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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (71 p. each ; 22 cm.)
Description
Takes the viewer from the early study of motion through the path of modern discovery of relativity, quantum phenomena and the consequences of these discoveries for our understanding of space, time and the universe.
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,...
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
12 CDs (ca. 60 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Description
Professor Robert Solomon and Professor Kathleen Higgins takes us on an emotional journey of discovery into the heart and mind of this systematically unsystematic philosopher. The course is divided into two parts and twenty-four lectures. Each lecture focuses on the specific ideas that preoccupied Nietzsche, while tracing the profound themes that give shape and meaning to his oeuvre. In the process we discover that many of these themes-the quest for...
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.
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.
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 65 p. ; 22 cm. ; ii, 73 p. ; 22 cm.)
Description
Professor Dale Hoak of The College of William and Mary delivers twenty-four lectures where in he tries to answer the questions via a retrospective assessment of both Henry VIII and his reign.
18) The symphony
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A twenty-four lecture course that traces the development of the symphony from its roots in the opera of the Baroque period to the present.
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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
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...
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