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Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Presents lectures by Darren Staloff. These lectures are based on the seminar course at Columbia University on Western intellectual history augmented by additional lectures by selected "guest" lecturers. Gives a guided tour through 3,000 years of Western thought.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
What happens when an innocent character created in an artist's early adulthood morphs into a widely recognizable symbol of hatred only a decade later? This is the issue that underground comic book artist Matt Furie must grapple with as he seeks to reclaim his character, Pepe the Frog, from the grip of the Alt-Right.
Series
Publisher
Great Courses, The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Learn chess from an international master and renowned teacher in these intensively illustrated, easy-to-understand lessons for players at all levels. Jeremy Silman is an International Master and a world-class chess teacher, writer, and player who has won the U.S. Open, The National Open, and the American Open.
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A brand-new, 2016, high-definition program prepares kids for kindergarten by teaching them basic punctuation that is essential for new readers and writers. The functions of a period, question mark, exclamation point and comma are delightfully detailed by a hilarious team of animated punctuation marks that makes learning fun! When punctuation marks go missing, the animated team must spring into action to solve the punctuation crisis and save the day!...
Publisher
The Cinema Guild Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"...A meditative exploration of silence and the impact of noise on our lives....takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe--from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, to the streets of Mumbai, the loudest city in on the planet--and inspires us to both experience silence and celebrate the wonders of our world"--Container.
12) The Pollinators
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE POLLINATORS is a cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat. The many challenges the beekeepers and their bees face en route reveal flaws to our simplified chemically dependent agriculture system. We talk to farmers, scientists, chefs and academics along the way to give a broad perspective about...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The shooting of the then fifteen-year-old teenager sparked international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
Viewers learn that plants provide food, medicine and oxygen that make it possible for humans and other animals to live on Earth. Through animation and live-action footage, students will learn to identify the various parts of a plant and their functions. In addition, students will understand how the plant cycle works.
15) Final account
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Deutsch
Description
An urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles...
Publisher
Questar, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Muzzy is the number one language-learning program for children developed by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Children begin their journey to bilingualism by watching a video story about Muzzy, a lovable extraterrestrial who flies around the universe and makes new friends in the Kingdom of Gondoland. Six video stories and three vocabulary builders for Spanish.
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2021 high-definition program, learn all about how COVID-19 variants are having a devastating effect on people around the globe. What is a variant? Why could it be more dangerous than the original virus? What can we do to slow the spread? How do variants emerge? What are variants of interest and variants of concern? The answers to these questions and more are covered in-depth with detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting videos that...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Pope Francis travels the world speaking to those in need and delivering a message of hope.
"The interview sections are fascinating, and scenes of the pope's travels, during which he frequently washes the feet of those who come to him, are moving."--New York Times.
"A Man of His Word' honors and celebrates the shock of a man of God who would rather make this life better than hand out empty promises about the next."--Boston Globe.
"It is a pleasure...
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