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1) Screen time: how electronic media-from baby videos to educational software-affects your young child
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This volume examines the effects of video and TV on the developing minds of children. The author explains how parents can navigate through a TV, DVD and video game market that has only begun developing its potential and expanding its influence on children. She focuses on infants to five-year-olds and explores what exactly is "educational" about educational media. She examines how play and language development are affected by background and foreground...
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This set celebrates the 50th anniversary of the beloved show. Watch as Mister Rogers helps children learn the importance of being kind to others, appreciating what makes everyone unique, and much more in these 30 episodes of the classic series! In addition, a bonus episode: the series premiere, in original black and white!
6) The planets
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Among the stars in the night sky wander the eight-plus worlds of the solar system, each home to truly awe-inspiring sights. Volcanoes are three times higher than Everest, geysers erupting with icy plumes, cyclones larger than Earth lasting hundreds of years. Each of our celestial neighbors has a distinct personality and a unique story. In this five-part series, Nova will explore the awesome beauty including Saturn₂s 175,000-mile-wide rings, Mars₂...
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Elmo, Grover, Abby, and Cookie secretly nominate Count von Count as the World's Greatest Counter. When the Nobel Counting Prize committee arrives to give him the prestigious award, the Count is nowhere to be found. His friends step in and do their best Count impression, but can they save the day?
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Mary Berry shares her ultimate Christmas feast with all the trimmings, packed with tips to plan and get ahead for the big day. Chefs Angela Hartnett and Monica Galetti join her to share favorite festive recipes from their heritage and Mary and TV host Rylan try and convert some kids to Brussels sprouts.
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Join Dr. Emily Zarka, who studies literature and film through the lens of monsters, as she deconstructs some of the most significant moments in zombie pop culture over the last 200 years to reveal what these creatures say about people. From our fears and conflicts to political uprisings, stories about zombies offer a way to better understand how ultimately, the monster feared the most is themselves.
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Dr. Tara Allmen provides the tools every woman needs to enter this phase of their lives triumphantly. Dr. Allmen and other women's health experts explain common symptoms, health risks, and therapeutic options. Also, women share their firsthand experiences, personal journeys, and successful strategies to effectively cope with perimenopause and menopause.
13) Panama Canal
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On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. This film, using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews with canal workers, and firsthand accounts of life in the Canal Zone, unravels the remarkable story of one of the world's most significant technological achievements.
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It's springtime and that means it's time to hunt for Easter eggs in the backyard. Explorer Sid searches under every bush and behind every tree, and he finds all the eggs Mom and Dad have hidden. But wait, he also found ... a big shiny rock! Could it be ... a treasure? Elated, Sid brings it to school and the kids try to identify the mystery rock.
15) Reptiles
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Bill Nye talks about reptiles, their nature, habitat, food, body temperature, and how they breed. Snakes and crocodiles are fascinating creatures and Nye gives us a close look.
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Take a deep-dive into the universe that's inside each one of us, by exploring shared biology that people often don't take the time to appreciate, or understand. Heart, brain, eyes, blood, tears; uncover not only the science behind how the bodies work but how what's inside powers every moment of what is done out in the world. Personal profiles of people from around the globe become entry points into deeper stories about how the body's many systems...
19) The gold rush
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At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the move. It had twelve daily newspapers, nine insurance companies, consulates of twenty-seven foreign governments, and six-story buildings where sand dunes once stood. A few years earlier, San Francisco was just a sleepy little town. But the sight of gold in the rushing waters of the American River sent a ripple around the world and set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling...
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"This groundbreaking documentary event series explores the human impact of climate change. From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY combines the blockbuster storytelling styles of top Hollywood movie makers with the reporting expertise of Hollywood's brightest stars and today's most respected journalists"--Showtime website.
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