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New! Permafrost: Secrets in Siberian Ice
Item# 40639
© 2009
52 Min.
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The key to understanding climate change could be locked inside hundreds of feet-and thousands of years-of Siberian permafrost. This program follows the literally groundbreaking expedition of a team of...
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Opening the Eyes: Deciphering the History of the Khmer Empire
Item# 40602
© 2009
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-135-4
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-134-7
The gigantic Angkor temple complex in Cambodia is a testament in stone to the Khmer-miles of inscriptions that only Professor Thomas Maxwell and a handful of other experts can decipher. But time is ru...
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Slums and Money: A Socioeconomic Analysis
Item# 40604
© 2009
45 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-139-2
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-138-5
Patterns of urbanization and poverty are playing an increasingly heavy role in the debate over globalization and market regulation. In a hard-hitting analysis of the issues, this program assembles a w...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Item# 40613
© 2009
56 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-149-1
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-148-4
Leymah Gbowee was born and raised in Liberia. She inspired and united her countrywomen to march with her against a dictator and restore the rule of law to their country. And her riveting story has bee...
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New! My American Neighbor: Thoughts From and About U.S. Citizens Abroad
Item# 40629
© 2008
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As America undergoes rapid economic, cultural, and political changes, how is its global image evolving? In what ways do expatriate Americans shape foreign perceptions of the United States? And what is...
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Flowers of Rwanda: Making Peace with Genocide
Item# 40621
© 2008
24 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-157-6
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-156-9
Can killers and survivors coexist in peace? That is the crucial question facing Rwanda a dozen years after the genocide that claimed the lives of approximately 800,000 people-and the subject of this m...
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Allergy Planet
Item# 40404
© 2008
49 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-041-8
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-040-1
All around the world, allergies are on the upsurge. Why? In search of an answer, this program travels the globe to examine the complex web of causes of what is amounting to an outright allergy pandemi...
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The Ghosts of My Lai
Item# 40352
© 2008
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-801-7
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-802-4
On March 16, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, American soldiers killed 504 unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai. After a brief overview of the war and the home front backlash against it,...
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Geographic Information Systems
Item# 40312
© 2008
24 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-759-1
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-760-7
The aim of this program is to excite students about geographic information systems and encourage the use of GIS in the classroom. Spotlighted applications of GIS include ways that urban planners in In...
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Angola: The Curse of Oil
Item# 40370
© 2008
25 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-590-0
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-591-7
Poverty in Africa reminds us that abundant natural resources don't automatically translate into widespread economic wealth. This program brings home the disturbing reality of daily life in Angola-mark...
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