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Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 course guidebook (vi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm).
Description
This course takes you to the world's most spectacular geological wonders, explains the forces that have formed them, and tells you the stories that have grown up around them.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Take a global tour in four themed episodes, answering the simplest questions about the complex forces that shape our planet. Why is water blue? How can a shape defy gravity? Why do bees make hexagonal honeycombs? And how do these things affect our own lives? Discover what lies beneath Earth s startling beauty as we reveal the secrets of our cosmos and the natural forces that govern everything within it.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
Planet Earth is perfect. Everything about our world - its size, its distance from the Sun, its spin and tilt, its moon - is perfectly suited to our existence, and our planet's natural forces perfectly nurture life. A global weather system circulates and distributes fresh water to all corners of the globe, marine currents deliver nutrients to even the deepest reaches of the ocean, sunlight warms and energizes everything it touches, and powerful volcanoes...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1800 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 331 p. ; 19 cm.).
Description
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more--providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science,...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2006.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm.).
Description
These 36 half-hour lectures are your initiation into the geological world that lies just outside your door. "The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology" introduces you to physical geology, the study of Earth's minerals, rocks, soils, and the processes that operate on them through time.
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