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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark stylethorough, yet rivetingfamine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age...
Series
Criterion collection volume 660
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
Set in 1940 with civilization destroyed by a decades long global war, a group of survivors is visited by a man in a strange craft with details of an organization trying to rebuild civilization through science.
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Description
In a time when our political and cultural views feel more polarized than ever, Tyson provides a much-needed antidote to so much of what divides us, while making a passionate case for the twin chariots of enlightenment―a cosmic perspective and the rationality of science. After thinking deeply about how science sees the world and about Earth as a planet, the human brain has the capacity to reset and recalibrates life’s priorities, shaping the actions...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (21 hr. 51 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The spaceship U.S.S. Enterprise, with its 430 crew members captained by James T. Kirk, travels the universe "to boldly go where no man has gone before." Contains all 26 episodes from season two.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 23rd century, where Earth has survived World War III and then moved on to explore the stars. Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy are transported to the 1930s, where Kirk falls in love with a doomed peace activists. The Enterprise finds itself docked at the same space station as the Klingons and tensions soon escalate into a full-scale barroom brawl. For the first time, the Enterprise crew battle their enemies the Romulans, who have a cloaking device...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the concept of progress in modern society. Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society, or too much of a good thing? Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, 'Surviving Progress' is a provocative documentary that explores the concept of progress in the modern world, guiding through the major 'progress traps' facing civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption,...
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