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2021.
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English
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"Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. In Numbers Don't Lie, Smil answers questions such as: What's worse for the environment--your car or your phone? How much do the world's cows weigh (and what does it matter)? And what makes people happy?"--
Pub. Date
[2013], c1983
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English
Description
In this classic segment from the NewsHour, 8,000 workers in Weirton, West Virginia, vote on a decision to buy one of the country's biggest steel plants from the state's largest private employer, National Steel. Charlayne Hunter-Gault covers the story of what could be the largest worker-owned company in the nation. Origina?
43) Made in China
Pub. Date
[2012], c2007
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English
Description
Heqing and Heping Fan are responsible for China's economic miracle - they and millions like them who reluctantly left their homes in the countryside for steady wages in the Cixi Industrial Zone. This program follows the Fans during their seven-day workweek and a rare, difficult trip home to visit the children they had to leave behind. The impact of what is essentially an instant industrial revolution has China coping with social and psychological...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
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English
Description
The world was shocked when Moody's stripped France of its triple-A status in 2012, less than a year after the country's downgrade by Standard & Poor's. On what did these agencies base their assessment? Was the downgrade justified, or was it a political move on the part of American-based corporations to attack the euro? This program investigates the three top credit rating agencies - Moody's Investor Service, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings -...
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English
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It would seem to be a universal human goal-creating a society in which all citizens experience belonging, security, freedom, and interconnection. But in reality, some portion of a populace inevitably feels out of place. The question is, is that acceptable? Does the happiness of the "mainstream" trump any assessment of collective harmony, or should civilization be defined in terms of the broadest possible common good? This program searches for answers...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2005
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English
Description
Workers at Weirton Steel in West Virginia fear more layoffs at a plant that was once the largest industrial employer in the state and the economic engine of the town. In a 30th anniversary special, this NewsHour segment returns to Weirton to report on how foreign competition has affected American workers. Origina?
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Polygamy in America used to be known as something that’s practiced solely in Mormon country, but thanks to a growing crop of unorthodox dating websites there’s a new spin on multiple marriage, one that is spreading far beyond Utah. Lisa meets open minded singles, couples and throuples who believe that love doesn’t always come in pairs.
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[2006], c2005
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English
Description
In Canada, diversity is represented as "an ethnicity + a hyphen + Canadian." But what if you are one of the many people who don't fit into an obvious category? What if your background is a hybrid of ancestries and you live "in the hyphen"-somewhere in between, where cultural identities overlap? This program examines the experiences of poet Fred Wah and six other Canadians with one parent from a European background and one from a visible minority....
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
We live in a world where an epidemic in Mexico affects lives in Europe, air pollution in China disturbs crops in Bangladesh, and financial disaster in the U.S. impacts economic growth everywhere. Given this high level of interdependence, isn't it more important than ever to be aware of the effect of our actions on the rest of the planet? Filmmaker Jian Yi and his team discussed this question with people from a variety of backgrounds on five different...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"A maverick thinker who's drawn the applause of both the populist left and right offers a searing indictment of the managerial elite ... Michael Lind exposes globalization for what it really is: a strategy used by the powerful managerial elite--including the people who run our governments, businesses, and the media--to undermine the working class"--
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
Description
Meet Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim-American who believes Islamic terrorists are among us, and silence by Muslims is partly to blame. Plus, an update on our Castle Doctrine report and the controversial breed of gun laws center stage in the Trayvon Martin shooting on this episode of Dan Rather Reports.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2013
Language
English
Description
In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with historian Joyce Appleby, whose new book Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination provides a captivating account of curiosity and how it has shaped our modern world. Dr. Appleby is a professor emerita at UCLA and has served as president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. Two of her other books include Inheriting...
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When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, and giving them...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one emergency cascades into another, underscoring the larger...
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Language
English
Description
How is business without borders really affecting the world? As Sabeer Bhatia, inventor of Hotmail; Narayan Murthy, founder of Infosys; and other industry leaders attest, globalization has raised the standard of living in developing economies through high-tech opportunities, foreign investment, and debt relief. However, Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs and other experts point out that the world market is being exploited through shortsightedness, including the...
59) Global Economics
Pub. Date
[2006], c2007
Language
English
Description
Did protectionist tariffs initiate the Great Depression? Will free trade across international borders benefit all countries involved, or create winners and losers? Is there any middle ground in the globalization debate? This program surveys the history and politics of cross-border trade, identifying ways that nations have tried to strengthen, reduce, or prevent it. Outlining the concept known as pattern of trade, the video examines cases for and against...
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
Description
They cross six thousand miles of desert and sea to reach Europe, children traveling alone, on the world's most dangerous migration route. Some of them are as young as seven. BBC travels to the place they're fleeing, the border area between Sudan and Eritrea, where four thousand migrants cross each month, trying to escape Africa's most secretive rogue state. With exclusive access to desert refugee camps, and to the Sudanese border patrols, the program...
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