Eyewitness: Arctic & Antarctic DVD
$11.98
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What animal has antifreeze for blood? What are the polar bear's secrest for survival? Arctic & Antarctic explores the incredibl elife and legends of these harsh and beautiful polar kingdoms. Journey to the ends of the earth, where climate presents its greatest challenges to survival, and meet the remarkable plants and animals that live out in the world's coldest habitats.
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Eyewitness: Bird DVD
$11.98
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Eyewitness is a compelling video series featuring wonders of nature. Viewers will journey into a three-dimensional "virtual museum" where live-action photography creates the sensation of being there. In Eyewitness Bird soar through the sky and around the world in this exciting journey from the bird's distant dinosaur past to its present astonishing variety. Look close-up at the staggering range of sizes, shapes and habitats of these feathered creatures, and experience the miracle of flight.
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Eyewitness: Butterfly & Moth DVD
$11.98
HMC 80716DD
Eyewitness is a compelling video series featuring wonders of nature. Viewers will journey into a three-dimensional "virtual museum" where live-action photography creates the sensation of being there. In Eyewitness Butterfly & Moth take a flight of fancy with nature's most beguiling creatures. See their miraculous transformation from lowly caterpillar to airborne adult, and learn why these delicate insects have long entranced and inspired us.
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Eyewitness: Dinosaur DVD
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How do scientist know what these amazing animals looked like? What became of these gentle giants and fearsome hunters? Dinosaur takes you inside the world of paleontologists and the real-life monsters they study. Experience the process of discovery - the excitement of digging, reconstruction, and the realization of how dinosaurs lived and died.
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Eyewitness: Fish DVD
$11.98
HMC 81917DD
Vast, sometimes strange and always spectacular, fish are masters of three quarters of the earth. The Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Video: Fish takes us on an amazing underwater journey into a massive habitat that is not our own and profiles a sampling of species that are more numerous than those of reptiles, amphibians and mammals combined. For the purpose of our video, a salmon (sometimes known as the king of fish for their number and sheer determination) guides us through the life cycle of a fish. Over the half hour running time of this captivating video, we learn in detail the anatomy of a fish and how it uses its components such as scales, fins and a swim bladder to their advantage. Their diets and food gathering efforts, along with a wide array of defenses are discussed. Other questions are answered in between: how good are fish senses; which fish have a sixth, electrical sense; how do they work together in partnerships and schools; which fish can survive on land and which can fly? This breathtaking video allows us to broaden our appreciation and understanding of truly some of the most extraordinary creatures on Earth.
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Eyewitness: Insect DVD
$11.98
HMC 80036DD
Industrious, sociable,and environmentally useful, insects are nevertheless avoided and ignored. Here, you can safety examine the wonders of the insect world through macrophotography and startling 3-D graphics that reveal the true importance of these amazing creatures.
Narrated by Martin Sheen
Running time approx. 35 minutes.
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Eyewitness: Mammal DVD
$11.98
HMC 80723DD
From kangaroos to dolphins to bats to humans there are over 4,000 species of mammals, but before viewing the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Video: MAMMAL could you correctly identify all the characteristics that make us a family? With fascinating footage of a wide array of mammals filmed in their natural habitats, and the latest in computer graphics and animation. Packed full with amazing details, this video will give students a true appreciation for the wider family he lives in. Mammals may be few in number compared to insects, fish and amphibians, but our contribution to and affect on the planet has been by far the greatest.
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Eyewitness: Ocean DVD
$11.98
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Since two-thirds of our planet's surface is covered by water, it's almost ironic we named it Earth. The five largest bodies of water are studied in depth in the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Video: Oceans. For centuries all but the surface of the oceans remained out of our reach, it's only in the last 150 years that deep exploration has been made possible by scientific advances. State of the art cameras and diving equipment bring us spectacular underwater footage that is combined with three-dimensional graphics to bring us to a habitat that is clearly not our own. With the insight and clarity you have come to expect from the Eyewitness Video series, Oceans profiles ocean chemistry, what makes them blue, the polar ice caps, depth and even the Bermuda Triangle. Over the thirty-minute running time, we also learn how currents are charted, the many myths of mermaids and sea creatures that the oceans have inspired, and how the use of sonar has accurately mapped the ocean floor. Oceans is an incredible journey and the culmination of thousands of years of wonder and science, but as viewers will learn, as much as we do know our knowledge of the deep is still little more than a drop in the ocean.
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Eyewitness: Planets DVD
$11.98
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Which planet would float in your bathtub if you had one big enough? What is the fire-and-brimstone world of Venus really like? Planets journeys through space and time, witnessing the birth of the sun and traveling to the outer limits of the solar system.
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Eyewitness: Plant DVD
$11.98
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Eyewitness Plant: is a colorful tour of the world's most dazzling flora from the most magical to the most bizarre. Watch buds burst, flowers bloom, and discover the myriad ways plants struggle to survive.
Narrated by Andrew Sachs
Running time approx. 35 minutes.
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Eyewitness: Pond & River DVD
$11.98
HMC 80718DD
Pond & River takes you on a twisting journey down the great rivers of the world, pausing to visit the thriving realm of the freshwater pond. Travel upstream to find civilzation's source then down again to see the key to our very survival.
Narrated by Martin Sheen
Running time approx. 35 minutes.
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Eyewitness: Reptile DVD
$11.98
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What is the oldest reptile species? Can a cold-blooded reptile freeze to death? Reptile reveals the alien world of these often misunderstood cold-blooded vertebrates, uncovering reptilian facts that are stranger than fiction. From hot, steamy swamps to dry-as-bone deserts, travel the world in search of these amazing animals.
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Eyewitness: Rock & Mineral DVD
$11.98
HMC 80720DD
Rock & Mineral shatters the stone's reputation for "rock solid" permanence. Discover how rocks keep a constantly changing record of our planet's fascinating history, and see how minerals are at the very core of our civilization.
Narrated by Martin Sheen
Running time approx. 35 minutes
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Eyewitness: Shark DVD
$11.98
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With a single menacing shot of a dorsal fin slicing through the Atlantic waters, Steven Spielberg probably did more to further the shark's reputation as killer than anyone else. Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Video: Shark points out, however, that these creatures (who appeared on Earth 150 million years before the dinosaurs) are probably among the world's most misunderstood. Over the course of this thirty-minute video, we are introduced to all kinds of facts about the shark through a mock "who done it" for a missing surfer whose board washed ashore with a bite missing. In solving the mystery we learn about the shark's different species, the five types known to attack man, diet, skeletal structure, senses, and teeth, which are responsible for their fearsome reputation. This entertaining narrative structure allows Dorling Kindersley to introduce even more information about sharks: they were the first creatures to give birth to live young; they've been around longer than bony fish, whales and dolphins; and they see in color. This informative addition to the Eyewitness series will inspire students to quell their fears and perhaps find out what other secrets we can learn from sharks. After all, they are living proof of eons of successful evolution.
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Eyewitness: Skeleton DVD
$11.98
HMC 80035DD
Eyewitness - bringing the natural world into your living room.
The skeleton- it is essential to life, yet the sight of one can fill us with fear. As we learn in the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Video: Skeleton, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians all have one. Defined as the internal frame of bones on which the soft body hangs, the skeleton supports the body, anchors the muscles and protects vital organs. With incredible computer animation and stunning graphics, the video uses an animated human skeleton as our "host" through the structure itself. In addition to structure and composition, this half-hour video compares and contrasts the human skeleton with those of other animals and explains how the differences correlate in their individual movement (swimming, flying, running on twos or fours). The skeleton will probably always stand as a reminder of our mortality (interestingly, the elephant is the only other creature afraid of its own skeleton), after watching this amazing addition to the Eyewitness Video Series viewers should also be in awe of the massive job it performs for us. Without the strength of our skeleton, life would be far more fragile-if it existed at all.
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Eyewitness: Volcano DVD
$11.98
HMC 80721DD
The breathtaking and dangerous explosion of a volcano speaks volumes about what happens below the Earth's crust. Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Video: Volcanos put the viewer in a front row seat that would be impossible to survive-in the molten hot and toxic environment of an exploding volcano. Over the course of this half hour video, we learn that ten times more volcanoes exist under the sea, how long they can remain dormant and what types of life stand the best chance of surviving an eruption (guess again if you thought human beings). We are also taken along first-hand to witness volcanologists at work in a crater, and on a discussion of ancient religious beliefs surrounding eruptions. The Eyewitness Video series once again imaginatively takes us inside the inner-workings of our planet and gives us a new respect for the awesome power of nature.
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Eyewitness: Weather DVD
$11.98
HMC 80719DD
It surrounds us everyday effecting our moods and livelihoods, yet we can't control it and can hardly predict it. Sound like a riddle? The weather often seems that way as we learn more about frost, fog, hail, rain, snow, wind and thunderstorms in the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Video: Weather. It is the sun that drives the weather, and Aztec Indians used to offer tens of thousands of human sacrifices to assure that it would rise and set every day. As demonstrated in the video by the latest in computer animation and state of the art 3-D graphics, when the sun heats the troposphere the complex interaction between heat and gasses gives us weather. We talk about it, study it, observe it and fear it, and over course of this thirty-minute video we will learn much more about it. After all, with eight to nine million lightning bolts hitting the planet every day, it is thought that the electrical activity of thunderstorms may have sparked the Earth to life.
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