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Building blocks of mathematics Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Elements, Making Sense of Matter Great courses (DVD) Library of America ; 76 Mathemedia Neuroscience (New York, N.Y.) Palettes (Film for the Humanities (Firm)) Understanding sociologyOsweiller, Regina
Summary: "Experience mathematics like never before! The characters in this series will whisk you away on a colorful journey through basic mathematical concepts. Does math just make you cringe? Never fear! Learning can be oodles of fun with the... building blocks of math"--Page [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.24 OSWSummary: The house painting project calls for sky blue, but all Jess's mom gave her are dark blue and white. Using that problem as a starting point, this program distinguishes ratios from proportions and explains the concepts of simplest form and equivalent ratios. By the video's end, viewers will have a thorough understanding of ratios and proportions: what they are, how to work with them, and how they...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The National Museum of the Middle Ages in Paris is the home of The Lady and the Unicorn, the exotic set of six medieval tapestries that illustrates the five senses-and the Lady's deepest desire. This program seeks to unravel the mysteries woven into these enchanting wall hangings as it explores their history and symbolism.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The National Museum of the Middle Ages in Paris is the home of The Lady and the Unicorn, the exotic set of six medieval tapestries that illustrates the five senses-and the Lady's deepest desire. This program seeks to unravel the mysteries woven into these enchanting wall hangings as it explores their history and symbolism.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This video describes the meaning of fractions and how to solve problems involving sums and products. Dramatized segments and computer animations focus on adjusting ingredient amounts to vary the yield of recipes at a bakery; deciding whether to hire an untrained worker at a bike shop by projecting overtime wages and short-term productivity loss; and learning to read musical notation including...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Frances Fraction, Newman Numerator, and Dennis Denominator invite kids on a colorful adventure to explore fractions and decimals. Entertaining music, easy-to-follow examples, and plenty of humor make even difficult concepts easy to grasp. Delayed answers give learners time to respond and check their understanding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rock 'N Learn 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ROCSellers, James A.
Summary: This well-rounded approach to the basics of mathematics is a surefire way to strengthen your current knowledge or to gain new skills for more deftly and confidently approaching and dealing with math. Professor Sellers reveals the secrets behind all the key math topics you need to know. In 24 lectures packed with helpful examples, practice problems, and guided walk-throughs, you'll finally grasp...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2012
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 MASCall number: DVD 510 MAS
Summary: Because seeing is so important to human functioning, efforts to understand how perceptions are generated have most often focused on vision. Based on research in cognitive neuroscience, this program explores the challenge of explaining visual perception. The video includes an overview of the human visual system, illustrated with animated graphics and live action footage, and describes, using a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Midthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces critical basic fraction concepts"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This multi-section program explains the role of sociological theory, distinguishes between structure and action, and sheds light on three major perspectives in sociology-societies as organic structures, societies as economic structures, and societies as social action-by looking at their origins and key ideas and then showing how they can be applied. The video concludes by using a case study on...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces critical basic fraction concepts"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.2 FRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.26 FRASummary: Just because we can extend life, should we? Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care every year. Medicare alone costs taxpayers over
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: This video describes how to identify and form equivalent ratios and ratio tables, express ratios as both fractions and decimals, and interpret map scales to calculate distances. Dramatized segments and computer animations show ways to determine which combinations of a mountain bike's gears provide the most power and speed; custom-design a roof at a construction office to create a high attic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Once scientists succeeded in identifying and organizing the 92 naturally occurring chemical elements, the challenge then became how to manipulate them into amazing new configurations - and how to tap their essentially limitless energy. A tale of struggle meeting serendipity and of accident meeting design, this program focuses on element-related flashpoints in modern science history: the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Until the 17th century, the building blocks of the natural world were a mystery. Of elements there were believed to be four - air, earth, fire, and water - and the science of chemistry had yet to be born. This program identifies some of the first chemical elements to be discovered by spotlighting the work of Hennig Brandt, Robert Boyle, Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestly, Antoine Lavoisier, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: At the beginning of the 19th century, 55 elements had been discovered, and although scientists had no idea how many more they might yet find, they already had a suspicion that there was some sort of unifying pattern behind them all. This program charts the quest for order among the chemical elements by examining the contributions of Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Hawley, George
Summary: During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right," short for "alternative right." Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 HAWDenny, Mark
Summary: Making Sense of Weather and Climate begins by explaining the essential mechanics and characteristics of this fascinating science. The noted physics author Mark Denny also defines the crucial differences between weather and climate, and then develops from this basic knowledge a sophisticated yet clear portrait of their relation. Throughout, Denny elaborates on the role of weather forecasting in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 DENTalking Heads (Musical group)
Summary: A film of the Talking Heads in concert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STOEgger, Robert.
Contents: Introduction : "Brother, can you spare a dime?" : a brief history of the handout -- Soup kitchen confidential -- Doing good versus doing right -- Feeding the tapirs -- Starfish and random acts -- Whom are you serving? -- M=EC² -- The tangible link -- Taking Troy -- Take it to 11 -- Keeping the faith -- Grab the future by the face -- Epilogue : Redemption city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.7068 EGGMoody, Raymond A.
Summary: "In this book Dr. Moody shares the groundbreaking results of four decades of research into the philosophy of nonsense, revealing new ways to understand and experience life, death, and spirituality"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Talking Heads (Musical group)
Contents: Psycho Killer (Live) (4:25) -- Heaven (Live) (3:41) -- Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (Live) (2:10) -- Found A Job (Live) (3:15) -- Slippery People (Live) (4:01) -- Burning Down The House (Live) (4:06) -- Life During Wartime (Live) (5:51) -- Making Flippy Floppy (Live) (4:40) -- Swamp (Live) (4:30) -- What A Day That Was (6:01) -- This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (Live) (4:57) -- Once...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1984
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Waters, Alice
Summary: "It has been four and a half decades since Alice Waters opened the doors of Chez Panisse, the 'little French restaurant' in Berkeley, California, that has been at the leading edge of the American culinary revolution ever since. Fueled in equal parts by naïveté and a relentless pursuit of beauty and pure flavor, Alice transformed our relationship with food, fine dining, and what it means to eat...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 WATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5092 WATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WATERS WATHiggins, Jackie
Summary: Analyzes the incredible sensory capabilities of thirteen animals, including the cheetah, orb-weaving spider, and harlequin mantis shrimp, that hold the key to better understanding how humans make sense of the world around them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022