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New! TEDTalks: Jon Ronson—Strange Answers to The Psychopath Test
Item# 53022
© 2012
18 Min.
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Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two in this TEDTalk. Ronson is...
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Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook
Item# 53106
© 2012
111 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-511-6
In 1972, a young TV reporter named Geraldo Rivera exposed the horrific abuse of mentally disabled children at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York. This program contains Rivera’s...
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New to Our Collection! Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?
Item# 53086
© 2011
51 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-714-1
After a 7.0 earthquake brutalized Haiti in January of 2010, Americans donated a stunning $1.4 billion to major charities. Ten months later, filmmaker Michele Mitchell went to the Caribbean nation to o...
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Anyone for Coffee and Heroin? Inside a Danish Narcotics Dispensary
Item# 50127
© 2011
58 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-834-9
It’s early in the morning, but already several patients have gathered outside a small Copenhagen clinic. They’re waiting anxiously for the doors to open so a nurse can dispense their heroin. Yes, they...
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Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy: Fort Hood's PTSD Problem
Item# 49272
© 2011
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-572-0
Suicide rates are rising steadily at the Fort Hood military post, thousands of soldiers are on psychiatric medications, and mental health services there are reeling from a caseload of nearly 4,000 p...
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Gorillas of the Congo: Chainsaws to the Rescue
Item# 48293
© 2011
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-682-2
The northern rain forests of the Republic of Congo are the habitat of the largest concentration of gorillas anywhere in the world. The region is also home to the IFO timber company and its employees,...
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Obesity in America: A National Crisis
Item# 44798
© 2011
155 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-577-1
Why have rates of obesity, morbid obesity, and super obesity increased so dramatically since 2000? Backed up by meticulous research, this two-part set is a provocative, thorough investigation into the...
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Health Risks to the World's Young
Item# 47483
© 2011
22 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-326-5
The UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child was meant to establish the fundamental right of those 18 and below to a life free from exploitation and preventable adverse conditions. However, there ar...
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Global Health and Human Development
Item# 47481
© 2011
20 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-318-0
Is good health simply the absence of physical disease, or should emotional well-being also be of concern to global aid organizations? This program profiles the work of Australia’s Nossal Institute for...
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The Vaccine War
Item# 44443
© 2010
60 Min.
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This Frontline program examines the current controversy surrounding the issue of childhood vaccination in America. Young parents are concerned over the sheer number of shots—up to 26 inoculations for...
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