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Students learn to use a systematic approach to locate electrical problems: know the circuit, isolate the problem, test components, fix the problem, and retest the circuit. Viewers also learn about common problems found in resistors, capacitors, relays, circuit breakers, motors, and other components.
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What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" - call it Atheism 2.0 - that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual, and transcendence. Through his witty and literate books and his School of Life, Alain de Botton helps others find fulfillment in the everyday.
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The life and work of Pablo Neruda-Nobel Laureate, statesman, renowned poet-both reflect and embody the events that shaped the 20th century. Born in Chile, he fled as a political refugee in 1948, not to return until 1952. Through archival material, Neruda's writings, and interviews with family, friends, and scholars, this program presents Neruda's life and the times that molded it.
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With sales of more than 32 million books in 51 languages, Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho is one of the most widely read authors in the world. This program captures Coelho's story through conversations with the award-winning writer and those who know and admire him. Coelho's use of a symbolic language, designed to transcend the intellect to speak directly to the heart, is discussed along with colorful incidents spanning his life, from his youthful involvement...
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In this program, novelist V. S. Naipaul, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature, explores the relationship between a writer and his work, offering insights into his life, his career, and his subtly incisive novel/memoir The Enigma of Arrival. In particular, he contrasts the inspiration of living in the English countryside with the Caribbean, Indian, and African influences that dominate his earlier writings. Excerpts from Miguel Street, A House...
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After the death of Franco and during the transition to a parliamentary monarchy, Spain's cultural life blossomed once again. In this environment, the poetry movement known as "the other sentimentality"-named after the first book of Javier Egea and Luis Garcia Montero-was born, a movement known for its transformation of the personal experience into a collective one so that any reader might identify with the feelings evoked. This program discusses that...
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Between the privatization of state-owned monopolies on the one hand and advances in information technology and e-commerce on the other, European economies are undergoing drastic changes to keep up with the times. Module one of this program focuses on institutional change, as the British electricity market undergoes privatization, while module two examines technological change through the case study of the German online bookstore ABC Bucherdienst,...
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This program from the Famous Authors series traces James Joyce's life from his childhood and university days in Ireland, during which he was strongly religious, through his time in Paris where he denounced Catholicism, studied medicine, and began writing poetry, articles, and book reviews. The film introduces viewers to the city of Dublin, the background of Ulysses, Dubliners, and his other works. Joyce made a spotty living writing and teaching, but...
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Starting with the Canaanites, this program delves into the origins of Jerusalem as a pharaoh-ruled province, then traces its emergence as a holy site for the three Abrahamic faiths. The video discusses the evidence for its having become a Jewish city under King David, explores the construction of the first temple by Solomon, and concludes in the 7th century AD - the eve of the capture of Jerusalem by the Muslim caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab. Along the...
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Jorge Luis Borges-"invented" in collaboration with virtually everyone, including himself-defies easy identification. In this birthday tribute, which begins with the master reading his classic Borges and I, the then-80-year-old short story writer, poet, essayist, and philosopher joins TV and radio personality Antonio Carrizo in a Borgesian discussion of the multiplicity of existence; the influence of his family, his friends, and writers from the past;...
13) Gloria Naylor
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I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either," says Gloria Naylor. "Life is just supposed to make you feel." This insight into life's subtle rhythms suffuses Naylor's critically acclaimed work, The Women of Brewster Place, which won a National Book Award for "First Novel." In this program, Naylor discusses The Women of Brewster Place and Mama Day-explorations across the social spectrum of what it means...
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Using the book the Acts of the Apostles, this program traces the birth of Christianity to the development of the first Christian communities. Christian persecutions and the role of the catacombs as places of hiding and worship are discussed, along with the activities of the founders of the first synods, theologians Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, and Saint Augustine. An examination of the Jewish diaspora from ancient times to the present provides...
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A distinguished senior member of the Generation of '98 and Rector of Salamanca University, Miguel de Unamuno considered himself an "ideoclast": someone who breaks in ideas like boots, making them his own by wearing and using them. This program combines documentary material and dramatizations to present the story of a multitalented Spanish philosopher, essayist, novelist, poet, and playwright against the backdrop of his turbulent times.
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B.F. Skinner developed wonderfully ingenious gadgets designed to enhance his workspace, and he created clever ways of organizing the writing that was the central focus of the last decades of his life. In this program, Skinner's daughter, Julie Vargas, gives viewers a tour of the basement study in which he wrote many of his books and articles. Dr. Vargas and her sister also share fond memories of their father, who was a very involved and loving parent,...
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Rivera is the best known of Mexico's 20th-century artists. His murals are pictorial history books which recount the struggles of Mexico's peoples for spiritual and economic liberation. This program visits the Rivera Museum, which contains not only his works and the monuments of his life but his own superb collection of pre-Columbian artifacts.
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This video version of David Johnston's acclaimed seminar provides practical information about building in ways that are energy conscious, healthy and environmentally responsible. Green building movement leader David Johnston' approach has been embraced by municipalities, homeowners, building professionals and sustainability advocates nation-wide. His current book, "Green Remodeling: Changing the World One Room at a Time," has been hailed as the definitive...
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In this program, host Alberto Manguel uses the history of the written text-from hand-copied codex, to machine-printed book, to digital document-as a vehicle to address large-scale efforts to preserve the world's literary heritage, a dual challenge involving a rapidly deteriorating corpus of old books and an overwhelming proliferation of blogs and other significant writings on the Internet. In addition, the implications of cell phone fiction and interactive...