Kanopy (Firm)
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Think fancy sauces are difficult? Think again. This lesson will make you more comfortable with a range of sauces from around the world. Learn how to make a milk-based white sauce, bechamel. Then, cook a more contemporary French butter sauce (beurre blanc) and a Spanish tomato-based sauce (romesco). Finally, take a closer look at a couple of sweet and spicy Asian sauces.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Encourages the creative use of imagination and teaches how reason can organize dreams and fantasies into new forms of communication. Uses excerpts from music and literature to show how imagination can enable us to color and reshape our world and express our feelings about others.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
It appears our current conceptions of privacy in cyberspace will disappear. So what can we do about it? By exploring how the government and private sector use "Big Data"”and how "Big Data" can keep the government honest"”you'll discover insights into how we can evolve our privacy laws while embracing new technologies.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
We make decisions based on clues, but we're not always aware which clues we use. Professional persuaders know -- marketers, sales people, pollsters, politicians, merchandisers. Invisible persuaders helps viewers develop an early warning system to spot subtle attempts to persuade and influence.
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
We all need it and its much less common than you might think. The earth has plenty of water but only a small fraction of it is fresh and clean. Our rivers are much dirtier than people think so cleaning water for drinking is becoming the focus of numerous scientists. We take some of the dirtiest and make it clean and drinkable right before your eyes.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The gifted young design duo behind the label, Proenza Schouler - Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez - have been embraced by the fashion world ever since their entire senior thesis project at Parson’s School of Design was bought by Barneys New York. Since the launch of their label in 2002, the boy wonders behind Proenza Schouler have excelled at blending chic sophistication with a subtle sexuality – a mix that’s proven to be perfect for downtown...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Examines both the basic elements of the short story--character, plot and setting--and the more subtle aspects, including style, theme and point of view. Excerpts from stories by authors such as Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe and Jack London illustrate the concepts presented and enable students to see the author's thoughts and feelings transformed into meaningful messages.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Daughters of Dolma takes viewers on a journey revealing a distinctively female experience of Tibetan Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. This feature-length documentary brings to the screen not just Buddhist spirituality and qualities like compassion and kindness, but Tibetan Buddhist nuns as full individuals beyond their monastic vows and religious practices. Daughters of Dolma reveals how gender and modernity are molding contemporary spiritual practices...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Continue your virtual travels through England, this time paying particular attention to specific cathedrals, abbeys, and chapels that feature developments unique to the English Gothic style. Highlights of this episode include Westminster Abbey, Kings College Chapel in Cambridge, and Ely Cathedral.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The Singing Revolution film shares how, between 1987 and 1991, hundreds of thousands of Estonians gathered publicly to sing forbidden patriotic songs and share protest speeches, risking their lives to proclaim their desire for independence. This playlist includes the feature film and four bonus videos.
72) A Christmas past
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A collection of nine enchanting films 1901-1925 offers a nostalgic peek into the Yuletide pleasures of the early 20th century.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Who better to scrutinise and investigate the quirkier achievements of the impressive and expansive Roman Empire than co-creator of the brilliantly accomplished question; 'What have the Romans ever done for us'? Terry Jones is in search of an answer. Unearthing the secrets of the Roman world in his own idiosyncratic and bizarre way, he reveals how ordinary people really lived in ancient Rome.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Examines advertising as a prelude to understanding the forms of mass persuasion. Investigates violence in the media and studies the history of persuasion in newspapers and magazines. Also examines the growing influence of electronic media in politics and dramatizes the controversial issues of political advertising and news management. Includes a Student Activity Book written by media authority Jeffrey Schrank.
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
On September 11, 1973 General Pinochet leads a military coup d'etat against democratically elected President Salvador Allende. Allende decides to barricade himself with a few loyal friends and his guards in LA MONEDA, the presidential Palace of Santiago. He refuses to negotiate with the military, and addresses the Chilean people one last time over the national radio. When the air force starts bombing the Palace, he tells his supporters to surrender,...
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
All of the big 3 automakers are offering or getting ready to offer electric alternatives to the family car. One of the first was the Nissan Leaf and one of the more recent, the Chevy Volt. We take a look at these as well as electric racecars and motorcycles from exploding new businesses like Brammo Motors.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
These two classic documentaries explore bicycle use and bicycle cultures in China, Europe, and the U.S. and show how bicycling is being taken up by many as a vital and powerful response to various environmental and social problems. We are traffic details the start of the critical mass movement.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Key Topics HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa Effects of poverty in Africa Effects of structural adjustment in Africa Swaziland 70% of the world's HIV infections occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Swaziland, for example, has the highest HIV infection rate in the world. As many as 1 in every 2 young people has the virus. Why has this happened? The reasons are complex and may challenge western assumptions. CULTURE TO BLAME? Many commentators have put the blame on...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Focus on the ancient world's most technologically intensive form of warfare"”the siege"”which provided a powerful stimulus for the development of large-scale machines such as siege towers and rams. Analyze several famous sieges, including the Roman attack on Jotapata during the Jewish War.