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"Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse--his cremains in a bullet. Here, in compelling guise, are your favorite mythological figures--Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's...

A retrospective of the work of award-winning photojournalist Harry Benson, looking at photographs he has taken over the course of more than fifty years for magazines such as "Life," "Vanity Fair," "People," and others.

Beginning with historical footage from 1907 when the United States Army purchased its first military plane, this exciting documentary examines the miracle of flight while examining all that man has done in such a short half century. Featuring rarely seen footage, this episode of the Big Picture produced by the U.S. Army, salutes the brave men and women whose courage, tenacity, and skill have directly resulted in Army, Navy, and Air Force aviation...

Comparing sports with religion only goes so far, but in early-20th-century America, the reverence accorded baseball and its players resembled the trust and respect a priest might elicit from his parishioners. This program examines the life of the game between 1910 and 1920-the decade in which a godlike figure named Babe Ruth first appeared and the Black Sox scandal threatened, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, to destroy the faith of fifty million...

Artist iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, it turns out, consider themselves to exist in the gray areas of sexuality, not 100% gay or straight. Which presents a real problem when it comes to discrimination: Where do you draw the line? ("Filmed at TEDxWomen.").

Dance for a City - produced in conjunction with a major exhibition at the New-York Historical Society - examines the rich history, cultural significance, and continuing accomplishments of America's premier ballet company. Illustrated with a wide range of extraordinary photographs, this collection of essays - edited by dance scholar and exhibition curator Lynn Garafola and historian Eric Foner - takes a new and provocative look at the history of the...