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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Can emerging technology defeat global warming? Travel the globe to reveal the surprising technologies that just might turn back the clock on climate change. Focusing on the latest and greatest innovations, including everything from artificial trees to green reboots of familiar technologies like coal and nuclear energy, Nova asks: 'Can our technology, which helped create this problem, now solve it?'
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How can we find our direction, our purpose? When we combine our energy and passion with our focused visions, we give ourselves direction and power. Focus Your Vision encourages us to develop our visions and turn them into reality. When we connect with our visions, and in doing so, release our passion; we have a better understanding of who we are, what we stand for, and where we are going.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Working well with others is critical to professional success, yet many people struggle with "authority issues" that can block their progress. Professor Gruenfeld combines research on the psychology of power with the acting skills of the theater to illustrate how our nonverbal behavior affects how we are perceived in a hierarchy—far more than the words or arguments we use. In fact, she notes, our words account for only 7% of our argument's impact....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Program highlights: Hierarchies are inevitable, so learn the rules of the game. Qualities that create power and why intelligence is not one of them. How we limit ourselves when it comes to acquiring power. Getting a job, having control over your work, and holding on to a job all require more than simply excelling at what you do. They require an understanding of power. According to Professor Pfeffer, individual power comes from political skill, which...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Are we branded for life? Branding is a revolution in marketing as well as a shift in how we view the world. Marketers create a world in which objects have personalities. One cannot understand youth culture, marketing, or our consumer society without an in-depth exploration of the power of brand names. Learn: The power of brands, how brands serve to bring things to life and change how we view the world, what is brand quality, brand extension, line...
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Life would be hard for anyone following the unexpected death of their father. But life is harder for young Adrian, Sheila, and Alfredo, because their family is not normal. Theirs is a family of cannibals and their father was the hunter. So not only do they have to cope with their grief, they also have to deal with the hunger. One of them must learn to kill if any of them are going to survive.
Cuando su padre muere, Adrian, Sheila y Alfredo deben...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alternative energy sources are being researched and developed to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Fluctuating costs of oil, coal and natural gas, along with their possible negative effects on the environment, has made energy sources such as wind and solar more cost-competitive with fossil fuels. More energy strikes the Earth in an hour than humans need in a year. We are now hard at work developing a variety of technologies to convert its power...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Traditional, single parent, blended or extended - there are many ways we define a family. Our families help make us the people that we are today. Learn the different types of families and the developmental roles they play, including physical, emotional, intellectual, social and moral development.--Kanopy.
Publisher
Kantola Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
**Program Highlights**.- 35% of US employees would rather get their boss fired than receive a big raise..- More employees are actively sabotaging their employers than the few who are working hard..- Narcissism and dishonesty are common traits of our most highly respected leaders...Why do leaders fail their people, their organizations, and even themselves, with unacceptable frequency? Despite almost seventy years of research, thousands of leadership...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the Great Plains to the ocean shore and out at sea, the race is on to make the United States the world's number one producer of wind power. We explore a new wind ranch to see the full range of new jobs from entry-level wind turbine technician to crane operator, wind power computer analyst and up to operations manager. We also visit a leading university taking part in the California Wind Energy Initiative where young wind power researchers are...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people on the planet, life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures...
Publisher
Learning Seed
Language
English
Formats
Description
Color is a power in your life. It shapes how you dress, what you eat, your physical appearance, the rooms you live in, and how you feel. What is color and why does it pack such power?. Explore the power and magic of color: • Color is the most powerful illusion in the world. Do your students think their eyes are a recording device? Discover that our eyes work more like a paint gun than a camera.. • The fact that we create color helps explain its...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
These two classic documentaries explore bicycle use and bicycle cultures in China, Europe, and the U.S. and show how bicycling is being taken up by many as a vital and powerful response to various environmental and social problems. We are traffic details the start of the critical mass movement.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Bonneville Power built several of the biggest and most powerful hydroelectric dams. We find out how these huge turbines work as well as what other groups like Fish and Game are doing to lessen the impact on the river and its fishy residents.
15) We Are the Giant
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This critically acclaimed documentary transports viewers to the front lines of the Arab Spring through the courageous stories of six extraordinary people grappling with the dilemma at the heart of all struggles for justice and freedom: whether to take up arms and fight, or to advocate change through peace and non-violence. Powerful, tragic and ultimately inspirational, WE ARE THE GIANT follows the everyday decisions that transform not just individual...
16) My Digital Life
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
My Digital Life explores the perils and possibilities of the brave new digital world. This thought-provoking video addresses issues of privacy and the digital footprint; misguided notions about multitasking and learning; as well as the value of being wired vs. unplugged. Are we really more connected or are we losing intrapersonal skills? Is this technology robbing us of our sleep, our free time? Is it controlling our lives? And, what should we be...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Why is power such a potent aspect of business? What do we mean by “power” in an organizational setting, and what are some of its work-related sources? How can you cultivate personal power within your organization? What strategies can you use to upwardly manage a relationship with your boss?.
Publisher
Film Ideas
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From wind power to green medicine, The Green Economy features practical ways the green economy is developing. Business leaders of our country are recognizing the need to refocus on responsible and sustainable ways to improve our world, all while making a tidy profit. The Green Economy showcases these improvements at work. We present the concept that we are the stewards of our world, necessitating a wise and conscientious caretaking of our environment...
19) Making Rounds
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
We spend almost a trillion dollars a year on high-tech tests and yet almost one fifth of patients are misdiagnosed. In Making Rounds we are introduced to the power and superiority of methods of traditional diagnosis based on decades of experience, doctor-patient discussions, physical touch, and personal observation. We follow two prominent cardiologists getting it right, teaching future doctors the 'old-fashion' art and science of a thorough bedside...
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