology one predominantly features Helena, the only survivor of triplets Since the dawn of time, humans have tended born prematurely; Parys, whose mom Alison Lapper is a famous to form clans, thereby excluding strangers, artist; Yorkshire girl Rhianna, who is forthright about her family's enemies, and anyone who is different. We may not exactly financial troubles; technology loving Taliesin; Het from Wembley in encourage them, but such attitudes become entrenched at a very London, who has big ambitions; farm girl Megan; Matthew from early age. Radio-Canada followed an experiment in a primary Surrey, whose family is preparing for a great change in their lives; school that shows just how quickly our young people can Scottish twins Alex and Ivo; and William from Settle, a tennis assimilate discrimination and all its dangerous repercussions. A prodigy who burnt out. A BBC/Open University Co-production. Quebec grade-three teacher conducted an experiment in which © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-346-5 she contended that scientific studies prove shorter kids are generally more creative and intelligent, and taller ones are awkward and lazy. She divided her class up based on those Chopin Saved My Life assumptions. The next day, she turned the tables and had them Item # 57449 switch roles. A handful of the nine-year-olds understood it was all a Subject: Psychology game, but for the rest it turned out to be a very powerful A moving film exploring the incredible experience. (44 minutes) transformative power of Chopin’s Ballade Number 1, a piece of © 2006 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-263-0 music that has cast a spell on millions of people around the world. Less than ten minutes long and extremely difficult to play, it demands extraordinary feats of control, speed, memory, power, Breaking the Wall of Collective Stupidity: How and dexterity. In this emotional documentary, two people from Evolutionary Biology Explains Creativity opposite sides of the world talk of its effect on their lives. Japanese Item # 60307 teenager Momoka, still coming to terms with the earthquake that Subject: Psychology decimated her community, finds it the perfect outlet for releasing How many of our friends on Facebook or the anguish she hides inside. For Scottish music student Paul, Twitter are actually posting their own texts and recovering from his fifth brain surgery, the Ballade was literally life ideas rather than quoting someone else’s? But more importantly, changing—he credits its emotional pull for the return of his what if we stopped innovating in the real world, becoming more memory. Also commenting are four of the greatest pianists alive followers than leaders, copiers rather than innovators? Mark Pagel today: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lang Lang, Imogen Cooper, and builds statistical models to examine the evolution of our “cultural Stephen Hough. A BBC Production. (53 minutes) DNA”, an approach which might provide answers to this question. © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-348-9 As he argues in his book “Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation”, our culture has surpassed genes in ADD and Loving It?! determining who we are and how we live. Human language is the Item # 57823 most evident testament to the uniqueness of our social learning Subject: Psychology capability among all the living species – it establishes long lasting patterns just like our genes. Mark Pagel predicts that in the near Comedian Patrick McKenna seeks a diagnosis future the already rare quality of innovation and creative leadership for adult ADD and learns the facts from an will become even scarcer. In an era when social networks connect array of experts (some of whom have ADD themselves) including a global community, less and less of us will pay the cost of medical researchers, psychiatrists, psychologists, professors, and innovating, and will rather copy someone else’s ideas. Will the award-winning authors. Along the way, Patrick reveals how his life internet take us to the biggest creative slowdown in history? At as a husband and father is affected by ADD and even shares Falling Walls, Pagel addresses an invitation of capital importance: candid moments as he and his wife Janis work on the steps toward to question our own evolution. (15 minutes) his diagnosis. (57 minutes) © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-435-1 © 2009 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-707-4
42 Breaking the Wall of Psychiatric Hospitals: How Elizabeth Loftus: Eyewitness Testimony Video Games Can Improve Brain Functioning Item # 94186 and Treat Mental Illnesses Subject: Psychology In deciding the fate of someone accused of Item # 60313 a crime, the most important testimony often Subject: Psychology comes from people who saw the crime – or a fragment of it – “Do you suffer from schizophrenia? Do you happen. Eyewitnesses often add a devastating credibility and hear distressing voices? There’s an app for that.” The claim of the clarity to a very confused moment in time. But today we realize latest “web-tutor” might sound like a scam, but it actually that eyewitness reports can be tainted by subjectivity. This introduces us to an entirely new approach in treating mental program explores the groundbreaking research of psychologist illnesses. While the causes of schizophrenia depend on a still Elizabeth Loftus, as she takes us through her discoveries on obscure combination of genetic, environmental and developmental eyewitness evidence, focusing particularly on her seminal study factors, a big step towards curing its symptoms has recently been with John Palmer, ‘Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction’. The accomplished by a research team at the University of California, program explores the context of the study, the experiments, San Francisco, led by NARSAD Independent Investigator Grantee criticism, evaluation and implications. (18 minutes) Sophia Vinogradov. The symptoms of schizophrenia, beyond © 2011 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-915-8 delusions and hallucinations, include a range of cognitive and social deficits which affect memory, decision-making, attention, and social cognition. These problems are not helped by current Sociology antipsychotic drugs, and psychotherapeutic measures are only of limited benefit. For the past 10 years, Sophia Vinogradov has focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of Marie Curie: Beyond the Myth neuroscience-informed computerized exercises to improve these Item # 54991 undervalued symptoms – with life-changing implications for Subject: Sociology patients. As a 2012 study was able to demonstrate that “a serious While she has been honored in the entire behavioral deficit in schizophrenia, and its underlying neural world and embodies a model of excellence, Marie Curie's story dysfunction, can be improved by well-designed computer cognitive and life remain unknown. On the occasion of her Nobel Prize in training, resulting in a better quality of life.” (16 minutes) December 2011, we propose a portrait of Marie Curie who, at the © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-441-2 dawn of the 20th century, participated to the revolution of physics, subverted our conception of the world and of matter through her works on radioactivity. To draw a portrait of this outstanding The Battle in Your Mind scientist, the Curie Museum unveils its archives, including some Item # 60429 unreleased materials. Through her diaries and correspondence, Subject: Psychology and thanks to the numerous testimonies Marie Curie left behind, As a species, we like to think we are smart, we meet the discreet and combative woman she used to be and creatures of reason, capable of making rational decisions. But we we retrace her amazing journey through the prism of her emotions may have to think again. With every decision you take, there is a and thoughts. (52 minutes) battle in your mind—a battle between intuition and logic. And the © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-602-2 intuitive part of your mind is a lot more powerful than you may think. This conflict affects every aspect of your life—your diet, your habits, your beliefs. In this Horizon program, Professor Danny Moyers & Company: My Country Kahneman explains the revolution in our understanding of the is a Horror Show! human mind. A BBC Production. (53 minutes) Item # 56492 © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-473-3 Subject: Sociology In this edition of Moyers & Company, David Simon, journalist and creator of the TV series The Wire and Treme talks about the crisis The Kids with No Memory of capitalism in America and how it’s dividing our country. Item # 60473 Broadcast date: January 31, 2014. (27 minutes) Subject: Psychology © 2014 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-118-8 We all forget things from time to time. Birthdays, names, whether we’ve met someone before. But what if you couldn’t remember anything after The Moneyless Man: Mark Boyle just a few hours, often forgetting to take off your clothes before Item # 56730 getting in the bath, or couldn’t even recognize your own reflection? Subject: Sociology And how much tougher is it if you’re just a teenager? We normally This episode of The Green Interview features associate memory loss with older people, but around the UK Mark Boyle, who defied the odds when he scores of teenagers are battling with severe amnesia. This film launched an experiment to live for one year without spending any follows a number of young amnesiacs in their day-to-day lives and money. Nearly three years later, he remains the “moneyless man,” for the first time, reveals the huge challenges they face; from living a subsistence lifestyle in Sussex, England. Boyle’s first book, school and sports, to shopping and relationships, showing how The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living (2010) things most people take for granted are a heartbreaking struggle chronicles his first year living without money. His second book, for these young people. A BBC Production. (45 minutes) The Moneyless Manifesto (2012), delves more deeply into the © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-517-4 philosophy behind a moneyless economy, and here, in this interview, he explains how to “live well, live rich, live free.” (69 minutes) © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-141-6
43 The Young and the Racist From the Series Urban Future Item # 57404 Item # 56499 Subject: Sociology Subject: Sociology Matt Heimbach, 22, believes the United States © 2013 • $779.70 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-642-8 should go back to a time of segregation. Matt Sao Paulo: Urban Future Heimbach feels Black Nationalists understand his views of wanting Every week, over one million people around the world move from races separated. (15 minutes) the country to the city in search of better jobs, education, © 2014 • $49.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-196-6 infrastructure and resources. But can all those dreams come true? Urban Future is a voyage of discovery through the megacities of Moyers & Company: All Work and No Pay— our new millennium, showing how people take initiative to improve Food Workers Right For a Living Wage their lives and launch projects to shape their homes and neighborhoods. In Sao Paulo we meet a young man who recruits Item # 57695 kids off the street in the worst drug neighborhood in town and gets Subject: Sociology them to decorate the streets with him. (28 minutes) In this episode of Moyers & Company, Bill Item # 56501 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-644-2 interviews Saru Jayaraman, from the Istanbul: Urban Future Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, whose 13,000 members across the country are fighting for better wages and working Every week, over one million people around the world move from conditions. She explains how the industry has convinced America the country to the city in search of better jobs, education, that they shouldn’t have to pay their workers—and why she infrastructure and resources. But can all those dreams come true? remains hopeful that democracy will prevail. Saru Jayaraman is Urban Future is a voyage of discovery through the mega-cities of the author of Behind the Kitchen Door. Broadcast date: April 4, our new millennium, showing how people take initiatives to 2014. (27 minutes) improve their lives and launch projects to shape their homes and neighborhoods. (28 minutes) © 2014 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-589-6 Item # 56502 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-645-9 Mexico City: Urban Future Mediterranean Women: Fighting As Mexico City faces problems of urban growth, residents of for Their Rights hillside communities and in the center of the city have created Item # 58152 community centers that address the environment, gang warfare, Subject: Sociology graffiti, access and pollution with the help of community leaders During Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, women artists, lawyers, and the Iberoamericana University. (28 minutes) journalists, citizens and militants marched on the frontline for Item # 56503 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-646-6 democracy and freedom. Together with their “sisters” in Israel, Cape Town: Urban Future Italy, and Morocco, they stood up against dictatorship and social Every week, over one million people around the world move from injustice, sexual harassment and objectification, and against the the country to the city in search of better jobs, education, laws that are putting them behind bars. This documentary forms a infrastructure and resources. But can all those dreams come true? unique portrait of female activists around the Mediterranean. “Urban Future“ is a voyage of discovery through the megacities of Contains explicit nudity. (52 minutes) our new millennium, showing how people take initiatives to © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-757-9 improve their lives and launch projects to shape their homes and neighborhoods. In this episode, learn how grassroots community projects are helping overcome racial and economic barriers in Global Gay Cape Town. (28 minutes) Item # 58153 Item # 56504 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-647-3 Subject: Sociology Rio de Janeiro: Urban Future Whether it be regarding legalization in the Middle East and Africa Every week, over one million people around the world move from or the focus of gay marriage laws in the West, after years of long the country to the city in search of better jobs, better education, diplomatic struggle, several world leaders have declared better infrastructure and resources—a better life, in short. Urban themselves in favor of the universal decriminalization of Future is a voyage of discovery through the megacities of our new homosexuality. But victory won’t come easily. The countries that millennium highlighting how residents improve their lives and still punish homosexuality refuse to give in to international launch projects to shape their homes and neighborhoods. This pressure. This film follows this battle for decriminalization through episode examines favela improvement initiatives and urban the lives and work of some of its fearless pioneers in Russia, planning challenges as Rio de Janeiro prepares for the 2014 World Cuba, Cameroon, Nepal, and South Africa. Homosexuality is Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. (28 minutes) forbidden in almost half of the world and a global revolution is Item # 56746 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-667-1 underway to obtain what UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and President Barack Obama call “the final frontier in human rights”— $129.95 each the universal decriminalization of homosexuality. (58 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-803-3 A Hidden America: Return to Strawberry Mansion Me Tarzan, You Jane Item # 57397 Item # 58515 Subject: Sociology Subject: Sociology Diane Sawyer returns to Philadelphia's Today the battle of the sexual stereotypes Strawberry Mansion High, once considered and prejudices seems to be back on. This film examines children's one of the most dangerous schools in the country. Viewer views on gender roles, and considers the role of genes, donations have made a difference at the school but violence and upbringing, and culture in shaping such views. (40 minutes) under-staffing are still a problem. Principal Linda Cliatt-Wayman © 2006 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-264-7 continues to fight for her students. (17 minutes) © 2013 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-194-2
44 Haiti: Two Years Later Breaking the Walls of the Nation-State Through Item # 58470 Interdependent Cities: How a Global Parliament Subject: Sociology of Cities Can Establish a On January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by an earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and many other parts Sustainable Democracy of the country. The result: over 220,000 dead and 300,000 injured. Item # 60295 In the affected area, half of all homes collapsed or were severely Subject: Sociology damaged. Why did this earthquake take such a heavy toll, when its With the growing recognition of cities as powerful engines of global magnitude was actually lower than that of other major quakes cultural, social, and political innovation, urban studies and planning around the world? Is it possible to rebuild this impoverished are the object of unprecedented attention, sourcing new findings country so that residents are better protected from natural hazards from the most diverse fields of research. At the same time, the in future? What are the scientific and technical challenges to influence of megacities such as Tokyo and New York has long reconstruction? A feature report on Haiti, two years after a disaster transcended regional and national borders. In this context, political that ravaged the country and shocked the whole world. French theorist Benjamin R. Barber, adviser to former U.S. President Bill with English subtitles. (48 minutes) Clinton and political leaders in the U.S. and abroad, and a © 2012 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81608-575-0 bestselling author on the topics of citizenship and democracy, proposes a new global model of governance in which interdependent cities are the key players. Barber’s concept, a Moyers & Company: Facing the Truth—The “parliament of mayors” stands for a worldwide, borderless Case for Reparations democracy which has the potential to replace the concept of Item # 58535 nation-states – “political institutions designed 400 years ago”, and Subject: Sociology unable to provide answers to the globalized problems of the 21st n this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill century. Barber's studies show the cities’ superior capacity to deal speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic with internal and external issues: on the one hand the non-partisan about his cover story “The Case for Reparations” about why and pragmatic style of governance of mayors and local America needs to reconcile with its racist past. Broadcast date: administrations; on the other hand the consolidated practice of May 23, 2014. (27 minutes) engaging in partnerships with other cities to tackle common © 2014 • $99.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-971-9 problems. The parliament of mayors would give cities the voice to face priorities such as terrorism, economic inequality or epidemics. At Falling Walls, Benjamin Barber explains how a worldwide A Kiss for Gabriela network of cities could effectively react to global challenges which Item # 58935 are not going to be solved by individual, uncooperative nation- Subject: Sociology states. (17 minutes) Gabriela Leite is the first sex worker to run for © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-423-8 Brazilian Congress. A Kiss for Gabriela follows her 2010 campaign, as she faces 822 opponents and challenges Brazil's male dominated political system, to see if a sex worker, activist, Raped: The Aftermath wife, mother, and cultural icon can beat the odds and win the Item # 60497 election. With English subtitles. (30 minutes) Subject: Sociology © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-322-4 Rape is unlike any other crime. Often there are only two people present and if one person says it was rape and the other says it was consensual, it’s one person’s word Norway: The Gender Mission against another. The police need to investigate the truth of the Item # 59648 victim’s account and sometimes they decide an allegation is false. Subject: Sociology But even if the police believe there has been a crime, there needs On a remote but vitally important frontier in to be sufficient evidence to present the case to the Crown Norway, a ground-breaking experiment is underway aimed at Prosecution Service for consideration. Intimate in style, this erasing the gender divide in the armed forces, eliminating observational documentary follows several women as they deal intimidation and abuse and encouraging more women into service. with the aftermath of an alleged rape. Compelling testimony from Men and women are training together, patrolling together and victims, medical staff, the Police and members of the legal sleeping together in a counter-intuitive effort to build a unisex profession support the actuality of victims’ journeys as they seek force. (26 minutes) justice or attempt to move forward with their lives. Viewer © 2014 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-404-7 discretion is advised. A BBC Production. (60 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-541-9 Cold Fear: Gay Life in Russia Item # 60449 American Heart Subject: Sociology Item # 86446 This brutally honest film exposes what it’s Subject: Sociology really like to be gay in Russia. It is thought only one per cent of gay This program follows the true stories of people dare to live completely openly in Russia. This film gained three refugees from Ethiopia, Burma, and Cambodia, as they seek unique access to the vigilante gangs that target gay men and health care in St. Paul, Minnesota. Their stories intersect at the women. In one disturbing scene anti-gay activists gather together HealthPartners Center for International Health, a primary care on a Sunday and go on ‘safari’. Their prey: homosexuals. The clinic that specializes in immigrant and refugee medicine. It is here abusers are proud of what they do and fear no reprisals from the that the refugees seek relief from the traumatic events that haunt state. Gay men and women in Russia say new legislation and them and the dire health challenges they face every day. (82 intolerance in Russia has led to a ‘hunting season’ and they are minutes) the hunted. The film contains shocking scenes yet it treats all © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-752-9 contributors with dignity and refuses to offer a simplistic solution to complex social tensions. This video contains subject matter which may not be appropriate for all audiences. (50 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-493-1
45 Kenya: Inside Out Robot Revolution Item # 65068 Item # 60244 Subject: Sociology Subject: Technical Education Kenya's justice system is dysfunctional, often corrupt, and does Humanoid robots are being created to meet not provide legal aid to those who cannot afford a lawyer. In this increasing worldwide demand. Such robots can move on their own remarkable, access-all-areas journey through some of the volition, climb stairs, and even handle tools. The 2011 nuclear country's toughest jails, we examine an unorthodox program that disaster in Fukushima, Japan, triggered the current increase in enables convicts to school themselves in criminal law and become their development. Unfortunately, the disaster proved that robots advocates to set themselves and other inmates free. They have specialized in performing single tasks aren’t sufficient. In situations won 3,500 cases in the past decade. (27 minutes) and places inaccessible to humans, robots need to be able to © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-922-6 make intelligent decisions and handle many different tasks. The US Department of Defense launched a project to develop Sports & Fitness humanoid robots to provide emergency services in the event of a major disaster. Honda Motor Co., Ltd., creator of ASIMO, one of the world’s top robots, speeds ahead with the development of Yogawoman advanced robots to work on nuclear power plants in Fukushima. Item # 57200 This program explores what’s happening at the forefront of this Subject: Sports & Fitness robot revolution. (50 minutes) Narrated by Annette Bening, this is the incredible story behind the © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-414-6 global phenomenon that is yoga. Originally brought to the West from India by a lineage of male teachers, there’s now a generation Technology & Society of strong, inspiring women leading the way. With unique access to these world-renowned yoga practitioners and leading health experts, Yogawoman reveals how yoga has utterly transformed the App World lives of thousands of people across the world. Not only can yoga Item # 55014 make you happier, healthier, and more fulfilled, but it is also Subject: Technology & Society increasingly used in the treatment of conditions including cancer, Apps are available to everyone and each infertility, heart disease, anxiety and depression. Filmed across smartphone user has the ability to own a countless number of nine countries, from the busy streets of Manhattan to the dusty these mini-programs. The college in Hagenberg in Upper Austria is slums of Kenya, from the golden beaches of Australia to the considered one of Austria’s most imperative training grounds for serene piazzas of Italy, Yogawoman uncovers, for the first time young talent in the app world. With the growing influence apps are ever, the worldwide yoga revolution. (55 minutes) having on our everyday lives, how long will it take for apps to © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-188-1 operate our refrigerators and replace our wallets? Which also leads us to the question of whether in fact we need these apps? (27 minutes) Ban College Football: A Debate © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-620-6 Item # 58336 Subject: Sports & Fitness Charges of exploitation and a growing concern A Smarter Country for head injury and brain trauma have put college football in the Item # 55370 spotlight. Do college football programs—which rake in millions— Subject: Technology & Society take advantage of student athletes, or do they provide young men There are infinite opportunities and benefits with educational and professional opportunities they might not created by renewable energy, ecologically sustainable farming, otherwise have? Do football’s inherent danger and violence have and green buildings and lifestyles. A Smarter Country follows any place in institutions of higher learning? (113 minutes) Sydney's Lore Mayor Clover Moore, Environmentalist Professor © 2012 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-915-3 Tim Flannery, Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne, and Matthew Wright from Beyond Zero Emissions, as they work to embrace environmental change and educate the public. Glimpse a Technical Education future moving from old technologies to a world that is more creative, sustainable and equitable, and the pioneering people Wonder Wood intent on taking us there. (56 minutes) Item # 55016 © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-628-2 Subject: Technical Education Homes, clothing items, cosmetic wipes, Tech Man instruments, motor fuel, toys, sweeteners, paper, and heating fuel Item # 56526 can all be made from wood. Ever more surprising discoveries are Subject: Technology & Society being made as wood has boomed over the past few years as a Google Glass is the new smartphone-with- highly sought-after means of moving away from the fossil fuel age. camera-on-the-retina that listens to spoken commands and adds a This film presents Austrian innovations that have attracted permanent, visual layer to reality. Many parents are already international interest. (44 minutes) complaining that their children are constantly submerged in © 2011 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-622-0 displays and find it hard to pay any attention to the world outside their screens. What will it mean if those displays will become part of our own bodies? And if a second video version of all our experiences will become available? Backlight looks ahead through the eyes of the camera at reality and virtuality, and investigates how man and machine gradually become intertwined. Featuring Gordon Bell, author of Total Recall and Microsoft senior researcher; Nick Bostrom, founder of The Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University; and Ben Hammersley, editor-in-chief of Wired UK. (50 minutes) © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-127-0
46 Spy on Me, I’d Rather Be Safe: A Debate Greatest Human Achievements Item # 58357 Item # 56764 Subject: Technology & Society Subject: Technology & Society The National Security Agency collects data on We never stop pushing the boundaries of billions of phone calls and Internet human potential—from the Stone Age to the communications every day. Are these stars, from outer space to the very building blocks of life. Our surveillance programs legal? And are they justified? How does a progress in the last century has taken us into a new age of human nation balance liberty and safety? Should Americans sacrifice discovery. This three-part series highlights the world's greatest privacy for security—and if so, how much? (88 minutes) achievers who dedicated their lives to changing the world. (3-parts, © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-936-8 180 minutes) © 2012 • $509.85 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-172-0 Village Cellphone: Empowering Bangladesh *Challenging Limits: Greatest Human Achievements Item # 58526 Item # 56765 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-173-7 Subject: Technology & Society Shaping our World: Greatest Human Achievements In the early 1990s, Iqbal Quadir, a Item # 56766 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-174-4 Bangladesh-born MIT professor and *Shrinking the World: Greatest Human Achievements entrepreneur, had the idea that cellphones Item # 56767 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-175-1 could be used to help the very poorest people. For Bangladesh, a densely populated country strangled by frequent natural disasters $169.95 each *-Coming Soon and a serious lack of infrastructure, Iqbal saw communication technology as an essential resource. His vision: to help village entrepreneurs, backed by micro-loans, establish cellphone leasing The Genius of Invention: Ideas businesses that retail phone services to their surrounding That Changed the World communities. Ten years later, with hundreds of "village phone Item # 57493 ladies" in operation, did Iqbal's model for lifting developing nations Subject: Technology & Society out of poverty pay off? CBC News Sunday's Natasha Sweeney Michael Mosley and team pick twelve has the story of how one man, starting with one phone, helped a inventions and explore how they have changed the way we live our whole country leapfrog into the 21st century. (12 minutes) lives. They explain how these inventions came about—from sparks © 2008 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-275-3 of genius to steady incremental improvements hammered out in workshops—and separate myth from reality in the lives of the great inventors. The four-part series starts with the story of power and Disaster Big Data: Saving Lives Through three of the most transformative inventions of all time: the steam Information engine, the electrical generator, and the steam turbine. The Item # 60243 second program reveals the fascinating chain of events that made Subject: Technology & Society global travel possible. In episode three, the team explores how the A project is underway that uses big data to electric telegraph, the telephone, and wireless communication clarify what happened to the more than 20,000 people who died or transformed the way we speak to each other. Finally the series went missing in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Eleven looks at a defining characteristic of our times; the ability to see and participating companies, including Google, Twitter, and Honda, record live events anywhere in the world. A BBC Production. (4- have offered their data for analysis. With private industry, parts, 200 minutes) government, and academia working together, new tools are also © 2013 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-391-5 being developed to cope with future disasters. This documentary Power: The Genius of Invention—Ideas That Changed the traces what motivated people to do what they did on the day of the World earthquake, while showing how big data provides an Item # 57494 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-392-2 understanding that goes beyond photographic and video images. Speed: The Genius of Invention—Ideas That Changed the Through the analysis of data collected from cell phones and car World navigation systems (including 180 million tweets), the movements Item # 57495 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-393-9 of tens of thousands of people are tracked, and the individual lives Communications: The Genius of Invention—Ideas That of those who faced this horrible disaster are brought into clearer focus. (50 minutes) Changed the World © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-413-9 Item # 57496 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-394-6 *Visual Image: The Genius of Invention—Ideas That Changed the World-Coming Soon Downloaded Item # 57497 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-395-3 Item # 65006 Subject: Technology & Society $169.95 each This film tells the story of Napster and its cofounders, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker; the legal battle against it by the recording industry; the failure of the music industry When It Comes to Politics, the Internet Is and Napster to reach any agreement; and the eventual fall of Closing Our Minds: A Debate Napster. It presents the music industry as foolish for failing to Item # 58335 realize that piracy could not ultimately be contained, and for failing Subject: Technology & Society to see the opportunities technology presented. It presents the Does the Internet poison politics and civic idealism and excitement that surrounded the internet in the 1990s, engagement? Some argue that the proliferation treating Napster as the embodiment of those ideals. It argues that of online sites, blogs, and web-based outlets has expanded these ideals continue to thrive and will ultimately triumph. (107 consumers' access to a wide range of information, but others minutes) contend that despite this, most people tend to rely on narrow, one- © 2013 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-761-1 sided sources that reinforce rather than challenge their political views. Is the rise of the Internet improving political discourse or closing our minds? (107 minutes) © 2012 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-0-81609-914-6 47 Breaking the Wall of Reality: How Simulations on Supercomputers Accelerate Progress Everyday Miracles: The Genius of Sofas, Item # 60308 Stockings, and Scanners Subject: Technology & Society Item # 75343 The scope of application of 21st century Subject: Technology & Society supercomputers ranges from climate forecasting Mark Miodownik reveals the amazing stories and simulating the human brain to designing new drugs or behind everyday objects of desire and how they are miraculously ensuring the safety of nuclear reactors. In between, there are transformed from raw materials into the very stuff of the modern myriad fields in which simulations can provide valuable information world. We find out how the cars we all drive are created from to predict reality. Michael Resch collaborates with sociologists and panels of steel thinner than a tin can and how humble plywood philosophers on the applicability of mathematical methods and furniture is the result of a transformational process that creates a computer science to real-world problems, particularly in industrial new material on an industrial scale. We also learn how the research and engineering. He is the director of the Institute for comfortable clothes we wear, and the fact that our underpants High Performance Computing at Universität Stuttgart and leads the don’t fall down, are only possible thanks to our manipulation of a university’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS), which magical material, elastic, and the way it transformed mass uses “Hermit,” one of Europe’s most powerful civil systems, to produced clothing. An Open University Production. (2 parts, 120 support researchers and industry with leading edge minutes) supercomputing technology. Resch, who is also a Principal © 2014 • $339.9 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-753-6 Investigator in SimTech, the national cluster of excellence for Everyday Miracles: Home simulation technology, focuses on the visualization of complex Item # 75344 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-823-6 data, 3D virtual reality, augmented reality and cloud computing, Everyday Miracles: Away among many other fields of activity. With more than 20 years of career in high performance computing, during which he earned Item # 75345 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-925-7 awards and honorary degrees from organizations like the Russian Academy of Sciences and the NSF, Michael Resch is one of the $169.95 each most recognized experts in the field. At Falling Walls, he offers a unique chance to discover the role of supercomputing in our The Virtual Revolution present and future. (15 minutes) Item # 75357 © 2013 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-436-8 Subject: Technology & Society The World Wide Web is transforming Making the Future: 3D Printing and the Future everything from how we learn to how we shop, vote and make of Digital Fabrication friends. For better or for worse, how is the digital revolution reshaping all our lives? The series brings together everyone who’s Item # 65009 anyone on the web - from its inventor Tim Berners-Lee to Subject: Technology & Society Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to This film examines the possibilities of digital fabrication through Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates and Al Gore. Through stories techniques such as 3D printing and do-it-yourself genetic of how the web is being used and abused today, this series engineering. It looks at the makers' movement and the ideals explores the revolutionary benefits and uncovers the hidden costs motivating them. It also features interviews with intellectuals and of the web’s culture of global, instant and free information. An business people who envision a transformed economy that moves Open University Production. (4 parts, 240 minutes) away from mass production, and who believe producing the things © 2010 • $679.80 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-754-3 we consume will bring us greater fulfillment. (48 minutes) *The Great Levelling-Coming Soon © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-709-3 Item # 75358 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-932-5 *Enemy of the State-Coming Soon Digital Amnesia: Are We Losing Our Collective Item # 75359 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-933-2 History? The Cost of Free Item # 65010 Item # 75360 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-826-7 Subject: Technology & Society *Homo Interneticus?-Coming Soon Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost Item # 75361 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-934-9 to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have $169.95 each the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia? (50 Smart Technology Is Making Us Dumb: A minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-710-9 Debate Item # 94775 Subject: Technology & Society Zero Days: White Hat and Black Hat Hackers Smart technology provides users vast and Item # 86448 instant access to information and to other people, forming a strong Subject: Technology & Society and pervasive presence in our lives. But is there a downside to all There is new gold to be found on the internet, of this connectivity? Some argue that while smart technology may and possibly in your own computer. Secret put a world of knowledge at our fingertips, it also fosters backdoors, that do not have a digital lock yet, are being traded at dependency on electronic gadgets, narrows our contacts to echo astronomical amounts. In the cyber world trade, where there are chambers, and impairs cognitive skills by creating shortcuts and no rules, you are in luck with “white-hat” hackers, who guard your distractions. Are smart-tech devices making us dumber, guiding so online security. But their opponents, the “black-hat” hackers, have much of our decision making that we are losing autonomy without an interest in an unsecure internet, and sell security leaks to the even realizing it? Or are these concerns overblown, an highest bidder. They are the preferred suppliers of security exaggeration of the negative effects of high-tech consumption? services and cyber defense. Who are these black and white (104 minutes) wizards, who fight for the holy grail of hackers: zero days? (49 © 2015 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-68272-108-7 minutes) © 2014 • $169.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60057-937-0 48 World Languages
La Mode et la Cuisine (in French) Item # 49825 Subject: World Languages Fashion and food are two of the defining elements of French culture. For students of French, it is important that they not only develop a well-rounded vocabulary, but that they also appreciate how cultural influences flavor daily life for French people. This program looks at fashion and food through the eyes of the French. In a question and answer format, a rich array of information about these significant cultural elements are discussed in an informal and conversational way—in French, and without English subtitles—making an ideal learning resource for middle to senior level students. A viewable/printable worksheet is available online. (French, 21 minutes) © 2009 • $129.95 • ISBN: 978-1-61753-460-7
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