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Summary: With no scientific knowledge to guide them, people of medieval times believed that diseases were supernatural phenomena or punishments from God. Thus medical treatments were usually primitive and often horrifying. But little by little, knowledge grewultimately leading to a more practical and scientific approach to understanding sickness and ways to treat it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 CURSummary: Every year, at least two million people are packed in shipping containers, pulled through sewage tunnels, secreted in car chassis, and ferried across frigid waters. Among this human cargo, an alarming number end up as prostitutes, thieves, or sweatshop laborers. This Wide Angle documentary explores the worldwide boom in illicit migration and human trafficking, recording the stories of those who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The face of heroin is changing. No longer the dirty, back alley drug of two decades ago, heroin is now purer, stronger, and cheaper than ever before. The global heroin market has exploded, with Afghanistan now supplying as much as 92 percent of the world's heroin supply. This film enters the work and lives of both addicts and law enforcement officials in several countries that are struggling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: House slavery-the confinement and coercion of unpaid domestic servants-occurs far more frequently across Europe and the United States than most people realize. Even more alarming is the widespread use of children as fodder for prostitution rings around the world. This program profiles a Moroccan-born former house slave named Rania, whose father, believing she would be educated and cared for,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010