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All About Wood volume 11
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A board foot measurement tells you the volume of wood you're using, not how many lineal feet. It's very important that you know how to calculate board feet in order to determine how much wood you need for your project, and how much to order from your supplier. Another wrinkle...what's the deal with 4/4, 6/4....? Don't worry, we've got that covered too.
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The modern workplace can be a stressful environment. But whether that stress is harmful or helpful depends on an individual's mindset, which can be changed. Examine specific strategies that can help develop resilience. A more resilient workforce can lead to increased performance and decreased employee turnover.
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Great Courses volume 18
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Explore the world of qigong, an Eastern practice that focuses on slow, deliberate movement integrated with key breathing exercises to increase mindfulness. With this session, viewers will learn how to tap into the healthy flow of their internal energy, and encourage the balance of opposing forces within their bodies.
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Now turn to logic puzzles, trying to distinguish between knights who only make true statements, and knaves who only tell falsehoods. Start with simple cases. Then introduce tricky "if–then" statements. Next, what if the knight or knave is insane and thus has false beliefs? This makes things trickier! Finally, add a third category: normal people who are sometimes truthful, sometimes not.
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Countdown to Your Health for Kids video gives an overview of the six things kids can do each day to stay healthy. Perfect for elementary students, kids will discover the importance of eating fruits and vegetables, drinking water, having positive mental health, limiting time spent in front of a screen, getting plenty of physical activity and enough sleep. This video focuses on the numbers for health essential for kids, including an overview of age-appropriate...
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Middle Ages around the World volume 4
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Take account of the cultural transformations that Muslim rule brought to its domains and the growth of trade, new cities, and great centers of learning that it fostered. Study the five "pillars" of Islam and its main religious rituals. Assess forces of disunity within Islam, such as the split between Shiite and Sunni factions, and the influences of non-Arab cultures that joined the religion.
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Great Courses volume 5
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We're always hearing about studies that find significant differences the brains of men and women. How should we be thinking about gender differences in the brain? How are these differences misinterpreted? What are the differences in the male and female amygdala and hippocampus? Which genders express which emotions more openly?
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In this episode, explore geminates: roots where radicals two and three are the same. Along the way, you'll learn how to spot these common two-letter combinations, consider a fascinating example from Ezekiel's vision of the messianic future Temple, and begin reading Numbers 22 from start to finish.
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Great Courses volume 16
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Dig deeper into the government's electronic surveillance programs. Here, you'll learn about "metadata"-or data about data. After reviewing what metadata is and how it works, you'll examine the thorny legal issues surrounding metadata gathering in the years after 9/11, and whether collecting it violates the 4th Amendment protection against search and seizure.
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Modular, reinforced-concrete components can be manufactured in a factory, transported to the job site, and then assembled into multi-story buildings. But in one such 22-story development, a minor gas explosion dislodged a load-bearing wall, triggering a major collapse. Discover how this could happen in a building that was in full compliance with the governing building code.
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Great Courses volume 22
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Here, add important vocabulary relating to motion and travel, and learn some common reflexive verbs that describe mental and emotional states. Then study two useful constructions for speaking about the past: acabar de, which describes something that just happened, and hace…que, which expresses how long something has been going on.
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Language A to Z volume 9
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Use the intriguing backstory of the word "island" as a gateway for exploring why English spelling can be such a mess. Two specific reasons you'll focus on: the "sacred" linguistic nature of Latin and Greek, and the ramifications of the Great Vowel Shift, which dramatically altered the pronunciation of many English words.
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Creative Thinker's Toolkit volume 16
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Creative work involves many difficult decisions. Improve the way you make creative development decisions with the use of several advanced tools that make this natural process more formal and systematic: the seven-step evaluation matrix, solution mapping, targeting, and more.
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Great Courses volume 11
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Use everything you've learned in the first 10 lectures of this course to create your own effective pain management plan - one that meets your personal goals and identifies the lifestyle interventions that are most appropriate for you in the areas of exercise, stress reduction, social support, improved sleep, and emotional health.
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Ageless Living volume 2
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Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money and poverty/environmental activist, on Mother Theresa, living a committed life, philanthropy and sufficiency.
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This practice will guide you through the steps of preparing for sleep. You'll learn how to focus your attention on the good things that happened during your day as you start to settle in. You'll enjoy relaxing all parts of the body (front, back, and sides), getting rid of tension wherever you're carrying it. The guided meditation at the end of the practice might lead you directly into sleep.
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Great Courses volume 29
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Pleading is the process by which parties inform one another, and the court, of their allegations, claims, and defenses. Go inside the first step in the pre-trial process for a close look at the rules that govern pleading. As you'll learn, the rules governing pleading can make - or break - a suit.
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Trigonometric functions need not be confined to acute angles in right triangles; they apply to virtually any angle. Using the coordinate plane, learn to calculate trigonometric values for arbitrary angles. Also see how a table of common angles and their trigonometric values has wide application.
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Great Courses volume 19
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What is there to know about color? Plenty, as you'll discover in this enlightening discussion with Annie Griffiths. Watch as she demonstrates how to use the different "personalities" of colors-including black and white-to communicate emotions. Get practical tips on shooting at different times of day, using backgrounds, creating silhouettes, and more.
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