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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Under construction: Two inches tall and trapped in a bathroom, the kids must use what they've learned about structures to escape before being discovered.
In a beehive: For this field trip, Ms. Frizzle turns her class into bees and shows them a beehive up close and personal. Can you bee-lieve it?
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A feature documentary about Boston's first residential green building, and the skeptical workers who are asked to build it. From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring to dual-flush toilets, the Macallen Building is something different, a leader in the emerging field of environmentally friendly design. But Boston's steel-toed union workers aren't sure they like it. And when things on the building start to go wrong, the young developer...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The largest masonry dome on earth, Florence's cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, is a masterpiece of ingenuity and a source of mystery. Historians and engineers have long debated how its architect, kept the dome perfectly aligned and symmetrical as the sides rose and converged toward the center. To test the latest theories, a team of U.S. bricklayers will help build an experimental, mini-Duomo, using period tools and techniques.
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
The world is full of extraordinary buildings that soar and inspire; monumental marvels that have become cornerstones of our heritage and culture. The Great Pyramid of Giza, Angkor Wat, Stonehenge, The Acropolis, The Colosseum, Petra, The Forbidden City, Red Square, Buckingham Palace, The Eiffel Tower, Burj Khalifa, The Sydney Opera House, The White House, and more. Throughout six episodes we circle the globe, exploring the World's Greatest Icons:...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
While at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrifc premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends to leave. They escape seconds before his vision becomes a reality. Thinking they...
11) Blue vinyl
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Skeptical of her parents' decision to re-side their home with polyvinyl chloride, Judith Helfand set out to find the truth behind the toxic effects of the material. Helfland & Daniel Gold travel from Long Island to Louisiana to Venice Italy, where thirty-one executives from a PVC-producing company now await trial for manslaughter.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
When Max Peterson recieves a series of mysterious cell phone messages that promise him untold wealth, he soon finds himself the victim of a deadly international plot. Relentlessly chased by a lethal team of government operatives, Max races across the world in a desperate attempt to unravel a conspiracy that is threatening the stability of the entire world.
15) Roman city
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Examines how the Roman Empire linked Western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa into a commercial and political unit based on their cities. Macaulay visits historical sites throughout the once great Roman Empire, and tells how the structures were built and used. In animated segments, he tells the story of the construction and conflicts of a fictional Roman City in the newly conquered territory of Gaul. Includes visits to Pompeii, Herculaneum,...
18) Searching for peace in the Middle East: Israeli & Palestinian conversations with Landrum Bolling
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Explores the issues that divide the Israelis and Palestinians through interviews with Israelis and Palestinians of diverse backgrounds, describing a common yearning for peace and calling for new American diplomatic leadership in the peace process.
19) Garbage warrior
Pub. Date
2008
Description
What do beer cans, car tires, and water bottles have in common? Not much, unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Still perfectly clear in the rear view mirror, the nineties loom in our collective memory. This revealing DVD collection remembers events eerily similar to our current situation: a war in Iraq, It also covers the touchstone trials of the decade, if not the century: O.J. Simpson and Bill Clinton." (1) Desert Storm: the Ultimate War, (2) Trial of O.J. Simpson: Anatomy of a Verdict, (3) The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton.