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Plate Tectonics
SKU: BVL34722
Studies of our planet’s crust, or lithosphere, suggest that it’s not a single solid layer at all. This video illustrates the process of scientific inquiry by studying the evolution of our understanding of plate tectonics, the dynamics of those ever-shifting slabs of earth we call solid ground. Beginning with Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift, the program discusses major and minor plates, types of plate boundaries, and the concepts of spreading and subduction. Earthquakes ...
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Plumbing to Paint
SKU: BVL33766
A home is more than a house; technologically speaking, it’s an engineered habitat. This video explains how electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems work with selected parts of the building envelope—building wrap, windows, fiberglass insulation, gypsum wallboard, and paint—to keep the weather out and comfort in. Animated diagrams, microscopic and thermal imaging, on-site demonstrations, and off-site tests are used to show how things like circuit breakers and P-traps work; to define U-facto...
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Podcasting and Blogging Essentials
SKU: BVL39113
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 woul...
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Poverty in America
SKU: BVL38971
Combining scholarly analysis with a human-centered approach, this three-part series looks at the causes and effects of economic hardship in the United States while suggesting ways for society to combat the cycle of poverty. Situational, multigenerational, elder, and child poverty are all addressed through conversations with those who know hunger or homelessness firsthand. Leading socioeconomic experts and frontline activists are also interviewed, including David Broder of the Washington Post,...
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Prejudice: More Than Black and White
SKU: FIL39150
Muslims, blacks, gays, people with disabilities, and immigrants of every ethnicity and color: they and many other groups have stood in the spotlight glare of intolerance, easy targets for every sort of discrimination and violence. What makes people prone to irrational hate, and what steps can individuals and society take to eradicate it? In this program, psychology professors Susan Fiske, of Princeton University, and Mahzarin Banaji, of Harvard University; representatives of the Council on Am...
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Prescription Drugs: Bitter Pills
SKU: BRAPRE
Just because pills come from a pharmacy - doesn't mean they are safe!According to the DEA, Prescription Drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in America. Women and girls are twice as likely to get addicted. This program shows viewers the dangers of prescription drugs. Many patients become addicted to prescription drugs while under medical care.
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Psychology Media Suite
SKU: FIL35671
The Psychology Media Suite will add a dynamic new dimension to any college, Advanced Placement, or high school psychology course. Comprising more than 120 video clips and other media, the Suite is a blend of documentary segments illustrating foundational psychology concepts and principles, reports on cutting-edge research in psychology, and Active Teaching Modules designed to enable instructors to re-create studies such as the Asch Conformity Experiment and the Stroop test, conduct psychology...
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Racial Stereotypes in the Media
SKU: FIL37006
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. T...
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Rage Behind the Wheel: A Look at Teen Drivers and Road Rage
SKU: BVL39514
What exactly is road rage? What can trigger it? And, most important of all, how can it be avoided? Experts in law enforcement and youth psychology answer those and other questions as the camera captures actual road rage incidents involving teen drivers. These same teens are also filmed in a group setting where they honestly express their points of view as frustrated drivers while openly taking responsibility for their inappropriate anger. Potential life-changing consequences of road rage rang...
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Realism: The Artistic Form of the Truth
SKU: BVL35428
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 indus...
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Recognizing Child Abuse
SKU: FIL35674
Kids who grow up facing brutality and neglect are lucky if a teacher or daycare provider catches on. Tragically, child abuse often goes unnoticed—and if a first-responder does detect it, he or she may not understand what measures must be taken. This program spells out the Four Rs of child abuse—the harsh Reality of its presence in our society, the Results it leads to, the many ways to Recognize it, and the proper channels for Reporting it. Each of these concepts is explained through eye-o...
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Resumes: A How-To Guide
SKU: FIL39209
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...
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Retail, Marketing, and Sales
SKU: BVl39260
People who love dealing with other people—and connecting them with stuff they want, in the process—are a natural for a rewarding career in retail, marketing, or sales. This program spends some quality face time with a retail sales manager, a merchandise manager, and a distribution manager…a marketing manager, a promotions manager, and a public relations specialist…and an advertising sales agent, a real estate agent, and an e-commerce specialist. Correlates to all applicable National a...
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Richard Serra: To See Is to Think
SKU: BVL39926
Famous for sculptures that combine fluidity with monolithic bulk, Richard Serra favors two basic materials: compressed steel, which he manipulates in a factory setting, and the natural spaces found at his installation sites. This program takes viewers inside Serra’s creative process while documenting his work at locations across the globe. Featuring detailed interviews with the artist—and with longtime associates, including composer Philip Glass and master rigger Ernst Fuchs—the film su...
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Romanticism: Imagining Freedom
SKU: BVL33782
The rebellious artist, the attraction to the dark side, love and death, and the primacy of nature—all of these are themes that suffused the artistic and ideological revolution known as Romanticism. This program vividly conveys how new ways of thinking and seeing reshaped the humanities in the 18th and 19th centuries. The writings of Hölderlin, Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Byron, Wordsworth, and Keats, as well as the paintings of Turner and Goya and the music of Beethoven, are vibrantly presented...
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