History's Ancient Legacies' combines spectacular new location footage with colorful, illustrative 3D animation sequences, and authoritative comment and analysis to provide a perfect introduction to the world's great lost treasures of ancient civilizations. Through the magic of 3D animation we can see how the Earth's ancient legacies such as Pompeii, Stonehenge, Hadrian's Wall and the Great Pyramids would have looked in their heyday. In addition, reconstructions provide an atmospheric taste of everyday life in ancient times and a team of leading authorities supply simple and concise analysis.
EAP English for Academic Study: Listening Course DVD
English for Academic Study: Listening
English for academic study: Listening is based around transcripts from authentic lectures recorded in a genuine academic environment and, hence, is ideal for students preparing for English-medium study. The lectures are recorded on DVD to provide the student with an authentic learning experience. The lecture extracts are taken from a range of academic fields, including banking, development economics, marketing, psychology and linguistics. The extracts have been chosen to be accessible to a general audience, while at the same time appealing to students studying these subjects.
Bill Nye discusses the forces that affect the surface of the Earth in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Rocks & Soil. He explains that any of these forces can be violent, as in earthquakes and volcano eruptions, while some transform the Earth over a long period of time. The Science Guy looks at the inner workings of the Earth, and tells how rocks break down to help form soil. Nye inserts his usual trademark humor and parody into the scientific discussion to create a fun learning atmosphere.
Minerals are an important part of everything around us -- from the pencils we write with to the airplanes in the sky. Even the earth beneath our feet is packed solid with these essential building blocks. In All About Rocks & Minerals, children will discover the characteristics of minerals and see how different minerals make up different kinds of rocks: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic...
