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Arrested development 2 Arrested development 4 Aspects of child development Career development series Childhood development Everyday character development First words language development Professional development collection Recorded Books development Sustainable development, the world challengeSummary: As his father continues to face legal trouble, Michael Bluth runs the family business, tackling a host of legal and financial issues while trying to cope with his eccentric relatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ARRSummary: The long-awaited return of the Bluth family. Featuring the entire original cast from the first three seasons, the fourth season incorporates a non-linear storyline that leaves the viewer wanting more from the ever-dysfunctional Bluth family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: How do babies develop an understanding of the people and things that populate the world, and at what age do they begin to acquire it? This program examines Jean Piaget's and Melanie Klein's theories on infant mental representation. Examples of infant behavior, captured through mother/baby interactions and classic experiments such as basic and A-not-B search tasks, demonstrate different stages...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Designed to be a happy place of imagination and cooperation, a playground is too often a danger zone of intimidation and violence. This program explores the educational value and social dynamics of play while emphasizing the importance of a supportive adult presence in the playground environment. Games and techniques used by teachers and psychologists to help children develop interpersonal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Starting right from infancy, this program charts the development of language during childhood. Basic language acquisition, learned from rudimentary and higher-level child/caregiver interactions, is described. Aspects of competence that go beyond the purpose of simple communication are also considered, including the skill of using conversation for establishing and furthering social...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Jean Piaget believed that children go through a universal developmental process that is clearly reflected in their drawings. Is Piaget's theory valid, and if so, to what extent does culture influence that process? In this program, Peter Willatts, of the University of Dundee; Edith Bavin, of La Trobe University; and other researchers compare and contrast the drawing schemas of Scottish children...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program asserts that the testing of a causal hypothesis involving cognitive development is best done through a combination of observational and experimentational methods. Kathy Sylva and Peter Bryant, both of the University of Oxford, and other researchers share their insights into categorizing and codifying patterns of play through observation, avoiding common experiment-related pitfalls...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Inside this Instaread of Crucial Conversations: ʺ Overview of the book ʺ Important People ʺ Key Takeaways ʺ Analysis of Key Takeaways
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: iDreamBooks Inc 2016
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Summary: Living life without a goal is like taking a trip without selecting a destination. This program explains the difference between goals and dreams; distinguishes between short- and long-term goals as well as personal, physical, financial, academic, and career goals; and offers strategies for achieving them. The importance of putting goals in writing, setting a timetable, staying focused, and being...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Feeding is about so much more than just food. This program takes a close look at feeding in the first three years-from the breast or baby bottle to the spoon. The program shows many scenes of breast and bottle feeding, as well as the giving of solid food. Mothers, fathers, pediatricians, nutritionists, and child psychologists discuss the bond that feeding creates between children and their...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Birth: an entrance into life, the beginning of discovery, and a forging of essential bonds. This program weaves footage of many women's experiences of childbirth with valuable commentary from obstetricians, midwives, psychologists, counselors, and recent mothers and fathers. Key topics covered are sonograms and prenatal examinations, changing attitudes to the role of pain in childbirth,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program studies how children continue to transform between the ages of 4 and 11 as they confront and come to terms with fear, adversity, death, and their nascent sexuality. Much attention is paid to the latency period, the intermediate age when boys and girls suddenly stop playing together, crave alone-time, and often clash with their parents. Child psychiatrists, psychologists, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: People talk a lot about values, but what exactly are they, and how do they work? This program answers both of those questions in detail, discussing how values are formed by upbringing, culture, socialization, and exposure to the media as well as how they function as standards for behavior. The dynamic interplay between individual and group values and the price of adhering to one's values are...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Helping children to grow and bloom properly also means taking into account their biological rhythms. This program seeks out holistic approaches to education that more scientifically organize the school day and strike a better balance between intellectual and physical development. Educators, psychologists, a geneticist, a philosopher, and others consider topics such as the times of day when...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: For a child, play is serious fun. This program will help parents, teachers, caregivers, and students understand the complex functions of play. The relationship to objects, whether toys or everyday things, is explored through dozens of scenes of children interacting in classic situations. Discussion by experts and parents and video footage of children at play offer insights into games of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Alterman, Glenn
Contents: What is a cold reading? -- 48 basic requirements for all cold readings -- 25 technical rules for all cold readings -- 25 common cold-reading mistakes -- 50 things you need to know about cold reading for theater auditions -- Analysis of cold reading plays -- Exercises for cold reading plays -- 26 tips for cold reading monologues -- Analysis of cold reading monologues -- Exercises for cold...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smith and Kraus 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 ALTSummary: This program simplifies the complexities of decision-making by sorting out the various types of decisions: practical and principled, long-term and short-term, conscious and unconscious, and reversible and irreversible. The steps involved in making good decisions are also considered, as well as the importance of learning from mistakes. The bottom line? To err is human, but thoughtful...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Sometimes positive and sometimes negative, peer pressure is a powerful force for molding behavior. How does it work? This program investigates the dynamics of subtle, overt, and group peer pressure, along with approaches to resisting persuasion to do irresponsible or antisocial things. The importance of reality checks-"Is this what I really want?" "Is this who I am?"-is emphasized.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: For the newborn, the notion of coexistence-that there are others in their world with whom they can communicate-begins with crying. In this program, researchers and other experts join with parents to discuss the steps children go through in mastering their mother tongue. Topics include the process of cognition, a baby's ability to make use of body language and semiotic gestures, babbling as a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Throughout early childhood, the ritual of bathing is an important opportunity for children to develop an objective understanding of the body. In this program, mental health specialists and others immerse themselves in the subject of bathing, examining how it bonds parents with their babies and helps shape a child's self-perception. Footage of parents and their children offers additional...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program thoroughly describes the concept of self-esteem: what it is, where it comes from, and how to build it, maintain it, and protect it. The power of positive thinking, the importance of a supportive home environment, and the harmful effects of advertising are considered, along with the negative impact of a poor attitude, destructive comments, and unrealistic thoughts of one's own worth.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Eager for knowledge, a child is by nature curious about everything. Why, then, is school such an unpleasant place for some children? In this program, teachers, researchers, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a neurobiologist, a psychomotor specialist, and others examine the process of learning and the classroom as a learning center. Mastery of reading and writing-the key to unlocking all forms of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Nepo, Mark.
Summary: Nepo takes audiences on a moving exploration of the many ways we are asked to listen each day. Combining memoir, reflection, and meditation, this illuminating work offers listeners timeless techniques to help increase mindfulness and vibrancy in their lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012