Description |
4 videodiscs (12 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 142 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
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NTSC rda |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.
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Performer |
Bruce E. Fleury, lecturer. |
Note |
24 lectures on 4 discs (30 minutes per lecture). |
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DVD, NTSC. |
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Course no. 1551. |
Summary |
[An] "illustrated guided tour through a realm that is as teeming with exotic life as any rainforest -- and that is just as exciting" --Website. |
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Features more than 1,000 engaging visual elements, including eye-catching microscopic photographs, dynamic animations and images, and detailed charts and graphs. |
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Accompanying guidebook contains glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Disc 1: The invisible realm -- Stone knives to iron plows -- The angel of death -- Germ theory -- The evolutionary arms race -- Microbial strategies. |
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Disc 2: Virulence -- Death by chocolate -- Bambi's revenge -- The germ of laziness -- The 1918 flu: a conspiracy of silence -- The 1918 flu: the Philadelphia story. |
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Disc 3: The 1918 flu: the search for the virus -- Immunity: self versus nonself -- Adaptive immunity to the rescue -- AIDS: the quiet killer -- The deadly strategy of AIDS -- Autoimmunity: self versus self. |
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Disc 4: Allergies and asthma -- Microbes as weapons -- Pandora's box -- Old world to new -- Close encounters of the microbial kind -- Microbes as friends. |
Subject |
Biology.
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Microbiology.
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Microbial invasiveness.
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Microorganisms.
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Genre/Form |
Educational films.
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Filmed lectures.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Added Author |
Fleury, Bruce E., teacher.
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Teaching Company., production company, publisher.
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ISBN |
1598037668 |
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9781598037661 |
Music No. |
1551 Teaching Company |
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IC1551A-01 Teaching Company |
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