Kanopy (Firm)
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Reveals that simple surgical instruments, as well as patient wear, are produced for Swedish hospitals in unacceptable working conditions that even leads to environmental destruction. The film shows that Swedish tax money is funding production that violates the human rights of workers in India and Pakistan. Although private companies have been demanding suitable working conditions for the last ten years, Swedish county councils have not any such ethical...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Investigate the ease of recycling some materials, such as aluminum and asphalt, and the impracticality of reusing others, such as certain plastics. Look at the different types of plastic, metal, paper, and glass, and discover what you can put in the recycle bin and why.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, New York’s premier fashion designer, Carolina Herrera looks to the Kinetic Art movement and Venezuelan artists, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesús Rafael Soto, resulting in a graphically sophisticated Spring/Summer 2014 collection. After, not only a relaxing but also, an inspiring vacation in Mexico, Christian Siriano takes us to la Isla Mujeres--The Island of Women—for the warm weather season. Tory Burch gives...
45) The M Word
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
CANADA'S MULTICULTURALISM: A WORK IN PROGRESS Canada is the first country in the world to have an official multiculturalism policy, which is now over three decades old. Most people think that multiculturalism is a well entrenched principle in this country. Yet, at the first sign of disquiet in any part of the world, Canada's Multiculturalism policy is called into question. THIS HOT-BUTTON ISSUE IS CONFRONTED HEAD-ON IN THIS RIVETING DOCUMENTARY. The...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From 1933 through 1945, Ethel Butler was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company. She went on to become a well-known teacher of the Graham Technique, counting among her students Paul Taylor and Dan Wagoner. In this piece, Ms. Butler talks about her life in dance and recounts her earliest memories of working with Martha Graham.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tell Me How Career Series - Career Education and Opportunities for Young People. Recommended for both School, Public Libraries and Guidance Offices. The Tell Me How series is a necessary addition to any library, guidance center of school curriculum. It explores a large number of career opportunities for young people and features real people doing real jobs. In this program, host Jeff Gardner visits a travel agent while Melody looks after all the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Vincent Scully is likely the best-known living art historian in the United States today. Until recently, he was still teaching at his alma mater, Yale University, where a wide variety of students were drawn to his undergraduate history of art and architecture courses. For years, Scully's deep engagement with the subject and his passionate presentation style have inspired his students to value these subjects. Many of them have gone on to become prominent...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tell Me How Career Series - Career Education and Opportunities for Young People. Recommended for both School, Public Libraries and Guidance Offices. The Tell Me How series is a necessary addition to any library, guidance center of school curriculum. It explores a large number of career opportunities for young people and features real people doing real jobs. In this program host Jeff Gardner introduces career firefighter Allen McWhirter. He discusses...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Beginning as a post-Romantic composer, Alexander Scriabin made a dramatic transition, embracing theosophy and a vision of music as mystical revelation. In this daring, modernist piece, see how Scriabin shapes a musical narrative in which tonal and nontonal music coexist.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Venture into the former territory of the Holy Roman Empire in this highlight of the most famous Gothic cathedrals from this part of Europe. Here, study the Gothic cathedrals of Strasbourg, Cologne, and Prague, as well as the exuberance of Kutna Hora's cathedral in the Czech Republic.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn what it takes to consistently break one of the toughest scoring barriers in golf. AJ Bonar presents everything that you will need to know to become a better golfer and start breaking 90 every time you play. Among the topics covered are: putting, chipping, the 135 yard shot and golf rules and etiquette. This comprehensive video is an excellent resource for players of all abilities.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Professor Garland takes you into the Battle of Marathon to show how the outnumbered Athenians scramble for help before heading to the coast for an impressive fight against the invading Persians. The Athenian debates, their surprise running charge into battle, and the strenuous marches come to life in visceral detail.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Year in Fashion 2011 brings you the brightest fashion highlights of the past 12 months! Marc Jacobs presented a runway full of high shine Seventies luxe paying tribute to the legendary Yves Saint Laurent for Spring Summer 2011. And Karl Lagerfeld channeled the French film, ‘Last Year at Marienbad’ for another breathtaking Chanel presentation. It was also the year of blockbuster exhibits from the Costume Institute’s tribute to the late Alexander...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For Shigeko Kubota the video image-making process is a cultural and personal experience. She has explored cross-cultural relationships in her video diaries, transient images captured by portable equipment while traveling"”Kubota's "comparative videology." She has also combined fleeting video images with the "objecthood" of sculptural form in her series of video sculptures inspired by Duchamp. "I'm a sculptor," Kubota says in this interview with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this landmark interview by Randall C. Wyatt, Seligman emphasizes that happiness is not just the absence of disorder, as "psychology as usual" might contend. Rather, happiness derives from an execution of our signature strengths. Seligman demonstrates a new set of rigorously tested interventions that lastingly increase happiness while decreasing depression. Dr. Seligman discusses his predecessors Maslow, Rogers, and Beck, what he took from them,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Key topics explored in this video series include: Value analysis, Product life cycle, Product portfolio, Boston matrix, Product differentiation, Brand extension/product extension. An exploration of what most marketers would regard as the most important element of the Marketing mix: Product.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Chinese development has depended on a vast influx of 250 million migrant workers into the cities - some have prospered but most are poorly paid and housed, with few rights. Mass protests mean the government can no longer take them for granted. THE TRAINEE CHEF'S STORY Li Xu Bin is a migrant worker like millions of others, on low pay and with little job security, living with his wife in a single room in Beijing's suburbs. They have left their child...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of the incredible and enduring friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, and how they gave birth to the literary movement of the Beat Generation. It begins in New York, at the end of the Second World War, travels through San Francisco, Mexico City, Tangier, Paris and ends fifteen years later with the publication of Howl (Ginsberg), of On the Road (Kerouac) and Naked Lunch (Burroughs). Each...