Adapted from the memoir of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a record-breaking year in space.

Describes how twenty-eight men battled against almost insurmountable odds to return to civilization after their ship sank near the South Pole.

"A groundbreaking historical novel from a heralded author that explores the seldom discussed Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade. At a time when importing humans from Africa had been prohibited by the Spanish Crown, Pola and other slave women provide their master with babies who are immediately taken away and sold on the auction block. Her serial rapes by a number of men are routine and often provided entertainment for the master and his friends. Understandably...

The controversy over Terri Schiavo’s case elevated a family matter into a political battle that effects end-of-life issues today.

New national educational standards for grades K-12 link global warming trends to manmade emissions. PBS NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan looks at the challenges teachers face when covering the topic of climate science in their classrooms.

A renowned marine biologist presents this extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance--a century to the day after Shackleton's death--that captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries, both of whom accomplished the impossible.

The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every field-from a 100-meter sprint to a 100-mile ultramarathon, from summiting Everest to acing final exams or completing any difficult project. But what if we all can go farther, push harder, and achieve more than we think we're capable of? Blending cutting-edge science and gripping storytelling in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell-who contributes the book's foreword-award-winning...

From Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an ambitious upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights. What's the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come? Nine years before the publication of his epochal bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered this...