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-- Gilded age2018., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 973.8 AME Edition: [Widescreen format]. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life"--OCLC.
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2003, c1996., Primary, Sony Wonder Call No: Easy BROWN Edition: Standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Contains three Arthur adventures in which the young aardvark lets his imagination run a little too wild when doing a class writing assignment, he and Francine get locked in the library, and D.W. tries to convince the Tibble twins that she can read.
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[2004], General, WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 572.86 CRA Edition: Letterboxed edition Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: ScienceSummary Note: Chronicles the race to capture one of the biggest prizes in scientific history: the complete letter-by-letter sequence of genetic information that defines human life.
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[2009]., Adult, PBS Distribution Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On October 29, 1929 - Black Monday, large and small investors alike lost corporate and personal fortunes when the stock market crashed. This program examines the reasons behind the crash and whether the crash was predictable.
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-- DNA, secret of photo 51.c2007., WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 572.8 Dna Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of Rosalind Franklin, a scientist whose work was crucial in the discovery of the famous double-helix structure of DNA, but who went without credit for years.
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2004, c2000., General, WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 616.852 DYI Edition: Standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: HealthSummary Note: Provides information about eating disorders, and features the stories of young women, including students, ballet dancers, models, and others, who are battling or have recovered from anorexia or bulimia.
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-- Nova.c2013., General, PBS Distribution Call No: Earth Science Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Nova (Television program)Summary Note: Earth From Space is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth.
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-- Plague fighters[2007], General, WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 616.918 EBO Edition: Letterboxed version Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: ScienceSummary Note: Coverage of the battle against Ebola virus in the quarantined city of Kikwit, Zaire in 1995. Learn how disease specialists traced the origins of the outbreak and why they feared that a mutation of Ebola would emerge that was even more difficult to contain.
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[2006], c1986-1990., General, Turner Home Entertainment : PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 323.1 Eye Availability:7 of 7 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the history of the civil rights movement from 1954 to the mid-1980s.
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c2011., PBS Distribution Call No: Civil Rights NF FRE Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, it chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.
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[2015], [Publisher not identified] Call No: General Science & Math Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Astrophysicist Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond, all leading to the ultimate riddle: Is math an invention or a discovery? Humankind's clever trick, or the language of the universe? Join Nova for a mathematical mystery tour, a provocative exploration of mathb2ss astonishing power across the centuries.
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[2012]., PBS Distribution, : PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. Watch as David Pogue unlocks their secrets.
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2004., WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 551.55 Hur Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Footage from within the eye of Hurricane Gilbert, along with a view of scientists working to discover the intensity and probable path of storms. Includes first-hand accounts of Camille, the worst hurricane ever to strike the United States.
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2009., WGBH Boston Video Call No: LIfe Science Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Nova investigates a provocative new theory that suggests the extinction of more than 34 types of large prehistoric mega-creatures, such as the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth, was caused not by climate change or the arrival of the first human hunters, but by the massive breakup of a comet over the Great Lakes region at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,900 years ago." WGBH/Nova website.
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c2001., General, PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 612.6 Lif Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The development of a child from conception to birth, using both microimagery and the story of a young couple preparing for their first child.
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Ã2001., Adolescent, 60, PBS Home Video Call No: DVD Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Nova.Summary Note: Examines the journey from conception to birth, using advanced medical photography and computer animation to reveal how a human fetus develops.
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2004, c1995., Adolescent, WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 551.56 Lig Edition: Standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Looks at how scientists study lightning, explains what they have learned, and includes interviews with people who have been struck by lightning, as well as footage of a lightning display.
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c2011., PBS Distribution Call No: Inventors & Inventions Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Step behind the headlines as Making Stuff dramatizes the human stories woven into the current wave of hi-tech breakthroughs. Hosted by the New York Times' lively technology correspondent David Pogue, each hour in this four-part series explores the talent, luck, and determination that can turn a wild idea into a cutting-edge material or high-tech breakthrough.
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[1999], WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 612.6 Mir Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shows the actual conception and development of a baby. Looks inside the male and female reproductive organs to show the formation of sperm and the passage of a fertilized egg through the fallopian tube. Uses a microscope to observe DNA, chromosomes, and other minute body details building up to the moment of birth.
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-- Can we cool the planet?[2021]., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 363.738 NOV Edition: [Widescreen format]. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines various emerging technologies and their capacity to address the world's rising temperatures and control heat.