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1) Girl abroad
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Language
English
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"When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it's the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She's ready to be free, to discover herself--but first off, to meet the girls she's rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys. Charming, funny, insufferably attractive...
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Language
English
Description
During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed before. Spanning over three presidential terms, it was the largest covert CIA operation in US history. Today, the Laos people live among, and risk their lives to clear, over 80 million unexploded bombs on their doorsteps. With great beauty and empathy, this doc reveals the unbelievable stories of the men and women at the forefront of this monumental task....
3) The Automat
Publisher
A Slice of Pie Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Featuring an original new song written and performed by Mel Brooks, THE AUTOMAT, which Premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and was nominated for four 2022 Critics Choice Awards, tells the 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers - entertainer Mel Brooks, Starbucks founder...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn how language has allowed humans to develop math, build a capacity for logic, categorize the world around us, develop the concept of metaphor, and construct narratives. While we take each of these functions for granted every day because they feel so natural, none would have been possible without language.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What did the very earliest forms of human language sound like? Learn why many researchers believe hand gesture was actually our first attempt at language. From embodied brains to the widespread prevalence of gesture, from its human uniqueness to its many benefits for us, the evidence suggests that language was born in the body and grew up from there.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What is the human mind and how could it have developed language? Learn why dualism, materialism, structuralism, and reductionism (all captivating and forward-thinking mind models of their time) have each come up short. Instead, explore the fascinating concept of emergentism and learn why this model offers the best framework for understanding the development of language.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Could language be considered an organism whose only natural habitat is the human mind? Explore the fascinating results of our efforts to analyze and influence animal communication. What have we learned about our own relationship with language as we have studied honeybees, songbirds, vervet monkeys, chimpanzees, and dolphins?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Explore the brain structures of babies that give them their extraordinary auditory abilities, and why it's so difficult for adults to learn new languages. Discover how exposure to our native language actually changes our brain, removing our ability to access objective auditory information in the environment, and why we each perceive a uniquely distorted world.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Investigate how the plasticity of the brain allows us to "cobble together" a neural network for reading and writing as we mature, using dyslexia and synesthesia to illustrate this networking property. This network develops at different times for different people, but no one is born with it; our "reading brain" is truly a technological transformation.
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Four experts (David Bellos, Michael Berry, Pankaj Mishra, Carol Padden) describe intriguing insights regarding the overlap of language and culture, from the global proliferation of sign languages, to the idea of language as an expression of identity.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 24 fascinating episodes, Dr. Spencer Kelly, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Colgate University, takes you on a fascinating journey to explore questions about the origin of the human mind, what makes our communication so much different than other animals, whether or not language itself influences thought, and how babies learn their native language without direct teaching.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the fascinating aspects of language we take for granted every day: our ability to use symbols, understand rules, generate novel utterances, speak about the past and future, and even purposefully lie. All of these universals, and more, have allowed language to become our greatest tool.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
By exploring a version of language that operates in a different modality than speech, you'll develop a wider and deeper appreciation of what language actually is. You'll unveil many myths about sign language, as you learn about its fascinating development and linguistic components. Our relatively recent understanding of neural mechanisms reveals that language is language, regardless of modality.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the three basic principles of the brain as the foundation of all human learning: neural specialization, the connectome, and the brain's plasticity. Discover how the many developments in neuroimaging over the past 30 years (including ERP, MEG, and fMRI scans) have helped us better understand the relationships between brain mechanisms and behavior, both typical and atypical.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Explore the latest scientific research and theories related to the brain's ability to produce speech: one of the most complex of all human activities requiring the coordination of an estimated 100 muscles in the lungs, throat, jaw, tongue, and face. And learn why we need to hear our own speech in order to successfully produce it, even as adults.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Witness how the arbitrary and abstract elements of language interact with the iconic and concrete expressions of the body. Remembering that language originally evolved within a face-to-face context, the revelation of recent studies is not surprising: The body influences all parts of language and we use the whole body to take meaning from what we hear.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Only recently have scientists had the tools to examine the neural processing of language. The results reveal a brain that has evolved to process language as a survival mechanism. Learn about the brain's dual-stream pathways and their benefits, the latest research revealing that words activate practically every square inch of the brain's surface, and details still being debated today.
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
2020.
Language
English
Description
What are the potential by-products of speaking multiple languages? Learn what relatively recent research has shown about the ways in which having multiple languages opens up different emotional, cognitive, and social worlds, and how the mind travels back and forth between them. And consider the controversial claim that becoming a bilinguist can actually improve your cognitive reserve.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Explore the five components of language (pragmatics, syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonetics) and how they each contribute to the meaning of language. Learn the ways in which language is, and is not, similar to other systems in the body, and the specific reasons why learning a second language can be so challenging.
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