Popcorn – 46/365 by Joakim Wahlander (Creative Commons CC BY-NC 2.0)
The Films on Demand collection includes over 37,000 streaming videos available to the Union Institute & University community for free. These videos can be streamed online and embedded in Brightspace courses. The collection includes quality video productions from A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, Open University, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more. The database recently added 34 new videos, including the series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Unnatural Causes, for the first time on film, sounds the alarm about our disturbing socioeconomic and racial inequities in health—and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. There’s much more to our health than bad habits, healthcare, or unlucky genes. The social conditions in which we are born, live, and work profoundly affect our well-being and longevity. -Film Description
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business, economics, and leadership ● career & job search ● counseling & social work ● criminal justice & law ● early childhood education ● environmental science ● education, early childhood education, and special education ● health, medicine, and nutrition ● history ● literature ● philosophy & religion ● political science ● psychology, counseling, and human development (see also Psychotherapy.net)
The Films on Demand collection includes over 42,000 digital videos available to the Union Institute & University community for free. These videos can be streamed online and embedded in BrightSpace courses. The collection includes quality video productions from A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, Open University, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more.
This month we are featuring the Teaching Online Mastercourse from Makematic.
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The Films on Demand collection includes over 98,000 digital videos available to the Union Institute & University community for free. These videos can be streamed online and embedded in CampusWeb courses. The collection includes quality video productions from A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, Open University, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more. This month’s featured video is the Infant-Toddler Learning Environment.
Infants and toddlers are born explorers and the environments in which they are cared for become their laboratory. This program includes real-life examples on how to create a supportive infant-toddler learning environment that invites children to explore their surroundings and supports their sensory-motor way of learning. -Film Description
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● childcare ● child & adolescent development ● counseling & social work ● criminal justice ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video and Psychotherapy.net) ● special education
The Films on Demand collection includes over 98,000 digital videos available to the Union Institute & University community for free. These videos can be streamed online and embedded in CampusWeb courses. The collection includes quality video productions from A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, Open University, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more. This month’s featured video is the First Civilizations series.
Having lived as mobile foragers for 99 percent of our time on Earth, why did humans set out on the road to civilization? How did they create villages, towns, cities, and states, and establish the blueprint for the modern world? First Civilizations identifies four cornerstones of civilization – war, religion, cities and trade – and explores each in the context of a different location, from Mexico, Guatemala, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, India, and Pakistan, to Oman, Morocco, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Unearth the latest archeological discoveries, test new theories, and uncover original information as dramatic reconstructions and computer graphics visualize the lost world of the first civilizations. In each of the four episodes, discover how our ancestors were motivated by the same impulses that persist today – the inevitability of war, a need for religion, the lure of the city, and a love of trade. -Film Description
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● childcare ● child & adolescent development ● counseling & social work ● criminal justice ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video and Psychotherapy.net) ● special education
The Films on Demand collection includes over 53,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses. This month’s featured video is the Dead Reckoning series.
Dead Reckoning: War, Crime and Justice from WW2 to the War on Terror Series
Popcorn – 46/365 by Joakim Wahlander (CC BY-NC 2.0)
From award-winning producer/writer/director Jonathan Silvers comes this three-part series, Dead Reckoning: War, Crime, and Justice from WW2 to the War on Terror, which reveals how the model of justice conceived by the Allies in the wake of the Second World War has evolved into a standard by which all conflicts are judged. However many decades and miles separate those conflicts and however inhumane the underlying crimes, all have been prosecuted according to protocols that the Allies devised for three unique situations: the determination of command responsibility; the pursuit of war criminals; and the accumulation of evidence and testimony at crime scenes. The series explores the origins of the Allied response to these unique situations, along with transformative conflicts and atrocities that have, for 70 years, shaped conceptions of war and peace. Taken as a whole, Dead Reckoning is an unprecedented inquiry into how justice has been secured – and occasionally denied – for crimes that continue to plague the world. -Film Description
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● childcare ● child & adolescent development ● counseling & social work ● criminal justice ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video and Psychotherapy.net) ● special education
The Films on Demand collection includes over 52,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses. This month’s featured video is The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm.
The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm
Popcorn – 46/365 by Joakim Wahlander (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Directed and produced by seven-time Emmy® Award winner Amy Schatz, and featuring animation from award winning artist Jeff Scher, this 19-minute documentary shines a light on the tender relationship between an inquisitive American boy and his great-grandfather, a Polish-born Jew who lost both his parents to the Nazis, but was able to survive Auschwitz and make his way to America at the end of WWII. When 10-year-old Elliott asks his 90-year-old great-grandfather Jack about the number tattooed on his arm, the boy’s question sparks an intimate conversation about Jack’s life that embraces happy memories of childhood in Poland, the loss of his family, surviving the concentration camps, and finding a good and new life in America. Interwoven with haunting historical footage, photos, and hand-painted watercolor animation by Jeff Scher, The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm is both a heartbreaking story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust, and a heartwarming story of a bond that reaches across generations. An introduction to the Holocaust for children, this gentle yet powerful family film centers on Elliott’s love for his beloved great-grandfather and his heartfelt wish to pass to future generations Jack’s memories and lessons from that terrible time, telling a story that must be told while survivors still remain to tell it. -Film Description
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● childcare ● child & adolescent development ● counseling & social work ● criminal justice ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video and Psychotherapy.net) ● special education
As of November 28th, LexisNexis Academic is now Nexis Uni. While the coverage is the same, providing business, news, and legal information, Nexis Uni offers a more streamlined search experience. New features include more intuitive searching in addition to highly relevant filters and advanced search techniques. Search across the database or limit your results to specific content types such as news, law reviews, or company information. As well, from the home page, you can view the new “Discover Topics” section. Here, you will see curated discipline information on selected topics such as criminal justice and business. This is a great way to get started on your research or to quickly survey current information in the selected field. While you will still access most LexisNexis content from the library via OneSearch, you also have the option to create a free Lexis Uni account. With an account, you can customize the Nexis Uni homepage, save your searches, bookmark documents, and set up journal alerts. If you would like to learn more, please see Lexis Uni Help, available from the database homepage, or Contact a UI&U Librarian.
We are happy to provide you with a one-on-one tutorial or answer any questions you may have. Happy researching!
The UI&U library regularly purchases eBooks to support student research and course curricula. All eBooks are accessible via the library’s OneSearch tool. Check out some of our most recent additions.
CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES IN LEADERSHIP
Strategic Leadership Across Cultures: The GLOBE Study of CEO Leadership Behavior and Effectiveness in 24 Countries. Unique in its focus, methodology, and impact, [this title] is a must-have for those studying or practicing in the fields of global leadership, cross-cultural leadership, and organization studies. Reporting on research obtained during the third phase of the ten-year GLOBE project, the book examines strategic leadership effectiveness for executive and top-level management based on data from more than 1,000 CEOs and over 6,000 top management team members in 24 countries. Authors Robert J. House, Mary Sully de Luque, Peter Dorfman, Mansour Javidan, and Paul L. Hanges offer a series of propositions about executive leadership based on the unified theory —developed after the publication of the first GLOBE book—and empirically test these propositions. They provide evidence that leadership matters, executive leadership matters greatly, and that societal cultures influence the kind of leadership that is expected and effective—Publisher.
SUPERNATURAL IN LITERATURE
The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic. This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) focused on the vampire legend. The essays in this collection expand that scope to include a multicultural and multigeneric discussion of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who interact and cross species-specific boundaries with ease. Angels and demons are discussed from the perspective of supernatural allegory, angelic ethics and supernatural heredity and genetics. Fairies, sorcerers, witches and werewolves are viewed from the perspectives of popular nightmare tales, depictions of race and ethnicity, popular public discourse and cinematic imagery. Discussions of the “undead and still dead” include images of death messengers and draugar, zombies and vampires in literature, popular media and Japanese anime—Publisher.
FICTION
Generosity. When Russell Stone becomes the teacher of a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence, he is both entranced and troubled. How can this refugee from terror radiate such bliss? Is it possible to be so open and alive without coming to serious harm? Soon, Thassa’s joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research has enabled him to announce his discovery of the genetic underpinnings of happiness. Thassa’s congenital optimism is severely tested by the growing media circus. Devoured by the public as a living prophecy, her genetic secret will transform both Russell and Kurton, as well as the world at large.—Publisher.
The content of two new databases has been added to OneSearch – PDQ and Open Textbook Library. Items from these databases will automatically populate in OneSearch results. If you would like to limit to them, you can use the “Results per Database” option on the left sidebar and check the box for the appropriate name. All items will have a Find Full Text link, which should take you to the full-text on their individual websites.
PDQ
Produced by the National Cancer Institute, PDQ (Physician Data Query) is a comprehensive source of cancer information. It contains cancer information summaries on a wider range of topics; drug information summaries on many cancer related drugs and drug combinations; and dictionaries of general cancer terms, and genetics terms etc. All EDS customers may search over 14,000 PDQ records in EDS and access full text of those records on NCI platform. – Source: EBSCO
Open Textbook Library
Open Textbook Library provides hundreds of textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. All EDS customers have full access to Open Textbook Library’s platform. – Source: EBSCO
The Films on Demand collection includes over 44,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses. This month’s featured video is a Shakespearean drama.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In the tyrannical court of Athens, the pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, and young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father. Meanwhile, in the rickety township on the hillside, amateur theatre group the Mechanicals rehearse, with all their comic rivalries. And beyond Athens, in the wild wood, dark forces are stirring… Celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare, Russell T Davies’ full-blooded adaptation has more attitude and invention than anything that’s gone before. This is a production for everyone, brought to life by an award-winning cast of established stars and exciting newcomers. It’s a dream that will never be forgotten. -Public Broadcasting Series
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● child & adolescent development ● criminal justice ● early childhood ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video and Psychotherapy.net) ● social work ● special education