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bibliography Educational films. History. Internet videos. Juvenile works. Videorecording.Mikoley, Kate.
Summary: "Latin America is home to both the amazing Amazon rain forest and areas of desert where rain has never been recorded. Readers will learn about the varied landscapes of Latin America, from the Atacama Desert to the brilliant Caribbean coasts to the awesome Andes Mountains. In learning about major cities, such as Mexico City, readers will discover the ways people have changed the Earth to fit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 918.02 MIKSummary: In today's Peru, a country scourged by unemployment, political violence, and drug trafficking, the ability of the women to face the worsening societal and economic crisis is cause for admiration. This program looks at the noble efforts of city women in general, as they prepare community meals, work at menial jobs to support families, run employment workshops, and provide counseling for abused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program discusses reproduction and motherhood in the hyper-patriarchal societies of Latin America. Women on different economic and social levels discuss such topics as working mothers, and how the extended family contributes to child-rearing; the sterilization movement; abortion; gay parenting; manipulation of women's reproductive rights by governments; and how access to medical services...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Johnston, Robert D.
Summary: An illustrated history of the United States, from just before the arrival of Europeans through the early twenty-first century, grouped in eight time periods, each with profiles of people who had a significant influence on the age, and including photographs, maps, illustrations, time lines, and a selection of historical documents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: 973 JOHNSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973 JOHOrtiz, Paul
Summary: "Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 ORTCollins, Gail.
Summary: Recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past fifty years. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collin's keen research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work--this is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.4Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.4097 COLSummary: This program discusses reproduction and motherhood in the hyper-patriarchal societies of Latin America. Women on different economic and social levels discuss such topics as working mothers, and how the extended family contributes to child-rearing; the sterilization movement; abortion; gay parenting; manipulation of women's reproductive rights by governments; and how access to medical services...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: By the 1960s, Latin America's avant-garde movements had matured into a range of literary styles that were firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape. At the same time, there emerged a new and distinctive accent to Latin American literature that was no less authentic than its forebears. This program surveys the artistic phenomenon, manifested most notably in magical realism, that came to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Brill, Marlene Targ.
Summary: Presents the social, political, economical and technological changes in the United States during the first decade of the twentieth century, including labor unions, the invention of the airplane and popularization of the automobile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.911 BRISummary: This program discusses the lives of two groups of women-the women of northern Bahia and the mulattos of Rio de Janeiro-both descendants of African slaves. In Bahia, voodoo religious practices are revealed, as well as the problems of prostitution and AIDS. In Rio, the program examines the tradition of carnaval and the role of female mulatto samba dancers as sex objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Zakaria, Fareed
Summary: The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions--past and present--that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Since the United Nations prohibited coca cultivation in 1961, a battle has raged around the simple, versatile plant. In the West, coca is synonymous with violence and terror. For the people of the Andes, however, coca represents a viable and ancient livelihood. This program follows their resistance to the sweeping illegalization and eradication measures instituted by Latin American governments,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: By the 1960s, Latin America's avant-garde movements had matured into a range of literary styles that were firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape. At the same time, there emerged a new and distinctive accent to Latin American literature that was no less authentic than its forebears. This program surveys the artistic phenomenon, manifested most notably in magical realism, that came to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In 1983, the Reagan Administration's report, A Nation at Risk, shattered public confidence in America's school system and sparked a new wave of education reform. This program explores the impact of the "free market" experiments that ensued, from vouchers and charter schools to privatization-all with the goal of meeting tough new academic standards. Today, the debate rages on: do these diverse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program examines Chile under martyred socialist President Salvador Allende, and the subsequent Pinochet regime that followed. Allende's niece and novelist, Isabel Allende, exile Hortensia Bussi, Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriela Mistral, and others discuss women's role in the eventual toppling of Pinochet, and the formation of the Latin American Federation of Associations of Families of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Recent U.S. Census figures provide dramatic testimony to the growth of the Latino population. This program looks at the "Three Houses of Latino Culture"-Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American-and their widespread influence from entertainment to politics to economics. Key issues include how long Hispanics have been in America and how U.S. immigration laws affect their assimilation. Interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Sobol, Donald J.
Summary: Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSummary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In 1900, 6% of America's children graduated from high school; by 1945, 51% graduated and 40% went on to college. This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education. Also explored are the impact of John Dewey's progressive ideas as well as the effects on students of controversial IQ tests,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program examines the pros and cons of Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution through the eyes of women exiles in Miami and Castro supporters in Cuba. We hear from several women, including an avid anti-Castro exile and a Cuban television reporter, who tell stories of repression under the Castro regime. Health workers and educators discuss the benefits of Castro's policies, and the role of women in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program follows the progress of women's rights and equal employment from the Contra war through the term of former president Violeta Chamorro. A former Sandinista fighter who lost a foot laying mines for the Contras wants the government to give her a job; a woman displaced from her job by men returning from the war objects; another whose daughter was murdered by the Somozist Guard wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Sobol, Donald J.
Summary: Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as toys missing from a fair, music stolen from a singer-songwriter, and arrowheads that disappear during a campout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Sobol, Donald J.
Summary: Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective, solves ten more mysteries. The solutions are given at the end of the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008