Summary: Alternates animated sequences of a panda bear named Little Pim with live action sequences of children enjoying everyday activities to teach babies, toddlers, and preschoolers over 60 Spanish vocabulary words. Includes vocabulary reviews and a repeat play option.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Pim Corp. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: DVD JUV SPANISH LITSummary: Alternates animated sequences of a panda bear named Little Pim with live action sequences of children enjoying everyday activities to teach babies, toddlers, and preschoolers over 60 mealtime-related Japanese vocabulary words. Includes vocabulary reviews and a repeat play option.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Pim Corp. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: DVD JUV JAPANESE LITSummary: Designed specifically for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers, this video presents Pim the Panda as your child's teacher, who introduces the viewer to Japanese words with the help of live-action segments in which relevant vocabulary appears on the screen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Pim Corp. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: DVD JUV JAPANESE LITSummary: The battle that marked the turning point of World War I, the epitome of trench warfare, and so costly in human life that France may never have recovered.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In the 12 fascinating lessons of Identity in the Age of Ancestral DNA, Anita Foeman, PhD, Professor of Communication and Media, and founder and primary investigator of the DNA Discussion Project at West Chester University, takes us behind the scenes to examine what really happens when individuals receive their personal DNA ancestry results. By learning about their individual and family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Great Courses 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 FOECall number: DVD 599 FOE
Summary: Viewers will see the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story that traces the marriage equality movement's historic progress and reveals the masterminds who fought.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FREWhaples, Robert
Summary: Presents lectures on economic issues in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 MODSummary: Work on skills by understanding and translating ASL vocabulary, sentences, and idioms from two deaf ASL professors, Gilda Toby Ganezer and Avery Posner, along with certified ASL interpreter, April Starks. There are fourteen quizzes with seven multiple choice questions per quiz. The program is best for every ASL student, interpreter trainee, interpreter, teacher, and ASL enthusiast when it comes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419 WHASummary: Work on skills by understanding and translating ASL vocabulary, sentences, and idioms from two deaf ASL professors, Gilda Toby Ganezer and Avery Posner, along with certified ASL interpreter, April Starks. There are fourteen quizzes with seven multiple choice questions per quiz. The program is best for every ASL student, interpreter trainee, interpreter, teacher, and ASL enthusiast when it comes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419 WHASummary: In 1851, word spread of California’s beautiful Yosemite Valley, attracting visitors who wished to exploit the land for commercial gain as well as those who wished to keep it pristine. This episode relates how a Scottish-born wanderer named John Muir made protecting this land a spiritual calling. In 1864, Congress passed an act that protects Yosemite from commercial development—the first time in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: "The product of over 2,000 interviews recorded in 60 countries, this unique and thrilling collection of stories and images leads inexorably to the core of what it means to be human. Stories full of love and happiness, hatred and violence, from everyday experiences to accounts of the most unbelievable lives, share a rare sincerity and underline what is universal. Intercut with never-before-seen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUMSummary: This program presents two groups of high school students generating a flood of cross-cultural insights. American Islamic, Christian, and agnostic teenagers speak their minds while young Egyptian Muslims do the same-then both panels observe and react to each other. Their subjects include dating, cliques, education, religion, the impact of American entertainment, and more. Displaying a variety of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Without consent, sexual intercourse is nothing less than rape. This program offers insights into sexual victimization through interviews with a young woman who was raped in her own home by an armed assailant and a young man who was expelled from college on a charge of acquaintance rape. Also, a rehabilitation service for sexual offenders is profiled, with an emphasis on the treatment of deviant...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Pornography shops. Phone sex services. Strip clubs. Culturally, such businesses are typically consigned to the questionable fringes of society. But are there exceptions? In this program, workers in these three industries share their personal experiences; describe their clientele, which, in addition to men, often includes women and couples; and explain how they have lifted their occupations to a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Prior to the 1960s, the idea of same-sex parenting had yet to reach the consciousness of most Americans. The majority of gays and lesbians did not even consider parenting, fearing the stigma their children might face. By 2000, however, the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that a full one-third of lesbian couples and roughly a quarter of gay male couples had opted to become parents. This program...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program looks at aspects of how relationships are formed and sustained. Interview segments include a couple who talk about connecting online through Match.com; a diverse group of young Muslim women who discuss the liberating effects of physical modesty and Islamic approaches to courting and marriage; and a couple who describe how they met and demonstrate how PREP relationship enhancement...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In America, there are many misconceptions about Islam, particularly concerning its distinctive veil known as hijab. But how do Muslim women in this country who wear hijab feel about it? In this program, six Muslim women from six different ethnic backgrounds discuss their relation to this traditional garment, as well as what it means in a more general way to practice Islam in the U.S. Interviews...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program uses in-depth interviews with two generations of five African families now living in the Denver area to explore the dynamic process that is ethnic identity. Having emigrated from Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, the families bring unique traditions to a shared experience: life in America. The interviews reveal the hopes of the first generation for the second, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Geoffrey and Mark and Lisa and Allison are a pair of gay couples who are co-parenting biological children they conceived together. In this program, the four discuss when they first discovered they are gay; how they met their partners; major issues they have faced as gay couples; their children, ages 2 and 4, and the co-parenting experience; and what it means to them all to be a family. In...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: It has been estimated that 80 to 90 percent of couples will have one or more of the nine sexual dysfunctions outlined in the DSM-IV. This program introduces the most common dysfunctions while dispelling myths about female sexuality, stressing the importance of good communication, and offering advice on improving sexual technique. Common sexual disorders are commented upon as well. In addition,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: What ultimately determines a person's gender? Is it chromosomes, hormones, genitals, or an innate sense of self? In this Telly Award-winning program, five transgendered individuals between the ages of 20 and 50 speak openly about what it has meant to them to be transgendered-their first experiences of gender confusion, life after coming out, family responses, and more. Advice for others who may...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Parents, friends, sex education classes, the media-all of them shape our perceptions of reproduction and physical intimacy. Starting at the beginning, then, this program focuses on developmental issues in human sexuality. Its four interview segments question children on what they know about love and sex; adolescents on what they know about sex and what constitutes good sex education; adults on...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006