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"Pathways, Second Edition, is a global, five-level academic English program. Carefully-guided lessons develop the language skills, critical thinking, and learning strategies required for academic success. Using authentic and relevant content from National Geographic, including video, charts, and other infographics, Pathways prepares students to work effectively and confidently in an academic environment."--

"Using the twelve step framework for understanding the inner work a person must do in order to overcome addiction, Michael Cowl Gordon walks readers through the journey to inner salvation and peace. Using the heroe's journey as the path on which to travel through these steps, he uncovers the deep work that it takes to be the hero in your own story"-- Written by the Fellowship of Chemically Dependent Anonymous to share its history, philosophical underpinnings...

Using the resources of the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, this program illustrates the development of neuroscience from its classical reliance on information from brain injuries and autopsies through current-day insights discovered with electronic microscopes, EEG equipment, PET scans, and MRI machines. Examples of research that utilizes these tools are presented, including a study on the role of mirror neurons in autism and the mapping of a woman's several...

This program travels from January to the March equinox. Kate Humble gets closer to the sun than she has ever been before, while Helen Czerski visits a place that gets some of the biggest snowstorms on Earth, all to show the consequences of the planet's trip through space. Original title: Orbit.

In this program a group of young Hindus define the Bhagavad Gita's Four Paths to God and reflect on which path he or she feels the most affinity with-Bhakti (Devotion), Jnana (Knowledge), Rajah (Contemplation), or Karma (Action). With feedback from experts such as Jay Lakhani, director of the Vivekananda Centre in London, the teens examine the practices and philosophies of the paths, explaining that Hinduism accommodates many ways to worship. The...

Male reproductive components are the testes, urethra, vas deferens, prostate, seminal vesicles, and penis. The testes are made up of seminiferous tubules, coiled structures where sperm production occurs. Sperm migrate to the epididymis, on top of the seminiferous tubules, where they mature and are stored. When the penis fills with blood and becomes erect, with sufficient stimulation an ejaculatory process begins. The mature sperm travel from the epididymis...