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Planet Earth, An Explorer's Guide
Item# 6146
© 1996
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Our understanding of how the earth works has just undergone its biggest change since we realized that the earth orbited the sun. We now know that what we see at the surface is caused by vigorous motio...
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Plate Tectonics: Secrets of the Deep
Item# 6148
© 1995 57 Min.
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Viewed from space, one of the remarkable features of our planet is that it has continents and oceans. The changing pattern of the continents and oceans is a very important characteristic of the earth,...
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The Man Who Moved the Mountains
Item# 4120
© 1992 50 Min.
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The map of the Earth is a flat picture of the Earth's surface; this BBC Horizon program presents the story of how Harold Wellman changed that picture. Hired by the New Zealand Geological Survey to map...
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Smokers Are Hazardous to Your Health
Item# 4137
© 1991 50 Min.
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The risks of secondary smoke are becoming more and more apparent, as each new study documents growing disease and death tolls of smoking-related illnesses among nonsmokers. This BBC Horizon program do...
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A Child's Guide to Language: Teaching a Second Language
Item# 4141
© 1983 50 Min.
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Whether it's English, Spanish, Chinese, or Urdu, babies and young children are able to pick up their native language with remarkable ease; no one language seems any more difficult than any other. Yet...
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Professor Hawking's Universe
Item# 4139
© 1983 50 Min.
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The Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge University is one of the most prestigious professorships in the world, occupied at one time by Isaac Newton. Its present incumbent is Stephen Hawking, wh...
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