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 desert climate, in particular to that of regions America’s Endangered Species. in California 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 Africa, where they golden trout, help release a pair of red observe and study wildlife in the Kalahari wolves back to the wild, and watch from a Desert. Joins in their search for a new study front-row seat as a bald eagle 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 Turtles : 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. Turtle 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 shrimp 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. human 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 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. BIOLOGY 2 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 Earth. 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: Plant apes once inhabited Afica's Danakil Alps. Structures. Discusses structures that make Video Cassette up plants. QK 641 D47 GN281.4 .A68 2000 10. Harvesting the Sun: 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. Bird 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 habitat 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 North America. 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 birds. QH104.5.S58 B42 1998 2 Discs QL 698.5 F52 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. BIOLOGY 3 [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 moon move water birds of Western North American and billions of tons of water with every turn of the the Hawaiian Islands, arranged to tide. The strongest tides 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; Ocean 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 oceans of the world by tiny shrimp and bright pink flamingos. 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 lion pups are born and British Broadcasting Corp (2002) play on the sand--until a killer whale attacks, Reveals the sea and its communities crashing in on the surf. But when breeding at their most fearsome and alluring. season 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; Coral 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 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. BIOLOGY 4 (The) Brain. (The) Burning Sands. Annenberg/CPB Collection (1984) Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. (2000) Explains and illustrates the brain's The world's deserts 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.