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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
National Geographic goes out of this world to film in a $100 billion studio that's 250 miles above the Earth's surface. The 90-minute special broadcasts live from the International Space Station and from Mission Control in Houston in March 2014, taking viewers on a trip around our planet. Viewers take a guided tour of the space station and see experiments carried out in a floating laboratory.
3) Seeders
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"George Brookes, a 75-year old recluse on a small Canadian island, is plagued by guilt, afraid that his botany experiments have released a monster upon the world. He climbs to the top of a cliff and jumps to his death. Several weeks later, six people arrive on the island, heirs to George's estate: his daughter, Isabelle, and her three teenagers, Jules Beecher, a friend and fellow botanist, and Ginny Shufflebottom, a contentious Englishwoman who funded...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast twenty-four male student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Based on a true story.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Just before spending her sixteenth summer on Cape Cod, Sarah's boyfriend breaks up with her and, as a scientist whose focus is on winning a scholarship through her study of a comet, she designs an experiment to become more like her older sister to see if she, too, can be popular.
8) The Fly
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Seth Brundle is a brilliant but eccentric scientist who attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have proved successful. Up to a point. Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to teleport himself a fly...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a secret government project attempted to create a cloaking device that would make warships invisible. But during the first test, the warship vanished - and could not be found again. Seventy years later, it reappears on a Pennsylvania runway, allowing the sole surviving crewman to escape and a local lawman to board. What is behind a sinister reactivation of the project? Where will the massive ship materialize next? And what will become of...