Athena (Firm)
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Beloved actress Joanna Lumley is a gracious guide on this absolutely fabulous Greek adventure. Lumley travels across Greece, relating the history of iconic sites including the Acropolis, Delphi, Mount Olympus, and Crete with charm and wit. Bonus includes: Twelve-page viewer's guide with an interview wih Lumley, a timeline of Greek history, and artilces on Lord Byron in Greece and the Muses and a biography of Joanna Lumley.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Since our ancestors first counted the passing seasons, humans have used measurement to help master and understand our world. Hosted by the engaging Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, this program shows how measurements have shaped the course of history, science, and civilization; and changed every aspect of our daily lives.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding over a period of 200 years, it's an extraordinary tale of daring, self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and outright luck. In three episodes, Mosley recounts how humans have learned to fight back against disease and death.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Today Impressionist art is found on T-shirts and mugs, but it wasn't always popular. London Sunday Times art critic Waldemar Januszczak hosts a lively guide to these revolutionary and influential artists, visiting their studios and the rustic vistas that inspired them. It's a super introduction to Monet, Manet, Degas, Seurat, Cezanne, Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassat, Van Gogh, and other greats.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Hosted by curator and author of the bestselling book of the same name, Justin Paton takes viewers on an adventure through museums and artists' workshops in hopes of providing a fresh and exciting new perspective on how to truly appreciate and better understand the world of painting.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Investigates the high-profile thefts of some of the world's greatest pieces of art. From Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer to Edvard Munch's The Scream and even the Mona Lisa, these and other iconic masterpieces have been coveted by the criminal world. The fourteen-part series delves into the background behind the audacious burglaries and the authorities' efforts to apprehend the crooks and restore the masterpieces to public viewing.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Celebrated journalist Bill Moyers combines intimate, one-on-one interviews and public performances in this celebration of modern poetry's diverse voices. Featured poets include National Book Award honorees, Pulitzer Prize winners, and a former U.S. Poet Laureate, as well as accompaniment by the famed Paul Winter Consort.
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Music has been a constant in human history, an intermingling of voice and instrument that for all its local variation and increasing sophistication nevertheless endured in more or less the same form for centuries. Then came recording--and music was forever transformed. Soundbreaking, an eight-part event television series, traces this ongoing sonic revolution, and explores the nexus of cutting-edge technology and human artistry that has created the...
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