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Learn all about cats and kittens, fierce hunters and cuddly pets. What are the different breeds of cats? Do cats really have more bones than humans? How do tabbies get their stripes? What do I feed my cat? How do I take care of my cat? How can I be a good cat owner? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video that reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
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This video features Angela Petrone Stratiy in a one-woman comedy show based on her research on hearing people and her perspectives on how deaf people survive in the hearing world. An internationally known performer, Angela is a native signer from a deaf family. Can be used for advanced voicing practice by interpreters.
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"[A] unique feature music documentary celebrating a rock 'n' roll icon: Bruce Springsteen. Working with the filmmakers, Springsteen's fans have helped create a film that reflects on their personal insights and experiences to explore what this timeless artist means to them. Their stories are at times touching, at times humorous, at times extraordinary and they all come from the heart. Combined with previously unseen archive footage of performances...
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This documentary is based on over 700 interviews with men and women in the Mexican countryside. The film explores why so many people leave small Mexican towns to work in the United States and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind. The audience is encouraged to think about new and creative ways that the U.S. and Mexican governments can work together to solve the problem of undocumented immigration.
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Trix Bruce has been profoundly deaf since 6 months and is known nationwide as both a workshop presenter and an ASL performer. Her main area of emphasis is ASL linguistics with a focus on performance. In this DVD, Trix show that ASL classifiers can do anything -- Well, almost! A variety fo stories are offered, presented entirely through the use of classifiers. You will see handshapes transformed into camping, hunting, canoeing, rafting, snowboarding,...
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When it comes to intimacy and sex, young people today are apparently doing away with the old rules of romance and cutting straight to the chase. If recent reports are to be believed, the rise of hookup culture on college campuses is in the process of killing off dating and courtship, radically altering some of our most basic assumptions about heterosexual sex and gender. But for all the speculation, there's been little beyond anecdotal evidence to...
11) Fastball
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Interviews of former players, from legendary Hall-of-Famers to up-and-coming All Stars.
12) Tosca's kiss
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Having developed a cult following over the years and as well as a favorite among opera and music lovers worldwide, Tosca's Kiss captures the world of the "Casa di Riposa", the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. Its inhabitants are wonderful singers, many of whom had significant careers on the opera stage, re-living and re-enacting their triumphant roles of the glorious past.
14) Julie & Julia
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Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
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"This astonishing powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the Water takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart-stopping,...
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Anthony Bourdain, the intrepid TV host, culinary adventurer and self-proclaimed hedonist, uncovers a fascinating side of countries that many tourists never see. Episodes include: Vancouver, British Columbia; New Orleans; London/Edinburgh; Greek Islands; Jamaica; Hawaii; Into the Fire; Laos; Tokyo; Uruguay; Columbia; Spain; Egypt; Saudi Arabia; Washington D.C.; and U.S. Southwest. Includes featurettes and on-air promos.
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