Summary: Preventive healthcare is crucial to the well-being of young children. This program covers vital health issues including vaccinations and immunizations, as well as how to recognize symptoms of serious illness. Recently developed vaccines for chicken pox and Hepatitis B are examined, and the myths that polio and diphtheria have been eradicated are addressed. Foundation health habits such as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: One in three children arrives in kindergarten unprepared for the challenges of school. Hosted by former teacher Debi Gutierrez, this program presents information and insights that will help in the care and education of young children with special needs. Topics include recognizing and understanding special needs, speech and language delays, hearing and visual impairments, and autism. The program...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Nothing in human experience is quite so astonishing as the enormous changes that occur during the five short years that transform a newborn into an actively curious, exploring kindergartner. Filmed in 1996, this program examines the work of Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget, illuminating the similarities of and differences between their contributions to a greater understanding of the cognitive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: This is an excellent program for anyone owning and operating a motor vehicle, in particular beginning auto mechanics courses and driver's education classes. It brings a basic owner's manual "to life" and summarizes the tasks that can and should be done without the use of specialized tools. The program covers checking and adding fluids, inspecting for obvious problems with belts and hoses,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The aging of the baby boomer generation will dramatically increase the need for home care, opening up opportunities in a frequently overlooked field. This program explores the challenging and deeply satisfying work of the home health aide and the personal care assistant—revealing the skills and special personality traits these jobs require and the personal rewards that come from helping people...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Bortins, Leigh A.
Summary: "Children are natural learners, and building a core foundation at an early age is critical to their success both educationally and in life. Yet academic excellence is lacking in many school systems throughout the country. In this book, education expert and author Leigh A. bortins incoroprates the best ideas from the ancients and gives parents the tools to revive classical learning"--Page 4 of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Directly or indirectly, people working in the education and social services fields make their living by helping others live better lives. This program profiles a preschool teacher, a vocational education instructor, and a school administrative assistant as well as a drug and alcohol abuse counselor, a social and human services assistant, and a recreation worker. Correlates to all applicable...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: With the growing reliance on computer-based communication and the return of public interest in early schooling, much attention is being paid to the attainment of literacy. Filmed in several multicultural preschool and kindergarten classrooms, this program reviews underlying cognitive, social, and physical requirements for all formal education and then presents the literacy-specific...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Early, Hank
Summary: Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ's church--a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl's home. The photograph is dated long after his father's burial, and there's no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EARConnor, Stephen R.
Contents: What are hospice and palliative care? -- The interdisciplinary team -- Symptom management and physical care -- Psychosocial and spiritual care -- Grief and bereavement -- Community education -- Managing hospice and palliative care -- Hospice and palliative care in the U.S. health care system -- Society and denial -- A right to die? -- How palliative care is unique in the health care system --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.17 CONSummary: Brothers, sisters, best friends, worst enemies-childhood is a world of constantly shifting alliances, but somehow it also produces lasting emotional bonds. This program looks at the challenges young children face as they cultivate one of the most tricky human skills of all: getting along with other people. Viewers are given insight into childhood social development as the video addresses a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Ironically, the parts of the body we use the most also tend to be the most neglected, medically speaking. As we age, it becomes more and more important to address the wellbeing of our hands and feet, and in caring for the elderly it is vital to give attention to these frequently overlooked areas. This program identifies common hand and foot health problems, explains the changes that occur in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Wherever people need wellness services, acute care for an illness or injury, or medical support when bedridden or shut-in, nurses are standing by. This video introduces students to the rewarding career of nursing, the largest healthcare profession in America. Incorporating interviews with working nurses from a range of medical specialties, the program describes the challenges that nurses face...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Early, Steve
Summary: The People vs. Big Oil--how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of one hundred thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public services. It had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 EAREarly, Hank
Summary: Private investigator Earl Marcus thought he'd conquered his demons after vanquishing the malevolent spirit of his fundamentalist preacher father, but faces a new terror when he investigates rumors of a place in the woods where a killer collects human skulls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EARSummary: The 2009 installment in Wide Angle's Time for School series reenters the lives of seven students in seven different countries, offering a glimpse of the worldwide battle to get what most American children take for granted: a basic education. These riveting case studies in India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Benin, Brazil, Japan, and Romania feature young teenagers embracing academic challenges that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Plato's academy was the first formal arena for education, where young men were tutored in the rigors of logic, philosophy, and mathematics. Prior to this, societies transmitted knowledge from one generation to the next orally, and after the advent of writing, through texts. Although education throughout history has been predominantly a privilege of the elite, universal education is currently...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Ensemble for Early Music
Contents: Saltarello and trotto (4:55) -- Parlamento (7:53) -- Saltarello (5:26) -- Chominciamento (7:22) -- La Manfredina (4:01) -- Tre fontane (9:49) -- Saltarello (5:16) -- Isabella (7:36) -- Lamento di Tristano (3:10) -- In pro (7:08) -- Saltarello (2:11).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyrichord Discs 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ISTSummary: At some point in their young lives, children will probably come down with a cold, a stomach upset, an earache, pinkeye, or the flu. Drawing upon the knowledge and insights of two pediatricians, a pediatric nurse, and parents with a lot of hands-on experience, this program will show viewers how to identify and deal with those common childhood illnesses-and reduce the likelihood of future...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Just because we can extend life, should we? Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care every year. Medicare alone costs taxpayers over
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Driver, Justin
Summary: "An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.73 DRISummary: Explains what to do in a medical emergency, offering the latest information and instruction in CPR, the treatment of sports injuries, what to do and expect in an emergency room, and when to call for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Reference 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 AMESummary: To help improve the odds of being accepted by America's most desirable colleges and universities, increasing numbers of high school students are getting a jump on the competition by applying for early admission. This ABC News program looks at the controversial process and contrasts it with Georgetown University's nonbinding early action alternative. The marketing efforts of Georgetown-and of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Cale, J. J.
Contents: Call me the breeze -- Rock and roll records (featuring Tom Petty) -- Someday (featuring Mark Knopfler) -- Lies (featuring John Mayer) -- Sensitive kind (featuring Don White) -- Cajun moon -- Magnolia (featuring John Mayer) -- I got the same old blues (featuring Tom Petty) -- Songbird (featuring Willie Nelson) -- Since you said goodbye -- I'll be there (if you ever want me) (featuring Don White)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bushbranch Records 2014