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- The trip to Greece [videorecording] / by Winterbottom, Michael,film director.; Hyams, Josh,film producer.; Parmenter, Melissa,film producer.; Coogan, Steve,actor.; Brydon, Rob,1965-actor.; Keelan, Claire,actor.; Johnson, Rebecca(Actor),actor.; Barrio, Marta,actor.; Leach, Tim(Actor),actor.; Bugeja, Cordelia,actor.; Edwards, Justin,1972-actor.; Clews, Richard,actor.; Alkabbani, Kareem,actor.; Revolution Films,production company.; Baby Cow Productions,production company.; Small Man (Firm),production company.; Sky Television,presenter.; IFC Films,publisher.;
Director of photography, James Clarke ; editor, Marc Richardson.Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Rebecca Johnson, Marta Barrio, Tim Leach, Cordelia Bugeja, Justin Edwards, Richard Clews, Kareem Alkabbani.When Odysseus left Troy it took him ten years to get back to his home in Ithaca. Steve and Rob have only six days on their own personal odyssey. On the way, they argue about tragedy and comedy, astronomy and biology, myth, history, democracy, and the meaning of life! Featuring locations such as: Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Ancient Agora of Athens, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, the unique island of Hydra, the Caves of Diros, and more.British Columbia Film Classification Office Rating: PG.DVD, NTSC, region 1, wide screen 1.85:1; 5.1 Dolby audio.- Subjects: Feature films.; Comedy films.; Road films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Coogan, Steve; Brydon, Rob, 1965-; Dinners and dining; Food; Male friendship;
- © [2020], IFC Films,
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- The golden road : how ancient India transformed the world / by Dalrymple, William,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilization, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of China, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world -- and our world today as we know it"--- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The planets [videorecording] / by BBC Earth (Firm),production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster.;
Among the stars in the night sky wander the eight-plus worlds of the solar system, each home to truly awe-inspiring sights. Volcanoes three times higher than Everest, geysers erupting with icy plumes, cyclones larger than Earth lasting hundreds of years. Each of our celestial neighbors has a distinct personality and a unique story. In this five-part series, NOVA will explore the awesome beauty including Saturn's 175,000-mile-wide rings, Mars's ancient waterfalls, and more.E.DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation ; stereo.- Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Science television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.;
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- The map of knowledge : a thousand-year history of how classical ideas were lost and found / by Moller, Violet,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index."The foundations of modern knowledge--philosophy, math, astronomy, geography--were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean--rare centers of knowledge in a dark world, where scholars supported by enlightened heads of state collected, translated and shared manuscripts. In 8th century Baghdad, Arab discoveries augmented Greek learning. Exchange within the thriving Muslim world brought that knowledge to Cordoba, Spain. Toledo became a famous center of translation from Arabic into Latin, a portal through which Greek and Arab ideas reached Western Europe. Salerno, on the Italian coast, was the great center of medical studies, and Sicily, ancient colony of the Greeks, was one of the few places in the West to retain contact with Greek culture and language. Scholars in these cities helped classical ideas make their way to Venice in the 15th century, where printers thrived and the Renaissance took root. The Map of Knowledge follows three key texts--Euclid's Elements, Ptolemy's The Almagest, and Galen's writings on medicine--on a perilous journey driven by insatiable curiosity about the world"--- Subjects: Learning and scholarship; East and West.;
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