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2003, c1996., Primary, Sony Wonder Call No: Easy BROWN Edition: Standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Contains three Arthur adventures in which the young aardvark lets his imagination run a little too wild when doing a class writing assignment, he and Francine get locked in the library, and D.W. tries to convince the Tibble twins that she can read.
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[2008], General, WGBH Educational Foundation ; [Arlington, VA] : Distributed by PBS Home Video Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge. Reveals the defining stories of the "war on terror" in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence. On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the full saga will unfold in this special documentary analysis of one of the most challenging periods in the nation's history.
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c2009., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 331.1209 CLO Edition: [Widescreen format] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how the middle class is faring in this recession through the stories of the people she's come to know at the hair salon she's frequented for the past twenty years. The film reveals the struggles of a small business owner to stay afloat, her sister's risk of imminent foreclosure on her Florida home, and the various clients whose lives intersect at this New York City salon.
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2004, c2000., General, WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 616.852 DYI Edition: Standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: HealthSummary Note: Provides information about eating disorders, and features the stories of young women, including students, ballet dancers, models, and others, who are battling or have recovered from anorexia or bulimia.
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-- Nova.c2013., General, PBS Distribution Call No: Earth Science Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Nova (Television program)Summary Note: 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.
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c2005., General, PBS Home Video ; Paramount Home Entertainment, distributor Call No: DVD Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Through interviews with key government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors, this documentary examines the state-sponsored genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Explores the reasons why the international community and the United States did not intervene as Hutu extremists killed some 800,000 Tutsis.
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[2012]., PBS Distribution, : PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. Watch as David Pogue unlocks their secrets.
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c2001., General, PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 612.6 Lif Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The development of a child from conception to birth, using both microimagery and the story of a young couple preparing for their first child.
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Ã2001., Adolescent, 60, PBS Home Video Call No: DVD Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Nova.Summary Note: Examines the journey from conception to birth, using advanced medical photography and computer animation to reveal how a human fetus develops.
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2004, c1995., Adolescent, WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 551.56 Lig Edition: Standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Looks at how scientists study lightning, explains what they have learned, and includes interviews with people who have been struck by lightning, as well as footage of a lightning display.
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-- Madoff Affairc2009., Distributed by PBS Home Video Distributed by PBS Home Video Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents an account of the crimes of Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff.
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-- Frontline :2005, c2001., Distributed by PBS Home Video, : Distributed by PBS Home Video Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The world of advertising has become inundated with marketing for teenagers. This episode of Frontline explores the pop culture manipulated and created by corporate America for the American youth.
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-- Emmett Tillc2003., General, PBS Home Video PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 973.921 MUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
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2012., PBS Call No: General Science Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Now, with the help of new spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes, scientists are seeing the Sun as they never have before and even re-creating what happens at the very center of the Sun. Their work will help us understand aspects of the sun that have puzzled scientists for decades. Secrets of the Sun reveals a bright new dawn in our understanding of our nearest star, one that might help keep our planet from going dark.
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-- Tragedy that forever changed labor and industry.c2011., Distributed by PBS Distribution Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the gruesome culmination of years of unrest in America's most profitable manufacturing industry. Two years earlier, led by a spontaneous walkout in the same factory, twenty thousand garment workers, in the largest women's strike in American history, took to the streets of New York to protest working conditions. They gained the support of both progressives and leading women in New York's society.
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2011., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 974.7 TRI Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American experienceSummary Note: Depicts the tragic fire in the New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911 that resulted in public outrage against dangerous working conditions which eventually forced government action.