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 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: This program offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on dramatic play. Through sequences of young children playing house, doctor’s office, rescue squadron, and trick-or-treating, the theoretical positions that Vygotsky and other prominent theorists have taken in systematically studying play are illustrated. The video provides a thorough review of traditional ways of studying play...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Building on the ideas of Lev Vygotsky and Jerome Bruner, Elena Bodrova and Deborah Leong worked with teachers in urban schools to foster self-regulated learning. This program presents both the theoretical underpinnings of their work and its results as viewers sit in on busy classrooms where students are being helped to take responsibility for their education. The video offers useful viewpoints...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: From the day that 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra.” Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent. Ansel Adams, from the PBS American Experience...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia - meaning that his perception of words, numbers, and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. In this TEDTalk, the linguist, writer, and educator shares his art, his passion for languages, and a glimpse into his unique way of perceiving the world. Tammet is the author of Born on a Blue Day,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: One-man tank demonstrated in USA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1914
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Summary: Trotsky reviews Soviet Army
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: World War II - British and Belgian troops fight off Nazi attack in Northern France
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Mobilization of Russian Army for World War I. Cavalry in street. Men carrying bags, on their way to join army units.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1914
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Summary: American soldiers in England playing baseball, World War I. R&R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: French troops march, build fire, prepare a meal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1915
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Summary: Early armored vehicle (tank) demonstrated. In field and woods, knocking over small trees. French, World War I.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: Smoke bombs hide British infantry advance. Great visuals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: World War II - British troops land in France
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Testing of Lewis machine guns by US Army; before the USA's entry into World War One.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1916
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Summary: French tanks enter village. World War I; technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: British wounded are entertained by other soldiers. Men playing bumper cars from horses, military band relay race (playing instruments while running), men boxing, soldier making a women's floral straw hat.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: Air mail carried to British soldiers in Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: Are the results of scientific experiments affected by the desired outcome of the researcher conducting the trials? In this TEDTalk, psychologist Dan Ariely tells two personal stories that explore a subtle and perhaps subconscious bias that can lead to a scientific conflict of interest. "The most difficult thing," Ariely says, "is to recognize that sometimes we, too, are blinded by our own...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Called “remarkably balanced” by Jewish Week, this program examines the controversial military and political career of Ariel Sharon. Supporters and critics comment on the events that made Sharon a polarizing figure even in his own country: the Qibya Massacre, the bulldozing of refugees’ homes, the planting of Israeli settlements in densely populated Palestinian areas, the unpopular 1982 Lebanon...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Presidential campaign of 1912. Shots of Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt campaigning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1912
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Summary: Russian Revolution & Vladimir Lenin: Good close shot Lenin leaning from train to shake hands with people, soldiers, parade w/ lots of banners, Lenin speaking to crowd of Russian soldiers & sailors.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: In decades past, Native-American artists who wanted to sell to mainstream collectors had little choice but to create predictable, Hollywood-style western scenes. Then came a generation of painters and sculptors led by Allan Houser (or Hazous), a Chiricahua Apache artist with no interest in stereotyped imagery and a belief that his own rich heritage was compatible with Modernist ideas and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008