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Grassland: How Nature Works
Item# 52490
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-321-1
This program travels to the savannas of Kenya, the grasslands of Australia, and the Cerrado of Brazil to study the remarkable interaction of plants and animals in the grassland biome. Viewers learn ab...
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How Nature Works
Item# 52488
© 2012
200 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-319-8
Ten million species live on planet Earth, and none can survive alone. All life depends on symbiosis, unexpected and complex relationships between plants and animals. Using high-end filming techniques,...
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Jungle: How Nature Works
Item# 52489
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-320-4
This program tackles one of the biggest puzzles about the world’s rain forests: why do they hold such a bewildering variety of life? The quest for an answer begins in Panama, where it is not unusual t...
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Seasonal Forest: How Nature Works
Item# 52491
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-322-8
The ecosystems of seasonal forests undergo drastic change twice a year. In spring and autumn, the entire biotic community must transform itself at exactly the same time—and it can only do this if all...
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Water Worlds: How Nature Works
Item# 52492
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-323-5
This program begins high in the mountains of Iceland and ends at the coral reefs of the Maldives in an exploration of aquatic biomes that includes mountain streams, wetlands and swamps, coral reefs, a...
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The Food Speculator
Item# 50425
© 2012
46 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-221-4
Tunisia’s Arab Spring was triggered in part by a surge in grain prices that made purchasing bread nearly impossible. Like other publicly traded goods, the wheat market is subject to speculation—but wh...
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New to Our Collection! Mapping Biodiversity: Ever Wondered? (Series 1)
Item# 53246
© 2011
22 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-779-0
As an island nation in the Pacific, New Zealand is biologically diverse due to a number of very specific geologic, climatic, and geographic variables. In this episode, viewers will learn how these var...
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New to Our Collection! Damming the Mekong
Item# 52140
© 2011
27 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-487-4
Often thought of as the Amazon of Southeast Asia, the mighty Mekong River flows through six nations and is central to the livelihoods of some 60 million people. In Laos, plans have been drawn up for 1...
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Google China Standoff
Item# 50426
© 2011
47 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-222-1
Whether Google Inc. expanded into China because of the country’s vast consumer market or out of a sincere desire to make information available may be up for debate. The company is known for its ideali...
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Breaking the Wall of Food Insecurity: How Agricultural Science Minimizes Nematode Damage in Sub-Saharan Africa
Item# 49430
© 2011
13 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-490-7
Nematodes, or roundworms, are highly adaptable multicellular survivors of many diverse ecologies. From an agricultural perspective, nematodes are often detrimental: they are pests that attack plants a...
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