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Great courses (DVD)Summary: The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRERenton, John J.
Summary: These 36 half-hour lectures are your initiation into the geological world that lies just outside your door. "The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology" introduces you to physical geology, the study of Earth's minerals, rocks, soils, and the processes that operate on them through time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 551.1 NAT Part 1Call number: DVD 551.1 NAT Part 2
Call number: DVD 551.1 NAT Part 3
Summary: What if your memory suddenly vanished? What if you could no longer summon up any recollections of your mother's embrace, a best friend's confidences, or the moment you first met your spouse? What if you couldn't even remember yourself, not your name, your school, where you worked, or even the face of the total stranger staring back at you from the mirror? If all of these memories were gone,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.12 MEMCall number: DVD 153.12 MEM
Summary: "This course is a presentation of the types of matter: what they are, how they behave, why they behave that way, and what they're used for."--Page 1 of guidebook.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.4 NATSummary: The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREBurger, Edward B.
Summary: Discover classical mathematics as an artistic and creative realm that contains some of the greatest ideas of human history, ideas that have shaped cultures. Explore the fourth dimension, conincidences, fractals, the allure of number and gemoetry, in understandable terms. No formulas, problems, equations, techniques and drills that remind us of school, but thinking that opens doors and minds and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 510 JOY PART 1Call number: DVD 510 JOY PART 2
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 UNDCall number: DVD 612 UND
Lacy, Scott M.
Summary: Find out what makes us human by learning where we came from.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 823 Anthropology 2017Summary: The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESteinberg, Mark D.
Summary: Thirty-six 30 minute lectures by Mark Steinberg on the history of Russia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003