Teaching Company
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this course you'll explore the real research (not the fads) on how memory functions?́?and then apply these findings to help you make better use of the memory abilities you have. By tapping into a series of scientifically proven strategies, tricks, and techniques, and by practicing them through dynamic exercises led by Professor Vishton, you'll emerge from the end of this short course with the ability to process information more effectively and...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 59 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
Description
Teofilo F. Ruiz gives a series of 12 lectures on the history of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, who united the country, took power from the Moors, gave aid to Columbus, ordered the expulsion or conversion of Jews and Moors, and built the framework for modern Spain.
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
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 132 p. ; 19 cm.).
Description
Great writing begins--and ends--with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving...
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (124 p. ; 20 cm.)
Description
Discusses the evolution of the understanding of what is encompassed by the term "human rights" ; the forces and individuals which brought about changes in thought and behavior and the interconnection of human rights with history, religion, philosophy, literature, economics, science, technology, and the arts.
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1800 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 331 p. ; 19 cm.).
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,...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1800 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 336 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. Beginning with Plato and...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 153 pages ; 19 cm).
Description
Lectures by Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg College, cover what humor is from the perspective of history's great philosophers.
11) Our night sky
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 85 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Description
Presents 12 lectures (ca. 30 min. each) by Edward M. Murphy on astronomy.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 12 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 guidebooks (61, 64 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
Description
Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of his Mark Twain's most representative works. A series of 24 lectures on a college course level.
13) Great presidents
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (ca. 1440 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + course guidebook(s)
Description
American University professor Allan J. Lichtman delivers forty-eight lectures on twelve of America's presidents.
14) Why evil exists
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
18 CDs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 162 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Presents historical, religious and philosophical explanations for the existence of evil.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
18 CDs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 129 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A series of lectures delivered by Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma in which he explores the following six themes expressed in 36 important books written at different points throughout history: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
12 CDs (ca. 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Description
Presents a history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the end of the fourth century. Includes examination of Jewish-Christian relationships, Christian relationships with the Roman Empire, persecution of Christians, and the development of church offices and theology.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (18 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 155 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.)
Description
Thirty-six 30 min. lectures examine 4 of the most influential persons in history both separately and comparatively. They present the essential features of their lives and teachings and the factors that contributed to their greatness.