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Cambridge core science series Complete new releases curriculum library 2006 Great courses (DVD) Librarian special (Cambridge educational (Firm)) On your own (New York, N.Y.) Origins (New York, N.Y.) Physical science collection (New York, N.Y.) Rx for survival: a global health challenge The Wide Angle Collection: Human Stories, Global Issues Tricky businessSummary: Compilation of diplomatic leaders of Europe leading to WWI. Includes Bismarck; young King George with Prince Albert and Princess Mary playing soldier, and Czar Nikolas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1900
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Summary: State visit to Britain by France's premier Georges Clemenceau and Marshal Ferdinand Foch; in December 1918
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: WWI - Allied military leaders: Douglas Haig, General Petain, Clemenceau, US Secretary of War Newton Baker, General Tasker Bliss, General Lejeune
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: World War II - Leaders from USA, USSR and Europe meet to discuss former Italian colonies & General Jan Smuts arrives in Britain for Imperial Conference
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: World War I: Kaiser Wilhelm II and top German Army leaders at military headquarters
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1914
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Summary: "Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master early literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Macmillan/Khrushchev summit meeting; Cold War diplomacy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: Soviet leaders meet Polish Communist Leader Wladislaw Gomulka in Moscow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1956
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Summary: World War II - Trial of Marshal Petain, ex-Vichy leader of France
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1944
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Summary: This Wide Angle program goes on location in Morocco as history is made. In May 2006, an imam academy in the city of Rabat holds a graduation ceremony. But the class of 2006 is no ordinary group of students. Side-by-side with the male graduates are 50 women pioneers, among the first contemporary group of women to be officially trained as religious leaders in the Arab world. Empowered to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Around the world, one billion people are trapped in destitute societies. How can we help them? Oxford economist Paul Collier laid out a bold, compassionate plan in his 2007 book, The Bottom Billion. It was soon described in The Economist as "compulsory reading for anyone embroiled in the hitherto thankless business of trying to pull people out of the pit of poverty." In this TEDTalk, Collier...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Beau Lotto is founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab. With glowing, interactive sculpture - and good old-fashioned peer-reviewed research - Lotto is illuminating the mysteries of the brain's visual system. In this TEDTalk, he describes his goal of creating color games that evoke the neurology of perception and cognition. Viewers receive a fun, first-hand look at our versatile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Andrew Selby and Ali Farzad couldn't find a place to buy cool iPod gear, so they started their own online business selling it-and profits are rising. Now they see an opportunity to expand into the Internet telephony market with phones and accessories, but exploiting it would mean embracing risk, enlarging their operation, and working harder than ever before. In this program, mentor John Boyle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This classic program uses brain research, cognitive development research, and educational practice as windows into the process of learning. Animation depicts the firing of synapses, the growth of dendrites, and the concept of brain plasticity, making the point that learning is as basic a human activity as breathing or eating. Also, factors that lead to school success are presented in a model...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: Jeff wants to work in the information technology field. Cindy dreams of being a gourmet chef. Over the course of this program, these students learn how to write functional, chronological, combination, and newsletter-style resumes using information on their skills and experience that they identify through two exercises: Personal Inventory (to capture the "what") and Showing Your COLORS (to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This video reveals the immensity of space by showing how its vast distances are measured and by examining the strange effects of Einstein's Theory of Relativity on space travel. Topics include the units of measure in astronomy; how scientists estimate distances through parallax calculations, the inverse square law of light brightness, and the Cepheid variable, Doppler shift, and supernova...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Back in the day, Run-DMC's mega-hit My Adidas promoted consumerism as a form of rebellion. More recently, however, as savvy teens lose interest in traditional forms of advertising, product placement in lyrics and music videos has become big, big business for manufacturers and rappers alike. Drawing on interviews with Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam Records; Camille Hackney, of Elektra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: From a dust mop and other necessary equipment, to cleaning supplies, to making (and following!) a what-and-when cleaning schedule, this video provides a step-by-step look at housekeeping. How to do laundry is also included, as well as a segment on how to clean a computer. Even viewers who have seldom straightened a room will learn how to maintain an entire apartment a mother would be proud to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: They think we're beasts. So says a condemned murderer, succinctly expressing the view of many Americans. But this killer committed his crime when he was 17, and asks for compassion on those grounds. Filmed prior to the March 1, 2005, U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring execution for underage offenses, Death Row Kids tells the stories of confused and frightened young people awaiting the ultimate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program zeroes in on the mystery of exactly how life began on Earth. Join the hunt for hardy microbes that flourish in the most unlikely places: inside rocks in a mine shaft two miles down, inside a cave dripping with acid as strong as a car battery's, and in noxious gas bubbles erupting from the Pacific Ocean floor. The survival of these tough microorganisms suggests they may be related...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: The human nerve center never rests-even during sleep, it works diligently to process and build on the information gathered by our senses. Of course, healthy sleep is only one of many vital ingredients the brain needs to develop and thrive, as this film illustrates in detail. Other factors discussed in the program include ongoing contact with negative (deterring) and positive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: These expertly designed lessons break down the elements of voice technique into graspable steps, guiding to build solid skills as a singer and to express self through any kind of music or style. In this course, learn how to find freedom of movement and flexibility in the vocal mechanism; produce a clear tone; develop resonance, and interpret a text and communicate connections to it in singing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 783.043 HOWCall number: DVD 783.043 HOW
Contents: Disc 1. An introduction to drawing ; Drawing materials for line ; Drawing fundamentals and first exercises ; Line and shape: Line and aggregate shape ; Line and shape: Volume and figure-ground ; Line and shape: Positive and negative shape -- Disc 2. Composition: The format and its armature ; Composition: How artists compose ; Line and shape: Line attributes and gesture ; Composition: Shape and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 BroCall number: DVD 741.2 Bro
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 HOWCall number: DVD 741.2 HOW
Summary: During the past century, life expectancy more than doubled in developed countries. However, in the last few decades, thirty new infectious diseases have emerged. One of them, AIDS, is perhaps the most devastating epidemic in history. This program examines the most critical threats we face today and the pressing need to strengthen global public health systems.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006