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Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Language
English
Description
Babies born more than three months prematurely have low chances of survival, and a preemie that beats the odds may face serious-even lifelong-medical issues. This video describes the battle for life in a high-tech neonatal care unit and how parents of preemies can find support.
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English
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Paul O’Brien is an entrepreneur, startup consultant, and founder of MediaTech Ventures. Why he says the future is now—and how his secrets could be the key to getting your next big idea funded, whether it’s VC, sponsorship, or grant—Paul breaks down the startup ecosystem as it relates to media and technology. Plus, John and Paul discuss the ever-changing role of today’s CMO, and why data should be at the top of every marketer’s mind. Filmed...
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Pub. Date
[2010], c2010
Language
English
Description
In England, Anna de Vere won't leave the house without putting on nail polish. In Ethiopia's drought-stricken Omo Valley, where she has come to live with the struggling Hamar tribe, her only cosmetic is the red ocher rubbed into her hair - a tradition among Hamar women and an emblem of the cultural shifts the 52-year-old Anna must contend with. This program records her month-long adventure and its impact on her way of living and thinking. For the...
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor--even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Millicent M. Chalmers is depending on a series of debating victories, culminating in winning Alabama's state debate tournament, to secure a college scholarship, but her singular focus is disrupted after a run-in with Taggart Strong, who seems equally dedicated to losing every debate as long as he says what he really believes.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From the fiery intellectual provocateur, a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism--from motherhood to Madonna, football to Friedan, stilettos to Steinem. When Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae, she established herself as a smart, fearless, and often dissenting voice among feminists. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in...
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Pub. Date
[2005], c1991
Language
English
Description
Statistically speaking, why have men and women not proved equally adept at the same things? In this program, researchers debate whether differences in brain architecture lead to a division of talents and aptitudes between the sexes-and draw some startling conclusions. To illustrate these differences, children are observed in classrooms, on the playground, and at home.
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Español
Description
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 women, pregnant teenagers, and refugees fleeing war in...
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Deserted by her husband and with four children to support, 24-year-old Sushma, from a remote village in Nepal, was sold into sexual slavery. Her trafficker took her to Kolkata, but she managed to escape. In this film we document how difficult it is for Nepal to stanch the flow of young women being trafficked each year across an open 1,500-mile-long border with India. Meet some of the women on the frontline who are trying to put a stop to the trade....
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English
Description
The gay, bisexual, and transgender community still struggles to find its place among the rich traditions of Latino culture. This extended documentary examines the lives of seven Latino GBT men and women, offering profound insights into their relationships with family and loved ones while exploring their sexuality in the contexts of culture, religion, and work. This version offers more in-depth material than the 34-minute edition (item #39229) and...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2004
Language
English
Description
In places where the military grapples with insurgents, servicewomen and servicemen alike face the very real risk of injury or sudden death by ambush, booby trap, or sniper fire. In this ABC News program, correspondent Deborah Amos reports on the experiences of U.S. servicewomen in Iraq and how, by their ever-growing presence in the armed forces, they are reshaping the historically male military establishment.
14) Berlin
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Sister Wendy's Grand Tour takes her to the seat of the Prussian Empire, Berlin, a city that combines the old and the new. There she visits the Gemalde Gallery to discuss paintings by Hans Baldung, Hans Burgkmair, and Albrecht Altdorfer. She points out the stories hidden until you really look at the painting.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, locked in a heated race to launch the first human into space, the United States selected seven superstar test pilots and former military air fighters to NASA's astronaut class -- the Mercury 7. The men endured grueling training and constant media attention for the honor of becoming America's first space heroes. But a group of 13 women -- accomplished air racers, test pilots, and flight instructors -- were enduring those same astronaut...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The word bitch conjures many images for many people, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn't refer to gender at all--it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy--which simply meant housewife--or slut, which meant an untidy person and was also used to...
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English
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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 justice. Dozens of others tell their stories, as Chamorro...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Laura Kipnis sits down with Reason's Matt Welch to talk about campus feminism, Title IX, why Hustler's Larry Flynt and anti-porn activist Andrea Dworkin have a lot in common, and her recent book, Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation. A Reason TV production.
19) Global Issues
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Pub. Date
[2009], c2010
Language
English
Description
The war on terror requires greater cooperation among countries and a deeper understanding of terrorism's causes and manifestations. This program spotlights five nations caught in the crosshairs to examine regional history, terror-related issues, and counterterrorism actions: the U.S., post-9/11, where captured international terrorists have been handled by military rather than civilian courts; the U.K., where fighting the IRA has ultimately conferred...
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