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1) The Vikings
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Description
As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
6 DVDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (157 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
This course explores how leading Western philosophers and theologians such as Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Martin Buber, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Rowan Williams, and Jacques Derrida have defined and debated, defended and attacked religion. Some are pious and some are atheists. Some are philosophers who explain why religion is essential for human life, and some are philosophers who just as rationally explain why religion is...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + Part 1 guidebook (ii, 69 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.) + Part 2 guidebook (ii, 65 p. ; 22 cm.) + Part 3 guidebook (ii, 63 p. ; 22 cm.)
Description
Few nations have as long and intricate a history as China. Despite a world grown increasingly smaller, China is still seen as a faraway, exotic land, shrouded in secrets, veiled with the mysteries of ages past. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth - facts left unexplored in the history courses most of us in the West have taken. It is essential that Westerners...
Publisher
[Distributed by] Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (596 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (xxi, 110 p. : ill. ; 20 cm)
Description
Celebrated is the dynamic, gender-bending, ethnically diverse West that flourished in early movies. Presented is the American West as it was recorded and imagined in the first decades of motion pictures. "Brings together 40 silent and early sound films--narrative shorts and features, documentaries, promotional films, newsreel stories, and travelogues--showcasing the American West as it was recorded and imagined from 1898 to 1938." -- Booklet, p. viii....
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (21 cm.)
Description
"Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the brief, brilliant cultural phenomenon we call the Renaissance lay the Middle Ages - fully 1,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and religious turmoil and treasures. This course offers an interdisciplinary look at medieval society and culture, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, and the tumultuous historical forces at work from A.D. 500 through A.D. 1500. Medieval Europe was the world...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 97 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their qualities of uniqueness, impact, and emotional and intellectual...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 158 pages ; 19 cm.).
Description
Through Professor Hale's vibrant commentary and extensive field footage, you discover monumental ancient cities, classical ruins, temples, shrines, fortresses, stadiums, theaters, churches, and palaces. In each site, you explore the critical history and culture that defined them and the ways in which they influenced our modern world. In their compelling historical and visual detail, the lectures offer both a rich resource for travelers preparing to...
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