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1) Jane
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
2) Space men
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
On an August morning in 1960, Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger stepped out of a helium balloon twenty miles above Earth, hurtling down at over 400 miles per hour. The little-known story of the men whose scientific experiments laid critical groundwork for NASA's manned space program, a decade before President Kennedy committed the nation to sending a man to the moon.
3) Isaac Newton
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Learn all about the life of Sir Isaac Newton and his major contributions to science. What were the significant events of Isaac Newton's early life? What were his major discoveries? The answers to these questions and many more are covered with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment that reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel, who has accomplished significant advances in the area of memory. Touches upon Kandel's experiences as a child in Nazi-occupied Vienna and as an immigrant in New York. Also explores Kandel's ties to Judaism.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The high-definition program, explore the incredible life and accomplishments of NASA's Katherine Johnson, nicknamed the "Human Computer." Understand her major contributions to the United States space program as a physicist, space scientist and mathematician and appreciate her remarkable legacy. The program features detailed graphics, diagrams, rare NASA footage, an on-camera interview with Katherine Johnson herself, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice...
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