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Series
Great courses volume no. 243
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this set of 24 lectures, Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, University of Maryland, introduces the student to the primary characters and most important stories of classical Greek and Roman mythology. She also surveys some of the leading theoretical approaches to understanding myth in general and classical myth in particular.
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Presents lectures by Darren Staloff. These lectures are based on the seminar course at Columbia University on Western intellectual history augmented by additional lectures by selected "guest" lecturers. Gives a guided tour through 3,000 years of Western thought.
Series
Great courses volume Science & mathematics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed physicist uses analogies to everyday life to teach the rules that govern the microscopic world of particles in this accessible introduction to quantum theory.
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more--providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science,...
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Lesson 1: Overcoming Obstacles - Demosthenes of Athens; #2: Practice your Delivery - Patrick Henry; #3: Be Yourself - Elizabeth I to her Army; #4: Find Your Humorous Voice - Will Rogers; #5: Make It a Story - Marie Curie on Discovery; #6: Use the Power of Three - Paul to His People; Disc 2: Build a Logical Case - Susan B. Anthony; #8: Paint Pictures in Words - Tecumseh on Unity; #9: Focus on Your Audience - Gandhi on Trial; #10: Share A Vision...
11) Basic math
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Covers basic concepts of math, exponents, probability, algebra, statistics, and geometry.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Buddhism challenges some of the most important Western ideas about God, human life, and the self. In Buddhism, there is no single almighty God who created the world. Instead, Buddhism teaches that all of life is suffering, and there is no permanent self. Moreover, it teaches that in accepting that all life is suffering, bliss can be achieved in this life. Buddhism's core philosophy that nothing is permanent--all is change--has made it an astonishingly...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. These lectures examine the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between the British colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British attempts at colonial governance led, ultimately, to resistance,...
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