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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Everyone has an inner nerd just waiting to be awakened by the right passion. Bill Nye will help you find yours. Here Bill shows you how to develop critical thinking skills and create change, using his "everything all at once" approach that leaves no stone unturned. Whether addressing climate change, the future of our society as a whole, personal success, or stripping away the mystery of fire walking, there are certain strategies that get results:...
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In one of the most ambitious landmark series, Planet Earth II allows us to experience the world from the viewpoint of the animals themselves. Traveling through jungles, deserts, mountains, islands, grasslands and cities, this series explores the unique characteristics of Earth's most iconic habitats and the extraordinary ways animals survive within them. New technology has allowed individual stories to be captured in an unparalleled level of detail....
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible sword with its maker's name, ULFBERHT, inlaid along the blade. But who Ulfberht was, where the sword came from, and how it was made remained secrets for more than 1,000 years?
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Did you know that 1% of the white noise you see on your television is actually background radiation from The Big Bang? This CGI-driven special will tell the 14 billion year history of our world in two hours. It's an epic story that will give surprising connections to our daily lives. From the formation of the earth and the emergence of life, to the advance of man and the growth of civilization, it's a rapid-fire view of our unforgettable story.
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
By year 2100 many scientists believe that the Earth's average temperature could rise by as much as six degrees Celsius. In a compelling investigation, National Geographic leads a degree-by -degree journey to explore what each rising- and critical- degree could mean for the future of our people and planet. Through powerful filmmaking and intimate profiles, this special illustrates how global warming has already affected the reefs of Australia, the...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors. Deep in a South African cave, a special team of experts has brought to light an unprecedented wealth of fossils belonging to a crucial gap in the record of our origins that spans the transition between the ape-like australopithecines (such as the famous Lucy) and the earliest members of the human family. The film describes the 2013 discovery,...
Series
Best of the History Channel volume III
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a seething ocean of radioactive and molten rock to a refuge for life as we know it, Earth has undergone a staggering series of cataclysmic transformations in its long and epic history. Assailed relentlessly for millions of years by meteorites, our once toxic and hostile planet has been covered in water and in ice, and seen the rise and sundering of continents, the creation of an atmosphere, and, ultimately, the beginning of life. Travel to remote...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Did a nineteenth century British landowner really discover gold, jewels, and the charred bones of the Lord Buddha in an underground chamber on his estate? Is the site of this discovery the legendary lost city of Kapilavastu, where the real Buddha lived as Prince Siddhartha?
Publisher
Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Earth is an incredible, exceptional planet with an amazing life story full of cataclysmic disasters, eleventh-hour coincidences that save it from extinction, and an astonishing power to continually regenerate. Uses breathtaking footage and special imaging to tell the story of the great forces that shape the planet - volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice. Traveling from Ethiopia's unique lava lake to an ice cave under a glacier in Greenland...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 'Secrets of the Sun, ' take a guided tour of Earth's life-giving star through computer-generated graphics. 'Mars: the Red Planet' uses dated collected from probes and robotic rovers to take viewers to the planet's surface to show what life would be like for a human settlement. 'The End of the Earth' takes a harrowing look at the results of a collision with a deep space object, and at the technologies scientists are developing to protect the planet....
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The History Channel answers the question: After 650 million years of climate change, is global warming simply a naturally occuring phenomenom, or the result of human activity? Arctic ice is melting, sea levels are rising and glaciers are shrinking at alarming rates. And the Earth is getting unmistakably warmer. But is this vast potentially catastrophic climate change the result of human behavior? Or is it simply the Earth's natural cycle of warming...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Explains how various types of music affect the brain emotionally and physically and features a discussion with Dr. Levitin on his book, "This is Your Brain on Music," which discusses how technology can be used to see the effects of music on the human brain.
16) Mars
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set in the year 2033, this one-of-a-kind blend of scripted drama and fascinating documentary sequences centers on twin female astronauts who courageously embark on an epic adventure: humanity's awe-inspiring quest to colonize Mars. The world's most brilliant minds in space exploration, including visionary thinkers Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, NASA astronauts and more, share what the not-so-distant future may hold for all of us.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
What will the world be like when mankind is extinct? The pyramids may stand forever, but the cities will disappear. Our greatest masterpieces will fade and crumble. As global warming and the depletion of natural resources become ever more pressing issues it is critical to consider how we can reduce our impact on the planet. Journey to locations around the globe already going through the processes of a lack of human intervention. See the changes wrought...
18) Mars: Season 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.
19) Journey to planet Earth: Dispatches from the Gulf 3 :ten years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Publisher
Screenscope
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Has the Gulf of Mexico recovered from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? As the tenth anniversary of the disaster approaches, this question is regularly posed. An international team of scientists has spent nearly that long studying its environmental impact ... For insight into the future, we journey to the Campeche region of Mexico that is still suffering four decades after the 1979 Ixtoc oil spill. ... "--Container insert