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Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Economic growth, wealth creation, outsourcing, economic inequality, resource distribution, and the uneven penetration of the global economy are phenomena that have a strong geographic base. In program 6 Alec Murphy looks at how human geography can make sense of the economic world in the global economy of the 21st Century.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Isolationism, colonialism, regionalism and imperialism are all geographically inspired political ideas. They are examples of different ways of thinking about how the world has been, or is, divided politically. Human geography can make sense of why the world has been divided politically in the past and how it is divided politically today.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the 21st century, the Earth’s surface is being reshaped and reorganized on a scale unprecedented at any other time in the planet’s history. It is a change directly caused by humans. In program eight Alec Murphy investigates why geographical concepts and insights are critical to the effort to confront the challenges of our ever-changing planet as its population grows to a staggering 10 billion people in the 21st century.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Newton and Einstein, the two giants of physics, imposed great systems of order on the world. This episode illustrates the revolution that occurred when Einstein's theory of relativity turned Newton's elegant description of the universe inside out.
65) Human Geography
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: MAKING SENSE OF PLANET EARTH presents human geography’s unique perspective. Human geography focuses on the distribution of places and human traits across the globe and their connection to one another. Presented by acclaimed geographer Alec Murphy this incredible series shot in HD reviews significant discoveries, individuals, and theories that make human geography a cutting edge science in the 21st Century.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
This episode covers the evolution of math. Pythagoras, father of Greek math, considered numbers the language of nature. Here, we follow the spread of Greek ideas through the Islamic Empire to Moorish Spain and Renaissance Europe, ultimately exploring the alliance of math to music, astronomy, and painting.
Publisher
New Deal Films, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
BLUE ALCHEMY: Stories of Indigo is an independent documentary about indigo, a blue dye that has captured the human imagination for millennia. It is also about remarkable people around the globe who are reviving indigo in projects that are intended to improve life in their communities, preserve cultural integrity, and bring beauty to the world. Indigo dye has been in use worldwide since antiquity. For centuries it was the world’s only blue textile...
68) Waiting for John
Publisher
Alita Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An indigenous community worships American materialism on the tiny Pacific island Tanna. When the American military arrived during World War II, the islanders were amazed by America's fantastic cargo - planes, trucks, refrigerators, canned food. They thought such goods could only come from the Gods. Led by the mysterious prophet John, a religion was born, the John Frum Movement, also known as a Cargo Cult.. The John Frum Movement still exists in one...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Program two focuses on the most fundamental aspect of the human cultural landscape: the distribution and concentration of people across the planet. At the same time it examines how population distribution has changed over time, and why.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As the human population has grown to over 7 billion people, nothing has had to change more than the geography of agriculture. Program five studies the primary relationship between people and the cultivation of land and how agriculture has developed to sustain Earth’s ever-growing population.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Humans are among the most social animals on the planet. We need a shared system of language, beliefs, norms and values to survive and mature from birth to adulthood. In this program, Alec Murphy investigates human culture and how geography helps everyone make sense of the cultural landscape.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In 1800 only 3% of the world's population lived in cities. Now in the 21st century more than half of humanity lives in urban areas. Program seven examines where cities are located, how are they organized, and what are they like and how by answering these questions we can begin to understand how to live on a planet of global cities.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Alec Murphy introduces the techniques and tools of human geography that human geographers have developed for understanding the ever-changing human landscape. It is this knowledge that is proving to be absolutely critical for success in the complex, globally interconnected world of the 21st century.
Author
Publisher
Martino Fine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
2013 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In August 1958 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., preached two sermons, "What is Man?" and "The Dimensions of a Complete Life," at the first National Conference on Christian Education of the United Church of Christ at Purdue University. In response to demands made by conference attendees, King allowed publication of the addresses. With...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
By the bestselling author of Voluntary Simplicity (over 150,000 sold); Brings together cutting-edge science and ancient spiritual wisdom to demonstrate that the universe is a living, sentient system and that we are an integral part of it and explores the power of this new paradigm to move humanity toward a sustainable and promising future. Science has traditionally regarded the universe as mostly made up mostly of inert matter and empty space. At...
76) Starry Messenger
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Next, Dr. Bronowiski studies man's attempts to map the forces which move the planets. The static nature of South American astronomy is contrasted with ideas of Renaissance Europe. This episode traces the origins of the scientific revolution in the conflict between truth and dogma, symbolized by the trial of Galileo.
77) Long Childhood
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
In this final episode, Dr. Bronowski - poet, playwright, mathematician, philosopher - draws together many threads of the series. He takes stock of man's complex, sometimes precarious, ascent. Ultimately, he concludes that man's growth to self-knowledge is the longest childhood of all.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
An American Film Festival Award winner, this 13 volume series attempts a massive survey of science, from flint tools to the theory of relativity.. The series, a co-production of the BBC and Time-Life Films was made as a science counterpart to "Civilization". It is given superb technical support, with two crews using innovative filming techniques, shooting in 27 countries. Dr. Jacob Bronowski makes for an unorthodox narrator, his non-scripted delivery...
79) Drive for Power
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Bronowiski covers the industrial and political revolutions of the 18th century. During this time, forces of nature were harnessed and the basics of political power shifted. Bronowski argues that in man's progress, the Industrial Revolution was a step forward as significant as the Renaissance.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, Dr. Bronowski's shares his statement on information and the responsibility and moral dilemma presented to scientists. The principle of certainty in physics applies to all knowledge, and as such Bronowski examines the implications of bombing Japan among other dilemmas. Finally, he contrasts the humanist tradition of Gottingen University with the inhumanities of Auschwitz.
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