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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Join Caillou as he explores everyday life, where ordinary daily events spark his imagination. Children are inspired by Caillou's pretend play, and will join in the role-playing fun where beds become boats, and a garden becomes a jungle. Features six adventures, including: Caillou Can Compost; Caillou's Tree; Caillou Saves Water; and In the Garden.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Features interviews with religious leaders and politicians as they are asked what inspires them in these challenging times, as more and more people are turning to religion and spirituality to gain a sense of meaning and understanding with what they are facing.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Frontline presents the story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela's character, leadership, and life's method through intimate recollections with friends, political allies, adversaries, and his fellow prisoners and jailers on Robben Island, where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 prison years, transforming himself in prison from an impetuous, risk-taking radical into a mature leader and statesman.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Packed with ingenious scientific work and spectacular fossils, Nova's Ice Age Death Trap reveals intimate secrets of the life and death of North America's most exotic and extreme creatures: mastodons, saber tooth cats and camels, giant bison with six-foot horns, and ground sloths as big as elephants. Most tantalizing of all, the team unearths startling and controversial evidence of what may be the earliest humans ever to venture into the untamed wilderness...
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man who's life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Presents a complete cooking course that features dozens of techniques that Jacques Pépin has sharpened over his decades in the kitchen. Covers all the essential skills required to become a confident and daring chef, from the proper way to chop an onion to serving fruit salad in a graceful swan carved from a melon.
31) The cheese nun
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating and delightful personal journey as Sister Noella Marcilleno becomes a champion for artisanal cheesemakers on both sides of the Atlantic.
32) Helen of Troy
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the myths and truths associated with Helen of Troy.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. demonstrates how experts in various fields (a flutist, a baseball player, and a simultaneous translator) improve their neurological abilities through sustained, continuous, intense practice of their respective skill set and how such consequential neurological findings in experts compare to the average individual.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of individuals and horses for a year leading up to the 2009 Kentucky Derby, and captures the beauty of the breed, the thrilling nature of the sport, and the deep reservoir of history and tradition behind this equine wonder. Viewers go from Kentucky to Dubai to trace the breed's fascinating history and meet the people who breed them, sell them, race them, and love them. From foaling barn to finish line this unique animal imbues the...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Meet two executives who know the oil and airline industries from the inside. Gary Kelly, of Southwest Airlines, has kept his company flying high despite turbulence caused by rising oil prices and cutthroat competition. Bill Greehey, of Valero Energy, has barreled to the forefront of oil refining while making sure his workers aren't left out in the cold.