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The persuaders
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 23 libraries worldwide Examines the "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. Shows how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their message into the fabric of our lives. Explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and themselves and how the techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to politics.
How difficult can this be? understanding learning disabilities : frustration, anxiety, tension, the F.A.T. city workshop
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 19 libraries worldwide A group experiences life the way a learning disabled student does and learns methods of teaching and helping such students.
Baseball. [First inning], our game
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 19 libraries worldwide Tells the story of the origins of the game as a barehanded game played by men and boys in cities, usually in the vicinity of a saloon. Meet the first baseball magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, explore the game's first gambling scandal, and see the attempts by women to play the game in the 1860s.
The murder of Emmett Till
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 19 libraries worldwide The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
A class divided
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled "The eye of the storm". Shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination had a lasting effect on the lives of the students. Includes scenes of her lesson being used in a prison setting.
Brooklyn Bridge
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide About America's best-loved landmark, the program explores the great problems and ingenious solutions that marked the bridge's construction, tracing its transformation from a spectacular and heroic engineering feat to a symbol of strength, vitality, ingenuity, and promise in American culture.
Alien invasion
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide Describes how the accidental or purposeful introduction of alien species into new areas affects that environment.
Make up your mind
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide Scientists look to the brain's frontal lobe as the seat of personality.
RFK
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide This film chronicles the pivotal role RFK played in many of the major events of the 1960s. It looks closely at his complicated relationships with some of the leading figures of his day and reveals much about his personal world.
Fidel Castro
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide Through interviews with relatives, loyalists, and enemies in Cuba and abroad, American Experience constructs an intimate and revealing portrait of the most resilient of leaders.
Fatal flood
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys-- and the Percys against themselves.
Citizen King, 1963-1968
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide This work chronicles the last five years of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. Part 1 includes the events that led up to his arrest and incarceration in Bigmingham, Alabama, the March on Washington, his "I have a dream" speech, the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, and his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize; Part 2 includes the march from Selma to Montgomery, King's move to Chicago, the Poor People's Campaign, his "Mountaintop" speech, and his assassination.--Containers.
Lewis & Clark the journey of the Corps of Discovery. [Part 1
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide Documentary on the Lewis and Clark expedition through the American West.
Mark Twain. [Part 1
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide Traces Twain's meteoric rise from his humble birth in Florida, Missouri, to his prosperous 50th birthday in Hartford, Connecticut, when he was the nation's best-selling author. It follows young Sam Clemens to the small Mississippi River town of Hannibal, where he would store up a lifetime's worth of memories that would later populate his novels; his glorious time as a riverboat pilot; and his adventures in Nevada and California, where he failed as a prospector before finding his calling - and adopting his new pen name - as a reporter.
Benjamin Franklin. [Part 1
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide Traces Franklin's life from humble beginnings to fame as a scientist, founding father, and America's first diplomat to France.
TR. [Part 1] the story of Theodore Roosevelt
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide He personified America at the turn of the last century--confident, exuberant, involving--but suffered from hidden demons. He was Teddy Roosevelt, or TR, heroic figure of boundless energy and bleak emotions. Family letters and diaries, authentic film footage and interviews with family members and others profile an ambitious man: fearless in combat, loving and generous with family, and unafraid to take on powerful financial interests.
America 1900. [Part 1
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide In 1900, America was a nation on the move. Its population had doubled over the past 100 years, its people were becoming the most prosperous on Earth. President McKinley had led the nation out of its worst depression. People could travel with ease across the nation in six days. Half of the nation's original timber had been cut down and people were talking about conservation. Women were striking out on their own and the Women's movement was growing. America goes to war with the Filipinos to keep the Philippines under American control. Anti-war sentiments grow. Most of America remained rural, but people were traveling more and began to move to the cities. In New York City, one third of the population were foreign immigrants who lived in poverty. Many began moving to other cities further west.
New York, a documentary film. [Episode 8, Part 2], The center of the world, 1946-2003
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide The first part of this final chapter of the series provides a powerful portrait of the events leading up to and following September 11, 2001. To understand the impact of 9/11, episode eight reaches back to when the idea of a "world trade center" was first conceived and the towers were constructed. You'll then explore the physical, economic, and symbolic aftermath of the attack--and what Americans can learn from the recovery effort.
The first measured century. [Part 2
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 16 libraries worldwide America's entry into WWII proved a huge engine of social and economic change. The African-American middle class emerged as the desperate need for workers overcame many longstanding employment prejudices. Near war's end, President Roosevelt signed the GI Bill, unleashing an unforeseen array of consequences - including the rapid growth of the suburbs, and dramatic increases in marriage and birth rates. Alfred Kinsey released his far-reaching works on human sexuality in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Though some of his data would not hold up under reexamination, his numbers were ultimately less important than the impact of his work on social reform.
From Jesus to Christ the first Christians. [Part 4
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4 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide Part three examines the period after the First Revolt, tracing the development and impact of the Gospels, looking at the increasingly hostile relationship between the Christians and the Jews. The hour concludes with another bloody Jewish war against Rome, the Second Revolt"--Container. more
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