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CONSTRUCTING THE TERRORIST THREAT: Islamophobia, the Media and the War on Terror

Deepa Kumar, one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Islamophobia, traces how Muslims have become the predominant face of terror in U.S. news and entertainment media -- even though terror attacks by homegrown right-wing extremists have far outnumbered attacks by Muslims since 9/11.

Digging deep into history, Kumar offers a sweeping analysis of the changing views of Islam and Muslims in the West, examining the ways that ruling elites have long used the specter of a "Muslim enemy" to justify their imperial projects. And she shows how this increasingly menacing view of Islam has shaped public opinion and foreign policy in the United States over time.

Moving from the terror attacks at the Munich Olympics and the Iran-Hostage Crisis in the 1970s, to 9/11 and the start of the "war on terror", to the rise of Isis today, Kumar explores how American media discourse has cultivated irrational fears of Muslims over a period of decades. And she presents facts and a wealth data in response, expertly exposing and debunking the most deep-seated myths about Muslims and Islam that have taken root in the American imagination.

Given the current political moment, CONSTRUCTING THE TERRORIST THREAT couldn’t be more timely and important.
 
#16209/0685   55 minutes 2017  $459.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

GREAT WHITE HOAX: Donald Trump and Politics of Race and Class in America

Tim Wise, one of the nation's foremost authorities on the costs and consequences of white privilege, breaks down the racial politics that were at work during the 2016 presidential election, arguing that Trump's race-baiting success with white voters was not a departure from American political norms but the continuation of a longstanding pattern of fear-based racial scapegoating
 
#16208/0685  2017  $459.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

EDUCATION INC
American public education is at a crossroads. For years now, public schools across the country have been struggling, desperately short on funds while facing extreme political pressure to improve student performance.

For advocates of public education, these struggles have been a major cause for concern. But for advocates of privatization, they’ve been a highly profitable business opportunity.

EDUCATION INC is a film about the accelerating movement to privatize America’s public schools. Filmmaker and parent Brian Malone travels to public school districts across the country to see for himself what the privatization movement is all about, and to determine what it would mean for his own kids if we abandoned our public school system.

Weaving striking footage from school protests and raucous school board meetings with commentary from some of the best-known educators in the country, Malone shows how private investors, large education corporations, and other for-profit interests have been quietly and systematically privatizing America's public education system under the banner of "school choice." Along the way, he clarifies the key issues at stake, and makes a powerful case for why public education matters.

The result is a powerful and deeply personal look at a pivotal moment in the history of American education. 
#16203/0685   60 minutes 2015  $399.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

RISE AND FALL OF ADOLF HITLER (THE)
This exhaustive biography covers the tumultuous career of the failed Austrian artist who nearly conquered the world: a series of events and people, a chemistry of history and current happenings, a confluence of economic, psychological, and political forces that turned a thousand minor, innocuous events into a huge and murderous whole. There had been wars before, and slave labor, and genocide, and treaties made to be broken, and propagandists who came to believe their own propaganda; what made this experience different is what is documented in this program: its vast scope, its documentation on film, and its central character, Adolf Hitler.

(2 hours 30 minutes, b&w/color) 
#16202/0635  $169.95 
    

SEXISM IN LANGUAGE
This program presents closely analyzed examples that show how sexism and antisexism may be contained in language used in song lyrics, everyday conversation, newspaper reports, written conventions, and satire. 
#16192/0405   20 minutes 1982  $139.95 
    

LISTEN UP! Speaking Matters
This program puts the spotlight on the often-neglected language arts by offering new and exciting ways to bolster students’ speaking skills.

Teachers assign oral activities, but they don’t usually spend much time teaching students how to be successful with those activities. What does it take for students to be effective oral communicators?

Veteran teacher and author Erik Palmer answers that important question. Hepresents an approach to teaching speaking skills that is focused on preparing students for 21st century communication both inside and beyond the classroom.

You’ll visit elementary, middle, and high school classrooms where teachers are guiding and assessing students in collaborative discussions, media literacy, questioning and reasoning, speech presentation, effective multimedia use, and adapting speech to different content and tasks. You’ll learn about PVLEGS (Poise, Voice, Life, Eye contact, Gestures, Speed) and how this concept can help students become more effective public speakers.

Throughout the video, Palmer provides his expert advice on how teachers can focus on oral communication in their classroom and how these techniques can be implemented on a school-wide basis. You’ll also see him jump back into the classroom with a lesson on making thoughtful and targeted presentations to different audiences.

LISTEN UP! SPEAKING MATTERS is a key resource for teachers and schools committed to helping students acquire essential oral communication skills that cross content areas and support long-term success.
 
#16178/0187   45 minutes 2016  $259.95 
    

LAST INTERVIEW (THE): Stuart Hall on the Politics of Cultural Studies

"Thanks to Sut Jhally's powerful last interview, Stuart Hall continues to instruct, illuminate, and inspire. His call for a conjunctural analysis of this moment, placing race and crime at the center, is not only prescient, but, given recent developments, absolutely necessary to our political survival."
Angela Y. Davis | Distinguished Professor Emerita,
University of California - Santa Cruz

In this interview conducted shortly before his death in 2014, Stuart Hall, one of the seminal figures in cultural studies, talks about his classic work Policing the Crisis, describes the political, symbolic, and material concerns that animated cultural studies in the 1970s, and offers a critical assessment of the field today. He then turns his attention to the always shifting terrain of race and identity in the United States and Britain, offering fascinating cultural and political insights into the presidency of Barack Obama and the 2012 Olympics in London. While Hall was physically ill for much of his later life, this final interview provides powerful testimony that his formidable intellect, sense of humor, and willingness to engage with the gritty realities of politics and power never deserted him.

An absolutely essential resource for anyone interested in cultural studies.
 
#16175/0685   56 minutes 2016  $399.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

SOULS OF BLACK GIRLS (THE)

Filmmaker Daphne Valerius's award-winning documentary THE SOULS OF BLACK GIRLS explores how media images of beauty undercut the self-esteem of African-American women. Valerius surveys the dominant white, light-skinned, and thin ideals of beauty that circulate in the culture, from fashion magazines to film and music video, and talks with African-American girls and women about how these images affect the way they see themselves. The film also features powerful commentary from rapper and activist Chuck D, actresses Regina King and Jada Pinkett Smith, PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill, cultural critic Michaela Angela Davis, and others.

THE SOULS OF BLACK GIRLS has screened at hundreds of universities and organizations around the country, and earned Valerius the Rising Female Filmmaker Award at the Harlem Int'l Film Festival. In 2015, it aired on ASPIRE TV in association with the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, earning Valerius a trip to the White House as an invited guest of First Lady Michelle Obama.

*** A SPECIAL PRICE is available for non-College Non-University customers ***

Featuring Interviews With:
Darlise Blount, Producer
Chuck D, Rapper/Political Activist
Michaela Angela Davis, Cultural Critic
Dr. Lez Edmond, African-American Historian
Pamela Edwards, ESSENCE
C’Nay Hines, BET
Gwen Ifill, PBS Washington Week
Juanita Jennings, Actress
Regina King, Actress
Katie Magrane, Youth Advocate
Amelia Marshall, Actress
Kadija Minah, Producer
Kenyetta Smith, Screenwriter
Jada Pinkett Smith, Actress
 
#16173/0685   52 minutes 2008  $389.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ROAD TO RE-ENTRY (THE): A Five Part Series

When transitioning out of incarceration, individuals face many barriers to a successful reentry. This video series guides individuals through the essential steps they’ll need to take to overcome challenges and pursue long-term success and fulfillment after their incarceration. Through a positive, encouraging approach, the program motivates individuals to become self-sufficient and make the right decisions to put themselves on track to a successful reentry. Viewers gain valuable tip sand insight from experienced professionals working in reentry programs. The video series also features formerly incarcerated individuals who describe their reentry experiences in candid, honest interviews that will resonate with viewers. Each program is approximately 25 minutes and is sub-titled in English.

RECONNECTING WITH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
This program helps viewers:
*Understand the importance and advantages of reconnecting with family and others who may be positive influences.
*Prepare for the difficulties they may encounter when re-establishing relationships.
*Identify situations where it may be detrimental to reconnect with people from their past.
*Discover community-based organizations or programs that can support their reentry goals.

MEETING YOUR BASIC NEEDS
This program helps viewers:
*Prepare for the barriers they may face transitioning back to society, particularly in the first few weeks or months of their release.
*Identify people, resources, and programs who can help them obtain their fundamental needs.
*Recognize situations where staying with family or others can be detrimental to their reentry success.
*Understand how to work toward short and long-term solutions to their fundamental needs.
*Avoid common pitfalls that formerly incarcerated individuals often experience after release.
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MAKING HEALTHY CHOICES
This program helps viewers:
*Understand the importance of managing their physical and mental health.
*Identify resources and programs that help formerly incarcerated individuals monitor and improve their health.
*Discover techniques for dealing effectively with substance abuse and addiction.
*Learn about healthy coping methods for dealing with stress.
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FINDING EMPLOYMENT
This program helps viewers:
*Learn the most effective techniques for finding job leads and securing job offers.
*Discover best practices for completing job applications and creating resumes and cover letters.
*Understand how to present themselves professionally in interviews.
*Know when and how to appropriately address their incarceration with employers.

SUCCEEDING ON THE JOB
This program helps viewers:
*Identify essential skills and personality traits required for retaining employment and career advancement.
*Understand employers’ expectations.
*Learn about behaviors and attitudes that can be detrimental to their job security and reputation.
*Discover ways to work toward achieving better jobs and long-term career success.
*Recognize the advantages of pursuing additional education or training
 
#16170/1015  2016  $729.95 *CC 
    

KITCHEN MATH: Measuring

Success or failure in the kitchen depends on three elements interacting with each other: ingredients, time, and temperature. Measuring these three elements accurately helps ensure the end result is delicious food. This program resents measuring basics with humor and fun:
* Units of measurement
* Common abbreviations
* Measuring tools and techniques
* Proper measuring techniques for dry, solid, and liquid ingredients
* Basic recipe conversion and cost comparisons

*Closed Captioned
 
#16169/1290   21 minutes 2016  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

BIOLOGY: The Science of Seeds
To keep up with the growth in human population, the quantity of food that will have to be produced over the next 50 years will be greater than the past 10,000 years combined. With seven billion people on the planet, traditional farming can only succeed with the assistance of science and a host of hi-tech tools and innovations. This program explores how farmers and scientists continually adapt and innovate in order to produce enough food to feed a hungry planet, while understanding and protecting the environment. *Closed Captioned 
#16159/2003   11 minutes 2016  $89.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

IMMUNOLOGY: The Study of Vaccines
According to Oxford Dictionaries a vaccine is a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. This program will look at the science behind the development of vaccines used to eradicate diseases and epidemics. The ability for vaccines to control and eliminate life-threatening infectious diseases will be discussed along with innovations that make vaccinations safer than ever. *Closed Captioned 
#16158/2003   11 minutes 2016  $89.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

LOVE AT FIRST SWIPE
This program delves into the dating phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. 21st century living is fast and furious and there is little time for cherished moments of tranquility. So in an age of deadlines and bold headlines, how does anyone have the time to find love? The answer: speedy location-based mobile dating apps that cut to the chase of sexual attraction. In this observational documentary, we explore the world of online dating apps with jaw-dropping stories that capture the funny, heartwarming and often dangerous moments that make up the modern dating world. Prepare to be immersed in an online world of deviancy, devotion, deception, heartbreak and outright sexual brazenness. 
#16148/0635   47 minutes 2015  $189.95 *CC 
    

INTERNET RESEARCH: What's Credible
On the Internet, it’s incredibly easy, and fast, to research a topic with a few simple keystrokes. But it’s also incredibly easy to end up with unreliable and non-credible information that makes your research efforts fruitless. With an overwhelming abundance of options after doing an Internet search, how can you tell which results are reliable? In this video, viewers will learn strategies for narrowing down results and honing in on credible sources of information online. Experts such as college professors and media librarians offer advice, while students share their own experiences. A special section on one of today’s most popular research sites "Wikipedia" investigates whether it’s trustworthy or not for academic or professional use. 
#16147/0635   29 minutes 2015  $149.95 *CC 
    

DRESS AND GROOM FOR CAREER SUCCESS

Learn how to present yourself professionally for interview and career success! This program provides a wealth of examples that demonstrate practical do's and don’ts for dressing and grooming. Interviews with real-world hiring experts will put your clients or students into the minds of employers so they are better prepared to meet expectations.

Viewers will:
* Learn how to dress appropriately for the job they have or the job they want.
* Identify the most effective ways to make a great first impression.
* Gain insight into the minds of employers and hiring managers.
* Understand expectations for grooming and behavior during interviews and on the job.
* Acquire budget-friendly tips for finding the right clothes on a tight budget.
 
#16146/1015   27 minutes 2016  $179.95 *CC 
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WAY OF LIVING DEVELOPED OVER MILLENIA: EDMUND METATAWABIN (A)
An Interview with Edmund Metatawabin, Cree leader, author and sustainability expert who has radical lessons for anyone trying to quit an oppressive, wage-based way of life, and for an industrial society that is struggling to become sustainable. Covers an enormous range of subjects, providing alternative views of work, the economy, the nature of community, land ownership, and a community's long-term values and its sense of time. Metatawabin also gives a candid and horrifying account of his time in residential school, where he and so many others experienced cruelty and life-altering abuse. *Closed Captioned

Cree Season Changes (03:42)
Metatawabin describes how his tribe transitions from winter to spring, including geese hunting activities.

Maintaining Tribal Resources (03:25)
Metatawabin explains that each clan governs a specific territory in Northern Ontario; tribal law maintains water quality of the Kistachowan Sipi—renamed the Fort Albany River in English.

First Nations Migrations (02:38)
Metatawabin's clan stories date back to the Ice Age. He explains that they followed fresh water movement along James Bay until settling 200 miles south.

First Nations Economic Policy (03:29)
Metatawabin explains how clans respected territory boundaries, intermingled socially, and exchanged resources. Sharing food was an investment for community health and survival.

Cree Summer Activities (02:10)
Metatawabin describes strategies for sharing the spring geese hunt among North Ontario clans. Socializing is an important part of harvesting fish.

Cree Fall Migration Strategy (01:47)
Metatawabin describes how clans returned to upriver winter dwellings in increments so that those traveling farthest were supported along their journey.

Faith in the Land (04:05)
Metatawabin explains his tribal philosophy of trusting individual resourcefulness, avoiding fear of misfortune, and accepting fate. Harvesting just enough food is a concept lost to Westerners.

Cree Home Design (04:16)
Metatawabin describes his clan shelters; including caribou hide tents and mud houses. The fire was always kept burning in winter and families built a new dwelling each year.

Cree Work Concept (01:48)
Metatawabin explains that labor is an inevitable yet enjoyable social activity in his tribe.

Cree Spirituality (03:56)
Metatawabin explains the importance of laughter, singing and dancing to tribal well-being. Each age group relates to a different legendary figure; prayers and stories are interconnected.

Communicating with Spirits (05:43)
Metatawabin describes messages from entities representing plants and animals during Cree ceremonies, including instructions for maintaining clan health.

First Nation Place Relationships (01:21)
Metatawabin explains how Cree legends confirm tribal connection to geographical locations, such as the Ghost River where a battle occurred.

Cree Origin Myth (07:30)
Metatawabin tells the story of Nest Island, in which the Great Spider lowers a banished couple to the Lower World. The bear teaches them to survive.

Cree Kinship Structure (01:46)
Metatawabin discusses how tribal legends set an example for younger generations who are motivated to make their elders proud.

Tribal Marriage System (03:27)
Metatawabin outlines Cree rules for educating younger generations on survival skills. Men wait until 30 and women until 20 to start a family; love partnerships are known as sacred fires.

Integrated Tribal Education (02:17)
Metatawabin explains how multiple generations participate in raising children in the Cree culture.

Cree Longevity (07:02)
Metatawabin explains how elderly tribal members are cared for in exchange for wisdom. They stay in the family home, rather than being placed in a separate setting as in Western society.

Living on the Land (06:30)
Metatawabin reflects on differences between urban and rural lifestyles in terms of time and stress. In the Cree culture, work revolves around food harvests and basic existence rather than artificial deadlines.

Entering Residential School (03:19)
Metatawabin's father delayed his enrollment as long as possible. He recalls entering the abusive institution at age eight, where he stayed until he was 16.

Residential School Abuse (04:12)
Metatawabin describes physical and psychological punishments that undermined his tribal upbringing. The “education” system cost many First Nations children their self-confidence and put them at a disadvantage in white society.

Residential School Sexual Predators (06:17)
Metatawabin describes abuses suffered by First Nations children at the hands of pedophile priests and nuns. A friend of his was impregnated and forced to abort; she never recovered from losing her baby.

Perpetuating Abuse (02:25)
Four generations of First Nations children suffered in the residential school system. Metatawabin explains why the sexual abuse cycle continues in tribal communities.

Healing from Abuse (05:49)
Tribal spiritual practices and elder wisdom have helped Metatawabin's clan recover from residential school traumas and begin the cultural reestablishment process.

Modern Sustainability Challenges (03:40)
Metatawabin contrasts greed and resource exploitation in the capitalist system from preserving the natural world for future generations in traditional indigenous culture.

Living for Unborn Generations (02:36)
Metatawabin shares his inherently sustainable tribal philosophy of environmental stewardship.
 
#16134/0635   98 minutes 2013  $189.95 *CC 
    

ENGINEERING: Transforming Lives with Prosthetics
Scientists and engineers have made great strides in recent years with prosthetics and orthotics. In this program we discuss how designers simulate the anatomy and physiology of missing limbs. Though some prosthetics are simple and minimally functional, others are complex bionic artificial limbs with improved designs, using advanced hydraulics, lightweight materials such as carbon fiber and computer microprocessors and sensors. This program will highlight how advances in prosthetics have improved life for people with certain injuries and disabilities. *Closed Captioned 
#16127/2003   11 minutes 2016  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

MOOSE RIVER CROSSING: The Terrible Legacy of Residential Schools

*WINNER! World Film Awards

MOOSE RIVER CROSSING examines the premise and asks the question "Does time heal all wounds?" Six childhood friends and former residential school students meet at the train station to travel to their school reunion. It's been eighteen years. Excited yet apprehensive they greet each other with the warmth of friends past and do the preverbal "catch up."

As the minutes move to hours and a derailed train delays their travel, these six adults flash to the past; the love, the lies, the pain of childhood lost and finally resolution. Their reunion insulated in the stark lobby of the train station, proves to be the door that opens a path to healing. MOOSE RIVER CROSSING is a reunion not simply of old friends but a resolution, a crossing over and a letting go.
 
#16123/0881   91 minutes 2013  $249.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

OCCUPATION OF THE AMERICAN MIND (THE): Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (FULL VERSION)

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except the United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S.

Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favor. From the U.S.-based public relations campaigns that emerged in the 1980s to today, the film provides a sweeping analysis of Israel's decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the American people in the face of widening international condemnation of its increasingly right-wing policies.

Featuring Roger Waters, Amira Hass, M.J. Rosenberg, Stephen M. Walt, Noam Chomsky, Rula Jebreal, Henry Siegman, Rashid Khalidi, Rami Khouri, Yousef Munayyer, Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Phyllis Bennis, Norman Solomon, Mark Crispin Miller, Peter Hart, and Sut Jhally.

*Also available in an ABRIDGED 55 minute version
*English and Arabic sub-titles
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#16119/0685   82 minutes 2016  $349.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

RESUMES, COVER LETTERS AND PORTFOLIOS for EX-OFFENDERS: Necessary Tools for Landing the Interview

If you have a troubled past you may think you'll never get a 'real' job. But, with the right tools, finding a good job is not impossible. To start, you'll need a stellar resume, and attention-getting cover letter, and an up-to-date portfolio. Knowing what to leave out of your resume and cover letter, and how to include experience and training you may have received while in prison are key.

This video will help take some of the guesswork out of your unique job search, explain the must-haves and explore the how-tos of resumes, cover letters, and portfolios. Viewers will learn about the different types of resumes; which one is the best match to their skills, qualifications, and experience; as well as how to write a cover letter that will motivate an employer to invite them for an interview; and, why they should expand their work story with a portfolio and positive online presence.

*Includes Instructor's Guide
 
#16114/1280   28 minutes 2016  $129.95 *Streaming available 
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RESUMES, COVER LETTERS AND PORTFOLIOS: Necessary Tools for Landing the Interview

Searching for a job is a process ... not always easy and oftentimes, well, work. Part of the process includes preparing the following: a stellar resume, an attention-getting cover letter, and an up-to-date portfolio. Whether you're creating your very first resume, have already written dozens of cover letters that left you with radio silence, or don't know where to begin with your portfolio, this video will help take some of the guess work out of and explore the how-tos of resumes, cover letters, and portfolios.

In this program, viewers will learn about the different types of resumes and when to use each; how to best match their skills, qualifications, and experience with the requirements of the position; how to write a cover letter that would motivate an employer to invite them for an interview; and, why they should expand their work story with a portfolio and positive online presence.

*Includes Instructor's Guide
 
#16113/1280   28 minutes 2016  $129.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
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MEMORY HACKERS
Discover how researchers on the cutting edge of mind-control can implant, change, and even erase memories. On this thought-provoking journey into the mind, an investigation into the mysterious nature of how we remember. *CC 
#16111/1725   60 minutes 2016  $139.95 *CC 
    

VIXENS AND VIRGINS AND OTHER MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES: How Teenage Girls See Themselves

Sex parties, drugs, eating disorders, suicide...It seems everywhere you turn there’s another report of teenage girls gone bad. This program follows one mother’s investigation into the lives of young women and the mixed messages that girls receive about conforming to specific behavioral or beauty ideals.

"Media feeds girls a constant diet of provocative images and then calls them sluts or skanks when they achieve that look" says Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, one of three specialists on female adolescence featured in the film.

Through candid conversations with teen girls about sex, substance abuse, and the pressure to be popular, viewers glimpse the real-life stories behind the scandalous headlines and find a generation that is at once more accomplished, and yet more anxiety-ridden, than perhaps any other before.
 
#16110/0635   47 minutes 2010  $199.95 *CC 
    

WHAT RIGOR LOOKS LIKE IN THE CLASSROOM
What does rigor really looks like in the classroom? As schools are focused more and more on increasing academic rigor, it’s a question every teacher is asking. In this video, Robyn Jackson dispels the confusion by presenting the clear and concise definition of academic rigor she’s developed over time and working with teachers to show them what rigor looks like in practice.

Visit a variety of different schools to see real teachers who are using Jackson’s field-tested methods to successfully boost academic rigor in their classrooms. You’ll witness these teachers helping students to construct meaning for themselves; impose structure on information that allows them to think accurately, consider multiple meanings, and engage in disciplined inquiry and thought; integrate their skills into processes; and apply what they’ve learned in more than one context and to unpredictable situations.

WHAT RIGOR LOOKS LIKE IN THE CLASSROOM takes the mystery out of rigor and provides practical guidance for implementing rigorous instruction that meets the needs of all students.
 
#16107/0187   45 minutes 2015  $259.95 
    

NURTURING LEADERSHIP
Are leaders born, or made? This video shows that while certain personality traits may influence leadership abilities, there are also leadership qualities that can be learned and nurtured.

Business leaders, politicians, coaches and others share their perceptions of what it takes to be a leader, relating to viewers that observing certain principles and adopting admirable behaviors 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 of excellence.

A basic definition of leadership as the action of leading a group of people toward a common goal is the preface to the importance of creating a vision of the future—the true mark of a leader. Listening, teamwork, motivation and the ability to engage others in a cause are also presented as leadership qualities. Many modern-day or historical capsules of leadership bring to life the concept of developing the traits to become a leader.

*Closed Captioned 
#16106/0405   35 minutes 2015  $149.95 *CC 
    

YOUR WORDS MATTER
Social Media. Text Messages. Emails. It’s never been easier to communicate. And it’s never been more potentially hazardous. This program will help you understand and navigate these hazards.

The YOUR WORDS MATTER training program will help increase awareness of the importance of written communication. Through dramatic vignettes, we explore some of the things that can go wrong and provide some practical advice for avoiding these pitfalls. Every viewer will learn essential guidelines for avoiding common mistakes and for communicating in a clear and effective manner.

KEY LEARNING POINTS:
*Your Messages Matter! Think before you hit "reply all". Watch out for autofill. Be careful in your communication.
*Your Tone Matters! People may misinterpret the tone of your communication. Learn how to avoid these pitfalls.
*Your Privacy Matters! Social media is not private. Learn lessons for handing social media.
*Your Reputation Matters! What you say electronically can affect you or your business. Learn how to manage your communications effectively.

*Closed Captioned **20% DISCOUNT to EDUCATION
*Purchase includes Leader's Guide and Quiz

*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request
 
#16102/0960   11 minutes 2015  $449.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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BIKES VS CARS

Deep down, we all know we need to talk about it: Climate, earth's resources, cities where the entire surface is consumed by the car. An ever-growing, dirty, noisy chaos created by gas-consuming machines. Cars would seem to provide the lure of freedom, but in many places, traffic is so bad that drivers spend hours every day just going short distances. The bike is a great tool for change, but powerful interests who gain from the private car invest billions each year to lobby and advertise to protect against the encroachment of bicycles. Meet activists and thinkers who are fighting for better cities, who refuse to stop riding despite the increasing number killed in traffic.

*Sub-titled

*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request
 
#16099/1065   90 minutes 2015  $179.95 *CC 
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POTATO LATE BLIGHT: The Disease Cycle of Phytophthora Infestans
*WINNER of the 29th International AGROFILM Festival!

Late blight caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans is the most serious disease of potato crops worldwide. As a major culprit of the Irish potato famine in the mid-nineteenth century, late blight has had a tremendous effect on human history. Elucidation of the life cycle of P. infestans by German botanist Anton de Bary is claimed as a founding moment of modern plant pathology.

Using computer animations blended with real-life video and time-lapse photography, this teaching video impressively illustrates the life cycle of P. infestans. Your students and extension audiences will gain a clear understanding of the development and epidemiological spread of this fungus-like pathogen and the nature of the devastating disease it causes.

Now full length videos can be trimmed for use in PowerPoint presentations. Trim this video to highlight specific stages of Potato Late Blight for classroom demonstrations, or use the full video to build an entire lecture.

All stages of the disease cycle are explained in detail:

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION:
Infected tubers as a source of inoculum
Transmission of mycelium to seedling
Formation of sporangiophores on leaves
Detachment and spread of sporangia
Direct and indirect germination
Zoospore production and release
Zoospore locomotion and encystment
Leaf infection and mycelial growth
Secondary sporulation and spread of disease
Infection of tubers

SEXUAL REPRODUCTION:
A1 and A2 (opposite) mating types
Formation of male and female gametangia
Penetration of antheridium by oogonial initial
Expansion of oogonium
Meiosis and fertilization
Formation of thick-walled oospore
Dormancy period in soil
Germination of activated oospore
Release of zoospores 
#16096/0147   14 minutes 2013  $299.95 
    

FIVE MAJOR FUNGAL DISEASES OF CORN
"This video has stunning computer animation, down to a microscope scale for a fungus-eye view of corn diseases. This is a great teaching tool for extension agents, growers, ag consultants, and high school and undergraduate students in biology and pathology courses. It packs lots of basic concepts into just 13 minutes."

Multilingual Soundtrack (9 languages): English, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Using stunning computer animations blended with real-life video, this teaching video impressively illustrates the disease cycles of five major fungal pathogens of corn, which can and do cause significant losses of crop yield and quality:

Common rust (Puccinia sorghi)
Northern leaf blight (Exserohilum turcicum)
Eyespot disease (Kabatiella zeae)
Gray leaf spot (Cercospora zeae-maydis)
Fusarium ear rot (Fusarium spp.)
Your students and extension audiences will gain a clear understanding of the development and epidemiological spread of the diseases as well as measures to control them. 
#16094/0147   13 minutes 2014  $289.95 
    

DAY THE 60s DIED (THE): The Kent State Shootings
On April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon shocked the nation by announcing the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. At college campuses across the country, masses of students took to the streets in protest. Five days later, four Kent State students would be shot dead by National Guardsmen. The mayhem that followed has been called the most divisive moment in American history since the Civil War.

THE DAY THE 60s DIED chronicles the chaotic month of May 1970, when it seemed America was at war with itself. From the students and guardsmen who witnessed the Kent State shootings to a young G.I. in the Cambodian jungle, how did the events of that turbulent spring affect who these people became? How have the shockwaves from these events reverberated into the present? During May 1970, frustration and anger split American society apart and we still live in the aftermath of that rift.

THE DAY THE 60s DIED is an important story to be told now as our nation grapples with the growing divide in how Americans see their nation and each other.

(SDH) Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 
#16093/1725   60 minutes 2015  $129.95 *CC 
    

SEEDS OF TIME "A Vital, clear-headed look at the vital effects of climate change on global food security."
The clock is ticking on one of the greatest potential disasters in the history of our species and one man leads a worldwide crusade to avert it. Crop diversity pioneer Cary Fowler travels the world, educating the public about the dire consequences of our inaction. The world's agriculture - and it's fate - are dependent on the ability of plants to adapt to changes in climate, pests and disease - but today's crops around the globe are grown from human-engineered seeds and have lost nearly all their diversity and ability to naturally adapt.

Could one massive infestation of fungus, blight or insects cause all the world's corn, wheat or lettuce to die? Is modern agriculture setting the stage for economic disaster, food riots, and global starvation? Dr. Fowler is the head of an international consortium to store seeds from every agricultural plant in the world. But is his farsighted program enough to save humanity from annihilation?

*Closed Captioned

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#16091/1065   77 minutes 2014  $179.95 *CC 
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SERVING ALCOHOL RESPONSIBLY

Anyone serving alcohol to customers must do so responsibly. This includes owners and licensees of premises, bar and drinks staff and security and other staff who might make judgments about patron behaviour. Alcohol affects people differently and it's important to recognise when someone is or isn't becoming alcohol-affected to the point where no more should be served. Even more critical is the ability to deal with a situation effectively and appropriately without disturbing other patrons. This video covers the skills required to ensure the responsible service of alcohol. An ideal resource for learners in Hospitality and related courses.
 
#16089/0545   32 minutes 2014  $129.95 *Streaming available 
    

UNDERSTANDING ISSUES IN GLOBALIZATION

This collection of short programs will help students get to grips with the causes and extensive consequences of an increasingly globalised economy. Our experts address issues of sustainability, opportunity, threat, energy, tourism, manufacturing and transnational corporations in these engaging and accessible programs. Each individual program has an accompanying worksheet.
 
#16088/0545   32 minutes 2014  $129.95 *Streaming available 
    

CRUEL LESSONS: Canada's Residential Schools

Residential Schools, the term conjures up a history of abuse for Canada's First-Nation peoples - poignant reminders of the cultural and citizenship issues under investigation in the press, courts and Government. Their own language forbidden; constantly told their culture was inferior; subjected to physical and psychological abuse, four seniors (male and female) remember the cruel lessons absorbed during their "school days."
 
#16087/0545   25 minutes 1997  $89.95 *Streaming available 
    

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Dos and Don’ts

From texting to email to video calls, digital technology has transformed how we communicate with each other. But in formal situations like at work or in school, which forms of communications are appropriate, and when? Viewers of this video, especially digital natives, may be surprised to discover that communicating isn’t just about sharing information—it’s creating it—and that the ways in which emails, texts or voice messages are composed and conveyed may make the difference in impressing or disappointing an employer or co-worker. Even for late adopters of digital technology, this video has important points on what you should do—and what you don’t want to do—when it comes to email, texting, video-conferencing and using the phone for business calls or voice mail. *Closed Captioned
 
#16083/0635   29 minutes 2015  $149.95 *CC 
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EMPATHY GAP (THE): Masculinity and the Courage to Change (FULL VERSION)

In THE BRO CODE and GENERATION M, filmmaker Thomas Keith examined how American culture bombards young men with sexist and misogynistic messages. In THE EMPATHY GAP, he looks more closely at the ways these messages short-circuit men's ability to empathize with women, respect them as equals, and take feminism seriously. Keith begins by exploring some of the key messages about manhood that boys absorb from the culture -- that they should acquire material wealth, meet conflict with aggression, harden themselves, suppress all human emotion except anger, and view women primarily as sexual objects -- then argues that these messages not only devalue women but also undercut men's innate capacity for caring and empathy. Along the way, he draws fascinating parallels between sexism and racism, spelling out how each is rooted in cultural norms that discourage empathy, and shows how men who break with these norms live happier and healthier lives.

Features Jennifer Siebel-Newsom, Tony Porter, Michael Messner, Derrick Jensen, Kevin Powell, J.W. Wiley, Charlotte Watson, Eddie Moore Jr., C.J. Pascoe, Julia T. Wood, and others.

*** THIS TITLE ALSO COMES IN AN ABRIDGED VERSION - see #16120
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#16075/0685   70 minutes 2015  $359.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM

A closed door, an exasperated expression, a noisy workstation, a cultural misunderstanding - all of these are examples of "noise", a general term for anything that gets in the way of effective communication. The key to overcoming communication barriers is to be able to identify and understand them. This program explains the various types of noise and details specific examples of physical, organizational, emotional, nonverbal, cultural, language-related or written barriers. Through expert interviews and creative vignettes, the video offers solutions to overcoming these common communication barriers.

*Closed Captioned
 
#16069/0635   35 minutes 2015  $149.95 *CC 
    

GAMEPLAY: The Story of the Videogame Revolution

A comprehensive feature documentary on the history of video games from 'Pong', 'Pac Man' and 'Mario' to 'Call of Duty', 'Grand Theft Auto' and everything in between. Candid and detailed interviews with many of the most important developers of these games are included as are snippets of the games themselves. The violence, the misogyny, the addictive tendencies, the fortunes made and lost; it tells the story of how this industry was created, by whom and where it is headed. The history of the industry is so short and yet has developed at an almost incredible pace while becoming a worldwide phenomenon that in 2013 totaled over $70B!! With a B!
 
#16067/1725   94 minutes 2015  $129.95 *CC 
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TOTAL PARTICIPATION TECHNIQUES

Teach teachers how to use these easy-to-use and incredibly effective alternatives to "stand and deliver" teaching strategies in their classrooms. Includes interviews with authors Pérsida and William Himmele who explain how to make every student an active learner. And classroom scenes from elementary and high schools show teachers how to use Total Participation Techniques (TPTs) to get and hold students' attention, activate higher-order thinking, and provide formative assessments of academic progress. Hear teachers and administrators explaining the steps to implementing TPTs so they engage every kind of learner, from ESL students to gifted but disinterested students. See field-tested techniques like pair-share and pause-star-rank in action, take a tour through an actual TPT toolkit to discover effective supplies to use with TPTs, and witness a peer coaching session that observes and breaks down ways to maximize learning.
 
#16064/0187   40 minutes 2014  $259.95 
    

DIFFERENTIATED CLASSROOM (THE): Responding to the Needs of all Learners (2 Programs)

Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson’s THE DIFFERENTIATED CLASSROOM: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this new DVD series shows you practical, real-world examples from experienced K to 5 and secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests. Through interviews with teachers, hear guidance on what to differentiate, how to differentiate, and why. Understand the groundwork for bringing differentiated instruction into your own classroom or refining the work you already do.

The two 45-minute videos (also available separately) include bonus content on how a differentiated classroom makes it easier to implement the Curriculum Standards.

THE DIFFERENTIATED CLASSROOM: RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF ELEMENTARY LEARNERS
Shows you practical, real-world examples from experienced K to 5 school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

THE DIFFERENTIATED CLASSROOM: RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS OF SECONDARY LEARNERS
Shows you practical, real-world examples from experienced secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.
 
#16063/0187  2015  $339.95 
    

HOW WOULD YOU BUDGET?

Hanna has just gotten a raise and the cast of characters representing her monthly expenses are meeting so each one can make a case for their share of the money.

Can they work together to balance Hanna’s budget?
Will Saving finally get a fair share?
Or will dreaded Debt demand that it all be used to pay back what she is owed?

Your students will laugh as they learn about budgeting. But at the end of the program, they have to answer the serious question - How Would You Budget?

*Includes Teacher's Guide
*Closed Captioned

*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request
 
#16062/0483   23 minutes 2015  $119.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE WORLD (10 Programs)

This series inspires children to think about the world: from a Bolivian Rain Forest Orchestra, a children’s court in India, a monkey orphanage in the Amazon jungle, to land mine clearing rats in Africa. These short programs will entertain and teach kids about the world in which they live.

Joachim Wild Riders (Brazil)
Ten-year-old Luam spent most of his life on the streets and is now moving to Señor Joaquim`s farm. Señor Joaquim and his wife Dona Terezinha take care of street kids and offer them a new life.

Mother of the Bonobos (Republic of the Congo)
Claudine André and her staff raise orphan Bonobos. They spare them from a life as pets - squeezed alone into tiny cages. Most of the animals have suffered great pain and it takes a lot of patience and time to rehabilitate them.

Kung Fu: China’s Female Fighters (China)
Located in a secluded valley of the holy Shongshan Mountains is the only women's Kung Fu school in China: a boarding school for 70 girls. Goa Jia had always dreamed of becoming a Kung Fu fighter and feels privileged to be part of the school.

The Jungle Orchestra (Bolivia)
Simon plays violin in the village's orchestra. He lives with his parents and siblings at the border of the Bolivian Rain Forest in a straw hut without electricity and water.

The Mine Clearing Rat (Tanzania)
Ronaldinho the rat is able to smell TNT. Every day the training gets harder for Ronaldinho and at the end he has to past the biggest test: at an open field, out of thousand different smells he has to find the TNT. Will he make it and be one of Africa's live saving rats?

Monks of The Golden Triangle (Thailand)
His parents aren't able to take care of Pumbui properly, which makes the little boy an easy victim for a career of crime. That is why Abbot Phra Khru Ba Neau Chai wants to take the boy to the monastery, to educate him and provide him a better future. As all the kids there, Pumpui will learn about discipline and responsibility.

The Children’s Parliament Of Rajasthan (India)
During the day 13 year old Neraj Jath takes care of the family's goats in the dry landscape close to the Thar Desert. In the evening, she visits the school in her little village. In her spare time she is the minister for agriculture at the Children's Parliament of Rajasthan.

Land Of Rhythm (Burundi)
Many young men of Burundi turned an old tradition into occupation: they are "Batimbos", drummers. Their huge drums are carried traditionally on the head. Following the rhythm of the drums the young men jump into the air and perform acrobatic tricks according to a set choreography.

Linea 5’s Dashing Angels (Columbia)
Felix’s biggest dream is to be a Balinero like Loco. For more than a year Felix collected spare parts to build his own cart. Now his time has come, with his first ride in his own cart he will be a part of the Linea 5's dashing angels.

Marta And The Puppy Otter (Hungary)
Marta Balogh loves animals from the bottom of her heart. For years now she rescues abandoned and injured animals. At the moment Marta takes care of Viki, a little otter baby.

Ten programs approximately 12 minutes each
 
#16060/0697  2008  $1,599.95  Grades 2 to 4 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Be Your Own Boss

*It is said that entrepreneurs are ordinary people who achieve extraordinary things. How do entrepreneurs succeed in following their dreams, while making them profitable? Discover the struggles and successes of four different business owners in this program. Featuring interviews of a baker, videographer, children’s clothing designer, and president of a charitable running event company, the entrepreneurs share their experiences running their own businesses.

Topics include:
* Motivation
* Challenges and Risks
* Strengths, Skills, and Training
* Time Management
* Communication and Teamwork
* Support Systems
* Rewards
* Advice for Others

*Closed Captioned
 
#16059/1290   20 minutes 2015  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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SOFT SKILLS IN THE WORKPLACE 2nd Edition

Technical skills may get a job seeker a job, but their soft skills will determine whether they meet employers’ expectations and succeed in the workplace. Soft skills are the personality traits and interpersonal skills that allow us to adapt to changing circumstances, manage time and resources, and work well with others.

This video discusses the importance of soft skills in the workplace through engaging vignettes and interviews with hiring managers. Viewers will discover how to use and improve their soft skills to be more productive on the job and successful in their career.

The video is divided into five sections:
-Making a professional impression
- Acting with integrity
- Communicating effectively
- Working as part of a team- Pushing yourself to succeed

*Closed Captioned
*Includes Instructor's Guide

*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request
 
#16057/1015   35 minutes 2015  $189.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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SOCIAL MEDIA MANNERS: Polite Behavior in the Social Media World

Social media is a whole new universe when it comes to manners and etiquette. Manners used to be something that happened in person, but today we conduct many of our relationships online and the rules and courtesies can be a little unclear. Social Media Manners: Polite Behavior in the Social Media World addresses the general manners guidelines for cell phone use, text messaging, email, and social media websites and apps like Facebook or Twitter.

Segments include:
* Introduction (2:36)
* The 4 Guidelines (1:53)
* Mobile Manners (3:02)
* Texting (3:28)
* Social Media (6:15)
* Final Advice (2:16)

*Closed Captioned
*Streaming Available
 
#16052/1290   19 minutes 2015  $99.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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MANNERS BOOT CAMP: Professional Courtesy

Having good manners will help you stand out from the crowd and knowing how to act with professional courtesy can help you land a job and succeed once you have your foot in the door. Join Sasha and Sean in Manners Boot Camp: Professional Courtesy as they work to get their etiquette in shape for the professional world of work. Topics include:
* Why are manners important? (2:37)
* Job interview etiquette (4:26)
* Business phone etiquette (5:22)
* Email basics (5:44)

*Closed Captioned
*Streaming Available
 
#16051/1290   18 minutes 2015  $99.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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KEYS TO GETTING HIRED FOR JOB SEEKERS OVER 50 VIDEO SERIES (3 Programs)

Job seekers over 50 have many obstacles to overcome. Many employers perceive that older job seekers lack energy, motivation, and adaptability. Younger hiring managers may be reluctant to hire an employee many years older than them, and some firms may even discriminate due to perceived health issues that would cause the company’s insurance premiums to increase. In short, older job seekers face hidden discrimination that makes job seeking even more difficult than it already is. Fortunately, this new video series will assist those job seekers in overcoming the additional barriers they have, and get a good job quickly.

While the DVDs do not need to be shown sequentially, the best impact is for job seekers to view all three. Best uses include use in group workshops or Job Clubs; to supplement a job search or work prep curriculum; or for individual study and research.

There are three closed captioned programs in the series:

JOB SEARCH STEPS THAT GET RESULTS FOR JOB SEEKERS OVER 50
Viewers learn how to efficiently market themselves as excellent job candidates. In this program, viewers discover how to expand their network, find open positions, stay motivated, and overcome employment obstacles. 13 minutes

Topics Covered
* Overcoming age biases and age-based discriminatory practices
* Expand your network
* Find open positions
* Stay motivated
* Get comfortable with and use social media to its best advantage
* Overcome employment obstacles
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RESUMES AND COVER LETTERS THAT WORK FOR JOB SEEKERS OVER 50
The resume and cover letter have a job: to quickly convince employers to contact the candidate. In this program, viewers discover how to customize these documents to effectively introduce themselves to employers and get interviews. The video presents information on the different types of resumes and includes tips from professional career coaches for creating, formatting, and submitting resumes and cover letters. 9 minutes

Topics Covered
* Use the resume style that is appropriate for your situation
* Learn which experiences are most relevant to include in the resume
* Tailor your resume and cover letter to different job openings
* Format your resume to pass screening software
* Use keywords from job postings
* Show how your skills and experience match positions’ requirements
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ACE THE INTERVIEW AND GET THE JOB FOR JOB SEEKERS OVER 50
Research, practice, and preparation are essential for interview success. This program shows how to master these important steps and know what to expect in different types of interviews. Viewers learn how to make a great first impression and convince employers you are the right person to hire. 17 minutes

Topics Covered
* The best ways to research potential employers and open positions
* How to talk about yourself without sounding boastful
* Learn the best way to address any age biases that seem present
* How to connect your skills to employers’ needs
* Learn about the most common interview blunders
* Dressing appropriately for interviews
* Keys to following up with employers to secure job offers

*** The three programs are delivered on one DVD and are Closed Captioned ***
 
#16050/1015   38 minutes 2015  $329.95 *CC 
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SMOKE FROM HIS FIRE

A bittersweet story of how a people survived. Seventy-five years ago the nobility of the Kwakwaka’wakw of the Pacific Northwest Coast, chose a young man, secluded him from the authorities when his peers were sent to Residential School. The elders trained him in every aspect of the culture and traditions of his people. Today, caught between two worlds, he is needed more than ever by his people to reclaim their teachings. Few people survived who speak the language he was trained in to transmit his culture. Adam Dick or Kwaxsistala is the Clan Chief of the origin story of his nation and the last orally trained Potlatch Speaker. This is a story of hope, courage and endurance.

*Closed Captioned
*Also available in the Kwakiutl First Nations language
 
#16037/0508   48 minutes 2007  $199.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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ANCIENT SEA GARDENS: Mystery of the Pacific Northwest

When marine geologist Dr. John Harper stumbles upon a coastal phenomenon in the form of mysterious curving rock walls along the low tide line of hundreds of beaches in British Columbia, he launches on a quest that will take years to resolve and will bring him far outside of his scientific community. With the timely intervention of a local beachcomber, Dr. Harper taps into the deep oral traditions of the First Peoples of the area. It may prove to be the most important archaeological discovery of its kind on North America’s West Coast. The answer to this mystery has the power to forever change the way we view our land. *Closed Captioned
 
#16036/0508   48 minutes 2005  $199.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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KEYS TO GETTING HIRED VIDEO SERIES

"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! " 3.5 stars (out of four) VIDEO LIBRARIAN
Pro-active, informed, and prepared job seekers land better jobs in less time. With the help of this three-part series, viewers learn the best networking strategies; receive resume and cover letter ideas and tips; and discover the best ways to prepare for and ace the interview. Featuring career coaches and former job seekers,

KEYS TO GETTING HIRED SERIES also reveals the most effective ways to uncover job leads, connect with employers, and why employers make the hiring decisions they do. While the DVDs do not need to be shown sequentially, the best impact is for job seekers to view all three. Best uses include use in group workshops or Job Clubs; to supplement a job search or work prep curriculum; for individual study and research; or for use in traditional educational settings of all types.

JOB SEARCH STEPS THAT GET RESULTS
Viewers learn how to efficiently market themselves as excellent job candidates. In this program, viewers discover how to expand their network, find open positions, stay motivated, and overcome employment obstacles. 11 minutes
Topics Covered
*Expand your network
* Find open positions
* Stay motivated
* Get comfortable with and use social media to its best advantage
* Overcome employment obstacles
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*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request

RESUMES AND COVER LETTERS THAT WORK
The resume and cover letter have a job: to quickly convince employers to contact the candidate. In this program, viewers discover how to customize these documents to effectively introduce themselves to employers and get interviews. The video presents information on the different types of resumes and includes tips from professional career coaches for creating, formatting, and submitting resumes and cover letters. 9 minutes
Topics Covered
*Use the resume style that is appropriate for your situation
*Tailor your resume and cover letter to different job openings
* Format your resume to pass screening software
* Use keywords from job postings
* Show how your skills and experience match positions’ requirements
*Click here to VIEW CLIP
*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request

ACE THE INTERVIEW AND GET THE JOB
Research, practice, and preparation are essential for interview success. This program shows how to master these important steps and know what to expect in different types of interviews. Viewers learn how to make a great first impression and convince employers you are the right person to hire. 18 minutes
Topics Covered
* The best ways to research potential employers and open positions
* How to talk about yourself without sounding boastful
* How to connect your skills to employers’ needs
* Learn about the most common interview blunders
* Dressing appropriately for interviews
*Keys to following up with employers to secure job offers
*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request

*** The three programs are available separately or as a series delivered on one DVD and all are Closed Captioned
 
#16030/1015   38 minutes 2016  $329.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

JUMP!

JUMP! is a feature-length character-driven documentary about competitive jump rope that follows five teams of kids from around the country who push physical and psychological limits in pursuit of winning the World Championship. Part extreme sport, part art form, their moves are masterfully choreographed and bursting with rhythm, sweat and originality. These teens sacrifice everything to get where they are and each has his or her own reason to be so driven. After arduous drilling and mind-boggling performances, rivalry and collaboration have dramatic, unexpected results.

SELECT AWARDS & HONORS
* Audience Favorite Top 5 & 10: Los Angeles Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Starz Denver International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Sedona International Film Festival and more
* American Film Showcase film diplomacy program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, (US Embassies in TBD countries)

 
#16029/1947   85 minutes 2008  $319.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

HOW RESULTS CAN BE MISLEADING: Problems in Experimental Methodology
Featuring Professors Evelyn Behar and Mariann Weierich, this program explores different ways in which the results of experimental research can be misleading, focusing specifically on problems with sample selection and the assignment of participants to groups. It looks at simple, stratified, and proportional random sampling and emphasizes the need to look closely at the sample and population when evaluating data and drawing conclusions. *Closed Captioned 
#16024/1883   31 minutes 2012  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

HOW RESULTS CAN BE MISLEADING: Problems with Reliability and Validity
This DVD examines problems that will decrease a study’s applicability and accuracy of measurement. It presents examples of inter-rater reliability, test-retest reliability, and internal consistency. The DVD also discusses construct validity, external validity, and internal validity. *Closed Captioned 
#16023/1883   36 minutes 2012  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

FOOD SAFETY: It's In Your Hands!

Ever get sick from something you ate? An estimated one in six people contract a foodborne illness each year, so what can you do to stay safe? Discover the steps to keeping food safe from foodborne illness by joining a chef in the kitchen along with a microbiologist to learn what you need to know for clean and safe food storage and preparation.

FOOD SAFETY: It’s in Your Hands features short video segments that breakdown food safety essentials, including:

*Common foodborne illnesses (5:50)
* Proper hand washing technique (5:44)
* Preventing cross-contamination (1:36)
* The time and temperature danger zone (3:45)
* Keeping the kitchen clean (4:10)

Closed Captioned
 
#16021/1290   21 minutes 2015  $89.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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FROM NOTHING, SOMETHING: The Creative Process

FROM NOTHING, SOMETHING profiles creative thinkers across a variety of disciplines and finds common methods, habits and neuroses that lead to breakthrough ideas. This is a thoughtful, intimate, often funny look at the creative process - straight from the brains of some of our culture's most inspiring and accomplished talents.

Featuring interviews with:
. Tom Perrotta (Novelist)
. Maria Bamford (Comedian)
. Sara Quin of TEGAN & SARA (Songwriter)
. Susan Feniger & Mary Sue Milliken (Chefs)
. Moungi Bawendi & W. David Lee (Cancer Researchers)
. Steve Breen (Editorial Cartoonist)
. Huma Bhabha (Artist)
. Preston Scott Cohen (Architect)
. Jay Greenberg (Composer)
. Neville Page (Creature Designer)
. Ohne Titel (Fashion Design)
. Keith Young (Choreographer)
. Jason Rohrer (Video Game Designer)

"Waves away the magic dust around inspiration and presents the development of successful ideas as a combination of chance, timing and dedicated hard work. Inspiring." The Rocker

"FROM NOTHING, SOMETHING is an interesting movie because it has to visualize a very interior, cerebral thing: the creative process. The fact that it pulls this off is the greatest signifier of its success." Days of Docs

"Engaging. Insightful. One leaves the film not only with more ideas as to how the creative process works, but inspired and elated... One of the best films of the year." Kriofske Mix

"We discover surprising commonalities among these talents. Beautifully shot. Fascinating." Arts Fuse (Best of the Fest, IFFBoston Recap)

"Fascinating. A unique film. Executed with passion and precision." The Lonely Reviewer

"A film that challenges us to awaken our senses." Les Meconnus, Montreal


 
#16020/1047   79 minutes 2012  $349.95 *Streaming available 
    

STEPS IN PLANNING AND CONDUCTING RESEARCH
This DVD examines the steps for planning and carrying out a research study. It explains how to choose a topic; establish a hypothesis; select dependent and independent variables; choose a research design; select participants; and collect data, analyze results, and share findings. *Closed Captioned 
#16015/0880   38 minutes 2011  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

RESEARCH DESIGN: Obervational and Correlational Studies
This DVD looks at the characteristics of observational and correlational studies and explains when to use these forms of research design. It considers the kinds of conclusions that can be drawn from observational and correlational studies and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of using these methodologies

*Closed Captioned 
#16014/0880   35 minutes 2011  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS ONLINE (Biz Kids)
In today’s world, great tools are available for you to build a business on line. The Biz Kids investigate the advantages and potential pitfalls in Internet businesses. Hear about the success of a young graphic designer, a nine-year-old who sells bath salts, and two teens who built a social networking site - all who built their businesses online.
*Closed Captioned

*This program is part of the BIZ KIDS SERIES
Biz Kid$ is a national financial education initiative based on an Emmy Award-winning public television series about kids, money, and business. The series includes 65 episodes and reaches over million viewers per episode. Using a clever blend of entertainment and education, each Biz Kid$ episode shows kids how to make and manage money by introducing concepts of financial literacy and entrepreneurship. To keep young viewers engaged, the series includes a fast-paced mix of direct education delivered by young actors, sketch comedies, animation, and stories featuring real life young entrepreneurs. The show is complemented by a resource rich website, lesson plans, outreach activities, and a monthly electronic newsletter 
#15990/0697   28 minutes 2013  $119.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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WORLD IS A RISKY PLACE (THE) Biz Kids
Taking risks in life is important, but you want to be smart about those risks. Learn about liability, contracts, and insurance, and how having these in place can protect your business, your assets, and yourself. Meet two young tennis coaches who protect themselves with contracts, and the owner of Small Town Skateshop who keeps his business insured. *Closed Captioned

*This program is part of the BIZ KIDS SERIES
Biz Kid$ is a national financial education initiative based on an Emmy Award-winning public television series about kids, money, and business. The series includes 65 episodes and reaches over million viewers per episode. Using a clever blend of entertainment and education, each Biz Kid$ episode shows kids how to make and manage money by introducing concepts of financial literacy and entrepreneurship. To keep young viewers engaged, the series includes a fast-paced mix of direct education delivered by young actors, sketch comedies, animation, and stories featuring real life young entrepreneurs. The show is complemented by a resource rich website, lesson plans, outreach activities, and a monthly electronic newsletter. 
#15989/0697   28 minutes 2013  $119.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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IT'S A JOB TO GET A JOB!
It’s a job getting a job and Biz Kid$ is here to help. Learn tips and tricks for writing a great resume, dressing for success, and nailing the interview. Get the inside scoop on what employers look for from a young entrepreneur who manages over 200 employees. *Closed Captioned

*This program is from the BIZ KIDS SERIES
Biz Kid$ is a national financial education initiative based on an Emmy Award-winning public television series about kids, money, and business. The series includes 65 episodes and reaches over million viewers per episode. Using a clever blend of entertainment and education, each Biz Kid$ episode shows kids how to make and manage money by introducing concepts of financial literacy and entrepreneurship. To keep young viewers engaged, the series includes a fast-paced mix of direct education delivered by young actors, sketch comedies, animation, and stories featuring real life young entrepreneurs. The show is complemented by a resource rich website, lesson plans, outreach activities, and a monthly electronic newsletter. 
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THREE MINUTES TO CHANGE THE WORLD (Biz Kids)
This program follows four young entrepreneurs as they compete in an international contest to change the world. Sharing their lives, passions, joys and hardships, these semi-finalists from the United States, CANADA, India and Singapore must present their business ideas to some of the world’s most influential technology leaders - in just 180 seconds! *Closed Captioned

*Part of the BIZ KIDS SERIES
Biz Kid$ is a national financial education initiative based on an Emmy Award-winning public television series about kids, money, and business. The series includes 65 episodes and reaches over million viewers per episode. Using a clever blend of entertainment and education, each Biz Kid$ episode shows kids how to make and manage money by introducing concepts of financial literacy and entrepreneurship. To keep young viewers engaged, the series includes a fast-paced mix of direct education delivered by young actors, sketch comedies, animation, and stories featuring real life young entrepreneurs. The show is complemented by a resource rich website, lesson plans, outreach activities, and a monthly electronic newsletter. 
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SCAM-A-RAMA (Biz Kids)
It's a complicated world and there are many ways you can be taken advantage of or cheated. Learn how to recognize a scam, and how to protect yourself from identity theft, online fraud, pyramid schemes, and more. Meet two aspiring models, a ballet dancer, and young filmmaker, who were all victims of a scam.

From BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY, this program is from the BIZ KIDS SERIES that teach kids financial literacy. All programs in this series are complemented by a resource rich website, lesson plans, outreach activities, and a monthly electronic newsletter. All programs are also Closed Captioned.

 
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MARKETING MIX (Biz Kids)
Now that you’ve decided to start a business, how will you market it? Let the Biz Kids help you understand the four P’s of marketing: product, price, place and promotion. Learn how "Exclusive Cuts" barber services, "Wow, Take a Bow" dog grooming, and other businesses use unique methods to market their products and services.

From BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY, this program is from the BIZ KIDS SERIES that teach kids financial literacy. All programs in this series are complemented by a resource rich website, lesson plans, outreach activities, and a monthly electronic newsletter. All programs are also Closed Captioned.

 
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THESE DAYS: Youth Suicide (2 DVDs)
THESE DAYS explores the aftermath of a youth suicide (Malik) on his friends, family and school community. Targeted firmly at teenagers in language and tone with a very honest look at teenage life today. The narrative focuses on Malik's friend Chloe as she struggles with the grief and depression that follow this tragedy. Provides an opportunity for viewers to reflect on warning signs, positive and negative coping strategies, and ultimately the importance of resilience and a strong support network.

Included in this package is a GUIDE FOR TEACHERS that provides background information on suicide and advice about how to discuss suicide in a classroom setting. Helps viewers understand what leads to suicide/suicidal thoughts among teens, the warning signs you may see in the school setting and what to do if you suspect a student is suicidal. Also looks at how teachers can support themselves, the school community and students who are dealing with the aftermath of a student's suicide or attempted suicide"

THIS ENTIRE PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide
- These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide (Censored Version)
- These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide (with Extended Commentary)
- Understanding Youth Suicide: A Guide for Teachers
- Discussion guide with questions to consider and student activities to support mental health and wellbeing
- Consent form template in case you wish to obtain parental consent prior to viewing
- Instruction on how to use the videos 
#15976/0545   62 minutes 2013  $129.95  Grades 10 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

CHILDREN OF THE WORLD SERIES

From some of the most remote locations in the world, the compelling cinematography of wide-eyed children just being kids will quickly engage audience attention. These children, like children everywhere, live their everyday life with the sweet innocence of youth combined with hopeful dreams for the future. Unlike children of more developed countries, they live in a world of limited modern day conveniences. Yet they thrive in tight-knitted communities with resilience, resourcefulness and a strong sense of responsibility.

The CHILDREN OF THE WORLD series will help expand student's worldview and understanding of cultural differences while at the same time provide a character building lesson.

The series consists of ten 10 to 15-minute programs:
1. CHINA: Children of Chagan Lake
2. EAST TIMOR: Children of Ermera
3. MONGOLIA: Children of the Darkhad
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4. MYANAMAR: Children of Inle Lake
5. NEPAL: Children of the Himalayan Sherpa
6. PAKISTAN: Children of the Desert
7. PERU: Children of the Andes
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8. PHILIPPINES: Children of the Mangyan
9. TUVALU: Children of the Islands
10. VIETNAM: Children of the Floating Village

*Closed Captioned
 
#15970/0697  2008  $1,799.95  Grades 2 to 4 *CC *Streaming available 
    

NATIVE PLANET: The Fight for Mother Earth (6 Programs)

NATIVE PLANET is a six part documentary series that takes you around the world to experience the passion and connection native peoples have with mother earth - and their will to defend it. In each 45-minute program, guide and narrative host Simon Baker transports you to the front lines of the most compelling Aboriginal conflicts taking place around the planet today. Whether the fight is for land, water or indigenous rights, these programs take you deep into fascinating Aboriginal communities and cultures where charismatic leaders are waging a passionate defense of the planet. When climate change and environmental disasters dominate headlines and influence social change, NATIVE PLANET intimately reveals an indigenous perspective on issues that may soon determine the balance of humanity on earth.

CANADA - LIVING WITH THE TAR SANDS
From his home in the Squamish Nation, Canada host Simon Baker traces the path of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, from the Oil Sands in Alberta to the tanker terminal planned for Kitimat, BC., to understand why First Nations are opposed.
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HAWAII - THE STOLEN NATION
Host Simon Baker travels to Hawaii to examine the growing native sovereignty movement and how it helped halt construction of the largest public infrastructure project in Hawaii’s history.
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UNITED STATES - SURVIVING THE COLD WAR AND URANIUM MINING
Host Simon Baker examines the environmental and social impact that abandoned uranium mines and the cold war nuclear testing are having on the Navajo Nation.
*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request
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ECUADOR - SAVING PACHAMAMA (Mother Earth)
Host Simon Baker travels to Ecuador and deep into the Amazon jungle to meet one Aboriginal tribe waging an international fight to keep oil companies and their government off their territory.
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NEW ZEALAND - RESTORING THE "MAURI"
Host Simon Baker travels to New Zealand’s North Island to see how science and indigenous knowledge are combining to breathe life back into a sacred lake decimated by years of industrial pollution.
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AUSTRALIA - PROTECTING THE "SONG LINE"
Host Simon Baker travels to Northwest Australia - where culture is m ore important than profit - to visit one Aboriginal tribe defending their ‘song lines’ and way of life as their government and corporations attempt to develop the world’s largest natural gas fields around them.
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*All programs are Closed Captioned
*Detailed information on each program is available upon request
 
#15965/0390  2014  $869.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

Meat is now central to billions of people's daily meals. The environmental, climate, public health, ethical, and human impacts are enormous and remain largely undocumented. WHAT'S FOR DINNER? explores this terrain in fast-globalizing China through the eyes of a retired pig farmer in rural Jiangxi province; a vegan restaurateur in Beijing; a bullish young livestock entrepreneur; and residents of the province known as the 'world's factory' contending with water polluted by wastes from pig factory farms. They personalize the vast trends around them, in a country on the cusp of becoming a world power. Given that every fifth person in the world is Chinese, what the Chinese eat and how China produces its food, affects not only China, but the world, too.

*SUB-TITLED IN ENGLISH

WINNER OF MANY AWARDS
Official Selection, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Washington, DC
Official Selection, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY
Official Selection, Osian's-Cinefan Festival 2012, New Delhi, India
Official Selectin, Awareness Film Festival 2011, Los Angeles, California
Official Selection, Green Film Festival 2011, Seoul, South Korea
Official Selection, San Diego Asian Film Festival 2011, San Diego, California

ABOUT THE FILM'S SUBJECTS:

Dr. Tian Yongsheng is a government official and vegetarian who worries about the ecological impacts of feeding a growing livestock population.

Wang Ronghua is a young pig and poultry livestock entrepreneur is building a new pig facility in his hometown.

Wen Bo, one of China's leading environmentalists, works for National Geographic's Global Exploration Fund for China.

Wu Xiaohong is an animal welfare activist in Beijing.
Xiao Muxiu is a pig farmer whose small-scale business is threatened by the fluctuating price of pork.

Xie Hongying owns Donald Macky restaurant, a home-grown Chinese fast food outlet in Ji'an City.

Xie Zheng is a pop star, activist, and founder of the vegetarian advocacy group Don't Eat Friends.

Yu Li is the owner of Vegan Hut in Beijing.

Yi Shengming is a pig farmer in Yi village in Jianxi province.

Zhou Shuzhen is a retired pig farmer in Jiangxi province.

"What's For Dinner? documents in gripping detail China's headlong transition to industrial animal agriculture and the tragic impact it has on animals, public health, and the environment. The film triumphs in vividly highlighting the inexorable economic logic driving the consolidation of pigs into nascent CAFOs that are burgeoning across the countryside to meet China's growing demand for meat. Alongside an empathetic but critical portrayal of China's growing consumer preference for meat, "What's for Dinner?" also captures the rise of a vegan/vegetarian undercurrent that's emerging to counter the trend toward factory farming... The film would be an ideal supplement to any course exploring the environmental, economic, and ethical implications of animal agriculture." James McWilliams, PhD, Author

"What's for Dinner? brings into sharp contrast the China of today and the China of twenty years ago. It is an easily absorbable film that can be used as a learning tool for any student interested in the potential impacts of meat consumption on the earth writ large, including chronic diseases and the environment. It also highlights the influence of Western culture and economic affluence on eating patterns across the world, a phenomenon that will be of interest to anyone studying or teaching global public health. A highly recommended film." - Amy Joyce, Associate Director, Public Health Practice, NYU Global Institute of Public Health

"What's For Dinner is an urgent and compelling documentary about the globalization of industrial meat production. It documents the consequences of rising meat consumption in China, detailing its impact on health, labor, animal welfare, and the environment. I can attest to the pedagogical and political power of this film." - Maria Elena Garcia, Director, Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington

"What’s For Dinner? is a powerful teaching tool. The film is engaging for lay audiences and sophisticated enough for experts in related fields — I would highly recommend to both." - Mark Foran, MD, MPH, NYU School of Medicine

"We often read about the environmental and health impacts of food production in the US, but what about in rapidly growing China? What's For Dinner? introduces us to the challenges of large-scale animal agriculture in China. It surveys the "big picture" - food shortages, industrialization, and environmental impact - through a set of clear, engaging interviews and personal stories. This is an excellent film for environmental studies or other students interested in the origins and impacts posed by animal agriculture in a global context." - Christopher P. Schlottmann, Associate Director of Environmental Studies, New York University

"What's For Dinner?" delivers an insightful presentation of the many challenges posed by China's expanding animal agriculture." - Peter J. Li, Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, University of Houston-Downtown

"I used What's For Dinner? for the first time in my Animals in Commodities class in the Canisius College Anthrozoology Masters program last semester... The students found the film very useful in helping us to look at the connections between meat production and consumption, status, and globalization." - Margo DeMello, Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies and Anthropology, Canisius College and Central New Mexico Community College

"In China nothing is done on a small-scale, so the exploding growth in meat consumption has created staggering levels of water pollution from factory farms. What's For Dinner? doesn't preach, but rather lets the story unfold thorough conversations with farmers, meat processors talking about their booming business, shoppers at the market, and communities angered by their fouled rivers." - Jennifer Turner, Director, China Environment Forum, Woodrow Wilson Center

 
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FORGOTTEN SPACE (THE)
The "forgotten space" is the sea, the oceans through which 90% of the world's cargo now passes. At the heart of this space is the container box, which, since its invention in the 1950s, has become one of the most important mechanisms for the global spread of capitalism.

The film follows the container box along the international supply chain, from ships to barges, trains, and trucks, mapping the byzantine networks that connect producers to consumers (and more and more frequently, producing nations to consuming ones). Visiting the major ports of Rotterdam, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Guangdong province, and many places between, it connects the economic puzzle pieces that corporations and governments would prefer remain scattered.

We meet people who have been reduced to cogs in this increasingly automated machine - the invisible laborers who staff the cargo ships, steer the barges, drive the trucks, and migrate to the factories, and whose low wages form the base of the entire enterprise. The film also introduces us to those who this system's efficiency has marginalized: the longtime unemployed occupants of a California tent city, Dutch farmers whose land is bisected by a new high-speed train line, and the displaced residents of Doel, Belgium, whose city is slated for demolition in order to expand the port of Antwerp.

Employing a wide range of materials and styles, from interviews to classic film clips, essayistic voiceover to observational footage, THE FORGOTTEN SPACE provides a panoramic portrait of the new global economy and a compelling argument about why it must change.

*SUB-TITLED IN ENGLISH

"An engrossing and provocative essay film... Various experts offer informative analysis, but the testimony of seamen, factory workers and residents of a California homeless encampment is at the heart of the film's guiding ethical and aesthetic principles, which have to do with the defense of human dignity in the face of a system that so often appears hostile or indifferent to it." A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"THE FORGOTTEN SPACE begins as an investigative documentary and concludes as a mythopoeic essay on modernity and the sea." Artforum

"To say that the subject of THE FORGOTTEN SPACE is the global transformation of labor caused by container cargo shipping is like saying that WAGON MASTER is a Western. Noel Burch and Allan Sekula's essay film is a journey around the world, to the ports of Rotterdam, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Bilbao-each a trove of stories, encounters, and observations at times angry and at times wry. The whole thing is held together by Sekula's adventure-happy, politically astute, partisan commentary, which itself is a masterpiece of nonfiction." Olaf Möller, Film Comment

"Too political for mainstream taste, obligatory for everyone else."
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Comment

"About containerization and all of its social implications, and not about the container itself... the film's power lies in the way it depicts a range of spaces that are 'forgotten' amidst the mobilities of global capitalism ... invaluable"
Philip E. Steinberg, Society and Space

"Remarkable ... A smart assemblage ... a study in social institutions."
Brett Story, Antipode

WINNER OF MANY AWARDS
Premiere, 2010 Venice International Film Festival
2010 Doclisboa (Portugal)
2010 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
2011 Jeonju International Film Festival
2011 HotDocs
2011 Era New Horizons (Poland)
2011 Montreal International Film Festival 
#15946/0899   112 minutes 2010  $439.95 *CC 
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FUHRER CULT AND MEGALOMANIA

"Astonishing... disturbing (but alas, riveting)." Examiner.com

"Even the pyramids," Hitler told his protégé, architect Albert Speer, "will be dwarfed by the stone and concrete masses I plan to erect."

By early in the twentieth century Nuremberg was regarded as the most anti-Semitic city in Europe. By 1929 Hitler had decided to make Nuremberg the "City of the Party Rallies" and a symbol representing the greatness of the German Empire in medieval times.

Up to 1.5 million people converged on Nuremberg in the course of a party rally, which lasted eight days, forming an indispensable platform for the Nazis once a year - with a gigantic propaganda machine, brochures and books, recordings, radio and films - all brilliantly captured by Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will."

Even today it is possible to see signs in Nuremberg of the megalomaniac proportions that the system was to assume. In such arenas, the individual was worthless and nothing more than a minute ornament. According to experts, this state and party rally architecture was also a symbol of Hitler's determination to achieve world domination.

Rare footage of the construction work was used for this documentary. A previously unknown amateur film even shows the land in color in 1936. Witnesses report on the atmosphere during the party rallies, of fanatical anti-Semitism and the unprecedented "Führer" cult.

From the director of The Goebbels Experiment and Firestorm.

* English narration + German w/ English subtitles
* Closed Captioned
* School boards and Non-Profit 50% discount

Educational Interests - Architecture, History (World), Jewish Studies, Political Science, World War II
 
#15943/0645   52 minutes 2011  $349.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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IN REAL LIFE

"Smart and serious! Offers a survey of the virtual world's creeping infiltration into our lives." The Independent

"This is not just a well-made film, it is the starting point of a vital discussion."
The Camden New Review

"A riveting case for the prosecution of the web as a creature that bears careful watching." The Herald

InRealLife asks what exactly is the internet and what is it doing to our children? Taking us on a journey from the bedrooms of teenagers to Silicon Valley, filmmaker Beeban Kidron suggests that rather than the promise of free and open connectivity, young people are increasingly ensnared in a commercial world. Beguiling and glittering on the outside, it can be alienating and addictive. Quietly building its case, Kidron's film asks if we can afford to stand by while our children, trapped in their 24/7 connectivity, are being outsourced to the net?

While newspapers alternately praise and panic about the glittering world of the Internet, there is a generation of children who have grown up with a smart phone in their hand, connected to the world 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Public discourse seems to revolve around privacy, an issue that embodies the fears and concerns of adults. What is less discussed is what it really means to always be online, never alone and increasingly bombarded by a world that has something to sell you and appears to know you better than yourself. A world that is so ubiquitous that it is the first thing you see as you wake up in the morning and the last thing you see before you go to sleep at night.

For adults there was a 'before' the net. But for the current generation, at the time of their most rapid development they have no other experience and few tools with which to negotiate the overwhelming parade of opportunity and cost that the internet delivers directly into their hands.

From the bedrooms of five disparate teenagers and then into the companies that profit from the internet, InRealLife takes a closer look at some of the behavioral outcomes that come from living in a commercially driven, 'interruption' culture.

Following the physical journey of the internet, from fiber optic cables through sewers and under oceans, from London to NYC and finally to Silicon Valley, the film reveals that what is often thought of as an 'open, democratic and free' world is in fact dominated by a small group of powerful players. Meanwhile our kids - merely pawns in the game - are adapting to this new world - along with their expectation of friendship, their cognition and their sexuality.

*Closed Captioned

* Educational Applications - Adolescence, Business, Communication, Education, Family Relations, Media Studies, Science

Featuring:

Maggie Jackson: Award-winning author of 'Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age' and former Boston Globe columnist.
Danah Boyd: Senior Researcher at Microsoft and one of the world's experts on youth culture surrounding technology and social media.
Nicholas Carr: Pulitzer-prize nominated author of 'The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.'
Sherry Turkle: Professor of Social science at MIT. Her research focuses on psychoanalysis and the human-technology relationship. In her most recent book, 'Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other' and her 2012 TED talk 'Connected, But Alone?' Turkle explores the authenticity of intimacy and connection through the internet.
Luis Von Ahn: Professor of Computer Sciences at Carnegie Mellon and pioneer of crowdsourcing, inventing CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA (later sold to Google) which earned him international recognition and numerous honors.
Clay Shirky: NYU professor, internet icon and writer on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
Jimmy Wales: Internet entrepreneur, free speech activist and co-founder of Wikipedia and Wikia.
Nick Negroponte: Founder of the Media Lab and the 'One Laptop per Child' non-profit association.
Julian Assange: Founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.

And more!

*** A SPECIAL SCHOOL AND NON-PROFIT PRICE IS AVAILABLE
 
#15932/0645   90 minutes 2013  $339.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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CONSUMERISM AND THE LIMITS TO IMAGINATION

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics, and our culture, even though a growing body of research suggests it may be well past its sell-by date. In this illustrated presentation based on his latest critically acclaimed book, media scholar Justin Lewis makes a compelling case that consumer capitalism can no longer deliver on its promise of enhancing quality of life, and argues that changing direction will require changing our media system and our cultural environment. After showing how consumer capitalism has become economically and environmentally unsustainable, Lewis explores how our cultural and information industries make it difficult to envision other forms of human progress by limiting critical thinking and keeping us locked in a cycle of consumption. And he argues that change will only be possible if we take culture seriously and transform the very way we organize our media and communications systems.

*English sub-titles

"Justin Lewis is one of the world's most acute observers of contemporary cultural politics. Consumerism & the Limits to Imagination alerts us, in an incisive but always humane way, to the excesses of consumption. This is a video with abiding lessons for us all." Toby Miller - Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Cardiff

*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request
 
#15923/0685   41 minutes 2014  $159.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ENGAGING STUDENTS WITH POVERTY IN MIND (2 Programs)
Here's the easiest, most powerful way to demonstrate exactly how to implement the breakthrough ideas and strategies from the best-selling ASCD book Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind by renowned author and learning expert Eric Jensen.

Take audiences to elementary and secondary classrooms to provide a close look at schools that use smart, purposeful engagement strategies to combat the effect poverty has on students and achievement. See teachers in their classrooms embrace the seven engagement factors from Jensen's book and make engagement a routine part of their classroom culture. Hear from administrators and teaching coaches who explain how they make engagement a focus through professional development and school policy. And learn from the students as well who talk about their struggles and successes as they benefit from a fully engaged learning environment.

Throughout the two 45-minute videos - ELEMENTARY and SECONDARY - interviews with Eric Jensen relate his own experiences with living in poverty and his current work with schools that are making positive difference for these learners.

*Closed Captioned
*Also available separately 
#15920/0187  2014  $339.95 *CC 
    

KNIFE SKILLS

Learn basic knife cuts while staying safe in the kitchen! Chef Marshall O'Brien demonstrates essential knife skills in short segments, including:
*Knife safety
*Types of knives
*Using a food processor and blender*
Cutting produce: slice, dice, and chop
*Cutting techniques for meat
 
#15916/1290   20 minutes 2014  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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WHO WOULD YOU HIRE and WHO WOULD YOU FIRE? (2 Programs)

This new two-volume, interactive DVD series lets your students decide who should be hired and who should be fired.

Volume 1: WHO WOULD YOU HIRE?
Lisa is the Human Resources Director at a popular resort and is searching for a new Events Sales Specialist who will be responsible for marketing the resort’s services and facilities. Lisa has chosen six young people to interview and the students watching the interviews get to decide who is the best candidate for the job. #14931
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Volume 2: WHO WOULD YOU FIRE?
Jason is the owner of Airplay Sports & Espresso, a coffee shop. He has two locations, but is planning on closing both to open in East Heights, the new place to be in the city. Unfortunately, one shop doesn’t need two staffs. Some employees have left voluntarily, but Jason still needs to let one person go. He is going to interview six employees and your students get to decide who should be fired! #15912
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*Includes Teacher's Guides for both programs
*The menu allows easy access to each interview
* Also available separately
*Close Captioned for the hearing impaired
 
#15915/0483  2014  $199.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

KNIFE SKILLS FOR FOODSERVICE AND CULINARY

Learn the essential knife skills for working in a foodservice environment with Chef Marshall O’Brien. Chef Marshall demonstrates essential knife skills in short segments perfect for training foodservice workers, including:
* Knife safety
* Types of knives
* Preparing foods for use in an industrial food processor
* Using an industrial food processor
* Cutting fruits and vegetables: slice, dice, and chop

Closed Captioned
 
#15914/1290   20 minutes 2014  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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UNVEILED: Muslim Women Talk about Hijab

(UN)VEILED introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Their discussion about hijab, the headscarf, revolves around a lecture on the same topic that was banned last minute but delivered anyway.

In a time when Islam and especially Muslim women are represented as monolithic and beset by backwardness, the women in (un)veiled show the diverse, lively, argumentative debates in Muslim societies about the meanings of modernity, emancipation, and feminism. Dubai, where the filmmaker lived for eight months, becomes a character in itself, showing the complex face of a contemporary Arab city.

* Includes Study Guide

Film Festivals, Screenings, Awards
Second Jury Prize, Black Maria Film Festival, 2008
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 2008
MESA Film Festival, 2008
Women's International Film Festival, Miami, FL, 2009
Days of Ethnographic Film, Slovenia, 2009
University of British Columbia Ethnographic Film Festival, Canada, 2009
American Psychological Association Convention, Toronto, 2009
American Sociological Association Film & Video Festival, San Francisco, CA 2009
Open Frame 2009, New Delhi, India
Newburyport Documentary Film Festival, MA, 2009
Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival, CO, 2009
International Festival of Ethnological Film, Belgrade, Serbia, 2009
3rd Women's Film Festival, Chennai, India, 2010
Luminato - Toronto Festival of Arts & Creativity, Canada, 2010
 
#15911/0615   36 minutes 2008  $279.95 *Streaming available 
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VOCAB IN ACTION: Critical Strategies for your Classroom
This video takes you and your colleagues to schools that use smart, fun, and engaging strategies to build students' vocabulary and boost their knowledge of the key words they need to know for the Common Core State Standards. Drawing from the ASCD best-selling book TEACHING THE CRITICAL VOCABULARY OF THE COMMON CORE: 55 Words That Make or Break Student Achievement, video scenes show teachers using fun strategies like jingles, movements, and graphic organizers to teach key words.

Hear author Marilee Sprenger explain how to put brain-research based, time saving strategies for mastering vocabulary into action. And introduce teachers to easy-to-implement, 10-minute or shorter mini-lessons that help students build a robust vocabulary and develop greater confidence in reading, writing, and testing. 
#15887/0187   45 minutes 2014  $249.95 
    

CROWDFUNDING AND GRANTS (2 Programs)
Lots of people have great ideas and enthusiasm for projects that will make the world a better place, help their community, or advance their own goals, but few know how to take their great idea and turn it into a reality.

This two-part series explores two popular fundraising methods - grant writing and crowdfunding - and breaks down the two most essential parts of the process: crafting a persuasive argument for why your project is worth funding, and putting together a solid budget for how much the project will cost.

Using examples of a garage band looking to record their first album (crowdfunding) and a nurse looking to start a local elder care awareness initiative (grants) this program is a timely, essential series for budding entrepreneurs, artists, and advocates.

There are two programs in the series also available individually:
DEVELOPING A PERSUASIVE PROPOSAL 20 minutes
REACHING YOUR FINANCIAL GOAL 18 minutes 
#15875/0635  2014  $239.95 *CC 
    

SHAKESPEARE SUPER PACK (12 programs) TEACHING SYSTEMS
Guaranteed to capture your students' attention and make the subject come alive! Includes twelve topic based videos, classroom notes, graphic handouts, quiz, and answer questions plus a fact filled video segment accompanied by quiz and discussion questions - everything you need to succeed where it matter most: the classroom. Often the biggest obstacle to appreciating the Great Bard is his use of complex language. This series unlocks these great works so your students can understand and appreciate this master for a lifetime.

There are twelve 26-minute programs in this superpack also available individually:

INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE
Topics include the life and times of Shakespeare, Shakespeare's use of language, Elizabethan drama, the importance of words, real life vs. stage life.

APPROACHES TO KING LEAR
Topics include Dual plots approach, the Lear plot, the Gloucester plot, figurative art approach, use of metaphor and images.

THE CHARACTERS OF MACBETH
Topics include Macbeth background, the plot, use of language, Macbeth as a tragedy.

HAMLET BASICS
Topics include Defining tragedy, Oedipus Rex, medieval tragedy, Shakespeare & tragedy.

HAMLET THEMES
Topics include the element of mystery, the philosophy of Hamlet, the element of revenge.

KING LEAR BASICS
Topics include the plot of King Lear, King Lear as a tragedy, King Lear, Cordelia, Edmund, Edgar, Goneril & Regan.

MACBETH BASICS
Topics include Macbeth background, the plot, use of language, Macbeth as a tragedy.

OTHELLO AS A TRAGEDY
Topics include The tragic fall of Othello, Othello as a tragedy, jealousy, the handkerchief, Othello as a tragic figure.

OTHELLO BASICS
Topics include the background of Othello, the plot, Othello, Desdemona, Iago.

ROMEO AND JULIET
Topics include the plot, the poetry, the characters, the role of coincidence, Romeo and Juliet as tragic figures.

TITUS ANDRONICUS
Topics include sources & influences, plot, summary, defects & achievements, Titus Andronicus as a tragedy.

WHAT IS TRAGEDY?
Topics include Defining tragedy, Oedipus Rex, medieval tragedy, Shakespeare and tragedy. 
#15873/0433  2008  $699.95  Grades 7 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

COACHING REFRESHER (THE)
This COACHING SERIES® REFRESHER is designed in a testing format to refresh drivers' safe driving techniques and to assess their attitudes toward specific driver behaviors. The program was produced in response to requests by safety professionals currently using THE COACHING SERIES of driver training who were looking for a shorter, refresher or remedial training program that would review key driving concepts and assess driving attitudes (including distracted driving, roundabouts, move over law and more).

THE COACHING SERIES® REFRESHER fits these requests by targeting specific driving behaviors and attitudes that drivers may be familiar with, but may not be practiced with regularity in their everyday driving. The program can serve equally well as a stand-alone course or as an easily integrated supplement to existing driver safety courses and is ideal for all drivers.

*Includes reproducible answer sheets.
 
#15872/0670   31 minutes 2014  $249.95 *Streaming available 
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING IN THE DIGITAL ERA
In the new world of tweets, blogs, and citizen journalism, what is the outlook for true investigative reporting? This program highlights the ways investigative journalism is changing, particularly in the context of digital and online media. Social media and globalization have changed the ways reporters connect with their readers. What are the advantages and disadvantages of nearly instantaneous access to news as it unfolds?

A panel of heavy hitters from the world of journalism weighs in on these and other issues, such as emerging financial models for (costly) investigative reporting as traditional news budgets shrink. Young reporters entering the field will be particularly encouraged by many of the exciting technologies and resources available for developing stories that are more in-depth, media-rich, and engaging. Investigative journalism is a fast-evolving field, and this program helps entry-level reporters as well as veterans to bear witness more effectively in the Internet era. 
#15871/0635   17 minutes 2014  $149.95 *CC 
    

SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED - Classroom Edition
In this special classroom edition, six episodes combine history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis and the personal passion of its celebrated hosts - Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Trevor Nunn, Joely Richardson and David Tennant - to tell the story behind the stories of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Each episode combines interviews with actors, directors and scholars, along with visits to key locations, clips from some of the most celebrated film and television adaptations, and illustrative excerpts from the plays specially staged for the series at Shakespeare's Globe in London. 
#15870/1725  2013  $129.95 *CC 
    

CORE SIX: Strategies for the Classroom
Based on the best-selling book The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence by Harvey Silver, R. Thomas Dewing, and Matthew J. Perini, this video helps teachers meet the challenge of the Common Core Standards with the six research-based strategies proven to transform instruction.

See the strategies come to life within six classrooms across different subjects and grade levels. You’ll witness teachers capturing students’ interests, using discussion and questioning techniques to extend their thinking, and asking them to synthesize and transfer their learning.

The Core Six: Strategies for the Classroom DVD provides practical, common sense methods for tackling the Common Core standards and bringing out the very best in your students.
 
#15869/0187   45 minutes 2014  $249.95 
    

WORLDS OF ENGLISH (3 Programs)
English has emerged as the language of global choice for business and the media, prompting millions to educate themselves and their children in its use. For new generations internationally, it may be the main, or even only, language they speak. How did English become so popular, and what are the cultural ramifications of its spread? This three-part series looks at the history, use, and diversity of English around the world, exploring both its necessity for modern communication and its threat to local languages and identities. Produced by the Open University.

Three programs:
THE RISE OF ENGLISH
THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH
A GLOBAL LANGUAGE

*Full descriptions of each program are available upon request 
#15863/0635  2011  $379.95 *CC 
    

MONEY SMART: Making Cents of Your Finances

Make "cents" of your finances! How do you money and what do you need to know to get a financial advantage? Make dollars and cents of your money now so you build financial security for your future starting today. MONEY SMART features financial and business professionals sharing their knowledge and insight into all aspects of money to impart to viewers what they need to know about their finances through five segments, including:

EARNING - Understanding your paycheck (3:14)
SAVING AND INVESTING - Planning for rainy days and your future (5:02)
SPENDING - Managing your expenses online (5:14)
OWING - Borrowing and paying your debts (6:19)
TRACKING AND GIVING - Living within your means and sharing with others (5:31)

*Closed Captioned
 
#15834/1290   25 minutes 2014  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT: Your Final Defense

Everyone expects their workplace to be safe and risk free. But there are hazards that sometimes can’t be controlled. That’s when you need to use Personal Protective Equipment or PPE. The personal part is important because PPE is specifically selected by employers to be worn by workers to protect them from the hazards of the job. Whether it is eyes, head, feet or hands, this program will educate your employees on the importance of PPE and how to select, use and maintain this important equipment.

TRAINING CONTENT
Employer and Employee Responsibilities
Eye Protection
Head Protection
Foot Protection
Hand and Skin Protection

*This DVD can also be purchased with the following materials:.
Blueprints for Safety® Administrative Guide
5 Employee Handbooks
PowerPoint Presentation

*Also available in Spanish as well as an English/Spanish Combination

*Closed Captioned
 
#15828/0490   12 minutes 2013  $489.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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NAVIGATING THE WORLD OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Tweets, texts, updates, uploads, pins, posts... welcome to the 24/7 digital world. People are logging on and checking in from anywhere and everywhere in the world - to hang out, interact, reconnect, and make new friends. Whether you're new to social media or a seasoned social networker, we've got the lowdown on everything from the top dos and don'ts to successfully managing your online relationships and protecting your own personal brand. Maintaining social networks online can be a fun and positive experience, and bring us - and our worlds - closer together.

* Includes Instructor's Guide
* Full length preview available upon request 
#15822/1280   31 minutes 2015  $139.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
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POSITIVE WORDS PRODUCE POWERFUL RESULTS
Words are powerful weapons and can do great damage to others if used in an inappropriate manner. A single bad word can change a life dramatically.

This program reviews how words and gestures can change emotions in a positive or negative way. Also explains why the most important thing for people to remember is that they can’t take back something once it has been said.

Yelling is an indication of a lack of control. It’s no way to instruct or coach. If individuals want to change someone’s behavior, they should explain what it is they want, and why they want it. Foul language negatively influences professionals and may have a disappointing impact on their level of success in life. Kind words cost little, but accomplish much.

The DVD details why individuals should praise loudly, criticize privately, and think things through before they respond.

Among the topics covered:
*Common goals
*Embracing our differences
*The power of words
*Swearing, judgment, and bias
*Not finding fault in others
*Listening and expressiveness
*Positive words create positive lives 
#15813/0463   37 minutes 2008  $129.95 
    

VIRUS OF VIOLENCE

Are violent video games in any way responsible for recent mass killings perpetrated by young men? In this video a retired U.S. army colonel presents evidence to substantiate that connection. His premise is based on the fact that modern soldiers who are being prepared for battle, undergo a planned deconditioning process; a process that allows them to dehumanize their "enemies" in the field, a process that he claims in very similar in effect to that experienced by children, youths and even adults subjected to hour upon hour of violent video games. Very troubling and quite convincing.
 
#15811/0203   28 minutes 2005  $149.95 *Streaming available 
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ACCOUNTING FUNDAMENTALS (4 Programs)
Accounting is the backbone of business and how a company’s financial success or failure is measured. This series - a blend of essential facts, real-world examples, and insightful commentary by accountancy professionals and business owners and managers - provides an indispensable overview of the fundamentals of accounting. Ideal for business students and budding entrepreneurs alike.

Four 30-minute programs:
ACCOUNTING BASICS AND DEFINITIONS: Accounting Fundamentals
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MATCHING CONCEPT AND ACCOUNTING CYCLE: Accounting Fundamentals
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MANAGING INVENTORY: Accounting Fundamentals
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MANAGING ASSETS AND PAYROLL: Accounting Fundamentals
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*Detailed descriptions of each program are available
*Sub-titled
 
#15810/0405  2014  $429.95 *CC 
    

KEEPING HOCKEY IN CHECK
For many families, especially in Canada, minor league hockey has turned from a wholesome pastime to a competitive, cutthroat sport. This program profiles families who have struggled to keep their love for hockey in check. 
#15803/0203   28 minutes 2005  $149.95 *Streaming available 
    

CELL BIOLOGY: Structure, Function and Processes (4 Programs)
They are the basic building blocks of life, but in reality there’s nothing "basic" about cells - the complex, versatile units of matter that make up all life on Earth. In this four-part video series, rich animation brings the intricate inner workings of cells to life, while a congenial host guides viewers through the essentials of cell biology: cell structure and function (of both animal and plant cells), cell metabolism and respiration, cell division and growth, and a focus on stem cells, cellular differentiation, genetics, and the potential that stem cells have for medical use. No-nonsense and to the point, each video is an arrangement of short, discrete segments that make this series ideal for breaking up lectures.

CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION (22 minutes)
This program explores the basic structure of both animal and plant cells and the specific functions that different cell components serve. After an overview of a complete cell, individual segments dive in to detail each of the specific parts. Discrete, pedagogical segments cover: the plasma membrane, extracellular matrix, flagellum and cilia, the nucleus, nucleolus, nuclear envelope, cytosol and cytoplasm, the rough and smooth endoplasmic reticula, the golgi apparatus, ribosomes, lysosomes, vacuoles, peroxisome, and mitochondria. Where plant and animal cells different is made clear, and separate segments on structures unique to plants include the cell wall, plasmodesmata, and chloroplasts.
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CELL METABOLISM AND RESPIRATION (22 minutes)
All living organisms need energy to perform day-to-day tasks. Using straightforward, vibrant animation to anchor otherwise complex ideas, this program shows how that energy is created through the metabolic processes of catabolism, aerobic cellular respiration, and anabolism. Respiration is covered in depth, with detailed explanations of glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain. Also covered is fermentation and anaerobic cellular respiration, and how cells help build large, complex molecules through the process of anabolism.
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CELL DIVISION AND GROWTH (22 minutes)
The cell cycle is a series of developmental and growth events that chart the normal life of a cell. This program uses easy-to-follow animation to illustrate the growth phases of the cell cycle and the processes of mitosis and cytokinesis that follow. The distinct phases of mitosis - including prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase - are described in detail. The program also explains meiosis, a variation of mitosis involving the formation of gametes in two stages. Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is also covered, including the effects of uncontrolled cell division (cancer).
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STEM CELLS AND CELLULAR DIFFERENTIATION (21 minutes)
That a tiny collection of cells can divide, multiply, and transform into the proper combination of lung cells, brain cells, bone, muscle, and more - eventually becoming a fully formed human being - is often referred to as the miracle of life. But at the cellular level, this is the story of stem cells, cellular differentiation, and gene expression. This program explores these topics, detailing the different types of stem cells (embryonic and adult), and when they leave the cell cycle to enter differentiation. Cell mutation, gene expression, and the process of epigenetics are also covered. Stem cell potency is also reviewed, as is the role and promise of stem cells in medical research, including the pros and cons of using embryonic versus adult-derived stem cells.
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#15800/0405  2014  $549.95 
    

GENERATION LIKE: Are Kids Using Social Media or is Social Media Using Kids?

"What’s designed to look like a grassroots wave of excitement [online] is actually a meticulously planned marketing strategy." Douglas Rushkoff

This program examines the evolving, complicated relationship between teens and the companies that target them. Thanks to social media, today’s teens are able to directly interact with their culture - artists, celebrities, movies, brands, and even one another - in ways never before possible. But is that real empowerment? Or do marketers still hold the upper hand?

This documentary explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media - and exposes the game of cat-and-mouse that corporations are playing with these young consumers. Do kids think they’re being used? Do they care? Or does the perceived chance to be the next big star make it all worth it? The film is a powerful examination of the evolving and complicated relationship between teens and the companies that are increasingly working to target them.
 
#15797/1725   60 minutes 2014  $149.95 *CC 
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MAGIC CAMP: Kids Finding the Magic inside Themselves

WINNER!
*Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking at 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival
*Best Feature Documentary at 2013 Garden State Film Festival
*Coalition for Quality Children’s Media

"Charming and riveting. . . about magic certainly, but also on a deeper level about being a teenager. . . Magic isn’t gone. It’s alive and well!" Forbes

"Thank goodness for Magic Camp, Judd Ehrlich's gentle study of a summer camp for proudly nerdy budding magicians. It's heartwarming... All of the campers Ehrlich profiles face obstacles in their normal lives... For some of them, it's their only crack at a safe space where uniqueness is not just encouraged, but actually celebrated."?
Cherly Eddie, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

At the real-life Hogwarts (a la HARRY POTTER) kids from the world over gather to prove themselves on the stage where superstar magicians got their start. To escape the pressures of growing up, magic-obsessed kids congregate at the one place they can be themselves: Tannen's Magic Camp, the oldest and most prestigious training ground for young magicians. They want to prove their worth on the same stage where superstars like David Blaine and David Copperfield once performed. But to get there, they need to learn more than sleight of hand and tricks of the trade. They have to find the magic inside.
 
#15794/0605   85 minutes 2013  $239.95 
    

LEGACY PROJECT (THE) VOLUME II: Dramatists Talk about Their Work (10 Programs)
This series documents and preserves the creative process of America's most esteemed writers for the theater in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author (or team of collaborators) being interviewed by an emerging writer. The featured writers include:

THOMAS MEEHAN is best known for his work as the librettist on the Tony Award-winning shows Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray. Interviewed by Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu). 37 minutes.

TOM JONES and HARVEY SCHMIDTare best known for their musical The Fantasticks. Its original Off-Broadway production ran for a record-setting 42 years and introduced the hit song "Try To Remember". Other works include 110 in the Shade, I Do! I Do!, and Celebration. Interviewed by Carol Hall (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas). 49 minutes.

LYNN AHRENS and STEPHEN FLAHERTY wrote the music and lyrics for the Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime. Their other works include Once On This Island, Seussical, and A Man of No Importance. Interviewed by Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party). 51 minutes.

MARY RODGERS is the composer of the Tony-nominated musical Once Upon a Mattress, one of the most produced musicals in the world. Daughter of legendary composer Richard Rodgers, her other theatrical works include Hot Spot and Working. She also penned the children’s book and subsequent screenplay Freaky Friday. Interviewed by Marsha Norman (‘night Mother). 36 minutes.

JULES FEIFFER is the author of the Obie-winning play Little Murders; the Tony-nominated Knock, Knock; Elliot Loves; and A Bad Friend. Interviewed by Paul Rudnick (Jeffrey). 44 minutes.

TERRENCE MCNALLY was cited as "one of our most original and audacious dramatists" by The New Yorker. His work spans plays, films, television, operas, and musicals. His librettos include Ragtime and Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Notable plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; The Lisbon Traviata; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Master Class; Corpus Christi; and Deuce. Interviewed by Annie Baker (Circle Mirror Transformation). 46 minutes

TINA HOWE is the mastermind behind the celebrated works The Nest, Birth and After Birth, Museum, The Art of Dining, Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, Approaching Zanzibar, One Shoe Off, and Pride’s Crossing. Interviewed by Sarah Ruhl (In the Next Room - or The Vibrator Play). 39 minutes.

CHARLES FULLER is the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his drama A Soldiers Play. He also founded the Afro-American Arts Theatre in Philadelphia. Other plays include the Obie-winning Zooman and the Sign, The Perfect Party , and The Brownsville Raid. Interviewed by Lynn Nottage (Ruined). 45 minutes.

FRANK GILROY is the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright of The Subject Was Roses. Other notable plays include Who'll Save the Plowboy? and Contact With the Enemy. Interviewed by Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife). 53 minutes.

JOHN GUARE authored the critically-acclaimed play The House of Blue Leaves winning an Obie and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award when it was first produced on Broadway. Its 1986 revival, won four Tony awards. Guare’s landmark work, Six Degrees of Separation, received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Olivier Best Play Award. Interviewed by Theresa Rebeck (Seminar). 42 minutes. 
#15790/0605   440 minutes 2013  $989.95 *Streaming available 
    

BEST KEPT SECRET: Aging Out with Autism

*WINNER! Sundance Documentary Fund Grant, 2012
Audience Award, Independent Film Festival of Boston, 2013
Best of Fest, AFI DOCS, Washington, DC, 2013

"A terrific documentary. BEST KEPT SECRET inspires me to continue to fight for those with autism." Senator Robert Menendez, New Jersey

JFK High School, located in a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate, they will leave the security of the public school system forever.

BEST KEPT SECRET follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world - a job or rare placement in a recreational center - so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets.
 
#15784/0605   85 minutes 2013  $359.95 
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CAREERS WITHOUT COLLEGE
Have you decided that college is not the path for you? Are you wondering what kind of career you'd like to pursue and what opportunities are available? Whether you're starting a career or changing careers this video has the information you need to put you on the right track.

CAREERS WITHOUT COLLEGE is an inside look at today's top jobs that don't require a college degree. Career fields discussed are in fast-growing industries like computers, medicine, trades, and the law. You will hear individuals discuss their jobs, skills, and training in featured careers that include Web Developer, Pharmacy Technician, Plumber, and Court Reporter. You will also be informed of additional careers in these fields that don't require a college degree.

*Includes Instructor's Guide

*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request 
#15779/1280   24 minutes 2014  $129.95 *Streaming available 
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TOUGH GUISE 2: Violence, Manhood and American Culture (Abridged Version)

"The arrival of Tough Guise 2 is nothing short of an event. It promises to speak to a new generation of young people with even greater urgency than the remarkably influential original" Diane Rosenfeld - Lecturer, Harvard Law School

In this highly anticipated sequel to the influential and widely acclaimed TOUGH GUISE, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men's violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood. In a sweeping analysis that cuts across racial, ethnic, and class lines, Katz examines mass shootings, day-to-day gun violence, violence against women, bullying, gay-bashing, and American militarism against the backdrop of a culture that has normalized violent and regressive forms of masculinity in the face of challenges to traditional male power and authority. Along the way, the film provides a stunning look at the violent, sexist, and homophobic messages boys and young men routinely receive from virtually every corner of the culture, from television, movies, video games, and advertising to pornography, the sports culture, and US political culture. TOUGH GUISE 2 stands to empower a new generation of young men - and women - to challenge the myth that being a real man means putting up a false front and engaging in violent and self-destructive behavior.

* Sub-titled
* This DVD includes two ABRIDGED versions - a 52-minute version edited for length, and a 46-minute "clean" version edited for violence, sexual content, and strong language. While both versions are ideally suited for viewing in a single classroom period, the clean version may be more appropriate for junior high and high school-aged audiences. For FULL version see item #15660

JACKSON KATZ
Jackson Katz is one of America's leading anti-sexist male activists. An educator, author and filmmaker, he is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in gender violence prevention education with men and boys. He has lectured on hundreds of college and high school campuses and has conducted hundreds of professional trainings, seminars & workshops. He is the co-founder of the Mentors In Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading gender violence prevention initiative in professional and college athletics.
 
#15778/0685   50 minutes 2013  $349.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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UNBREAKABLE: One Girl Changing the World - The Story of Malala

"They cannot stop me. I will get my education", declares Malala Yousafzai in this riveting ABC News interview, filmed in the wake of the young activist’s 2013 trip to the United States. Her resoluteness and courage are unmistakable, but as she speaks with reporter Diane Sawyer about her mission and her near-fatal confrontation with the Taliban, Malala’s quite understandable fear and vulnerability also emerge. The conversation - mixed with footage from events in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, Malala’s speech before the United Nations, and interviews with her father and the doctors who saved her life - covers a wide range of topics. From her family and cultural background to her vision of a world in which education is available to all, Malala’s presence on camera is truly compelling and leaves no doubt as to her significance in the global struggle for women’s rights.
 
#15776/0635   39 minutes 2013  $169.95 *CC 
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RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION FRAMING (4 Programs)
Residential framing combines the construction of floors, walls, ceilings, and a roof to create the skeleton of a home. Shot on location at an active building site, this four-part series gives detailed, step-by-step instructions for framing a house, built one story at a time. Along the way students learn OSHA-approved jobsite safety guidelines and special "Tool Tips", along with "Green Tips" for extra efficiency, savings, and sustainability.

FLOORS, 11 minutes
Subflooring forms a large platform that covers the entire width and length of a house, providing the necessary base on which to secure the walls. This program explains how to frame the floor of a new home using the platform framing method. Along with safety, tool, and green-building tips, students learn the basics of placing and anchoring sills, butting and splicing, installing beams and joists, spacing, bridging, and laying both tongue-and-groove and square-edge subflooring.

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WALLS, 13 minutes
Wall framing creates spaces for plumbing, electrical, and heating and cooling systems- and with the proper techniques, it can help cut energy consumption by allowing room for extra insulation. This program explains wall framing, with detailed information on chalking; cutting the stock plate; laying out the walls; cutting the lumber to size; preassembling the wall components; assembling, raising, bracing, and plumbing the walls; and nailing the cap plates. Tips on safety, tool use, and green building are provided throughout.

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CEILING, 8 minutes
After checking the building code for specifications, it’s time to add a ceiling to newly framed walls. This program takes students through the process of creating a ceiling frame to tie the walls together and provide the underlying structure for the installation of ducts, pipes, and insulation. Along with safety, tool, and green-building tips, it explains the essentials of laying out the ceiling frame and installing joists, with details on spacing, butting, splicing, the benefits of using engineered I joists, and more.

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ROOF, 10 minutes
Roofs can be constructed in two different ways: the conventional joist and rafter method, or the more common trussed roof method that uses prefabricated units. This program covers both techniques for building a roof frame, while providing safety, tool, and green-building tips as well. Topics covered include common rafter layout (ridge, birdsmouth, and tail cuts), roof overhangs, installing the rafters, and installing the roof sheathing with notes about when to consider possible regional specifications.

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#15765/0635  2013  $479.95 *CC 
    

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: Opening Doors to Student Understanding

Based on the best-selling book by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS provides practical advice for teachers on not only how to style questions that stimulate thought, provoke inquiry, and spark more questions, but how to transform instructional inquiry as a whole. This video will bring the process to life with scenes from both a very special seminar taught by Wiggins and classrooms where teachers are successfully using essential questions in their instruction. The video also includes expert commentary from McTighe and Wiggins. They bring their years of experience in schools across the country to finding out, just what makes an "Essential Question" essential!
 
#15759/0187   45 minutes 2014  $239.95 
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PHOTO (12 Programs)

Compared to painting, the creation of a photograph seems simple, requiring little more than a lens and a shutter, a subject and a source of light. But what had to be adjusted, waited for, or provoked for all the elements to come together in the frame and produce an image that once seen is never forgotten? Almost since its invention, the camera has been used not just to capture reality but to interpret it.

This series from Arte France traces the adventure of this art form from its beginnings up through the 21st century, revealing the hidden stories and trade secrets concealed in a series of photographs.

This series consists of twelve 26-minute programs:
SURREALIST PHOTOGRAPHY
THE PRIMITIVES OF PHOTOGRAPHY 1850-1860
STAGES PHOTOGRAPHY
THE NEW GERMAN OBJECTIVITY
PICTORIALISM
NEWVISION: Experimental Photography of the 1920s
PRESS USAGE
FOUND IMAGES
PHOTOGRAPHING INTIMACY
THE INVENTORS
AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY?
CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY
 
#15758/0405  2013  $1,979.95 
    

ACCOMMODATING SPECIFIC STUDENT NEEDS
This program is part three of the series "The Classroom Teacher's Guide to Instructional and Curricular Modifications". The series provides teachers with hands-on, practical ideas for making the curriculum accessible for every student.

Part 3 - "Accommodating Specific Student Needs" - focuses on supporting the academic and behavioral instruction of students with special needs, specifically students with learning disabilities, autism, AD/HD, and behavior disorders.

Sections include:
*Helping Students with ADD/ADHD, Behavior Disorders, and Learning Disabilities
*Supporting Students with Autism and Mental Retardation (Intellectual Disabilities)
*Assisting Students with Behavior Management


 
#15754/1309  2006  $169.95 
    

CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: A Developmental Approach
Children with special needs are eager, successful learners in HighScope classrooms. In sequences from several inclusive settings, watch HighScope teachers model the process of incorporating key learning experiences and IEP goals with the daily routine. By observing and documenting what children can do, teachers plan authentic classroom activities that are more effective than narrow drill-and-practice.

*Includes Viewer's Guide 
#15753/0913   30 minutes 2005  $149.95 
    

TEACHING IN THE INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM: Instructional Strategies for all Students
Discover practical strategies to maximize learning for all students, including those with special needs. Experience inclusive teaching techniques first hand with video visits to classrooms where teachers are successfully educating both general and special education students. Activities will teach you how to design and implement curriculum modifications and activity adaptations based on the strengths and needs of your students.

You will learn how to:
* Utilize differentiated instruction to benefit both general and special education students.
* Select, implement, and evaluate lesson modifications to accommodate the needs of students with physical, emotional, or intellectual disabilities.
* Offer choices to help students develop self-management skills.
* Implement assessment strategies appropriate to your students individual abilities.
* Create reading and writing lesson plans and units utilizing differentiated instruction.

In addition to providing ways in which you can individualize your instruction, these programs also cover remedial methods, instructional techniques, and assistive technology that can be used to more effectively address the diverse learning levels of both your special and general education students. 
#15750/1783   258 minutes 2006  $289.95 
    

AUTISM IN THE CLASSROOM: What Teachers Need to Know
This video is a good overview as it covers symptoms, common behaviors, misconceptions, needed supports, treatment, IDEA and the responsibilities of educators and parents. It also features interviews with children, their teachers and parents, as well as Dr. Bernard Rimland, founder of the Autism Research Institute, and author/technical director of the movie "Rain Man". 
#15746/1615   16 minutes 2004  $239.95  Grades K to 12 *CC 
    

FROM BULLIES TO BUDDIES: From Problem Management to Social and Emotional Skill Development in All Children
How can counselors use contemporary understandings of the brain to boost children’s social skills - such as empathy, kindness, patience, impulse control, self-esteem, and self-confidence - in meaningful and lasting ways? How can counseling be tailored to address the particular capabilities of children’s brains when under duress?

This film answers these questions by proposing two dramatic paradigm shifts from common social and emotional skills interventions. First, it invites counselors to broaden their focus from bullying prevention to developing a wealth of social and emotional skills in all children. Second, it proposes a new way of boosting children’s skills; this approach is inspired by new research in neurobiology, mindfulness, and narrative practices that emphasizes how children’s brains develop, learn, and change through experience.

Packed with interviews with educators, consultants, and children of all ages, this title contains a thought-provoking theoretical backdrop, followed by footage of non-scripted live sessions in one second and one fourth grade classroom. Several life-transforming activities, metaphors, and experiences are illustrated and explained, and examples are provided of cultural practices that foster the development of communities of considerate children. 
#15742/1410   70 minutes 2013  $189.95 *Streaming available 
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NATURE OF GENIUS (THE)

Two documentaries by Michael Apted on scientific and artistic brilliance:

Known for films including Coal Miner's Daughter, Michael Apted's documentary roots began in the 1960s with the acclaimed Up series, where from 7 Up all the way to 56 Up, he returns every seven years to update the world on the lives and thoughts of the same fourteen British children. In these two films, INSPIRATIONS and ME AND ISAAC NEWTON, Apted turns his interviewer's lens to explore the human advances in the arts and the sciences with a slightly humorous approach. How do artists create? How do scientists hope to affect the world?

INSPIRATIONS - Explore the true origins of creativity in arts through interviews with these seven figures of the artistic media.
Musician David Bowie
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein
Glass sculptor Dale Chihuly
Choreographer Édouard Lock
Dancer Louise LeCavalier
Potter and poet Nora Naranjo-Morse
Architect Tadao Ando

ME AND ISAAC NEWTON - From Madagascar lemurs to a unified theory of everything, these seven distinguished scientists reveal the creative side of the scientific endeavor, beginning with their earliest scientific questions and including their most personal ponderings.
Pharmaceutical chemist Gertrude Elion
Environmental physicist Ashok Gadgil
Author and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku
Roboticist Maja Mataric
Cognitive scientist and author Steven Pinker
Geneticist Karol Sikora
Primatologist Patricia Wright

*Features subtitles in English (SDH)
*Includes two discs - one in DVD and one in Blu-ray format.
 
#15741/1725   200 minutes 2013  $129.95 *CC 
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AFRICAN AMERICANS: Many Rivers to Cross
Written and presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, this six-hour series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed - forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds. Commencing with the origins of slavery in Africa, the series moves through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to the present - when America is led by a black president, yet remains a nation deeply divided by race. By highlighting the tragedies, triumphs and contradictions of the black experience, the series reveals to viewers that the African-American community has never been a uniform entity, and that its members have been actively debating their differences from their first days in this country. Throughout the course of the series, viewers will see that the road to freedom for black people in America has not been linear, but more like the course of a river, full of loops and eddies, slowing, and occasionally reversing the current of progress.
Episodes include...
The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
The Age of Slavery (1800-1860)
Into the Fire (1861-1896)
Making a Way Out of No Way (1897-1940)
Rise! (1940-1968) It's Nation Time (1968-2013)

*This DVD features subtitles in English (SDH) 
#15736/1725   360 minutes 2013  $149.95 *CC 
    

MORE TIME TO TEACH: Responding to Student Behavior ELEMENTARY Version
"An effective resource for professional collections." Booklist
" ...an excellent program..." Harry K. Wong

Designed for general/special education teachers and administrators, staff development coordinators, and university instructors, this innovative program offers a unique model for increasing teaching and learning time.

By using student and teacher dramatizations of actual classroom situations tailored to an elementary school setting, More Time to Teach empowers educators to respond effectively to student behavior.

Teachers who have implemented this program have experienced the following results:
*more than 40% decrease in classroom disruptions
*dramatic improvement in classroom atmosphere
*considerably less fatigue at the end of the school day

*** Also available in a SECONDARY Version #15729

*** A comprehensive Teacher's Guide is also available - see item #15730-G *** 
#15731/0427   44 minutes 2007  $169.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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MORE TIME TO TEACH (SET OF THREE)

"Recommended for professional development and teacher-training collections." Library Journal 2011

This set of three programs are designed for general/special education teachers, administrators, and university instructors.

WORKING WITH CHALLENGING PARENTS
When teachers are challenged by parents, their responses can become defensive, dismissive or divisive. This only seems to cause situations to get worse. This program gives teachers the skills to respond to challenging parents in a confident manner that builds relationships and will create a collaborative community between schools and parents to best help the child. 22 minutes

OFFERING CHOICES
Teachers often become angry or frustrated after making repeated requests for students to stop their disruptive behaviors. OFFERING CHOICES gives teachers the skills to remain calm and avoid the frustration of dealing with repeated misbehaviors.. It will also help teach students responsibility. 22 minutes

MANAGING CONFLICT WITH STUDENTS
When teachers and students are in conflict, the teacher’s response will often determine whether the situation escalates or de-escalates. This program gives teachers the tools to respond to conflict situations in a way that keeps problems small and will reduce classroom disruptions, improve school atmosphere, and bring the joy back to teaching. 20 minutes

*Each program includes Discussion Questions Insert
 
#15730/0427  2009  $329.95 *Streaming available 
    

MORE TIME TO TEACH: Responding to Student Behavior SECONDARY Version
"A welcome resource for making classroom time more effective." Video Librarian
" ...an excellent program..." Harry K. Wong

Designed for general/special education teachers and administrators, staff development coordinators, and university instructors, this innovative program offers a unique model for increasing teaching and learning time.

By using student and teacher dramatizations of actual classroom situations appropriate for a secondary school setting, this program empowers educators to respond effectively to student behavior.

Teachers who have implemented this program have experienced the following results:
*more than 40% decrease in classroom disruptions
*dramatic improvement in classroom atmosphere
*considerably less fatigue at the end of the school day

*** Also available in an ELEMENTARY Version #15731

*** A comprehensive Teacher's Guide is also available - see item #15730-G ***
 
#15729/0427   44 minutes 2007  $159.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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BUILDING COMMUNITY IN A CHALLENGING CLASSROOM (More Time to Teach)

"Recommended? A powerful presentation that could inspire meaningful change." Video Librarian 12/13

After all the emphasis on building classroom community, teachers are still struggling. Research has shown that students have higher achievement scores in classrooms where everyone feels accepted, valued and safe. Developing a unified classroom community, however, is complex. When classrooms experience challenges, teachers need to recognize how their responses affect the community. Teachers can develop skills to create cohesive communities especially during times of conflict.

BUILDING COMMUNITY IN A CHALLENGING CLASSROOM gives teachers the necessary techniques for creating a positive atmosphere even in a difficult classroom. Designed for elementary school teachers, administrators and university instructors. Professional development of this timely topic will be enhanced by the use of the included Discussion Guide.
 
#15728/0427   20 minutes 2013  $149.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY: Waste Not, Want Not
Modern waste-management systems are integrating a variety of recycling processes. Transforming waste into energy and/or new products is at the forefront of new technologies. For example, light is used to separate glass from minerals, while magnets and whirlstreams separate metals from non-metals. Inside the eponymous rotting boxes, organic waste is recycled by organic material-eating micro-organisms into re-usable products.

Understanding the environmental necessity of recycling and how it is changing the world in which we live, is at the core of this program. We average almost 2 kilograms per person of garbage per day, or 13 kilograms per week and 726 kilograms per year. New technologies are finding ways to reduce these numbers and recycle many valuable raw materials that used to end up lost in everyday trash.

This program demonstrates how scientists are utilizing microorganisms to minimize waste and introduce new separation technologies to aid in recycling. Removal of specific valuable metals from appliances, computers and automobiles has become lucrative business. And to help protect our environment, engineers are learning to focus on creating new products with recycling in mind at their inception. 
#15710/2003   14 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

MOTIVATING BLACK MALES TO ACHIEVE IN SCHOOL AND IN LIFE
In this DVD, Baruti Kafele, educator and author of the blockbuster "Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life", helps teachers and administrators understand how to address critical issues facing many young black male students. He provides practical tools and empowering examples that schools can integrate into their programs and practices right away, including
*How to address the crisis of self-identity that many young black males face today.
*How to encourage reflective practice among teachers of young black male students.
*How to motivate and encourage young black males by establishing and leading a Young Men’s Empowerment Program.

Walk the school hallways with Baruti Kafele and learn what it takes to motivate, educate, and empower young black males to succeed in school and in life.

Bonus Material includes complete student and teacher workshop sessions led by Baruti Kafele! One 40-minute DVD with additional 65 minutes of video features. 
#15709/0187   40 minutes 2011  $199.95 
    

BUILDING MATHEMATICAL COMPETENCIES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
The mathematical skills children bring with them to elementary school predict both their mathematical and literacy achievement for years to come. In this video, experts from Erikson Institute’s Early Mathematics Education Project discuss approaches to creating rich, developmentally appropriate math experiences for young children. Lively footage from three pre-K classrooms in the Chicago public school system, a Head Start program on Chicago’s South Side, and a private preschool in a Chicago suburb illustrates how foundational math can be joyfully incorporated into both informal and planned activities.

*Viewable/printable educational resources are available online. 
#15708/0635   37 minutes 2012  $189.95 *CC 
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CHEMISTRY TUTOR (17 Programs)
Conquer Chemistry with ease! Chemistry seems challenging to most students because there are a great deal of foreign definitions introduced early in the course. Many students feel uncomfortable solving chemistry problems because it takes practice for students to learn the skills needed to read, understand and tackle problems in a logical manner. Chemistry does not have to be a hard subject if students know how to break down the concepts into bite-sized chunks.

THE CHEMISTRY TUTOR provides students with practical, step-by-step instruction valuable practice for a chemistry test, as a study aid for chemistry homework, or as a comprehensive chemistry review of essential concepts at the high school or university level. THE CHEMISTRY TUTOR is a complete 17 lesson series covering all of the core topics in detail. What sets this series apart from other teaching tools is that the concepts are taught entirely through step-by-step example problems of increasing difficulty. It works by introducing each new concept in an easy to understand way and using example problems that are worked out step-by-step and line-by-line to completion. If a student has a problem with coursework or homework, simply find a similar problem fully worked on in the series and review for the steps needed to solve the problem. Students will be able to work problems with ease, improve their problem-solving skills and understand the underlying concepts of Chemistry.

This series is best used in order from Volume 1 through Volume 17:

INTRODUCTION TO CHEMISTRY
UNITS AND UNIT CONVERSIONS
SIGNIFICANT FIGURES IN CALCULATIONS
TEMPERATURE
DENSITY
ATOMIC THEORY OF MATTER Part One
ATOMIC THEORY OF MATTER Part Two
ATOMIC THEORY OF MATTER Part Three
ATOMIC NUMBER, MASS NUMBER AND ISOTOPES Part One
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ATOMIC NUMBER, MASS NUMBER AND ISOTOPES Part Two
ATOMIC MASS OF AN ELEMENT
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OVERVIEW OF THE PERIODIC TABLE
NAMING MOLECULAR COMPOUNDS
IONS AND IONIC CHARGE
IONIC COMPOUNDS
IONIC COMPOUNDS WITH POLYATOMIC IONS
HYDRATE COMPOUNDS

*ABOUT JASON GIBSON
Host Jason holds M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the University of Texas. He has been teaching Math Tutor programs since 2004, with his proven methods of helping students understand basic math and physics principles step-by-step, using practical examples. Teachers User Instruction & Resource Guide Includes Recommended Books & Chemistry Websites. 
#15700/2003  2011  $979.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

POWER OF MENTORING (THE): Strategies to Bring Out the Best in Anyone
What do Oprah Winfrey, Mozart, Abraham Maslow, and Cesar Chavez have in common? Besides their accomplishments, they have all been coached to greatness by their mentors. Mentoring is rarely taught at school, yet it’s an essential piece of professional and personal development. This video will teach you how to be an outstanding mentor through engaging role-plays, interspersed with inspiring stories and concrete tips from actual experience in mentoring. You will be given research-based, practical strategies for how to connect effectively with culturally different mentees. The strategies presented are geared for counselors, educators, supervisors, and mentors in all types of settings. You will be shown exactly what you can do to make a difference and be a better and more inspired teacher, advisor, and mentor! 
#15697/1410   60 minutes 2013  $189.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

OUT OF PRINT narrated by Meryl Streep
Every aspect of the written word is changing - from publishing to writing and selling to reading. If books are the foundation of civilization, how does that change the world of ideas? And how does it change us? With the unique perspective gained as a director at the Library of Congress and the UC Berkeley Library, filmmaker Vivienne Roumani tackles the questions confronting today’s word industry and shows that much more is at stake than how quickly we can access the latest byte.

OUT OF PRINT is narrated by Meryl Streep and features Jeff Bezos, Scott Turow, Ray Bradbury, Jeffrey Toobin, Robert Darnton, Jane Friedman, Alberto Manguel, booksellers, cognitive scientists, architects, educators, parents, and students. 
#15686/0605   55 minutes 2013  $329.95 
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GIRL WHO LOVED ANIMALS (THE)

"A portrait of an extraordinary individual who inspires hope for the future of our planet."- Michael Greger, M.D., Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture, Humane Society of the United States.

"Kitty Jones embodies the ideal that one person can make a difference." - Dave Bemel, Executive Director, Action For Animals

A documentary about the life and work of Kitty Jones, a high school senior who works on behalf of helping animals by volunteering at shelters, cat clinics, and an animal rescue sanctuary. The film includes interviews with executives and administrators of organizations that work to improve the quality of life for animals.
 
#15682/0145   81 minutes 2011  $159.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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LITTLE FABLES (26 Programs)

Plot twist in the forest! Drama in the barnyard! Presented with beautiful shadow theater, LITTLE FABLES turns children on to Aesop, La Fontaine and the other classics. In each animated episode, animals face a problem that young children readily relate to such as, "What if I am the smallest kid on the block?" Together, the animals come up with solutions to their problems in ways that convey pro-social messages easily understood by young children.

LITTLE FABLES is an entertaining series of 26 six-minute programs that helps foster a child's character and problem solving skills while assisting emergent literacy.

DVD extras: READ * PRINT BOOK * COLOR * LEARN MORE ABOUT ANIMALS

Programs in the series:

1. The Lion & the Mouse- Everyone, large or small, has their own special and unique ability.
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2. The Fox & the Stork- What is right for one may not be right for another.

3. The Goat & the Hare- Learn from other's mistakes.

4. The Ants & the Crumbs- Quality is more important than quantity.

5. The Mouse, the Hare & the Raven- When two friends fight, they both lose in the end.

6. Two Goats & a Bridge- When you argue and fight, you loose sight of what is right.

7. The Dog & the Crab- Help others; you may need help one day too.

8. The Mole & the Eagle- Listen to the experts who know, only then will you truly learn and grow.

9. The Tortoise & the Hare- Sometimes talent and ability come second to hard work and persistence.

10. The Ant & the Cricket- Hard work pays.

11. The Crow & the Fox- Sometimes a friend doesn't say or act as he really means.

12. The Hedgehog & the Stork- It is better to have something small, than nothing at all.

13. The Tortoise & the Hedgehog- What may at first seem scary, with time can turn familiar and even merry.

14. The Crab & the Stork- In order to succeed you must work together.

15. The Mouse & the Dog- Believe in yourself.

16. The Owl & His Voice- There are two sides to every situation.

17. The Thirsty Crow- A little thought and determination will make everything right.

18. The Rhino & the Sparrow- Don't jump to conclusions.

19. The Love Doves- Before you react on what you see, take a moment to question what else may be.

20. The Sparrow & the Feathers- Be true to yourself.

21. The Pelican & His House- Be happy with what you have.

22. The Caterpillar & the Cocoon- Life is full of surprises.

23. The Flight of the Birds- The joy of helping another is a prize far better then any other.

24. The Fox & the Tortoise- Sometimes saying you're sorry just isn't enough.

25. The Dog & the Hedgehog- Shouting is not the best way to be heard.

26. The Mouse, the Hare & the Goat- We all need help sometimes.
 
#15680/0697  2011  $1,999.95 *Streaming available 
    

SUN COME UP
An Oscar® nominated film that shows the human face of climate change. The film follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders, a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean, and now, some of the world’s first environmental refugees.

When climate change threatens their survival, the islanders face a painful decision. They must leave their ancestral land in search of a new place to call home. SUN COME UP follows a group of young islanders as they search for land in war-torn Bougainville, 50 miles across the open ocean.

SUN COME UP provokes discussion about climate change, displacement, and the rights of vulnerable communities around the globe.

*RECOMMENDED BY EDUCATORS AS A VALUABLE TEACHING COMPANION FOR COURSES IN...
Environmental Studies
Environmental & International law
Human Rights
Anthropology, Sociology & Ethnography
Peace and Conflict Resolution
Multicultural & Religious Studies
Political Science & International Relations
Documentary Filmmaking & Media Studies 
#15674/1416   39 minutes 2012  $329.95 *Streaming available 
    

NELSON MANDELA: One Man

Nelson Mandela is a shining example of what one man can do to change the world. One Man navigates Mandella's life from his birth in a small village and an oppressive regime through his struggles to overcome prejudice and hate to unify a nation. Viewers will discover how Nelson Mandela's dedication resulted in his inauguration as the first black President of South Africa; his award of the Nobel Peace Prize and ultimately, his inspirational role in overthrowing the Apartheid regime.
 
#15673/0697   60 minutes 2009  $199.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

CREATURE FEATURES (20 Programs)
These fun and focused 5-minute programs are a perfect introduction to some of the most widely studied "creatures" found on the planet. Created specifically for "kids", each program provides beautiful, up-close imagery and age appropriate narration. Life science concepts addressed throughout the series include habitats, body parts, adaptation, migration, ecosystems, the life cycle, and more.

The "CREATURES" include:

FROGS & TADPOLES
With bulging eyes and bumpy skin I'm a champion of the long and high jump. That's because of my long, strong hind legs. Did you know that before we become frogs we are young tadpoles? It's interesting to see how we change.

ANTS
It's strange to think that in many interesting ways we are very much like humans. Our societies are well organized and each member has certain duties that supports the colony. Come along to see how much alike we really are.

SPIDERS
We first appeared on earth about 400 million years ago, even before dinosaurs. Today we number about 40,000 known species. It's time to learn the truth and folklore about us spiders.

SEA TURTLES
We tend to be rather mysterious creatures, weighing over 600 pounds and able to live for a 100 days or more under the sea. As soon as our babies hatch, they instinctively know to run for the sea away from predators.

SALAMANDERS
Humans seem to like us, because we look cute, almost like miniature dinosaurs. But you know what really makes us salamanders happy? It's when we're resting in the water with our smooth skin all cool and moist

SEA ANEMONES
We're one of the most widely found of all sea creatures. At low tide you'll find us all curled up but at high tide, our tentacles bloom like flowers because that's our way of attracting food.

CICADA
Our life is really quite interesting but humans only get to see a mere 2 to 4 weeks of it. As a nymph, we spend years under ground before we emerge and get wings. A fascinating process. Oh, and just so you know, it's only the males that sing.

LADYBUGS
There is little chance you won't notice us with all our splendid color, no need for us to worry about camouflage. We have a couple secret weapons we use to discourage predators. Even so, we have earned a much respected reputation from farmers for being helpful.

BEES & WASPS
Where there are blooming flowers, you'll find us as well. We have the largest number of species with the largest populations. You probably heard about all the work we do spreading pollen from flower to flower, right?

PRAYING MANTIS
For sure we're interesting to look at with our stick like bodies and rotating heads, but watch out, we have voracious appetites. When a female is carrying eggs, she can eat up to 12 crickets a day. Once grown, her nymphs will live their entire life alone without companions.

TOADS
You might not see us very often but every once in awhile you will. Oh, and we're really quite different from a frog. In some cultures we are considered a symbol of wealth and wisdom, so there.

BATS
In millions of years we really haven't changed much and are proud to say we're the only mammals that can fly. It's also cool to hang upside down and navigate by using ultrasound. Is it stretching it to say we're sort of cute?

CRICKETS
If you look between the rocks, you might see me. Did you notice my back wings, they look almost like a tail, it's the same for all crickets. Rubbing our front wings allows us to make different sounds for different reasons. I like being a cricket.

MOSQUITOS
Talk about feeling unwanted, we mosquitoes never get invited to anything. To set the record straight, it's just the females that bite and they only do it for a very important reason. And that dreaded buzzing sound, it's because our wings flap 600 times a second.
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SEA URCHINS
There are more things living under the sea than you would ever find on land, including us sea urchins. With our shiny spines we can look much bigger than we really are. For us, it's handy to be built sort of upside down. Our mouth is on the bottom, any guess why?

BUTTERFLIES
We usually appear twice per year, with males and females being of different colors. Our larva go through several fascinating changes before becoming adults. Once able to fly, they will take to the sky and soon the cycle of life will begin all over again.
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DRAGONFLIES
We dragonflies were the very first to fly through the skies, able to go forward, up and backwards. Our name comes from the mythical dragons and our eyesight is the best among the insects. We can see in all directions without turning our heads. Look for us near water.

LEAF BEATLES
As the name implies, I enjoy eating leaves. Once I get attached to a tree, I'll be eating leaves for a long period of time. I guess that makes my presence somewhat undesirable. Even so, us leaf beetles are an important part of the earth's natural ecosystem.

CRAYFISH
We look like a crab, live in rivers and streams, have a hard shell and 8 quick moving legs. Would you like to see where I live and meet some of my family?

CRABS
We are one of the more interesting creatures you'll find along the sea shore, especially with our crooked legs and sideways walk. However, should you attempt to pick us up, you better be careful of our pincers. We are considered the king of all crustaceans.
 
#15670/0697  2011  $1,199.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN: The Audacious Attempt to Control Human Knowledge (Two versions - Full and Abridged)

In 1937, the science fiction writer H. G. Wells imagined a "World Brain" containing all of the world's knowledge, accessible to all people, that would be "so compact in its material form and so gigantic in its scope and possible influence" that it could transcend even nation states and governments. Seventy years later, Google set about realizing Wells' vision, launching a massive project to scan millions of books from university library collections - and triggering a fierce backlash in the process. When it was discovered that over half of the first ten million books Google scanned were still in copyright, authors from around the world joined together to wage a fierce legal battle against the Internet giant, culminating in a dramatic courtroom showdown in 2011. In gripping detail, GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN tells the fascinating story of this complicated struggle over intellectual property and access to human knowledge, offering crucial insights into broader debates surrounding data-mining and privacy, downloading and copyright, fair use, freedom and surveillance.

*Sub-titled
*The DVD contains both the Full 93 minute version as well as the abridged 54 minute version

*WINNER OF MANY AWARDS...
Best Documentary: Rincon International Film Festival 2013
Official Selection: Sundance, World Documentary Competition 2013
Official Selection: 56th San Francisco International Film Festival
Official Selection: RiverRun IFF, Documentary Features Competition 2013
Official Selection: 37th Cleveland FF, Standing Up Competition
Official Selection: Documenta Madrid, International competition 2013
Official Selection: Docs Barcelona 2013
In Competition: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013
CNEX Documentary Film Festival 2013
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (Festival do Rio) 2013
Fresh Film Fest - Prague, Czech Republic 2013
Mediteranean Film Festival, Bosnia 2013
Avvantura Festival 2013, Croacia 2013
Real Film Festival 2013, Australia 2013
Transatlantyk International Film and Music Festival 2013, Poland 2013
Lemesos International Documentary Festival 2013, Cyprus 2013
The Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland 2013
Design Film Festival 2013, Singapore 2013
Reykjavik Shorts and Docs 2013
DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2013

***PLEASE ASK ABOUT OUR SPECIAL PRICE FOR INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS, PUBLIC LIBRARIES, SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS - DOES NOT APPLY TO COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES ***
 
#15669/0685  2013  $389.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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FIRE IN THE BLOOD: A Tale of Medicine, Monopoly and Malice
*Official Selection: 2013 Sundance Film Festival and New Zealand Film Festival

FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the true story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs in Africa and the global south in the 1990s - leading to the preventable deaths of at least ten million people -- and how a remarkable coalition of people came together to stop them.

Shot on four continents and featuring contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu, and Joseph Stiglitz, the film offers devastating insights into the lethal decision-making process that led to this humanitarian catastrophe. And it shows how, if not for the passion and tactical ingenuity of a group of courageous and relentless activists, millions more people would have died. The result is a gripping look at corporate greed, government collusion, the cutthroat economics of medicine and healthcare, and the power of ordinary people to make meaningful change on a global scale.

The DVD includes the feature length documentary (100 minutes), as well as an abridged version (84 minutes) shortened for use in the classroom.

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#15668/0685   100 minutes 2013  $329.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

DO THE MATH: Bill McKibben and the Fight Over Climate Change

The math is simple. To avoid climate catastrophe, we have to limit carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere to 350 parts per million or below. The only problem? We're presently at 400 parts per million - and climbing. In November 2012, bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben and 350.org, the organization he founded, hit the road to raise awareness of this terrifying math and build a movement to challenge the fossil fuel industry.

DO THE MATH takes us inside that tour, following McKibben as he delivers an astonishingly clear breakdown of the facts - and the stakes - to more than 25,000 people at sold-out shows in 21 cities across the country. The film serves as a much needed correction to industry spin, and shows how an unprecedented global movement is rising up to keep CO2 emissions down.

Highly recommended for courses that look at climate science, geography, environmental policy, corporate influence, the costs of mass consumerism and consumption, and social change movements.

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#15667/0685   100 minutes 2013  $279.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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WAR AROUND US (THE)

THE WAR AROUND US tells the absorbing true story of the only two international journalists on the ground in Gaza during Israel's bombardment and invasion of the troubled Palestinian territory over a three-work period in 2008-9.

Award-winning filmmaker Abdallah Omeish (Occupation 101) chronicles the experiences of Al Jazeera's Cairo-born, Arab-American Ayman Mohyeldin and Arab-British Sherine Tadros as they report from Gaza City throughout the devastating assault. With never-before-seen footage and gripping personal testimonies, the film bears witness to Israel's ongoing siege of Gaza in the wake of its withdrawal in 2005, and pays tribute to the power of journalism - and friendship - under conditions of enormous conflict and stress. The result is a deeply human glimpse into wartime reporting and life in one of the most besieged places on earth.

Essential viewing for courses in journalism, media, and communication.

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#15666/0685   67 minutes 2013  $279.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

OCCUPATION 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority

"One of the best documentaries" - Los Angeles Journal
*Winner of several awards - see list below
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is widely viewed in the U.S. as one of the most complicated geopolitical disputes in the world. But there are also signs that Americans are unfamiliar with one of the core flashpoints of the conflict: the exact nature of Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian land. OCCUPATION 101 lays out the basic facts of the occupation in vivid and heart-wrenching detail, offering a crystal-clear and myth-shattering history of Israel's systematic dispossession of Palestinians from their land. Features Middle East scholars, journalists, religious leaders, and humanitarian workers.
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Winner, Golden Palm Award: Beverly Hills Film Festival
Winner, Best Editing: Beverly Hills Film Festival
Winner, Best Film: Artivist Film Festival
Winner, Audience Choice Best Film: East Lansing Film Festival
Winner, Best Feature: River's Edge Film Festival
Winner, Best Documentary: deadCenter Film Festival
Winner: Best Film: New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
Winner: John Michaels Memorial Award: Big Muddy Film Festival
Vermont International Film Festival
Harlem International Film Festival
The Arab Film Festival, San Francisco
Boston Palestine Film Festival
 
#15665/0685   90 minutes 2006  $289.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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PROTECTION: Masculinity and Condom Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS has ravaged entire populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet educational efforts to prevent the acceleration of the epidemic continue to clash with traditional cultural attitudes that view protected sex as unmanly. PROTECTION provides a fascinating look at the origins of these attitudes, and examines how they are being kept alive by a set of hyper masculine myths that extol risk taking as an emblem of strength, virility, and potency. An eye-opening exploration of what it will take to make real and transformative change and eradicate HIV/AIDS once and for all.

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#15664/0685   114 minutes 2009  $279.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

WHITE LIKE ME: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America

WHITE LIKE ME, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the U.S. through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today.

For years, Tim Wise's bestselling books and spellbinding lectures have challenged some of our most basic assumptions about race in America. WHITE LIKE ME is the first film to bring the full range of his work to the screen - to show how white privilege continues to shape individual attitudes, electoral politics, and government policy in ways too many white people never stop to think about.

Features Tim Wise, Michelle Alexander, Charles Ogletree, Imani Perry, Martin Gilens, John H. Bracey, Jr. and Nilanjana Dasgupta.

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#15663/0685   66 minutes 2013  $299.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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FEEDING FRENZY: The Food Industry, Marketing and the Creation of a Health Crisis

Over the past three decades, obesity rates have more than doubled for children and tripled for adolescents - and a startling 70% of adults are now obese or overweight. The result has been a widening epidemic of obesity-related health problems, including coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes. Discussions about this spiraling health crisis have tended to focus on the need for more exercise and individual responsibility.

FEEDING FRENZY trains its focus squarely on the responsibility of the processed food industry and the outmoded government policies it benefits from. It lays bare how taxpayer subsidies designed to feed the hungry during the Great Depression have enabled the food industry to flood the market with a rising tide of cheap, addictive, high calorie food products, and offers an engrossing look at the tactics of the multi billion-dollar marketing machine charged with making sure that every one of those surplus calories is consumed.

Features industry analysts, health experts, and advertising scholars, including Marion Nestle, Kelly Brownell, Sut Jhally, Brian Wansink, and Michele Simon.

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PRAISE FOR THE FILM
"Joining Supersize Me and King Corn as one of the decade's very best food documentaries, Feeding Frenzy covers important and, as of yet, unchartered territory as it turns a keen and critical eye on the marketing practices of the food industry. A must-see!"
Justin Lewis | Head of the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University

"Powerful, important, and damning. Zeroing in on the corporate practices of the multi billion-dollar food industry, this film adds a fresh and essential perspective to current debates about corporate power, food, and health. Watch this film and show it to your students!"
Erica Scharrer | Chair of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
 
#15662/0685   57 minutes 2013  $309.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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JOYSTICK WARRIORS: Video Games, Violence and the Culture of Militarism

For years, there has been widespread speculation, but very little consensus, about the relationship between violent video games and violence in the real world. JOYSTICK WARRIORS provides the clearest account yet of the latest research on this issue.
Drawing on the insights of media scholars, military analysts, combat veterans, and gamers themselves, the film trains its sights on the wildly popular genre of first-person shooter games, exploring how the immersive experience they offer links up with the larger stories we tell ourselves as a culture about violence, militarism, guns, and manhood.

Along the way, it examines the game industry's longstanding working relationship with the US military and the American gun industry, and offers a riveting examination of the games themselves - showing how they work to sanitize, glamorize, and normalize violence while cultivating dangerously regressive attitudes and ideas about masculinity and militarism.

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#15661/0685   57 minutes 2013  $329.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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TOUGH GUISE 2: Violence, Manhood and American Culture (Full Version)

"The arrival of Tough Guise 2 is nothing short of an event. It promises to speak to a new generation of young people with even greater urgency than the remarkably influential original" Diane Rosenfeld - Lecturer, Harvard Law School

In this highly anticipated sequel to the influential and widely acclaimed TOUGH GUISE, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men's violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood. In a sweeping analysis that cuts across racial, ethnic, and class lines, Katz examines mass shootings, day-to-day gun violence, violence against women, bullying, gay-bashing, and American militarism against the backdrop of a culture that has normalized violent and regressive forms of masculinity in the face of challenges to traditional male power and authority. Along the way, the film provides a stunning look at the violent, sexist, and homophobic messages boys and young men routinely receive from virtually every corner of the culture, from television, movies, video games, and advertising to pornography, the sports culture, and US political culture. TOUGH GUISE 2 stands to empower a new generation of young men - and women - to challenge the myth that being a real man means putting up a false front and engaging in violent and self-destructive behavior.

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JACKSON KATZ
Jackson Katz is one of America's leading anti-sexist male activists. An educator, author and filmmaker, he is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in gender violence prevention education with men and boys. He has lectured on hundreds of college and high school campuses and has conducted hundreds of professional trainings, seminars & workshops. He is the co-founder of the Mentors In Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading gender violence prevention initiative in professional and college athletics.
 
#15660/0685   78 minutes 2013  $349.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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GLACIERS: The Most Important Environmental Impact of the Century (2 Programs on 1 DVD) MULTIPLE SITE USE
Two 20-minute programs describe the most important environmental impact of the century!

THE LIFE OF A GLACIER
Glaciers are one of the main driving forces affecting Earth’s climate and landscape. From Alpine, or Mountain, glaciers, to Tidewater glaciers and icebergs, these massive sheets of ice are constantly moving and changing, almost like a living being. Warming temperatures are causing most glaciers to recede, leaving a changed landscape in their wake. Located in some of the most inhospitable areas of the planet, scientists are venturing to glaciers to study them, looking for clues to climate changes from the past and in the present.

THE DEATH OF A GLACIER
One of the most influential environmental impacts of this century, the decreasing mass of our glaciers has scientists concerned. This program explores glaciers in the Alaskan and Western Canadian regions that are gradually shrinking. Due to numerous environmental factors, glaciers that were once abundant in the Northern regions are now half of their original size. With the human "carbon footprint" growing day by day, Global Warming has become a very real and dangerous impact that our planet, including our glaciers, has to deal with.

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#15654/1445  2013  $349.95  Grades 5 to 12 *Streaming available 
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CULTURAL INTERDEPENDENCE: A New Look at World Cultures (4 Programs) MULTIPLE SITE USE

Technology, communications, and the Global Economy are changing the study of world cultures. INTERDEPENDENCE is a relationship in which each member is mutually dependent on the others. This concept differs from a dependent relationship, where some members are dependent and some not. In an interdependent relationship, participants may be emotionally, economically, ecologically and/or morally reliant on and responsible to each other. An interdependent relationship can arise between two or more cooperative autonomous participants.

Each of the programs in this new series describes one of four universal elements: Geography, Economy, Social Organizations and Beliefs & Values, that define what CULTURE is. Each of these main elements is broken down into sub-elements, showing their great DIVERSITY in world cultures and civilizations. This DIVERSITY is stressed in the first three programs, but the interactions among all the elements and sub-elements are also introduced in each leading to the fourth program’s summary of these interactions as the growing INTERDEPENDENCE of World Cultures, primarily due to the expanding Technological & Communications Revolution. This multi-disciplinary approach leads to a critical understanding of Culture: "... the learned behavior acquired by individuals as members of a social group... as a total way of life." It is as important to knowing our world as Geography and History.

There are four 15-minute programs in this series:

1. GEOGRAPHY
The first element that influences how people act in cultures is Geography, which can be broken down into Topography, Climate and Natural Resources. Topography, the natural surface features of an area, causes people to adapt, often by changing land and water phenomena, or by building structures upon them. Climate, the average temperature and precipitation of an area over time, creates many varied human lifestyles. Natural Resources, animal, plant and mineral, are behind many human activities, from economics to religious beliefs and values, from indigenous to developing to developed cultures. These diverse cultures are beginning today to depend more upon each other to meet their needs and wants.
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2. ECONOMY
The second element of Culture is Economy, which distinguishes subsistence needs necessary for survival from wants resulting from the human urge to do more than just survive. While some cultures stress one or the other more, all show a mixture of the two. The interaction of geographical, topographical, climatic and natural resource realities with economies contributes considerably to most cultures. Since few individuals can meet all their own needs, different economic systems have evolved, from barter to monetary, from free market to command economies, from individual to mass production, but again, contemporary cultures are depending upon and learning more from each other.
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3. SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Another key element of Culture is Social Organizations, which include family units, religious groups, educational groups, recreational & work groups, government & political groups, and ethnic groups. Many different kinds of families are found around the world, but they often reveal spiritual values, economic factors such as division of labor, educational expectations, and other activities that influence how their communities work, usually bound together by a common language. These in turn lead to larger organizations of government, recreation, and business, all of which are affected by knowledge about themselves and other cultures through contemporary technology and communications.
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4. BELIEFS AND VALUES
Beliefs and Values underpin any Culture, and all of the other elements in it. History and tradition often influence these beliefs and values and still propel our free enterprise, religious, and democratic institutions. Today, through trade, travel, and technology, cultures learn from each other faster than at any time, resulting in some confusion and even conflict. But, more and more cultures value education as much as traditional and historical preconceptions. The many challenges of living today, both human-created and natural, can be helped by the current technological and communications revolution that may foster more Cultural Interdependence.
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HORROR AND SPECIAL FX MAKEUP TECHNIQUES hosted by Legendary Horror Actor Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes, Devil's Rejects)

Hosted by Michael Berryman, this program breaks down several techniques that can be used to create a multitude of monsters and FX characters. Top Hollywood makeup artist Christina Rodriguez, demonstrates how to approach monster make-up and special effects including how to create a zombie look (deformation of the skin, color technique for different layers of dead flesh, shadow contouring to create facial structure), techniques to complete monster characters (sickly eyes, rotting teeth and tongue) and a detailed demonstration of gashes with skin structure and color modeling to create blood and scaring.

Techniques include: skin preparation, coloring for different layers of dead flesh, sponge and brush color technique, creating veiny and discolored eyes, creating a rotting mouth and tongue (including secret formula for zombie mouthwash), sculpting skin to create cuts and gashes, molding gashes into existing skin, blood modeling, color technique for blood and scarring skin).
 
#15648/2003   44 minutes 2013  $129.95 *Streaming available 
    

FAITH IN THE HOOD
Southeast DC, the city's poorest region, has only one sit-down restaurant, but hundreds of churches. This program is a compelling portrait of the inner city, as seen through the prism of the spiritual life of its people. The film profiles five ministries: a street ministry for former convicts, a socially active storefront church, a powerful Afro-centric church, an evangelical camp for youth, and an Islamic school.

With commentary from leading experts on African American faith, the film displays the richness of inner-city religion and its centrality as a defining aspect of black community life. 
#15636/0605   55 minutes 2012  $329.95 
    

BUDDHA (THE)
THE BUDDHA, a two-hour documentary by Emmy® Award-winner David Grubin, tells the story of the Indian sage who attained enlightenment as he sat beneath a fig tree two-and-a-half millennia ago. The Buddha never claimed to be God or God’s emissary on earth. He was a human being who, in a world of unavoidable pain and suffering, found a serenity that he taught others to find also. With original animation woven throughout, THE BUDDHA draws upon paintings and sculptures across two millennia as well as scenes in India today that echo the Buddha’s world of long ago. The testimony of contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin and his Holiness the Dalai Lama, provide insight into the ancient narrative. 
#15635/1725   120 minutes 2010  $129.95 *CC 
    

IS SCHOOL ENOUGH? Learning Beyond the Classroom
Thanks to digital media, the Internet and new advances in understanding how students learn, educators are beginning to appreciate the importance of breaking out of the classroom and into the wider world. There’s a growing understanding that learning should not just be preparation for life, but is actually "life itself".

IS SCHOOL ENOUGH? documents vivid examples of where new modes of learning and engagement are taking hold and flourishing. Featuring nationally recognized educators and researchers, Stephen Brown’s powerful stories show that when students have the opportunity to explore real interests and problems, they step up and perform at the highest level. This new approach reaches motivated students as well as kids that educators call "the bright and bored", helping these learners tune in rather than drop out.

Through the voices of these inspired students and America’s foremost education thought leaders, IS SCHOOL ENOUGH? provides insight into an essential new understanding of what education can be in the 21st century 
#15633/1725   60 minutes 2013  $129.95 *CC 
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PATAGONIA RISING
Is hydro-electric energy really CLEAN? Deep in the heart of Patagonia in Chile flow two of the world’s purest rivers, the Baker and Pascua. Fed by vast glacial systems, these free-flowing watersheds drive biodiversity in temperate rainforests, estuaries and marine ecosystems. They are also the life source for Patagonia’s most tenacious residents, the Gauchos, the iconic South American cowboys who endure relentless winds and long winters on remote ranches in these river valleys.

Isolated and largely undeveloped Patagonia and its people are caught in a heated conflict surrounding a proposal to build five large hydroelectric dams on the Baker and Pascua Rivers. Promoted as "clean" energy, the project’s cultural and environmental impacts would forever alter the region. Alternatives exist. Clean energy experts are proving the viability of solar, wind and geothermal resources developed much closer to demand and infrastructure.

Over the past century more than 45,000 large dams have redefined the course and health of the planet’s rivers with disastrous impacts that continue to unfold. Tracing the hydrologic cycle of the Baker from ice to ocean, Patagonia Rising brings voice to the frontier people caught in the crossfire of Chile’s energy demands. Juxtaposing the pro-dam business sector with renewable energy experts, the documentary brings awareness and solutions to this global conflict over water and power.

"Intelligent. Weighs the environmental and cultural impact of five massive hydroelectric dams proposed for Chile's Patagonia region.... Awe-inspiring footage of spectacular lands at South America's southernmost tip introduces the gauchos, loggers and other residents whose ways of life have barely changed over centuries, particularly since no roads or power lines connect many ranches."
Dennis Harvey, Variety 
#15626/0645   88 minutes 2011  $329.95 *Streaming available 
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ADHD IN THE CLASSROOM: Strategies for Teachers

From leading authority Dr. Russell Barkley, this program is designed to help teachers create a learning environment that is responsive to the needs of all students, including those with ADHD. Scenes from an actual classroom illustrate problems that teachers typically encounter and bring effective solutions to life. Viewers see firsthand how to incorporate social skills into the curriculum and how to implement such behavior management methods as color charts and signs, point system, token economy, and turtle-control technique. The video also features helpful graphics, interviews with teachers and other education experts, and informative commentary from Dr. Barkley.

*Includes 42-Page Manual and Leader's Guide
 
#15619/0787   36 minutes 1994/2006  $139.95 *Streaming available 
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GETTING THE JOB YOU REALLY WANT 6th Edition (10 Programs)
This comprehensive series takes you step-by-step through every phase of the job search, plus keeping the job! Teaches how to identify what you want in a job, find the job in less time, interview effectively, negotiate pay and benefits, keep that job, and move up too!

Throughout informative interviews, experts reveal self-directed strategies for finding jobs, balancing work and life, tapping into little-known resources that can speed up your career transition, and more.

The Instructor's Guides are provided free with series purchase. A link from which to download is provided. These guides offer Presentation Suggestions, Quizzes, Activities, Discussion Questions, a Quiz, and a Homework Option.

*Also available is the Getting the Job You Really Want WORKBOOK #15610-W $24.95 that can also reinforce training on virtually any job search topic.

*There are ten 25-minute programs in this series:

INTRODUCTION: Getting the Life You Really Want, Sixth Edition
Most of us will spend a quarter of our lives working, and for most of us, our jobs affect our lifestyles. To prepare for the future, you need to think about more than the job you want; you need to consider the life you want. The career path you choose will affect your life. That's why organizing your job search and knowing what you want in a job are so important. In this video you learn how your career decisions will affect your life.
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GETTING TO KNOW WHAT AN EMPLOYER WANTS, Sixth Edition
Employers are always on the lookout for well-qualified, dependable, energetic employees. In fact, many employers complain that they can't find enough workers with the right skills, training, and attitude. In this video you discover the skills, attitudes, and personality traits that all employers expect of their workers, regardless of industry. You'll learn to understand the job search process from the employer's point of view. You must think like an employer, gain a better understanding of what they are looking for, and then make changes in yourself to fit their requirements.

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR SKILLS, Sixth Edition
In planning your career and looking for a job, knowing what you can do well is important. Knowing your best skills can help you decide what kind of work is right for you. People who do work that they are good at tend to be more successful in their careers. But it's not enough to know your best skills. You need to be able to communicate those skills to an employer. To be most successful, you need to take an inventory of all your skills so that you know which ones to emphasize throughout the job search. This video helps you do just that.

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR JOB OBJECTIVE, Sixth Edition
What kind of job do you want? Would you like to work directly with people? Are you looking for a job with a lot of responsibility? Where do you want to work? With a large company or a small one? Outdoors or behind a desk? Do you want work with regular hours or better job security? Would you give up some pay for good health insurance? This video discusses the most important points to consider when forming your job objective. This video helps you think about your career preferences and rank them in order of importance. Then you will have a more focused goal in mind and will be ready to start your job search.

GETTING ORGANIZED TO FIND A JOB, Sixth Edition
If you are looking for work, getting a job is your job. Unfortunately, most job seekers spend only 15 to 20 hours a week looking for work when they should be spending twice that. In this video you learn the importance of getting organized before you begin your job search. In addition, you learn about the importance of job applications, a sometimes frustrating but often necessary first step in the job search process. Gathering everything you need for an application will help you to get organized, too.

GETTING A JOB WITH TRADITIONAL AND NONTRADITIONAL JOB SEARCH METHODS, Sixth Edition
There is no one right way to go about a job search. But in today's job market, some methods work better than others. How you go about your job search depends on the kind of job you are looking for. However, just about any job seeker will be more successful by using a variety of methods and emphasizing the strategies that work best. This video introduces you to the most common ways that people find jobs, from responding to online ads to calling employers to simply asking people you know if they can help. There are many different ways to uncover job leads. And there are many people who can help you—provided you know what questions to ask.

GETTING AND USING YOUR RESUME, COVER LETTER, PORTFOLIO, Sixth Edition
Job search documents such as resumes, cover letters, and portfolios are more than just a way for you to introduce your skills and qualifications to an employer. They are a tool employers use to screen out candidates. They aren't a ticket to an interview, just the passport required to be considered. This video covers the purpose and value of resumes, cover letters, portfolios, and other job search materials. It gives you suggestions for making the most of those documents and suggests resources for even more help.

GETTING A POSITIVE RESPONSE IN EACH OF THE SEVEN INTERVIEW PHASES, Sixth Edition
You have a job interview. It sounds like you are in the home stretch. Although the interview itself will probably be less than an hour, you have a lot to prepare for. And when the interview is over, there's still more work to do to get the job you want. In this video you discover the seven phases of the job interview and how to succeed in each one. Remember that, intimidating as they can sometimes be, interviews are fairly predictable, which means that you can prepare for them. *Click here to VIEW CLIP

GETTING GOOD ANSWERS TO TOUGH INTERVIEW QUESTIONS, Sixth Edition
The job interview can take 10 minutes or a couple of hours. But no matter how long it takes, and no matter how many questions are asked, you can be sure of one thing. You will get a question without an easy answer. This video focuses on the trickiest part of the interview process: answering the questions. You learn a time-tested method for answering any interview question. Then you are walked through the process of answering the 10 questions that most frequently cause job candidates trouble. *Click here to VIEW CLIP

GETTING TO KEEP THE JOB YOU FIND, Sixth Edition
You followed the lead. You polished your resume. You aced the interview. You landed the job. Congratulations. Now it's time to go to work. For some people, getting the job is the hardest part. But keeping it can be just as difficult. In most cases, the person who has the most control over your job success is you. This video gives practical, time-tested advice for doing just that. You even learn the best way to leave a job when the job you want even more comes along. 
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WINDFALL

Wind power... it’s sustainable ... it burns no fossil fuels... it produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That’s what the people of Meredith, NY first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town’s failing economy with a farm of their own -- that of 40 industrial wind turbines. But when a group of townspeople discover the impacts that a 400-foot high windmill could bring to their community, Meredith’s residents become deeply divided as they fight over the future of their community. With wind development growing annually at more than 39 percent, WINDFALL is an eye-opener for anyone concerned about the environment and the future of renewable energy.
 
#15602/0645   83 minutes 2011  $329.95 *Streaming available 
    

MAD COW, SACRED COW
Terrified of his food, filmmaker Anand Ramayya embarks on a journey that reveals shocking connections between the Mad Cow crisis, Farm crisis and Global Food crisis. Ramayya realizes that the cow is not only his favourite meal but also the God of his Hindu ancestors and the livelihood of his Canadian in-laws, who are small farmers.

With a sense of humor and curiosity, Ramayya embarks on a journey to learn more about the modern Mad Cow and ancient Sacred Cow in hopes that their stories will reveal a solution to his fear of food. The journey takes him from his in-laws' family farm all the way back to India, land of the Sacred Cow. Ironically, modern India is also home to a burgeoning meat export industry that threatens to destroy an agricultural economy centered around the Sacred Cow and critical to the livelihood of 65% of India's population.

Globalization emerges as a re-occurring character in this journey, revealing a world gone mad, an ecological crisis, religious fundamentalism, a farmer suicide epidemic and record breaking economic growth contrasted by staggering disparity. Is the way we eat connected to all this? Mad Cow Sacred Cow is a universal story that connects the food we eat to the environmental, cultural, economic and health crises we are currently facing on a global level. 
#15601/1043   53 minutes 2010  $279.95 *Streaming available 
    

COCOA (Cacao): A STUDY OF CHOCOLATE

"Highly Recommended! This is one of those interesting documentaries that informs you about a topic you should know more about, but don't - chocolate. The filmmakers had to travel half way around the world in order to tell the whole story, and a fascinating one it is. The cinematography is excellent and the information is clear and objective; you get to see both sides of the supply and demand issue and like a great tasting chocolate bar you end up satisfied." National Media Review

Billions of people all over the world love chocolate. Roald Dahl's classic children's tale, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," has been made into a feature film twice; still not many know much more about chocolate, other than they like it. The source of cocoa, chocolate, and cocoa butter is the cacao seed (or bean), which, after oil and coffee, is the third most traded raw material in the world. The seeds grow inside of large pods that sprout from the trunk or branches of an evergreen tree, called the Theobroma Cacao, native to the rainforests of Central and South America, then transplanted to western Africa. This program takes us to Ecuador, where some of the world's most refined cocoa is produced. We follow the tracks of the cacao bean on its journey from harvest to consumer by way of the Cailler-Nestlé Chocolate Factory in Broc, Switzerland. We learn there are over 14 million people involved in the plant's cultivation; also we meet growers, harvesters, brokers and exporters, such as Maquita and Nestlé, the world's leader in chocolate production, who share the complexities of producing and marketing chocolate, and why only 5% of the profits ever reach the producers.
 
#15599/0450   52 minutes 2008  $239.95 *Streaming available 
    

SAD STORY OF THE BANANA: Dangers of Pesticide Abuse

"Highly Recommended. This is the real story behind the cosmetic banana; the perfect flawless fruit that appears on tables everywhere. Although the sub-title highlights dangers of pesticide abuse, the program covers broader issues regarding banana plantations in Central America. It uncovers areas such as extreme exploitation of man and earth, of trade wars and corruption, and destruction of society and the environment in poor countries by large international corporations. However, the story ends on a positive note, suggesting the possibility of a better future with global restructuring of agro-food system based on fair trade and environmentally friendly practices. The video quality is good, the narration is clear and English sub-titles are provided wherever necessary; it is highly recommended for those who are interested in world issues and environmental studies." EMRO Review

Few people realize that intensive cultivation is required to secure the world's demand for bananas or that multinational corporations are using massive amounts of pesticides to protect their valuable crops. First we see how overuse of chemicals is not only bad for the environment, but also to the welfare of the crop workers. For example, in Costa Rica we learn the water these people drink is polluted by numerous fungicides and fertilizers, causing some to become sterile, and others to suffer from skin ulcers. Then we see how cooperative plantations can provide a safer way to raise crops and a more humane way for workers to earn a living.
 
#15598/0450   30 minutes 2010  $189.95 *Streaming available 
    

GAMES AND ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE WELL-ADJUSTED YOUTH (4 Programs)
Four volumes in this series teach games and activities that foster the essentials of well-adjusted youth.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL FITNESS - Volume One (87 minutes)
Includes 29 fun and active games and activities that provide purposeful movement for the body and problem-solving for the mind. These games are perfect for youth-serving organizations that want to help kids become physically fit, as well as to develop their cognitive skills. The games and activities featured in this DVD are designed provide youth with the opportunity to enhance their level of physical health, particularly with regard to aerobic fitness, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and flexibility. As for mental fitness, the games and activities in this DVD offer youth a viable means to improve various aspects of their mental functioning, including problem-solving, attention, decision-making, and memory. This DVD consists of Physical Fitness Games 1 to 17 as well as Mental Fitness Games 18 to 29.
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SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL FITNESS - Volume Two (81 minutes)
Features 26 fun and meaningful games and activities that are designed to develop social skills and provide faith-building opportunities. These games are perfect for youth-serving organizations that want to help kids become socially prepared to work in teams by building healthy relationships and by developing faith. With regard to social fitness, the DVD includes games and activities that can enhance the social health of youth in endeavors invloving teamwork and cooperation. As for spiritual fitness, the games and activities presented in this DVD offer a viable means of increasing a child’s level of faith and accountability to God with the love and support of family and friends. This DVD consists of Social Fitness Games 30 to 47 as well as Spiritual Fitness Games 48 to 55.
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EMOTIONAL FITNESS AND CIVILITY/SPORTSMANSHIP - Volume Three (100 minutes)
Offers 27 fun and rewarding games and activities that can help the emotional stability of youth, as well strengthen their ability to exhibit patience, grace, and strength of character when interacting with others. These games are perfect for youth-serving organizations who want to assist kids become more emotionally balanced by creating meaningful relationships involving both trust and kindness. With regard to emotional fitness, the games and activities featured in this DVD provide youth with the opportunity to enhance their level of trust both in themselves and in others. As for civility and sportsmanship, the games and activities in this DVD are designed to give youth the opportunity to develop their skills in patience, kindness, and respect in order to create positive relationships, improve their ability to work well with others, and help prevent bullying. This DVD consists of EMOTIONAL FITNESS GAMES 56 to 71 and CIVILITY/SPORTSMANSHIP GAMES 72 to 82.
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OUTDOOR SKILLS AND SELF-RELIANCE - Volume Four (62 minutes)
Features 19 fun and adventuresome games and activities that are designed to enhance a participant’s level of self-reliance through the development of selected outdoor skills. These games are perfect for youth-serving organizations that want to help kids thrive in the outdoors where they can build self-worth, independence, and self-sufficiency. By promoting outdoor skills and self-reliance, the games and activities provide youth with an opportunity to increase their level of confidence and experience in an outdoors setting. This DVD consists of OUTDOOR SKILLS AND SELF-RELIANCE GAMES 83 to 101.
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#15584/0463  2013  $269.95  Grades 6 to 12 
    

LIFE OF MUHAMMAD (THE) 3 Programs
This is the extraordinary story of a man who, in little more than 20 years, changed the world forever. In a journey that is both literal and historical, host Rageh Omaar retraces the footsteps of the Prophet, from his humble beginnings in Mecca to his struggles with accepting his Prophetic role; from his flight to Medina to his subsequent military and political successes and failures - through to his death and his legacy. The series consists of three 60 minute programs:

THE SEEKER
Examines Muhammad's birth and early life, his first marriage to Khadijah, and how he received the first of the revelations that so profoundly affected both his life and the lives of those closest to him.

HOLY WARS
Omaar shines a light on key events in Muhammad's life, including the Night Journey to Jerusalem, his life-threatening departure from Mecca, the establishment of the Constitution of Medina that recognizes the rights of all people (Jews, Christians, and pagan tribes) living in that city, and the war with the Meccan tribes, with implications on the world today.

HOLY PEACE
Investigates key events during the later part of the Prophet’s life, including the introduction of a moral code known as sharia and the concept of jihad, explores Muhammad's use of marriage to build alliances, and looks at the key messages included in his final sermon. 
#15583/1725   180 minutes 2013  $149.95 *CC 
    

STAGE MANAGEMENT 2nd Edition
Filled with hands-on demonstrations and real world tips for students, this 2nd Edition will have your students running shows like professionals in no time!

A new Overview Section identifies just what a stage manager does, from pre-show conferences to closing night in Limited, Touring, and Extended runs. Detailed sections illustrate rehearsal skills like Taping the Stage, making Prompt Books and Calling Scripts, using Blocking and Cueing Shorthand, Production Meetings, and other tricks of the trade.

Another New Section on Communication addresses when to use Electronic Media, and when to communicate face-to-face. Focuses on Technical Rehearsals and Performances, including pre-show Protocol, how to actually Call a Show, and how to avoid, prepare for, and, when necessary, handle Common Problems.

More New Sections include: Maintaining a Show, Touring and Extended Runs, Stage Managing Musicals, and Careers in Stage Management.

HOSTS:

Tom Martin has been a professional Director, Stage and Production Manager, and Associate Producer for the last 35 years. He has worked extensively at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, and is on the theatre faculty at St. Louis University.

J. Jason Daunter is a New York based professional stage manager whose Broadway and National Touring stage management credits include the Broadway Blockbuster Wicked, Cyrano de Bergerac (starring Kevin Kline), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Chicago, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Both Tom and Jason are proud members of Actors Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers.
 
#15577/0917  2013  $279.95 *CC 
    

FACTORS AFFECTING (ATHLETIC) PERFORMANCE: Psychological
The things that go on in an athlete's mind can greatly affect their physical performance. Two of the key psychological factors affecting performance are the athlete's motivation and their ability to manage their level of anxiety and arousal. These factors are examined in detail under the following headings: Motivation - intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; positive and negative motivation; reinforcement: social, material and internal. Anxiety, arousal and the inverted u hypothesis. Managing anxiety - concentration skills; mental rehearsal; visualisation; relaxation; goal setting. 
#15576/0545   25 minutes 2005  $129.95 *Streaming available 
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CAREERS IN THEATRE
This comprehensive program will help your students explore the many career opportunities in theatre:
*Performers, actors, director, casting director, stage manager, choreographer, dance captain, stage manager, vocal coach, etc.
*Technical: designers, production manager, TD, carpenters, audio, scenic artists, props carpenters and artisans, electrics, drapers, stitchers, trimmers, crafts, board programmers, and running crews.
*Theatre Administration: producer, artistic director, managers, development & company, front-of-house, marketing.
*Theatre Education

Also, interviews with working professionals show what a typical day at work is like for the different jobs, what are the most satisfying and challenging aspects of their profession, what kind of training their areas require, and which jobs demand irregular hours and travel.

This 6 to 10 day unit will help your students explore...

Day 1
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES (15 minutes)
This section examines 4 very different venues, from a 10,700 seat outdoor musical venue, to a large outdoor Shakespeare Festival, an Opera company that runs in true repertory, and finally more traditional Stock company.
Professional Theatre - or who's going to hire me? (through Repertory section) (10 minutes)
This section examines producing organizations, and common types of runs:
a.Limited
b.Extended/Open-ended
c.Stock
d.True Repertory

Day 2
Commercial and Not for Profit Theatres (15 minutes) What are the differences between Commercial and Not-For-Profit Theatres, and how would that affect the student's potential employment in theatre.

Day 3 Unions (15 minutes) An overview of the most common theatrical unions, and some things to consider before possibly joining one of the unions.

Day 4 Jobs in Theatre (18 minutes total, 9 minutes for each section)
Theatre Management: Lots of examples from the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (company manager, house manager, box office manager, director of development, education director, director of marketing, etc.)
Pre-Show / Performance Staff: Lots of footage from STAGES ST. LOUIS (artistic director, director, designers, casting director, theatrical agents, actors, stage manager, choreographer, dance captain, vocal coach, dialect coach, dramaturg, running crews, etc)

Day 5 Jobs in Theatre: Artistic Staff and Production Staff (15 minutes) Production Staff: Lots of backstage footage at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (production manager, technical director, materials coordinator, carpenters, props carpenters, props artisans, electricians, drapers, stitchers, trimmers, dressers, wardrobe supervisor, crafts artisans, stage managers, audio techs, scenic artists, scenic charge, deck crew, wig specialists, etc.)

Day 6 Differences in New York and Regional Theatres (5.5 minutes) This section also includes an interview with the owner of large production company, and footage of job opportunities in that production facility.
Educational Theatre (12.5 minutes) A look at Elementary and Secondary, Community College, and University theatre, what are the goals of each level of educational theatre, job security, what degrees are available, and what degrees are needed for different types of employment. Educational arms of professional companies are also examined.

Day 7-8 Interviews with Professionals
(85 minutes total for all interviews. May be viewed individually,
grouping as you wish, or in total)
Actor (Actors Equity Association))
Costumer (United Scenic Artists 829)
Set Designer (United Scenic Artists 829)
Stagehand (IATSE Local 6)
Director/Choreographer (Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers)
Dresser/Wig Specialist (IATSE)
Production Supervisor (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis)
Artistic Director (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis)
Executive Producer (Fox Theatricals)

Day 9 Written Assessment

ALIGNMENTS TO THE NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ARTS EDUCATION
All lesson designs in this DVD series align to the National Standards for the Arts in Theatre.

National Content Standard 5 - 8:
6. Content Standard: Comparing and incorporating art forms by analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theatre, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms

Achievement Standard:
d. Describe and compare the functions and interaction of performing and visual artists and audience members in theatre, dramatic media, musical theatre, dance music, and visual arts.

National Content Standard 5 - 8:
7. Analyzing, evaluating, and constructing meanings from improvised and scripted scenes and from theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions

Achievement Standard:
a. Describe and analyze the effect of publicity, study guides, programs, and physical environments on audience response and appreciation of dramatic performances

National Content Standard 5 - 8:
8. Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film television, and electronic media in community and in other cultures

Achievement Standard:
b. Explain the knowledge, skills and discipline needed to pursue careers and avocational opportunities in theatre, film, television, and electronic media
e. Explain how social concepts such as cooperation, communication, collaboration, consensus,

National Content Standard 9 - 12:
4. Directing by interpreting dramatic texts and organizing and conducting rehearsals for informal or formal productions

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
d. Explain and compare the roles and interrelated responsibilities of the various personnel involved in theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions

National Content Standard 9-12:
8. Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present

Achievement Standard, Proficient:
b. Identify and compare the lives, works, and influence of representative theatre artists in various cultures and historical periods

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
g. Analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods and explain influences on contemporary theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions

*** Includes 2 DVD discs and Support Materials on CD-ROM
 
#15575/0917  2013  $279.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ECONOMIC MELTDOWN (THE): How America's Fiscal Fallout Triggered a Global Crisis (Five videos on 2 DVDs)
A set of five 60 minute programs that describe how America's fiscal fallout triggered a global crisis.

The five programs in the series are:

INSIDE THE MELTDOWN
An investigation of how the economy went so bad, so fast, and what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson didn't see, couldn't stop, and weren't able to fix.
TEN TRILLION AND COUNTING
Tracks the politics behind America's mountain of debt. Is this crisis far bigger than our current financial mess?
BREAKING THE BANK
Goes inside the saga of Ken Lewis and Bank of America; from the start, the Merrill deal was troubled … then the government took over.
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THE WARNING
In the midst of the 1990s bull market, one lone regulator warned about the dangers of derivatives - and overnight became the enemy of some of the most powerful people in Washington.
CLIFFHANGER
As the nation faces yet another round of fiscal crises, this program investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country's problems of debt and deficit. 
#15573/1725   300 minutes 2013  $129.95 *CC 
    

COSTUMING FOR THEATRE
This 6 to 10 day course is written and hosted by EdTA Hall of Fame inductee Terry McGonigle designed to help your students discover...

*The Elements and Concepts of Costume Design: script and character analysis, research, the functions of costume design, the five basic elements of costume design, additional components of costume design, costume charts and plots.
*Developing a Design Concept: items to address, the collaborative process of working with other theatre professionals, and the importance of having a solid production concept.
*Figure Drawing...even for people who are convinced they cannot draw.
*Costume Drawing: lines and silhouettes typical of different historical periods, and drawing fabric.
*Turning Modern Clothing Into Period Clothing
*A Backstage Tour of a Professional Costume Shop.

CHAPTER INDEX

Day 1
Introduction and the Script (approx. 8 minutes of video content) Section includes a short play to start script analysis, or you may choose to use a play you have available. Included is a short written assessment.
Day 2
Functions of Costume Design: Functions, Knowing the Characters, Research, How to do a Costume Chart (approx. 7 minutes of video content) Section includes several character analysis formats geared specifically towards costume design. Included is a short written assessment.
Day 3-4
Elements of Costume Design, and Developing a Design Concept
(approx. 13.5 minutes of video content) Section includes several resource sheets addressing elements of design, and a short written assessment.
Day 5-6
Drawing the Human Form (7.5 Heads Formula), Drawing the Basic Body (actual process done by students). (approx. 7 minutes of video content) Section includes lots of replaying short sections, and pausing program as students draw on resource sheets.
Day 7
Applying Clothes to the Body (approx. 7 minutes of video content) Section includes lots of replaying short sections, and pausing program as students draw on resource sheets.
Day 8
Turning New into Old, Professional Opportunities in Costuming, Review for Unit Written Assessment (approx. 7 minutes of video content)
Day 9
Unit Written Assessment Review and Administer Written Assessment

*ALL LESSON DESIGNS IN THE DVD ALIGN TO THE NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR THE ARTS IN THEATRE.

GRADES 5 to 8
:
3. Content Standard: Designing by developing environments for improvised and scripted scenes.

Achievement Standard:
Students -
a. explain the functions and interrelated nature of scenery, properties, lighting, sound costumes, and makeup in creating an environment appropriate for the drama
b. analyze improvised and scripted scenes for technical requirements
c. develop focused ideas for the environment using visual elements (line, texture, color, space), visual principles (repetition, balance, emphasis, contrast, unity), and aural qualities (pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, expression) from traditional and nontraditional sources
d. work collaboratively and safely to select and create elements of scenery, properties, lighting and sound to signify environments, and costumes and makeup to suggest character

5. Content Standard:
Students -
a. apply research from print and nonprint sources to script writing , acting design, and directing choices
8. Content Standard:
Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in community and in other cultures

Achievement Standard:
Students -
b. explain the knowledge, skills, and discipline needed to pursue careers and avocational opportunities in theatre, film television, and electronic media
d. explain how culture affects the content and production values of dramatic performances
e. explain how social concepts such as cooperation, communication, collaboration, consensus, self-esteem, risk taking, sympathy and empathy apply in theatre and daily life

GRADES 9 to 12

8. Content Standard:
Designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions Achievement Standard, Proficient:

Students -
b. analyze a variety of dramatic texts from cultural and historical perspectives to determine production requirements
c. develop designs that use visual and aural elements to convey environments that clearly support the text
d. apply technical knowledge and skills to collaboratively and safely create functional scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
Students -
f. explain how scientific and technological advances have impacted set, light, sound, and costume design and implementation for theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
g. collaborate with directors to develop unified production concepts that convey the metaphorical nature of the drama for informal and formal theatre, film, television or electronic media productions
h. safely construct and efficiently operate technical aspects of theatre, film, television, or electronic media productions

Content Standard:
Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices

Achievement Standard, Proficient:
Students -
a. identify and research cultural, historical, and symbolic clues in dramatic texts, and evaluate the validity and practicality of the information to assist in making artistic choices for informal and formal productions

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
Students -
b. research and describe appropriate historical production designs, techniques, and performances from various cultures to assist in making artistic choices for informal and formal theatre, film television, or electronic media productions

8. Content Standard:
Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present

Achievement Standard, Proficient:
Students -
b. identify and compare the lives, works, and influence of representative theatre artists in various cultures and historical periods

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
Students -
g. analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods and explain influences on contemporary theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions
 
#15570/0917   46 minutes 2012  $279.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ASPERGER'S SYNDROME: Anger Management, Teaching Teachers, and Teenage Issues
Dr. Tony Atwood gives teachers great advice on how to effectively manage a classroom that includes students with Asperger's. He offers tips for inclusion success and social/behavioral warning signs to watch for. He also shares helpful strategies for teaching adolescents with Asperger's. Since social skills are so imperative at this age, this tends to be a particularly challenging age for students and, consequently, for teachers. Viewers learn how to deal with angry outbursts and take preventative steps to avoid conflicts. Create a positive learning environment where ALL students thrive! 
#15551/0603   180 minutes 2003  $149.95 *Streaming available 
    

REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY, 7th Program
This fresh, new DVD, separate from the existing set of 6 DVDs (see item #14589), specifically highlights the new topics using engaging and memorable video examples.

New topics include:
*Residential Energy Audits (Unit 39) provides the depth of information needed for successful analysis and work in this growing area.
*Heat Gains and Heat Losses in Buildings (Unit 42) equips students with the background and skills to identify and correct the environmental challenges in today's structures.
*New insights and coverage of customer relations and the technician soft skills that play a critical role in customer satisfaction.
*Placing importance on green awareness, also covers advanced refrigerant leak detection, carbon dioxide refrigeration, newer alternative refrigerants, and as well as LEED accreditation and many of the progressive new technologies in use today in the HVAC/R fields. 
#15529/0430   80 minutes 2013  $489.95 
    

MARS: The Red Frontier
Mars and Earth are brother and sister - or they were 4 billion years ago. They started life as equals, with similar atmospheres, planetary features and climates. On Earth life has flourished, but what happened to Mars? There are many people seeking the answer to that question, including paleontologist and fossil hunter, Professor Malcolm Walter, who has been enlisted by NASA. His instinct tells him the best way to study Mars is by exploring Earth - specifically, the sites of ancient hot springs. It's now suspected that hydrothermal systems were once a bubbling cauldron of emerging life forms. By studying such places, Professor Walter is able to identify similar spots on Mars, the places we are most likely to find signs of past life. It is in these locations that NASA will land the flotilla of spacecraft that it's sending to the Red Planet over the next two decades.

*Produced by ABC International, Inc.

*Part of the ASTRONOMY SERIES 
#15522/0450   30 minutes 2008  $189.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

CREATING MOBILE APPS (2 Programs)
With the app market in boom mode, entrepreneurs around the world have poured their energy and resources into app development. What does it take to stake a claim in this high-tech gold rush? What tools and techniques are most likely to produce a winner? This two-part series answers those questions, going inside the world of app creation - from the eureka moment that inspires a new project through various stages of content and interface development to the final phases of deploying and promoting the app. Weighing platform options, ensuring ease of navigation, and integrating social media are all important topics of discussion, and both episodes feature detailed interviews with experts who specialize in app development.

Two 22-minute programs:

MOBILE APP RESEARCH AND PLANNING
The process of bringing a successful app to market begins long before the actual software is developed. As with any endeavor that fuses commerce and creativity, the app usually starts with a spark of inspiration and gets fleshed out through market research and intensive planning. This program takes viewers through those initial phases with hip, high-energy visuals and commentary from experts who create apps for a living. Topics include identifying the target audience or consumer base; studying apps aimed at a similar market; creating a project plan; designing with a focus on ease of use and the customer’s ability to share with other users; strategizing to compete against more corporate, big-budget apps; considering various development tools to utilize; thinking ahead regarding platform options; looking at monetization models; distinguishing between apps that deliver a lot of content and those that use little or none; using content management systems; and projecting costs and profitability.

MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT
Once the purpose, basic architecture, and potential consumer base of a mobile app have been established, it’s time to get busy building it. But app development is typically a complex undertaking and subject to a wide range of variables. This program helps viewers sift through the process of successful app construction with the aid of expert interviews and eye-catching video and graphics. Topics include choosing a platform (mainly Apple vs. Android); designing the user interface with an eye toward simplicity and functionality; using wireframes to "storyboard" the app’s navigation tree; balancing a tab bar approach with screen size concerns; integrating social media; developing visual, audio, and narrative content; designing data structures; using server-side technology; testing algorithm design; load testing and beta testing; conforming the app to platform specifications; promoting it through search engine optimization, social media, and viral marketing; and maintaining the app with ongoing product analysis. 
#15495/0635  2012  $219.95 
    

MARKETING SERIES 6: The Marketing Mix - Price
Presents pricing formulas, strategies and pricing case studies:

PART 1 (9 mins): Introduction to Price: Basic pricing formulas explained. Price & Income Elasticity Of Demand. Normal goods and Inferior Goods. The Price Plateau.

PART 2 (11 mins): Pricing Strategies:. Cost Plus, Penetration, Predatory, Promotional pricing, plus examples. Also: psychological pricing and differential pricing. What do we mean by "skimming the market"?

PART 3 (15 mins): Pricing Case Studies:. The catering trade: how do rising costs affect pricing strategies? Innocent Drinks command a premium price, but have new products undermined their usp? 99p Stores use price as a strategic weapon. Ryanair a classic case of penetration pricing. Diesel uses its brand image to charge top prices. But "price" can have damaging social effects: we look at cheap alcohol sales in supermarkets and energy sector pricing. Is it effectively a monopoly? 
#15493/2047   35 minutes 2013  $289.95 *Streaming available 
    

MARKETING SERIES 5: The Marketing Mix - Product Case Studies
Presents three case studies:

PART 1 (7 mins): Extension Strategies: Skoda: how did Volkswagen reinvent the Skoda brand? Famous Failures! How some brands went "a stretch too far", including Harley Davidson perfume, yoghurt from Cosmopolitan magazine and mountain bikes from gun makers Smith & Wesson.

PART 2 (9 mins): Long Lives, Short Lives, Reincarnations: The Mars bar. What is the secret of its longevity? Cadbury’s Fuse went off like a rocket but fizzled out - but Wispa came back from the dead. Lyle’s Golden Syrup has hardly changed in 100 years!

PART 3 (6 mins): New Product, Same Brand: Call of Duty is the masterbrand for a range of products - critics accuse Activision of "diluting the brand". Activision says: just look at sales! Special Editions is another way of getting new life out of an old product - but for the Queen’s Jubilee 2012 not everyone was amused.
 
#15492/2047   22 minutes 2013  $289.95 *Streaming available 
    

MARKETING SERIES 4: Product
An exploration of what most marketers would regard as the most important element of the Marketing Mix: Product.

PART 1 (15 mins): All About The Marketing Mix: Product. An introduction into the essentials of "product".
What is value analysis? How is it done? What is the product life cycle? How can a business extend the life of a product? What is meant by brand extension? Also includes the Boston Matrix as a way of analysing a product portfolio.

PART 2 (8 mins): Case Studies In Value Analysis. Apple iPad compared to the Panasonic Toughpad. Tesco’s Everyday Value range.

PART 3 (8 mins): Cash Cows, Stars and Dogs
Coca Cola is the cash cow that has funded new products, including "dogs"such as New Coke and Dasani in UK. Apple’s come-back cash cow was the iPod, but that has been superseded by iPhone and iPad. McCain Foods’ Oven Chips are the cash cow that has funded many variants. 
#15491/2047   35 minutes 2013  $289.95 *Streaming available 
    

GEOMETRY TUTOR: Learning by Example (20 Programs)
This is a complete 20 lesson series covering all of the core topics in detail. Geometry is frequently challenging for students because every problem involves a figure that students must use to solve the problem. It is very important early on to master the art of reading the geometric figures properly in order to do well in this subject. The best way to do this is to introduce the definitions early on and solve problems involving diagrams to give students the much needed practice.

THE GEOMETRY TUTOR series is geared towards students who have been exposed to Algebra 1 and are ready to tackle geometry. Subjects covered include points, rays, lines, triangle congruence and similarity, area of polygons, volume, circular figures, proofs and much more. The skills learned in this course will aid students in more advanced areas of math and science and are used in other Math courses, such as the Pythagorean Theorem, triangle similarity and geometric proofs.
What sets this series apart from other teaching tools is that the concepts are taught entirely through step-by-step example problems of increasing difficulty. It works by introducing each new concept in an easy to understand way and using example problems that are worked out step-by-step and line-by-line to completion. If a student has a problem with coursework or homework, simply find a similar problem fully worked on in the series and review for the steps needed to solve the problem. Students will be able to work problems with ease, improve their problem-solving skills and understand the underlying concepts of Geometry.

LINES, RAYS & PLANES
WORKING WITH ANGLES
COMPLIMENTARY & SUPPLEMENTARY ANGLERS
WORKING WITH INTERSECTING LINES
TYPES OF TRIANGLES
THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM
INTRODUCTION TO POLYGONS
QUADRILATERALS
SIMILAR TRIANGLES
PERIMETER
AREA OF RECTANGLES
AREA OF PARALLELOGRAMS
AREA OF TRIANGLES
AREA OF TRAPEZOIDS
AREA OF PRISMS
VOLUME OF PRISMS & PYRAMIDS
CIRCLES & CIRCULATOR FIGURES
CYLINDERS, CONES & SPHERES
GEOMETRIC PROOFS

*Includes Teachers User Instruction and Resource Guide with recommended books & Geometry Websites.


 
#15490/2003  2010  $879.95  Grades 7 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM SERIES (20 Programs) MULTIPLE SITE USE
This series of twenty 7-minute programs explores the characteristics of body structure, locomotion, mating, habitat adaptation, and other features that cause scientists to classify animals in biological groups. Worldwide, live-action location footage alternates with clear close-ups and captions that reveal the distinctive features of each group of animals. In addition to learning particulars of certain groups, this series trains young minds how to observe and analyze in a scientific manner.

Item#23591 Bees & Other Hymenopterans
This program introduces the members of the order Hymenoptera, which have a characteristic slim shape and two pairs of jointed, membranous wings.

Item# 23610 Bony & Other Cartilginous Fish
Live-action footage introduces several species of bony flatfish, including turbot, brill, sole, and plaice. These side-swimmers are shown camouflaging themselves on the ocean floor.

Item# 23592 Bugs & Other Hemipterans
Live-action footage highlights the distinguishing characteristic of heteropterans, rigid forewings covering tiny back wings and a piercing tool used for feeding.

Item# 23593 Butterflies & Other Lepidopterans
Live-action footage captures a butterfly chrysalis warding off its enemies and highlights the scaly wings that are characteristic of all Lepidopterans.

Item# 23594 Crabs & Other Custaceans
Live-action film footage introduces the characteristics of crustaceans, with a focus on decapods, ten-legged crustaceans such as crabs and shrimps.

Item# 23595 Crickets & Other Orthopterans
Live-action film footage reveals the characteristics of crickets and other orthopterans.

Item# 23596 Deer & Other Ruminants
Starting with members of the deer family and their characteristics, this program explains that ruminants are two-toed mammals that regurgitate their food from one of their stomach compartments for further chewing.

Item# 23597 Earthworms & Other Annelids
Live-action footage highlights the annelid features of earthworms, such as a soft, segmented body with a defined head and anus, muscles for locomotion, and thick skin full of blood vessels that secrete a viscous liquid.

Item# 23598 Flies & Other Dipterans
Beginning with the common housefly, this program reviews the characteristics of dipterans: two sets of wings, halteres, and proboscises.

Item# 23599 Frogs & Other Amphibians
Amphibians are introduced by comparing the habits and physical characteristics of frogs, tritons (newts), toads, and salamanders.

Item# 23600 Ladybug beetles & Other Coleopterans
Close-up footage shows aphids providing food for ants, who are then eaten by ladybugs. Typical coleopteran features are demonstrated by the ladybug?s two membranous folding wings, protected by two rigid wing covers.

Item# 23601 Mice & Other Rodents
Live-action footage introduces characteristics of rodents such as mice, voles, muskrats, and gerbils, highlighting the single pair of upper and lower incisors, which distinguish them from non-rodents such as hedgehogs, rabbits, and bats.

Item# 23602 Mussels & Other Bivalves
Live-action footage introduces typical bivalve mollusks including mussels, oysters, clams, cockles, fresh water mussels, and pearl oysters. There are over 12,000 species in the world, each distinguished by a shell with two halves (valves) and siphons through which the animal filters its food.

Item# 23603 Owls & Other Raptors
Beginning with the common barn owl, birds of prey, from eagles and kites to vultures and buzzards, are introduced.

Item# 23604 Parmecia & Other Protozoans
Paramecia are examples of the ciliate phylum, unicellular protists that are found in all environments. Live-action photography captures the various ways these organisms move, reproduce, and feed.

Item# 23605 Sea Anemones & Other Cnidarians
Beginning with the common sea anemone, this program expands students? understanding of cnidarians to include a variety of simple organisms such as jellyfish and coral, which possess stinging tentacles and exhibit complex behaviors despite their simple body structures.

Item# 23606 Snails & Other Gastropods
Live-action footage of the brown garden snail highlights the characteristics that make this animal a gastropod mollusk.

Item# 23607 Snakes & Other Reptiles
Close-up videography of the rat snake highlights its excellent vision, its sense of smell, its hunting ability, and its method of swallowing a victim whole.

Item# 23608 Spiders & Other Arachnids
Comparisons between spiders, daddy-long-legs, and acarids stress that spiders are not the only members of the arachnid group.

Item# 23609 Starfish & Other Echinoderms
Live-action footage highlights the characteristics of echinoderms, or "animals with spiny skins," whose 6,000 species include starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers.

*** See item number 15651 for Single Site Pricing *** 
#15485/1445  2006  $1,979.95  Grades 5 to 10 *Streaming available 
    

FROGS AND OTHER AMPHIBIANS (Bioclassification in the Animal Kingdom Series)
Amphibians are introduced by comparing the habits and physical characteristics of frogs, tritons (newts), toads, and salamanders. The mating habits of common toads, green frogs, and alpine newts and the metamorphosis from embryo to tadpole to adult are featured. There are over 5,000 species of frogs and toads that live on earth and new species are constantly being discovered.

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#15484/1445   7 minutes 2009  $179.95  Grades 5 to 10 *Streaming available 
    

MYSTERY OF DISAPPEARING HONEYBEES: Fusion of Form and Function
Winner of the PEABODY AWARD, this fascinating program explores one of nature’s most baffling ecological mysteries: why have millions of honeybees recently disappeared? While not as publicized as climate change, the effects of this crisis on human life could be felt sooner and more severely, with billions of dollars of crops at risk and our most healthful and colorful food supply threatened. The usual suspects: habitat loss, pesticides, suppressed immune systems, and viruses, among others, may all work together to create a perfect storm that has overwhelmed the little, but very important and beautifully adapted honeybee. Join researchers as they scramble to discover why honeybees are dying in record numbers- and to stop the epidemic before it spreads further.

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#15482/1445   30 minutes 2010  $169.95  Grades 7 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

FROGS AND AMPHIBIANS: Crisis and CSI
After surviving Earth's natural catastrophes for over 250 million years, frog and other Amphibia populations are declining rapidly and showing deforming mutations worldwide. It is happening so quickly that scientists are racing to investigate and solve these problems before all amphibian species become extinct. HD live-action and 3D animations illustrate the sweep and detail of the crisis. These ancient organisms may be bellwethers for environmental problems that affect us, and many medical cures may be lost with this group's demise. Amphibian anatomy, such as its unique ability to absorb moisture, oxygen and nutrients from air and water through its skin, make this Class of animals susceptible to its own diseases. Arks, our artificially-created habitats, may rescue some frogs in the short term, but we need their survival in natural ecosystems for their, and our, health.

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#15481/1445   30 minutes 2010  $169.95  Grades 7 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

TIME COMPASS SERIES (16 Programs)

Watch children fall in love with history! With its innovative style and animation, this series of sixteen 20-minute programs portraits significant historical events in ways that kids find fun and easy to digest. Add better yet, they will be enjoying themselves!

ANCIENT EGYPT
From the annual flooding of the Nile to the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, students learn key facts about Ancient Egyptian civilization.

INCAS AND ANDEAN CULTURES
At the time the Turks were invading Byzantium, legend has it that Inca civilization was established by the sun god, Inti. Students learn the Inca system of terracing, the growth of crops, and the remarkable transportation routes where messages were sent thousands of miles by Inca runners.

CLASSICAL GREECE
Innovative animation and a tongue-in-cheek approach to ancient history provide a sound introduction to classical Greek society, from soldiers in the field, to beloved artists, Olympians, and philosophers.

THE AZTEC EMPIRE
Innovative animation and a tongue-in-cheek approach to ancient history provide a sound introduction to the Aztec Empire. The episode compares the history of the Aztec Empire with that of the Ottoman Empire that was expanding rapidly under Suleiman’s leadership.

IMPERIAL ROME
Beginning with the legend of Romulus and Remus, the episode traces the leadership of Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar and the foundations of Western civilization in Roman laws and Roman government. Roman entertainment is detailed, as are the Roman aqueducts and the Roman bath.

ANCIENT CHINA
Beginning at 5,000 years B.C., it traces the Chinese dynasties to the time of Qin Shi Huang and the construction of the Great Wall of China. Next, the scene shifts to the birth of Confucius and the principles of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism.

MESOPOTAMIA
Provides a sound introduction to the early civilizations that were established in Mesopotamia. Traces the move from caves, to cities and towns, and eventually to civilized societies with governments, laws, and religious codes.

THE MAYAS
Students learn of Mayan jaguar worship, Mayan gods who required human and animal sacrifice, and Mayan mathematicians who understood the use of "zero" hundreds of years before Arab mathematicians did. The intricacies of the Mayan calendar and Mayan glyphs are also explained.

CELTS AND VIKINGS
The strength of these warrior societies extended their influence to Rome and the Gallic Wars. A section on the Druids lays the basis for an understanding of magic and wizardry as portrayed in English literature.

THE BYZANTIME EMPIRE
Innovative animation and a tongue-in-cheek approach to ancient history provide a sound introduction to the Byzantine Empire, the schism between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Crusades.

THE ANCIENT ISRAELITES
Explores Jewish history, from Abraham’s people journeying to the Promised Land up to the Final Diaspora. Jewish civilization is heralded as being the only ancient civilization to have survived to the present day.

ISLAM
Students learn how wandering Arabs began to settle around desert oasis. The episode follows the development of a military that eventually overcome the people who had sent Mohammed away from Mecca, and the establishment of thriving economy centered in bazaars of this great city.

THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
From shepherds to conquerors of most of the known world, the Persians ruled with sensitivity to the cultures of others. The episode introduces the Library of Alexandria, which was a symbol of the knowledge and unity of all civilizations in the known world.

ANCIENT JAPAN
Against a background of mountain islands rising out of the sea, the Chinese influenced the First Great Warrior to develop a religion that stressed harmony and balance. He merged clans into a relatively peaceful empire, and the Shoguns expanded the empire according to Samurai traditions.

THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE
Tells of the remarkable achievements of Charlemagne and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Students learn about the social structure of peasants, knights, kings, and clergy in a typical feudal system, comparing European fiefdoms with those protected by the Samurai in Japan.

INDIA
Innovative animation tells of the settlement of Indus and Ganges River valleys and the development of Hinduism and Buddhism in India. Students gain an understanding of how the concept of Destiny influenced the development of the Caste system and theories of reincarnation.

*All programs also available individually

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#15480/1445  2011  $2,399.95  Grades 4 to 10 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ADAPTIVE FUNCTION OF FORM: The Beauty of Ugly
One of Biology's key themes is that form, or body structure, in living things fits each one's function. This helps explain the "beauty", or adaptive success, of so-called "ugly" animals in nature. If we see ugly animals in light of how well they have adapted to their niches or environments, we appreciate how "deformity" gives each a better fitness for survival.

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#15479/1445   30 minutes 2010  $169.95  Grades 7 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

ADAPTIVE ANIMAL ANATOMY
Sharp, often-startling footage demonstrates the infinite variety of Earth's species, possible because our plant's continually changing habitats and niches require adaptations for survival. This constant, if relatively slow, changing to achieve survival fitness accounts for the amazing adaptive body structures we see in spectacular live-action sequences, perfectly coordinated with 3D animations. Unveil how each moment of impact is realized, such as a lizard that walks on water, or crocodiles with skeletal-muscular structures that allow them to launch their huge bodies into air while ambushing victims.

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#15478/1445   30 minutes 2010  $169.95  Grades 7 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

NATIVE AMERICANS (Spirit of America Series)
What does it mean to be a Native American? Perhaps Native American model Stormy Hollingsworth (Ute) says it best, "to be proud, to know that our past and our whole history is a circle of life." This program introduces us to members of the Ute, Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Omaha nations, who reveal that Indians' lives are based on a circle which incorporates their beliefs in respecting their heritage, preserving their traditions and educating their young.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne), a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1993 until 2005, explains how the Grass or Omaha Dance has evolved over time to be commonly known as the Pow Wow; Nico Strange Owl-Hunt (Northern Cheyenne), Twyla LaFleshe Blackbird (Southern Ute), Cleatus and Clifford Cayou (Omaha) and Walter Fremont (Omaha) reflect on the significance of the Pow Wow, which allows Indian people to come in contact with their roots again; to help preserve their traditions.

Alden Naranjo and Norman Lopez, whose heritage is the Southern Ute tribe, explain the importance of the eagle to Native Americans; then we view the tribe's "Sneak Dance"; we meet artist Frank Howell (Lakota), who tells of his personal evolution as an artist; then at the Eagle Plume and Mudhill Galleries we view a variety of Native American art, pottery and jewelry. Appropriately going full circle, Gene Poor Bear (Lakota) explains that he founded the Chipeta Park Pow Wow to help his son stay rooted in family values; then we learn the importance of the drum, how its shape and its beating have symbolic significance to all Native Americans.

*Closed Captioned
 
#15476/0450   30 minutes 2000/2010  $169.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ELY PARKER (SENECA): Warrior in Two Worlds
*WINNER OF MANY AWARDS including CINE Golden Eagle and BEST DOCUMENTARY TELLY AWARDS

"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. This documentary fills an important gap in American history collections by documenting the life of a person who is not well known today. It is accurate and without bias, and gives detailed attention to Parker's life. It brings to light the impact of cultural differences in our society. It has a well-written narrative and good visuals. The narrator, Wes Studi, is a respected Native American actor who breathes life into the words." EMRO Review

Hosted and narrated by actor Wes Studi (Dances With Wolves), this is the compelling documentary on Ely Parker (Seneca), a 19th-Century Native American who defied racial barriers to succeed in two very different worlds. He was a Seneca Chief, a federal engineer, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs and, as Civil War Secretary to General Ulysses S. Grant, he wrote down the terms of surrender at Appomattox. Yet his successes became tainted with controversy, and his quest for the American dream turned tragic. Soundtrack by Joanne Shenandoah.

*Closed Captioned
 
#15475/0450   52 minutes 2004  $219.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

IN CARIBOU COUNTRY: The Adventures of W.B. Cabot
"RECOMMENDED. Pictures of the Naskapi people and the harsh landscape are strikingly detailed. The faces and expressions are vivid and clear." EMRO Review

"Some of the artifacts Cabot gathered, including a drum, a bow and arrow, caribou-skin mittens and a pouch, and moccasins, are on display at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. His journals and photographs form an invaluable anthropological record of the region's native people before they lost much of their traditional culture." HARVARD Magazine

William Brooks Cabot (1858-1949) was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, of a prosperous banking family, and lived primarily around Boston, where he was an eminent engineer. He is remembered for having designed a number of the most technologically advanced projects of his day, including bridges over the Charles River in Boston. Massachusetts, and others in Connecticut, miles of the Catskill aqueduct in upper New York that brought water to New York City, and subway tunnels under Times Square in Manhattan. Yet Cabot also had another love; for years he would escape city life and the demands of engineering to explore the wild waterways and native lands of northern Canada. He made annual trips from 1903 - 1910 to Labrador, Canada, to meet the Innu, then known as the Naskapi, native people - an almost mythical band of caribou hunters who had minimal contact with the outside world. He mapped their routes, visited their hunting camps, kept a journal, which eventually became his book, IN NORTHERN LABRADOR, which was published in 1912, and photographed what he could of the native people's life that changed dramatically when the caribou disappeared. This fascinating documentary is an account of that stunning record of Innu life at that time. 
#15474/0450   30 minutes 2006  $189.95 *Streaming available 
    

EARTH FROM SPACE
EARTH FROM SPACE is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth. 
#15473/1725   120 minutes 2013  $129.95 *CC 
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MARX RELOADED
Today a new generation of philosophers, economists, political activists, and sociologists is returning to Karl Marx’s ideas in order to try to make sense of the global economic and financial crisis of 2008 - and to consider whether a world without or beyond capitalism is possible. Could it be that communism might provide the solution to the growing economic and environmental challenges facing the planet? Marx Reloaded explores the possibilities through interviews with leading thinkers at the forefront of a popular revival in Marxist and communist ideas and with skeptics of this revival. Animation sequences - a parody of The Matrix that traces Marx’s adventures through the matrix of his own ideas - add a quirky touch of lightness to the film.
*Portions with English subtitles 
#15466/0635   53 minutes 2011  $195.95 
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CRUDE INDEPENDENCE
*Winner, Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature, Oxford Film Festival
*Winner, South by Southwest Film Festival

In 2006, the United States Geological Survey estimated that more than 200 billion barrels of crude oil rested in a previously unreachable formation beneath western North Dakota. Oil companies from far and wide began descending on small rural towns across the state with men and machinery in tow.

CRUDE INDEPENDENCE travels to the town of Stanley (population 1,300) atop the largest oil discovery in the history of North America and captures the change wrought by the unprecedented boom. Townsfolk, "store owners, farmers, and county officials" had lived there for decades when the oil men began to arrive searching for clear information on the rightful owners of the land and the riches that flow beneath it.

Through revealing interviews and breathtaking imagery of the northern plains, this program is a rumination on the future of small town America - a tale of change at the hands of the global energy market. Framed by the July 4th parade down Stanley’s Main Street, the film presents a modern American tale of how one resource so far below ground can dramatically affect life on the surface. 
#15453/0605   71 minutes 2009  $329.95 
    

FUEL

*WINNER OF MANY AWARDS including…
Best Documentary and Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival
Earth Friendly Award, AFI Dallas Film Festival
Award Corporate Social Responsibility, IVCA Clarion Awards
Best Screenwriting, Sedona Film Festival
Best Documentary and Audience Award, Gaia Film Festival
Producer's Award, Santa Cruz Film Festival

In this feature-length documentary, filmmaker and biofuel advocate Josh Tickell explores the origins of America's dependence on fossil fuels, detailing the cross-country road trip that he took in his biodiesel-converted van, campaigning for the more sustainable, environmentally friendly fuel.

Tickell interviews people in his film from across the spectrum of fuel use, from oil company executives, to those devastated by water contamination stemming from oil companies, to Midwestern families considering buying Hummers.
 
#15452/0605   112 minutes 2008  $329.95 
    

MAKERS: Women Who Make America
Tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress, in the boardroom and the bedroom, changing not only what the world expects from women, but what women expect from themselves. MAKERS brings this story to life with priceless archival treasures and poignant, often funny interviews with those who led the fight, those who opposed it, and those first generations to benefit from its success. Trailblazing women like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey share their memories, as do countless women who challenged the status quo in industries from coal-mining to medicine. MAKERS captures with music, humor, and the voices of the women who lived through these turbulent times the dizzying joy, aching frustration and ultimate triumph of a movement that turned America upside-down. 
#15446/1725   180 minutes 2013  $149.95 *CC 
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INDIAN SCHOOL: Stories of Survival
Proposing to "kill the Indian and save the man", U.S. Army captain Richard H. Pratt envisioned an educational system that would erase Native American culture and "civilize" the continent’s indigenous people. His chosen method? Removing children from Pennsylvania’s tribal communities and confining them in barracks-style schools - initially the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which Pratt founded in 1879.

In myopic terms it was a remarkably effective strategy, and Carlisle became a cruel model for institutions all over the U.S. and Canada, including Michigan’s Mount Pleasant Indian School. Subjected to emotional, physical, and spiritual abuse, Mount Pleasant students were inevitably alienated from their families, native languages, and tribal religions.

This film combines archival materials with present-day interviews to make clear just how inhumane the system was. Survivors from Tlingit, Chippewa, Choctaw, and Lakota communities describe in raw, unflinching terms the impact on First Nations across North America. Contains occasional profanity.

*Closed Captioned 
#15442/0635   41 minutes 2011  $189.95 *CC 
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WARDROBE PLANNING: Dressing for Your Body Type

Looking for expert advice to dress your best with flattering clothing styles for all body types? Join wardrobe stylist and personal shopper Carly Gatzlaff as she takes viewers through the basics of dressing for your body type by creating a flattering, put-together look that is uniquely you.

This program is a compilation of video segments that cover a variety of hints and tips for both women and men to dress and look your best, including:
*Dressing for your body type
*Using color and pattern
*Accessorizing your look
*Clothing quality
*Shopping strategies

*Closed Captioned
 
#15438/1290   20 minutes 2013  $89.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE SERIES (4 Programs)
Visit a wide range of farmers and entomology farm advisors who are implementing tactics that enhance a farm's biological diversity. See how sustainable agriculture is efficient in the use of natural resources, ecologically sound and economical. Explore the farm-estuary connection- see how farmers are reducing soil loss and improving waterways. Learn about sustainable systems, or loops in the natural world.

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Learn how to: improve soil fertility and nutrient cycling, maintain biological diversity, implement effective cover crops and trap crops, integrate farm animals, add compost to the soil, mulch, reduce soil erosion and enhance soil structure by utilizing various conservation tillage techniques, manage pests, develop useful crop rotations, and much more. Visit numerous locations and hear from five farmers who have successfully made the transition. 30 minutes

FARMSCAPING ADVANCED TACTICS FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Visit a wide range of farmers and entomology farm advisors who are implementing tactics that enhance a farm's biological diversity; enrich its soil fertility, drainage and tilth; achieve biological weed and insect pest management and reduce the need for agricultural chemicals. See how cover crops are used to manage weeds and improve the soil’s structure and fertility. Find out how to utilize and time certain cover crops to help attract the specific predators which help control pest insects. See how to implement insectary crops, trap crops, mowing and tillage of cover crops, inter-cropping and habitat strips. You’ll then see how to utilize weeds, roadside and insectary plantings, windrows and hedgerows to bring even more biological diversity to the farm. 27 minutes

FARM-ESTUARY CONNECTION
This program defines what a watershed is and shows how it's connected with a series of creeks and waterways to an estuary or bay. Visit five farmers who are successfully reducing soil loss on their farms and ranches. Explore how cover crops, intensive grazing, creek buffer strips, and other techniques help lengthen the life on an estuary by reducing silation of the creeks. Students see how this slows the sedimentation process of an estuary in the farmer's watershed. 22 minutes

SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTS
This program defines sustainability and then explores how sustainable systems, or loops, work in the natural world. Examine the elements of sustainable environments including: diversity, interdependence, the ability to adapt or evolve and how resources are utilized. This is followed by examples of how this understanding can lead to solutions in the design and implementation of the built environment. With interesting interviews and a wide variety of locations, you'll see how sustainability can be applied to agriculture, transportations systems, buildings and landscapes, life-styles and work. This is ideal to introduce students to the understanding and importance of working towards sustainability with an interdisciplinary approach. 33 minutes 
#15430/1884  2004  $498.95 
    

A DIFFERENT PLACE: The Intercultural Classroom
THE INTERCULTURAL CLASSROOM addresses the increasingly diverse environment of educational institutions. Educators, trainers, and managers have made this unique program an essential tool in meeting the challenges posed by organizational diversity. Corporate trainers have successfully used the video as a metaphor for exploring leadership and management issues in the workplace. Participants have found that the material facilitates provocative discussions, bridges communication gaps, resolves conflict, and expands perspectives.

In part one, a docu-drama, cultures collide in the classroom. Neither the students nor the professor can negotiate the diverse classroom environment; they perceive differences as deficiencies, rather than as wellsprings of cultural variation. Instead of addressing the historical and personal experiences of class members and their accompanying expectations about learning, the class devolves into frustration and conflict. The professor and U.S. students become annoyed and often combative, while many of the international students withdraw in discouragement.

Part two provides an analysis of the incident: the communication patterns, learning styles, and negative perceptions that led to conflict. Teams of experts provide insightful comments on the behaviors and values expressed in the classroom. The two-part video program comes with a comprehensive instructional guide and an extensive bibliography. 
#15425/0937  2002  $279.95 
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SOIL BIOLOGY
This program is loaded with information on the many organisms which make up the soils environment. From easily visible earthworms to microscopic bacteria, discover valuable information on the roles and interactions of the soil's flora and fauna. See how soil biology relates to soil horizons, porosity, water holding capacity and other physical properties of soil.

While soil fertility is often measured by a soil's chemical, mineral and organic matter content, new research is presented on how the many species of mesofauna can be extracted from the soil and then used as indicators of soil fertility. Examine soil pests as well as beneficial life forms found in the soil. Also see human attitudes towards soil organisms and learn how opinions can develop which are not always based on science. Clear narration, effective use of graphics and fascinating microphotography bring into focus the many life forms in the soil of our farms and landscapes. 
#15421/1884   24 minutes 2002  $179.95 
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SCIENCE OF COMPOSTING SERIES (3 programs)
"If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long."
- Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America

A comprehensive instruction to the science and ecology of composting. Start with an overview of the many organisms which make up the soil environment. Explore the wide array of micro and macro-organisms which work to break down organic matter. Learn how to design, implement, and operate effective compost systems.

*The set comes in one DVD case with 2 discs inside - one disc has the 2 composting programs and the other has the Soil Biology program.

Part 1 - THE SCIENCE OF BIOLOGICAL DECOMPOSITION: Effective Composting Methods
Start on the microscopic level to see the wide array of micro and macro-organisms which break down organic matter. See how to create compost and explore its water and nutrient holding capacity. Learn the basics of aerobic hot composting & how to create a good C:C (brown:green) ratio when layering. Also, see how to implement proper watering rates and how to use a thermometer to determine the pile's mesophyllic/thermophilic cycle. This shows when to turn the pile or windrow. Other methods shown include sheet, pit and worm composting. This program is very popular for teaching what compost is and how it can be effectively produced. 33 minutes.
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Part 2 - INTEGRATED COMPOST SYSTEMS
See how to design, implement and operate effective compost systems. Visit a renowned agricultural compost operator, a worm farm operator, a landscape manager who composts all of the organic matter at a golf and town home retirement community, a yard waste recycling specialist who coordinates a city-wide compost system, a landfill manager who runs a huge windrow operation, and a university compost manager who integrates food waste, yard waste and farm waste. DVD 33 minutes


Part 3 - SOIL BIOLOGY
This program is loaded with information on the many organisms which make up the soils environment. From easily visible earthworms to microscopic bacteria, discover valuable information on the roles and interactions of the soil's flora and fauna. See how soil biology relates to soil horizons, porosity, water holding capacity and other physical properties of soil. While soil fertility is often measured by a soil's chemical, mineral and organic matter content, new research is presented on how the many species of mesofauna can be extracted from the soil and then used as indicators of soil fertility. Examine soil pests as well as beneficial life forms found in the soil. Also see human attitudes towards soil organisms and learn how opinions can develop which are not always based on science. Clear narration, effective use of graphics and fascinating microphotography bring into focus the many life forms in the soil of our farms and landscapes. Part 1 - 24 minutes, Part 2 - 26 minutes
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#15420/1884  2004  $389.95 
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PROPERTIES OF SOIL (THE)
*Winner! TELLY AWARD (Outstanding Educational Videos)
Understanding the physical properties of soil leads to better informed management decisions by many people including farmers, landscapers, civil engineers, architects, land use planners and resource specialists. By knowing the properties of our soils we can make better decisions about its use and conservation. This video covers the physical properties of soil texture, structure, water, slope, depth and color. Viewers learn how soil is formed as we explore the five soil forming factors of climate, organisms, parent materials, topography and time. Types of rocks and how they are formed are covered. Beautiful videography and relevant examples make this video a pleasure to watch as students learn about the properties of soil. 
#15419/1884   24 minutes 2002  $159.95 
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FUNDAMENTALS OF PRUNING
This program is an effective balance of technique and application. This video delivers information in a logical sequence, and forms a functional foundation to approach any pruning job. The topics covered include: why and how plants respond to pruning; proper tool selection and use; why and when you should prune; and pruning for desired results. With beautiful and varied shot locations, see how to apply these pruning principles in ornamental trees, informal and formal hedges, roses, conifers, flowering shrubs and more. 
#15415/1884   27 minutes 2000  $139.95 
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WRITING A GREAT RESEARCH PAPER (10 Programs on 10 DVDs)
Finally, an easy-to-use resource that guides students along the entire process of writing a great research paper! This ten-part series is your step-by-step guide to constructing a paper that’s technically correct, refreshingly original, and truly compelling!

With this user-friendly series, you can: recognize the value of true scholarship; master essential research techniques; dramatically improve your writing; and keep yourself motivated, productive, and relaxed throughout the entire process.

In the 10 volumes of this series, you’ll discover the secrets of:
*Sizing up the assignment and focusing your research
*Making the most of your time and effort at the library
*Using search engines like a computer whiz, so you can find information fast
*Avoiding inadvertent plagiarism and other common scholarship mistakes
*Taking notes that will help you remember key details and put them to effective use
*Presenting your ideas cogently, so your paper sounds well-reasoned and convincing
*Drafting an outline and a promising first draft
*Incorporating quotations into your own writing, naturally and gracefully
*Mastering style guides like Chicago, APA, and MLA
*What it takes to earn a higher grade
and much, much more!

Best of all, the strategies you’ll learn will apply to any research paper assignment - in high school, college, graduate school, and beyond - in English... history... psychology... sociology... education... political science... economics... business... science... the arts... you name it!

Now students can transcend those disorganized jumbles of rehashed quotes and unfocused writing: they can learn to form a thesis, develop logical arguments, analyze and cite sources, and actually write a great research paper!

NOTE: The 10 DVDs in this series make ideal self-study aids (perfect for circulation by school, college, and public libraries and writing centers). They’re also the ultimate resources for educators (teachers, professors, administrators, etc.) who wish to further their own professional development, provide in-service training for their staff members, improve their command of modern research techniques, or supplement and enhance their classroom lessons.

PICKING AN A+ TOPIC
STARTING YOUR RESEARCH
FINDING THE BEST SOURCES
PLAGIARISM & OTHER PITFALLS
TAKING NOTES
HOW TO BE PERSUASIVE
WRITING YOUR FIRST DRAFT
QUOTING, CITING AND PARAPHRASING
FORMATTING YOUR PAPER
PERFECTING YOUR FINAL DRAFT 
#15410/2110  2006  $699.95 *Streaming available 
    

FISH OUT OF WATER V (6 Programs)

FISH OUT OF WATER is APTN's hit documentary series featuring host Don Kelly, as he journeys back to traditional native lands to discover the origins of his heritage. Through a series of misadventures, Don is pushed to his limits and re-connects with his roots and spiritual values. Don is our "Fish Out of Water". As a young, modern, First Nations Ojibway professional during the day, Don works as a successful executive for a national organization. By night he is a stand up comedian. Yet this super suave comedic genius must go back to the land to face his greatest challenges - by learning from his Elders.

There are six 24-minute programs::

1. SUNCHILD FIRST NATION (N.W. Alberta)
Don Kelly and Dawn Dumont meet with members of the Sunchild First Nation in north-western Alberta to learn about this horse riding and duck hunting culture. Learning to be stealthy, however, proves to be a challenge for one of our D’s.
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2. RED EAGLE MEDICINE (Alberta)
Don Kelly and Dawn Dumont journey to Wabamun Lake near Calgary, Alberta to learn of the traditional native healing medicines found in the forests. From traditional teas to healing poultices, Don and Dawn are passed down a few of the secrets of traditional medicines.

3. BEARDY FIRST NATION (Saskatchewan)
Don Kelly and Dawn Dumont join our guides with the Saskatchewan Resource Rangers to learn some skills on how to survive out on the prairies. It is the final challenge of being stalked by a couple of native cowboys, however, that has our duo sweating.

4. SASKATCHEWAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTRE (Saskatchewan)
Don Kelly and Dawn Dumont head to central Saskatchewan to learn the importance of the Saskatoon berry bush and to learn a traditional gambling game. In addition to learning about an old native prediction, Don and Dawn must see how well they would survive if the native prediction comes true.

5. FORT WILLIAM HISTORICAL PARK (Thunder Bay, Ontario)
Don Kelly and Dawn Dumont visit Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay, ON to re-live the late 1800’s lifestyle of the Cree trader
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6. FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION (Thunder Bay, Ontario)
Don Kelly and Dawn Dumont are invited by the Fort William First Nation reserve to see why Mt. McKay and Lake Superior had such a big influence on the lives of this First Nations culture.
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#15405/0973  2013  $599.95 *Streaming available 
    

COACHING THE EXPERIENCED DRIVER 3
This completely new course is designed for drivers who have experienced driving in today’s traffic environments with the objective of improving the ability to observe and respond safely to potential collision-producing situations. *Includes Leader Guide

Course content includes:
*Pre-Trip Safety Issues
*Critical Elements
*Coaching Reminder Points
*Special Conditions
*Situational Driving Considerations
*Reporting Procedures
*Sign Recognition

New Content Includes:
*SCC Safe Driving Methodology
*Move Over Law
*Following Distance Recommendations
*Idling Considerations
*Handling Toll Areas
*ALL NEW VIDEO

ALL NEW INSTRUCTOR'S KIT includes:
Written test, observation checklist, registration form and video presentation. Fully scripted guide includes wide margins to allow for instructor’s notes and customization.

ALL NEW PARTICIPANT RESPONSE BOOK 32 pages (sold separately) includes:
Self-Appraisal
Pre-Trip Safety Issues
Critical Elements
Coaching Reminder Points
Special Conditions
Situational Driving
Sign Recognition
Collision Reporting Procedures
Course Completion Certificate 
#15402/0670  2009  $459.95 *Streaming available 
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WASPS AND WITCHES: Women Pilots of World War II
This fascinating documentary introduces the previously untold story of the forgotten fliers of the Second World War: women pilots from Britain, the United States, Russia, and Germany. These pilots risked everything for their countries and pioneered the way for others at a time when flying was the sole prerogative of men. Because of widespread skepticism, they had to prove their worth and their ability to do a "man’s" job. With unique archival footage and present-day interviews with the pilots themselves, this inspiring film offers unique insight into the experiences of the thousands of courageous women who have been "written out" of the history books. 
#15387/0635   52 minutes 2012  $189.95 
    

CHINATOWN: An Attempt at Globalization in Sweden
Kalmar, a small town in the south of Sweden, is in dire need of an economic boost. In the face of unemployment and a dwindling population, local authorities signed an agreement with ambitious Chinese businessman Luo Jingxing to set up a commercial center in Kalmar. This amusing and relevant film shows the problems that emerge when the tigers of the developing world try to expand into Europe, and the realities of idealized globalization projects that may not always unfold as planned.

The inhabitants of Kalmar prepare happily to receive their new neighbors, but cultural differences soon rise to the forefront. The strict Swedish Health and Safety Inspectorate clashes forcefully with the Chinese desire to complete the work quickly. The Chinese workers aim to begin work without permits and balk at being asked to work with proper shoes. The venture, which pits Chinese raw capitalism against Swedish bureaucracy, ultimately leads to a failed project, the loss of money, and negative consequences for both parties. In the end, the harsh reality of the cultural clash defeated this vision of globalization.

"A revealing and significant examination of what happens when two cultures try to execute a contemporary globalized economic plan. . . The film is highly recommended for illustrating the real nature of 21st century globalization and its discontents."
David Eller, Anthropology Review Database 
#15382/0605   52 minutes 2011  $349.95 
    

CHILD DEVELOPMENT CAREERS
Catch a glimpse into a variety of careers that work directly with the growth and development of children. Viewers discover the benefits and challenges of working with children through personal interviews of people working in various child development careers, including:
- Storyteller and Children's Librarian
- Pediatrician
- YWCA Director
-Montessori School Administrator
-Pediatric Occupational Therapist
-Speech Pathologist

*Closed captioned 
#15381/1290   21 minutes 2013  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

EVERYDAY MATH IN FOODS

Cooking and baking are perfect examples of math used in everyday life. Join Chef Dave Christopherson as he takes a closer look at practical applications of math at the grocery store and in the kitchen. Basic math skills are used to determine recipe costs, converting recipes, determining timing, and more.

Kitchen and math concepts presented in 8 short video segments include:
- Reading a recipe (2:50)
- Measuring techniques (3:43)
- Kitchen equivalents (3:37)
- Timing a meal (2:47)
- Estimation of amounts and recipe costs (4:50)
- Unit price (7:39)
- Recipe conversion (3:35)
- English to metric conversion (2:53)

*Closed Captioned
 
#15379/1290   32 minutes 2013  $79.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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SLOW FOOD REVOLUTION
Traditional foods are at risk of disappearing forever, as a speed-obsessed world turns increasingly to fast foods. To counter this trend, there is an international gastro-economic movement known as Slow Food. Its aim is to protect traditional culture, the environment and biodiversity by encouraging regional food production. The movement is now active in 45 countries.

This film travels around the globe to record this phenomenon. Italy is the home of the Slow Food movement and there is a revival of growing such regional foods as Bronte pistachios, Sorrento lemons and the original Neopolitan tomatoes. Towns, like Orvieto, have declared themselves to be "slow cities," free of fast food outlets, neon and noise.

In Mexico indigenous farming communities have revived ancient ways, cultivating vanilla beans and the nutritious amaranth. In Australia there is an increasing interest in Aboriginal knowledge of native "bush tucker" and a school program reconnects children to the land and its riches. The Botanical Ark in Queensland grows endangered food from all over the world, saving plants from extinction. Beautifully photographed, Slow Food Revolution is a celebration of the sustainability, seasonality and quality of the earth's bounty.

"In a sense the Slow Food Movement is the antithesis of globalization and genetically modified foods - those forces that try to make the world uniform and flat. Highly Recommended" Janis Tyhurst, Reference Librarian, George Fox University, for EMRO

*ENVIRONMENT
*LIFESTYLES
*SOCIOLOGY 
#15357/0605   52 minutes 2006  $325 
    

TIPPING POINT (THE): Global Warming at the Arctic Circle
Arctic sea ice, which forms a plate of roughly the size of Europe, is disappearing. THE TIPPING POINTtakes viewers on a trip to an ice breaker, through the fabled Northwest Passage in the company of scientists to see how polar bears, seals, and arctic birds are struggling to adapt to rising temperature and shrinking terrain.

But beyond these concerns for the wildlife, the melting ice caps may also have an effect on human life. Expert interviews explain how thawing permafrost will release methane into the atmosphere, forming an unstable bomb-like explosive, and how carbon released from the permafrost will further heat the atmosphere, advancing global warming. Immediate extreme weather caused by melting sea ice is expected to bring violent storms and cyclones to some regions and severe droughts to others.

The film goes on to explore the political and economic implications of the Canadian Coast Guard prediction that the Northwest Passage will soon be entirely thawed. With vast oil and mineral reserves locked beneath the melting ice and several Arctic shipping routes, including one across the North Pole, being seriously considered, will the scramble for strategic advantage lead the major arctic powers - including Norway, Russian, Canada, Denmark, and the United States - to war?

*Closed Captioned upon request

"Does a good job describing how natural systems are interconnected with each other and with financial and political systems." Science Books & Films

*ENVIRONMENT
*GLOBALIZATION & GLOBAL ISSUES
 
#15356/0605   45 minutes 2009  $329.95 
    

ART 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Collection (Seasons 1-6)
Meet the most dynamic artists of our time - direct, accessible, and unfiltered - in the award-winning documentary series ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Unparalleled in its access to today’s artists, this unique series invites viewers into artists’ studios, homes and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, creative processes, and sources of inspiration. These 24 one-hour programs present groundbreaking artists of the new century speaking in their own words about how, why, and what they create. Compelling and thought-provoking, ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY takes viewers behind the scenes - and beyond the museum or gallery experience - to reveal how contemporary art can change how we see the world around us.

*** SIX DVDS in ONE CASE - A COMPLETE LIST OF ARTISTS FEATURED IN THIS SERIES IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST ***
 
#15355/1725  2012  $159.95 *CC 
    

CUSTOMER SERVICE ESSENTIALS (3 Programs)
Whether it happens in person, by telephone, or online, good customer service is vital. In fact, it’s just as important as advertising or product quality in building a company’s reputation and it can decide, ultimately, whether or not that company will survive. This three-part series illustrates best practices for delivering effective customer service, focusing on what an individual employee can and should do to improve his or her attitudes and behavior toward the customer. Each episode features dramatizations that help to illustrate real-world lessons, while easy-to-read text summaries follow each segment, enabling viewers to further consider and discuss concepts.

*Viewable/printable educational materials are available.

There are three 20-minute programs in the series:

PERSON-TO-PERSON CUSTOMER SERVICE
One shopper wants a price quote, another needs something that’s shelved too high. Two more customers are waiting for items from storage, and there’s a huge line forming at the front counter. It’s another crazy day in customer service - a department that can make or break a brick-and-mortar business. Whether you’re working the sales floor, waiting tables, or running a cash register, you’ve got to emphasize the "service" in customer service, thereby ensuring a loyal and ever-expanding base of patrons. This video shows employees how to achieve that goal, using lively animation, no-nonsense explanations, and clear, entertaining dramatizations. Topics include creating a good first impression, developing a professional and outgoing attitude, following customer service procedures in a logical manner, and handling conflict calmly, confidentially, and respectfully.

TELEPHONE CUSTOMER SERVICE
We’ve all experienced it - the frustration of dealing with a company or organization over the telephone. Being put on hold or transferred again and again, often without finding an answer or solution, is enough to drive anyone crazy. Now, switch places - imagine you’re being paid to help customers by phone. What can you do to ease their aggravation, address their queries, and solve their problems? If a conflict emerges, how will you untangle it without the benefit of face-to-face interaction? This video provides answers to those questions, guiding trainees with simple dramatizations, concise explanations, and hip animation. Offering an overview of the basic components of a telephone support system, the video emphasizes the importance of active listening, documentation, and multitasking, while helping viewers recognize the communication barriers inherent in telephone technology.
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ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVICE
Helping people via the Internet might sound easy, but in fact, many customers expect more from a digital interface than they do from in-person or telephone venues. And because folks can take their business elsewhere with one swift click or keystroke, competition for online customers is fierce; anyone tasked with keeping them happy is on the front line of a company’s battle to succeed. Using eye-catching animation, down-to-earth explanations, and illustrative chat excerpts, this video presents the best ways to assist customers who sign in rather than stroll in. Topics include the basic parameters, functions, and fine points of live chat, which enables a trainee become the "voice" of his or her company; the ways in which social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter can play a role in effective customer service; the importance of e-mail etiquette; and the methods by which a service representative should deal with online behavior that becomes upsetting or offensive.
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#15350/0635  2012  $329.95 *CC 
    

LACANDON MAYA (THE)
Interweaving past and present and combining fabulous archival film and photographs with current documentary footage, The Lacandon Maya tells the story of an isolated community catapulted into civilization within the space of one generation.

In 1960 Collin Hanney, an explorer, discovered an isolated group of Mayan Indians who 400 years earlier had fled into the Mexican jungle to escape the Spanish invasion. His discovery thrust the Indians into the modern world. Now Hanney's widow returns to the group to see how they have fared and to show them the photos and films Hanney shot when he first encountered them.

The film combines the widow's pilgrimage with the story of one of the sons of a Mayan wise man encountered by Hanney, who pays homage to his father. We learn how the tribe has struggled to keep their culture and language alive, and how they are combating the exploitation of their raw materials and the influx of outsiders. Besides these challenges there is also the effect of access to education and technology on the younger generation.

The film provides insight into the history and mythology of the Lacandon, whose stories even foretold the impact of the destruction of the rain forest on the whole world. It eloquently captures the conflicting values of ancient civilizations and the modern world.

"The film affectionately examines the work of Collin Hanney and the contemporary lives of the Lacandon Maya of southern Mexico. Suitable for high school classes and for college courses in cultural anthropology, anthropology of endangered peoples, anthropology of photography/visual anthropology, and Central American studies, as well as general audiences."
Jack David Eller, Anthroplogy Review Database 
#15349/0605   47 minutes 2007  $245 
    

RACE FOR WHAT'S LEFT (THE): The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare provides an invaluable account of the new and increasingly dangerous competition for the world's dwindling natural resources. Arguing that the world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion - one that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water, and arable land - Klare shows how the desperate hunt for raw materials is forcing governments and corporations to stake their claim in ever more dangerous and remote areas that present grave political and environmental risks. Citing mounting tensions between the U.S. and China over control of resources in the Asia-Pacific region, volatile local border disputes that raise the likelihood of military confrontation, and the destructive environmental consequences of tar sands oil extraction and fracking, Klare argues that we need to radically alter our consumption patterns and build alternative energy systems before it's too late.

 
#15338/0685   40 minutes 2013  $149.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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NEW ECONOMICS 101 (THE): True Wealth in the New Economy
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor offers a refreshingly clear analysis of the ecological and social costs of mass consumerism, and a passionate call to arms for radically rethinking our relationship to consumer goods. Citing new developments in economic theory, social analysis, and ecological design, and real-world examples of people and places putting these cutting-edge ideas into practice, Schor makes a compelling case that preserving dwindling natural resources and fostering economic security will require replacing old modes of debt-financed growth with a new paradigm of sustainability that is less about scarcity and sacrifice than about new forms of plentitude. Along the way, she points to the growing number of new lifestyles and social forms emerging across the country and around the world that are replacing the dead-end, work-and-spend cycle with the abundant and infinitely renewable resources of time, creativity, and community.
 
#15337/0685   46 minutes 2013  $149.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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RACE, POWER AND AMERICAN SPORTS
Cultural historian and Nation magazine writer Dave Zirin, whose influential blog and bestselling books have offered searing insights into the politics of American sports, turns his attention to race in this fascinating conversation with MEF executive director Sut Jhally. Jhally, a Communication scholar whose own work has sought to clarify how popular culture conditions racial attitudes, engages Zirin in a penetrating discussion about how sports have served as a key site of struggle over racial meaning and racial equality. Focusing on how sports culture has both reproduced, and contested, the wider culture's dominant ideas about race and racial difference, Zirin and Jhally give special attention to how the visibility and success of athletes of color have affected traditional notions of whiteness, white male authority, and cultural ideals of masculinity.

A vital companion piece to MEF's bestselling films NOT JUST A GAME and TIM WISE: On White Privilege.

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#15334/0685   67 minutes 2012  $149.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

HOW RACISM HARMS WHITE AMERICANS
Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privilege, Bracey trains his focus on the high price that white people, especially working class whites, have paid for more than two centuries of divisive race-based policies and attitudes. Whether he's discussing the pivotal role slavery played in the war for independence, the two million white Americans who died in a civil war fought over the question of slavery, or how business owners took advantage of the segregation of America's first labor unions and used low-wage, non-unionized black workers to undercut the bargaining power of white workers, Bracey's central point is that failing to acknowledge the centrality of race, and racism, to the American project not only minimizes the suffering of black people, but also blinds us to how white people have been harmed as well.
 
#15333/0685   52 minutes 2013  $149.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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AMERICAN AUTUMN: An OccuDoc
Imagine that a single voice carries as much weight as the CEO of Goldman Sachs.

In this gripping first-hand account of the Occupy Wall Street movement, filmmaker and former high school teacher Dennis Trainor Jr. takes an inside look at how a New York-based protest against corporate greed and economic inequality in the autumn of 2011 sparked a full-scale street revolution that continues to send shock waves through the American political system.

Trainor weaves commentary from organizers, activists, and leading progressive thinkers with riveting street-level dispatches from New York's Zuccotti Park, Washington DC, and beyond. The result is a passionate and clear-eyed look at a movement founded on the core belief that the American political and economic system should "place human need above corporate greed" and do something about growing inequality.

Narrated by Trainor, the documentary features filmmaker Michael Moore, Dr. Cornel West (Princeton University), comic/author/activist Lee Camp, journalists Nathan Schneider (Harper's, The Nation), Naomi Klein (The Nation) and more.

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#15332/0685   58 minutes 2012  $219.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

GLOBAL ISSUES FOR STUDENTS (7 Programs)
This series hosted by Russ Mitchell, co-anchor of CBS's The Saturday Early Show, provides an in-depth analysis of current world problems. Sparked by technology such as the Internet, we have entered a new era of globalization -- a level of interconnection unprecedented in world history. One of the most important results of this new wave of globalization is our heightened awareness of how the importance of human rights, the vast differences between rich and poor, the spread of disease and the use of the Earth's resources affect us all. Programs in this series focus on modern global issues, their historical roots and the exploration of varied viewpoints and solutions. Using comprehensive news footage and commentary from some of the world's leading experts, students will gain a greater understanding of the most important issues affecting the world today.

There are seven 23 minute programs in the series:
AFRICA: Challenges in the 21st Century
GENOCIDE
GLOBAL ECONOMIC ISSUES
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
GLOBAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
HUMAN RIGHTS
LATIN AMERICA: Challenges in the 21st Century

*Includes Teacher's Guides
*Lower price available for individual schools and public libraries 
#15330/1963   161 minutes 2004  $689.95  Grades 9 to Adult 
    

LEARNING AND MIND with Howard Gardner (3 Programs)

LEARNING AND MIND is Howard Gardner’s all new three DVD series - for educators and policymakers. Decades of research culminate in his definitive treatise on the current state of MI (Multiple Intelligences) theory, what we know about learning and ‘understanding’, and which intellectual capacities will matter most in a rapidly changing world. Gardner takes your students on an epic journey from the cognitive revolution of the 1950’s to today’s revolutions in biology, technology, lifelong learning and globalization. On this sweeping canvas, he demonstrates what intelligence is (and isn’t), what ‘disciplinary understanding’ is (and how to achieve it), and how rapidly changing economic, technological and ethical contexts will frame the big questions of tomorrow.
OVERVIEW
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*Each one-hour DVD is accompanied by an Instructor’s Package with material outlines, discussion topics, and more!

DVD ONE - MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
1. Intelligence & Intelligences
2. MI Theory Now
3. Claims & Implications
4. MI: myths & reality
5. The Assessment Question
6. Intelligences & the Future

In this all-new presentation, Gardner brings us current on MI theory. From evolutionary psychology and genetics, to anthropology and the study of ‘special populations’, he reveals the 8 intelligences identified by MI theory - and the empirical criteria used to identify them. Using a ‘computational’ model, Gardner illustrates how we all possess varying combinations of these ‘8 computers’, and what this means for ‘individuation’ and ‘pluralization’. Gardner then demonstrates how intelligence is both heritable and developable - while looking at ways we can nurture multiple intelligences. Here, he illustrates the relationship between ‘intelligence’, sensory systems, and learning styles - and reveals why there can be no singular MI approach. Turning to the ‘assessment question’ Gardner now suggests how to best assess the intelligences and for what purpose. Finally, Gardner wills us to consider the ethical dimension: "Intelligence for what?"

DVD TWO - UNDERSTANDING
1. Disciplines & Performances
2. Developing ‘Understanding’
3. The Disciplined Mind
4. MI meets Understanding
5. Challenging the Unschooled Mind
6. Understanding in the Digital Age

Gardner argues that a principle goal of developing the human mind must be ‘disciplinary understanding’. Dismissing trivial notions that have to do with memorization’, Gardner reveals why ‘understanding’ must mean the ability to flexibly apply disciplinary knowledge and skills to new situations or problems.
At the same time, he illustrates how intuitive theories of the ‘unschooled mind’ make disciplinary understanding both counter-intuitive and difficult to develop - from the sciences and math, to the arts and humanities. Toward reaching the goal of "key understandings" across the academic, artistic, and even moral domains, Gardner demonstrates the four necessary components of educating for understanding. In turn, he proposes how MI can yield ‘multiple entry points’ to the mastery of skills and concepts. Using vivid images, he illustrates why only ‘deep immersion’, not the accumulation of facts, will get us to "understanding". Looking to the future, Gardner argues that globalization and the digital revolution will demand even more challenging ‘interdisciplinary thinking’ along with new models of ‘synthesis’ to cope with unprecedented amounts of information.

DVD THREE - FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTURE
1. Megatrends
2. Five Minds
3. The ‘Triple Helix’ of Good Work
4. The Educator’s Solution
5. Minds in a Digital Age

Four "megatrends" are changing our world and the nature of learning. Globalization interconnects every aspect of our lives. The biological revolution in brain science and genomics is uncovering differences and universals that will affect how we teach and learn. From Wikipedia and social media to online education, the technological revolution poses new questions about how much education should take place in the digital world and on smart devices. Lifelong-learning is both a revolution and an economic necessity which is outmoding idea of circumscribed ‘K-12’ schooling. In the context of these accelerating megatrends, Gardner reveals ‘five minds for the future’ - the intellectual and relational capacities that will be required tomorrow. Then, using his ‘triple helix of good work’, he passionately demonstrates why intelligence and learning can’t be abstracted from big questions about ‘what kind of world we want?’ or ‘what makes a good person?’ As every area of life is subsumed by market forces, Gardner highlights the goals, obstacles, and ethical dilemmas which will confront every profession and domain. Challenging us with the ‘figure ground’ struggle in education, Gardner asks if our focus will be on test scores and rankings, or the kinds of individuals and societies we want to foster.
 
#15325/0920  2013  $659.95 *Streaming available 
    

MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND (THE)
A remote, bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722. How and why did the ancient islanders build and move nearly 900 giant statues or moai, weighing up to 86 tons? And how did they transform a presumed paradise into a treeless wasteland, bringing ruin upon their island and themselves? NOVA explores controversial recent claims that challenge decades of previous thinking about the islanders, who have been accused of everything from ecocide to cannibalism. Among the radical new theories is that the islanders used ropes to "walk" the statues upright, like moving a fridge. With the help of an accurate 15-ton replica statue, a NOVA team sets out to test this high-risk, seemingly unlikely theory - serving up plenty of action and surprises in this fresh investigation of one of the ancient world’s most intriguing enigmas 
#15322/1725   60 minutes 2013  $99.95 *CC 
    

GOOGLE'S DEEP IMPACT
"Highly Recommended. Anyone and everyone involved with information would find this video highly interesting." Educational Media Reviews

An examination of the tremendous influence Google has on the corporate world and culture at large.

The number of businesses - large, small and start-ups - using Google's services continues to skyrocket. Through interviews with advertising executives, explains how Google’s Search Engine Marketing service has enabled countless companies to increase their advertising power and boost sales. They explain why and how they alter their marketing plans in order to raise their rankings, and describe the ramifications of failing to land within a results page’s first five entries.

The film also visits Google's colorful corporate headquarters, where several employees, including CEO Eric Schmidt, discuss the innovative programs they’ve developed, including Google Search, Google News, and Google Books. It also explores those who question Google's extensive reach, and chronicles the growing concern about the amount of revealing information available on the Web. 
#15319/0605   49 minutes 2008  $229.95 *Streaming available 
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ARTS AND THE MIND: Strengthening Our Minds Across a Lifetime

This two-part documentary (CREATIVITY and THE ART OF CONNECTION) explores the vital role of the arts in human development across a lifetime. Shares stories of how music, dance, painting, poetry, and theater markedly improve well-being at both ends of life, and reveals the cutting-edge science behind this positive impact.

Showcasing some of the nation's most innovative and successful arts programs, plus the work of leading American educators and scientists, ARTS AND THE MIND illuminates:
- How the arts can improve children's school performance as well as keep our brains agile and sharp into old age.
- How teenagers find meaning and hope through poetry at Los Angeles' renowned Get Lit program.
- Why a leading Alzheimer's researcher advises that dance is the single most effective way to ward off dementia.
- How the arts help to heal children in hospitals and veterans with PTSD.


*Sub-titles in English
 
#15313/1725   120 minutes 2012  $129.95 *CC 
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CLOTHES AT WORK: Decoding Office Dress Codes
Like it or not, on the job, appearance matters! But what's the right look for YOUR workplace? Or your NEXT one? Learn about the four levels of business dress, tips on accessories and grooming, and how to build an affordable wardrobe. *Sub-titles

 
#15312/1120   17 minutes 2013  $119.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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BEHIND THE COLOR WHEEL: Using Color in Art and Design
Get a practical but in-depth view of color in action! Viewers examine graphic and interior design, paintings, and other media to learn:
*the science behind color
*color systems for different media
*popular color schemes
*color wheel relationships
*to create tints, shades and tones by altering hue value and intensity
*how to create color combinations that evoke different responses 
#15311/1120   26 minutes 2013  $139.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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EARTH SCIENCE SUPERPACK (8 Programs)

So, Earth. It’s where we humans live. In fact, it’s the only planet known to support life. But what makes Earth capable of supporting life? How exactly does the planet function? This video series addresses these questions by investigating Earth’s place in the universe, its formation as a planet, and its relationship with the sun. Systems thinking and conservation are touched upon as we explore Earth as an energetic, dynamic, and recycling planet.

Each program in this series is 26 minutes - detailed descriptions of each program are available:
1. EARTH'S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
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2. INVESTIGATING EARTH'S PAST
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3. RESTLESS EARTH
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4. MOUNTAINS, VOLCANOES, AND EARTHQUAKES
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5. EARTH'S CHANGING SURFACE
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6. ENERGETIC EARTH
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7. ATMOSPHERE AND OCEANS
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8. EARTH SYSTEMS
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These Standard Deviants Teaching Systems are simply the most effective method for students to learn and for teachers to teach. This educational programming is optimized for classroom use. Each module is a topic-based video that contains the digital workbook including teacher’s guides, classroom notes, quizzes, games, and graphic organizers.
 
#15305/0433  2012  $389.95  Grades 6 to 8 *Streaming available 
    

MIND YOUR MIND: Subliminal Messages
Are we really in control of our own thoughts? In this documentary, filmmaker Jason Brett Serle travels from the mall to the mountains to expose just how powerful the subliminal messages of advertising, politicians, and mass media really are. Arguing that "we don’t perceive what’s there, we change what we perceive, and we perceive what’s not there", Serle simplifies complex neurological theories with the help of his young son, then explains how neuro-linguistic programming can help provide psychological independence.

*Contains mature themes and explicit imagery. 
#15288/0635   47 minutes 2012  $189.95 
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NEW GREAT GAME (THE): The Decline of the West and the Struggle for Middle Eastern Oil
After centuries of Western domination, the waterways of the Middle East are now being contested in unprecedented ways. Pirates are roaming sea lanes. Local powers are threatening chokepoints. And the people are rising up to bring their authoritarian rulers down. With no simple solutions for maintaining control of oil flows, the West is facing a crucial decision. Already weakened by extended military interventions, faltering economies, and strained global partnerships, the US and Europe must decide whether violent intervention or benevolent passivity is the best course of action.

Canadian filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau's fascinating documentary charts these turbulent waters to show how the logic of empire is being tested by a rapidly changing Middle East. With fresh-from-the-ground footage and testimony from experts and actors in the region, the film zeroes in on how disparate events occurring on land in such places as Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Yemen, and at sea in the Gulf of Aden, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea, are all part of the same story -- a story about conflict, change, and competing global interests in one of the most strategic and volatile regions of the world. 
#15287/0685   54 minutes 2012  $319.95 *Streaming available 
    

WHAT ARE ANIMALS THINKING?
Have you ever wondered what’s going on inside your pet’s mind? Find out how a beehive resembles a human brain and whether your dog is really feeling guilty when it gives you that famous "guilty look".
 
#15286/1725   60 minutes 2012  $89.95 *CC 
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CAN I EAT THAT?

What are the scientific secrets behind your favorite foods? David Pogue ventures into labs and kitchens to uncover the hidden truths behind the flavors and textures we take for granted every day.

THANKSGIVING COOKING CHEMISTRY
With help from food scientists and the staff of America's Test Kitchen, we will reveal the physics, chemistry, and biology that go into making the perfect Thanksgiving dinner.

WHY DO WE COOK?
Why are humans the only animals who cook? Could cooking have played a major role in human evolution and helped build our brains? David explores this controversial theory and meets scientists studying the biology of digestion with the help of some surprising creatures.

WHAT IS TASTE?
Why are some foods delectable, while others disgusting? Not only is our perception of taste far more complex than we imagine, but once you master the secrets of flavor, our taste buds can be easily fooled. We explore the neuroscience of taste to discover how "flavor makers" perform tricks on our senses.

PROFILE: NATHAN MYHRVOLD
Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, and a team of chefs are using advanced lab equipment to cook up dishes that look and taste like nothing else, revealing in dazzling visual detail the physical and chemical changes that take place in food as it cooks.
 
#15285/1725   60 minutes 2012  $89.95 *CC 
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WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?
Scientists have struggled for centuries to pinpoint the qualities that distinguish humans from the millions of other animal species with which we share the vast majority of our DNA. Now, we explore those traits once thought to be uniquely human to discover their evolutionary roots.

 
#15284/1725   60 minutes 2012  $89.95 *CC 
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ALASKA GOLD: A War of Resources - the Fish or the Mine?
FRONTLINE travels to Alaska to probe the fault lines of a growing battle between those who depend on the Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska, home to the last great wild Sockeye salmon fishery in the world for a living, the mining companies who are pushing to extract enormous amounts of mineral deposits, estimated to be worth some $300 billion, and the political framework that will ultimately decide the outcome.
 
#15283/1725   30 minutes 2012  $89.95 *CC 
    

SINGLE PHASE TRANSFORMERS & ELECTRICAL MACHINES
A complete set of videos enhanced with interactive graphics, animations, and questions that can easily be used by your students as a homework solution, study guide, or supplemental online classroom instruction to meet the needs of a mandatory hybrid requirement for your class.These interactive videos allow your students to better connect with the subject matter while fulfilling instructor requirements for electronic learning material.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Single-Phase Transformers.
DC Machines.
Single-Phase Motors, Part 1.
Single-Phase Motors, Part 2. 
#15280/0430  2011  $1,129.95 
    

THREE PHASE CIRCUITS AND ELECTRICAL MACHINES
The intricacies and variations of three-phase electrical circuits are explained in this set of four programs enhanced with interactive graphics, animations, and questions that can easily be used by your students as a homework solution, study guide, or supplemental online classroom instruction to meet the needs of a mandatory hybrid requirement for your class. These interactive videos allow your students to better connect with the subject matter while fulfilling instructor requirements for electronic learning material.
*the blend of theory, formulas, and entertaining historical information captivates viewers, stimulating interest in the study of electric motors, generators, and transformers
*objectives, pre- and post-tests (with answers), applied academic questions, and discussion questions are included in the accompanying Instructor's Manual, reducing prep time
*run-time of approximately 20 minutes per program makes it easy to integrate these videos into any education or professional training program
THREE-PHASE CIRCUITS
THREE-PHASE TRANSFORMERS
THREE-PHASE MOTORS Part One
THREE-PHASE MOTORS Part Two
 
#15279/0430  2011  $1,129.95 
    

TRADITIONAL AND ONLINE PRINT MEDIA ADVERTISING
Where is the best place to spend an advertising budget? Though newspaper circulation is falling, most adults still read the paper, while the popularity of print magazines is increasing, and readership of online media has exploded. This program explains different types of print and digital media formats and the benefits of advertising in each. The relative cost of placing classified and display ads in daily, weekly, and shopper newspapers is compared, along with the marketing difference between buying space in general interest, special interest, regional, and B2B magazines. Online coupons and other advantages of advertising on Web sites is also covered.

 
#15276/0495   21 minutes 2011  $149.95 *CC 
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CHEMISTRY PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS
Chemistry has an impact on every aspect of our daily lives. The most important chemistry reference is the Periodic Table of the Elements. By providing a logical, mathematical method of organization, the table has become a critical tool for students, teachers and scientists around the globe. This program explores the discoveries that led up to the organization of the periodic table and how it is presently organized. It introduces and explores several elements (Hydrogen and Titanium) and their effect on our daily lives and the environments in which they occur. 
#15269/2003   12 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

ENERGY: Biofuels on the Rise
The energy demands and rising cost of oil have encouraged scientists and engineers to develop renewable energy alternatives. Biofuels are renewable energy sources from organic materials such as plants or animals that are directly converted into liquid fuels. The two most common biofuels in use today are ethanol and biodiesel. Engineered biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel that are made from starches, sugars and cellulose are already in use as blending agents and additives that greatly reduce vehicle emissions. Algae as a bio-fuel has become more common because it is easy to harvest and these single celled photosynthetic organisms are known for their rapid growth and high energy content. 
#15268/2003   13 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

AERONAUTICS: 21st Century Flight
Aeronautics is the science of flight as well as the theory and practice of aircraft navigation. Any machine that flies through the air falls into the field of aeronautics. This includes helicopters, airplanes, as well as space vehicles such as the SpaceX Dragon and the retired NASA space shuttles. Aerodynamics is a branch of physical science which deals with the motion of air and the way that it interacts with objects in motion. By studying the way air flows, engineers can define the shape of a plane. The wings, tail, and the main body - or fuselage - all affect the way air will move around the plane. Students may find it interesting that engineers consider air to behave as a fluid, like water, but they should not confuse these two states of matter. They must take into account aerodynamics, propulsion, materials, structure, stability and control. 
#15267/2003   12 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

RADIO ASTRONOMY: The Alma Telescope
The Atacama large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Array, or ALMA, is a vast array of radio telescopes and the most powerful observatory of its kind. ALMA is stationed in the Atacama Desert of Chile which is one of the world's best sites for observational astronomy because of the high altitude, nearly non-existent cloud cover, dry air and lack of light pollution and radio interference due to the small populations. ALMA peers into previously hidden regions of space with unprecedented sharpness and sensitivity. 
#15266/2003   10 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

WHEN PRESENTATION COUNTS: Grooming, Dressing and Body Language
Like it or not, studies show that our appearance, body language and other mannerisms are incredibly important to how someone perceives us. In this video, you will receive tips on grooming and basic styles of dress. You will also discover how verbal and non verbal communication, body language, and posture can impair or enhance your overall image. So whether you’re seeking your first job, starting a new job, or just trying to get ahead on the job, remember...you don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression.

*Includes Instructor's Guide 
#15264/1280   32 minutes 2013  $129.95  Grades 7 to Adult *Streaming available 
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TEACHING STUDENTS WITH POVERTY IN MIND (2 Programs)
Here’s the ideal tool to bring to your school and community - Eric Jensen’s good news that yes, educators can do something to address the effects of poverty on children. This two-part DVD series brings to life the concepts and strategies that have worked in schools with a history of high performance among students raised in poverty. Use the video and embedded workshop materials to introduce your learning community to how to turn around the effects of poverty on behavior and academic performance.
Scenes from elementary and secondary classrooms show how teachers model emotional responses for their students, reduce the effects of chronic stress, and provide students with life skills training. Explore schoolwide success factors that support the whole child and foster a school culture that refuses to let students fail. And see examples of how your school can do more to help underserved students by fostering intellectual curiosity, strengthening academic performance through arts and athletics, and changing community assumptions about academics.

Two 30-minute DVDs, each with a professional development program. Also available separately.

TEACHING WITH POVERTY IN MIND: Elementary School
Program One in the series takes you into elementary classrooms where teachers attend to the social, emotional, and academic needs of their students. See examples of elementary teachers engaging their students in standards-based instruction while providing scaffolds and strategies that ensure success both in and out of the classroom.

TEACHING WITH POVERTY IN MIND: Secondary School
Program Two explores school and classroom success factors that support the academic achievement and life readiness of older students. 
#15260/0187  2010  $329.95 
    

EDUCATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: Connecting Language, Literacy, and Culture (3 Programs)
When your school decides to turn around the underachievement and high drop out rates of English language learners, here’s a series that introduces you to a proven approach. Join renowned expert Virginia Rojas as she visits schools and classrooms where the vision of educating English language learners is changing to meet the needs of all students. Find out how schools team-up ESL and mainstream teachers as co-teachers, integrate English language learners into classrooms with their English-proficient peers, and teach English language acquisition and academic content simultaneously. Scenes from elementary, middle, and high school classrooms show how schools make this model work by connecting language, literacy, and culture to required curriculum content. To make it easy for you to create a complete workshop, resources, such as handouts and a PowerPoint presentation, are embedded in each of the DVDs.
The series consists of three 30-minute DVDs, each with a professional development program. Also available separately.. Detailed descriptions of each program are available.
1: ESTABLISHING A NEW VISION
2: BUILDING ACADEMIC LITERACIES
3: EVIDENCE BASED ASSESSMENT 
#15255/0187  2010  $429.95 
    

CAN SCIENCE STOP CRIME?
David Pogue gives the third degree to scientists pushing the limits of technology - not only to solve horrific murders, but to try to prevent crimes. Peer inside the criminal mind and discover cutting-edge forensic techniques that help investigators stop criminals in their tracks.
Can science help catch crooks?

The Criminal Mind: Born or Made - How might genes, brain structure, and environment conspire to make one person a criminal and another a rule-abiding citizen? We meet scientists working to uncover the biology of aggression and explore the brain circuitry that could play a key role in the creation of a violent mind.

Death Detectives - Murder investigations often hinge on one critical detail: when did the victim die? But determining the time of death isn't as easy as it sounds. We explore the biological forces behind a corpse's decomposition, and witness how vultures can throw investigators off-track.

Secrets of Lie Detection - Can science spot a lie? Many polygraph tests are still done every year, although the technique is deeply flawed. David Pogue gets a primer on the biology of lying--what happens to our faces, our bodies, and our brains when we try to deceive?

E-Crime: We all know that hackers can tap into our computers. But did you know that they can also take control of our cars, medical devices, and kids' toys? In the effort to stay one step ahead of the criminals, computer scientist Yoshi Kohno hacks into everyday machines.

This DVD features subtitles in English (SDH) 
#15244/1725   60 minutes 2012  $129.95 *CC 
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INTERNATIONAL LAW AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
International law is described as the general principles of law as recognized by civilized nations. This informative program adds much needed depth to this broad definition by explaining: state sovereignty, domestic law and international law; the importance of the United Nations and international courts and tribunes; the role of organizations such as NATO, IMF and Red Cross; and the future of international law. With professional insight from Professor Tim McCormack, Special Advisor for the ICC, Professor Gillian Triggs, Public International Lawyer, and Geoffrey Robertson QC, renowned Human Rights Lawyer and author, this program is an essential introduction to international law.

Guide: http://digital.films.com/HTTP/48200/48283_guide.pdf
 
#15243/0545   22 minutes 2011  $129.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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WHERE THE SEA MEETS THE SHORE
One of the harshest environments on earth exists at the place where the sea meets the rocky shore. This visually stunning program examines the wide variety of animal and plant life that survive these difficult conditions that are caused by pounding waves during the ebb and flow of the tides. Students will come to appreciate how these plants and animals have adapted to develop unique survival mechanisms that help them find food and escape predators.

*Includes online teachers guide which includes subject matter revision and suggestions on how to present material, questions to ask students, career possibilities and class projects to help illustrate the key concepts.

Relevant Curriculum Areas: Biology Marine Biology Oceanography Taxonomy Zoology 
#15239/2003   26 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 4 to 9 *Streaming available 
    

UNDERWATER WORLD OF CORAL REEFS (THE)
Take a dive into the underwater world of coral reefs and explore their importance in helping us understand much of the recent history of our oceans. The long life span of coral reefs has made them important places for scientific exploration and today much of that study deals with coral reef survival. Students will learn that the largest reef in the world is the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.

*Includes online teachers guide which includes subject matter revision and suggestions on how to present material, questions to ask students, career possibilities and class projects to help illustrate the key concepts.

Relevant Curriculum Areas: Biology Ecology Environmental Science Geology Marine Biology Oceanography 
#15238/2003   23 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 4 to 9 *Streaming available 
    

POWER FROM THE OCEAN TIDES
Gravity from the moon creates ocean tides on earth that go out two times a day, every day of the year. This effect of the moon's gravity on the oceans can be harnessed and turned into power. In fact, people have been using the power of the tides to do work for centuries.

This program explores how tidal power is generated and how it works. Also illustrates how the tides are created, how watermills once used the tides to grind grain, and how modern power plants use turbines to turn this constant flow of water into electricity and discusses how tidal power plants can work without damming estuaries and rivers.

*Includes online teachers guide which includes subject matter revision and suggestions on how to present material, questions to ask students, career possibilities and class projects to help illustrate the key concepts.

Relevant Curriculum Areas: ASTRONOMY ECOLOGY ELECTRICITY ENGINEERING OCEANOGRAPHY
 
#15237/2003   14 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 4 to 9 *Streaming available 
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WAVES COASTLINES AND BEACHES
This program explains the geological processes that take place where ocean meets land. Learn how erosional and depositional processes form features such as rugged coastlines, barrier islands, spits, Tombolos, wave cut terraces sea stacks and beaches. Animated sequences take you underwater to show processes underway just off the shoreline. Subjects covered include: Where and how ocean and lake waves originate, The anatomy of a wave including crest, trough, wave length and height, Erosional features associated with coastlines including wave-cut terraces, beaches, sea cliffs, sea stacks and sea arches, Depositional features associated coastlines including beaches, wave-built terraces, spits, hooks, barrier islands and berms, Shoreline profiles including offshore, shore or beach, backshore and foreshore. 
#15229/2003   18 minutes 2000  $89.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

CROCODILE IN THE YANGTZE: Inside a Chinese Internet Juggernaut
Starting out as an English teacher and small-scale website builder, Jack Ma became China’s first Internet entrepreneur, gradually assembling the Alibaba Group - a digital empire that faced off against eBay and won. This award-winning independent film was created by an American who worked in Ma’s company for several years. It draws on a vast archive of footage shot between 1995 and 2009, presenting a candid portrait of the visionary businessman and documenting Alibaba’s journey from scrappy startup to stratospheric success. The result is an astonishingly relevant chronicle, told from the standpoint of an American fly on a Chinese wall, so to speak - an eyewitness account of the strategies Alibaba put in place during the period in which China’s economy began to rival that of the U.S. 
#15221/0635   76 minutes 2012  $189.95 
    

MIC CHECK: Documentary Shorts from the Occupy Movement
Short documentary films about the most important social movement of the 21st century

When thousands of people concerned about growing economic inequality gathered in Zuccotti Park in New York City on September 17, 2011, there was little indication that they would fundamentally transform American political debate and ignite a full-scale national and global protest movement. But within a year, the Occupy Wall Street protestors had done just that.

This powerful collection of short films, made by Occupy protestors on the ground, tells the story of the movement in real time. While the films range in length from just one to ten minutes, their combined force is spellbinding. Together they show how a fledgling movement came out of nowhere to challenge Wall Street's rapacious and predatory practices, force economic inequality and corporate greed onto the mainstream political agenda, and capture the imagination of the world. The result is a fascinating and multifaceted portrait of one of the defining political struggles of our time.

Mic Check is especially suitable for courses in political science, government, economics, history, human rights, sociology, social justice and activism, and for campus event programming dedicated to social issues. The films were curated by Nick Shimkin, a film programmer and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. 
#15207/0685   100 minutes 2012  $229.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

GOOGLE BABY
Google Baby journeys across three continents to tell the story of the up-and-coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. Doron, an Israeli entrepreneur with a high tech background, is proposing a new service - baby production. The baby producer, as he introduces himself, provides customers with a cost-effective solution using outsourcing of the surrogacy element to India as a way to lower prices. The preferred genetic material is selected by the clients and the rest is left in the hands of the producer: sperm and eggs are purchased online and multiple embryos are produced and frozen. Packed in liquid nitrogen, only the embryos that fit the customers’ preferences are shipped to India where they are implanted into the wombs of local women. These surrogates are kept in a closed clinic under constant supervision by Dr. Nanya Patel. At the end of the nine month pregnancy period, the customers arrive to pick up their babies.

In the ‘60s, the introduction of the contraceptive pill turned sex into an act far less dependent upon the risk of pregnancy. Today, technology has turned "making a baby" into an act independent of sex. Globalization is making baby producing affordable; all one needs is a credit card.

Through a non-judgmental presentation of the practice, the film raises issues of medical ethics, racism, and exploitation that have no simple resolutions. It serves as a valuable addition for women’s studies, bioethics, and globalization courses. 
#15206/0605   60 minutes 2012  $369.95 
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LEGACY PROJECT (THE): Dramatists Talk about Their Work (10 Programs)
The Legacy Project is a ten-video series that documents and preserves the creative process of America’s most esteemed writers for the theater in a series of filmed conversations, each featuring an established stage author or collaborative team interviewed by a younger emerging writer. This notable chronicle of important theater history features writers including:

LEE ADAMS is the Tony-Award-winning lyricist behind the Broadway productions Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Golden Boy. With his longtime collaborator, composer Charles Strouse, he wrote the theme song for TV’s long-running show, "All in the Family". Interviewed by BRIAN YORKEY (Next to Normal). 45 minutes

EDWARD ALBEE received a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, recognizing him as "America’s greatest living playwright". His works includes Zoo Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women. Interviewed by WILL ENO (Thom Pain, based on nothing.) 42 minutes

JERRY BOCK AND SHELDON HARNICK wrote the music and lyrics for Fiddler on the Roof with a book by Joseph Stein, winning nine Tony Awards and international acclaim. Other collaborations include Fiorello!, She Loves Me, Tenderloin, The Apple Tree, and The Rothschilds. Interviewed by DAVID ZIPPEL (City of Angels). 51 minutes

A.R. GURNEY, recognized as one of America’s most prolific playwrights, is best known for his intimate portrayals of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant American families. His plays include The Dining Room, Love Letters, and Scenes from American Life. Interviewed by ITAMAR MOSES (The Four of Us). 42 minutes.

JOHN KANDER is an award-winning composer best known for his musical collaborations with lyricist Fred Ebb. Their many musicals include Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Scottsboro Boys. Interviewed by KRISTEN CHILDS (The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin). 52 minutes

ARTHUR LAURENTS, playwright, screenwriter, author, and stage director, is best-known as the writer and director of two of Broadway’s landmark musicals -Gypsy and West Side Story - as well as the screenwriter for The Way We Were and The Turning Point. Interviewed by DAVID SAINT (George Street Playhouse). 46 minutes

STEPHEN SONDHEIM was hailed by The New York Times as "the greatest . . . artist working in musical theatre". His many honors include Tony awards for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Passion. Interviewed by ADAM GUETTEL (The Light in the Piazza). 65 minutes

JOSEPH STEIN is best known as the book writer for the extraordinary landmark musical Fiddler on the Roof with Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. He later wrote
Zorba with John Kander and Fred Ebb and Rags with Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz. Interviewed by LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA (In the Heights). 38 minutes

CHARLES STROUSE is best known as the composer of the Tony Award-winning hits Bye Bye Birdie and Applause, written with lyricist Lee Adams; and Annie, which he wrote with lyricist Martin Charnin and librettist Thomas Meehan. Interviewed by MICHAEL JOHN LACHIUSA (Marie Christine). 48 minutes

LANFORD WILSON co-founded the Circle Repertory Company in 1969 and is considered to be one of the founders of the Off-Off Broadway theater movement.
His best known works include Talley’s Folly, The Hot L Baltimore, Fifth of July, and Burn This. Interviewed by CRAIG LUCAS (Prelude to a Kiss). 46 minutes 
#15200/0605   475 minutes 2011  $989.95 *Streaming available 
    

BIOLOGY: The Science of Life (26 programs)
Students will achieve higher grades with this 26-part fun, music-filled way to learn high school biology! Covers the high school curriculum from lab safety, cell structure, DNA and genetics all the way through human biology.

*Helps students score up to 5 times higher at test time
*Teaches core subjects in H.S. Biology with key science objectives
*Music based learning increases retention and improves memory.
*Each program features a science demonstration that can be reproduced by teachers in the classroom
*Features student pre/post test question and answer guide
*Teaches using *Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory
*Provides lab experiment and homework exercises for each lesson
*Beneficial for ESL, IEPs, re-testers/credit recovery, home and summer school
*Helps students with learning challenges, improving scores for all learning levels

*Detailed descriptions of the subjects included in each program can be emailed upon request

1. LABORATORY SAFETY & VOLUME MEASUREMENT - Students learn safe practices during field and laboratory investigations. 35 minutes

2. RECYCLE, REDUCE, REUSE - Students learn how to make wise choices in the use and conservation of resources and the disposal or recycling of materials. 25 minutes

3. ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP & SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS - Students plan and implement investigative procedures asking questions, formulating testable hypothesis and selecting equipment and technology. Learn how to collect data and make measurements with precision. Organize, analyze, evaluate, make inferences and predict trends from data. 32 minutes

4. THE PERIODIC TABLE & CHEMICAL ELEMENTS - As a result of learning about the different structures of Bimolecular compounds, students learn what elements are, the periodic table, pH Scale, ionic bonds, covalent bonds and polar bonds. 27 minutes

5. ORGANIC COMPOUNDS - Students compare the structures and functions of different types of biomolecules such as carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. 24 minutes

6. CELL STRUCTURE: Parts of the Cell - Students investigate and identify cellular processes including permeability, transport of molecules and functions of the cell membranes. 20 minutes

7. OSMOSIS & CELL PERMEABILITY - Students investigate and identify cellular processes including permeability, transport of molecules and functions of the cell membranes. 27 minutes
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8. ANIMAL AND PLANT CELLS - Students compare cells from different parts of plants and animals including roots, stems, leaves, epithelia, muscles and bones to show specialization of structure and function. 27 minutes
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9. LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION & STRUCTURE - Students sequence the levels of organization in multi-cellular organisms to relate the parts to each other and to the whole. 21 minutes

10. MITOSIS: Cell Division - Students learn five processes of mitosis - Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase. 24 minutes

11. MEIOSIS - Students compare the processes of mitosis and meiosis and their significance to sexual and asexual behavior. 25 minutes

.12. STRUCTURE OF DNA & RNA - Students learn the structures and functions of nucleic acids. 30 minutes

13. PROTEIN SYNTHESIS - Students understand replication, translation and transcription using models of DNA and RNA. 39 minutes

14. MENDELIAN GENETICS - Students compare genetic variations observed in plants (pea pods) and learn to understand Mendelian Genetics. 37 minutes
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15. THE ENERGY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PLANTS & ANIMALS Program One - Students compare the energy flow in photo-synthesis to the energy flow in cellular respiration. 24 minutes

16. THE ENERGY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PLANTS & ANIMALS Program Two - Students compare the energy flow in photosynthesis to the energy flow in cellular respiration (part 2). 30 minutes

17. CLASSIFYING LIVING ORGANISMS - Students analyze relationships among organisms and develop a model of hierarchical classification system based on similarities and differences using taxonomic nomenclature. 27 minutes

18. MONERANS, PROTISTS, PLANTS & ANIMALS - Students identify characteristics of kingdoms including Monerans (Eubacteria & Archaebacteria), Protists, Fungi, Plants and Animals. 24 minutes

19. THE RELATIONSHIP OF VIRUSES & BACTERIA TO DISEASE - Students compare the structures and functions of viruses to cells and describe the role of viruses in causing diseases and conditions such as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, common colds, smallpox, influenza and warts. They also identify and describe the mold of bacteria in maintaining health in digestion and in causing disease such as streptococcus infections and diphtheria. 32 minutes

20. PROTISTS: Protozoa - Students identify characteristics of the Kingdom Protista. 25 minutes

21. FLOWERING PLANTS - Students analyze and identify characteristics of plant systems and subsystems. 29 minutes

22. THE NERVOUS & SKELETAL SYSTEMS - Students interpret the function of systems in organisms (humans) including the nervous and skeletal systems. They also compare the interrelationships of nervous and skeletal systems to each other and to the body as a whole. 45 minutes

23. THE CIRCULATORY & RESPIRATORY SYSTEMS - Students interpret the function of systems in organisms (humans) including the circulatory and respiratory systems. They will also compare the interrelationships of circulatory and respiratory systems to each other and to the body as a whole. 30 minutes

24. THE DIGESTIVE & EXCRETORY SYSTEMS - Students interpret the function of systems in organisms (humans) including the digestive and excretory systems. They will also compare the interrelationships of digestive and excretory systems to each other and to the body as a whole. 36 minutes

25. THE REPRODUCTIVE & ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS - Students interpret the function of systems in organisms (humans) including the reproductive and endocrine systems. They will also compare the interrelationships of reproductive and endocrine systems to each other and to the body as a whole. 37 minutes

26. THE MUSCULAR & INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEMS - Students interpret the function of systems in organisms (humans) including the muscular and integumentary systems. They will also compare the interrelationships of muscular and integumentary systems to each other and to the body as a whole. 49 minutes

 
#15180/2003  2011  $1,799.95  Grades 6 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
This program covers the important topic of the kinetic theory of gases in Physics. We begin by discussing the theory, which involves how energy is transferred to a gas and what results from the motion of gas molecules. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students confidence in their skills by gradual repetition so that the skills learned in this section are committed to long term memory.

*Part of the PHYSICS 2 TUTOR Series 
#15177/2003   66 minutes 2011  $129.95  Grades 9 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

IONIC COMPOUNDS
This program covers the very important topic of ionic compounds. We discuss how ionic compounds form and how to predict ahead of time what the chemical formula will be when given the atoms that form the ionic compound. We spend a great deal of time discussing how to name ionic compounds. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students confidence in their skills by gradual repetition so that the skills learned in this section are committed to long term memory.

*Part of the CHEMISTRY TUTOR Series 
#15176/2003   43 minutes 2011  $129.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

EXPLORING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
Embark on a journey which takes students from planet Earth to the outer fringes of our solar system. With the aid of cameras from various spacecraft, students get a close-up look at the planets in our solar system, from Mercury’s cratered surface to Jupiter’s huge red spot and Saturn’s spectacular rings. Discover the mysteries and surprises of our solar system, our celestial home. 
#15172/2003   14 minutes 2011  $129.95  Grades 4 to 9 *Streaming available 
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ART 21 (Season VI) Art in the 21st Century DVD
Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century.

240 minutes on 1 DVD 
#15171/1725   240 minutes 2012  $99.95 *CC 
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ALGEBRA 2 SERIES (15 Programs)
This series teaches students the core topics of Algebra 2 and bridges the gap between Algebra 1 and Trigonometry. It contains essential material to help students do well in advanced mathematics. Many of the topics in this series are used in other Math courses, such as writing equations of lines, graphing equations and solving systems of equations. These skills are used time and time again in more advanced courses such as Physics and Calculus. The Algebra 2 Tutor is a complete 15 lesson series covering all of the core topics in detail. What sets this series apart from other teaching tools is that the concepts are taught entirely through step-by-step example problems of increasing difficulty. It works by introducing each new concept in an easy to understand way and using example problems that are worked out step-by-step and line-by-line to completion.

If a student has a problem with coursework or homework, simply find a similar problem fully worked on in the series and review for the steps needed to solve the problem. Students will be able to work problems with ease, improve their problem-solving skills and understand the underlying concepts of Algebra 2. This series is best used in order from Volume 1 through Volume 15. About Jason Gibson: Host Jason holds M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the University of Texas. He has been teaching Math Tutor programs since 2004, with his proven methods of helping students understand basic math and physics principles step-by-step, using practical examples.

GRAPHING EQUATIONS, 39 minutes
SLOPE OF A LINE, 25 minutes
WRITING EQUATIONS OF LINES, 31 minutes
GRAPHING INEQUALITIES, 21 minutes
SOLVING SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS BY GRAPHING, 33 minutes
SOLVING SYSTEMS OF EQUTIONS BY SUBSTITUTION, 18 minutes
SOLVING SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS BY ADDITION, 27 minutes
SOLVING SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS IN THREE VARIABLES, 23 minutes
SIMPLIFYING RADICAL EXPRESSIONS, 23 minutes
ADDING AND SUBTRACTING RADICAL EXPRESSIONS, 28 minutes
MULTIPLY/DIVIDE RADICAL EXPRESSIONS, 35 minutes
SOLVING EQUATIONS WITH RADICALS, 24 minutes
FRACTIONAL EXPONENTS, 31 minutes
SOLVING POLYNOMIAL EQUATIONS, 24 minutes
QUADRATIC FORMULA, 15 minutes

*Teachers User Instruction and Resource Guide available
 
#15170/2003  2011  $659.95  Grades 8 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

YOUNG MINDS: Numbers and Counting Math
This program is designed to stimulate young children to take an interest in Math at an early age.

Featuring engaging photography, video and animation set to classical music selections from the great composers - J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi and others! Teaches: How to recognize the numbers 1 to 10, how to associate the number with physical objects, how to count from 1 to 10, animal names and sounds, fruits and vegetables, names of colors, names of machines such as cars and airplanes. Bonus features include: Repeat Play, Picture Puzzles, Connect the Dots, Name the Animal.

3 STARS - "RECOMMENDED" VIDEO LIBRARIAN
"Combining film clips and photos, appropriate sound effects, and guidance from a young narrator, Young Minds: Numbers & Counting is designed to help youngsters learn numbers and basic math skills. Drawing on a wide range of examples - including a frog, helicopters, fruits, flowers, an elk family, eggs and footprints - the program teaches viewers about the first 10 numbers, while also serving up helpful descriptions that offer information about topics ranging from animal noises to vehicle colors ("Those firetrucks are red ......."). Backed by classical soundtrack featuring Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and others. Bonus features include puzzles and games." 
#15169/2003   54 minutes 2010  $89.95  Grades K to 3 *Streaming available 
    

UNITS AND UNIT CONVERSIONS
This DVD discusses units and unit conversion in chemistry. It looks at the primary units used and presents a proven technique for converting from one unit to another that can be applied to virtually every chemistry problem. The program presents examples.
 
#15165/2003   20 minutes 2011  $129.95  Grades 8 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

ART AND SCIENCE OF TEACHING (THE) 2 Programs
* WINNER! Telly Award (Outstanding Education Category)

The framework of action steps comes to life in this series of DVDs, so educators can see exactly how to implement this comprehensive approach and promote high levels of student achievement. Robert J. Marzano explains the scientific basis for effective teaching, ten questions to guide effective curriculum unit planning, and the relationship between teaching as an art and as a science.

An embedded professional development plan with a PowerPoint presentation and teacher handouts is included with these two 45-minute DVDs. 
#15162/0187  2008  $379.95 
    

STRATEGIC TEACHER (THE)
The ultimate guide to teaching strategies, this program has been called "a touchstone text" by education research experts. But getting these breakthrough ideas into the thinking of every teacher can be a difficult and expensive challenge. Use this DVD in your next professional development activity or teacher meeting and convince teachers in every grade and subject of the need to acquire a repertoire of research-based strategies and to match those strategies to teaching objectives and student needs.

Starts off with a basic overview including the four styles of instructional approaches. Then, classroom scenes demonstrate how these proven strategies work and how teachers can use them for lesson design and differentiated instruction. In dialogue among teachers and school leaders, hear how to improve instructional practice school wide by using these techniques. Plus, scenes with groups of teachers working together in Professional Learning Clubs illustrate how to use the Strategic Teacher Guides to: Plan an effective lesson that uses a research-based teaching strategy; Identify what to look for in student work to Measure effectiveness; and, Evaluate the lesson results and use the experiences to deepen understanding of the strategy. 
#15161/0187   45 minutes 2011  $239.95 
    

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF EQUITABLE PRACTICES (THE)
Why are achievement gaps so persistent and equity still a contentious issue? Here’s a tool to help you reflect on that question and consider your school community’s current situation in light of some widely identified best practices for promoting equity.
Share the DVD with your colleagues next school climate committee or professional learning community meeting to ...
*See and hear the mindset of equitable practices in classrooms, schools, and districts at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
*Understand how viewing curriculum and instruction through the lens of equity encourages a willingness to put aside previously held beliefs and misconceptions about students and helps change teaching behaviors.
*Show examples of behaviors that engage and support student learning while promoting rigor in the classroom. 
#15160/0187   45 minutes 2011  $189.95 
    

PROBLEM BASED LEARNING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY CLASSROOM (2 Programs)
Problem-based learning is a great way to make learning more active, hands on, and engaging for all students - while you still aim toward the objectives of a standards-based curriculum with 21st century learning goals. Here’s the ultimate tool for giving teachers the professional development experience they need to understand the benefits of problem-based learning and to see and hear how to incorporate these strategies into their classroom practice.

Both DVDs in this set take you to classrooms to show how using complex, intriguing problems in standards-based lessons and units will motivate students to learn new skills and help close achievement gaps. Scenes show teachers planning problems, tying them to learning goals, and getting students engaged. And teacher interviews explain the essentials of implementing a problem-based learning lesson or unit, including ...
*Key Questions that relate to the standard you want to meet and identify the cross-curricular opportunities to address that standard.
*Checklists that identify what students need to deliver in order to meet your criteria or your standards.
*Rubrics to define what would be the acceptable, proficient, and distinguished levels of completion.

Handouts and a PowerPoint presentation are embedded in each of the DVDs so you can create a workshop or presentation for your professional learning community.

*Two 45-minute DVDs, each with a professional development program:

Program One - ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Takes you to two elementary schools where teachers use problem-based learning throughout the curriculum. Teachers explain how they work backwards from state and district standards to create problem-based units that have measurable assessment targets.

Program Two - SECONDARY SCHOOL
Takes you to middle and high schools where teachers use problem-based learning to develop real-world, authentic tasks that motivate students and encourage them to take more ownership of learning. See examples of how teachers use problem-based learning to collaborate across the curriculum and integrate technology into their instruction.
 
#15159/0187  2010  $389.95 
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EFFECTIVE SUPERVISION: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching
Administrative leaders have performed observations of teaching practice for years, but those observations have often been seen as superficial at best and subjectively biased at worst. And yet, observation, when done well, can play a vital role in increasing teacher effectiveness, and has become an important part of teacher evaluation systems. What can teachers really gain from being observed in the classroom? And what should the observers be looking for?

In this program, researcher and author Robert J. Marzano presents a framework for observing classroom instruction and presents a detailed observation protocol including demonstrations of how to use it - not only as a tool for analyzing classroom instruction, but also as a starting point to encourage professional dialogue among teachers. As you observe teachers in a variety of classrooms, Marzano and a panel of teachers identify critical aspects of instruction that can help all teachers move their practice from good to great. The interplay between the lessons and the discussions will yield "aha" moments for teachers of all ages and subject areas.

This is an essential tool for supervisors, administrators, coaches, and teacher leaders, and can also assist professional learning communities in their ongoing work.
 
#15158/0187   55 minutes 2012  $239.95 
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CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION THAT WORKS (Elementary, Middle, High School)
The "Classroom Instruction That Works" framework for research-based instruction has helped countless schools and districts on their roads to academic success. Now you can see firsthand exactly how one district is using the nine instructional strategies that have shown to raise student achievement. Here's your opportunity to show teachers in your school or district how to immediately take classroom practice to a higher level of effectiveness. Three 50-minute DVDs
Elementary School *Click here to VIEW CLIP
Middle School *Click here to VIEW CLIP
High School *Click here to VIEW CLIP

*NOTE - The ELEMENTARY program can be purchased separately. 
#15157/0187  2012  $379.95 
    

PUBLIC SPEAKING BASICS
To prepare yourself for varying public speaking engagements, you need to know the basic fundamentals. This DVD discusses different types of speeches and the concepts and elements involved with each, along with research and organization techniques. Strategies for tailoring a speech for a specific audience, as well as rehearsing techniques, microphone tips and body language are also discussed. This production is perfect for all public speaking beginners and for those wishing to brush up on their skills. 
#15154/0310   32 minutes 2011  $189.95  Grades 9 to Adult 
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EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
Does public speaking make you break out in sweat, particularly when it is spur of the moment and without preparation? This presentation will help you better prepare to be an extemporaneous speaker. Key elements, such as audience identification, writing tips and researching techniques, are identified, along with how each is necessary to better prepare, practice and perform as an extemporaneous speaker. Preparation and time management are also discussed. 
#15153/0310   23 minutes 2011  $179.95  Grades 9 to Adult 
    

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
This program begins by discussing different types of computers and then guides students to explore computer hardware, such as input and output devices, internal components and storage devices. The presentation includes the processes of creating, installing, and updating software, as well as providing solutions to software installation problems. Furthermore, students gain knowledge of how to select, set up and maintain a computer. 
#15152/0310   43 minutes 2012  $189.95  Grades 9 to Adult 
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FLORAL DESIGN AND TECHNIQUES SERIES (11 DVDs)
This series of eleven programs examines different types of flowers, mechanics and wiring methods, as well as how to create an arrangement. Visual design strategies, geometric forms in floral designs, and corsage and boutonniere creation are also addressed in this floral design curriculum. Additional topics include wedding and bereavement arrangements, floral holidays and occasions, and the critique and appraisal of floral designs. Includes an Interactive Teacher's Resource Guide containing lesson plans and a variety of worksheets, activities, notes and projects.

FLORAL DESIGN BASICS: Principles and Elements
Comprehending the elements and principles of floral design is vital in creating a quality arrangement. This presentation takes a closer look at the elements and principles of floral design. Jim Johnson, Endowed Chair and Distinguished Lecturer of the Benz School of Floral Design at Texas A&M University, breaks down each element and principle of design as well as the color schemes used in floral design. Detailed graphics aid in comprehension of each element and principle. This presentation analyzes the following elements and principles of design: line, form, space, texture, pattern, color, size, proportion, balance, focal point, rhythm, depth, transition, harmony and unity. 41 minutes

FLORAL DESIGN BASICS: Techniques
Demonstrating the proper techniques used in floral design is very important when creating an arrangement. This presentation takes a closer look at the proper floral design techniques. Jim Johnson, Endowed Chair and Distinguished Lecturer of the Benz School of Floral Design at Texas A&M University, examines the different types of flowers, mechanics and wiring methods, as well as how to create an arrangement. On screen, step-by-step instructions provide students a detailed look at various wiring methods and the process of creating an arrangement. The wiring methods included in the presentation are: straight wire method, piercing method, cross-piercing method, bracing method, wrap-around extension method, stitching method, hairpin method and the feathering method. 56 minutes

GEOMETRY IN FLORAL DESIGN
All floral arrangements are based on a particular shape. This production discusses how to make a symmetrical equilateral triangular arrangement, a circular mound arrangement and a crescent arrangement. Along with how to create these arrangements, the main characteristics of many more arrangements are explained. 26 minutes, 2011

SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS
Florists create designs for holidays and special events throughout the year. This presentation explains the types of flowers, major floral holidays and specialty arrangements most commonly created throughout the year. This great tool prepares students for the creative possibilities in floral design throughout the year. 55 minutes

BEREAVEMENT ARRANGEMENTS
Bereavement arrangements can be a large part of the daily orders in a floral shop. This presentation covers the most common funeral arrangements along with a discussion of popular flowers and flower colors for funerals. Follow a design from the beginning to the finished product. A discussion with a funeral director is included to further explain the importance and significance of flowers in bereavement settings.22 minutes

WEDDING ARRANGEMENTS
A wedding consists of numerous floral arrangements. Join us as we take a look at the preparation of floral arrangements for a wedding ceremony and reception. This presentation covers everything from the floral consultation to the final arrangements at the ceremony and reception. Options for numerous floral arrangements and decorations are discussed, along with creation of the most common wedding arrangements.35 minutes

CORSAGE AND BOUTONNIERE PREPARATION
This presentation is a beginner’s guide to creating corsages and boutonnieres. From the materials needed to create these designs to intricate multi-bloom corsages, this presentation covers it all. Simple single bloom corsages and boutonnieres are discussed step-by-step along with in-depth discussions of the materials and mechanics of each design. 44 minutes

CRITIQUING FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS
The capability to properly critique floral arrangements plays an important role in a floral designer’s ability to create and discuss arrangements. In this presentation, students will join Jim Johnson, Endowed Chair and Distinguished Lecturer of the Benz School of Floral Design at Texas A&M University, as he discusses the factors involved in critiquing floral designs. The importance of balance, proportion, foliage, mechanics and focal point are thoroughly discussed and applied as he critiques symmetrical triangle, asymmetrical triangle, round and vegetative designs. 22 minutes

POST HARVEST CARE OF CUT FLOWERS
How are flowers processed and cared for before they get to the customer? Go behind the scenes at a wholesale floral company and a retail flower shop for an in-depth look at the care of flowers after they have been harvested. This presentation examines the process from the time the flowers are processed at the wholesale florist until they are placed in the cooler at the retail florist. The use of preservatives and disease prevention are also discussed. 22 minutes

FLOWER BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Opening a floral business requires not only knowledge about flowers, foliage and design, but business understanding as well. This presentation takes a look inside the floral industry starting with the grower and finishing with the retail florist. Topics include selecting a location for a business, store layouts, pricing goods, organization of the cooler, supplies and tools necessary for floral businesses, customer service, sales, and growth. 31 minutes

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FLORAL DESIGN
There are numerous careers paths and opportunities in the floral industry. This presentation journeys through multiple levels of the industry from the grower to a retail floral shop and discusses other careers which depend on or support the floral industry. Detailed information on career opportunities, educational requirements, job duties and career potentials is included. 60 minutes 
#15150/0310  2011  $889.95 
    

NEW SOLUTIONS AND FUTURE TRENDS IN ADVANCED HI-TECH MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY, AUTOMATION, LEAN, AND RECONFIGURABLE CELLULAR MANUFACTURING (4 DVD Boxset)
This set looks at three-dimensional, interactive scanning systems integrated with advanced CAD/CAM systems, networked CNC machines, and multiple robots working in collaboration.
 
#15148/0353   120 minutes 2011  $329.95Adult 
    

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NETWORKING AND THE INTERNET
Featuring industrial and research case studies and offering demonstrations by experts, this program introduces computer networking and discusses the Internet. It covers basic methods of computer networking, looks at tools and technologies, and outlines international standards. 
#15147/0353   132 minutes 2012  $239.95Adult 
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INTRODUCTION TO LEAN JIDOKA (4 DVDs)
Featuring technical interviews and practical demonstrations, this set introduces jidoka and shows how the manufacturing approach is used to produce smart machines and robots that work without human assistance. Discusses the role of human operators, considers the use of sensory-linked computer or cell controllers to stop production in problem situations, and encourages the gradual development of an automated system in which machines and robots are slowly introduced and provide assistance to people.

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#15145/0353   120 minutes 2012  $339.95Adult 
    

ELECTRICITY FOR REFRIGERATION, HEATING AND A/C (4 DVD Set)
This series of 16 videos is an excellent way to introduce essential electrical topics from basic concepts of electricity through motor controls. A powerful blend of live action, precise graphics and top-quality animations enable viewers to quickly grasp the new knowledge and skills being introduced with clear step-by-step demonstrations.

DVD ONE INCLUDES:
Safety - Basic Electricity and Circuits - Electric Meters/Basic Components and Symbols - Wiring Diagrams and Schematics

DVD TWO INCLUDES:
Alternating Current/Power Distribution and Voltage Systems - Installation of Heating, Cooling and Refrigeration Systems - Basic Electrical Motors - Components of Electric Motors

DVD THREE INCLUDES:
Electrical Control Devices - Heating Control Devices - Air Conditioning Control Systems - Control Systems: Circuitry - Solid State Devices/Touch Screen Thermostats/Environmental Concerns

*New! DVD FOUR covers residential air conditioning control systems and solid state controls.

Russell E. Smith is an Air Conditioning Technology Instructor emeritus at Athens Technical College in Athens, Georgia. Mr. Smith also ran his own contracting and consulting firm for many years. He is a Certificate Member of the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society and holder of Conditioned Air Non-Restricted in the State of Georgia. He holds an AE in Air conditioning Engineering Technology.

 
#15140/0430  2011  $1,989.95 *CC 
    

DEFAULT: The Student Loan Documentary
"Puts a human face on the student debt crisis. Explains words like 'default' and 'forbearance' through compelling stories. Both a cautionary tale and a call to action."
- Anne Lakas Miller | The Nation Magazine

"A timely film that should be watched by all students, parents, university administrators/faculty, and all voting citizens."
- Anastasia Wilson | Blogger, Memoirs of an Economics Student

Just a few years after the subprime mortgage crisis, there are ominous signs that the student loan market is on the verge of collapsing, yet another casualty of predatory lending practices. DEFAULT brings this perilous situation into sharp relief, chronicling the stories of borrowers who find themselves in the paralyzing predicament of having to repay far more than what they borrowed -- with no bankruptcy protection, and no recourse under the law. The result is at once an accessible analysis of a mounting economic crisis, and a cautionary tale for students.
 
#15139/0685   27 minutes 2012  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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AGROFUELS: Starving People, Fueling Greed

"A wake-up call. Documents with great clarity the destruction of farming soils, forests, common lands and livelihoods by first and second-generation agrofuels in the name of energy security." Phillip McMichael - Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

"A good introduction to some of the devastating consequences to local communities and the environment caused by large-scale soy and sugar cane production in Brazil. Helps us ask important questions about so-called 'green' energy."
Ronit Ridberg - Food Systems Consultant

An eye-opening account of the downside of alternative, food-based fuel sources. Delving deep into the world of agrofuels and monocrops, they explore how the increasingly common practice of diverting food crops to the industrial production of cellulose-based fuels is devastating indigenous communities, undermining small farmers, and endangering the environment across Latin America. Turning to the promise of the future, they also show how grassroots communities are developing better, cleaner alternatives. A good resource for courses dealing with the global economy, development issues, and the environment.
 
#15138/0685   28 minutes 2012  $149.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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BURNING QUESTION (A): Propaganda and the Denial of Climate Change
"If you are skeptical about human-caused climate change, watch this movie. It provides a clear and compelling case for the reality of the problem and the threat to our future that it poses."
- Michael E. Mann | Author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

"Engaging and informative. Gets to the heart of the politics of climate change, examining the relationship between the science, the vested interests, the media, and the public. Essential viewing."
- Justin Lewis | Head of School, Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University

This fascinating and clarifying look at the debate surrounding global warming explores the striking disconnect between the relatively clear-cut concerns of the world's most prominent scientists and the maze of speculation, rhetorical posturing, and outright misinformation that attaches to this issue whenever it's taken up by politicians, PR specialists, and political pundits. Mixing a localized focus on Ireland with insights from scientists and leaders from around the world, the film serves as both a primer on climate science and a penetrating analysis of media framing and the science of perception management. An excellent resource for courses in science, environmental studies, global politics, and media.

Features commentary from former Irish president Mary Robinson, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, paleoclimatologist Jennifer McElwain, and a host of other prominent scientists and commentators. 
#15137/0685   53 minutes 2012  $219.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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GEOGRAPHERS IN THE FIELD
Fieldwork is a critical part of geography, and it involves a range of techniques. In this program, two teenage geography "commandos" are on a mission to research and report on the human impact in two geographical regions - one urban, and one within a national park. Along the way they learn about preparation, collecting primary and secondary data on both human and physical geography, equipment, note-taking, photographic recording, surveying and interviewing, and presenting findings. The geographers also talk with park rangers who work in urban as well as natural areas and ultimately come to understand the importance of accurate, well-prepared fieldwork.

*Viewable/printable educational resources are available online. 
#15132/0545   33 minutes 2009  $129.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

POPULATION GEOGRAPHY
Between the early 19th century and the early 21st century, the global population grew from one billion to more than six billion people. This program describes population geography and explains how experts use it to define groups and forecast changes within those groups. First, population distribution and demographics are described. Then, the effects of birth and death rates on the populations of developed and underdeveloped countries are detailed. Finally, demographic transition models and their importance to the study of population geography are illustrated. Provides clearly defined terminology and relevant examples. 
#15131/0545   33 minutes 2009  $149.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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REGENERATION: The Politics of Apathy and Activism
"A timely documentary that takes an in-depth look at the reasons behind the Occupy movement, and the current state of social activism in the U.S." Indiewire

"A well-rounded documentary. Deconstruct[s] the way that people, and especially teens, absorb information from the media." Common Sense Media

Ryan Gosling narrates this engrossing film about social activism, the forces that galvanized the Occupy movement, and a new generation of young people coming to terms with a rapidly changing world. Mixing personal testimony with expert analysis, the film combines observations from suburban high school students, progressive activists, and young conservatives with insights from leading political and cultural commentators to provide a nuanced look at the myriad challenges facing young Americans. The result is as personal as it is political, as much a portrait of power and resistance as of a generation finding its way in uncertain times.

Features Noam Chomsky, the late Howard Zinn, Adbusters' Kalle Lasn, Andrew Bacevich, Amy Goodman, Talib Kweli, Sut Jhally, and music from STS9.
 
#15130/0685   80 minutes 2012  $249.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

POWER OF RTI: Classroom Management Strategies K-6
Response To Intervention (RTI) - an effective method for helping struggling learners achieve academic success - can be a powerful management approach to challenging behaviors. In this program educational consultant Jim Wright explains how RTI can be used in the classroom to address defiant, noncompliant, hyperactive, impulsive, and inattentive behaviors. He also explains how tier 1 techniques can be implemented for positive behavioral expectations, for data collection to measure and monitor behavior, and to manage rules, routines, and schedules. In addition, Wright demonstrates targeted use of rewards and feedback. 
#15127/1435   49 minutes 2009  $149.95 *CC 
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RTI AND DI: The Dynamic Duo
Response to intervention (RTI) and differentiated instruction (DI) are teaching methods aimed at helping all reach their full potential, especially when a classroom contains students of various backgrounds, cultures, and learning styles. This program presents educators with an overview of how to use RTI and DI together to practice high-quality instruction that is complemented by targeted interventions and ongoing student assessments. The video explains that RTI and DI both emphasize student engagement, collaboration, and assessment, and then focuses on the RTI team, classroom implementation, and addressing special populations such as learners with disabilities, gifted learners, or English-language learners. 
#15126/1435   37 minutes 2009  $149.95 *CC 
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TIME-OUT IN A RESPONSIVE CLASSROOM
A first and a third grade teacher use a positive, respectful time-out to help children get back on track when they’re just beginning to lose self-control.
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#15124/1467   35 minutes 2007  $119.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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FIVE DIFFERENT ECE STUDY GUIDE CDs
Use these presentation CDs as a self-study tool or in workshops or online classes. Viewing them requires Microsoft PowerPoint.

TAKE TIME TO SEE THROUGH CHILDREN’S EYES
Viewers are invited to journey with a group of pre-school children as they explore the life of a leaf. The story traces their yearlong investigation into the life cycle of leaves, launched when a child asks why they change color. See the intellectually engaging work of theory-making, perspective-taking, and collaboration that sustains their journey. A companion to the book The Language of Art by Ann Pelo, and the DVD To See Takes Time, Growing Curriculum From Children's Theories.

GIVING CHILDREN MORE LANGUAGES
See examples of environments where children see themselves as artists, learn about materials, and explore light and color. In these examples, children work with recycled materials, use art as a thinking tool, and build bridges to conventional literacy. Teachers document and display work, and help children study other artists.

A STUDY OF EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTS
Explore the elements of cozy, homelike environments, flexible space, and open-ended materials. Learn to include natural elements, provoke wonder and curiosity. See how to provide for symbolic representation, literacy, and the visual arts.

LEAVE NO CHILD INSIDE: Outdoor ECE Program Environments
Learn to plan outdoor environments as carefully as the indoor ones. See elements that connect children to nature and help them feel powerful. Examples include props to enhance play, places to gather, landscape features, and storage and cleanup options.

VISIONARY INFANT AND TODDLER PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTS
Discover program elements that help children feel cozy and at home, and connect with others and the outside world. See how to engage children in sensory exploration and physical activity, make literacy meaningful, and enjoy diapering experiences.
 
#15120/0877  $339.95 
    

SIDE BY SIDE: Mentoring Teachers for Reflective Practice
Follow two child care programs as they design a mentoring program to guide their teachers in becoming better observers and curriculum developers, drawing on the children's interests. Watch the teachers gain skills and confidence in using documentation to guide their planning. See the children, as well as a mentor teacher and art specialist, guide their teachers into in-depth investigations and meaningful curriculum. 
#15119/0877   16 minutes 2004  $149.95 *CC 
    

TO SEE IT TAKES TIME: Growing Curriculum from Children's Theories
Curriculum becomes meaningful for children and adults when we take up their interests and guide them through in-depth project work. Learn with full day child care teachers, inspired by the Reggio approach, as they probe to find the children's questions and theories and offer a range of art media and experiences to explore their ideas and involve their families.

*** Also see the companion Study Guide, TAKE TIME TO SEE THROUGH THE CHILDREN'S EYES, and the related book, THE LANGUAGE OF ART.


 
#15118/0877   28 minutes 2004  $149.95 *CC 
    

RIGHT FROM THE START: A Guide to Hiring, Orienting and Supporting Teachers for Reflective Practices

RIGHT FROM THE START is an interactive multi-media DVD designed to support
administrators in the challenging work of hiring, orienting and supporting teachers
to become reflective and intentional in their work.

MENU "A"
Building Your Vision and Living Your Vision with ideas and examples for clarifying your values and developing a program culture with systems that guide everyday policies and practices in a full day early learning program. Included are documents for recruiting, hiring and evaluation processes and a budget matrix for an elective orientation and ongoing mentoring system for teachers.

MENU "B"
Creating a system of pedagogical orientation, offering details of an elective orientation to the values and pedagogical practices of a center with relationships, play and inquiry at the heart of its program. Included are descriptions of the pedagogical design for pre-service and in-service training that parallels the teaching approach desired with children, and sample video clips of side by side mentoring and pedagogical orientation with a new teacher.

MENU "C"
Syllabi and Agendas for Orientation Classes, with a step by step description of each two hour class including reading assignments and video clips to practice classroom observations. A template is included for designing your own orientation sessions.

MENU "D"
Slideshows for each orientation class.


*** Also available...
SEASON BY SEASON THE YEAR UNFOLDS a companion GUIDEBOOK with sample documents for developing an intentional culture in early childhood programs. This resource guides teachers in understanding how a program’s values shape everyday practices with children. Seven sections, each developed with the same format, offer examples of key practices at Hilltop Children’s Center Each section includes worksheets and charts for teachers that detail center-wide protocols. There are sample letters to families, sample observation and documentation stories, examples of conflict negotiation and anti-bias practices with children, and a self-assessment in each section.
 
#15117/0877  2010  $169.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

GIVING EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK TO YOUR STUDENTS (3 Programs)
Giving students good feedback on all their schoolwork is one of the toughest challenges every teacher faces. But here at last is a DVD that helps teachers always know the right kind of feedback to give, and how to give it, for all kinds of assignments, in every grade level and subject area.

This DVD series is the ideal tool to use in workshops and PLC meetings to convey to teachers the fundamental principles of good feedback, including ...
*The power of effective feedback to improve student achievement.
*Key factors to ensure effective feedback.
*Ways to adjust feedback for different kinds of learners, including English language learners.
*How to tell when your feedback is working.

Throughout the series, teachers demonstrate lots of written and oral feedback strategies that put students at the center of the learning and help them improve their own performance. Show real teachers using feedback in the formative assessment process to improve the focus of classroom lessons and instructional strategies. Demonstrate how to ensure feedback has the right timing and tone with the optimum amount of content and clarity.

*An embedded professional development program on each DVD, with accompanying PowerPoint presentation and handouts, ensures teachers get engaged in discovering and applying good feedback with all their students.

The three programs in the series are:
THE IMPACT ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
SEVEN KEY FACTORS TO ENSURE EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK
TAILORING FEEDBACK TO CONTENT AREAS AND STUDENT NEEDS 
#15115/0187  2009  $489.95 
    

ASSESSMENT FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING (3 Programs)
Any school that wants to prepare students for success in the 21st century and teach them skills that are relevant to a more globalized, interconnected, and digital world has to consider how to assess for those skills. Here’s a DVD series that helps you explain to everyone in your school exactly how to do that.

Use all three DVDs in workshops, team meetings, and professional learning communities to take you and your colleagues to 21st century initiatives in rural and urban school areas, in the United States and abroad. Featured expert Jay McTighe helps you discover which skills and competencies students must master to succeed in this change-dominated and technology-driven world. Explore what effective assessment looks like when it promotes true 21st century learning for all students. Learn how schools and districts can assess what is valuable, not just things that are easiest to test and grade. To help you and your colleagues engage in active learning and discussion of the concepts in the video, an embedded professional development program on each DVD gives you PowerPoint presentations and handouts.

Three 30-minute DVDs each with a professional development program.
THE CASE FOR 21ST CENTURY ASSESSMENT
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PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES
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TRANSFORMING THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING ORGANIZATION
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#15110/0187   90 minutes 2010  $389.95 
    

HOW TO GRADE FOR LEARNING K-12
Demonstrate how teachers can link grading to standards to promote student achievement!

Designed around the third edition of Ken O’Connor’s best-selling "How to Grade for Learning", this comprehensive multimedia presentation offers staff developers the necessary materials to help K - 12 teachers apply effective grading strategies that support learning and encourage student success. Participants will be able to examine and reflect on their own methods and ensure that grading practices.

*Honor the learning process and include students in both learning and assessment
*Reflect definitive information about a student’s academic strengths and weaknesses
*Accurately measure achievement only, separate from behavior
*Are consistent and aligned with performance standards that are clearly communicated to students

This Multimedia Kit for Professional Development includes:
*THE COMPANION BOOK - "How to Grade for Learning K-12", Third Edition, which defines the relationship between content standards, performance standards, assignments, assessments, and grades
* A CONTENT-RICH 53-minute DVD featuring Ken O’Connor presents essential elements of effective grading models and offers a navigation menu for easy stop-and-search control of video content
*A STEP-BY-STEP FACILITATOR'S GUIDE connecting the book’s content to the DVD and including segment prompts, workshop activities, and discussion questions
*A CD-ROM providing a digital copy of the entire facilitator guide and overheads for easy use during presentations

This all-in-one package will be indispensable for staff developers, principals, and district administrators leading professional development to help teachers develop grading methods that accurately reflect each learner’s academic achievements.
 
#15109/1883   53 minutes 2009  $389.95 
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GHS LABELS AND SAFETY DATA SHEETS (2 DVDs)

The Globally Harmonized System (GHS) is an international approach to hazard communication, providing a new system for classification of chemical hazards, and a standardized approach to labels and safety data sheets. OSHA is requiring that employees are trained on the new labels (e.g., pictograms and signal words) and Safety Data Sheet format.

You may begin to receive products that have the new GHS label and SDS format soon, so it’s important to ensure that employees are familiar with these new communication tools.

This exciting new "GHS Labels and Safety Data Sheets" training program - delivered on two DVDs 14 and 10 minutes - will help your employees: Understand the new GHS label elements; and, Identify the new GHS pictograms; Read and interpret the new GHS Safety Data Sheets.
 
#15108/0490   24 minutes 2012  $549.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ONLINE MARKETING STRATEGIES
With the emergence of social media technology and the Internet now dominating global communication, this expert-led program shows why online marketing is a vital part of every business model. Director of 2 Sticks Digital, Tim Martin, and the University of Melbourne's Dr. Brent Coker, explain concepts such as search engine optimization, pay per click, viral and email marketing, as well as how to implement and measure an online marketing campaign. While online success is difficult to predict, viewers will discover that innovative and flexible marketing strategies are crucial to surviving in the digital world. 
#15101/0545   18 minutes 2012  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult 
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MY DIGITAL LIFE

This thought-provoking program explores the perils and possibilities of the brave new digital world and addresses issues of privacy and the digital footprint; misguided notions about multitasking and learning; as well as the value of being wired vs. unplugged. Are we really more connected or are we losing intrapersonal skills? Is this technology robbing us of our sleep, our free time? Is it controlling our lives? And, what should we be telling our children, ourselves? Experts and adolescents offer powerful strategies to effectively navigate a rapidly growing and ever-changing digital world.
 
#15097/1290   28 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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BAKING FUNDAMENTALS: Cookies, Bars, and Cakes

With a knowledge of baking basics, cookies, bars, and cakes are easy to prepare. Learn the essential skills necessary to make delicious baked goods. Step by step instructions take viewers through each recipe from start to finish.

Recipes include: Rolled sugar cookies; Oatmeal, walnut and dried cranberry drop cookies; Rice Krispies; Brownies; Sponge cake; White cake; Boxed cake mix; and, Clafouti. The recipes are included in the teaching materials.

The DVD is divided into two segments:
Segment 1 - Cookies and Bars 22 minutes
Segment 2 - Cakes 16 minutes
 
#15096/1290   38 minutes 2012  $69.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

ELECTRICAL THEORY AC INTERACTIVE INSTITUTIONAL DVD, 1st Edition
This DVD contains a complete set of videos that are enhanced with interactive graphics, animations, and questions that can easily be used by your students as a homework solution, study guide, or supplemental online classroom instruction to meet the needs of a mandatory hybrid requirement for your class.These interactive videos allow your students to better connect with the subject matter while fulfilling instructor requirements for electronic learning material.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Basic Alternating Current.
Inductance in AC Circuits.
Capacitors.
Capacitors in AC Circuits.
RLC Circuits. 
#15095/0430  2011  $1,129.95 
    

PROBLEM WITH GENETICALLY-MODIFIED SEEDS (THE)
Bill Moyers talks with scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva, who’s become a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds. These seeds - considered "intellectual property" by the big companies who own the patents - are globally marketed to monopolize food production and profits. Opponents challenge the safety of genetically modified seeds, claiming they also harm the environment, are more costly, and leave local farmers deep in debt as well as dependent on suppliers. Shiva, who founded a movement in India to promote native seeds, sees this as the latest battleground in the war on Planet Earth. 
#15094/0405   26 minutes 2012  $149.95 *CC 
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ELECTRICAL THEORY DC INTERACTIVE INSTITUTIONAL DVD, 1st Edition
This DVD contains a complete set of videos that are enhanced with interactive graphics, animations, and questions that can easily be used by your students as a homework solution, study guide, or supplemental online classroom instruction to meet the needs of a mandatory hybrid requirement for your class. These interactive videos allow your students to better connect with the subject matter while fulfilling instructor requirements for electronic learning material.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Basic Electricity.
Series and Parallel Circuits.
Combination Circuits.
Small Sources of Electricity 
#15090/0430  2011  $1,129.95 
    

ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY VIDEO CLIP COLLECTION
To explore America’s past in a meaningful way, a growing number of educators strive for spirited debate and passionate discussion in their classrooms. The key is get students talking about historical events with the same energy and immediacy that today’s topics provoke. But accomplishing that is virtually impossible without the right catalyst.

This collection of 25 concise video clips is designed to spark thoughtful, productive dialogue on major turning points in U.S. history. Each clip lays out two opposing viewpoints, framing a complex historical episode as if it were a debatable "issue" - just as citizens of the time might have thought and argued about it.

In some cases, such as the segments on Jamestown or the Salem witch trials, the debate echoes scholarly disagreements that exist today. Other clips relate directly to hot-button issues our society still wrestles with, such as the role of unions or the teaching of evolution - while a handful of equally powerful segments resurrect arguments that were decided long ago, so that students can freely explore their causes and contexts.

Each clip has a run time of approximately 2 minutes 30 seconds.

Topics include:

* Columbus’s Voyages to the New World: How should his legacy be assessed? Was Columbus a ruthless invader or a bold, innovative explorer?

* Transatlantic Slave Trade: How was the world’s most inhumane practice viewed in earlier centuries? Why did it begin and why was it tolerated for so long?

* Jamestown Settlement: Why did the first permanent English settlement in America flounder? Was collectivism to blame?

* Salem Witch Trial: Did the witch hunts spring from a genuine belief in witchcraft or were other sociological factors at work?

* Slavery and the American Revolution: Did the American Revolution significantly change the condition and status of black Americans?

* Constitutional Convention: Did the compromises that took place in 1787 get it right? Did we effectively balance a strong national government with states’ rights?

* Indian Removal: Was the Indian Removal Act of 1830 the best way to end violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers?

* Amistad Revolt: What should the U.S. have done with the Africans who revolted aboard the schooner Amistad? Was morality involved, or was it a purely legal decision?

* Mexican-American War: Was the conflict a justified response to Mexican aggression or an unscrupulous land grab?

* Secession of the Southern States: Preserve the Union or allow a self-determining Confederate nation to form - what was the right course to take?

* Reconstruction: In the aftermath of the Civil War, America faced the difficult task of bringing rebellious states back into the fold. Was it accomplished in the right way?

* Rise of Organized Labor: Unions and collective bargaining - were they noble crusades for workers’ rights or a threat to U.S. industry?

* Chinese Exclusion Act: Was the legislation enacted to protect American workers or can it only be described as an overtly racist policy?

* Spanish-American War: Was the war an imperialist adventure or a humanitarian conflict?

* Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902: Should President Roosevelt have taken control of Pennsylvania’s anthracite mines? Can the federal government nationalize an industry in a time of crisis?

* League of Nations: What were the pros and cons of U.S. membership? Should America have joined the League?

* Scopes Trial: Teaching evolution in Tennessee - should intellectual freedom trump a state-mandated curriculum?

* New Deal: Did the Social Security Act lift people out of poverty or undermine American capitalism?

* Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Were the attacks a horrifying example of mass destruction, or were they morally justifiable given that they represented a quick end to the war?

* Brown v. Board of Education: Did the Supreme Court have the authority to force states to end segregation in public schools?

* Cuban Missile Crisis: To what extent should the U.S. have used force to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba?

* Space Race: Did the U.S. have its priorities right when it aimed for a manned lunar mission? Could American resources have been better spent?

* Feminist Movement: Can the decades-old debate over the Equal Rights Amendment be reduced to simple pros and cons? If the ERA had been ratified, would American society be any different today?

* DDT Ban: Do the economic and industrial benefits of a new technology outweigh the potential threats it poses to the environment?

* Afghanistan War: Following the 9/11 attacks, what was the appropriate level of response? Was regime change necessary in Afghanistan?

*Sub-Titled 
#15075/0635   65 minutes 2012  $189.95 *CC 
    

SPORTS DRINKS AND EXERCISE PERFORMANCE: Scientific Evidence
This program provides an overview of what constitutes a sports drink and the impact of each principle component in a sports drink on physiological function. Also details the purpose of having sodium in a sports drink. In addition, the DVD points out what individuals should do if they work in a hot environment, particularly with regard to replacing sweat losses. Also discusses the fact that beverages with more than 10-12% carbohydrate are not optimal during exercise in the heat.

Among the topics covered:
• What is a sports drink?
• Variables which differ among sports drinks
• Primary goals of sports drinks
• Limits to performance in a warm environment
• Carbohydrate ingestion during exercise
• Efficacy of carbohydrate sports drinks in heat
• Are small differences in carbohydrates among sports drinks important?
• Impact of sport drinks on other types of exercise
• What is the purpose of sodium in sport drinks?
• What additional ingredients can enhance performance? 
#15065/0463   43 minutes 2012  $129.95 
    

STONED AT SCHOOL (Real Life Teens)
It's just so cool to be cool ... to be stoned at school ... everybody knows how cool you are. But where does it actually get you? Teen peers explain what happens in REAL LIFE! Provides students with a realistic overview of the consequences of drug and alcohol use and how staying straight is vital to a student’s success in school. 
#15054/2003   20 minutes 2007  $89.95  Grades 8 to 12 *Streaming available 
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES? Fashion Design Careers
Do you have what it takes to be a fashion designer? Join eight up-and-coming fashion designers as they discuss the characteristics, traits, and skills needed to make it in the fashion industry.

Candid interviews with young designers tackle questions about careers in fashion design, including:
* What It Takes: What traits do you need to have?
* Inspiration: Where do designers get ideas?
*The Tough Stuff: What are the realities of being a fashion designer?
* Success and Joy: What success have the designers received? Why do they love doing what they do?
 
#15052/1290   22 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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COMPLETE GUIDE TO PRIMARY GYMNASTICS
Many teachers hold the misconception that gymnastics is risky and difficult to teach in primary school settings. But author Lindsay Broomfield, an international gymnastics competitor, senior club coach and gymnastics tutor, lays to rest those misconceptions in this package.

Noting that gymnastics is accessible to all and straightforward to teach, Lindsay provides clear instruction for primary teachers and club coaches - even those with little or no experience - to teach gymnastics skills. In fact, this book (144 pages) and DVD package covers everything a teacher or coach needs to know and deliver. Its progressive approach that builds on the basics also allows for a smooth transition for pupils entering year seven.

Both novice and experienced teachers will find this an invaluable resource offering *step-by-step instruction for teaching gymnastics skills;
*a systematic approach that focuses first on the five basic gymnastics shapes (stretch, tuck, star, straddle and pike) and then applies actions to them;
*a comprehensive source of creative ideas and themes;
*a progressive scheme that builds from year to year; and
*a DVD that shows video clips of all the gymnastics shapes and techniques covered in the book.

With the video clips, teachers don’t have to worry about being able to perform the shapes and techniques perfectly themselves. They also have access to a complete bank of lesson progressions on the DVD, which covers the entire primary curriculum. Teachers can count on needing less planning time while knowing that the plans are geared to a logical progression scheme and that pupils enjoy the lessons. The DVD also contains an image bank with eye-catching pictures, health and safety guidelines, and set-up diagrams of the apparatus to be used.

This comprehensive resource explains how physical development patterns influence learning, provides warm-up and cool-down activities and themed games, details how to teach the shapes and techniques and explains how to incorporate large apparatus and hand apparatus into lessons. All of the games and techniques are accompanied by photos or illustrations. Pupils learn the correct use of gymnastics vocabulary, and they expand their social, leadership and communication skills as they work in small groups. They not only develop foundational skills that will benefit them in any sport they choose, but they also learn about their bodies, develop cognitive skills, and increase their self-confidence and self-esteem as they learn new skills.

COMPLETE GUIDE TO PRIMARY GYMNASTICS will help teachers meet the early learning goals and primary curriculum guidelines for gymnastics. More than that, it makes gymnastics accessible, fun and rewarding for all pupils and teachers. This handy resource is perfect for primary school teachers, coaches and the children they instruct.

 
#15047/0860   26 minutes 2011  $169.95  Grades 2 to 6 
    

TEACHING DISABILITY SPORT: A Guide for Physical Educators
This new resource is loaded with everything that future and current teachers need to plan and implement sport skill-related lessons in an inclusive physical education program. Offers instruction on the various aspects of disability sport, how to teach it, and how to improve programming for students, regardless of ability or disability. The DVD contains video clips of activities as well as assessment forms and other reproducible forms. Also included are templates for and guidance in creating individualized education programs (IEPs), lesson plans, assessments, and unit plans.

This book (280 pages) and DVD package is the ideal resource for physical education teachers who want to incorporate inclusive sport skill instruction through sports traditionally identified with disability sport programs. The sports featured in this book are wheelchair basketball, wheelchair indoor soccer, sitting volleyball, wheelchair tennis, goalball, slalom, and boccia. The games are organized by skill, so teachers can select games based on the skills they want to teach. The skills for each sport are task analyzed to help teachers address the needs of students with disabilities. Teachers will learn how to make psychomotor modifications to games to include students with and without disabilities; teachers will also learn how to involve all students in making decisions about the modifications.

The book’s ABC model guides readers through the stages of program planning, implementation planning, teaching, assessment, and evaluating. Readers are also shown how to use IEPs and develop goals and objectives for lesson plans.

In addition, Teaching Disability Sport provides instruction on wheelchair selection and fitting, equipment concerns, and Web addresses for adapted sports and activities. And an inclusion index makes selecting the right sports and games easy.

The 200+ games and activities are cross-referenced to functional profiles (low, medium, high) of students with disabilities. Teachers have the choice of which disability sports to implement and to what level. With Teaching Disability Sport, kids both with and without disabilities win!
 
#15046/0860   26 minutes 2011  $169.95 
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ALGEBRA APPLICATIONS (10 Programs)
This series of ten 20-minute programs presents an impressive array of real-world applications of algebra, including an analysis of the 2008 mortgage crisis, calculation of a car’s speed determined by evidence left at an accident scene, and a mathematical examination of New Guinea’s 1998 earthquake and tsunami. Each video includes graphing calculator applications that use the Texas Instruments TI-Nspire calculator, with all keystrokes clearly shown. The series covers the complete scope and sequence of an algebra curriculum.

*Detailed descriptions of each program are available.
*All program are sub-titled

LINEAR FUNCTIONS
QUADRATIC FUNCTIONS
VARIABLES AND EQUATIONS
INEQUALITIES
DATA ANALYSIS
EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS
LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS
RATIONAL FUNCTIONS
SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS
FUNCTIONS AND RELATIONS 
#15040/0635  2011  $1,049.95 *CC 
    

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SERIES (14 DVDs)
Probability and Statistics can be difficult for students to master because the word problems require students to read and truly comprehend what is being asked before any solution can be attempted. Each probability lesson is taught by fully worked example problems that help students not only do well in class but truly understand the material taught.

This series will provide the tools students need to succeed. What sets this series apart from other teaching tools is that the concepts are taught entirely through step-by-step example problems of increasing difficulty. It works by introducing each new concept in an easy to understand way and by using example problems that are worked out step-by-step and line-by-line to completion. If a student has a problem with coursework or homework, simply find a similar problem fully worked on in the series and review the steps needed to solve the problem. Covers all of the core topics . *Detailed descriptions of each program are available.

The series is best used in order from Volume 1 through Volume 14. A teacher's User Instruction and Resource Guide are available.

PERMUTATIONS (79 minutes)
COMBINATIONS (48 minutes)
FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY (69 minutes)
ADDITION RULES OF PROBABILITY (63 minutes)
CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY (47 minutes)
BAYES' THEOREM (66 minutes)
MATHEMATICAL EXPECTATION (25 minutes)
MEAN, MEDIAN AND MODE (30 minutes)
STANDARD DEVIATION AND VARIANCE (41 minutes)
RANDOM VARIABLES AND INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS (49 minutes)
BINOMIAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION (77 minutes)
MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATION OF THE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION (40 minutes)
POISSON PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION (54 minutes)
NORMAL PROBABILITY DENSITY (90 minutes)

*ABOUT JASON GIBSON
Host Jason holds M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the University of Texas. He has been teaching Math Tutor programs since 2004, with his proven methods of helping students understand basic math and physics principles step-by-step, using practical examples.

 
#15038/2003  2012  $699.95  Grades 8 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

SECRET LIFE OF BIRDS (THE)
Traveling from wild coastlines to urban habitats, this fascinating BBC natural history series follows host and wildlife expert Iolo Williams as he explores the behavior of birds. Join Williams as he investigates how and why birds communicate, the breeding and nesting behavior of birds, the survival challenges that birds encounter, as well as an in-depth study revealing birds' ability to fly, the intricate design of their beaks and how their color and camouflage enables them to live in many different habitats. This ground breaking series reveals every aspect of their lives from surviving harsh winters to avoiding deadly predators.

Two hours 32 minutes on one DVD 
#15037/1317   120 minutes 2012  $149.95 
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NATIVE AMERICA: Voices from the Land
An Historical Overview of America's Indigenous People

Take a captivating journey through Native North-American culture, past and present with this compelling collection of 32 documentaries. Fascinating features focus on dozens of tribes including: Navajo, Pueblo, Nez Perce, Hopi, Apache ... and many more!

Examines Native North-American culture, past and present, and its attempts to halt assimilation and retain native cultural traditions. Through historical and contemporary photographs, paintings, artwork, archive footage, reenactments and interviews, the rich culture and history of America's aboriginal people is showcased. Witness the struggles and hardships, the practices and traditions, the art and beauty of this country's natives past, present and future.

Contents:

1. After the White Man Came
2. Corn Dancers
3. The Desert People
4. Do We Want Us To?
5. Earthshapers
6. Eskimos: Winter in Western Alaska
7. The Excavation of Mound 7
8. I Will Fight No More Forever
9. An Indian for a Change
10. Indian Pottery of San Ildefonso
11. Indian to Indian
12. Lesson in Archaeology
13. Lewis and Clark
14. Maxidiwia
15. Miracle on the Mesa
16. Native American Art
17. Navajo Canyon Country
18. Nez Perce: Portrait of a People
19. Pablita Velarde - An Artist and Her People
20. Pecos
21. People of the Macon Plateau
22. Pueblo Heritage
23. Santa Fe
24. Seminoles of the Everglades
25. Spanish Empire in the New World
26. Spirit of the Earth
27. Tahtonka - Plains Indian Culture
28. Voyage of Discovery
29. We Belong to the Land
30. White Fawn's Devotion
31. Canyon Voices
32. Cataloochie: The Center of the World

On two discs - total 9 hours and 48 minutes 
#15036/1317  2010  $189.95 
    

ALGEBRA: The Basics
Algebra is one of the most powerful forms of mathematics we have devised. It helps us to study numerical patterns, and requires us to write them down in a special system of symbols. To understand how algebra works in this way, in this exciting program we travel to Hong Kong to search for patterns. This program explains the basic concepts of algebra including number patterns, pronumerals, algebraic expressions, order of operations and expanding and simplifying. The natural and city landscapes of Asia are used to bring to life these abstract concepts for students who are new to algebra or refining their skills. 
#15034/0545   20 minutes 2011  $99.95  Grades 8 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
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TAKING A CHANCE! Probability
This program is an odds-on favorite to make understanding probability a lot of fun! Set in the wonderful world of cards, coins and dice, this engaging program introduces the basic concepts of probability, including complementary events, two-way tables, Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, and independent and dependent events. By joining Sunny (the sometimes sneaky magician) and trying to see when he's using his tricks to improve the odds, this is a charming way to introduce probability concepts. With a style and tone just right for young learners, there's a good chance that mathematics will come alive in this program. 
#15033/0545   23 minutes 2011  $99.95  Grades 8 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

BLACK HISTORY: A Retrospective
Celebrate black history with 39 captivating programs! This comprehensive compilation features an in-depth collection of documentaries and programs chronicling the contributions and accomplishments of the most prominent and influential African-Americans throughout the history of the United States. From the oppression and hardship during the time of the Civil War to civil rights movements that paved the way to this country's first African-American president, this set is the definitive retrospective of Black History in America.

A rare collection of documentary features which celebrate the life, culture and accomplishments of history's most influential and prominent African Americans including: Frederick Douglass. Booker T. Washington. Maggie Lena Walker, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, Joe Louis, Scott Joplin, W.C. Handy, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Lewis, and, Barack Obama.

*Fourteen hours 48 minutes on 3 Discs

African Americans in World War II
African Burial Ground Vol. 1
African Burial Ground Vol. 2
African Burial Ground Vol. 3
African Burial Ground Vol. 4
Black Wings - The American Black in Aviation
Booker T. Washington - The life and legacy
Barack Obama - The Power of Hope
Carl Lewis on his Career
Frederick Douglass - An American Life
Henry Browne - Farmer
Highlights of The 1936 Olympics Berlin
Integration Report
Jan Matzeliger
Larry Lebby and Stone Lithography
Lou Stovall
March in Washington
Malcolm X Nationalist or Humanist
Martin Luther King - Civil Rights Roundtable
Negro Colleges in War Time
Newsreel The Black Panthers
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Robeson - The Tallest Tree in Our Forest
Poverty in America
Scott Joplin
The Brown Bomber
The Civil War
The Life of Maggie Lena Walker
The Longines Chronoscope Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
The Negro in Entertainment
The Negro in Industry
The Negro in Sports
The Negro Sailor
The Negro Soldier
The Open Mind - New Negro With Martin Luther King
The Plantation System in Southern Life
To Do Battle in The Land
W.C. Handy
We Work Again
What about Prejudice? 
#15030/1317  2010  $189.95 
    

LIFELONG PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
The benefits of regular physical activity from a young age are highlighted in this energetic and informative program for lower secondary health and P.E. learners. Viewers will hear from Olympic rower Kim Crow and a number of amateur orienteers, as they discuss the physical, mental and social outcomes of physical activity. The positive and negative aspects of group and individual activities are explored, including barriers to participation and how people from different backgrounds can overcome these challenges. This program provides valuable practical knowledge and the perfect motivation for getting started with any type of physical activity. 
#15028/0545   15 minutes 2012  $129.95  Grades 8 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
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CHEMISTRY SUPER PACK (8 Programs)

The award-winning Standard Deviants tackle the massive world of Chemistry. In these eight programs, the positively charged cast of young actors will explain a massive amount about the materials that make up our universe and what happens when they react. No matter is left untouched as animated characters and on-screen graphics help visualize the bonding at an atomic and massive level.

1. ATOMIC THEORY AND STRUCTURE
It’s not just for fashion; models are used to show even how the tiniest pieces of matters are outfitted! This program will outfit you with all you need to know about atomic mass, and will introduce the road map of elements known as the Periodic Table. Topics include: Intro to the Atom, Atomic Mass, Atomic Number, Isotopes, The Periodic Table of the Elements, and Electron Energy Levels.

2. BONDS AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
Bonding happens more than just amongst your friends; it is an essential part of keeping matter together. Learn how the idea of sharing charges and building strength in numbers are essential parts of chemistry. The VSEPR theory will describe the shapes and geometric make-up of the friendly molecule. Topics include: Sharing Electrons, Bonding and Molecules, Bonding Tendencies, Isomers, VSEPR Theory, and Molecular Geometry.

3. STATES OF MATTER
Follow the matter road and you’ll find solids, liquids and gases, oh MY! The structure and phase changes will be presented using cheesy examples, (yes cheese) and we’ll find out why unruly gases have their own laws.
Topics include: What Is Matter?, Solids and Liquids, Phase Changes and Diagrams, Intro to Gases, and Gas Laws.

4. SOLUTIONS
This program stirs things up by showing how combining chemical substances turns substances into mixtures! You’ll have all the answers, or solutions, on how combinations can be dry, wet, chunky, hearty, smooth, creamy, strong and even invisible. So don’t lose your concentrations when these solutions are being presented.
Topics include: Solutions and Solubility, Expressing Concentration, Raoult’s Law and Colligative, Properties, and Non-Ideal Behavior.

5. ACIDS AND BASES
You don’t have to go far to find acids and base; they can be found in your kitchen, your garden and even in your lunch. This program goes a bit deeper to define what makes acids and bases do their thing, and what happens when they combine and react to each other. Topics include: Chemical Reaction Basics, Definitions of Acids and Bases, Properties of Acids and Bases, Acid-Base Reactions, and Other Mixtures.

6. CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND EQUILIBRIUM
Chemical Reactions happen all over, from the far away sun to the cup of water sitting next to you. These reactions are a rearrangement of same old atoms we know and love with some chemical magic. This program reveals the magic and terms involved in writing and understanding chemical equations. Topics include: Chemical Reactions, Precipitation Reactions, Oxidation-Reduction Reactions, Kinetics, Equilibrium, and Nuclear Reactions.

7. STOICHIOMETRY
The Standard Deviants are so stoked to present this branch of chemistry, it has a leading role. Stoichiometry will awe you with mathematical performances and move you with a balancing act of equations. You will be applauding Stiochiometry’s overwhelming performance. Topics include: What is Stoichiometry?, the Metric System, Balancing Equations, Molar Conversions, Mass Percent and Empirical Formulas, and Limiting Reactants. *Click here to VIEW CLIP

8. THERMODYNAMICS
It’s time to get energized and make things light up, heat up, power up and break-up. This program will melt away the complexity of thermodynamics and the functions and laws behind it. Heat up your class and make things happen, just like the energy found in this video. Topics include: Energy Basics, State Functions and Hess’s Law, The First Law of Thermodynamics, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Gibbs Free Energy.

* Also includes CD Guides
 
#15027/0433  2012  $389.95  Grades 9 to 12 
    

ESSENTIALS OF INTERACTIVE FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY
This is the ideal software for helping students and professionals thoroughly review components of structural anatomy. Featuring computer graphic models of human anatomy derived from MRI scan data, it allows users to view the high-resolution 3-D models from all angles as well as fully interactive 3-D animations that detail muscle and joint function.

The models used can be rotated and allow for 11 layers of anatomy to be visually removed (from skin to bone) with a strip-away technique. Specific muscles within the 3-D models can be highlighted to show accompanying text about the selected muscle, such as name, agonists, antagonists, proximal and distal attachments, nerve innervation, blood supply, and primary and secondary actions. Informational text also accompanies specific ligaments in the model, providing information on function, injury mechanism, and pathology of injury.

The DVD also includes the following:
*A total of 34 animations - each of which can be viewed from four different angles - show clinical muscle function and provide students with a strong sense of the movement around joints.
*Four animations of gross human motions - walking,standing from a sitting position, sit-ups, and push-ups - demonstrate complete body movements and are coupled with live-action video clips showing the electrical stimuli of active muscles.
*Views of any specific structure on the screen can be rotated up to 360 degrees and stopped at any point for detailed viewing.
*Related text on each structure further defines the structure being viewed.
The animations on the DVD cover all major regions, including the shoulder, elbow and forearm, wrist and hand, trunk, hip, knee, and ankle and foot. Muscles that shorten and lengthen around each joint in these animations are color-coded to show their functions. The additional anatomy text then discusses bones, ligaments, muscles, tendons, retinacula, capsules, cartilage, discs, and membranes.

Also offers an interactive quiz. Students can select the level of difficulty and number of quiz questions. Then, using a multiple-choice format, they are asked to identify or locate various structures on the model. Students can take the quiz repeatedly and it’s never the same twice, so it serves as an excellent tool for self-testing and knowledge retention.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
DVD-ROM drive

Operating systems:
Microsoft XP, Vista, Windows 7
Mac (Intel) OSX 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6

Processor speed: 1.5 GHz with 512 MB of RAM

Disk space: 200 MB for all platforms

Screen display: 1024 x 768 screen

AUDIENCES
A resource for students learning or reviewing structural and functional anatomy; also a resource for professionals who require knowledge of human anatomy, such as athletic trainers, physical therapists, fitness professionals, biomechanists, and motor behaviorists. 
#15020/0860  2012  $129.95 
    

CREATING RULES WITH STUDENTS IN A RESPONSIVE CLASSROOM
A third grade teacher helps children develop self-control by involving them in a classroom rule-making process tied to their goals for learning.

*Sub-titled
 
#15009/1467   35 minutes 2007  $119.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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INTERNET SAFETY FOR KIDS

Take a journey into the world of the Internet where kids will discover Five Keys to staying safe online.

Through other kids’ real Internet experiences (including one who was stalked by an Internet predator) children will learn:
*To appreciate the great value of the Internet and gain a respect for its dangers
*To make healthy choices regarding the Internet
*How to avoid being targeted by Internet predators
*The importance of sharing their online experiences with a parent or trusted adult

The DVD includes PDF Teacher's Guide (English only)
*Also available in Spanish
 
#15007/2165   13 minutes 2011  $119.95  Grades 3 to 6 *CC *Streaming available 
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ADOLESCENCE AND SEXUALITY
A fresh look at today’s youth using the latest understandings of human sexuality.

Today’s adolescents live in a hypersexualized culture. Most have received a school- based sex education where safe sex typically refers to physical intimacy that is free of sexually transmitted diseases or unwanted pregnancy. Despite their greater exposure and education, current evidence suggests that many youth are in trouble sexually and that their sexual development is not unfolding as it should.

How is sexuality meant to develop? What is happening today that is different than in previous generations? How does sex affect the brain and bonding? In this course, Dr. Gordon Neufeld examines sexuality through the lenses of attachment, maturation and vulnerability. He sheds light on why adolescents are losing their timidity, why sexual interaction is on the rise, and why sexual bullying is becoming a problem. He explores the meaning of safe sex from an attachment-based developmental perspective and provides suggestions for contributing to the healthy unfolding of sexuality in our youth.

This program has been developed for all those involved with today’s teens including parents, teachers and helping professionals. It is also useful preparation for parents of pre-teens. This course is highly recommended for ALL who are involved in the sexual education of our youth, whether formally in school or more significantly at home.

*Four one-hour sessions
*Also available with French Audio and French Slides
Session 1 of 4 *Click here to VIEW CLIP
Session 2 of 4 *Click here to VIEW CLIP
Session 3 of 4 *Click here to VIEW CLIP
Session 4 of 4 *Click here to VIEW CLIP 
#15004/1400   240 minutes 2013  $129.95 *Streaming available 
    

DIGITAL PRODUCT DESIGN: Design for Quality, Manufacturing, Assembly and Disassembly Principles, and an Inkjet Printer Green Engineering Disassembly Use Case
In order to achieve professional quality product/ process and service system design engineering skills, besides a strong analytical, digital design and digital manufacturing / assembly engineering foundation, one needs to learn basic and often very simple design rules. One of the best ways to learn these rules is to disassemble and analyze various products, try to understand the design / manufacturing / assembly processes followed, and also learn from mistakes.

In this program Professor Ranky introduces, and to some extent illustrates several basic product design, process design, design for quality, assembly /disassembly, and other design rules with simple and practical examples whilst disassembling an inkjet printer on screen.

In particular, the rules and principles discussed with examples include: design for quality, maintenance, assembly, disassembly, green / eco-friendly design issues, cost, risk, the concept of designing components, modules, and systems that can be assembled, as well as disassembled, material selection issues, design for the environment, the principle of 'z' stacking for assembly / disassembly, modular design principles, some part handling, and feeding issues, automated assembly and disassembly challenges, and others. 
#15000/0353   38 minutes 2011  $189.95Adult 
    

BECOMING A HIGH PERFORMANCE MENTOR
Strengthen every teacher-mentor’s capacity to provide constructive, meaningful support to entry-level teachers! Offers staff developers the materials they need to help experienced and novice mentor-teachers acquire the six essential behaviors of high-performance mentors: committing, accepting, communicating, coaching, learning, and inspiring.

Workshop facilitators will be able to introduce the author's high-performance mentoring framework and engage participants in discussions about:
*The four stages of the mentoring relationship
*Understanding beginning teachers and related learning levels
*Methods to increase mentor/mentee commitment
*The influence of beliefs on the mentoring process
*Mentoring as a path to professional growth

The package includes:
*The DVD that features James B. Rowley discussing the essentials of high-performance mentoring and shows mentors demonstrating practical mentoring strategies
*A companion DVD with navigation menu for easy stop-and-search control of the video content
*A step-by-step Facilitator's Guide with segment prompts, workshop outlines, extended workshop activities, key points, and discussion questions.
 
#14997/1883   47 minutes 2009  $389.95 
    

BAKING FUNDAMENTALS: Muffins, Biscuits, Pancakes and Quick Breads
Discover just how easy and fun baking can be! With a knowledge of baking basics, biscuits, scones, pancakes, and other quick breads are simple to prepare. Join Chef Dave Christopherson in the kitchen as he demonstrates and explains how to make a variety of different quick breads. Step by step instructions take viewers through each recipe from start to finish, including: Cream Biscuits, Scones, Pancakes, Banana Bread, Cranberry Granola Muffins, and Cornbread. Recipes included in the Teaching Materials.

*See also COOKING FUNDAMENTALS 
#14993/1290   30 minutes 2012  $69.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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GAMBLING WITH YOUR MONEY (Moyers & Company)
You’d think after such a calamitous economic fall, there’d be a strong consensus on reinforcing the protections that keep us out of harm’s way. But in some powerful corners, the opposite is happening. Business and political forces, including hordes of lobbyists, are working to diminish these protections. One of the biggest targets is the Volcker Rule, which aims to keep banks from using customers’ deposits to gamble on their own, sometimes risky, investments. In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers talks with Paul Volcker, the namesake of the Volcker Rule. Moyers’ second guest is activist and former British diplomat Carne Ross, who shares nine principles for effective citizen action and describes his work to devise a banking system aligned with the public good. The broadcast ends with a Moyers essay on what several American cities are doing to restructure Wall Street, from the bottom up. 
#14976/0405   57 minutes 2012  $189.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC 
    

CAN I MAKE IT ON MY OWN?

In this new two-part series, eight young adults tell the stories of how they are trying to make it on their own. No scripts, no actors, just real life. The DVDs have a menu so the instructor can pick and choose which interviews to use at any one time.
In Part 1 meet Anna, Javier, Roger and Amanda (67 minutes)
*Click here to VIEW CLIP
In Part 2 meet Kiran, Greg, Marlenne and Ryan (85 minutes)
*Click here to VIEW CLIP
The lessons to be learned from these stories are too numerous to list. In some cases, they illustrate the perils and heartache of foolish decisions and just plain bad luck. In others, they illustrate what good judgment, hard work and determination can accomplish. But in each case they offer lessons that every student should learn offered by young adults they can relate to.

*Boxed set of two DVDs and Teacher’s Guide on CD

Aligned to Common Core Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects.
 
#14959/0483   152 minutes 2013  $189.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

IMPROVING ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE
This program provides a resource for developing the physical characteristics that comprise athletic performance, such as speed, agility, strength, power, and coordination. Features a breakdown of strength training, plyometrics, change of direction, and linear speed into exercise technique and coaching descriptions.

Among the topics covered:
* Movement preparation
* Dynamic warm-up
* Agility training
* Speed drills
* 2-person acceleration drill
* Cone hops with sprint drill
* Knee high tucks
* Split squat jumps
* Repeated broad jumps
* Box jumps
* Power and strength training
* Abdominal training series 
#14958/0463   98 minutes 2011  $149.95 
    

POWER DEVELOPMENT: Not Just for Athletes Anymore!
Explosiveness is critical for most sports, but what about for daily life? In this practical video, you will learn how to improve power production for sport and life. Appropriate training progressions and modifications based on age, ability and facility design will also be discussed.

Among the Topics Covered:
* The benefits of power training for diverse populations
* Teaching and coaching tips/cues
* Assessments
* Program design recommendations
 
#14957/0463   90 minutes 2011  $149.95 
    

WHERE DO I START? The Trainer's Guide to Exercise Prescription
Designed as a resource for both new trainers and fitness professionals who simply need a refresher course on assigning the appropriate exercises to participants. Discusses injury prevention through orthopedic assessment by looking at what bones are made of and how they are formed. Also explains what gets in the way of motion and how individuals tend to compensate for their limitations in motion. More importantly, you’ll examine why the maintenance of muscular availability around a joint is imperative for optimal joint function. After watching this DVD, you’ll have a better understanding of the concept of force, its effect on joints, and how to best manage it.

Among Topics Covered:
* Exploring structure
* Joint structure
* Joint motion
* Joint control
* More perspectives on muscular orchestration 
#14956/0463   112 minutes 2010  $149.95 *Streaming available 
    

PHYSIOLOGICAL TESTING OF THE ATHLETE: Applications and Limitations
This program provides an overview of the reasons for testing athletes and how the information obtained from such testing could be effectively used. Details the kinds of tests that should be utilized with a specific athlete and the application of test results to training that athlete to enhance that individual’s level of performance. Also discusses some of the inherent limitations of athletic performance testing.

Among the topics covered:
* Why test the athlete?
* Optimizing testing
* What tests should comprise the test battery?
* Application of test results 
#14955/0463   56 minutes 2011  $149.95 
    

21ST CENTURY MONEY MANAGEMENT (5 Progrrams)

This series is packed with information about banking in the new millennium. Not only are the basics of opening accounts covered, but your students will also learn how to manage their money successfully. Special focus is given to online banking.

The series consists of five 20-minute programs:
CHECKING
SAVINGS
CREDIT CARDS
LOANS
FINANCIAL PLANNING

 
#14946/0483  2005  $389.95  Grades 7 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

YOU DECIDE SERIES: BUDGETING; CREDIT; TRANSPORTATION (3 Programs)

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions... In this personal finance video series, your students will meet Andrew, Jocelyn, Kevin and Samantha - four young adults with some important financial decisions to make concerning their budgets, credit and transportation. As they each explain their financial situations, you’ll have the opportunity to stop the program and let your students decide what they think each of these young adults should do. Then they’ll find out what decision was actually made. Will your students agree with them or find a different solution?

*Three 20 to 25-minute interactive DVDS and 3 Print Activity CDs:

YOU DECIDE: BUDGETING
Andrew needs to start a saving plan. Jocelyn has been laid off and is struggling to make ends meet. Kevin needs more spending money to keep up with friends. And Samantha has to decide if she wants roommates help meet expenses living in the city.
Will your students agree with their decisions or find a different solution?

YOU DECIDE: CREDIT
Andrew is buried in credit card debt and has to dig himself out. Jocelyn needs to borrow money to meet her bills. Kevin wants a credit card like his high school friends. And Samantha wants to furnish her city apartment on credit. Will your students agree with their decisions or find a different solution?

YOU DECIDE: TRANSPORATION
Andrew needs a reliable vehicle to commute to work. Jocelyn must decide whether to keep fixing her old car or trade it in. Kevin is tired of sharing the two family cars. And Samantha has to decide if she can afford her car in the city. Will your students agree with their decisions or find a different solution?

*Closed Captioned
 
#14945/0483  2009  $249.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

SUCCESS AT WORK (2 Programs)

In these two 30-minute programs, students will see examples of common work conflicts as they watch the interaction between the employees of a video production company, their boss and a new client who has entrusted them with an important project.
 
#14943/0483  2004  $189.95  Grades 7 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

BUYING THE BASICS (3 Programs)

This series focuses on those fundamental purchases like buying a car, renting an apartment and buying food and clothing. Some of your students may even be facing these decisions now and this series gives them the information they need to shop smart.

Three 25-minute programs:
BUYING THE BASICS: CARS
BUYING THE BASICS: APARTMENTS
BUYING THE BASICS: FOOD AND CLOTHING
 
#14942/0483  2009  $249.95  Grades 7 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

HOW I STARTED MY CAREER (2 Programs)

When Alex graduated from high school, he had two goals. He wanted to get a good paying job as quickly as possible so he could be on his own and he wanted to work in a green industry. This is the story of how Alex reached his goals.

In this two-part, interactive video program, your students will accompany Alex as he searches for his first full-time job and faces the challenges of the first six months at Zephyr Industries, a wind technology company.

Throughout the program, you'll have the opportunity to pause the video and discuss with your students critical decisions Alex has to make before they see what actually happens. As they share in his successes and failures, they’ll learn valuable real-life lessons that will teach them job search skills and help them reach their own career goals.

Part I focuses on Alex’s job search and the start of his first full-time job at Zephyr Industries. 25 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP
Part II of the program focuses on Alex’s first six months on the job and the work-related problems he and his coworkers must resolve at Zephyr. 20 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

*Closed Captioned
 
#14941/0483  2010  $189.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

SUSTAINABLE GREEN FARMING AND LIVING: Eco-Farming, Organic Farming, and Green Buildings for Green Living (2 Programs)
The audience for this set is anybody who is interested in organic food, sustainable organic farming, living, mobility and building. Will be enjoyed by high school students, technicians, undergraduate and graduate engineers, architects, agricultural engineers, managers and policy makers, farmers and scientists.

Part 1 defines what is organic vs. conventional farming through the application process of how to become an organic farmer in six steps. Then the differences between organic and non-organic produce with several practical examples. The benefits of organic food considering nutrition, pesticide levels, taste, environmental impacts, humane considerations and price are also examined.

Part 1 and Part 2 carries on with an exciting visit to the First Hungarian Cooperative for Organic Farming in Europe - including the animal farm, some of the fields, as well as the eco-village. Some traditional sustainable green fabrication methods are demonstrated in detail in buildings under construction, as well finished family homes are visited. 
#14940/0353   60 minutes 2010  $249.95Adult 
    

REAL PEOPLE, COOL CAREERS (2 Programs)

This series is filled with stories of real young people in exciting careers. Your students will learn how each got into their profession and what they do from day-to-day.

In Volume I your students will meet a police officer, paramedic, massage therapist, radio announcer, pilot and a minor league baseball umpire.
*Click here to VIEW CLIP
In Volume II your students will meet a registered nurse, graphic designer, fire fighter, editor, chef and an emergency medical technician.
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

*Each volume 30 minutes and Closed Captioned
 
#14939/0483   60 minutes 2011  $189.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Students will learn the importance of making a strong first impression as the manager of a video store interviews eight young individuals for a part-time position. Students will evaluate the applicants, make a decision and then see what happens!
 
#14938/0483   25 minutes 2008  $119.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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SUSTAINABLE GREEN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN WITH ERGONOMICS: Principles and Examples (4 Programs)
Having understood the material presented in this program, the collaborative design team will have a clear concept, sound methods, and some tools for industrial design with ergonomics.

Parts 1 to 3 include material from Europe, the USA, Hong Kong, China and Japan, illustrating the importance of industrial design with ergonomics with several examples. Key subjects introduced include the following: What is industrial design? What is ergonomics, or in other words human factors engineering? What is aesthetics and how does it fit into the subject area? What is usability, and why is this important for industrial design and ergonomics? Why is fashion, and also the cultural setting within which the particular fashion style is implemented and practiced important in industrial design with ergonomics? How does art fit into all this?, and others.

Includes is a simulated 3D eBook on DVD, approximately 400 screens, is an interactive browser readable multimedia electronic book, containing several important text, diagrams, images, calculations, interactive 3D & 360 degree panorama objects, video clips, spreadsheets etc., the design team needs to calculate with using their own data.

Designed for Industrial Design Engineers, Ergonomics (Human Factors Engineers), collaborative product and process design engineers and managers, industrial engineers, sustainable green engineers and managers, PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) engineers, manufacturing systems engineers, IT and software developers, quality & operations managers, and others, interested in designing products, processes and service systems with an industrial design and ergonomics focus. Also ideal for undergraduate / graduate education and research.
 
#14935/0353   320 minutes 2010  $349.95Adult 
    

FLUENT AMERICAN ENGLISH: A Video Series on Conversational Styles (2 Programs)
This program with functional oral skill building allows ESL/EFL students to "break the code" on global communicative styles. Viewers report that it also improves cross-cultural understanding in multinational classes and teaches students to "style switch" based upon the context in which they find themselves.

Designed for intermediate to advanced college/adult language learners, Intensive English Programs, ESL/EFL educators, linguistics departments, corporate training settings, international agencies, multicultural trainers, etc. Can be used as a core text in an advanced speaking skills class, as a reference tool in language laboratories, for self-study, and for workplace training.

The Conversational style inventory is an assessment tool that calculates individual communicative style preference and measures capacity for comfort and compatibility with other global styles. A 20-question format, it comes with a scoring rubric and bar graph charts for easy classroom or workshop posting. Suggested for use prior to viewing videos. Evokes animated discussions.

"Conversational Styles around the Globe" (Part one) uses the metaphor of three popular sports to highlight differences in pacing, topic changes, interruptions, body language, level of participation, turn taking, overlapping, and rapport among speakers around the world. Contrasting communicative styles are analyzed on film using the classic values clarification activity of Alligator River.

Conversational Style in the U.S.A." (Part Two) takes advanced ESL/EFL students through 12 functional steps to learning the conversational style of American English (represented by the sport of basketball). Steps include: interrupting politely, asking the right questions, using a hesitation techniques, using backchanneling, understanding body language, being direct, etc.

WHY USE SPORTS ANALOGIES?

Bowling represents "high considerate" characteristics (term coined by Deborah Tannen) as found in Japan, Korea and other Asian cultures. As in the game of bowling, turn taking, polite watching and waiting, single player on the floor, are major features of "high considerate" style.

Rugby represents "high involvement" characteristics (Deborah Tannen) as found in Latin American, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, African, Eastern European and other cultures. Features such as interruption, overlapping, constant change of topic, variety in pitch and volume, and exaggerated use of body language appear in these cultures, corresponding to the intensity of the sport of rugby.

Basketball represents a hybrid of the above two styles, partly "considerate" and partly "involvement". Modern American English reflects such a hybrid, where interruption is tolerated (stealing the ball) and dribbling (hesitating), shooting for the hoop (making your point) and passing the ball to another player (including others in a conversation) are regular features.

The sports analogies help language learners to concretely grasp deep underlying patterns of communication across cultures. The use of sports provides a visual anchor to train viewers in 'code-switching' (adopting a new communication pattern) based upon the cultural setting they find themselves in.

Video is the perfect medium for visual insight; hence, this film makes use of three sports as analogies of cultural tendencies in communication patterns.

*Includes downloadable transcript with Teaching Guidelines 
#14934/1907   108 minutes 2010  $219.95 *Streaming available 
    

PUBLIC SPEAKING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) - FEAR NOT!
This video is designed for ESL speakers who need practice in pitch, intonation, voice projection, syllable stress, pronouncing numbers and percentages correctly. Building confidence in a second language is emphasized throughout the video, which ends with an informative speech modeling the skills taught.

Tips are given for connecting with a Western audience, such as:
*using appropriate facial expressions, eye contact and body language
*using a microphone and a podium to the best advantage
*using notes or presentation software such as PowerPoint
*creating ‘catchy’ titles to attract the attention of your audience
*dealing with stagefright

This program is appropriate for:
Workplace/Business English communications
International Medical and Legal Professionals
International Teaching and Research Assistants
Academic presenters, University professors
NGO directors and diplomatic envoys
International conference or symposium presenters

*Closed Captioned 
#14933/1907   38 minutes 2005  $209.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

STRONG WOMEN, STRONG MEMBERS
This program reviews cutting-edge research on exercising and aging as they relate to women who are 40 years of age and older. Details how strength training can affect body composition, balance, muscle hypertrophy, depression, sleep, nerve reactivation, osteoporosis, arthritis, and hormone imbalances. Also discusses the fact that approximately 80 percent of all household decisions are made from the female perspective, and explains why women purchase a "cause" as opposed to a "catch-phrase".

Among the topics covered:
* Miriam Nelson study
* Women as buyers
* Dense bones through activity
* Group fitness to target populations
* Body image
* Women seek stability and systems
* Nalin Singh study
* What makes a female member stay?
* Motivation 
#14916/0463   92 minutes 2011  $149.95 
    

COOKING FUNDAMENTALS: Success in the Kitchen
What do you need to know in order to prepare a delicious homemade meal? Whether you’re a seasoned cook or just starting out, learn cooking fundamentals with Chef Dave Christopherson.

Chef Dave demonstrates and explains a variety of basic cooking techniques necessary for success in the kitchen, including baking, blanching, boiling, grilling, roasting, sautéing, simmering, stir-frying and more as he prepares three simple, "from scratch" meals: Chicken Asparagus Fettuccine Alfredo; Beef and Vegetable Stir-Fry with Rice; and, Roast Pork with Pan Gravy, Baked Potatoes, and Grilled Corn and Black Bean Salsa.

*Includes Teaching Materials 
#14912/1290   27 minutes 2012  $69.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

MANAGING SCHOOL VIOLENCE (4 DVDs and Manual)
From preschool to colleges, this comprehensive program features students, educators, and experts. Learn about effective school violence management, including bullying.

The set consists of four DVD programs and one TRAINING MANUAL

PHYSICAL SAFETY ISSUES
Volume One: Physical Safety Issues. Schools and colleges were never designed to be fortresses against violence. Recent violence either from the outside (intruder) or from within (angry student or staff) however causes concern about physical safety in educational establishments. Topics Include: Metal detectors, Communications Devices, Video Technology, and Crisis Planning. 17 minutes

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
Volume Two: Mental Health Issues. Whether it be gang related or the isolated or often teased student, many school violence incidents begin with psychological imbalances. From bullying, teasing, segregation and harassment, how institutions manage mental health issues goes a long way in averting crisis. Caregivers and educators have the opportunity to influence crisis effects even in its aftermath. Topics Include: Recognizing Warning Signs, identifying and Managing Student Groupings, Bullying, teasing and harassment, and Crisis Planning. 36 minutes

SCHOOL SAFETY IN PRE-K AND ELEMENTARY
Volume Three: School Safety in Pre-K & Elementary. This video focuses on safety issues unique with children in daycare centers, head start programs, preschools and elementary schools. These facilities experience violence too, either man-made or nature induced. Caregivers and educators also have to keep bullying, teasing and harassment in check. Topics Include: Conducting drills with young children, Communications (law enforcement, parents, staff, etc), Bullying, teasing and harassment, and Crisis Planning. 18 minutes

STUDENT TAKES ON SCHOOL VIOLENCE
Volume Four: Students Talk. This video begins with student-created and directed satire about their takes on school violence. Each section then features victims of the Columbine School Shooting. As part of their healing process, they share their experience of surviving a school shooting. They also mentor students about the dangers of hating, teasing, gun violence, segregating, bullying and more.
 
#14910/1027  2006  $319.95  Grades 12 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

PLANET H20 (6 Programs)
Six case studies show how young students and professionals are helping to solve the growing problems of widespread overuse and abuse of our planet's most precious and limited resource: water. Both the positive and negative scientific and social implications of water's utilization are explored in this cross-curriculuar resource.

SURFACE WATER: A Day in the Life of the Rio Grande
The Rio Grande is one of the U.S.' longest rivers, its Texas section forming a natural border between the U.S. and Mexico. Competing human claims for it are viewed through the eyes of two young women: a whitewater rafting guide in upstream New Mexico and a teenager downstream near El Paso.

UNDERGROUND AQUIFER WATER: Precision Farming
Despite its wonders, Earth's water cycle does not spread water evenly around the planet. The Ogallala Aquifer?s huge underground reservoir of water gives states such as Nebraska a large but limited irrigation source. Experience how one progressive farm family uses technology to conserve water while producing higher food yields and profits.

DRINKING WATER: Bottle or Tap?
A huge bottled-water industry has recently emerged, with the U.S. its largest consumer. A blind taste test by young students suggests that most people cannot tell the difference between tap and bottled water. This program poses questions to the theory that bottled water is better for us and the environment.

CLEANING POLLUTED WATER: Pumped Up for Peace
Drinking water pollution can cause many deadly diseases, especially in children of poor countries around the world. Learn how student fundraisers and field scientists from the U.S. have helped indigenous peoples develop water treatment systems using their own technologies.

RESTORING H2O ECOSYSTEMS: Saving Chesapeake Bay
In the U.S., polluted waters can have damaging economic and social effects, as well as destroy environmental habitats. The Chesapeake Bay is one of the most polluted watersheds in America, but Baltimore-area students are working with commercial crab catchers and scientists in the Baltimore area to help restore its health.

THE GREAT LAKES: Who Owns the Water?
Fair distribution of water has long been a worldwide problem. The Great Lakes contain 20% of the world?s fresh surface water, but that water is currently available to only a small portion of our population. Should other water-scarce regions have access to this water? What effect would the piping of Great Lakes water to other areas have on the lakes and on Midwestern environments?
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#14900/1445  2008  $689.95  Grades 5 to 8 *CC *Streaming available 
    

BEYOND OUR BORDERS: The Leading Cultural Geography Series (40 Programs)
"Interesting AND informative. Recommended." Video Librarian
Students retain geography and history information better when they experience living images of world cultures. These 40 programs about some of the world's major countries help students understand other peoples' environments, values, and significant historical contributions. *Detailed descriptions of each program are available

1. ARGENTINA
2. AUSTRALIA
3. AUSTRIA *CC
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4. BRAZIL
5. CAMBODIA *CC
6. CANADA
7. CHINA
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8. CUBA
9. EGYPT
10. ENGLAND
11. FRANCE
12. GERMANY
13. HUNGARY
14. INDIA
15. INDONESIA
16. IRAN
17. ISRAEL
18. ITALY
19. JAPAN
20. JORDAN
21. LOW (BENELUX) COUNTRIES
22. MEXICO
23. MOROCCO
24. MYANMAR *CC
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25. NEW ZEALAND
26. PERU
27. PHILIPPINES
28. POLAND
29. RUSSIA
30. SCANDINAVIA
31. SOUTH AFRICA
32. SPAIN
33. SWITZERLAND
34. THAILAND
35. TIBET
36. TAIWAN *CC
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37. TURKEY *CC
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38. UKRAINE
39. VIETNAM
40. ZIMBABWE

KEY BENEFITS:
* Delivered on forty 25-minute DVDs
* Curriculum standards-correlated for all geography courses that survey the world's countries and regions
*Current, on-location footage conveys a rich mix of geography and culture
*Maps and other geographical data convey clear information for student retention
*Experiential cultural settings help both Social Studies and Foreign Language students retain information about counties around the world
*Onscreen captions define vocabulary words and social studies concepts

*** Single Site prices are available 
#14898/1445  2010  $5,549.95  Grades 6 to 10 *CC *Streaming available 
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BRAKING SYSTEMS ASE CERTIFICATION SERIES (3 Programs)
When it comes to automotive professionalism and a concern for customer safety, nothing is more important than high-quality brake repair work. Use this three-part series to give auto-shop students and service trainees their best shot at acing the ASE A5 test, along with real-world capabilities in diagnosing and solving a variety of braking system problems.

Episodes are divided into self-contained chapters, each of which pin-points certain areas of ASE-related competence, and led by two authoritative, ASE-certified instructors who make it easy to identify parts and internalize maintenance lessons. Demonstrations are carried out in a fully equipped shop on a range of vehicles, while concise quizzes, helpful graphics, and friendly coaxing on the need for professional integrity add extra shine to this vital teaching toolkit. Correlates to ASE and NATEF standards.

*Includes a viewable/printable instructor’s guide including ASE/NATEF task correlation checklists is available online

There are three programs in the series:
BRAKE FUNDAMENTALS, ABS, AND FLARING 33 minutes
MASTER CYLINDERS, VALVES AND BLEEDING, AND POWER ASSIST 20 minutes
DISC AND DRUM BRAKES 22 minutes
 
#14896/0635  2012  $339.95 
    

ETHICAL TEXTILES: Sustainability and Fair Trade (3 Programs)
What does it mean for developing-world workers when prices for clothing and fabric keep dropping? What happens when Westerners buy more and more, driving up demand? How does ecological impact fit into the equation? Global in scope, this three-part series explores the ethical and environmental fallout of large-scale textile production. It follows the work of manufacturers in the U.K. and Bangladesh as it investigates the consequences of ultra-cheap labor and supply systems. In addition, it examines fair trade initiatives developed in response to industry abuses, inequities, and hazards. A crucial resource for economics, sociology, and environmental studies!
Three 25-minute programs:

THE COST OF CLOTH: Ethical Textiles
Filmed in Bangladesh, one of the world’s most active textile-producing countries, this program explores the social cost of the textile industry, which benefits mostly Western consumers and capitalists while creating oppressive environments in the developing world. Using eye-opening footage shot inside a number of Bangladeshi textile factories, the film explores issues of sweatshop labor - including poor working conditions, unfair wages, and the right to unionize - and asks viewers to consider where the responsibility for improving industry practices should lie. The program then compares the social impact of mass-scale textile production with the benefits brought to a small rural community in Bangladesh by a fair trade textile initiative.

ECO-DESIGN: Ethical Textiles
The Western world still struggles for long-term solutions regarding carbon emissions, energy consumption, and waste disposal. A number of industries, including textile manufacturing, are at the heart of this dilemma. But Finisterre, an outdoor clothing maker, has fearlessly taken on the issue by creating an eco-friendly surf-wear brand. This program follows the workflow of the company from its headquarters in Cornwall, Great Britain, to fabric suppliers in Japan and manufacturers in Portugal. Viewers are shown how Finisterre reduces its ethical and environmental impact as it rigorously evaluates the use of energy and materials - not only in isolated locations, but throughout the design, manufacture, transportation, and use of its products.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS: Ethical Textiles
What would happen if we changed the way our clothes are made and sold? If we used different fibers or different agricultural techniques? If we insisted that facilities which produce textile products dispose of chemicals and materials properly? This program assesses the environmental impact of the textile industry both in the U.K. and abroad. It explores the ecological footprint of textile production in Bangladesh, and shows how the true cost of cheap textiles is being felt by the very poorest living downstream from polluting textile factories. It also looks at how companies are working to reduce the harmful results of their presence in the ecosystem by using state-of-the-art water recycling plants and by making better use of their waste streams.
 
#14895/0635  2012  $399.95 
    

PROFESSIONALISM 101: Skills to Succeed and Advance at Work (3 Programs)
With tips and advice from career counselors, human resources reps, new employees, and seasoned business professionals, this three-part series takes a common sense approach to the details of job success. Each program provides essential information on the big issues (dress codes, asking for a raise) as well as on matters seldom covered (dealing with office politics, surprise visits from higher-ups). Engaging graphics make pertinent points easy to remember, and anecdotes from a focus group of young professionals give real-life context to expert recommendations. The importance of good interpersonal skills and having a positive attitude is promoted throughout.

Three 25-minute programs:

PROFESSIONAL IMAGE
Being well dressed is only one part of presenting a good workplace image - what if you’ve done your best to maintain fast-track skills and are then asked to perform a menial task? This program guides viewers through a breakdown of just what constitutes career-appropriate demeanor. With an emphasis on having a good attitude, the video discusses handling mistakes, determining dress codes, staying abreast of industry trends, workspace appearance, and even kitchen etiquette. A list of specific - and learnable - leadership qualities is provided, while a group of young professionals recounts anecdotes of workplace successes and mistakes throughout.
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WORKING TOGETHER
Because career success can depend just as much on getting along with colleagues as it does on job knowledge, this program addresses the issues that most frequently come up when working in groups. Through input from human resources reps, viewers learn how to handle conflict, gossip, and office politics, determine the types of information that should and should not be shared with their supervisors, and understand their organization’s chain of command. The video also covers in-office and virtual meetings (where to sit, what to say, conversational protocol), taking time off, ethics, bullying, and harassment; and a group of young professionals share examples of bad behavior in meetings.
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BUSINESS ETIQUETTE
How should you balance social media and your job? What’s the best way to ask for a raise? Who should pick up the tab for a business lunch? In this program, both business experts and a focus group of young professionals advise viewers on the proper way to conduct themselves in different types of work-related situations. Among the many topics covered are nonverbal communication and "personal space", handling dissatisfied callers, when and how to interrupt a busy colleague, composing professional emails, asking for a raise, and managing time effectively. The focus group also offers tips and anecdotes on what not to do at work.
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*Includes viewable/printable Instructor’s Guides
*Sub-Titled 
#14890/0635  2012  $329.95 *CC 
    

COMMON JOB INTERVIEW MISTAKES: What NOT To Say or Do!
It’s true that a jobseeker needs to stand out from the crowd - but there are good and bad ways to do that! Having all the right credentials and experience doesn’t count for much if a candidate comes off as unprepared, unmotivated, and unprofessional in an interview. This video shows how to avoid that fate with concrete advice from experts, eye-catching graphics that reinforce core concepts, and clear-cut dramatizations that illustrate interview dos and don’ts.

For newcomers to the job market, a firm grasp of the "don’ts" definitely comes in handy - after all, young people may not realize they should turn off their cell phones before an interview or refrain from asking too early about the position’s salary. From tips on ensuring punctuality to strategies for giving the most positive, team-oriented impression possible, this is a first-rate informational resource for employment counseling and business education. 
#14886/0635   25 minutes 2012  $119.95 *CC 
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POWER OF LIGHTING FOR FILM AND VIDEO (4 Programs)
DP and lighting designer Bill Holshevnikoff has been lighting and shooting award-winning broadcast, corporate and documentary programming for over 20 years. Considered a leader in the field, his experience includes the production of over a dozen highly successful lighting education programs. In this series, Holshevnikoff shares his expertise through dozens of "before and after" demonstrations and lighting placement diagrams.

There are four 45-minute programs in the series:

LIGHTING FACES
A comprehensive look at the art of lighting people. Teaches how to control the size, distance and position of your light source, contrast control and ratios and how to use hard and soft light. Also teaches how to eliminate unwanted shadows, simple techniques for lighting different skin tones & how to light for baldness. Discover which type of lighting instruments will give you the look you want.

LIGHTING INTERVIEWS
Lighting Interviews provides detailed information for lighting a variety of interviews, ranging from single-camera news and location set-ups to multi-camera studio programs. Learn to improve your ENG lighting, understand HMI (daylight balanced) lighting and discover how to make your studio interviews look their best.

COLOR CORRECTION AND FILTRATION
This program examines the craft of correcting the many different colors of light as it relates to shooting film and video. You'll see how to use color correction gels and filters to make your location lighting look its best. Learn to gel windows quickly, color correct for fluorescent and mercury vapor lights and much more.

LIGHTING BACKGROUNDS
Every shot has a background and too often the importance of backgrounds is overlooked. This program provides detailed lighting diagrams and dozens of images to demonstrate just how important background lighting can be. See the tools and techniques used to light both interior, exterior locations and studio sets. Light control techniques and background treatments are explored in depth. 
#14880/1445  2005  $379.95 *Streaming available 
    

SMALL KITCHEN APPLIANCES
The right small appliances can help you skillfully and efficiently prepare healthful foods from scratch. Learn the importance of reading owners’ manuals and properly caring for appliances such as blenders, food processors, toasters and toaster ovens, mixers, slow cookers, electric grills, and more. Cookbook author and culinary instructor Paulette Mitchell offers advice on selecting kitchen appliances and shows how to use them while demonstrating simple, delicious recipes including a banana-berry smoothie, sunshine carrot salad, and a tuna melt.
 
#14877/1290   25 minutes 2012  $69.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE CLASSROOM
This program provides teachers with a basic understanding of what Emotional Intelligence is and how it can be utilized in the classroom to generate a positive learning environment. There is ample evidence now to suggest that emotional intelligence is more powerful than intelligence on its own. This program also provides specific ideas that teachers can incorporate in their classes to promote better emotional understanding which forms the basis for all relationships both in school and beyond into the workplace at a later stage. The program also focuses on why schools are ideal settings to promote the enhancement of emotional intelligence.

Dr. Karen Hansen, coordinator of the EI and Education Research Unit of Swinburne University, compares and contrasts definitions and models of EI.

*Viewable/printable educational resources are available
 
#14876/0545   31 minutes 2008  $139.95 *Streaming available 
    

VIDEOMAKER SERIES (14 Programs)
Learn the basics from the experts at Videomaker! There's no better way to learn to create video than be watching the pros in action! Videomaker Magazine has helped thousands of users make better videos through its comprehensive, instructional line of video programming. Basic Shooting, Sound Success, Video Editing, Lighting Techniques, Introduction to Desktop Video and Advanced Shooting detail the fundamentals of producing quality, professional-looking productions.

There are 14 programs in the series:

GREEN SCREEN TIPS AND TRICKS
Learn all you need to know about using a green screen. We present several step-by-step demonstrations on common uses of a green screen and include a special tutorial on changing virtual backgrounds. From green screen lighting, editing software tools and how to recreate carious green screen special effects, this DVD will leave you ready to put your green screen skills to use! 42 minutes

Teaches:
History of Chroma Key
Green Screen Basics
Lighting
Troubleshooting for Chroma Key
Keying Tools
Green Screen Planning
Virtual Sets & Tracking Points.

FIELD AUDIO
Essential techniques on capturing audio for video. Learn how to place microphones for interviews and events. Tips on using wireless lavaliere microphones, hidden microphones, boom microphones and digital video recorders. From mic placement to understanding wireless technology, this collection combines many techniques to get you started with capturing Field Audio! 43 minutes

Teaches:
Interview Miking
Live Event Miking
Using a Boom Mi
Using a Filed Mixer
Lavaliere Mic Placement
Camera Audi Control
Wireless Mic Technology
Headphone Tips
Best Mic Cheats
Foley Sound Effects

VIDEO LIGHTING TIPS
Teaches advanced tricks on the best way to work with light and shadow in your production. As an extra bonus, this disc has some of our best associated articles for viewing this DVD on a computer. 29 minutes

Teaches:
An Overview of Video Lighting Equipment
Cheap Video Lighting Solutions
Three-point Lighting
Video Lighting Safety Tips
On-camera Video Lights
Casting Shadow with Cookies
Green Screen Lighting
Mood Lighting Effects
Specialty Lighting Tricks

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Learn classic special effects used by Hollywood FX creators. From glitter FX to making bullet holes, fake fire and safely running your actor down by a car, this DVD takes your special effects skills to a higher level. With creativity & knowledge you can incorporate some big budget Hollywood techniques using low budget camera tricks and editing software. Discover how to use green screen effects to put your characters in any setting. As a special bonus we have included step-by-step screen recorded presentations of how we produced some of these special effects using Adobe premiere, Adobe Photoshop, and Particle Illusion. 25 minutes

Teaches:
Natural Transition FX
Creating Sound FX - Foley Style
Green Screen Magic Glitter FX
Earthquake FX
Creating Fire with Software
Hit By A Car
Gunshot Special FX
The Bullet Hole FX.

(*Requires Windows, Adobe Premiere Pro & Photoshop to work along with the additional 29 minutes of Tutorials).

CREATING ACTION VIDEOS
From shooting fight scenes to perfecting your action scene transitions, this program demonstrates many ways to help you create and improve your Action Videos.
28 minutes

Teaches:
Shooting Fight Scenes
Gun Muzzle Flashes
Action Scene Transitions
The 24p Film-Look Effect
Compositing Sets with Images & Video
Camera Angles & Techniques

ONLINE VIDEO
Online Video Production gives you new insight into creating video projects for online video sharing sites. As an extra bonus, the DVD comes with several of Videomaker's best articles (in .pdf format) with specific interest to creators of online video, including compression techniques, shooting video for the web and online video marketing advice. This DVD will help you get the best out of internet video! 32 minutes

Teaches:
History of Online Video
Capturing Video For The Web
Online Video
Equipment, Web Cams
Video Compression For The Web
Uploading Videos
Video Marketing Strategies

ADVANCED SHOOTING
This program focuses on the basic techniques to help refine shooting skills and tell a better story. Teaches: shot sheets, logs, slates, lenses & filters, exposure & shutter, camera moves, handheld techniques and composition. 30 minutes

VIDEO EDITING
Learn some of the tips and tricks that will help you take your productions to the next level. This program will introduce you to the tools, techniques and technology you need to edit like a pro, including tips for top-notch titles, creative composites, cool color and speed effects. 27 minutes

DIGITAL VIDEO EDITING
Learn important information about the tools you'll need to get started as a digital video editor including valuable tips and techniques for creating titles, editing sequences and editing audio. 30 minutes

SOUND SUCCESS
Good audio is essential for good video. This program teaches the tools, terms and techniques needed in order to capture and edit top-notch audio for video. Teaches: Microphone types, Wired or wireless, indoor audio, outdoor audio, editing audio & audio sweetening. 30 minutes

BASIC SHOOTING
Learn the basics to help you shoot like a pro. This program is designed to help students produce dynamic productions and create top quality programming. Teaches: button basics, lighting, sound advice, art of composition, smooth moves and steady shots. 30 minutes 
#14870/1445   20 minutes 2005-2010  $649.95 *Streaming available 
    

FACEBOOK OBSESSION (THE)
Started by three kids in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook now boasts over 800 million users and affects society in ways many people haven’t realized. This CNBC Original documentary delivers a comprehensive look at how the Internet phenomenon began, evolved, and now influences everyday life - or, in some cases, not-so-ordinary life. Featuring case studies of events prompted by Facebook, including an account of a girl reunited with her birth mother as well as a woman who lost her job due to online postings, the program explores the intense privacy debate that Facebook has provoked while shedding light on the ubiquitous appeal of the Facebook profile - a template of self-expression deployed (in diverse ways) from your local police station to the White House. 
#14867/0635   44 minutes 2011  $189.95 
    

ALL ABOUT DIRECTIONS (4 Programs)
*Parents’ Choice Approved
*Recommended: Science Books & Films, School Library Journal

This four-part series teaches young children the difference between left, right, north, south, east, west, clockwise, counter clockwise and receiving, giving and understanding directions. Helpful hints are interspersed as kids learn why knowing directions will be important to them for the rest of their lives.

There are four 13-minute programs in the series:

GO LEFT RIGHT HERE!
A wonderfully modern program for helping youngsters determine their left from their right. Interspersed with examples from their school, social, and community environments, youngsters are exposed to visually interesting and sometimes humorous examples of the difficulties that occur when one doesn’t know left from right.

CLOCKWISE / COUNTERCLOCKWISE
Knowing which direction is clockwise or counterclockwise will help youngsters continue on their journey to understanding all about directions and learning how to better explain themselves. Using real life, fun examples from games they play, school and at home, children will begin the process of combining directional concepts into understandable relationships. A "wise guide" helps them to remember which direction is clockwise and which direction is counterclockwise.
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LEARN WEST AND YOU'LL KNOW THE REST
Knowing where we are in relation to other things is a sometimes difficult concept to grasp for any individual. But the sooner we learn about the cardinal directions, (north, south, east, west) the sooner we learn about getting from here to there. Using contemporary examples youngsters are provided with the tools they will need to begin their lifelong relationship with directions.
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DIRECTIONS: TAKE SOME, GIVE SOME
Following and understanding any type of directions is an important skill that youngsters need to learn. Being able to give directions is equally as important as being able to follow directions. By using guidelines and mind scenes, youngster will understand how to visualize the process of moving from here to there.
 
#14858/0697   8 minutes 2007  $389.95  Grades K to 2 *Streaming available 
    

GUANTANAMO TRAP (THE)
At Guantanamo Bay detention camp, history has proved that concepts of right and wrong can all too easily become distorted by expediency and ambiguity. This program examines the lives of high-profile individuals from both sides of the razor wire who have intimate knowledge of the horrors of Gitmo: Murat Kurnaz, a former inmate who was detained without trial for five years; former Navy officer Matthew Diaz, whose career was ruined by disclosing classified names of detainees to the Center for Constitutional Rights; Diane Beaver, author of a notorious memo defending the use of extreme interrogation techniques; and criminal prosecutor Gonzalo Boye, who has set himself the task of bringing representatives of the Bush administration to justice for crimes against humanity. Called "a fascinating study of torture and its wide ranging effects" by RowThree.com. 
#14833/0635   56 minutes 2011  $189.95 *CC 
    

ENJOY YOUR MEAL! How Food Changes the World
Exploring the aisles of a Dutch grocery store, this program clearly demonstrates that globalization has made almost any food item, no matter how exotic or remote, available to the Western consumer. But the film also shows the downside of that new global access, tracing specific foods to their countries of origin and revealing the impact on indigenous communities and ecosystems.

Viewers witness the burning of Mehinaku forestland in Brazil in order to cultivate soya crops; the creation of inland shrimp farms in the Philippines at the expense of fragile mangrove habitats; and the mass production of sugar peas, green beans, and other vegetables - made possible by low-wage Kenyan labor. A powerful visual study that is sure to spark further discussions of food security and sustainability.

*Contains nudity associated with indigenous customs. 
#14825/0635   58 minutes 2010  $189.95 *CC 
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ETHICAL MARKETS 3: Transforming Finance (9 Programs)
What is the purpose of finance in human societies, and what principles should guide investing and trade? Can definitions of wealth be expanded to include clean air and water, and the quality of daily life? In this nine-part series scholar and producer Hazel Henderson interviews key figures in the ethical economics movement. Each program identifies ways to bring financial practices into alignment with social values, helping to create an environmentally sustainable future.

There are nine 29 to 33 minute programs in this series:
FINANCING CLEAN DEVELOPMENT
PRIVATE FINANCING OF GREEN COMPANIES
GREENING OF PENSION FUNDS
HOME GROWN GREEN ECONOMICS
STEERING CAPITAL TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY
FINANCE IS A GLOBAL COMMONS
ESCAPING THE WEB OF DEBT
FINANCE SHOULD SERVE SOCIETY
CHINA'S NEW DEVELOPMENT

*Detailed descriptions of each program are available
 
#14820/0635  2010  $949.95 *CC 
    

GAGAKU: Music for Eternity
Transcending time and space for hundred and thousands of years, Gagaku, the traditional music of the Japanese Imperial Court, represents the spirit of an ancient time. Gagaku was introduced from its continental birthplace to Japan between the 5th to the 9th century, becoming fused with ancient Japanese music and adopted in the Nara and Heian periods as the traditional music of the Japanese Imperial Court, a tradition which continues to the present. Gagaku is the oldest orchestral music in the world.

Japanese with English narration,

GAGAKU PERFORMANCES
*Ise Shrine Jingu Autumn Kagura-sai Festival
*Tenri University Gagaku Music Society performing
*National Theatre: Imperial Household Orchestra performing
*Shitennoji Temple Shoryo-e Ceremony
*The Tennoji Gakuso Garyokai performing
*Kasuga Shrine Kasuga Wakamiya Festival
*The Nanto Gakuso

MUSIC
Title: Bankaso
(Gagaku Togaku style ensemble)
Title: Bankaso
(for reconstructed Shosoin instruments)
*Arranged by Sukeyasu Shiba and performed by Reirakusha

PERFORMERS
Chiaki Yagi (Biwa)
Kahoru Nakamura (genkan)
Takashi Ishikawa (u)
Kahoru Nakamura (biwa)
Tamami Higashino (sho)
Kei Yaotani (hichiriki)
Sukeyasu Shiba (ryuteki)
Reimi Miura (sho)
Tamami Higashino (u)
Katsuhiko Tabuchi (hichiriki)
Takeshi Sasamoto (haisho)
Sukeyasu Shiba (yokobue)
Chiaki Yagi (genkan)
Yuko Hirai (so)
Naoko Miyamaru (jiko)
Fuyuhiko Sasaki (kugo)
Kyoko Kato (hokyo)
 
#14766/1303   90 minutes 2011  $189.95 
    

FALL OF AMERICA AND THE WESTERN WORLD (10 Programs)
National Bankruptcy. Hyper-inflation. Severe Credit Crisis. The Death of the Dollar and the Euro. Socialism. Even Martial Law. For the first time since the Great Depression, the world’s problems have become our problems. And the experts all agree things will only get worse. Are you and your family ready to survive the catastrophe?

Two years in the making, this nine-disc set is loaded with information the popular media and our so-called leaders are purposefully not warning you about. Featuring exclusive, never-before-seen interviews with some of the biggest names in both alternative and mainstream thought, this riveting documentary can also be used as an interactive tutorial on everything you need to know to stop the crisis from worsening - and what to do if all else fails.

Also included are two exclusive booklets, not available anywhere else, "How to Get off the Grid" and "How to Survive Martial Law", written by author, survivalist, and ex-military David Black.

Also included is a 10th disc called "Conquering the Chaos - Sound Strategies in an Uncertain World" for free.

Important Topics Include...
*Money, the Federal Reserve, the Current Economic Crisis and Financial Armageddon (Disk 1 & 2).
*The Destruction of the Middle Class and the End of Democracy; How and Why the Middle Class is Being Destroyed and What That Means for Freedom in the U.S. and in the World.
*The Forthcoming World-wide Police State/Surveillance Society and How the U.S. and many other Countries Have Already Taken Major Steps to Close Down Our Free Society.
*The Globalist Agenda and the End to Nation Sovereignty.
*How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones from Financial Armageddon, the Police State, the End of Freedom and Democracy, and How to Take Your World Back.
*Survival Guide featuring over 100 Actionable Tips, plus "What to Do When the Sh*t Hits the Fan", author David Black’s exclusive contributions: "How To Get Off The Grid" and "How to Survive Martial Law."
*A Judeo-Christian Perspective on the Fall of America, the Globalist Agenda, the End of the Free world as We Know It, and the True Definition of the Antichrist.
*How political agendas in media have destroyed our ability to get real news.
*How our own governments are wilfully destroying the rule of law.
*The Power Elite's War on YOU and what to do about it.
*How Republicans and Democrats are tip toeing us toward socialism

Featuring exclusive interviews with NY Times best-selling author Naomi Wolf; radio-talk show host/filmmaker Alex Jones; conservative icon and the father of Reaganomics Dr. Paul Craig Roberts; NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller; best-selling author David Icke; best-selling author Mickey Z; finance expert and author Doug Casey; Federal Reserve expert and best-selling author G. Edward Griffin; radio-talk show host Doug McIntyre; biblical scholar Ken Klein; journalist and constitutionalist Joseph Farah of World Net Daily; economist and precious metals expert David McAlvany.
 
#14765/0920  2010  $389.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

SEMICONDUCTORS, DIODES AND TRANSISTORS
This program uses succinct descriptions and dynamic graphics to demonstrate the operation of semiconductors, diodes and transistors, and explains how the invention of the integrated circuit and transistor has revolutionized electronics. Viewers will learn about N-type and P-type semiconductors and the major features of each, such as charge carriers and holes. They will also see PN diodes and NPN transistors and find out how they work in terms of their semiconductor structure. Finally viewers will come to understand just how widespread the use of semiconductors is in our modern electronic society; from computer chips, to LED lights and solar cells.
 
#14764/0545   15 minutes 2011  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

SAMPLING, SURVEYING, AND DATA ANALYSIS
A practical introduction to the technologies and techniques used in multimedia today. Two interactive software developers describe the hardware and software used in multimedia projects, with basic explanations of how the technology works. File formats used for presentations and the use of codecs to process and store these files is demonstrated, together with a brief overview of the software used to plan, capture, edit and display multimedia. We conclude with an examination of content sharing, virality, and the social and ethical implications of current multimedia technology.
 
#14763/0545   20 minutes 2011  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

STATISTICS: Sampling, Surveying, and Data Analysis
Emma’s band wants to post a music video on YouTube, but they aren’t sure which of their songs should be featured. Emma’s best friend helps them choose by using Facebook contacts to conduct a survey, exploring the concepts of qualitative and quantitative data along the way. Viewers learn how to sample, present, and analyze data, generate histograms, frequency tables, stem and leaf plots, determine the interquartile range, and more. The video also defines random and non-random samples, dot and box plots, outliers, and other essential terms. 
#14762/0545   18 minutes 2011  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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STARTUP EXPERIENCE - THE (25 Programs)
What’s the best way to succeed with a new startup? Learn what works - and what doesn’t - from someone who has already succeeded in your new line of work. Over the course of this series, entrepreneurship expert Dr. Tom Duening talks with dozens of successful businesspeople, digging deep into their startup experiences. The insightful business lessons these entrepreneurs share and the tips and secrets they reveal can help viewers save big money and avoid mistakes that might otherwise trip them up.

There are twenty-five programs 53 to 87 minutes each in this series. Detailed descriptions of each program are available:

SELLING PRODUCTS ONLINE #14883
STARTING AN INTERNET MARKETING COMPANY#14884
STARTING A HOME HEALTH CARE COMPANY
STARTING A SALON #15013
STARTING A FINANCIAL ADVISORY BUSINESS
STARTING A GARDEN CENTRE
STARTING A WIND ENERGY COMPANY
SELLING COSMETICS AS AN INDEPENDENT SALES REP
STARTING A BOOKSTORE
STARTING A PRODUCE FARM
STARTING A WINE SHOP #15017
STARTING A BED AND BREAKFAST #15018
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STARTING A LAND APPRAISAL COMPANY
STARTING A PET DAYCARE AND TRAINING FACILITY
STARTING A FRANCHISE #15019
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STARTING A RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE BUSINESS
INVENTING AND BRING PRODUCTS TO MARKET
STARTING A CONSULTING AND TRAINING COMPANY
STARTING A COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BUSINESS
STARTING AN INSURANCE AGENCY
STARTING A HOME BUILDING COMPANY
STARTING A SELF-STORAGE COMPANY
STARTING A RESTAURANT
BUYING AND MANAGING RENTAL PROPERTIES
STARTING A CATERING BUSINESS

*All programs are sub-titled 
#14760/0635  2011  $3,298.95 *CC 
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OVER A BARREL: The Truth About Oil
With roller-coaster gas prices becoming the norm, this ABC News program travels the country to uncover surprising and sometimes disturbing aspects of the oil industry. Charles Gibson reports from Cushing, Oklahoma, where the price of a barrel of oil dictates the price nationally; journeys 160 miles off the coast of Louisiana to one of the deepest-drilling oil rigs in the nation; and visits "refinery row" along the greater Gulf Coast. Viewers learn how Wall Street speculators can cause oil prices to skyrocket, while Energy Secretary Steven Chu discusses the importance of biofuel development and former NATO commander General Wesley Clark discusses the role that oil played in the Iraq war. 
#14753/0635   39 minutes 2009  $169.95 
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WELDING PROCESSES AND FUNDAMENTALS (4 Programs)
Whether the industry is car-making, airplane manufacturing, or even rocket science, few things are more important than a quality weld. This four-part series combines engaging videography, no-nonsense explanations, and eye-catching graphics as it introduces viewers to the most common welding processes. From electrode choices to plasma or oxy-fuel cutting options - from proper safety precautions to the push and drag techniques involved in laying a bead - each episode offers up-to-date guidance that will help build a foundation for entering - and mastering - the welding profession.

There are four 20 to 24-minute programs in the series:

SHIELDED METAL ARC WELDING (SMAW)
Often referred to as "stick welding", SMAW has been used for decades to weld most metals and alloys. This video helps students learn the basics of the SMAW method, in which the electrode is consumable and becomes part of the weld. Identifying critical system components, the video explains different power types and power levels and includes a discussion of DCRP, DCSP, and AC modes. It then shows how to choose the correct welding rod, make sure that all equipment and working conditions meet professional safety standards, set up the system to begin work, correctly lay a bead, and read or inspect a bead. A segment on advanced techniques looks at several types of joints - edge, corner, lap, and tee joints as well as various butt joints - in addition to root, fill, and cap passes. Solving the problem of arc blow is also covered. 24 minutes
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GAS TUNGSTEN ARC WELDING (GTAW)
GTAW is also known as "TIG" or tungsten inert gas welding, and uses a non-consumable electrode to make high-quality welds on both ferrous and non-ferrous metals. This video shows students how to properly and safely apply GTAW techniques. Pointing out tungsten’s high melting temperature (the highest of any metal) and the general advantages of GTAW, the video explains AC or DC power source options as well as other system components, including the torch, foot switch, shielding gas, and ground clamp. Viewers learn how to select and prepare the right electrode (an AWS chart is illustrated), how to ensure safe working conditions, and how to set up the GTAW system for quality welds. An advanced segment covers joint types from butt to tee and helps troubleshoot problems like excessive tungsten wear, tungsten spitting, a porous weld, and an unstable arc. 23 minutes
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GAS METAL ARC WELDING (GMAW)
Also referred to as "MIG" (metal inert gas) welding, GMAW creates an arc with a solid wire fed through a MIG gun and melted to form a weld. This video guides students through the basics of gas metal arc welding, which is often used in automotive, structural, and production manufacturing. Helping students identify the correct duty cycle for the job at hand, the video explains the function and specifications of the electrode or "filler wire" as well as the other GMAW tool components. Safety, transfer modes, general set-up procedures, laying and reading beads, and other topics are featured. A troubleshooting segment helps deal with problems like an erratic puddle, excessive spatter, porosity, poor penetration, and excessive penetration, with advanced GMAW techniques also explored. 20 minutes
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OXY-FUEL AND PLASMA CUTTING
Preparing for a welding project usually involves cutting metal into specific shapes and pieces, a task that requires many of the same tools and know-how used in welding. This video serves as a basic guide to two popular heat-based cutting methods: oxy-fuel and plasma. Beginning with an overview of safety procedures, the video shows how to set up an oxy-acetylene system and demonstrates correct coupling distance, travel speed, torch angle, machine finishing, and other aspects of handheld cutting. Additional fuel choices are listed, too. The plasma segment includes a basic definition of what plasma is and how it is able to cut. Viewers learn the fine points of setting up and cutting with a plasma system and are given numerous tips and guidelines, from one- and two-hand torch manipulation to troubleshooting various problems. 20 minutes
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*Correlates to all National CTE Organizational Standards (including the provisions of the Perkins Act).

*Viewable/printable instructor’s guides are available online


 
#14750/0635  2012  $399.95 
    

RESTORATIVE PRACTICE IN THE CLASSROOM
Moana Brown has been working in the field of Secondary School Education in New Zealand for the last 17 years in the areas of Health, Physical Education, Dance and Maori Language. In this video, she focuses on experiences of Maori students and their families and the extent to which restorative practices have engaged them in a fair, equitable and empowering process. Moana describes practices which invite students, parents and communities to make conscious choices and to generate more possibilities in their learning community. Moana’s work is dedicated to building resiliency and capacity within schools 
#14734/0867   45 minutes 2010  $149.95 *Streaming available 
    

GREAT LAKES: Who Owns the Water?
Fair distribution of water has long been a worldwide problem. The Great Lakes contain 20% of the world's fresh surface water, but that water is currently available to only a small portion of our population. Should other water-scarce regions have access to this water? What effect would the piping of Great Lakes water to other areas have on the lakes and on Midwestern environments? 
#14731/1445   9 minutes 2008  $119.95  Grades 6 to 10 *CC *Streaming available 
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GREAT NATIVE AMERICAN LEADERS (4 Programs)
Historic photographs and graphics, dramatic reenactments, maps, haunting music, and their own words of four of the greatest Native American leaders.

The series consists of four 15-minute programs:

CHIEF JOSEPH AND THE NEZ PERCE INDIANS
The story of Chief Joseph and his leadership in the land of Nez Perce. He and his men were chased down by the U.S. Army where he managed to outwit them till the end.

CRAZY HORSE AND THE LAKOTA SIOUX
Crazy Horse was a famous warrior, he was captured and killed by U.S. soldiers, but was secretly buried and is still venerated by his people.

GERONIMO AND THE APACHE INDIANS
A famous medicine man from Apache's tribe, Geronimo, and his band, stayed free long after American and Mexican invaders had defeated many of their tribe. He was later on captured and died in exile.

QUANAH PARKER AND THE COMANCHE INDIANS
Quanah Parker was born to a Comanche chief and his white wife, and for awhile he led the Native Americans? fight against the early settlers. But he successfully adopted white ranchers' ways, living between two worlds and becoming famous in both. 
#14725/1445   45 minutes 2002  $429.95  Grades 3 to 8 *Streaming available 
    

GREAT INDIAN WARS 1540-1890
The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the inevitable 350-year struggle between the white man and the American Indians. From that point forward, the series of battles between the military and civilian forces of the United States and the native American Indians began when blood was shed and ultimately tens of thousands of lives were lost on both sides. The Battle of Tippicanoe, the Battle of Horseshoe Band, all three Seminole Wars and the Battle of Little Big Horn were some of the most important conflicts that led up to the last massacre, the Battle of Wounded Knee, where America's landscape would be forever changed!

Chapters:

1. The Indians
Early Indians
Buffalo & Horse
Rise of the Horse Culture
Kiowa
Comanche
Arapahoe
Cheyenne
Sioux
Home
Clothing
Social Structure
Religion

2. The Cavalry
Dragoons
Protecting the Trails
Fort Laramie
The Laramie Treaty
Santa Fe Trail
Kit Carson & the Navajo
Search & Destroy
Buffalo Soldiers
Victory

3. The Indian Warrior
Early Indian Conflicts
Later Indian Conflicts
Becoming an Indian Warrior
Indian Weapons
Minnesota Massacre
Sand Creek Massacre

4.Battle for the Northern Plains
The Northern Plains
The Chiefs
1865 Winter Offensive
Red Cloud's War
Chief Roman Nose and the Cheyenne Twilight
Little Big Horn
Wounded Knee

5.Battle for the Southern Plains
The Southern Plains & The Comanche
Council House Fight and the Texas Rangers
Chief Buffalo Hump's War
First Battle of Adobe Walls & the Kiowa Chiefs
The Red River War
The Desert Southwest
Cochise & the Apache Guerillas
Geronimo

Total running tme 3 hours and 55 minutes 
#14723/1317  2012  $189.95 
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SAND CREEK MASSACRE: Seven Hours That Changed American History
On November 29, 1864, Col. John Chivington and 800 troops of the First Colorado Cavalry attacked a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho camp - massacring women, children, and the elderly. This program introduces the Sand Creek atrocity to viewers in a way that written texts and dramatizations cannot. It consists of oral histories passed down from firsthand accounts through the generations and movingly conveyed by descendants of Native American eyewitnesses. In addition, professional historians of the region and time period give background information on possible causes of, and twisted motivations for, the genocidal slaughter. Informative maps and an impressive array of archival photos are also included. 
#14722/0635   22 minutes 2006  $119.95 
    

WORLD OF AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE (THE)
For centuries dancing was part of virtually every aspect of Native American life. Although outlawed at times by the U.S. government and performed out of context for Wild West shows, dancing now unifies tribal nations and preserves Indian heritage. This documentary explores the dynamics of competition dancing - its artistry, origins, and meanings, as well as the clash between progress and tradition that marks the contest powwow. Filmed at Crow Fair in Montana, the program was produced by the Oneida Indian Nation and aired on broadcast television. A general history of Native American issues is included. 
#14721/0635   46 minutes 2003  $189.95 
    

GREAT NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS (6 Programs)
Six of America's representative Native American nations from five major geographic areas are portrayed here by historic photographs and graphics, dramatic reenactments, maps, haunting music, and the people's own words.

The series consists of six 10-minute programs:

SHAWNEE: Indians of the Midwest
The Ohio Valley, or Old Northwest, was a good refuge from Iroquois attack for the Shawnee, until European settlers arrived.

SEMINOLES: Indians of the Southeast
The Seminoles, Native American people originally of Florida. The U. S. acquired Florida and fight to retain their land. The tribe never officially surrendered.

NAVAJO: Indians of the Southwest
The Navajo, second largest Native American tribe in the North America. They resisted Spanish and American encroachment on their land but eventually were defeated and transported.

CHEYENNE: Indians of the Plains
Cheyenne, Native American people that reside on the Great Plains. Their name means the beautiful people and they were known for their strong religious beliefs and for their strong warrior class, the Dog Soldiers.

IROQUOIS: Indians of the Northeast
Also known as the "Five Nations" consists of the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, and the Seneca tribes. They negotiated the Great Law of Peace or the League of the Iroquois, which influenced American political thinkers.

LAKOTA SIOUX: Indians of the Plains
Part of a confederation of seven related Sioux tribes. For many years, the Lakota Sioux dominated the high plains country. As they lost much of their lands to white settlement, the Black Hills became their sanctuary. 
#14720/1445   60 minutes 2002  $679.95  Grades 3 to 8 *Streaming available 
    

WORDS, CAMERA, ACTION! How Body Language, Tone and Words Affect Communication
Learn viital communication skills in this new program!. Viewers watch our local acting troupe work through their assigned scenes, only to realize how dramatically communication skills can affect meaning and perception. Good communication skills not only helps them with their craft, but in real life! With help from their instructor, a communications expert, they learn the importance of body language, tone and words, whether playing a character on stage, making new friends at school or trying to get ahead in the workplace.

*Includes Instructor's Guide. 
#14719/1280   20 minutes 2012  $129.95  Grades 7 to Adult *Streaming available 
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NATIVE AMERICANS BEFORE COLUMBUS (5 Programs)

This series studies American Indian cultures showing the complex history that led to their rich diversity.

There are five 24-minute programs in the series recommended for Grades 5 to 12:

SOUTHWEST INDIANS
The Mogollon, the Hohokam, and the democratic Anasazi were three most significant Native American societies in the Southwest.

EASTERN INDIANS
From the Hopewell culture's to the Cahokia Mounds, the hub of culture and commerce in ancient America, the widespread mound builders and woodland peoples are brought to life in this program.

NORTHWEST INDIANS
This program explores the legends, traditions, and lifestyles of the Northwest Indians who shares similar characteristics.

GREAT BASIN INDIANS
The Great Basin Indians are among the most inventive of the Native Americans. The tools, dwellings, and lifestyles of the Plateau Indians, the Plains Indians, and others are discovered in this program.

PLAINS INDIANS
Explore, the Plains Indians' relationship to and dependence upon the buffalo is one of the most significant parts of their history.
 
#14710/1445  1997  $549.95  Grades 5 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

ADVERTISING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Do you know when and where are you being targeted for marketing? It may be more often and in more places than you think. This program features interviews with cutting-edge advertising and media professionals who give an overview of how to navigate new media marketing techniques in the digital age, including:
TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES: Review of tried and true advertising techniques
NEW MEDIA, NEW TECHNIQUES: Advertising is a mix of new and old, and sometimes anything goes.
BE IN CONTROL: Match your privacy settings to your own privacy standards.

*Closed Captioned
 
#14701/1290   22 minutes 2012  $89.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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SITTING BULL
Chief Sitting Bull heroically attempted to defend his people and their land against the insurmountable power of the U.S. government. His mystical visions proved true both in victory over Custer at Little Big Horn and in his own last battle with death at Standing Rock. Witness the courageous life of this famous yet unfamiliar man who was a loving father, a composer of songs, an artist, and a loyal friend.

*From the series BIOGRAPHIES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 
#14696/0697   20 minutes 2004  $189.95  Grades 5 to 9 *Streaming available 
    

FIRE OFFICER I and II
Adhering to the 2003 Edition of NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, this four-part program focuses on the "soft skills" essential to Fire Officers at Levels I and II. Intended as visual reinforcement for a Fire Officer text or other classroom learning material, this program offers challenges that an Officer may face in relation to Human Resource Management, Community and Government, Inspection and Investigation, and Emergency Services - Delivery and Safety.

Each program contains 2 to 4 scenarios depicting common situations through role-play and reenactments. These various situations encourage classroom discussion on how the various situations were handled through a series of follow-up questions, and presents the necessary information to effectively train the next generation of Fire Officers. 
#14689/0430  2005  $649.95 *CC 
    

BASIC FIREFIGHTING SERIES
The perfect complement to either version of our Firefighter's Handbook, this DVD leads viewers, step-by-step, through processes and procedures used every day by highly trained firefighters on the job. Uses a unique blend of simulated action sequences, professional-quality animations, and helpful graphics to assist viewers in acquiring vitally important technical knowledge and hands-on skills - safely and efficiently.

Topics include: Personal Protective Clothing, Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus, Portable Fire Extinguishers, and Ladders. In addition to developing practical skills, this exciting DVD equips viewers with the knowledge needed to make sound decisions about the use and care of personal and protective equipment in even the most highly charged firefighting situations. 
#14688/0430  2004  $1,299.95 *CC 
    

DISCONNECTED: A Month Without Computers
No email, no Facebook, no blogging. No Google for researching term papers, even. From here on out it’s pencils, spiral notebooks, typewriters, and good old-fashioned library books. What twenty-something in his or her right mind would partake of such insanity? Answer: three college students who have volunteered to spend 30 days without touching or using a computer. Documenting their "digital detox" with equal parts humor and angst, this film examines the ubiquitous presence of technology in 21st-century society while exploring, in a reassuring way, the natural resourcefulness with which Andrew, Caitlin, and Chel confront their ordeal.

*Some language may be offensive; viewer discretion is advised.
*Viewable/printable instructor and student guides are available online.
 
#14683/0635   61 minutes 2009  $189.95 
    

INSIDE A COMPUTER
Describes the roles of the computer in modern society, education and industry and how it fulfils those roles. It provides novice and experienced users, as well as budding technicians, an insight into the many aspects of a computer system, its design features and the function of various components. The way a computer processes information, something taken for granted among users, is looked at with a detailed description of the language used; formatting, input/output and storage. 
#14682/0545   25 minutes 2008  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

FOUR P'S: MARKETING
Despite the complexity of 21st-century commerce, success in marketing is still founded on four basic concepts: product, price, promotion, and place. This program shows how businesses incorporate the four P’s into effective marketing strategies. By exploring tactics used to sell a wide range of products and services, the video illustrates ways of putting marketing plans into action. Case studies highlight the work of a fashion designer and her creative director; the marketing activities that promote an upscale Australian hotel, as described by its general manager; and other instructive examples. 
#14681/0545   25 minutes 2009  $149.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

FIREFIGHTER'S HANDBOOK SKILLS SERIES (4 Programs)
Lively skills-based video plus exciting graphics and animations create a valuable resource for key firefighter certification skills. The four-part DVD series begins with two discs devoted to Firefighter I (52 and 55 minutes), and then follows with discs for Firefighter II and Hazardous Materials Awareness and Operations (58 and 25 minutes). Each disc contains short, targeted clips that demonstrate critical skills required for a certification exam and provide background information and safety considerations for the task at hand. Ideal for use as a reinforcement of classroom knowledge or as a tool for preparing for drills on the training ground, the Firefighter's Handbook Skills DVD Series offers the perfect enhancement to any firefighter training program.

*Practice essential skills with video clips approximately 5 to 8 minutes in length, which provide critical knowledge and step by step demonstrations

*Share knowledge with practicing professionals as real firefighters enact potential scenarios

*View live burns which demonstrate an actual firefighting environment

*Focus on critical information by reviewing graphics in clips which include bulleted key points and safety tips

*Use these DVDs along with accompanying Skill Sheets in the Curriculum, and Job Performance Requirements in the Firefighter's Handbook to ensure mastery of content

*Works on a TV DVD player or a computer DVD drive with DVD video software 
#14680/0430   190 minutes 2009  $239.95 *CC 
    

INTERCONNECTED WORLD (THE): An Inside Look at the IMF and its Impact
Growing affluence in Asia, economic development in Eastern Europe, and new approaches to natural resources in Africa - all are major influences on the global financial landscape and all provide ample demonstrations of the IMF at work. This program guides viewers through the history, mission, and real-world impact of the International Monetary Fund. Topics (all with an IMF focus) include China’s need to boost domestic consumption and build social safety nets for its population; Ghana’s challenges in ensuring that oil revenues benefit the country; and Poland’s adoption of market economy principles as it moves toward economic powerhouse status. A section on the origins, evolution, and future of the IMF is also featured. Interviews with key IMF and academic figures appear throughout the film.

*A viewable/printable study guide is available online. 
#14679/0635   45 minutes 2010  $189.95 
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DISABILITIES AT WORK: Successful Job Hunting for People with Disabilities (3 Programs)

We’re all differently abled. But for job seekers with diagnosed disabilities, identifying and making visible their strengths, their abilities, is especially important. This three-part series helps people with disabilities gain the confidence, awareness, search tools, and interview strategies necessary to take the job-hunting bull by the horns. From online resources that can pinpoint skills and interests to organizations and Web sites that can clarify legal questions to concrete advice on preparing a resume, completing an application, and sitting down face-to-face with a potential employer; this is an up-to-date guide to greater prosperity, empowerment, and productivity. Inspiring case studies and expert interviews are featured throughout.

There are three 28 minute programs in this series:

EFFECTIVE JOB SEARCH FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
For anyone who thinks "disabled" means "unemployable", this video quickly dispels that myth and shows how to begin the job-hunting process by identifying skills, strengths, and interests. Viewers are provided with an overview of the kinds of companies and organizations that often take the lead in hiring disabled applicants. Other major topics include creating a self-assessment or profile of talents and abilities, setting up informational interviews, developing online and personal networks, and examining the possibilities of self-employment.
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SMART RESUMES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
A resume must be impressive. But for people with disabilities, there’s always an extra concern. At what stage of the process should the disability be mentioned in the resume? On an application? Is it better to wait until a face-to-face interview? While there’s no easy answer, this video helps job seekers sift through the many challenges and decisions of completing resumes, cover letters, references, and applications. Illustrating the differences between chronological, functional, and combination resumes, as well as the specific uses of a targeted resume, the program explains why a candidate with a disability might choose one type or another and explores ways to submit an application package that is positive, professional, and proactive.
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JOB INTERVIEW ESSENTIALS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Job interviews can be even more stressful for people with disabilities. But they don’t have to be. This video shows how to turn an interview into a self-selling opportunity that focuses on what a disabled candidate can do, no matter how obvious his or her physical limitations might be. Offering detailed pointers on preparing for an interview, including ways to project confidence and a positive attitude, the program also suggests approaching an interview as a chance to dispel stereotypes and improve a prospective employer’s understanding of disabilities. Ways to respond effectively to frequently asked questions - some appropriate, some illegal, all of them challenging - are presented along with a helpful discussion of how to follow up after an interview.
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#14670/0635  2012  $329.95 *CC 
    

BALANCING THE BOOKS: Understanding Financial Reporting
Balancing the books is an essential part of business. Accounting methods help businesses collect, record and analyze financial data. Follow trainee accountant Calvin Clegg, a contestant on the quiz show "Who Wants to Make a Million" as he is quizzed with accounting questions that take him back to his accounting traineeship. His supervisor Dianne teaches him how to balance the books and how to evaluate business performance using financial records. Areas covered include accounting information and tools, the balance sheet, calculating profit and loss, cash control, and assessing financial performance. With Dianne's help, Calvin is poised to "make a million". 
#14669/0545   32 minutes 2010  $139.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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BOYS ON BULLYING
"This program helps boys examine and break down male stereotypes that can contribute to bullying and isolation..." - Bernice T. Humphrey, Girls Incorporated

Bullying causes depression, anger, and isolation. These boys learned strategies for handling their situations through support from friends, parents, or other caring adults.

*Includes Discussion Guide
*Recommended for grades 5 through 12, parents, and other caregivers.

*Excerpts of this program were shown on The Oprah Winfrey Show. 
#14666/0680   20 minutes $119.95  Grades 5 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

COACHING IN HOSPITALITY
The longevity of any hospitality enterprise is dependent on the quality of coaching given to their trainees and apprentices. So why do many hospitality managers consider coaching a time-consuming and costly exercise? Disposable workers perhaps? But really what’s disposable is the badly managed enterprise itself! This program uses input from hospitality training experts and loads of real world footage and examples to shine a spotlight on coaching in a hospitality environment, and to explain key factors for effective coaching. We start by outlining the purpose and importance of coaching, followed by preparing for coaching. Next is an in-depth look at on-the-job coaching, followed by the all-important follow-up. We conclude by reinforcing the many benefits of coaching. 
#14662/0545   17 minutes 2011  $139.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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YOU'RE FIRED! Ten Ways to Lose Your Job and How to Avoid Them (2nd Edition)

*DOUBLE AWARD-WINNER in the 36th Annual Telly Awards in the education and employee communications categories. The Telly Awards are one of the most prestigious award programs honoring outstanding film and video productions. This year, there were nearly 12,000 entries!

"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! " 3.5 stars (out of four) VIDEO LIBRARIAN

Statistics show that people are likely to change their jobs between 8 and 12 times during their lifetime. However, most people would rather choose a job change than be forced into one!

YOU'RE FIRED! uses vignettes to help viewers better understand how not to behave on the job. It explains the top 10 reasons that people lose their jobs - and how people can easily avoid making those mistakes. The program also features break points for discussion and has comments from employers to give viewers an idea of what employers expect from their workers.

Having a good work ethic puts people in the best position to move up in their current job, or obtain a new and better one. This video teaches people how to transform themselves into a desirable commodity and lay the foundation for a successful career.

*A full-length preview of this title is available upon request
 
#14661/1015   25 minutes 2015  $189.95 
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QUICK RESUME AND COVER LETTER
Today’s job seekers are moving faster than ever before to stay ahead of the competition and get the job they want. Both the resume and cover letter play a critical role in any job search. But many people spend too long trying to create the perfect resume and end up neglecting their cover letter and delaying their job search.

This program shows viewers how to get over the initial hurdles of writing a winning resume and cover letter to get them on the inside track to success. Viewers gain the tools they need to create a good resume and cover letter quickly so they can start job hunting and getting interviews.

Features step-by-step instructions on...
*Using appropriate resume elements - from headings to optional items.
*Developing phrases and examples to communicate skills and abilities, while downplaying weaknesses.
*Writing superior cover letters in a half-hour or less using seven quick tips.
*Understanding the importance of personalization and proofreading. 
#14658/1015   25 minutes 2007  $169.95 
    

EXPERT JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES FOR THE EX-OFFENDER (3 Programs)
This series helps job seekers understand the importance of creating a career plan, how to create a resume that gets noticed by employers, and what it take to succeed in the job interview. Each of the three programs contains interviews with correctional officials and offers advice tailored to the formerly incarcerated.

CAREER PLANS AND GOALS
Ex-offenders will learn how to get the most out of their career by examining what they like to do and what matters in their life. Offers encouragement and concrete strategies for finding a meaningful career.

RESUME REALITIES
Ex-offenders will learn the realities of what it takes to put together a great resume from experienced business professionals. They will hear what these experts say about what to include and what not to include when creating their resume.

INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES
Several business professionals offer sound advice on different techniques ex-offenders can use during their job interview. They will learn what to wear, how to prepare before the interview, and how to handle themselves during the interview. 
#14655/1015  2009  $449.95 
    

BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT SUCCESS
Whether individuals are looking for a job or working to keep the one they have, they are bound to face obstacles. Some won’t have a resume or reliable transportation. Others may lack the education or experience needed to advance on the job. These are just a few of the barriers that people face in the world of work every day, but they can be overcome.

To successfully find and keep jobs, people must prevent their problems from becoming obstacles or excuses. This video takes viewers through the five categories of barriers that often stand between individuals and employment success and helps viewers develop the attitudes, resources, and know-how to meet their needs, analyze their options, and take action. As a result, viewers will be better equipped to overcome their barriers and achieve long-lasting success and security in the world of work. 
#14654/1015   25 minutes 2010  $169.95 
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GOOD FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Most employers form an impression of a job seeker in the first few seconds of the interview. If that impression is negative, few job seekers are able to change the employer's mind. Armed with the guidance in this program, job seekers won't have to worry about recovering from a bad first impression. They'll know just what it takes to make a great impression right from the get-go.

Teaches viewers about the importance of appearance, confidence, maturity, emotional stability, and enthusiasm, and reveals how to improve upon these areas before an interview. Also covers interview taboos, such as being late, answering cell phones, and revealing tattoos. Group interviews, bad interviewers, and phone interviews will also be covered. Offers scenarios of interviews in action and includes the insights of job search experts and employers. Convenient pause points let instructors stop the program for discussion.

*Includes Instructor's Guide is available for download 
#14653/1015   25 minutes 2011  $179.95 
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WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Communication skills top the list of qualities that employers seek from job candidates.
Individuals who possess stellar communication skills are more likely to land jobs, keep them and get promoted.

This program teaches viewers about the importance of good communication in the workplace and how to improve upon these skills. Viewers get guidance for developing their verbal, listening, nonverbal, and written skills. Depicts scenarios of good and poor communication skills in action and includes expert interviews on workplace communication. Addresses communication through e-mail, voicemail, cell phones, video conferencing, and online sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Helpful pause points allow instructors to stop the program and discuss the material.
 
#14652/1015   50 minutes 2012  $169.95 
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SACRED AND SECRET: Balinese Rituals and Beliefs (2 Programs)
A rich fusion of Hinduism, Buddhism, and indigenous animist beliefs, Balinese religion is characterized by dance-dramas, trance states, and elaborate rites of passage. This beautifully-shot two-part series, based on author Gill Marais’ Bali Sacred and Secret, gives viewers access to spiritual ceremonies rarely seen by outsiders. Anthropologists and Balinese priests explain the underlying concepts of karma pala, Sekala, and Niskala, shedding light on the rituals performed to keep the human world in harmony with the realm of the divine.

*Portions with English subtitles

Two 46-minute programs:
RITES OF PASSAGE IN BALI
SPIRIT POSSESSION IN BALI 
#14650/0635  2011  $349.95 *CC 
    

UNDERSTANDING BRANDS
What is a brand, and does it really influence me and my behaviors and what I buy and sell? This program will look at what a brand is, famous brands, what organizations can do to influence their brand, look at a case study for a brand, and discuss how and why brands get us to purchase products or services. 
#14648/0545   27 minutes 2010  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
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JAZZ ICONS IV BOX SET (7 DVDs)
"This is like the discovery of a bonanza of previously unknown manuscripts by
William Shakespeare." Nat Hentoff, The Wall Street Journal

The fourth in the fabulous JAZZ ICONS series consists of seven famous artists:

Anita O'Day Live in '63 & 70
Woody Herman Live in '64
Art Blakey Live in '65
Jimmy Smith Live in '69
Art Farmer Live in '64
Coleman Hawkins Live in '64
Erroll Garner Live in '63 &' 64

Features concerts by seven of the most influential jazz artists of the 20th century captured in their prime and accompanied by some of the most legendary sidemen of the day. Previously forgotten or lost in the vaults of TV studios throughout Europe (in some cases for nearly 50 years!), they are now being made available for the first time. 
#14645/1465  2009  $169.95 
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TANK MAN (THE): Tiananmen Square and China's Economic Miracle
On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured by Western photographers, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the fight for freedom around the world. Filmmaker Antony Thomas investigates the identity, fate, and significance of the tank man. Barbara Walters asks the Chinese President right out if he had been executed? Imprisoned? Didn’t really get an answer.
Is this ancient history? Water under the bridge? Perhaps not...
Viewers learn some background details of how Tiananmen Square and the tank man ties in with the Chinese economic miracle and the urbanization that feeds it, their restrictive democracy and U.S. corporate complicity in helping them maintain the iron fist even if it is in the velvet glove of prosperity (for some). 
#14644/1725   90 minutes 2006  $99.95 *CC 
    

KIDS IN THE GARDEN SERIES (15 Programs)

*RECOMMENDED! School Library Journal, Video Librarian, California School Garden Network and the North American Association for Environmental Education.
*OFFICIAL SELECTION: Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival

Hands-on Horticulture. Wacky, wild and full of wonder, KIDS IN THE GARDEN is a great series for young gardeners that will inspire kids to get their hands dirty. Join Nick Hardcastle as he puts the fun in fungi, makes a mini terrarium jungle, and acts like a vegetable allowing viewers to discover just how strange and intriguing gardening can be. These programs encourage environmental stewardship and promote a healthy lifestyle while the kids (and adults) enjoy discovering the science of our natural world. Each program includes hands on activities with project lists.

There are fifteen 6-minute programs in the series - also available separately:

SOIL (Create A Worm Farm)
Did you even realize that the ground you’re walking on is alive? In fact, a tiny handful of soil could contain millions of living things: insects, microscopic bugs and bacteria, as well as rocks that have been crushed over time by the elements.
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SEEDS (Grow Sprouts From Seeds)
Can you believe that you might be able to hold in your hands what could be a huge forest of trees. A tiny little seed could potentially grow into the world’s tallest tree.
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FLOWERS (Press Your Favorite Flower)
From tiny daisies to huge sunflowers, flowers bloom in countless shapes and sizes. And their colors are just as varied and magnificent.

LEAVES (Use Leaves to Create Gift Cards)
Autumn is definitely the best time to look at leaves. They are important to a plant’s life, but also to our life. They take all that carbon dioxide that we breathe out, and create new, clean oxygen for us to breathe in. And amazingly, they are the only living thing that can produce its own food.

HOW PLANTS WORK (Sow A Wheat Grass Lawn)
One of the most distinctive things about our planet is that it’s so green. Green equals plants, plants equals life. Plants need us to care for and understand them, so we can help them keep on surviving.

FRUIT (Make Classic Lemonade)
Fruit is packed full of vitamins and minerals that help us grow and protect us from diseases. And the strange thing is, they’re just hanging around on plants, waiting to be eaten. It's hard to resist them.

FUNGI (Grow Your Own Mushrooms)
A garden in the dark? But don’t all plants need light to survive? Well, that’s just it. Mushrooms aren’t plants. They’re part of a whole separate kingdom of living things known as fungi.

PLANT SURVIVORS (Grow A Venus Flytrap)
Plants have made endless changes over millions of years, to deal with the different environments where they grow. You’ll find plants high in the freezing mountains, in the sea, and in hot, dry deserts. Plants are the great survivors.

HERBS (Bake Cheese and Herb Bread)
Herbs come in all shapes and sizes and are some of the most useful plants we have in the garden. They're used to flavor food, repel insects and make medicines. Wars have been fought and countries discovered all in the name of herbs!

CREATURES (Create A Backyard Habitat)
We think our garden is a peaceful paradise but really it's a jungle out there! Most animals are insects and our gardens are full of creepy crawlers, as well as birds and other animals. Why do we need so many living things in the garden?

TREES (Grow Bonsai Trees)
Trees are amazing and so important to our lives. We depend on them for so many things such as clean air, shade, as a windbreak and even as food for the soil and creatures on the ground. A tree is not just a plant. It's a whole and vital ecosystem.

USEFUL PLANTS (Make Gift Wrap From Plants)
Next time you breathe remember to say thanks to the plants! They breathe in the CO2 we breathe out and breathe out fresh oxygen, which is what we breathe in! We need oxygen to stay alive, and couldn't exist without our little green friends.

CACTI (Create A Succulent Garden)
Cacti are tough. They can survive in the harshest conditions known, going without water and nutrients for long periods of time. They're not just tough! No, they are nasty too, with sharp spines to protect their precious reserves.

INDOOR GARDENS (Plant A Terrarium)
Gardens can pop up in the strangest places. In fact, you can practically bring the garden indoors if you put it under a huge glass roof to protect it from the cold and wind so that it stays warm and summery all year.

VEGGIES (Grow Vegetables in Pots)
Veggies straight from the garden taste a whole lot better. They're fresh and full of the vitamins and minerals that are lost in the trip from the farm to the store. The great thing is they're pretty easy to grow and you don't need much space.
 
#14642/0697  2009  $1,459.95 *Streaming available 
    

GREEN MATTERS SERIES: What in the World is Going On? (15 Programs)

*RECOMMENDED: North American Association for Environmental Education.
This series offers viewers a look into what's being done around the world and what we can also do to help reduce our carbon footprint. Each program brings hopeful information from governments, corporations, environmental agencies and individuals who are finding ways to improve our planet. Using the latest global perspective, this life changing eco-friendly series deals with all things "green", whether it's organic, recyclable, sustainable, or bio.

There are fifteen 23-minute programs in the series - also available separately:

ENDANGERED SPECIES
From Tibet to Argentina and many places in-between, this encompassing look at endangered species offers insight into the plight and hope for many of our planets animals. Along the way we'll search for species now believed extinct, such as the Yangtze Dolphin of China, to more promising efforts in Hungary for repopulating the rare white rhino.

BIO FUELS
What do animal dung in Israel and leftover cooking oils in North America have in common? Both are being used as bio fuels for powering industrial equipment and motor vehicles. Combine this with efforts to process coconut oil from Uganda and soy from Argentina and you have the hopeful beginnings for fossil fuel independence.

GLOBAL WARMING
A critical concern for the planet today is global warming and its probable consequences. And whether warming trends are occurring because of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or a cyclical change in the weather, we'll investigate this global issue from the polar Arctic to the polar Antarctic.

RECYCLING
As the world’s garbage piles grow to even greater heights, many people and industries are finding new uses for old things. In Manila, the Philippines, local women are running a thriving business repurposing old papers into fashionable accessories creating a worldwide demand. In the U.S., recycling E-Waste is big business as producers and consumers consider important ways to reduce their toxic impact on the environment. It begs the question: So, what are you doing?

POLLUTION
Most everywhere in the world, the air, the ground, the drinking water, the ecosystems and even made-made structures, are impacted by the harmful effects of pollution. It's a serious problem in need of some serious solutions. This global perspective on the topic of pollution takes a closer look at the where and what, along with the when and how, of this threatening environmental issue.

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Most everyone realizes the environmental and economic cost for the dependence on fossil fuels for energy, foreign or domestic. So it makes sense to embrace other technologies that are cost efficient and sustainable, yet reduce their negative impact on the planet. Governments, industries, and people worldwide are finding new ways to reduce their energy dependency and environmental impact by investing in sustainable energy alternatives.

ORGANIC LIVING
For now, organic living is a lifestyle preference. It's based on the belief that food, clothing, and other things in one’s life is best if it is of reduced (95%) or completely chemical free. However, you don't have to be a purist to make a difference in your own well-being or to improve your personal environment. In this look at modern living we'll learn some different ways the concept of organic can be incorporated into anyone's world.

CONSERVATION
With a growing world population, paying close attention to the optimum use and not abuse of natural resources is a compassionate idea. Whether it's reclaiming the desert in China or harvesting water in Kenya, we'll understand the important benefits of resource allocation. Preserving by conserving, what an important concept!

ECO FRIENDLY
When it comes to the environment each person makes a difference, each person leaves a mark. Deciding how to lighten one's footprint is usually an individual decision, but these decisions have a collective outcome. Choosing the more environmentally friendly approach to life is what this program is about. We'll hop the globe to learn about "green" weddings, constructing "green" buildings and even efforts to turn the lowly toilet just a shade greener.

CARBON(LESS) FOOTPRINT
As we travel through life, all of us leave footprints behind. At times these prints are wider & deeper than they should ever be. So how does one go about lightening their step and reducing the imprint? Well, by doing what others have chosen to do, share, renew, reuse, and rethink new ways of doing old things. What’s your idea?

GREEN GOOD NEWS
That old adage "what you don’t know can’t hurt you" doesn’t hold up as well when we’re speaking of the environment. Around the globe environmental news worthy events are happening that could have close and serious consequence. But there is other news too, really good and hopeful news, news you should know. Now you’ve really got something to think about.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEROES
Be thankful for those individuals who care enough to make a difference. From across our globe, these special people are taking on unique environmental challenges and in the process protecting our world. Each person, each effort, brings hope and inspiration to us all, whether it’s re-wilding, rebuilding, preserving, enlightening, surmounting or conserving.

HABITAT LOSS
In the name of progress with an eye on commerce, important habitats are steadily losing ground, quite literally. The consequences of these lost habitats are difficult to comprehend, but the results are becoming ever more evident. Abundant plant and animal life gradually dwindles, water and other vital resources diminish, and if the habitat losses continue unchallenged, humans are surely the next in line.

CLIMATE CHANGE
Something is going on and it’s not pretty. Whatever is causing the change in global climate, the dangers are significantly real and possible solutions massively large. The domino effect of this climatic change can now be found in most places of the world. At times these changes can be quite subtle, at other times abundantly clear, but in any case obtaining a broader understanding of the consequences is a smart idea.

ECO-TOURISM
What a novel idea, getting up close and personal with plants, animals and the environment and then leaving it just as it was found. Without impact, or damage! Sometimes that means bypassing that once in a lifetime experience or forsaking the urge for a take-home souvenir. It’s important to remind ourselves that we’re not alone in this world and to also understand, it’s not fair to treat the rest of the world as if we are all that matters.
 
#14641/0697  2009  $2,695.95 *Streaming available 
    

FAMOUS PEOPLE, INCREDIBLE LIVES SERIES (79 Programs)
This visually rich series offers a fascinating look at a broad cross-section of world renowned individuals. Every historic re-creation explores the most important developments of their very famous lives whether artist, businessman, composer, leader, philosopher, poet, explorer, writer, reformer, scientist or ruler. Interested viewers will enjoy the focused approach to understanding the emotional state, significant contributions, important benchmarks and major turning points in these incredible lives.

The series is 79 eight minute programs - each can also be purchased separately.

SCIENTIST AUTHORS
* Galileo Galilei * Kafka, Franz
* Curie, Madame Marie * Hugo, Victor
* Darwin, Charles * Swift, Jonathan
* Nobel, Alfred * Wilde, Oscar
* Pythagoras of Samos *Tolstoy, Lev
* Pavlov, Ivan * Fitzgerald, F. Scott
* Nostradamus * Twain, Mark
*Newton, Sir Isaac * Stevenson, Robert Louis

RULER AND LEADER PHILOSOPHER
* Lincoln, Abraham * Descartes, Rene´
* Bonaparte, Napoleon * St. Thomas Aquinas
* Catherine The Great * Confucius
* Washington, George * Socrates
* Khan, Batu * Plato
* Tutankhamun * Aristotle
* Cleopatra * Diogenes
* Montezuma II * Nietzsche, Friedrich

ARTIST COMPOSER
* Botticelli, Sandro * Bach, Johann Sebastian
* Rembrandt, Van Rijn * Haydn, Joseph
* Van Gogh, Vincent * Chopin, Frederic
* Michelangelo * Liszt, Franz
* Klimt, Gustav * Schubert, Franz
* Renoir, Pierre Auguste * Beethoven, Ludwig van
* Monet, Claude * Brahms, Johannes
* El Greco * Schumann, Robert

TYCOONS AND BARONS CANVAS AND ARTIST
* Rockefeller, John D. *Mona Lisa by Da Vinci
**Rothschild, Mayer Amschel *The Dance Class by Degas
* Strauss, Levi *Mardi Gras by Cézanne
* Pinkerton, Allan *The Last Supper by Da Vinci
* Morse, Samuel *Portrait of G. Arnolfini" By Jan van Eyck
*Where Do We Come From?" by Gauguin MILITARY COMMANDER "Return of the Prodigal Son" by Rembrandt
* Lee, Robert E. *The Birth of Venus by Botticelli
* Alexander the Great *The Nude Maja by Goya
* Hannibal *The Lute Player by Caravaggio
* Admiral Horatio Nelson *Self Portrait and Saskia by Rembrandt
EXPLORER RELIGIOUS REFORMER
* Polo, Marco * Luther, Martin
* Magellan, Ferdinand * Hus, Jan
* Pizarro, Francisco * Buddha, Gautama Siddhartha
* Vespucci, Amerigo

POETS
* Homer
* Milton, John
* Chaucer, Geoffrey
* Khayyám, Omar
 
#14640/0697  2008-2010  $7,498.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

WORKING WORLD FOR YOUNG ADULTS (4 Programs)
Today's young workers need to be even more dedicated to successfully compete in a global marketplace. Poor work ethics, a careless regard for customer satisfaction and lack of a commitment to the job will only lead to a troubled work history and unhappy careers.

In these timely programs we'll look at the issues being faced by young workers today and offers some solid solutions. We'll discover what makes a person successful in a job now and into the future, as well as important ways to improve their success in the world of work. Viewers may be surprised to learn they don't have to be the very best worker at the job to succeed, if they apply the good work ethics they'll learn in this series.

There are four 21-minute programs - each is also available separately:

WORK ETHIC: A Commitment to Work
In this well aimed program for young adults, beginning wage earners learn the importance of a strong work ethic and how it relates to their success as they embark on their working careers. Real world location settings that highlight active young workers supported with expert commentaries help reinforce the concepts.

CUSTOMER SERVICE: An Attitude Not An Occupation
The bottom line for any position is keeping the customer happy. In this age appropriate program young earners see first hand what makes for good customer service and bad customer service. Once they’re on the job they learn the importance of putting the golden rule for customer service into action. Customer service: it's what makes sense in the working world.

WHY WORK?
Work is a life long journey and many experts suggest that the sooner you begin the better. Unless you are independently wealthy or lucky at Lotto, you are going to be working for most of your adult life. In this program viewers learn that when you commit to your job, career advancement, job satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment will follow.

THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE: How Will You Compete?
In this new and up-to-date program, young workers learn the importance of the global marketplace. As workers, they will be required to compete for employment with people of different nationalities from all over the world. What skills will best help them stay competitive? What can they bring to the market to make themselves more desirable to this global working world? These questions and more will be addressed in this thought-provoking program. 
#14639/0697  2007  $749.95 *Streaming available 
    

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 5
This is Module #5 of the AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY SERIES.

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 5
(ISBN 1-4018-7860-1)
Color Matching
Painting Problems, Buffing and Detailing
Doors, Glass, Interior Service

This highly engaging DVD training series features the most up-to-date content and latest technologies for all aspects of collision repair, including structural and non-structural repair as well as refinishing. Both the theoretical and practical aspects of auto body repair technology are detailed, preparing viewers for what it takes to be a successful auto body repair technician. Safe work techniques are stressed throughout and uphold the importance of following procedures as shown to ensure a secure repair environment. There are 15 total modules; each contain approximately 25 minutes of fundamental repair technology coverage dividing complex material into manageable chunks of information for better retention and recall; interactive quizzes at the end of each program reinforce key concepts and instil confidence in viewers. The other four modules are:

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 1
(ISBN 1-4018-78547)
Safety
Body Shop Power Tools and Equipment
Vehicle Construction

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 2
(ISBN 1-4018-7856-3)
Metal Straightening Fundamentals
Body Shop Materials & Fasteners
Fiberglass and Plastic Repair

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 3
(ISBN 1-4018-7857-1)
Frame - Unibody Straightening
Estimating Repair Costs
Replacing Structural Parts, Corrosion Protection

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 4
(ISBN 1-4018-7858-X)
Measuring Vehicle Damage
Paint Preparation
Painting Fundamentals 
#14633/0430   75 minutes 2004  $779.95 
    

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 2
This is Module #2 of the AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY SERIES.

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 2
(ISBN 1-4018-7856-3)
Metal Straightening Fundamentals
Body Shop Materials & Fasteners
Fiberglass and Plastic Repair

This highly engaging DVD training series features the most up-to-date content and latest technologies for all aspects of collision repair, including structural and non-structural repair as well as refinishing. Both the theoretical and practical aspects of auto body repair technology are detailed, preparing viewers for what it takes to be a successful auto body repair technician. Safe work techniques are stressed throughout and uphold the importance of following procedures as shown to ensure a secure repair environment. There are 15 total modules; each contain approximately 25 minutes of fundamental repair technology coverage dividing complex material into manageable chunks of information for better retention and recall; interactive quizzes at the end of each program reinforce key concepts and instil confidence in viewers. The other four modules in the set are:

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 1
(ISBN 1-4018-78547)
Safety
Body Shop Power Tools and Equipment
Vehicle Construction

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 3
(ISBN 1-4018-7857-1)
Frame - Unibody Straightening
Estimating Repair Costs
Replacing Structural Parts, Corrosion Protection

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 4
(ISBN 1-4018-7858-X)
Measuring Vehicle Damage
Paint Preparation
Painting Fundamentals

AUTO BODY REPAIR TECHNOLOGY DVD 5
(ISBN 1-4018-7860-1)
Color Matching
Painting Problems, Buffing and Detailing
Doors, Glass, Interior Service 
#14632/0430   75 minutes 2004  $779.95 
    

EXECUTING YOUR STRATEGY: How to Break It Down and Get It Done with Raymond Levitt
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
*Strategic planning requires measurable near-term objectives to ensure the right projects are executed well.
*Successful execution, in turn, demands responsiveness to a continually changing environment.
*The alignment of strategy and execution is an ongoing discipline of analytic engagement and agility.

In a business environment of fast-moving markets, global supply chains, and dynamic technologies, executing strategy is becoming increasingly difficult. How do you aim for a target that is constantly shifting - while standing on a platform that is constantly destabilized? Professor Levitt provides the answer: plan in detail only as far out as you can see; keep questioning your assumptions about your markets, resources, and competitors; and revise your rolling plan frequently as you track and resolve changing issues.

Dr. Levitt emphasizes the critical importance of aligning your organization’s structure and culture with your strategy. He describes business failures caused by product value differentiation in conflict with core organizational strengths, leading companies to invest heavily in projects that did not meet the demands of the marketplace or became outdated before they could be released.

Professor Levitt serves as Director of Stanford's Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects and as Academic Director of the award-winning Stanford Advanced Project Management executive program.
 
#14618/1005   53 minutes 2008  $119.95 *Streaming available 
    

CREATING INFECTIOUS ACTION: How to Make Ideas Take Flight with Jennifer Aaker
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
*The nuts and bolts of using social media for viral marketing.
*What causes one campaign to become infectious while another fails.
*When "reversing the rules" can work to your advantage."

An emerging trend in brand development is a shift from an advocacy marketing model (why one should buy a brand) to an ambassador model (how you can participate in the brand). In this participatory environment, social media offers a platform that not only rapidly transmits brand messaging to an audience but also lets the audience engage and interact - steps that are key to viral marketing. From her research on consumer psychology, marketing strategy, and even the psychology of happiness, Dr. Aaker identifies the four critical components of an infectious campaign.

First, focus on one clear goal that is actionable and measurable. Your goal should be compelling and have the potential to unleash feelings of happiness, which are contagious. Second, grab attention to your campaign by doing the unexpected, triggering a visceral response, or providing a visual hook, such as the cancer awareness ribbons. Third, tell an engaging, authentic story that makes an emotional connection and which can be shared across various media. And fourth, enable others to take action toward your goal by participating and spreading the word, in ways that are easy and fun.

Jennifer Aaker is a professor of marketing in Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and the coauthor of The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective and Powerful Ways to Harness Social Media for Impact. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of California, Berkeley, and PhD in Marketing from Stanford University.
 
#14617/1005   51 minutes 2011  $129.95 *Streaming available 
    

REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY, 7th Edition (7 Programs)
This seven DVD set addresses over 120 topics. Each DVD contains three to four 20-minute videos. Each of the six DVDs features theory-related topics as well as practical, step-by-step skills for successful maintenance and troubleshooting. Videos address all aspects of HVAC-R with a focus on personal safety, equipment and tool safety, and the governmental agencies that help ensure safety on the job.

DVD ONE - Videos 1 to 4
*Heat Theory/Matter and Energy
*Refrigeration, Refrigerants and the Pressure-Enthalpy Chart
*Safety/Tools and Equipment/Calibration/Fasteners
*Tubing and Piping Operations

DVD TWO - Videos 5 to 8
*Refrigerant management, Evacuation and Charging
*Basic Electricity, Magnetism and Circuits
*Automatic Control Components/Troubleshooting
*Electric Motors and Motor Components

DVD THREE - Videos 9 to 12
*Motor Controls, Motor Troubleshooting, Relays, Contactors and Switches
*Commercial Refrigeration
*Refrigeration Systems / Special Components and Applications
*Refrigeration Typical Operating Conditions/Troubleshooting

DVD FOUR - Videos 13 to 16
*Heating Part I - Control Devices
*Heating Part II - System Operation
*Refrigeration Applied to Air Conditioning/Typical Operation Conditions
*Indoor Air Quality, Comfort, Psychometrics and air Conditioning Applications

DVD FIVE - Videos 17 to 20
*System Installation, Air Distribution and Balance
*Air Conditioning Troubleshooting
*Domestic Appliances
*Chilled Water Systems, Cooling Towers, Pumps and Maintenance

DVD SIX - Videos 21 to 24
*Hydronic Healing Systems
*Combustion Efficiency Testing, Fuel and Oil storage
*High Efficiency Air Conditioning Systems
*Green Technologies

DVD SEVEN - VIDEOS 25 to 27
*Residential Energy Audits
*Structural Heat Gains and Heat Losses
*Commercial AC Equipment

#14589 Twenty-seven videos on Seven DVDs 2013
(DVD SEVEN IS ALSO AVAILABLE SEPARATELY - see below)

*** Already have DVDs 1 to 6?

New! REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY - 7TH Program
This fresh, new DVD specifically highlights the new topics using engaging and memorable video examples.
New topics include:
*Residential Energy Audits (Unit 39) provides the depth of information needed for successful analysis and work in this growing area.
*Heat Gains and Heat Losses in Buildings (Unit 42) equips students with the background and skills to identify and correct the environmental challenges in today's structures.
*New insights and coverage of customer relations and the technician soft skills that play a critical role in customer satisfaction.
*Placing importance on green awareness, also covers advanced refrigerant leak detection, carbon dioxide refrigeration, newer alternative refrigerants, LEED accreditation and many of the progressive new technologies in use today in the HVAC/R fields.
#15529 80 minutes 2013
 
#14589/0430  2013  $2,949.95 
    

GOOGLE TOOLS FOR EDUCATION
Beginning with a concise overview of the benefits of cloud computing, this video introduces Google’s integrated suite of Internet-based applications while explaining how these tools - powerful, universally available, and free! - can be used to improve learning. Educators and students alike will benefit from a look at the following Google products: Google Search and Google Accessibility; Google Scholar; Google Docs, with its document, spreadsheet, and presentation software; Blogger; Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Sky; Google SketchUp; Google Groups; Google Reader; Gmail; Picasa; Google Notebook; Google Video, YouTube, and YouTube EDU; Knol; Google Sites; Google Calculator; Google News; and Google Books. A perfect primer! 
#14584/0635   31 minutes 2011  $149.95 *CC 
    

DIGITAL MEDIA: NEW LEARNERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Targeted at parents, teachers and anyone concerned with education, this one-hour documentary takes viewers to the front lines of an education revolution and examines how mobile devices and digital media practices can empower young people to direct their own learning. Documenting five success stories both inside and out of the classroom, the program demonstrates how digital media, games, smart phones and the Internet are fundamentally transforming the way young people communicate, collaborate, participate and learn in the 21st century. Featuring leading experts, thinkers and practitioners in the field, Digital Media is a startling preview of a 21st century education.

Bonus Features include...
Extended interviews
- Daina Rhoten
- Henry Jenkins
- James Paul Gee
- John Seely Brown
- Katie salem
- Mimi Ito
- Nichole Pinkard

This DVD features subtitles in English (SDH) 
#14575/1725   60 minutes 2011  $99.95 *CC 
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FABRIC OF THE COSMOS (THE)
Physicist Brian Greene, host of the acclaimed series The Elegant Universe provides a mind-blowing new exploration of space, time, and the very nature of reality. Discover how our perceptions have fooled us and time may be an illusion; why empty space is not empty; how a hidden realm, where the seemingly impossible is possible, lies just beneath the surface of the everyday world; and why other universes - even copies of you - may exist!

The Illusion of Time - We waste it, spend it, make it, and kill it, but what really is time? Is it like a river that flows, a clock that ticks, or nothing more than an illusion? Join a time-traveling adventure to uncover the true nature of past, present, and future--and of time itself.

What Is Space-- - You can't see it, touch it, or taste it, but space is everywhere. And it's not just an empty void. Surprising clues that space is "something" rather than "nothing" are overturning much of what we thought we knew about the universe, and may even hold the key to its ultimate fate.

Quantum Leap - Take a wild ride into a bizarre realm where it seems the impossible is possible. Objects pop in and out of existence; things can, in a sense, be in two places at once; even teleportation is real. Welcome to the weird world of quantum mechanics. On the scale of atoms and particles, the universe is nothing like it seems.

Universe or Multiverse-- - Is our universe unique, or could it be just one of many in an endless "multiverse" where copies of you, me, and everyone else may exist? This radical idea is getting some serious scientific attention, and could revolutionize our picture of the cosmos--and our place within it.

This DVD features Descriptive Video for the Visually Impaired

This DVD features subtitles in English (SDH) 
#14574/1725   240 minutes 2011  $99.95 *CC 
    

BIZ KIDS (26 Programs)

*WINNER!
*National Emmy Award and Nominated for 7 National Emmy Awards
*Silver Telly Award - Winner Herb Wegner Award for Outstanding Program
*Environmental Media Award for Outstanding Children's Television Series

*Each of the series' 26 programs approximately 28 minutes. All are Closed Captioned and include Guides. Detailed descriptions of all programs are available.

From the producers of BILL NYE, THE SCIENCE GUY comes Biz Kid$, Fast paced and fun, Biz Kid$ is a series that teaches kids about managing money and entrepreneurship. Each episode features compelling real-life stories about young business owners and philanthropists and reinforces the importance of budgeting, saving, and giving back to the community.

*Each program approximately 25 minutes. Detailed descriptions of all programs are available.

1 - What Is a Biz Kid?
You'll learn that anybody can be a Biz Kid with effort and the right attitude. Biz Kids identify a need, make a plan, and take action.

2 - What Is Money?
The Biz Kids say: "Show me the money!" Join us and you'll take a grand tour through the history of money from the days of bartering, through the first coins and currency, all the way to the electronic transfers of today.

3 - How Do You Get Money?

4 - What Can You Do with Money?

5 - Money Moves
When money moves between individuals or groups it is called a transaction. Watch the ebb and flow of money as the kids examine the concepts of supply and demand.

6 - Taking Charge of Your Financial Future
Join the Biz Kids as they figure out where they want to be financially and make plans on how to get there.

7 - A Biz: What Is It?
You'll see that a successful business supplies goods or services and makes profit when it earns more money than it spends.

8 - How to Succeed in Biz-Ness by Really Trying!
A business can be anything from babysitting to owning vending machines. You'll discover the three key steps to success: identifying a need, making a plan to fill a need, and taking action.

9 - Cash and Credit
You'll learn about the power and pitfalls of credit, which is essentially using someone else's money temporarily (for a price).

10 - How to Achieve Your Financial Goals
Join us and you'll learn to track your expenses, get control of your spending, and invest what's left over to reach your financial goals. You'll see the importance of starting young, while time is on your side.

11 - Don't Blow Your Dough
Biz Kids Beware. Protect the money you already have by putting it in a safe place. Beware of scams and schemers. Ways to avoid the growing problem of identity theft.

12 - Introducing Entrepreneurs
You'll discover an entrepreneur is someone who sees a financial opportunity and acts upon it. Learn the stories behind the Frisbee, the Slinky, and blue jeans.
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13 - The Biz Kids Challenge
The Biz Kids learn the world of marketing.

14 - How to Be a Smart Consumer
Get the most for your money. Join the Biz Kids and you'll explore smart shopping strategies. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and traps set by savvy marketers and high-pressure salesmen. Meet some smart consumers and successful entrepreneurs.

15 - Using Your Credit-Crazy or Compelling?
Don't live on borrowed time. Join the Biz Kids and you'll see the true cost of purchasing with credit.

16 - Budgeting Basics
Join the kids and you'll look at spending and expenses and examine several proven methods on how to gain control of both. You'll also meet several successful entrepreneurs.

17 - Understanding Business Ethics
Do the right thing! You'll learn with the Biz Kids as they examine several aspects of ethics in business.

18 - Saving and Investing for Your Future
You'll learn along with the Biz Kids about the powerful potential of starting a savings plan early in life. You'll also discover various savings and investing options.

19 - A Closer Look at Careers
When is a job more than a job? The Biz Kids look at what it takes to find your true calling.

20 - The Global Economy
Around the world! Join us and you'll follow the flow of imports and exports that make up the interconnected world economy. You will discover who makes the many things we use every day that come from all over the world.
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21 - Bulls, Bears, and Financial Markets
Kids and bulls and bears, oh my! The Biz Kids examine stocks, bonds, commodities, and the markets where each of them are traded.

22 - Sell, Sell, Sell (The Science of Sales)
All sales final. Join the Biz Kids in sales training as they explore philosophy and sales techniques. Discover the traits common to all good salespeople.
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23 - Understanding Income and Expenses
Go with the cash flow. The Biz Kids watch the ebb and flow of income and expenses. Join them and you’ll learn proven methods for getting expenses under control while growing income with new ideas, smarter work habits, and innovation.

24 - Building and Growing a Business
From start-up on up! Follow the Biz Kids as they learn the necessary steps for organizing, staffing, training, and building a new business.

25 - Understanding Your Paycheck
What’s on your stub, bub? The Biz Kids use a modern American pay stub to explore various social movements of the last century. From unions to social security and from workman’s compensation to the 401(k) plans of today.

26 - Social Entrepreneurs
Join the Biz Kids and you’ll meet social visionaries who use the same tools as profit-oriented entrepreneurs. Yet instead of building companies and large profits, these people create thriving organizations and powerful movements for social change.

***Each program is available for purchase separately.



*Please click here for the detailed description of the series.

 
#14560/0697  2010-2012  $2,499.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

STANDARD DEVIANTS SCHOOL ENGLISH PUNCTUATION PACK (4 Programs)
THE UNTAMED WORLD OF ENGLISH PUNCTUATION PACK contains four modules. Each is also available for purchase separately.

Module 1. A BEGINNERS GUIDE
Sure, we all know what periods, exclamation marks and question marks are, but you'd be surprised how often people use them incorrectly! By illustrating all of the rules and tricks, the Standard Deviants show you when and where you should - and shouldn't - use these punctuation marks. You'll also learn about that ever-useful punctuation mark, the comma.

Module 2. COMMAS AND COLONS
Sure, we all know what periods, exclamation marks and question marks are, but you'd be surprised how often people use them incorrectly! By illustrating all of the rules and tricks, the Standard Deviants show you when and where you should - and shouldn't - use these punctuation marks. You'll also learn about that ever-useful punctuation mark, the comma.

Module 3. DASHES AND HYPHENS
Imagine a world without punctuation - it would be chaos! Fortunately, the Standard Deviants are here to help you understand these powerful little signs and the rules for using them. Add some flair to your sentences with dramatic dashes, hyphens, and the ever-useful apostrophe.

Module 4. PUNCTUATION PAIRS
Stop right there and get ready to yield, because the Standard Deviants are going to teach you everything you need to know about punctuation marks that come in pairs, like parentheses, quotation marks, and brackets. You'll also learn about slashes, ellipses and more.

Topics Include:
What is punctuation?
Periods
Question marks
Exclamation marks
Commas
Items in a series
Introductory clauses and phrases
Interjections
Participial phrases
 
#14559/0433   60 minutes 2000  $149.95  Grades 4 to 8 *Streaming available 
    

STANDARD DEVIANTS SCHOOL ENGLISH GRAMMAR SUPER PACK (6 Programs)
What is grammar? How do nouns and verbs work together to make sentences? Engage your class with the basics of grammar, then move on to the study of sentence structure.
Standard Deviants School is an educational and entertaining, lesson-based learning supplement based on the award-winning Standard Deviants teaching style. Each program includes full classroom performance rights. Standard Deviants School will capture your students’ attention and make your lectures come alive!

Programs included in this series:

Module 1: Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives
Module 2: All About the Verb
Module 3: Adverbs, Prepositions and Conjunctions
Module 4: Examining the Sentence
Module 5: Agreeing with Grammar
Module 6: Grammar Follies

*Detailed descriptions of each program are available and also can be purchased separately 
#14558/0433   156 minutes 2005  $199.95  Grades 4 to 9 *Streaming available 
    

STEVE JOBS: One Last Thing
Few men have changed our everyday world of work, leisure, and human communication in the way that Apple founder, Steve Jobs, has done. This documentary looks not only at how his talent, his style and his imagination have shaped all of our lives, but also at the influences that shaped and molded the man himself. Since his untimely death, tributes from around the world have secured his place in the pantheon of great Americans. Now, we talk to the people who changed the man who changed our world. Through interviews with the people who worked closely with him or chronicled his life, we gain unique insight into what made him tick. In a never before broadcast, exclusive interview, Steve Jobs expounds his own philosophy of life, and offers advice to us all on changing our own lives to achieve our ambitions, our desires, and our dreams.
 
#14553/1725   60 minutes 2012  $129.95 *CC 
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PROHIBITION: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
This three-part documentary series explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor - and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. This utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality.

When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight. Here are the stories of the petty whiskey-jobbers, big-time bootleggers, and brutal gangsters; the flappers who danced the Charleston in New York speakeasies; and the families who stomped grapes in basements and made moonshine in backyards. But beyond the cocktails, this is a darker story about what happens when lobbyists divide the country with wedge issues; the contempt unleashed by smear campaigns; and the perils of unfunded mandates.

By the 1930s, the "Noble Experiment" has bitterly divided the nation into wets, drys, and hypocrites. In 1933, with the country in the throes of the Great Depression, Americans have finally had enough--and rally to repeal 18th Amendment and put an end to Prohibition.

Three DVDs in one case 120 minutes each: A NATION OF DRUNKARDS, A NATION OF SCOFFLAWS, and A NATION OF HYPOCRITES.
 
#14525/1725   360 minutes 2011  $129.95 *CC 
    

DRAW ME A STORY: A "Fine Arts" Approach to Reading and Literature (35 Programs) DVD

*RECOMMENDED: School Library Journal and Parents' Choice
Painters, artists, sketchers, and crafters use their unique talents to bring color and motion to a fascinating collection of familiar children's stories from around the world. Using paint, oils, chalk, clay, fabric, and other artistic elements, their creative approach is mesmerizing and captivating. Voice-over narration, thematic music and the artist's hand combine to bring each classic tale to colorful life.

Thirty-five 8 to 10-minute programs.
*For detailed descriptions of each program CLICK HERE:

1. The Three Little Pigs (Watercolors)
2. Cinderella (Mixed Media)
3. The Brave Little Tailor (Colored Chalk)
4. The Great Race (Watercolors)
5. Goldilocks (Oils & Ink)
6. Tiny Tom (Construction Paper Cut-outs)
7. The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Color Transparencies)
8. The Tin Soldier (Molding Clay)
9. The Emperor's New Clothes (Paints & Watercolors)
10. Little Red Riding Hood (Mixed Media)
11. The Little Fir Tree (Colored Ink & Pen)
12. Caroline and the Yule Log (Mixed Crafts)
13. The Snowman (Construction Paper Cut-Outs)
14. The Selfish Giant (Pencil & Paints)
15. Salvador and the Christmas Goose (Pen & Paints)
16. The Violin's Ghost (Mixed Media)
17. The Light (Pencil & Paints)
18. Fearless Peter (Creative Crafts)
19. Death for a Godfather (Cut-Outs)
20. Hansel and Gretel (Chocolate & Frostings)
21. The Sun and the Moon (Finger Paints)
22. Tsar Saltan (Crafts & Cut-outs)
23. The Snake and the Maiden (Natural Vegetation)
24. The Greedy Calculator (Mixed Media)
25. The Thirsty Frog (Mixed Media)
26. The Clever Girl (Fabric & Pen)
27. The Brown Cow (Embroidery & Fabric)
28. The Magic Tree (Paint on Parchment)
29. Nasreddin's Path (Colored Chalk)
30. The Violin Story (Sketch Painting)
31. Mr. Nothing (Watercolors) (Newest Release)
32. The Nightingale (Cut-Outs, Crafts, Mechanicals) (Newest Release)
33. Shall We Trade Legs? (Colored Pens, Craft Paper) (Newest Release)
34. The Ugly Martian (Food & Natural Elements) (Newest Release)
35. The Ungrateful Jaguar (Fabric & Crafts) (Newest Release)
 
#14515/0697  2009  $3,449.95  Grades K to 3 *CC *Streaming available 
    

INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELING: Voices from the Field
Introducing the counseling profession, this program explores actual challenges facing experienced practitioners and encourages students to consider their professional futures. Explains what counseling entails and covers the history of counseling, theoretical orientations, applications, and professional issues. Encourages students to consider their personal motivations for choosing a career in the counseling profession and includes experiential exercises that allow students to reflect on the presented material.
 
#14506/0430   20 minutes 2011  $149.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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SPACE WITHIN (THE): People, Design and the Room
Show your students how we shape our rooms, and our rooms shape us. This program demonstrates how sound design principles are the heart of interior design, but that its soul lies in the relationship of people to things and spaces. Viewers learn why "people" are the starting point for all design and style.

*Includes Guide
*Closed Captioned

 
#14501/1120   25 minutes 2012  $135.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC 
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FROM SPORTS TO CAREER

Teamwork, reliability, cooperation, endurance: habits athletes learn from sports are the very attributes employers want. Personal stories from current and former athletes show how their skills from sports are valued in the workplace and school. From soccer, football, rowing, and hockey, a variety of sports and careers are represented in this enlightening look into the benefits athletes bring to the workplace.

*Includes Teaching Materials
 
#14498/1290   22 minutes 2012  $59.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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ELECTRICAL SAFETY (for the Professional)
Viewers will get a first rate introduction to professional electrical safety from this program, which allows learners to understand all the most important elements in safety regulations associated with electrical theory. Enhanced with quality animations includes topics on electrical hazards, electrical shock, arcing incident, personal protective equipment, lock out tag out procedures, safe work practices, proper use of electrical meters, hand tools, power tools and employer responsibility.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction. (2 minutes)
Electrical Shock. (4 minutes)
Arc Flash/Arc Blast. (2 minutes)
Introduction to Personal Protection Equipment. (2 minutes)
Fire Resistant (FR) Electrical Rated (ER) Clothing. (2 minutes)
Hearing and Lung Protection. (1.5 minutes)
Lockout/Tagout Procedures. (1.5 minutes)
Tools. (3 minutes)
Meters and Testers. (2 minutes)
Electrical Safety Program (2 minutes)

*Closed Captioned 
#14492/0430   22 minutes 2012  $529.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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WAR OF 1812 (THE)
The War of 1812 is a two-hour film history of a deeply significant event in North American and world history. The war shaped American, Canadian and British destiny in the most literal way possible: had one or two battles or decisions gone a different way, a map of the United States today would look entirely (and shockingly) different. The U.S. could well have included Canada - but was also on the verge of losing much of the Midwest, and perhaps the entire West to boot. The New England states, meanwhile, were poised on the brink of secession just months before a peace treaty was signed.

The fires of this war forged the nation of Canada; at the same time, the result tolled the end of Native American dreams of a separate nation. By war's end, the process of Native nation removal had already begun in the southeast, paving the way for a Cotton Kingdom powered by slavery, and a United States that had been on the verge of collapse was ready to announce its arrival as a global power. The U.S. did not win the War of 1812, but the noble experiment of democracy had managed to survive intense pressure from without, and within.
 
#14478/1725   120 minutes 2011  $99.95 *CC 
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TRUTH IN NUMBERS? Everything, According to Wikipedia

After viewing this film, you will never look at Wikipedia the same way. Engagingly explores the history and cultural implications of one of the most referenced sites on the Web. A whole range of opinion is expressed about the impact of Wikipedia on the archiving of learning, from interviews with founder Jimmy Wales to commentators suspicious of the site's supposed neutrality. Evenhandedly weaving multiple perspectives about the impact of Wikipedia, the film provokes a deeper conversation on how knowledge is formed and what future generations will learn about history and the world.
 
#14469/0737   85 minutes 2010  $189.95  Grades 10 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Eyewitness Stories and Photos
In this program, Anna Baltzer, a graduate of Columbia University and the Jewish-American granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, documents her experience as a volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service in the West Bank. Baltzer provides a straightforward account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while chronicling the almost unbearable living conditions of Palestinians under the Occupation. An accessible introduction to a difficult subject for students.

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#14459/0685   66 minutes 2011  $219.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

SUPERMARKETS: Aisles of Persuasion
How does a quick trip to the grocery store turn into an hour-long cart-filling spree? Teach your students how stores persuade us to buy more with strategic store layouts, tricky sale signs, and those extra big carts. Plus, get six tips to turn typical shopping habits into savvy supermarket selections.

 
#14453/1120   25 minutes 2012  $125.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC 
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BUYING INTO BRAND MARKETING: Shaping Your Perceptions
Hundreds of our daily decisions are influenced by brand marketing. Discover what a brand is and how marketing shapes its identity. Learn about brand strategy, positioning and messaging--and see them in action. Helpful tips show your students how to look beyond the brand to help make smart turns in the maze of consumer products.
 
#14452/1120   26 minutes 2012  $125.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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ENERGY QUESTION (THE): Nuclear, Wind Or Fossil?
In March 2011 a tsunami hit a Japanese nuclear reactor and ignited a new debate on the safety of nuclear energy. This film explores the very different energy policies of two countries: Australia and Sweden.

AUSTRALIA: For decades people in Australia campaigned against the nuclear and uranium industries - but global warming has now led some environmentalists to change their minds. Coal and gas generates 90 per cent of the country's electricity, and the fossil fuel lobby virtually dictates Australia's energy policy. They've come up with a technological fix that promises emission-free power from coal - but the technology is in its infancy, and the eventual costs are unknown.

SWEDEN: For the past 20 years Sweden has generated half its electricity from nuclear reactors. Many people feel nuclear is safe - despite the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. One of the greatest fears associated with nuclear energy is how to dispose of the dangerous waste - and Sweden has an elaborate plan for this, but many other countries, including Australia, are having problems agreeing where to put it.

ALTERNATIVES: Are renewable forms of energy, such as wind, a feasible alternative source of energy? Denmark, the wind power capital of the world, gets an astonishing 20 per cent of its electricity from wind power. Says one commentator: "There are other necessary and urgent things that we should do to stop polluting the planet, and building nuclear power plants is not the answer."
 
#14447/2047   24 minutes 2011  $289.95 *Streaming available 
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SEW THRIFTY!

Create a unique and fashionable look using second-hand thrift store clothing for your next sewing project! Instructor Kimberly Oedekoven explores her local thrift store while explaining what to look for when shopping and practical thrifting tips to find used clothes to refresh and refashion into something new.

Back in the sewing studio, easy sewing projects are demonstrated from start to finish, including: Freezer paper stencil on a sweatshirt; Woven belt from button up shirts; Winter hat from wool sweater; and, Skirt from pair of jeans.

*Includes Teaching Materials

*Sub-titled
 
#14446/1290   51 minutes 2012  $59.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

PERSONAL FINANCE ESSENTIALS: Financial Literacy for Young Earners (5 Programs)
Loaded with savvy tips and real-life scenarios, this comprehensive series prepares students to become responsible managers of their personal finances. Each program tackles a specific topic budgeting, banking, credit, investing, and taxes and breaks it down into segments that can be used as separate teaching tools, or remain as part of a complete lesson. With bright, clever graphics to clarify difficult concepts, decision-making pointers, and commentary from financial and accounting experts, the series educates viewers about the concepts and terminology vital to their financial literacy.

*Detailed descriptions of each program are available. 5-part series, 32-38 minutes each.

BUDGETING AND FINANCIAL DECISION-MAKING
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CHECKING ACCOUNTS AND EVERYDAY BANKING
CREDIT, BORROWING, AND DEBT
SAVING AND INVESTING
TAXES AND TAX BENEFITS

*Includes PDF Instructors Guides

 
#14445/0635  2011  $529.95 *CC 
    

INTERNET RESEARCH AND INFORMATION LITERACY: Effective Strategies and Cautionary Tale (3 Programs)
Thanks to the Internet, a virtual cosmos of information is at our fingertips. But does more equal better when helpful and not-so-helpful content are equally abundant? How is online propaganda different from traditional propaganda? What solutions do we have to the growing problem of plagiarism? This series illustrates best practices for viewers who are learning to apply academic standards and scholarly research methods to the rapidly evolving online world. Heavy hitters from the media industry weigh in through expert interviews, while lively motion graphics help explain concepts and strategies throughout the series. In addition, each episode features three young-adult characters, brought to life through graphic novel-style animation, who struggle with and learn the right and wrong ways to navigate cyberspace.

There are three programs in the series:

EFFECTIVE INTERNET SEARCH: Basic Tools and Advanced Strategies
Formed decades ago from a small pool of data sources, the Internet has grown into a seemingly endless ocean of information-in which today's young researcher can easily get lost. This video introduces strategic, study-related online search methods that teenage or college-level viewers may not be familiar with, especially if they're accustomed to the more recreational side of the Internet. Outlining ways to formulate initial questions about a topic, the program offers examples of frequently used search engines (from Google to specialized databases) and how to take advantage of them using keywords, quotation marks, Boolean operators, nesting, wildcard and truncation symbols, and other typed-in directives. Result-oriented topics are also featured, including: the differences between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources; the best criteria for confirming the legitimacy of a particular Web site; and helpful techniques for searching within a site. 22 minutes

**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube

RECOGNIZING ONLINE PROPAGANDA, BIAS AND ADVERTISING
While their motives aren't always evil, people who bend the truth don't usually do so for the greater good, either. The online world is no exception - in fact, it's a paradise for purveyors of hype, pseudo-journalism, and intellectual snake oil. This video explores ways to identify bias and propaganda on the Internet and sift through the various influences, such as political or corporate interests, that may be behind some Web content. Spotlighting key aspects of propaganda and bias-driven writing, such as the use of glittering generalities, name-calling, or card-stacking, the program also presents important tips for differentiating between advertising and genuinely useful, scholarly material - a task made increasingly difficult by cleverly disguised sponsorship. Web savvy is further developed through discussions of URL suffixes (.com, .org, etc.) and what they indicate. 21 minutes

**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube

PLAGIARISM 2.0: Information Ethics in the Digital Age
For a generation raised on the ideology of "open source" and the ability to quickly cut and paste, the concept of plagiarism may seem foreign or passé. And that, of course, can lead to trouble. This video examines the behaviors that constitute plagiarism, their consequences, and the best ways to avoid them. Showing how accidental copying as well as willful plagiarism can occur, the program lays out the dangers of cheating, then illustrates the pitfalls of non-attribution and patch writing while showing how to properly attribute and paraphrase a lengthy quotation. Copyright, trademark, and intellectual property concepts are clearly discussed, in addition to potential sources of non-copyrighted material. Common citation formats (APA, MLA, Bluebook, etc.) are listed along with the suggestion that the student confer with his or her instructor about them. 19 minutes

*Includes PDF Instructor's Guides
 
#14440/0635  2011  $329.95 *CC 
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SUBURBAN AMERICA: Problems and Promise
Filmed in a wide range of suburban and metropolitan areas around the United States, this program presents a dynamic and thought-provoking exploration of American suburbia, including its genesis and history, its dramatic political and social evolution, and its developmental challenges. Viewers are guided through specific issues facing the nation's suburban landscape, including problems in infrastructure, transportation, housing, economic development, environmental sustainability, and community revitalization. Interviews with leading policy experts offer remarkable insight into the grey areas that separate - or connect, depending on one's point of view - America's cities and rural regions.
 
#14437/0635   55 minutes 2011  $189.95 *CC 
    

LESSONS FROM THE REAL WORLD: Social Issues and Student Involvement
This program looks at community-based learning in K-12 education. Explores a wide variety of educational settings in which action-oriented lessons enable students to work outside the classroom, in their own communities. While taking nothing away from the importance of traditional academic subjects, promotes the idea that math, reading, and other areas are more effectively explored if students care about what they are learning - rather than being drilled with subject matter divorced from their real lives and the environments that often impact those lives.

 
#14436/0635   55 minutes 2011  $189.95 *CC 
    

SO YOU WANT TO BE A DESIGNER? A How To Guide to Product Design (8 Programs)
As consumer attitudes change so too does the demand for high quality, well-designed, environmentally sustainable goods. And in turn, the call for new kinds of products creates endless opportunities for designers all around the globe. This series explores the challenges facing product designers, covering a range of subjects including user design, mass manufacture, testing and modification, and the use of sustainable materials both for packaging and for products. The series features case studies, explains relevant terminology, and provides an in-depth look at manufacturing processes.

There are eight 25-minute programs in the series;

1. DESIGNING FOR THE USER
2. SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING
3. DESIGNING WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS
4. LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
5. PRODUCT DESIGN AND MASS MANUFACTURE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION
6. CHOOSING SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
7. DESIGNING FOR INNOVATION AND SAFETY
8. PRODUCT DESIGN, TESTING, AND MODIFICATION

*Sub-Titled
*Includes Guides 
#14435/0635  2011  $899.95 *CC 
    

ELECTRICAL SAFETY: What Everyone Should Know
This program is intended for everyone in your organization that uses electricity on or off the job and presents important electrical safety information that everyone needs to know.
Covers the following topics: What is electricity and how does it work; Electrical terminology; Effects of electricity on the body; How to work with electricity safely including; Ground fault protection; Circuit loading; Care of power and extension cords; Wet locations; and, Recognizing current carrying conductors.

*Includes Instructor's Guide and Quiz and PowerPoint Presentation
*Closed Captioned
*Also available in Spanish 
#14421/0490   16 minutes 2011  $489.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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TALLEST TOOL IN THE TOOLBOX: Using Ladders Safely
Ladders bring portability and flexibility to any job that extends above the ground. But if not used correctly, ladders can be dangerous. The program includes information on step ladders, extension ladders and articulated or multi-purpose ladders.

Viewers will learn: how to select the right ladder for the job; how to inspect a ladder for damage; how to set up a ladder properly; how to climb and work on a ladder safely.

*Includes Instructor Guide and PowerPoint Presentation
*Closed Captioned
*Also available in Spanish
 
#14416/0490   15 minutes 2011  $489.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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WIKISECRETS: Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and WikiLeaks DVD

Behind the leaking of more than half-a-million classified documents on the Wikileaks website stand two very different men: Julian Assange, the Internet activist and hacker who published the documents, and an Army intelligence analyst named Bradley E. Manning. FRONTLINE tells the full story behind the leaks. It also reports on the U.S. government's struggle to protect national security information in a post 9/11 world.

*Closed Captioned
 
#14412/1725   60 minutes 2011  $89.95 *CC 
    

FISH OUT OF WATER IV (7 Programs)

This documentary series features a funny, unassuming, urban-Aboriginal host, Don Kelly, on exploratory journeys to discover his traditional native roots. Through a series of (mis)adventures, Don pushes his limits to re-connect with those roots and spiritual values - leading to his renewed vitality, deepened sense of personal identity, and vibrancy for life. This series is for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal viewers who are not only seeking to be entertained, but to gain new insight into Aboriginal traditions and be inspired by explorations of heritage in a contemporary context. It is especially important for Aboriginal youth between 12 and 21.

1: IROQUOIS CRANBERRY GROWERS (Ontario)
Don and Dawn visit the Iroquois Cranberry Growers, the largest cranberry grower operation in Ontario, owned and operated by the Wahta Mohawk Band. Don and Dawn discover, hands-on, how cranberries were harvested in the traditional manner and how this community is thriving by harvesting, transporting and packing cranberries using modern technology. Having to use traditional methods, however, to create various cranberry products and meals brings Don and Dawn back in time to appreciate the resourcefulness of the Iroquois culture and society.
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2:- HURONIA MUSEUM / VILLAGE (Ontario)
Don and Dawn travel to the Huronia Museum and village in southern Ontario, the first recreated native village representing Canada's beginnings with the lifestyle of the Ouendat peoples prior to the arrival of the Europeans. To get a sense of what life must have been like back in the 17th century, they attempt to build a traditional fire using the drill and bow method; learn how to harvest tobacco plants and must use their muscles to weed, hoe and plant a corn field. After all this, will our city slickers have the energy to compete in a final challenge of survival?
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3: CROW NATION (Montana)
Don and Dawn visit with the Crow Nation in northern Montana where they soon realize that they are in training for an "Ultimate Warriors" competition. Will Don and Dawn have the strength and stamina to compete in an endurance competition of long distance running, canoeing and bareback relay horse racing?

4 : ROCKY MOUNTAIN PEOPLE (Alberta)
Don and Dawn travel to Grande Cashe in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains Alberta to explore the ways of the Aseniwuche Winewak Nation otherwise known as the Rocky Mountain people. Packing horses and blazing trails to track big horn sheep are just a few of the skills they will have to master to keep up with this Nation.
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5: STO-LO NATION (British Columbia)
Don and Dawn meet with the Stó:lo Nation - People of the River in Chilliwack, BC and soon discover why this place is considered the heart of the people. From salmon fishing to making fish head soup to being challenged to a race using the one man canoe, Dawn and Don experience what it takes to be a proud member of the Stó:lo Nation.

6 : SQUAMISH AND LILWAT CULTURAL CENTER (British Columbia)
What better way to learn about the history and culture of the Squamish and Lil'wat Nation in BC than to become ambassadors of the new and impressive Cultural Center in Whislter - Dawn and Don soon find out! After making salmon candy and exploring how the traditional language is making a comeback, we find out who has become the master and who is still left the student during their final challenge.
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7: BLUESKY EXPEDITIONS (Manitoba)
Don and Dawn join Gerald Azure, an experienced Canadian Ranger and Métis, of Bluesky Expeditions in Churchill in northern Manitoba near the coast of Hudson Bay. Dawn and Don must learn to command a pack of sled dogs with this internationally renowned musher. In addition to trying to snare and prepare an arctic hare, Dawn and Don see if they have what it takes to live in this sometimes harsh environment.
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*** See also FISH OUT OF WATER I, II and III

 
#14360/0973  2011  $699.95 *Streaming available 
    

FIRST SCIENTISTS (THE)
They are the first scientists of North America and now, slowly, their magnificent contributions are being recognized by today's global scientific community. This groundbreaking documentary explores the science and the people behind some of the greatest scientific achievements of our time. Scientific disciplines like astronomy, ecology, engineering, zoology, and even artificial intelligence have all been influenced by the knowledge learned by the First Peoples of North America.
 
#14326/0545   52 minutes 2003  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

GET HIRED AND GO: The Complete Guide to Getting a Job and Doing it Right (6 Programs)

Finding the right job involves so many different steps and strategies that, for many people, it's almost impossible to know where to start. This six-part series helps lay out a clear path to fulfilling employment, beginning with the self-assessment needed to begin the journey and culminating in the best ways to settle into a new, rewarding position - whether it's in an office or in the trades. Chaptered into self-contained modules based on specific job-search phases, each episode presents expert advice from career counselors and earnest testimonials from young people who have experienced job-hunting challenges firsthand.

Six 26 to 30-minute programs - detailed descriptions of each program are available:

BEFORE YOU APPLY: Job and Skills Evaluation
BEFORE YOU APPLY: Resumes, Portfolios, and Your Online Persona
GETTING THE JOB: Job Search and Networking
GETTING THE JOB: Cover Letters, Interviews, and Job Offers
DOING THE JOB: Starting Out and the Daily Grind
DOING THE JOB: Basic Job Skills
 
#14315/0635  2011  $599.95 *CC 
    

THINK B4 U POST: Your Reputation and Privacy on Social Networking Sites
A person normally wouldn't shout out the details of a secret hookup or give a credit card to a total stranger and say "Max it out for me". Yet as this video playfully points out, in effect that's what people do when they post indiscreetly on social networking sites or are duped by phishing scams. This program uses a light touch to deliver some very serious information on how people can protect their reputation and guard their privacy online while still having a good time using social networking sites. On the "reputation" side, viewers are advised to keep their postings positive, remember that "intended readers" (friends) are only a subset of "actual readers" (friends, teachers, prospective employers), and more. And on the "privacy" side, viewers are made aware of the consequences of cyberbullying and defamation as well as steps they can take to safeguard their personal information and avoid online/offline predators. Data mining is also discussed.

*Includes PDF Instructor's Guide
 
#14311/0635   22 minutes 2011  $129.95 *CC 
    

CANADA FOR CHILDREN SERIES (3 Programs) DVD

In this series, students take a journey through the past to learn about the history of First Nations and Inuit cultures, European fur trappers and Canada's growth as a nation. Experience the multicultural flavor of Canada by visiting Quebec City, participating in traditional festivals like the Calgary Stampede and finding out why beavers and maple leaves are among the country's national symbols. Travel through the Canadian wilderness and explore some of Canada's unique landforms - like the Canadian Shield. Featuring rich archival footage and engaging graphics, this series illustrates the pride, heritage and beauty of Canada and its people with three 23-minute programs.

THE CULTURE OF CANADA
Students will learn about traditional Canadian symbols and the important contributions of Canada's diverse population in this program. Discover the history of traditional Canadian symbols like the canoe and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Explore the food, holidays and crafts from Canada's multicultural landscape, which includes the First Nations and the French as well as many other ethnic groups. Listen to a French-Canadian folktale, enjoy the celebration of Canada Day and appreciate the diverse cultural makeup of this proud and unique country.

THE GEOGRAPHY OF CANADA
Students will understand how Canada's geography has shaped its history, society and culture in this program. Follow a group of Canadian students as they examine the regions of Canada to find how land formation, climate, river systems and natural resources have affected the growth of this nation. Explore great industrial cities like Vancouver and the capital city of Ottawa as well as farming communities in the prairies and fishing villages on the coast. Learn why the wilderness is treasured as one of Canada's most valuable resources and an important part of what makes Canada unique.

THE HISTORY OF CANADA
Students will gain an appreciation for the history and importance of Canadian unity in this program. Starting with the First Nations people, follow early Canadian history through French and British exploration, settlement and fur trading to Confederation, the formation of provinces and territories, and the structure and function of Canada's government today. Students will discover the contributions of individuals like Laura Secord and Louis Riel, and learn how important the unique Canadian spirit and values have been in shaping the history of Canada.

*Closed Captioned
*Includes PDF Teacher's Guides
 
#14283/1963  2004  $299.95  Grades K to 4 *CC 
    

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT: Watch Where You Step! & Activity Packet

Your digital footprint is the data trace left by your activity in a digital environment, whether on the Internet, buying something with a credit card, or using a mobile phone. Like everything on the web, digital data cannot be washed away - it remains forever, a permanent footprint. Discover how the things you do in a digital environment can ultimately impact your life.

*This complete kit includes the DVD and Activity Packet with handouts, worksheets, discussion questions and more related to Internet safety and your digital identity. The DVD is also available separately #13860
 
#14281/1290   20 minutes 2010  $119.95  Grades 8 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

PLANT BIOLOGY : Core Concepts Video Clip Library
Making plentiful use of animation, this comprehensive video clip library of 32 two-to-three minute segments brings plant biology to life! Visual learners will particularly benefit from the intricate processes and key botanical concepts illustrated in each self-contained video. A versatile teaching tool, Plant Biology is also an excellent student research resource.

VIDEO SEGMENTS INCLUDES:
Classification of Plants
Plant Cells
Plant Tissues
Stems
Roots
Leaves and Transpiration
Photosynthesis
Cellular Respiration
Transport of Water/Nutrients
Seeds and Germination
Early Seedling Development
Seedless Nonvascular Plants: The Bryophytes
Seedless Vascular Plants
Nonflowering Seed Plants: The Gymnosperms
Flowering Plants: The Angiosperms
Life Cycles and Life History of Plants
Plant Reproduction
Plant and Seed Dispersal
Plant Hormones
Photomorphogenesis and Tropisms
Photoperiodism and Biological Clocks
Genetically Modified Plants
Polyploid Plants
Plant Nutrients
The Rhizosphere
Medicinal Plants
Fungi/Mycorrhizae
Fixing Carbon and Carbon Exchange Rate
Defenses of Plants
Fermentation and Plant Biotechnology
Forestry
Ethnobotany

*Includes PDF Instructor's Guide
 
#14280/0635   87 minutes 2011  $229.95 
    

BUGGED: The Race to Eradicate the Asian Longhorned Beetle
Called "Absolutely brilliant!" by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, this documentary tracks the war being waged by entomologists, ecologists, government officials, and private citizens against the Asian longhorned beetle - a nonnative species of insect that could destroy one third of North America’s trees. In addition to illustrating how these beetles do their damage, BUGGED stresses the vigilance and cooperation needed to identify infestations and halt their spread. A useful case study for introducing the concept of invasive species!
 
#14276/0635   24 minutes 2010  $119.95 
    

BIOLOGY OF FUNGAL PATHOGENS (5 Volumes) DVD
*** Continued on Memo Code: MEM-CAT
In-depth understanding of the conditions under which pathogens, in particular parasitic fungi, live and develop is a prerequisite for effective crop protection. This series of five programs grants easy access to this knowledge. Through an exciting blend of vivid three-dimensional animations and real images, with informative commentaries, these videos provide fascinating insight into the life cycles of major fungal pathogens. The series is an outstanding example of communication in modern science.

VOLUME 1 - 3 Videos - 2002
*Winner of the COMENIUS Award
*Winner of the INTERMEDIA GLOBE SILVER Award
1.1 SEPTORIA BLOTCH OF WHEAT (8:30 minutes)
The fungus Septoria tritici causes Septoria blotch of wheat. The life cycle of this fungal pathogen is depicted in vivid 3D animations and real-image - from the development of the primary, sexual fruit form Mycosphaerella graminicola, to the maturation of the asexually formed pycnospores. Splashes of rain carry the pycnospores to adjacent leaves, which, if they are moist enough, are infected. However, the first symptoms of Septoria leaf blotch appear only after a typical latency period of around 28 days.
1.2 TAN SPOT OF WHEAT AND NET BLOTCH OF BARLEY (8:30 minutes)
Crop rotation with a high proportion of wheat and minimal tillage encourages development of Drechslera tritici-repentis (anamorph) or Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (teleomorph). The life cycle of this fungus is illustrated in clear, easy-to-understand 3D animations and real-image video. The closely related fungus Drechslera teres, the causal agent of net blotch of barley, is also described.
1.3 POWDERY MILDEW OF WHEAT (10:50 minutes)
Erysiphe graminis, whose anamorph is Oidium monilioides, is the causal agent of powdery mildew of cereals. The life cycle of this obligate biotrophic parasite is depicted in exquisite 3D animations and macro images. The fungus survives host dormancy by forming fruiting bodies (cleistothecia) in which sexual ascospores mature. The video also explains the reasons for mildew's high genetic adaptability to changing environmental conditions.

VOLUME 2 - 2 Videos - 2003
*Winner of the 2004 COMENIUS Award
*Winner of the 2002 World Media Festival for the INTERMEDIA GLOBE GOLD in "Public Relations: Agriculture"
*Winner of the 20th International AGROFILM Festival for the First Prize "2003 Scientific and Popular Scientific Films" and Prize of the "National Jury"
2.1 LEAF RUST AND OTHER RUSTS OF CEREALS (15:30)
Using brown rust of wheat (Puccinia recondita f. sp. tritici) as an example, this movie depicts the complete life cycle of rust fungi with exhaustive detail. The production of the different spore types of rust fungi is shown using three-dimensional computer animations. Additionally, this film shows the life cycles of brown rust of rye (Puccinia recondita f. sp. recondita), stem rust of wheat (Puccinia graminis), leaf or brown dwarf rust of barley (Puccinia hordei), and yellow or stripe rust of wheat (Puccinia striiformis).
2.2 FUSARIUM DISEASES OF WHEAT (10:50)
Fungi of the genus Fusarium are of great economic importance worldwide because they cause crop losses and produce mycotoxins, which can cause severe toxicities if consumed by humans and livestock. This movie depicts the life cycles of Fusarium culmorum and F. graminearum using three-dimensional computer animations blended with real images. Particularly, the modes of infection as well as epidemiological spread of the disease are exhaustively shown. Because diseases caused by Fusarium fungi are difficult to control using fungicides, this movie also shows agronomical means for successful disease management in wheat production.

VOLUME 3 - 1 Video - 2004
*Winner 21st International AGROFILM Festival - Best Scientific Film
3.1 BARLEY LEAF SPOTS - FUNGAL DISEASE OR STRESS RESPONSE? (14:00 min)
Necrotic leaf spots on barley caused by abiotic or biotic factors have gained considerable importance in some regions where the crop is grown. This disease complex may significantly affect yield and represents a challenge both to proper diagnosis and disease management. A new biotic barley disease caused by the fungal pathogen Ramularia collo-cygni causes necrotic leaf spots. The video illustrates the life cycle of the pathogen and differentiates the disease symptoms and etiology from abiotic leaf spots, the so-called 'physiological leaf spots' (PLS). PLS are induced by a complex of environmental stress factors including, excess irradiation, drought, air pollutants, or extreme temperatures, which cause elevated levels of free unscavenged oxygen radicals in the leaf tissue. The video represents the sequence of events leading from generation of toxic oxygen radicals to induction of cell death and necrosis. Finally the impact of modern fungicides on this leaf spot complex is represented, with special emphasis on physiological fungicide effects on the plant. Although PLS/Ramularia appears less prevalent in North America as compared to Europe and Australia, this disease should not be overlooked. Because it is new and diagnostic expertise is scarce, the onset in North American barley regions may be similar to what's been seen in other regions of the world. Therefore, this video provides timely information to researchers, diagnosticians, and educators in the United States and Canada.

VOLUME 4 - 2 Videos - 2006
*Winner of the 23rd International AGROFILM Festival - First Prize "2006 Scientific and Popular Scientific Films"
4.1 EYESPOT DISEASE OF SMALL GRAINS (13:00 min)
Where small grains are grown continuously and the climate is cool and moist, eyespot disease, also called strawbreaker foot rot, is a significant yield-limiting disease. This infection of the stem base is caused by fungi of the genus Helgardia (formerly Pseudocercosporella): Helgardia herpotrichoides (teleomorph Oculimacula yallundae) and Helgardia acuformis (teleomorph Oculimacula acuformis). Both species differ in terms of morphology and growth characteristics. This movie depicts the life cycles of both species using three-dimensional computer animations blended with real images. Particularly, the modes of infection as well as epidemiological spread of the disease are shown. Finally, methods for successful disease management are explained.
4.2 BUNT AND SMUT DISEASES OF CEREALS (10:00 min)
Common bunt of wheat caused by Tilletia caries and loose smut of barley caused by Ustilago nuda are cereal diseases that have been increasingly forgotten as a result of modern seed treatments. However, when untreated seed is used, infection by these damaging fungal pathogens can lead to substantial losses in yield and seed quality. Using Tilletia caries and Ustilago nuda as examples, this movie illustrates the life cycles of bunt and smut fungi with extensive detail, thus leading to a better understanding of the development and epidemiological spread of these fascinating fungi. All stages of the life cycles are explained using photolike three-dim 
#14270/0147  2002-2009  $989.95 
    

APHID (THE): A Virus Vector DVD
*Winner! COMENIUS AWARD
The oldest German and European Award for excellent educational media, the Comenius Award is given annually by The Society for Pedagogy and Information, a renowned scientific society for multimedia, educational technology, and media didactics. The recipient of this prize is selected in an independent review process according to didactic and scientific merit.

In a combination of fascinating macro sequences and 3D animations, this educational film impressively illustrates the life cycle of aphids, their behavior on winter and summer hosts, and their feeding habits.

Due to their rapid development and explosive rate of reproduction, aphids rank among the most important crop plant pests. They extract phloem sap from host plants and excrete the excess in the form of honeydew. In addition, many aphid species damage their hosts by transmitting viruses: aphids are virus vectors. Yield losses due to viral diseases are often more serious than the direct damage due to sap extraction.

The most important vector of plant viruses worldwide is the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae. When it leaves its winter host, the peach tree, it colonizes numerous crop plants, e.g., beets, potatoes, and vegetables, and infects them with various viruses. Other aphids, such as Sitobion avenae, are specific to cereals and transmit the Barley yellow dwarf virus.

The different behavior patterns during feeding probes and prolonged feeding, which influence the mode of virus transmission (non-persistent, persistent), are presented in clear, lucidly explained video sequences. A paper insert of additional references on the interactions between plant viruses and their aphid vectors during the process of virus transmission is also included.

This program addresses a wide audience, including lecturers, students of agronomy, biology, ecology and their related disciplines, as well as governmental and non-governmental advisory bodies, and last but not least, farmers.
 
#14266/0147  2008  $249.95 
    

TELEPHONE CUSTOMER SERVICE: Basic and Advanced CSR Skills
This telephone training video, packed with information about customer service skills, covers all aspects of telephone selling and customer service. Set in a real-world call center, this program teaches the skills necessary for smooth, professional customer service over the phone. It shows the right way to make a good impression on customers, and how to handle all calls successfully.

The kind of service that customers receive over the phone is a good indication of how an organization is run. Too often, customer service representatives (CSR) are bogged down by distractions and misunderstandings, hearing what they want to hear and thinking about what they're going to say next. Being an effective listener is the first step toward customer satisfaction.

Viewers learn ten valuable telephone customer service skills: Listening effectively; Extending common courtesy; Avoiding the wrong impression; Using the customer's language; Gathering customer information; Satisfying the angry customer; Managing technology; Writing effective email; Preparing a mental script; Closing the conversation.

Each of these telephone customer service skills is explained in detail, which makes it ideal for training - you can use the whole video all at once as an overview, or create training sessions based on just one or two of the skill sets at a time.

Being a customer service representative can be a tough job. The goal of a CSR is to demonstrate customer appreciation and leave everyone feeling fulfilled. By developing your phone reps' competencies, this program will help them become more effective with your customers while at the same time increasing their own job satisfaction and reducing burnout.
 
#14253/1005   26 minutes 2003  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

LANGUAGE ARTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Get inservice teachers ready to improve children's early literacy outcomes with this complete professional development package. Trainers of early childhood educators will get a two-part set to use in tandem: a DVD filmed at the highly respected, award-winning Arlitt Child and Family Research & Education Center at the University of Cincinnati, and a corresponding PowerPoint presentation on CD-ROM.

On the DVD - filled with lively classroom footage, insightful teacher reflections, and commentary from early childhood experts - educators will see first-hand how to: Plan intentional teaching opportunities; Implement activities that promote print awareness and early writing; Make the most of interactive reading; Incorporate quality literature into the curriculum; and, Integrate literacy supports throughout the whole classroom.

And with the CD-ROM, teacher trainers will have more than 80 PowerPoint slides with supplementary content, including helpful outlines of the key take-away points, discussion questions about the DVD footage, and instructions on how to make simple classroom materials that help children learn.

A vivid inside look at what really works in language arts instruction, this CD-and-DVD set is the ideal way to strengthen teaching practices - and arm young children with the early literacy skills they'll need to succeed in school.

DVD TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. DVD video clips showing preschool children engaged in content-specific thinking and problem solving
2. Teacher interviews
3. Classroom planning sessions
4. Expert guidance for viewer reflection
5. Power Point presentations for instructors
6. Directions for making materials featured in the DVD

CD-ROM TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Quality Literature is the Foundation for Interactive Reading (17 slides)
Chapter 2: Knowledge of Print Awareness and Emergent Writing Guides Planning (27 slides)
Chapter 3: Planning for Intentional Teaching Opportunities Throughout the Classroom (20 slides)
AIM Language Arts Materials: Creating Language Arts Materials (24 slides)
 
#14243/0267   75 minutes 2008  $119.95 
    

SCIENCE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Prepare in-service early childhood educators to create a rich, meaningful science curriculum with this complete professional development package. Teacher trainers will get a two-part set they can use in tandem: a DVD filmed at the highly respected, award-winning Arlitt Child and Family Research & Education Center at the University of Cincinnati, and a corresponding PowerPoint presentation on CD-ROM.

On the DVD - filled with lively classroom footage, insightful teacher reflections, and commentary from experts - educators will see first-hand how to: Plan and implement games and activities that help children develop scientific knowledge; Integrate science throughout the whole classroom; Create intentional teaching opportunities; and, Use questioning strategies to promote higher-level thinking.

And with the CD-ROM, teacher trainers will have more than 80 PowerPoint slides with supplementary content, including helpful outlines of the key take-away points, discussion questions about the DVD footage, and instructions on how to make simple classroom materials that help children learn.

A rare inside look at good science instruction in action, this CD-and-DVD set is the ideal way to strengthen teaching practices - and give young children a foundation of scientific knowledge they'll build on for years to come.

DVD TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Video clips showing preschool children engaged in content-specific thinking and problem solving
2. Teacher interviews
3. Classroom planning sessions
4. Expert guidance for viewer reflection
5. Power Point presentations for instructors
6. Directions for making materials featured in the DVD

CD-ROM TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Children's Development of Scientific Knowledge Guides Planning (28 slides)
Chapter 2: Teacher Reflection Informs Planning (31 slides)
Chapter 3: Integrating Science Throughout the Classroom (23 slides)
Instructions for Materials: Science Materials (34 slides)
 
#14242/0267   75 minutes 2008  $119.95 
    

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE: Using Positive Psychology in the Classroom
Students at Geelong Grammar School are undergoing the first year of a new, and controversial, experiment in education. Positive Education, a program developed by psychologist Martin Seligman, is designed to help children cultivate ways of becoming happier, more resilient people. But can optimism be learned in the same way that reading, writing, and arithmetic can? This video captures the range of events and emotions that the Australian teens work through, including bullying and self-esteem issues, as they attempt to employ Positive Education techniques. Additional insights are provided by the teaching staff, who are also grappling with this new way of learning.

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#14238/0635   55 minutes 2010  $199.95 
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JAPAN'S KILLER QUAKE - DVD
The March 11, 2011 earthquake was the world's fourth largest earthquake since record keeping began in 1900 and the worst ever to shake Japan. The subsequent tsunami that slammed Japan's coast with 30-foot-high waves traveled six miles inland, obliterating entire towns in a matter of minutes. This program features gripping stories from tsunami survivors, compelling day-to-day reportage, and in-depth science perspective. It also explores the risk of a comparable disaster on the U.S. west coast.
 
#14228/1725   60 minutes 2011  $89.95 *CC 
    

RETURNING FIRE: Interventions in Video Game Culture

Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing to users, our political culture, and our capacity to empathize with people directly affected by the actual trauma of war.

For the culture-jamming activists featured in this film, these uncertainties were a call to action. In three separate vignettes, we see how Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph Delappe moved dissent from the streets to our screens, infiltrating war games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment". Their work forces all of us - gamers and non-gamers alike - to think critically about what it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of consumer play.

*A special price is available for Schools, School Boards and all Non-Profit organizations (does not apply to Colleges and Universities).
 
#14187/0685   45 minutes 2011  $279.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

BILLIONAIRE'S TEA PARTY (THE): How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution

"Brilliant." George Monbiot - The Guardian
"Essential viewing." David Suzuki - Author and Environmentalist

In the summer of 2009, shortly after Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, a citizens protest movement known as the Tea Party emerged out of nowhere threatening to derail their agenda. Some said this uprising was the epitome of grassroots democracy. Others said it was a classic example of 'astroturfing' - an elaborate corporate public relations effort designed to create the impression of a spontaneous uprising. Curious to find out for himself, Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham goes undercover into the heart of the movement. He visits raucous healthcare town hall meetings where irate voters parrot insurance industry PR; learns that home-grown "citizen groups" challenging the science behind climate change are funded by big oil companies; and infiltrates a tea party movement whose anti-government rage turns out to be less the product of populism than of corporate strategy. In the end, The Billionaire's Tea Party offers a terrifying look at how corporate elites are exploiting the anxieties of ordinary Americans - capitalizing on anger, resentment, and paranoia to advance a narrow, often anti-democratic, agenda.

*A special discount price is available for Schools, School Boards and all Non-Profit organizations (does not apply to Colleges and Universities).
 
#14186/0685   54 minutes 2011  $279.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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GOD IN AMERICA: How Religious Liberty Shaped America (3 DVDs) .
This six-hour series explores the historical role of religion in the public life of the United States. Interweaves documentary footage, historical dramatization, and interviews with religious historians.

Examines the potent and complex interaction between religion and democracy, the origins of the American concept of religious liberty, and the controversial evolution of that ideal in the nation's courts and political arena. The series considers the role religious ideas and institutions have played in social reform movements from abolition to civil rights, examining the impact of religious faith on conflicts from the American Revolution to the Cold War, and how guarantees of religious freedom created a competitive American religious marketplace. It also explores the intersection of political struggle and spiritual experience in the lives of key American historical figures including Franciscan Friars and the Pueblo leader Po'pay, Puritan leader John Winthrop and dissident Anne Hutchinson, Catholic Bishop John Hughes, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, reform Rabbi Isaac Meyer Wise, Scopes trial combatants William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, evangelist Billy Graham, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell.

"The American story cannot be fully understood without understanding the country's religious history," says series executive producer Michael Sullivan. "By examining that history, God in America will offer viewers a fresh, revealing, and challenging portrait of the country."

Episodes (2 hours each) include - A New Adam/ A New Eden; A Nation Reborn/ A New Light; and, Soul of a Nation/ Of God and Caesar.

*Includes PDF Study Guide, 9 Sacred Spaces Guides, and Viewing Party Toolkit.

Descriptive Video for the Visually Impaired and subtitles in English (SDH)
 
#14180/1725   360 minutes 2010  $129.95 *CC 
    

BULLYING BEHAVIORS IN BOYS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
This program presents a clear and powerful overview of the complexities of bullying behavior in boys and how to respond to it in practical, effective ways. Discusses several of the factors that make bullying behavior so difficult in general and then thoughtfully explains the differences in both the motivation and behavior between boys who bully and girls who are socially aggressive. Also details a step-by-step process for responding to bullying behavior - an approach that is essential for anyone working with children in groups, no matter what the setting.

Among the topics covered:
* Bullying behavior in boys
* Three approaches: #1 - Help the victim; #2 - Address the bully; #3 - Work with the other boys
* Use parents as allies in the process

Bob Ditter is a well-respected child and adolescent therapist specializing in working with people who work with children and is recognized throughout the United States.
 
#14174/0463   30 minutes 2011  $89.95 
    

GOOD DISCIPLINE: Understanding Difficult Behaviors and Turning Them Around
This program provides an overview of teaching, coaching, and parenting techniques that can be used to help elicit positive changes in a child's behavior. Explains how to employ these time-tested, yet simple techniques to achieve targeted goals and specific behaviors. Also features a series of tips and insights for dealing successfully with kids of all ages - from early childhood to elementary-school age to teenagers.

Among the topics covered:
*In discipline, it all begins with the vision; Is your desired goal possible?
*Can this particular person accomplish this task?
*What does this particular person think about this event?
*Preserve self esteem. Teach from natural, contextual consequences for rewards.
*Do the same for punishments . . . they grow out of the context of the effort.

Marcia Galazzi, M.Ed., C.F.L.E., National Certified Family Life Educator and development psychologist holds degrees from Simmons College and Harvard Graduate School of Education.


 
#14173/0463   54 minutes 2011  $89.95 
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GAMES AND ACTIVITIES THAT TEACH LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORK (4 Programs)
Four volumes in this series teach games that foster the essentials of leadership and teamwork to youth.

Volume One - TRUST AND INNOVATION GAMES
Includes twenty-three games and activities that build team unity through trust and innovation. As team members come together to problem solve, relying on their own strengths, as well as the strengths of each person, they will build a bond of trust. The team will accomplish trust as they work collectively through a series of tasks that are designed to bring out the best leadership qualities of each person. At the conclusion of these games and activities, each person will have earned the trust of fellow team members. In addition, game and activity participants will have enhanced their own level of confidence by contributing innovative solutions to help the team succeed, not only during the teambuilding activity but also in the real-life situations and challenges that the team will face in their work, sports, camp, or school settings. 55 minutes

Volume Two - COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION GAMES
Includes twenty-four games and activities that focus on the benefits of cooperation and competition and then how these two teambuilding aspects can be combined to achieve positive results. Communication games feature opportunities for team members to articulate and express themselves in a positive environment, where quality listening and feedback are encouraged. The targeted outcome from these games is to bring about a deeper connection among team members as they face challenges and to provide these individuals with an enhanced ability to accomplish the tasks at hand in an effective and timely manner. 63 minutes

Volume Three - INITIATIVE, TENACITY AND GOAL-SETTING GAMES
Includes thirty games and activities that are challenging and fun and are designed to encourage team members to think of new ways of accomplishing a series of tasks that may appear daunting at first, but rewarding in the end. In the activities, team members work together side-by-side, develop patience with each other, and collectively persevere through challenges in order to reach their goals and succeed as a unified team. After participating in these games, team members will have a stronger respect and appreciation for themselves and each other. 61 minutes

Volume Four - ADAPTABILITY, AFFINITY AND REFLECTION GAMES
Features twenty- four games and activities that allow each individual to learn flexibility while they adjust to different team building situations. At the same time, meaningful team affinity develops as team members assist each other in problem solving different fun-filled scenarios. Reflection games provide an opportunity for discussion of leadership principles, as the group processes each activity to learn what teaching moments the activities offer that the team can benefit from and take back to the workplace environment. Reflection games also provide each person with the opportunity to share special insights that they have learned that will contribute to the overall team's understanding of leadership and teamwork. 52 minutes
 
#14170/0463   231 minutes 2011  $249.95 
    

RELATIONAL AGGRESSION IN GIRLS: Bullying Behavior and What To Do About It
This program features a clear and powerful discussion of the complexities of relational aggression in girls and an overview of how to respond to it in practical, effective ways. Reviews several of the factors that make bullying behavior so difficult in general and then thoughtfully clarifies the differences between girls and boys who intimidate or abuse others. Also details a step-by-step process for responding to bullying behavior in girls - an approach that is essential for anyone working with children in groups, no matter what the setting.

Topics covered: bullying behavior (relational aggression) in girls; two reasons behind it; moving a dominant girl to another group; working with the parents of relationally aggressive girls.
 
#14169/0463   37 minutes 2011  $89.95 
    

FINE LINE (THE): Counseling Clients in Nutrition
Featuring a panel of renowned health/fitness professionals, this program reviews the key factors impacting what constitutes an appropriate scope of practice for trainers and any nutritional advice or information they might share with their clients. Provides an exceptional resource for trainers who want to better understand their professional boundaries concerning counseling clients in nutrition.

 
#14168/0463   99 minutes 2010  $89.95 
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VEGECIPES
Across the world a significant number of individuals, including many fitness professionals, are attempting to adhere to a plant-based diet in order to achieve the healthiest lifestyle possible. Some people, however, are struggling with ways to implement this goal, without disrupting or complicating their lives. This program details healthy recipes that can help make the lives of these individuals easier. Also explains how to add nutritional value by simplifying popular recipes and incorporating delicious substitutes for their favorite ingredients in most foods.

Topics Covered: nutrification; prioritizing foods; food groups; health-damaging foods; equipment for a healthy kitchen; constructing a meal; 'Ahhh!', the green smoothie; sample meals.
 
#14167/0463   81 minutes 2010  $89.95 
    

WATER MANAGEMENT (Green Careers Series)

*GOLD WINNER - 2009 WorldFest

As water becomes more and more scarce, the challenge is to boost water productivity and efficiency while protecting the natural environment.

This program presents an overview of job opportunities in water management such as flood control, reservoir management, levee design and repair, designing and operating dams and sewer systems, river management and restoration, monitoring fish populations, protecting habitats and endangered species, maintaining natural resources, water conservation, irrigation, landscape design, and more.

Water management is a fast-growing job opportunity. State, federal, and local governments spend billions of dollars a year on water management, and employ thousands of trained workers to conserve and distribute water while protecting the environment. You can’t have a green world without water.

Jobs profiled in this program include: Civil Engineer, Water Resource Manager, Water Conservation Specialist, and Landscaper.

*Includes PDF Study Guide

*Part of the GREEN CAREERS Series
 
#14164/1733   20 minutes 2009  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
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POSSUMS (Best Practice Capture Handling and Restraint)
Demonstrates capture, handling and restraint techniques in addition to basic veterinary and husbandry procedures used for Ringtailed and Brushtailed possum species.

Includes such topics as handling equipment, restraint methods, husbandy procedures, transporting, public demonstration, safety considerations.

*Part of the BEST PRACTICE CAPTURE HANDLING AND RESTRAINT SERIES.
See also SNAKES, RAPTORS, and ZOONOSES



 
#14142/0137  2010  $269.95 
    

WHERE DID WE COME FROM?
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles WHERE DID WE COME FROM?, one of science's major challenges, in each episode of this DVD. He guides viewers as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery.
The four parts include:

REVEALING THE ORIGINS OF LIFE - Where did the very first living thing on Earth come from? Scientists have long argued that billions of years ago, life emerged on its own--but no one knows exactly how. Now, in a landmark discovery, chemist John Sutherland has created the conditions in which the building blocks of RNA, one of the key molecules of life and the probable precursor to DNA, assemble themselves naturally.

ORIGINS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM - Combining chemical evidence from meteorites with the latest computer simulations, scientists show how, nearly five billion years ago, a supernova shock wave could have swept through a cloud of dust and gas and caused it to collapse, eventually forming the sun and the planets--if it didn't blow the baby solar system apart first.

LICE AND HUMAN EVOLUTION - Fossils can tell us a lot about human evolution, but still leave many questions unanswered. Now, there's another source of information--though it's not for the squeamish. After sucking our blood for millions of years, lice are suddenly proving their value: their DNA turns out to hold a treasure trove of clues about our evolution.

PROFILE: ANDRE FENTON - Can a simple injection erase a painful memory? André Fenton (SUNY Downstate) says it can. But he isn't in the business of wiping out personal histories. He hopes that his work can help people struggling with dementia and Alzheimer's, and one day illuminate the biological root of memory itself.

*Descriptive Video for the Visually Impaired
*Features subtitles in English (SDH)
 
#14138/1725   60 minutes 2011  $99.95 *CC 
    

HOW DOES THE BRAIN WORK?
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles one of science's major challenges in each of these programs. He will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery.

MAGIC AND THE BRAIN - Are the secrets behind the world's greatest magic tricks actually wired into the human brain? Eccentric magicians Penn and Teller and Las Vegas trickster Apollo Robbins team up with neuroscientists to reveal how our brains process visual information. Can you really believe your own eyes?

CAN MACHINES THINK LIKE US - Can we make a robot that really thinks, learns, and acts like us? Replicating the human brain is a lot tougher than it looks; the promise of walking, talking "androids" is still just a fantasy. But scientists are edging closer with machines like Watson, an IBM computer which proved overpowering in a first-of-its-kind challenge; taking on human contestants on the game show Jeopardy.

MAGNETIC MIND CONTROL- Obi-Wan Kenobi used it to get his droids past policing stormtroopers in Star Wars. The Communists used it to turn a captured soldier into an assassin in The Manchurian Candidate. But now the thrilling, terrifying prospect of controlling another's mind using invisible forces is stepping out of the movies and into the lab, as scientists "hack" into the human brain.

PROFILE: DAVID EAGLEMAN - How does the brain construct reality using the information it takes in? Neuroscientist David Eagleman is using a unique brand of "guerilla science" to study time perception - dropping people 100 feet into a net - and synesthesia, a bizarre crossing of the senses in the brain.

*Descriptive Video for the Visually Impaired
*Subtitles in English (SDH)
 
#14137/1725   60 minutes 2011  $129.95 *CC 
    

HEALTHCARE PARADIGM SHIFT: The Role of Fitness in Healthcare
This program reviews how integrated medical fitness has become a critical component to the new emerging healthcare delivery system. Looks at how this system has contributed to a decrease in the level of healthcare utilization and healthcare costs. Also details how the system has had a positive impact on both the level of nontraditional revenues and the number of new patients.

Among topics covered: Current status of healthcare; Changes already underway; What is a retail medical clinic? and What is the paradigm?


 
#14135/0463   51 minutes 2010  $89.95 
    

EXERCISE AND BRAIN FUNCTION
The four presentations from the Select Symposium at the 2010 ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) annual meeting on the impact of exercise and diet on brain function are offered on a single DVD disk. Featuring almost two hours of authoritative information and insights, including:
Introduction (Zsolt Radak); Central Fatigue and Thermoregulation (Romain Meeusen); Mechanisms for the Actions of Exercise and Diet on Cognitive Abilities (Fernando Gomez-Pinilla); and, Free Radicals as Modulators of Brain Function (Zsolt Radak).
 
#14134/0463   109 minutes 2010  $129.95 
    

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION
This program presents information on factors to consider when prescribing exercise. Also describes the general principles of training, and explains why although the same principles apply to everyone, how and why they can be modified for a specific person. Outlines the basic components of a training program and details how these change as a person's needs, goals, and fitness level vary over time.

Among the topics covered: Basic components of exercise programs; Controlling intensity; Results to be expected from a regular exercise program; Ease of prescription.
 
#14133/0463   64 minutes 2010  $89.95 
    

SIX COMPONENTS TO HIGHLY EFFECTIVE HEALTH CLUBS
This program provides a detailed overview of the key factors involved in operating a successful health/fitness facility. Also reviews the essential elements attendant to each of the six critical components.

Among the topics covered are:
*Business: financial planning and management
*Marketing: planning and strategizing
*Sales systems and training
*Staff planning and development
*Member service and retention
*Programming
 
#14124/0463   78 minutes 2008  $99.95 
    

BUT I WANT IT! Budget Management for Program Directors
So many toys, so little money! This program details simple tips to help health/fitness professionals determine whether or not they really need that new toy. The DVD features a fail-proof evaluation process to help ensure that health/fitness professionals won't end up with buyer's remorse. Also discusses easy ways to justify the need for new equipment (and training!), with business language that every fitness organization's general manager is sure to understand. Designed to provide health/fitness professionals with the tools that they need to make the best decisions possible.

Among the topics covered are: Programming conundrums; Determine your needs to make your C.A.S.E.; How to convince the BIG boss; and, Successful preparation and launch of programs.
 
#14123/0463   101 minutes 2008  $99.95 
    

YOU'RE THE BOSS! Starting and Running Your Own Business (5 Programs)
Designed for anyone currently weighing the decision to launch a business as well as those who want to push full-steam ahead, this series provides inspiration, insight, and nuts-and-bolts guidance on building a thriving company. Eye-opening video, graphics, and narration lay out the basic concepts while business experts and entrepreneurs who have carved their own paths to success shed light on a wide range of issues - from branding and marketing to the hurdles of government paperwork to the people-smarts needed to manage and motivate employees. To expand viewer awareness of long-term objectives and strategy, an episode on closing or selling a business is also included.

There are five 25 to 30-minute programs in the series. Detailed descriptions of each program are available:

PLANNING YOUR BUSINESS: Research, Goals, and Business Plans
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STARTING YOUR BUSINESS: Financing, Branding, and Regulations
FINDING YOUR CUSTOMERS: Marketing and Advertising Your Business
MANAGING YOUR BUSINESS: Prices, Finances, and Staffing
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LOOKING AHEAD: Exiting Your Business
 
#14120/0635  2011  $499.95 *CC 
    

WORLD FOOD MARKETS: FRANCE
Join chef and award-winning cookbook author Paulette Mitchell as she walks down grand boulevards and wanders through cobblestone streets in Paris, Nice, and Marseille while savoring the wonderful flavors and memorable sights of France. Visit sidewalk cafes and food markets, where you can see and taste distinctive French ingredients. Watch an interview with a Parisian woman, who talks about her life in the world capital. Learn about the French joie de vivre.

*French and optional English subtitles
*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned

*** See also available is an ACTIVITY PACKET - Creative and fun activities and worksheets to supplement the World Food Markets: France video. Includes French food vocabulary list, crossword puzzle, classroom activities, writing assignments and more!

 
#14115/1290   22 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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HOME HEALTH AIDE AND PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANT
The aging of the baby boomer generation will dramatically increase the need for home care, opening up opportunities in a frequently overlooked field. This program explores the challenging and deeply satisfying work of the home health aide and the personal care assistant - revealing the skills and special personality traits these jobs require and the personal rewards that come from helping people "age in place" with a degree of independence. Interviews with experienced practitioners clear up any confusion a student might have, showing that home health aides and personal care assistants deal with a patient's nutrition, hygiene, and safety more than with cooking, cleaning, and other household duties that may be needed. The program also points out the pleasant variety these positions involve, as aides and assistants often commute to several different homes during the course of a day. The training and certification courses for becoming a home health aide or personal care assistant, along with the possibilities for career advancement, are highlighted.

*Includes a PDF Instructor's Guide

*Correlates to national and state board certification standards.

*Part of the MERIDIAN ALLIED HEALTH SERIES III
 
#14107/0635   22 minutes 2008  $119.95 
    

WORLD FOODS: French Cooking DVD
The French are serious about food. In fact, the word "cuisine" comes from the French language. Their traditional dishes are rich and elegant, but French home cooking is thrifty and seasonal, combining an abundance of healthful ingredients with delicious flavorings. Cookbook author and world traveler Paulette Mitchell explains typical French ingredients and prepares Croque Monsieur, Rustic Chicken and Potatoes, and Tuna Salade Niçoise and Vinaigrette.

*See also the ACTIVITY PACKET #14092-W Activities and worksheets on French cooking to supplement the DVD
 
#14092/1290   21 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

MEDIA AND HEALTH SERIES (8 Programs) DVD
A special offer - buy all eight videos in the series and save!!!

BEAUTY MARK: Body Image and the Race for Perfection - This courageous, deeply personal film examines American culture's unhealthy fixation on thinness, beauty, and physical perfection.

BIG BUCKS, BIG PHARMA: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs - This film pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain.

DEADYL PERSUASION: The Advertising of Alcohol and Tobacco - Illustrating her analysis with current advertising examples, Jean Kilbourne presents a compelling argument that the manipulative marketing strategies used by the alcohol and tobacco industries are driven by a clear and deep understanding of the psychology of anxiety and addiction.

SLIM HOPES: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness - This popular video featuring Jean Kilbourne offers a comprehensive analysis of how bodies and food are depicted in advertising, and the devastating effects those images can have on girls' and women's health.

SPIN THE BOTTLE: Sex, Lies & Alcohol - Award-winning media critics Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne decode the glamorized stories media tell about alcohol, and contrast them with the often disturbing and dangerous ways that alcohol consumption affects the lives of real young men and women.

RECOVERING BODIES: Overcoming Eating Disorders - Eating disorders are a serious, but often misunderstood, public health concern. Through the first-hand stories and testimonies of seven college students - five women and two men - and the commentary of professionals, this program reveals the wide range of social pressures that can lead to disordered eating, and its psychological and physical symptoms.

RED MOON: Menstruation, Culture and the Politics of Gender - With humor and refreshing candor, Red Moon provides a fascinating, often ironic, take on the absurd and frequently dangerous cultural stigmas and superstitions surrounding women's menstruation.

REVIVING OPHELIA: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls - This illustrated interview brings together ideas from Pipher's book and her clinical practice in a highly accessible format that examines the challenges facing teenage girls and the role media and popular culture play in shaping their identities.

***ASK ABOUT SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PRICING FOR SCHOOL BOARDS, HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS, etc ***
 
#14090/0685  VARIOUS  $1,689.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

MEAL APPEAL: Quick Garnishes
Forget that your mother told you not to play with your food! Learn techniques to be creative and express yourself by making food ingredients more attractive and fun! Chef Paulette Mitchell demonstrates innovative and delightful food designs for fruits, vegetables, breads and more. Feed your eyes and your appetite!

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned
 
#14072/1290   17 minutes 2008  $69.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

CALLING (THE) Seven Lives. Four Faiths. One Call
A behind-the-scenes look at young Americans - Christian, Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim preparing to become the nation's next generation of religious leaders. The Calling follows their transformation from idealistic students into ordained religious professionals. Explores the forces that are drawing a new generation of young people to serve their communities and their faith.

*Subtitles in English
 
#14066/1725   240 minutes 2010  $129.95 *CC 
    

MEDIA LITERACY SERIES (3 Programs)
This three part series provides a broad scope investigation to help viewers understand the workings of modern media. Viewers learn that television, radio, print or e-news all are dependent on audiences, and advertisers or patrons. Thus the business of ratings, statistics and demographics, etc. Also examines the production/creative side and looks into professional standards or ethics involved in the business of media.

MEDIA LITERACY: THE AUDIENCE
Most people think of "audience" as those who watch television, listen to the radio, read a magazine or newspaper or surf the web but "media are businesses. " In the same way a hardware store sells nuts and bolts, the media sell product - YOU - the audience. Guaranteeing an audience to advertisers is what the media do and it has to be the "right" audience - those with money to spend on the advertised product or products. This program examines the concepts of demographics, psychographics, how ratings affect media, targeting and on-line advertising. 24 minutes

**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube

MEDIA LITERACY: CREATING MEDIA
Most students have little experience creating media and assume it's an easy process. For newspapers, you collect some information, write a story, type it out and lay it out. With a computer, how hard can that be? Part of the intrigue of media creation is it looks so easy. This program takes students on location to a behind-the-scenes look at a radio station, television news show, a regional newspaper and a national on-line newspaper to see how media is created in a top media market. 16 minutes

**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube

MEDIA LITERACY: ETHICS
This program focuses on those who work as media professionals whether they are public relations specialists, journalists, photojournalists, advertising executives, newspaper editors or camera operators. In the media it's not just about what we say but what we show and how we show it. Visuals, whether they are video, photos, or how we put together photos and words, often have more impact and more credibility than words alone. This program includes interviews with journalists from the Washington Post and USA Today.com who talk about ethical standards at both print and on-line newspapers. 31 minutes

**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube
 
#14065/2003   71 minutes 2004  $329.95 *Streaming available 
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CUSTOMER SERVICE BASICS: Service with a Smile!

In this humorous video that is reminiscent of "The Office", join the employees of the fictitious Lucky Star Coffee Company as they learn about customer service. Mark, the manager of the store, thinks he'll be leading this seminar. And why wouldn't he, since he knows everything there is to know on the subject? Well, Mark and his crew quickly discover exactly why when they are shown security camera footage of their misguided (and hilarious!) interaction with customers. If the staff of Lucky Star can learn the three steps to good customer service including listening to the customer, anticipating needs, and admitting mistakes, maybe we can too.

*Includes PDF Teaching Materials
 
#14062/1290   20 minutes 2011  $89.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION IN THE MEDIA: Content, Careers and Criticism
"A first rate examination of the history of women in the media, from print to television to motion pictures and their impact on American culture!" Lynda Obst (Film Producer, Sleepless in Seattle, The Fisher King, How to Lose a Guy in 10 days)

*Telly Award and Communicator Crystal Award

Focuses on four areas: The reclaimed history of women who created media; The media portrayal of women; Women's inclusion in the media workforce; and, How men perceive media differently than women and how that affects what we read, see and hear from the media. Contains visuals of past and present media and interviews with Dr. Maurine Beasley, Sheila Gibbons and Junior Bridge, all foundational scholars in the field of women and media. A perfect introduction to Women, Minorities and Media Courses or a section on media in a Women's studies course.
 
#14058/2003   45 minutes 2006  $129.95 *Streaming available 
    

HUMAN SERVICES CAREERS
Do you enjoy helping other people? A career in human services may be just for you! Human services careers involve tending to families and to human needs, whether it be early childhood, counseling and mental health, family and community services, personal care, or consumer services.

Explore a variety of human services career options, with varying levels of required education, including: Early Childhood Montessori Teacher; Family Counselor; Social Services Worker; Clergy; Personal Trainer; and, Sales Consultant.

*Closed Captioned
 
#14037/1290   20 minutes 2011  $89.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

CAN YOU BE SURE OF SHELL? Profile of a Multinational
Shell is one of the richest companies on earth. It does business in 140 countries dealing with 25 million customers every day. It claims to be dedicated to renewable energy and sustainable development. But is Shell as green and clean as it claims? This film offers a profile of this famous multinational, explains its growth, and investigates the impact of its activities on countries throughout the world.

Living next door to Shell can be a hazardous business - as the residents of a community in Louisiana found out. Tests indicated they were being exposed to between 100 and 1000 times the normal levels of dangerous chemicals. Eventually Shell agreed to relocate the residents.

In 1995 Shell announced they were going to dispose of a giant oil tank called the Brent Spar in the Atlantic Ocean.

Environmental activists Greenpeace occupied the Spar and the whole issue became a global sensation.

But there's one story which will always stick to Shell - Nigeria, where oil spills destroyed the homelands and livelihood of the Ogoni people living near Shell installations.

Writer Ken Saro Wiwa led international protests against Shell. In 1994 he was arrested on trumped-up charges by the Nigerian government and hanged. Shell washed its hands of involvement.

Since the early '90s Shell has made strong efforts to reinvent itself as a more caring company and made significant investment in renewable forms of energy. But how much is real and how much is P.R. "greenwash"?
 
#14025/2047   30 minutes 2006  $279.95 *Streaming available 
    

FRESH INGREDIENTS: Healthy International Food Tips

Five video segments offer food and nutrition lessons we can learn from food markets around the world that can be applied to our home-cooked meals. Contrasts packaged and processed foods with similar fresh items found at your local farmer's markets and supermarket, while offering tips for using fresh, tasty ingredients in quick-to-prepare, healthful meals. The segments are: Planning fresh meals; Seasoning with fresh herbs; Seasoning with spices; Selecting olive oil; and, Selecting the best fish.

*Includes Teaching materials

 
#14009/1290   20 minutes 2011  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

PHYSICS SUPER PACK (9 Programs)

Physics is one of the three basic natural sciences. It's considered one of the most fun topics but can intimidate both teachers and students. By concentrating on the key concepts and presenting the material in an intriguing manner, Physics students are able to gain confidence in themselves and their ability to master this important science. Teachers can present the topic with a minimum of self-study and in fact can learn with the student if necessary. There are nine programs in this package:

Module 1: THE BASICS includes topics of: Scientific notation, Exponents, Units of measure, Vector addition and Trigonometric functions; sine, cosine, tangent
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Module 2: VECTORS AND VELOCITY includes topics of: Vector multiplication: dot-product, cross-product, One-dimensional kinematics and Displacement and velocity

Module 3: KINEMATICS - the most useful study of motion at the Newtonian level. Projectile motion equations are introduced as well as uniform circular motion and centripetal force and acceleration. Projectile motion covers clowns from cannons as well as rockets, squirt guns and skiers flying off jumps taking into account the effect of gravity.
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Module 4: CIRCULAR MOTION AND MOMENTUM include topics of: Accelerated circular motion, Rotational motion, Angular velocity and Linear and angular momentum
Module 5: THE THREE LAWS OF MOTION topics include: Newton’s laws of motion, Force, mass, and inertia, Conservation of energy, Opposing and equal forces and Static and kinetic friction

Module 6: WORK AND ENERGY topics include: Kinetic and potential energy, Work-kinetic energy principle and Law of universal gravitation

Module 7: PLANETARY MOTION AND HARMONIC MOTION topics include: Harmonic motion, Amplitude and frequency, Hooke’s spring law and Kepler’s planetary motion laws

Module 8: HEAT - introduces students to the concept of heat as energy, specific heat capacity, and latent heat.
**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube

Module 9: THERMODYNAMICS topics include: Three laws of thermodynamics, Internal energy, Work processes, isovolumentric, isobaric, and adiabatic, Heat engines and Entropy
 
#13985/0433  2008  $439.95  Grades 9 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

PLASTIC PLANET

We live in the "Age of Plastic". It's cheap and practical, and it's everywhere - even in our blood. But is it a danger to us?

This feisty, informative documentary takes us on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the highest peaks of the Alps - to reveal the far-flung reaches of our plastic problem. Interviews with the world's foremost experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to our environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects our bodies and the health of future generations.

*Closed Captioned

"Plastic Planet is that rare call-to-action documentary that might rouse viewers to do something more than nod their heads in agreement. A methodically researched yet engaging examination of the environmental and health problems associated with plastic, this wide-ranging warning cry uses an intelligent investigative style along with animation and vintage footage to drive home its message." Jay Weissberg, Variety
 
#13972/0645   99 minutes 2009  $339.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

KINGS OF PASTRY

"Forget Masterchef. This is the culinary Hurt Locker." Herald Scotland
"Gripping, even for non-foodies." Variety
"Thrilling, heart-stopping, exquisite." The Independent
"Leaves viewers on the edge of their seats." Los Angeles Times

Imagine a scene never before witnessed! Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best. This is the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition (Best Craftsmen in France). The blue, white and red striped collar worn on the jackets of the winners is more than the ultimate recognition for every pastry chef - it is a dream and an obsession.

From Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, the filmmakers who brought us MONTEREY POP, THE WAR ROOM and Bob Dylan in DONT LOOK BACK comes this epic, never-before-filmed test of France's finest artisans as they work under constant scrutiny of master judges and the critical palates of some of the world's most renowned chefs. The film captures the high-stakes drama of the competition - passion, sacrifice, disappointment, and joy - in the quest to become one of the KINGS OF PASTRY.
 
#13971/0645   84 minutes 2010  $449.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

WHY WE WEAR CLOTHES: The Functions of Fashion
As a tool of the individual and of culture, clothing has meaning. In this program, students explore the functional, social, and psychological aspects of clothing. Viewers learn how clothing provides more than just protection from the elements; it offers comfort, helps us to fit in with our peer group, and encourages us to follow trends. The right clothes can boost our self-image and confidence, too. We examine the fashion industry, as well as the influential role that marketing and advertising play in our daily decision of what to wear.
 
#13963/1120   25 minutes 2011  $125.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC 
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YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS: Be Your Own Boss
Entrepreneurship is hot! A recent poll found that nearly 60% of teens aspire to start their own businesses.

Every year, Junior Achievement of New York holds a student business plan competition that provides training in business and entrepreneurship skills. We follow a group of hardworking high school students as they learn how to develop their ideas into business plans with the help of a volunteer and their teachers. The volunteer guides the teens through several steps: how to get an idea for a business, research information, develop a financial plan (including costs and expected profits), and divide responsibility amongst chief executive officers. We find out who makes it to the final competition and how the students benefited from participating in the program.

Along the way, we meet some ambitious, self-motivated young people who put these financial skills into action, turning their hobbies and passions into successful businesses: an accomplished magician; a musician who built his own recording studio; a thirteen year old jewelry designer; the owner of a sporting goods store; teens who design and sell colorful furniture; and an NFL hopeful who became a personal trainer. They share why they decided to become entrepreneurs, how they got their businesses off the ground, as well as the personal and financial rewards. They also offer advice to other young hopefuls on how to "be your own boss."
 
#13935/0425   30 minutes 2010  $119.95  Grades 7 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

FUNDAMENTAL MATH SUPER PACK TEACHING SYSTEMS (7 Programs)

*HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION - Parents' Choice Awards
A great review for all skill levels. This essential math series will tell you everything you need to know about the fundamentals of integers, measurement, geometry, graphing, and solving those tricky word problems. Young actors and on-screen graphics guide students through difficult problems and hard to understand concepts. Covers the topics in a fun, fast-paced, and engaging manner. Each module includes a video program along with a digital workbook filled with teacher's guides, classroom notes, quizzes, games, and discussion questions.

This Super Pack consists of 7 DVDs:

BEYOND MULTIPLICATION & DIVISION - Make sense of the order of operations, square roots, exponents and justifying solutions by revisiting multiplication and division.

WORKING WITH FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS - Students will be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide the most complex fractions and decimals.

MEASUREMENT, RATIOS & PERCENTS - Students will discover ways to calculate speed, density, radius, volume, percentages, ratios and how to convert Metric and Standard measurements and use strategic thinking to estimate.

ANGLES, POLYGONS & CIRCLES - Find the surface area of objects and be introduced to pyramids, cones, prisms, and cylinders.

COORDINATE GEOMETRY - Learn how to plot ordered pairs, get familiar with quadrants, and introduced to the x and y-axis.

GATHERING & UNDERSTANDING DATA - Let math make more sense by interpreting information through visuals like lists, charts, tree diagrams and graphs then move onto describing the outcomes based on probability, mean, median, mode, and range.

PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS - Figure out how, when, and where to use the problem-solving logic.

REVIEW - Parents' Choice
This DVD series is an energizing tool for students who wish to supplement their classroom math material. The enthusiastic hosts appear to be the same age as the intended audience, making the subject matter more inviting than intimidating. The video segments provide explanations and examples of several math topics including fractions, decimals, geometry and more. The DVDs are paired nicely with lessons on a digital workbook, which includes detailed lessons and problems for students to solve. The only downside is that the quick pace will force most students to pause the DVD after problems are given, as not enough time is offered to solve them.
 
#13910/0433  2009  $369.95  Grades 4 to 6 *Streaming available 
    

THAT'S NEWS TO ME: The Transformation of Journalism in a Wired Society DVD
What constitutes news in the Digital Age, and who is most qualified to report it? This program takes an insightful look at the growing marginalization of the mainstream press in the face of the digital communication revolution through the eyes of journalists, bloggers, scholars, and the twentysomethings who are driving the consumption and production of news. The merits and liabilities of citizen journalism are weighed, and concerns such as whether Big Media has lost its objectivity or blogging is inherently narcissistic are considered. A blend of skepticism and enthusiasm, THAT'S NEWS TO ME makes one point upon which everyone agrees: journalism is fundamentally changing - but will it be for better or worse?

 
#13902/0635   28 minutes 2008  $119.95 
    

INTRODUCTION TO AGRISCIENCE (3 DVDs)
This DVD series provides a multitude of visual mini-lessons with up-to-date content in order to enhance teaching of the many subject areas embraced by agriculture, technology, food, and natural resources; a teaching resource developed exclusively to meet the needs of Agriscience programs. The four general topic areas of the DVD series include: Animal Science, Plant Science, Forestry and Natural Resources and Woodwork, Metal Work and Tools. Career profile footage is shown at the completion of each DVD to illustrate a "day in the life" of workers in the agriculture industry. Supplemental questions are included to drive classroom discussion

*Contains over four hours of footage on three DVDs...

DISC ONE (ANIMAL SCIENCE):
Animal Genetics. Genetic Engineering. Skeletal Systems. Muscular Systems. Endocrine and Immune System. Digestive System. Reproductive System. Reproduction Management. Animal Growth and Development. Animal Disease. Animal Nutrition. Animal Behavior and Safety. Animal Welfare. The Large Animal Industry. The Poultry Industry. Meat Science. The Dairy Industry. Small Animal Care. Aquaculture. Alternative Animal Agriculture. Animal Waste Management. Animal Science Careers. Animal Caretaker. Agriculture Lab Technician. Hatchery Technician.

DISC TWO (PLANT SCIENCE):
Classical Plant Genetics. Biotechnology. Classifying Plants. Propagation Techniques. Plant Anatomy and Physiology. Soil. Plant Growth. Heating the Greenhouse. Greenhouse Irrigation Systems. Container Plants. Trees, Fruits, and Nuts. Vegetables. Turf grass. Field Crops. Interior Plant Technician. Greenhouse Production Assistant. Seed Lab Technician.

DISC THREE (FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES & WOODWORK,
METALWORK, AND TOOLS)
History Of Forestry Science. Natural Forest Types. Forest Ecology. Forest Fires. Harvesting and Forest Management. Lumber. Veneer and Engineered Wood. Paper Making and Recycling. Environmental Management. Soil Conservation. Water Protection and Management. Wetlands. Air Pollution. Protection of Wildlife. Species Diversity. Waste Management. Energy Sources and Use. Forestry and Natural Resources Careers. Water Treatment Plant Operator. Recycler. Forestry Technician. Soil Conservation Technician. Wood and Metalwork. Power Tools. Tool Fitting. Welding, Cutting, and Brazing with Gas Fuels. Arc Welding. Painting. Gasoline Engines. Electricity. Plumbing, Hydraulics and Pneumatics. Concrete and Masonry. Agriculture Structures. Agribusiness and Technology Careers. Apprentice Carpenter. Apprentice Plumber. Tool & Die Maker.
 
#13874/0430   240 minutes 2006  $899.95 *CC 
    

ELECTRICAL WIRING SET (Programs 5 to 8)
This series (see also #13866) sets the stage for learning by motivating viewers and heightening their enthusiasm. Shot on various construction sites and enhanced with quality animations, each DVD is devoted to a specific specialized topic including: electrical installation planning essentials, GFCIs, special-purpose outlets, and custom installation. In addition to high-quality animations, questions have also been incorporated at strategic points to promote discussion aimed at enhancing viewers' understanding and preparing them for successful attainment of all learning objectives. Viewers get a first-rate introduction to the broad spectrum of specialized knowledge essential to an electrician.

Video 5. Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters Video.
Video 6. Special Purpose Outlets Video.
Video 7. Miscellaneous & Custom Installations Video.
Video 8. Service Entrances Video.

*New animations are included to present material in a clear and logical manner.
*Closed captioned to assist hearing impaired students.
 
#13867/0430  2011  $1,349.95 *CC 
    

ELECTRICAL WIRING SET (Programs 1 to 4)
This series (see also #13867) sets the stage for learning by motivating viewers and heightening their enthusiasm. Shot on various construction sites and enhanced with quality animations, each DVD is devoted to a specific specialized topic including: electrical installation planning essentials, GFCIs, special-purpose outlets, and custom installation. In addition to high-quality animations, questions have also been incorporated at strategic points to promote discussion aimed at enhancing viewers' understanding and preparing them for successful attainment of all learning objectives. Viewers get a first-rate introduction to the broad spectrum of specialized knowledge essential to an electrician.

Video 1: Introduction to Electrical Installation Video.
Video 2: Planning for Circuit Installation Video.
Video 3: Special Circuits Video.
Video 4: Lighting by the Room Video

*Animations are included to present material in a clear and logical manner.
*Closed captioned to assist hearing impaired students.
 
#13866/0430  2011  $1,349.95 *CC 
    

WORSE THAN WAR: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity DVD
Genocide is many things - horrific, tragic, and immoral, among others. But one thing it is not, says political scientist Daniel Goldhagen, is inevitable. In this program, the author of HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS explores the social and psychological factors that have repeatedly pushed stable societies into the insanity of mass killing. In Rwanda, Goldhagen speaks with participants in murder squads that rampaged in 1994 as well as witnesses of those atrocities. In Guatemala, he confronts former president Efraín Ríos Montt, considered by many to be responsible for genocide against indigenous peoples in the 1980s. Interviewees also include former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Bosnian leader Haris Silajdzic, who called for intervention against ethnic cleansing in 1992; and a scholarly survivor of Ukraine's role in the Holocaust - Goldhagen's father, Erich. Contains graphic and disturbing images and discussions. Instructor discretion advised.
 
#13864/0635   114 minutes 2009  $229.95 
    

20,000 CABLES UNDER THE SEA: The Internet and the Physics of Fiber Optics DVD
The Internet’s mind-boggling flow of data that circulates so freely "in the cloud" does much of its real-world traveling beneath the sea in bundles of fiber optic cable. This program sets sail on the Leon Thevenin as a repair team identifies a damaged length of cable on the floor of the North Sea and then painstakingly splices in a new section. In addition, the program discusses high-bandwidth digital developments such as naked-eye 3-D video and describes the principles of applied fiber optic physics, cable-manufacturing processes, and cable-laying techniques that are making such advanced Internet technology a reality.
 
#13863/0635   46 minutes 2010  $199.95 
    

MIND OVER MONEY
Investigates the shattering impact the recent global financial meltdown had on how economists think. Why did so few of the brightest minds in finance not only fail to predict the crash but also argue that it was impossible? With insights from experts and scientific experiments that highlight the hidden money drives in us all, explores a seismic shift in our efforts to understand the marketplace.

*Closed Captioned


 
#13857/1725   60 minutes 2010  $99.95 *CC 
    

TEN9EIGHT: Shoot for the Moon
See the power of teaching entrepreneurship and keep at-risk kids in school as they compete in a nationwide business plan competition. Use this program to show them that they can build a brighter future. This Educator's Edition provides a business plan template and discussion guides for businesses; schools and colleges; high schools and middle schools; and corporate diversity training programs.
 
#13856/1725   90 minutes 2010  $119.95 *CC 
    

DIGITAL NATION: Life on the Virtual Frontier

Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and connect, as well as what we may be learning about ourselves in the process. What did we ever do before Google? I can't remember that far back, can you?' Is the information age making people smarter or ... the reverse? Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and connect, as well as what we may be learning about ourselves in the process. This video is the product of a unique collaboration with visitors to the Digital Nation Web site, who for the past year have been able to react to the work in progress and post their own stories online. *Closed Captioned
 
#13854/1725   90 minutes 2010  $129.95 *CC 
    

ON THE GO CHINESE WITH XINWEN: Mandarin Chinese Language Lessons
Who says it's hard to learn Mandarin? Who says it can't be fun? Not Xinwen Chen, a thirty-something TCSOL-certified Mandarin Chinese teacher! Taking a functional approach to language acquisition, this collection of 50 three-minute chaptered lessons uses very simple scenarios based on everyday situations to immerse learners in the elements of practical conversation. "I define myself as a bridge between east and west!" says Xinwen. An engaging language-learning tool, and an enchanting glimpse of Chinese culture.

The lessons include:

FIRST SENTENCE
Hello! It's good to speak Chinese!
Good morning!
What is your name?
Do you speak English?
Where do you come from?
It's ok!
Let me through!
Can you do me a favor?

TRANSPORTATION
Take me to...
Excuse me! How can I get to
Is there a bus stop around here?
Which line of bus should I take?
When is the next bus coming?
I want to buy a ticket.
I want to rent a car.
Which road should I take?
Where is the nearest gas station?
How long does it take to walk there?
Can you take me there?

EATING AND SHOPPING
Have a meal together?
Menu, please!
What is your signature dish?
Cheers! Bottoms up!
I want to order a drink.
Check, please!
It's on me today!
Do you accept a credit card?
What is this?
How much is it?
Is there an ATM near here?
May I try this on?

TRAVELING
What time does this place open?
I have a reservation.
How long do you plan to stay?
What is the telephone number here?
What tour packages do you offer?
Can you help me to take a photo?
I would like to exchange my money for RMB.
When does the performance start?

CHATTING
May I speak to ...
Really?
I like ...
What do you think about ...
You are very beautiful!
From ... to ...
Are you free tonight?
Anybody home?
What time is it now?
What date is today?
How is the weather?

*Viewable/printable educational resources for each lesson are available online
(Portions in Chinese with English subtitles, 2 hours 30 minutes)
 
#13853/0635   150 minutes 2009  $459.95 
    

U.S. GOVERNMENT: How It Works (6 Programs)
While the complexities of the American political system have never been greater, the right visual aid can help students sift through them - and even develop a passion for the subject. This six-part series is an ideal tool for introducing and exploring key aspects of U.S. government and public policy. Using a combination of eye-catching graphics, dynamic video footage, and interviews with legal and political scholars, each episode celebrates a particular dimension of American democracy while equipping students to candidly discuss political issues. Topics range from the Constitution and the three branches of government to the electoral process and the responsibilities of citizenship.

There are six 21 to 26-minute programs in the series:

THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Although the office of the President personifies American leadership, the Legislative branch was actually designed to hold at least as much power as the Executive, if not more. Many Founding Fathers envisioned Congress as the primary governing body, given its closeness, politically speaking, to the people. This program examines the origins, history, and activities of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Topics include the roots of today's legislative branch in the Continental Congress of the Revolutionary period; the reasons why a bicameral legislature was ultimately deemed necessary; the unique characteristics of both legislative chambers; the specific functions of Congress, from writing and passing bills to ratifying treaties to declaring war; and more.

THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Many equate it with the Presidency, but the Executive branch of our government is far more complex than that. Containing departments and agencies that directly affect the health, safety, security, and prosperity of the American public, the Executive branch is an administrative mountain with the White House at its peak. This program expands on that description, familiarizing students with the most visible arm of U.S. leadership and its evolution through the years. Topics include the President's roles as head of state, head of government, chief executive, and commander-in-chief; his or her responsibility to fill federal positions; relationships between the Executive branch and the other two branches, including the appointment of judges and the power to veto legislation; and more. Selected presidents, from Washington to Lincoln to Obama, are concisely profiled.

THE JUDICIAL BRANCH
September 24th, 1789 - the First United States Congress establishes the basic structure of the Federal Judiciary. With this act, the American legal system becomes an entity entwined with our fundamental notions of democracy and fair government, equal in power and authority to the Executive and Legislative branches. This program guides viewers through the history of the Judiciary and illustrates how it works in theory and practice. Topics include the main purposes of the Judicial branch - specifically, interpreting the law, determining if laws are unconstitutional, and applying the law to individual cases; the various divisions and levels of courts, such as lower, appellate, and specialized courts; the unique powers of the Supreme Court; summaries of famous Supreme Court cases; and more.

THE CONSTITUTION AND FOUNDATIONS OF GOVERNMENT
Why do written documents figure so prominently in the early history of the United States? There are plenty of explanations, but they all boil down to the philosophical ideas that drove the American colonies to declare their independence - and a profound awareness that those ideas should be inseparable from the rule of law. This program explores the origins, outbreak, and outcome of the American Revolution, the major political texts which grew out of that struggle, and their ongoing significance today. Topics include the heavy British taxation that helped spark the Revolution; the spirit and structure of the Declaration of Independence; the short-lived Articles of Confederation; the drafting and ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and their implications for U.S. government as we know it today.

ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL PARTIES
A government of the people, by the people, and for the people isn't possible without the laborious process of nominating and electing candidates, in a manner fair and free to all citizens. How did this process begin and how has it evolved over the course of American history? Does it even remotely resemble - for better or for worse - the manner in which the Founding Fathers gained high office? Using the 2000 election of George W. Bush and the uncertainties it exposed in the American electoral process as a departure point, this program examines how political parties were started, and why; methods and campaigns that were launched to elect different Presidents to office; and the history of voting and the Constitutional amendments that made voting possible for all Americans.

CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Is American citizenship all about personal freedom and the rights of the individual? Or should the concept of the "good citizen" take precedence, underscoring the duties and contributions an individual owes to society? Where does immigration fit in? This program helps students sift through various meanings of American citizenship and the historical forces that have shaped it. With energetic visuals, expert interviews, and examples from past political struggles, the video explores citizen rights as given in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; iterations of federal immigration law through the years; the history of Ellis Island as a conduit into citizenship; civic responsibilities and "active citizenship"; civil liberties and their importance; equal protection under the law; and more.

*Viewable/printable instructor's guides are available online
 
#13845/0635  2010  $639.95 *CC 
    

BIOLOGY SUPER PACK (7 Programs)

*Winner! TELLY AWARD (Outstanding Educational Videos)

Biology is the study of life. So, we're going to study life - from the smallest atom to the largest elephant. You'll uncover the mysteries of DNA and crack the genetic codes inside of each and every one of us. Find out how your body is a workhorse and never stops, and how it got started. This series will have your students buzzing about Biology!

There are seven programs in the series:
1. MOLECULES AND CELLS, 41 minutes
2. HEREDITY AND INHERITANCE, 42 minutes
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3. MOLECULAR GENETICS, 37 minutes
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4. EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 34 minutes
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5. ORGANISMS AND POPULATIONS, 23 minutes
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6. HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AND IMMUNE RESPONSE, 35 minutes
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7. ECOLOGY, 36 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP
 
#13844/0433  2010  $369.95  Grades 9 to 12 
    

NUCLEAR OPTION (THE): Rethinking Atomic Energy
America hasn't built a nuclear power plant in thirty years. Is that due to a right-headed concern over health and environmental dangers, or an unfounded timidity that puts us behind the rest of the world? This CNBC Original documentary explores the issue, which, despite rising support for nuclear energy, remains divisive. Guiding viewers through the basic workings of a nuclear facility, the video examines current roadblocks to a revitalized nuclear industry - including uncertainties over waste disposal and the possibility of terrorist attacks on power stations. The thriving French nuclear industry is also a major topic. Expert guests include Dale Klein, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Ward Sproat of the U.S. Department of Energy.
 
#13843/0635   44 minutes 2008  $199.95 
    

MATH IN THE KITCHEN: Do You Measure Up?
*Telly Award Winner

Basic math skills are needed to help you properly prepare a recipe your guests will enjoy, to convert your favorite recipe's serving size, or to determine the best value when comparison shopping at the grocery store. Join Matt the Mathematical Cook, a fun and lively host who will multiply, divide, measure and whip up a few recipes in the process!

Divided into four chapters for easy viewing with options to view standard or metric measurements, the program includes: OVERVIEW - how to read a recipe; MEASURING AND EQUIVALENTS - shows how to measure and common equivalents; CONVERSIONS - allows students to practice increasing and decreasing recipes; and, COST COMPARISONS - students use price and size to determine what is the best buy.

Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned

 
#13833/1290   28 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY SERIES (6 Programs)
Working in the crafts and the trades is a rewarding way for people to get their hands into their work - but it can be dangerous, too. This six-part series shows how to play it safe when working with technology used in various professions. Protect your students by making these videos compulsory viewing!

Six programs 21 to 23 minutes each:

AUTO SHOP SAFETY
Reinforcing concepts with helpful animation, this video provides crucial knowledge about accidents that can occur in automotive repair shops. The best ways to prevent them, and the smartest and safest steps to take when they happen, are explained. The video covers all major shop areas, including the stall, grease rack, front end rack, tool room, and classroom. Running engines, open fuel lines, welding tools, moving cars, cars on lifts or jacks, and other shop hazards are illustrated, with detailed information on avoiding fires, explosions, asphyxiation, chemical burns, electric shock, and impact injuries. Hybrid vehicle technology is also explored. 21 minutes

ELECTRICAL SAFETY
Those who work with electricity continually run the risk of electric shock and electrical fires. This video details electricity-related safety procedures to follow for these hazards as well as protection of electrical instruments and solid-state devices. An excellent overview for those who work with electricity and a useful general safety video for anyone else studying technology.23 minutes

WELDING SAFETY
This video covers the most important safety rules and protective equipment to use when performing MIG, TIG, arc, and gas welding. Welding helmets and their lens ratings, leather aprons and gloves, welding gas respirators, heat shields, and fire extinguishers are discussed, and various types of welders, including plasma cutters, are illustrated. 23 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP
WOODWORKING SAFETY
Woodworking can be a fun and very rewarding hobby or profession. However, the technology behind it can be dangerous without proper training and attention. This video summarizes the most critical safety measures to observe when using table saws, radial arm saws, planers, routers, lathes, joiners, large belt sanders, and other woodworking technology. The bottom line? Woodworking tools and equipment are very powerful machines that must be understood and respected. 23 minutes

GENERAL SHOP SAFETY
This video demonstrates the types of dangers present in any industrial or manufacturing atmosphere and then explains how to prevent accidents. Actual industrial accidents (cranes collapsing, foundry explosions) are used to stress the importance of using proper methods when in a general shop. An excellent program for technology/vocational courses. 23 minutes

METALWORKING SAFETY
Metalworking is a broad field of study that encompasses several large industries. This informative video demonstrates the kind of precautions that should be taken when working with metals. Sheet metal work, soldering, foundry work, and forging are covered, along with handling steel beams at a construction site (the Shedd Aquarium, in Chicago). Footage of fatal accidents and testimonials from steelworkers reinforce the importance of safety. This video should be viewed by anyone studying technology or any metal-working trade. 23 minutes

*Includes PDF Instructor Guides for each program
 
#13815/0635  2011  $649.95 
    

OCTOBER 87: Crash and Comeback DVD
In the mid-1980s, the markets were soaring with no end in sight; then came October 19th, 1987. This CNBC Original documentary examines the biggest stock market crash in U.S. history, as told through firsthand accounts from traders, reporters who covered the story, and such power brokers as former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, former NYSE chairman John Phelan, and Leo Melamed, legendary trader and former head of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Viewers are guided moment-by-moment through the plunge and are also shown resulting safeguards implemented over the following 20 years. In addition, the program shows how the crisis gave way to the greatest bull market of all time.
 
#13814/0405   46 minutes 2009  $199.95  Grades 10 to Adult 
    

POST OBAMA: The Continued Relevance of Identity Theorizing and Research DVD
Featuring William E. Cross, Jr., University of Nevada, Las Vegas and recipient of the 2009 Social Justice Action Award
Bill Cross, the leading researcher in cultural identity, discusses the movements in society that contributed to President Obama's election: ethnic studies, women's studies, LBGT studies, growth of new immigrant communities, changes in "mainstream" youth culture, and the globalization of Hip Hop. Students and researchers learn about his new identity research including white identity development, enigmatic multicultural identity profiles, microaggressions, analyzing internalized oppression, and intersectionality. This program will help students be on the cutting edge of identity development.
 
#13806/1410   50 minutes 2009  $129.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

READING BETWEEN THE LINES: Understanding Culture in Qualitative Research
Qualitative research provides us with a means to gain a deep description of the lives we study. But entering in a community can be difficult. We have to suspend our own cultural lens while examining the experiences of others. Dr. Lisa Suzuki of New York University describes the importance of cultures being understood among a context of political, economic, historical, and social venues. Students will be moved by her personal experiences and the use of symbols that she uses to illustrate her own story and culture.
 
#13804/1410   50 minutes 2009  $129.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

THIS LAND IS OUR LAND: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons DVD
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons - everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In this program - bestselling author David Bollier, a leading figure in the global movement to reclaim the commons - bucks the rising tide of anti-government extremism and free market ideology to show how commercial interests are undermining our collective interests. Placing the commons squarely within the American tradition of community engagement and the free exchange of ideas and information, Bollier shows how a bold new international movement steeped in democratic principles is trying to reclaim our common wealth by modeling practical alternatives to the restrictive monopoly powers of corporate elites.

(This film was previously titled SILENT THEFT)

*ABOUT DAVID BOLLIER
David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who has spent the past ten years exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. He has pursued this work as an editor of Onthecommons.org -- a leading website about commons-based policy and politics -- and in collaboration with a variety of international and domestic partners. He speaks widely about the commons, and recently co-founded a new international organization, Commons Strategies, dedicated to developing and promoting commons-based public policies and initiatives. In 2010, Bollier taught a course on the topic as the Croxton Lecturer at Amherst College.

Bollier's latest book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (2009), describes the rise of free software, free culture, and the commons-based movements seeking to advance open business models, open science and open educational resources. His first book on the commons, Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (2002), is now widely used in colleges around the world. It surveys the many market enclosures of people's shared resources, from public lands and the airwaves to public spaces, plant and animal genes, and knowledge. Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture (2005) documents the vast expansion of copyright and trademark law over the past generation.

Bollier has worked with American television writer/producer Norman Lear since 1984, and is Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is also Co-founder and board member of Public Knowledge, a Washington policy advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the information commons. Bollier lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
 
#13797/0685   46 minutes 2007  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

WHAT ARE ATOMS MADE OF?
It's called a theory but if we have never seen an atom how did any one ever come up with an idea that is so central to science. This program shows how all the pieces of the puzzle have come together at the same time as explaining the structure of the atom and the Periodic Table.

 
#13779/0545   27 minutes 2009  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

WEATHER AND CLIMATE - DVD
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. Climate is about long term, records, trends and averages; weather is about day to day experiences. Understanding these allows us to make predictions and forecasts. This program introduces us to the basics and science of meteorology from its earliest theoretical, observational development to the invention of equipment, such as the Thermometer, Barometer, Hygrometer and the World Wide Weather Watch, that led to meteorology becoming a science.
 
#13778/0545   26 minutes 2009  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

USING MICROBES IN FOOD
Micro-organisms affect everyone. Some are helpful, while others are harmful. This program explores pathogenic micro-organisms that can cause diseases like sore throats, influenza, tuberculosis and HIV. Decomposer micro-organisms decay rotting plant and animal matter, returning important nutrients back into the soil. Microorganisms are also being used in the fuel industry to develop new non-petroleum based products. Food spoilage micro-organisms such as mould can ruin stored food. Other bacteria and yeasts are vital to the production of food and drinks like yoghurt and bread, along with beer and wine. Within this program we will examine where they come from and some examples of positive uses relating to many foods we eat.
 
#13777/0545   37 minutes 2009  $149.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

SCIENCE OF POLLUTION (THE)
Pollution is waste material produced from human activities - it impacts the environment in a negative way. This program explores how pollution can affect the air, water and land in the form of gases, liquids and solids. Substances that constitute pollution include: green house gases (CO2, smog and industrial emissions), oil, blue/green algae, plastic, litter, dog poop and fertilizer, to name a few. Also explores how a sustainable future depends upon individuals and society minimizing pollution by making informed and responsible decisions when choosing consumer items.
 
#13776/0545   33 minutes 2009  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

LIBRARY (THE): Check It Out!
This up-beat, interactive Library tour explores the resources that can be found in a Library, how they can be located and how to check them out! The program covers what can be found in a School Library/Resource centre, what do the signs in a library mean, what is a call number, how are fiction and non-fiction books organized, how to scan the shelves correctly, who works in a library and who to approach for help, how to behave in a library, how to borrow and return items, how to manage time requirements for borrowed items, how to look after borrowed items and much more.
 
#13775/0545   20 minutes 2009  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

PREPARING SANDWICHES, APPETIZERS AND SALADS
This program demonstrates the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to prepare and present appetizers, sandwiches and salads in a commercial kitchen or catering operation. Appetizers are foods that normally precede a meal, or may be served as an accompaniment to drinks. They include a range of hot and cold dishes which can be either classical or modern, and vary in ethnic and cultural origins. Salads may be vegetable or fruit-based, and may also include classical or modern and varying ethnic and cultural types. Sandwiches may be classical or modern, hot or cold, of varying cultural and ethnic origins and use a variety of fillings and types of bread. Preparation, presentation and storage potential of sandwiches will depend on bread types and fillings.
 
#13774/0545   25 minutes 2009  $149.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

KEEPING SAFE ONLINE
The internet is the preferred method of communication for young people. So what are the dangers? Much has been said about what not to do but how do you unwittingly give away too much about yourself? And why is that a problem anyway. This video looks at how young people can avoid predators, online marketers and cyberbullies, as well as discussing the role of the Internet as a media.
 
#13773/0545   25 minutes 2009  $149.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

NOT JUST A GAME: Power, Politics and American Sports
We've been brought up to believe that sports and politics don't mix - that games are games and athletes should just "shut up and play". In the view of iconoclastic sportswriter Dave Zirin, this mentality cheapens both. Zirin shows that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, sports have also reflected, and at times played a role in shaping, the political tensions and social struggles at the heart of American society. The film takes an uncompromising look at how sports culture has glamorized militarism, commercialism, racism, sexism, and homophobia. But it also excavates a largely forgotten tradition of rebel athletes and sports writers to show how American sports culture, at its best, has modeled forms of courage, resistance, and perseverance that have enriched American life.

*PLEASE NOTE - there is a special price on this title for non-college non-university customers
 
#13751/0685   62 minutes 2010  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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D IS FOR DECISIONS: Be a Smart Consumer

Teens' eyes and ears are coveted by advertisers, but how do you make wise purchasing decisions? Maggie and Ethan shop for a bike and online for an MP3 player while learning and applying the four steps consumers should consider when making a purchase to be sure you're getting what you want and need: SET A GOAL; LIST YOUR RESOURCES; SHOP CAREFULLY; and, EVALUATE YOUR PURCHASE.

Resource management, goal setting, and the decision making process are covered.

*Downloadable Teaching Materials

 
#13747/1290   16 minutes 2010  $59.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

FRESH FOOD: What is Farm to Table?

Tap into the current trend of eating locally grown foods without the use of chemical pesticides or hormones! The basics of sustainable farming are explored through the eyes of three highly trained chefs who leave their big city jobs to carve out a place to grow fresh, healthy ingredients for their gourmet dishes. Discover how farm fresh food is grown, distributed and marketed as it travels from the farm to the table.

*Includes downloadable Teach materials
 
#13746/1290   20 minutes 2010  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

OBESITY IN A BOTTLE II: Understanding Liquid Calories and Nutrition

The original OBESITY IN A BOTTLE identifies the link between rising obesity rates with the beverages we drink, talks about the calorie contribution of different popular drinks and about HFCS, caffeine, diet pop, importance of nutritious drinks (milk, 100% juice, and water) and limiting empty calories.

This all new OBESITY IN A BOTTLE II tackles how to pick healthy beverages (for specific situations) and what to look for on the labels, debunks some "health" claims, and really focuses more on sugar (where the original focuses more on total calories and fat).

*Includes downloadable Teaching materials

Empty calories from sugar and fat found in many favorite beverages are adding inches to waistlines and contributing to rising rates of chronic disease. View five informative video segments offering suggestions for healthy beverage selections featuring Susan Moores, RD.

Topics include:
- How to pick "good" drinks for kids
- Best beverages if you're watching your weight
- How to pick healthful beverages
- How to pick the right drink for sports and athletic performance
- Busting caffeine myths



 
#13744/1290   28 minutes 2010  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

CAREER COMPASS: The Successful Job Search (4 Programs)
Follow the adventure of getting a job - from assessing career interests and the job search, to writing a resume and acing the interview.

This series consists of four 25-minute programs:

*Each DVD has an extra program with designated stopping points. Instructors can play video straight through or pause for structured discussion and activities.

*Teaching guides includes worksheets for students to complete as they follow the programs.

MAPPING A CAREER PATH: Your Aptitude, Interests, Values and Personality
Learn about useful assessment techniques and learn the four domains of self-assessment.

YOUR JOB SEARCH: Navigating the Roads to Employment
Discover where to look for a job and how to develop a successful job search plan.

ENGAGING RESUMES AND COVER LETTERS: How to Hook the Job You Want
Understand how to edit a resume and craft a cover letter for a specific job.
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SOLID INTERVIEW SKILLS: Your Journey to a Job Offer
Gain insight and advice to guide you before, during and after the interview. 
#13740/1120  2011  $469.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

DON'T GET SICK AFTER JUNE: American Indian Healthcare

This documentary uncovers the timely story of Indian healthcare and the Indian Health Service, told from the Native American prospective. Chronicles the history of Indian healthcare from the early 1800's to President Obama's recent Healthcare Reform Act. Produced by Cherokee Nation Citizen Steven R. Heape, and directed by Chip Richie, this film is a must have resource for schools and libraries.
 
#13737/1830   82 minutes 2011  $239.95 *CC 
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MAKEUP FX: Film and Television Makeup (2 Programs)
Emmy-winning makeup artist (for Star Trek: Voyager's Threshold), Bradley Look, takes you behind the scenes of the Hollywood makeup artistry to show how to airbrush more effectively, in the growing age of High Definition format, using Makeup FX template stencils. Demonstrates prosthetics, special effects and beauty application using the airbrush. Follow the step-by-step process, using freehand spray and Makeup FX template stencils. Teaches: Beauty application; Application of foam appliances; Use of the Zazzo® Makeup FX Template series; Character Troupe and Beauty ensemble; and, Creation of mixed medium makeup.

The two programs are:
MakeUP FX Character Prosthetics and Special Effects, 40 minutes
MakeUP FX Beauty Ensemble and Airbrush, 37 minutes
 
#13735/2003  2010  $229.95 *Streaming available 
    

ALGEBRA SUPER PAK (7 Programs)
*Winner! TELLY AWARD (Outstanding Educational Videos)

In this series, students will realize the power of algebra and that armed with knowledge of algebra, they can find out fascinating things about place, people and real-life situations. This series concentrates on the essentials of algebra plus provides a thorough breakdown of difficult concepts using step-by-step explanations and visual examples.

Titles included in this series (detailed descriptions of each program are available):
1. FOUNDATIONS OF ALGEBRA
2. FUNCTIONS
3. ALGEBRA MECHANICS
4. LINEAR EQUATIONS
5. LINEAR EQUALITIES
6. POLYNOMIALS AND FACTORING
7. QUADRATIC EQUATIONS

The Standard Deviants Teaching Systems are simply the most effective method for students to learn and for teachers to teach. This educational programming is optimized for classroom use. Each module is a topic-based video accompanied with a digital workbook that uses a humorous and unique style and approach to difficult concepts with the learner's perspective in mind. Each video contains full PPR and a digital workbook which includes teacher's guides, classroom notes, quizzes, games, and graphic organizers. The subject matter correlates directly to state standards and is produced and designed by the Cerebellum Academic Team of professional scriptwriters, students, professors, actors, comedians, and teachers. 
#13734/0433   182 minutes 2010  $369.95  Grades 8 to 12 *Streaming available 
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BUSINESS SIDE OF SUCCESSFUL FILMMAKING (3 Programs)
This unique groundbreaking series, hosted by award-winning filmmaker David Heavener, provides a no-nonsense outline to writing, producing and distributing your film. Whether you're a film buff with a really great movie idea or someone who has years of experience, everyone can learn from the easy to follow guidelines in this series. Learn all the proven steps to become an accomplished filmmaker including how to launch your career, screenwriting made easy, getting financed, low-budget, high quality producing, market, sell and distribute and the future of filmmaking and distribution.

CREATING THE WINNING SCRIPT
This program teaches you to determine your purpose in filmmaking which in turn will allow you to define and refine your mission statement and keep you on track throughout your career. Includes an overview on how the Hollywood system works, plus the techniques to develop concept and the basic principles of creating your script. 28 minutes

FILM FINANCING SECRETS
Financing is one of the hardest and most confusing aspects of filmmaking. Many filmmakers do not know where to go to find the money and lack the knowledge on how to speak to investors. After 20 years of raising more than $40 million in film investments, David Heavener teaches the techniques he has developed and perfected over the years to help you obtain the funds you need to get your project underway. He then breaks down the process of production from pre-production, through post production, including how to audition actors, contracts and how to negotiate with post production facilities. 70 minutes

SELLING AND MARKETING THE MOVIE
The hardest part of filmmaking becomes selling your movie, once the film has been made. This program teaches the marketing process using a step-by-step plan followed by the process of dealing with film distributors. Along with the pros and cons of signing with someone else, you'll also learn how to become your own distributor and the future landscape of filmmaking and distribution. Includes valuable information on contracts and terminology. 57 minutes

*Includes 73 page downloadable Workbook

 
#13726/2003  2010  $229.95 *Streaming available 
    

EARTH SCIENCE FUNDAMENTALS (6 Programs)

These programs are designed to make science relevant in a child's everyday life. Peer hosts introduce live-action, concrete situations to help teach scientific concepts and principles. Colorful graphics, animation and detailed diagrams are used throughout the program to reinforce the learning process. These informative and fun-filled DVDs will enhance every elementary and middle school science curriculum.

The EARTH SCIENCE FUNDAMENTALS SERIES includes six 15-minute programs and activities to go along with each subject to provide the most comprehensive educational system about earth sciences.

ECOSYSTEMS AND BIOMES
The moment you step out the front door you are walking into a biome. Your own backyard is part of an ecosystem. Wildlife and the environment work together to make the world a harmonious place. The climate, animals, and vegetation vary in many different parts of the world which make that area a specific biome with its very own characteristics.

After viewing the ECOSYSTEMS AND BIOMES program and engaging in the activities provided, students will be able to:
*Define ecosystems and biomes
* Appropriately use introduced vocabulary in writing and discussion
* Identify the seven major biomes
* List characteristics of different biomes
* Identify the geographic location of the major world biomes
* Become more aware of the role of the environment and their job in the ecosystem
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SEEDS AND PLANTS
Plants are all around us. People rely on plants to live. They make our world more beautiful, provide food and medicine and help us breathe. They make up our forests, woods, yards, our world. Understanding the relation between seeds and plants will help children appreciate the interrelatedness of our environment. All living things depend on each other in one way or another. The plant cycle is just one more continuous phenomena in our world.

After viewing the SEEDS AND PLANTS program and engaging in the activities provided, students will be able to:
*List various uses of plants
*Identify parts and functions of plants
*Define and apply predetermined vocabulary as it relates to plants
*Explain how the plant cycle works

WEATHER
Weather affects our lives in many ways. Often, we take how much we rely on knowing and understanding the weather for granted. All living things must be able to adapt to the weather conditions in their region in order to live successfully. We will be more prepared to understand just what a powerful force it really is by understanding the various weather phenomena.
This weather program highlights different forms of weather and introduces the concepts and reasons for various weather patterns. Examples and explanations are given throughout the program using real life situations relating to the cause of a specific weather pattern.
After viewing the WEATHER program and engaging in the activities provided, students will be able to:
*Use identified vocabulary appropriately when speaking and writing
*Name the layers of the atmosphere
*Explain the causes and effects of air currents and air pressure
*Explain the process of the water cycle
*Identify different types of clouds and precipitation
*Discuss the features of the three climate zones
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ROCKS AND MINERALS
Everything solid in nature began as a mineral. We rely on rocks and minerals in our daily lives and most of the time don't even know it. Developing an understanding for how integral rocks and minerals are to our daily lives will help children form a greater appreciation for the building blocks of our world.
After viewing the ROCKS AND MINERALS program and engaging in the activities provided, students will be able to:
*List various uses of rocks
*Identify various common minerals
*Identify properties of rocks
*Label the layers of the Earth
*Explain how rocks are formed and changed
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HABITATS
Plant and animal life is unique to each area in the world because of the diversity among land regions. In this program viewers will learn about and come to value what each part of our world has to offer. Through studying the various habitats found on Earth students will develop an understanding and appreciation for the diversity that surrounds us. By doing this we can begin to teach people how to prevent further endangerment, or even extinction of certain species.
After viewing the HABITATS program and engaging in the activities provided, students will be able to:
*Define habitat
*Appropriately use introduced vocabulary in writing and discussion
*Identify and list characteristics of various habitats found on earth
*Specify adaptations made by plants and animals in various habitats
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MATTER
Matter is all around us. Everything on Earth is made of matter. Learning about the different properties of matter will allow students to understand how environmental and human factors affect the changing world we live in.

After viewing this program and engaging in the activities provided, students will be able to:
*Identify solids, liquids and gases in the environment
*Explain how matter changes state
*Describe the processes of vaporization, evaporation and condensation
*Calculate the volume and mass of various forms of matter
*List the properties of various forms of matter
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#13720/0433   90 minutes 2010  $259.95  Grades 2 to 6 *Streaming available 
    

GREEN CAREERS SERIES (12 Programs)
Green careers offer students and young adults job opportunities in fields that help conserve energy and natural resources, encourage sustainable growth, and protect the environment from needless harm. Created by award-winning producer Michael Dieffenbach, covers twelve new and growing industries that address the most challenging problems that today's world faces.

Gives young people a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to work in a variety of jobs in each sector. In on-the-job profiles, we meet entrepreneurs, scientists, field biologists, engineers, managers and interns - professionals in fields that are exciting and personally rewarding.

Also provides information on the educational requirements for entering various fields. Youth are encouraged to take advantage of internships and part-time jobs to get hands-on experience while pursuing their studies. Green careers are a high-demand job track for students from a wide range of academic disciplines and with a wide variety of interests. By becoming stewards of our environment, young people who choose a green career can help solve the greatest problems of our time while finding work that matches their personal interests and values.

The 12 programs are:

BUILDING GREEN: Building Trades, 20 minutes
CLEAN ENERGY: Biofuels, 21 minutes
CLEAN ENERGY: Geothermal Power, 22 minutes
CLEAN ENERGY: Solar Power, 20 minutes
CLEAN ENERGY: Wind Power, 23 minutes
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, 21 minutes
GREEN DESIGN, 21 minutes
*Remi Winner! RECYCLING, 22 minutes
RESTORING THE LAND, 22 minutes
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
TRANSPORTATION
*Remi Winner! WATER MANAGEMENT

*Includes PDF Guides for each program

 
#13715/1733  2009  $889.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

FARM TO MARKET SERIES (15 programs on 3 DVDs)
Each program in this exciting series follows the journey of a particular agricultural product as it is grown, harvested, processed, and then transported to its final destination at the market. Through the videos, students are taken "behind the scenes" of production and manufacturing, visiting farms, ranches and orchards as well as mills and factories.

The fifteen 10-minute programs are on three DVDs as follows:

Volume 1: DAIRY, HONEY, POULTRY & EGGS, SEAFOOD, WOOL

Volume 2: COTTON, FLOWERS, RICE & CORN, VEGETABLES, WHEAT

Volume 3: CHOCOLATE, FRUIT, LUMBER, NUTS, TROPICAL FRUITS

*Each volume or program can also be purchased separately

 
#13710/1733  2003  $519.95  Grades K to 4 *Streaming available 
    

SEW COOL! Be Unique! Be Creative!
Discover how sewing can be SEW cool! Create your own unique look and save some money by learning sewing basics that will give you the skills to make projects all your own. Sewing instructor Kimberly Oedekoven encourages viewers to "See it, like it, make it" while presenting sewing basics and two easy sewing projects in 8 short segments, including:
Sewing Tools and Essentials; Hand Sewing; Fabric Selection; Sewing Techniques and Rules; Sewing Machine Parts; Non-Pattern Project: T-Shirt Tote (Bonus: T-Shirt Bracelet) ; Pattern Project: Pajama Pants (Bonus: Fabric Store Tour).

Subtitled in English 
#13684/1290   43 minutes 2010  $59.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil
"A fascinating and important story. Crude does an extraordinary job of merging journalism and art." Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent

Winner of 19 international awards, CRUDE takes you inside a riveting, high stakes drama steeped in global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet - an inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

*See also BLOOD AND OIL: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependence on Foreign Petroleum 
#13674/0645   105 minutes 2009  $399.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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ALICE IN WASTELAND

Alice wonders where things go when they are thrown away. Her adventures in Wasteland reveal some horrifying secrets, as she comes to understand the impact of human activities on the natural environment, at a local and a global level.

This animated program provides an introduction to the problems associated with various kinds of pollution. Alice travels around the world, discovering the dangers of landfill sites, toxic waste dumps, deforestation, acid rain, and ozone destruction. The program also covers environmental issues - from the disappearance of wildlife, and the concept of the food chain, to such controversial problems as energy policy, biological engineering and Third World debt.
 
#13672/1120   12 minutes $99.95 *CC 
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INDIGENOUS RESTORATION
Documents the "Concert for Indigenous Restoration" - a performance event of traditional and modern music, dance and ceremonial performances - that spotlights North American Native elders and artists from Alaska to Mexico who share grave concern over for the planet. Performers speak about the issues and describe the significance of their performances in their native culture.
 
#13664/0493   55 minutes 1992/2010  $149.95 *Streaming available 
    

HOCKNEY ON PHOTOGRAPHY - DVD
The career of one of Britain's greatest painters tells us as much about his skill with a camera as his facility with a brush. In this program, David Hockney invites viewers on a journey of discovery that traces the evolution of his photographic work - from his initial experiments in the 1970s through the high point of his photo collage period, exemplified in Nude, featuring Theresa Russell, and another crowning achievement, Pearblossom Highway. The film was produced with unprecedented access not only to the artist himself but to his huge photographic archive, much of which has never been shown publicly. Hockney's use of photography in related media, such as drawing, painting, fax art, and photocopying, is also explored in detail.
 
#13656/0635   52 minutes 2009  $199.95 *CC 
    

ADVERTISING LAYOUT: Visual Direction DVD
Shows how to attract attention with the layout formats of Picture Window, Silhouette, Square Zero, Mondrian, Closure, Oversizing, Juxtaposition, Surrealism, and Shock. Discusses how graphic designers direct attention within an ad by using the layout techniques of "diagonal", "standard", "C", "Z", "overlapping", and "spatial progression." Concludes with a special section on the importance and use of headlines and sub-headlines.

*See also ADVERTISING LAYOUT: Space Allocations
 
#13635/0495   19 minutes 2011  $159.95 *Streaming available 
    

ADVERTISING LAYOUT: Space Allocations
Excellent for any course in advertising, creative or graphic design. Suggests the proper space allocation for the illustration, headline, copy and logo. Discusses whether to use a photograph or original art for the illustration. Covers headline issues such as overprinting, reverse type and typefaces. Shows examples of the optical center, symmetrical and asymmetrical balance and the Kodak "role of thirds." Covers the layout techniques of vertical half, horizontal half, corner half, white space, bleed, and borders. Concludes with a discussion and examples of "simplicity", "unity" and "harmony" in layout design.

*See also ADVERTISING LAYOUT: Visual Direction

 
#13634/0495   20 minutes 2011  $159.95  Grades 11 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

MAN FOR ALL CANADIANS (A)

This documentary examines the life of Ramon John Hnatyshyn, the 24th Governor General of Canada, through the eyes of his family and friends. His story is also the legacy of the Hnatyshyn family, of how they came to Canada, of how they succeeded.

Ray Hnatyshyn loved his family, he loved his country, he loved his work and he loved life. Ray Hnatyshyn was a decent, delightful, fair-minded person, proud of the Canada he so well served, who opened his heart welcoming people with his affable personality.

Special Interviews with: Gerda Hnatyshyn O.C Rt.Hon.Brian Mulroney; Rt.Hon.Joe Clark Peter Mansbridge CBC; Maria Haras Ernest Boychuk; Barry Strayer Hon.Roy Romanow; Hon.Michael Wilson John Hnatyshyn; David Hnatyshyn; John Nunziata; Olya Odynsky; and, Peter Hunter DC.

*Includes Ukranian version

 
#13618/0903   48 minutes 2007  $149.95 *Streaming available 
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EVERYBODY MOVE! A Multimedia Package for Daily Physical Activity

We all know that students are more sedentary than ever - their idea of moving might involve going from the couch to the refrigerator and back. Part of the reason students aren't active enough is that they don't see activity as fun. With this multimedia package, they'll have loads of fun being active. This resource is packed with teacher-tested ideas that will help you increase activity in limited space such as hallways, classrooms, and utility rooms (or in the expanse of the great outdoors) and get your students active with limited equipment. A reference for elementary and middle school physical education, music, dance, and adapted physical education teachers. Also a reference for parents, recreation leaders, and home-schooling families.

Includes the following features:
*A teacher guide featuring 54 fun fitness activities, 32 moving-to-music activities, 14 choreographed line dances, tips on training leaders, and 9 keys to implementing a daily physical activity program
*A CD with 80 minutes of music for use with fitness station activities, aerobics, and 3- to 10-minute dance routines
*A DVD-ROM with over 90 minutes of video showing 14 dance routines with selected moves and breakdowns of routines. In addition, the DVD-ROM offers more than 230 reproducible activity cards in PDF format, which you can print and use in your classroom. On the DVD-ROM, you'll also find demonstrations of over 100 funky moves that you can put to any music to create your own activity routine, breakdowns of dance moves, and complete dances that you can follow.

Research has proven that short activity breaks can improve academic performance - make a positive difference in the lives of your students.
 
#13604/0860   30 minutes 2010  $79.95  Grades K to 6 *CC 
    

HIP HOP HEALTH: Learning Through Physical Activity

Offering children sufficient physical activity time is a challenge for every educator. But with HIP-HOP HEALTH, you can provide your students with physical activity and health concepts in ways that are fun and engaging! This DVD can be easily incorporated into a health unit. It offers six five-minute health raps that will get your students moving in the classroom or the gym. The format allows you to use each segment of physical activity as a short activity break or all the segments together as a full 30-minute workout without the worry of instruction time or equipment. The incorporated health raps offer a fun, engaging way to teach children about bones, muscles, nutrition, the cardiovascular system, and flexibility.

Co-created by educators Chris Wells and Kurtis Johnson, the DVD also offers lesson plans, the lyrics to the raps, and instructions and tips to help educators make the most of Hip-Hop Health. These great resources are available in PDF format and can be printed and shared with other educators. Recent research indicates that physical activity not only benefits children's health but also improves their ability to concentrate and enhances learning. HIP-HOP HEALTH will help you get your students moving, having a great time, and learning lifelong health concepts with upbeat and contemporary rhythms and music.

CONTENTS: Basic Anatomy; Bone Dance; Pump It Up; Healthy Lifestyle ; Wild Safari; Mission Nutrition; Fitness
Cardio; Super Flex; Hip-Hop Health extras ; Wild Safari group activity; Mission Nutrition group activity; Lesson plans
Lyrics; Instructions and tips; Credits
 
#13603/0860   30 minutes 2010  $69.95  Grades K to 5 *CC 
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SHOPPING BEHIND THE SEAMS: Judging Quality in Clothes
Paying a high price for clothes does not guarantee quality. Viewers learn the ways to spot well-made clothes. This program shows what to look for in clothing, and how to test clothing before buying. Learn what four questions to ask before you buy, how to evaluate a garment's fabric and lining, and what high-quality seams, hems and pockets look like. Examine "vanity sizing" and how to buy the right size, what care labels can tell you about clothes they are on, and why frequent sales may mean rising prices, not bargains.
 
#13597/1120   20 minutes 2010  $129.95 *CC 
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READING BLUE JEANS: Clothing and Culture
Inscribed on every pair of jeans is the story of how a workmen's garment became one of the most universal fashions of the world. This program speaks about the interaction of culture and clothing and offers clues to who we are today because of it. Who invented jeans, and why blue? How did jeans help invent teenagers? What did people wear before jeans were around? This biography of the blue jean is the story of changing attitudes toward work, fashion, leisure and gender.

 
#13596/1120   24 minutes 2009  $125.95 *CC 
    

YOU'RE HIRED! Job-Winning Interview Strategies
There's nothing like preparation to calm the pre-interview jitters! After watching this video, young adults will know how to define personal employment goals; research a company of interest; do mock interviews, for practice; dress for success; make a good first impression; communicate strengths, skills, accomplishments, and more; ask and answer a wide variety of pertinent questions; and follow up strategically via phone, mail, or e-mail. The core message? Preparation pays off!

*Viewable/printable discussion questions are available online. 
#13581/0635   26 minutes 2010  $119.95 
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HOUSE OF CARDS: America's Mortgage Meltdown DVD
What better way to understand a financial disaster than to meet the kind of people who created it? This CNBC Original documentary investigates the origins of the global economic crisis through eyewitness accounts from mortgage brokers, investment bankers, naive home buyers, and equally naive investors - as well as former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who encouraged shifts away from traditional lending during the early and mid-2000s. Viewers encounter ex-CEOs of companies that targeted subprime borrowers, credit rating officials who enthusiastically widened the definition of the AAA rating, and a hedge fund manager who profited from the housing crash by investing in credit protection.
 
#13578/0635   90 minutes 2009  $199.95 
    

PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MODELING SERIES ( 3 Programs) DVD
The best way to become a professional model is to learn from professionals. This series provides answers, information and advice from top modeling agents for aspiring models, showing what agencies look for in a model, the proper way models pose during camera shoots and how models present themselves on and off camera.

The series consists of three 30-minute programs:

HOW TO BECOME A MODEL
Each year over 100,000 young men and women try to break into modeling. This introductory program gives aspiring models an insider's view of the world of modeling, covering all the basics, including how to get started, what modeling agencies look for and how to develop your career.

ON THE SET: Preparing for Pictures
The best way to become a successful model is to learn by doing, through actual and simulated shots, both in a studio and on various locations. In this program experts cover the importance of understanding photography; also they show the step-by-step application of a basic makeup.

DESIGNING YOUR PORTFOLIO
You can only make one first impression, so a good first presentation in essential in modeling. In this final part of the series aspiring models learn the art of presenting themselves and the pictures in their portfolios in the most effective and professional way possible; also experts cover printing, composites, and the importance of a good diet and exercise.

*Special prices are available for Public Libraries and Single Schools
 
#13576/0450  2008  $499.95 *Streaming available 
    

MAKEUP GUIDE (THE)
Properly applying makeup can make a world of difference in how a woman looks, and how she feels about herself. The trick, of course, is to know what techniques to follow. That is the purpose of this how-to program, as professional makeup artist Theresa Danaher covers all aspects of make-up in easy, simple-to-follow steps. Professional makeovers we see can be done individually, which is certain to help all viewers put a smile on.

*Special Price for Public Libraries and Individual Schools
 
#13575/0450   52 minutes 2008  $209.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

COSMETIC SURGERY: Younger, Thinner, Smoother
"Highly Recommended! Veteran documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Sher deftly skewers American's obsession with cosmetic surgery. Her ability to poke fun at society at her own expense is, well, eye-opening. Highly recommended and sure to be popular."
Video Librarian

Liposuction, Tummy Tucks, Breast Surgery, Breast Implants, Breast Lifts, Breast Reductions, Facial Surgery, Eyelid Surgery, Face Lifts, Lip Implants, Rhinoplasty. According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, there are over eight million surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures performed yearly in the United States alone. As more and more people feel motivated, entitled and even required to disguise their age, those who age naturally are becoming the exception rather than the norm. Producer Elizabeth Sher's search for answers in this program leads viewers through a history of the Baby Boomers and the parallel growth of cosmetic surgery. She interviews candid men and women who have been "nipped and tucked" as well as their doctors to find out positives, negatives and whys. At times, she finds herself checking the mirror and examining her own wrinkles and vanity. And the underlying questions remains: Can the promise of a younger look "fix" society's prejudice against old age?

*Special Price for Public Libraries and Individual Schools
 
#13574/0450   52 minutes 2009  $209.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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HEARTFIELD: Father of the Photomontage
Born Helmut Herzfeld in 1891, John Heartfield adopted his English name to protest the rise of German nationalism during the First World War - one of many symbolic gestures that defined the artist's uncompromising career. This biographical program begins in Heartfield's native Berlin and progresses through his painful childhood, his involvement in the Dadaist movement, his friendships with Bertolt Brecht and George Grosz, and his active stance against Hitler's Nazi regime through his provocative photomontages. His exile and internment in Britain and his return to East Germany in 1951 are also covered. Archival materials, interviews, and speeches featuring a vehement Heartfield are combined with numerous examples of his work.

*Portions in German with English subtitles
 
#13573/0635   51 minutes 2009  $199.95 
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FOOD SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS
Experience kitchen chemistry and the wonders of food science! Host Susan Turgeson and students demonstrate six fun and easy food science experiments and explain the science behind them. Also includes an interview with a food science professor and tour of a sensory evaluation lab.

Experiments include:
Hand Washing and Food Safety
Sensory Evaluation
Biochemistry of Milk: Mozzarella Cheese
Scientific Method: What Makes Popcorn Pop?
Emulsions: Mayonnaise
Fermentation: Root Beer

*Teaching materials are included
*Closed Captioned
 
#13544/1290   50 minutes 2010  $89.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

HEALTH SCIENCE CAREERS
Do you consider yourself a team player? A career in health science may be just for you! Quality patient care relies on health care teams whose members communicate and collaborate well with others. In this video, explore a variety of health science career options, with varying levels of education required, including: Pharmacy Technician, Home Health Aid, Pediatrician, Medical Administrative Support, Radiographer, Physical Therapist & Physical Therapy Assistant, and, Certified Nursing Assistant.

*Teaching materials are included
*Closed Captioned

 
#13543/1290   20 minutes 2010  $89.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

RESEARCH DESIGN: The Survey
Featuring William McAlister, this program teaches how to design surveys for research, defines surveys and offers step-by-step explanations of the survey process, including designing a survey, creating the questionnaire, conducting a survey, and assessing the results. Gives a case example.
 
#13522/0880   25 minutes 2008  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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RESEARCH DESIGN: The Experiment DVD
This program defines experiments, explains how they are used, and outlines the steps of designing an experiment. Also addresses ethics and the use of quasi-experiments, features commentary by Health and Public Policy Professor Beth C. Weitzman of NYU Wagner Graduate School, and includes a case example of an experiment.
 
#13521/0880   27 minutes 2008  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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ON YOUR OWN: Independent Living Skills (6 Programs)

Help young adults jump out of the family nest with this practical six-part series! Quick and to the point, each video focuses on a key area of independent living. Whether it's finding the right apartment, managing cash and credit, stocking the pantry, making meals, doing housekeeping, or building a wardrobe that sends the appropriate message in every situation, "On Your Own" will leave viewers feeling more confident about making important life decisions as they prepare to take responsibility for their futures.

There are six 20-minute programs in the series:

FINDING AN APARTMENT
What are the expenses of living in an apartment? What obligations come with signing on the dotted line? Is it good to have roommates? This video explains to first-time renters how to locate, lease, and set up an apartment while avoiding common problems. They'll learn about dealing with rental agents, evaluating a unit's condition, reading leases, getting renters' insurance, having the utilities turned on, and handling the roommate option. Information on moving and finding furniture on a budget is also included.

MANAGING YOUR MONEY
Money management is the key to independent living. This video puts money under a microscope as it looks at budgeting it, spending it wisely, and protecting it (and, by extension, that all-important credit rating). Specifics include opening a checking account, writing checks, making deposits, and balancing a checkbook; using ATM and debit cards; applying for a loan; and deciding whether to opt for a credit card - and if so, how to use it responsibly. A smart investment!

PRACTICAL, HEALTHY COOKING
Moving away from home means moving away from home-cooking, too - a fact that, surprisingly, escapes many young adults new to life on their own. After watching this video, viewers will see how easy it can be to read a recipe, measure out ingredients, prepare all sorts of meats and vegetables, package up and store leftovers, and clean up the kitchen so everything is sanitary and neat. Kitchen safety is stressed. Practice makes perfect!

SHOPPING SMART
There's no question about it: the grocery-shopping experience can be overwhelming! This video will guide viewers smoothly through the process of planning balanced meals, making a shopping list, clipping coupons, and setting (and sticking to!) a budget. Helpful tips on stretching a dollar and sidestepping supermarket gimmicks are included, and food safety is emphasized. Essential viewing for first-time shoppers!

HOUSEKEEPING HOW-TOS
From a dust mop and other necessary equipment, to cleaning supplies, to making (and following!) a what-and-when cleaning schedule, this video provides a step-by-step look at housekeeping. How to do laundry is also included, as well as a segment on how to clean a computer. Even viewers who have seldom straightened a room will learn how to maintain an entire apartment a mother would be proud to visit!

BUILDING THE RIGHT WARDROBE
Every outfit sends a message. This video shows how to send the right one at the appropriate time - without breaking the budget. Topics include the functional and social characteristics of clothes; the concepts of style and fashion; planning a wardrobe that accommodates work, school, and leisure; and shopping for value and price. Indispensable!

*Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act.
 
#13520/0405  2010  $649.95 
    

PEGGY FLORES ARTS & CRAFTS SERIES (16 Programs) DVD
This 16 part series of 23 minute videos encompass a wide range of classroom activities which utilize materials on hand, such as paper, paint, crayons, and found objects while exploring cultural art, sculpture, and other subjects. The projects are suitable for students of all ages.

Presenter Peggy Flores taught art for16 years and has been a presenter at numerous art education conferences. She encouraged her students to learn new processes, to experiment, and to maintain a high level of craftsmanship. The projects presented here were all used in her own classroom.

The titles available in this series include:
Wire Sculpture (for description see #13479)
Junk Sculpture (see #13477)
Creating Fiber Weavings and Baskets (see #13476)
Making Books
Creating with Crayons
Optical Illusions: How to Create Them
Self-Portraits
Creating Cultural Art
Exploring Color: Creating Color Wheels and Color Schemes
Gargoyles: How to Create Them
Tissue Paper Creations (see #13478)
Printmaking: Basic Techniques
Papier-Mache Sculpture
Aboriginal Art: How to Create It
Sculpting with Paper
Paper Mosaics
 
#13515/0470  $459.95 
    

RUTH DUCKWORTH: A Life in Clay DVD
Duckworth's simplistic philosophy, "Work comes from play," belies the complexity of her vision, from her sculpture to her extraordinary mural work. One of America's leading ceramists, Duckworth's work graces museums and private collections around the world.


 
#13513/0470   30 minutes 2007  $59.95 
    

FISH OUT OF WATER III (13 Programs)

FISH OUT OF WATER is APTN's hit documentary series featuring host Don Kelly, as he journeys back to traditional native lands to discover the origins of his heritage. Through a series of misadventures, Don is pushed to his limits and re-connects with his roots and spiritual values. Don is our "Fish Out of Water". As a young, modern, First Nations Ojibway professional during the day, Don works as a successful executive for a national organization. By night he is a stand up comedian. Yet this super suave comedic genius must go back to the land to face his greatest challenges - by learning from his Elders.

There are thirteen 24-minute programs:

1. BATOCHE (Saskatchewan)
Don heads to the Batoche National Historic Site, the actual battle site of the valiant last stand of the Metis in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. It is here that Don must reenact the life of a Metis soldier. Don cooks some lead bullets over an open fire, learns how to prepare and load a muzzle loader and takes part in some language classes in Michif to reflect the language used by the Metis at that time. But when it comes to Don mounting a horse again, fear becomes an enormous hurdle for both horse and rider to overcome.
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2. FORT EDMONTON (Alberta)
Don heads back in time to discover the backbreaking work of those involved in the fur trade at Fort Edmonton. Not only does Don take part in the prep and launch of a traditional York Boat but he also finds out why the men of that time often died in their early 40's.

3. GREAT RIVER JOURNEYS (Yukon)
Don must travel by plane, by car and then by boat down the mighty Yukon River to meet with the traditional inhabitants - the Ta'an Kwach'an of Lake Laberge. In addition to discovering how the soapberry was made into a traditional treat, and how the community is helping to bring back their language, Don must compete in a dance off performing the traditional mating grouse dance.

4. HAIDA GWAII (British Columbia)
Don journeys to the home of the Haida Gwaii also known as the beautiful and mysterious Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia. At the Haida Heritage Center, Don is introduced to some of the skills that gave the Haida the reputation of being fierce warriors. Can Don get his inner ferocity going on so he can confront his competitors and avoid tossing himself into the frigid ocean waters?

5. BEAR RIVER FIRST NATION (Nova Scotia)
Don heads out east to live the life of a traditional Mi'kmaq of the Bear River First Nation. Near the beautiful Bay of Fundy, Don goes fishing for lobsters and smashes together a meal of acorns and moose leg bone. But it is the more delicate work of making wood flowers and digging for clams that has Don struggling during this final challenge.

6. RED BANK FIRST NATION (New Brunswick)
Don tries his hand at an ancient method of fishing using a torch light along the Mirimichi River in New Brunswick. Don also soon discovers how difficult yet rewarding fishing for eel can be.

7. OCONALUFTEE INDIAN VILLAGE (North Carolina)
Don visits with the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina at the Oconaluftee Indian Village. Don discovers how to use the Cherokee's unique weapon of choice - the blowgun and must learn his place in an intense war council.

8. SEMINOLE TRIBE (Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Florida)
Don ventures in to the Florida Everglades in the heart of the Seminole territory to walk in the footsteps of Billy Walker Sr., a Seminole alligator wrestler.

9. HAWAIIAN VILLAGE (Hawaii)
Don meets with members of a historic Hawaiian Village at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Oahu where he harvests and creates a traditional meal of poi, learns to play a nose flute and is challenged to learn the ancient skills of the outrigger canoe and surfing.

10. SAMOAN VILLAGE (Polynesian Cultural Center, Oahu, Hawaii)
Don learns how important the coconut was to the Samoan people after attempting to climb a coconut tree to retrieve and husk coconuts. After literally dancing with fire in a fire-knife dance, Don is challenged to make a traditional fire using only traditional materials.

11. UMATILLA BAND OF CONFEDERATED INDIANS (Oregon)
Don learns how to make a traditional meal of moss in an underground oven with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon. After quickly learning some of the traditional dances from the community youth, Don is challenged to dance against some of the nations best slick style dancers.

12. MISSISSIPPI BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS (Mississippi)
Don makes a traditional meal of hominy and banaha, two staples of the Choctaw diet with women from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. And after learning what skills are need to play in a game of traditional stick ball, Don is challenged to a mini version of the game with some of the local youth.

13. GREAT LAKES CULTURAL CAMPS (Manitoulin Island, Ontario)
Don heads to beautiful Manitoulin Island with the host of the Great Lakes Cultural Camps to discover how difficult it was just to get water without our modern conveniences. After local firefighters demonstrate a water rescue with Don as the victim, Don is challenged to a game of snowsnakes with some community youth.

*Programs are also available individually at $149.95 each or any 5 for $99.95 each

*See also FISH OUT OF WATER I and II
 
#13510/0973  2010  $995.95 *Streaming available 
    

WHO IS THE ARTIST? Dufy, Gauguin and Matisse
In this program 24 masterworks of three painters of line and color are shown plus many details of each and they include Henri Matisse's "Woman with the Hat (Femme au chapeau)", Raoul Dufy's "Racecourse and Grandstand at Goodwood", and Paul Gauguin's "Tahitian Women (On the Beach)". After viewers are introduced to each of the artists' works, they are shown other works by the same artists and asked to identify "Who is the Artist?" Throughout the program, viewers are also asked to interact with the images as they are presented.

*This program is part of the innovative series WHO IS THE ARTIST? that introduces viewers to the lives and work of important artists. They learn to recognize artists by their styles and techniques as well as the subjects that dominate their work. There are six programs in the series:
Who is the Artist? Artists of Line and Color
Who is the Artist? Artists of Pop Art
Who is the Artist? Fantasy Art
Who is the Artist? Impressionism
Who is the Artist? Painters of the American Scene
Who is the Artist? Post-Impressionism

 
#13509/0470   25 minutes 2004  $79.95  Grades 8 to Adult 
    

WHO IS THE ARTIST? Lichtenstein, Thiebaud and Warhol
In this program 24 masterworks of the three prominent Pop artists are shown plus many details of each. They include Roy Lichtenstein's "Reverie", Wayne Thiebaud's "Pies", and Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato)". After viewers are introduced to each of the artists' works, they are shown other works by the same artists and asked to identify "Who is the Artist?" Throughout the program, viewers are also asked to interact with the images as they are presented.

*This program is part of the innovative series WHO IS THE ARTIST? that introduces viewers to the lives and work of important artists. They learn to recognize artists by their styles and techniques as well as the subjects that dominate their work. There are six programs in the series:
Who is the Artist? Artists of Line and Color
Who is the Artist? Artists of Pop Art
Who is the Artist? Fantasy Art
Who is the Artist? Impressionism
Who is the Artist? Painters of the American Scene
Who is the Artist? Post-Impressionism
 
#13508/0470   25 minutes 2004  $79.95  Grades 8 to Adult 
    

LAURENCE GARTEL: Digital Media Artist DVD
"The video will hold the interest of students, who will find it to be inspirational and over too soon. This reviewer, captivated by the gorgeous color and mesmerizing action, found herself wishing the movie were longer." P. G., Arts and Activities

A documentary on one of the most innovative artists of the 21st century. For over 30 years Gartel has been exploring the artistic potential of computers. His cutting-edge works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution. His works for pop culture icons such as Versace, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake are legendary.
 
#13506/0470   14 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 8 to Adult 
    

MOHAWK WISDOM KEEPERS
It is hard not to believe in the simple yet profound wisdom of the Elders. Their message that our planet is our relative, our Mother, rings true in the heart, if only we could hear it. Their words of clarity should be enough to plant the seeds of behavior change such that the rift in western civilization between human and nature could begin to heal.
"These two films - MOHAWK WISDOM KEEPERS and IROQUOIS SPEAK OUT FOR MOTHER EARTH - are a priceless record of the teachings of ancient wisdom in relation to contemporary times, and will be as useful to future generations as they are to us today." Eric Noyes, American Indian Institute. Bozeman, Montana

This compelling documentary depicts the traditional teachings and beliefs of five noted Mohawk Elders regarding spiritual tradition and the need to respect the earth. Harriet Jock of Akwesasne, Judy Swamp of Akwesasne, and Tom Porter formerly of Akwesasne are depicted in this film. The women and men speak of medicines, the great law of peace and keeping our world sacred for the future seven generations that will come.
 
#13502/0493   49 minutes 2010  $149.95 *Streaming available 
    

STUDY SKILLS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS (Powerpoint)
This entertaining presentation teaches study skills for college students. Covers such topics as assembling materials and the study environment; teaches how to create a study schedule; offers tips for improving studying and reading skills; introduces the SQ3R reading method; explores a variety of note-taking issues; and teaches how to employ such note-taking techniques as the Cornell Method, the sentence method, the outlining method, and the mapping method.

 
#13495/0880  2009  $199.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE - DVD
This program examines cultural issues in nonverbal communication. Differentiates between conscious and unconscious gestures; considers facial expressions; discusses cultural differences in voice, para-language, and the use of silence; and explores space and body distance. Features expert commentary, student discussions, and illustrative vignettes.

 
#13494/0880   20 minutes 2005  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

SCAM OF THE CENTURY? Bernie Madoff and the $50 Billion Heist DVD
How did fraudulent investment manager Bernard Madoff get away with such an enormous scam for so many years? This CNBC Original program examines the bizarre details of Madoff's operation while exploring his motives and mind-set. Interviews feature expert guests and key players affected by the scandal, including publisher and investor Mort Zuckerman; Forbes editor Robert Lenzner; financial journalist Michael Ocrant, who confronted Madoff in 2001; and investor advocate Jacob Zamansky. Ordinary investors drawn into the Madoff scheme also share their stories. For insight into Madoff's criminal mind, the program offers profiles of fraud pioneer Charles Ponzi and student-turned-con artist Hakan Yalincak.

*See also THE MADOFF AFFAIR #12814 - FRONTLINE producers Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria unravel the story behind the world's first truly global Ponzi scheme - a deception that lasted longer, reached wider, and cut deeper than any other business scandal in history.
 
#13483/0405   44 minutes 2009  $189.95  Grades 10 to Adult 
    

FORENSIC FIELD TECHNIQUES FOR HUMAN REMAINS
This program provides a comprehensive introduction to the application of forensic science to crime scenes where human remains have been found. Promoting a team approach to crime scene analysis, Scott Fairgrieve, Tracy Oost, and Gerard Courtin, faculty members of the Department of Forensic Science at Laurentian University, cover the following topics: the decomposition timeline, identifying human remains, identifying burial sites, locating remains via grid-based searching, establishing the crime scene, forensic botany, forensic entomology, forensic anthropology, and special considerations for dealing with remains that have been exposed to water or fire. An excellent tool for training police officers, coroners, medical examiners, firefighters, forensic scientists, and students. Viewer discretion is advised.
 
#13482/0405   94 minutes 2009  $199.95 
    

CAREERS IN ART
This program introduces students to a variety of professionals who have chosen to work in the arts and related fields as their career. The program covers twelve careers that include Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Photography, Art Education, Interior Design, Fashion Design, Fine Arts and Crafts, and many more. Real world professionals tell about their careers, the education needed to enter and excel in their fields, and other advice and insights that will benefit students as they begin to think about their future careers.

*See also the CAREERS IN ART Posters

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#13481/0470   29 minutes 2009  $89.95 
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ART TALK: Conversations with Working Artists
"...is especially recommended viewing for public school art education classes and a gem for public library collections. Individual artists are also sure to enjoy and perhaps even draw insights from the wisdom of their contemporaries!" J. Cox, Midwest Book Review

Contemporary artists working with diverse media share their thoughts on the creative process and what it means to be an artist. Featuring sculptors Mark Cesark, James Surls, and Nancy Lovendahl, Alleghany Meadows, painters Carrie Kaplan and Tania Dibbs, glass artists Jacqueline Spiro and Lee Lyon, and totem carver John Doyle. Nine segments, approximately eight minutes each.
 
#13480/0470   78 minutes 2009  $79.95 
    

DROPPING IN ON ANDY WARHOL
This program is part of the DROPPING IN ON ARTISTS Series. Students of all ages will be introduced to the artists' styles and learn about their lives in these amusing and informative programs. Playful animation shows the life of the artist, and gives insight into the creative inspiration for their masterworks.

In this program, pop artist Andy Warhol shows Puffer his famous artworks and explains how he used different media to create them. Puffer is invited to visit Warhol at the "Factory", his studio, where he shows Puffer some of his artworks and explains how he used different media to create them.

"Dropping In on Andy Warhol reflects the first-rate quality present in all of the books and videos in this terrific series. Every elementary art class can benefit from this text and dvd." School Arts Magazine

"The author successfully takes the topic of pop art to an elementary level, in a way that is both entertaining and educational."Toy Directory

The other programs in the series are: dropping in on Impressionists; Dropping in on Grandma Moses; Dropping in on Romare Bearden; Dropping in on Impressionists; Dropping in on Grant Wood; Dropping in on Picasso; Dropping in on Matisse; and, Dropping in on Rousseau.
 
#13475/0470   19 minutes 2010  $59.95 
    

DROPPING IN ON IMPRESSIONISTS - DVD
Join Puffer on a delightful new jaunt into 19th century France, the birthplace of Impressionism. Meet Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro and learn how they came to create an entirely new kind of art. Animated biographical sequences are combined with details and full-screen images of masterworks including The Dance Class, The Races at Longchamp, Luncheon of the Boating Party, The Japanese Footbridge, and more. The dialog helps viewers of all ages learn how to make their own interpretations of the works of art. The video is accompanied by a guide with discussion questions and related art activities.

 
#13474/0470   18 minutes 2009  $79.95 
    

MEDIA LITERACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY CLASSROOM
The more digital technology becomes inseparable from our daily lives, the more chances corporate and political media have to manipulate young people - unless students are taught how to dissect and defend against that manipulation. This program helps educators instill media literacy through an exploration of its basic concepts as well as examples drawn from film and television. Defining media literacy in terms of access, analysis, evaluation, and creation, the video examines race and gender issues, embedded social cues, the prevalence of media bias, and concrete methods for questioning the objectives and studying the techniques of media. Well-known TV commercials are used as case studies.
 
#13472/0635   40 minutes 2009  $189.95 
    

WORLD FOOD MARKETS: CHINA
In densely populated Chinese cities, modern life contrasts with timeless traditions. A high value is placed on hard work, family ties, ancient philosophies, good luck, and very fresh food. Chinese market vendors handle food with care. Seafood and chickens are alive. Shoppers seek perfect produce. Freshness is so important that some Chinese housewives shop twice daily for meals that are appreciated not only for fine flavors but also for their health-promoting properties.

Join cookbook author and world traveler Paulette Mitchell in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Zhujiajiao, an ancient water town. See food markets that hum with activity both day and night. The Chinese come not only to shop but also to socialize and to savor noodles, dumplings, and many local specialties. The aromas and flavors are amazing. Includes segments with locals speaking Cantonese and optional English subtitles.

*Teaching materials included
*Closed Captioned

*See also ACTIVITY PACKET 13471-W sold separately.
Creative and fun activities and worksheets to supplement the World Food Markets: China video. Includes Chinese food vocabulary list, crossword puzzle, writing assignments, classroom activities and more.
 
#13471/1290   25 minutes 2009  $69.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR KIDS: LIVING THINGS (13 Programs) DVD
Celebrate the creativity of children through crafts! The focus of this series is "living things." We learn about animals and plants that share our environment while creating great projects, which have been divided into the same classifications used by scientists. With animals we look to see whether or not they have a backbone; then we look at other characteristics like what they eat, where they live, and their body temperature. The groups we study are amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles. For invertebrates we divide them into insects, arachnids, crustaceans and mollusks. For plants we talk about the way we see and use plants in everyday life. Every project has five steps and five main ingredients; plus you'll want to keep basic supplies like scissors, markers, toothpicks and rulers on hand. There are thirteen, closed captioned 30-minute programs in the series.

1. ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: BIRDS
2. ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: AMPHIBIANS
3. ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: FISH
4. ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: MAMMALS
5. ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: MAMMALS - HERBIVORES
6. ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: MAMMALS - CARNIVORES
7. ANIMALS - VERTEBRATES: REPTILES
8. ANIMALS - INVERTEBRATES: ARTHROPODS - INSECTS
9. ANIMALS - INVERTEBRATES: ARTHROPODS - ARACHNIDS
10. ANIMALS - INVERTEBRATES: CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSKS
11. PLANTS - TRUE PLANTS: FLOWERS
12. PLANTS - TRUE PLANTS: FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
13. PLANTS - TRUE PLANTS: TREES AND BUSHES

*Detailed descriptions of each program in this series are available.
*Ask about our other HANDS ON CRAFTS FOR KIDS Series!!!

Hands On Crafts for Kids 1: Crafts for Kids
Hands On Crafts for Kids 2: Around the World
Hands On Crafts for Kids 3: Craft Together
Hands On Crafts for Kids 4: Around the Earth (cc)
Hands On Crafts for Kids 5: Camp Hands On (cc)
Hands On Crafts for Kids 6: Back in Time (cc)
Hands On Crafts for Kids 7: Crafting in the USA (cc)
Hands On Crafts for Kids 8: 54321! (cc)
Hands On Crafts for Kids 9: Cultural Traditions of the Islands (cc)
Hands On Crafts for Kids 10: Back to Basics (cc)
Hands On Crafts for Kids 11: Skills for Life (cc)
Hands On Crafts for Kids 12: Living Things (cc)


 
#13470/0450  2009  $1,895.00 *CC *Streaming available 
    

SAVVY CONSUMER SERIES (3 Programs)
With this new series teach your students credit basics, wise credit card use, and how as consumers - they have rights!

UNDERSTANDING CREDIT BASICS: Know the Score
What is credit? Does a credit score really matter? Is it OK to have no credit? Answer these questions and others with this introduction to credit basics. Learn what credit is, how it is used, and what types of credit are available - including school loans, car loans and mortgages. Your credit history is important. Understand how credit is measured and what your credit score means. Learn ways to establish and maintain good credit, as well as tips to overcome bad credit. 23 minutes

USING CREDIT CARDS WISELY: Take Charge
With one swipe of a credit card you can purchase just about anything - even if you can't really afford it! Avoid the traps of fine print and credit jargon by learning the fundamentals of using credit cards. Understand how credit cards actually work, the different types of cards available, and how to use them to your advantage. See how to select the card that's right for you, how to read your monthly statement, and ways to protect yourself as you conquer the world of credit cards. 25 minutes

KNOW YOUR CONSUMER RIGHTS (AND RESPONSIBILITIES)
Is the customer always right? Maybe not - but as a consumer you do have certain rights. Smart consumers are aware of these rights and understand the responsibilities associated with each. Explore the eight widely recognized consumer rights - from the right to safety, to the right to education, to the right to redress. Learn how federal and state laws protect these rights and how different agencies create and enforce these and other regulations.
29 minutes

*Includes Guides for each program
*Closed Captioned
 
#13450/1120  2010  $299.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC 
    

PLUNDER: The Crime of Our Time

Exposing the forces responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, massive foreclosures and the disappearance of retirement funds, PLUNDER investigates the unregulated fraud and theft that led to the market's collapse in fall 2008. Filmmaker Danny Schechter, Emmy Award-winning former ABC News and CNN producer, explores the epidemic of subprime mortgages, predatory lending, insurance scams, and high-risk hedge funds that caused the collapse of the housing market and a full-scale economic meltdown.

Schechter speaks to a range of analysts and insiders about the origins of the crisis: bankers, respected economists, insider experts, convicted white-collar criminal Sam Antar, and top journalists, including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. In engaging and enraging detail, the film moves from the mysterious collapse of Bear Stearns, an 85-year-old investment film that disappeared in a week, to the shadowy world of trillion-dollar hedge funds, delving into the complicity of major media outlets that failed to sound the alarm or investigate what was going on. In the end, PLUNDER lays bare the truth behind events that have affected billions of people. A must for economics, business, and sociology courses, as well as anyone who wants to understand the current financial situation.

*English Subtitles
 
#13431/0685   59 minutes 2010  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

BETWEEN THE FOLDS - DVD
Chronicles the stories of 10 fine artists and intrepid scientists who abandoned careers to forge unconventional lives as modern day paperfolders. The film paints an arresting portrait of the remarkable artistic and scientific creativity that fuels this ever-changing art form, fusing science and sculpture, form and function, ancient and new.

 
#13428/1725   56 minutes 2009  $99.95 *CC 
    

SECRETS: Landing and Keeping a Job
What are transferable skills and why do we need them? They are skills acquired throughout your life that can be used at any job. Filmed in a sitcom format, like "The Office". Explains important job transferable skills including communication skills, problem-solving skills, and teamwork in this entertaining and informative production.

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned 
#13397/1290   24 minutes 2010  $59.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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INTRODUCING HOSPITALITY
The hospitality industry globally is vast and offers never ending career opportunities. Develop a basic understanding of the hospitality industry and the variety of departments which interrelate to make a business successful. Meet people in the job and those who are training the ever increasing number of people who are seeking careers in this diverse industry. Is the hospitality industry for you? Find out more about job seeking, occupations and career paths that you could follow.
 
#13375/0545   24 minutes 2009  $129.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE: Sport and the Media DVD
Sport and the media - is sport over-represented, or appropriately represented in the media? Does media heavy coverage of professional sport have a positive or negative influence on physical fitness/activity levels for the general population? What are the negative aspects of media and sport? Couch potatoes spending all their time watching millionaires with egos the size of their McMansions? How about the coverage of violence in male sports and the fact that female athletes are largely ignored? Billions are spent on professional sports through the media yet support for amateur sport is largely non-existent both financially and publicity-wise.
 
#13359/0545   21 minutes 2008  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

KILLING US SOFTLY IV: Advertising's Image of Women

In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering KILLING US SOFTLY series, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes -- images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis up to date, "Killing Us Softly 4" stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.

*Includes viewable/printable Guide
*Includes Spanish Subtitles

*A special price is available for Schools, School Boards and all Non-Profit organizations (does not apply to Colleges and Universities).

 
#13338/0685   45 minutes 2010  $349.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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GREENOVATING: Home Renovations for a Sustainable World (4 Programs)
Spotlighting the best practices, technologies, and materials available to residential remodelers and builders, this series shows how existing homes can be transformed to improve energy efficiency, eco-friendliness, livability, and sustainability while enhancing the health and well-being of their occupants. Remodeler and builder Robert Post accompanies leading designers, builders, landscape architects, and other practicing green professionals to working jobsites where they discuss and illustrate the practical application of green principles to every aspect of remodeling and renovation.

HOME PERFORMANCE: The First Step to Green is to first assess the current performance of the house and all its systems. This video takes viewers through a home performance audit and shows how insights into the thermal envelope, energy footprint, and structural soundness can guide the remodeler and homeowner through the first steps toward creating a greener home. An overview of high-efficiency HVAC and geothermal technologies and the role they play in a house's energy efficiency is also explored.

GREEN POWER, CLEAN CHOICES - whether it's through the use of passive or active solar technologies, wind, or other renewable power sources, today's remodelers need to understand the basics of green power so they can guide their clients toward smarter choices and then integrate these technologies into a home in the most intelligent way - provides a fundamental understanding of how these technologies work and takes viewers to residential installation sites to see these systems in real-world applications.

SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPING: Growing a Greener Home - viewers will learn how a green approach to landscaping can reduce the amount of energy needed to heat and cool a house. The role of landscaping as a system, the connection between the outdoor habitat and the home as a living space, the proper management of rainwater and runoff, the value of native plants, and the benefits of green roofs are also explored. Visits to residential project sites with the landscape architects and designers who created them are included as well, offering insights into the principles and design philosophies that have shaped their work.

THINKING GREEN, BUILDING SMART - The fundamental difference between a green approach to building and remodeling and a conventional approach is the thinking that guides the project. This video explores the thought process at the core of green architectural design and construction as it takes viewers behind the scenes of an architectural firm specializing in sustainable design, a remodeler who has built a green construction business, a supplier of eco-friendly building materials, and a homeowner who has remodeled his house from the ground up using green materials, technologies, and practices.

*Viewable/printable discussion questions are available online. A Shopware Production
 
#13325/0635  2010  $449.95 
    

COMMUNICATION ESSENTIALS (4 Programs)
Talent, ambition, and great ideas won't amount to much if they're not supported by good communication. This four-part series helps high school and college students improve their communication skills in four critical areas: listening, speaking, writing, and reading. Viewers are challenged to improve their habits and aim for several concrete goals - such as the ability to actively participate in discussions and meetings, to craft effective messages in speech or text, to process and understand workplace communication, and more.

There are four 20-minute programs in the series:

LISTENING ESSENTIALS
Highlighting the idea that a major part of good communication is good listening, this program enables students to improve their listening skills and absorb valuable information. The video identifies the best methods for giving coworkers the attention they deserve and provides eight simple tips that viewers can use to sharpen concentration. These include learning to focus, taking proper notes, putting emotions on hold, avoiding biases and stereotypes, finding a point of interest in a dull but important conversation, and more.
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SPEAKING ESSENTIALS
Does giving a typical business presentation put a person in mortal danger? Of course not, but statistics suggest that many people dread public speaking more than they fear death. This program shows students ways to overcome that kind of paralysis and transform it into positive energy. These include thorough preparation (from learning the wants and needs of the audience to scoping out the location at which the speech will take place) as well as starting with a strong opener, finding the right pace, using nonverbal communication, and more.
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WRITING ESSENTIALS
Students who've had a hard time with term papers and essay questions may be shocked to learn how much their postgraduation world revolves around writing. This program shows how effective written communication is possible for anyone, even those who struggle to complete a simple fax or e-mail. Methods for improvement include gauging the needs of the reader, keeping prose short and simple, emphasizing benefits, avoiding jargon and overblown language, employing a confident yet respectful tone, and more.
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READING ESSENTIALS
A torrent of e-mails, faxes, memos, reports, contracts, and newsletters threatens to drown the typical new hire in a sea of paper and text. With simple methods for tackling an immense volume of content, this program helps students manage workplace reading tasks quickly and efficiently without overlooking important information. Featured tips show viewers how to stay focused, prioritize reading matter, and create a comfortable reading environment - while making the best use of tables of contents, indexes, sub-headings, and more.
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*Viewable/printable discussion questions are available online 
#13320/0635  2010  $439.95 
    

RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET
Studying and doing research today pretty much entails hitting Google or one of the other search engines and seeing what pops up. Unlike approved, vetted, published textbooks of the past which could usually be expected to contain factual information the web has many, many fanciful entries that can appear in any search. Students and researchers can learn from this video about some of the pitfalls they may encounter and danger signs to look for.
 
#13318/0545   30 minutes 2008  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

KITCHEN FUNDAMENTALS: Basic Techniques Used in Food Preparation
"Even if students know the basics for cooking, they will learn a lot from this program, especially if it is used in two separate lessons." Anita Lawson, Otsego High School

What is the difference between mincing and dicing? How do you whip an ingredient? Chef Dave Christopherson demonstrates a variety of food preparation techniques. The first segment covers the fundamentals of preparation, including hand washing and knife cuts. The second segment reviews the basics of cooking, from measuring to broiling to steaming and more.
*Two 20-minute segments
*Closed Captioned
*Includes Teaching Materials


 
#13314/1290   40 minutes 2010  $59.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP: The Crisis of Consumerism

Are we too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planet in our pursuit of THINGS? And what's the source of all this frenetic consumer energy and desire anyway? In a fast-paced tour of the ecological and psychological terrain of American consumer culture, SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP challenges us to confront these questions head-on. Taking aim at the high-stress, high-octane pace of fast-lane materialism, the video moves beneath the seductive surfaces of the commercial world to show how the flip side of accumulation is depletion -- the slow, steady erosion of both natural resources and basic human values. In the end, this program helps us make sense of the economic turbulence of the moment, providing an unflinching, riveting look at the relationship between the limits of consumerism and our never-ending pursuit of happiness.

*A special discounted price is available for Schools, School Boards and all Non-Profit organizations (does not apply to Colleges and Universities who pay full price). Also BIG Discounts for multiple copies.

FEATURED INTERVIEWS:
Peter Whybrow, author of American Mania: When More is Not Enough; Juliet B. Schor, author of The Overspent American; simplicity gurus Cecile Andrews and Duane Elgin; photographic artist Chris Jordan; advertising expert James. B. Twitchell; Julian Darley of the Post Carbon Institute, and others.

Filmmaker's Bio
GENE BROCKHOFF | Producer & Editor
Gene Brockhoff has no history in film. He has been and still is a flooring contractor who made this film in his spare time. "Nobody else was doing films about consumerism, so I thought I'd fill the void" he says. "It was also a way for me to confront my own desires for materialism." In the making of the film he became very proficient with Apples editing software Final Cut Pro and did some of the cinematography as well. "I discovered a love of editing and the trillions of possibilities, I'm a possibility junkie!" He is still available in the SF Bay Area for installing and refinishing hardwood flooring in a sustainable and non-toxic way.

 
#13310/0685   52 minutes 2010  $279.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

DESIGN: All About Color

Color has the ability to create emotion and influence our moods. Color is a powerful tool in interior design and fashion. Interior designer Brandi Hagen discusses: the history of color and the development of color theories; the color system: hue, value, and chroma; the color wheel; warm and cool colors; and, color schemes.

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned

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#13309/1290   20 minutes 2010  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

DESIGN: The Elements

The elements of design are the components that are used to create a complete design. Interior designer Brandi Hagen presents a basic overview of the elements of design applied to interiors and fashion, including:

- Line: vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved
- Shape: symmetrical and asymmetrical
- Texture: smooth, reflective, rough, matte
- Color: hue, value, chroma

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned

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#13308/1290   20 minutes 2010  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

WAR THAT MADE AMERICA (THE) - 2 DVDs
The French and Indian War pitted French forces for almost a decade against the British, yet few North Americans realize its historic contribution to the revolutionary fervor which swept the continent in 1776. Actor Graham Greene, an Oneida Indian whose ancestors fought in the war, narrates this gripping four-part documentary series. Episodes include: A Country Between; Unlikely Allies; Turning the Tide; and, Unintended Consequences. 240 minutes on 2 discs
 
#13305/1725  2005  $99.95 *CC 
    

ELIJAH

*Nominated for an astounding eight Leo Awards and winner of two Gemini Awards!!!

The Meech Lake Accord was intended to end the threat of Quebec independence from Canada. Under the auspices of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the accord would confer special status on Quebec in terms of their claims to nationhood and limited sovereignty within Canada ... BUT it didn't happen!

This is the story of how Elijah Harper, a reluctant provincial politician of native origin from Manitoba, killed the deal by saying NO! This video hits all the bases from Harper's early experiences with 'white' administrators and educators through his recruitment by NDP leader Howard Pauley and the influence of various native chiefs including Phil Fontaine. Dramatised portrayal of the various methods attempted to pressure Mr. Harper into changing his vote include coercion, threats, bribes and pleading. His reasons for refusing are explained in terms of the Accord's complete disregard for aboriginals' place in 'Canadian' history and governance. Was Elijah Harper a hero? To a lot of people he certainly was; to others not so much. This is a very revealing and provocative presentation of significant recent Canadian history.
 
#13301/0545   88 minutes 2008  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

DESIGN: All About Textiles

The human body is almost constantly in contact with some form of textile, whether it be the clothing that we wear or the interiors that we live and work in. Join interior designer Brandi Hagen as she showcases samples and explains different types of natural fibers including plant, animal, mineral and synthetic fibers, including: Nylon, Polyester, Rayon, Acrylic, and Microfibers. Fabric construction and surface design are also discussed.

*Closed Captioned
 
#13294/1290   24 minutes 2010  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
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ADLER VS STRASBERG: The Great Controversy in American Acting DVD
This program explores the contributions of and distinctions between Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg through interviews and workshops with professionals who worked directly with them. Lorrie Hull and Bill Smithers discuss and demonstrate Strasberg's method and Ron Burrus shows Adler's techniques. The program also highlights the differences between Adler's and Strasberg's acting methods.
 
#13276/0880   31 minutes 2007  $259.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

BODY LANGUAGE FOR ACTORS: Portraying Different Cultures DVD
In this program, a diversity specialist teaches actors how to portray characters from different cultures, outlines behavioral differences, and introduces multicultural manners. The program covers such topics as greetings, shaking hands, physical contact between the sexes, eye contact, smiling, embracing, and kissing; emphasizes that acceptable norms vary among cultures; and examines cultural variations in eating customs.
 
#13274/0880   31 minutes 2007  $249.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

EVENT MANAGEMENT: Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling
This program provides a behind-the-scenes look at the staging of a significant series of events from the Eureka 150 held in Ballarat, Australia in 2005. This historic event incorporated activities and entertainment targeted at many groups, with much community involvement. This program explores the stages of organizing a large event, the planning, leading and controlling required, finishing up with the criteria to successfully evaluate an event.
 
#13254/0545   22 minutes 2002  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

PATTERN DEVELOPMENT
*Highly Recommended, Video Rating Guide
This is a wonderful opportunity to "look over the shoulder" of a master costume wizard - Rosemary Ingham. This video provides concise on-the-job training for groups and individuals engaged in producing well-fitted clothing. Key training points include getting accurate measurements, analyzing costume sketches, developing paper patterns and designing mock-ups. In Memoriam, July 13, 2008
 
#13246/2004   75 minutes 2008  $149.95 
    

HAIR AND BEAUTY SERIES (4 Programs) DVD
The hair and beauty industry is one of the most dynamic businesses you can get into. You can change the way people feel about themselves, make a great living and have a lot of fun. But you need to know how to get ahead with some very important skills. This inspiring and instructive series examines four key areas of hair and beauty: how to apply and remove hair colors, make-up basics, manicures and pedicures, and how to recognize the hair and scalp conditions you're likely to come across. Featuring instructive interviews and clear demonstrations from award-winning hair and beauty professionals, this is a fresh and up-to-date series of programs packed with accurate information about the techniques you need to know in order to thrive in this exciting industry. It also demonstrates the importance of good customer service, clear communication with the clients and staff and effective teamwork.

APPLY AND REMOVE COLOR PRODUCTS
The Hair and Beauty industry is a pretty colorful one. In fact, one of the most important skills you'll need to be successful is a really good understanding of how to apply and remove temporary and semi-permanent hair color, and how to remove residual products. And these days, when DIY hair products are common and easy to use, you really need to know how to create a final look that's professional, with a real Wow! factor. That's why people come to Kabuki Hair Studio. With 20 years experience in the business, owner Tracey Lauretta reveals the skills and techniques you need to create a fantastic hair color, right from the roots to the tips. We see how it's done, including how to prepare your client in consultation with the Senior Hairdresser, the importance of time and cleaning and how to leave your client wanting more. A practical and informative look at modern hair colors and techniques. 29 minutes
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APPLYING MAKE UP: BASIC SKILLS
If you want to work in the Hair and Beauty industry one of the key skills you need to master is applying make up. Silk Day Spa is a full service beauty salon and day spa. It's a thriving business helping clients to look and feel fantastic. Courtney Ward is a qualified beautician there and in this program she takes us through the skills and knowledge of applying makeup, including how to prepare and consult with clients, skin and face analysis and how to design a makeup plan, the appropriate products and equipment, and day and evening make up. And we also take a look at how to apply false eyelashes. This is a fun and information-packed program featuring expert information and clear demonstrations. 35 minutes
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TREAT HAIR AND SCALP CONDITIONS
Working in the Hair and Beauty industry is a fantastic way to get into a fun and varied career. It's glamorous and satisfying, helping people to look their best. But you also need to know a bit about the hair and scalp conditions that you're likely to come across at work; conditions that you might be able to treat or ones that you should refer your client on to the right medical help. This program features one of the best in the business: Megan Yabsley, a qualified hairdresser and trichologist. In this program we'll see and hear the best ways to consult with clients, deal with non-contagious disorders, recognize contagious disorders, and how to do a skin test for allergic reactions. Featuring clear explanations and illustrations of the conditions and their treatments, this is a comprehensive overview of a whole spectrum of conditions; from dry and oily scalp and dandruff to quite serious conditions like Alopecia and Impetigo, and includes vital, up-to-date information about safe health practices for you and your salon. 30 minutes
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PROVIDE MANICURE AND PEDICURE SERVICES
One of the most important parts of a complete hair and beauty package is the manicure and pedicure. Beautiful-looking hands and feet really complete someone's look and make them feel great! In this program we're going to see and hear exactly how it's done. Kara Jeffers runs French Pink - a very successful manicure and pedicure bar. In this program she explains and demonstrates the key skills you need to create beautiful-looking hands and feet. In this program we see exactly how to prepare a client for treatment, how to perform a basic manicure service, how to perform a basic pedicure service and look at the vital aftercare advice. We see how it's done with a French Polish and also look at the benefits of Paraffin Wax treatment. If you want to nail those manicure skills, this program is for you! 38 minutes
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#13215/0545  2009  $539.95  Grades 10 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

WORKING FRONT OF HOUSE
This program interviews a number of people who work in the hospitality industry dealing with the public: receptionist, porter, duty manager, and restaurant/bar staff. Each section illustrates and describes the skills necessary for each job and the tasks commonly expected to be carried out. As the public face of the tourism industry these people have the responsibility of providing the best possible service they can for their paying clients.
 
#13212/0545   22 minutes 2008  $129.95  Grades 10 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

TEN TRILLION AND COUNTING - DVD
All of the measures by the feds to stem the tide in the financial meltdown have added hundreds of billions of dollars to our national debt. FRONTLINE reports on how this debt will constrain and challenge the new administration, and on the growing chorus, that without fiscal reform the U.S. government may face a debt crisis of its own in years to come that make the current financial problems look almost painless by comparison.

*Closed Captioned
 
#13209/1725   60 minutes 2009  $99.95 *CC 
    

YOUNG AND RESTLESS IN CHINA - DVD
A riveting journey, this program tracks the lives of nine ambitious young Chinese struggling to make it in this tumultuous and rapidly changing society. Whether defying Eastern traditions in pursuit of Western values, struggling through government protocols to start a new business, or fighting to preserve the environment, this new generation is caught between the bonds of their nation's history and their own quest for a future

*Subtitles for Deaf and Hearing Impaired
 
#13208/1725   106 minutes 2008  $99.95 *CC 
    

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Winning Over Your Boss and Co-Workers
Starting any new job is likely to create some mixed reactions. It's great to look forward to a new challenge, meeting new people and receiving a regular pay packet. But let's be honest, it can also be very stressful, even if you have previous work experience.

Every workplace has its own dress standards, protocols, procedures, chains of communication and acceptable work habits. So understanding how to fit in from the start is a crucial skill to acquire. In this program you'll learn how to make that all-important good first impression whenever you start a new job. Also looks at preparing to start work, induction and training, working with others and how to deal with problems along the way. And employment experts provide some important tips!

A practical and informative look at your entry into a new working environment. Chapters: Preparing to Start Work; Induction and Training; Working with Others; and, Deal with Problems. 
#13201/0545   21 minutes 2008  $129.95 *Streaming available 
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EUROPEAN UNION (THE)
Traces the development of the European Union from the original six countries of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), to the 12 countries of the European Community (EC), to today’s Union (EU) of 27 countries.

Discusses the provisions of the "Single European Act" of 1987 which established a common market that eliminated nearly all barriers to the free movement of goods, people, capital, and services within the Union. Covers the 1991 "Treaty on European Union" which established the European Monetary Union (EMU) and issuing the Euro as Europe’s common currency. Concludes with a discussion of the current financial difficulties facing the EMU and what is commonly referred to as "Europe’s Debt Crisis."

*NOTE - should there be a change to the European Union, a free updated version of the DVD will be sent to all past purchasers. 
#13195/0495   22 minutes 2012  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN A GLOBAL MARKETPLACE - DVD
Most studies have demonstrated that students have little understanding of the importance of nonverbal communication. This deficiency is particularly acute in the international arena. The focus of this program is twofold. First, to introduce the student to the mechanics of nonverbally communicating through gestures, proxemics and other techniques. Second, to expose the student to the vast array of interpretations of similar techniques throughout the global marketplace.
 
#13194/0495   24 minutes 2004  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

EVENT MARKETING
Explains that "event marketing" includes both the marketing of an event and marketing with an event. Covers social entertainment events such as fairs, festivals, cause-related, and street events. Also covers business events such as trade shows, seminars and expos. In addition to numerous local events, the program includes the large regional events of the Calgary Stampede, Bele Chere Festival, Mountain State Fair and the Southeast Franchising Expo.
 
#13193/0495   20 minutes 2010  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

FRANCHISING
Discusses the franchising industry structures of product-trade name and business-format franchises. Outlines both the advantages and disadvantages of an entrepreneur going into business as a franchise compared to being an independent operation. Includes in-store footage and interviews with franchisors as to why they elected to expand operations through franchising rather than internally financed growth. Special sections on franchisee qualifications and the importance of due diligence in buying a franchise. Includes some lists such as the fastest-growing and lowest-cost franchises; sources of franchise information such as the IFA, Internet, and franchise expos; special programs for minorities and veterans; and current trends in franchising.
 
#13191/0495   23 minutes 2010  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

DIRECT RESPONSE, OUT-OF-HOME AND SUPPLEMENTAL MEDIA
Discusses how direct response has become an integral part of the marketing communications program for many firms. Covers forms of direct response such as infomercials, solo-direct mail, shared mail, and responding to inquiries generated from Internet advertising. Shows examples of outdoor advertising: paper posters, painted bulletins, truck panels, plastic banners, moveable billboards, digital outdoor, spectaculars, and mall-face boards. Examples of transit advertising include bus panels, wrapped-painted vehicles, travel-station dioramas, bus shelters and bus benches. Suggests strategies to gain maximum effectiveness from yellow-page advertising and "opt-in" email advertising.
 
#13189/0495   21 minutes 2009  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

MARKETING NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN TODAY'S ECONOMY
The proliferation of nonprofit organizations coupled with a rapidly changing economy has resulted in fierce competition among these organizations to develop beneficial exchange relationships with clients. Aggressive marketing strategies have resulted in both positive outcomes like "partnering" and negative outcomes like "chugging." Focuses on marketing issues, problems, and strategies facing nonprofit organizations. Special emphasis is placed on charitable organizations.
 
#13188/0495   24 minutes 2005  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

SEW GREEN: Recycle, Repurpose, Restyle DVD
One way to go green is to sew green. Using unconventional fabrics like sleeves from wool sweaters and "fabric" made from fused plastic bags, learn the basics of sewing through simple and easy to make projects that incorporate recycling.
Four unique sewing projects are demonstrated, including: A fused plastic messenger-style bag ; A cell phone or MP3 player holder ; A protective sleeve for a laptop; and, A water bottle holder.

*Includes teaching materials
Subtitled in English (not CC)
 
#13178/1290   38 minutes 2010  $59.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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NANOTECHNOLOGY: An Introduction
This program is presented in the following clear-cut sections: What is nanotechnology?; Units: micrometer and nanometer; Special properties of nanoparticles; The gecko effect; Carbon nanotubes; Surface energy; hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces; The lotus effect; Use of lasers in nanotechnology; Issues raised by nanotechnology. Because nanotechnology works with the metric units nanometer and micrometer, this program uses metric units. However, this should not affect a student's understanding of the concepts presented in the program.

Audience: Junior High, Senior High
 
#13169/0545   27 minutes 2007  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

HUMAN RESOURCE FUNCTION
'Human Resources' refers to all the employees working for an organization. Those resources are pivotal to the success of any organization as they are the direct point of contact with the customer, product or service provided. This program explores the Human Resource Management (HRM) function of an organization. It explores the relationship between employees and employers and the methods used by organizations to manage people and strive to achieve a motivated and productive workforce.

 
#13162/0545   30 minutes 2008  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

COMPETITIVE MARKETING IN TOURISM
The marketing management of a 'destination' is increasingly becoming extremely competitive worldwide. Some destinations are more successful in terms of attracting tourism visitation and expenditure than others. Obviously some destinations are blessed with attractive natural endowments, however given effective management and marketing strategies, a destination lacking in these features may also become competitive in tourism. Adopting a market orientation enables a destination to better meet the needs of the potential tourist and adapt accordingly to the dynamic nature of the tourism industry.
 
#13161/0545   30 minutes 2009  $149.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

DEVELOPING A CAREER PORTFOLIO
Years before someone lands their first job they should be putting serious thought into the development of their career portfolio. A career portfolio is a collection of documents that provide evidence of a job seeker's interests and skills both specific to a particular job and generic to employment in general.

This program covers a range of aspects relating to the compilation of a career portfolio, including defining a career portfolio, collection of information relevant to both specific and generic skills, and putting it all together. As well as hearing from career coach Julie Farthing, the program follows the experience of two (fictitious) students who applied for the same job one having prepared a career portfolio and the other without. It also takes a step-by-step look at how to prepare a portfolio and explains how developing a career portfolio is a highly advantageous strategy when trying to create an impression with an employer.
 
#13160/0545   24 minutes 2009  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

MY FIRST JOB: Student Version
Going to work for the first time can be quite an overwhelming experience. Who to report to, what to know, what travel arrangements to make, what are the regular attendance hours, what if things go wrong, who can I talk to for support, what are my entitlements, what rights and responsibilities do I have? All these issues are addressed in this program, which provides useful, comprehensive advice on surviving your first job and making life just a bit easier at the workplace.
 
#13158/0545   30 minutes 2008  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

HAMAS: The Untold Story
Produced with unprecedented access to Hamas and its operations, this program takes viewers inside Gaza's Islamic fundamentalist government in the months following its civil war against Fatah. The film observes Hamas leaders as they struggle to shape policy and follows a former militant who now heads up an Executive Force police unit-carrying out orders he doesn't agree with. Archival footage and interviews from earlier years are also included, creating a historical context in which the emergence of Hamas, as well as the problems of governance it now faces, can be examined and discussed. Fatah's ongoing control over Hamas finances is one of the many topics analyzed.
 
#13153/0635   49 minutes 2008  $199.95 
    

LEGACY OF WAR
This program details the successful launch and execution of the Marshall Plan - America's expansive commitment to re-build Europe at the end of the war. Walter Cronkite traces the complex and changing relationship between the United States and England and explores the dramatic shifts of the Cold War from the end of the war up to the present.

*Closed Captioned
 
#13150/1725   60 minutes 2009  $99.95 
    

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS
Biologists have to be able to communicate with other biologists and be absolutely sure they are both talking about the same organism. A system of classification first proposed by Linnaeus gives them tools to do this. Recently this classification system has been further refined using studies of DNA. This program looks at how the classification system is organized and how scientific names are arrived at. The major groups of living things are explained. The dichotomous keys used by biologists to classify specimens are used and an example of constructing a key is given.
 
#13146/0545   22 minutes 2009  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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PSYCHOLOGY OF ADVERTISING (2 Programs)
This series by Dr. Phillip Rutsohn consists of two parts.

PART ONE - Today, with increased competition, globalization and downsizing, marketers must demonstrate that their advertising expenditures are both efficient and effective. Consumers have been saturated with advertising messages and, business is no longer willing to expend resources "just to get their message out to the market." It's imperative that the advertiser understand the psychology behind buying motives and incorporate that understanding into their ads. Emphasizes five key psycho-sociological issues with examples drawn from TV commercials, print ads, and the Internet. 26 minutes.

PART TWO - Discussion focuses on the interrelationship between the physical components and the message communicated by an advertisement. Presents current research with examples of survey results, comparative ads and testimonials in advertising. 18 minutes.
 
#13145/0495  2002  $289.95 *Streaming available 
    

GREEN CAREERS SERIES (4 Programs)
The programs in this series cover four related green career areas and four or more intriguing job opportunities within them. Ideal for learners plotting out their future or for workers seeking greener pastures.

There are four 25-minute programs in the series:

THE BUSINESS OF GREEN - This video divides its time between an eco-friendly hotel, a sustainable information and communications technology consultancy, a firm that invests in green community development, and a manufacturer of chemical-free eco-friendly cleaning products..

REDUCING WATER POLLUTION - This video focuses on the protection of Puget Sound - a national ecological treasure, a TV station that raises environmental awareness by reporting on the Sound, a nonprofit organization that educates the public about the Sound's ecosystem, and a local shellfish farm that sustainably harvests oysters.

COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMPROVING AIR QUALITY - This video spotlights a regional transportation authority using hybrid buses to reduce emission levels, a legal firm practicing environmental law, and a company making storage batteries for solar and wind farms using clean manufacturing practices. Also visits the National Renewable Energy Laboratory pursuing research into the development of alternative energy.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN THE HOME - Showcases Habitat for Humanity, a leader in sustainable home construction: a Family Services Department; a solar panel company whose products are right at home with eco-friendly Habitat houses; and ENERGY STAR, an EPA/DOE program that promotes energy-efficient products; and a green construction/remodeling firm is also profiled.

*Includes PDF Viewable/printable discussion questions

 
#13144/0635  2010  $499.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC 
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RACE AND REPRESENTATION SERIES - Updated! (7 Programs) DVD
This series consists of the following seven videos:

HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (Unabridged) - A riveting examination of masculinity, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Delivering a self-described "loving critique" of rap music, director Byron Hurt - a former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and now gender violence prevention educator - pays tribute to the power and creativity of hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood.

BELL HOOKS: Cultural Criticism and Transformation - In this two-part interview, illustrated with many of the media images she critiques, bell hooks, one of America's most accessible public intellectuals, makes a compelling case for the transformative power of cultural criticism.

EDWARD SAID: On Orientalism - Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging and lavishly illustrated interview, he talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes, and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient" as represented in the mass media.

STUART HALL: Representation and the Media - In this accessible introductory lecture, Stuart Hall focuses on the concept of "representation" - one of the key ideas of cultural studies - and shows how reality, never experienced directly, is filtered through symbolic cultural categories.

STUART HALL: Race, the Floating Signifier - Arguing against the biological interpretation of racial differences, Stuart Hall asks viewers to pay close attention to the cultural processes by and through which the visible differences of appearance come to stand for natural or biological properties of human beings.

TIM WISE ON WHITE PRIVILEGE: Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality - A riveting introduction to the social construction of racial identities, and a critical new tool for exploring the often invoked - but seldom explained - concept of white privilege.

REEL BAD ARABS: How Hollywood Vilifies a People - Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, this groundbreaking documentary dissects the slanderous representation of Arabs throughout cinematic history, which has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent films to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Due to a gift from a generous donor, the price of this DVD for public libraries and high schools has been reduced to $10 to make it as accessible as possible. This price includes the right to screen this film publicly and place it in an institutional collection.

*SPECIAL PRICING IS AVAILABLE FOR NON-COLLEGE, NON-UNIVERSITY CUSTOMERS
 
#13140/0685  2009  $1,279.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

SPIRITS IN THE WIND: The Wild Horses of Alberta

"Our respect for other species sharing this planet with us is a good barometer of the condition of the human spirit. In this case, not so good." Producer Michael Neitzel

Wild horses roam the foothills west of the Sundre in the Rocky Mountains, an area of over 10000 sq km in Alberta. In total their numbers are estimated at about 200 head. These horses are incredibly beautiful, healthy and strong, survivors in the wild, preyed upon by cougars, wolves, and grizzlies, where only the smartest and best survive by a system of natural selection.

Un-protected and un-recognized by the government, shot for bear bait, chased, corralled, and sent for slaughter without any fear of criminal prosecution, these last of Alberta's wild horses are on the run for their lives.

In April of 2009, news broadcasters across Canada shocked their audiences by reporting the brutal and senseless slaughter of another three of these wild horses, left to die a horrifying death. One of the horses was a young mare, just giving birth to her foal, the tiny hooves clearly visible. Another was a young stallion, shot in the stomach, left to die a horrific death. There had been 29 similar killings in the past five years.

DNA testing and studies of wild horses are beginning to shine a different light on the part these animals play in our eco-system. It is time to stop the killing and protect other species on this planet besides ourselves.

**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube
 
#13128/1730   45 minutes 2009  $149.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

MEAN WORLD SYNDROME: Gerbner on Media and Violence

For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debates have fallen into simplistic battles between those who claim that media images directly cause violence and those who argue that activists exaggerate the impact of media exposure.

Based on interviews conducted with George Gerbner before his death in 2005, the film urges us to think about media effects in more nuanced ways. In contrast to behaviorist models that see media violence as causing real-world violence, and limited effects models that question the impact of media altogether, Gerbner encourages us to move outside the frame of this debate to consider how the repetitive stories media tell constitute a pervasive cultural environment - a landscape of ritualized, often violent images that have the power to cultivate how we see and understand the world. An accessible and provocative introduction to Gerbner's thought and the subject of media influence and media violence.

GEORGE GERBNER was one of the world's foremost authorities on the effects of media violence. After earning a Bronze Star during World War II, he turned to academe, serving as dean of the Annenberg School for Communication for 25 years, presiding over the influential Cultural Indicators Research Project, and later establishing the Cultural Environment Movement, an international organization dedicated to democratizing media.
 
#13120/0685   50 minutes 2010  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

WELDING PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES (4 Programs) DVD
This series explains the concepts and shows the procedures that students need to understand to become proficient and professional welders.

Four programs cover Shielded Metal Arc Welding, Gas Metal Arc Welding, Flux Cored Arc Welding, and Oxyacetylene Welding in detail. The main subject areas are further broken down into subsections for easy comprehension. This set offers instructors and students the best welding multimedia learning tool at their fingertips.

*Includes a mix of live-action footage and computer graphics to offer the best possible visual representation of the concepts and tasks demonstrated
*Easy navigation and allows for quick, non-linear access to the desired content area 
#13094/0430  2007  $3,889.95 *CC 
    

LEADING GROUPS WITH ADOLESCENTS
Nationally known group experts work with high school students in an actual psycho-educational group. The initial stage, goal setting, working activities and termination are all explored. Activities focus on building self-esteem, managing anger, improving communication skills, and resolving irrational beliefs. This group work model is highly applicable to all school and agency work and a valuable training tool for all counselors working with teens.

Features Janice DeLucia-Waack, University of Buffalo; Allen Segrist, Purdue University (Emeritus); Andy Horne, University of Georgia
 
#13091/1410   180 minutes 2009  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
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THREE APPROACHES TO COUNSELING ONE ADOLESCENT CLIENT
Features Edward Hamann, William McFarland, and Carrie Alexander-Albritton, Western Illinois University

One client, three approaches to counseling! Viewers will witness theory in action with solution-focused, reality therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapies demonstrated. The client is an adolescent female who describes problems with her parents, lack of control in her life, and stress. See how three different therapists take the same client and work from three different theoretical perspectives. This is an excellent DVD for use in counseling theory courses. Students will understand the how and why of these different theoretical approaches. 1 hour 50 minutes

*Includes PDF Leader Guide
 
#13088/1410   110 minutes 2009  $199.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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EQUITY-FOCUSED SCHOOL COUNSELING: Ensuring Career and College Readiness for Every Student
Today's school counselors need to be change agents for equity. As collaborators, advocates, leaders, and culturally competent counselors and program coordinators, they can use technology and data to help close achievement and opportunity gaps in K-12 schools. This DVD demonstrates transformative school counseling skills using the equity-focused new vision of school counseling. Multiple skill-building vignettes feature a diverse range of K-12 students, school counselors, parents, teachers, and principals who demonstrate key skills and competencies to ensure every K-12 student has ACCESS to career and college readiness competencies through school counseling programs.

***Features Stuart Chen-Hayes, Associate Professor, Counselor Education/School Counseling, Lehman College of the City University of New York.; Ketrin Saud Maxwell, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Deryl Bailey, University of Georgia

*Includes extensive 30 page PDF Leader Guide
 
#13080/1410   75 minutes 2009  $199.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

MANUFACTURED FIBERS: Fabrics and Beyond
This program introduces a variety of manufactured fibers, looks at their physical and chemical structures, examines their properties, and discusses their uses. The program covers such fibers as rayon, lyocell, acetate, nylon, polyester, and acrylic.
 
#13078/0880   21 minutes 2008  $259.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

BEST OF 2009 CLIO GOLD PLUS
This program showcases the best of the Clio winners for the year 2009. Entries include Beauty Bowling (Esthe WAM Hair Removal), Bulldozer (Crest), Damn Boots (Nomis Football Boots), Doghouse (JCPenney), Everybody Against Everybody (Amnesty International), Fate (Nike), Get It On (Durex), It’s Mine (Coca-Cola), Piñata (Skittles), Rabbit (Comcast), Secrets and Lies (Levi Strauss), So Cute (Axe Shower Gel), Sound Designer (HILTI Vegetarian Restaurant), The Calling (Gran Centenario Tequila), Transformation (Australian Tourism), and more.
 
#13076/0635   45 minutes 2009  $199.95 
    

NATURAL FIBERS TO FABRICS AND BEYOND
This program introduces such natural fibers as cotton, wool, silk, and bast fibers. It discusses their origins, examines their properties and uses, and explains how they are formed into fabrics.
 
#13075/0880   20 minutes 2008  $259.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

CODES OF GENDER: Identity and Performance in Popular Culture
Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance.

Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman's central claim that the way the body is displayed in advertising communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity. The film looks beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that focus on biological difference or issues of surface objectification and beauty, taking us into the two-tiered terrain of identity and power relations. With its sustained focus on the fundamental importance of gender, power, and how our perceptions of what it means to be a man or a woman get reproduced and reinforced on the level of culture in our everyday lives, The "Codes of Gender" is certain to inspire discussion and debate across a range of disciplines.

Divided into 8 sections: Sex and Gender | The Feminine Touch | The Ritualization of Subordination | Licensed Withdrawal | Infantilization | The Codes of Masculinity | Trapped in the Code | History, Power, and Gender Display

*Viewer Discretion Advisory: This program contains violence, nudity, and sexual themes.
DVD contains two version: a full length version (73 minutes) and an abridged version (46 minutes) which has been edited for nudity and length.

*Sub-Titled

*** SPECIAL PRICING AVAILABLE FOR HIGH SCHOOLS & NON-PROFIT
 
#13070/0685  2010  $319.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

JUST THE FACTS HUMAN BODY SERIES (3 Programs)
The "Just the Facts" Learning Series brings you the finest in educational programming and features fast-paced format that makes learning fun. This series of three 50-minute programs enhances viewers' understanding of the truly miraculous machine that is the human body.

THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
Examines the structure of our skeleton and the function of our muscles. Viewers learn how our bones provide the rigid support necessary to hold any position, while our joints give us the remarkable range of motion needed to run, dance, climb, or simply to walk, sit and bend. In addition, we discover how our muscles and associated tendons and ligaments are constructed to allow them to change shape functions, as well as how bone growth occurs. Also takes viewers on a tour of the most wondrous part of the skeleton, the skull and the amazing human hand one of the most versatile structures among all species and, our feet, ankles and knees are also constructed to perform multiple tasks and endure incredible stress over the course of a lifetime. With commentary from medical experts and specialists in sports medicine, offers viewers a unique perspective on the body system which allows us to walk, run, dance and move through life.

**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Are you right- or left-handed? Do you remember your first day of school? What are you thinking right now? The answers to these questions go right to the "brains of the operation," the incredible nervous system of the human body. This program explores the brain, spinal cord, nerves and the trillions of neurons, or nerve cells, that make our bodies uniquely human. Experts in neuroscience help us understand why the human brain is a marvel of structure and function. Viewers learn about left brain and right brain activities, and the purpose and function of the cerebellum, cerebrum, cranial nerves and other parts of the brain. The program also examines the interaction of the spinal cord and nerve endings, as well as fascinating concepts like involuntary and voluntary brain activity and reflex and feedback functions. Viewers explore the five senses as well as the sixth sense - balance. Offers fascinating insight into how our brain gives us the ability to speak, reason, remember and engage in complex thought, as well as the capacity to feel compassion, sadness, anger, joy and love.

**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube

MAJOR SYSTEMS AND ORGANS
The human body is a wondrously complex machine made of flesh, bone, muscles, organs, blood vessels and highly specialized systems that function together to sustain life. This fascinating program examines the incredible "machine," from simple cells, to DNA, the body's building blocks of life, to the major systems and organs. Using animation combined with live-action footage and commentary from medical specialists, this program illustrates how the major systems and organs function. Viewers learn how the reproductive system generates new life and how the stomach, intestines and other organs of the digestive system convert solid matter into the fuel of life. We also discover how the lungs and respiratory system take in oxygen that sustains life, and how the heart and circulatory system connect all body systems, providing a delivery system for the oxygen. In addition, the program explores the lymphatic, immune and other supporting systems. Finally, viewers explore the structure and functions of our skin, the body's largest organ, which protects us from the outside environment.
 
#13064/0433  2008  $149.95  Grades 7 to 12 *Streaming available 
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RESOURCES, POPULATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE - DVD
Confronts head-on three critical science/technology/society issues of the 21st century.

On all three issues - explores a contrarian point of view. That is, the program presents evidence in support of: (1) Natural resources are limited only by the ultimate natural resource, the human mind; (2) Population growth (or decline) is a problem, but not the overwhelming one some scientists and citizens considered it in the 20th century; and (3) Climate change is real but it may not be the most serious problem the world faces in the 21st century.

While the program does take the contrarian point of view, it challenges the student (and the teacher) to investigate these critical issues and come to their own conclusions. In other words it is not dogmatic and offers a stimulating way to discuss these vital issues and to rationally explore what scientific methods can contribute to their solution.

*Includes Script
*Sub-titled
 
#13062/0845   44 minutes 2009  $129.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

IDEA: From Paper to Practice

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (I.D.E.A.) provides six principles that govern the education of children with special needs. It's one thing to read the law, but how do you ensure you comply with it and provide the best learning experience for your students? This examination of I.D.E.A. gives background information, insight, and strategies every inclusive classroom teacher can use. We take a detailed look at the importance of Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and how to effectively work with other members of the IEP team, including parents and caregivers of special needs children.

LEARN:
* The 14 disabilities that fall under I.D.E.A. services.
* Tips on how to adopt a truly inclusive mindset.
* Steps to follow if you believe a student needs special services.
* Tactics for positive collaboration with IEP team members.
* How to write effective IEP goals and objectives.
* Strategies for giving input during the IEP meeting.
* About due process, if there is a dispute between parents and the school.
* Classroom practices to help both special needs and general ed. students.
* Examples of accommodations that can be made for testing.
* How to plan supports and interventions to address behavior problems.
 
#13061/1120   43 minutes 2010  $179.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC 
    

NUCLEAR ENERGY: The Issues
Nuclear power produces almost a fifth of the world's electricity. Supporters say it's safe, cheap and - best of all - the answer to global warming. Critics say it's not safe, or cheap. And it won't really help with the global warming problem. So who's right? This program presents the arguments for and against, with relevant background information. Issues covered in this program include: radioactive waste: how hazardous is it? Can it be safely stored? How likely is an accident at a nuclear power plant? What could the consequences be? Are nuclear power stations terrorist targets? Does nuclear power encourage the development of nuclear weapons? Is nuclear energy carbon-free? Is it the solution to global warming?

NOTE: The science behind nuclear power - what nuclear fission is, how a nuclear power plant works and the "nuclear fuel cycle" is explained in more detail in a companion program called NUCLEAR ENERGY: The Basics.
 
#13055/0545   31 minutes 2008  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

NUCLEAR ENERGY: Basic Version (Metric) DVD
Introduces the basics of how a nuclear power station works. What is fission and the role of cooling water in nuclear reactors. Understand the nuclear fuel cycle: mining, milling, enrichment, fabrication and spent fuel (storage and reprocessing). Also discover other uses of nuclear energy, including "non-power" uses. Includes sequences designed for student enrichment/teacher background (breeder reactors, fusion and fusion reactors, and fission).

****See also advanced version item #13053
 
#13054/0545   22 minutes 2008  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

NUCLEAR ENERGY: Advanced Version (Metric)
In addition to covering all topics in the basic version of NUCLEAR ENERGY, this program covers a number of advanced topics. Understand the use of water to vary reactor power, as well as different methods of mining uranium and witness a specific example of a fission reaction. Students will be introduced to more detailed discussion of enrichment, including structure properties of Uranium Hexafluoride, centrifuging, gas diffusion and the decommissioning of nuclear power stations. Includes sequences designed for student enrichment and teacher background (breeder reactors, fusion and fusion reactors, fission).
 
#13053/0545   27 minutes 2008  $99.95  Grades 8 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

DEALING WITH THE IRATE CUSTOMER

It's hard to keep your cool when dealing with difficult customers. After all, it's only human to get defensive and fight back - or cave in and give them whatever they demand. What you need instead is a plan! The guidelines presented in this training video will help you calm angry customers. Once you bring them around, they're more likely to work with you to find a resolution that solves their complaint yet is fair to your organization.

This training video includes valuable tactics, including: Connect with the angry customer; Show empathy or apologize if appropriate; Guide the customer's attention toward solving the problem; Use positive language; Have the customer make small decisions; Take a timeout or draw the line; and, Know what you can offer.

Your employees will learn to stay professional and not take it personally when they have to deal with difficult customers, whether in retail, health care, government, or wherever. They'll learn that their basic customer service skills are a first line of defense - it's hard for customers to be mean to someone who's being nice to them. And they'll learn three powerful "breakthrough techniques" that can be used if the situation escalates and threatens to get out of hand.

*Closed Captioned
*Also in Spanish

 
#13052/1005   21 minutes 2010  $219.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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WHEN THE PHONE RINGS: Telephone Skills for Better Service
Great telephone service doesn't have to be a thing of the past. Even with the advent of email and the Internet, customers still want to be able to call sometimes and reach a live person. And how that call is handled still makes a huge difference to the success of your organization.

When the phone rings, your employees have only a few seconds to set a tone. To communicate that your company listens to customers and gives them what they need every single time they call. Those who answer the phones are speaking for everyone in the company. Make sure they have training.

Teach the ABC's of telephone courtesy: Customer service etiquette; Taking an accurate message; Handling transfers and multiple lines; Voice mail and leaving a message; and, Problem calls.
 
#13051/1005   20 minutes 2010  $189.95 *Streaming available 
    

BLOGGING AND PODCASTING IN THE CLASSROOM (2 Programs)
Today's teachers have access to powerful technological tools - which not only make information and media instantly available but can also assist in creating and customizing educational content. This two-part series helps educators use blogs and podcasts to make learning more exciting and relevant while streamlining the teaching process. Both programs include strategies for increasing literacy, creativity, and social skills in students - and for improving the distribution of texts, audiovisual recordings, and organizational materials.

There are two programs in the series:

BLOGGING IN THE CLASSROOM
Blogs may be driving print journalists out of business, but they're doing wonders for the teaching profession. This program helps educators learn more about blogging and the best ways to integrate it into the classroom. Showing how blogs help communicate ideas and connect readers worldwide, the video focuses on the benefits of blogging for both teachers and students. Specific topics include blogging strategies for increasing student motivation, reading comprehension, writing skills, collaboration, and healthy social interaction. Viewers will also learn about blogging for course announcements, reading assignments, professional development networking, student journalism, and other purposes. 28 minutes

PODCASTING IN THE CLASSROOM
Using three simple ingredients - a microphone, audio software, and server space-anyone can publish lectures, readings, and performances on the Internet. So what's stopping teachers from incorporating such an exciting new technology into the classroom? This program helps educators realize the power of podcasting and put it into action. Viewers will learn how podcasts can disseminate class lectures, additional lecture notes, and study guides while opening up alternative teaching perspectives, bridging the gap with disabled learners, and building media literacy. Also included are resources for searching and finding existing podcasts, such as public radio directories and websites that serve as podcast archives. 24 minutes

*Closed Captioned

 
#13050/0635  2009  $219.95 *CC 
    

HEALTHY TEACHER (THE)
Being a teacher today is an incredibly rewarding experience - but it can also be stressful. Maybe it's long hours or a heavy workload, possibly the particular school environment, perhaps even parental pressure creating the stress. Whatever the cause, it's vital that you approach your teaching career with an awareness of the aspects of the job that can cause stress and be informed about finding a healthy balance between work and life.

In this program we follow a typical day in the lives of two teachers - experienced professionals who got the balance right. Through them, this professional development program explores the areas that affect teacher's physical, emotional and social wellbeing in reducing stresses and anxiety. It will examine the importance of healthy eating, physical activity, wellness and mind matters and their essential role in achieving optimal health within the teaching profession. An informative, practical and motivational resource for both new and established teachers.

Five chapters: Balancing Work and Life; Healthy Eating; Physical Activity; Wellness Matters; and, Mind Matters.

 
#13047/2137   24 minutes 2008  $99.95  Grades 10 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

HOT TIPS FOR CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
One of the biggest challenges facing teachers today is classroom management and dealing with difficult students. This program provides practical help, offering some effective, preventative strategies, as well as ways to deal with difficult behavior when it occurs. Covering pre-planning, establishing the rules, other strategies, routine, seven steps of behavior management, the behavior interventions pyramid, depersonalizing behavior sanctions and reflection. Written by teachers in the know, this is a great professional development tool for any new teacher, or any teacher wanting to brush up on essential classroom skills.

 
#13046/2137   30 minutes 2007  $99.95  Grades 10 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

WORLD FOOD MARKETS: FRENCH Cooking DVD
Travel transforms us. It changes our perspective and offers new ideas about the world we live in. France teaches us about art, history, fashion, natural beauty, and a certain joie de vivre. Of course, it's no secret that food is also very important to the French. The very word "cuisine" comes from their language. Sidewalk cafés, specialty shops with beautiful displays, and vibrant markets offer a glimpse of daily life in France. Join cookbook author and world traveler Paulette Mitchell as she walks down grand boulevards and wanders through cobblestone streets in Paris, Nice, and Marseilles while savoring the wonderful flavors and memorable sights.

*Video includes segments with locals speaking French and optional English subtitles
*Closed Captioned
*Includes Teaching Materials

*** See also the ACTIVITY PACKET - Creative and fun activities and worksheets to supplement the World Food Markets: France video. Includes French food vocabulary list, crossword puzzle, classroom activities, writing assignments and more.
 
#13037/1290   25 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

WORLD FOODS: Chinese Cooking DVD
Whether you're a newcomer to Chinese cooking or want to fine tune your skills, this video makes it easy to prepare healthful, classic Chinese dishes at home. Paulette Mitchell, cookbook author and world traveler, explains typical Asian ingredients, equipment, and techniques to guarantee success. She demonstrates Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry, Mapo Tofu with Wheat-Flour Noodles, and Egg Drop Soup.

*Closed Captioned
*Includes Teaching Materials

*See also the ACTIVITY PACKET - Fun and creative activities and worksheets on Chinese cooking to supplement the Video. Includes food vocabulary list, puzzles, classroom activities, creative writing assignments, and more.
 
#13036/1290   24 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

SPIRITS FOR SALE: The Commercialization of American Indian Rituals

When Annika is given an eagle feather by a Native American visiting Sweden, she realizes it is a sacred object which should probably not be in her hands. These days Native American ceremonies are being commercialized for "outsiders," arousing resentment in the Native community.

Annika sets out to find the feather's rightful owner, a quest which takes her to American Indian communities in Albuquerque, San Antonio and to Bear Butte in South Dakota. She meets many Native Americans who are bitter, believing they are "the forgotten people." But others are fighting to preserve their culture and their faith as well as to protect their land.

Navajo Andrew Thomas, who manages the Albuquerque Pueblo Center, explains that certain tribes use feathers in special ways to communicate with "the Upper God." He fears modern Native Americans have lost touch with the ancient beliefs. In this film we hear from a professor of Native American history in San Antonio who discusses the five hundred tribes who lived in the US centuries ago and recalls the massacres they suffered. Gayle Ross, a respected Cherokeeteacher, feels Americans do not understand native people. Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota nation is deeply disturbed by the entire arena of cultural exploitation.
 
#13031/0605   58 minutes 2008  $209.95 *Streaming available 
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ART 21 (Season V) Art in the 21st Century DVD
Through in-depth profiles and dynamic behind-the-scenes footage featuring artists from around the world, speaking directly about their inspirations and ideas, Season Five shows a broad range of artistic practice, technical innovation, and experimentation, from artists tackling large-scale collaborative projects in hangar-like studios, to those working in the quiet of more intimate studio settings.

*Closed Captioned
 
#13024/1725   240 minutes 2009  $99.95 *CC 
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ART 21 (Season IV) Art in the 21st Century DVD
Contemporary artists work in globally influenced, culturally diverse and technologically dynamic milieus. In the U.S. artists reflect a varied and changing landscape of identity, values and beliefs. The artists featured in this series demonstrate the breadth of artistic practice across the country and reveal a wealth of multicultural talent. Each episode is organized around a theme to help audiences compare and contrast the artists profiled.

*Closed Captioned
 
#13023/1725   240 minutes 2007  $99.95 *CC 
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ART 21 (Season III) Art in the 21st Century DVD
An invigorating look at established artists and newcomers, from Laylah Ali, Ellen Gallagher, and Matthew Ritchie to Josiah McElheny, Jessica Stockholder, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The popular PBS series features behind-the-scenes looks at groundbreaking artists of the new century.

*Closed Captioned
 
#13022/1725   220 minutes 2005  $99.95 *CC 
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LIVE: From Bethlehem
The Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency (MNA) emerged out of the ashes of the second Intifada to become the only independent news network in the Palestinian Territories and an increasingly prominent and influential journalistic force in the wider Middle East. Live from Bethlehem tells MNA's remarkable story. It chronicles the agency's struggles and successes through the eyes of the station's reporters, producers, and photographers, in the process quietly revealing the humanity of ordinary Palestinians as they go about their daily business. The documentary trains its focus on people more than on abstract issues, yet it never loses sight of the myriad social and political forces and pressures that Ma'an journalists are forced to negotiate as they try to gather and report balanced information. What results is an admirably nuanced portrait of how news gets produced, and how Palestinians live, in one of the world's most troubled regions.
 
#13021/0685   36 minutes 2009  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

REMOTE CONTROL: Children, Media Consumption and the Changing Family
The average American child spends over 40 hours per week consuming media, the equivalent of a full-time job. This means that by the time children born today turn 30, they will have spent an entire decade of their lives in front of some type of screen. REMOTE CONTROL, based on the findings of the Kaiser Family Foundation's landmark study "Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18-year-olds", examines the implications of this unprecedented level of exposure. Putting a human face on the report's statistical findings, filmmaker Bob McKinnon explores the media habits of two families, supplementing their powerful personal insights with testimony from media experts, educators, and policymakers. Offers a fascinating look at the centrality of media in our lives, revealing far-reaching effects that we are only beginning to understand, and suggesting ways we might begin to help our children live a life instead of watching one.

*Ask about the Special NON-PROFIT price for this title
 
#13020/0685   38 minutes 2007  $229.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ABE OSHEROFF: One Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing
Most people knew Abe Osheroff as an activist. For most of his 92 years - from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War to the picket lines of the U.S. labor movement, from the struggles for civil rights in Mississippi to his work for human rights in Nicaragua - Osheroff threw himself into the fray with rare energy and enthusiasm. In this riveting and inspiring new film, Osheroff reflects on the meaning of his activism, exploring the ideas that animated his actions and sharing wisdom built up over a lifetime of commitment to the "radical humanism" that defined his politics and philosophy.

*Ask about the Special NON-PROFIT price for this title
 
#13019/0685   46 minutes 2009  $229.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

REFUGE: A Film About Darfur

In this alternately enraging and heartbreaking documentary, Canadian student Jonathan Pedneault and filmmaker Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau travel to Darfur to try to make sense of reports of genocide in the region. Making their way clandestinely with a group of rebels into the heart of the Sudanese war zone, they chronicle stories of unfathomable human despair and courage: NGOs struggling to get food to the starving, refugees fighting for water, waves of people battered by civil war and incomprehensible violence stumbling into camps on the edge of survival. Succeeds brilliantly in capturing the human face behind this geopolitical crisis.

*Ask about the Special Non-Profit price for this title

*Also available in French
 
#13018/0685   52 minutes 2009  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

PERSONALLY SPEAKING: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall DVD
Stuart Hall is a foundational figure in the influential interdisciplinary field known as cultural studies. In this stimulating and eloquent four-hour interview, conducted by the literary journalist Maya Jaggi and directed by Mike Dibb, Hall reflects on his life and career, talking personally and in depth about the trajectory of his work and how it has intersected with broader political movements. In a conversation both intimate and sweeping in scope, Hall describes his migration from Jamaica to England, his immersion in left-wing politics in London, the influence of Raymond Williams and E.P. Thompson on the evolution of his thought, and the context within which the early classic texts of cultural studies were written. Hall also shares his pessimism about the economic recession and his optimism about Barack Obama's victory. Future analysis of Hall's work, and of cultural studies in general, will need to take account of this fascinating and indispensable first-person account of his life and ideas. Broken into short sections to facilitate use in the classroom.

*Ask about the Special NON-PROFIT price for this title
 
#13017/0685   258 minutes 2009  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

BLIND SPOT: Peak Oil and the Coming Global Crisis
In this haunting portrait of America's oil-fueled excesses, director Adolfo Doring explores the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the multiplying threats that now confront the environmental health and stability of our planet. Taking as its starting point the inevitable energy depletion scenario known as "Peak Oil," the film surveys a fascinating range of the latest intellectual, political, and scientific thought to make the case that by whatever measure of greed, wishful thinking, neglect, or ignorance, we now find ourselves at a disturbing crossroads: we can continue to burn fossil fuels and witness the collapse of our ecology, or we can choose not to and witness the collapse of our economy. Refusing to whitewash this reality, Blind Spot issues a call to action, urging us to face up to the perilous situation we now find ourselves in so that we might begin to envision a realistic, if inconvenient, way out. Certain to inspire debate in classrooms across a range of disciplines, especially in economics, environmental studies, the natural sciences, and political science.

*Ask about the Special Non-Profit price on this title


 
#13016/0685   42 minutes 2009  $229.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

CAREER COMPASS: Exploring Occupations (4 Programs)
Explore careers in child development, clothing and textiles, food and nutrition, and housing and interior design with this great series! Learn what these jobs entail as well as related careers.

JOBS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
A variety of professionals are employed by proud parents and concerned care providers to ensure the health, education and general well-being of their children. Gain insight into the personality and skills required to become a social worker, developmental therapist, childcare worker and teacher. Learn what these jobs entail as well as other careers relating to the growth and development of children. 29 minutes

JOBS IN CLOTHING, TEXTILES AND FASHION
Many different people work in clothing and fashion - and they're not all cut from the same cloth! Each professional plays a very different role in transforming a piece of fabric into a garment or the inspiration for a fashion publication. Explore the world of a clothing designer, fashion journalist and boutique owner and learn about other career opportunities available in the clothing and textiles industry. 27 minutes

JOBS IN FOOD AND NUTRITION
Many people don't realize where - or who - their food comes from. But farmers, chefs, scientists and health care workers all play a role in the story of what we eat every day. Learn how these professionals combine their efforts to produce, prepare, develop and evaluate food and ensure nutrition. Discover related jobs and the education and experiences beneficial to building a career in food and nutrition. 29 minutes

JOBS IN HOUSING AND INTERIOR DESIGN
Many professionals work together to create a house, long before it becomes a home. Explore the careers of an architect, general contractor and interior designer and other related professionals. Learn how their combined knowledge turns the idea of a house into a reality. See what each job entails-from planning to meeting with clients, to solving problems and completing a project. Discover the role business skills play and the type of education required. 29 minutes
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*Closed Captioned
*Includes online Guide
 
#13015/1120  2010  $399.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC 
    

BLACK MONEY
Investigate the invisible and shadowy world of international bribery. FRONTLINE reveals how multi-national companies create slush funds, set up front companies, and make secret payments, all to get billions in business. A small group of lawyers at the U.S. Justice Department is pursuing an aggressive crackdown against those business practices, which the World Bank says amount of almost a trillion dollars a year in payments. At the center of this is a controversial, ongoing investigation into the British-based multi-national BAE Systems and allegations about billion dollar bribes.

*Closed Captioned
 
#13013/1725   60 minutes 2009  $99.95 *CC 
    

JERUSALEM: Center of the World DVD
It's arguably one of the most fascinating and complicated cities in the world. Covering a history of over 4,000 years, and together with historians and scholars, host Ray Suarez explores the founding of Jerusalem and the birth and convergence of the world's three major monotheistic religions there. Suarez lends voice to the key events in the city's history and looks at Jerusalem's constantly shifting role in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, illuminating the facts and religious beliefs that have led thousands to live and die for this city.

*Closed Captioned


 
#13012/1725   120 minutes 2009  $99.95 *CC 
    

GREEN BUILDERS - DVD
A quiet green revolution in the building world is evolving. Green Builders profiles green building pioneers who have taken the leap into making their part of the "built environment" a more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly place. Their homes and offices are the proving grounds for green building; revealing that building greener is less complicated and expensive than you probably thought, and more rewarding in the long run.

*Closed Captioned
 
#13008/1725   60 minutes 2009  $99.95  Grades 9 to 12 *CC 
    

POWDER AND THE GLORY (THE) DVD
Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden - two women from meager means who immigrated to the U.S. nearly a hundred years ago, reinvented themselves and ultimately created the cosmetics, health, and beauty industry we know today. This film focuses on their lives, their times and their rivalry.

*Closed Captioned
 
#13003/1725   90 minutes 2007  $99.95 *CC 
    

DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING: Tips from the Trenches
Ideal for Students of Film and to expose students earlier in their communications courses to documentary filmmaking. Learn from Academy Award winners and nominees, first time filmmakers and 50-year veterans as they discuss the technical, legal, ethical and business issues of documentary film. Thirty filmmakers discuss the art and craft of documentary filmmaking covering everything from finding a story, starting the process, shooting, editing, legal and ethical issues to tackling financial and distribution challenges.
 
#13001/2003   83 minutes 2009  $139.95 *Streaming available 
    

PASSION FOR SUSTAINABILITY (A)

"The documentary may well spark discussions and perhaps inspire others to consider adopting a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly approach in their business plans." Video Librarian

Envision a society where economic opportunity, social justice and sustainable culture all depend on environmental stewardship. Imagine a world where nurturing the health of the planet is the catalyst for global financial success and social stability. Can you? Ten years ago, 14 business owners in Portland, Oregon did. They looked at their business plans through the lens of environmental sustainability and began the journey to create businesses that would be responsible for Earth's natural systems while building economic growth. Along the way, all 14 developed "a passion for sustainability". Join these inspiring pioneers as they describe the journeys they have taken, the challenges and unseen rewards they have experienced and their ultimate vision of a sustainable culture. Prepare to be inspired, motivated and energized to begin your journey and find your own Passion for Sustainability. .
*Also included - 25 minutes of Special Features on DVD menu - Interview with Natural Step Founder, Dr. Kark Hendrik Robert, plus a 10 minute Natural Step 10 year Anniversary Video

 
#12998/1287   56 minutes 2008  $149.95 *Streaming available 
    

IN THE KITCHEN SERIES (6 Programs) DVD
Six new and fully revised programs exploring kitchen math and measuring, cooking techniques, food preparation, microwaves, kitchen utensils, and knife skills. The six programs in the series are:

KNIFE KNOWLEDGE 101: Making the Cut
Spend a school day with professional chef Christopher Koetke as he describes the parts of a knife from tip to tang, different types of knives, the proper way to handle and care for them, and the jobs they do best. Learn basic knife techniques like chopping, cubing, dicing and more, as well as some handy tips to help cut more difficult food like an avocado and a pineapple. By the end you'll be sharp enough to make the cut! 29 minutes

KITCHEN TOOLS AND UTENSILS: Everything But the Kitchen Sink
Spatula, spoon, whisk, rolling pin - there are so many utensils in the kitchen! These utensils are what make cooking and baking possible. But with so many options, how do you know which cup or spoon is right for the job? Or what the difference is between a masher and a ricer? Watch as a professional chef demonstrates how to use common kitchen tools that scoop, stir, cut, and smash, as well as other miscellaneous utensils. 23 minutes

MICROWAVE MYSTERIES: Beep, Zap, Defrost!
Most people know what a microwave is, but do we really know what goes on in there? Trace the workings of a microwave from the wall socket to the magnetron tube to a warm meal. See how excited molecules create heat that cooks food, and discover why some foods explode while others don't. And what about aluminum foil - can it go in the microwave? Are microwaves really safe to use? Understand the answers to these questions as well as how to use power levels and other common microwave features. 26 minutes

KITCHEN MATH AND MEASURING: How it All Adds Up!
Pick up a cookbook and you'll find that recipes include any number of...well...numbers! Explore the world of math and measuring from the perspective of a chef. Step inside the kitchen to learn different tools for measuring liquid and dry ingredients, how and why we measure heat, and equivalent measures for U.S. and Metric systems. Using cookies as our inspiration, we'll show you how to halve and double a basic recipe. 22 minutes

FOOD PREPARATION TECHNIQUES: Slice, Dice and Roll!
Preparation time: 15 Minutes. But what goes on during that time? How do we change whole foods into foods ready to cook or eat? Learn techniques to grate, peel, scoop and shred to help prepare different foods. Realize how different methods of mixing food involve strength while others require finesse. See how to prepare meat and vegetables for a variety of cooking methods by basting, breading, brushing, dredging and marinating them. 29 minutes

COOKING TECHNIQUES: How It All Boils Down
Looking to cook something new, but unsure where to start? Observe as a professional chef and his students work step-by-step to demonstrate 13 common cooking techniques using dry-heat methods like baking, broiling, and roasting, and moist-heat methods like blanching, boiling and steaming. Discover that delicious homemade meals aren't that complicated, and are much more rewarding than ordering takeout! 29 minutes

*Each program is CC and includes Teaching Guides
 
#12995/1120  2010  $589.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC 
    

SMART MONEY SERIES (3 Programs)
For more than a decade at CNN and CNBC, financial expert John Metaxas has reported on financial markets and major financial news events. And, after anchoring news programs like CNN's Your Money, he offers solid tips and advice for saving, investing, budgeting and spending. You'll also hear candid discussions from young adults as they share their own personal experiences with finances and credit. Some good and some not so good, but they are all practical tools for teaching smart money skills!

*This series includes the following programs. Each includes an Instructor's Guide:

CREDIT BASICS - Did you know that bad credit can keep you from getting a job, renting an apartment, buying a car and even a cell phone? Credit can be a valuable financial tool, but it can also be trouble. That's why you need Credit Basics, a practical look at credit: why you need it, how to build it and what it can do for you (both good and bad.) Also learn about credit card use and the different credit card options available. 27 minutes

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BANKING - Hear stories of students and young adults with varying levels of financial responsibility - from budgeting to opening a checking and savings account to choosing the best investment options. Their experiences teach sensible ways to spend, save and invest. 25 minutes

CONSUMER SMARTS - Offers tried-and-true techniques for succeeding in the real world. Do you know what to look for in a cell phone contract before signing it? Or how to protect yourself from identity theft? Are you a smart shopper? Can you spot a scam? With Consumer Smarts, you'll learn all this and more, including the latest in online tools and technology. Watch as students and young adults make online purchases, research products and budget for everyday expenses like groceries, entertainment and rent. 27 minutes
 
#12990/1280  2009  $349.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

SIX TIPS FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN SIZZLE
Information-packed, this program shows how to use the "six tips plan" to graphic design. Friends help Kelsey with a design dilemma as she creates a poster for a charity drive. With the help of their school Art/Business teacher, they develop a poster that "works" - in other words - it includes all important information and catches the attention of other students!
Covers the following marketing tools: A picture says a thousand words; Divide and conquer; Answer the 5 Ws; Use the "Z" format; Reverse the font and catch the eye; and, Forget the feet.

*Includes Teaching materials
 
#12986/1290   12 minutes 2005  $79.95  Grades 7 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

VIDEO PRODUCTION SERIES (6 Programs) DVD

Learn the basics from the experts at videomaker. There's no better way to learn to create video than be watching the pros in action! Videomaker Magazine has helped thousands of users make better videos through its comprehensive, instructional line of video programming. Basic Shooting, Sound Success, Video Editing, Lighting Techniques, Introduction to Desktop Video and Advanced Shooting detail the fundamentals of producing quality, professional-looking productions.

GREEN SCREEN TIPS AND TRICKS
Learn all you need to know about using a green screen. We present several step-by-step demonstrations on common uses of a green screen and include a special tutorial on changing virtual backgrounds. From green screen lighting, editing software tools and how to recreate carious green screen special effects, this DVD will leave you ready to put your green screen skills to use! 42 minutes

FIELD AUDIO
Essential techniques on capturing audio for video. Learn how to place microphones for interviews and events. Tips on using wireless lavaliere microphones, hidden microphones, boom microphones and digital video recorders. From mic placement to understanding wireless technology, this collection combines many techniques to get you started with capturing Field Audio! 43 minutes

VIDEO LIGHTING TIPS
Teaches advanced tricks on the best way to work with light and shadow in your production. As an extra bonus, this disc has some of our best associated articles for viewing this DVD on a computer. 29 minutes

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Learn classic special effects used by Hollywood FX creators. From glitter FX to making bullet holes, fake fire and safely running your actor down by a car, this DVD takes your special effects skills to a higher level. With creativity and knowledge you can incorporate some big budget Hollywood techniques using low budget camera tricks and editing software. Discover how to use green screen effects to put your characters in any setting.
As a special bonus we have included step-by-step screen recorded presentations of how we produced some of these special effects using Adobe premiere, Adobe Photoshop, and Particle Illusion. 25 minutes

CREATING ACTION VIDEOS
From shooting fight scenes to perfecting your action scene transitions, this program demonstrates many ways to help you create and improve your Action Videos. 28 minutes

ONLINE VIDEO
Online Video Production gives you new insight into creating video projects for online video sharing sites. As an extra bonus, the DVD comes with several of Videomaker's best articles (in .pdf format) with specific interest to creators of online video, including compression techniques, shooting video for the web and online video marketing advice. This DVD will help you get the best out of internet video! 32 minutes

 
#12985/2003  2010  $259.95 *Streaming available 
    

COMMUNICATION AND THE ARTS
In today’s world, "communications" and "the arts" mean more than just the things you’d find on a newsstand or in a museum. This program introduces viewers to three Digital Age communications professionals - a video editor, a desktop publisher, and an audio technician - and a trio of somewhat unconventional artists: an animator, a photographer, and a fashion designer.

*Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act.

*A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online.

*Part of the series TOP CAREERS IN TWO YEARS
 
#12979/0635   21 minutes 2009  $119.95 
    

HOW TO WRITE AND PRODUCE YOUR OWN HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
Geared specifically to educators and produced by a working drama teacher, this program offers practical, hands-on guidance for creating an original high school musical. Viewers learn six essential components and ten key steps to writing and staging a production that entertains, engages, and boosts ticket sales! Designed for step-by-step viewing, the video is divided into two main sections - writing and producing - with the following chapters: What You Need, The Time-Table, The Writing Process, Plot Diagram, Conflict Development, Writing Music, The Finished Script, The Production Schedule, Blocking, Auditions and Callbacks, Rehearsals and Tech Week, Final Dress Rehearsal, and Opening Night. The DVD version contains bonus features, including additional tips and video excerpts.
***CC
 
#12978/0635   38 minutes 2009  $179.95 *CC 
    

WORLD FOODS: MEXICAN Cooking
The cuisine of Mexico is a fiesta - a celebration of the senses. Cookbook author and world traveler Paulette Mitchell explains traditional Mexican ingredients, such as fresh and dried chilies, tortillas, cheeses, vegetables, beans, and beverages. She demonstrates the preparation of tasty recipes including guacamole, two salsas, quesadillas, tortilla soup, and chilies rellenos, and she explains how to combine them into a festive meal that will delight family and friends.

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned

*See also the ACTIVITY PACKET #12977-W sold separately
Fun and creative activities and worksheets on Mexican cooking to supplement the World Foods: Mexican Cooking video. Includes food vocabulary list, puzzles, classroom activities, creative writing assignments, and more.
 
#12977/1290   20 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
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HERBS AND SPICES
The essence of the world's cuisines is based on indigenous ingredients and flavorings. Most important are the herbs and spices which give the cuisines their personalities. Instead of the artificial (and unhealthy) flavorings found in most processed (junk/fast) foods, alternatives do exist through the use of natural and healthy herbs and spices. Cookbook author Paulette Mitchell explains how to cook with herbs and spices as she shows how to make Herb-Roasted Vegetables, Caprese Salad, Basil Pesto and Pesto Butter - delicious, flavorful, easy-to-prepare recipes.

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned
 
#12976/1290   18 minutes 2009  $69.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: Methods in the Social Sciences
This program discusses the types of questions addressed through qualitative research and considers problems of validity in the process, protocols, and analysis of qualitative research. It examines such forms of qualitative textual analysis as rhetorical criticism, conversation analysis, and content analysis and looks at the primary methods of qualitative research used throughout the social sciences.

 
#12965/0880   20 minutes 2006  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH: Methods in the Social Sciences DVD
Introduces quantitative research and shows the types of questions covered by quantitative research methods. It examines such measurement issues as validity, sampling, and distribution; discusses the protocols of experimental design and statistical analysis; and covers survey design, scales of measure, sampling procedures, and data analysis.
 
#12964/0880   20 minutes 2006  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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METHODS OF HEAT TRANSFER
Using numerous examples of how heat transfer is used in everyday life, this fascinating program takes students on a lively journey through the mechanisms and practicalities of heat transfer, clearly explaining the mechanisms of conduction, convection and radiation and introducing the concept of thermal capacity of an object.
 
#12961/0545   23 minutes 2007  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

CATCHING THE SUN: The Physics of Solar Energy
Two forms of energy that we use every day are electrical energy and heat. During the 20th century we came to rely on fossil fuels as the ultimate source of these energy forms but now, energy from renewable sources is becoming more commonly used. This program investigates the three main ways in which we currently use solar energy to power our homes: solar hot water, solar photovoltaic - solar panels to generate electricity directly, and solar thermal arrays that use heat from sunlight to generate electricity in large commercial plants. We explain the science involved in each type in straightforward terms, look at practical considerations and take a look at new developments in this exciting area of renewable energy generation.
 
#12959/0545   32 minutes 2008  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

GEOGRAPHIC METHODS AND TECHNIQUES (Powerpoint)
This CD-ROM presentation examines the techniques and methods used by geographers to gather and analyze data. It covers such topics as the scientific method, quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, field techniques, cartography, remote sensing, and geographic information systems. PowerPoint Mac/Win
 
#12954/0880  2008  $189.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

ARNO PETERS: Radical Map, Remarkable Man DVD
This fascinating documentary examines the history of how the Peters Equal Area World Map came into being. Includes scenes from THE WEST WING TV show that featured the map as well as cartographic critiques that show the tension and conflict that the Peters map generated amongst the cartographic establishment.

*Loaded with hours of bonus features!
25+ video resources: Peters outtakes, Faith-based origins of the Peters Map and 7 movie trailers

Print Resources: Peters Map Explanation, journal articles,
State of the Village Report, and More

150+ PowerPoint images for your use in the classroom
Ten MP3 Audio files
Plus lesson plans and web links

*See also MANY WAYS TO SEE THE WORLD - a fascinating exploration into the minds of twelve mapmakers.
 
#12952/1565   29 minutes 2009  $99.95 
    

RESEARCH ETHICS
This program examines ethical issues in social, natural sciences, and health research. It covers such topics as plagiarism, crediting of sources, falsification of data, the use of human and animal subjects, informed consent, privacy, and conflicts of interest.
 
#12948/0880   21 minutes 2008  $269.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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RESEARCH PROCESS: Research Design (Powerpoint Mac/Win)
Outlining the entire research process, this presentation examines research design. Discusses the questions a researcher must ask to determine the form of research to undertake; describes the components of a research design, including comparison, manipulation, control, and generalizability; and introduces such research design types as experimental research design, quasi-experimental research design, cross-sectional research design, pre-experimental design, and combined design. The presentation covers such topics as control, causality, and sampling.


 
#12947/0880  2009  $229.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

PHYSICS IN ACTION SERIES (5 Programs)
Can the study of physics be fun? This clever five-part series answers "Yes!" by presenting essential facts, formulas, and laws of physics through real-world examples, illustrative animations, and a likeable field guide named Mr. Physics who makes complicated concepts easier to understand. End-of-section reviews are included throughout each program, and equations are worked out, step by step, on-screen.

There are five 25-minute programs in the series:

ENERGY - Talking about energy is tricky because everyday words can also have specialized scientific meanings. Through the process of defining key terms like "power", "work", and even "energy" itself, this program uses a roller coaster, a harmless train wreck, ice-skaters, a boulder, a human cannonball, night-vision goggles, and a supernova to introduce students to kinetic and potential energy, electrical energy, chemical energy, nuclear energy, and conduction, convection, and radiation of heat. #13203

FORCES AND MOTION - In New York City, there are many ways to travel. Of course, it's a lot easier if you're a bird. Using the Big Apple as a living laboratory, this program addresses speed and distance using a pigeon, a taxi, and a tour boat. Additional situations such as the deployment of a Mars rover, a zero-G flight in NASA's Weightless Wonder, a walk on a conveyor belt and a cruising aircraft carrier, and juggling on the Earth and around the Solar System provide opportunities to study the mechanics of velocity and acceleration as well as contact forces and forces that act at a distance. Vector algebra is demonstrated throughout. #13204

PLANETS, STARS AND GALAXIES - Beginning with the history of astronomy (Ptolemy, Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Galileo), this program considers the mathematics of motion (velocity, acceleration); gravity (Kepler's discoveries, Newton's laws, center of gravity, astronomical units); the properties of stars (parallax, flux, luminosity, color, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram); relativity (Einstein's theories, speed of light, space-time); and the large-scale structure of the universe (Big Bang, Cosmological Principle, Hubble's law). Humankind has come a long way in our understanding of the cosmos - but we're still only scratching the surface of astrophysics, with discoveries of incalculable value still waiting to be made. #13205

PROCESSES THAT SHAPED THE EARTH - The Earth is like a living, breathing organism. From its molten core to the upper reaches of the atmosphere, nothing is still. How was the planet formed, and what are the forces that continue to sculpt it? This program uses animated topographical maps, a broken pane of glass, a fortune in diamonds, a floor-sanding machine, stalactites, flowing glaciers, a merry-go-round, a greenhouse, and more to help students visualize the structure and composition of the Earth and the processes that shape our world. Dangerous impacts of humankind - most notably pollution and deforestation - are also considered. #13206

THE NATURE OF MATTER - An elephant and a racing car don't have much in common - except for the remarkable fact that they're made of similar fundamental building blocks. This program takes a simulated subatomic look at a glass of water to better understand the nature of matter, a minuscule world of molecules, atoms, and elementary particles. The behavior of matter under the effects of gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces; the process of scientific experimentation; specifics of atomic structure; the organization of matter via the periodic table; ionic, covalent, and hydrogen bonding; the process of radioactive decay; and the death of fusion-fueled stars are scrutinized as well. #13207

*Viewable/printable instructor's guides are available online

 
#12940/0635  2009  $519.95  Grades 10 to Adult *CC 
    

NEW MUSLIM COOL - Education Edition

"Almost single-handedly, NEW MUSLIM COOL challenges the distortions, stereotypes, and misunderstandings around Islam - A new outlook on Islam in America."
Professor Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University

"I look forward to showing it in my classroom in years to come and can hardly wait to hear what students might say about the intersections of race, class, gender, and religion that are highlighted in every frame."
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

"A thoughtful, inspirational, and transformative production that defies any and all expectations. NEW MUSLIM COOL is a riveting film that not only captures the complexity of contemporary American Muslim life, culture, and music, but also explores and disrupts our notions of Hip Hop Culture, Latino and Black communities in the U.S., and the current state of interfaith relations."
Professor H. Samy Alim, Department of Anthropology, UCLA

Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez left drug dealing 12 years ago, and started down a new path as a young Muslim. Now he's moved to Pittsburgh's tough North Side to start a new religious community for African American and Latino Muslims, rebuild his shattered family, and take his message of faith to the streets through his uncompromising hip-hop music. Raising his two kids as a single dad and longing for companionship, Hamza finds love on a Muslim networking website and seizes the chance for happiness in a second marriage. But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world, and challenge himself. He starts reaching for a deeper understanding of his faith, discovering new connections with people from Christian and Jewish communities.
NEW MUSLIM COOL takes viewers on Hamza's ride through the streets, projects and jail cells of urban America, following his spiritual journey to some surprising places - where we can all see ourselves reflected in a world that never stops changing.

*This EDUCATION Edition includes the original feature-length version of the film (83 minutes) as well as the abridged version (56 minutes) with four standards-based Video Modules to accompany Lesson Plans with Classroom Activities.
 
#12934/1897   83 minutes 2009  $389.95 
    

FOODSERVICE EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS - DVD
This program teaches students the basics about equipment and tools used in foodservice kitchens. Professional chefs Tim Cockram, Dave Christopherson, and Jason Hudock take a look at everything from a teaspoon to a walk-in freezer. Chef Jason and Sous Chef Dave identify the tools of the trade, pointing out how construction affects usage, identifying the various utensils, and examining such basics as pots and pans, knives, and bowls. They also talk about how each item is used in a foodservice kitchen. Chef Tim walks students through a commercial kitchen identifying each piece of equipment and describing its characteristics and common uses.

Covers: Knives, Cookware, Utensils, Whips and spoons, Refrigerators and freezers, Ovens, and Steamtables.

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned
 
#12924/1290   18 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

ESSENTIAL CHEMISTRY SERIES (5 Programs)
Filmed at Widener University and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, this series spotlights foundational aspects of chemistry that every science student needs to know. Footage of laboratory experiments reinforcing important concepts, sophisticated animations illustrating technical points of discussion, and commentary by experts passionate about science make this series an indispensable educational tool.

*There are five programs in the series:

ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND COMPOUNDS
All matter in the observable universe - from a single blade of grass to a planet in a faraway galaxy - is made up of atoms, molecules, and compounds. This program introduces these minuscule building blocks in five sections: The Nucleus (protons and neutrons, energy shells, binding energy, fission and fusion); The Electrons (quantum numbers, spdf orbitals); The Elements (periodic table, valence electrons, ions and ionization energy, electronegativity, covalent and ionic bonds); The Energy of Atoms (exothermic and endothermic reactions, spontaneous reactions, Gibbs free energy, activation energy, catalysts); and Common Compounds (properties of sodium chloride and water, polarity). 25 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

CHEMICAL REACTIONS
What do fireworks, a fried egg, and a rusting truck have in common? They all involve chemical reactions. This program illustrates the mechanics of chemical reactions in five sections: Chemical Reactions (reactants and products, state changes, diatomic elements and molecules, Law of Conservation of Mass); Chemical Bonding (Octet Rule, ionic and covalent bonds); Types of Chemical Reactions (synthesis and decomposition reactions, single and double displacement reactions, acid/base reactions, exothermic and endothermic reactions); Reaction Rates (moles, kinetic energy, solutes and solvents, catalysts, activators and inhibitors, enzymes); and Reactions All Around Us (photosynthesis and chemosynthesis, autotrophs and photoautotrophs, bioluminescence). 28 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

METALS
On the periodic table, three-quarters of all the elements are classified as one sort of metal or another. Divided into five sections, this program provides a thorough overview of metals: Metals in Our World (includes iron, lithium, magnesium, mercury, potassium, silver, sodium, uranium, zinc); Alkali Metals (history and properties of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, francium); Alkaline Earth Metals (history and properties of beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, radium); Transition Metals (properties of iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, silver, gold, zinc, cadmium, mercury); and Metals and Chemical Reactions (exothermic and endothermic reactions, oxidation and combustion reactions, acid/base reactions). 26 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

THE PERIODIC TABLE
Much more than a list of elements, the periodic table is a snapshot of how matter is organized on Earth and throughout the universe. Divided into five sections, this program looks at the history and components of the periodic table: The History of the Periodic Table (from the atomos of Democritus to the atoms of Mendeleev); Metals (how to read the periodic table, transition metals, alkali metals, alkaline earth metals); Lanthanides, Actinides, and Transuranium Elements (properties of lanthanides and actinides, transuranium and transfermium elements); The BCNOs (properties of metalloids, other metals, and nonmetals); and Halogens and Noble Gases (properties and applications of halogens and noble gases).
24 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

STATES OF MATTER
This program scrutinizes the concept of phase transitions - from naturally occurring changes in state to those created in laboratories - in five sections: Solids, Liquids, and Gases (properties of molecules in different states; hydrogen bonds, dipole-dipole forces, dispersion forces; effects of temperature, pressure, and volume on atomic and molecular movement; Ideal Gas Law); Evaporation and Condensation (intermolecular forces, boiling/condensing point, endothermic reactions); Melting and Freezing (melting/freezing point, ionic and covalent bonds, cations and anions); Sublimation and Deposition (triple points and phase diagrams); and Other States of Matter (plasma, liquid crystals, Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluids and supersolids). 22 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

*Viewable/printable instructor's guides are available online
*Closed Captioned


 
#12909/0635  2009  $519.95  Grades 10 to Adult *CC 
    

VIRGIL GOES TO CHINA: An Introductory Course in Spoken Mandarin (5 Programs in 2 Cases)
A hands-on introduction to Mandarin Chinese, this set of videos provides vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, appropriate usage, and the realistic setting for the words and phrases. The narrative concerns Virgil, a young tourist visiting China; scenes of contemporary China provide the context for the language skills taught. The communication topics consist of Food and Eating, Buying Things, Planning the Day, Getting around the City, and Getting There; the combination of animation and documentary footage is designed to motivate interest and make the lessons more easily remembered.

*Five-part set, 15 minutes each.
 
#12892/0635  $289.95 
    

NAOMI WOLF: In-Depth
In this companion program available with purchase of THE BEAUTY MYTH, Naomi Wolf addresses key implications, criticisms, and the most commonly asked questions raised by the main program. In this exclusive bonus presentation she covers:

How the Beauty Myth is different from earlier critiques
Why the Beauty Myth is a priority among issues facing women
Beauty & the Illusion of Power
"Attractiveness" and Social Rewards
The Healthy Role of Beauty and Attraction
How to Stop the Struggle for Perfection
Mixed Messages: Health vs. Beauty
Self-Esteem and Dieting
Ethnicity & the Beauty Myth ... and much, much more!

 
#12887/0920   23 minutes 2009  $99.95 *Streaming available 
    

BEAUTY MYTH: The Culture of Beauty, Psychology, and the Self with Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf presents her definitive treatise on THE BEAUTY MYTH.

On a sweeping historical canvas, from the Industrial Revolution to today's multi-billion-dollar diet and cosmetic industries, Wolf exposes the Beauty Myth as a distinct cultural narrative - a fiction that "beauty" exists objectively and universally.

Having set her stage, Wolf next reveals why "beauty" must be understood within the power structures of political and economic systems and how "beauty" is used as a kind of currency, like money itself. She incisively illustrates how beauty is a story about female identity told through a cultural system of images: a potent narrative designed to sell products and support a hierarchical system of social relations with devastating consequences for female well-being, and for our most intimate relationships.

From the first printing press to today's women's magazines, Wolf illuminates how, as women made powerful strides in economic and political spheres, the Beauty Myth took hold as a new set of fictions, and as a new sphere of control. She reveals how "beauty" came to replace domesticity as a core social virtue, with its own injunctions and prescriptions, not unlike religion itself. With wit and clarity, Wolf illustrates why the Beauty Myth has nothing to do with appearances - but, instead, with channeling female identity into an ever-narrowing sphere of consumption, competition, and anxiety.

From workplace equality and sexual harassment, to cosmetic surgery and eating disorders, to the very core of social and romantic relationships, Wolf powerfully illuminates the psychological and physiological ravages of the Beauty Myth.

Naomi Wolf wraps this extraordinary six-part DVD presentation within a stirring vision of how we might transcend the Beauty Myth by shedding light on the cultural and economic systems that perpetuate it.

*Menu for easy reference:
Revolution and Subversion
The Ideal and "Preoccupation"
The Calorie Obsession
Modified Bodies & Sexuality
Aging as Disease
Reclaiming Beauty and Identity

See also NAOMI WOLF: IN DEPTH (#12887) the 23-minute companion program available with purchase of The Beauty Myth!
 
#12886/0920   50 minutes 2009  $399.95 *Streaming available 
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CAREERS IN HOSPITALITY: Service and Adventure
As you explore the many career options available in today's world, you may want to take a fresh look at an exciting choice. This program goes behind the scenes to show all the possibilities of a career in hospitality management. You'll learn from people working in the field about restaurant management, hotel management and event and conference management.

An education in hospitality management can lead to a career at restaurants, hotels, resorts, or even the high seas to manage hospitality on a cruise ship. Provides an up-to-date overview of the hospitality industry.

*Teaching materials included
*Closed Captioned 
#12884/1290   18 minutes 2009  $89.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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CYBERCRIME: World Wide War 3.0
The tools required to fight Internet-based offenses must constantly evolve and adapt. Unfortunately, so do the criminals. This program examines several forms of cyber-crime and their impact on law enforcement, national security, the corporate world, and society at large. Taking a global approach, the film presents interviews with American and European experts on cyber-terrorism, identity theft, child pornography, and other disturbing crimes. Frank Cilluffo, director of The George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute, focuses on the terrorism issue, while case studies shed light on recent high-tech assaults originating in Russia and China.

*Portions in other languages with English subtitles

*See also CAUGHT IN THE WEB: Hunting the Predators
 
#12878/0635   55 minutes 2008  $189.95 *CC 
    

KING LEAR (Great Performances)
William Shakespeare's unrelenting King Lear is considered to be one of the playwright's most enduring and haunting works for the stage. The challenge of playing its title role has long fallen to some of the greatest actors of our time. This telecast marks Sir Ian McKellen's return to the Royal Shakespeare Company that has resulted in a tour-de-force performance as Lear. Co-directed for television by Sir Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt.

*Closed Captioned:

PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS

"The classiest thing on TV this week is the Trevor Nunn-directed Royal Shakespeare Company production of "King Lear" starring Sir Ian McKellen on "Great Performances"..." - Roger Catlin, HARTFORD COURANT

"At his best, McKellen invests Lear with a breathtaking range of human qualities, making him at once impish and imperious, doddering and poised to command." - Louise Kennedy - THE BOSTON GLOBE

"Directed by Tony Award winner Trevor Nunn, the production features a shattering performance by McKellen in the title role as the elderly king..." - John Crook - THE BUFFALO NEWS


 
#12859/1725   150 minutes 2009  $99.95 *CC 
    

IS COLLEGE FOR ME? Looking Toward the Future
This teen friendly documentary-style program helps middle school students understand why they need to start thinking about college now. Real students from four year, two year and technical programs share their personal experiences, their decisions to pursue higher education, and the availability of financial aid. Viewers will learn how different college is from middle and high school, and why basic skills such as reading, writing, and problem solving will serve them well in the future.
 
#12853/0235   16 minutes 2009  $109.95  Grades 7 to 12 *Streaming available 
    

ACADEMIC SUCCESS: Smart Tips for Serious Students (6 Programs) DVD
The transition from high school to college is a lot bigger than many students realize. Help them make the most of their college academic experience with this series filled with facts, hints, insights, and observations from experts in the field of education and from students who know the ropes. Topics include values and goals; time management; critical thinking and problem-solving; active listening and note-taking; researching, reading, and writing; and studying and test-taking.

Consists of six 10 to 12 minute programs:

VALUES AND GOALS - What are values? What are goals? And how are they connected? These questions are easy to ask, but they’re not so simple to answer. This three-section program combines commentary from educators and students with in-class exercise segments to explore the meaning of values and goals and illustrate how they steer and shape a person’s life - in college and beyond.
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

TIME MANAGEMENT - Compared to high school, where the day is structured down to the minute, college is a blank do-it-yourself calendar. Classes, clubs, sports, part-time jobs - assignments, projects, exams - even time to hang out: all must be penciled in! Over the course of this three-section program, viewers will learn to side-step common time-management errors and plan out their semesters so they can take control of their time and enjoy a healthy work/life balance.
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING -By defining critical thinking and examining how it’s applied to the process of problem-solving, this two-section program will show viewers how to handle whatever challenges come their way. An in-class discussion segment on critical thinking explains how to rationally assess a statement and express disagreement, while a similar segment on problem-solving considers what to do when preparing for what appears to be an overwhelmingly tough exam.
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

ACTIVE LISTENING AND NOTE-TAKING - Lectures and labs are the heart of the college academic experience, and for students eager to make the most of them, active listening and note-taking are powerful learning tools. This two-section program explains how to create a bulletproof listening/note-taking loop that ensures deeper understanding and better recall. Pre-class reading, in-class participation, and post-class review are stressed.
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

RESEARCHING, READING, AND WRITING -
Faced with a mountain of research to conduct, reading to do, and papers to write, students must work both efficiently and shrewdly. This three-section program tells how to identify and cite reliable online and offline sources of information, carve textbook chapters into manageable chunks, and outline and revise papers - all elements that are essential to getting the job done well.
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

STUDYING AND TEST-TAKING - Studying is a process, not a last-minute event. It takes strategy to consistently make the grade - both before a test and during. This two-section program brings together educators and students to discuss things that viewers can do to increase their understanding of course material, enhance their ability to memorize, and improve their performance during exams.
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

*A viewable/printable instructor's guide for each program is available online



 
#12832/0635  2009  $449.95 *CC 
    

GROCERY SHOPPING CHALLENGE (THE)
Looking for the most bang for your buck at the grocery store? Want to know the nutrition values in the aisles of your grocery store? Look no further! Get the inside scoop on what stores do to get you to spend more at the checkout. Join Megan and Josh as they venture their way through the grocery store with the same shopping list to see who gets the better nutrition value and price for eight common grocery items. Learn some tricks grocery stores use to get you to spend more, and how to separate the hype from the deals so you can eat well for less.

*Teaching materials included
*Closed Captioned
 
#12831/1290   13 minutes 2009  $69.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

GOING TO GREEN Educator's Toolkit (5 Programs) DVD
A new way to inspire environmental action in schools and communities!

"GOING TO GREEN is unparalleled in its narrative inventiveness, compelling visual imagery, and intellectual rigor. While designed for high school students, it is also perfectly suited to introductory courses for community based organizations."
Professor Jennifer Wolch, Director, USC Center for Sustainable Cities

The GOING TO GREEN EDUCATOR'S TOOLKIT is a first-of-its-kind program that's been tested in educational and community institutions and given high marks - with good reason! Detailed academic curriculum and service-based learning activities build knowledge to help tackle challenges like land use, waste disposal, clean air, energy and more - and promote good citizenship. Powerful video segments showcase everyday people across the country educating, inspiring, and empowering others to build sustainable communities.

Each of the 19 units of integrated curriculum include:
* Thematic, multidisciplinary lesson plans
* Real-life case studies on video
* Readings with discussion questions
* Activities, reproducibles, handouts, extensions, and Web resources

Each of the five programs is also available separately:

Program One - TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY
Video episodes: Education in Action, Understanding Sustainability, Building Community, and Waste Management.
Bonus Video: Measuring the Effects of Community

Program Two - ELEMENTS OF SUSTAINABILITY
Video episodes: Green Building, Energy, Air Quality, and Water Quality.
Bonus Videos: Waterways, Biodiversity, and Geographical Boundaries; and Biodiesel: Fueling a Greener Future.

Program Three - BALANCING GREEN SPACE WITH THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Video episodes: Soil Quality, Parks and Open Spaces, Transportation, and Biodiversity.
Bonus Videos: The Millennium Park Bike Station, Using Renewable Energy in Chicago's Millennium Park, Millennium Park: Public Private Partnerships, Billy Frank: Protector of Salmon, Commercial Salmon Fisherman Doug Fricke, and The Little Train That Didn't.

Program Four - IMPLEMENTING URBAN GREENING
Video episodes: Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens, Urban Forestry, Urban Planning, and Integrated Resource Management.
Bonus Videos: Green Space and Increased Property Values, What Makes a City Great, and The Los Angeles River.

Program Five - PUBLIC POLICY AND GREEN COLLAR OPPORTUNITIES
Video episodes: Environmental Justice, Public Policy and Community Action, Sustainable Commerce, and Green Collar Careers.
Bonus Video: Quality of Life and Business Success.

Social Studies Standard Themes
Culture; Time, Continuity, and Change; People, Places, and Environment; Individual Development and Identity; Individuals, Groups, and Institutions; Power, Authority, and Governance; Production, Distribution, and Consumption; Science, Technology, and Society; Global Connections; Civic Ideals and Practices

Science Standard Themes
Understanding and using the scientific method; Physical Science- chemistry and physics as interconnections to the life sciences; Life Science-molecular basis for heredity, the interdependence of organisms matter, energy and organization in living systems, the behavior of organisms; Earth and Space Science- energy in earth system, geochemical cycles; the origin and evolution of the earth system; Science and Technology -identify a problem or design an opportunity, propose designs and choose between alternative solutions, implement a proposed solution, evaluate the solution and its consequences, communicate the problem, process and solution; Science in Personal and Social Perspectives- personal and community health, population growth, natural resources, environmental quality, natural and human-induced hazards, science and technology in local, national and global challenges; History and Nature of Science - science as a human endeavor, nature of scientific knowledge, historical perspectives.

Running time: 7 1/2 hours on 5 DVDs
 
#12830/1725  2009  $219.95  Grades 9 to 12 *CC 
    

GLUTEN FREE BAKING
Employing Chef Coppedge's five flour blends, this program will teach you how to make delicious baked goods using alternatives to gluten. You'll also learn to prepare molten lava cakes, 1-2-3 cookie dough, pizza crust, pancakes, pie dough, and bagels. And you will even discover the secret to thickening soups and sauces using gluten-free roux. Features include in-depth explanations of gluten-free flour blends, hands-on demonstrations of selected recipes, and tips on flour-blend handling and storage.

*Closed Captioned
 
#12818/0485   105 minutes 2009  $49.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

WE SHALL REMAIN
A provocative series that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history. Five heartbreaking, yet inspiring stories highlight Native ingenuity and resilience over the course of 300 years. Upends two-dimensional stereotypes of American Indians as simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land.

PROGRAMS INCLUDE:

1. AFTER THE MAYFLOWER - In 1621, Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoags of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.

2. TECUMSEH'S VISION - In the course of his brief and meteoric career, Tecumseh would become one of the greatest Native American leaders of all time, orchestrating the most ambitious pan-Indian resistance movement ever mounted on the North American continent. After his death he would live on as a potent symbol of Native pride and pan Indian identity.

3. TRAIL OF TEARS - Though the Cherokee embraced "civilization" and won recognition of tribal sovereignty in the U.S. Supreme Court, their resistance to removal from their homeland failed. Thousands were forced on a perilous march to Oklahoma.

4. GERONIMO - As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to capitulate to the U.S. government, Geronimo was seen by some as the perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties, while to others he was the embodiment of proud resistance.

5. WOUNDED KNEE - In 1973, American Indian Movement activists and residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation occupied the town of Wounded Knee, demanding redress for grievances. As a result of the siege, Indians across the country forged a new path into the future.

BONUS FEATURES INCLUDE:
*The "We Shall Remain" thirty-minute preview film, which combines a sneak preview of the documentary films, with a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the series.
*Scenes from the Native Now project, including films on language, sovereignty, and enterprise.
*Behind the scenes footage, including Apache Dance, Wardrobe and Makeup, Cherokee language, and Nipmuc Language.
*Printable materials for educators and librarians, including resources for social studies educators to integrate Native American history into curricula; bibliographies for each of the five programs; and related Web sites and resources for further learning.
*An Event Kit for Libraries.

PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS:

"In terms of exposition, inspiration, and cross-cultural outreach, you can think of We Shall Remain as the Native America Eyes on the Prize. Like that landmark documentary, this series reminds us that true glory lies in the honest histories of people, not the manipulated histories of governments. This is the stuff they kept from us." -- The Phoenix

"We Shall Remain demystifies a history all but demolished by myth, propaganda, and Hollywood." -- The Phoenix

"...a chronicle of powerful and shocking events." -- The Washington Post
 
#12815/1725   450 minutes 2009  $249.95 *CC 
    

MADOFF AFFAIR (THE)
"...an excellent, level-headed look at what Bernie Madoff did and how he pulled off a massive scam." - John Doyle, GLOBE AND MAIL

FRONTLINE producers Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria unravel the story behind the world's first truly global Ponzi scheme - a deception that lasted longer, reached wider, and cut deeper than any other business scandal in history.

*This film contains strong language. Viewer discretion is advised
*Closed Captioned
 
#12814/1725   60 minutes 2009  $99.95 *CC 
    

EASY BEING GREEN
"...teenagers explain environmental issues and ways to save energy and live a greener lifestyle. The organization and length of this program make it very classroom friendly for use in science, consumer economics, and current issues classes."
School Library Journal, November 2009

Everyone's talking about the environment and saving energy, but what are some easy steps anyone can take to lessen their impact on the environment? Join students as they share easy green solutions and explain how to make green choices highlighted in the four chapters.

In Your Planet: Love It or Leave It - viewers learn that the U.S. makes up only 5% of the world's population, but consumes 25% of the world's resources. They are introduced to the environmental issues at stake and the activities that use the most energy.
What Color Are Your Wheels? Getting Around Green - is all about transportation. Viewers will learn how they drive not only impacts the environment, but also their pocketbooks. A demonstration is shown how to properly inflate a car's tires.
Living Green at Home - Easy Everyday Habits offers easy solutions of what you can do around the house to save energy.
All Wired Up: Electronics' Ugly Energy Secret - discusses how our electronics waste energy. Viewers discover why some electronics are energy hogs, what phantom energy is, and why they should look for the Energy Star logo when purchasing new.

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned

 
#12813/1290   20 minutes 2009  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

MONTESSORI METHOD (THE)
Italian physician Maria Montessori developed the Montessori method in the early 1900s while observing that children learn best when engaged in purposeful activity. Dr. Montessori inspired a movement that enabled children to teach themselves through sensory-rich, hands-on materials, nurture and love. Montessori's philosophy and practices have since spread and widely influenced the educational landscape.

Discover the ways in which Montessori classrooms differ from the traditional school setting in this enlightening documentary. Observe different levels of Montessori, including infants, toddlers, early childhood, and elementary, and how each utilizes the Montessori method.

Viewers will learn:
· Characteristics of a Montessori classroom
· How children teach themselves
· What is most appealing about Montessori?
· What are sensitive periods?
· The role of the teacher in Montessori
· How conflict is handled

*Teaching materials included
*Closed Captioned
 
#12812/1290   17 minutes 2009  $89.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT: Furniture Styles
What's your design style? Do you prefer the excessive embellishment of the Victorian era or austere minimalism of contemporary design? Join award-winning principal designer Brandi Hagen of Eminent Interior Design on a tour of furniture showrooms to discover the distinguishing characteristics of furniture and decorating styles.

Brandi gives viewers insight into the furnishings and finishes of eleven different styles, including: Traditional; Victorian Era; Mission; Art Deco/Nouveau; Retro Style; African Influence; Asian Influence; Southwestern; Shabby Chic; Country; and, Contemporary.

*Teaching Materials included
*Closed Captioned
 
#12811/1290   20 minutes 2009  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT: Green Design
Green design or designing with the environment in mind is not just a trend, but a personal choice to consider your impact on the earth. Discover green options and the components of green interior design. See examples of environmentally friendly design options, including:

· Low-flow and water restricting plumbing choices
· Tile options, including recycled glass and handmade clay tiles
· Unique countertops from recycled paper, concrete, copper, and glass
· Reclaimed or FSC certified wood flooring and recycled or natural-source carpet options
· Energy-efficient appliances
· Lighting, including compact fluorescent bulbs and LEDs
· VOC-free paints
·Organic fabric

*Teaching Materials included
*Closed Captioned

 
#12809/1290   21 minutes 2009  $89.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

e2 DESIGN
Features six 30-minute programs of innovative design. Learn how designers created green spaces in the urban jungle of Cairo, are fighting to rebuild the devastated 9th ward of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and are creating architecture out of junked tires and appliances in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Each episode presents unique design challenges and triumphs which represent true innovation.

1. A GARDEN IN CAIRO
Cairo, a city of 16 million, is one of the most densely populated in the world, with only one square foot of green space per person prior to 2005. His Highness the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, saw the need to relieve this congestion. The result is Al-Azhar Park: a 500-year-old dump-turned-"urban lung" that provides much needed green space and a source of civic pride.

2. THE VILLAGE ARCHITECT - Architect Brian MacKay-Lyons grew up on the shipyards of Nova Scotia and borrows from that lean, economical building tradition in his architecture. From the Barn Yard in his village to the Canadian Embassy in Bangladesh, this episode presents a lesson in local vernacular -- why it works and how it might be the most sustainable form of architecture there is.

3. MELBOURNE REBORN - By the mid-1970s, Melbourne was a dying city. People commuted in to work during the day, but downtown became a ghost town after 5 p.m. This episode explores how leadership and vision transformed the cityscape. Rob Adams, Melbourne's director of design and urban environment, gives a guided tour to show how the city first sought livability, then sustainability, and how the two are inextricably intertwined.

4. THE ART AND SCIENCE OF RENZO PIANO
World-class architect Renzo Piano draws on nature to create a structure that defines a natural history museum for the 21st century. Combining Piano's signature transparency design with a green roof evoking its surroundings, San Francisco's new California Academy of Sciences provides a model for sustainability, and sets a benchmark for how people use, operate and interact with public buildings.

5. NEW ORLEANS: THE WATER LINE - In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the citizens of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward weren't about to watch their community disappear, even as government officials at all levels turned a blind eye to their plight. This story profiles community leaders fighting to rebuild the neighborhood sustainably, and the outsiders - including renowned architect Bob Berkebile, and organizations Global Green and Brad Pitt's Make It Right - who are working to make this possible.

6. SUPER USE - The partners of 2012 Architecten in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, are making surplus superfluous, reusing everything from I-beams, wood floors, car tires, washing machines, stainless steel sinks and even windmill blades as building materials in their creations. 2012 Architecten's work suggests not only a new kind of aesthetic and functionality in sustainable architecture, but also a new approach to design.

*Six 30-minute programs on one disc
*Closed Captioned
 
#12787/1725   180 minutes 2008  $99.95 *CC 
    

BUSINESS STUDIES: Enterprise and Entrepreneurs
The "eureka moment", the ups and downs of starting a business, where to get advice - in this four-segment program, Freeserve founder Ajaz Ahmed, a shop owner, a software developer, an inventor of a better children's toothbrush, and others share their experiences and insights. Motives and Traits describes what makes an entrepreneur; Risks and Rewards tells how entrepreneurs find balance amidst the chaos of a startup; Developing Business Plans explains key elements such as the market profile, sales forecast, and income and cost statement; and Sources of Information and Guidance discusses who to turn to for help.
 
#12777/0635   40 minutes 2008  $199.95 *CC 
    

THIS IS CIVILIZATION SERIES (4 Programs)
In this series, art critic and renowned broadcaster Matthew Collings updates and expands upon the 1969 British television classic "Civilization: A Personal View" as he travels the world in search of art and architecture that illustrate pivotal moments in the history of Western civilization. Each episode in this series addresses a watershed in artistic expression and explores how that transition has shaped Western culture and thought.

There are four 49-minute programs in the series:

YE GODS: Religion and Art
This program considers the debt Western civilization owes to paganism, Christianity, and Islam, showing how each religion has influenced the other and how the art of all three continues to exert an effect on the world. Highlighting the lifelike sculptures of ancient Greece that celebrate what it is to be human; the primitive daubs in Roman catacombs, shimmering Byzantine mosaics, and Renaissance crucifixion scenes; and the dazzling arabesques of Egyptian, Turkish, and Spanish mosques, Matthew Collings points out the common humanity underlying three significantly different worldviews.

FEELINGS: Emotions and Art
The idea of using art to explore the human condition rather than the divine was a significant departure from the predominantly religious artwork that preceded this secular revelation. In this program, Matthew Collings seeks the first glimmerings of humanist art in the Italian Renaissance-particularly in the works of Giotto and Leonardo da Vinci. He also contrasts two 18th-century artists who, in diametrically opposed ways, expressed this new sense of human potential, whether noble or monstrous: Jacques-Louis David and Francisco Goya.

SAVE OUR SOULS: Industrialization and Art
Industrialization in the 19th century, and the widespread human exploitation and personal alienation that characterized it, produced a crisis of faith and shook people's confidence in the very concept of civilization. In this program, Matthew Collings follows in the footsteps of John Ruskin, a social critic who interpreted the ills of his era and believed that art could salve, and perhaps even save, the soul. J. M. W. Turner, William Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites are spotlighted, along with locales particularly significant to Ruskin-the Alps, Venice, his beloved Lake District, and the blasted landscape of over-industrialized northern Britain.

UNCERTAINTY: Modernity and Art
Instead of offering an idealized or ennobled vision of humankind, modern art - -an instrument of the tumultuous 20th century - communicates chaos, anxiety, and above all, uncertainty. In this program, Matthew Collings contrasts the works of Pablo Picasso with the abstracts of Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian and the architecture of Le Corbusier; tells how the Nazis tried to eradicate modern art's uncertainties with some crushing certainties of their own; and shows how modern art's relationship with modern life changed - first with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, then with Pop Art. The program also stretches into contemporary art to ask: What can we still believe in? And is Western civilization nearing its end?
 
#12750/0635  2007  $699.95 
    

HISTORY OF MUSIC (THE) 2nd Edition (8 Programs)
Using period music, magnificent works of art, and colorful diagrams, this updated eight-part series thoroughly examines the Western music tradition: its roots, its major eras and movements, and many of its most significant composers.

* A Discovery Channel Production

There are eight 22 to 28-minute programs in the series:
ORIGINS AND OVERVIEW
When and where did music begin? What functions does music serve in different cultures? What major similarities and differences define the world's musical traditions? And how did early European music get its start? This program sheds light on those and other questions as it discusses the multiplicity of roles of music in different societies. The program also introduces the distinctive characteristics of music and instruments from sub-Saharan Africa, China, Japan, Indonesia, India, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Mediterranean region.
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THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE
This program describes the development of music in Europe between the 2nd and 16th centuries, from the plainchant of the early Christians to the polyphony of the late Renaissance. The motet, chanson, madrigal, chorale, mass, canzone, and songs of the jongleurs, troubadours, and minnesingers are discussed. Instruments such as the psaltery, lute, tromba marina, shawm, buisine, trumpet, trombone, portable organ, harp, and fiedel are illustrated. And key figures including Guillaume de Machaut, Francesco Landini, John Dunstable, Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin des Prez, Claudio Monteverdi, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina are introduced.

THE BAROQUE ERA
Baroque music, which flourished between the years 1600 and 1750, expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance while also firmly establishing opera as a musical genre. In this program, the canzone, suite, sonata, concerto grosso, concerto, toccata, prelude and fugue, chorale prelude, mass, oratorio, and opera are examined. The harpsichord is spotlighted as an iconic Baroque instrument. And pivotal figures such as Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach are singled out.
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INTO THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
This program studies the birth of Classical music, which occurred during the final decades of the Baroque Era, and its maturation up to about 1800. Differences between Baroque and Classical music - particularly in matters of tonality and form - are identified, as a growing middle class and the Age of Enlightenment ushered Johann Stamitz, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven - a transitional figure - into prominence. The gallant and sentimental styles, the sonata and symphony, comic opera, and chamber music are given special attention, and the pianoforte, successor to the harpsichord, is spotlighted.
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EARLY ROMANTICISM
While Classical composers relied on form and structure, Romantic composers gave priority to emotional expression. This program surveys the 19th century as it notes the contributions of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Niccolò Paganini, Frédéric Chopin, Robert and Clara Schumann, and Giuseppe Verdi to the Romantic movement. Classical and Romantic music are contrasted, and emblematic musical forms - the symphony, symphonic poem, opera, lied, and character piece-are discussed. Also, the ongoing evolution of the piano is addressed.

LATER ROMANTICISM
This program adds the achievements of Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, Modest Mussorgsky and the rest of The Mighty Handful, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvorák, Edvard Grieg, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss to the history of Romanticism. Opera - particularly the operatic "music dramas" of Wagner and the Italian verismo movement - is given special attention, and the dual influences of nationalist zeal and Freudian ideas on the music of the latter part of the 19th century are explored.

THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The early 20th century saw the virtual elimination of tonality as an organizing musical principle and dissonance used as sheer sound rather than a transitional state of musical tension that had to be resolved. This program examines how Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton von Webern, and Igor Stravinsky pushed the limits of music to the point where audiences rejected and even rioted against it. Debussy's impressionism, Schoenberg's 12-tone system, and Stravinsky's elevation of rhythm over melody are emphasized. The avant-garde nationalistic music of Jean Sibelius, Sir Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Béla Bartók, Ernest Bloch, and Charles Ives is showcased as well.

MODERN TIMES
Over the past half-century, concert music has felt the influence of jazz and the Modernist innovations of serialism, "chance music", microtonality, abstractly expressionistic electronic music, and minimalism. At the same time, there has been a revival of interest in earlier forms of music - particularly Romantic and Classical. This program studies the contributions of Edgard Varèse, Henry Cowell, John Cage, Harry Partch, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Dmitry Shostakovich, George Rochberg, György Ligeti, John Corigliano, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams, Astor Piazzolla, Henryk Górecki, and Arvo Pärt.


 
#12740/0635  2005  $879.95 
    

CREATIVE VIOLATION: The Rebel Art of the Street Stencil
Called art by some and vandalism by others, street art transforms the depersonalized, over-commercialized urban landscape into a forum for self-expression. Filmed in New York City, Pittsburgh, and Toronto, this edgy program documents the exploding underground art form of street stenciling and explores its roots in political street art, industrial signage, and freehand graffiti. John MacPhee, author of Stencil Pirates, and other stencil artists pose critical questions about the role of free speech in public spaces as they describe their motives and demonstrate their methods. Transgressive, subversive, creative: that's the rebel art of the street stencil.
 
#12737/0635   24 minutes 2007  $119.95 
    

AMERICA BETRAYED - DVD
"With America Betrayed the government's secrets are out." Errol Louis, New York Daily News
"This documentary will give you a new view of your government. See it!" Eric Asher, Fox News Radio
"A smart, galvanizing documentary... the film argues persuasively, private interests repeatedly trump public interests." Cynthia Fuchs, PopMatters.com

One of America's proudest achievements, its national infrastructure, is now its most dangerous embarrassment. Bridges, dams, levees and highways are crumbling, toppling, being washed away, and putting American citizens and cities at risk. How could the most powerful nation on the planet let this happen?

Narrated by Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss and directed by Emmy Award-winning investigative broadcast journalist Leslie Cardé, this timely and riveting story of waste, fraud, and abuse at the highest levels of our government exposes how much-needed funding is misappropriated for questionable uses, how the Army Corps of Engineers (charged with ensuring that the infrastructure stays intact) is more concerned with self-serving transitions into corporate America, and how taxpayer dollars have been wasted building other nation's infrastructures and not their own. It is the story of how lobbyists and greedy politicians funnel money to pet projects; how those sent to investigate and police abuses are often bribed into silence, and how shoddy planning and construction frequently contribute to the erosion and destruction of America's cities.

Featuring interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists from the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and TIME Magazine, noted scientists from Berkeley and Harvard, U.S. Senators and Congressmen, and the whistleblowers who risked their lives and careers to speak out, this searing documentary is both a cautionary tale for those who trust their government, and a wake-up call to Washington and Americans everywhere.
 
#12726/0645   94 minutes 2008  $249.95 *Streaming available 
    

INSIDE THE KORAN
"This thoughtful, intelligent documentary asks all the right questions." - The Guardian (London)
"A remarkable documentary. I hope it [motivates] the audience to understand the difference between culture and religion." - Mike Ghouse, President, World Muslim Congress

The Koran is one of the most ideologically influential texts in the world, with over a billion Muslims following its precepts. Yet within this singular religious community there are profound differences in attitudes about peace, violence, punishment, forgiveness and the status of women, among others. In this eye-opening film, award-winning director Antony Thomas goes deep into the heart of the Muslim world, exploring the history and current state of Islam. He also examines the personal lives of his subjects, who range from ayatollahs and grand imams to simple farmers and women living in veiled seclusion; their relationship with this holy Book reveals a complex, beautiful and often contradictory guide for humanity.
 
#12725/0645   94 minutes 2008  $249.95 *Streaming available 
    

SECOND THANKSGIVING: Native American Wisdom
This is a film about the Sacredness of Life, the duty for Human Beings to respect and give thanks to all of Creation, to honour the life giving forces, the air, the water, fire and Mother Earth.

Highlights the teachings of Robertjohn, the Elder who describes the First Thanksgiving as the time the new people came to this land and were given material nourishment by the First Peoples. The Second Thanksgiving, the present, is the time when the First Peoples are giving the newcomers spiritual nourishment.

Elder Robertjohn Knapp, Seneca/Tubotolobal, born in Ontario, Canada, raised in California, taught by the Bear Dancers brings the message of healing by working with the Spirit World. Robertjohn has worked in the prison system for 25 years along the California coast.
 
#12698/0493   59 minutes 2008  $149.95 *Streaming available 
    

IROQUOIS SPEAK OUT FOR MOTHER EARTH
"These two films - MOHAWK WISDOM KEEPERS and IROQUOIS SPEAK OUT FOR MOTHER EARTH - are a priceless record of the teachings of ancient wisdom in relation to contemporary times, and will be as useful to future generations as they are to us today." Eric Noyes, American Indian Institute. Bozeman, Montana

In this quietly powerful film by Danny Beaton, four Elders of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy) speak in a clear, frank and rational language of the environmental crisis and what is needed to seriously begin to deal with it by reminding us to see our planet as our relative, as our Mother, as many earth-based cultures do. These elders tell us, such a shift can motivate behaviour change and begin to heal the rift in western civilization between human and nature. The elders unfold their stories carefully, while viewers see for themselves their calm, centered, informed and deeply human concern about civilisations' global assault on the earth.

The first speaker, CLAYTON LOGAN from the Wolf Clan of the Seneca Nation, is a Ceremonial Leader of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. He speaks about the difference between the way his ancestors lived and how people live now.
The next speaker, AUDREY SHENANDOAH, is a Clan Mother of the Eel Clan, Onondaga Nation. Her message is that it is up to the people how long we will live on this planet. She gives thanks for the sun, the moon, thanks for the wind and the rain. For we elders, she affirms, "The Earth is sacred, and every spot is sacred, not just sacred sites because 'something happened' there, but every place is sacred because 'something happened' everywhere."
CHIEF OREN LYONS is Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation Wolf Clan. He begins by speaking of the dysfunctional nation and the dysfunctional world we now live in. Lyons' message is that we humans need balance, and common sense, and leaders with courage and conviction.
JOHN MOHAWK is an Elder of the Turtle Clan, from the Pinewood Community in Cattaraugus Territory. Mohawk, who is Seneca, has also taught American Indian Studies at the State University of New York. He argues that Western Culture has sought to impose its will upon the natural world.

Long ago, the constitution of the United States of America was inspired and influenced by the wisdom of the Iroquois Great Law of Peace, with its system of checks and balances. Now it is time once again to listen to the wisdom of these contemporary elders of the Iroquois Confederacy.
 
#12697/0493   50 minutes 2009  $149.95 *Streaming available 
    

CAREER OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: Emerging Opportunities Series III (13 Programs)
Each job featured in this series can be done by either men or women; however, this series highlights women working in jobs traditionally done by men, mostly in trades and technology. Filmed across Canada, it is intended to raise awareness by providing insight into a wide range of leading edge careers not typically considered by females.

Each of the thirteen 15-minute programs features three women who work in the same industry as well as interviews with co-workers and supervisors to create well-rounded descriptions of each job.

ADVENTURE TOURISM
Diny Harrison - Internationally Certified Mountain Guide; Mylène Pronovost - Dog Sled Musher; and, Marie-Josée Blanchette - Eco-Tourism Development Agent.

AQUACULTURE
Sondra Lambie, a nursery technician who cultivates large shellfish crops; Camille Wiencke, a fish health technician who cares for farm-raised Chinook salmon; and Nancy Émard, a trout farm owner who sells about 100,000 fish annually.

BIOTECHNOLOGY
Allison Ross, a chemist and research technician who analyzes test samples at a busy lab; Sylvie Bilodeau-Goeseels, a research scientist tasked with improving cow fertility; and Dia Matheos, Vice President of Research and Development at a biotech firm.

CANADIAN FORCES III
Alana MacGillivray - Military Police; Melissa Vanhorn - Maritime Engineer; and Fiona Ross - Avionics Systems Technician.

CANADIAN FORCES IV
Jennifer Tyldesley - Buffalo Pilot; Susan Maria Holotuk - LCIS Technician; and, Krista Quann - TAS OP.

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
Charlotte Faulkner, a stockbroker who works closely with investment clients; Karen McMeekin, a market supervisor for the Montreal Exchange; and Josée St. Hilaire, a micro-finance advisor who helps provide capital to tiny start-up companies in developing countries.

GAMING
Dianna Schwanke is a dealer and floor supervisor at a popular casino; Leanne Painter is a 118-pound jockey who rides and races thoroughbreds; and Suzie Dumont is a game designer and multimedia wiz who produces interactive lotto games.

HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATION
Chelsea Orvis is a haul truck op who transports excavated oil-rich material; Stephanie Jacques is the first woman in Quebec to be professionally trained as a crane op; and Nathalie Desrosier is a tarmac heavy equipment op who clears snow and ice from landing areas.

MUSIC
Sandra Schultz, a sound engineer and technician who records and mixes for music producers; Shelley Park, a guitar builder who produces between 12 and 20 instruments per year; and Alice Bernier, an electronic music composer who works out of her own high-tech studio.

RAIL TRANSPORTATION
Brenda Cox, a yard foreman who loads and organizes rail cars for train assembly; Rebecca Mann, a technical officer who tests the structural and mechanical limits of rail cars; and France Robert, an electronics systems technician who performs safety tests on passenger trains.

RUBBER
Catherine Dupont, an extruder operation manager in charge of an automotive rubber production line; Michelle Hennessey, a tire builder who also functions as a rotating safety monitor; and Nathalie Léger, a production specialist involved in several phases of the rubber manufacturing process.

STEEL - Stephanie Sebastian is a production worker at a fast-paced galvanizing mill; Jennifer Zahra is a quality control inspector involved with steel tubing for automotive uses; and Christine Guérin is a research technician focusing on the chemical components of super-strong steel.

TEXTILES
Nathalie Jacques, a planning manager for an upholstery and fabric manufacturer; Myriam Phaneuf, a research and development technician who creates new textile designs thread by thread; and Tarah Jakubiak, Vice President of Sales for an international fabric producer.

* See also CAREER OPTIONS I and II *All programs also available in FRENCH 
#12695/0635  2006  $589.95 
    

CAREER OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: Emerging Opportunities Series II (13 Programs)
Each job featured in this series can be done by either men or women; however, this series highlights women working in jobs traditionally done by men, mostly in trades and technology. Filmed across Canada, it is intended to raise awareness by providing insight into a wide range of leading edge careers not typically considered by females.

Each of the thirteen 15-minute programs features three women who work in the same industry as well as interviews with co-workers and supervisors to create well-rounded descriptions of each job.

AGRICULTURE - Deanna Johnson, a marketing representative who assists and makes purchases from grain producers; and Julie Couillard, a production coordinator who manages soil preparation, seeding, watering, and fertilization for an organic vegetable farm.

CANADIAN FORCES II - Valérie Houle, Canadian Forces; Jennifer Genge - Army Combat Engineer; Julie Brazeau - Artillery Captain; and, Carol McCrea - Loadmaster.

E-COMMERCE - Kerry Sizer, a programmer who has helped shape her company's online business model; Sheila Zoghaib, a webmaster who administers multimedia learning websites; and Barbara-Judith Caron, a web consultant tasked with staying on top of current trends and tastes in website design.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Lisa Nadeau, a maple syrup producer whose company started as a side business to her dairy farm; Christine Zacharko, an optician who runs Glasses to Go, a mobile optical dispensary; and Jessica Dawe, a pest control producer who breeds and sells crop-friendly insects.

FILM PRODUCTION - Vali Fugulin, a director of short films and documentaries; Braydon Haggardy, a camera assistant specializing in underwater cinematography; and Cynthia Greer, a technician who repairs and maintains movie cameras.

FORESTRY - Karen Trimmer, a helicopter pilot who transports raw lumber by air; Lorraine Muskwa, a dispatch attendant for a large pulp mill; and Chantal Isabelle, a forest technician responsible for ensuring that woodland development stays within legal boundaries.

MARINE TRANSPORTATION - Manon Turcotte, a boat pilot accustomed to busy shipping lanes and port harbors; Gina Gray, a ferry deckhand working her way up to Second Officer; and Louise McGowan, a Canadian naval engineer who maintains shipboard mechanical equipment.

MINING - Robin Betker is a mining technician who lays drill patterns for long hole drillers; Marilène Larocque is Chief Geologist with a mining exploration company; and Shalni Prowse is a grade control technician who monitors ore quality.

OIL AND GAS TECHNOLOGIES - Kandy Hubl, a health, safety, and environmental coordinator for a major gas company; Melanie Bowman, a power engineer for a busy gas refinery; and Julie Jolicoeur, a project manager who oversees service station design and construction.

ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION - Isabelle Tremblay, an engineer specializing in the use of robotics for space exploration; Jessica Amsden, a robotics technician who works in automated manufacturing; and Cheryl Hyrnkiw, owner-operator of Solarbotics, which produces educational robot kits.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS - Josselin Grebinsky, a telecommunications specialist who maintains institutional systems; Louise Meilleur, a technical support specialist who designs telecommunications systems for clients; and Mindy Turk, a naval communicator making her way up in the ranks.

VIDEO GAMES - Sophie Gagnon, a background modeler who helps build game environments; Chantal Fournier, a 2-D animator with a background in fashion and a passion for games; and Erin Olorenshaw, a 3-D animator who has helped her company win several prestigious awards.

WOOD PRODUCTS - Jodie MacDonald is a sawmill production coordinator who liaisons with sales and marketing; Marie-Claude Giguere is a composite technologist who tests and fabricates OSB boards; and Roxanne Fayant is a crate builder specializing in extremely large-scale work.

***See also CAREER OPTIONS I and III
Also available in FRENCH***
 
#12690/0635  2006  $589.95 
    

BUFFETT AND GATES GO BACK TO SCHOOL
What would you ask the two richest men in the world? Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are close friends. Though a generation apart in age, and founders of two very different businesses, each has a deep admiration for the other. They also share a sense of responsibility to use their wealth to improve the world. In this program, the two men show remarkable intelligence, energy, and wit in answering the penetrating questions of graduate students from the University of Nebraska College of Business Administration.
 
#12688/1725   60 minutes 2006  $99.95 *CC 
    

WORLD FOOD MARKETS: ITALY
Experience the sights and sounds of Italian food markets! Join chef and award-winning cookbook author Paulette Mitchell on a tour of Italian food markets. Filmed in Italy, viewers will be taken on a culinary journey to discover the fresh produce and ingredients that flavor Italian cuisine.

*Teaching materials included
*Closed Captioned

*See also ACTIVITY PACKET 12686-W sold separately.
Creative and fun activities and worksheets to supplement the World Food Markets: Italy video. Includes Italian food vocabulary list, puzzles, true or false and multiple choice worksheets, writing assignments, classroom activities and more.
 
#12686/1290   13 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

CAREER OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: Emerging Opportunities Series I (13 Programs) DVD
Each job featured in this series can be done by either men or women; however, this series highlights women working in jobs traditionally done by men, mostly in trades and technology. Filmed across Canada, it is intended to raise awareness by providing insight into a wide range of leading edge careers not typically considered by females.

Each of the thirteen 15-minute programs features three women who work in the same industry as well as interviews with co-workers and supervisors to create well-rounded descriptions of each job.

AUTOMOTIVE - Profiles three women in high-powered careers in this industry: Linda Simon, a former hairdresser turned truck driver who works in some very tough road conditions; Brenda McWilliams, an auto body technician in a state-of-the-art repair facility; and Danuta Wozniak, who excels as an auto mechanic in a woman-owned shop.

AVIATION - Profiles Capt. Tanya Sprathoff, pilot and crew commander of an Aurora CP-140; Isabelle Marsan, an aircraft mechanic who maintains and repairs internal systems on airliners; and Dawn Patterson, an aircraft structures mechanic responsible for aircraft inspection and repair.

CANADIAN FORCES I - Features Kathleen Olinskie - Combat Information Operator; Stacey Finlay - Infantry Soldier; and, Nicole Wamboldt - Electrical Distribution Technician.

CONSTRUCTION - Menyui Leung is a welder with experience in manufacturing and shipbuilding; Suzy Zaric is a restoration carpenter specializing in damage repair; Luce Gregoire is an electrician who works on lighting and heating equipment.

CULINARY - Josee Bagdadi, is a gourmet butcher who considers her trade an essential part of fine cooking; Heather Irvine, a commercial baker specializing in artisan breads; and Lisa Gardin, an apprentice chef who plans to open her own restaurant one day.

ENGINEERING - Elizabeth Nethery, is a product support engineer who tests and customizes prosthetics; Elisabeth Paul, a computer software engineer in the aerospace industry; and Daisy Lung, an environmental engineer who conducts site assessments for real estate clients.

ENTERTAINMENT - Stephanie Gignac, an animation storyboard artist for award-winning children’s films; Andrea Dixon, a film colorist with extensive television experience; and Marie-France Coallier, a photojournalist whose work often makes the front page.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - Coraleigh Hine, a computer service support technician specializing in sales and installation; Shawna White, a desktop support analyst who troubleshoots and repairs client problems; and Nancy Nadeau, a software developer producing high-end tools for digital image creation.

MANUFACTURING - Marnie Zimmerman is an instrumentation technician who repairs circuit boards for air conditioning systems; Kristina Bouchard is a machine operator for an aerospace company; and Darlene Fitzgerald is a horticulturalist who manages a large production staff.

MEDICAL/HEALTH - Karine Fortin, a pharmaceutical plant manager overseeing production and factory expansion; Sandra Swanson, a biomedical technologist who maintains and repairs hospital equipment; and Ann Perreault, a prosthetics technician in charge of evaluating and measuring patients.

PROTECTIVE SERVICES - Capt. Jamie Speiser, a Griffon helicopter pilot who has flown missions in Bosnia and Haiti; Sylvie Nault, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable; and Shauna Vollmer, a fire protection designer working for a large fire prevention contractor.

RESCUE - Danielle Gagnon, a paramedic in Montreal’s emergency medical service; Julie De Grandpre, a rescue diver in the Canadian Coast Guard; and Pamela Kryskow, a firefighter with experience in a wide variety of emergencies.

UTILITIES - Melanie Young, a network operations technician in the telecommunications field; Laura Warkentin, a natural gas systems planner who coordinates the installation of gas main services; and Nicole Brochu, a linesperson accustomed to working at extreme heights.

*** See also CAREER OPTIONS II and III
Also available in FRENCH***
 
#12685/0635  2006  $589.95 
    

CAPITALISM HITS THE FAN: Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown. By placing the crisis within this larger historical and systemic frame, Wolff argues convincingly that the proposed government "bailouts," stimulus packages, and calls for increased market regulation will not be enough to address the real causes of the crisis, in the end suggesting that far more fundamental change will be necessary to avoid future catastrophes. Richly illustrated with motion graphics, this is a superb introduction designed to help ordinary citizens understand, and react to, the unraveling economic crisis.

*Two versions (57 and 34 minutes) on the same DVD

*A discounted price is available for Schools and Non-Profit (does not apply to Colleges and Universites)

Sections: Introduction | Three Things the Economic Crisis is Not | How We Got Here: American Exceptionalism | History Interrupted: The Trauma of Flat Wages | Coping With Trauma: The People's Response | The Meaning of the "Trauma" for Business | Bust and No Boom In Sight | What Won't Work: Re-Regulation | So What Might Work? | Beyond Free Markets and Regulation

Richard Wolff
Richard Wolff has been a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts since 1981. Dr. Wolff's major interests include the critical comparison of alternative economic theories (neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian), the application of advanced class analysis to contemporary global capitalism, and new developments in Marxian economics. He is a member of the editorial board of several academic journals including Rethinking Marxism. He also publishes regular analyses of current economic events on the websites www.globalmacroscope.com and www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine. He has co-authored several books with Stephen Resnick, including The Economics of Colonialism: Britain and Kenya; Rethinking Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory; Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy and Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical. He also co-authored Bringing it all Back Home: Class and Gender in the Modern Household with Harriet Fraad and Stephen Resnick.

"With unerring coherence and unequaled breadth of knowledge, Rick Wolff offers a rich and much needed corrective to the views of mainstream economists and pundits. It would be difficult to come away from this viewing with anything but an acute appreciation of what is needed to get us out of this mess." Stanley Aronowitz | Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education | City University
 
#12675/0685   57 minutes 2009  $149.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

FIVE COMMUNICATION SECRETS THAT SWEPT OBAMA TO THE PRESIDENCY
World-renowned communication expert Richard Greene was called the "Master of Charisma" by the British press after he traveled to England to coach Princess Diana on how to be more effective in public appearances. Now he reveals the five communication skill secrets that ignited Barack Obama's campaign. In easy, step-by-step lessons, illustrated by videos of President Obama's own speeches, Greene shows how you can use these powerful techniques to transform your career and your personal relationships.
Everyone can benefit from this program because everyone uses verbal and physical communication every day of their lives. Unleash your power of communication! Banish your fear of speaking forever! Discover the remarkable power of your voice and body language through simple, effective techniques you can begin applying immediately! Break down the wall between you and your listener so that they are already supporting you before you say a single word! Learn the secrets of the brain's Four Languages - and how you can impress and persuade anybody!

*Includes a 23-page practical workbook you can download and view on your computer or print out to use while watching the DVD!

 
#12674/0133   48 minutes 2009  $89.95 *Streaming available 
    

HUMAN BODY (THE): How It Works (9 Programs)
This series uses physiologic animations and illustrations, microscopic imaging, expert commentary, and footage of the body in motion to provide a thorough overview of the amazing human machine. Marvelously detailed, yet readily understandable.

There are nine 22-minute programs in the series:

CELLS, TISSUES, AND SKIN
After an introductory segment on cell characteristics, this program discusses the way human body cells function and combine into the structures that sustain life. Topics include membrane permeability and the processes of passive and active transport; cytoplasm, with its cytosol, organelles, and inclusions; the constituent parts of the nucleus and the stages and processes of the cell cycle; the four basic tissue types; and the skin, the body’s largest organ. #12939

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
This program examines how the human immune system defends the body against disease-causing invaders - and how in some cases its antigen-fighting capabilities can be turned against the bodily cells it protects. Topics include the elements of the immune system, passive barrier defenses and nonspecific reactive responses, the humoral immune response and its associated antibodies, and the process of cell-mediated immunity. The program also addresses the importance of vaccines, the mechanics of allergies and autoimmune diseases, and advances in the field of immunology. #13181

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
This program traces the development of a human being from conception to full-term fetus, with a focus on the functions of the male and female reproductive systems. The three stages of development in the womb - re-embryonic, embryonic, and fetal, generated by the mechanisms of division, differentiation, morphogenesis, patterning, and growth - are illustrated, after which there is a close examination of male and female puberty - the maturation of the reproductive system and the beginning of human sexual response. #13182

THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Following an opening segment on the importance of oxygen to the human body, this program studies the structure and function of the respiratory system. Topics include the anatomy of the upper respiratory tract, the lower respiratory tract, and the alveoli; the diffusion of gas molecules through the walls of the alveoli and capillaries, and the effect of high altitude on the diffusion process; and the mechanics of breathing via the bulk flow transport process. In addition, the program describes three factors that help prevent lung collapse and the role of the medulla oblongata in regulating breathing. #12916

THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
This program takes a close look at the organs of the human circulatory system and how they work to sustain life. After an introductory overview, the composition of blood - its plasma, erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets - is analyzed, blood types and Rh factor are considered, the role of hemoglobin in transporting oxygen is explained, and the anatomy and function of the heart is examined. Factors that affect blood pressure and circulation are also discussed, along with the circulatory demands of exercise. #12891

THE SKELETAL AND MUSCULAR SYSTEMS
This program deconstructs the human skeletal and muscular systems, two interdependent assemblies that endow the body with structure and movement. Beginning with an introductory overview, the video identifies the body’s bones by dividing the skeleton into its axial and appendicular components, analyzes bone composition, describes the process of bone repair, and categorizes bone and joint types. The program then shifts focus to the skeletal muscular system - detailed study of muscle cells, fibers, bundles, and connective tissue. The ATP-fueled process of muscle contraction is addressed as well. #13183

DIGESTION AND NUTRITION
This program examines the chemical structure of food and the human body’s ability to convert food into fuel and raw materials. Major and minor nutrients are defined, catabolism and anabolism are contrasted, and the function of the digestive tract at the cellular level is scrutinized. The sequence of physical and chemical processes that facilitate digestion is also illustrated, spotlighting each constituent anatomical system: mouth/esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. A segment on healthier eating concludes the program. #12938

THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
After an introductory segment contrasting the human endocrine and nervous systems, this program addresses the complex physiology of the endocrine system. Topics include the endocrine organs and glands; the characteristics of hormones and the process of signal transduction; hormonal regulation of blood glucose and blood calcium levels; the roles of growth hormone, thyroid hormone, testosterone, and estrogen in bodily development; hormones and reproduction; and hormonal involvement in the fight-or-flight response. #12936

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE SENSES
This program discusses the development, organization, and functions of the nervous system and the input organs that stimulate it. Beginning with an introductory overview of neural anatomy, the video outlines the organization of the central and peripheral nervous systems and the processes of sensation, transduction, and perception. In addition, the senses of vision, hearing, taste, smell, and equilibrium are analyzed, as well as sensitivities to temperature, pressure, and pain; bodily movement via the somatic neurons is illustrated; and the neural mechanics of sleep and wakefulness are considered. #12937

*Viewable/printable instructor’s guides are available online
*Closed Captioned

 
#12670/0635  2009  $1,039.95 *CC 
    

CHARISMA IN POLITICS: Analyzing Body Language
Furrowed brows, widened eyes, clenched teeth - such signals reveal a great deal about our leaders, and they also influence our reactions to media images. This program investigates ways in which facial expressions and nonverbal communication determine political charisma and power. Presenting examples from a wide range of historical and current sources, the film shows how psychologists diagram and analyze media images of politicians. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton are studied, as well as French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Commentators include the eminent psychologist Dr. Paul Ekman and renowned political philosopher Dr. Roger D. Masters.
 
#12668/0635   52 minutes 2008  $199.95 *CC 
    

e2 ENERGY - DVD
Global in scope and comprising six 30-minute chapters filmed in HD, "e2: Energy" features people, places and innovations that suggest that a more environmentally benign future is possible and within reach. Each section is equal part visual style and storytelling acumen: HARVESTING THE WIND, ENERGY FOR A DEVELOPING WORLD, PAVING THE WAY, GROWING ENERGY, STATE OF RESOLVE and COAL AND NUCLEAR: Problem or Solution?

*Widescreen 16x9 Anamorphic
*Closed Captioned
 
#12667/1725   180 minutes 2007  $99.95 *CC 
    

STORY OF INDIA (2 DVD Set)
Michael Wood’s fascinating journey through the history of the Indian subcontinent, the first history of India on western television, chronicles the incredible richness and diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes; outlines the originality and continuing relevance of its ideas; and relates some of the most momentous and moving events in world history. The world’s largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known in the U.S. for its mastery of computer technology and its business and industrial strength as it is for its many-armed gods and its spiritual traditions.

But India is also the world’s most ancient surviving civilization, with unbroken continuity stretching back into prehistory. Like other great civilizations, India has renewed itself several times, enjoying several brilliant golden ages in art and culture. Its great thinkers and religious leaders have permanently changed the face of the globe. Now, in the era of globalization, India is once again becoming a leading player in the world and an increasingly important strategic partner and friend of the U.S. Home to more than a billion people, it is a land of amazing contrasts: It contains both the high-tech brilliance of Bangalore’s Silicon Valley and the archaic splendor of the Kumbh Mela festival, where 25 million pilgrims bathe in the sacred river Ganges on a single night. While moving at high speed into the modern world, India is still in touch with her ancient past. A 2 DVD set 6 hours. 
#12666/1725   360 minutes 2009  $99.95 *CC 
    

e2 TRANSPORT - DVD
Global in scope and comprised of six 30-minute chapters filmed in HD, e2 Transport examines sustainable transportation alternatives with potentially far-reaching effects. This ongoing series explores real solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges, presented with a combination of compelling storytelling, proactive cinematography and emotive original music.
 
#12660/1725   180 minutes 2008  $99.95 *CC 
    

IN YOUR EAR: The Job Interview
With so much at stake in today's job market, an interview has to be handled just right. This ABC News program follows Peggy Klaus, a career and communications coach, as she takes an anxious job-seeker under her wing. In a heady prep session, Peggy and her client discuss the importance of eye contact, confident body language, confident tone, and good grammar and vocabulary. But Peggy takes her mentoring a step further: during the interview, she feeds instructions via a remote transmitter to the applicant, who wears a tiny earphone receiver. Peggy's strategy focuses on dispelling naive expectations and forcing the potential employee to proactively "drive the interview".

 
#12658/0635   11 minutes 2008  $69.95 *CC 
    

PROMOTIONAL STRATEGY FOR SMALL BUSINESS - DVD
A comprehensive strategy for attracting customers may be the most important element of the business plan. Leads entrepreneurs through the promotion plan of target-market identification, setting communication objectives, setting the appropriation, selecting communication vehicles, and evaluation. Many helpful suggestions to aid the entrepreneur in gaining maximum results from small ad budgets. Special emphasis is placed on a good web site that is linked to ancillary organizations, personalized-direct mail, efficient yellow-page advertising, and new cable TV advertising technology tailored for small businesses.
 
#12655/0495   26 minutes 2008  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

MARKETING STRATEGY FOR SMALL BUSINESS - DVD
Discusses the importance for small businesses to have a marketing plan and a marketing strategy to implement that plan. Covers the marketing concept of customer satisfaction and profit maximization. Suggests how to identify target markets and meet their needs with a proper marketing mix. Features several small businesses including manufacturers, retailers and service providers. Excellent for any course in entrepreneurship, small business management, or marketing.
 
#12654/0495   24 minutes 2008  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

ADVERTISING CREATIVE APPEALS - New Version!
Discusses rational appeals used extensively in B2B advertising vs. the use of emotional appeals common to consumer advertising. Using both print ads and TV commercials, shows examples of the five most common emotional appeals of Humor, Sex, Security, Fear, and Shock. The success of each appeal is well documented by 15 advertising research studies cited in the program. A clinical psychologist briefly comments on the natural human response to each appeal. Fast paced and interesting for students. 
#12653/0495   24 minutes 2012  $169.95 *Streaming available 
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INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING
This program defines an effective macro-marketing system as the "delivery of a standard of living." Also discusses how marketing strategy includes a written marketing plan with target market identification and a related marketing mix to satisfy potential customers. Features examples and interviews from both consumer and business/organizational markets. Suggests an Internet presence can be a marketing tool for nearly all organizations. Uses an eBay auction to demonstrate the interaction of supply and demand to determine "market price." An excellent DVD for introductory marketing course or for a marketing section in any business course.
 
#12652/0495   19 minutes 2008  $159.95 *Streaming available 
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AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION IN A HEGEMONIC SOCIETY: Confronting the Challenge of Westernity
*Featuring Dr. Molefi Asante, Temple University, Author of over 65 books and 300 articles.

Dr. Asante is recognized as one of the most creative and important liberatory African American scholars. In this DVD, he argues that Eurocentric power structure prevents proper schooling of African American children. Eurocentricsm takes power at the center, with others at the margins. This sets up an "us vs. them" system rather than a "we" relationship. Counseling students will learn how to think about hegemony and power in the interview. We want students and clients owning knowledge and gaining agency. This presentation leads us all to empowerment, and responsibility.
 
#12651/1410   54 minutes 2009  $129.95 *Streaming available 
    

BEAUTY MARK: Body Image and the Race for Perfection

"A fresh, honest film about self-image and the disconnect between our minds and our bodies. Beauty Mark exposes the myriad emotional, cultural, and psychological influences that compel us to measure ourselves against an elusive standard of physical perfection - sometimes at the price of our own health. Full of wisdom, hope and humor."
Lois Dino, Jacob Burns Film Center

In this courageous, deeply personal new film, Diane Israel examines our culture's unhealthy fixation on thinness, beauty, and physical perfection. Israel, a Boulder-based psychotherapist and former champion triathlete, talks candidly about her own struggle with eating disorders and obsessive exercising, fearlessly confronting her own painful past as she attempts to come to terms with American culture's unhealthy fixation on self-destructive ideals of beauty and competitiveness. With fascinating insights from athletes, body builders, fashion models, and inner-city teens, as well as prominent cultural critics and authors such as Eve Ensler, Paul Campos, and Naomi Wolf.

*Includes Study Guide

*A discounted price is available for Schools and Non-Profit (does not apply to Colleges and Universities)
 
#12650/0685   57 minutes 2009  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

CAREER COUNSELING WITH CHILDREN: Live Demonstrations
Dr. Adam Zagelbaum, Sonoma State University, skillfully and sensitively counsels two preteen children in individual counseling sessions. Students will learn that children can understand and work with basic career constructs if age-appropriate methods are used. Children are being asked to consider career matters at an increasingly younger age and effective counseling here can help them stay in school. Students will be able to master the Creative Career Constellation approach and see how it relates to cross-cultural, age, gender, and other sociocultural issues.

*Includes Leader Guide and Transcript

"Adam Zagelbaum's Career Counseling with Children is an excellent learning tool for all counselors who work with children. The "metal mapping" approach Dr. Zagelbaum uses is particularly well-suited for school counselors who approach their work with the ASCA National Model, as Zagelbaum integrates childrens' personal/social, career and academic development along with the teaching of critical thinking. The Creative Career Constellation approach offers children tools to extrapolate from their interests to relevant career domains.

In 2 live demonstration vignettes, Zagelbaum skillfully helps each of his two pre-teen clients develop an ability to envision themselves as productive adults in society. He also helps them understand the world of work as well as the interrelation between interests, skill-development and career success. The vignettes, combined with introductions and then debriefings from Zagelbaum, make for an excellent training tool.

"I plan to use this DVD in our department, and highly recommend it to all counselors who serve children from a developmental perspective."

Hugh C. Crethar, PhD
Associate Professor, Counseling and Counseling Psychology
Oklahoma State University
Past President, Counselors for Social Justice
 
#12649/1410   50 minutes 2009  $179.95 *Streaming available 
    

CREATING MORE SATISFYING LIVES: A Live Demonstration of Happenstance Career Theory
In a spontaneous and unrehearsed demonstration, Dr. John Krumboltz of Stanford University applies Happenstance Learning Theory with a female Chinese-American graduate student contemplating career directions.

Concepts that will enrich viewer's understanding of career counseling include: Unexpected events almost inevitably play a role in everyone's career; Clients can create opportunities by taking appropriate actions; and, Counselors can encourage new experiences and allow mistakes.

Dr. Krumboltz is then interviewed by a Japan Career Development Assoc. member to clarify theory and application. Many subtitles highlight key points.
 
#12647/1410   40 minutes 2009  $179.95 *Streaming available 
    

EMPATHY TRAINING FOR ETHNIC AND CULTURAL AWARENESS - DVD
Features Max Parker, University of Florida, Gainesville; Chun-Chung Choi, University of Florida, Gainesville.

What could be a better way to enhance our empathy toward the culturally different than capturing their daily experiences on campus? This program features 36 vignettes developed and role-played by college students based on their own experiences of feeling marginalized. African American, Asian/Asian American, Caribbean, Gay and Lesbian, Hispanic, American Indian, and international students are featured. Audiences not only will gain insight into the experiences that challenge culturally different students, but will examine their own assumptions, feelings and attitudes toward them. An ideal program for student leaders, counselors, Student Affairs Administrators, professors, advisors, health educators, and anyone else who comes in contact with students.

*Includes leader guide

"This engaging DVD depicts realistic situations regarding race relations on campus and racial identity development of students. The scenarios are compelling and did an excellent job in eliciting discussion and participation from my students. My students learned a lot about their own racial identity development as well as their peers!"

Kate Fogarty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Youth Development
University of Florida
Dept. of Family, Youth, & Community Sciences
 
#12644/1410   45 minutes 2009  $189.95 *Streaming available 
    

HOW I MADE MY MILLIONS
In ten concise entrepreneurship case studies, CNBC profiles successful companies and product lines that began with nothing but a great idea. Among the innovators featured are Lonnie Johnson, inventor of the Super Soaker water gun; Jim McCann, founder of 1-800-FLOWERS; Brian Scudamore, founder of 1-800-GOTJUNK; Roxanne Quimby, the struggling artist who co-created the Burt's Bees product line; Tom Garnier, whose obsession with industrial shredders led to SSI Shredding Systems; David and Shari Gold, the husband-and-wife team at the helm of the 99 Cent Only Stores retail chain; and Todd Greene, inventor of the user-friendly HeadBlade.
 
#12643/0635   44 minutes 2008  $199.95 
    

RETAIL SITE SELECTION
Discusses the important considerations for entrepreneurs in selecting retail locations. Covers freestanding sites, business-associated sites, renovated CBDs, and planned shopping centers. Special topics include the principle of cumulative attraction, vacant stores, parking, visibility, negotiating leases, and lease restrictive covenants. A new section shows how to use the Internet for site-selection data such as Census Bureau demographics, state transportation department traffic counts, and computer-modeling location consulting firms. Examples include a clothing-store chain, a home- furnishing store chain, two fast-food chains, an equipment-rental chain, and specialty stores.
 
#12642/0495   23 minutes 2009  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

VISUAL MERCHANDISING
This program shows how to build effective visual merchandising presentations. Includes the design principles of emphasis, line, balance, and color. Display arrangements of pyramid, step, zigzag, repetition, and radiation. Design precepts of harmony, contrast, and unity. Special topics include the use of label merchandise in displays, layering, and trend stations. Includes over 100 new displays and demonstrations by several professional visual merchandisers.
 
#12641/0495   25 minutes 2009  $169.95 *Streaming available 
    

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: A World of Art DVD
The world-renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is a comprehensive 3-D encyclopedia of art history. This program introduces viewers to the history of art through the Met's vast assortment of treasures that spans 5,000 years of world culture and fills two million square feet of floor space. Featured European and American pieces are drawn from the Met's collections of ancient, Renaissance, 18th-century, 19th-century, and early modern art. Works from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Mesoamerica are highlighted as well. A viewable/printable educator's guide is available online.
 
#12618/0635   52 minutes 2004  $89.95 *CC 
    

WORLD FOOD MARKETS: SPAIN
Come along on a journey through the beautiful markets of Spain, the place to find traditional and exotic produce and other ingredients which provide the rich flavor of Spanish cuisine. Viewers will follow Paulette Mitchell, chef and award-winning cookbook author, inside several marketplaces to explore Spanish culture and food.

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned

*See also the ACTIVITY PACKET sold separately:
Creative and fun activities and worksheets to supplement the World Food Markets: Spain video. Includes Spanish food vocabulary list, puzzles, true or false and multiple choice worksheets, writing assignments, classroom activities and more.
 
#12593/1290   18 minutes 2009  $59.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

INTEGRATING ESL STUDENTS INTO THE CLASSROOM
By viewing this program, classroom teachers of any subject will come away with concrete information and advice that they can use to teach - and reach - their English-language learners (ELLs) better. Practicality and relevance guide the program as it reviews basic ESL standards and strategies, gives examples of how to incorporate these techniques into teaching various subject areas, suggests ways to assist ELLs in mastering English in social and community settings, and addresses the use of technology in helping ELLs improve their understanding and expand their knowledge.

Multiply the power of this program! Workshop it with the accompanying facilitator's workbook. It contains suggested topics for discussion, exercises for participants to practice skills or explore ideas on their own, and more.

*A viewable/printable version of the Facilitator's Workbook is available online

Award-winning psychologist Kenneth Shore, Ph.D. - an author of six books on students' special needs and a recognized advocate of inclusiveness in the classroom - consulted in the making of this program.

*Recommended for teachers, student teachers, and education students
 
#12592/0635   27 minutes 2007  $119.95 *CC 
    

FISH OUT OF WATER II (13 Programs)

Our funny, unassuming, urban host, Don Kelly, continues on demanding journeys to his traditional native land. Through another series of misadventures, Don pushes his limited limits to re-connect with his roots and spiritual values - leading to his renewed vitality, deepened sense of personal identity, and vibrancy for life.

There are thirteen 24-minute programs:

Program 1: WANUSKEWIN HERITAGE PARK
Don joins Lorin Gardypie at the Wanuskewin Heritage Park in central Saskatchewan to partake in the living history of the Blackfoot and Siksika First Nations. A game of double ball and practising the ancient skill of the ateyl are but a few of the tasks that Don must participate in to demonstrate their strong connection to the buffalo. #12701
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Program 2: BROKENHEAD OJIBWAY NATION
Don journeys to Brokenhead Ojibway Nation near Winnipeg, Manitoba - home of the highly decorated war veteran, Tommy Prince. Can Don successfully emulate the skills of Tommy Prince to avoid being targeted by some paintballs? #12702

Program 3: TSEYCUM CANOE TOURS
Don ventures to the beautiful coastal territory of the Tseycum First Nation in B.C. for some good old fashioned clam digging and barbequing. He also finds out that piloting an ancient canoe is not as easy as it looks. #12703

Program 4: NK'MIP DESERT CULTURAL CENTER
Don journeys to the territory of the Osoyoos Indian Band in B.C., members of the Okanagan Nation where he learns traditional survival skills in some of the last large tracts of desert land left in Canada. But will the rattlesnakes he is forced to capture stop him in his tracks? #12704
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

Program 5: OJIBWAY CREE CULTURAL CENTER
Don meets with the women of the Ojibway Cree Cultural Center in northwestern Ontario to meet his ultimate challenge: preparing an annual feast. Don must learn quickly if he is going to pull off this community feast which brings together both the modern and the traditional tools and techniques required to make these community members happy. #12705

Program 6: MOOSE CREE OUTDOOR ADVENTURES
Don meets with Clarence Trapper from the Moose Factory Cree Nation on the coast of James Bay in Northern Ontario for the traditional fall goose hunt. Building blinds and goose decoys are but a few of the skills he'll need to conquer on this trip. Will he pass this initiation to manhood? #12706

Program 7: BLACKFOOT CROSSING
Don heads to southern Alberta to the traditional territory of the Blackfoot people with Clifford Crane Bear at Blackfoot Crossing. Don is introduced to the ancient ways of the boiling pit and in to the area of the badlands. Don also experiences first hand which was more deadly - horse stealing or having to bathe in the traditional way of the Blackfoot people. #12707
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

Program 8: METIS CROSSING
Don journeys to north-eastern Alberta to the traditional homestead village at Metis Crossing. After trying his hand at harnessing and driving the traditional red river cart, his back at lugging 70 lbs. sacs of supplies and his feet at red river jigging, will Don's energy hold up long enough to complete his final challenge? #12708

Program 9: HAY RIVER DENE
Don journeys to the Hay River Dene Reserve to experience the traditional life of the Dene people in NWT. Don prepares for his final challenge by learning what skills are needed to beat his opponents at the traditional Dene games and by filling his stomach with the delicacy of fermented fish. #12709

Program 10: OUJEBOUGOMOU
Don enters the traditional territory of the Eenou people of Northern Quebec at the Cree community of Oujebougomou. Don goes back to the land not only to try to snare and cook his meal but to carve out for himself a tool necessary to enjoy some good old fashioned beaver tail soup. #12710

Program 11: KAHNAWAKE
Don travels to the Kahnawake reserve in southern Quebec to experience a few traditional Mohawk activities. From wrestling with the Kahnawake championship wrestling team to a challenge dance with the Sweetgrass Singers, Don tries his best to fit in. #12711

Program 12: NAVAJO VILLAGE HERITAGE CENTER
Don visits with the Navajo Nation people at the Navajo Heritage Village in Arizona where he patches a traditional Hoghan, overcooks corn bread slightly in the first Native American oven ever and wages his future in a traditional Navajo gambling game. But will having to herd a flock of sheep keep Don from attending an arranged marriage? #12712

Program 13: WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE
Don joins the White Mountain Apache in the highlands of northern Arizona where he must develop and test his scouting skills. But will he pass their traditional endurance test and be able to meet the grade using one of their Apache weapons? #12713

*Programs are also available individually at $149.95 each or any 5 for $99.95 each
 
#12560/0973  2008  $995.95 *Streaming available 
    

HOW PEOPLE ARE PAID: From Work to Wages
Offers a fresh look at the world of paychecks, deductions, and benefits. Students learn about federal withholding, how it's calculated, and how it affects their take-home pay. We show the myriad ways that pay is calculated - from hourly to salary, commission and tips. Learn how FICA deductions are taken and funds the benefits provided by Social Security. An important overview of key employment laws governing wages is given.

*Includes PDF Resource Guide

*Closed Captioned

 
#12542/1120   26 minutes 2009  $125.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC 
    

BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (4 Programs)
Biotechnology is revolutionizing life in the 21st century, but with every breakthrough comes controversy. Do the benefits of stem cell technology, gene-splicing, and other advances outweigh the risks? Using interviews with experts, footage of scientists at work, 3-D animations, and on-screen text, this balanced four-part series introduces viewers to a field of science - and the pressing issues associated with it - that is rapidly changing the world.

There are four programs in the series:

BIOINFORMATICS, GENOMICS, AND PROTEOMICS: Getting the Big Picture
If the 20th century was the era of physics and nuclear fission, the 21st belongs to the life sciences. Moving from gene, to genome, to genetically based diseases, this program provides an overview of the interrelated fields of genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics, with an emphasis on practical applications of biotechnology to the field of medicine. Are genetically personalized drugs around the next corner? 25 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND YOUR HEALTH: Pharmaceutical Applications
Scientists have come a long, long way since Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin, the wonder drug of the 20th century. This program explains the function of infection-fighting antibiotics; vaccinations and insulin, crucial to the prevention of diseases such as smallpox and the management of diabetes; recombinant drugs, treatments involving genetically engineered DNA; and stem cells, those chameleon-like building blocks of the body. 24 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

BIOTECHNOLOGY ON THE FARM AND IN THE FACTORY: Agricultural and Industrial Applications
As the world’s population and overall standard of living continue to increase, the growing demand for food, fuel, and consumer products has reached unprecedented levels. This program examines how biotechnology is helping to meet those needs through genetic engineering to increase crop yields and improve the nutritional value of key staple foods; animal agriculture, founded on selective breeding and edging toward lab-based genetic engineering; and industrial applications of biotech in the manufacturing of chemicals, textiles, beverages, and fuel. 28 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP

THE ETHICS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
The Nuclear Age - sprung upon the world with the atomic bomb - remains a bitter memory. How biotechnology, with its power to change life on Earth at the most fundamental level, will be viewed in the decades to come depends on decisions being made right now. This program confronts viewers with some of the ethical and moral implications of cloning, stem cell research, and animal testing. 24 minutes
*Click here to VIEW CLIP
 
#12540/0635  2009  $459.95 
    

WORLD RELIGIONS: A Common Journey
What is religion? How does it reflect the culture in which it exists? And what functions does it serve? There are key questions asked by virtually every human culture. Those questions, and the way different religions go about revealing the answers, shine a light on what all people and cultures have in common. Explore the differences between religion and spirituality and see how they often work hand-in-hand. Discover how religious practices, religious specialists, rituals, and rites of passage serve to answer deeply felt questions.

*Closed Captioned
 
#12502/1120   25 minutes 2009  $129.95 *CC 
    

MADE IN CHICAGO: The Making of Barack Obama
It was in Chicago, Barack Obama's adopted hometown, that the 24-year-old future President of the United States began a personal and political odyssey that would take him all the way to the White House. In this program, many of the people who have known Obama best since his arrival in Chicago offer their insights. Obama's work as a community organizer, his achievements at Harvard Law School, the writing of Dreams from My Father, his brief stints as a law professor at The University of Chicago and as a civil rights lawyer, and his meteoric political career are all discussed. The program ends with Obama's victory in the 2008 primaries and his speech on the issue of race in the wake of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's controversial "God Damn America" sermon. Additional portions of Obama oratory are included throughout.

*Sub-Titled
 
#12499/0635   52 minutes 2008  $199.95 
    

TOP CAREERS IN TWO YEARS (11 Programs)
In two years or less, students can prepare themselves for a great career! Each program in this series gives an overview of two or more of the top occupational fields open to those with appropriate education or experience through interviews with people currently working in them. Required education, necessary skills and traits, typical job-related duties and career paths, and tips on achieving success are covered.

*Detailed descriptions of each of the 11 Programs are available:

COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS
BUSINESS, FINANCE, AND GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
CONSTRUCTION AND TRADES
RETAIL, MARKETING, AND SALES
HEALTHCARE, MEDICINE, AND SCIENCE
HOSPITALITY, HUMAN SERVICES, AND TOURISM
COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES
PUBLIC SAFETY, LAW, AND SECURITY
FOOD, AGRICULTURE, AND NATURAL RESOURCES
MANUFACTURING AND TRANSPORTATION
*Viewable/printable instructor's guides are available online.
 
#12480/0405  2009  $889.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC 
    

MATH CAN TAKE YOU PLACES
With schools struggling to boost mathematics scores, math teachers need all the guidance they can get. This program contains a powerful tool-chest full of lesson demonstrations, professional development videos, and an interactive quiz - all designed to help educators develop real-world teaching examples and applications. Five segments feature a high-energy middle-school teacher in action, leading students through measurement, equivalency, domain/range/reasonableness, problem-solving, and patterns. Five additional segments focus on professional development, presenting tips from experienced teachers on honing algebraic thinking, incorporating video and the Internet, implementing manipulative learning tools, and showing how math is used in everyday life.

*English or Spanish soundtrack

*A viewable/printable instructor's guide - containing
 
#12478/0635   50 minutes 2005  $119.95 
    

CASH, CREDIT, AND YOUR FUTURE
What are your students looking forward to? More education? A great job? A cool car? Dreams are free but achieving them takes good planning, hard work and money. Get a head start by learning how to manage money, understand paychecks and the basics of credit and debit cards. Follow along as two teen viewers watch a financial awards show and learn the right way to manage their money.

*Closed Captioned
*Includes Teaching Materials 
#12462/1290   20 minutes 2009  $89.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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CONDUCTING PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES: A Partnership in Progress
To run a successful parent-teacher conference, educators need a wide range of skills at their disposal - and a healthy supply of confidence. This video builds both, providing solutions to the problems and frustrations that many teachers face when interacting with parents and guardians. Also explores step-by-step preparation strategies - including specific knowledge and data to have at hand, the best ways to introduce topics of concern and personalized feedback, and the communication and conflict-resolution skills needed to work effectively with parents. In-depth role-playing illustrates positive and negative ways in which a conference might play out and details the most compelling methods for conveying a student's academic, social, and emotional progress. Interviews with teachers and parents reinforce essential concepts and highlight real-world challenges and rewards surrounding this vital part of education.

*A workbook designed especially for Professional Development workshop coordinators - containing video viewing instructions, a post-viewing discussion guide, and skill-building exercises - is also included.

*Sub-Titled
*Correlates to National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
 
#12457/0635   32 minutes 2007  $119.95 *CC 
    

RETURN OF THE RIVER
This incredible production is a sequel to "Heart of the People" (1997 Gemini Nomination). "Return of the River" is a story of struggle and survival: the Huu-ay-aht First Nations and their ongoing efforts to bring back their river, destroyed decades ago by clear-cut logging and commercial fishing. This documentary traces the amazing progress the Huu-ay-aht have made in their attempts to restore their river, culture and language - since embarking on this project in the early 1900's. A powerful, emotional film which shows how strong leadership and the will of the people, can move mountains... and rivers.

The Huu-ay-aht First Nations on the west coast of Vancouver Island have embarked on an incredible mission to re-build their river habitat, destroyed years ago, by clear-cut logging and over-fishing in their waters. Since I viewed their first video, "Heart of the People" in 1996- the Huu-ay-aht have made some incredible progress: working with logging companies to re-build sections of their river, introducing fish fry into the watershed, as well as building a longhouse and working on restoring their culture. "Return of the River" is a beautifully shot, uplifting documentary about the efforts of an aboriginal community to move beyond the past injustices and re-build their future. The film brilliantly presents a unique model for other aboriginal peoples facing similar dilemmas around the world: partnering with industry to undo the damage done; first steps in a brave new world facing the daily destruction of forests and resources. "Return of the River" is required viewing for all ages, but especially anyone who believes we're too late to start making a difference. The Huu-ay-aht are clearly showing the way.
 
#12448/0735   50 minutes 2008  $159.95 *Streaming available 
    

PEACEFUL SCHOOL BUS PROGRAM (THE)

This is a whole-school program that's designed to decrease inappropriate behavior on buses while creating a climate of respect and cooperation. Teachers, administrators, parents, and students take part in school bus route meetings. At these meetings the students: take part in team-building exercises; develop mentoring relationships by pairing older students with younger students on the bus; talk about bullying - and what behavior is and is not acceptable; get to personally know their driver, who is present at the meetings.

Although first developed and implemented in an elementary school setting, the program is easily adapted for use with middle school and even high-school students, who can serve as mentors, role models, and teachers of younger students.

OUTCOMES - Peaceful School Bus Program was created in the real-world setting of Lynnwood Elementary School in upstate New York. In the year before the program was implemented, school bus drivers reported 58 incidents of inappropriate behavior. The program has been in place for 7 years. In each of the past 4 years, the average yearly total of bus incident referrals has been nine.

HOW IT WORKS - There is very little financial cost to implementing this program. All materials are included in the 128-page Softcover guide. The DVD gives a program overview. And the CD-ROM provides numerous resources including: program posters; bus decals; activity handouts; a parent letter (in English and Spanish); a bus route leader-training outline; an implementation checklist. It is recommended that each committee member and bus route group leader have one copy of the guide.
 
#12443/0795   15 minutes 2008  $149.95  Grades K to 12 *CC 
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TALES OF WONDER I and II
TALES OF WONDER I and II (as seen on PBS) showcases 18 Native American stories for children, as told in the Native American tradition by acclaimed Cherokee storyteller and linguist Gregg Howard. "Tales of Wonder" has been used in a curriculum unit developed by the Stanford University Program on International and Cross-cultural Education.

Accompanied by flute players and sketch artists, Howard recounts legends important to native culture and identity, including "Why Rabbit Has a Short Tail," "Little Turtle and How His Shell Got Cracked," "Hawk & Hunter," "Dream Catcher," "Sky People," and many more.

AWARDS, FILM FESTIVALS AND RECOGNITION
Video of the Year, Parenting Magazine
Telly Award
Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award
National Parenting Publications Award
Pegasus Award
Best in Children’s Programming, Children’s Media Guide
The Communicator Award

THE STORIES IN TALES OF WONDER I
Rabbit & the Bear
Why Rabbit has a Short Tail - Listen
Why Possum's Tail is Bare
The Ruby Necklace
Plieades and the Pine Tree
Why Little Grey Bat Flies at Night
Little Turtle and How His Shell Got Cracked
The Origin of Fire
How Deer Got the Antlers Instead of Rabbit

THE STORIES IN TALES OF WONDER II
Flying Squirrel
Hawk & Hunter
Strawberries
Daughter of the Sun
Sky People
Democracy
Dream Catcher
The Ball Game
Origin of Bluebonnets
 
#12428/1830   120 minutes 2004  $239.95 
    

NATIVE AMERICAN HEALING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

This program discusses the invaluable contributions the Native Americans made to our early frontier heritage and shows how many of those same healing plants and herbs are an important source of today's modern methods of maintaining health.

The point is clearly made that what has been effective for thousands of years may still be the best means of maintaining a healthy lifestyle today.

Learn from today's respected physicians the crossover of ancient Native American healing remedies to present-day medical practices. Explore for Native American healing plants and herbs. Learn from tribal elders traditional healing practices and philosophies. Discover the contents of a 350 year old Indian medicine bag!

Herbal healing remedies for: Heart/Circulatory; Arthritis; Female conditions; Respiratory Asthma; Skin Conditions; Digestive tract; Sinus and more.
 
#12426/1830   40 minutes 2004  $239.95 
    

HOW TO TRACE YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE *Telly Award and Crystal of Excellence
"How To Trace Your Native American Heritage" is a valuable resource for anyone looking to discover or establish their Native American ancestry. The film provides both the basics for genealogical research and unique points for Native American research.

The viewer will learn:
How to contact your tribe; where to find government information; how to obtain tribal membership, enhancing one's sense of belonging and heritage; how and where to research the Dawes Rolls; benefits offered through official Native American status; how to participate in tribal elections; valuable internet sites; and listings of over five hundred US federally recognized Native American Tribes.

*Narrated by Gregg Howard
 
#12425/1830   40 minutes 2003  $239.95 
    

BLACK INDIANS: An American Story
*Award of Distinction, Indian Summer Festival 2005
*Cine Golden Eagle
*Best Documentary, Native American Music Awards
*Aurora Gold Award

Narrated by James Earl Jones, this in-depth documentary brings to light a forgotten part of America's past - the cultural and racial fusion of Native and African Americans - and examines the coalescence of these two groups in American history. Discounted, and often ignored by mainstream America, these minority peoples have often shared a common past. However, with their heritage ignored and their contributions denied they are all but invisible at the dawn of the new millennium.
 
#12424/1830   60 minutes 2004  $279.95 
    

TRAIL OF TEARS: CHEROKEE LEGACY
"Trail of Tears Cherokee Legacy" explores America's darkest period: President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma in 1838. Nearly a quarter of the Cherokee died during the Trail of Tears, arriving in Indian Territory with few elders and even fewer children.

Presented by Wes Studi and narrated by James Earl Jones, this program has already captured an impressive array of awards, including: Silver World Medal for History, New York Festivals 2007
Silver Film Award, Telly Awards 2007
Best Documentary, American Indian Film Festival 2006
Founder's Award, International Cherokee Film Festival 2006
Best Documentary DeadCenter Film festival
Best Feature Documentary Native American Music Awards
Platinum Best of Show Aurora Awards
Winner AEGIS Awards

Known worldwide as "The Nammys" - Nama (Native American Music Awards) is an ultimate celebration of music and video honoring the outstanding achievements of today's leading Native American artists.
 
#12423/1830   115 minutes 2006  $239.95 *CC 
    

OUR SPIRITS DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH

*Best Feature Documentary International Cherokee Film Festival
*2008 Accolade Competition Award of Excellence
*2008 Best Documentary Columbus International Film Festival

This program is a Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools. Uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes, forced them into boarding schools and enacted a policy of educating them in the ways of Western Society. This DVD gives a voice to the countless Indian children forced through a system designed to strip them of their Native American culture, heritage and traditions.

*This program is Closed Captioned
 
#12422/1830   82 minutes 2008  $239.95 *CC 
    

ROMANCE OF A VANISHING RACE
This DVD includes three historic motion pictures of American Indians and their life-style in the early 1900s. Featuring Tribal Chiefs who participated in the Last Great Indian Council and several who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Originally produced on 35mm film, this priceless footage, recently discovered within the lost treasures of the National Archives is re-mastered to include an original music score and soundtrack to further preserve the Native American history and culture.

PROGRAM #1 - THE ROMANCE OF THE VANISHING RACE
A view of Indian life in the Southwest featuring Navajo, Pueblo, Crow, and Hopi tribes. . Released 1916. Running Time 29 minutes

PROGRAM #2 - RODMAN WANAMAKER EXPEDITION OF CITIZENSHIP TO THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN
Carrying the Flag and a Message of Hope to a Vanishing Race - Dr. Joseph Dixon explains the symbolism of the flag to numerous Indian tribes. Released 1913. Running Time 26 minutes

PROGRAM #3 - WINTER FARM LIFE ON A CROW RESERVATION
Shows reservation life including butchering a cow, raising a teepee, and ceremonies. Released 1921. Running Time 8 minutes

*Closed Captioned
 
#12421/1830   66 minutes 2008  $239.95 *CC 
    

ART 21 (Seasons I and II) Art in the 21st Century - 2 DVDs
This four-program set offers new definitions of art and demonstrates its profound relevance. Meet 37 diverse U.S. artists in this Emmy-nominated series. Viewers go into studios, homes, and communities for an intimate view of artists' lives, creative processes, and sources of inspiration. Each program profiles three to five artists, from painters, photographers, and sculptors to performance and video artists.
 
#12410/1725   480 minutes 2003  $149.95 *CC 
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CHASSIS AND FRONT END (9 Programs) DVD
Make sure your students have the best possible training in chassis and front end parts and service. This nine-part series will support any intensive course covering the following systems and how they are serviced: brakes, steering, suspension, and both conventional and front-wheel drive wheel bearings. Wheel alignment theory and adjustment is also a program topic. Detailed yet easy-to-understand animation and graphics are found in each episode, accompanied by live-action video that takes students directly inside each inspection and service procedure.

There are nine 17 to 27-minute programs in the series:
BRAKE SYSTEM SERVICE
BRAKE SYSTEMS
STEERING SYSTEM SERVICE
STEERING SYSTEMS
SUSPENSION SYSTEM SERVICE
SUSPENSION SYSTEMS
WHEEL ALIGNMENT
WHEEL BEARING SERVICE: Conventional
WHEEL BEARING SERVICE: Front Wheel Drive

*Viewable/printable instructor's guides are available online



 
#12380/0635  2008  $849.95 
    

WHO OWNS AMERICA? Economic Crisis in the United States
The United States, the world's strongest economic power, is also the world's largest debtor nation. Will America's ever-increasing trade imbalance and economic deficit trigger a global economic calamity? This program travels from East Coast to West via the Rust Belt to check the financial pulse of the nation - and to capture in images the reality of an economic system spinning out of control. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, economists Paul Krugman and Mark Brenner, and Harvard's Kenneth Rogoff as well as students buried in debt and skilled laborers who have lost their pensions give their points of view on topics such as the pernicious use of government debt to pay for tax cuts; the $4-billion-per-week war in Iraq; the off-shoring of mortgage debt to China; Wall Street's love of lean production and its negative impact on the manufacturing sector; the unwelcome necessity of student loans in the face of a faltering job market; consumerism based on overextended lines of credit; and the steadily falling median income.

*Portions in French with English subtitles
 
#12336/0635   52 minutes 2007  $199.95 
    

EXPLAINING GLOBALIZATION
Everyone talks about globalization, but what does it really mean? And what are its implications for the average person? In this compilation of NewsHour segments, experts from the U.S. and abroad speak their minds on a shrinking world and an expanding global economy.

Episodes include:

* Globaphobia - One World, One Market: Is globalization good or bad for Americans? Paul Solman takes a walk around his neighborhood with Harvard University's Robert Lawrence, one of the world's top trade economists, to think it through.

* Gergen Dialogue - Thomas L. Friedman and the World Market: David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News & World Report, talks with New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization.

* Conversation - The Mystery of Capital: Elizabeth Farnsworth and Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto discuss his book The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. Segment also sold as a part of Microeconomics in the Global Marketplace.

* A World Without Borders - Ray Suarez is joined by Thomas L. Friedman, author of The World Is Flat, and Moisés Naím, author of Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy, to examine globalization and resulting changes in economics.

* Conversation - The Effects of Globalization: Jeffrey Brown moderates a debate between Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), author of Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America, and Thomas L. Friedman, author of The World Is Flat, on the effects of a globalized economy.
 
#12308/0635   56 minutes 2006  $199.95 
    

COMPLETE CONDITIONING FOR SWIMMING - DVD
From more powerful strokes to quicker turns, propel yourself to improved times with this DVD/BOOK set. This multidimensional training program uses fitness assessments to tailor strength, endurance, and flexibility exercises to each swimmer's individual needs.

Dave Salo, coach of Olympic medalists Lenny Krayzelburg, Aaron Peirsol, Amanda Beard, and Jason Lezak, and Scott A. Riewald, performance specialist for the U.S. Olympic Committee, have teamed up to create a comprehensive program that provides you with the following tools to improve your times:

*Exercises and drills for each stroke
*Event-based workouts and programs
*Dry land training
*Tapering for peak performance
*Year-round conditioning plans
*Nutrition before, during, and after swim meets

In addition, the DVD takes you to the pool and into the gym to demonstrate the drills and exercises used by the sport's elite. Complete Conditioning for Swimming is simply the best guide to preparing your body for competitive success.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dave Salo has been one of the nation's top swimming coaches for more than 15 years and currently is the head coach of the USC men's and women's swimming teams. Before joining the Trojan swim program, Salo served as head coach of Irvine Novaquatics, where he trained Olympic medalists Lenny Krayzelburg, Aaron Peirsol, Amanda Beard, and Jason Lezak. Over his career, he has continued to serve at the national level, accepting coaching assignments for the United States at the 2005 World Championships and the 2001 Goodwill Games. Salo earned his MS and PhD in exercise physiology from USC and currently resides in Los Angeles.

Scott A. Riewald is a performance technologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee, where he focuses on biomechanics and technology for endurance sports. Previously, he was USA Swimming's biomechanics director at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, where he worked with many of the nation's top swimmers. During his tenure, he lectured throughout the United Sates on the use of science to improve performance of individual swimmers and entire teams. He also worked as the biomechanics director for the United States Tennis Association in Key Biscayne, Florida.

Riewald is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) and a certified personal trainer, and he earned his MS and PhD in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. As an undergraduate, he was a competitive swimmer at Boston University, where he still holds several school and conference records. In his spare time, he enjoys mountain biking, photography, and spending time with his family.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Testing for Swimming Fitness
Chapter 2. Warming Up and Cooling Down
Chapter 3. Tailoring Training for Specific Strokes and Events
Chapter 4. Building Endurance
Chapter 5. Training for Core Stability
Chapter 6. Developing Explosive Power
Chapter 7. Enhancing Flexibility for Better Strokes
Chapter 8. Preventing, Coping With, and Returning From Injury
Chapter 9. Nutrition and Hydration for Swimmers
Chapter 10. Creating a Strength and Conditioning Program
Chapter 11. Year-Round Sample Programs

WORDS OF PRAISE
"Salo is an amazing teacher and coach who understands the importance of peak conditioning to a swimmer's success. Combining book and DVD, Complete Conditioning for Swimming captures his unique approach, making it the most comprehensive training resource in the sport today." Aaron Peirsol, 4 time Olympic medalist

"With exercises and programs tailored to address the physical demands of every stroke and event, Complete Conditioning for Swimming is a competitive swimmer's dream."
Amanda Beard, Seven-time Olympic medalist
 
#12301/0860   65 minutes 2009  $49.95 
    

MARKETING'S 4 Ps: The Consumer Angle
Students learn the traditional four Ps of marketing strategy - product, place, price and promotion - and more importantly, how a focus on the consumer is at the core of them all. With pertinent examples from popular, everyday brands, students gain an understanding of how pricing strategies really work, how marketers target different consumers with identical products, and where positioning and branding meet profit.

*Includes Guide
*Closed Captioned



 
#12271/1120   25 minutes 2009  $125.95 *CC 
    

CONSUMER AND THE PLANET
Learn how small, everyday actions can conserve energy sources, reduce your carbon footprint, and even save money in the process! This video deciphers "green" marketing claims and labels such as "ENERGY STAR", "DfE", renewable and sustainable. We illustrate eco-friendly ways to buy, prepare, store and dispose of food, and explore methods of saving water, reusing and recycling and trashing trash. Also learn about environmentally friendly clothing care, green pet care, and how to turn a drink of water into an act of kindness toward the planet.

*Closed Captioned
 
#12269/1120   19 minutes 2009  $125.95 *CC 
    

FALLEN FEATHER: Canada's Indian Residential Schools

"It is important for us to be reminded that the Residential Schools were all about the eradication of Indianess in the country. They were designed to do away with the Indian fact in the country. And to mould us into something that obviously we could never be." National Chief Phil Fontaine

Between 1879 and 1986, upwards of 100,000 children in Canada were forcibly removed and placed into Indian Industrial Residential Schools. Their unique culture was stripped away to be replaced with a foreign European identity. Their family ties were cut, parents were forbidden to visit their children, and the children were prevented from returning home.

First Nations children were the only children in Canadian History, to be singled out by race and forced to live in institutions; generation after generation.
ND Rosiers - President, Law Commission of Canada, 15 August 2001, Sydney, Australia

The Indian Agents and RCMP removed the children from their families and placed them within these schools as wards of the state.

Why were these walls built? Why were so many children corralled behind these bricks so far from home? Tens of thousands died of Tuberculosis and other ailments brought on by the grossly inadequate living standards. Families destroyed, generations lost. All to further the official policy of achieving a 'final solution' to what had been perceived as an 'Indian problem'. Department of Indian Affairs Superintendent D. C. Scott to B.C. Indian Agent-General Major D. McKay, 1910 April, DIA Archives, RG 10 series.

Pick up a paper today and the chances are there will be some reference to the First Nations condition.

Tens of thousands of cases of sexual and physical abuses. The Government has assumed partial responsibility for this historical wrong and has agreed to pay out Billions in damages. They agree that the assimilation of First Nations children within these Industrial Schools was a terrible mistake.

A mistake? The assimilation of First Nations wasn't a mistake; it was a plan.

The abuses that occurred within these Residential Schools were only symptoms of a greater problem. To focus on the obvious crime of physical and psychological abuse is to divert attention from the real story.

Land, This Land.

The Fallen Feather provides an in-depth critical analysis of the driving forces behind the creation of Canadian Indian Residential Schools.

Using historical source documents, survivors' personal testimonies, and detailed analysis from community leaders, the video explores in detail the Federal Government's primary motivation in the creation of these schools.

While examining the influences of Indian wars, Sir John A Macdonald's National Policy, Land Claims issues, the film details how all of these events and visions contributed to the development of these schools.

The film argues that the lasting effects that First Nations in Canada suffer today can be traced back directly to their experiences within these schools. Finally, we as Canadians are all challenged to re-examine our shared history.

*Includes 35-Page TEXT
 
#12268/2165   93 minutes 2007  $239.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

DEMOCRACY: The Basics (3 Programs)
The three DVDs in this excellent new series are interactive and each program includes questions and quizzes:

RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY. Radical Islam is attacking democracy in many parts of the world today. Why? The Christian world for the most part is democratic now but in the past? Learn how religions have helped (and hindered) the paths to democracy in the past and the present. In Two Parts, this program explains the origins of religions and democracy in Part One and in Part Two considers the state of religions and democracy in the 21st century world. 57 minutes

CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY. Capitalism, like democracy, seems often to be under siege today. Learn in this program how capitalism is necessary for democracy, but not sufficient. Part One explains the origins of capitalism and of democracy. Part Two explores the connections between democracy and capitalism today. 53 minutes

SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY. One of democracy's most important allies is science. Learn in this program how science (like capitalism and religion) is necessary for democracy, but also not sufficient. Part One explains the origins of science and of democracy. Part Two explores the connection between science and democracy today. 49 minutes 
#12240/0845  2009  $289.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

PRICE OF PLEASURE (THE) : Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships
* IMPORTANT! This DVD contains two versions of this program. Viewer discretion is strongly advised on both - one version is edited for some of the violence, nudity, and sexual imagery and the other full version contains blatant sex and violence unedited.

Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has become one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries in the United States. It is estimated that the pornography industry's annual revenue has reached $13 billion. At the same time, the content of pornography has become more aggressive, also more overtly sexist and racist.

This film features the voices of consumers, critics, and pornography producers and performers. It is particularly revealing when male pornographers openly discuss their views about women and how men should relate to them, and when male and female porn users candidly discuss the role pornography has played in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships. Honest and nonjudgmental, the film paints both a nuanced and complex portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, and liberty and responsibility are intertwined in the most intimate aspects of human relations. At the same time, the film examines the unprecedented role that commercial pornography now occupies in U.S. popular culture. Going beyond the debate of liberal versus conservative so common in the culture, this program provides a holistic understanding of pornography as it debunks common myths about the genre.

The film features interviews with scholars of mass media (Gail Dines and Robert Jensen), economics (Richard Wolff), and psychology (Dr. Ana Bridges); writers on pornography and popular culture (Ariel Levy and Pamela Paul); producers and performers from the pornography industry (John Stagliano, Joanna Angel and Ernest Greene); and a former stripper/porn performer-turned-author (Sarah Katherine Lewis).
*A special price is available for Schools, School Boards and all Non-Profit organizations (does not apply to Colleges and Universities who pay full price).
 
#12231/0685   55 minutes 2008  $289.95  Grades 10 to Adult *Streaming available 
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GENERATION M: Misogyny in Media and Culture

For all of the achievements of the women’s movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important new documentary, Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at California State University-Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture. The film tracks the destructive dynamics of misogyny across a broad and disturbing range of media phenomena: from the hyper-sexualization of commercial products aimed at girls, to the explosion of gender violence in video games aimed at boys; from the near-hysterical sexist rants of hip-hop artists and talk radio shock jocks, to the continually harsh, patronizing caricature of feminism found in virtually every area of American pop culture. Along the way, Generation M forces us to confront the dangerous real-life consequences of misogyny in all of its forms, making a compelling case that when we devalue more than half the population based on gender, we harm boys and men as well as women and girls. Featuring interviews with gender violence prevention educators Byron Hurt, Jackson Katz, and Jean Kilbourne; Kimberly Salter (National Organization for Women); Nancy Gruver (Founder and CEO, New Moon Media); and others.

*A special price is available for Schools, School Boards and all Non-Profit organizations (does not apply to Colleges and Universities who pay full price).
 
#12229/0685   58 minutes 2008  $289.95 *CC *Streaming available 
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JAZZ ICONS III BOX SET (7 DVDs)
"The sound quality is first rate, and the performances are extraordinary." Newsweek

The third in the fabulous JAZZ ICONS series consists of seven titles:

* Sonny Rollins - Live in '65 & '68
* Cannonball Adderley - Live in '63
* Bill Evans - Live '64-'75
* Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Live in '63 & '67
* Lionel Hampton - Live in '58
* Oscar Peterson - Live in '63, '64 & '65
* Nina Simone - Live in '65 & '68

Each DVD features a 24-page booklet with an essay written by an authoritative jazz historian as well as rare and unseen photos. Filmed in Europe between 1958 and 1975, this third set of Jazz Icons DVDs features concerts by seven of the most influential jazz artists of the 20th century captured in their prime and accompanied by some of the most legendary sidemen of the day. Previously forgotten or lost in the vaults of TV studios throughout Europe (in some cases for nearly 50 years!), they are now being made available for the first time.

The running time for the DVDs range from 60 to 100 minutes. Deluxe boxed set with a bonus eighth disc featuring additional rare, never-before-seen, performances. Each of the new Jazz Icons DVDs features one or more concerts filmed live in television studios and concert halls throughout Europe between 1958 and 1975, one of the most creative periods in jazz history. All seven DVDs feature performances that have never been officially released, and in many cases, the material is newly discovered and was never broadcast. In addition, every performance in the Jazz Icons DVD series has been transferred and re-mastered from the best-quality original masters yielding excellent sound and video.
 
#12220/1465  2008  $159.95 
    

AMAZING EGGS Revised!

Explore the versatility of eggs! Discover the uses of various sizes and grades of eggs, what the eggshell’s color means, egg nutrients, how to store eggs, cooking temperatures and more. Chef Dave Christopherson explains the many uses of the egg while demonstrating a variety of delicious, easy to prepare egg dishes, including:
* Scrambled eggs
* Sunny side up egg, over easy egg, and basted egg
* Poached egg
* Hollandaise sauce
* Omelet
* Strata, frittata, and quiche

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned

*** See also the AMAZING EGGS ACITIVITIES KIT #12218-G - Five, two-hour lessons that explore one of our most versatile, nutritious, and culturally-rich foods: the egg! Students engage in hands-on activities that integrate science, math, art, reading, health, and life skills and follow simple recipes to create tasty egg dishes. Perfect for the classroom or after school programs.
 
#12218/1290   21 minutes 2012  $69.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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OUR NEW HOUSES: An Inuit Documentary

This program documents the move of the Inuit from tents and igloos to wood frame houses in the 1950's and the consequent implications of this rapid and dramatic cultural change for the Inuit people's health and well-being. It also records the experience of elders who made this transition before they passed away - a generation that is rapidly disappearing in the Inuit population. Through their words and eyes we learn about Inuit history and cultural experience, and gain insight into challenges of Inuit youth seeking their identity today, in a world changing rapidly again from the effects of global warming. *Closed Captioned
 
#12213/0199   21 minutes 2008  $149.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

MEALS IN MINUTES SERIES (4 Programs)
Join comedian Stevie Ray in this series of four programs as he uses humor to educate on the following topics:

EASY STIR-FRY - Stevie Ray walks viewers step-by-step though the basics of stir-fry cooking. Learn about the essentials including the history, the wok, what utensils to use, how to prepare rice, and more! In a matter of minutes, Stevie prepares a simple and delicious chicken stir-fry. 19 minutes

VEGETARIAN - Vegetarianism is more than just not eating meat - it’s about smart eating. The key is to eat a varied, balanced diet of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Watch as Uncle Stevie helps his nephew prepare a simple meat-free meal of black bean chili and cornbread. Includes: Reasons for becoming a vegetarian; Types of vegetarians; Meatless meal ideas; Important information on complementary proteins; and, Key nutrients for vegetarians. 16 minutes
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MEAL PLANNING - Ever wonder what’s for dinner? Simplify your life by planning meals ahead of time. Follow comedian Stevie Ray as he explains the steps of meal planning while he prepares a simple chicken noodle soup from leftovers. Learn the basics of meal planning: Steps of Meal Planning; Ingredients and coupons; Nutrition and presentation; Shopping plan; and, Meal serving styles. 16 minutes

KITCHEN AND FOOD SAFETY - Keep yourself safe in the kitchen! Learn the difference between safe and dangerous safety practices in the kitchen as "DO Stevie" and "DON'T Stevie" prepare food simultaneously. An engaging SILENT, split screen format allows viewers to study right and wrong methods.

Topics covered include: Hand washing; Knife safety; Cross-contamination; Burns and cuts; Food storage. And more! All these illustrated through the step-by-step preparation of apple crisp, spaghetti and salad. 18 minutes

*All programs include Teaching Materials and are Closed Captioned
*Also available separately
 
#12210/1290  2008  $219.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

RESUMES: A How-To Guide
Jeff wants to work in the information technology field. Cindy dreams of being a gourmet chef. Over the course of this program, these students learn how to write functional, chronological, combination, and newsletter-style resumes using information on their skills and experience that they identify through two exercises: Personal Inventory (to capture the "what") and Showing Your COLORS (to uncover the "how"). Ways to get a resume in front of a decision-maker's eyes are also addressed, and insightful snippets of commentary by a career counselor and an HR professional are interspersed throughout. Engaging and informative, this program is an excellent introduction to resume-writing for students with little or no job experience - yet!

*Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act.

*Recommended for grades 10-college

*A viewable/printable instructor's guide is available online.
 
#12171/0635   35 minutes 2008  $119.95 
    

BETTER BREAD PROFESSIONAL SERIES II (4 Programs) DVD

Four new additions to the BETTER BREAD SERIES!! These baking tutorials continue to deliver the same high-quality educational material established in the first four programs in the series. These programs provide professional bakers and home baking enthusiasts the opportunity to learn new skills and techniques in the privacy of their own home or bakeshop as their schedule allows.

SHAPING BREAD: Creating Variety Through Form
Chef Ciril Hitz illustrates how to easily expand the visual variety of an existing bread line through the use of simple and decorative shaping techniques. Using one basic lean dough formula, Chef Hitz demonstrates over 30 new variations to add to your bread-shaping repertoire. From easy cuts and twists to more elaborate appliqués, these techniques will create new interest and variety in your breads while allowing them to retain the unique flavors of your own personal formulas. Included are variations of baguettes, round loaves, oval loaves, crowns, folded breads, and rolls. 54 minutes

SOURDOUGH BREADS I
Chef Ciril Hitz begins the journey in exploring the complex world of sourdough breads.
Through clear, step-by-step instruction, Chef Hitz introduces the basic principles of working with sourdoughs, from starting and managing your own culture to understanding the role fermentation plays in developing the unique flavor profiles characteristic of sourdough breads. Topics and formulas include: Starting a sourdough culture; Maintaining a sourdough culture; Understanding fermentation and flavor; Sourdough Miche; Pumpkin Sourdough Bread; and, Olive Sourdough Bread. 69 minutes

SOURDOUGH BREADS II
Chef Ciril Hitz continues the journey into exploring the world of sourdough breads. Expanding on the information introduced in Sourdough Breads I, this disc focuses on the combinations of different flours (including rye and whole wheat) and the addition of other ingredients such as nuts, seeds, and fruit to increase the scope of your sourdough repertoire. Topics and formulas include: Walnut Raisin; Classic Sourdough; Chocolate Cherry Sour; Light Rye; Country Sour; Toasted Hazelnut; Harvest Loaf; Blue Cheese Walnut; and,100% Rye. 71 minutes

WOOD-FIRED BAKING AND CUISINE
Chef Ciril Hitz demystifies the process of utilizing a wood-fired oven as he demonstrates a modern approach to this ancient method of baking and cooking. This program details the basics of working with a wood-fired oven, inspires confidence, and provides helpful tips and techniques to the novice and experienced baker alike. Topics and formulas include: Miche; Hazelnut Sourdough; Focaccia; Pizza; Brioche; Pain de Mie; Linzer Tart; Lasagna; Pizza Toppings; Roasting Vegetables; and, Roasting Meats . 92 minutes
 
#12154/0250  2008  $169.95 
    

JUST THE FACTS KITCHEN SERIES (9 Programs)
Chef Jonathan Locke has led professional kitchens in San Francisco, in Santa Fe, and in Minneapolis for more than 20 years. In this series he brings his energy and expert food knowledge to these high-quality instructional videos.

MICROWAVE OVENS - Ever wonder how a microwave oven actually cooks food? The mystery is solved as Chef Jon uses a basic microwave to explain how microwave ovens cook. He also discusses safety and cooking techniques and demonstrates easy recipes that can be made in minutes. 16 minutes

SUPERFOODS - Chef Jon presents nutrient-dense foods in delicious recipes. Featured foods include avocado, black beans, blueberries, broccoli, cantaloupe, dark chocolate, oats, onions, salmon, spinach, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and yogurt. Chef Jon demonstrates how to enjoy these superfoods in a quesadilla, Asian salmon salad, sweet potato casserole, oatmeal muesli, and oatmeal chocolate chip pancakes. 17 minutes

KNIVES - Knives are a chef's best friend and an art tool - if you know how to use them properly. In this film, students will learn how to handle knives of all sizes as Chef Jon demonstrates a small paring knife to a large cleaver. Safety and knife handling tips are also covered. Get an "edge" in the kitchen! 17 minutes

SALADS - Chef Jon works his creative magic with healthy, well-presented salads. With more than 20 years of experience, his wisdom comes to life as he demonstrates and discusses salad-making techniques, nutrition information and fun facts. He keys in on green, fajita, horiatiki, tabouli, fruit and pasta salads.

BREAKFAST - Chef Jon's favorite meal is breakfast! In this engaging video, he demonstrates techniques, discusses nutrition, and shares fun breakfast facts. Watch as he prepares smoothies, scrambled and fried eggs, omelets, French toast, pancakes, and breakfast burritos.

CAKE DECORATING - Beautify your cakes with direction from Chef Rick Forpahl, an experienced cake decorator. Learn proper hand techniques and how to use tools and equipment. He demonstrates basic decorating techniques including star, rosette, sweet pea, rose, stems, writing, and leaves. 20 minutes

YEAST - "Knead" or want to learn the know-how of bread making? Discover the skills and taste the rewards of making yeast breads in this film! Chef Jonathan Locke demonstrates the fundamental basics of the art and food science of yeast breads. Viewers will learn measuring and mixing techniques as well as what it takes to transform ingredients into a finished loaf of bread. 24 minutes

MUFFINS - Chef Jonathan Locke knows that muffins are easy and FUN to make! Watch as he demonstrates how to make healthy, tasty muffins in just a few minutes. Viewers will learn ingredients, yummy "stir-ins", and proper mixing and baking techniques for a variety of great-tasting muffins. 17 minutes

FOOD SAFETY - Clean, separate, cook, chill - the key processes to keep food safe! With more than 20 years of kitchen experience, Chef Jon shares his extensive knowledge of safe food preparation, food-borne illness, clean-up and storage. This comprehensive video is an essential component of any food-teaching program. 16 minutes

*Closed Captioned. Each program includes Teaching Materials.
 
#12140/1290  2007  $399.95  Grades 10 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

COMPLETE CONDITIONING FOR GOLF - DVD
Golfers at all levels benefit from golf-specific training. This expert program begins with evaluation and moves through targeted strength, power, core, and flexibility exercises. Pete Draovitch, personal trainer and physical therapist to PGA star Greg Norman, and Ralph Simpson, former physical therapist and trainer on the PGA Tour fitness van, have teamed up to create a comprehensive program to help you in these areas:

*Generate explosive power for increased driving distances.
*Improve flexibility for a more fluid and precise swing.
*Build muscular endurance for greater shot control through the final hole.
*Maintain strength and flexibility from round to round and throughout the year.
*Prevent common injuries.
*Return to the course quickly with modified rehab exercises.

In addition, the DVD takes you onto the course and into the gym to demonstrate the drills and exercises used by the pros. This package is simply the best guide to preparing your body for success on the links.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pete Draovitch is a physical therapy and rehabilitation specialist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Performance Complex and has been the personal physical therapist for PGA Tour star Greg Norman since 1993. He also serves as physical therapist and wellness consultant for Martin Memorial Medical Center, as president and CEO of the Bodyguards, Inc., and as spring training physical therapy consultant for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball organization.

An accomplished writer, Draovitch has written articles for GOLF Magazine, Muscle Training in Orthopedics and Sports, Physical Therapy, and numerous other publications. He has been featured in golf segments on ESPN, NBC's "High Performance Golf," and "60 Minutes" and in articles in GOLF Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and USA Today.

Draovitch holds a master's degree in physical therapy from the University of Miami and a master's degree in sports medicine and physical education from the University of Delaware. He is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the National Athletic Trainers' Association, and the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Ralph Simpson is a strength and conditioning specialist and a physical therapist board certified in manual therapy, athletic training, and orthopedics. He has traveled with the U.S. luge team on the World Cup circuit and provided care at USOC training centers. Since 1983 Simpson has worked with athletes of various sports. He spent 12 years traveling on the PGA Tour fitness van providing care and training to nearly all PGA Tour and Champions Tour players.

Simpson is a professional advisor for Golf Digest and has written numerous articles on golf fitness. He has been interviewed or quoted on ESPN, CNBC, the Golf Channel, BBC Sports Talk, local TV affiliates across the United States, the New York Times, USA Today, Golf Digest, Golf World, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Sun Times.

Simpson holds a bachelor's degree with high honors in physical therapy and a bachelor's degree with high honors in health and physical education with an emphasis on adaptive physical education from the University of Montana. He is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the National Athletic Trainers' Association, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists. He has been an invited physical therapist at the Shark Shootout since 1997, continues to consult with various pros, and is the owner of Manual Orthopaedic & Sports Therapy in Whitefish, Montana, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents
Part I Conditioning Components
Chapter 1. Golf Fitness Tests
Chapter 2. Flexibility for Full-Swing Arc
Chapter 3. Preround Warm-Up
Chapter 4. Weight Training for Maximum Distance
Chapter 5. Core Training for Postural Stability
Chapter 6. Cuff Training for a Solid Backswing
Chapter 7. Motor Memory for Power Transfer and Skill Execution
Chapter 8. Nutrition and Supplements for Golf Energy Needs

Part II Golf-Specific Programs
Chapter 9. Advanced Power Development
Chapter 10. 15-Minute Weekly Maintenance
Chapter 11. Rehabilitation and Recovery From Injury

WORDS OF PRAISE
"This might be the most complete book on golf fitness. Ralph has demonstrated once again why no one is more conscientious and innovative in getting (and keeping) golfers healthy. Very original."
Ron Kaspriske, Editor, Golf Digest magazine

"Pete Draovitch and Ralph Simpson were pioneers in bringing fitness to golf. They are once again ahead of the curve as it relates to playing better golf through a stronger, healthier, more functional body."
Tim Rosaforte
Senior Golf Writer, Golf World
Contributing Analyst, PGA Tour Sunday and NBC for U.S. Open


 
#12121/0860   65 minutes 2007  $49.95 
    

ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY: The Resurgence (Educator's Edition)
Although hatred of the Jewish people is often found at the margins of society, anti-Semitism appears to be approaching a groundswell in many parts of the world. This program examines the phenomenon at institutional and grassroots levels, focusing primarily on the Middle East and the complex history behind its conflicts. Viewers will encounter several provocative ideas about Islamic anti-Semitism and the attitudes Jews and Muslims have developed concerning each other. Celebrated historian Bernard Lewis, former Israeli Prime Minister Natan Sharansky, Iranian-American author Reza Aslan, Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy, and other experts propel this timely discussion.

*Narrated by veteran TV journalist Judy Woodruff.

(57 minutes + 45 minutes of bonus material - features extended interview footage)

 
#12120/0635   57 minutes 2007  $229.95 
    

CHEM LAB (THE): Safety in Every Step DVD
"Maximize your knowledge and minimize your risk!" That's the primary message of this program, an informative introduction to the chemistry laboratory that shows high school and first-year college students precisely how to conduct themselves in a safe and professional manner. Familiarity with the properties and safe handling of all materials used in the lab is stressed, including how to dispose of hazardous waste, and the proper use of safety gear and equipment is explained. How to react in the case of a lab emergency is also discussed.
*A viewable/printable instructor's guide is available online

*Sub-Titled
 
#12057/0635   20 minutes 2008  $119.95 *CC 
    

TIM WISE: On White Privilege
For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture he offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color, but to white people as well. This is an invaluable classroom resource: an ideal introduction to the social construction of racial identities, and a critical new tool for exploring the often invoked - but seldom explained - concept of white privilege.

Sections: Introduction | The Erasure of Politics & Culture | White Denial | Unburdened by Race | The Creation of Whiteness: How Race Was Used to Hide Class | Privilege & Pathology | Guilt and Responsibility

*A special price is available for Schools, School Boards and all Non-Profit organizations (does not apply to Colleges and Universities who pay full price).
 
#11997/0685   57 minutes 2008  $149.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
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PODCASTING AND BLOGGING ESSENTIALS
In a Web 2.0 world, anyone can broadcast or publish online - and this clear and simple program explains how to do it, step by step. Using plain English and plenty of visuals, Podcasting and Blogging Essentials spells out what podcasts and blogs are, how to find and access them on the Internet, and how to create them from scratch and upload them to the Web. No previous knowledge is required. An excellent starting point for students and educators alike who want to get their message out and would like to see how it's done. Bonus material includes an interview with the director about the history and future of podcasts and blogs and an interview with a podcaster on the development and production of her podcasts.

*Viewable/printable supporting materials are available online
*Sub-Titled

 
#11977/0635   57 minutes 2007  $199.95 *CC 
    

KIDS AND SPORTS
More and more children play organized sports. Viewers of this exciting program see children from toddlers through puberty illustrate just how fun or frustrating playing sports can be.

They watch as physical, social and emotional development follow a sequence that adults can't speed up. They see just how skills in sports progress from birth through puberty. They marvel at the intellectual side of sports - from score keeping to game strategizing.

The program guides viewers through the dangers of the over-scheduled, over-pressured, over-trained child.

*Closed Captioned
*Includes Guide
 
#11964/1120   25 minutes 2008  $129.95 *CC 
    

HYBRID AUTO REPAIR SERIES II (3 Programs)
Whether you're training students, new hires, or long-time employees, hybrid auto technology is a crucial part of today's automotive instruction.

A natural follow-up to the Hybrid Auto Repair Series, this three-part series guides viewers through the systems that hybrid auto professionals must become familiar with and shows what it takes to maintain shop safety and efficiency. Veteran automotive technicians share their hybrid knowledge and experience, explaining best practices and specific procedures relating to Ford, Honda, and Toyota models. Each program emphasizes the need for patience and caution while lowering the fear factor often associated with a hybrid's high-voltage components.

Correlates to all National CTE Organizational Standards (including the provisions of the Perkins Act).

A viewable/printable instructor's guide is available online.

Three 18-minute programs:
BATTERY AND SAFETY
BRAKES AND SERVICE
COMPUTERS AND COOLING SYSTEMS

*Sub-Titled
 
#11960/0635  2008  $319.95 *CC 
    

WINE SERVICE FOR WAIT STAFF
The tips and techniques covered in this program will boost your front-of-the-house staff's confidence, polish their up-selling skills, and, most important, increase your bottom line.

Your staff will:
*Learn the proper way to open, present, and serve red, white, and sparkling wines.
*Examine the process for properly decanting red wine.
*Discover the way to retrieve a broken or pushed-in cork from a bottle.
*Gain an understanding of the "quadrant system" method of food and wine pairing.
*Learn the techniques for serving cheese tableside

Closed Captioned
 
#11948/0485   45 minutes 2008  $89.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

PINECREST DIARIES (THE)

This is the story of three boys, their community and a principal who refused to give up on the troubled elementary school that connects them all.

In a low income Ottawa neighbourhood with the largest concentration of immigrants in the city, Pinecrest Elementary has fallen through the cracks. Caught between underfunding and a high need, low income community, Pinecrest's reputation for poor academics and bad behaviour is threatening the school's very existence. But under the inspired leadership of a new principal, the school and its students begin an amazing turnaround.

Photographed in verite style over an entire school year, the film casts a revealing and compassionate light on the challenges facing our growing immigrant communities. The documentary raises important and timely questions about how our public schools are responding to the needs of these communities, and why early efforts are so vital to insuring their children's success.

*Closed Captioned
 
#11947/0865   43 minutes 2008  $149.95 *CC *Streaming available 
    

NUCLEAR POWER - DVD
This program brings knowledge and perspective to an emotionally charged subject and includes video footage from Los Alamos, Three Mile Island, Oak Ridge and other centers of nuclear research. This program can help provide a base in science and history for discussion of nuclear power issues, including new developments in connections between energy production and global warming.

Part 1. The History of Nuclear Power. Tells the story of how nuclear power was developed in World War II and how it has come to be an important source of power (and controversy) today.

Part 2. Nuclear Power Today and Tomorrow. Helps the student understand the basic scientific principles involved in nuclear reactionsand examines the pros and cons of nuclear energy in the future.

*Closed Captioned
*Includes Guide

 
#11941/0845   46 minutes 2007  $129.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

ART OF THE INTERVIEW (THE)
Featuring Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and documentary producer Patti Obrow White, this program explores the art and science of conducting journalistic interviews. White shares her knowledge of numerous topics, such as preparing to meet the subject, establishing a relationship quickly, understanding the pressure points of an interview, speaking with children, and dealing with difficult subjects. The result is an excellent resource for aspiring reporters, writers, and documentary producers, as well as police officers, private investigators, and attorneys. Employers - and job applicants seeking an employer's perspective.
 
#11932/0635   46 minutes 2008  $189.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC 
    

STAYING SAFE ON THE INTERNET
By providing a wealth of opportunities for learning and fun, computers now play an important role in many children's lives. But because the Internet also has a potential for danger, this program is designed to teach students rules for staying safe whenever they go online. Introduced by a funny, computer-savvy host named "Chip", the three scenarios alert viewers to online dangers, and teach the appropriate safety rule to follow: Don't open messages from anyone you don't personally know. Don't give out personal information to anyone. Never agree to meet with strangers you meet online.

In summing up, "Chip" explains that if something online makes you at all uncomfortable, be sure to ask for help from a grown-up you trust.

After viewing this program, students will recognize that chatting online has certain dangers, learn rules for staying safe online and know where to turn to for help if necessary.

*Includes Teacher's Guide

*Closed Captioned


 
#11926/0433   15 minutes 2008  $119.95  Grades 3 to 5 *CC *Streaming available 
    

WRITING ABOUT MEDIA with Peter Elbow (DVD & Curriculum Kit)
Combining focused writing instruction with a media literacy perspective, this program serves as an invaluable tool for college and upper-level high school writing and composition teachers. This package includes a double DVD set featuring more than four hours of clips selected from a range of Media Education Foundation's films, and a detailed curriculum containing dozens of exercises developed in consultation with composition theorist Peter Elbow, acclaimed author of Writing With Power.

4+ hours

Peter Elbow is Professor of English and director of the writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
*A special price is available for Schools, School Boards and all Non-Profit organizations (does not apply to Colleges and Universities who pay full price).
 
#11887/0685   50 minutes 2008  $139.95  Grades 9 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

FISH OUT OF WATER (13 Programs)

This documentary series features a funny, unassuming, urban-Aboriginal host, Don Kelly, on exploratory journeys to discover his traditional native roots. Through a series of (mis)adventures, Don pushes his limits to re-connect with those roots and spiritual values - leading to his renewed vitality, deepened sense of personal identity, and vibrancy for life. This series is for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal viewers who are not only seeking to be entertained, but to gain new insight into Aboriginal traditions and be inspired by explorations of heritage in a contemporary context. It is especially important for Aboriginal youth between 12 and 21.

Each program is 24 minutes in length.

Program 1: BLACKFOOT ADVENTURE
Don journeys to the prairies of southern Alberta: the home of the Blackfoot Nation. He learns from Blackfoot elder Mark Wolfleg Jr. what it takes to be a traditional warrior. He is pushed to his limits in his final challenge when he is forced to ride a horse and shoot a bow and arrow at the same time. #11871

Program 2: MAHIKAN TRAILS
Don recreates the life of a 19th century Metis trapper in Canmore, Alberta. He must become more resourceful like the Metis if he is going to harvest anything from his own trap line that will be fit for his very first hand-built travois. #11872

Program 3: KAWAKANUM KENNELS
Don treks to Woodland Cree country in Athabasca, Alberta where he discovers what it takes to be a traditional Cree fisherman and dog sled master. During his final challenge Don must rein in his team or suffer the consequences. #11873

Program 4: KAK KI YAW CULTURAL CAMP
Don joins Walter Quinn to assimilate the way of the moose on a traditional moose-hunting excursion. It is an arduous test of his survival skills when he is forced to use his own instincts and make a winter camp. But the ultimate test of survival as he braves the northern Alberta wilderness alone. #11874

Program 5: XATSULL HERITAGE VILLAGE
Don finds himself in the traditional territory of the Shuswap people in the interior of British Columbia along the mighty Fraser River. Don attempts the life of a traditional pit dweller while narrowly avoiding setting the village on fire. #11875

Program 6: QUAAOUT RESORT
Don meets Elder Ernie Philip, a world wide champion dancer and entertainer at Quaoout Resort along little Shuswap Lake, B.C. In addition to spearing salmon decoys and taking a traditional warrior test, Don must demonstrate his take on a traditional dance to an audience of native elders. #11876

Program 7: CAPE MUDGE RESORT - TSA KWA LUTEN LODGE
Don journeys to Cape Mudge Island, B.C. on the traditional land of the We-Wai Kai people. Killer whales, traditional clam bakes and legends are the sweeter events leading up to his ultimate initiation - the t'lina (glutana). #11877

Program 8: SIX NATIONS
Don meets with Elder Peter Isaacs in the traditional territory of Six Nations in Southern Ontario where he must face off a wilderness of animals using his bow and arrow, and the world renowned Six Nations Arrows Express team. #11878

Program 9: ALGONQUINI CANOE AND KAYAK CO
The Algonquins of Wolf Lake First Nation, Ontario often traditionally used the mighty rivers as their highways and for their survival. To successfully live the life of a traditional Algonquin, in addition to learning basic survival skills, Don must canoe a set of rapids -solo.
#11879

Program 10: KOKOMVILLE ACADEMY
Elder Jacob Wawatai has been living off the land in Quebec for most of his life as was taught to him by his great grandmother. Don is hoping that by soaking up a wee bit of Jacob's knowledge, that he too will survive the great outdoors and squash a melon or two. #11880

Program 11: BIRCH NARROWS LODGE
Don journeys to northern Saskatchewan to the traditional home of the Dene people of Birch Narrows. Fishes and squirrels and bears - oh my! Elder Eugene Sylvestre takes Don out to Zander Lake, an isolated and remote lodge to track and hunt various animals, or be hunted. #11881

Program 12 - RAFTER SIX RANCH
Don goes back in time with Elmer TwoYoungman, an Elder from the Stoney First Nation in central Alberta. Our Elder helps him to try to break down the stereotype of the 'cowboy vs. the Indian'. #11882

Program 13 - KNOWLEDGE FROM OUR ELDERS
A re-cap of what we learned in these previous 12 programs. #11883

Thirteen 24-minute programs
$149.95 each or any 5 for $99.95 each
Series $995.95
 
#11870/0973  2007  $995.95 *Streaming available 
    

JON STEWART ON HUMOR AND AN INFORMED PUBLIC
Jon Stewart is considered one of America’s top social and comedic voices. In this program, veteran journalist Bill Moyers interviews Stewart, the long-standing anchor of the award-winning Daily Show, about why so many viewers get their news and analysis from his fake news show. Does humor have a role to play in ensuring an informed public? Also on the program, Josh Marshall, influential political blogger, gives his perspective on the role of politics in the recent firings of federal prosecutors and Bill Moyers remembers David Halberstam.

*Sub-titled
 
#11859/0635   55 minutes 2007  $119.95 *CC 
    

GO GREEN AROUND YOUR HOME
Sustaining the world's resources for future generations can start with small changes around your home. Watch as a group of students - the "Go Green" team - take action after they are given some statistical information about waste. See how they come up with ways to reduce, reuse and recycle products to create a healthier lifestyle and environment.

Viewers will discover: tips to minimize waste; small ways to save a lot of energy; important items to recycle; and environmentally-safe products to use.

*Includes Teaching Materials
*Closed Captioned
 
#11792/1290   20 minutes 2008  $89.95  Grades 6 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

COMMUNICATING WITH TACT, CANDOR, AND CREDIBILITY - DVD
This engaging program shows you how to connect with co-workers, team members and supervisors and gives you a four-step method to present your point of view with tact and diplomacy. Learn how to say "no" to the boss while minimizing conflict, maintain your composure with the coworker who's "in your face" and use "prompt and paraphrase" when the boss issues a vague angry criticism.

Covers topics including: rephrasing: making "talking points" tactfully; what to say: the art of scripting; lightweight speech patterns; and jargon-filled corporate speak.

*Closed Captioned
*Includes Guide
 
#11786/1120   19 minutes 2008  $125.95 *CC 
    

BODY LANGUAGE Series (2 Programs)
Some of your students may be bilingual and some may have taken a course in Spanish, Latin, or Japanese. But are any of them fluent in Kinesics? Kinesics is the study of body language as a form of communication. When we read a billboard, its message is usually larger than life and quite clear. Is it possible to read people's thoughts and feelings just by looking at them? Well, we can get pretty close if we learn to identify the silent signals they send. These two programs go "beyond words" and help us "read people".

BODY LANGUAGE I: Beyond Words
People engaged in a conversation may exchange 200 words per minute, but more than half of their communication is nonverbal. We often use gestures, postures and eye contact without thinking twice about them, but these behaviors can communicate so much beyond the words that we use. The way we treat our personal space and that of others can send a message that is loud and clear, even if we never speak a word. This program is an informative look into the fascinating world of nonverbal communication and guides viewers through the land of space wars, tongue showing, mirrored postures and the many layers that make up unspoken communication. 22 minutes

BODY LANGUAGE II: Reading People
We send signals all the time and may not even be aware of it. Gestures we use and faces we make send signals. The volume, speed and inflections of our voices communicate in ways that we many not intend. Through the study of emblems, illustrators, affect displays and eye behavior, a student of body language can gain insight to what people express beyond the words that they use. When people do use words, students can learn to identify and interpret paralanguage. This program provides valuable information about interpreting body language by presenting fun, easy to understand and real life examples. If your students apply this information and do some intelligent people watching, they'll see a whole new world of communication they may never have noticed. 22 minutes

*Both programs Closed Captioned
*Includes Guides
 
#11785/1120   44 minutes 2008  $229.95 *CC 
    

FUN CLASSROOM FITNESS ROUTINES Ages 10 to 14

This program will be a hit with busy teachers looking for fun ways to include physical activity in the day without making more demands on limited space or limited time. This was created to be used in a classroom with no need for extensive equipment or instruction time. Students watch and follow along with award-winning educator and host Carol Scaini as she demonstrates each exercise routine. Contains five ready-to-go fitness routines lasting 10 minutes each, plus a 7-minute warm-up and stretch routine. Each routine requires minimal prep time, and teachers can vary the routines to keep kids interested and having fun. The includes printable PDF documents that contain descriptions of each exercise along with tips for presenting and managing those activities.

*See also FUN CLASSROOM FITNESS ROUTINES Ages 4 to 9
 
#11692/0860   49 minutes 2008  $79.95 *CC 
    

FUN CLASSROOM FITNESS ROUTINES Ages 4 to 9

This DVD will keep kids active and moving in a way that's appropriate for their ages and interests! Created to be used in a classroom - with no need for extensive equipment or instruction time. Students watch and follow along with award-winning educator and host Carol Scaini as she demonstrates each exercise routine.

Contains five ready-to-go fitness routines lasting 10 minutes each, plus a 7-minute warm-up and stretch routine. Each routine requires minimal prep time, and teachers can vary the routines to keep kids interested and having fun.

The DVD includes printable PDF documents that contain descriptions of each exercise along with tips on presenting and managing those activities. This program will be a hit with busy teachers looking for fun ways to include physical activity in the day without making more demands on limited space or limited time.

*Closed Captioned
*See also FUN CLASSROOM FITNESS ROUTINES for Ages 10 to 14 #11692
 
#11691/0860   43 minutes 2008  $79.95 *CC 
    

NISGA'A NATION SERIES (THE) 3 Parts
This astounding series of three documentaries tells the history of the Nisga'a people of the Nass Valley of British Columbia, profiling their 113-year epic struggle to secure a treaty with the governments of Canada and British Columbia. It depicts aboriginal history, rights and title, legal obligations and ethical conduct and demonstrates the courage, determination and triumph of the Nisga'a people.

NISGA'A - DANCING IN BOTH WORLDS
Since time immemorial, in North West British Columbia, K'alii-Aksim Lisims - the great River Nass and surrounding mountains have been home to the Nisga'a people. Though sustained by the natural richness of their homeland, theirs is a history of survival. In the 18th Century, a devastating volcano killed thousands. Explorers, missionaries and government representatives from Victoria and Ottawa invaded bringing with them white man's diseases and alien ways, including Residential Schools. For 113 years, Chiefs and leaders contrived to gain acknowledgement of possession and control of their rightful territories, culminating in 2001 at the Supreme Court of Canada. 43 minutes

K'ALII - AKSIM LISIMS: Excellence in Fisheries Management
For thousands of years, the Nisga'a have been a people of the River, where all five species of salmon still flourish. In order to maintain sustainability in the fishery, all aspects, from maintenance of the essential health of the river - to the marketing of the final products, are at the heart of the Treaty between the Nisga'a Government and the Federal Government, and are the responsibility of Nisga'a Fisheries. Working closely with DFO consultants and LGL, the Nisga'a Fisheries Management determined that their own people should receive training and become qualified experts. 27 minutes

NISGA'A: BEYOND SURVIVAL
Over hundreds of years of Nisga'a history, the little candle fish or smelt, properly called the Oolichan, became known as the Saviour fish. Before freezers and supermarkets, the Nisga'a developed many ways to preserve their great salmon catches through smoking and air drying. The oil rendered from boiling up some of the fish produced a lifegiving 'grease' - the cod liver oil of the Nass! 22 minutes

*Schools and Public Libraries 50% discount on individual prices (or $195 for the series) 
#11690/0420  2007  $299.95  Grades 9 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

COMPLETE FUNDAMENTALS OF ROPE JUMPING with Rene Bibaud

Long a staple in physical education programs, the jump rope is a proven, effective, and inexpensive tool - especially useful given today's education budget constraints. Yet many physical education teachers struggle with how to get the most from rope jumping.

This program will help teachers use those jump ropes - and help kids ages 7 through 11 have fun while being active. Takes the educator through eight sets of skill breakdowns, including single-rope skills, long-rope activities, group routines, build-ups for double dutch, and fun games.

Instructor Rene Bibaud (a five-time world champion of rope jumping who was a lead performer and coach for the renowned Cirque du Soleil) provides personal stories, entertaining metaphors, and inspiring messages and motivational tools, as well as concise and uncomplicated lesson plans with measurable outcomes that can be printed from a computer.

*Closed Captioned
 
#11689/0860   110 minutes 2008  $49.95  Grades 2 to 5 *CC 
    

BIG MAC: Inside the McDonald's Empire DVD
Despite the low-wage, low-prestige reputation of the typical "McJob", a McDonald's franchise owner often manages budgets and income in the millions of dollars. This NBC News program looks at the history and working philosophy behind the world's largest food-service corporation, featuring a number of interviews and concise case studies. Operations manager Tyrone Davis runs six Connecticut restaurants and hopes to become an owner. A once-struggling store in the same state has built newfound profitability on frequent tour bus crowds. And former Four Seasons chef Dan Coudreaut talks about his mid-career move to the McDonald's test kitchen, while the company's future in China-and nutrition-conscious America-is also explored.

*Sub-Titled
 
#11679/0635   60 minutes 2007  $199.95 *CC 
    

REALISM: The Artistic Form of the Truth
It is a creative impulse as old as humanity itself: to depict life faithfully, accurately, in words or images. This program shows how that impulse led to Realism - a widespread artistic movement, born in the latter half of the 19th century, which rejected pretense, distortion, and sentimentality. Incorporating interviews with art historians and literary scholars, the program explores the sociopolitical origins of the phenomenon in the 1848 Revolution in France and the concurrent wave of industrialization that swept Europe and America. Luminous images by Édouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, and Honoré Daumier - along with the unflinching writings of Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, and Heinrik Ibsen - are analyzed and compared with the work of Thomas Eakins, George Bellows, Mark Twain, Jack London, Stephen Crane, and others. The contributions of early photographers and filmmakers, as well as the first stirrings of feminism, are also examined.

*Sub-titled
 
#11626/0635   54 minutes 2007  $199.95 *CC 
    

MEDIA LITERACY SERIES (2 Programs) DVD
The average person is exposed to more than 3,000 commercial messages each day - and probably will not recognize almost 80 percent of them. Use this timely and informative two-part series to deepen your understanding of media's influence and to train students to critically analyze media messages before accepting them.

There are two programs in the series:

TEACHING MEDIA LITERACY: Asking Questions
This program explains how to teach media literacy through the application of three basic facts and five key analytical questions that can be applied to any media message. This simple and highly effective approach is reinforced by insights and observations provided by important figures in the media literacy movement, including Elizabeth Thoman, Tessa Jolls, and Jeff Share, of the Center for Media Literacy. Fight passive consumerism and promote critical thinking with Teaching Media Literacy. 31 minutes

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA LITERACY
TV and radio commercials, Web sites and banner ads, magazine ads, pop songs, photos, and even news articles and textbooks: all of them are sending messages to influence the reader/viewer/listener. How do they grab the attention? What are they selling - a product or service? a lifestyle? an ideology? - and why? Would a different media consumer interpret the message differently? This program raises more questions than it answers, which is the whole point: to prompt students to question, question, question the messages they are bombarded with daily. Savvy media consumers aren't born; they're made, and this program is an excellent tool for shaping the classroom dialogue. 35 minutes

*Sub-Titled.

 
#11600/0635  2007  $229.95 *CC 
    

FROM PAROLE TO PAYROLL: A Process of Persistence (3 Programs)
For the ex-offender, finding a rewarding job is one of the most challenging steps toward building a productive new life. Based on a workshop series by life skills educator Linda Manson, this comprehensive video/workbook series contains solid, real-world content designed to help job seekers find satisfying work, and features informative interviews, helpful tips, and colorful graphics.

The package includes three DVDs and one Workbook:

FINDING A JOB - Examines the many job-hunting methods available to those seeking employment, with specific tips and pointers directed to ex-offenders entering the workforce. Interviews with employment specialists, ex-offender service providers, and employed ex-offenders provide suggestions on the best and quickest ways to find work - and get ahead. Job search methods covered include want ads, employment services, networking, information interviewing, and using the Internet and the Yellow Pages. 23 minutes

RESUMES AND JOB APPLICATIONS - Demonstrates how resumes and job applications can be used effectively to find satisfying employment. Popular types of resumes are presented, with an emphasis on those that are more effective for ex-offenders. In addition, specific ways to incorporate prison education programs and to handle time gaps in employment history are discussed. Resumes and job applications are vital job-hunting resources, so having skill in preparing them can make a real difference. 20 minutes

THE JOB INTERVIEW - What mistakes do ex-offenders commonly make during a job interview? This program is designed to help prepare job candidates to make the most of their meetings with prospective employers. Topics in this thorough job-hunting tool include dressing for success, using body language to convey positive messages, clearly articulating pertinent skills and abilities, coping with difficult questions, and negotiating salary and benefits. 22 minutes

THE EX-OFFENDER'S JOB SEARCH COMPANION: Getting a Good Job Despite Your Record
This workbook gives good advice on job search essentials like writing resumes and cover letters, networking, using the Internet to find job listings and to post resumes, and successful interviewing—dealing with the really difficult questions unique to parolees, negotiating salaries, providing references, and more. Exercises and do-it-yourself forms are also included, to help ex-offenders carry out a job search that really gets results. 72 pages

*Closed Captioned
 
#11589/0405  2008  $329.95 *CC 
    

SAUCE MAKING BASICS - DVD
One of the most basic of cooking fundamentals is the creation of sauces. This program provides a solid foundation, knowledge and skills in this critical segment of the culinary arts. Covers brown, white, emulsion, and tomato sauces.

 
#11548/0485  2007  $119.95 *Streaming available 
    

MEASUREMENT: The Long and the Short of It
Emphasizing hands-on practice, this program is an excellent tool for introducing the basics of linear measurement: its history, terminology, systems, and practical applications. Using both customary and metric rulers, this program will guide students through the process of taking measurements, performing related calculations using whole numbers and fractions, and arriving at answers they can feel confident with. By the time the program is over, students will understand exactly what measurement is - and why it's relevant to their lives. Includes a workbook. Correlates to all applicable state and national standards.

*A Shopware Production. Recommended for middle school, high school, and vocational/technical school.

*Part of the Series Mathematics Core Curriculum Video Library
 
#11525/0635   16 minutes 2007  $119.95  Grades 6 to 12 *CC 
    

SEXUAL AND RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN THE MEDIA (2 Programs) DVD
Sexual and racial stereotypes are constantly being redefined and reinforced on TV and in movies, in magazines and on the Web, in video games - practically everywhere. They frame perceptions, reinforce prejudices, and promote a fear of the "other". This series scrutinizes the media in order to both expose and understand common sources of bias and the intentions behind them. Expert commentary is provided by Carolyn Kitch, director of the Mass Media and Communication program at Temple University; Oscar Gandy, professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication; and NPR's Bob Garfield, cohost of On the Media. The series consists of two programs:

SEXUAL STEREOTYPES IN THE MEDIA
Categorizing others is a part of human nature, and even as infants we divide the world into two groups "male and female" to help organize our reality. But when these stereotypes are used to make assumptions about a person's character and value, they become gender bias or outright sexism. This program illustrates some of the commercial, cultural, psychological, and sociological forces that have shaped sexual stereotypes in the media, such as demographic segmentation and the selling of gender, the myths of alluring femininity and rugged masculinity, Jungian personality archetypes, consensus reality, stereotype threat, the hegemonic forces of agenda-setting and mainstreaming, body image dysfunctions, and the theory of the male gaze. 38 minutes

RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN THE MEDIA
Although demeaning and offensive racial stereotypes were pervasive in popular media of every kind during the 20th century, most observers would agree that the media is much more sensitive to representations of race today. But the pernicious effects of that stereotyping live on in the new racism arising from disparities in the treatment of stories involving whites and people of color in a ratings-driven news market, media-enhanced isolationism as a result of narrowcasting, and other sources. This program examines the relationship between mass media and social constructions of race from political and economic perspectives while looking at the effects media can have on audiences. 43 minutes

*Sub-Titled
 
#11488/0635  2008  $349.95 *CC 
    

RADIATION Interactive
The world is made of atoms. The world is powered by radiation. Few subjects are so important and few so misunderstood. This live-action video will help students learn what radiation is, how it was discovered and what are the risks and benefits for people today.
Part 1. How Radiation Was Discovered. Students will learn how scientists like Newton, Young, Maxwell, Becquerel and Curie discovered basic facts about radiation.
Part 2. Radiation and You. Students will learn facts and theories about radiation today, both the benefits and the risks.

In RADIATION the keys to scientific literacy include: alpha rays, Becquerel, beta rays, cancer, Chernobyl, cosmic rays, Curie, DNA, electromagnetic spectrum, Faraday, fission, fusion, gamma rays, infrared, ions, ionizing radiation, iodine 131, isotopes, microwaves, neutron, nucleus, ozone, radar, radioactive, radium, rem, Roentgen, speed of light, Three Mile Island, ultraviolet, uranium, wavelength, x rays, Young.

*Includes Guide
*Closed Captioned
 
#11394/0845   38 minutes 2007  $169.95  Grades 7 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

WASTE OF SHAME: The Mystery of Shakespeare and his Sonnets
In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and at the center of this masterpiece lies a mystery that has endured for centuries. What are the identities of "he young man" and "the dark lady" to whom all but two of the sonnets allude? This moving performance brings to life the gritty reality of Shakespeare’s England, bits of the Bard’s plays and poems, and the consummate poet and dramatist himself as it exposes these personages unseen but so keenly felt in Shakespeare’s sonnets and in his life. Rupert Graves, Tom Sturridge, Indira Varma, Anna Chancellor, and Zoë Wanamaker star. Contains mature themes and explicit language. Some content may be objectionable.

*Closed Captioned
 
#11386/0635   86 minutes 2005  $189.95 *CC 
    

COMPLETE CONDITIONING FOR TENNIS - DVD & BOOK

Increase strength, power, agility, and quickness and take your game to a much higher level. This program details how to make the most of your training time with exercises, drills, and programs designed to: assess your fitness level; improve footwork; increase speed and flexibility; enhance stamina; boost mental focus; prevent common injuries. Additionally, this DVD takes you on court and into the gym to demonstrate the drills and exercises used by the pros.

*Endorsed by the United States Tennis Association, Complete Conditioning for Tennis is simply the best guide to developing the highest level of athleticism for success in the sport.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Meeting the Physical Demands of Tennis
Chapter 2. Conditioning for Technique
Chapter 3. High-Performance Fitness Testing
Chapter 4. Dynamic Warm-Up and Flexibility
Chapter 5. Agility and Footwork
Chapter 6. Speed and Quickness
Chapter 7. Core Stability Training
Chapter 8. Strength and Power Training
Chapter 9. Aerobic and Anaerobic Training
Chapter 10. Program Design
Chapter 11. Solid Shoulder Stability
Chapter 12. Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation

WORDS OF PRAISE

"This book and DVD package is a must for players who want to take their game to the next level. My own training program is based on most of the drills and exercises outlined in this book and DVD." James Blake, Professional Tennis Player

"This is a great resource for players of all levels. The DVD serves as a very practical and user-friendly companion piece to an excellent book." Chris Evert, Former Tennis Champion

"This book covers it all. Anything you ever wanted to know about training for the sport of tennis is right here." Patrick McEnroe, U.S Davis Cup Captain
 
#11351/0860   90 minutes 2007  $49.95 
    

SIGI SCHMID'S COMPLETE SOCCER TACTICS (2 DVDs)

Success in today’s game requires a capable and consistent offense and defense. Players need to know their roles, have the skill to capitalize when opportunities arise, organize quickly, work as a unit, and make snap decisions to shut down the opponent.

In these two DVDs - SIGI SCHMID'S OFFENSIVE SOCCER TACTICS and SIGI SCHMID'S DEFENSIVE SOCCER TACTICS - one of the sport’s top coaches reveals the key concepts that all winning teams must have.

Through live action demonstrations, small-sided games and position specific and team drills, Schmid covers offensive and defensive tactics like no other. Simply stated, it is all here - precision passing, combination play, finishing, masterful restart plays, zone defenses, pressure tactics, positional play, strategies to neutralize free kicks and corners, and more.

These DVDs provide a unique look at how a coach interacts with and teaches players to understand the purpose of each tactic. Applicable to soccer teams at all levels, they will help you shut down any offensive attack and be your offensive MVP for years to come.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sigi Schmid is currently the head coach of the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer (MLS). He was head coach of the LA Galaxy in the MLS from 1999 to 2004.
 
#11282/0860   108 minutes 2007  $59.95 
    

SINGING HOME THE BONES: A Poet Becomes Himself

"A candid, heart-wrenching yet uplifting odyssey. A cathartic celebration of human resilience and healing, showcasing the good that can come out of a past filled with rage and grief."
Michael D. Reid, film critic, The Victoria Times Colonist, 2007

This documentary - suffused with humour and pathos - chronicles Métis poet Gregory Scofield's lifelong striving to piece together his fractured identity. The film is stitched together by Greg's voice as he chants and sings and recites his own poems, described by Joy Harjo as "so beautiful they are dangerous".

Bonus features on the DVD includes a frank conversation between Greg and his adopted mother, renowned Métis poet, Maria Campbell. They discuss how Maria was chosen to care for Greg after the death of his natural mother and some more intimate details of his personality. Also included is a discussion between Greg and Rabbi Louis Sutker, about the relationship between the Métis and Jewish peoples and the meaning of spirituality in our lives.
 
#11242/1332   48 minutes 2007  $129.95 *Streaming available 
    

GOT A NOTION TO SEW? DVD
Get students ready to sew! Includes safety in the sewing lab, notions for sewing, hand-sewing basics and the sewing machine. Also features new sewing projects: pillow case, fleece hats and mittens, tote bag, name pennants, pillows and other easy projects from Haan Crafts and To-Sew.

*Teaching materials included
*Closed Captioned


 
#11148/1290   20 minutes 2007  $59.95  Grades 7 to 12 *CC *Streaming available 
    

COMPLETE CONDITIONING FOR HOCKEY

Increase strength to carry the puck through traffic! Pack more power when checking an opponent! Improve quickness and agility and create angles for higher-percentage shots! This set shows you how to achieve all of these performance goals and more!


Hockey players are bigger, faster, and stronger than ever before. This special BOOK and DVD package features a comprehensive training approach that will build players’ physical abilities as well as the hockey-specific skills required for skating, puck handling, passing, shooting, and body checking. The book contains assessment tests for determining a player’s fitness status along with specific programs designed to improve balance, quickness, agility, speed, and strength. The DVD puts the training into action, demonstrating key tests, exercises, and drills from the book.


With specific guidelines for seasonal workouts, provides a multidimensional training approach that will show you how to get the most from your time in the gym and on the ice.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Twist is the former strength and conditioning coach for the Vancouver Canucks and is currently president of Twist Conditioning Incorporated (www.sportconditioning.com), a company with athlete conditioning centers; one-on-one and team training; a line of 250 sport conditioning products; and sport conditioning specialist certifications delivered by Twist Master Coaches throughout Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. A frequent guest lecturer at international fitness conferences and coaching clinics, Twist delivers workshops on sport conditioning to personal trainers, conditioning coaches, sport coaches, and medical professionals around the globe.


An NSCA-certified strength and conditioning specialist with a master's degree in coaching science from the University of British Columbia, Twist served as president of the Hockey Conditioning Coaches Association, editor of the Journal of Hockey Conditioning, and NSCA provincial director for British Columbia. Twist lives in North Vancouver with his wife Julie, daughters Zoe and Mackenzie, and dogs Rico and Loosy.

 
#11107/0860   65 minutes 2007  $49.95 
    

WATER FUN: Fitness and Swimming Activities for all Ages

The aquatic activities in this exciting program are ideal for participants of all ages and skill levels because they're easy on the joints, they don't cause heat stress, and - most important - they're fun! The majority of the 57 activities included on the DVD occur in shallow water and require little, if any, swimming skill. Terri Lees hosts and narrates and the program is divided into five segments for ease-of-use: Levels of Performance; Aqua Basics; Sports Aqua; Partner Stunts and Skills; and, Water Games That Train.

Each segment includes several activities, and instructors are encouraged to create their own variations of these activities following basic safety guidelines. The name and objective of each activity are clearly shown to help instructors ensure that participants get the most out of every activity. Underwater photography is used extensively to make the activities easy to learn and teach.
 
#10960/0860   49 minutes 2007  $49.95 
    

EVOLUTION - DVD
Teaches the basic science of modern evolution theory. Includes a history of how evolution was discovered and reviews present-day controversies.

PART ONE - How Theories of Evolution Were Developed. Exclusive Hawkhill on-site video in the Galapagos Islands and at Darwin's study in England help demonstrate the achievement of this pioneer.

PRT TWO - Evolution by Natural Selection. A straight-forward presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection as it is understood by most biologists today.

In EVOLUTION the keys to scientific literacy include: ages of earth, Age of Reptiles, amphibian, binomial nomenclature, Cenozoic, creationism, Darwin, dinosaur extinction, fossil, genus, heredity, Homo sapiens, Stephen Jay Gould, Lamarck, Linnaeus, Mesozoic, mutation, natural selection, Neanderthal, paleontology, Precambrian, punctuated equilibrium, species, theory, trilobite, vertebrate, Wallace.

*Includes Learning Power Book
*Closed Captioned

 
#10877/0845   41 minutes 2007  $129.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

SPORTS PERFORMANCE SERIES (4 Programs) DVD

This series addresses the training demands of serious athletes across all sports. Each DVD begins with a series of assessments, which identify the athlete's strengths and weaknesses and establish a baseline for customizing training programs. From there, numerous exercise options and sample workouts are provided, all of which may be tailored to address the demands of specific sports and specific positions.

The DVDs in the series include:

POWER FOR SPORTS PERFORMANCE - Developed by the Baltimore Orioles' strength and conditioning coaches, this DVD showcases a progressive program in which resistance training is used for building a power base before advancing to a complex power program composed of strength training and plyometrics. 39 minutes

FLEXIBILITY FOR SPORTS PERFORMANCE - This DVD is based on the Stretch to Win system, made famous by Ann Frederick and Chris Frederick, who have worked with such elite athletes as the Philadelphia Eagles' Donovan McNabb, as well as numerous Olympians, and pro players in the NFL, MLB, and NHL. 51 minutes

SPEED FOR SPORTS PERFORMANCE - Including dynamic warm-ups; plyometrics; and variable, resisted, and assisted speed training, this DVD not only presents the most effective exercises and drills for improving speed and quickness, but also provides guidance to combine training techniques into a complete speed-development program. 55 minutes

STRENGTH FOR SPORTS PERFORMANCE - In this DVD, Allen Hedrick, current head coach of strength and conditioning at the United States Air Force Academy and former United States Olympic Training Center strength and conditioning coordinator, demonstrates resistance training exercises that correspond to the movement patterns, muscle contractions, and energy demands of many sports. 25 minutes

With the capability to print programs and workouts from each DVD, instruction from this series can be taken directly from the computer to the gym or field. These DVDs form the ultimate training package for coaches and athletes looking to gain an edge in every facet of competition.
 
#10590/0860  2007  $129.95 
    

UNDERSTANDING LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN CANADA - DVD

Take an exciting tour and find out how our local governments work in Canada. This easy to follow and fast-paced program offers a comprehensive ride through the structure of municipal governments and agencies like school boards. Suitable for audiences including civics courses and other studies in social science.

This program's lively host guides the viewer through an exploration of how their local government organizes and manages the community they live in. Students will learn how their local government affects them in their everyday lives and encourages them to get involved and participate in the building of their community.

Easy to navigate DVD chapters include topics such as:
· Municipal Government
· Two-Tier Government
· City Council
· Elections
· Committees
· Staff and Administration
· Revenue and Spending
· How Local Governments Affect Our Lives
· Specialized Governing Bodies
· Agencies, Boards and Commissions
· School Boards
· Intergovernmental Relations
· Amalgamation
· Getting Involved

This fun and modern approach to understanding local government in Canada is an exciting and motivating accompaniment to high school civics courses, various other social sciences or any course requiring a foundation for understanding local government in Canada.

*Includes downloadable PDF Workbook
 
#10410/0375   28 minutes 2007  $149.95  Grades 7 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

UNDERSTANDING CANADIAN LAW

This dynamic and colourful program provides a solid foundation for understanding Canada's justice system. Featuring exciting animations, navigational diagrams, upbeat music and a young, energetic host, this modern approach offers a primer on law in Canada and our court systems.

Jump instantly to accessible DVD chapters, with topics including: The Constitution; The Charter of Rights and Freedoms; French and English influence on law; Federal and Provincial Jurisdiction; Common law; Case law; Civil Code of Quebec; The Courts; Statute law; criminal law; Constitutional law; Administrative law; Tax law, Tort law; Family law; Contract law.. and more!
*Includes downloadable PDF Workbook
 
#10408/0375   36 minutes 2007  $149.95  Grades 7 to Adult *Streaming available 
    

HELP! They Stole My Name! DVD

What is identity theft? Can it happen to me? How likely is it that it will? What can I do if it does happen? We talked to actual identity theft victims and heard their accounts. The people you'll see onscreen aren't actors, and their harrowing tales are genuine. From corporate data theft to shoulder-surfing and skimming - we show the most common ways thieves steal your identity.

Learning how to protect yourself will help you get back in control. We consulted with numerous experts from law enforcement and consumer groups, to get the information you need to avoid the most common, and not so common, identity traps. It's all here!

Learn:
* How identity theft happens.
* Who might be digging through your trash.
* What you can do if your identity is stolen.

Find out:
* How you can give your wallet a "make-over" guaranteed to frustrate thieves.
* Which ATMs are most likely to be safe from "skimmers".
* How to safely manage your e-mail and internet activity.

This program is a must-have for any consumer education classroom!

*Includes Guide
*Closed Captioned

 
#10372/1120   29 minutes 2007  $125.95 *CC 
    

ROOM TO ROAM: The Impact of Human Land Uses on Species Survival (Ernie's Earth - 3 Parts on one DVD)

***AWARDS***
Gold Award of Excellence- Interpretation Canada
Silver Screen Award: US International Film & Video Festival
Bronze Statuette: The Telly Awards
Nomination: KIDSFIRST! Film Festival - Best Documentary ages 8-12
Honors Award: NAPPA (National Parenting Publications Awards)



This contemporary multi-award winning environmental science mini-series explores the reasons, causes, and solutions surrounding how human land uses eat up healthy natural space (habitats) and render it useless for other species. This pervasive trend is fuelled by the Myth of Superabundance - the belief that animals and plants can go 'somewhere else'. The fascinated ecologist and thoughtful teacher, Ernie, brings science and guests to candidly explore ideas and attitudes which help reveal the cumulative effects of human activities on the land. Guided solutions and hands-on exercises include: Green Mapping; Calculating Ecological Footprints; Reducing them; and, Protecting natural spaces with parks and innovations such as the Y2Y (Yellowstone to Yukon) Conservation Initiative. Ernie is on the scene in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alberta, and Wyoming.


Consists of three 30-minute parts on one DVD:


PART ONE describes the problem at hand - the Myth of Superabundance. Despite the billions of years it took for species to evolve on Earth, we, the more recent inhabitants, have been strangely thinking and acting as if land were unlimited and this is threatening and eliminating healthy natural habitats and species. Ernie explores this problem with the help of Dr. Brad Stelfox, an Alberta scientist who shows how the growth of Calgary, like many cities, is suffering from urban sprawl. Taking these land use concepts into the sub-arctic, Ernie explores an example of how human cumulative land uses can really add up.


PART TWO shows the species that have already become extinct in Canada. Then, Ernie engages us in 3 activities that can reverse the impacts of the Myth of Superabundance. A grade 8 class explores Green Mapping- developing powers of observation about local natural areas, categorizing, mapping, and attaching values to them through discussion. Ernie calculates his Ecological Footprint on-line and explores what this model means and how it can help people recognize the impacts of lifestyle choices. Thirdly, Ernie surveys how to make personal choices to reduce eco-footprints. As an example, he considers the origin countries of his food.


PART THREE continues the Eco-footprint theme with an emphasis on reduction by community choices. The Inuvik Community Greenhouse is the story of a smart idea in an unlikely place that increases self-sufficiency and reduces demand on food transportation. Another solution is to just protect natural space. Ernie celebrates parks and protected spaces but notes their challenges and limitations (ie. species can leave the protected park). One creative approach to co-existing with species can be seen in the Y2Y (Yellowstone to Yukon) Conservation Initiative. People of an entire mountain eco-region, spanning several Canadian Provinces and US States, are working to manage their land use and growth with the long-term health of the whole natural space in mind. Ernie checks it out in both countries and reinforces the need to change the way we think about nature.



*Includes Study Guide

*Ask about the special price for Public Libraries and Individual Schools

 
#9585/0240   90 minutes 2005  $349.95  Grades 6 to 10 *Streaming available 
    

UNDERSTANDING CANADIAN GOVERNMENT

This program provides a fun and colourful look at the nuts-and-bolts of our governing bodies in Canada - namely the federal and provincial governments. Features energetic young hosts, and includes a huge variety of animations, diagrams, archive government footage and upbeat music. Carefully organized into quickly accessible DVD chapters, this video takes the confusion out of a subject that is often misunderstood. *Now CLOSED CAPTIONED

*Includes downloadable PDF Workbook
 
#9160/0375   35 minutes 2007  $149.95  Grades 8 to Adult *CC *Streaming available 
    

BEST PRACTICES FOR YOUR WEBSITE COLLECTION (12 Programs) New Edition
Learn from the experts what you need to know about what's happening right now on the Web and E-Commerce.

1. BEHIND THE BROWSER - with Matt Cohen, CEO and Founder, OneSpot
In easy-to-understand lay terms, Matt Cohen explains the key applications at work behind a web page. You'll see how a page is generated from file downloads and links, how traffic to the page is tracked, what cookies are and how they are used, and more.

2. BROADCASTING YOUR BRAND - with Cody Simms, Senior Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Inc.
A primer on ways to sprinkle your brand and your content throughout the Web using on-demand methods such as RSS, activity streaming through social channels such as Twitter and FriendFeed, widget embedded content, and shared application platforms.

3. HARNESSING THE POWER OF BLOGS - with Scott Karp, Editor and Publisher, Publishing 2.0 Blog
As a platform for daily online publishing, blogs can dynamically connect your site to the larger online ecosystem and draw people to your site. The more readers that link to your blog, the higher your search engine ranking. Learn how blogging can expand your editorial mission.

4. HOW TO PULL OFF A SUCCESSFUL REDESIGN - with Michael Gold, West Gold, Editorial Consulting
Redesigning your Website starts with preplanning, goal setting, and getting early buy-in from stakeholders. Nine key steps are outlined, including developing a redesign blueprint, creating mockups to communicate to developers, and conducting user testing.

5. MOBILE STRATEGIES - with Sabina Shnapek, Director of Advertising Sales, Ad Infuse
Mobile content usage is rapidly expanding, offering opportunities for content owners and advertisers to deliver content to mobile devices. Here's how to get started, from market assessment and business case planning to partnering, distribution and revenue strategies.

6. SECRETS OF SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION - with Rand Fishkin, Founder and CEO, SEOmoz
Search engines present both challenges and opportunities for site designers and developers. Learn how search engines judge a Web page's relevance and importance, how to improve your site's ranking, and what it takes to draw more visitors from search engines.

7. STAYING OUT OF LEGAL TROUBLE - Jon Hart Partner, Dow Lohnes and Albertson, PLLC
Protect your content and your brand - and stay out of hot water at your site. Know your risk of liability for defamation or copyright infringement, particularly in user-generated content. Privacy policy requirements and other privacy issues are also covered.

8. SMARTER STRATEGIES FOR ENEWSLETTERS - Loren McDonald, Vice President, Industry Relations, SilverPOP
Spam complaints. Blocked images. Mobile devices. List churn and more. Learn practical Enewsletter optimization tips that improve deliverability and readability. Gain insights on how to develop revenue streams as well as how to attract and keep subscribers.

9. TEN MISTAKES WEB SITES STILL MAKE - AND HOW TO FIX THEM - Michael Gold, West Gold Editorial Consulting, Susan West, West Gold Editorial Consulting
Strategies for demystifying baffling navigation, maximizing use of space, improving search tools, unearthing buried treasure, translating "site speak" into your target's language, and revving up flat content by making use of the Web's special powers.

10. USER-GENERATED CONTENT - GROWING IT, CONTROLLING IT - Kevin McKean, Vice President and Editorial Director, Consumer Reports
Use social media to engage your readers in repurposing and integrating your Web content in ways that serve your mutual goals. Learn commonsense principles for encouraging your users to build out your site through blogs, reviews, viral marketing, and more.

11. USING WEB METRICS STRATEGICALLY - Shari Cleary, Director of Digital Entertainment and Games Research, MTV Networks
We all have technology in place to track Web statistics. But interpreting the data and acting on it to improve our sites is challenging. Learn what Key Performance Indicators you should track, who should see the data, and how to analyze it against your performance goals.

12. VIDEO STRATEGIES - WHAT'S WORKING TODAY - Sean Nolan, Director, Men's Health Online and Molly Wood Executive Editor, CNET.com
Whether you're a novice and learning how to cost effectively build the infrastructure for video capability at your site, or you're experienced and exploring new strategies such as video distribution, get tips on new practices that draw and engage more users.
 
#6550/1005  2009  $899.95 *Streaming available 
    

NEW CANADIAN KID - DVD
This incredibly inventive production in the form of a children's drama is meant to explain to kids the difficulties encountered by a non-English speaking immigrant child and his family.

THE NEW CANADIAN KID has been one of the most successful productions ever mounted by the Green Thumb Theatre, playing to thousands of school children across Canada and abroad. The key to this success is the "gibberish" language spoken by the "Canadian" characters throughout the play, a language that is comprehensible through the play's lively, often humorous action. This device enables young audiences to identify directly with the confusion and disorientation experienced by immigrant families as they adjust to a new life in Canada.

*Includes Guide


 
#4214/0895   40 minutes 1982  $129.95  Grades K to 7 *Streaming available 
    

COACHING THE LIFT TRUCK OPERATOR 2
Operators familiar with the mechanics of operating a lift truck are ready for the next step in training with this course. Utilizing the highly acclaimed "Coaching" method of non-lecture teaching, this information-packed classroom course encourages participants to observe, analyze and discuss recommended safety practices. Based on requests from safety directors, the course also includes a video presentation for in-plant personnel (pedestrians) who do not drive lift trucks, but do work in areas where lift trucks are operated. Offers instructors the tools necessary to meet OSHA's new requirements for formal instruction, practical training and evaluation. Each component of the course relates directly to the other components, forming a comprehensive, integrated system of training. The program's format allows for flexibility in presentation and local job site customization to cover specific company policies. This new revised and updated version is based on valuable input from participants, instructors, and industry professionals.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS
1. Video Presentation for Operators which covers skills and techniques to avoid collisions and damaging product, including:
*Pre-start safety inspection
*Safety considerations when picking up, moving and setting down a load
*Maintaining a cushion of safety
*Scanning and lift truck positioning to avoid fixed objects and pedestrians
*Blind spots, use of aisle mirrors
*A video post-training test
*A hands-on training session

2. Video Presentation for Pedestrians which educates non-operators about their responsibilities in keeping the workplace safe, including:
*Walking in the designated walkways
*Recognizing the visual limitations of the operator
*Being aware of lift trucks operating in areas where they are working

Discussion Scenarios which depict OSHA reported incidences, generating group discussion about what went wrong and applicable avoidance skills and techniques.

*INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE is fully scripted and gives step-by-step guidelines for presenting the course. Its format includes wide margins to allow insertion of specific company policies and procedures. It includes all answers to the response book and discussion scenario questions, a sample policy statement, a summary of the OSHA standard -and a reproducible true/false operator test, multiple choice/site specific operator test, class registration form, inspection checklist, and evaluation/performance checklist.

*RESPONSE BOOK with 32 pages that include a self-appraisal, follow-up discussion questions for each video segment, incidence analyses, coaching (OSHA based) reminder points, a wallet card, and a course completion certificate.

*Also available in SPANISH 
#1605/0670  $459.95 *Streaming available 
    

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