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| WHAT'S GOING ON UP THERE? |
A new documentary film by Maryanne Galvin.
From hardworking scientists and environmentalists - even a college student in Kuwait who wants to be the first Muslim woman in space - to Hollywood filmakers, entrepreneurs, psychiatrists, historians, lawyers and preschoolers, this doc offers conversations with professionals and ordinary citizens onall sides of the space debate. Introduced by Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek), who once again asks us what Earthlings will do with the final frontier.
(60 min. DVD only Price 89.95 S&H $8.95)
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| THE AMADIS PROJECT (2006) |
(For Environmental studies & Marine Biology Programs)
There is an international conservation effort to preserve the world's coral reefs, to prevent threats to environmental resources and to help ensure that food supplies are secure. Initiatives are needed from local communities, government and international organizations especially in developing countries where there is rarely adequate financing. The mission of THE AMADIS PROJECT was to contribute to the global and local coral reef conservation effort by exploring the reefs and by monitoring and promoting environmental awareness. THE AMADIS PROJECT, A Tusker Films (U.K.) production directed by Anne Gallagher is a film of the West Indies leg of the expedition -- the voyage, the people, their islands and the reefs.
(52 min. DVD only Price $79.95 S&H $8.95)
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| ANIMAL SAPIENS (2004) |
(For Anthropology & Biology Programs)
The history of mankind is a history plenty of questions. We have been wondering one hundred thousand years about what is sorrounding us. The big questions have marked our cultures, have shaped the religious beliefs and whole civilizations have been arised to turn the human race into the dominant one thoughout the planet. ANIMAL SAPIENS will bring viewers closer to the cultural successes of mankind to show us that these strategies are also used by other inhabitants of our planet. The use of tools, the skills of language or the practice of games and amusements at the same time get us closer and keep us away from the rest of living creatures. This makes the human beings to ask themselves the same question again: Are we something more than an animal?. (? Min. DVD only Price $89.95 S&H $8.95)
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| ORDER & CHAOS (2004) |
(For Science & Sociology = Programs) ORDER & CHAOS is the second part of a documentary series about the state of science and its current phase of development. Its objective is to expound the questions, threats and challenges that face scientific investigators and to explore the ramifications of those challenges. We move from theories of the creation of the universe to the novel state of our species; in continual contact with technology. We uncover the route taken by investigations on the origin of life, the exploitation of energy, climate change, genetic engineering, the functioning of the brain and the dangerously diminishing biodiversity, in a world that is increasingly interconnected, to offer the face of the future that is already being sketched onto our planet. (DVD only. Price $89.95 S&H $8.95
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| THE BRAIN: THE LAST ENIGMA (2003) |
(For Psychology & Biology Programs)
The human brain is the result of millions of years of evolution. Only 4% in the development of the neo cortex separates us from the chimpanzee, but this small difference is what has enabled us to have a larger capacity of communication and learning, in short, to gain access to knowledge. From the scientific findings we will obtain the answers to the great enigma regarding the functioning of the organ where our conscience resides. THE BRAIN: THE LAST ENIGMA also looks at the latest discoveries and the fundamental questions that remain to be answered.
(55 min. DVD only Price $89.95 S&H $8.95)
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| FUTURE: THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE 2004 |
(For Sociology/Anthropology & Biology Programs)
FUTURE is a documentary about the state of science and its current phase of development. Its objective is to expound the questions, threats and challenges that face scientific investigators and to explore the ramifications of those challenges. FUTURE move from theories of the creation of the universe to the novel state of our species. The producers uncover the route taken by investigations on the origin of life, the exploitation of energy, climate change, genetic engineering, the functioning of the brain and the dangerously diminishing biodiversity, in a world that is increasingly interconnected, to offer the face of the future that is already being sketched onto our planet.
(55 min. DVD only Price $89.95 S&H $8.95)
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| LIVING ON WATER (2005) |
(For Sociology/Anthropology & Earth Science Programs)
Six hundred million people on the planet live on the water or around it. Featuring magnificent photography, LIVING ON WATER looks at these people and their particular cultures. Although linked by the common denominator of water, each group has developed different solutions to the same problems. We will discover how they live, their methods of transport and what diseases they suffer from. We will travel to markets on the Mekong, through the river towns of the Amazon and to Ganvie, the Venice of Africa.
(55 min. DVD only Price $59.95 S&H $8.95)
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| SEMPER EADEM: |
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SEMPER EADEM: The Poisoning of Our Children (Nursing, Community Heath & Environmental Programs) Many people do not realize that lead poisoning has been a known health hazard for more than 2,000 years. It affects all aspects of human development and the damage is irreversible. Our children are the real victims. The cost is their future. As a society that values its children, this is a cost we can no longer afford to pay. Designed to be an educational resource for nursing, community health and environmental programs, SEMPER EADEM explores the affects of childhood lead poisoning and follows the efforts of the city of Rochester, New York to eradicate the epidemic by the year 2010.
Price: $79.95
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| FUTURE: ENERGY (2004) |
(for Science & Sociology Programs)
ENERGY is the 4th in a series of award-winning European TV documentaries from NEW ATLANTIS about the state of science and its current phase of development. Its objective is to expound the questions, threats and challenges that scientific investigators are facing and to explore the implication of those challenges. This is a trip from theories of the creation of the universe to the novel state of our species; in continual contact with technology. We uncover the route taken by investigations on the origin of life, the exploitation of energy, climate change, genetic engineering, the functioning of the brain and the dangerously diminishing biodiversity, in a world that is increasingly interconnected, to offer the face of the future that is already outlined in our planet.
(55 min. DVD only Price $89.95 S&H $8.95)
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| FUTURE: ARE WE ALONE? (2004) |
(for Science & Sociology Programs)
ARE WE ALONE? is the third in a series of award-winning European TV documentaries from NEW ATLANTIS about the state of science and its current phase of development. Its objective is to expound the questions, threats and challenges that scientific investigators are facing and to explore the implication of those challenges. This is a trip from theories of the creation of the universe to the novel state of our species; in continual contact with technology. We uncover the route taken by investigations on the origin of life, the exploitation of energy, climate change, genetic engineering, the functioning of the brain and the dangerously diminishing biodiversity, in a world that is increasingly interconnected, to offer the face of the future that is already outlined in our planet.
(55 min. DVD only Price $89.95 S&H $8.95)
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| A MIND OF HER OWN (2005) |
(For Education, Psychology & Health Sciences)
Inspired by a true story, the award-winning British film A MIND OF HER OWN tells the poignant and moving story of a talented and determined young woman whose ambition to become a doctor is obstructed by the fact she is severely dyslexic. But Sophie, encouraged by her her best friend, has never been one to give up despite being advised by her parents and school teachers to be more realistic and pursue something less academically strenuous. Against all odds, she remains determined to achieve her ambition, refusing to settle for anything less.
(91 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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| GAIA & GENESIS (2009) |
(For Religious Studies & Environmental Studies)
This DVD from the British producer of SEX & ETHICS contains 5 short films on environmental ethics. Gaia -- By comparing the life of the planet to the life of a 45 year old woman, Gaia takes us on a breathtaking journey from our beginnings to these last few seconds of biological time which have witnessed our meteoric rise to ascendancy - but at what cost? Genesis -- For 2.000 years, the Genesis injunction to have dominion over nature has been misinterpreted as a licence to dominate at all costs. But while Christianity might have been more concerned with saving souls than with saving seals is it solely to blame for today's environmental crisis? Stewards & Slayers -- Western civilization has largely ignored Biblical and mystic calls to revere creation and today we face the stark realization that in an interdependent world unethical stewardship of the animal kingdom ultimately afflicts us all. The Rapture--- Christian fundamentalists believe that the environmental disasters we currently face are of little concern as they are signs that the Rapture is close at hand...for others however, visions of the end time have given new impetus to the principle of stewardship. All Things Are Connected --- While Christian colonisers, mapmakers, missionaries and mercenaries, believed that the natural world existed entirely for human gain, the indigenous Indians of the Americas experienced nature as a sacred web of interdependent phenomena.
(91 min. DVD only Price $79.95 S&H $8.95)
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| DESTINATION: ROSSPORT, IRELAND |
DESTINATION: ROSSPORT, IRELAND (2009)
(For Environmental Studies, Economics & Political Science)
In 2005, five men from Rossport, Ireland were sent to jail for 94 days because the would not allow Shell Oil to put a gas pipeline through their land. In part 2 of his Global Economic Documentary Series, filmmaker Jim Kerns goes to Rossport - a remote town in the northwest of Ireland - to examine this conflict and the socio-economic implications involved. Kerns speaks with members of the community, journalists, sociologists, and Shell representatives in an attempt to understand the factors that led up to the jailing as well as to decipher the impact of a pipeline and gas-processing terminal on a once quiet community. "Destination: Rossport, Ireland" examines how a big oil company is impacting the culture of the community and how the idea of "progress and development" in the desolate West is coming into direct conflict with health and safety concerns for an entrenched group of locals.
(53 min. DVD only Price $89.95 S&H $8.95
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