|
The Miracle of Life Set
Includes Life's First Feelings, the first filmed record of human conception.
Each minute, all over the world, a baby is born. An everyday occurrence, yet each birth is the culmination of one of nature's most complex, mysterious, and seemingly miraculous processes.
A dramatic breakthrough in science and cinematography, The Miracle of Life takes you on an incredible voyage through the human body as a new life begins. World-renowned Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson presents a spectacular look at a microscopic world of beautiful colors and forms deep inside ourselves.
See the egg as it is released by the ovary and follow the sperm from its early development through ejaculation and then on its perilous journey toward the egg. With magnification of up to half a million times the actual size, you can see exactly what happens at the moment of conception. After the sperm fertilizes the egg, the camera follows the development of the single new cell into an embryo, then fetus, until finally, a baby is born. Never before has this extraordinary process been filmed!
The emotional development of babies is an exciting, ever-unfolding story, and nurturing this development often becomes a major concern for parents.
In Life's First Feelings, NOVA explores the fascinating world of babies? emotions and reveals the surprising emotional capabilities of newborns and very young children. Are infants born with programmed facial expressions? Do these expressions have evolutionary and adaptive significance? How much emotional development depends upon family, environment, and culture?
Drawing on both basic laboratory and clinical experiences, Dr. Stanley Greenspan sees healthy infant emotional development as a series of milestones, each of which a child must master before moving on to the next stage. Follow along with researchers as they study infants? emotional responses to a variety of situations, examine group interaction for clues leading to various personality traits, and observe the behavior of children with their parents to discover just when and how socialization occurs.
|
