Weaving the Future

cover image Barcode: 58948021 Call Number: V-SPA 189 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 27 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: English Creator: Directed by Mark Freeman Description: Weaving the Future is a video portrait of a unique indigenous community living in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador. The story of the Otavalo Indians is not a stereotypical tale of "isolated people struggling to survive." Just the opposite. The people of Otavalo have successfully adapted their traditions of weaving and crafts to the international marketplace. Selling their textiles in the U.S., Europe and even in Japan, the Otavalos are by any measure the most prosperous Native ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Weaving the Future

cover image Barcode: 58958302 Call Number: DV-SPA 189 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 27 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: English Creator: Directed by Mark Freeman Description: Weaving the Future is a video portrait of a unique indigenous community living in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador. The story of the Otavalo Indians is not a stereotypical tale of "isolated people struggling to survive." Just the opposite. The people of Otavalo have successfully adapted their traditions of weaving and crafts to the international marketplace. Selling their textiles in the U.S., Europe and even in Japan, the Otavalos are by any measure the most prosperous Native ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Wei Wei, my Chinese Wife

Barcode: 58923420 Call Number: FR-CHI Smi Material Type: Print Language: English, Chinese Description: A love story of Wei Wei and Michael Smith. Collection: Language Resource Center

Welcome to Nollywood

cover image Barcode: 58962866 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 58 min. Language: English Creator: Directed by Jamie Meltzer Description: The Nigerian film industry, known as Nollywood, has exploded in the last ten years. Now the most popular cinema in all of west Africa--even more popular than imports of Hollywood or Bollywood films--the Nigerian film industry has distinguished itself by shooting all films (called video films) on digital video. This has allowed production schedules to be compressed (films are shot in several days) and immediately brought to market (distribution consists of bringing films to Idumota electronics ... Rating Audience (Video Only): Not Rated Collection: Language Resource Center

Well Said - Pronunciation

Edition: 2nd ed. Volume Number: CD 1 Barcode: 58950353 Call Number: 58950353 Material Type: Audio -CD Language: English Description: Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said second edition provides students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, business, and professional settings.

Well Said - Pronunciation

Edition: 2nd ed. Volume Number: CD 1 Barcode: 58950354 Call Number: 58950354 Material Type: Audio -CD Language: English Description: Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said second edition provides students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, business, and professional settings.

Well Said - Pronunciation

Edition: 2nd ed. Volume Number: CD 2 Barcode: 58950355 Call Number: 58950355 Material Type: Audio -CD Language: English Description: Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said second edition provides students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, business, and professional settings.

Well Said - Pronunciation

Edition: 2nd ed. Volume Number: CD 2 Barcode: 58950356 Call Number: 58950356 Material Type: Audio -CD Language: English Description: Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said second edition provides students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, business, and professional settings.

Well Said - Pronunciation

Edition: 2nd ed. Volume Number: CD 3 Barcode: 58950357 Call Number: 58950357 Material Type: Audio -CD Language: English Description: Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said second edition provides students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, business, and professional settings.

Well Said - Pronunciation

Edition: 2nd ed. Volume Number: CD 3 Barcode: 58950358 Call Number: 58950358 Material Type: Audio -CD Language: English Description: Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said second edition provides students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, business, and professional settings.

Well Said - Pronunciation

Edition: 2nd ed. Volume Number: CD 4 Barcode: 58950359 Call Number: 58950359 Material Type: Audio -CD Language: English Description: Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said second edition provides students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, business, and professional settings.

Well Said - Pronunciation

Edition: 2nd ed. Volume Number: CD 4 Barcode: 58950360 Call Number: 58950360 Material Type: Audio -CD Language: English Description: Offering a lively and communicative approach for increasing pronunciation and speaking skills, Well Said second edition provides students with the pronunciation and speaking tools they need to communicate in social, academic, business, and professional settings.

Well-Founded Fear

cover image Barcode: 58962196 Call Number: V-FRE 235 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 120 m. Language: English Creator: Directed by hari Robertson, Michael Camerini Description: Evocative, captivating and utterly unforgettable, the critically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival hit WELL-FOUNDED FEAR candidly explores the proceedings behind the American political asylum system. Who is deemed worthy of political asylum in the United States? Who decides? and why? ... Collection: Language Resource Center

West Bank Story

cover image Barcode: 58946750 Call Number: V-ARA 035 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 22 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: English Creator: Directed by Ari Sandel Description: A musical comedy set in the fast-paced, fast-food world of competing falafel stands in the West Bank... David, an Israeli soldier, falls in love with the beautiful Palestinian cashier, Fatima, despite the animosity between their families' dueling restaurants. Can the couple's love withstand a century old conflict and their families' desire to control the future of the chic pea in the Middle East? Collection: Language Resource Center

West Bank Story

cover image Barcode: 58946947 Call Number: V-HEB 088 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 20 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: English Creator: Directed by Ari Sandel Description: West Bank story is a musical comedy set in the fast-paced, fast-food world of competing falafel stands in the West Bank. David, an Israeli soldier, falls in love with the beautiful Palestinian cashier, Fatima, despite the animosity between their families' dueling restaurants. Can the couple's love withstand a 2000 year old conflict and their families' desire to control the future of the chic pea in the Middle East? Collection: Language Resource Center

Western Music

cover image Volume Number: 2 Barcode: 58963800 Call Number: DL-E28J Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 11 min. Language: English Creator: Directed by UM Description: Lecturette Given By Richmond Browne from the School of Music who uses "Jon's Song", written by his 3 year old son, to demonstrate how all western tonal music is based on scales, inversion, and sequence. Collection: Language Resource Center

Whale Rider

cover image Barcode: 58994847 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 101 min. Language: English, Maori Creator: Niki Caro Description: A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. Rating Audience (Video Only): PG-13

What do Pina Bausch and her dancers do in Wuppertal?

Barcode: 58943458 Call Number: Theater - AV 88-28 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 115 min. Language: English Creator: Klaus Wildenhahn Description: Documentary produced by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk which show the work of the Wuppertal Dance Theater under the direction of Pina Bausch. Rehearsal scenes are contrasted with everyday life in Wuppertal. Collection: Goethe Institute Collection

What I'm Thinking: American Thoughts on the Middle East

Barcode: 58953531 Call Number: V-ARA 172 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 20 min Language: English AND Arabic Description: "In December of 2005 filmmaker Rebecca Glotfelty traveled to An Najah University in Palestine with an exhibit featuring portraits of Americans and their written thoughts and ideas about the Middle East, Palestine, and the Iraq war. University staff and students viewed the exhibit, which was also translated into Arabic, and offered their opinions. The filmmaker combined the words, images, taped audio and video to create this video dialogue. Hopefully this project will lead to greater ... Collection: Language Resource Center

What is your Quest? : From adventure games to interactive books

cover image Barcode: 58958149 Call Number: LRC Staff 1195A Material Type: Print Language: English Creator: Anastasia Salter Description: ""What Is Your Quest? examines the future of electronic literature in a world where tablets and e-readers are becoming as common as printed books and where fans are blurring the distinction between reader and author. The construction of new ways of storytelling is already underway: it is happening on the edges of the mainstream gaming industry and in the spaces between media, on the foundations set by classic games." - WorldCat Collection: LRC Staff Collection

What smart students know : maximum grades, optimum learning, minimum time

Barcode: 58943678 Call Number: College Material Type: Print Language: English Description: Starting from the premise that successful students are not necessarily any more brilliant than their less successful peers, but have simply mastered the art of efficient learning, Adam Robinson introduces high school and college students to an innovative approach that can help them achieve top grades while discovering the joy of true learning. Line drawings. Collection: Language Resource Center

What The Best College Teachers Do

cover image Barcode: 58954919 Call Number: PED-Teaching Methodology Material Type: Print Language: English Creator: Ken Bain Description: What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy

Barcode: 58945637 Material Type: Print-Pedagogical Language: English Collection: Language Resource Center

Wheelock's Latin

cover image Edition: 6th rev. ed. Barcode: 58946778 Call Number: Latin Textbook Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: English Description: 40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based on ancient Roman authors Self-tutorial exercises with an answer key for independent study A newly enlarged English -Latin/Latin-English vocabulary A rich selection of original Latin readings -- unlike other textbooks, which contain primarily made-up Latin texts Etymological aids Collection: Language Resource Center

When the Day Breaks

cover image Barcode: 58994650 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 10 min. Language: English Creator: dir. by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby Description: "A chance encounter, a juicy yellow lemon and an unfortunate twist of fate will reveal that the symbiotic relationship between people is inextricable." - IMDb