Saint Paul
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization is a book for people who are forming new non-profits; thinking about converting an informal, grassroots group to tax-exempt status; reorganizing an existing agency; or currently managing a nonprofit. It provides practical and basic how-to information about legal, tax, organizational, and other issues particular to nonprofits. This one-of-a-kind resource has been an invaluable guide to nonprofit management...
Pub. Date
[2004], c1999
Description
The story of the pictures we have taken and where they have taken us. The series traces the profound effect photographs have had on American life-- influencing what we buy, how we dress, how we get the news, and in the matters of life and death, medicine, science, and war.
8) Going to War
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
What is it really like to go to war? For millennia, only warriors could really answer that question. Now, a new PBS documentary takes viewers inside the experience of battle and reveals the soldier's experiences as never before. It helps viewers make sense of this paradox and get to the heart of what it is like to be a soldier in times of war.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
This two part special details the impact of music, dance, painting, poetry, and theatre on the human brain across a person's lifetime and explores its role in early human development. Stories are shared showing how the arts can improve children's school performance and reveals cutting edge science that explains the powerful, positive impact of the arts on the human brain.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In this autism book for kids, Daniel Brundidge likes to sing better than he likes to talk. When his mom wins an RV in a contest, the family sets off to visit their grandma for her 100th birthday. Daniel looks out the window and sings all the way from the Big City Highway to the Old Town Road. Daniel's favorite song is Lil Nas X's Old Town Road. Includes lyrics to the song: Hundred Years Old.
11) Facing suicide
Pub. Date
[2018].
Description
This film explores the stories of Americans impacted by suicide, and journeys to the frontlines of medical and scientific research to meet some of the people who are wroking to curb the suicide crisis.
12) Constitution USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
For this television series, Peter Sagal grabbed a red, white, and blue Harley Davidson and drove across the United States to try to understand how regular Americans feel about the constitution. He sought out many different points of view on what different parts of it mean. He explored how federalism has worked and where the holes are in it. Holes like the federal government's stand on marijuana and the state's right to legalize it. He examined how...
13) Hoop dreams
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Follows the experiences of Chicago teenagers Arthur Agee and William Gates as they compete in the world of high school basketball.
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Catches primatologist Jane Goodall at various junctures in Tanzania, England, Paris, and San Francisco as she meets with various groups and individuals regarding her work as a primatologist and her personal concerns regarding the environment. Focuses on spiritual and philosophical aspects of Goodall's life as well as her stated belief that the human race is evolving in such a way as to become increasingly harmonious with nature.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
This two-part Nova special brings the history of cold to life with brilliant dramatic recreations of high moments in low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. "The conquest of cold" opens in the 1600s when the nature of cold and heat was a complete mystery. Were they different aspects of the same phenomenon? The experiments that settled those questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution. "The race for absolute...
Pub. Date
©2012
Description
"Christian Apologetics: An Anthology of Primary Sources makes available over fifty primary source selections that address various challenges to Christian faith in the history of Christian apologetics. The compilation represents a broad Christian spectrum, ranging from early writers like Saint Paul and Saint Augustine, to Saint Teresa of Avila and Blaise Pascal, to more recent and present day apologists such as C.S. Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, William...