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New! Moyers & Company: Fighting Creeping Creationism
Item# 53197
© 2013
53 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-719-6
Religious fundamentalists backed by the right wing are finding increasingly stealthy ways to challenge evolution with the dogma of creationism. Their strategy includes passing education laws that enco...
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Moyers & Company: Are Drones Destroying Our Democracy?
Item# 53079
© 2013
41 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-508-6
In the fight against terrorism, the U.S. military’s escalating drone program has become the face of our foreign policy in Pakistan, Yemen, and parts of Africa. And while the use of unmanned drones ind...
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New! Hijacking the Arab Spring? The Rise of the Islamists
Item# 52412
© 2012
51 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-855-1
For decades, the Muslim Brotherhood was an outlawed organization, marginalized and persecuted. Today, along with the Salafists and other Muslim groups, they are the principal winners of the Arab revol...
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New! Hayek and the Free Market: Masters of Money—Three Economists Who Changed the World
Item# 51975
© 2012
52 Min.
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According to conventional wisdom, the 2008 financial crisis happened because markets were not regulated enough. But what if the opposite is true? What if excessive government meddling in business caus...
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New! John Maynard Keynes and Keynesianism: Masters of Money—Three Economists Who Changed the World
Item# 51974
© 2012
51 Min.
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If anyone comes close to rivaling Winston Churchill as the central figure in modern British history, it is John Maynard Keynes. He is often credited with, among other things, helping to save capitalis...
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New! Masters of Money: Three Economists Who Changed the World
Item# 51973
© 2012
148 Min.
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Can the great thinkers who shaped the economic landscape of the 20th century (and in the process its social and political contours) offer a clear path forward for the 21st? BBC economics editor Stepha...
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Changes in Society: Heroes of the Enlightenment
Item# 52475
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-306-8
By the end of the 18th century, many Enlightenment ideals about society had been put into practice by three remarkable men: Nicolas de Condorcet, who advocated for civil rights, the abolishment of sla...
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Heroes of the Enlightenment: How Power Came to the People
Item# 52473
© 2012
100 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-304-4
From search engines and social media to philosophies of government, finance, manufacture, and law, many aspects of modern life owe their existence to a single defining era: the 18th century’s Age of E...
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Life after Death: Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life
Item# 52572
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-403-4
Religion has influenced expectations about death for thousands of years. But as society becomes increasingly secular, what can take God’s place as a source of comfort at life’s end? In this program, b...
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The Meaning of Life: Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life
Item# 52574
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-405-8
In the face of catastrophe, spiritual people look to God for relief from their suffering. But how do atheists cope? If there is no grand cosmic plan to explain tragedy or alleviate the tedium of daily...
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