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American Cinema
Art of the western world
Beyond the mechanical universe. From electricity to modern physic
Baby & me series
The brain, 2nd edition
Crossroads Cafe
Connect with English
Discovering psychology
The examined life
Ethics in America
Earth revealed
Exploring the world of music
Fokus Deutsch
French in Action
Growing old in a new age
Holy land Holy people
Human Geography: people places & changes
Inside the global economy
Literary visions
The mechanical Universe: Introductory Physics
Millenium:Tribal wisdom & the modern world
News writing
Out of the past
The power of place:World regional geography
Preserving the legacy. Industrial Processes & waste stream management
Preserving the legacy. An introduction to environmental technology
Portrait of a family
Race to save the planet
Seasons of life
Something ventured
Taking the lead: The management revolution
The sales connection. Principles of selling
Towards 2000
The world of chemistry
The whole child: A care giver's guide to the 1st 5 years

 

1. AMERICAN CINEMA (10 x 60 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

Ten one-hour video programs explore the visual style, narrative tradition and cultural implications of American filmmaking. Through encounters with the work of such directors as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Martin Scorsese, these programs probe the hidden messages of genres, the social and psychological effects of Hollywood film style, and the interplay between society and popular culture. Three half-hour supplementary programs help students think critically and write effectively by offering the basic, core material of film studies - the formal and technical vocabulary of filmmaking and film criticism. 10 one-hour programs on 10 VHS cassettes plus three half-hour programs* on one 90-minutes VHS cassette.

1: The Classical Hollywood Style In the classical Hollywood film, the story is primary. Filmmakers rely on style--structure, narrative, and visual elements--to effectively tell their story. Martin Scorsese and Sydney Pollack are among the premiere directors who discuss how classical Hollywood style, evolving and yet enduring over time, informs their work.

2: The Studio System This program surveys Hollywood's industrial past during the era of contract players and directors, studio police forces, and colorful movie moguls and looks at the film-making environment of today with studio heads Michael Eisner, Howard Koch, and others. Paramount Pictures, one of the oldest and most successful of the Hollywood studios, serves as a case study.

3: The Star Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Dustin Hoffman--and many others--are names synonymous with Hollywood. Early on, Hollywood saw that recognizable talent could minimize the financial risks of film production. Critics, film scholars, and studio publicists view the stars from many angles--as marketing tools, cultural icons, and products of the industry. Joan Crawford headlines as a case study of the cultural phenomenon of stardom.

4: The Western The western is an American myth that has been translated by other cultures and reinterpreted time and again, but never dies. With clips and critical commentary on westerns, from John Ford's Stagecoach through the work of Arthur Penn, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood, the program traces the aesthetic evolution of the genre as well as its sociological importance.

5: Romantic Comedy Breezy and silly to witty and intelligent, romantic comedies have been with us since the 1930s. But the surface humor has often just barely masked issues of gender and sexuality. This program looks back on screwball comedies including It Happened One Night and His Girl Friday and analyzes recent interpretations of the genre by directors, including James Brooks and Nora Ephron, that reveal the underlying social and psychological messages.

6: The Combat Film Beginning with World War II combat films--produced under directives from the federal government--this program examines the role of the combat film in filling a social and political need. Critics and directors describe the evolution of these films, the rise of the Vietnam film, and the influence of the newsreel documentaries and TV news on the genre.

7: Film Noir These cynical and pessimistic films from the 1930s and '40s touched a nerve in Americans. Historians link the genre's overriding paranoia to Cold War-related angst over the nuclear threat and the Hollywood blacklist. In addition, a cinematographer demonstrates the creation of noir lighting, which gave films their peculiar look and emphasized the themes of corruption and urban decay.

8: Film in the Television Age Television first arrived in American homes just as the Hollywood studio system was collapsing. As the new medium took hold, so did a new era of motion picture entertainment. Top directors, actors, and film scholars trace the influence of each medium on the other, from the live and fresh dramas of the Golden Age of Television and the growth of Hollywood spectacles to the megalithic entertainment industry of today.

9: The Film School Generation Maverick filmmakers of the 1960s and '70s, including Brian DePalma, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg, capitalized on new technology and borrowed from classical Hollywood and French New Wave as they reinvented the American film. The financial and cultural forces that contributed to their success and commercial clout are explored.

10: The Edge of Hollywood While many of the old rules are still in force, independent filmmakers today often add their dissenting voices to the forum. This program looks at some alternative visions from new talents including Spike Lee, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jim Jarmusch, and Quentin Tarantino. With limited budgets, they are challenging the stylistic status quo of the Hollywood film.

*11: Film Language illustrates basic terms such as tracking shots and zooms and also provides a primer on editing techniques.

*12: Writing and Thinking About Film provides a formal and cultural analysis of a classical film sequence. It serves as a critical how-to guide for those new to film critique.

*13: Classical Hollywood Style Today offers interviews with contemporary directors, European filmmakers, scholars, critics as well as studio-era veterans who probe Hollywood's influence on both American and world culture. *programs Half-hour

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2. ART OF THE WESTERN WORLD (9 x 60 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

Magnificent masterpieces of the Western world are presented in their cultural and historical setting in this stunning series of nine one-hour video programs. These programs provide unusual perspectives and a close-up examination of monuments and artworks that books or other media alone cannot convey. Art of the Western World truly represents the history of the visual arts, through two millennia of social turbulence and artistic innovation. Hosted by noted historian and journalist, Michael Wood with support from the world's leading art historians. Produced by Coast Telecourses. 1988 9 one-hour programs on 9 VHS cassettes or 18 half-hour programs on 9 VHS cassettes.

1: The Classical Ideal Part I: Traces the origins of humanism and the immortal classical style to Ancient Greece. Part II: The genius of Roman engineering and architecture was used to build an empire, while portrait sculpture exalted its rulers.

2: A White Garment of Churches--Romanesque and Gothic Part I: With the fall of the Roman empire, Christianity flourished with the Church as patron of monumental Romanesque architecture and sculpture. Part II: The origin of Gothic architecture is found in the choir of the Abbey Church of St. Denis and the Chartres Cathedral serves as a model of High Gothic style.

3: The Early Renaissance Part I: The rebirth of classical themes and humanistic ideas marked the Renaissance in Italy, as seen in Florentines Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Botticelli.
Part II: Glowing color--made possible by the new medium of oil paint--and minute detail set the work of the Flemish masters Van Eyck and Grunewald apart from the Florentines.

4: The High Renaissance Part I: Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael displayed extraordinary talent working in a variety of media and elevated the status of the artist in Italian society.
Part II: Venetians like Titian, Tintoretto, and Palladio readapted the classical style with a theatrical flourish.

5: Realms of Light--The Baroque Part I: The Church's campaign to counter the Reformation relied on dramatic depictions of religious scenes, such as those of Caravaggio and Bernini.
Part II: The royal courts in Spain and the wealthy burghers in the Netherlands commissioned major paintings by Velazquez and Rembrandt and shaped their content.

6: An Age of Reason, An Age of Passion Part I: The playful fantasy and provocative subjects of the Rococo style practiced by Watteau, Fragonard, and Boucher gave way to strict Rationalism, which insisted on morality in art and the purity of classical form, as seen in the works of David.
Part II: Striving for individual expression, Romantic painters Goya, Gericault, and Delacroix demonstrated a range of styles and subjects.

7: A Fresh View: Impressionism and Post-impressionism Part I: Courbet and his followers rejected the standard academic themes and techniques, Manet shocked Paris, and Impressionists represented the world bathed in color and changing light. Part II: Post-impressionists Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne broke new ground with daring and imaginative use of color and approaches to form.

8: Into the Twentieth Century Part I: With modernity came new energy and forms in Viennese building and painting. Paris saw the emergence of the Fauves, and of Picasso and Cubism. Kandinsky and others experimented with color abstraction. Part II: Modernism spawned not only Cubism, but also the abstract and the surreal. Le Corbusier and Wright applied the abstract principles to buildings. Dada responded to the devastation of WWI with nihilism; surrealists Dali, Magritte, and Miro showed Freudian influence.

9: In Our Own Time Part I: The Abstract Expressionist movement established New York as a center for the visual arts. Works by Pollock, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and the sculptor Oldenburg are examined. Part II: With many of the rules tested and discarded, the art world has become international. Art is now accessible to everyone to create and appreciate. Host Michael Wood looks over the past and forward to implications for the future.

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3. CONNECT WITH ENGLISH SERIES (48 x 15 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

The most powerful way to motivate students to learn a new language is with a story - one that draws its issues from students' own experiences and gives them the language necessary to handle those issues in their own lives. "Connect With English" is based on the story of 28 year old Rebecca Casey, who leaves her familiar home in Boston for a brave new life in San Francisco. Along the way she faces tearful departures and joyful reunions, family feuds and romantic detours, the hard facts of death and the unexpected rewards of success. Rebecca's story is built on the issues ESOL students face - and will keep students attention, lesson after lesson. All the characters in Connect with English use natural language in authentic settings. New vocabulary is supported by rich visuals showing English in use in the very situations where ESOL students need it - at school, work and home. As the characters in the story move through kitchens, classrooms, hospitals, factories, employment offices, city and country, upscale and down, they always use meaningful language for use in everyday life. Annenberg/CPB Collection. 1997 (4 x 15 mins programs 37-40 Thanksgiving, Starting over, The pressure's on , sharing feelings available for free preview)

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4. INSIDE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY (13 X 60 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

Maquiladoras. GATT. Multinationals. Most favoured nations. NAFTA. Terms formerly limited to high-level policy sessions and specialized journals are now a part of the American vocabulary. The result of a multinational collaboration of a coproduction team from the U.S., Australia, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Latin America, Inside the Global Economy is a unique international project that examines and explains the basic principles of international economics. Balances generally accepted American views with those from other parts of the world, broadening viewers' perspectives on the growing economic interdependence of nations - how it happens and how it affects lives around the globe.13 one-hour programs on 13 VHS cassettes.

1: Trade--An Introduction Focuses on trade to illustrate the forces transforming the global economy, addressing questions such as: Why do nations trade? What determines the basis and direction of trade? Who gains or loses from trade? Case studies IBM's shift of computer production from the U.S. to Japan Impact of Australia's mineral export boom on its domestic car production

2: Protectionism vs. Free Trade Examines impediments to trade, covering both tariff and non-tariff barriers. It includes discussions about the driving forces behind protectionism and the likely winners and losers.Case studies French agricultural subsidies and conflict in the Uruguay Round Voluntary export restraints on Japanese cars into the U.S.

3: Trade Policy Discusses ways countries try to change their competitive advantage in trade through subsidies and industrial and regulatory policies. Import-competing and export-promotion policies are compared using specific examples.Case studies The development of Airbus as an example of industrial policy The Chilean wine industry and export promotion policy

4: Trade Liberalization and Regional Trade Blocs Compares the progress made on multilateral trade liberalization in the post-World War II period with parallel attempts to form preferential trading arrangements. Includes discussions of the static and dynamic impact of free trade areas, customs unions, etc.Case studies The Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement The entry of the United Kingdom into the EC and its impact on trade with Australia

5: Labor and Capital Mobility Considers the international mobility of capital, labor, and technology, including the relationship between trade in goods (and services), the mobility of factors of production, and the pressures that drive and inhibit labor migration.Case studies Guest workers and immigrants in The Netherlands Mexican immigration to the U.S. and the Maquiladora program

6: Multinational Corporations Examines these organizations as a vehicle for movement of capital and transfer of technology as an engine of globalization, with discussion of the controversies often accompanying the activities of multinationals.Case studies Direct investment by Ericsson in Hungary Whose multinational is it? A comparison of Smith-Corona and Brother

7: Fixed vs. Floating Exchange Rates Considers the strengths and weaknesses of the two types of exchange rates using the experience of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Includes discussion of the role of exchange rates as shock absorbers as well as the costs of exchange rate fluctuations.Case studies The impact of U.S. dollar fluctuations in the 1980s--Komatsu vs. Caterpillar Floating exchange rates and petrodollar recycling in the 1970s

8: Managing Currencies and Policy Coordination Extends the discussion by examining what motivates governments to manage currencies and coordinate policies. The limits to government intervention in foreign exchange markets are highlighted by looking at recent events in the U.S. and Europe.Case studies The Plaza and Louvre Accords The cost to the U.K. of joining the European Monetary System

9: Exchange Rates, Capital Flight, and Hyperinflation Analyzes factors that affect exchange rates. These include the impact of international capital flows and other market factors, such as inflation and trade flows.Case studies Mexico and the money center banks--capital flight and return Hyperinflation in Argentina

10: Developing Countries Analyzes how these nations have been helped (or hurt) by the rapid growth in trade and factor mobility in the post-World War II period. It discusses steps that can be taken to integrate developing countries into the global economy.Case studies Comparison of development policies in South Korea and Sri Lanka Tanzania: the policies of aid vs. trade

11: Economies in Transition Focuses on the transformation of former Communist countries into market economies and assesses the macro- and microeconomic policies needed to ensure their successful reintegration into the global economy. Case studies Russia--the fate of state industries vs. private entrepreneurs Poland--the transition to a market economy: did shock therapy work?

12: Environment Looks at the international dimension of environmental problems, focusing on transnational pollution, international property rights, and differences between trade and environmental protection. Case studies The U.S.-Mexico agreement on dolphin-safe tuna fishing Transnational implications of pollution along the Rhine River

13: The Evolving World Economy Explores the dynamic aspects of comparative advantage, the evolutionary nature of trade competitiveness, and the importance of human capital. It also looks at the shift in comparative advantage away from manufacturing to services and knowledge-intensive industries in industrialized countries. Case studies The rise of East Asia (especially China) as an economic power Microsoft and U.S. dominance of the global software market

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5. FOKUS DEUTSCH (12 x 60 MINUTES VIDEO PROGRAMS)

A powerful video based resource for teaching beginning and intermediate German. This dynamic three level program carefully integrates videos, texts, audio and other supplements to bring German language, history, and culture into focus for students. Annenberg/CPB Project. (Level 1 Tape 2 is available for free preview) Annenberg/CPB Collection. 1999

LEVEL I 1: Arbeitslos | 2: Kein Geld | 3: Wie geht es Papa?| Wiederholung (Review) 1 | 4: Der Umzug nach Köln | 5: Das Karnevalsfest | 6: Der Unfall Wiederholung (Review) 2 | 7: Der Urlaub | 8: Auf der Insel Rügen | 9: Abenteuer und Liebe | 10: Die Wespe | 11: Ein Liebesdrama | 12: Silke Wiederholung (Review) 4 \ LEVEL 2 | 13: Der Auszubildende 14: Der Trick | 15: Zu viel Salz | Wiederholung (Review) 5 | 16: Am Wochenende | 17: Nach Thüringen?| 18: Die Lösung | Wiederholung (Review) 6 | 19: Der Spaghetti-Professor | 20: Der Umweltsünder 21: Die falschen Klamotten | Wiederholung (Review) 7 | 22: Ein neues Gemälde | 23: Der Hausmann | 24: Das Au Pair| Wiederholung (Review) 8 | LEVEL 3 | 25: Eine Familiengeschichte | Lebensstile |26: Jugend in Bewegung | Drei Jugendporträts | 27: Geschichte eines Gymnasiums Der Schulalltag | Wiederholung (Review) 9 | 28: Geschichte einer Universität Ein Student aus Kamerun | 29: Wirtschaft im Wandel | Hilfe für Arbeitslose 30: Die Frauenbewegung | Im Auftrag der Frauen | Wiederholung (Review) 10 | 31: Ein grünes Hobby | Weiterbilden in der Freizeit | 32: Urlaub gestern und heute | Abenteuerurlaub | 33: Ein Kurort | Ein Arztbesuch| Wiederholung (Review) 11 | 34: Vom Sauerkraut zur Pizza | Typisch deutsch? | 35: Auf Kosten der Umwelt | Umweltschutz zu Hause 36: Theater für Jugendliche | 100 Jahre deutscher Film

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6. FRENCH IN ACTION (52 x 15 MINUTE PROGRAMS)

French in Action is an innovative and highly effective system of teaching French that combines video, audio and print materials to provide a "planned immersion" course in French language and culture. Annenberg/CPB Collection. 1987


7. GROWING OLD IN A NEW AGE (13 x 60 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

A declining birth rate combined with lengthening life expectancy is creating a dramatically older and different world population. Growing Old in a New Age, a new series and gerontology course, helps students and viewers understand the process of aging and its impact on the lives of individuals and society. The series addresses such questions as how one stays physically and mentally healthy and sustains a useful role throughout life. The programs draw upon the expertise of social and biological scientists, medical professionals and clinicians, as well as the personal experiences of more than 75 individuals of retirement age and beyond. The diversity of opinions presented compels viewers to reexamine their attitudes toward aging. Annenberg/CPB Collection. 1993

Titles: 1. Myths and reality of aging 2. How the body ages 3. Maximizing physical potential of older adults 4. Love, intimacy and sexuality 5. Learning, memory and speed of behavior 6. Intellect, personality and mental health 7. Social roles and relationship in old age 8. Family and intergenerational relationship 9. Work, retirement and economic status 10. Illness and disability 11. Dying, death and bereavement 12. Societal and political aspects of aging 13. The future of aging (Death, dying and bereavement is available for free preview)

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8. HOLY LAND, HOLY PEOPLE SERIES (6 x 30 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

For thousands of years, it has been the home of vicious and bloody wars, discrimination and cultural unrest. It is also the spiritual center for millions around the world; the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is the Holy Land. From the barren, mystical desert to Jerusalem's sacred sites, this series examines the three faiths, their tempestuous relationships throughout history and the modern individuals who are joining together to bring hope to the region's future. Beautifully produced, this 6 part series explores the diverse sights and sounds of modern day Israel. Spiritual leaders, academics, teachers and activists provide insights on each faith. Produced by Villagers Media Production in association with Vision TV. Also Available in Spanish, Polish and Portuguese. 1997

Titles: 1. Children of Abraham 2. The Holy City 3. The desert 4. The world 5. Covenant and reality 6. The living spirit

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9. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: People, Places and Change (10 x 30 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

Human Geography: People, Places and Change combines both economic and cultural geography. All geographers are interested in the interrelationships between humans and their natural environment, economic geographers focus on the mode of production and wealth creation, while cultural geographers study the differences between one place and another in terms of the customs, norms, and institutions that create and maintain human societies. In Human Geography: People, Places and Change, these two types of geography are combined in holistic ways by focusing on multifaceted contemporary problems. The series was filmed on locations around the globe including the island of Borneo, the city of Berlin and the Alaskan wilderness. Annenberg/CPB Project 1996 10 half-hour video programs.

1: Imagining New Worlds Cancun, Mexico, looks remarkably different to the international tourists who come to get away, the Mayan descendants who farm their fathers' land, the Mexicans who find employment at resorts, and the global corporations that see opportunity for investments. These contrasting experiences of different people in the same region are what geographers call "geographical imaginations."

2: Reflections on a Global Screen The rapid globalization of the media is a trend that some countries fear will homogenize culture, forcing out programs that reflect their own values to make room for Hollywood's. But globalization is a two-way street; Hong Kong stations can transmit their local broadcasts to Chinese populations in Europe and the U.S. just as CNN can offer worldwide coverage from Atlanta.

3: Global Firms in the Industrializing East Singapore has transformed itself into an economic powerhouse along the Pacific Rim. In the early 1960s, multinational companies--attracted by a highly skilled and cheap labor force--turned Singapore into a major manufacturing center. Just a generation later, companies in Singapore delegate labor-intensive work to Malaysia and Indonesia while bringing in new business in research, development, and finance.

4: Global Tourism The experiences of visitors to Hawaii, Malaysia, and Borneo are shaped by each island's tourism industry. Hawaii has the most mature industry, the product of decades of development that preserved little of its indigenous culture; Malaysia is following a similar path. Borneo is developing "ecotourism," catering to more intrepid travelers. The paradox of tourism offers opportunities for local development yet can destroy native cultures and environments.

5: Alaska: The Last Frontier? Those who don't call Alaska home often perceive the 49th state as a pristine wilderness, not considering the indigenous peoples who have inhabited the area for centuries. Ongoing conflicts in Alaska highlight the difficulties of balancing the needs of indigenous peoples and the wilderness with economic development and modern life.

6: Population Transition in Italy Although Italy is the spiritual center of the Roman Catholic Church, which opposes artificial means of contraception, the country has experienced the fastest and most extreme decline in fertility ever recorded. Some attribute the decline to consumer materialism; others blame the underdeveloped welfare system. Whatever the cause, the consequence is an aging population with fewer young people to support it.

7: Water Is for Fighting Over Along the parched California-Nevada border, various groups with compelling yet competing interests claim the water of the Truckee River Basin. The burgeoning Reno-Sparks area needs water to sustain the community, but high levels in a local reservoir are destroying the cui-ui fish of a local Paiute tribe. Farmers need irrigated water for crops, but the government seeks water further downstream for a wetlands area. These conflicts illustrate how scarce natural resources can shape a community.

8: A Migrant's Heart Jatinder Verma, a man of Indian descent who was born in East Africa and came to England at the age of 14, explains through a trip back to India how he is caught between two worlds, struggling to preserve his cultural heritage while being acculturated into his adopted country. His story demonstrates how migrants think about their sense of place in relation to where they have come from.

9: Berlin: Changing Center of a Changing Europe Berlin's emergence as Germany's new political capital symbolizes the end of communism and a transformation occurring throughout the country and continent. Many of the issues that Germany now confronts--such as the shift of considerable resources to rebuild the East and the rise of neo-Nazi sentiments--are seen in microcosm in Berlin.

10: The World of the Dragon What is happening in the East today, especially in China and Japan, disrupts simple notions of East vs. West and challenges Western accounts of globalization. This concluding program draws attention to developments in the East that have potential consequences for the West and examines the role that "overseas Chinese" play in the transnational network of the Chinese business world.

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10. MILLENIUM : Tribal Wisdom & the Modern World (10 x 60 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

Hosted by Harvard anthropologist, David Maybury-Lewis, MILLENNIUM takes a hard look at our own culture's, as well as indigenous culture's, approach to some fundamental human issues such as sex and love, family, personal identity, power, art, spirituality, death and the natural world. The series does not portray indigenous societies as lost paradises from which we have strayed, rather, the MILLENNIUM series serves as a reminder that our ideas about the world are not the only ideas we can possibly have. Our way of life reflects choices people have made and not simply "human nature" or the march of civilization. 1992

Titles: The shock of the other 2. Strange identity 3. Mistaken identity 4. An ecology of mind 5. The art of living 6. Touching the timeless 7. A poor man shames us all 8. Inventing reality 9. The tightrope of power 10. At the threshold

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11. EXPLORING THE WORLD OF MUSIC (12 X 30 MINUTE VIDEOS PROGRAMS)

Through video, Exploring The World of Music gives back to music the instrumental, ethnic, historical, geographical, and social contexts that are too often lost in sound recordings alone. The series examines theories about the origins of music-making and the role played by music in all cultures to stir human emotion and influence human activity. Also, examines music made simply for its own sake, as art or entertainment, performed for others or for individual fulfillment. The question of how human beings create music, implicit in all of the programs, leads to an investigation of the basic technical elements that characterize all music on Earth. The distinctive characteristics of these elements emerge as their roles in creating music are shown in different cultures and historical periods. Produced by Pacific Street Films and the Educational Film Center, An Annenberg/CPB Project. 1988 12 half-hour programs on 12 VHS cassettes.

1: Sound, Music and the Environment What do different cultures mean by music? This program explores the definition of music from the sine wave to poetic metaphor, and the impact of the cultural environment on musics as different as Bosnian ganga and becarac singing; Tuvan throat singing; Irish, West African, Trinidadian, and Japanese musics; and Western chamber music, jazz, and rock.

2: The Transformative Power of Music Music can inspire religious devotion, prepare individuals for war, motivate work, enrich play, and stimulate the passions. The musical healing ceremonies of the Kung people in Namibia and Botswana, Epirote music in traditional Greek weddings, and modern rock, gospel, and folk musics all reveal music's power to transform lives.

3: Music and Memory As a dynamic link to the past, music allows us to recall and revive our different cultural heritages through the performances we participate in now. West African griots, the Walbiri people of Australia, folksingers of Ireland and Appalachia, and modern practitioners of early music show us how our musical pasts live again today.

4: Transmission: Learning Music How we learn musical traditions and how we maintain, modify, notate, teach, and perform them for a new, younger audience is exemplified here in Indian classical music, African village drumming, and modern jazz and gospel.

5: Rhythm Marking time and moving through our bodies, rhythm has a special relationship both to musical form and to worldwide dance traditions. How rhythm structures music is examined through the American marching band, North Indian tala, the Japanese shakuhachi tradition, West African drumming, and Afro-Cuban dance music.

6: Melody Melody--the part of music we most often remember--is examined here both scientifically and poetically, from a strict sequence of pitches to a group of notes "in love with each other." We see and hear melodies shaped, elaborated, and developed within Western classical music, the Arabic maqam tradition, Irish dance music and sean-nós singing, and Indian raga.

7: Timbre: The Color of Music The tone color of music--or "timbre," as we call it in the Western tradition--is influenced by both technical and aesthetic factors. This program examines the creation and effects of timbre in jazz and Indian, West African, Irish, Bosnian, Indonesian gamelan, and Japanese musics.

8: Texture The way different voices and instruments work together to produce the overall sound gives music its texture. This program examines texture in Japanese shakuhachi, Trinidadian steel band, Bosnian ganga, West African percussion, and modern Australian choral music.

9: Harmony When two or more notes sound together, harmony occurs. This interaction of pitches, understood in vastly different ways around the world, is analyzed here in jazz, chamber music, Bosnian ganga singing, early music plainchants, and barbershop quartets.

10: Form: The Shape of Music Form--the way music is organized and structured from beginning to end--guides composers, performers, and listeners in all musics. Here, the traditional Western sonata, the blueprints behind improvisational jazz, the narrative structure of traditional Japanese music, call-and-response forms in West African music and American gospel, and Irish fiddle tunes exemplify worldwide variations in musical form.

11: Composers and Improvisors How are a composer and an improvisor alike? How are they different? The marriage between fixed elements and new variation is examined in American rock, Indian raga, classical and contemporary Western music, jazz, and Arabic classical music.

12: Music and Technology New instrument types and new electronic media for distribution are obvious results of technology, but so were the first bone flute and the first stretched catgut. How technology affects music is examined here in a case study of the flute, and in an examination of developing recording and composing technologies where the roles of composer, musician, arranger, and conductor begin to fuse.

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12. OUT OF THE PAST (8 x 60 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

Archaeologists are sometimes intrepid adventurers, travelling the globe to discover vast treasures, but they are also scientists, unearthing and reconstructing the bits and pieces of past civilizations. Out of the Past shows how archaeologists use the latest scientific methodology and tools to determine how ancient people really lived and what social, religious, economic and political structures composed their societies. Annenberg/CPB Collection. 1993 8 one-hour video programs.

1: New Worlds The Age of Discovery 500 years ago revealed a broad range of cultures, from the vast empires of the Aztecs and the Incas to roving bands of hunter-gatherers. This provided irrefutable evidence that cultures, like biological species, have evolved independently and on a global scale.

2: The Hearth Examines how enculturation and economic cooperation have shaped the homes and families of people, past and present. Remains of houses at archaeological sites and footage of family life in traditional cultures provide a glimpse into what family life must have been like.

3: Artisans and Traders Explores the link between economic and cultural evolution. Hunter-gatherers and early agriculturalists had simple divisions of labor, but today people make a living in many ways. The proliferation of occupations and the extreme economic interdependence of today are the result of increasing job specialization, causing society to continually undergo restructuring.

4: Signs and Symbols Unearthing and interpreting the signs and symbols that define us as a species can be challenging yet revealing. From deciphering ancient scripts to understanding status symbols, archaeologists use ancient and modern examples to reconstruct the meaning of the symbols they find.

5: Power, Prestige, and Wealth Postulates how and why powerful groups or individuals have managed to control vast holdings from ancient times to the present day. The different methods archaeologists use to study how rulers gain and keep power are examined.

6: Realms Reconstructing actual borders of ancient kingdoms is often impossible, but archaeologists can reveal much of the internal workings of societies and their external relations by looking at marriage alliances, trade, and warfare.

7: The Spirit World Archaeologists look at ritual behavior and sacred spaces and objects in archaeological and ethnographic settings to attribute religious meanings. Examples from present-day, traditional societies show the complexity of spiritual life and the limits and possibilities of archaeological reconstruction.

8: Collapse The decline and fall of civilizations captures our interest. Could we be next, going the way of the Sumerians, the Romans, the Maya? The collapse of Copan, brought on by overpopulation and overexploitation of resources, is explored, along with other ancient cultures that have faced the problems we confront today.

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13. RACE TO SAVE THE PLANET (10 x 60 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

This ten-part series gives an unflinching picture of the effect of human activity on the environment today, and offers workable solutions for individuals, governments and industry to consider implementing in the years to come. Offering a global view of environmental concerns, the series also provides a scientific grounding viewers can use as a foundation for action. Annenberg/CPB Project. 1990

Titles: 1. The environmental revolution 2. Only one atmosphere 3. Do you really want to live this way? 4. In the name of progress 5. Remnants of Eden 6. More for less 7. Save the earth - Feed the world 8. Waste not, want not 9. It needs political decisions 10. Now or never

14. THE WHOLE CHILD: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years
(13 x 30 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

The programs are divided into six major content areas, organized by topics of central importance to the education and development of young children. All of the programs include testimonials from teachers based on their experiences. Students will see real children and teachers in Head Start classrooms, a private urban infant centre and preschool, an in-home family child care program, a suburban preschool, and two university child care centres. The video programs are designed to be as interactive as possible with thought-provoking questions posed throughout.

Each program is hosted by Joanne B. Hendrick, Ph.D., Professor of Early Childhood Education Emerita at the University of Oklahoma and author of The Whole Child, one of the most widely used and highly regarded texts in the field of early childhood education. Dr. Hendrick has the ability to be comprehensive about child development theory while remaining down-to-earth and easily understood. Hendrick engages the audience in nurturing instruction, supporting viewers as she highlights proper care techniques. Produced by The Detroit Educational Television Foundation, in association with the Merrill-Palmer Institute of Wayne State University and the Annenberg/CPB Project. 1998

Titles: 1. It's the little things 2. By leaps and bounds 3. Babies are children, too. 4. Dealing with feelings 5. I'm glad I'm me 6. Listening to families 7. Everybody's special 8. Getting along together 9. Building inner controls 10. Respecting diversity 11. Creativity and play 12. Let's talk about it 13. Growing minds (Creativity & play is available for free preview)

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15. THE POWER OF PLACE: World Regional Geography (26 x 30 MINUTE VIDEO PROGRAMS)

A telecourse designed to build an understanding of geography by examining the interconnection and patterns found in the world's eleven great geographic realms, their human and physical contents, their assets and liabilities, links and barriers, potentials and prospects.

Each program in the series typically contains two 10-minute documentary-style case studies. These fulfil two major goals: to characterize an individual region within the eleven geographic realms explored, and to communicate an important concept from a variety of systematic approaches i.e., physical, political, historical, economic and cultural. Each case study tells the story of people whose lives are shaped by the geographical forces in question. These provide penetrating insights into geographic issues around the globe. Annenberg / PCB Project 1996

Titles: 1. The earthly visions 2. Boundaries and borderlands 3. Supranationalism and devolution 4. East looks West 5. The transforming industrial coreland 6. Challenges on the periphery 7. Facing ethnic and environmental diversity 8. Central and remote economic development 9. Inner vs "Edge" cities 10. Ethnic fragmentation in Canada 11. Regions and economies 12. The Japanese paradox: small farms and mega cities 13. Global interaction 14. Migration and conquest 15. Andes and Amazon 16. Accelerating growth 17. Sacred space under siege? 18. Population, food supply and energy development 19. The legacy of colonization 20. Understanding sickness, Overcoming prejudice 21. Urban and rural contrasts 22. Life in China's frontier cities 23. China's metropolitan heartland 24. The booming maritime edge 25. Mainland southeast Asia 26. Maritime Southeast Asia

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16. TAKING THE LEAD: The Management Revolution. 26 x 30 minutes video programs. 1993.

Taking the Lead examines, in 26 half-hour videos, the changing, challenging world of management at the dawn of the 21st Century. Each video will help business managers, as well as those hoping to move into management ranks, better understand their role in reconciling external social and political forces with the everyday work they and their staffs must undertake. Select from the list below.  Videos are available for audiovisual (AV) use.  

Episode 1: Management at Work -- Management at Work introduces the five basic functions of management, and describes the sweeping changes in the business environment that are exerting a staggering impact on management.

Episode 2: In Transition -- In Transition describes how today’s managers must respond effectively to change.  

Episode 3: Setting the Stage -- Setting the Stage examines the challenges of planning in an uncertain environment, with the multi-faceted Los Angeles Music Center serving as a backdrop.

Episode 4: The Game Plan -- The Game Plan demonstrates how strategic planning, including diversification and the joint venture, is employed at Fluor, IBM, Apple Computers, and General Dynamics.

Episode 5: Calling the Shots -- Calling the Shots considers the process of sound decision-making, one of the most critical and complex managerial skills.

Episode 6: Putting It Together -- Putting It Together examines the theory of organizational structure and shows that many organizations fail to operate within this neatly defined concept.

Episode 7: Laying the Groundwork -- Laying the Groundwork analyzes organizational design, and emphasizes that companies must be willing to make changes in this area to remain viable.

Episode 8: Running the Show -- Running the Show reveals how changes in sources of power can be linked to changes in levels of employee performance.

Episode 9: Heart of the Matter -- Heart of the Matter explores the evolution of the philosophy of management known as “Total Quality Management,” or “TQM."

Episode 10: Shifting Gears -- Shifting Gears focuses on the changes that organizations must make, both to manage success and growth, and to cope with downturns that necessitate restructuring.

Episode 11: Help Wanted -- Help Wanted highlights the many sources available to organizations for employee recruitment and selection, including employment agencies, educational and community organizations.

Episode 12: High Performance -- High Performance identifies the issues that surround the management of human resources and the challenge they present to managers at all levels of the organization.

Episode 13: Keeping in Touch -- Keeping in Touch outlines several important steps that must be followed if effective communication is to take place.

Episode 14: All Systems Go -- All Systems Go reviews Maslow’s theory of the hierarchy of needs, to explain the challenge involved in motivating employees.

Episode 15: Pulling Together -- Pulling Together focuses on the importance of building morale in the workplace.

Episode 16: At the Helm -- At the Helm illustrates different, yet effective styles of leadership at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Harden Industries, and the Virgin Group of Companies.

Episode 17: Working it Out -- Working it Out presents strategies for managing and resolving organizational conflict.

Episode 18: Keeping Track -- Keeping Track discusses the recent revolution in the control concept, from traditional top-down management to a new way of thinking in which everyone in an organization shares control.

Episode 19: It All Adds Up -- It All Adds Up points out the tools needed to successfully manage financial resources.

Episode 20: Taking Stock -- Taking Stock surveys the methods of operations that create organizational success.

Episode 21: Point of Information -- Point of Information looks at management information systems, or MIS, and explains how the best systems can reduce waste and vastly improve efficiency.

Episode 22: Above and Beyond -- Above and Beyond analyzes the complex process of managing for productivity at Domain Chandon and the Ford Motor Company.

Episode 23: World of Opportunity -- World of Opportunity emphasizes the efforts managers must make in dealing with the cultural diversity of different nations, and the flexibility needed to keep an organization running most effectively.

Episode 24: The Right Fit -- The Right Fit evaluates the relationship between employee and organization, especially the importance of finding close matches between employee and organizational values and goals.

Episode 25: Making Choices -- Making Choices takes a sensitive look at business ethics and the challenging management issues that may arise in all firms.

Episode 26: For the Common Good -- For the Common Good features two companies that successfully integrate social responsibility and profit

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17. SOMETHING VENTURED. 26 x 30 minutes video programs. 1991-93.

Covers: Small business in a big world. On your own? Finding a niche. Buying a firm or starting your own. Franchising. A different look. Business plan. Marketing plan. Where to hang the sign. Start up capital. Making it legal. RAW architecture. Product / service strategies. Pricing products and services. Promotional strategies. Distribution channels. Vintage blend. Human factor. Purchasing & inventory control. Financial accounting. Management of working capital.. Computers in small business. risk management. Case studies. Social responsibility. Law.

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18. PRESERVING THE LEGACY. Industrial Processes & Waste Stream Management. 15 x 30 minutes videos. 1996-98.

Covers: Waster stream management. Physical treatment technologies. Chemical treatment technologies. Thermal treatment technologies. Biological treatment technologies. Pollution prevention. Pollution prevention. Petroleum production & transportation industries. Petroleum refining & waste minimization. Chemical industries. Metal plating & finishing industries. Semiconductor & electronics industry. Paper making industry. Paint & surface coating industries. Food & agricultural industries.

19. The SALES CONNECTION. Principles of Selling. 26 x 30 minutes videos.

In its 26 half-hour videos The Sales Connection offers learners crucial information about the relationship between quality, service and value, and success in sales. The videos can be used in both academic and business settings, by those just starting out in sales careers and by those seeking to enhance their skills and build more consultative relationships with their clients. Select from the list below.  Videos are available for audiovisual (AV) use.  

Episode 1: The Sales Engine -- The Sales Engine addresses the ways in which personal selling stimulates economic growth in a market-driven economy, and traces its evolution from the early days of the Production Era to the present.

Episode 2: A Seller’s World -- The Sales Engine addresses the ways in which personal selling stimulates economic growth in a market-driven economy, and traces its evolution from the early days of the Production Era to the present.

Episode 3: The Big Picture -- The Big Picture provides an overview of the broad range of career opportunities in personal selling, with positions ranging from entry-level trainees to highly-paid supervisors and managers.

Episode 4: The Personal Touch -- The Personal Touch outlines the qualities needed for success, including the manner in which salespeople establish, build and maintain relationships and the importance of a positive self i

Episode 5: First Impressions -- First Impressions emphasizes the importance of the image that a salesperson projects in shaping the customer's response.

Episode 6: Sales Talk -- Sales Talk examines communication style bias – often a barrier to selling success — and explains how this occurs when salespeople contact customers whose communication styles are different.

Episode 7: In the Know -- In The Know reveals why it is important to provide the prospective buyer with specific knowledge needed to make the best possible buying decision.

Episode 8: A Good Match -- A Good Match shows how the key to successful selling is the ability to convert “product features” into “buyer benefits.”

Episode 9: In Position -- In Position focuses on those decisions, activities, and communication techniques that form selling strategies for new and old products.

Episode 10: Beneath the Surface -- Beneath the Surface highlights the factors that influence buyers' decisions.

Episode 11: Step by Step -- Step by Step focuses on two influences for buying -- “emotional” and “rational.”

Episode 12: Making Connections -- Making Connections explains how prospecting enables salespeople to identify potential customers, and discusses the importance of planning in the prospecting process.

Episode 13: Plan of Action -- Plan of Action explains the importance of pre-planning a sales presentation and outlines the work involved.

Episode 14: Going the Distance -- Going the Distance covers the four major parts of a consultative-style sales presentation, a popular approach in selling retail and wholesale goods and services.

Episode 15: Show and Tell -- Show and Tell stresses the importance of the sales demonstration in strengthening a consultative sales presentation.

Episode 16: On the Dotted Line -- On the Dotted Line offers guidelines for “closing the sale” following a well-planned presentation.

Episode 17: Full Service -- Full Service focuses on the two main processes of personal selling — making the sale and servicing the sale — and emphasizes the importance of customer service in increasing sales.

Episode 18: The Extra Mile -- The Extra Mile discusses customer concerns and the need for salespeople to become familiar with them.

Episode 19: Setting the Pace -- Setting the Pace sets forth the responsibilities of sales managers and outlines the steps they need to take for success.

Episode 20: Peak Performance -- Peak Performance focuses on the responsibility sales managers have to orient, train and motivate new salespeople.

Episode 21: Personal Best -- Personal Best positions self-management as a four-dimensional process involving management of time, territory, records and stress.

Episode 22: On Line -- On Line demonstrates the role of computers for speedy prospect identification and information organization, which leaves more time available for sales.

Episode 23: Open Line -- Open Line looks at the advantages and strategies of telemarketing, which can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of salespeople.

Episode 24: The Right Choice -- The Right Choice explores legal and ethical guidelines for salespeople and the rights and wrongs of selling.

Episode 25: One World -- One World considers the impact of international business and the economic interdependency of nations on sales and selling.

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20. BY THE NUMBERS: Practical Applications of Business mathematics. 26 x 30 minutes video programs. 1990.

Covers: Banking. Social security. Sales & Property taxes. Income taxes. Business insurance. Personal insurance. Business discount. Pricing. Inventory. Interest. Notes & bank discounts. Compound interest. Credit purchases. Annuities. Sinking Funds & Amortization. Depreciating assets. Allocating costs and profits. Financial statements.Cash flow. Financial ratios. Stocks & bonds. Statistics. Graphs and charts. Future of business maths


21. The EXAMINED LIFE. 26 x 30 minutes video programs. 1998. Brings learners to the philosophic wisdom of the ages.

Covers: Philosophy. Human nature. Mind/body. Self. What is real. How do we encounter the world. Free will. Is time real. Does god exists? Can we know god through experience. Is reason the source of knowledge? Does all knowledge depends on experience. Does the mind shaped the world? Does science add to knowledge? Does science gives us the truth? Are interpretations true? Is morality relative. Does the end justify the means? Can rules define morality? Is ethics based on virtue? Moral dilemmas. What justifies the state. What is justice? What is art? What is the meaning of life?

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22. BEYOND THE MECHANICAL UNIVERSE. From Electricity to Modern Physic. 26 x 30 minutes video programs. 1985-6.

Covers: Static electricity. Electric field. Potential and capacitance. Voltage, energy & force. Electric battery. Electric circuits. Magnets. Magnetic fields. Vector fields & hydrodynamics. Electromagnetic induction. Alternating currents. Maxwell's equation. Optics. Michelson-Morley experiment. Lorentz transformation. Velocity and time. Mass, momentum, energy. Temperature and Gas Law. Engine of nature. Entropy. Low Temperature. The Atom. Particles and waves. Atoms and Quarks. Quantum mechanical universe


23. The MECHANICAL UNIVERSE: Introductory Physics. 26 x 30 minutes video programs.1985.

Covers: Law of falling bodies. Derivatives . Inertia.Vectors. Newton's law. Integration. Apple and the moon. Moving in circles. Fundamental forces. Gravity, electricity, magnetism. Millikan experiment. Conversation of energy. Potential energy. Conservation of momentum. harmonic motion. Resonance. Waves. Angular momentum. Torques & gyroscopes. Kepler's Three laws. The Kepler Problem. Energy & Eccentricity. Navigating in space. From Kepler to Einstein.

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24. PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY. 26 x 30 minutes video program.1988.Some form of marriage and family is culturally institutionalized in every society, no matter how large or small, how primitive or cosmopolitan. This series takes a look at marriage and family life in the 90s. Documentary footage, combined with an expert commentary, brings into focus the fascinating mosaic of family forms that exist today. The 26 half-hour videos in Portrait of a Family are designed to help students understand family dynamics by taking a close, thoughtful look at marriage, family and alternative American lifestyles in the closing decade of the 20th Century. Videos are available for audiovisual (AV) use.  

Episode 1: Family Portraits -- Family Portraits takes a look at marriages and families in the closing decade of the 20th century through the lives of four families.

Episode 2: The Seasons of Life -- The Seasons of Life examines social influences on our personal choices in life and how, as adults continue to grow and change, their marriages and families also change.

Episode 3: When I Grow Up -- When I Grow Up considers gender-related differences -- the way males and females look, think, behave -- and how today sex roles are less defined with expectations always changing.

Episode 4: Adam’s Equal or Adam’s Rib? -- Adam’s Equal or Adam’s Rib? explores the process of gender identification and assumption of gender roles.

Episode 5: Learning to Love -- Learning to Love surveys various forms of love and the needs each fulfills, and explores how love is different from other emotions.

Episode 6: The Pleasure Bond -- The Pleasure Bond deals with how sexuality affects the way people think of themselves and others, especially in highly personal relationships.

Episode 7: Epidemic Proportions -- Epidemic Proportions reviews how "responsible sex” has been redefined since the onslaught of AIDS, and how sexually-transmitted diseases are more than medical problems.

Episode 8: Going It Alone -- Going It Alone addresses the single lifestyle and some of the reasons for this choice.

Episode 9: The Marriage Market -- The Marriage Market examines the social variables that influence a person’s choice of partners.

Episode 10: Variations on a Theme -- Variations on a Theme highlights the changing definitions of a "typical" family, and the kaleidoscope of daily forms that exist today.

Episode 11: Great Expectations -- Great Expectations emphasizes the extent to which parents' expectations influence what their child will become.

Episode 12: Intimate Connections -- Intimate Connections stresses the value of communication when dealing with a rebellious teenager, a disgruntled spouse, or a stubborn two-year old.

Episode 13: For Better or Worse -- For Better or Worse demonstrates how conflicts are a natural and necessary part of married life, and explains why couples need to handle conflict constructively.

Episode 14: Power Plays -- Power Plays portrays common power struggles that occur in a marriage relationship.

Episode 15: Behind Closed Doors -- Behind Closed Doors examines the definition of abuse, the cycle of violence, and the means of escape from spousal abuse.

pisode 16: Working Husbands/Working Wives -- Working Husbands/Working Wives focuses on the challenges of two-career marriages.

Episode 17: To Parent or Not to Parent -- To Parent or Not to Parent considers the declining U.S. birth rate, societal views of parenthood, the personal impact of parenthood, and the regulation of conception.

Episode 18: One Plus One Equals Three -- One Plus One Equals Three stresses the responsibility and commitment involved in building a successful parent-child relationship.

Episode 19: For Richer or Poorer -- For Richer or Poorer covers issues of budgeting and use of credit, housing and health care costs, and social policies that affect families.

Episode 20: Turning Points -- Turning Points looks at the ways that families handle various critical transactions, and investigates the definition of a crisis, the phases of crisis as it affects families, and the predictable crisis.

Episode 21: The Strained Knot -- The Strained Knot explores how families cope with unexpected problems, and how tragedy can help build a stronger sense of a family unit, open communication lines, and lead to flexible relationships.

Episode 22: Irreconcilable Differences -- Irreconcilable Differences asks why couples get divorced and the economic, emotional, and social implications.

Episode 23: Single, Head of Household -- Single, Head of Household examines the family and personal consequences of divorce, effects on children, custody arrangements, and life in a single-parent family.

Episode 24: The Second Time Around -- The Second Time Around evaluates courtship and decision-making, which is a little different the second time around.

Episode 25: Yours, Mine, and Ours -- Yours, Mine, and Ours delves into the complications of stepparenting, adjusting to the new family, and balanced step-parent/step-child relationships.

Episode 26: The Later Years -- The Later Years focuses on the changing elderly, myths and realities of old age, families and the elderly, personal needs of the elderly, and challenges of a graying population.

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25 LITERARY VISIONS 26 x 30 minutes video programs

Introduction

1: First Sight: An Introduction to Literature This overview introduces the course content and approach.

2: Ways of Seeing: Responding to Literature A focus on critical approaches to literature is presented by the scholars who will appear throughout the series. This program also previews selected dramatic scenes from upcoming programs and excerpts from the author interviews that highlight the series.

3: A Personal View: The Art of the Essay A documentary segment traces the development of the formal essay and the birth of printing technology and their impact on the growth of political democracy. An interview with essayist Willie Morris focuses on the informal essay.

Short Fiction

4: Reflected Worlds: The Elements of Short Fiction A dramatization of Frank O'Connor's "First Confession" and an interview with Ernest Gaines demonstrate the elements of fiction.

5: The Story's Blueprint: Plot and Structure in Short Fiction A dramatization of Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel" exemplifies the relationship of plot, structure, and conflict.

6: Telling Their Tales: Character in Short Fiction Techniques of characterization and the importance of point of view become clear in a dramatization of Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing."

7: In That Time and Place: Setting and Character in Short Fiction Setting reveals character in Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" while it magnifies meaning for contemporary short story writer Stephen Dixon, both of whom appear in the program.

8: The Author's Voice: Tone and Style in Short Fiction An interview with Maxine Hong Kingston highlights this examination of the impact of style on meaning.

9: Suggested Meanings: Symbolism and Allegory in Short Fiction Symbolism is prominent in a dramatization of D.H. Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," while myth predominates in the work of Native American writer N. Scott Momaday, who is interviewed.

10: The Sum of Its Parts: Theme in Short Fiction Multiple themes are uncovered in "Everyday Use," a dramatization of Alice Walker's short story.

Poetry

11: The Sacred Words: The Elements of Poetry The role of poetry for the individual and the culture is suggested through visual essays. An interview with James Dickey includes his reading and analysis of his poems "The Performance" and "The Lifeguard."

12: A Sense of Place: Setting and Character in Poetry The historical settings of "My Last Duchess," "Theme for English B," and "Dover Beach" convey much about the characters and ideas of these poems. The New England landscapes of Maxine Kumin echo the themes of her poetry.

13: Tools of the Trade: Words and Images in Poetry Poetry readings, visualizations of poems, and an interview with Lucille Clifton, who reads two of her favorite poems, "This Morning" and "Homage to My Hips," reveal the beauty and the workings of poetic language and imagery.

14: Seeing Anew: Rhetorical Figures in Poetry The power of metaphor, simile, and other figures of speech becomes clear through dramatizations of Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book," Nikki Giovanni's "Woman," and Daniel Halpern's "Snapshot of Hue." Gary Soto is interviewed and reads and comments on his poem "Oranges."

15: An Echo to the Sense: Prosody and Form in Poetry X.J. Kennedy discusses and demonstrates the importance of rhyme and meter in his poetry. Dramatic readings of poems by Shakespeare, Dickinson, and Hopkins and contemporary poets like Dudley Randall and Leonard Adame are analyzed to show how prosody and form contribute to meaning.

16: Distant Voices: Myth, Symbolism and Allusion in Poetry Four poetic versions of the Icarus myth - those of Sexton, Spender, Williams, and Field - are dramatized and compared. Marge Piercy discusses the role of myth in her poetry.

17: Artful Resonance: Theme in Poetry Dramatizations of six poems that share the same subject help clarify the difference between subject and theme. Close analysis of poems by John Donne and Donald Hall explore the interrelationship between poetic form and meaning.

Drama

18: Image of Reality: The Elements of Drama Dramatizations of selected scenes from Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, and The Glass Menagerie, and an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson introduce the origins, structure, and purpose of drama.

19: Playing the Part: Characters and Actors in Drama The development of dramatic character, by playwright and by actor, is illustrated through several interpretations of a single scene from Hamlet and an interview with Shakespearean actor John Vickery.

20: Patterns of Action: Plot and Conflict in Drama A dramatization of Oedipus Rex demonstrates the classical plot structure. Dramatist A.R. Gurney discusses conflict and plot in contemporary American theater.

21: Perspectives on Illusion: Setting and Staging in Drama An interview with set designer Chris Barecca and a documentary overview of types of theaters demonstrate the intertwining of text and technique in dramatic setting.

22: Speech and Silence: The Language of Drama The artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger, Michael Kahn, demonstrates interpretation of dramatic language in a workshop with actors. Director Emily Mann of the McCarter Theater in Princeton discusses her work with contemporary texts, particularly a production of The Glass Menagerie.

23: The Vision Quest: Myth and Symbolism in Drama Alaskan playwright David Hunsaker's dramatizations of Eskimo myth and his productions of Eskimo translations of Greek tragedies, together with scenes from Oedipus Rex, demonstrate the enduring power and meaning of myth in drama.

24: A Frame for Meaning: Theme in Drama Dramatist David H. Hwang discusses the themes and structure of his plays, which include M. Butterfly. Scholars consider thematic interpretations inherent in the production of a single act of Hamlet.

Conclusion

25: Casting Long Shadows: The Power of Literature This summary of major course themes reviews the impact of literature on the individual through excerpts of series dramatizations and interviews.

26: Continuing Vision: The Uses of Literature This program explores the impact of literature on the society and culture in the past and present. It then looks into the future to see what forms literature may take and to assess its possible influence on society.

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26. NEWS WRITING 15 x 30 minute video programs

1: What Is News? Examines how journalists determine what the public needs and wants to know. Reporters and editors from diverse news organizations, including The Washington Post, The National Enquirer, and CNN, discuss editorial decision making and define news as it relates to journalism ethics and the news-writing process.

2: Hard News Leads Shows the power and process of the summary lead in newspaper, broadcast, and PR writing. A broad spectrum of writers, including White House correspondent Helen Thomas and Chicago Defender editor Michael Brown, discuss and demonstrate this basic journalism tool.

3: News Writing Language and Style Explores the specifics of print journalism style--from the AP to Rolling Stone magazine--focusing on accuracy and detail. Enlivened by humor as Dave Barry and other writers confess their language sins and steer tomorrow's journalists toward production of professional and pristine prose.

4: Development and Organization of a Story Deals with use of the inverted pyramid as well as hourglass and circle story shapes. Top journalists such as Bob Woodward, along with Roy Peter Clark (The Poynter Institute), discuss and demonstrate focus sentences, transitions, and nut graphs as story-development techniques.

5: Dealing with Sources Illustrates how to interview sources and work quotes into a news story. Larry King (CNN), Deborah Wilgoren (The Washington Post), and others demonstrate the interviewing process, touching on the use of paraphrase vs. direct quotes, the mechanics of attribution, the ground rules for using "off the record" comments, and other issues.

6: Good Writing vs. Good Reporting Considers the possibilities of conflict or compatibility between these two elements. Top reporters discuss essential issues such as accuracy, objectivity, fairness, and credibility along with the elements of writing that make a news story exciting, fun, and compelling to read.

7: Beat Reporting Covers the wide variety of journalism career opportunities, with glimpses into the working conditions and daily experiences on crime, sports, business, government, and environmental beats as well as for general assignment and wire service reporters.

8: Broadcast News Writing Compares the similarities and differences of broadcast and print journalism, with insightful comments from a host of radio and TV journalists--among them Sam Donaldson (ABC), Charles Kuralt (CBS), and Kurt Loder (MTV)--and follows a young reporter as he assembles a daily news package.

9: Public Relations Writing Demonstrates the interaction of journalists and PR people. Professionals from Capitol Records and the Golden State Warriors discuss the similarities of writing press releases and hard news stories, while sympathetic and unsympathetic journalists, including Andy Rooney (CBS) and Susan Antilla (The New York Times), comment on the role of PR in the news.

10: Beyond the Summary Lead Encourages novice writers to explore other creative introductory styles, including anecdotal, quote, question, narrative, and direct address leads. Journalists Gene Policinski (USA Today), David Waldholz (The Wall Street Journal), and others give tips on ways to avoid boring leads and grab readers in the first paragraph.

11: Feature Writing Styles Explores the difference between feature news, soft features, and advocacy journalism, as Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Kundsen (Sacramento Bee), Joel Achenbach (The Washington Post), and others discuss their craft. Concepts such as trend stories, personality profiles, background stories, and human-interest stories are also introduced and illustrated by working reporters.

12: Column Writing & Editorial Writing Reveals the relationships among hard news writing, opinion writing, journalistic critique, and column writing, illustrating how "objective" front-page news can coexist with coverage in other sections. Dave Barry and Andy Rooney examine humor in column writing, Siskel and Ebert discuss criticism, and Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writers dissect the elements of good opinion writing.

13: Covering Disasters Demonstrates use of journalism's basic principles in crisis situations and under deadline pressure. Journalists who have covered earthquakes, chemical spills, severe weather, and plane crashes discuss the difference between theory and practice during community emergencies.

14: The Ethics of Journalism Introduces a reporter's on-the-job ethical challenges. Journalists from a variety of beats discuss issues such as conflict of interest, honesty, thoroughness, objectivity, privacy, and balance, and one reporter demonstrates real-life ethical decision making as she covers a controversial local story.

15: Media Law Focuses on reporters' rights and defenses for potential libel or invasion of privacy lawsuits as well as concepts like open meeting, shield, and freedom of information laws. In addition, Mark Goodman, attorney for the Student Press Law Center, and author John Zelezny discuss legal issues that may confront students working for a school newspaper or other publication.


27. BABY AND ME series 13 x 30 minutes video programs

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28. DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY 26 x 30 minutes video programs 1990 release: Past, present & promise; Understanding research; The behaving brain; The responsive brain; The developing child; Language development; Sensation & perception; Learning; Remembering & forgetting; Cognitive processes; Judgement & decision making; Motivation and emotion; The mind awake and asleep; The mind hidden and divided; The self; Testing and intelligence; Sex and gender; Maturing and aging; The power of the situation; Constructing social reality; Psychopathology; Psychotheraphy; Health, mind behaviour; In space toward peace; A union of opposites; New directions. (Motivation and Emotion is available for free preview)

1: Past, Present, and Promise Discover psychology, a fascinating science at the crossroads of subjects, including philosophy, anthropology, biochemistry, and artificial intelligence.

2: Understanding Research The scientific method, data collection and analysis, and the value of critical thinking in interpreting research findings are presented.

3: The Behaving Brain Scientists explain the biochemical reactions that determine our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

4: The Responsive Brain This program explores the relationship between the brain's own structure and function, and feedback from the environment.

5: The Developing Child The impact of heredity and environment on children's development illuminates the age-old nature vs. nurture debate.

6: Language Development How children develop complex language skills and use language in social communication is presented.

7: Sensation and Perception This program focuses on how we process information, transforming raw sensory data into meaningful impressions.

8: Learning Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner demonstrate the principles of classical and operant conditioning.

9: Remembering and Forgetting A look at how all experiences become memory, why we forget, and how we can improve our memory.

10: Cognitive Processes The higher mental processes--reasoning, planning, and problem solving-- are explored.

11: Judgment and Decision Making This program examines the psychology of risk taking and negotiation--why and how we make judgments and decisions.

12: Motivation and Emotion Aspects of motivation are revealed in studies of sexual behavior and the power of optimistic beliefs.

13: The Mind Awake and Asleep Explore the nature of sleeping, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness.

14: The Mind Hidden and Divided Case studies of multiple personality and split-brain patients and examples of hypnosis demonstrate the subconscious.

15: The Self This program explores the emotional and motivational consequences of beliefs about oneself.

16: Testing and Intelligence Psychological testing reveals how values are assigned to different abilities, behaviors, and personalities.

17: Sex and Gender Find out how men and women are psychologically different, and see how sex roles reflect social values.

18: Maturing and Aging This program focuses on physical and psychological aging, and shows how society reacts.

19: The Power of the Situation Discover how situational forces can manipulate beliefs and behavior and how to interpret human behavior within context.

20: Constructing Social Reality Understanding how mental processes color our interpretations of reality may help us deal with society.

21: Psychopathology Schizophrenia, phobias, and affective disorders are defined and explored.

22: Psychotherapy Learn about the treatment of psychological disorders and attitudes toward the mentally ill.

23: Health, Mind, and Behavior Examine the relationship between mind and body and learn about a new bio-psychosocial theoretical model.

24: In Space, Toward Peace Arms negotiations, the stress of space travel, and responses to nuclear war illustrate modern psychology.

25: A Union of Opposites This program presents a yin-yang model of complementary opposites, such as the nature-nurture dynamic.

26: New Directions Prominent psychologists discuss the future of the field, new directions in research, theory, and application.

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29. ETHICS IN AMERICA 10 x 60 minutes video programs

1: Do Unto Others Must we house the homeless or report a child abuser? A distinguished panel including Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Faye Wattleton of Planned Parenthood, and Willard Gaylin of the Hastings Center discuss the question of community responsibility.

2: To Defend a Killer What rights do the guilty have? Ethical dilemmas of our criminal justice system are discussed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, defense attorney Jack Litman, and philosopher John Smith of Yale.

3: Public Trust, Private Interests Jeane Kirkpatrick, Joseph A. Califano Jr., Senator Alan Simpson, Peter Jennings, and others address the problems of trust--within government, between one public official and another, and between the government and the public.

4: Does Doctor Know Best? Should you save the mother at the risk of losing the baby? Doctors from the National Cancer Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center discuss controversies created by modern medicine with C. Everett Koop, journalist Ellen Goodman, and others.

5: Anatomy of a Corporate Takeover Merger mania presents an alarming array of ethical problems. Debating the issues are T. Boone Pickens; chief executives from Borg-Warner, Goodyear, and Berkshire Hathaway; economist Lester Thurow; and Senator Tim Wirth.

6: Under Orders, Under Fire (Part I) How do we wage war when the enemy dresses as civilians and children throw bombs? Generals William Westmoreland, David Jones, and Brent Scowcroft, correspondents Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace, and others question the duty to follow orders and a commander's obligation to protect soldiers.

7: Under Orders, Under Fire (Part II) The carnage of My Lai raises the issue of confidentiality between the soldier, his religious confessor, and military justice. Generals debate the clash between military tribunals and the right of confidentiality with Chaplain Timothy Tatum of the U.S. Army War College, the Reverend J. Bryan Hehir of the U.S. Catholic Conference, and others.

8: Truth on Trial Is an attorney's first obligation to the court, the client, or the public? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Judge Robert Merhige, attorneys Floyd Abrams and Stanley Chesley, philosopher John Smith, and others debate civil litigation's ethical dilemmas.

9: The Human Experiment Does finding a cure justify putting test subjects at risk? C. Everett Koop is joined by Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, and other distinguished panelists in a discussion of the medical research field.

10: Politics, Privacy, and the Press What conduct on the part of a public official is relevant to "the public's right to know?" Panelists from both sides, including Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, Peter Jennings, Mike Wallace, and Geraldine Ferraro, debate this issue.

Audio Programs. Three audiocassettes feature actual ethical debates that present radically different moral positions.

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30. SEASONS OF LIFE 5 x 60 minutes video programs

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31. The WORLD OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY 13 x 60 minutes video programs 1992: Looking at abnormal behaviour; The nature of stress; The anxiety disorders; Psychological factors and physical illness; Personality disorders; Substance abuse disorders; Sexual disorders; Mood disorders; The Schizophrenias; Organic mental disorders; Behaviour disorders of childhood; Psychotheraphy; An once of prevention (Personality disorders is available for free preview)

1: Looking at Abnormal Behavior The program visits the Jackson Memorial Hospital Crisis Center in Miami, where suicidal, depressed, and schizophrenic patients meet with psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers to assess the nature and seriousness of their problems. It also introduces the various theories used to explain and treat abnormal behavior.

2: The Nature of Stress We see that stress affects many people--from the overworked and out-of-work, to survivors of suicide and homicide, to Vietnam War veterans who continually re-experience the stress of the battlefield. The program explores the long-term effects of stress and what is known about how to reduce them.

3: The Anxiety Disorders Even in the best of times, we all experience some anxiety. But millions of Americans suffer from major anxiety disorders. This program examines two of the most common--panic with agoraphobia and generalized anxiety disorder--and shows how psychologists are making headway in treating them.

4: Psychological Factors and Physical Illness This program examines the relationship between emotions and health to explore how psychological treatment can improve well-being. It focuses on a teenager with migraine headaches, a dentist trying to decrease his risk for developing heart disease, and a woman with breast cancer, along with those who are treating them.

5: Personality Disorders One in ten Americans has a personality disorder. Some are mildly annoying; others are exceedingly dangerous. Viewers will meet individuals with narcissistic, anti-social, borderline, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders, including a murderer and a group of women who mutilate themselves, and will learn about the challenges involved in both diagnosis and treatment.

6: Substance Abuse Disorders Millions of Americans abuse alcohol, cigarettes, and cocaine. Health professionals know a great deal about these dangerous and costly disorders, including how to treat them. This program examines how the concept of treatment matching is used to help individuals overcome a variety of addictions.

7: Sexual Disorders A man exhibits himself in public. A woman feels guilty about not desiring sex. An otherwise happy couple finds themselves at odds over sex. These people share their private problems and demonstrate how the assessment and treatment of sexual disorders has advanced in the past 25 years.

8: Mood Disorders Depression is one of the most common psychological problems. In this program, psychologists and biologists look at the causes and treatment of both depression and bipolar disorder and show the progress that has been made in helping people return to productive and satisfying lives.

9: The Schizophrenias In emotionally moving interviews, this program visits people who suffer from the hallucinations, paranoia, and psychological disarray of these disabling illnesses. In addition to examining symptoms and treatments, the program helps debunk some of the myths associated with the disorder and shows its human side and the strength of those who fight to overcome it.

10: Organic Mental Disorders A teenager must re-learn all the basic skills following a head injury. After years of alcohol abuse, a man loses his short-term memory. A woman sees her husband struggle against the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. Science and technology's role in treating these debilitating disorders is also examined in this program.

11: Behavior Disorders of Childhood Almost all parents worry whether or not their child's behavior is normal. This program visits families of youngsters with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, separation anxiety disorder, and autism. In addition, experts in child development and psychology discuss how to differentiate abnormal behavior from developmental stages.

12: Psychotherapies This program allows viewers to "sit in" on five distinctly different kinds of psychotherapy: psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, Gestalt, couples, and group. Theory and practice are intertwined as these patients progress through therapy, sometimes trying alternative models for the same problem.

13: An Ounce of Prevention Imagine a society whose citizens are protected from psychological disorders. This final episode visits several programs that are attempting to eliminate known risk factors--including social isolation and inadequate parenting skills--that often lead to serious disorders. The stories are touching; the results are promising.

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32. THE BRAIN series 2nd edition 9 teaching modules of about 15 mintues each : Foundations, Cortical organisation and specialisation, Vision and movement, Circadian rhythms, Sleep and dreaming, Memory and amnesia, Stress & coping, Personality and aggression, Psychological disorders, Treatment of brian disorders. 1997 release (Stress and coping is available for free preview) Entire Series: 8 one-hour video programs

1: The Enlightened Machine Beginning with the nineteenth-century experiments of Viennese physician Franz Joseph Gall, the creator of the pseudo-science of phrenology, this episode moves rapidly to the forefront of twentieth-century science, using microphotography to show how the brain organizes its "electrical symphony"--neurotransmitters crossing synaptic gaps.

2: Vision and Movement The neurological miracle of coordinating vision and movement is illustrated by Olympic diver Greg Louganis and the work of Nobel Prize winners David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel on the visual cortex.

3: Rhythms and Drives Vignettes from both the animal world and human society illustrate the seat of our basic instincts--the primitive brain--and its effects on sex, sleep, aggression, depression, and euphoria.

4: Stress and Emotion Two case histories--a man who suffered an accidental frontal lobotomy and a stress-ridden air traffic controller--frame this episode about pain, anxiety, and behavior.

5: Learning and Memory How do we remember? Why do we forget? Scientists investigate the subject with examples of a man with a most remarkable memory and a famous psychologist losing his memory.

6: The Two Brains Left brain, right brain--what happens if they don't communicate? Research work with split-brain patients is the basis for exploring the cortical hemispheres, the relationship between thought and language, and sex differences of the human brain.

7: Madness Compelling human portraits of schizophrenics and their families are featured, dramatically illustrating the effects of a split between the thinking and feeling parts of the brain. Scientists' efforts to pinpoint the brain's anatomical changes are chronicled.

8: States of Mind How far does our knowledge of the brain extend? What questions lie unanswered? Scientists have yet to decipher the chemical maze triggered by a simple thought. This final program explores what scientists do not understand and looks to the future of research in medicine, artificial intelligence, and genetic manipulation.

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33. EARTH REVEALED 26 x 30 minutes video program

Introduction

1: Down to Earth Introduces the vast field of study that is geology, showing the uniqueness of Earth in its ability to support life.

2: The Restless Planet Revisits the beginnings of our solar system and the evolution of Earth's structure.

Plate Tectonics

3: Earth's Interior Demonstrates how seismic waves occur and explains the measurement of gravity, heat flow, and earth magnetism, to provide information about Earth's interior.

4: The Sea Floor Examines major sea-floor features: the mid-oceanic ridge, oceanic trenches, and fracture zones; evidence of Earth's mobile crust.

5: The Birth of a Theory Traces origins of the ideas of continental drift and sea-floor spreading and their contributions to plate tectonics theory.

6: Plate Dynamics Introduces theory and concepts about the movements of Earth's plates by looking at plate boundaries and their associated geologic features.

7: Mountain Building How major mountain belts and continents are created, evolve, and wear away.

8: Earth's Structures Illustrates how bedrock responds to tectonic forces originating within Earth and is studied by structural geologists.

9: Earthquakes Explores the nature and consequences of earthquakes, the factors that cause quakes, their location, and characteristics.

Geologic Time and Life

10: Geologic Time Portrays the immensity of the geologic time scale, which is the world-wide basis for correlation of geologic events, rock formation, and fossils.

11: Evolution Through Time The evolutionary journey of Earth over the past four-and-a-half billion years.

The Rock Cycle

12: Minerals: The Materials of Earth Covers the origins, classifications, and uses of minerals.

13: Volcanism Explains how volcanos are formed, and assesses the importance of volcanic activity to Earth's geology and climate.

14: Intrusive Igneous Rocks Unveils the rock-forming processes of magmas that do not reach Earth's surface but solidify underground.

15: Weathering and Soils Demonstrates how minerals and rocks change when subjected to the physical and chemical conditions that exist at Earth's surface.

16: Mass Wasting Demonstrates gravity at work on rapidly moving landslides and imperceptibly slow creep, as well as the role of humans in causing or controlling mass wasting.

17: Sedimentary Rocks: The Key to Past Environments Illustrates the importance of sedimentary rocks in understanding Earth's surface and environmental conditions of the past.

18: Metamorphic Rocks Interprets the causative factors of metamorphism and the kinds of rocks produced.

19: Running Water I: Rivers, Erosion and Deposition Analyzes the role of running water in sculpting Earth's surface; discusses tectonic and hydrologic cycles and how they work together to shape the land.

20. Running Water II: Landform Evolution Recognizes the roles human activity can play in intensifying or reducing flood danger, and describes the process by which streams and valleys are shaped and landscapes formed.

Carving the Landscape

21: Groundwater Explains how this critical resource is distributed and recycled.

22: Wind, Dust and Deserts Deserts cover a third of all land masses and are located in polar as well as equatorial regions. This program shows how they form and their major features.

23: Glaciers Responsible for such spectacular scenery as the Alps and Yosemite Valley, glaciers are important sculptors of Earth's surface.

24: Waves, Beaches and Coasts This program takes viewers to the beach, a dynamic zone where the sand is in constant motion, sensitive to variations in waves, winds, tides, currents, and human intervention.

Living With Earth

25: Living With Earth, Part I Expresses human responses to the destructive forces of natural phenomena, such as earthquakes and landslides.

26: Living With Earth, Part II Explores the impact of human activity on Earth and discusses ways in which people can shape their actions to benefit Earth.

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34. TOWARDS 2000 series 81 x 2 minutes video vignette on 4 videotapes

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35. The WORLD OF CHEMISTRY 26 x 30 minutes video programs

1: The World of Chemistry The relationships of chemistry to the other sciences and to everyday life.

2: Color The search for new colors in the mid-1800s boosted the development of modern chemistry.

3: Measurement: The Foundation of ChemistryThe distinction between accuracy and precision and their importance in commerce and science.

4: Modeling the Unseen Models are used to explain phenomena that are beyond the realm of ordinary perception.

5: A Matter of State Matter is examined in its three principal states--gases, liquids, and solids; relating the visible world to the submicroscopic.

6: The Atom Viewers journey inside the atom to appreciate its architectural beauty and grasp how atomic structure determines chemical behavior.

7: The Periodic Table The development and arrangement of the Periodic Table of Elements is examined.

8: Chemical Bonds The differences between ionic and covalent bonds are explained by the use of scientific models and examples from nature.

9: Molecular Architecture The program examines isomers and how electronic structure of a molecule's elements and bonds affects its shape and physical properties.

10: Signals from Within Chemists' knowledge of the interaction of radiation and matter is the basis for analytical methods of sensitivity and specificity.

11: The Mole Using Avogadro's law, the mass of a substance can be related to the number of particles contained in that mass.

12: Water The special chemical properties of water are explored, along with the need for its protection and conservation.

13: The Driving Forces Endothermic and exothermic reactions are investigated and the role of entropy is revealed.

14: Molecules in Action Observing molecules during chemical reactions helps explain the role of catalysts. Dynamic equilibrium is also demonstrated.

15: The Busy Electron The principles of electrochemical cell design are explained through batteries, sensors, and a solar-powered car.

16: The Proton in Chemistry Demonstrations explain pH, how it is measured and the important role of acids and bases.

17: The Precious Envelope The earth's atmosphere is examined through theories of chemical evolution, ozone depletion, and the greenhouse effect are explained.

18: The Chemistry of the Earth Silicon, a cornerstone of the high-tech industry, is one of the elements of the earth highlighted in this program.

19: Metals Malleability, ductility, and conductivity are examined, along with methods for extracting metals from ores and blending alloys.

20: On the Surface Surface science examines how surfaces react with each other at the molecular level.

21: Carbon The versatility of carbon's molecular structures and the enormous range of properties of its compounds are presented.

22: The Age of Polymers How chemists control the molecular structure to create polymers with special properties is explored.

23: Proteins: Structure and Function The program examines proteins--polymers built from only 20 basic amino acids.

24: The Genetic Code The structure and role of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA are investigated.

25: Chemistry and the Environment Dump-site waste management demonstrates chemistry's benefits and problems.

26: Futures Interviews with leaders from academia and industry explore the frontiers of chemical research.

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36. PRESERVING THE LEGACY. An introduction of environmental technology. A 13 parts telecourse. 1999 release for college and professionals.

1. The delicate balance part l 2. The delicate balance part ll 3. The force of law 4. Health effects of hazardous materials 5. Ecology 6. Paths of evolution 7. Air 8. Water 9. Hazarduos materials 10. Occupational safety & health 11. Waste part 1 12. Waste part 2 13. Sustaining earth

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37. CROSSROADS CAFE Product Array Described

The 26 half-hour videos in Crossroads Café are an entertaining adventure in building cultural awareness as well as English skills. Together with multi-level print and support materials, the Crossroads Café series represents a powerful tool for listening, reading, writing and speaking. Appropriate for low-beginning through high-intermediate level learners. Videos are available for audiovisual (AV) use.  

Crossroads Café Video Transcripts A -- Teachers will find any number of creative ways to use these verbatim transcripts from episodes 1-13, from role playing scenes to creating dialogue exercises. Crossroads Café Video Transcripts B -- Teachers will find any number of creative ways to use these verbatim transcripts from episodes 14-26, from role playing scenes to creating dialogue exercises. Episodes 1-6: Crossroads Café Module 1 -- The Module configuration makes "getting started" with Crossroads Café easier and more affordable. ISBN 1-58370-004-8. Episodes 7-13: Crossroads Café Module 2 -- Module 2 contains episodes 7 through 13 in the Crossroads Café series. ISBN 1-58370-005-6. Episodes 14-19: Crossroads Café Module 3 -- Module 3 contains episodes 14 through 19 in the Crossroads Café series. ISBN 1-58370-006-4. Episodes 20-26: Crossroads Café Module 4 -- Module 4 contains episodes 20 through 26 in the Crossroads Café series. ISBN 1-58370-007-2.