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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Presents lectures by Darren Staloff. These lectures are based on the seminar course at Columbia University on Western intellectual history augmented by additional lectures by selected guest lecturers. Gives a guided tour through 3,000 years of Western thought.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Most are single character representation and were a riot and very likeable, while the format is a five-minute monologue. Ning Nong Nang, the Vietnamese donut-store owner delivers hers at the end of a long day in the kitchen with her bare feet resting
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
We've all asked ourselves whether there is any meaning in human life. But for philosophers, this is just the first question of many: Is such a question even answerable by philosophy? And if so, can the practice of philosophy itself pursue a positive answer? Can philosophy prove life has any meaning? These 24 accessible lectures offer a thoughtful and stimulating discussion of how some of the greatest minds in the past three centuries have pondered...
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Professor Calhoone explores modern and contemporary western philosophy of reality (metaphysics) and knowledge (epistemology), from the 17th to the 20th century, spanning movements such as empircism, rationalism, idealism, philosophy of language, logical positivism, existentialism, pragmatism, phenomenology, and postmodernism.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Now a master Waterbender, Aang leaves the Northern Water Tribe to continue his quest to master the next element, Earth. Along with Katara and Sokka, they visit new Earth Nation cities, encounter a slew of different Earth Kingdom citizens, and even reunite with a crazy old king. Benders have incredible powers to manipulate the elements around them. Only one can control all four elements. That person is the Avatar.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Aing and his friends enter the Fire Nation with the goal of secretly entering to the Royal Palace, where they will eventually confront and defeat the Firelord. Along the way, they discover that the people of the Fire Nation are not all that different in their needs and desires from the other peoples of the world.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Sky
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800, a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still. This course consolidates and enhances material from two of Professor Kors's earlier courses, The origin of the modern mind and The mind of the enlightenment.
12) Going my way
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Father O'Malley is a young priest. He is new to an established but financially flailing parish. When his philosophies on how to relieve the parish's financial troubles come into conflict with those of crumudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the result is a t
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Part two of Ayn Rand's groundbreaking novel. The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to a mounting energy crisis, a revolutionary motor that could seemingly power the World. It's a race against the clock to find the inventor...
14) Elemental
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where Fire, Water, Earth and Air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
Author
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory. Explains why the central figures, elements, and creeds of Christianity are hard to fathom yet give Christianity its distinctive character. Covers topics such as Christianity's birth and expansion across the Mediterranean world, the development of its doctrine, its...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Philosophical examination of the wide range of decisions all of us encounter in pursuing our lives. Professor Grim places the accent on individual choice covering questions about evolution and ethics, about whether punishment is justified by retribution or by deterrence and about the differing lessons drawn from life's worst horrors by both religious and anti-religious traditions.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Discusses the evolution of the understanding of what is encompassed by the term human rights ; the forces and individuals which brought about changes in thought and behavior and the interconnection of human rights with history, religion, philosophy, literature, economics, science, technology, and the arts.--Course guidebook.
18) Georgia rule
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Rachel is a rebellious teenager who is uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in mom Lily's San Francisco home. Lily hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she'd never return, her mother's Idaho farm. Georg
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hinduism is the world's oldest living religious tradition, with roots deep in the ancient cultures of the Indus Valley civilization and the Aryan society from Central Asia, which combined to create a highly diverse family of religions and philosophies. Topics explored in detail include the sacred scripture the Veda, transmigration of the soul, reincarnation, and karma. Hinduism can be both monotheistic and polytheistic, and systems of social stratification...
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