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Publisher
Kantola Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Susan Packard's three keys to great leadership: leaders are connected, leaders keep their organizations fresh, and leaders show courage. Easier said than done? Sharing lessons learned from failures as well as successes, Packard describes how to stay connected to customers and colleagues, always remembering that connections are reciprocal. She explains how innovation maintains your freshness while keeping your team motivated and engaged. And she details...
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
DVD; all regions; Dolby Digital; widescreen; NTSC. 1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Best selling yoga instructor Rodney Yee has created a unique program that includes five yoga segments that can be done separately or combined to create a custom workout. Segments include: Power Foundation; Strengthening Sun Salutations; Sculpting Standing Poses; Broadening Back Bends; and Ultimate Power Restoration.
Publisher
NGHT
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Take off beyond Earth's boundaries for the ultimate tour of our solar system. From Mars' monstrous mountains to Saturn's glittering rings, the sights are out of this world. Each hour offers breathtaking tours of the planets using modern-day high-tech telescopes and stunning CGI.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl from Brooklyn and a Duke University scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not exist: Chronic Lyme disease. The Quiet Epidemic follows their search for answers, which lands them in the middle of a vicious medical debate. What begins as a patient story evolves into an investigation into the history of Lyme disease, dating back to its discovery in 1975. A paper trail of suppressed...
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary alleging that the CDC, the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens, destroyed data on their 2004 study that showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved-but-dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Nominated for Best First Documentary, Best Documentary, and Best Director at the **Critics' Choice Documentary Awards**. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking: Directing at the **Newport Beach Film Festival**. *"A rich, thoughtful,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 82 min.)
Language
English
Description
Gene Sharp hardly seems like one of the world's most dangerous men. White-haired and soft-spoken, the 83-year-old professor mostly keeps to himself, spending much of his time in his small Boston home reading, writing, and tending to his orchid garden. But to the world's most brutal dictators, Professor Sharp's ideas have proven catastrophic. In this fascinating new film, first-time director Ruaridh Arrow details how an obscure list of nonviolent actions...
9) Mountain
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Only three centuries ago, setting out to climb a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, an upper world to be shunned, not sought out. Why do mountains now hold us spellbound, drawing us into their dominion, often at the cost of our lives? From Tibet to Australia, Alaska to Norway armed with drones, Go-Pros and helicopters, director Jennifer Peedom has fashioned an astonishing symphony of mountaineers,...
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Throughout its history Hollywood has portrayed Arabs as buffoons or bandits. The video seeks to rectify this stereotyping by comparing it to other forms of racist imagery and by suggesting alternative narratives that treat the Arabs as human, not demons.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four and a half billion years ago, how did life emerge on Earth? Robert Hazen advances a startling idea, that the rocks on Earth were not only essential to jump-starting life, but then, life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we rely upon today.
Publisher
Festival Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journey into the hidden lives of China's forgotten Zen Buddhist hermit tradition. A look at the lives of zealot students, gaunt ascetics and wise masters living in isolated hermitages dotting the peaks and valleys of China's Zhongnan Mountain range. The Zhongnan Mountains have been home to recluses since the time of the Yellow Emperor, some five thousand years ago. Many of China's most realized Buddhist masters attained enlightenment in this very...
13) Framing Agnes
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The pseudonymous Agnes was a pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender health study conducted at UCLA in the 1960s. Her clever use of the study to gain access to gender-affirming healthcare led to her status as a fascinating and celebrated figure in trans history. In this innovative cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt uses Agnes's story, along with others unearthed in long-shelved case...
14) Free solo
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Despite attempts by his friends, loved ones and his new girlfriend to dissuade him from this dangerous feat, Alex Honnold, the worlds most accomplished free soloist climber, prepares mentally and physically for his most daring adventure to date: scaling the 3200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope or safety gear. If he succeeds, it will mark the largest wall he, or anyone else, for that matter, has ascended without any kind of equipment.
16) Frida Kahlo
Series
Exhibition great art on screen volume EX26
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the truth behind her often turbulent life. Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, we take an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Using letters Kahlo wrote to guide us, this definitive film reveals her deepest emotions and unlocks the secrets and symbolism contained within her art. Exhibition on Screen’s trademark combination...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Workout fads come and go, but virtually no other exercise program is as enduring as yoga. It's been around for at least 5,000 years and some say much longer. Yoga does more than just burn calories, it's a total mind-body workout that combines strengthening the mind and body using stretching poses with deep breathing and meditation. This video contains some of the most popular and core-strengthening Hatha yoga poses. Each pose is illustrated by a...
18) Acasa, my home
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Romanian
Formats
Description
In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, an abandoned water reservoir just outside the bustling metropolis, the Enache family lived in perfect harmony with nature for two decades, sleeping in a hut on the lakeshore, catching fish barehanded, and following the rhythm of the seasons. When this area is transformed into a public national park, they are forced to leave behind their unconventional life and move to the city, where fishing rods are replaced...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From Academy Award®-nominated director Joe Berlinger comes a revelatory documentary that follows the trial of infamous gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, using it as a springboard to examine accusations of corruption within our nation’s justice system. Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival.
20) Native America
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Explores the world created by America's first peoples. The series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.
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