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Miss Bala

Catherine Hardwicke · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Gloria (Gina Rodriguez) drives to Tijuana, Mexico, to visit her best friend who is competing in the local "Miss Baja" beauty pageant. During a night out, her friend is abducted and Gloria finds herself a pawn in a dangerous game being played by the CIA, the DEA, and a charismatic...
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Woodworking Tips, Tricks, and Secrets

George Vondriska · The Great Courses
Format: DVD

You may know all the basics of woodworking: how to shop for tools like routers, band saws, sanders, biscuit joiners, and circular saws; how to operate shop equipment safely and appropriately; even how to create your own game boards, picture frames, and cabinets. Now, in 11 lectures totaling...
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Great Courses Essential Techniques Every Knitter Should Know

Knitting Expert Sally Melville · The Great Courses
Format: DVD

Learn essential knitting techniques no knitter should be without. In this course produced by Craftsy - the popular online educational site dedicated to creative projects of all types - you join knitwear designer and author Sally Melville and find out how to create perfect gauge swatches...
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Great Courses Simple & Stunning Watercolor Techniques

Mary Murphy · The Great Courses
Format: DVD

Play with size, scale, texture and a variety of water-based mediums. Learn advanced watercolor techniques alongside artist and instructor Mary Murphy. You'll see how to create a complementary underpainting, use masking methods to preserve white space and achieve harmonious color shifts....
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Great Courses Startup Library: Painting with Watercolors

Kateri Ewing · The Great Courses
Format: DVD

Color your world with watercolors! Join expert Kateri Ewing in this comprehensive beginner's class as she helps you navigate all the basics. You'll explore a range of tools and supplies, essential techniques, plus hands-on demonstrations and so much more.
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Mystery Road: Series 1

Aaron Pedersen · ACORN MEDIA
Format: DVD

Emmy and Golden Globe winner Judy Davis (Feud: Bette and Joan) and award-winning actor Aaron Pedersen (Jack Irish) star in this "exquisitely cinematic" (Daily Review, Australia) mystery series set in the Australian outback. When two boys disappear from a remote cattle...
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The Celtic World

Jennifer Paxton · The Great Courses
Format: DVD

Following the surge of interest and pride in Celtic identity since the 19th century, much of what we thought we knew about the Celts has been radically transformed. From the warriors who nearly defeated Julius Caesar to druids who, contrary to popular opinion, definitely did not worship...
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The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague

Dorsey Armstrong · The Great Courses
Format: DVD

In the late 1340s, a cataclysmic plague - known to us as the Black Death - left up to 75 million dead across Europe. While the story of the Black Death is one of destruction and loss, it is also one of the most compelling and deeply intriguing episodes in human history. Understanding its aftermath...
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The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age

Eamonn Gearon
Format: DVD

The study of Western Civilization traditionally follows a well-known but incomplete arc: the grand achievements of Greece and Rome, several hundred years of the "Dark Ages," and then the bright emergence of the European Renaissance. But amid the "dark" Middle Ages, the Abbasid...
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Understanding the Misconceptions of Science


Format: DVD

"Consider these commonly held scientific beliefs: Planetary orbits are fixed ellipses; we only use 10 percent of our brains; nothing travels faster than light; a thrown object's trajectory is a parabola. They seem correct, but they're all misconceptions that aren't entirely...
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