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The Dream Is Alive (IMAX)

Actors: Walter Cronkite, David Leestma, George Nelson, Sally Ride, Kathy Sullivan
ASIN : B00005BCKH
Sales Rank : 58392
Director : Graeme Ferguson
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Imax
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790761046
ISBN : 0790761041
UPC : 794051801722
Release Date : December 12, 2001
Publisher : Imax
Manufacturer : Imax
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Imax
Running Time : 37

Description

Journey into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle as they orbit around the Earth, floating as never before over the towering Andes, the boot of Italy, Egypt and the Nile. Witness firsthand a tension-filled satellite capture and repair and the historic first spacewalk by an American woman.

DVD Features:
Interactive Menus
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The best of the initial series of "made in space" IMAX films, The Dream Is Alive is a wonderful introduction to space travel for young and old alike. The national shuttle program was only four years old when this 35-minute documentary was released in 1985, and the film emphasizes the differences between the shuttle and conventional rockets. The opening shot of a shuttle returning to the Earth like a plane is an unmistakable difference. We follow two flight crews through training, rehearsals, and (mostly) the flight. The crystal-clear images of Earth do not have the same impact that they do in a large-format IMAX theater, but they are still a wonder to behold, especially with the effective narration by Walter Cronkite--for many the voice of America's heyday in space. Director Graeme Ferguson keeps the film streamlined and never preachy (unlike the companion film, Blue Planet). With a big assist from Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt, The Dream Is Alive builds excitement through footage that includes three electrifying launches. The film was released a year before the Challenger disaster, and played in rotation after the accident as an emotional pull to return to the heavens. On that note, the film delivers the message that despite the risks, our future is in space. (For ages 5 and older.) --Doug Thomas

Unexplained - Hauntings (A&E DVD Archives)

Actor: Unexplained
ASIN : B0009HMTH6
Sales Rank : 46866
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767081955
ISBN : 0767081951
UPC : 733961727906
Release Date : December 26, 2005
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 50

Description

Explores the claims of people who say that their houses are haunted. They report butcher knives flying through the air and evil messages scrawled on their walls. One family even hired a ghostbuster.

Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century

Actor: David Blume
ASIN : B001ALYGZ8
Sales Rank : 28908
Director : David Blume
Brand : Victor
Studio : AA MICRO
Region Code : 1
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0094922842190
UPC : 094922842190
Release Date : December 01, 2008
Publisher : AA MICRO
Manufacturer : AA MICRO
Availability : Usually ships in 9 to 12 days
Label : AA MICRO
Running Time : 160

Product Description

Are you disgusted each time you fill your tank with gas? Break free with this DVD. This DVD the companion to the acclaimed book, Alcohol Can Be a Gas! by David Blume gives you the power to take back control of energy from oil companies. You will learn:

-- How to make alcohol from a variety of available materials for about 47 cents a gallon!

-- How to convert your gasoline engine to E-85 or 100% alcohol for as little as $50.

-- How to beat oil companies by operating a community-supported energy co-op.

-- How to get 61 cents a gallon federal ethanol tax credits refunded to you as cash.

-- How to use small-scale alcohol production for profit and to reverse global warming.<> -- How the American Petroleum Institute has corrupted the alcohol fuel debate.

-- Don t believe the ethanol myths you ve heard this DVD explodes them all. Learn why alcohol is the perfect fuel.

In this riveting 2-hour 40-minute presentation, David Blume shares prime knowledge from his three decades of alcohol fuel experience. From alcohol s amazing history to its vitally important future, Dave covers a wide range of topics exploding the myths told about alcohol, and giving a primer on how to grow it, produce it, profit from its byproducts, convert vehicles, claim tax credits, and far, far more. This DVD is all you ll need to hand to that nay-saying-know-it-all at your next party to blow their mind.

Filmed in 2004 in Marin County, California; the nation s first driver-owned coop was organized as a result of this talk. Also included is a segment showing all the steps in making alcohol fuel.

Would you be surprised to know:

-- Your gasoline vehicle can already use at least 50% ethanol without modification.

-- Brazil runs 50% of its cars on straight alcohol.

-- Gasoline is toxic waste; ethanol is liquid solar energy.

-- We can reverse global warming by switching to alcohol fuel.

-- Alcohol is 105 octane, as good as the best racing or aviation fuels.

-- Anything you can make from oil, you can make from plants.

-- Alcohol production is a completely sustainable and ecological cycle.

-- Oil companies have a nightmare future planned for us (tar sands, oil shale, coal-to-gas, etc.).

-- John D. Rockefeller funded Prohibition to destroy the alcohol fuel movement.

Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest

Actors: This is documentary, so there are no actors.
ASIN : 0883859025
Sales Rank : 26251
Director : George Csicsery
Studio : Zala Films
Region Code : 1
Format : Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780883859025
ISBN : 0883859025
Release Date : December 11, 2008
Publisher : Zala Films
Manufacturer : Zala Films
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Zala Films
Running Time : 178

Product Description

Hard Problems is about the extraordinary gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world s toughest math competition: The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). It is the story of six American high school students who competed with 500 others from 90 countries in Ljublijana, Slovenia. The film shows the dedication and perseverance of these remarkably talented students, the rigorous preparation they undertake, and the joy they get out of solving challenging math problems. It captures the spirit that infuses the mathematical quest at the highest level. The DVD provides two versions of the documentary: the feature that runs 82 minutes, and a classroom version that runs 45 minutes. BONUS FEATURE SEQUENCES Mathematicians in finance (11:16) Families and schooling (15:55) Girls and the IMO (17:03) History of the IMO (7:12) USA and IMO Olympiads 2006-2007 problems and answers - an 82 pp pdf that shows problems and solutions from the competition. Funding for Hard Problems was provided by a grant from The Penn Oberlander Family Foundation and Ellington Management Group, L.L.C. Cinematogrphy: Skip Sweeney and Andras Toth Szollos. Editor, Tal Skloot. Music by Todd Boekelheide and Alex Liu.

Stargaze II - Visions of the Universe

Actor: Stargaze 2-Visions of the Universe
ASIN : B0001US5PQ
Sales Rank : 52050
Studio : DVD International
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Surround Sound, Widescreen, Digital Video Transfer, Digital Sound, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781932556193
ISBN : 1932556192
UPC : 647715072924
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 11, 2004
Publisher : DVD International
Manufacturer : DVD International
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : DVD International
Running Time : 65

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Stargaze II doesn't deviate much from the previous Stargaze DVD, and that's a good thing. Galaxies, nebulae, and other astronomical elements simply float across the screen in brilliant clarity, fueled by New Age music by Opus 27. The images are mostly from the Hubble Space Telescope, along with some unique mosaics from several sources. The bigger your screen, the better for "plasma art" that could serve as the background at a party or a valentine to any star freak. You can even view the program in high definition if you have the right media set-up. Sometimes the images float in front of a wallpaper of stars that causes a 3-D effect or looks kinda hokey, depending on your point of view. You can find out what you are looking at by activating subtitles or by clicking a menu button that goes to a page-by-page detail about the subject and how the image was rendered. With literally out-of-this-world colors and textures, the beauty of the heavens is glorious to behold. Produced the same year Congress debates the fate of the Hubble (2004), this program serves record of the extraordinary worlds that are seen only by this workhorse satellite. Lobbyists may have no better weapon to use than the Stargaze DVDs. --Doug Thomas

Submarine: Steel Boats - Iron Men

Actor: Tom Clancy
ASIN : B0009XRZI8
Sales Rank : 30123
Studio : Platinum Disc
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0096009322298
UPC : 096009322298
Release Date : December 05, 2005
Publisher : Platinum Disc
Manufacturer : Platinum Disc
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Platinum Disc
Running Time : 56

Description

Everyday, American submariners go below the waves for months at a time on submarine patrols. Steel Boats – Iron Men is the only film where the US Navy allowed filmmakers to go down with them. The film presents a never before seen look inside a state of the art nuclear powered submarine on patrol. It shows, in extraordinary detail, the daily ordinary and extraordinary lives of submariners. You will see things in this film that you have never seen before. The filmmakers also spent time trying to understand the character and personality that allows someone to become a submariner. They looked at training, family life, background, etc. The viewer visits a " wet trainer" at Sub School to see what these submariners must endure before they ever climb inside one of these remarkable ships. Who are these men, who live confined in a steel tube deep in the ocean for months at a time, surrounded by a hostile environment, in constant danger? What do they do and why do they do it?

Steel Boats: Iron Men ran on primetime public television and received one of the highest ratings of the year. Now you can enjoy this experience at home.

Modern Marvels - FBI's Crime Lab

Actor: Modern Marvels
ASIN : B000CS461Y
Sales Rank : 30411
Brand : A&E
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0733961747454
UPC : 733961747454
Release Date : December 28, 2006
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 50

Description

On April 25, 2003, The Federal Bureau of Investigation officially opened it’s new Laboratory Division Facility. This state-of-the-art facility is the most sophisticated forensic laboratory in the world. It is where the art and science of criminology join forces to solve some of the nation’s most perplexing crimes, from local homicides to terrorist attacks such as those which occurred on September 11, 2001. This edition of Modern Marvels takes you inside these new facilities to demonstrate some of the advanced technologies and techniques scientists, criminologists and agents perform here. It provides insight to the history of the Bureau’s forensic activities as well as a fascinating look at modern forensics. FBI’s Crime Lab would be useful for classes on American History, Criminal Justice, Law and Justice and Science. It is appropriate for middle school and high school.

OBJECTIVES

Students will explore the FBI’s forensic facilities to understand the role of science and technology in criminal investigations as well as criminology. They will learn about the Bureau’s history of forensics as well as its modern application in a post 9/11 nation.

NATIONAL HISTORY STANDARDS

FBI’s Crime Lab fulfills the following National Standards for History for grades 5-12: chronological thinking and historical comprehension for United States History eras 8, 9 and 10.

Vocabulary

• absentia
• contaminate
• espionage
• inhibit
• misnomer
• sabotage
• striation
• tenacity
• vanguard

Discussion Questions

1. At the FBI’s Crime Lab, forensic scientists help the Bureau to solve crimes. What is a forensic scientist? Are there different types? What do they do?

2. Workers at the Crime Lab refer to it as “Battle Star Gallactica.” Why?

3. The Crime Lab building is designed to preserve the “integrity of evidence.” What does this mean? How does the design of the building accomplish this?

4. Forensic science is more than a science and more than art. Discuss how it is both an art and a science.

5. What are some of the types or forms of analysis performed at the Crime Lab?

6. What makes this lab unique?

7. The Crime Lab is the most sophisticated crime laboratory in the world. What are the origins of this lab?

8. Discuss the role of Agent Charles Appel in developing FBI forensic science.

9. The FBI Crime Lab uses serology to solve some crime cases. What is serology? How is it used to solve crimes?

10. How do scientists of the firearms unit determine if a bullet came from a particular firearm?

11. Agents consider homemade bombs especially dangerous. Why?

12. What are latent fingerprints?

13. Discuss how DNA is the fingerprint of the 21st century.

14. There are two different types of DNA, nuclear and mitochondrial. What is the difference between these two types?

15. How did the events of September 11, 2001 change the mission and methods of the FBI?

Extended Activities

1. Design your own crime lab. Research forensics on the Internet and use your information to design your own lab.

2. Create a poster illustrating the different methods forensic scientists use.

National Geographic: Herod's Lost Tomb

Actor: Modern Marvels
ASIN : B001ECDVL8
Sales Rank : 41675
Director : James Barrat
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Nat'l Geographic Vid
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0727994753025
UPC : 727994753025
Release Date : December 25, 2008
Publisher : Nat'l Geographic Vid
Manufacturer : Nat'l Geographic Vid
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Nat'l Geographic Vid
Running Time : 50

Product Description

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/25/2008 Rating: Nr

The Calculus 3 Tutor: Volume 2 - 11 Hour Course - 4 DVD Set - Learn by examples!

Actor: Jason Gibson
ASIN : B0014YF6ZA
Sales Rank : 25606
Director : Jason Gibson
Studio : MathTutorDVD.com / Jason Gibson
Region Code : 0
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0733792781993
UPC : 733792781993
Release Date : December 10, 2008
Publisher : MathTutorDVD.com / Jason Gibson
Manufacturer : MathTutorDVD.com / Jason Gibson
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : MathTutorDVD.com / Jason Gibson
Running Time : 660

Product Description

The Calculus 3 Tutor, Volume 2, is a 11 hour DVD course that picks up right where the very popular Calculus 3 Tutor: Volume 1 ends and continues to teach students how to do well in Calculus 3 by fully worked example problems. This DVD course is essential for any student taking Calculus 3 at the university level.

This DVD course is volume 2 of a two volume series in Calculus 3. Volume 1 is also available and is required to understand the material on this DVD product.

This DVD set is very comprehensive at 11 hours long so you can be assured that the topics are covered in detail. All topics are taught by fully worked example problems which helps the student improve problem solving skills immediately. This DVD set also serves as a reference as students work homework problems - offering practical advice every step of the way.

Disk 1
Section 1: Triple Integrals
Section 2: Triple Integrals In Cylindrical Coordinates

Disk 2
Section 3: Triple Integrals In Spherical Coordinates
Section 4: Divergence And Curl Of A Vector Field
Section 5: Line Integrals

Disk 3
Section 6: Line Integrals In A Vector Field
Section 7: Alternative Form Of Line Integrals In Vector Fields
Section 8: Fundamental Theorem Of Line Integrals

Disk 4
Section 9: Greens Theorem
Section 10: Surface Integrals
Section 11: Flux Integrals
Section 12: Stokes Theorem
Section 13: The Divergence Theorem

Future by Design

Actor: Jacques Fresco
ASIN : 1427608415
Sales Rank : 35142
Director : William Gazecki
Studio : Microcinema
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781427608413
ISBN : 1427608415
Release Date : December 29, 2008
Publisher : Microcinema
Manufacturer : Microcinema
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Microcinema
Running Time : 90