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"Cammie may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's beginning her most dangerous mission - falling in love"--Container

Norman is caught in a cycle of physical abuse at the hands of his grown son, and yet when given the opportunity to live safely apart from him in an adult care facility, says he would rather be home. In candid interviews Norman recalls the close relationship he once had with his son and expresses confusion about the brutal behavior the man now exhibits. He's reluctant to press charges and his wife denies that any beatings occur, and thus the rounds...

Identity theft has become a major and common type of fraudulent crime worldwide. Whether it involves forging documents or stealing personal information, identity theft is not limited by borders and it affects people of all walks of life. In this episode of Scammed, we meet Detectives Glass and Staab as they each guide us through two separate, fascinating identity theft cases. In the first half, Officer Glass shares with us a crime of forgery, through...

Since 2010, India has undertaken what is by far the largest citizen registration drive in history by documenting most of its 1.3 billion people into a single national identification database. The system assigns a number and records fingerprints and iris scans. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the country's biometric database and the privacy concerns it raises.

Knees weaken, voices quiver, and sweat glands go into overdrive at the mere thought of having to speak in public. Now, finally, I'd Rather Die than Give a Speech! presents a method that is sure to make public speaking easier and more enjoyable. This step-by-step game plan will help anyone transform speechmaking from a teeth-chattering ordeal to a rewarding experience that can benefit their career and company. With practical tools and strategies for...

Chronicles the life of Ring Lardner, providing information on his childhood, his famous parents, his apprenticeship with producer David O. Selznick, his work as a screenwriter, and other related topics.

It was the era of McCarthyism, the Korean War, and nightmares of nuclear oblivion-but, as this documentary illustrates, the 1950s also witnessed a surge of optimism and confidence in America that figured prominently in the period's science fiction cinema. Interweaving clips from over thirty classic movies, the film describes the emergence of a distinctly 20th-century archetype, the Modern Scientist, which emboldened an uncertain nation to face new...

"Science is no quiet life. Imagination, creativity, ambition, and conflict are as vital and abundant in science as in artistic endeavors. In this collection of essays, the Nobel Prize-winning protein chemist Max Perutz writes about the pursuit of scientific knowledge, which he sees as an enterprise providing not just new facts but cause for reflection and revelation, as in a poem or painting." "Perutz seeks to convince us that science is a passionate...