Kanopy (Firm)
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The mystery of one of the most efficient eating and breeding machines in nature. This starfish eats only one thing - coral. It has already reached uncontrollable numbers over a large part of the Great Barrier Reef. Also under impact from global warming and coral bleaching, this diverse and delicate reef ecosystem is under extreme pressure.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, New York Fashion week hits its stride with some of the season's most celebrated collections! Michael Kors, the king of all things classic, delivers a covetable collection brimming with opulence and ease. Whether day or night, the Monique Lhuillier woman is ready for everything! Capturing a Bohemian vibe, it's layered and laid back at BCBG Max Azria!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Revisit the concept of earth-diver and emergence origin stories and see how they differ in the Southwest as you explore air-spirit people and their intriguing fables. Gain a deeper understanding of the duality of the Trickster as he both thwarts and contributes to the cultivation of the world.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The many interpretive tools you've studied leave you with the ability to engage meaningfully with any Shakespeare play. In concluding, look at three plays you have not yet studied in detail"”Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, and As You Like It"”and see how the tools allow you to directly appreciate their structures, devices, and deeper meanings.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This is a story of coal, communism, and the Australian prime minister who went to war against his own during the national miners' strike of 1949. Using rare archival footage and re-creations based on meticulous research, the dramatised documentary takes viewers into the corridors of power to show how Labor Party leader Ben Chifley took on and defeated the growing forces of communism in Australia. The film examines the complex issues that the conflict...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Character Is Destiny, hosted by national ethics expert Russell W. Gough, illustrates the importance of doing the right thing every time. Key Concepts: Thoughts: Where Character Begins Acts: Knowing What's Right, Doing What's Right Habits: Making Good Character Second Nature Character: Our Behavior Reflects Our Being Destiny: We Reap What We Sow Our character largely defines not only how we approach small ethical choices, and even dilemmas, but...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The fortifications of this exquisite, romantic city were considered virtually impregnable. Study in detail Carcassonne's complex military defenses and the brilliant strategy behind their use. Then visit the monumental Castle of the Counts, with its dramatic towers, portcullises, and layers of defense"”a stronghold of the French crown in an unstable region.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
2004 welcomed a return to sophistication with the stunning craftsmanship of young designers including Olivier Theyskens at Rochas and newcomers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez at Proenza Schouler. Perennial provocateur Alexander McQueen awed the fashion world with a spectacular depression-era dance marathon. Christopher Bailey deftly updated the house hallmarks for Burberry Prorsum. Meet three doe-eyed new beauties who dolled up the runways:...
50) The Running Game
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Australian rugby union team's tour to the United Kingdom is the most prestigious a player can make for his country. Surrounded by controversy and sustained by comradeship they travel through Britain during the worst winter this century. Great sports footage combines with sociological observation in this intense and personal view behind the scenes on the greatest tour of all. Reviews: "All sporting documentaries should be this good." Brian Mossop....
51) Foreign parts
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Anthropological in scope, sensuous in detail and emotionally resonant throughout, Foreign parts is an exemplary social record of Willets Point, an industrial graveyard of scrap heaps and auto shops in Queens, New York, that is scheduled to be demolished and redeveloped. Filled with scrapyards and auto salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area seems ripe for urban development. But Foreign parts discovers a strange community where wrecks,...
53) Houses of straw
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film shows the recent development of strawbale building in Germany. In interviews with owners, builders, architects and experts many relevant green building topics are discussed. Straw is an annually renewable crop, available wherever grain crops are grown. It is indeed a waste product, much of which is currently burnt in the fields. The thick walls offer superior insulation value. With a natural plaster, straw bale walls 'breath' and together...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jump into the distinctive elements of African mythology with the story of Shango-a fearsome king of the city-kingdom of Oyo who later became a god. Explore how the cyclical structure of the story is another distinctive feature of African myths. Rather than moving in a straight line, African myths may start in the middle, seem to end, circle back to the beginning, and then reach a conclusion.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Discusses rational appeals used extensively in B2B advertising vs. the use of emotional appeals common to consumer advertising. Using both print ads and TV commercials, shows examples of the five most common emotional appeals of Humor, Sex, Security, Fear, and Shock. The success of each appeal is well documented by 15 advertising research studies cited in the program. A clinical psychologist briefly comments on the natural human response to...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At dawn on 25 April 1999, 5,000 young Australian backpackers gathered with the Governor General of Australia, Sir William Deane, to commemorate ANZAC Day - the last time the ceremony would be held at the tiny cemetery of Ari Burnu. The occasion was not unlike the many that had gone before and since, except for that one poignant detail. Conducted every year at Gallipoli, the official ceremony was held at Ari Buru, just a few hundred metres from where...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Intended to provide a complete and permanent record of surviving traditions and skills in textiles and crafts, the Ends of the Earth unique series show the processes in full, in detail and with all the clarity and colour made possible by modern video cameras. In many ways they are better than being there - pausing and replaying gives the possibility of checking again where the quickness of the hands has eluded or deceived the eye. This video shows...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, learn first about distinctive African foodways that predated extensive outside contact, encompassing traditions such as rich stews and "fufu" (starch-based porridges), regional eating rituals, and important indigenous foodstuffs. Then review the surprising variety of Australian plant and animal species used in aboriginal cookery but never adopted by European settlers.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Grasp how the ancient Greeks' need for arable land led to their imperial and mercantile system, and consider what we learn about their food culture from Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, and Plato. Observe the role of food in the rituals of festivals, religious cults, and symposia, and study simple components of the classical Greek diet that later influenced the rest of the world.