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The Challenger: How to Grow a Planet
Item# 52497
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-328-0
Trees once dominated the planet, but grasses eventually challenged their supremacy to become Earth’s main form of plant life. In this program, Iain Stewart explains how it happened, and the impact the...
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How to Grow a Planet
Item# 52494
© 2012
150 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-325-9
We may believe that humans are the most powerful evolutionary force on Earth, but it’s plants that enabled amphibians to leave the water, plants that played a part in the rise and fall of the dinosaur...
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Life from Light: How to Grow a Planet
Item# 52495
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-326-6
It was plants that first harnessed light from the sun to create a life-giving atmosphere, transforming a barren rock into the lush world we know today. In this program, geologist Iain Stewart journeys...
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The Power of Flowers: How to Grow a Planet
Item# 52496
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-327-3
What did flowering plants have to do with the evolution of primates and other mammals? In this program, geologist Iain Stewart travels to New Caledonia to discuss what made the first blooms so revolut...
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How to Build a Dinosaur
Item# 52493
© 2011
20 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-324-2
Reconstructing a dinosaur skeleton for a museum is a balance of art and science—enough science to keep the experts happy, enough artistic license to excite the visitors. But as it turns out, diplomacy...
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Dinosaurs: A Horizon Guide
Item# 47832
© 2011
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-388-3
Using the fragmentary fossil record and other scientific data, paleontologists have succeeded quite brilliantly in reconstructing the dinosaurs’ long-ago world, providing insights into their appearanc...
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Dinosaurs: On the Trail of Prehistory
Item# 44694
© 2011
53 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-126-1
A sensational discovery is made in a German quarry: petrified tracks created by Troodontidae, a beast of great interest to scientists but about which little is known. Paleontologists around the world...
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Zircons: Time Capsules from the Early Earth
Item# 47557
© 2010
9 Min.
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Zircons are minerals that typically exist as tiny crystals in rocks. They have, however, a big story to tell. A few zircon crystals have been found that are the oldest Earth materials ever discovered,...
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Deep Earth: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Item# 43924
© 2010
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-000-4
Throughout history, human settlements and societies have been strangely drawn to fault lines, those mysterious places where the Earth’s crust reveals its tenuous nature, and to other areas that connec...
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Fire: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Item# 43927
© 2010
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-003-5
Beginning with a mind-boggling stunt that only science or spirituality can justify—a veritable walk through fire—this program examines humankind’s long, complicated relationship with the ravenous powe...
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