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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For American Arthur Kok, the Chinese language—along with its history and culture—was a million worlds away. It might as well have been Martian-speak. Yet it also represented an ancient civilization that won his respect and interest. Thus began a journey that spanned 6,000 miles and sparked a love interest. Join him and host Melissa Hyak as they learn the art of modern Chinese drumming, juggle trays and trolleys as “dim-sum waiters” for a day,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In this episode, Melissa Hyak meets Vanessa Shih, hailed as the most beautiful career diplomat from Taiwan. Melissa bravely takes Ms Shih on in a Chinese riddle competition during the Mid-Autumn Festival, with questions ranging from Song dynasty poems to local TV programs. How will Melissa fare against the former Taiwan government spokesperson in this challenge? The Representative of Taipei also invites Melissa to her home and prepares four seasonal...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Chinese
Description
Tse-ven Soong was born in Shanghai. He graduated from St. John’s University, earned a master’s degree at Harvard University, and received a doctoral degree at Columbia University. In 1923, he worked for Sun Yat-sen as an English-speaking secretary, and because of his academic background, he soon was in charge of finance for the Kuomintang. In 1924, he was made governor of the Central Bank of China. In 1925, his remarkable achievements enabled...
Series
Language
Español
Description
In 1978 Dámaso Alonso (1998-1990), poet, philologist and academic, has just received the Cervantes Prize and five volumes of his Complete Works have already been published. Describes the first departure to the world of the generation of 27, the origins of philology "Menéndez Pidal was the only philologist in 1905, with eight disciples, and from there multiply like a pyramid." He also talks about the transformation of the Royal Academy. The author...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], c1997
Language
English
Description
This program details the history of this dynamic medium from its modest beginnings. In 1949, cable meant television for locations that had very poor reception or were inaccessible to broadcast signals. By the mid-1970s, cable service began to expand rapidly due to the easing of government restrictions and the use of satellite transmissions. Fiber optics, new cable-ready TVs, and an explosion of programming by an ever-growing number of networks helped...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"100 Places to See After You Die is written in the style of iconic bestselling travel guides. But instead of recommending must-see destinations in Mexico, Thailand, or Rome, this book outlines journeys through the afterlife, as dreamed up over the past 5,000 years of human history by our greatest prophets, poets, mystics, artists, and TV showrunners. Where's the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian underworld? Which circles of...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010], c2007
Language
English
Description
How does it feel to have directed a widely acknowledged masterpiece in not one but two different film genres? Only a handful of movie impresarios know, and chief among them is William Friedkin-the man who thrilled and terrified audiences with The French Connection and The Exorcist. In this program, Friedkin discusses the making of those classics and other hallmarks of his distinguished career. He recalls the laborious process of casting the Popeye...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us, and our ability to shape them right back"--
Pub. Date
[2013], c2010
Language
English
Description
This talkie is the only film costarring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. In addition, this print of the 1966 rerelease - the only version Pickford allowed after her 1933 retirement - features new music and sound effects added by Marty Kemp of the Mary Pickford Company during his painstaking restoration of the film. With seven minutes of extraneous footage removed in pieces to tighten the editing and new rerecording techniques to improve the sound...
Series
Language
English
Description
A single issue of The New York Times is said to contain more information than could be learned in a lifetime by a person living in the 15th century. This program traces the development of books, newspapers, and magazines in the Western world, from the invention of the printing press, metal type, paper, and oil-based ink to the present day. Experts from the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University Press, MIT, and The New York Times discuss the effect...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2010
Language
English
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Description
This program presents two delightful versions of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol - a Victorian morality tale about an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one Christmas Eve. The first is the 1923 silent version of A Christmas Carol, also released to theaters as Scrooge. Directed by Edwin Greenwood, from the screenplay by Eliot Stannard, it was produced by Edward...
15) Arab Conspiracy
Pub. Date
[2013], c2008
Language
English
Description
As the temperatures in the Middle East rise, Saudi Arabian diplomat Khalil (Sean Connery) wants not only to make peace with Israel, but also to admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. As the other OPEC nations argue among themselves, Khalil instantly becomes a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the aid of his friend Hamid (Albert Paulsen) and his girlfriend, Nicole (Cornelia Sharpe)....
Pub. Date
[2013], c2008
Language
English
Description
Set in Italy's romantic yet tragedy-filled Rome, this haunting and complex melodrama is based on the best-selling Muriel Spark novel. In one of her least known performances, Elizabeth Taylor stars as a deranged, psychotic spinster looking for a man to whom she can give herself-completely. She embarks on a series of chilling adventures to keep a date with a mystery lover. But when she finds him, she demands far more than love... She demands murder!...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Most of us are clueless when it comes to the physics that makes our modern world so convenient. What's the simple science behind motion sensors, touch screens, and toasters? How do we glide through tolls using an E-Z Pass, or find our way to new places using GPS? In The Physics of Everyday Things, James Kakalios takes us on an amazing journey into the subatomic marvels that underlie so much of what we use and take for granted.
Breaking down the...
20) From gay to Z
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Do you know your gAyBCs? ABBA, ACT Up, Angels in America, James Baldwin, But I'm a Cheerleader, Joan Crawford, Laverne Cox . . . This illustrated celebration and exploration of queer history and culture-based on performer Justin Elizabeth Sayre's hit five-part show The gAyBCs-collects hundreds of witty readable short texts on pop culture moments, iconic figures, ongoing challenges in the LGBTQ+ community, and everything in between, all delivered...
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