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Updated July 25, 2023
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How to create comics [DVD]
The Great Courses.
DVD
Taught by Peter Bagge, a cartoonist, and award-winning comics creator, it will show how comics are made and why they have become so enduringly successful. Like any wide-ranging and long-lived medium, comics creators put certain technical and creative tools to use when they produce their stories. Get...
The real history of pirates
Manushag N. Powell, Purdue University ; senior producer, James Blandford ; supervising producer, Maureen Faley ; director, Roberto de Moraes.
Other
Other than scale, what is the difference between a pirate and the vast armies of an emperor? Were the men who famously traversed the Atlantic heroic explorers or were they… pirates? In The Real History of Pirates, you'll look at world history from a new point of view, realizing much of what...
America's long struggle against slavery [DVD]
Professor Richard Bell, PhD, University of Maryland, College Park.
DVD
America's Long Struggle Against Slavery is a chance to survey the history of the American anti-slavery movement, from the dawn of the transatlantic slave trade during the late 15th century to the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and beyond. Taught by Professor Richard Bell of the University of Maryland...
When everything fails [DVD] surviving any disaster
The Teaching Company ; [screenwriter/author], Stephen Owen, PHD ; producer, Ines I. Perez-Thompson ; director, Robert E. Moraes, Elias Ghorayeb.
Other
Living through a disaster is not a question of if, it's a question of when. This lecture offers a practical guide for protecting the individual, their family, and their community. Taught by Professor Stephen Owen of Radford University, these fourteen fast-paced lectures will arm viewers with...
Cooking basics what everyone should know
Chef Sean Kahlenberg, the Culinary Institute of America ; senior supervising producer, Alisha Reay ; director, Jim M. Allen.
DVD
Presented in partnership with The Culinary Institute of America and filmed at the CIA's flagship facility in Hyde Park, New York. Chef Sean Kahlenberg carefully walks viewers through the many dozen original recipes he presents in this course in 24 easy-to-follow lessons.

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