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Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Island of Shikoku in Japan is the birthplace of the most revered figure in Japanese Buddhism, the monk and teacher Kobo Daishi, who brought a populist form of Buddhism to Japan from China in the 9th Century. For hundreds of years, a 750-mile pilgrimage route has circled this mountainous island, connecting 88 separate temples and shrines that claim connection to the Great Master - Kobo Daishi. Host Bruce Feiler circles the island, following a pilgrim...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Host Bruce Feiler travels to Nigeria with a group of African American pilgrims who are attending an annual festival in honor of the Yoruba Goddess Osun as a way to reconnect with their cultural and spiritual roots. This indigenous African faith, sometimes called Orisa Devotion, was first carried to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade where it evolved and spread to become one of the ten largest religions in the world with upwards of 100...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Host Bruce Feiler embeds with a group of active duty and retired US military, wounded in Afghanistan, Iraq and other American wars, as they travel to the Catholic shrine of Lourdes in Southwest France in search of healing. More than five million pilgrims from around the world visit this shrine to the Virgin Mary every year to drink and bathe in the waters of a spring that Catholics believe has miraculous powers. The wounded warriors from America are...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dr. David Eagleman takes a journey through the unseen world of decisions and how they get made inside your brain. Your emotions, your energy level, and your memories all come together in concert to help you neural networks decide what to do next..
46) Sex in the Wild
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presented by anatomist Joy Reidenberg and veterinarian Mark Evans, SEX IN THE WILD is a four part series that explores the reproductive behaviors of the animal kingdom.. Focusing on four species - elephant, dolphin, kangaroo and orangutan - the series takes an in-depth look at how these animals find, fight for, and woo the opposite sex. It also explores how they mate, give birth, and raise their young in extreme environments.
47) Dolphins
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Joy and Mark investigate the reproductive secrets of marine mammals to learn how animals that breathe air manage to mate, give birth and raise their young underwater. Joy travels to New Zealand to uncover the mating strategy of dusky dolphins. While she reveals the adaptations marine mammals have evolved to mate in the ocean, Mark travels to Mexico to find out how whales find mates in the ocean vastness. Witness a dolphin birth, explore the difficulties...
48) Kangaroos
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Australia, Joy and Mark uncover the reproductive secrets of some of the strangest mammals on Earth - the pouch-wearing marsupials. Thanks to their bizarre way of reproducing, kangaroos thrive in one of the most unpredictable, drought-prone environments on Earth - the Australian Outback. In Queensland's eucalyptus forests, he sees how tree-living marsupials - koalas - have mastered gravity-defying sex. At a kangaroo sanctuary, Joy witnesses a tiny...
49) Orangutans
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Joy and Mark travel to Borneo to explore the reproduction challenges of our close cousin - the orangutan. The largest tree dwellers on the planet, orangutans mate, give birth and raise their young high in the jungle canopy. At an orangutan sanctuary in the rainforest, Mark and Joy come face-to-face with a super-male and uncover the latest scientific theories about how these kings exert their power over other males and seduce females in their territory....
50) Elephants
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Joy and Mark travel to Africa to explore the unique reproduction challenges of the largest animal on land - the elephant. Find out how females select the strongest mates, why elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom and how they safely deliver a 220-pound baby; witness the remarkable first steps of a newborn calf.
51) Lost: Season 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Immerse yourself in the boldest show on television with every mysterious twist and turn of the shows addictive Fourth Season. Exploding with excitement and original extras, it reaches new heights on DVD. More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 will discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them.
More than three months after their fateful crash,...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
NOVA takes the pulse of China's hyperactive economy, the fastest-growing in the history of the world. During the last two decades, China clamped down on its population growth through its controversial one-child policy, but in recent years it has relaxed those rules, moving in the direction of more reproductive freedom. As the sprawling country develops from a poor nation, China's air, land and water are beginning to suffer. The prospect that all Chinese...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This is a show about Tim Taylor and his family. Tim has his own television show called "Tool Time", so the main theme of each episode often revolves around cars, toys, tools, hardware shops, garages, fix-it-up projects, and other similar themes.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
NOVA presents an exclusive breakthrough in the greatest unsolved mystery in Arctic exploration. In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set off to chart the elusive Northwest Passage, commanding 128 men in two robust and well-stocked Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and Terror. They were never heard from again. Eventually, searchers found tantalising clues to their fate: a hastily written note left on an island, exhumed bodies suggesting lead poisoning,...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Watch this unique and stylish new biography series that explores an elite few of the 20th century's greatest figures. Each chapter in these artfully crafted episodes is inspired by some of the most memorable words spoken by these world icons.. IN THEIR OWN WORDS sheds light on key moments in their lives, illuminating their fascinating personalities and spotlighting their profound cultural and historical impact for a new generation of television viewers.....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Felicity "Fizzy" Chen is lost. Sure, she's got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she's asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn't been practicing what she's preached. Fizzy hasn't ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can't-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she's spent...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a special developing report, FRONTLINE examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict.. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders, the investigative team behind The Lost Year in Iraq, The Torture Question, Endgame and Bush's War traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence -- exploring how Iraq itself is coming undone, how we got here, what went wrong and what...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Over the past three months, as unrest in Ukraine has provoked one of the biggest confrontations between Russia and the United States since the Cold War, FRONTLINE's James Jones has been on the ground documenting the crisis up-close.. In The Battle for Ukraine, Jones delivers a chilling look at both sides of the ongoing fight - revealing firsthand the deep-seated hatreds between right-wing Ukrainian nationalists with historic ties to the Nazis, and...
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