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Educational films. Filmed lectures. Internet videos. videorecording Videorecording.Summary: On September 30, 2010, a NASA space telescope called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, completed its sweeping goal: to record observations of the entire sky in infrared light. The WISE science team is now sifting through the telescope's two million images to spot objects that no astronomer has ever seen before. WISE's most intriguing finds will include mysterious objects called...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Over the past decade, India has emerged as the leader in the global market for outsourced white-collar jobs-one reason for the nation's rapid economic growth. This Wide Angle case study explores the experiences of emerging Indian professionals who have been recruited into positions requiring long hours, late-night shifts, and Westernized work habits. The program reveals the human and cultural...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A post-operative transsexual, Michelle Dumaresq has provoked outrage by entering the sport of women's mountain bike racing. This program studies complex issues of gender identity surrounding the controversy and manifested in Dumaresq's personal and professional relationships. Commentary from her parents reveals unconditional support for her choices, while interviews with friends and rival...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program covers the start of the International Music Festivals and Venice's role as host to Hindemith, Schoenberg, Bartok, and Stravinsky; the rise to fame of Malipiero, Nono, and Maderna; and the role of today's avant-gardists. Live performances in the Albrizzi Palace and on the Lido.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In 17th century Florence, Italy, Galileo trained his spyglass on the heavens and discovered that Jupiter has four moons, Venus has phases like the Moon, and, most shocking of all: Earth is not the center of the universe. This program follows the history of the telescope from the days of Copernicus to recent findings from the Hubble Telescope.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Provides a seven-day approach for personal improvement and polishing your image—a necessary asset whether you’re a full time student, in the workforce, or both. Covers clothing, accessories, health, and communication—both verbal and non-verbal—and discusses how these aspects of your image impact the way others see you. Will help students’ self-esteem and school/work performance.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: On the day Britain experienced its first-ever suicide bombing, many assumed that those responsible for the carnage must have been deranged foreigners-but they were not. What motivated these four seemingly ordinary young British men? This program conducts a chilling psychological autopsy as it pieces together the mental state of the 7/7 bombers during their final journey. The work of Ariel...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A critical question continues to haunt America's national psyche: how could the most powerful nation on earth have been so utterly unprepared to protect its homeland from the September 11th hijackers? First broadcast in 2004, this program offers a special one-hour analysis of the 9/11 Commission Report-connecting the dots of what happened that infamous day and studying the warning signs that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Copland himself is the key explicator of his own extraordinary musical career, from piano lessons in Brooklyn and study with Nadia Boulanger, a fling as a wild-eyed modernist, and finally to his preeminence in the American musical world. The program features a wealth of Copland music, including ballet sequences with Agnes de Mille dancing in Rodeo and Martha Graham in Appalachian Spring, scenes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In this program, artists John Hoyland and Sir Anthony Caro; Charlotte Mullins, of the Irish Independent on Sunday; and others examine the history of Abstract Art. After a capsule summary of Impressionism and Cubism, the program tracks the full flowering of Abstract Art, stretching into Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. Special attention is given to Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Jackson...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Javal Davis was imprisoned for assaulting inmates at Abu Ghraib, but insists he is not a torturer. His fellow MP Ken Davis was never implicated, having reported the abuse to superiors. This program presents in-depth interviews with both men, detailing their side of the story and conveying their disillusionment with Pentagon officials who wanted interrogations pushed "up a notch." Featuring...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Aging is a series of transitions, some gradual and some abrupt. How do people come to terms with these changes? This program examines the aging process from beginning to end, defining age from the viewpoints of biology, psychology, society, functionality, and the law. The impact of current behaviors and attitudes on one's future self is also discussed, as well as dying-itself a part of life-and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Although most actors dream of celebrity, many find satisfaction in modest film and television roles, commercials, and regional theater. This program shows students that side of the profession, interviewing several accomplished performers who—although they are far from being household names—have found steady work on the stage and in Hollywood. Kevin Conway (Invincible, Gettysburg), Melissa Leo...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Many Latinos in the American Southwest wear amulets and perform certain practices different from their fellow Latino Catholics-and are discovering only now, to their great amazement, that they are descended from Jews who chose conversion rather than death at the time of the great expulsion from Spain in 1492. This program looks at remnants of what was once the great Jewish civilization in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: What kind of person goes into advertising? How do you break in? And what does it take to succeed once you get there? This program goes to New York City-based Euro RSCG, one of the world's largest ad agencies, to find out. Shoot-from-the-hip candid, a mixed group of recent hires and award-winning professionals-account executives, an art director, creative directors, executive creative directors,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Is Brian's alcoholism a fate predetermined by his physiology? If so, why is Brian's sister not an alcoholic as well? In this case study, Brian, a recovering alcoholic, is examined at the social, physical, and even genetic level. Specialists compare the evidence of a specific link to alcoholism with the more generalized factors of environment and behavior. From brain scans to blood tests, this...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: On six million acres in upstate New York, the Adirondack Park is by far the largest park in the lower 48 states - larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon National Parks combined. Yet it is the only park on the continent in which land is divided almost evenly between protected wilderness and privately owned tracts, creating a pattern of ownership that maintains a delicate...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Assisting with or directly administering medication is an important role of the personal caregiver and carries significant responsibility. In fulfilling this role effectively and safely, the caregiver becomes a vital member of the health care team. This program introduces safe and responsible medication practices. Topics include the Five Rights principles of medication administration, proper...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Referring to the work of Piaget, Erikson, and Goffman as well as to the studies of David Elkind, this program looks at the intellectual, emotional, and social consequences resulting from adolescent changes in thinking - a transition that can create social and emotional difficulties. The video includes footage of a public middle school and structured interviews illustrating the intellectual...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: As the reconquista thrust into the heart of Spain, the ethnic and cultural makeup of the peninsula grew ever more complex. This program sheds light on those cultural dynamics with the help of architectural case studies and engaging historical narratives. The royal monastery of Las Huelgas de Burgos, founded by Alfonso VIII in the 1180s, is examined along with examples of Benedictine and Clunaic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Contents: 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: Regularly scheduled space shuttle missions have become a common feature of the NASA space program, allowing astronauts to launch and retrieve communication satellites, repair exploration equipment such as the Hubble telescope, and conduct numerous experiments. This video follows NASA officials through the development stages of the reusable shuttle fleet and outlines testing procedures used to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: What do modern art, a symphony, and a documentary film have in common? They all require aesthetic considerations. This program presents the ideas of key figures in the shaping and understanding of aesthetics-from Plato, Francis Hutcheson, and Kant to Leon Battista Alberti, Stendhal, and Tolstoy-and addresses pivotal writings, including Aristotle's Poetics and Morris Weitz's "The Role of Theory...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005