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A comprehensive research text and accompanying DVD designed to help students achieve the skills necessary to succeed in the digital world, with strategies for developing critical thinking, communication, and information literacy skills.

Presents a re-creation of the world of gladiators, describing their place in Roman culture and examining their training, weapons, battle garb, and combat style.

Explores famous photos from throughout the twentieth century, of everything from fashion to space to poverty and war, discussing their social, political, and economic impacts.

Handsome troublemaker Landon Carter learns what it means to be a man when he attends the homecoming dance with Jamie Sullivan, a minister's daughter who refuses to play by the "in" crowd's rules, falls in love with her, and learns she carries a tragic secret.

Battle-hardened World War II sergeant Joe Enders tries to maintain a professional distance when he is assigned to, protect Ben Yahzee, a young recruit fluent in the so-far unbreakable battlefield code based on the Navajo language--mindful of the unspoken order to kill Ben rather than let him be captured by the Japanese.

Richard Boyle, a journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship.

Charlie is a small-time crook working his way up the ranks of the local mob. His friend Johnny Boy is a small-time gambler in debt to the loan sharks, and his family disapproves of his girlfriend due to her epilepsy.

A violent teen named Alex is "rehabilitated" by the government in this satirical view of the future of the industrialized world. Includes commentary, production featurette, and other special features.

Rick Deckard, a twenty-first-century detective, searches for a group of rogue replicants--genetically engineered humans with fixed life spans--who have hijacked a space ship and come to Earth illegally, and finds his job complicated by his feelings for a woman who is not quite what she seems.

A Vietnam war drama that begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.