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3) Primal fear
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history, psychology, and science behind what scares us most. Examines the roots of each fear, when the fear flourished, how the fear has changed over time, and how many of these fears have been manipulated to create mass hysteria.
4) Let's play
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The program helps to build children's foundation for social skills that will last a lifetime: sharing, imitating, and taking turns, communicating and more.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. In season two, Offred and all our characters will fight against or succumb to this dark truth.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book by Drew Gilpin Faust, this film will explore how the American Civil War created a 'republic of suffering' and will chart the far-reaching social, political, and social changes brought about by the pervasive presence and fear of death during the Civil War.
Pub. Date
1997 [distributed between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
Español
Description
Caught in the net provokes young people to explore the risks of getting too personal on the Internet. This new short drama profiles some of the possible dangers inherent in the use of the net, and helps sensitize young web-surfers to the necessity for care and deliberation in its use.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Data science, visualization, and artificial intelligence are powerful tools, but they can reinforce structural inequalities like sexism and racism. How do we-CTOs, product managers, marketing managers, data scientists, developers, and others-navigate these ethical challenges? The short answer: feminism-a vibrant body of thought and action from the past 50+ years that provides a model for analyzing and addressing the unequal distribution of power in...
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Examines Wal-Mart's importation of Chinese goods into the United States. Discusses that while some economists credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living in the U.S.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Over the past sixteen years, an extraordinary group of musicians has come together to celebrate the universal power of music. Named for the ancient trade route linking Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Silk Road Ensemble, an international collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma, exemplifies music's ability to blur international boundaries, blend disparate cultures, and inspire hope for artists and audiences.
14) Inside job
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traced is the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation,...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Design is changing the way businesses behave and compete. Recognizing and using design as a corporate asset can improve your chances of success. This collection will give you insight into how large companies, startups, and government agencies are using design as a competitive lever."--Resource description page.
16) Tapped
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig exams the big business of bottled water. Viewers get a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. Here is a powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred.
18) Autonomy
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Malcolm Gladwell leads a documentary about self-driving vehicles, asking: what is control and what happens when it is relinquished to machines?
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about the Holocaust to facing it head on. Unexpectedly, a nuanced...
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