Turning Points in Modern History takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe-- from China to the Americas to New Zealand-- to shed light on how two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400 have shaped the modern world. Taught by award-winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 thought-provoking lectures tell the amazing story of how life as we know it developed-- at times advancing in one brilliant instant and at other times, in painstaking degrees.
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
- How many smells are there? And how many molecules would it take to create every smell in nature, from roses to stinky feet? - Who was the bigger scent freak: the perfume-obsessed Richard Wagner or Emily Dickinson, with her creepy passion for flowers? - By scenting the air in stores, are retailers turning us into subliminally controlled shopping zombies? - Were Smell-O-Vision and AromaRama mere Hollywood fads or serious technologies?
This sequel to the best selling series, History's Turning Points, continues with thirteen additional moments in time that changed the course of history. These docu-dramas, with dramatizations carried out at the actual sites of the events and some newly released historical footage, provide perspectives of these events that only visual interpretations of the latest in historical research can provide.
Fly with the Wright Brothers, storm the Bastille, learn how television was created and what it meant to the war in Vietnam.
It's supper time and Katy is trying to convince her cat Charlie to come to the table ,but he is too busy indulging in his fantasies, so is he going to eat dinner?
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In An Antique Land
In the 1980s Amitav Ghosh moved into a converted chicken coop. It was on the roof of a house in Lataifa, a tiny village in Egypt. During the day he poured over medieval letters sent to India from Cairo by Arab merchants. In the evenings he shut out the bellowing of his fat landlord by turning up the volume of his transistor radio and wrote stories based on what he had seen in the village.
