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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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English
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Profiles the life and work of music producer/recording engineer Tom Dowd. Featuring music and appearances by Les Paul, Eric Clapton, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Ornette Coleman and other musical luminaries.
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Great Courses volume 15
Language
English
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Conclude the course with a peek at how to research records outside the United States. Focusing on his experiences in Europe, Dr. Colletta reveals what essential facts you need to know about your immigrant ancestors, and how to overcome six major challenges to accessing and using historical materials in foreign countries.
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Malaria: Fever Wars" highlights man's interminable fight against malaria, a disease which kills millions every year, and which is continuing to worsen. It delivers an up to date account of the global malaria situation from the perspectives of a few heroic individuals, each fighting their own very different battles against the disease."-- PBS's website.
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1 videodisc (aproximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
5) Medicine man
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sean Connery plays Dr. Robert Campbell, a brilliant but unorthodox scientist racing against time in his bold research for a cure [for] cancer. Set deep in the forbidding Amazon rain forest, this action-packed hit follows Campbell hot on the trail of an amazing discovery - but the eccentric recluse soon finds himself caught in the midst of an explosive adventure! -- Container.
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Chronicles the famed biologist's lifelong love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. Wilson's work on ant communication led to his remarkable studies of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and his controversial theories on the role of evolutionary processes in social behavior. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa, brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and humanity's...
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1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jane Goodall returns to the Gombe Stream Research Station in Tanzania to visit the chimpanzees she has known for 43 years. However, when she arrives she finds that there is trouble among the chimpanzees.
9) Acid horizon
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1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follow a deep sea explorer trying to save the planet. Dr. Erik Cordes is searching for a 'supercoral' that will survive ocean acidification and help prevent future extinctions. Is he too late?
11) Altered states
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
12) Red knot
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A stunningly shot meditation on love and loss, New York newlyweds Peter and Chloe fall into marital crisis while on a research vessel en route to Antarctica. As romantic bliss sours, Chloe takes comfort in the company of the ship's captain, a man who has good reason for setting himself adrift. As they sail towards the end of the Earth, filmmaker Scott Cohen's astonishingly assured, elegantly shot debut passes into troubled, Polanski-indebted waters....
13) Absolute zero
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1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Presents the history of low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. The conquest of cold opens with experiments in the 1600s that asked what heat and cold are and whether they are different aspects of the same phenomenon. Shows how the experiments that settled those questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution. The race for absolute zero dramatizes the rivalry between Scottish researcher James Dewar and Dutch...
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4 videodiscs (approximately 676 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Chronicles the lives of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Masters, a successful OB/GYN, is conducting a secret study of human sexuality. Soon, he meets Virginia Johnson, a former nightclub singer who is now part of the hospital secretarial staff. He enlists her help with his study, and she quickly proves to be an asset to Masters' work. Together, they delve deeper than anyone before them into the science of sex and later become...
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1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Every year, a million visitors are drawn to the Salisbury Plain in southern England, to gaze upon a mysterious circle of stones. Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Now investigations inside and around Stonehenge have kicked off a dramatic new era of discovery and debate. Who built Stonehenge? What was its purpose? How did prehistoric people quarry, transport, sculpt, and erect the giant stones? A new generation...
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1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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People with Alzheimer's disease usually live at home, cared for by family members-who, like the patient may be feeling uncertain and scared. But authoritative information can help ease the fears and concerns. This program is a step-by-step Alzheimer's primer for caregivers and patients alike, divided into the following sections: First Signs, Diagnosis, Middle Stages, Getting Organized, Coping, Day to Day, Last Stages, and Hope for the Future, a segment...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each episode, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder and worry about. Neil will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery.
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Documentary of the eccentric socialite. Includes interviews with friends and colleagues Kathleen Bayfield, Florence Darnault and Adolf Pollitz, comments from Cosme McMoon, and reminiscences from witnesses to the "night of nights," the Carnegie Hall recital of Oct. 25, 1944, Marge Champion, Alfred Hubay and Daniel Pinkham.
20) First peoples
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2 videodiscs (approximately 275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are seven billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. On each continent, we track down the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens. Who were these First Peoples? What drove them to the ends of the earth?
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