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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Following the Opium War of 1842, a range of Chinese seaports were opened to foreign trade and foreign residence. Learn about the colorful history of these ports, how they became enmeshed in a global labor trade, and how they functioned as Euro-Asian hybrid cities. Grasp how the treaty ports were emblematic of a period of economic and political domination by foreigners.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, explore geminates: roots where radicals two and three are the same. Along the way, you'll learn how to spot these common two-letter combinations, consider a fascinating example from Ezekiel's vision of the messianic future Temple, and begin reading Numbers 22 from start to finish.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How do some languages end up isolated amidst other unrelated families? Look at pockets of language in Siberia, Spain, and Japan that are not related to those that surround them and better understand what the nature of language (and human migration and settlement patterns) can tell us about these unique places.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Journey through a series of fascinating experiments developed to determine whether or not language can influence thought independent of culture. Perhaps not unexpectedly (and working with individuals from preverbal infants to adults), these experiments reveal that language and culture both influence thought, often working in tandem.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Americans have always blended politics and song. Trace the rise of three great voices in this tradition: Marian Anderson, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan. Among other touchstones of their era, see the mink coat that Anderson wore at a celebrated concert on the National Mall in 1939.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Professor McWhorter provides a closer look at slang and its place in language. How did English slang evolve over the centuries, and why does it keep changing? Why do we seem to be using it now more than ever? And what does texting say about the importance of slang today?
7) Baraka
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
In the months before the war in Iraq, Abdel and Umayr, two brothers are forced apart. Months later, with the war in full swing, they meet again, but neither of them are the same. Nominated for Best Narrative Short at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Short Film (Fiction) at the **Goya Awards**.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Return to the culturally rich Campania region as you review the imperative mood (commands), and learn how the imperative functions with pronouns (where "Eat the pizza!" becomes "Eat it!"). Explore both the informal and formal imperative, double pronouns ("Give it to her."). Then, practice them in describing Campania's ancient cities, scenic beauties, and beloved culinary specialties.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Go inside the splendid court of Emperor Xuanzong in the great capital city of Changan. During Xuanzong's 44-year reign in the 8th century, foreign merchants, students, and pilgrims bustled around the court. Stylish women were adorned with jewels from all over Eurasia. Art and poetry flourished, creating one of the most fashionable and cultured courts in the entire world.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As Jane Austen's health declined near the end of her life, she continued to work on a manuscript that she would never finish: a would-be seventh novel entitled Sanditon, which satirized health fads and introduced new complexities of character into her fiction. Despite only consisting of 11 incomplete chapters, this unfinished work nevertheless shows us a novelist at the height of her powers.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Delve into the two major Japanese schools of Zen. First, examine the direct approach of the Sōtō school, in which the practice of sitting and clearing the mind to a state of "nonthinking" is emphasized above intellectual exercises. Then, turn to the "pressure cooker" Rinzai approach, which focuses on kōans and examining the paradoxical nature of being to work towards enlightenment.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Enter the world of fantasy with a Märchen (fairy tale) designed especially for this series to present verbs in the simple past tense. Featuring a widow in distress, strange men with red beards, and a gruesome plot twist, the story is so thrilling that the seven classes of simple past endings for strong verbs, plus the much less complicated paradigms for weak verbs, will go down like candy.
13) Maria Luiza
Publisher
Twin Seas Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
MARIA LUIZA da Silva is the first transgender in the history of the Brazilian Armed Forces. After 22 years of work in the military, she retired due to disability. The film explores the complex barriers she faced and her path of affirmation as a trans, military and Catholic woman.
14) Into the Blue
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After fleeing her violent father, 13-year-old Julija seeks comfort in her kindergarten friend Ana, who still lives on the island. But during a diving expedition, Ana only has eyes for her boyfriend. Feeling that she is increasingly being pushed away, Julija desperately struggles to gain recognition and attention. As her loneliness grows, her buried pain comes to the surface and confrontation becomes inevitable. Winner of Best Short Film at the **Berlin...
15) Sauvage / Wild
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here — longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.
16) Kimono
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Looking for something to eat, a homeless woman sneaks into a man’s apartment. When she is almost caught, she hides in his closet. But instead of leaving the apartment, she gets interested in the man and starts to secretly live there and observe him. What she doesn’t realize, however, is that the man has already noticed her presence. Youth Jury Award winner and Best Short Fiction Film nominee at the **Dresden Film Festival**.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Participles are verbal adjectives. Like verbs, they have tense and voice. Like adjectives, they agree in case, number, and gender with the nouns they modify. Learn to form participles in different tenses of the active voice. Study examples in the Gospel of Matthew and in your reading of lines 22-27 of the Iliad.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Look at some essential Hebrew reference books out there (besides biblical translations and commentaries), including reference grammars and three major Biblical Hebrew dictionaries. Close out the show by completing your line-by-line reading of Numbers 22.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Encounter the imperative mood—the verb construction used for commands. Study the imperative endings in the present and aorist tenses. Find three aorist commands in Luke 22:36, and even more as you continue your reading of the Iliad with lines 39-47.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Return to the verbal system with Professor Carasik's helpful explanation of the third of the five Hebrew verb forms: the participle. One of the ways you'll master the verbal adjective in Biblical Hebrew is by working your way through Genesis 22:7.
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