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Kiwi volume 19
Language
English
Description
The Baby Crocodile: Twini gets kidnaped by a monkey on a swinging vine and is carried away! Twiki goes looking for his friend, and meets a mother crocodile. Be very quiet, Twiki, the baby is sleeping! Words learned: CROCODILE, LEOPARD, COCONUT, MANGO / Strawberry Pie: The Kiwis are going to bake a strawberry pie! What a great idea. Their friend, Penguin, won't stop taking their baking supplies. Words learned: FLOUR, SUGAR, BUTTER, STRAWBERRY
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Daffy Duck frustrated fowl: My own superstar collection of cartoons starring me, Daffy Duck? What a great idea! Welcome to the duck side, 'toon fans, with this array of shorts that take to funny like a duck takes to water - out of the vaults and on DVD for the first time.
Tweety & Sylvester feline fwenzy: Fifteen never-before-on-DVD cartoons remastered from original film elements.
Porky & friends hilarious ham: He may be short, pink and pants-less,...
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
Publisher
The Epidavros Project
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
These films started with the kind of question you wonder about sometimes: what would it take for a great idea to become the law of the land? How would that story work? How does democracy work, in fact? HOW DEMOCRACY WORKS NOW looks into the black box between elections and legislation, and seeks to understand what sorts of collaborations and pathways were actually there. The idea we chose was immigration reform, and the tale we followed took us all...
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Four in five Americans say the U.S. health-care system needs "fundamental" change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care system, or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? FRONTLINE correspondent T.R. Reid examines first-hand the health-care systems of other advanced capitalist democracies -- UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Finely wrought and inventive, Captain Fantastic surely earns the lofty praise of its title."--Guardian.
"'Captain Fantastic' should connect in a major way with those looking to be swept up and moved by such a fundamental human experience."--Variety.
"Gorgeously photographed, and as loosey-goosey as its hero, 'Captain Fantastic' takes some unexpected turns."--New York Daily News.
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society,...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Jerry is a very succesful stand-up comedian, mainly because of the people around him who offer an endless supply of great material. His best friend, George, is a balding, whiny kind of guy, who craves the kind of success Jerry has but is never willing to do what it takes to get it. Jerry's neighbor Kramer often barges into his apartment and imposes onto his life. Jerry's former girlfriend, Elaine, comes back into his life, and the four form a friendship...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The world of mathematics contains some of the greatest ideas of humankind--ideas comparable to the works of Shakespeare, Plato, and Michelangelo. These mathematical ideas can add texture, beauty, and wonder to your life, without being a mathematician! This course explores the fourth dimension, coincidences, fractals, aesthetics, the allure of number, geometry, and how great mathematical ideas arise, along with learning to think abstractly, to grasp...
11) Chemistry
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Language
English
Description
Many students struggle in high school chemistry, feeling confused and uncertain even if they earn a good grade. Why? What can be done to help students succeed in this vitally important course? Success in chemistry doesn't require any special intellectual gifts or talents or advanced mathematical skill--it does require grasping the ideas behind key topics in chemistry. This course is designed to give students a deep and thorough understanding of the...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2004
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 Aristotle,...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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. Writing great fiction isn¿́¿t a gift reserved for the talented few....
Author
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2012], 2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Dr. Andrew Newberg offers you 24 riveting lectures that explore the new and exciting field of neurotheology, a discipline aimed at understanding the connections between our brains and different kinds of religious phenomena. Using an academic, experimental approach into what he calls "objective measures of spirituality," Dr. Newberg attempts to explain what others have previously only guessed at: the neuroscientific basis for why religion and spirituality...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"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 what one wants, being understood from our point of view,...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
What, exactly, is religion? Why does one religious tradition often differ so markedly from another? Why--despite their common source--are the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam so different? What kinds of factors separate the beliefs of a Hindu or Buddhist from the 'people of the book' and from other sects of Hindus or Buddhists? Religion affects everyone's life, whether directly or indirectly, and as religious issues become more...