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Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Based on recent language acquisition research and infant visual preferences. Features visually stimulating toys, kinetic art and photographs set to spoken passages, music and natural sounds. The Language Nursery CD was created to extend and enhance the video. It features music and verse recitals, and vocabulry-guilding exercises in seven languages.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Human enthusiasm for progress--particularly when shortsighted, misguided, or tainted by self-interest--can ricochet, marring the global environment and the lives of millions. As a gasoline additive, lead suppresses engine knock. Lead is also a well-known poison, and yet during the 1920s it was championed over safer alternatives--and even backed by the U.S. surgeon general. Why? Money, of course, and the tremendous power of oil and automobile companies....