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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century's premier political philosophers, was critical of the modern dominance of economics over politics in both communism and liberal capitalism, and she called for a return to civic republicanism. Here, look closely at the ideas she puts forth in The Human Condition and related works.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Following World War I, Spain emerged at the forefront of a revolution in the European arts. Grasp the extraordinary innovations of the painters Picasso, Miró and Dalí, the architect Antoni Gaudí, and the contributions of musical masters Segovia and Casals. Also, delve into the political factors that led to the disintegration of Spain's constitutional monarchy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in Report from the Interior. From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 28 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A literary biography of a seminal figure of 20th century American literature, Margaret Walker, who established one of the first Black Studies centers in the nation, and mentored the Black Arts movement of the 1960s. For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker gives the long-overdue recognition to one of the seminal figures of American literature. Margaret Walker has been described by scholar Jerry Ward as "a national treasure" and by Nikki...
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"The film industry in Hollywood now employs a global mode of production run by massive media conglomerates that mobilize hundreds, sometimes thousands, of workers for each feature film or television series. Yet these workers and their labor remain largely invisible to the general audience. In fact, this has been a signal characteristic of Hollywood style for more than a hundred years: everything that matters happens onscreen, not off. Consequently,...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Presents an analysis of mysticism, heresy, and the witch craze in Europe between 1000 and 1700. This set of twenty-four lectures examines aspects of elite and popular culture in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, focusing on the way in which men and women seeking to explain, order, and escape the terrors of their lives embraced transcendental religious experiences, dreamed of and worked for the coming of the apocalypse, and seized on a...
7) Churchill
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + part I guidebook (ii, 72 p. ; 22 cm.) + part II guidebook (ii, 74 p. ; 22 cm.) + part III guidebook (ii, 69 p. ; 22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
In the period 1700-1900, kings and empires rose and fell, but science conquered all, taking the world by storm. Yet, as the 1700s began, the mysteries of the universe were pondered by "natural philosophers" whose explanations couldn't help but be influenced by religious thought, and political and social contexts shaping their world. The ideas of the Enlightenment were especially important and influential, and the work of these natural philosophers...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + Part 1 guidebook (ii, 69 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.) + Part 2 guidebook (ii, 65 p. ; 22 cm.) + Part 3 guidebook (ii, 63 p. ; 22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Few nations have as long and intricate a history as China. Despite a world grown increasingly smaller, China is still seen as a faraway, exotic land, shrouded in secrets, veiled with the mysteries of ages past. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth - facts left unexplored in the history courses most of us in the West have taken. It is essential that Westerners...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (ca. 1440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 303 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
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 Alexander the Great. It then considers Western Europe as it expands...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (ca. 1353 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 collectible character cards.
Language
English
Description
Continuing the enormous success of the previous two years, the third season of SNL showcased a fearless cast that created some of the most memorable sketches to ever appear on the show. With hilarious breakthrough characters like The Nerds, Coneheads, lounge singer Nick Winters, Samurai Warrior, a singing King Tut and featuring Father Guido Sarducci as well as "The Franken and Davis show," SNL continued to define itself as the pinnacle of irreverent...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xi, 178 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Dr. Seuss' infectious rhymes, his blue-tufted, strong-willed creatures, and his knack for pithy, roundabout plots have been entertaining children--and adults--for decades. And as biographer Donald Pease shows, the seemingly haphazard trajectory of Theodor Geisel's life bears a close resemblance to the zigzag plot lines of his children's books--by turns a cartoonist, ad agency artist (for Flit bug killer), author, caricaturist, documentary-film writer...
13) Great presidents
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (ca. 1440 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + course guidebook(s)
Language
English
Description
American University professor Allan J. Lichtman delivers forty-eight lectures on twelve of America's presidents.
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
2nd ed., Library ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (51 p. ; 22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A series of 12 half-hour lectures on a college course level. Covers the rise of the Nazi party and the Third Reich in power.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US Edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months later, working with a group of students, he picked up a spade... and tunneled back in. The goal was to tunnel into the East to help people escape. They spend months digging, hauling up carts of dirt in a tunnel ventilated by stove pipes. But the odds are...
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (222 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
The power of an effective speech is undeniable. It has the capacity to engage, inform, motivate, and create change in an audience, and in the world. In How to Speak Effectively in Any Setting, a 24-lesson course with Molly Bishop Shadel, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, learn the fine art of speaking clearly, effectively, and persuasively in contexts across the spectrum, from the board room to the bar room and everywhere...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the intersection of history and legend lies the story of William Wallace, who led his nation into battle against the English in the years around 1300. King Edward, popularly known as "Longshanks" has allowed the English barons who hold Scotland for him to claim the 'Prima Nocta.' Wallace and his love Murron marry secretly, but his guerrilla activities bring Murron to the attention of the English. They set a trap for Wallace, and the failure of...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxix, 383 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The ultimate guide for creating captivating charactersFormer private investigator and New York Times Notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in memory. Corbett provides an inventive, inspiring, and vastly entertaining blueprint to all the elements of characterization--from initial inspiration to realization--with special insights into the power...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1800 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 336 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. Beginning with Plato and...
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