Yoga for beginners and for advanced 4 tapes over two hours of yoga fun on VHS tapes

Six new programs in the continually expanding series, The Great Artists. This series chronicles the life, times, and works of the greatest artists in history. Includes the following 6 programs: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Bosch, and Bruegel.

British actor and comedian Michael Palin takes you along on an entertaining journey around the Pacific Rim, traveling by boat, train, plane and helicopter. Meet the Eskimos of the island of Diomede in the Bering Strait. Depart in one of their skin boats for Alaska's mainland, then voyage on to view Russia's westernmost wonders. Visit Japan's legendary Kodo Drummers, a Zen Buddhist temple, and as a contrast, downtown Tokyo. Your itinerary includes the mysteries of China's holiest mountain, a nap in Mao's bed in the Governor's Castle, plus journeys to Vietnam, the perilous Sula Seas, Australia, South America, Mexico and finally full circle back to Alaska. Titles are: "Alaska and Russia," "Japan and Korea," "China," "Vietnam and the Philippines," "Borneo and Indonesia," "Australia and New Zealand," "Chile," "Bolivia and Peru," "Peru and Colombia," and "Mexico and the USA. ".

This BBC series consists of five one-hour cassettes featuring 10 episodes of a masterful odyssey through early art, the Renaissance, and baroque art to romanticism, the age of revolution, and modernism. Lumpy, likable Sister Wendy Beckett guides us on a spirited tour of art through the ages that the entire family can savor and repeatedly enjoy. This woman is a scream-acerbic, astute, and surprisingly earthy. Oh yes, and very, very knowledgeable. Within each 30-minute program are several segments covering much canvas, but always in easily digestible amounts. This is perfect for the artistically deprived, the artfully minded, or anyone with a brain and a sense of humor. -Rochelle O'Gorman.

For those who long for that singularly decadent confection known as royalty, this three-tape boxed set will induce a pleasing sugar high. A blend of media clips, home-video footage, photographs, and interviews with journalists, biographers, and royal genealogical experts, Royal Families of the World profiles 13 modern-day monarchies whose cultural, political, and/or societal influence remains deeply felt within their respective nations, and whose benevolence, glamour, and wealth enchant people around the world. Each of the three 90- to 115-minute tapes outlines the lineal rights and historical events that set the stage for the current figureheads' dignified position, covering such notable families as England's familiar Windsors, Belgium's Saxe-Coburgs, Monaco's House of Grimaldi, Spain's House of Bourbon, the Austrian Habsburgs, Thailand's House of Chakri, Morocco's Alouite Dynasty, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Of course, extra-special attention is given to those oh-so-sweet slices of the royals' lives: their romances (perhaps the most delicious being that of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly), weddings, fashion tendencies, residences, and philanthropic endeavors. While mediocre production values and the repetition of clips and photos in each segment ultimately make this indulgence only mildly intoxicating, Royal Families nevertheless gives buzzworthy access to the uniquely privileged, high-profile, and fascinatingly formal worlds of high nobility. -Rebecca Wright.