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surviving statues and temples which have been preserved are among the finest examples of classical art. Here the roots and the role models of Western culture are to be found. Item no. : TH00770151 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 60 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769790831 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES - DELPHI: DELPHI: CENTER CENTER OF OF THE THE WORLD WORLD Delphi was once regarded as the center of the world. It was one of the most important intellectual and cultural sites of antiquity. Anyone who could afford it sought the advice of the oracle of Delphi before making a decision in both personal and public affairs. Some of these oracle sayings have survived to the present day, over two thousand years later. The film describes the faith of the Ancient Greeks, whose ideas in fact often differ surprisingly from the conventional wisdom on this subject. Delphi's impenetrable myths, its mysterious fortune-telling practices and bloodthirsty animal sacrifices have left a trail which is still visible and palpable today, the trail of a legendary oracle which influenced European history for almost 1,000 years… Item no. : RV00770440 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 60 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769790985 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES - FLORENCE FLORENCE AND AND THE THE THE SPIRIT SPIRIT OF OF TH THE TH TH E RENAISSANCE RENAISSANCE Florence is regarded as the focal point, the center where the revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance with its enthusiasm for the art of Antiquity were developed. The city on the Arno was at this time one of Europe's foremost trading metropoles. Here the currents of culture and politics converged. In Florence, liberal and open-minded as it was, there emerged a broad class of industrious citizens who had made their fortunes in trade. Suddenly they were able to afford education - a privilege hitherto the preserve of a few aristocrats and priests. They studied and absorbed the thoughts of the writers of Antiquity, developed them further, thus creating the foundations for a completely new attitude to human existence. Our present-day understanding as modern Europeans is based on this new school of thought, in which Florence played a decisive role. Item no. : CB00771770 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 57 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769792125 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES - HUE: HUE: THE THE CITY CITY ON ON THE THE PERFUME PERFUME RIVER RIVER Hue, the former Imperial City of Vietnam, lives with its river, the Song Huan, the river of perfume, the river of fragrance. Its enticing nickname probably came from the fragrant pollen which it carries at certain times of the year. Numerous songs and poems sing the praises of this river and of the colorful life on its banks. Yet Hue is not only the city at the river, Hue is in fact the cultural heart of Vietnam. In the 19th century, modeled on the Forbidden City in Beijing, an Imperial Court emerged which was intended to proclaim the power and the wealth of the Nguy dynasty. This unique program gives an unprecedented close-up look at the former Imperial City with its fascinating tombs, temples and citadel. Item no. : NL00770217 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 57 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769792422 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES - JERUSALEM: JERUSALEM: CITY CITY BETWEEN BETWEEN RELIGIO RELIGIONS RELIGIO NS Jerusalem is a holy city, not only for Jews but also for Christians and Muslims. Since time immemorial, each of the three great monotheistic religions has claimed the city as its own. Long-lasting, bloodthirsty conflicts were the result. Jerusalem, a bone of contention for over 2000 years. Now more than ever. Without its pre-eminent significance for these religions, Jerusalem would be merely one among a hundred other desert cities - interchangeable, unimportant. This film by Georg Graffe draws a portrait of a city for which Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been both a blessing and a curse. Item no. : TH00770445 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 60 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769790824 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES SITES OF OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES - LHASA LHASA AND AND THE THE THE SPIRIT SPIRIT SPIRIT OF OF TIBET TIBET TIBET Nowadays the Tibetans have to fear for the preservation of their culture since the constantly growing Chinese population is rapidly crowding out the native Tibetans. The latter are often no longer able to practice their religion unhindered, an essential element of their native culture. The film describes a colorful culture in which secular and spiritual powers are in the same hands. This concentration of the Dalai Lama's power becomes visible in the fortifications overlooking the city of Lhasa in Potala. Furthermore, pictures from Katmandu show how the old customs and traditions, threatened by extinction in their land of origin Tibet, are surviving among the Tibetans in exile. Item no. : BN00770286 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 57 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769792132 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES OF OF OF THE THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES CULTURES - MACHU MACHU MACHU PICCHU PICCHU AND AND THE THE THE LEGACY LEGACY OF OF THE THE THE INCAS INCAS Machu Picchu is one of the earth?s magical places. The ruined city seems to be the work of giants, full of mysteries, unwilling to reveal its secrets. Nevertheless, more than any other place, it has become the symbol of the vanished culture of its architects, the Incas. They were at the height of their power when they were smitten by a hitherto unknown disease: the insatiable greed for gold which the Europeans introduced to America. This has been responsible, right up to the present day, for the destruction of countless treasures created by the skilful Incan craftsmen, whose empire extended over three hundred thousand square miles. Despite this devastation, numerous buildings, statues and other finds still testify to the creative energy of the Incas and their ancestors. Item no. : JU00770450 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 60 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769790732 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES SITES OF OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES CULTURES - MOSCOW MOSCOW AND AND THE THE THE GOLDEN GOLDEN GOLDEN RING RING There are places in the environs of Moscow which surrounds the 600-year-old Russian capital like a golden ring. 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these cities, cloisters and churches of the "Golden Ring" that the heart of Russia used to beat - until the October Revolution. Now, after over 70 years, the bells can be heard chiming regularly once again, and the remaining cloisters and churches radiate their former splendor. This enlightening program visits the fascinating towns of Moscow's "Golden Ring." One unique town, Susdal, could be a city from a Russian fairy tale. In the Middle Ages it was one of the most important cities far and wide, larger than Paris or London - now it has been relegated to depths of a Russian backwater. Yet it is a typical Russian city with a Kremlin, churches, palaces and fortified cloisters, which defended the Orthodox faith at first against the Islamic Mongols, later against the Catholic Swedes. This informative and entertaining program was filmed entirely on location and shows the many changes that have taken place since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Item no. : VC00770451 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 60 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769790978 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES - SOUTHERN SOUTHERN INDIA INDIA AND AND AND THE THE THE DANCE DANCE OF OF THE THE THE GODS GODS In Kumbakonom, according to an ancient myth, the world evolved from a "kumba", a vessel. The city in the south of India claims to be the navel of the world, which, according to the Hindu creed, is actually the sacred city of Benares. This is one of the numerous contradictions which are a particular characteristic of the south of India, where myths, religious traditions and everyday life are entwined in what appears to be a hopelessly tangled web. Yet, in fact, everything does have an inner Indian logic, a cohesion derived and based on thousand-year-old stories of the gods and their worlds. This background explains the mysterious temple and also the fate of an old woman, who dedicated her life to the gods. Item no. : HZ00770379 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 56 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769792361 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES CULTURES - ST. ST. PETERSBURG: PETERSBURG: WINDOW WINDOW OON O N EUROPE EUROPE EUROPE A window to Europe was what Peter the Great wanted to create when, in 1703, he laid the foundation stone for the new capital city of his Russian empire. He sent 50,000 serfs into the swampy delta of the Neva to pound the harbor city out of the ground. Under Katharina the Great, St Petersburg finally became the thriving metropolis which Peter the Great had dreamed of: a "Venice of the North", a city of the arts, the sciences and literature. Many artists, craftsmen, scientists and philosophers from Europe responded to the Tsarina's summons to come east. They brought with them new ideas, which they then blended with the old eastern traditions. A cultural center emerged, quite unparalleled in the west. Item no. : TY00770380 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 56 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769792033 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES SITES OF OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES CULTURES - STONEHENGE STONEHENGE AND AND MEGALITHIC MEGALITHIC CULTURES CULTURES Some 5,000 monuments have been preserved from the Neolithic Age. They testify to a culture which left no written evidence and whose religious ideals are obscured by a veil of conjecture. Numerous unsolved questions still fascinate people, as do the huge dolmens and menhirs, the burial mounds and stone circles. They create for us a society which was capable of great feats. This informative program focuses on Stonehenge, the symbol of megalithic culture, and investigates the relationship of space, power and death, essential to any understanding of this unique monument. Item no. : YA00770452 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 60 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769790725 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES - TEOTIHUACAN: TEOTIHUACAN: CITY CITY OF OF THE THE GODS GODS As with many of the pre-Spanish civilizations of Central and South America there are more questions than answers surrounding the culture of Teotihuacan. From village communities, at around 200 BC, there developed an urban civilization in the highlands of Mexico. Over the centuries it produced huge, precisely constructed pyramids for cultic purposes. In the 8th century AD Teotihuacan suffered a catastrophic collapse. At its zenith this now legendary ruined city extended over 20 square kilometers and was thus larger than Imperial Rome. Nobody knows what language its inhabitants spoke, or what people they belonged to. No writing has been found, nor has the name of any ruler. The film follows the traces of a forgotten society and contrasts them with the surviving Indian traditions of present-day Mexico. Item no. : LR00770456 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 60 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769790947 Price : USD 50.00 SITES SITES SITES OF OF OF THE THE WORLD'S WORLD'S CULTURES CULTURES - THE THE ESCORIAL: ESCORIAL: ESCORIAL: THE THE THE DREAM DREAM DREAM OF OF OF A A DEVOUT DEVOUT DEVOUT MONARCH MONARCH MONARCH It was to be a bulwark of the faith, a symbol of the greatness and power of the Spanish world empire. In a manner virtually unparalleled by any other building, the Escorial reflects the spirit of its age, the 16th century, and of its patron, Philipp II. Philipp II, driven by a blind faith in the Catholic Church and the burning desire to emulate his father, Charles V, had the Escorial built in a bleak, deserted landscape. From this remote vantage point he wanted to rule the world. The architecture is a perfect reflection of this spirit, externally an austere building almost entirely without ornamentation. It is, moreover, no coincidence that the building is reminiscent of a cloister; part of which is still used today as a monastry. And it was from this fortified cloister that Philipp sought the solution to one of the most intractable problems of his time - the schism in the church. He resorted to the means of the Inquisition. The building, and its whole style, exudes the relentlessness with which Philipp exerted his power. Item no. : YB00770176 Format : DVD (Region 1, Color) Duration : 55 minutes StdBkNo : 9780769792415 Price : USD 50.00 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: inquiry@learningemall.com Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk 62
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