Kanopy (Firm)
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Five 8 Minute Video lessons hosted by native speakers who teach viewers correct pronunciation. The main method employed is phonics which implies that pronunciation should be one of the first things to learn in English. The audience is taught to pronounce separate sounds, phonemes, diphthongs, etc. with the help of simple words and word combinations. The program is intended for viewers with elementary and pre-intermediate levels who are just taking...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, New York Fashion Week continues to steal the headlines! Miami to Manhattan, graffitied and collaged, street art has stylish impact on Donna Karan’s Spring 2015 collection. It’s a bouquet of laidback luxury from perennial favorite, Michael Kors! Kors, the king of comfort, makes sportswear classics optimistically chic for the upcoming season. Plus, Peter Som’s Pop Art prints create clean crisp summer...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Having the correct customer service skills can maintain a company's image and prevent them from losing customers. Knowing how to handle frustrated customers and when to get a supervisor involved to resolve serious problems is discussed in this role-playing and case study video.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
A fast-moving thriller about a struggle for democracy, William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is also a love story between two men united by an explosive act of political violence. Based on the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed stage production, Gregory Doran's film for BBC Television sets the action in post-independence Africa. With echos of the recent overthrow of dictators during the 'Arab Spring', the production explores the implications of political...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a world where designer labels come and go at the drop of a fashionable hat, only the strongest survive. Designer Marathon takes you from the humblest of beginnings through the most spectacular creations that catapulted these designers and design houses to fame. We map out a career timeline of the most influential trendsetters of the last three decades as they build their far-reaching fashion empires. Volume 6 includes: Badgley Mischka, Emanuel...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With a career that spanned 45 years, Valentino Garavani was born in a small town in northern Italy. His single name became synonymous with refinement. Valentino dressed rock to royalty - all with a capital V. No other designer was more true to elegance and beauty. He brought Italian couture to the international stage and his retirement in 2008 was a magical end to a long run.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
For more then twenty years, tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from all around the world has been transported to a Chinese town called Fengjang, in the south of Shanghai. Around 50,000 migrant workers have formed a real army to dismantle these metallic wastes. These green soldiers decompose, cut, split and recycle, with the most rudimentary means, almost 2 million tons of garbage every year. To remain and assume the minimum materials that...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Obsessive compulsive disorder, also known as OCD, is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorder. In this program we explore some of the strange and ritualized behaviors associated with the disorder and the resulting adverse affects, as well as relevant neurological findings unique to OCD. Join us as healthcare professionals and educators share some of the current treatment options and challenges that this disorder presents in the home, vocational...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dulwich Picture Gallery is England's first purpose-built public art gallery. Designed by Sir John Soane, the influential building holds one of the world's finest Old Master collections including great works by Poussin, Rubens, Canaletto, Reynolds and Gainsborough. This film goes behind the scenes at the gallery, and offers an insider's view of a vibrant working world. Included are the restoration of Rembrandt's glorious Girl at a Window, exhibition...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
How was Robespierre overthrown? As the Terror intensifies, you will follow an exhausted Robespierre as he battles to maintain control, and you will meet a group known as the Thermidorians, who would take control of France and dismantle the Terror.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
A video from ECU's archive of documentaries and teaching films. In this programme Dr Sherry Saggers, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University, and co-author of 'Aboriginal Health in Society: The Traditional and Contemporary Aboriginal Struggle for Better Health', argues the case for contextualising poor Aboriginal health within the political economy of Australian Society. This well-illustrated programme condenses a wide range of issues into a useful...
12) Asthma in adults
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Asthma is an inflammatory condition of the airways which causes them to narrow in response to a wide range of trigger factors. The narrowing is caused by muscle constriction, inflammation of the lining of the airways and excess mucus production. Common symptoms are coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and difficulty in breathing. This Speaking From Experience program offers offer first-hand accounts from people living with the affects of asthma....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Everglades National Park (The United States of America) - The Everglades National Park, with its vast virgin wetlands and mangrove forest, is a veritable treasury of wildlife. The gently flowing waters of the Everglades situated at the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula, is an avian paradise and a home to alligators and crocodiles. Dense mangrove forests thrive where the fresh waters of the wetlands finally meet the seawater of the Gulf of Mexico....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD and the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were completely buried. For 1600 years, their secrets were lost in time. When a peasant in the early 1700s discovered marble blocks while deepening his well, he discovered Herculaneum. Thus began the removal of anything valuable from both cities. In the 1800s, significant and groundbreaking archaeology of the sites began. Guiseppe Fiorelli was the inspiration for new methods...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
From the narrow streets of Nice to the gleaming corridors of Wall Street, Daring Capers tracks some of the world's most fascinating criminals and their audacious crimes. Here's a rogue's gallery of bank robbers, art thieves, and debonair con artists who tried to steal their way to wealth through brilliant ploys and slick transactions. These are some of the most outlandish and unlawful get-rich-quick schemes ever exposed. Some were even successful....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Art director: reports to the production designer. The person responsible for designing and supervising the construction of all sets and scenery, overseeing the painting and dressing of all sets, and coordinating much of the logistical elements for the art department. --Set decorator: responsible for overseeing research, acquisition and allocation of items required to dress the various sets. --Gaffer: the head of the lighting and electrical departments...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Chart the development of ancient Jewish rock-cut tombs and burial customs. First, peer inside an Iron-Age cemetery at Ketef Hinnom and view the scant remains of the epic Mausoleum at Halicarnassos. Then, ponder the undiscovered Tomb of the Maccabees, and crawl through the burial chambers of Jason's Tomb in Jerusalem.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Extensive readings, critical insights and biographical details are used to develop a texteured portrait of Walt Whitman and to demonstrate his innovative influences on American literature. The program explores his visions of political democracy, social harmony, and sensual joy in nature and the continuity of life. Photography of New York scenes illustrates selections from "Leaves Of Grass," "Drum Taps," and "Specimen Days."