Emmy Nominated! "Take no prisoners. Fight to the bitter end." Those were everyday words to combat troops on both sides at the end of World War II in the Pacific. And they led to an unprecedented orgy of slaughter. American Experience examines the final months of the war and looks at the escalation of bloodletting from the vantage point of the Japanese and the Americans and decisions made by leaders on both sides that finally ended the war.

Documentary filmmaker Brian Flemming examines the Bible and discusses the history of early Christianity, raising doubts as to whether the New Testament personage Jesus ever really existed. Flemming examines the similarity of the Jesus story to other savior myths of the time and points to inexplicable gaps in early Christian history that combine to shed doubt on the Bibles Jesus story.

Ghosts of Rwanda, released as a special two-hour documentary to mark the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, examines the social, political, and diplomatic failures that converged to enable the genocide to occur. The genocide was a state-sponsored massacre in which some 800,000 Rwandans were methodically hunted down and murdered by Hutu extremists as the U.S. and international community refused to intervene.

Frontline examines both sides of the debate over vaccines. On one side, the public health community wholeheartedly endorses them. One the other, parents and politicians accuse them of causing disorders like autism.

As the extradition hearing to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must return to Sweden to face a rape allegation reaches its judgement, Panorama talks to his former right hand man who walked out last year. Assessing what WikiLeaks and its exposing of sensitive official material has achieved, the film examines claims that the organisation famous for leaking government secrets was paranoid about leaks from within and that it has failed to live up to its own ideals on openness.

Their coach John Curio explains quite systematically, what's up with the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel 2010, and how you can make it work for you. Built on a rock solid understanding of the program to see and learn the algebra of functions, nested functions and the arithmetic with date and time. Contact comprehensively examines the direct and conditional formatting in Excel, and get to know in detail the creation of charts. Shows the analysis of numbers by sorting, filtering, and PivotTable you John Curio also evident in numerous detailed examples. Finally, you get many tips on how you will work with Excel faster by hand.

This volume focuses on the structural aspects of cell division, ranging from nuclear envelope breakdown to cytokinesis and partitioning of the cytoplasm. It examines spindle assembly and chromosome behavior in mitosis and meiosis, centromere and kinetochore structure and regulation, telomeres, the role of centrosomes, and mechanisms by which overall regulation is achieved. Written as a companion volume to Cell Cycle Control, this book provides an up-to-date account of developments in this exciting area of cell biology.

How Did We Get Here? Michael Mosley examines the origins of humanity, one of the most controversial topics science has ever tackled. Along the way he investigates what roles eccentric French aristocrats, mountaineers, a 12-fingered Victorian publisher and a ridiculed German meteorologist have played in the development of theories about life on Earth.

127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers, family, and the two hikers he met before his accident. Will they be the last two people he ever had the chance to meet?

American Classics I: Spinach Salad
Alton kicks off his investigation of the vast arena of American Classic dishes with the spinach salad. He examines the recipe ingredient by ingredient tracing the history of how each element became part of the traditional and tasty salad.