UNLV LIBRARY Allergy and Immunotherapy. MEDIA RESOURCES CATALOG Films for the Humanities BIOLOGY Shows how researchers are probing Summer 2011 the allergic reaction and testing immunotherapy and other treatments for Adaptations of the American Cacti. different allergies. UCLA Office of Instructional Video Cassette (26 min.) Development (1987) RC 585.5 A44 Focuses on the adaptations of cacti to climate, in particular to that of regions America’s Endangered Species. in and Arizona. National Geographic Video Video Cassette (24 min.) Photographers Susan Middleton and QK 495 C11 A32 David Liittschwager are in a race against the clock to capture powerful portraits of African Odyssey. America's most threatened creatures. In National Geographic (1988) their adventures they encounter a camera- Follows American zoologists Delia shy blackfooted ferret, capture the beauty of and Mark Owens to , where they golden trout, help release a pair of red observe and study wildlife in the Kalahari back to the wild, and watch from a Desert. Joins in their search for a new study front-row seat as a bald chick is site in Zambia. A study of their work to returned to its cliffside nest. Their every gather scientific data that will help wildlife picture tells a story and makes a plea: don't conservation, the problems of conservation say goodbye to America's natural treasures. research, and the challenge of working in Video Cassette (1 hr.) remote African wilderness. QL84.2 .A44 1998 Video Cassette (1 hr.) G3 N37 A37 Ancient Sea : Stranded in a Modern World. Aging. Bullfrog Films, c1998 Films for the Humanities (1985) Discusses the many threats to sea Covers the physical process of aging turtles, including the biggest threat of all, the and examines the various body systems to shrimping industry. excluder devices see how and why they change as they age. (TEDs) are shown and their effectiveness in Shows that some changes in the aging body allowing turtles and other larger sea can be slowed down or reversed. creatures to escape without decreasing the Video Cassette (26 min.) size of the catch are discussed. Teacher's Guide (4 p.) 1 videodisc (28 min.) BF 724.55 A35 A33 QL666.C536 A53 1998

(The) Aging Process. Animal Imposters. Films for the Humanities & Sciences WGBH (1982) (1992) Features ordinary creatures with Explains the effects of aging on the extraordinary disguises. mind and body, explores the Video Cassette (1 hr.) "damage" and "cell clock" theories about QL 759 A55 why cells wear, and examines the lifestyle habits that affect both longevity and the quality of life; these include exercise, regular checkups for cancer, proper diet, moderate drinking, and no smoking. Video Cassette (19 min.) QP86 .A42 1991

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Animal Minds. Beyond the Naked Eye. Thirteen/WNET (2003) BBC (2000) Program 1: Scientists test and Explores the hidden world of single- observe a variety of animals to attempt to celled creatures and examines their role in discover what animals know. Program 2: maintaining the balance of life on . Scientists observe animals in the wild and Video Cassette (50 min.) test animals physiological and chemical QR41.2 .B48 1999 responses in the lab to attempt to discover whether animals experience emotions and Biodiversity: The Variety of Life. consciousness. Bullfrog Films (1991) Program 1. Are animals intelligent? Offers an explanation of the complex Program 2, pt. 1. Do animals have factors involved in conservation biology. emotions? Introduces fragmentation, linkage, viable Program 2, pt. 2. Animal population, and presents concepts which consciousness apply everywhere. 1 videodisc (168 min.) Video Cassette (43 min.) QL785 .A548 2003 Study Guide (16 p.) QH 75 B563 (The) Aquatic Ape. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Biology: Form and Function. (2000) Annenberg CPB Collection (1991) Tracing Elaine Morgan's victorious From the British Open University. crusade to open up debate on an alternative Presents biology as related to social issues, view of human evolution, this program not just facts. Dialogue between scientists contrasts the Savanna Theory with the Illustrates laboratory & research techniques. theory that a race of semi-aquatic, bipedal 9. Designs for Living: apes once inhabited Afica's Danakil Alps. Structures. Discusses structures that make Video Cassette up . QK 641 D47 GN281.4 .A68 2000 10. Harvesting the : Sunlight and Plants. Discusses how plants use sunlight Baltic Deputy. in photosynthesis. QK 882 H263 IHF (1985) 2 Video Cassettes (24 min. ea) Biography of the Russian botanist and physiologist Kliment Arkadevich Timiriazev. Song and Bird Behavior. Video Cassette (1 hr. 35 min.) Disc QK 31 T54 B34 QL 698.5 B57

(The) Beaten Path. Bird Songs in Your Garden. KUAT Communications Group (1998) Houghton Mifflin (1963) Explore Mother Nature's reaction to A guide to bird songs commonly desert roads. Learn about the origin and heard in the eastern United States and impact of paths and roads and how these Canada. pathways change the around them. Disc Game trails become human trails, which Text become roads. The program examines the QL 698.5 B55 border roads and trails along the Organ Pipe National Monument, and explores how some [Bird Songs] A Field Guide to Bird Songs ancient roads and pathways are still used of Eastern and Central . today - but for sometimes vastly different Houghton Mifflin (1971) purposes Songs and calls of more than 300 1 videocassette (30 min.) species of land and water . QH104.5.S58 B42 1998 2 Discs QL 698.5 F52

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[Bird Song] A Field Guide to Western (The) Blue Planet: Seas of Life; Tidal Birdsong. Seas. Houghton Mifflin Co. (1975) British Broadcasting Corp (2002) More than 500 species of land and "Tidal seas: The sun and move water birds of Western North American and billions of tons of water with every turn of the the Hawaiian Islands, arranged to . The strongest empty entire bays, accompany A Field Guide to Western Birds. smash trees on riverbanks, and strand sea Guide creatures on suddenly dry land. Weaker 3 Discs tides control the movements of huge QL 698.5 F53 numbers of fish, coaxing schools of giant stingrays through astounding underwater (The) Blue Planet: Seas of Life; arches. And as the water recedes, the tide World; Frozen Seas. can create unbelievable landscapes--like a British Broadcasting Corp (2002) sparkling world of salt crystals inhabited only Explore the of the world by tiny shrimp and bright pink . learning interesting facts about oceans and Coasts: From rocky cliffs to gentle dunes, the animals and plants that live within them. the coasts are always changing. Day in and 1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) day out, they are battered by crashing GC21 .B582 2002 waves. Seabirds come here by the thousands to nest, while baby turtles hatch (The) Blue Planet: Seas of Life; Open and race to the sea, pursued by hungry Ocean ; The Deep. predators. Young sea pups are born and British Broadcasting Corp (2002) on the sand--until a killer attacks, Reveals the sea and its communities crashing in on the surf. But when breeding at their most fearsome and alluring. is over, life returns to the sea and 1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) the shores are empty once again"— GC21 .B583 2002 Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) (The) Blue Planet: Seas of Life; Seasonal GC21 .B585 2002 Seas; Seas. British Broadcasting Corp (2002) Boys & Girls Are Different: Men, Women Reveals the sea and its communities & the Sex Difference. at their most fearsome and. MPI Home Video (1995) 1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) Looks at the differences between the GC21 .B584 2002 sexes and whether they are the result of biology or environment. Video Cassette (50 min.) QP 81.5 B68

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(The) Brain. (The) Burning Sands. Annenberg/CPB Collection (1984) Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. (2000) Explains and illustrates the brain's The world's are the hottest, basic operating principles, its major driest, and harshest places on earth. They structural and functional systems, and the cover nearly one third of the earth's surface, biological foundations of emotion, memory, across five continents, and pose the same and unconsciousness. grim challenges: how to survive? This series 1. The Enlightened Machine. provides the viewer with a first-hand look at QP 376 B696 how life survives, and sometimes even 2. Vision and Movement. thrives, in these arid lands. QP 475 B73 1. The Living Sands 3. Rhythms and Drives. 2. The Raging Sands QP 383.7 B73 3. The Unforgiving World 4. Stress and Emotions. 3 Videocassettes (1 hr ea.) QP 401 B73 QH 88 B87 5. Learning and Memory. QP 406 B72 Butterflies for Beginners. 6. The Two Brains. MasterVision (1996) QP 385.5 B73 Offers an introduction to butterfly 7. Madness. RC 514 B73 biology and up-close looks at 32 of the most 8. States of Mind. QP 376 B73 common North American butterflies. 8 Video Cassettes (1 hr. ea.) Video Cassette (1 hr. 4 min.) QL 542 A83 (The) Brain: Our Universe Within. Discovery Comm. (1994) Butterfly & Moth. Evolution and Perception. New DK Vision imaging techniques reveal a new view of the A mixture of animation and live brain. How do different parts of the brain footage serves as a background for a control different functions? How do our narrated introduction to the life history of senses break down the information they moths and butterflies. receive and transmit it through a variety of Video Cassette (35 min.) pathways. QP 385 E86 (90 min.) QL544 .B87 1996 Memory and Renewal. True stories of survivors of catastrophic brain damage offer California Marine . clues to how the brain thinks, remembers, Ward's Natural Science Est. (197?) and regenerates itself. Marine algae as feed, fertilizer, and QP 406 M42 (90 min.) food. Matter Over Mind. Science zeros in on a 60 Slides single neurotransmitter, serotonin, which Guide (4 p.) may play a central role in the visions brought QK 571.5 C2 C34 on by meditation, sleep deprivation, and psychedelic drugs. El Caballo: the Wild Horses of North QP 376 M37 (45 min.) America. 3 Video Cassettes Bullfrog Films (2001) Presents one of the most complex wildlife management issues today: Where do modern wild horses fit in our view of the natural world? 1 videocassette (54 min.) SF360.3.U6 C32 2001

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Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian. Climate Change: Coral Reefs on the WGBH/BBC (1981) Edge. Discloses Chinese scientists' Distributed by Video Project, c2009 campaign against cancer of the esophagus "Marine biologist Ove Hoegh- in Lin Xian in the People's Republic of China Guldberg presents his findings that where esophageal cancer occurs far above document how carbon dioxide emissions are the national average. Shows that the pushing the world's coral reefs to the brink Chinese approach to eradicating cancer lies of - a vital indicator of the negative not in basic cell research, as it does in the impact climate change is having on our West, but rather in eliminating the suspected oceans and the earth"—Container environmental causes of the disease. 1 videodisc (28 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) QC981.8.C5 C5145 2009 RC 280 E8 C36 Climb the High Winds. Charles Darwin. Echo Film Productions (1988) J. Norton Publ. (197?) The Peregrine Fund continues its Analyzes Darwin's thinking during the work of conserving birds of prey. This is the voyage of the Beagle. story of man's effort to preserve some of Cassette (28 min.) those creatures. Spectacular flying BF 408 G68 sequences of and and the life saving skills of raising, releasing and Children of Eve. studying the birds depicted here. Coronet Film & Video (1987) Video Cassette (18 min.) Investigates the new techniques QL 696 F3 C62 employed to answer evolutionary questions. The nontraditional methods rely on the (The) Cloning Revolution. genetic map all living beings carry within Films for the Humanities (1998) their cells. These experiments allow A comprehensive examination of scientists to compare molecular and genetic cloning from its beginnings to the latest similarities between present and past human technology. The ethics of these new populations. technologies and practices are examined. Video Cassette (58 min.) Video Cassette (50 min.) GN 281 C483 QH 442.2 C58

City of Coral. Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies. Time-Life Video (1983) WNET (2001) A voyage through one of the world's A filmmaker describes her most fascinating and colorful ecosystems: a experiences while making a documentary , where the line between plants about a remarkable pale white stallion in the and animals is blurred, "rocks" move, eat Rocky Mountains. "From the day of his birth and fight, fish are farmers, and weak in an isolated corner of the Rocky animals borrow the shields and weapons of Mountains, Cloud's distinctive coloring made stronger ones. Cameras reveal the him a natural standout, which could easily creatures of the reef demonstrating some of have been his downfall. But in the days and the strangest solutions to the problem of months that followed his first fragile steps, it survival on earth. became clear that this feisty little colt was a Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) great stallion in the making."--Container QH 541.5 C7 C5 1 videocassette (60 min.) SF360.3.U6 C56 2001

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Coleoptera. Costa Rican Monkeys. Kenalex Corp. (1973) National Film Board of Canada, (1998) Shows physical characteristics and Linda Fedigan studies the New life stages of beetles. World monkeys of the Santa Rosa wildlife 24 Slides sanctuary in Costa Rica. Fedigan was one Booklet (24 p.) of the first wave of female primate QL 575 C64 researchers who have chosen to study social relations and male-female The Colorado. interactions. This video most closely follows University of Nevada Las Vegas the Capuchin monkeys Sets 1-2 follow the flow of the 1 videocassette (approx. 26 min.) Colorado River from the snow capped QL737.P925 C67 1998 Rockies through desert gorges. Canyons, plateaus, peaks, and basins are pictured. (The) Cove Flowering plants and a variety of animal life Gate Entertainment, [2009] found in this wilderness are shown. Set 3 In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of portrays the first emigrants and travelers is a highly guarded secret. During the who crossed the land. Remains of night, Taiji fishermen engage in an unseen civilizations and ghost towns are shown. hunt for thousands of . The work is Set 4 focuses on the Grand Canyon and so horrifying, the fishermen will stop at Boulder Dam. nothing to keep it hidden from the outside 320 Slides (color) world. When a team of elite activists, 2 Cassettes (2 hr.) filmmakers, and free-divers embark on a F 788 C63 secret mission to penetrate their cover, the shocking discoveries they find there are just (The) Colorado. the tip of the iceberg University of Nevada Las Vegas 1 videodisc (96 min.) See summary for previous entry. QL737.C432 C68 2009 Video Cassette (57 min.) F 788 C632 Cracking the Code of Life. WGBH Boston Video (2001) (The) Colors Between Black and White. Describes the race to decode human Films for the Humanities (1994) DNA and raises questions of whether or not See summary in Sociology section. we may want to know what's in our genes Video Cassette (14 min.) and whether decoding DNA will lead to HT 1523 C64 cures. Video Cassette (2 hrs) Conserving America: Champions of QH445.2 .C73 2001 Wildlife. View Video (1994) Cull of the Wild: the Truth Behind Introduces the viewer to individuals Trapping. who work to fight the destruction of Bullfrog Films (2001) America's wildlife and natural . Examines the history and the legacy Video Cassette (58 min.) of the trapping industry in America today. QL 84.2 C48 The film explains and demonstrates different types of traps, and discusses trapping from Cosmic Time. the point of view of the trapper as well as the Films for the Humanities & Sciences animals (2007) 1 videocassette (27 min.) String field theory pioneer Michio SK283.6.U6 C84 2001 Kaku presents this look at the cosmic landscape and its relationship to time. 1 videodisc (50 min.) QC173.59.S65 C67 2007

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Cure From the Crypt . Darwin's Revolution in Thought. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Stephen Jay Gould's treatise on (2002) Charles Darwin. His lecture is structured in "When a crypt containing 200 the form of a paradox and three riddles extraordinarily preserved bodies was about Darwin's life. Each is designed to discovered in 1994 in the Hungarian town of shed light on one of the key features of the Vac, it caught the interest of a scientist theory of natural selection, its philosophical fighting tuberculosis on the other side of the radicalism, and why it has been so poorly globe. This program presents the fascinating understood. story of Professor Mark Spigelman, an 2 Video Cassettes Australian surgeon turned archaeologist who Guide (9 p.) is using ancient DNA to contend with the QH 366.2 D3432 biggest bacterial killer in the world today. In what many call the post-antibiotic era, Daytime. Spigelman's unique genetic research has Films for the Humanities & Sciences yielded encouraging results: all the (2007) tubercular mummies were missing a TB- This video helps to answer the resistant gene in their genome; those question: Where does our sense of time mummies without TB had the gene."— come from? Host Michio Kaku interviews the Container. scientist who first detected the neurological 1 videocassette (27 min.) stopwatch that gives us our awareness of RC311.4 .C87 2002 time, meets a father and daughter whose body clocks are speeded up, and visits a Cycles of Life: Exploring Biology. gorilla in captivity who has a rudimentary Annenberg/CPB Collection (1997) sense of time. 1. The Unity & Diversity of Life 1 videodisc (50 min.) 2. Chemical Foundations of Life QP445 .D38 2007 3. Secrets of the Cell 4. The Power of Metabolism Death by Design: Where Parallel Worlds 5. Energy In---Energy Out Meet. 6. Generations: Mitosis & Meiosis First Run (1995) 7. Patterns of Inheritance A guided tour into the world of cells, 8. DNA: Blueprint of Life told through a collage of metaphors. 9. Proteins: Building Blocks of Life Video Cassette (1 hr. 15 min.) 10. Microevolution QH 582.4 D42 11. Macroevolution 12. Viruses, Bacteria, & Protistans (The) Death Knell of Old Age. 13. Fungi, Plants, & Animals Films for the Humanities and Sciences 14. Plant Structure (1999) 15. Plant Reproduction Tracks the final hours of an 87-year 16. Animal Structure old man as he quietly expires at home. 17. Circulation: A River of Life Computer animations illustrate what 18. Immunity happens when his aged body can no longer 19. Respiration mend itself. 20. Digestion & Fluid Balance Video Cassette (25 min.) 21. The Neural Connection QH530 .B63 1999 22. Endocrine Control: Systems in Balance 23. Animal Reproduction & Development 24. Populations & Communities 25. Ecosystems & the Biosphere 26. The Human Factor 26 Video Cassettes (30 min. ea) Guide (52 p.) QH 307.2 C83 v. 1-26

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Death Valley. Desert Riparian Areas. Holiday Video Library (1989) KUAT Communications Group (1996) Includes visits to Artist's Drive, Devils Focuses on the arduous journey of Golf Course, Dantes View, Badwater, water in the Sonoran Desert from the upper Zabriskie Point, Titus Canyon, Ubehebe reaches of the watershed, through narrow Crater, Keane Wonder Mine, Harmony canyons to wider canyons and finally to a Borax Works, Skidoo, Rhyolite, Borax river Museum, and Scotty's Castle. 1 Video Cassette (28 min.) Video Cassette (40 min.) QH104.5.S6 D474 1996 F868 D2 D38 (The) Development of the Human Brain. Decoding the Book of Life. Films for the Humanities (1990) Coronet (199?) Follows the physiological The Genome project will take development of the human brain from decades to complete and cost between conception, through the growth of the $500 million and $3 billion. Explains the neurological system in utero, to the moment project and looks at the controversy it has of birth when a wide variety of brain stirred. functions are apparent. Follows a child to Video Cassette (58 min.) the age of eight, as a range of motor and Guide cognitive skills appear. QH 447 D42 Video Cassette (40 min.) QP 376 D486 Deserts. Distributed by Warner Home Video, Devil's Hole Pupfish. c2007 (1994) Explore the living sands of Namib, a Discusses the Pupfish, an remote coastal desert on the southwestern endangered species which lives only in the edge of Africa. Then explore some of Devil's Hole in Death Valley. nature's most unusual creations in the Video Cassette (8 min.) extraordinary Sonoran Desert of the QL 638 C96 D37 American Southwest. 1 videodisc (116 min.) Dialogues in Modern Biology. QH88 .D465 2007 Audio Learning An introduction to nutrition. (The) Desert Smells Like Rain. Cassette The Audio Press (1990) Booklet (17 p.) Read by the author, Gary Nabhan. QP 141 H68 Seven stories from two of his books offer insights into the natural history of desert Double Helix. plants and animals and into the folklore of Films for the Humanities (1998) the desert people. A dramatization about the race to 2 Cassettes (2 3/4 hr.) solve one of the greatest mysteries of 20th E99 P28 N33 century science -- the structure of DNA. Video Cassette (1 hr. 47 min.) Desert Springs to Life. QP 624 L54 Filmwest Asso. (1997) Looks at the Sonora, Mohave, and Chihuahua deserts and the myriad of creatures that live there. Video Cassette (25 min.) F 787 D45

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Double Helix. Empty Oceans, Empty Nets. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Bullfrog Film (2003) [2007] "... explores the immense changes "Dramatization ... of the diligent threatening marine fisheries worldwide. research, creative analysis, and Entire populations of fish are becoming perseverance of James Watson and Francis commercially extinct, yet consumer's Crick that led to the discovery (structure of demand for fish is on the rise .... [The film] DNA). With the help of their colleague, examines the full extent of the global Maurice Wilkins, they also earned the 1962 fisheries crisis and the forces that continue Nobel Prize"—Container. to push many marine fish stocks toward 1 videodisc (107 min.) commercial extinction. It also documents QP624 .D68 2007 some of the most promising and innovative work being done to restore fisheries and Earth Time. protect essential fish habitat"—Container. Films for the Humanities & Sciences 1 videodisc (55 min.) (2007) SH328 .E46 2003 Host Michio Kaku leads the viewer on the topic of the progression of geological Encounters with . and human evolution and the time frames PBS Video (1993) that dwarf human life spans. Provides never-before-seen images 1 videodisc (50 min.) of the southern population of humpback QE508 .E27 2007 whales and evaluates their chances for 18 Ways to Make a Baby. survival. Presents a rescue effort to free a WGBH Boston Video, c2001 stranded . In-depth look at the scientific Video Cassette (49 min.) breakthroughs in reproductive science, their QL 737 C424 E52 impact on human lives, and the doctors and biologists on the leading edge. (The) Eternal Arms Race. Video Cassette (1 hr) PBS Home Video (2001) RG135 .A22 2001 "Since the dawn of life, an evolutionary arms race has imbued predator (The) Emerging Viruses. and prey with increasingly sophisticated BBC (1995) weaponry. Teeth and jaws are merely the Opens with a look at the Ebola virus. low-tech side of the struggle. have Short segments deal with viral structure and evolved sonar, and moths have devised a infection. Discusses smallpox and its way to jam it; create smoke screens, eradication. The latter part of the program caterpillars concoct and the race tells of the emergence and reemergence of escalates from eon to eon."--Container viruses that are of great concern to . 1 Video Cassette (ca. 60 min.) Video Cassette (50 min.) QL758 .E74 2001 Booklet (5 p.) QR 360 E44 (The) Ethics of Cloning. Films for the Humanities (1997) Examines the moral, ethical, and religious questions raised by the technology of cloning. Video Cassette (29 min.) QH 442.2 E74

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(The) Everglades: A Threatened (The) Evolution of Social Behavior in Wilderness. . Ross/Ripple Productions, c1990 Films for the Humanities (1995) Still photographs combine with music Tells the story of the evolution of and narration to present the Everglades and cooperative social behavior in and other wetlands, explaining their bees. Includes solitary and social wasps, important natural functions and what has bumblebees, honey bees, and others. and must be done to protect them and their Explores the genetic theory of kin selection. multitude of rare plants and animals. Video Cassette (54 min.) 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) QL 569.4 E86 QH105.F6 E935 1990 Falcons of Arabia. Evolution. Prod (1992) WGBH Boston Video (2001) Depicts the grace, speed and power Explores various aspects of evolution of falconry in the Arabian Desert. and the impact the evolutionary process has Video Cassette (52 min.) had on people's understanding of the world SK 321 F34 around them. Darwin's dangerous idea (2 hrs.) Fires of the Mind. Great transformations (1 hr.) Vestron Video (1988) Extinction! (1 hr.) Begins with a glimpse into the brain's The evolutionary arms ( 1 hr.) origins. Demonstrates how children learn, Why sex? (1 hr.) how the brain's two halves work together, The Mind's big bang (1 hr.) the complexity of Einstein's brain, and the What about God (1 hr.) nature of human creativity. Learning and teaching evolution. (2 hrs.) Video Cassette (58 min.) 8 Video Cassettes QP 376 F49 Guide (40 p.) QH366.2 .E8487 2001 Flock of : The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus. Evolution and Human Equality. Docurama Films (2007) Insight Video (198?) Tweaks egos and pokes fun at both Stephen Gould focuses on the following sides in the evolution vs. intelligent design issues. debate. From the shadowy, well-funded I. Role Played by Science in Justifying headquarters of the pro-intelligent design Racism Throughout History. Discovery Institute in Seattle to the rarefied II. History of Scientific Claims of Racial talk of scientists around a late-night poker Inequality Before 11859 table. III. Scientific Claims of Racial Inequality 1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) Subsequent to 1859. BL263 .F56 2007 IV. Where Humans Evolved V. New Genetic Evidence That Secures Flying Casanovas. the Argument for Human Racial Equality WGBH Boston Video (2002) VI. Conclusions About the Impact of Seduction through construction: see Scientific Racism on Individual Human how male bowerbirds build astounding Lives. shrines to attract a mate. Travel to Video Cassette (42 min.) and New Guinea with to GN 281 G68 explore the bowerbird's "obsessive" courtship practices. Video Cassette (1 hr.) QL696.P2675 F58 2002

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Fooling with Nature. (The) Gaia Hypothesis. PBS Video ; Boston : WGBH Educational Films for the Humanities & Sciences Foundation James Lovelock details the Examines new evidence in the development and evolution of his Gaia controversy over the danger of manmade hypothesis, which considers the Earth as an chemicals to human health and the intimately linked system of physical, environment. chemical, and biological processes, Video Cassette (55 min) interacting in a self-regulating way to TD196.C45 F66 1998 maintain the conditions necessary for life. The Daisyworld climatic prototype is also (The) Four Billion Year War. explained through the use of computer PBS Home Video (2001) graphics and animation. "In a battle for survival that lasts 4 Video Cassette (25 min.) billion years, the odds against any one QH331 .G33 1998 species are incredibly long. And yet, life on the planet is overwhelmingly rich and Genetic Engineering: Prospects for the diverse. Exploring this paradox, this program Future. takes a penetrating look at the process of Ibis Media (1981) evolution and the basic force behind it - Viewers discover how DNA works and how genes."--Container scientists are learning to manipulate it to 1 Video Cassette (ca. 60 min.) achieve desired ends. Comprehensive QH366.2. F697 2001 techniques of gene splicing are provided. Benefits vs. risks are covered. From Chance to Choice: The Revolution Pt. 1. The New Era of Biotechnology in Molecular Medicine. Pt. 2. Putting Microbes to Work PBS (1988) Pt. 3. The Promise and Danger of Discusses how molecular biology is Genetic Engineering creating a revolution in genetics. In a look at Cassette early genetics research, the discovery of 235 Slides (20 min. ea. part) DNA points to its role as the blueprint of our Guide (53 p.) lives, holding the determining factors of what QH 442 G455 kind of diseases we may contract. Nobel laureates James Watson & Francis Crich (The) Good, the Bad, and the Grizzly. are interviewed. Drs. Thomas Caskey & Thirteen/WNET, c2004 Arthur Beaudet define their work in human Discusses whether grizzlies should be gene therapy. taken off the endangered species list now Video Cassette (1 hr.) that they have made a remarkable recovery, RB 155 F76 and what it would take to live with such a fierce predator. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) QL737.C27 G65 2004

Grand Canyon Flood! KUAT-TV (1997) Describes the man-made flood of March 1996 that released water from the Glen Canyon Dam in order to recreate the natural floods that occurred before the dam was built in 1963. 1 Video Cassette (ca. 55 min.) TC557.A62 G623 1997

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Grizzlies. Heredity, Health, & Genetic Disorders. National Film Board of Canada (1998) Human Relations Media (1982) For the last 25 years Wayne McCrory Probes the causes of such genetic has been campaigning to protect the grizzly disorders as Sickle-Cell Anemia, PKU, Tay- and the rare white spirit of the British Sachs Disease, Down Syndrome, Spina Columbia rain forest Bifida and Cystic Fibrosis. Talks about 1 Video Cassette (25 min.) genetic screening, advances in medical QL737.C27 G75 1998 technology, and the effects of genetic disorders on individuals and families. (The) Grizzlies. Video Cassette (30 min.) National Geographic Society (1987) RB 155 H47 Video Cassette (1 hr.) G3 N37 L56 Hopeful Monsters. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Hand-me-down Genes. (1998) Films for the Humanities & Sciences Explores how research into homeotic (1998) mutations in fruit flies led to the discovery of Introduces the fundamental concepts eight control genes, which appear in fruit needed to understand how genes work and flies and other species. These homeotic how human characteristics are inherited. genes help explain the Cambrian explosion Presents concepts through computer- and provide a new approach to medicine. In generated graphics, and interviews young the future, man may be able to regenerate people who discuss their genetic conditions. tissue, replace organs and even control 1. How genes work (25 min.) genotypes. 2. Family patterns (28 min.) Video Cassette (50 min.) 2 Video Cassettes QH447.8.H65 H66 1998 QH 431 H27 v.1-2 How Babies Get Made. Harvest of Fear. Coronet Film & Video (1987) PBS Vide ( 2001) Since 1953, research into the genetic Frontline and Nova explore the mechanisms that affect the order and intensifying debate over genetically-modified pattern of early embryonic development has (GM) food crops. Interviewing scientists, proliferated. Biologists are trying to farmers, biotech and food industry understand the workings of a class of representatives, government regulators, and specialized genes that may be responsible critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report for the basic structure and organization of all presents both sides of the debate, exploring living things. Increasingly, scientists agree the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, that there is a set of "master genes" that of this new technology coordinate the activity of other genes 1 videodisc (120 min.) responsible for specific sub-functions. TP248.65.F66 H375 2001 Video Cassette (58 min.) QP 251 H75 Hawaiian Monk Seals. NGHT, Inc., c2006 How Scientists Know About Human "In Hawaii, there is an ancient species Evolution. fighting for its life. The monk seal is the University of California oldest species of seal on the planet and now See summary in Science section. after millions of years, it may face Video Cassette (19 min.) extinction"—Container. GN 281 H64 1 videodisc (56 min.) QL737.P64 S87 2006 1-2 How Scientists Know About Punctuated Equilibria. University of California See summary in Science section. Video Cassette (16 min.) QE 721.2 E85 H68

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(The) Human Experiment. Ethics in In Search of the Jaguar. America. Distributed by Warner Home Video, PBS (1989) [2006] How far should medical researchers Alan Rabinowitz is a renowned go in their search for a cure? Do the ends Wildlife Conservation Society biologist who justify the means? pursues the elusive jaguar, and races Video Cassette (1 hr.) against time to create safe havens for these R 853 H8 H86 feared and respected predators while battling his own illness. (The) Human Quest. 1 videodisc (54 min.) Films for the Humanities (1995) QL737.C23 I5 2006 1. The Nature of Human Nature 2. The Social Brain In the Company of Whales. 3. Consciousness Discovery Video Library (1991) 4. The Way of Science A journey into the whale's domain. Draws on recent advances in evolutionary Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) biology and neuroscience to explore QL 737 C4 I48 answers to important questions about who we are, where we come from, and what our In the Womb: Multiples. prospects are. National Geographic, c2006 4 Video Cassettes (57 min. ea) National Geographic explores the GN 281 H8487 v. 1-4 world of twins, triplets, and quadruplets as they develop in utero. Featuring 4-D (The) Immune Response. images and revolutionary new Sierra Prod. (1989) fetal imaging techniques, this remarkable Uses time-lapse new special travels inside the womb. microcinematography to show how a virus 1 videodisc (90 min.) destroys healthy cells and is then overcome RG696 .I5 2007 by the body's immune system. Video Cassette (20 min.) : The Little Things That Run the Guide World. QR 186 I443 Smithsonian Video (1989) A comprehensive look at the life, In Search of Human Origins. habits, and environments of the most WGBH Educational Foundation (1994) complex life forms that make up over 80% of See summary in Anthropology all animal life on Earth. section. Video Cassette (58 min.) 3 Video Cassettes (3 hr.) QL 463 I743 GN 281 I47 pt. 1-3 Inside Information: The Brain and How It Works. Films for the Humanities (1991) Devoted to how the brain processes information. Explains the latest research on the brain and provides interviews with some of the foremost researchers in the field. Video Cassette (58 min.) QP 376 I45

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Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth. (The) Joy of Science. Annenberg (1999) Teaching Company, c2001 1. The Tree of Life English novelist and scientist C. P. 2. Keepers of the Biosphere Snow classed certain scientific ideas with 3. Dangerous Friends & Friendly the works of Shakespeare as things every Enemies educated person should know. The lectures 4. Creators of the Future in this series explore the fundamental 2 Video Cassettes (1 hr. each) discoveries and principles of the physical QR 56 I57 and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, (An) Introduction to Texas Wildflowers. thermodynamics, and more--providing a Chip Taylor Comm. (1991) comprehensive and integrated introduction Discusses specific flowers that bloom to all of science. The Joy of Science, there during spring, summer, and autumn. through enhancing an understanding of the Details about modified , square physical world, offers a source of endless stems, and rayed flowers. Addresses how wonder and intellectual joy. the removal of certain plants could affect pt. 1. disc 1. Lecture one The nature animals higher up on the food chain. of science ; lecture two The scientific Video Cassette (21 min.) method ; Lecture three The ordered QK 188 I57 universe ; Lecture four Celestial and terrestrial mechanics ; Lecture five Newton's Journey into Life. laws of motion ; Lecture six Universal Questar Video (1990) gravitation -- disc 2. Lecture seven The This documentary begins with the nature of energy ; Lecture eight The first law moment of conception when and sperm of thermodynamics ; Lecture nine The meet. Live action film as well as still second law of thermodynamics ; Lecture ten photography document moments such as a Entropy ; Lecture eleven Magnetism and tiny embryo's beating heart which is as small static electricity ; Lecture twelve Electricity. as the head of a pin, then follows through pt. 2. disc 3. Lecture thirteen the stages of growth during thirty-eight Electromagnetism ; Lecture fourteen The weeks of . electromagnetic spectrum, pt. I ; Lecture Video Cassette (30 min.) fifteen The electromagnetic spectrum, pt. II ; RG551 .J68 1990 Lecture sixteen Relativity ; Lecture seventeen Atoms ; Lecture eighteen The Journey to the Forgotten River. Bohr atom -- disc 4. Lecture nineteen The National Geographic Society (1990) quantum world ; Lecture twenty The periodic Describes seven years of change in table of the elements ; Lecture twenty one the southern African country of Botswana Introduction to chemistry ; Lecture twenty when a severe drought forced animals to two The chemistry of carbon ; Lecture seek survival in the waters of the Linyanti twenty three States of matter and changes River, seventy miles north of their natural of state ; Lecture twenty four Phase habitat. transformations and chemical reactions. Video Cassette (56 min.) pt. 3. disc 5. Lecture twenty five QL 337 B68 J68 Properties of materials ; Lecture twenty six Semiconductors and modern microelectronics ; Lecture twenty seven Isotopes and radioactivity ; Lecture twenty eight Nuclear fission and fusion reactions ; Lecture twenty nine Astronomy ; Lecture thirty The life cycle of stars -- disc 6. Lecture thirty one Edwin Hubble and the discovery of galaxies ; Lecture thirty two The big bang ; Lecture thirty three The ultimate structure of matter ; Lecture thirty four The nebular

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(The) Joy of Science. (cont.) Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on hypothesis ; Lecture thirty five The solar Trial. system ; Lecture thirty six The Earth as a WGBH Educational Foundation, 2008 planet. "Captures the turmoil that tore apart pt. 4. disc 7. Lecture thirty seven The the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, in a dynamic earth ; Lecture thirty eight The landmark battle over the teaching of plate-tectonics revolution ; Lecture thirty evolution in public schools. In 2004, the nine Earthquakes, volcanoes, & plate Dover school board ordered science motions today ; Lecture forty Earth cycles: teachers to read a statement to their high Water ; Lecture forty one The atmospheric school biology students about an alternative cycle ; Lecture forty two The rock cycle -- to Darwin's theory of evolution called disc 8. Lecture lecture forty three What is intelligent design. This idea states that life is life? ; Lecture forty four Strategies of life ; too complex to have evolved naturally and Lecture forty five Life's molecular building so must have been designed by an blocks ; Lecture forty six Proteins ; Lecture intelligent agent. The teachers refused to forty seven Cells: The chemical factories of comply, and both parents and teachers filed life ; Lecture forty eight Gregor Mendel, a lawsuit in federal court accusing the founder of genetics school board of violating the constitutional pt. 5. disc 9. Lecture forty nine The separation of church and state"—Container discovery of DNA ; Lecture fifty The genetic 1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) code ; Lecture fifty one Reading the genetic QH366.2 .J83 2008 code ; Lecture fifty two Genetic engineering ; Lecture fifty three Cancer and other genetic Kansas vs Darwin. diseases ; Lecture fifty four The chemical New Day Films, c2008 evolution of life -- disc 10. Lecture fifty five Explores the controversy over the Biological evolution: A unifying theme of teaching of evolution and intelligent design biology ; Lecture fifty six The fact of in Kansas public schools, using footage from evolution: the fossil record ; Lecture fifty the hearings before the Board of Education seven Charles Darwin and the theory of and interviews with people on both sides of natural selection ; Lecture fifty eight the issue. Ecosystems and the law of unintended 1 videodisc (82 min.) consequences ; Lecture fifty nine The ozone KF4208.5.S34 K36 2008 hole, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect ; Lecture sixty Science: the endless frontier Killing coyote. 10 videodiscs (1800 min.) + 1 course High Plains Films guidebook 331pgs This documentary looks at how the Q171 .H39 2001 pt.1-5 coyote is viewed as a predator by ranchers and hunters while conservationists are trying to responsibly monitor the coyote population. Interviews are conducted with wildlife conservationists, ranchers, hunters, and others who give opposing viewpoints regarding the value of the coyote. The contemporary sport of coyote hunting is presented along with local government hearings on this issue. Video Cassette (57 min.) SF810.7.C88 K54 2000

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Learning to Love the Creepy Crawlies. Life in the Womb: The First Stages of Pyramid Film & Video (1996) Development. David Suzuki hosts this look at the Human Relations Media (1983) world. He and other experts stress the Pt. 1 gives the chronological sequence great diversity of insect life and habitats they from fertilization to the egg's division -- live in. It is pointed out that the large number formation of the blastocyst, implantation, of insect species also means a large number progress of the growing embryo and fetus, of insect species going extinct, and their development during each trimester. total effect on the web of life is still not Discusses supportive roles of the uterus and known. placenta. 1 Video Cassette (46 min.) Pt. 2 examines genetic inheritance, QL463 .L42 1996 maternal characteristics, and environmental factors. Reviews teratogens. Lemurs. Video Cassette (44 min.) National Film Board of Canada (1998) Teacher's Guide (53 p.) Unless steps are taken now, the ring- RG 613 L53 tailed lemur will soon be extinct. Dr. Lisa Gould works and lives at a remote research (The) Life of Birds. center in southern Madagascar studying the BBC Video (2002) lemurs' behavior and matriarchal social David Attenborough journeys across structure. seven continents filming thousands of 1 Video Cassette (25 min.) species of birds, revealing their patterns of QL737.P933 L44 1998 behavior. 3 videodiscs (ca. 580 min.) Life Cycle of the Butterfly. QL698.3 .L48 2002 Films for the Humanities (1995) Illustrates egg-laying behavior, Life on Earth. hatching, feeding, molting, and Warner Home Video (1987) caterpillar defenses, pupations and 1. The Infinite Variety parasites that attack the pupa, emergence, 2. Building Bodies and courtship. 3. The First Forests Video Cassette (20 min.) 4. The Swarming Hordes QL 544 L53 5. The Conquest of the Waters 6. The Invasion of the Lands Life in Death Valley. 7. Victors of the Dry Land New York : Thirteen (2006) 8. Lords of the Air Discusses how animals beat 9. The Rise of the the extreme heat in Death Valley, 10. Theme & Variations ultramarathoners who run through Death 11. The Hunters & the Hunted Valley each July, the geology of Death 12. Life in the Trees Valley, and how it is good for astronomy 13. The Compulsive Communicators there because there is almost no light 2 Video Cassettes (3 hr.) pollution. Also discusses the floods caused QH 325 L73 by an unusual amount of rain in 2005, the huge bloom of wild flowers that followed that Life's Greatest Miracle. wet winter, and the vast aquifer under Death PBS DVD Video 2001 Valley that supports endangered species The development of a child from such as the Devils Hole pupfish. conception to birth, using both microimagery 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) and the story of a young couple preparing QL116 .L53 2006 for their first child. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) QP251 .L54 2001

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LifeSense: Our Lives Through Animal Lions of the African Night. Eyes. National Geographic Society. BBC (1995) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Examines the miraculous G3 N37 L56 relationships that bind man and animal worldwide. It's the world as seen by Little Creatures Who Run the World. microscopic parasites that inhabit our bodies Nova. WGBH (1995) and pets that inhabit our homes. Shows From vast underground caverns, how our actions affect the animals around working class armies of ants pour forth to us and how their lives affect ours. defend their highly structured communal 2 Video Cassettes (3 hr.) way of life. Everything they do is for their QL 751 L53 pt. 1-2 colony’s good. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Life Story. QL 568 F7 L583 BBC (1998) Dramatization of the research creative (The) Living Body. analysis and perseverance of James Films for the Humanities (1985) Watson and Francis Crick that led to the Aging BF 724.55 A35 A33 discovery of DNA. Messengers QP 571 M47 Video Cassette (1 hr. 48 min.) Internal Defenses QR 181.7 I57 QP 624 L54 A New Life RG 613 N48 Water! QP 248 W37 Life Time. See summaries under subtitles in Films for the Humanities & Sciences Medical Sciences section. (2007) 4 Video Cassettes (26 min. ea) Like other living things, humans are programmed to die. This film examines the Living Forever: The Longevity body's biolog ical mechanisms which Revolution. eventually slow down and stop. Host Michio Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Kaku looks at how medicine may one day c2007 reverse the effects of time on the human "The longevity revolution is under body. way! In this program, gerontologist Michael 1 videodisc (50 min.) Rose introduces viewers to recent QH528.5 .L54 2007 breakthroughs in life extension science, and approaches to staying alive until those Life’s First Feelings. technologies become readily available. WGBH (1986) Biological age measurement, caloric A study of infants’ personality traits, restriction, stem cell therapy, cryobiology, emotional reactions and social interactions. and artery-cruising nanobots are discussed, Reveals recent findings on the emotional as well as experiments being conducted to capabilities of newborns and young children. increase the life span of mice via nutritional Video Cassette (1 hr.) supplements, of nematodes through genetic BF 720 E45 L54 engineering, and of fruit flies by tricking the natural selection process into promoting the Life's Greatest Miracle. wellbeing of the species' adults"—Container. PBS Home Video (2004) 1 videodisc (54 min.) The development of a QP85 .L588 2007 child from conception to birth, using both micro imagery and the story of a young couple preparing for their first child. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) QP251 .L54 2004

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Look Who's Talking: How Animals Me, My Brain, and I. Communicate. Filmakers Library (2002) Bullfrog Films, Inc., (1999) Explains the functions of the frontal Horse whisperer Mony Roberts lobes of the brain through the stories of explores how animals use sight, hearing, brain-injury patients. touch, smell, taste and hormones to 1 videocassette (52 min.) communicate. QP382.F7 M4 2002 Video Cassette (47 min.) QL776 .L66 1999 Metamorphosis. Mystic Fire (1995) Love and Sex. The Human Animal. Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Films for Humanities (1988) and Terence McKenna "trialogue" on chaos See summary in Sociology section. and the world soul. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Video Cassette (1 hr. 20 min.) BF 692 P45 Q 172.5 C45 M47

Man Immortal. Methuselah Tree. Films for the Humanities & Sciences WGBH Boston Video (2001) (1999) Discusses a 26-foot bristlecone pine Experts in the areas of fibroblast in the White Mountains of California that is growth factor therapy, nutrition, genetics, nearly 5,000 years old and holds the title of aerobic metabolism, and cancer research oldest living thing on earth, and is known as discuss the implications of their findings on the Methuselah Tree. Also discusses how the aging process. tree rings act as a dating instrument. Video Cassette (53 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) QP 85 M36 P66 M47 2001

(The) Game. MicroCosmos. PBS Home Video (2001) Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank "Sex is the key to the immortality of Calif. : Buena Vista Home Video genes, and any tactic necessary will be [distributor], (1996) deployed in the cause of reproduction - even A wordless close-up view of a variety if its suicidal to the participant. This episode of insects as they hatch from , search explores many of the most ingenious, for food and cope with a rain storm. Ants complex and dramatic methods of ensuring race to gather food as a pheasant gobbles the continuation of a species."--Container them up, while a dung beetle moves his 1 Video Cassette (ca. 60 min.) prize up hill and down. Makes use of QL761 .M373 2001 timelapse and microphotographic techniques. (A) Matter of Fat. 1 Video Cassette (75 min.) Films for the Humanities (1989) QL466 .M53 1996 Examines the causes of obesity: who gets fat and why, the importance of heredity, metabolism, exercise, food--the foods or the wrong quantities--and whether obesity is a disease. Also examines the latest research on the biochemical and genetic causes of obesity. Video Cassette (26 min.) RC 628 M37

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(The) Miracle of Life. Mitosis and Meiosis. Crown Video (1986) United Learning (1994) A voyage through the human body as a A two-part program on cell new life begins. Shows what happens reproduction. The first part examines the at the moment of conception and the interphase state, DNA replication, development of the single new cell chromosome structure and the stages of into an embryo. Looks inside the male and mitosis. The second part looks at the diploid female reproductive organs to show the and haploid states, at fertilization and at the formation of sperm and the passage of a various stages of meiosis. A short video quiz fertilized egg through the fallopian tube. follows each part of the program. Uses a microscope to observe DNA, 1 videocassette (23 min., 23 sec.) chromosomes, and other details building up QH605 .M59 1994 to the moment of birth. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Monkey Trial. QP 251 M54 PBS Home Video (2002) Discusses the trial of biology teacher Miracle planet John Scopes, who was arrested for teaching Ambrose Video Publishing, (2005) evolution in defiance of Tennessee state law "Miracle planet is a five-part series in 1925. that recounts the ... story of Earth's 1 Video Cassette (90 min.) mysterious evolution. Narrated by KF224.S3 M65 2002 Christopher Plummer, it reveals the surprising role that sheer chance has played in the development of life. Over its more Mushroom Growth Forms. than 4-billion-year history, Earth has been Ward's Natural Science Est. (197?) home to repeated violent climactic changes, Shows a representative series of which have caused mass . And contrasting types, mostly Basidiomycetes, yet, life has survived. In fact, these same and a few Ascomycetes. catastrophes that devastated life on earth 22 Slides also helped bring about its evolution from Guide (1 p.) the simplest microbes to the complexity and QK 911 P57 diversity that is found on the planet today"— Container. Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders. episode 1. The violent past Nova. WGBH (1995) episode 2. Snowball earth Discusses the mystery of migrators, episode 3. New frontiers including birds, bats and . episode 4. Extinction & rebirth Video Cassette (1 hr.) episode 5. Survival of the fittest QL 754 M973 QE501 .M57 2005 1-5 (A) Naturalist in the : A Portrait of Alexander Skutch. (The) Missing Link. Bullfrog Films (1995) WGBH Boston Video, c2002 Skutch's story provides insights on Discusses the hunt for the missing many levels, the methods of field research, link between fish and four-legged animals in the interactions of plants and animals in this the evolution of mammals. complex ecosystem and the urgency to Video Cassette (1 hr.) preserve its remaining remnants. QL708.5 .M57 2002 Video Cassette (53 min.) Booklet (18 p.) QL 31 S53 N37

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Nature and Nurture. Natural Connections. Films for the Humanities (1987) Bullfrog Films (1999) Looks at identical twins separated at Uses interviews with scientists, birth and finds some fascinating answers. photography, graphics, and original music to 10 - 15% of children are born with a slight introduce the basic concepts of biodiversity, tendency to be very outgoing or very underline the importance of maintaining apprehensive and there may be a chemical biodiversity, explore how nature and human predisposition to seeking danger or high nature are intertwined and how everyday risk. But biology isn't everything and a decisions affect biodiversity. Takes a close- supportive environment helps to produce up look at , , and marine well-adjusted adults. ecosystems as examples. Video Cassette (52 min.) Introduction to biodiversity (15 min.) QH 438.5 P45 The significance of salmon (12 min.) Keystone species (10 min.) (The) Nature of Sex. Forests, biodiversity and you (10 min.) Shanachie (1993) Biodiversity vs. extinction (12 min.) The Primal Instinct: examines the 5 Video Cassettes diverse, strange behavior of the Earth’s QH541.15.B56 N37 1999 creatures as they obey their urge to breed. A Time and a Place: captures the Nature's Treasures. sometimes strange story of Earth’s National Geographic Society (1992) creatures as they respond to the sexual Program 3 on video cassette with urges triggered by the cycles of nature. Tides of War and Disappearing Worlds. A Insights are offered into the mating signals brief look at some of the natural world's exhibited by humans heeding the same call. treasures such as animals, coral reefs, and The Sex Contract: looks at how the mountains. sexes come together, how they interact, and Video Cassette how long they stay together. DS 79.744 E58 T53 Sex and the Human Animal: looks for the roots of the human obsession with sex. Nevada's Wild Horses: Range War Shows how humans send sexual signals Stalemate. through gestures, power, achievement, Real to Reel Series (1981) dress, make-up, and perfume, and where Video Cassette (30 min.) such behavior has its antecedents in the SF 360.3 N3 N49 lower forms of life. A Miracle in the Making: depicts the On a Wing and a Prayer. diversity of ways animals mate, carry their Public Media Video (1996) young, and give birth. Traces a migratory route from Central The Young Ones: presents the variety of America, across the Gulf of to nature’s parenting systems. Southern Illinois. Explains how 6 Video Cassettes (1 hr. each) deforestation has put songbirds at risk and QL 761 N37 vol. 1-6 what can be done to reverse the trend. Video Cassette (1 hr.) QL 676.55 O52

On The Trail of a Killer Virus. Kurtis Prod. (1994) Traces the discovery and identification of the hantavirus strain that broke out in New Mexico in May of 1993. Takes an inside look at how the Center for Disease Control operates. Video Cassette (1 hr.) RA 644 H32 O52

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(The) Origin of the Sonoran Desert. Parasites: Eating Us Alive. KUAT Communications Group (1991) Discovery Communications, [2006] Discusses the geological formations Looks at parasites--some benign, that formed the Sonoran Desert and shows some deadly--that make humans their hosts. the Sierra de Alamos, a small mountain Examples are discussed in detail from the range isolated from the Sierra Madre, filled three major categories: single-celled; with white rock spires - or "Los Frailes,"(the multicellular, or worms; and ectoparasites, friars). Also compares the Sonoran Desert those that live on the body as opposed to and the deciduous tropical forest. inside it. Experts show how these organisms 1 Video Cassette (28 min.) proliferate through vectors, creatures that QE86.S63 O75 1991 transmit parasites, such as the mosquito that carries malaria or the fly that transmits (The) Origin of Species. "river blindness." Interviews with victims and Audio Scholar (1991) footage of parasitic damage are combined Abridged. Charles Darwin's work on with commentary. evolution. 1 videodisc (50 min.) 2 Cassettes (2 hr. 52 min.) RC119 .P343 2006 QH 365 O25 (The) Perfect Baby. Our Two Brains: Rational & Intuitive. ABC News (1990) Norton Pub. (1973) Focuses on the medical revolution in Cassette (56 min.) genetics. Barbara Walters interviews QP 385.5 O87 parents and doctors about decisions they face in deciding how "perfect" children Palm in the Desert. should be. KUAT Communications Group (2007) Video Cassette (50 min.) "In this episode, ecologist Jim Cornett QH 431 P47 joins host David Yetman for a look around California's Coachella Valley, the lowest and Perils of Plectropomus. hottest inhabited place in the Northern Bullfrog Films (1999) Hemisphere. After a walk around Palm In recent years scientists have pieced Springs to examine the area's most famous together the dramatic life cycle of reef fish residents, Yetman heads for the largest like the plectropomus, the coral trout. They undisturbed palm oasis on Earth, Palm have discovered it's a life lived against the Canyon. Yetman shows how to jump across odds. the fault line that allows subterranean water Video Cassette (56 min.) to seep from the nearby mountains and QL638.S48 P47 1999 helps the palms thrive in a seemingly dry area. This episode also features a trip to the Photosynthesis. Oasis Date Gardens, where the non-native Classroom Prod. date palms require constant human attention Examines each element in the in order to produce their luscious fruits"— complex interaction that is photosynthesis. Container. Leads students through the world of atoms, 1 videodisc (ca. 27 min.) molecules, cells and energy illustrated with QK495.P17 P345 2007 computer animation, examples and experiments. Video Cassette (30 min.) QK 882 P83

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Planet Earth. Plants Yielding Narcotic, Stimulating, and Discovery Channel (2007) Psychedelic Substances. "Journey from the highest peaks to Ward's Natural Science Est. (197?) the deepest oceans--pole to pole across the Shows a number of plant drug Earth. State of the art filming techniques and sources. dramatic Cineflex aerial photography give 16 Slides you a glimpse of the natural world that will Guide (2 p.) astound your eyes for hours"—Container. QK 477 H37 disc 1. Pole to pole ; Mountains ; Deep ocean (The) Private Life of Plants. disc 2. Deserts ; Ice worlds BBC (1995) ; Shallow seas Vol. 2: Putting Down Roots. Plants disc 3. Great plains ; cultivate myriad survival techniques. Jungles ; Fresh water Vol. 3: The Birds and the Bees. Plants disc 4. Seasonal forests ; help insects and birds discover their hidden Caves . They are deceitful with false disc 5. : the promises of food or sex as rewards for future ; Saving the species ; Into the transferring pollen. wilderness ; Living together. Vol. 4: Plant Politics. Shows how plants QL50 .P53 2007 exploit disaster to meet their needs. Vol. 5: Living Together. Profile of how Planet of Life. plants form partnerships to survive. Reveals Discovery Channel (1995) their symbiotic relationship with , The Vol. 1: The Birth of Earth; Ancient Great Barrier Reef, ants and predatory Oceans dodders. Vol. 2: When Ruled; Vol. 6: It’s a Jungle Out There. Plant life Creatures in the Sky from the coldest wastes and the driest Vol. 3: The Insect World; Apes to Man deserts. Vol. 4: Evolution's Next Step 6 Video Cassettes (50 min. ea) Follows the evolution of life on Earth. QK 50 P75 4 Video Cassettes (5 hr. 50 min.) QH 371 P62 vol. 1-4 Private Lives of Dolphins. WGBH (1992) Plant Ecology. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Carolina Biological Supply Co. (197?) QL 737 C432 P75 Examines some major plant associations, including tundra, forest, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. grassland, desert, and tropical associations. PBS Video (1992) Also, subtropical succession and zonation. Summary in Environmental Science 50 Slides section. Guide (6 p.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) QK 911 P57 SB 959 R32

Plants in Peril. Realm of the Alligator. Films for the Humanities (1988) National Geographic Society (1986) See summary in Environmental Narrated by Pernell Roberts. Science section. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Video Cassette (26 min.) G3 N37 C43 QK 86 A1 P57

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Reflections on . The Sacred Balance. National Geographic Society (1994) Bullfrog Films (2003) Botswana elephants pursue life "What is the role of human beings in around scattered waterholes and their the sacred balance of life? Since human seasonal movements undertaken to follow beings first appeared on Earth, they have the water shows the social bonds, behavior lived in a sacred relationship with the place and communication practiced. they inhabit, the land they depend on ... Video Cassette (56 min.) [O]ur family is far larger than we realize. QL 737 P98 R43 We're at home in the human community and in the biosphere, close relatives of every and Amphibians. living thing. We are all creatures of the living Films for the Humanities (1995) Earth. The important thing ... is that if we Deals with reptilian physiology and can see and feel the web we're a part of, we behavior and with the natural history of can change the way we act towards it"— amphibians. Container. Video Cassette (23 min.) Disc. 1. QL 641 R46 episode 1. Journey into new worlds / director, Michelle Metivier. Research In the Desert. episode 2. The matrix of life / KUAT-TV (1990) directors, Harvey Crossland ... [et al.] A report on the diverse study projects disc 2. being conducted in the Sonoran Desert, episode 3. The fire of creation / including packrat research (climatic change), director, Michelle Metivier. plant research (creating new species), and episode 4. Coming home / directors, urban habitats (renewable resources). Barry Greenwald ... [et al.] 1 Video Cassette (30 min.) 2 videodiscs (216 min.) QH104.5.S58 R47 1990 GF21 .S335 2003

(The) Rotten World About Us. Salmon on the Run. Films Inc. (1980) Time-Life Video (1981) Unravels the mysteries of mushrooms, Discusses the fate of the Pacific molds and fungi. Shows how they feed, salmon in the northwest. Commercial grow and multiply. Shows fungi that lay fisherman, sports fisherman & local Indian traps for worms and others that can kill flies. leaders are interviewed. The potential use of Video Cassette (30 min.) breeding salmon in hatcheries is also QK 603 R68 discussed. 1 videodisc (57 min.) Rupert Sheldrake. A Glorious Accident. SH686 .S24 1981 Films for the Humanities (1994) An interview with Rupert Sheldrake, Saving a Species. controversial cell biologist and biochemist. Films for the Humanities (1990) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Because their habitats have been Q 171 G56 no. 2 tapered with or destroyed, many animals now face extinction. Shows how researchers are using the latest tools of science and technology to reverse this alarming trend. Video Cassette (26 min.) QL 82 S28

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(The) Science of Cloning. Secret Yosemite: Explore Beyond the Films for the Humanities (1997) Tourist Hotspots. Illustrates the biomechanics of cloning Warner Home Video (2007) and discusses the implications for biology, Experience a day in one of America's medicine, and agriculture. Experts discuss greatest parks, Yosemite National Park in the future of cloning and possible abuses. California. Home to over 2000 plant and Video Cassette (25 min.) animal species, steep granite cliffs, and the QH 442.2 S35 world's largest trees- the Sequoias. View where 3.5 million visitors come every year. Science in Focus: Energy. 1 videodisc (46 min.) Annenberg/CP (2002) F868.Y6 S43 2007 Workshop for science teachers on understanding the concept of energy Spirits of the forest. including distinguishing between the Shanachie, [1996?], meaning of energy to the man on the street Observes various species of lemurs and its meaning to scientists, and energy's living on the island of Madagascar role in motion, machines, food, the human 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) body, and the universe as a whole. Also QL737.P933 S65 1996 discusses how energy can be converted from one form to another and transferred of Life. across time and space and the conservation Provides a conceptual overview of the of energy. seasons of life from infancy through old age. 1. What is energy? 1. Infancy and Early Childhood 2. Force and work Conception to Age 6. HQ 774 I52 3. Transfer and conversion of energy 2. Childhood and Adolescence Ages 6 4. Energy in cycles to 20. HQ 796 C54 5. Energy in food 3. Early Adulthood - Ages 20 to 40. 6. Energy and systems. HQ 799.5 E27 7. Heat, work, and efficiency 4. Middle Adulthood - Ages 40 to 60. 8. Understanding energy HQ 1059.4 M53 8 Video Cassettes (ca. 480 min.) 5. Late Adulthood - Ages 60+ 1 guide (32 p.) HQ 1061 L37 QC73.6 .S35 2002 no.1 – 8 5 Video Cassettes (1 hr. each)

Search for the Great Apes. National Geographic Society Examines efforts of Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas-Brindamour to discover new facts about the life and behavior of gorillas and orangutans. Video Cassette (1 hr.) QL737.P96 S42 1995

Secret Yellowstone: Explore Beyond the Tourist Hotspots. National Georgraphic (2007) Explore 2 million acres of back country wilderness, 300 newly discovered waterfalls, and the wildlife of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. 1 videodisc (46 min.) F722 .S43 2007

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(The) Secret of Life. Selection in Action 2. PBS (1993) Films for the Humanities (1981) 1. The Immortal Thread introduces Examines selected plants and viewers to the chemistry of the DNA animals with easily observable adaptations molecule. to their environment in order to study the 2. Accidents of Creation explores the major processes which alter the genetic variety of life rooted in the accumulation of profile of a species. tiny errors in DNA. Video Cassette (20 min.) 3. Birth, Sex and Death asks the QH 546 S44 question: If every cell in an organism has the same genes, why are some cells different? Serengeti Diary. 4. Conquering Cancer probes the new National Geographic Society (1989) understanding of the molecular machinery The diversity of the Serengeti comes that causes cells to turn cancerous. to life through the eyes of photographer, 5. The Mouse that Laid the Golden Baron Hugo van Lawick and Masai Egg covers the controversial trend of tribesman, Tepilit Ole Saitoti. genetically engineering life forms for human Video Cassette (59 min.) benefit. DT 436.3 S47 S47 6. Cell Wars looks at a search-and- destroy mechanism that can defeat almost Sex and the Healthy Gene Pool. any invader,the immune system. Films for the Humanities & Sciences 7. Children by Design ventures into (1998) the new world of gene therapy, covering the Discusses the methods by which the human stories behind new experiments to animal world maximizes each sexual tinker with the body's most basic encounter to produce the optimum number instructions. and/or hardiest offspring, thereby ensuring 8. Who Are You? looks at identical the continuation of the species. twins, nature's experiment in human clones. Video Cassette (51 min.) Offers insight into the inheritability of QL 761 S48 character, intelligence, and other traits. 4 Video Cassettes (1 hr. each) Sexually Transmitted Diseases. QH 506 S43 Films for the Humanities (1987) Focuses on chlamydia, herpes, and Secret of Photo 51. venereal warts, strongly emphasizing Boston Video (2003) prevention and early detection through new "On April 25, 1953, James Watson diagnostic tests. Explains the complications and Francis Crick published their from infection, including infertility, tubal groundbreaking discovery of the double pregnancy, and infections in babies. helix structure of DNA, the molecule Video Cassette (19 min.) essential for passing on our genes and the RC 200.2 S48 secret of life. But their crucial breakthrough depended on the pioneering work of another biologist, Rosalind Franklin. She would never know that Watson and Crick had seen a crucial piece of her data without her permission. This was an X-ray image, Photo 51, that proved to be a vital clue in their decoding of the double helix."--Container. Contains interviews, historical photographs and reenactments. 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) QH506.F72 S43 2003

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(The) Shape of Life. Silence of the Bees. SlingShot (2002) Educational Broadcasting Corp. (2007) Discusses evolution and shows eight "Honeybees first appeared on earth biological designs that are the underpinnings around 80 million years ago, and from the of nearly all animal life. beginning have played a key role in our [pt.1] survival. Most fruit trees and vegetable episode 1. Origins. species are entirely dependent on bees to episode 2. Life on the move produce, and there is no commercially viable [pt.2.] artificial replacement for natural . episode 3. First hunter. In the past year up to 80% of the honeybees episode 4. Explosion of life in the US have vanished. The massive die- [pt.3.] offs, first reported in November of 2006, are episode 5. Conquerors. now the subject of emergency research episode 6. Survival game around the globe as the devastation spreads [pt.4.] and scientists race to discover the cause of episode 7. Ultimate animal. this ecological disaster. Could it be a episode 8. , brawn & brains disease? Or is it caused by cellphones, 4 videodiscs (106 min. each) pesticides, , fungi, or the stress that QH367.5 .S54 2002 pts.1-4 comes from increasingly industrialized beekeeping operations? Whatever is Sharkwater. happening, we must solve the mystery soon, Warner Home Video, c2008 and correct the problem, or face Driven by a passion fed from a life- consequences we hardly dare imagine"-- long fascination with , filmmaker Rob Container Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty QL568.A6 S55 2007 monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas. Silent Sentinels. 1 videodisc (90 min.) Bullfrog Films, c1999 QL638.9 .S565 2008 An examination of the coral reef organism and how it interacts with its Sheep Have Been Cloned. environment, focusing on damaging climatic ABC News/MPI Home Video (1997) changes that cause coral bleaching. Discusses the implications and Video Cassette (57 min.) possible effects of the successful cloning of QH541.5.C7 S54 1999 the sheep Dolly. Video Cassette (22 min.) Skin. QH442.2 .S54 1997 NGHT, Inc., c2006 A trip back in time explores the Signs of the Apes, Songs of the evolution of human skin and the rainbow Whales. diversity of skin color today. Cutting-edge Time Life Video (1984) research unveils the role skin plays in Examines recent language human sexual attraction. Go beyond biology experiments with apes, dolphins, sea lions, to trace the influence of skin on our gorillas, and whales. After years of trying to perceptions of race, our skittishness about teach human language to animals, some nudity, and the intriguing riddle of personal scientists are studying the ways animals identity. communicate among themselves. 1 videodisc (57 min.) Video Cassette (3/4", 57 min.) QP88.5 .S55 2006 QL 776 S55

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Sowing the Seeds of Disaster. (The) Survivors. Films for the Humanities (1990) PBS Home Video (2001) There is reason to believe that "Approximately 65 million years ago, everything can be consumed by some a comet's collision with Earth ended the age bacterial strain; biotechnology is creating the of the through no fault of the answers to chemical pollution. Shows how animals' gene machines. But with extinction PCB-eating organisms are designed, tested, comes new life, as survivors evolve to seize and produced and what the dangers are in the left vacant by the vanquished. introducing alien substances into our This concluding episode explores the factors ecosystems. that make winners and losers in the game of Video Cassette (26 min.) life, and poses the question: who will TD 177 S68 triumph in the long run?"—Container 1 Video Cassette (ca. 60 min.) (The) State of the Ocean's Animals. QH546.3 .S87 2001 Screenscope (2007) Investigates why so many of our Survivors of the Skeleton Coast. ocean's animals are disappearing. Case National Geographic Society (1993) studies focus on global issues including An exploration of the Skeleton Coast climate change, sea-level rise, over-fishing along the southwestern shore of Africa. and habitat destruction. Areas of focus Focuses on the elephants of the Namib include: and the emperor Desert and how they traverse 40-50 miles of penguin; Melbourne Beach, Florida and sea desert to reach the coast. turtles; Klamath River, Oregon and salmon; Video Cassette (55 min.) , California and sea otters. QL 337 N27 S87 1 videodisc (57 min.) QH541.5.S3 S63 2007 Tales from the Hive. WGBH Boston Video (2000) Stimulus Response in Animals. Specially developed macro camera Films for the Humanities (1997) lenses are used to portray a year in the life Shows the ways in which animals of a working colony. Exposes the secret respond to stimuli using the five steps of world of a bee colony, including life-or-death stimulus response taught in core psychology battles, attacks on the hive and the meaning curriculums. of a scout bee's dance. Video Cassette (33 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) QL 751 S77 QL565 .T34 2000

A Survey of the Algae. (A) Taste of Health. Ward's Natural Science Est. (1962) Documentary Educational Resources Views of different types of algae. (1991) 46 Slides Examines the link between diet and Guide (4 p.) health, focusing on the deleterious effects of QK 567 S87 a high-fat diet. Video Cassette (1 hr.) TX 553 L5 T38

Top Ten. Films for the Humanities & Sciences (2006) Host Bill Nye showcases ten discoveries widely considered to be the most influential in science. 1 videodisc (46 min.) Q125 .T66 2006

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Translating the Code: Protein Synthesis. Tropical Vegetation. Human Relations Media (1991) Hubbard Scientific Co. (1973) Presentation of the current state of Depicts plants found primarily in knowledge of the genetic code. Combines southern Florida and the Caribbean Islands. an illustration of the basic elements 20 Slides comprising the central dogma of molecular Guide (1 p.) genetics with examples of exceptions to the QK 936 T76 rule. Video Cassette (27 min.) Two Hearts That Beat as One. Guide Films for the Humanities (1988) QH 450.2 T73 Describes the structure and functioning of the heart. Analyzes the three Tree Fruits. basic components of the heart -- muscle, Ward's Natural Science Est. (197?) valves, and pacemaker-- and shows how Shows a representative series of fruit each one contributes to the demands of types borne on common trees. Includes daily life. pine and juniper cones and yew seeds for Video Cassette (26 min.) comparison and contrast. QP 111.4 T86 28 Slides Guide (2 p.) Understanding Sex. QK 477 H37 Films for the Humanities & Sciences (1999) (The) Trials of Life. Experts and scientists discuss a Turner Home Entertainment (1992) variety of topics related to sex and Arriving reproduction. Growing Up Video Cassette (52 min.) Finding Food HQ 12 U53 Hunting & Escaping Finding the Way (The) Universe Within. Homemaking WGBH (1995) Living Together Covers the coordination of muscles, Fighting bones, heart and circulatory system that Friends & Rivals makes Mike Powell the world’s greatest long Courting jumper; the digestive dynamo that turns a Continuing the Line simple sandwich into raw energy for a Talking to Strangers blistering sprint down the ice; and the 12 Video Cassettes (50 min. ea) ultimate event --- the development of a new Ql 751 T75 vol. 1-12 human life inside track star Karen Hatchett. Video Cassette (1 hr. ) Triumph of Life (Series) QP 38 U55 PBS Home Video (2001) See entries by title for summaries. (The) Unknown World. 1. The Eternal Arms Race. WGBH Video (1996) 2. The Four Billion Year War Lennart Nilsson's micro-photography 3. The Mating Game. introduces the viewer to the world of 4. The Survivors. microscopic insects and microorganisms that live on and in our bodies and our homes. Video Cassette (57 min.) QR171.A1 U55

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Unseen Life on Earth: An Introduction to Volcanoes of the Deep. Microbiology. WGBH Boston Video (1999) Annenberg (1999) Discusses how sea life thrives on the 1. The Microbial Universe ocean floor on superheated volcanic 2. The Unity of Living Systems chimneys and shows a mission to use a 3. Metabolism submersible to bring volcanic chimneys to 4. Reading the Code of Life the surface. 5. Genetic Transfer Video Cassette (1 hr. ) 6. Microbial Evolution GC87.6.V64 V64 1999 7. Microbial Diversity 8. Microbial Ecology (The) Voyage of Charles Darwin. 9. Microbial Control BBC & Time-Life Films (1980) 10. Microbial Interactions It was aboard the H.M.S. Beagle that 11. Human Defenses Charles Darwin first formed his ideas on the 12. Microbes & Human Diseases origin of species. Darwin's own account of 12 Video Cassettes (30 min. ea) his scientific expedition to is QR 56 U57 the basis of this dramatized documentary, filmed at the locations he visited. Unwelcome Guests. 4 Video Cassettes (52 min. ea) KUAT Communications Group(1997) QH 31 D2 V69 For a variety of reasons, exotic species exist in just about every habitat on Water Crisis in the United States. earth. This program focuses on the impact National Public Radio "exotics" have on their non-native People from three areas of the environments. Species examined include country describe how they are dealing with the Green Sunfish, Crayfish, and some their individual water problems. Roles exotic grasses. The program looks at how played by weather, industry and politics are decisions are made regarding what to do explored. about non-native species. Cassette 1 Video Cassette (28 min.) QH 541.5 W3 W37 QL719.S85 U58 Web of Life. Vegetation of the Tropics. PBS (1991) Ward's Natural Science Est. (197?) Considers the human quest to Contents: Evergreen rain forest, understand and control the genetic basis of mossy forests, temperate forests, supra-tree life. Explores the ethical questions we face lined communities, Littoral communities, as the human dominion over nature. seasonal communities, Savanna. Video Cassette (28 min.) 77 Slides QH 442 S64 Guide (3 p.) QK 936 H63 Wetlands Park: Las Vegas Wilderness. Real to Reel Series (1983) (The) Virus that Cures. Takes a look at the future of Wetlands BBC (1998) Park. The park is filled with hundreds of Can the Western world be persuaded species of birds and many other forms of to adopt a sewage virus as a cure? wildlife. Video Cassette (50 min.) Video Cassette (30 min.) QR 342 V57 F 847 C5 W47

Whales in Crisis Warner Home Video (2006) Shows the most recent findings about whales. 1 videodisc (56 min.) QL737.C4 W444 2006

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[Whales] The California . Wild Horses of the Nevada Desert. U.S. Dept. of the Interior (1983?) Direct Cinema (1988) Annual migration of the whale from Explores the social order of wild the Arctic to Mexico via California west stallions and their harems, including a look coast. at their prehistoric origins. Probes the Video Cassette (30 min.) animals' conflict with man. QL 737 C425 C35 Video Cassette (29 min.) SF 360.3 U6 W55 What Darwin Never Saw Kurtis Productions (1995) Wild in the City: A Complete Guide to Peter and Rosemary Grant document Growing Your Own Wildlife Oasis. the process of natural selection among Wild Hare Media (1991) finches of the Galapagos Islands, occurring Information for creating a wildlife within a human lifetime. refuge in your own yard. Includes Video Cassette (57 min.) developing a habitat plan, choosing low QL696.P246 W454 1995 maintenance trees, shrubs, and flowers, designing and installing a pond, creating What Makes Us ? and butterfly gardens, and Films for the Humanities (1991) selecting native plants. Explores the relationship between Video Cassette genes and environment in the formation of Book (48 p.) human personality. Shows the important QL 59 W54 (Arch Media) part being conceded to genetics in the nature-nurture controversy. Shows how (The) Wilderness Idea. infants react to stress, express anger and Direct Cinema, [2008], c1989 respond to deprivation of stimuli. Compares Tells the story of the two founders of outgoing and shy behavior and looks at the American conservation, John Muir and biological bases of thrill seeking behavior. Gifford Pinchot, and their historic battle over Video Cassette (24 min.) whether a remote valley in California, Hetch BF 698 W45 Hetchy, should be dammed and flooded to form a reservoir. The battle reflected the two Why Dogs Smile & Cry. sides of the conservation issue--absolute Discovery Channel Video (2000) protection of wilderness lands versus careful Documentary filmmakers and management and use of nature to serve scientists in fields as diverse as human needs. paleontology, embryology, and neurobiology 1 videodisc (58 min.) report evidence in support of the emotional QH76.5.C2 W55 2008 life of wild and domestic animals. 1 videodisc 4 3/4 in (ca. 100 min.) Winding Your Way Through DNA. QL785.27 .W48 2000 CSHL Press (1992) Symposium held at Palace of Fine Wild Horses. Arts Theatre, San Francisco Sept., 1992. Nebraska ETV Network and South 6 Video Cassettes Dakota Public Television (1999) Program Booklet (32 p.) Discusses the wild horses of the QP 624 W55 Tapes 1-6 American West and wild horse adoption. Video Cassette (57 min.) SF360.3.U6 W53 1999

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Wolf: An Ancient Spirit Returns. [Wolves] The Language and Music of the Bullfrog Films (2004) Wolves. Reexamines the relationship between Disc humans and wolves. "Over centuries QL 737 C22 L3 Europeans' hatred of wolves grew as farms and livestock grazing lands replaced forests, Woman and Man. The Human Animal. squeezing the 's natural habitat. When Films for the Humanities (1988) Europeans came to the Americas, they See summary in Sociology section. brought their legends, myths, and fear of Video Cassette (58 min.) wolves with them. But the attitudes of the BF 692.2 P45 native peoples of North America toward wolves was vastly different ... Which view of Yellowstone. the wolf is true? Are they bloodthirsty or The Reader's Digest Assn. (1988) benevolent? What is their role in the Tour of the scenic wonders and ecosystem? ... What is a proper relationship wildlife of Yellowstone National Park. between humans and this ... predator Video Cassette (55 min.) species?"—Container. F 722 Y357 1 videodisc (45 min.) QL737.C22 W62 2004 Yellowstone: The First National Park. International Video Network, c1988 Wolves. Explores Yellowstone National Park PBS (1991) with its variety of flora and fauna, hot Focuses on controversial efforts to springs, geysers and other scenic features. revive populations of several wolf species in 1 videocassette (55 min.) the lower 48 states. F722 .Y32 1988 Video Cassettes (1 hr.) QL 737 C22 W647

Wolves. LIVE Distributing, c1989 Only 1% of the North American gray wolf survives in the lower 48 states. The government must referee the argument between naturalists who want to increase their number through captive-bred release and farmers who fear losses of their livestock. Wolves reveals the ecological role played by these beautiful animals and the challenges faced in attempting to re- establish a decimated predator population. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

Wolves. National Geographic Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video (1999) Discusses wolves and their reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) QL737.C22 W6473 2000 QL737.C22 W6472 1989

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