Summary: This video examines THC and the cannabinoids marijuana, hashish, and hash oil. Expert commentary is presented by former NFL player Charles Hunt, a pharmacist, a police officer, addiction counselors, a historian, a pastor, recovering addicts, and others. Together, they explain the history and biological effects of THC, investigating its use, abuse, and hazards, and its reputation as a gateway drug.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CONSummary: Since the time of Icarus, man has tried to fly. This program covers the history of flight, from the invention of the propeller through the Wright Brothers' first flight and Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic solo; profiles Robert Goddard and traces the development of the rocket from the beginning, through the development of gyroscopic instruments, the V-2, Sputnik, and Explorer 1; traces the advances...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The 18th century in Spain was less a period of literary achievement than a time of intellectual ferment, as the Bourbon monarchs attempted sweeping social and cultural reforms. In this program, renowned experts put into perspective the writings of those who kept the flame of literature alight during the Age of Reason. Dramatic readings include excerpts from Torres Villarroel's El Censor, Benito...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census—the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property—to trace his subjects’ lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates'...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Work on skills by understanding and translating ASL vocabulary, sentences, and idioms from two deaf ASL professors, Gilda Toby Ganezer and Avery Posner, along with certified ASL interpreter, April Starks. There are fourteen quizzes with seven multiple choice questions per quiz. The program is best for every ASL student, interpreter trainee, interpreter, teacher, and ASL enthusiast when it comes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419 WHASummary: It is often observed that American national identity is less a condition than an idea. And, as profiled in this program, no one is better positioned to express that idea than the president himself. What we have come to refer to, as “the vision thing” is an expectation that our presidents will bring to office a particularly strong sense of national mission. The four presidents chronicled is this...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: In 1908, the first Model T rolled off the assembly line, quickly asserting itself as a dream machine that would take America down the highway and into the future. Bill Moyers shows how that future represented not only a new landscape bustling with high-speed transport and travel, but a new vision of ourselves. He uses film clips, photographs, music, and poetry to trace America's transformation...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: As controversy swirls around the issue of same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian couples in North America and abroad are speaking out for the right to marry. Filmed in British Columbia after the legalization of same-sex unions, this program introduces the victorious litigants, who share their views on marriage, religious and political opposition, child adoption, and, most of all, love. Interviews...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: By the 1960s, Latin America's avant-garde movements had matured into a range of literary styles that were firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape. At the same time, there emerged a new and distinctive accent to Latin American literature that was no less authentic than its forebears. This program surveys the artistic phenomenon, manifested most notably in magical realism, that came to be...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This collection of 60 video clips (1 minute 10 seconds each) presents innovations and opportunities arising from the impact of environmental threats on the people of the world.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: By the 1960s, Latin America's avant-garde movements had matured into a range of literary styles that were firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape. At the same time, there emerged a new and distinctive accent to Latin American literature that was no less authentic than its forebears. This program surveys the artistic phenomenon, manifested most notably in magical realism, that came to be...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program examines presidential leadership in an era of an increasingly divided government. The American presidency was conceived as a part of a larger system of institutions, and its effectiveness rests, in part, upon a good measure of cooperation among the branches. However, as revealed in the program, as our constitutional system has developed, this cooperation has broken down at crucial...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: As biologist E. O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life. One of the world's most distinguished scientists, E.O. Wilson is a professor and honorary curator in entomology at Harvard. His books include Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, The...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In this episode, when the paper trail runs out, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits scientists who are using DNA analysis to trace ancestral roots. With results in hand he meets with leading historians of the slave trade and discovers more fascinating details about his own ancestry. Finally, Professor Gates and a guest journey to Africa, where they visit the port from which the guest’s patrilineal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program draws on insightful commentary from literary scholars and authors to examine the characters, plots, and themes of seven American novels that deal with wealth, poverty, and the nature of success and failure in the U.S. In an exploration that moves from the turn of the 20th century into progressively more contemporary surroundings, passages from each book are dramatized through...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: With a total population estimated between three and six million people, the United States is home to one of the most diverse Muslim communities in the world today. But what is the experience of the Muslim American? How does it differ from European Muslims? A part of the PBS America at a Crossroads series, The Muslim Americans was produced in conjunction with the PBS NewsHour and, by means of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Handy to have anywhere around the house, circular occasional tables can also take center stage if crafted the Scott Phillips way. Scott builds a Chippendale-inspired ball and claw foot pedestal table with a 27" turned top.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The U.S.S. Maine Blown Up in Havana Harbor-268 Men Lost shouted the headlines of the day. Using archival footage, newspaper excerpts, and historical documents, this program traces the roots of the Spanish-American War to Spain's quest to preserve its flagging empire, American imperialism, and the genuine desire on the part of Cubans to shake off the yoke of Spanish domination. It closely...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Summary: On October 29th, 1929, the boom era of the Jazz Age came to a crashing halt on Wall Street. The dramatic effects of the Great Depression and New Deal are the main topics of this program. Despite the country’s economic collapse, major public works projects such as the Hoover Dam offered proof of the industrial and technological might of the United States - and of the undeniable abilities of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: 'To know the history of the American South, within its own context, is to come to terms with one of modern history's most astonishing, polarizing, and illuminating stories. In these 24 lectures, you'll relive the unforgettable drama of the South, from the rise and fall of the slave South to the making of the New South, examining the full scope of a historical epoch that still affects life in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 NEWSummary: The writings of Carlos Fuentes-a Mexican novelist and playwright who combines a deep awareness of history and national identity with experimental narrative techniques to develop his themes-have had a powerful effect on contemporary Latin American literature. In this program, Fuentes, the son of a diplomat, discusses subjects such as the influence of politics on his life, his deep feelings for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The writings of Carlos Fuentes-a Mexican novelist and playwright who combines a deep awareness of history and national identity with experimental narrative techniques to develop his themes-have had a powerful effect on contemporary Latin American literature. In this program, Fuentes, the son of a diplomat, discusses subjects such as the influence of politics on his life, his deep feelings for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this episode Scott Phillips shows you how to construct a triple-backed Windsor dining bench. Designed to seat three in comfort and built to last, this cherry and maple bench is a perfect fit for longer tables. See the best way to form bench seats as inspired by famed furniture designer, Sam Maloof. Scott also offers tips on designing a good finishing area in your garage.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007