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Publisher
Video Aided Instruction
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A step-by-step guide to constructing a paper that is technically correct, original and compelling! The viewer will recognize the value of true scholarship; master essential research techniques; dramatically improve writing; keep motivated, productive, and relaxed through the entire process. The strategies learned will apply to any research paper assignment on any topic - in high school, college, graduate school, and beyond.
3) Ice crawlers
Publisher
New Concorde
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
They have been asleep for millions of years in the desolate Antarctic wasteland where a team of researches have awakened them. Now they are mad and hungry for blood!
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How can animals be studied when the researcher cannot get close to it? Camera traps and drones are revolutionizing wildlife biology by recording the secret lives of animals, from whales and tigers to giant armadillos, all without disturbing them.
Series
Publisher
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Infectious diseases are a serious threat to world health. They are particularly devastating in tropical countries where infectious agents thrive and where healthcare resources are stretched thin. The warming trend in the global climate, coupled with increased international travel, has resulted in infectious outbreaks that spread more rapidly and that now affect regions with more temperate climates, including the United States. Many diseases that had...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Dickie Roberts is a former child actor who appeared on a hit television show. Now in his thirties, he can only find work as a parking valet and spends his free time with other former child stars. Wanting to make a comeback, he manages to get an audition with director Rob Reiner. When the role requires him to be normal, he decides to hire a normal family for $20,000 in order to "research" the childhood he missed out on.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mars Curiosity. It could be NASA's last chance to set wheels down on Mars until the end of the decade: last August, a rover named Curiosity touched down inside Mars' Gale Crater, carrying 10 new instruments that will advance the quest for signs that Mars might have once been suitable for life. But Curiosity's mission is risky. After parachuting through the Martian atmosphere at twice the speed of sound, Curiosity will be gently lowered to the planet's...
Series
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In this program famous authors, Roddy Doyle (Oh, Play That Thing), Andrew Pyper (The Trade Mission), Kerri Sakamoto (One Hundred Million Hearts), and Ray Robertson (Moody Food), discuss creative strategies in writing and research methodology and explain why solid facts make great fiction.
10) What are dreams?
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins the leading dream researchers as they embark on a variety of neurological and psychological experiments to investigate the world of sleep and dreams. Delving deep into the thoughts and brains of a variety of dreamers, scientists are asking important questions about the purpose of this mysterious world we escape to at night." -- Container.
11) Medicine man
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Robert Campbell, a brilliant but unorthodox scientist, is racing against time in his bold research for a cure against cancer. Deep in the Amazon rain forest, Campbell is hot on the trail of an amazing discovery, but soon finds himself caught in the midst of an explosive adventure.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Any good research rests upon, above all else, method. This brilliantly conceived course gives a deep, detailed, and practical guide to proper research methods. As groundwork, grasp the features of good research and what defines it. Then study research methodology, from the classic experiment to surveys, case studies, field research, and more. Finally, learn to analyze data and communicate findings.
14) Altered states
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The incredible terrifying tale of a research scientist experimenting with altered states of consciousness, and the horrors he finds in secret landscapes of the mind.
16) Terminal
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
For the wealthy patients who can afford it, the breakthrough cure for brain cancer success rate is 100%. But when a young girl dies after having received the same mysterious treatment a doctor has a battle trying to discover whats behind this 'miracle cure'.
17) The rocketeer
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a top-secret jetpack hurls test pilot Cliff Secord into a daring adventure of mystery, suspense and intrigue! Cliff encounters an assortment of ruthless villains, led by a Hollywood screen star who's a secret Nazi spy. With the help of his actress girlfriend, the young pilot battles enormous odds to defeat his foes, who are anxious to use the device in an evil plan to rule the world! The dangerous mission transforms the ordinary young...
18) Chain reaction
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A student machinist finds himself caught in a maze of secret government cover-ups, hi-tech espionage and murder after working on a groundbreaking scientific experiment. Eddie Kasalivich and Lily Sinclair are part of a team of scientists who have developed a revolutionary new source of energy. But no sooner have they finished celebrating their triumph, than their lab is destroyed and the head of their team killed. Named the main suspects, Eddie and...
19) Spaceship Earth
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1991, a group of countercultural visionaries built an enormous replica of earth's ecosystem called Biosphere 2. When eight 'biospherians' live quarantined inside, they faced ecological calamities and cult accusations. Their epic adventure is a cautionary tale but also a testament to the power of small groups reimagining the world.
20) Forever young
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Test pilot in 1939 who puts off proposing to his sweetheart until it's too late volunteers for a cryogenics experiment, reawakening in 1992.