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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For 15 years, Brian Brushwood has made a career out of social manipulation and thinking like a criminal. He's performed incredible tricks, mastered harrowing stunts as a magician, and amassed some insider knowledge along the way. Brian knows the tools of scientists and spies, crooks and con artists, and now he's using this encyclopedia of secret data to help you get the upper hand. He's revealing how to avoid people who cheat the system, and showing...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Malaria is one of humanity's oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sickens or kills millions of people each year. What if it could finally be defeated? Now, scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough with a promising new vaccine.
3) The trade
Pub. Date
[2018-]
Language
English
Description
The timely, provocative new five-episode Showtime docu-series spotlights the opioid crisis through the eyes of those most affected: the growers, addicts, cartel bosses, and law enforcement hopelessly caught in its web.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Fraudulent visas. Narcotics mules. Stolen art. Human trafficking. Illegal citrus. It's the daily work at JFK Airport. National Geographic brings you an inside look at the operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Homeland Security Investigations special agents at the busiest international airport in the USA.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Stanford University neurobiologist, Robert Sapolsky, has been advancing our understanding of stress - how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible. Research reveals that the impact of stress can be found deep within us, shrinking our brains, adding fat to our bellies, even unraveling our chromosomes. Yet understanding how stress works can help us figure out a ways to combat it and how to live a life free...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Staying alive against the odds is nothing new, but learn how to survive a swimmer's worst fear. Amateur shark enthusiasts dive into the warm waters of the Caribbean to find out just how easy it is to wind up on the menu. Northeastern Australia boasts the world's largest concentration of sharks, but find out why that may be changing. Return to the water to take a bite out of some of the better-known shark myths. Whenever swimmers get into the ocean,...
7) Eternal life
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Is it possible to achieve eternal life? Some believe the first children who will live to the age of 1,000 have already been born. To find out how close humanity is to defeating death, viewers will investigate plans to grow replacement body parts in labs, microscopic robots that could wipe out deadly diseases, and the possibility that aging itself can be reversed by taking a page out of one of history's darkest legends.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
David Pogue gives the third degree to scientists pushing the limits of technology, not only to solve horrific murders, but to try to prevent crimes. Peer inside the criminal mind and discover cutting-edge forensic techniques that help investigators stop criminals in their tracks.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Explores how ordinary people are utilizing their brain plasticity to create lasting and astonishing changes. From aging to recovery from injury, the frontiers of neuroscience research are proving that our own neuroplasticity holds the key to previously unimaginable and incredible transformations.
10) Surviving ebola
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
As the Ebola epidemic threatens to spiral out of control, NOVA reports from the hot zone, where courageous medical teams struggle to cope with a flood of victims, to labs where scientists are racing to test vaccines and find a cure. Surviving Ebola includes chilling firsthand interviews of what it's like to catch and survive this terrible affliction.
11) Inside the DEA
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows a team of DEA agents and undercover operatives as they risk their lives to pull of a sting operation designed to capture international arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Watch global citizen's efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. Each episode delves into a different issue connected to the root causes of poverty, following a specific Global Citizen campaign and the organizers, amplifiers, grassroots activists and people whose lives are being changed in this six-part series,
14) Breakthrough
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Examines cutting edge developments in science, technology, and medicine, covering a variety of topics that include: new findings in pandemic research; cyborg technologies; new developments in understanding the brain; the latest advances in extending human life; innovations in energy resources; developments under way to countervail potential water shortages.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Examines critical health care issues facing America today, including patient safety, medical and medication errors, hospital-acquired infections, family-centered care and the effective management of chronic disease. The program focuses on the advances being made in improving the quality of patient care and features profiles of providers and patients who are working together to change the way health care is provided in the United States.
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