Simonetti-Bryan, Jennifer
Summary: A six-part lecture series about wines of California. Includes wine list and map of California wine country on container sheet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 EVESummary: The body is a fortress under constant assault. It faces threats from infectious diseases, parasites, allergens, environmental toxins, physical trauma, and natural disasters from without, to overzealous allergic, immune, and inflammatory responses, and cellular mutations from within. This course is an introduction to the field of pathophysiology--the study of the disruptions in a normal body's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.07 HUMSummary: Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. These lectures examine the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between the British colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BEFSummary: "The goal of this course is to illuminate the original foundations of our American civic culture by reenacting the Great Debate, from 1787 to 1788, over ratification of the proposed constitution. We will focus on the most profound intellectual and philosophic levels of the contoversy, centered on the competing republican visions held by the proponents of the constitution (Federalists) and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 GRECall number: DVD 342 GRE
Cook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: Professor Cook leads you on an engaging and energetic discussion on Alexis de Tocqueville, his journey, his writing of Democracy in America and, most of all, his thoughts on the young nation he was observing. For Tocqueville, it seems, had opinions about almost everything he encountered in America, and not exclusively politics and "classical" issues such as the nature of the judiciary and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 TOCSummary: Presents 24 calculus lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Michael Starbird.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 515 CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 515 Change PT 1 20061 available in Adult, Call number: Great DVD 515 Change PT 2 2006
Goodman, Anthony A.
Summary: You live with it 24 hours a day, but how well do you really know it? This course is an owner's manual to a remarkably complex, resilient, and fascinating structure: the human body. Using detailed color illustrations, life-sized models, and, even a video shot during surgery, this course examines the major systems of the body, explaining exactly how things work and why they sometimes don't. Each...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2004
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 UNDCall number: DVD 612 UND
Contents: Disc 1. Investment decisions and goals -- A framework for investing -- Mistakes investors make -- The characteristics of security returns -- The theory of efficient markets -- Evidence on efficient markets -- Disc 2. Valuation formulas -- Bond pricing -- The term structure of interest rates -- The risks in bonds -- Quantifying interest rate risk -- Value creation and stock prices -- Disc 3....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 ADVCall number: DVD 332.6 ADV
Summary: An undergraduate course for nonscience majors that treats the atom as a tool for revealing the quantitative history of everything--from the human diet and works of art to Earth's climate and the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.09 PHYSimonetti-Bryan, Jennifer
Summary: A six-part lecture series about wines of France. Includes wine list and map of France's wine country on container sheet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 EVESimonetti-Bryan, Jennifer
Summary: A six-part lecture series about wines of Italy. Includes wine list and map of Italy's wine country on container sheet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 EVESummary: What, exactly, is religion? Why does one religious tradition often differ so markedly from another? Why--despite their common source--are the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam so different? What kinds of factors separate the beliefs of a Hindu or Buddhist from the 'people of the book' and from other sects of Hindus or Buddhists? Religion affects everyone's life, whether...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291 COMCall number: DVD 291 COM
Summary: Professor John M. Bowers discusses why some works and not others become part of the literary canon. He examines the context of the works, and how academic curriculum perpetuates and changes the development of the canon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 WESSummary: What if you could travel in time as well? Imagine yourself transported to the sparkling court society of 18th-century France, or sailing aboard a 19th-century whaling ship. What secrets would you learn about the human condition and the lives lived in distant lands and eras? And what about the most remarkable journey of all: the voyage inside the mind of another human being, in which you plumb...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 CLACall number: DVD 809 CLA PART 1
Call number: DVD 809 CLA PART 2
Call number: DVD 809 CLA PART 3
Kehoe, Dalton
Summary: This course provides a theoretical and practical survey of the ideas behind and the practices of effective communication. It helps you become aware of the automatic processes involved that influence every day talk, of how face-to-face talk really works in the most common three recognized modes: connect talk, control talk, and dialogue talk. Effectiveness is measured by three things: getting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 EFFCall number: DVD 302.2 EFF