"The long-awaited founding of Valdemar comes to life ... Within the Eastern Empire, Duke Kordas Valdemar rules a tiny, bucolic Duchy that focuses mostly on horse breeding. Anticipating the day when the Empire's exploitative and militant leaders would not be content to leave them alone, Korda's father set out to gather magicians in the hopes of one day finding a way to escape and protect the people of the Duchy from tyranny. Kordas has lived his life...

The export of Western culture has made English a star performer on the world stage. This program discusses the ubiquity of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, explaining their roles in propelling English into preeminence as a language for cross-cultural expression. The success of TV as a medium for disseminating English is also explored, as is the appeal of English in movies and music to audiences in India and Japan. Ebonics as a dialect of American...

"In custody in Georgia, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder. A hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten a call that his young detective has been arrested. Jeffrey's wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, has little patience for Lena. Fighting a malpractice suit and struggling to pick up the pieces of her career, Sara isn't keen on watching Jeffrey...

"After living an opulent life with her aunt, the last thing Isabella Garcia wants is to celebrate Christmas in a small mining town with her parents. But she's surprised to see how much the town--and an old rival--has changed and how fragile her father's health has become. Faced with many changes, can she sort through her future and decide who she wants to be?"--

Beyond the Bungalow, the newest book from renowned designer and arts and crafts expert Paul Duchscherer, celebrates the larger members of the arts and crafts family and pays tribute to their remarkable artistic beauty, craftsmanship and diversity of style. Widely acclaimed as America's favorite "Arts and Crafts Home," the term "bungalow" may bring a specific image to mind, but it really is one part of a much larger family. This extended family also...

This program features conversations with a variety of people who have explored the heart of hatred. A Los Angeles gang member uses hate as a survival weapon. White supremacist leader Tom Metzger defends his policies of hate both in a court of law and in interviews. A former Israeli soldier tells how he disguised himself as a Palestinian in order to better understand the source of his own hatred. High school students in Bensonhurst, New York, discuss...

While attending a fundraising gala, Sarah witnesses a fiery plea delivered by an intruder - a renegade humanitarian, Dr. Nick Callahan. His pleas made on behalf of impoverished African children turns Sarah's life upside down. Sarah impulsively abandons her pampered life to work along his side. Her work takes her to volatile areas, where few have travelled to and even fewer have survived. She discovers harsh realities and encounters and ignites in...

Three years after the terrorist attacks on New York City, widow Jamie Bryan pours her life into volunteer work, and meets two very different men who cause her to reevaluate her grief.