Summary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 3
Summary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 2
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3
Summary: "The goal of this course is to illuminate the original foundations of our American civic culture by reenacting the Great Debate, from 1787 to 1788, over ratification of the proposed constitution. We will focus on the most profound intellectual and philosophic levels of the contoversy, centered on the competing republican visions held by the proponents of the constitution (Federalists) and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 GRECall number: DVD 342 GRE
Contents: Disc 1: Why have government? -- The framework of US federalism -- Civil liberties: freedoms from government -- Civil rights: fairness under government -- How a bill becomes a law -- Why Congress is such a puzzle -- Disc 2: How Congressional elections work -- The powers of presidency -- How presidential elections work -- A road map of the federal bureaucracy -- How the judicial branch works --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 UNDRosenzweig, Paul
Summary: In the centuries since the founding of the republic, there have been notable challenges to presidential authority. Among these are investigations, designed to seek out and uproot abuses of executive power. They are built on a system of institutions, laws, and policies that govern how our nation protects itself from corruption and tyranny. Even today, we see this system at work in controversies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 353.46 INVCall number: DVD 353.46 INV
Cline, Eric H.
Summary: Join the Great Courses and National Geographic for a spellbinding journey to wondrous ancient sites, and explore the greatest marvels of archaeology.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930.1 CliCall number: DVD 930.1 Cli
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 930.1 ARCSummary: Whether you?re huddled around the campfire, composing an email to a friend, or sitting down to write a novel, storytelling is fundamental to human nature. But as any writer can tell you, the blank page can be daunting. It?s tough to know where to get started, what details to include in each scene, and how to move from the kernel of an idea to a completed manuscript.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 WRISummary: In the 25 relaxed, easy-to-follow lessons of How to Dance, you?ll learn the rhythm, solo steps, and partnering techniques of 16 of the most popular social dances so you can have a great time on the dance floor. From the gentle elegance of the waltz to the hot rhythms of the mambo, from the bouncing steps of the polka to the swagger of the tango, you?ll learn it all and have a great time in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Learn how to speak Spanish, one of the world's most useful languages, in this course that helps anyone succeed with a new language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. These lectures examine the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between the British colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BEFContents: Disc 1. An introduction to drawing ; Drawing materials for line ; Drawing fundamentals and first exercises ; Line and shape: Line and aggregate shape ; Line and shape: Volume and figure-ground ; Line and shape: Positive and negative shape -- Disc 2. Composition: The format and its armature ; Composition: How artists compose ; Line and shape: Line attributes and gesture ; Composition: Shape and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 BroCall number: DVD 741.2 Bro
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 HOWCall number: DVD 741.2 HOW
Summary: Nothing can amaze quite like an expertly-executed magic trick. Ideally, only the magician knows how truly simple the deception is. After watching Math and Magic, you will know that this trick and its many variants rely on a remarkable property of patterned sequences called Gilbreath's principle--named after an amateur magician who was also a mathematician. Magic is full of such wonders, as you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 MATSummary: A former award-winning middle school science teacher provides tips on study skills for high school students to improve their academic achievement. Parent participation is also discussed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.4 HOWSummary: "Achieve greater peace of mind with an approachable, step-by-step guide to financial, legal and estate planning."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Mazzeo, Tilar J.
Summary: Whether you're looking to launch into a new professional career as a creative nonfiction writer, dabble in the genre as a pastime, start a personal blog, or simply get inside the mind of a creative nonfiction writer at work, you'll find much to learn from and enjoy in Writing Creative Nonfiction. These 24 lectures by award-winning writing instructor and Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo of Colby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 WRICall number: DVD 808 WRI
Sutherland, Stuart
Summary: Join the Smithsonian to explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560 INTCall number: DVD 560 INT
Kehoe, Dalton
Summary: This course provides a theoretical and practical survey of the ideas behind and the practices of effective communication. It helps you become aware of the automatic processes involved that influence every day talk, of how face-to-face talk really works in the most common three recognized modes: connect talk, control talk, and dialogue talk. Effectiveness is measured by three things: getting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 EFFCall number: DVD 302.2 EFF
Briwa, Bill.
Summary: These 24 half-hour lectures on cooking is designed to boost your confidence in the kitchen and help you create meals that you are proud to share.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 BriCall number: DVD 641.5 Bri
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 EVECall number: DVD 641.5 EVE
Summary: An undergraduate course for nonscience majors that treats the atom as a tool for revealing the quantitative history of everything--from the human diet and works of art to Earth's climate and the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2009
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.09 PHYCall number: DVD 530.09 PHY PART 1
Call number: DVD 530.09 PHY PART 2
Vishton, 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
Briwa, Bill
Summary: 16 lessons on cooking in the Mediterranean style designed to boost your confidence in the kitchen and help you create meals that you are proud to share.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 EVECall number: DVD 641.59 EVE
Summary: For most Americans, the history of the United States is built on a set of long-accepted beliefs about events, each of which resonates in the nation's collective memory. But what if those beliefs, however familiar, don't really tell the whole story? Our knowledge of history - or what we believe to be history - is the lens through which we view and interpret the world. And when that lens is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SKESummary: "Survey more than 200 years of musical sounds and styles that are inextricably linked with the spirit and history of the United States of America"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.973 AMECall number: DVD 780.973 AME