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 HISLacy, Scott M.
Summary: Find out what makes us human by learning where we came from.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 823 Anthropology 2017Cobb, Daniel M.
Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATHazen, Robert M.
Summary: Lucid, information-packed lectures conveying the excitement of scientific discovery and tracing the connections between discoveries over time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 JOYHazen, Robert M.
Summary: Lucid, information-packed lectures conveying the excitement of scientific discovery and tracing the connections between discoveries over time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 JOYRestak, Richard M.
Summary: These 12 lectures focus attention on the human brain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2011
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 OPTCall number: DVD 612.82 OPT
Satterfield, Jason M.
Summary: "Explore the methods of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and learn why it is successful and how it can be of value in your life." -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 COGSummary: Professor John M. Bowers discusses why some works and not others become part of the literary canon. He examines the context of the works, and how academic curriculum perpetuates and changes the development of the canon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 WESBonura, Kimberlee Bethany.
Summary: "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: 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HOWCall number: DVD 613 HOW
Hazen, Robert M.
Summary: Lucid, information-packed lectures conveying the excitement of scientific discovery and tracing the connections between discoveries over time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 JOYVishton, Peter M.
Summary: This course taught by renowned psychology professor and child development expert explores some scientifically proved techniques for raising healthy, happy, and intelligent children, includes topics such as the link between sleep and cognitive development, ways to help your child with homework, and how to encourage pro-social behavior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 SCICall number: DVD 649.1 SCI
Hazen, Robert M.
Summary: Lucid, information-packed lectures conveying the excitement of scientific discovery and tracing the connections between discoveries over time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 JOYContents: Disc 1. Investment decisions and goals -- A framework for investing -- Mistakes investors make -- The characteristics of security returns -- The theory of efficient markets -- Evidence on efficient markets -- Disc 2. Valuation formulas -- Bond pricing -- The term structure of interest rates -- The risks in bonds -- Quantifying interest rate risk -- Value creation and stock prices -- Disc 3....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 ADVCall number: DVD 332.6 ADV
Summary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Buddhism challenges some of the most important Western ideas about God, human life, and the self. In Buddhism, there is no single almighty God who created the world. Instead, Buddhism teaches that all of life is suffering, and there is no permanent self. Moreover, it teaches that in accepting that all life is suffering, bliss can be achieved in this life. Buddhism's core philosophy that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 GREContents: 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: "Around 10,000 years ago, the small group of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers that had walked the earth for millennia gave way to increasingly complex Neolithic villages of agricultural producers. Around 4,000 - 5,000 years later, people had gathered in urban settings, established laws, and developed culture and political systems. This remarkable change took place in Mesopotamia, on the North China...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 ORICall number: DVD 930 ORI
Summary: These six half-hour lectures focuses on just how remarkable memory is--and how easily it can be strengthened, enhanced, and improved at any age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.12 VISFullenkamp, Connel.
Contents: Disc 1. Feeling at home in the financial markets -- Where the money goes -- Financial markets run on information -- Giving credit where credit is due -- The fine print -- What is special about banks? -- Disc 2. Billion-dollar IOUs--using bonds to borrow -- The double identity of stocks -- The sell job -- The mysterious money market -- Think globally, lend ... globally -- Trading securities --...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 FINSummary: Contains 12 lectures of thirty minutes each, which survey the history, traditions, and practice of Judaism from biblical times to today, with explanations of the major aspects of Jewish culture. Focuses on Judaism from within and how it is understood by its adherents, past and present. Covers topics such as the sacred books of Judaism, modes of worship, the calendar and holidays, and rites of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 GRESummary: "This course explores the history, development, and evidence base for an approached called biopsychosocial medicine, in which biology, psychology, and sociocultural factors are examined as both independent and interactive contributors to heath and disease."--Page 1 of course guidebook.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 MINCall number: DVD 613 MIN
Liulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 UTOCall number: DVD 909 UTO PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 UTO PART 2