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Bill Moyers Journal: Religious Scholar Karen Armstrong
Item# 40364
© 2009
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-541-2
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-542-9
A self-proclaimed "freelance monotheist," Karen Armstrong is on a mission to bring compassion, the heart of religion, as she sees it, back into modern life. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers...
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The Ethics of Biotechnology
Item# 39779
© 2009
24 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-078-3
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-079-0
The Nuclear Age-sprung upon the world with the atomic bomb-remains a bitter memory. How biotechnology, with its power to change life on Earth at the most fundamental level, will be viewed in the decad...
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New! The Hunt for Our Thoughts
Item# 40631
© 2008
27 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-250-4
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-249-8
"Who should have access to our thoughts, and to what degree?" This program presents some of the current scientific research on the thought processes of the human brain, with special attention paid to...
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Flowers of Rwanda: Making Peace with Genocide
Item# 40621
© 2008
24 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-157-6
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-156-9
Can killers and survivors coexist in peace? That is the crucial question facing Rwanda a dozen years after the genocide that claimed the lives of approximately 800,000 people-and the subject of this m...
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High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos
Item# 40397
© 2008
59 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-844-4
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-845-1
For centuries, Western society drew sustenance from Newtonian physics, classical economics, and other orderly systems of thought. But today's intellectual climate offers no such comforts, focusing ins...
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The Ghosts of My Lai
Item# 40352
© 2008
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-801-7
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-802-4
On March 16, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, American soldiers killed 504 unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai. After a brief overview of the war and the home front backlash against it,...
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The Bitter Taste of Tea: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade
Item# 40351
© 2008
59 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-539-9
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-540-5
This program travels to tea estates in Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, and Bangladesh-some traditional, some fair trade-to expose unsafe work environments and labor exploitation. Finding little meaningful di...
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The Truth about Liars
Item# 40058
© 2008
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-371-5
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-372-2
Like it or not, humans are adept at the art of lying. Drawing upon the fields of psychology, sociology, technology, philosophy, and criminology, this program sheds light on the complex realities of un...
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Charisma in Politics: Analyzing Body Language
Item# 40037
© 2008
48 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-095-0
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-096-7
Furrowed brows, widened eyes, clenched teeth-such signals reveal a great deal about our leaders, and they also influence our reactions to media images. This program investigates ways in which facial e...
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Forever Young: Nanotechnology and Medicine-A Fred Friendly Seminar
Item# 39764
© 2008
58 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60467-694-5
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60467-695-2
With nano-enabled drugs that destroy diseased cells and enable tissue repair, doctors may one day extend life expectancy far beyond our current capabilities-at least in countries wealthy enough to aff...
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