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The 51st State: America's Working Poor
Item# 38972
© 2007
57 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-8998-1
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-8999-8
While poverty has traditionally been a problem only for the unemployed, a new demographic of Americans has emerged-the working poor. This program explores the disturbing realities that many people in...
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The Ache Indians of Paraguay
Item# 40159
© 2008
49 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-448-4
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-449-1
Inhabiting a shrinking pocket of rainforest in Paraguay's Eastern Canindeyu Region, the Ache are one of South America's last hunter-gatherer societies-and in imminent danger of cultural extinction. Th...
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Addicted to Cheap Shopping? Why the Real Cost of Goods Keeps Going Down
Item# 39028
© 2007
61 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-9071-0
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-9072-7
In this program, host Libby Potter travels around the world as she takes a meaningful look at the economics behind the inexpensive goods for sale in big-box stores and malls. Cost-cutting through supp...
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Africa Calling: An Appeal for Understanding
Item# 39458
© 2004
57 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60467-368-5
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60467-369-2
Mental images of storybook adventures and stereotyped people, on the one hand, and genocides and pandemics, on the other, make it practically impossible for Westerners to see Africa as it really is: a...
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Africa: Sierra Leone, Ghana, Kenya
Item# 6631
© 1991
26 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-0245-0
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-9756-6
The plight of minority populations, international trade agreements, and preservation of wildlife are featured in this program. In refugee camps in Sierra Leone, 850,000 Liberians are welcomed by its r...
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Africa: Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho
Item# 6632
© 1992
29 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-0246-7
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-9757-3
Health efforts, peace negotiations, and minority and political issues are featured in this program. UN efforts in Tanzania to eradicate schistosomiasis--a tropical disease affecting 200 million people...
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Africa: Tunisia, Libya, Egypt
Item# 6630
© 1994
31 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-0244-3
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-9755-9
Women's issues, health, and population growth are featured in this program. Tunisia, a diverse nation of open-minded people, is also predominantly Muslim. Women, however, share equal rights with men a...
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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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New to Our Collection! Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest
Item# 40736
© 2002
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-292-4
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-291-7
When seasonal rains sweep across South America, the Amazon River and its tributaries overflow their banks to create an ecosystem unlike any other-a place where, for six months out of each year, land-d...
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The Amazon River: Pristine and Unprotected
Item# 40145
© 2008
51 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-498-9
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-499-6
Stretching over 4,000 miles across South America, the Amazon River has long defied human efforts to tame it. Not a single bridge crosses it, and not one dam halts its flow. This program visits urban c...
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