Summary: Living through a disaster is not a question of if, it's a question of when. This lecture offers a practical guide for protecting the individual, their family, and their community. Taught by Professor Stephen Owen of Radford University, these fourteen fast-paced lectures will arm viewers with information for planning ahead so they can prepare for the effects of a disaster or catastrophe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 OWEChilders, Thomas
Summary: A series of 12 half-hour lectures on a college course level. Covers the rise of the Nazi party and the Third Reich in power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 HISCall number: DVD 943.086 HIS
Summary: This course takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ to show you how it works. Recent decades have seen unparalleled advances in understanding how the brain does what it does. Today we can pinpoint the specific regions, or nuclei, where some of life's most mysterious processes take place, including: where light that enters the eye is converted into the subjective experience of sight;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 UNDCall number: DVD 612.82 UND
Summary: Forget the concept of "roughing it." Learn to "smooth it" in the great outdoors with a practical guide to almost any type of excursion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 OUTCall number: DVD 796.54 OUT
Summary: "An acclaimed physicist uses analogies to everyday life to teach the rules that govern the microscopic world of particles in this accessible introduction to quantum theory."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Great Courses 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.12 UNDSummary: From the late stages of the Agricultural Revolution to the doorstep of the Scientific Revolution, this course covers western history from roughly 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600, when the "foundations" of the modern West come into view. Beginning in the ancient Near East, moving to Greece and Rome, the course explores the shape and impact of large ancient empires, including those of Persia and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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5 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 FOUCall number: DVD 909 FOU PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 FOU PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 FOU PART 3
Call number: DVD 909 FOU PART 4