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: "This course is designed to equip you with a basic understanding of how your body works and to enable you to set and meet your own health and fitness goals..."--Guidebook p. 1".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2012
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 PHYSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumSummary: There is more to the universe than meets the eye--a lot more. In recent years, scientists have discovered that 95 percent of the contents of the cosmos are invisible to our current methods of direct detection. Yet something is holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together, and something else is causing space to fly apart. Scientists call these invisible components dark matter and dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 DARContents: Disc 1. Lectures: 1. The importance of the Higgs boson -- 2. Quantum field theory. -- 3. Atoms to particles -- 4. The power of symmetry -- 5. The Higgs field -- 6. Mass and energy Disc 2. Lectures: 7. Colliding particles -- 8. Particle accelerators and detectors -- 9. The large Hadron collider -- 10. Capturing the Higgs boson -- 11. Beyond the standard model of particle physics -- 12. Frontiers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539 HIGCall number: DVD 539 HIG
Summary: 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
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Call number: DVD 909 FOU PART 4
Summary: "Learn how to prepare dozens of recipes with step-by-step instructions for meats, pasta, vegetables, seafood, and more with an experienced CIA and restaurant chef"--container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 COOCall number: DVD 641.5 COO
Noble, Thomas F. X.
Summary: Lectures study the reason for the Catholic Church's papacy, how popes are chosen, and what kind of men have filled the office.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007