Kanopy (Firm)
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The outdoors is as valuable for babies as it is for older children and this film shows how the close adult can bring the outside world alive for them. Babies are sensory motor learners and outside all their senses are stimulated by the rich source of sensory experiences. Their physical development is advanced because the rich and varied environment motivates them to move their bodies in many ways. The film details development of vision, hearing and...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the world's greatest living painters, the German artist Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. The first glimpse inside his studio in decades, Gerhard Richter painting is exactly that: a thrilling document of the 79-year-old's creative process, juxtaposed with rare archival...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful beaches, wonderful scenery and friendly people, Thailand seems the ideal tourist destination. But what don't they tell you in the holiday brochure. The Thai tourist authority is pushing "ecotourism", which, in theory at least, doesn't damage the environment. Ecotourists take rafts down river, ride elephants in lush green spaces, visit Buddhist temples and tribal hill people whose lifestyles haven't changed for hundreds of years. But critics...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This beautifully realized documentary chronicles the life and work of Qi Shu Fang, one of the preeminent masters of Chinese Opera living in the United States. It is a story of ambition, love, the creative impulse and the struggle to survive against all odds. The film highlights the intricacies of Peking Opera, an art form that is hardly known in the West and is declining in popularity in China. At the same time it explores why Ms. Qi, her husband,...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Consider food as a major catalyst in human history, and what food choices reveal about our values and ambitions. Then study food culture in prehistoric times""our ancestors' wide-ranging diet of everything from mammoths and seafood to acorns, insects, seeds, and grasses""and the ways in which how they ate directly drove evolution.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With Becket dead and martyred, Henry faced the difficult task of keeping a secure hold on his many continental dominions and managing his children's futures. Learn how the many royal titles created by his family's politically intertwined bloodnlines created just as many possible conflicts.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Follow the history of the universe from just after the big bang to the far future, when the universe will consist of virtually empty space at maximum entropy. Learn what is well founded and what is less certain about this picture of a universe winding down.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tell Me How Career Series - Career Education and Opportunities for Young People. Recommended for both School, Public Libraries and Guidance Offices. The Tell Me How series is a necessary addition to any library, guidance center of school curriculum. It explores a large number of career opportunities for young people and features real people doing real jobs. In this program, host Melody Young goes on a fascinating visit with Nurse Anne Bolan. She...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Discover how the father of the Chinese nation combined ruthlessness and vision to unify his country, create the largest empire that part of the world had known, and execute a clear and coherent philosophy that would be China's political model for almost a millennium.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Stopmotion animator and filmmaker Ray Harryhausen's achievements and influence are incalculable. Numerous giants in the world of cinema have cited his work, especially in "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" (1958) as the most profound reason that they attempted a career in films. This program reflects on his pioneering career and the future of animation. Loaded with rare stills from throughout his many films and those of his key influence, Willis O'Brien...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
During adolescence, physical changes deeply affect an individual's self-concept. This impact is intensified when maturation is early or late. We discuss nutritional disorders, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, drug/alcohol use, and other related issues within the context of physical change.
93) Kitchen safety
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Is your kitchen out to get you? This video shows the kitchen as a workplace filled with potential danger from scalding water and sizzling oil to whirring blades and natural gas. It shows how to handle knives, prevent shocks, childproof a kitchen, avoid burns, and prevent e-coli contamination.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, get ready for more spring style from London! Daniela and Annette Felder look to iconic German model, Veruschka, and her "urban hippie" style to inspire their freespirited Spring 2015 Felder Felder collection. It's feral fashion on the catwalk at Giles! Jean-Pierre Braganza looks to filmmaker Matthew Barney's River of Fundament and the decay of the Detroit auto industry to inspire his apocalyptic spring collection....
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program describes what adequate hydration of elderly residents/clients is, as well as methods to prevent dehydration. Included are ways to deal with incontinence, monitoring intake and output and recognizing potential problems with residents/clients with IV's, gastrostomy or other tubes.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Professor Cook concludes his in-depth look at Chartres with a handsomely illustrated episode on its famous stained glass windows, as well as a description of how these brilliant works of art are created. Of the 175 glass windows in the cathedral, about 150 of them contain their original medieval glass.
97) Freedom: Kokoro
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Freedom is a documentary arts series featuring some of the world's most eccentric, eclectic and leading edge urban dance performers, movers, choreographers and companies. Freedom takes the viewer into the subculture of dance with the world as the backdrop. Hosted by contemporary dance legend Robert Desrosiers
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This training program highlights libraries that have replaced the Dewey Decimal System for customer use. Rethinking the call number visits the Maricopa Public Library (AZ) and the Frankfort Public Library (IL) to see how their conversion to a "Dewey-less" library has gone. The results have been pretty dramatic. Even if leaving Dewey behind is not an option, this offers plenty of ideas and suggestions about library layout, signs, shelving, and more....
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a nine-year-old OLGA is adopted from a small Russian orphanage, she must leave her beloved older brother behind, with little chance of ever seeing him again. LERA, 7, is torn by the loyalty to her birth mother and conflicting feelings toward her new North American family. We are witness to the girls' laughter and tears as well as the despair and the miracles which will change their young lives forever. Shot over 3 years, From Russia, For Love...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we present the luxe and lavish Autumn/Winter 2014-15 collections, hot off the runways from Milan! Donatella Versace explores the strength and power of the Versace woman in a collection inspired by her brother Gianni's military uniform collection. Peter Dundas of Emilio Pucci portrays a tribe of globetrotting glamazons with supermodels Eva Herzigova, Isabeli Fontana and Izabel Goulart strutting their stuff...