Kanopy (Firm)
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Explore techniques for photographing wildlife, whether it's birds in your backyard or lions on a safari. Learn how to set up a blind to conceal you from your subject, where to find the best places to photograph flora and fauna, common mistakes that wildlife photographers should avoid, and more.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Imagine a place where steam is so acidic that it burns your lungs, where flaming, liquid sulfur condenses from that steam, and a turquoise-colored lake is filled with the equivalent of battery acid. This hellish place is the crater lake of Kawah Ijen on the island of Java in Indonesia.
83) Khodorkovsky
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The true rags-to-riches-to-rags story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oligarch who spoke out against state corruption, only to be arrested and convicted on transparently false tax and embezzlement charges. Stolen twice from the filmmaker's office before its Berlin premiere, this is investigative journalism as political thriller.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Specifically designed for and correlated to the curriulum of a primary school science course, this series explores key topics on particicles and matter and helps instructors to teach challenging concepts. The films, and accompanying teacher materials, are a great asset for teachers and teachers in training to use to integrate video into their lesson plans to capture the attention of students and enhance learning. The videos in the series include:...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Mongolian
Description
A nomadic Mongolian family find themselves in disagreement when the oldest daughter, Nansaa, finds a small dog and brings it home. Believing that it is responsible for attacking his sheep, her father won't allow her to keep it. When the family to move on, Nansaa must decide whether to defy her father and take her new friend with them.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Newton was the first to realize that objects could, in theory, be sent into orbit around Earth. Explore how this works in practice, using the ideas of energy and angular momentum to study how satellites, moons, planets, and stars move through space.
87) George Romney
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
George Romney (1734-1802) was a key figure in British art in the late eighteenth century. A contemporary of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, he was a fashionable, prolific and at times dazzling portrait painter. Originally from the Lake District, Romney moved to London in 1762, abandoning his wife in the process. After a visit to Italy, he found numerous patrons attracted by his immaculate draughtsmanship and spontaneous style. Along with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Australia is at the forefront of new genetic technology that will let us "design" our descendants. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or PGD allows scientists to screen embryos conceived through IVF. But what is the potential of this technology and who should decide how to use it? For families suffering incurable or debilitating genetic diseases, PGD seems to be the longed-for miracle. But where do you draw the line? Some believe the next step is...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we're back in Milan for more Italian style! The highly troubled muses of Grey Gardens and Girl, Interrupted take to the runway at Dsquared2. Anna Molinari explores an imperial glamour for her Autumn/Winter 2014-2015 Blumarine collection. Take a look back at the colorful world of Moschino, then see designer Jeremy Scott's delicious debut for the Italian house!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, before the start of the Ralph Lauren Collection Fall 2014 show, the iconic designer treated his guest to the launch of his new Polo line for women. The brand's signatures of Navajo, boho and sportif were clearly present. At the other end of the Ralph Lauren spectrum, Collection embodied flawless refinement from start to finish. Michael Kors took us on a luxe American sportswear journey that began in California's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Growing trees is not totally the job of Mother Nature anymore! Making sure logging doesn't tax future growth too much is an ever more increasingly important task. Using a relatively new high tech invention, the helicopter, to harvest hasn't been around that long but offers an interesting alternative to logging. We look at growing, managing and cutting of the new sustainable forest.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The road to Brown tells the story of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling as the culmination of a brilliant legal assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rights movement. It is also a moving and long overdue tribute to a visionary but little known black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, "the man who killed Jim Crow." The road to Brown plunges us into the nightmare world of Jim Crow that robbed former slaves of the rights granted by the 14th...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Meet Randall, one of 20 million people worldwide shopping for a shirt on any given day. Amazingly, he and the 19,999,999 others find a shirt they want to buy. Who's behind this remarkable system that supplies shirts, food, shelter and most other desires of daily life?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Carole S. Vance is an anthropologist and writer and Associate Research Scientist of Public Health and Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at Columbia University. She has written extensively on sexuality and public policy, as well as issues of gender, health, and medical anthropology. Her books include Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (1984 and 1993) and Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, the Autumn/Winter 2015-15 shows continues in the city that never sleeps! New York's premier designer, Carolina Herrera, turns to nature and considers the beauty of water. The 1941 Hollywood classic Blood and Sand is the inspiration for the Badgley Mischka Fall 2015 collection! Plus, Jason Wu gives glamour a sleek appeal!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, the Ralph Lauren Collection gives cargos the ultra luxe treatment. Lauren, the 7th Avenue rainmaker of timeless elegance, makes safari chic a definite Spring 2015 reality! Tory Burch looks to Pablo Picasso and the effortless allure of his muse, artist Francoise Gilot, for inspiration. For Jason Wu, the key word is “beauty.” Wu looks to the nonchalant style of Charlotte Rampling, and he also gives a nod...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
As businesses increasingly outsource operations across the globe, it's essential that you train your people how to work across technology with other cultures. To survive in business today, you need to master the often overlooked but potentially damaging impact of ancient culture on 21st century communications. Ideal for team building exercises, the Building the Virtual Team video observes a group leader and the problems she faces as she struggles...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of 38 outstanding species of mammals of the Orinoco-Amazon area plus others of the pacific slopes of Los Andes and the Galapagos islands. Possums, Armadillo, Sloth, anteaters, ten species of monkeys, seven species of rodents, including the biggest ones in the world like capybaras and agoutis, Ocelot, Puma, Jaguarundi and Jaguar, foxes, the Spectacled Bear, Kinkajou, Coati, Tayra, the Tapir, seals from Galapagos and more. A 37 minutes...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Chart the evolution of life revealed in the extraordinary fossils of the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. This mountainside quarry records the proliferation of new organisms"”both familiar and bizarre"”that followed a mass extinction half a billion years ago.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Combined technology spending in today's global economy now tops {dollar}4.2 trillion dollars, a number larger than the gross domestic product of most nations. This rising global "Technology Economy" is most certainly a driving force in business today. In this program, IT benchmarking expert, Dr. Howard Rubin, introduces us to "Technology Economics," and explains how by "recognizing, mapping and understanding the interaction of technology investment...