Summary: "Dr. Kennedy-Moore's expert knowledge and focus on practicality, coupled with her warmth and gentle humor make this course a delight. These fun and fascinating videos will give you the solution-oriented approach you need to help address your most pressing parenting concern. You'll learn how to help your child develop both competence and confidence in navigating the social world."--Publisher's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 RAICall number: DVD 649 RAI
Summary: Presents 24 lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by professor and physicist S. James Gates, Jr., covering superstring theory, which attempts to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 530 SUP Part 1Call number: DVD 530 SUP Part 2
Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Benjamin, Arthur
Summary: One key to improving and expanding your math potential--whether you're a corporate executive or a high-school student--lies in the powerful ability to perform mental math calculations. Solving basic math problems in your head is a gateway to success in understanding and mastering higher mathematical fields such as algebra, statistics, and calculus. Mental mathematics also is valuable when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 SECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 510 SecretsSummary: Nothing can amaze quite like an expertly-executed magic trick. Ideally, only the magician knows how truly simple the deception is. After watching Math and Magic, you will know that this trick and its many variants rely on a remarkable property of patterned sequences called Gilbreath's principle--named after an amateur magician who was also a mathematician. Magic is full of such wonders, as you...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018