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Author
Series
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 260 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Regardless of their level of education, most people wish they understood economics better. An award-winning professor translates the subject's complicated principles into easy-to-understand language, tackling all the key questions and hot topics of microeconomics and macroeconomics.
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
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.
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.
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
[2011]
Physical Desc
24 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (187 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Turning points in American history is your chance to relive the most powerful and groundbreaking moments in the fascinating story of the United States of America. These 48 lectures, delivered by master historian and dynamic professor Edward T. O'Donnell of the College of the Holy Cross, offer you a different perspective on the sweeping narrative of U. S. history. Spanning the arrival of the first English colonists to the chaos of the Civil War to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
18 CDs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (22 cm.)
Description
University of Tennessee professor Vejas Liulevicius delivers lectures for a course on the First World War, which was touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and quickly expanded far beyond the expectations of those involved. It became the first "total war", a conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to victory at any price. The cost...
16) 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
c2005
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (ca. 1440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Description
This 48 lecture series surveys the great movements of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the age of Charlemagne to the onset of World War II.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
18 CDs (18 hr., 16 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (54, 52, 56 p. ; 22 cm.).
Description
A series of 36 lectures comprising a course on the influential Greek thinkers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, presented by Robert C. Bartlett, Professor of Political Science at Emory University.
19) Math and magic
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 136 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
Nothing can amaze quite like an expertly-executed magic trick. Ideally, only the magician knows how truly simple the deception is. After watching Math and Magic, you will know that this trick and its many variants rely on a remarkable property of patterned sequences called Gilbreath's principle--named after an amateur magician who was also a mathematician. Magic is full of such wonders, as you discover in these 12 illuminating half-hour lessons presented...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
6 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (92 pages : maps ; 19 cm)
Description
The early civilizations of the Near East during the Bronze Age (3500-1000 B.C.) and Early Iron Age (1100-500 B.C.) have been the preserve of archaeologists and linguists. Before the late 19th century, these civilizations were unknown, save for brief, often inaccurate biblical references. To modern readers, these civilizations are remote and forbidding, in contrast to Classical Greece and Rome. Yet each year, discoveries and scholarly publications...
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