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- Cosmos. [videorecording] A personal voyage / by Sagan, Carl,1934-1996.(CARDINAL)323009; British Broadcasting Corporation.(CARDINAL)143648; Carl Sagan Productions.; Cosmos Studios.; KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)(CARDINAL)134589; Polytel International.;
[Disc 5] VIII: Travels in space and time -- IX: The lives of the stars -- [Disc 6] X: The edge of forever -- XI: The persistence of memory -- [Disc 7] XII: Encyclopaedia galactica -- XIII: Who speaks for earth?Special features: Series introduction by Ann Druyan ; Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan updates ; subtitle science updates, new footage.Episode segment directors: Tom Weidlinger, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, David Kennard, David F. Oyster, Rob McCain, Richard J. Wells ; film editor, James Latham ; cinematographers, Chris O'Dell, Hilyard J. Brown ; art director, John Retsek.Carl Sagan.Episode 12 posits whether there are alien intelligences, and whether we could communicate with them. And what about UFOs? The answers to these questions take viewers on a journey to Egypt to decode ancient hieroglyphics, to the largest radio telescope on Earth, and, in the spaceship of the imagination, to visit other civilizations in space. Dr. Sagan answers such questions as: "What is the lifespan of a planetary civilization?" "Will we one day hook up with a network of civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy?" Through the use of startling special effects, episode 13 retraces our 15-billion year journey from the Big Bang to the present. The tragic story of the martyrdom of Hypatia, the woman scientist of ancient Alexandria, is told. This is the famous episode on nuclear war in which Dr. Sagan argues that our responsibility for survival is owed not just to ourselves, but also to the Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.Episode 8 is a startling voyage to see how star patterns change over millions of years, followed by a journey to the planets of other stars, and a look at the possibility of time travel -- which takes viewers to Italy, where the young Albert Einstein first wondered what it would be like to ride on a beam of light. Episode 9 uses computer animation and amazing astronomical art to show how stars are born, live, die, and sometimes collapse to form neutron stars or black holes. Viewers then journey into the future to witness "the last perfect day on Earth," 5-billion years from now, after which the Sun will engulf our planet in the fires of its death throes.In episode 10, Dr. Sagan leads viewers on awesome trips -- to a time when galaxies were beginning to form, to India to explore the infinite cycles of Hindu cosmology, and to show how humans of this century discovered the expanding universe and its origin in the Big Bang. He disappears down a black hole and reappears in New Mexico to show viewers an array of seventeen telescopes probing the furthest reaches of space. In episode 11, the brain is the focus as Dr. Sagan examines another of the intelligent creatures with whom we share the planet earth -- the whales. Viewers wind through the maze of the human brain to witness the architecture of thought. We see how genes, brains, and books store the information necessary for human survival.DVD ; NTSC, region free ; Dolby digital surround audio.- Subjects: Educational television programs.; Science television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Astronomy; Cosmology;
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- The E-Commerce Book: building the e-empire. by Korper, Steffano.(CARDINAL)537643;
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- Subjects: Electronic commerce.; Business enterprises;
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