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3) Freakonomics
Description
Explores the role economics plays in various social issues, including child naming and low crime rates.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Amanda, a divorced photographer, finds herself in a fantastic Alice-in-Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel. Guided by leading scientists and mystics, she finds that if reality itself is not questionable, her notion of it certainly is. Plunge into a world where quantum uncertainty is demonstrated - where Amanda's neurological processes, and perceptual shifts are engaged and lived - where everything is alive,...
Description
Amanda, a divorced photographer, finds herself in a fantastic Alice-in-Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel. Guided by leading scientists and mystics, she finds that if reality itself is not questionable, her notion of it certainly is. Plunge into a world where quantum uncertainity is demonstrated - where Amanda's neurological processes, and perceptual shifts are engaged and lived - where everything is...
8) Freakonomics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by renowned economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Description
It tells the story of genteel but strong-willed Southern matron Daisy Werthan and her patient but equally determined chauffeur Hoke. For two people so different, they have a lot in common. And the bumpy road they travel ultimately leads to the friendship of a lifetime.
11) Human rights
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Program discusses the role of the United Nations and other organizations in maintaining the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the importance of securing freedom and justice and peace for all mankind.
12) Revenge
Series
Drama classics television collection volume 1
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A school teacher from Massachusetts comes to a small western town to marry a young homesteader, but finds that he's been murdered. The jury frees him on a phony plea of self-defense. Determined to see justice done, she decides to stay in town as a constant irritant to the murderer's conscience. She makes him so crazy, he picks a fight with one of his friends and is killed. Dismayed by her own vengefulness, the teacher decides that justice would be...
Pub. Date
2008?]
Description
"Focuses on suppressed historical & modern information about currently dominant social institutions, while also exploring what could be in store for humanity if the power structures at large continue their patterns of self-interest, corruption, and consolidation" -- http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/statement.htm.
Part I, The greatest story ever told: Denounces the originality of many world religions, arguing they are mainly derived from astrological...
15) Alan & Naomi
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alan Silverman, a skinny, rebellious kid who would rather play stickball than become a good samaritan, tries to hide his friendship with Naomi, a young refugee traumatized by the Nazis.