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-- Deadly prescriptions :c2012., distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences Call No: DVD 364.1 Cri Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Retail prescription drug sales topped $300 billion in 2010 alone, and criminals are doing everything they can to get a piece of the market. This CNBC program takes a hard look at illegal enterprises that are spreading pain and suffering, not to mention addiction, across America. Viewers learn how drug dealers, bribed medical professionals, and online rogue pharmacies are helping put powerful prescription medicines like Oxycodone and Vicodin into the wrong hands, with tragic consequences. Nearly 7 million Americans ages 12 and up are abusing prescription drugs each month, according to DEA figures from 2009, while the National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that misused prescriptions are now the leading cause of fatal overdoses nationwide.
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-- Visions of the inferno.[2006], c2006., Films Media Group Call No: DVD 851.15 Dan Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Access Films on Demand streaming video. Summary Note: Drawing upon the insights of numerous international scholars-and illustrating crucial passages with stunning animation sequences-this program guides viewers through the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy. With detailed analysis of the poet's descent into Hell and navigation through its various levels, the program interprets Dante's motives for embarking on such a journey, explains his relationship and interaction with both Virgil and Beatrice, and describes the complex mixture of morality and humanism within the work-embodied in Dante's attitude toward those who inhabit the realms of the dead.
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[2005], c1988., Films Media Group Call No: DVD 575 DNA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Evolution: The Evidence for Modern Ideas on Evolution.Summary Note: This program shows the structure and replicating processes of DNA and the effect of genetic mutation; demonstrates the Lederberg Experiment; and recapitulates the evidence provided by fossils and structural and biological homologies that the process of adaptation and the selection of adaptors rests on a wide range of genetic variability. After viewing the program, students should have a general understanding of the general structure and functioning of DNA and of the Lederberg Experiment and its significance, and should be familiar with the range and types of evidence for evolution presented in the review section.
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-- Families of the World.[2009], Master Communications Group Call No: DVD 917 FAM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Part of the Films on Demand collection. Series Title: Films on demand.Summary Note: Nine-year-old Jose and his family are closely watching weather reports on an approaching hurricane. We visit his mother, who supervises hurricane preparations for kidney dialysis patients at a hospital. Eight-year-old Laura lives on a farm in the mountains of Puerto Rico. Laura's mother does sustainable agriculture, growing bananas and tropical flowers. Hurricanes, language and political status are major themes.
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2017., General, Films Media Group, an Infobase Co. Call No: DVD Edition: 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "This program offers a brief history of U.S. criminal justice. It covers such topics as criminal justice in colonial America, the Quakers' penitentiary, and the development of criminology. The program explains the organization of the U.S. criminal justice system"--Container.
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[2014], c2014., 54, Films Media Group Call No: Life Science NF PBS This is an electronic video available via Amazon. See the Durgee librarian to access this resource. Series Title: Your Inner Fish.Summary Note: Have you ever wondered why our bodies look the way they do? In this three part series, paleobiologist Neil Shubin sets out to find the answers in a surprising place: the ancient animal ancestors that shaped our anatomy. In Your Inner Fish , he and his colleagues discover a fossilized fish, known as Tiktaalik, that had enough strength in its front fins to heave itself out of the water 375 million years ago. Remarkably, we can trace the ancestry of our own hands and arms back to these fins. Viewers also meet the scientists who discovered the DNA recipe for constructing the human hand - an essential gene shared today with a surprising number of other animals.
