Learning Channel (Firm)

Master baker Buddy Valastro, owner of Carlo's City Hall Bake Shop in Hoboken, NJ, is one of the most successful and renowned cake artists in the country. Follow Buddy as he supervises a team that includes his mother, four older sisters, and three brothers-in-law in an effort to achieve his late father's dream of making the family-owned business a household name.

Presents the typical experience of a warrior in each of these military cultures, using contemporary narratives, bloodless reenactments of battles, current views of the terrain, computer graphics reproductions, and artwork (sculpture, painting, etc.) from the period described.

Introduces heat, pressure, and states of matter, describing the properties of temperature and the Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin scales; the ways pressure affects the human body underwater, at high altitude, and in space; and how water changes from a solid to a liquid to a gas.

Presents the complete history of Rome, from its primitive beginnings to the height of its glory and its eventual decline. Combines location footage of ancient monuments, detailed re-enactments, period art and writing, and insights from scholars and public figures.

"Hit the water: From the cockpit of a Tornado Fighter Bomber, dip into the history of margarine, dance at the ballet Copella, and blow up a dam in Norway with a British commando team to find out why and how Hitler never harnessed heavy water and the A-Bomb."--Container. "In touch: An American scientist ponders the problem of nuclear fusion in 1951 and from the connections between the Eiffel Tower to modern oceanography, the Global Net is developed."--Container....