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1) Life
Description
Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"What is our latest picture of some of the most inexplicable features of the universe? What still remains to be uncovered? What are some of the next avenues of exploration for today's chemists, physicists, biologists, and astronomers? ... This lecture series is a wonderful entrée to scientific pursuits that lie at the very heart of the history and nature of our universe."--Publisher.
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man whose life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"'Is addiction really a disease?' In this high-definition video essay, Kevin McCauley explores the arguments for and against this vital debate, reviewing the latest neuroscientific research about addiction along the way. Using the spectacular landscape of Utah's State and National Parks to describe the brain areas involved in addiction, Dr. McCauley turns complex neuroscientific concepts into easy-to-understand visual images that will help people...
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Experience nature's jarring feast of beauty, tension, and triumph like never before! Discover what happens when South Africa has too many elephants, or when just one lioness survives a senseless massacre. Tag along as conservationists relocate entire elephant families, study the fiercely intelligent golden jackal, and more.
7) To the limit
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Three athletes demonstrate the marvelous workings of the human body in this revolutionary IMAX film, the first of its kind to use endoscopic (inner body) photography.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"Both during and after pregnancy, yoga is a perfect way to firm your body, build strength and gain flexibility. These two yoga practices are also a wonderful way to maintain emotional balance and reduce stress during the exciting and often hectic times surrounding the birth of a child."
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Delivering almost six hours of scientific exploration, the collection covers planets, weather, energy, magnetism, orbits, comets, and other elements that make up this space that people call home. These eight episodes will help viewers understand the intricacies of the wonders of the world, as well as what each can teach them about their own lives.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
His movies are legend, his women breathtaking, and his toys dressed to kill. Whether James Bond is pursuing villains in space-age flying machines or neatly evading peril with his high-tech marvels, British Secret Agent 007 is licensed to carry the ultimate in stunningly intelligent devices ever to grace the silver screen. Bond had it all. This exclusive look at his gadgets reveals what it really takes to save the world.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Psychotropic drugs. It's the story of big money ... drugs that fuel a 30 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human terms is even greater-these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people every year. And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging...
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Alzheimer's disease ravages the minds of over 40 million victims worldwide. The cause of Alzheimer's and whether it can be stopped is one of the greatest medical mysteries of our time. Join courageous patients participating in clinical trials, and then go behind the scenes of the major drug trials to see how researchers target and test therapies that may slow and even prevent Alzheimer's.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Takes viewers on an exciting and visually stunning journey to the historic places where Christianity was born and grew to its place as the official religion of the Roman Empire. Join author and distinguished history professor Jonathan Phillips as he sets out on a 12,000 mile journey of a lifetime, traveling the ancient roads to the very places where Christianity began.
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