Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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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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-- 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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-- 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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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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[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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[2008], General, WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 610.92 PAC Edition: Letterboxed version Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: HealthSummary Note: The true story of three friends from the tough streets of Newark, New Jersey, who pledged to help each other make it to college and medical school and, after being successful in those endeavors, returned to their community to practice medicine and inspire youngsters.
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c2005., PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 659.1 PER Edition: Widescreen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations. Shows how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their message into the fabric of our lives. Explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and themselves and how the techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to politics.
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c1997., WGBH Boston Video Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Story of the thousands of teenagers who hopped freight trains during the Great Depression; archival footage and a foot-stomping soundtrack.
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2007., General, WGBH Boston Video Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
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-- Global warming.c2007., WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD 363.73 Nov Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines both sides of the global warming debate.