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1) The First 48
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
Author
Language
English
Description
Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen?
First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have...
First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have...
4) 60 Days In
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
60 Days In offers an unprecedented look at life behind bars at Indiana's Clark County Jail as seven innocent volunteers are sent to live among its general population for 60 days.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Power is shifting--from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose. In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Mois�es Na�im illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field...
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Eight top researchers (Mark Bevir, Frans de Waal, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Andy Hoffman, David Hollinger, Martin Jay, Josiah Ober, Philip Zimbardo) explore the question of how to constructively involve the public in pressing societal issues.
9) Dogfights
Publisher
The History® Channel
Language
English
Description
Harnessing the technology from the latest CGI video game flight simulators this puts the viewers behind the cockpit pitted against enemy aircraft in some of modern history's greatest air battles.
10) Obsessed
Publisher
A&E®
Language
English
Description
Obsessed examines the anxiety of individuals suffering from extreme obsessive-compulsive disorders, capturing their radically affected home lives, the incredible emotion of therapy, and their courageous attempts to defeat their debilitating conditions.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing America, from the inner city to small towns like Yamhill, Oregon. While pockets of empathy and aid exist, are they enough to rescue the thousands of Americans in despair, for whom the American Dream of self-reliance is impossibly out of reach?
12) 7 rules of power: surprising--but true--advice on how to get things done and advance your career
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 7 Rules of Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, provides the insights that have made both his online and on-campus classes incredibly popular-with life-changing results often achieved in 8 or 10 weeks"--
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Vikings have always been on the "other side" of history, their deeds recorded only by their victims. In this lecture, you'll get at the truth of this enigmatic culture. While a small number were the raiders we know from other accounts, the Vikings had a vibrant trading culture based on the sea.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Professor Garland takes you deep inside the lives of an ordinary Egyptian family, from marriage, fertility, and the rights of its women, to social gatherings a couple might host or attend. You'll experience the house, its furniture, and even the cosmetics - all the elements of everyday life.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This lecture takes you into the world of Athenian women, who were subjugated to males all their lives and who rarely left the home except for festivals and funerals. You'll also look at the hetaerae - or female companions - whose lives were relatively independent.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Unpack the term "Crusade" and situate it in its cultural context. When Pope Urban said it was the Christians' duty to take up arms against the "infidels," ordinary people were swept up in the idea that they were fighting to save Christianity and their own souls against the advance of Islam.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Celebrity is not a modern phenomenon. Politicians, criminals, actors, and even ordinary citizens in ancient Rome strove for recognition. Here you'll chart the lives of some of Rome's celebrities, including gladiators, charioteers, and the emperor Nero. You'll also look at women who knew how to hog the limelight, including Cleopatra and Theodora.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Mummies. The Book of the Dead. Tomb robbers. Death was big business in ancient Egypt, and in this lecture you'll discover Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife and the journey from this world to the next. You'll learn how to make a mummy and how to get past Osiris at the gates to the afterlife.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From the Magna Carta, which granted rights to ordinary citizens, to the rise of vernacular English, as evidenced by The Canterbury Tales, the Middle Ages marked a turning point for the "other side" of history. Find out what influenced life for ordinary people, from the control of the church to the horrors of the infamous Black Death.
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