Classic work in which the Swiss psychologist categorizes human behavior into attitude-types of introversion and extroversion as well as function-types distinguished by thinking, feeling, sensation, or intuition.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

Describes what exactly maps are, and what they tell us. How people used sticks and clay to plot their routes. Have satellite changed our view of Earth? Learn how the layers of a map are put together, and plan and draw your own map. By exploring mapmaking, one can find out how maps help us to investigate the world we live in.

Ever since there has been work to do, people have looked for easier ways to complete their tasks. These imaginative videos offer fresh perspectives on how machines are used to make work easier. Animation, graphics, video, and narration are combined to vividly explain the basic physical concepts associated with work, energy, and the six simple machines. Special appearances by a hard-working caveman help put the development of machines into historical...

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

In this video with director and acting coach Joel Asher, actors' agents from various size firms talk about how they look for talent, respond to unsolicited resumes, and feel about videos accompanying pictures and resumes. The discuss what one should look for in an agent and how they feel the relationship between actors and agents should be. The agents interviewed are Edward J. Adler, Patricia Dawson, Peter Giagni, Jeannine S. Cosden, and Steven R....

Describes a day in the life of a Massachusetts lighthouse keeper.

Maybe it's hearing about friends, driving home from a dance, who get into a car wreck that no one survives. Or a fellow student - the one who wears a bandanna to hide what chemotherapy has done to her hair - one day fails to show up for homeroom. Or an announcement over the school's PA system: "There will be a memorial service this afternoon..." For many young people, this will be their first exposure to death. How can teachers and school administrators...

In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker and renowned Langston Hughes biographer Arnold Rampersad talk about "The Poet Laureate of Harlem" with award-winning filmmaker Bruce Schwartz. Together they discuss experiences that shaped young Langston, how he came to be a writer, the beauty of his writing style, his practice of reaching out to aspiring writers, and the Harlem Renaissance as a literary and cultural watershed. They also discuss...