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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Produced 20 years after Sartre's death in 1980, this program assesses the philosophical legacy of one of France's most renowned intellectuals. The documentary features extensive film footage of Sartre conducting lectures, as well as several interviews. A host of friends, scholars, and philosophers, including Jean-Toussaint Desanti, J. B. Pontalis, Gerard Wormser, and Bernard-Henri Levy, discuss...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Produced 20 years after Sartre's death in 1980, this program assesses the philosophical legacy of one of France's most renowned intellectuals. The documentary features extensive film footage of Sartre conducting lectures, as well as several interviews. A host of friends, scholars, and philosophers, including Jean-Toussaint Desanti, J. B. Pontalis, Gerard Wormser, and Bernard-Henri Levy, discuss...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How accurate is the term "identical twins"? Can a cell-for-cell likeness between two siblings really exist? And what does that say about the supposed uniqueness of each human being? This program examines the genetics, physiology, and psychology behind such questions as it presents fascinating real-world case studies of identical twin development. Viewers meet monozygotic twins raised apart and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Despite their shared genetic makeup, some "identical" twins don't appear identical at all-raising important questions about the role of environment in human development. This program explores several ways in which monozygotic twins grow and change on separate paths as well as the epigenetic, anatomical, and psychological factors involved. With the help of 4D scanning and CGI graphics, viewers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This episode of New York: A Documentary Film details New York's enormous growth as a booming commercial center and multi-ethnic port, and the mounting tensions that set the stage for the nation's bloodiest riot. Filmmaker Ric Burns examines how New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and Irish immigration turned the city into one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Zeitz, Paul
Summary: Presents 24 lectures (each about 30 minutes long) by Paul Zeitz, Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Francisco and author of The art and craft of problem solving.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Why is an original painting preferred over a known forgery? In this TEDTalk, psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists - that beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is. Bloom points to the fact that erotic attraction to another may vanish upon learning that that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This episode of New York: A Documentary Film begins by identifying the key themes that shaped New York's history: commerce and capitalism, diversity and democracy, transformation and creativity. Filmmaker Ric Burns charts the development of the city founded by the Dutch as a purely commercial enterprise, first as New Amsterdam, a freewheeling enclave of trade and opportunity; then as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Robbins, Paul
Summary: Cultural and human geography focuses on the distribution and actions of people, and the way people influence and are influenced by regional environments, economics, cultures and politics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2014