DVD: Winston Waters with Charles Kuralt

Disc 1: -- The Kid Introduction by David Robinson, Charles Chaplin biographer; "Chaplin Today: The Kid," a documentary by Alain Bergala; "How to Make Movies" (1918), short film in which Chaplin shows the building of his new studio, and how movies are made there; "Jackie Coogan Dances" (1920), Jackie Coogan performs impromptu dance at Chaplin's studios; "My Boy" (1921), a later film, starring Coogan; "Nice and Friendly" (1922), a home movie with Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Jackie Coogan, and Chaplin...

A young girl living on a tropical island with her scientist father is left to fend for herself after her dad's boat leaves him stranded far away and careless tour companies wreak havoc on the secluded paradise in directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett 's adaptation of the popular children's book by author Wendy Orr. Realizing that she will need adult assistance if she truly hopes to save her home, the resourceful youngster soon begins exchanging e-mails with the author of a book she has been...

Numerical Modeling of Water Waves, Second Edition covers all aspects of this subject, from the basic fluid dynamics and the simplest models to the latest and most complex, including the first-ever description of techniques for modeling wave generation by explosions, projectile impacts, asteroids, and impact landslides. The book comes packaged with a CD-ROM that contains the computer codes and movies generated by the author and his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mader's three-pronged...