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Niall Ferguson explores how Western civilization - a clear minority of mankind - secured a lion's share of the world's resources, and examines whether the West is about to be overtaken by the rest.
Touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight - the human body's five major senses. They are senses that have evolved independently over millions of years but are brought together by our marvelous central nervous system into the most refined way of interacting with the environment of any species on the planet. Hosted by Dr. Mark Reisman.
Presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch, The BBC series, A History Of Christianity will reveal the true origins of Christianity. Intelligent, thought-provoking and magisterial in its scope the series will reveal how a small Jewish sect that preached humility became the biggest religion in the world.
Moyers Visits with physicians, scientists, therapists and patients around the world, investigating the growing number of alternate therapies, their degree of success and the amount of clinical evidence to support their success.
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Featuring such greats as Poe…Dickinson…Twain…Alcott…Hemingway..Wolfe…Steinbeck...Vonnegut and Morrison, this eight part series presents the lives and literary output of over 60 of America's most read authors.
Each of the three programs that make up THE MYSTERIOUS HUMAN HEART focuses on a different aspect of what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we're on the verge of learning about the heart.
Globe Trekker's Zay Harding hosts this new look at the world's ancient civilization of Greece.
Follow the incredible saga of a glorious 7000 year evolution of Ancient Britain's people - from the earliest Stone Age clans, to the builders of Stonehenge, to the formation of Bronze Age tribes and the founding of Iron Age Hill forts, all leading to the castle building kings and queens and knights that we all recognize today. Hosted by Globe Trekker'sZay Harding.
Six hundred years ago, in less than a century, the Inca people, located in present day Peru, forged an empire equal to that of the Greeks and Romans. They built their empire, not by military conquest but by treaties, based on providing food for all the empire's citizens.
In the last half of the 20th century, scientists began understanding that industrialization and the effects of explosive population growth were affecting the fundamental structure and composition of earth's atmosphere. Man's ever-increasing thirst for energy, quenched by the burning of fossil fuels, has dramatically increased greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere.