New Releases - October 2009 - Learningemall.com

Item no.Format: PU06581676: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 60 minutesDurationAudience : Grades 6-8Copyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00HISTORYBIRTH OF LANGUAGEBy Paul JayWhat is the meaning of language? Howand where did it begin? This highly originaland challenging film examines thesequestions as it explores human evolutionand the development of language. TheBirth of Language uses a uniquecombination of extraordinary documentaryfootage, expert interviews and dramaticre-enactments to unravel the fascinatingorigins of language, the essentialdifferences between human and animalcommunication and the relationshipbetween language and thought.Featuring such renowned experts asanthropologists Jane Goodall andSherwood Washburn, the film comparesthe special language ability of humans tothe instinctual and involuntary form ofcommunication used by animals. Theoriesare illustrated by remarkable animalfootage including the famous Chantek apeexperiment in which an orangutan istaught to communicate with American SignLanguage. The varied informationpresented in The Birth of Languagestrongly supports Charles Darwin'stheories on evolution and naturalselection.Presenting complex social and biologicalconcepts in a logical and accessibleformat, The Birth of Language explains themystery that sets the human race apartfrom all other animals: the ability to thinkand translate our abstract ideas intoconcrete realities.Item no. : NT08880065Format : DVD (Color)Duration : 58 minutesAudience : Grade 7 or aboveCopyright : 2009StdBkNo : 155974801XPrice : USD 133.00INTERNATIONALBLUE GOLD: WORLDWATER WARSThis award winning documentary directedby Sam Bozzo is based on the book BLUEGOLD: THE FIGHT TO STOP THECORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD'SWATER by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark.The film examines the problems createdby the privatization and commoditization ofwater.Format : DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned)Duration : 90 minutesAudience : Grades 9-12Copyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00FRONTLINE: WORLD VIII -CHILDREN OF THETALIBANIn Pakistan correspondent SharmeenObaid investigates the increasing powerand influence of a new branch of theTaliban that is helping make the countryone of the new administration's top foreignpolicy concerns. Also, correspondentDoug Rushkoff in South Korea-for a lookat a country that's embraced the wiredworld more thoroughly than any place onearth, and is now potentially facing a newpublic health crisis: internet addiction.Item no.Format: AU06581716: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 60 minutesDurationCopyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00FRONTLINE: WORLD VIII -DIGITAL DUMPINGGROUNDFRONTLINE/World presents a globalinvestigation into the dumping of hundredsof millions of pounds of electronic wastearound the world each year. Tracking"e-waste" to the slums of Ghana and thefar-off provinces in China, Peter Klein andhis team fan out around the world todocument the growing impact of this toxictrash on those who desperately scavengeit for precious metals.Item no.Format: PG06581717: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 60 minutesDurationCopyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00FRONTLINE: WORLD VIII -PAKISTAN UNDER SIEGEAs a nervous world watches a new branchof the Taliban gain ground, and the UnitedStates steps up its pressure on thePakistani government to confront themilitants' mounting threat,FRONTLINE/WORLD reports from thefront lines of what has become, perhaps,the most volatile conflict in the world.Item no.Format: FH06581718: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 60 minutesDurationCopyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00FRONTLINE: WORLD VIII -TAKING ON THE MAFIAIn "Taking on the Mafia,"FRONTLINE/World correspondent CarolaMamberto explores the story of arestaurant owner--backed by an upstartanti-mafia movement of young people andan elite law enforcement team-- whorefused to pay the mafia's monthly "tax,"taking a stand against mob bosses who'vekept Italy in their grip for decades.Item no.Format: WH06581719: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 60 minutesDurationAudience : Grades 9-12Copyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00JUDAISMJEWISH PEOPLE, THE: ASTORY OF SURVIVALSpanning millennia, this history of theJewish people explores how a small groupwho started as desert nomads overcamecountless obstacles to survive to thepresent day. From slavery to the loss oftheir homeland; from exile toanti-Semitism; from pogroms to nearannihilation in the Holocaust, how did theJews endure while so many othercommunities vanished? The answers aresurprising.Item no.Format: WU06581772: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 60 minutesDurationCopyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00JUDIASMJERUSALEM: CENTER OFTHE WORLDThis documentary tells the story of theworld's most incredible city, capturing therich mosaic of the city's Christian, Jewishand Muslim communities. Covering ahistory of over 4,000 years, the filmexplores the founding of the city; the birthand convergence of the world's threemajor monotheistic religions; and the keyevents in Jerusalem's history as describedin the varied religious sacred books.Item no.Format: AF06581770: DVD (Color, ClosedCaptioned): 120 minutesDurationAudience : Grades 9-12Copyright : 2009Price : USD 77.00Item no.: YE06581614________________________________________________________________________________________________________Email: inquiry@learningemall.comLearning Rendezvous LimitedWebsites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk15