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Basic Math - High School
Disc 1. Lesson 1. Introduction and
review of addition and subtraction -- Lesson 2. Multiplication and division --
Lesson 3. Long division -- Lesson 4. Introduction to fractions -- Lesson 5.
Adding fractions
Disc 2. Lesson 6. Subtracting fractions -- Lesson 7. Multiplying
fractions -- Lesson 8. Dividing fractions, plus a review of fractions --
Lesson 9. Adding and subtracting decimals -- Lesson 10. Multiplying and
dividing decimals Disc 3. Lessons 11. Using the calculator --
Lesson 12. Fractions, decimals and percents -- Lesson 13. Percent problems --
Lesson 14. Ratios and proportions -- Lesson 15. Exponents and the order of
operations.
Disc 4. Lesson 16. Adding and subtracting integers -- Lesson 17.
Multiplication and division of integers, and and introduction to square roots
-- Lesson 18. Negative and fractional powers -- Lesson 19. Geometry I --
Lesson 20. Geometry II
Disc 5. Lessons 21. Graphing in the coordinate plane -- Lesson 22.
Number theory -- Lesson 23. Number patterns I -- Lesson 24. Number patterns II
-- Lesson 25. Statistics
Disc 6. Lessons 26. Probability -- Lesson 27. Measurement -- Lesson 28.
Problem solving techniques -- Lesson 29. Solving simple equations -- Lesson
30. Introduction to Algebra I.
Change and motion: Calculus made clear
Professor Michael Starbird of the University of Texas
at Austin, covers the concepts of Calculus. Course consists
of 24 lectures in 2 parts. Each part consists of 2 videodiscs and each
videodisc consists of six lectures. Each course guidebook covers the 12
lectures contained in 2 videodiscs in one part.
Part I. disc 1. Two ideas, vast implications -- Stop sign crime : the
first idea of calculus -- Another car, another crime : the second idea of
calculus -- The fundamental theorem of calculus -- Visualizing the derivative
-- Abstracting the derivative: circles, squares and belts -- part I. disc. 2.
Derivatives the easy way -- Galileo, Newton, and baseball -- The best of all
possible worlds- optimization -- Circles, Pyramids, cones, and spheres --
Archimedes and onions -- The integral: a process of summing.
Part II. disc 3. Abstracting the integral: areas, volumes, and dams --
The fundamental theorem at work -- Buffon's needle : pi from breadsticks --
Zeno's arrow: the concept of limit -- Real numbers and predictability of
continuous -- Zeno, calculators, and infinite series. part II. disc 4.
Mountain slopes and tangent planes -- Getting off the line : motion in space
-- Physics, music, and the planets -- Business and economics: getting rich and
going broke -- Palpitations, population, perch, and pachyderms -- Calculus
everywhere.
Classics of American Literature
Brown University professor Arnold Weinstein lectures
on what he calls the "monuments of American literature."
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance
Part I : Lecture 1. Italy and the Renaissance ;
Lecture 2. From Gothic to Renaissance ; Lecture 3. Brunelleschi and Ghiberti
in Florence ; Lecture 4. Donatello and Luca della Robbia ; Lecture 5. Masaccio
; Lecture 6. Masaccio: the Brancacci Chapel -- Lecture 7. Fra Angelico and Fra
Filippo Lippi ; Lecture 8. Three specialists ; Lecture 9. Donatello and Padua
; Lecture 10. Piero della Francesca: individual works ; Lecture 11. Piero
della Francesca: Legend of the True Cross ; Lecture 12. Pageant of life in
Renaissance Florence.
Part II : Lecture 13. The heroic nude ; Lecture 14. Sculpture small and
large ; Lecture 15. Botticelli: spirituality and sensuality ; Lecture 16.
Botticelli and the trouble in Italy ; Lecture 17. Filippino Lippi ; Lecture
18. Leonardo da Vinci: portraits and altarpieces -- Lecture 19. Leonardo da
Vinci: The Last Supper ; Lecture 20. Michelangelo: Florentine works ; Lecture
21. Michelangelo: Roman projects ; Lecture 22. Michelangelo: The Sistine
Chapel ceiling ; Lecture 23. Raphael: Madonnas and portraits ; Lecture 24.
Raphael: history paintings.
Part III : Lecture 25. Urbino: microcosm of Renaissance civilization ;
Lecture 26. Andrea Mantegna in Padua and Mantua ; Lecture 27. Venice:
Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance ; Lecture 28. Celebrating the living city ;
Lecture 29. Giovanni Bellini: the early years ; Lecture 30. Antonello da
Messina and Giovanni Bellini -- Lecture 31. Giovanni Bellini: the late years ;
Lecture 32. Giorgione ; Lecture 33. Giorgione or Titian? ; Lecture 34. Titian:
the early years ; Lecture 35. A culture in crisis ; Lecture 36. The
Renaissance reformed.
How to Listen To and Understand Opera
Part I. Introduction and
words and music, pt.1-2 ; A brief history of vocal expression in music, pt.1-2
; The invention of opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, pt.1-4
Part II. The growth of opera, the development of Italian opera seria,
and Mozart's Idomeneo, pt.1-4 ; The rise of opera buffa and Mozart's The
Marriage of Figaro, pt.1-4
Part III. The bel canto style and Rossini's The Barber of Seville,
pt.1-2 ; Verdi and Otello, pt.1-4 ; French opera, pt.1-2
Part IV. German opera comes of age ; Richard Wagner and Tristan und
Isolde, pt.1-2 ; Late romantic German opera: Richard Strauss and Salome ;
Russian opera, pt.1-2 ; Verismo, Puccini, and Tosca, pt.1-2.
Jesus and the Gospels
Professor Luke Timothy Johnson attempts to show us the
human Jesus underlying the many portraits we have.
Part. 1. disc 1. [lecture] 1. Why not "The historical Jesus"? --
[lecture] 2. The starting point : the resurrection experience -- [lecture] 3.
The matrix : symbolic world of Greek and Jew -- [lecture] 4. Parallels :
stories of Greek and Jewish heroes -- [lecture] 5. The context : Jesus in the
memory of the church -- [lecture] 6. Earliest stages : Paul and the oral
tradition -- disc 2. [lecture] 7. Why compose Gospels? -- [lecture] 8. The
synoptic problem and its solutions -- [lecture] 9. Gospel of Mark :
apocalyptic and irony -- [lecture] 10. Gospel of Mark : good news in mystery
-- [lecture] 11. Gospel of Mark : teacher and disciples -- [lecture] 12.
Gospel of Mark : passion and death
Part. 2. disc 3. [lecture] 13. Gospel of Matthew : synagogue down the
street -- [lecture] 14. Gospel of Matthew : the Messiah of Israel -- [lecture]
15. Gospel of Matthew : Jesus and Torah -- [lecture] 16. Gospel of Matthew :
teacher and Lord -- [lecture] 17. Luke-Acts : the prophetic gospel --
[lecture] 18. Gospel of Luke : God's prophet -- disc 4. [lecture] 19. Gospel
of Luke : the prophet and the people -- [lecture] 20. Acts of the Apostles :
the prophet's movement -- [lecture] 21. Gospel of John : context of conflict
-- [lecture] 22. Gospel of John : Jesus as the man from heaven -- [lecture]
23. Gospel of John : Jesus as the obedient son -- [lecture] 24. Gospel of John
: witness to the truth
Part. 3. disc 5. [lecture] 25. In and out : canonical and Apocryphal
Gospels -- [lecture] 26. Young Jesus : the infancy Gospel of James --
[lecture] 27. Young Jesus : the infancy Gospel of Thomas -- [lecture] 28.
Jewish Christian narrative Gospels -- [lecture] 29. Fragments of narrative
gospels : Gospel of Peter -- [lecture] 30. New revelations : Gnostic witnesses
-- disc 6. [lecture] 31. Jesus in word : the coptic gospel of Thomas --
[lecture] 32. Jesus in word : two Gnostic gospels -- [lecture] 33. The Gnostic
good news : the gospel of truth -- [lecture] 34. The Gnostic good news : the
Gospel of Philip -- [lecture] 35. Jesus in and through the Gospels --
[lecture] 36. Learning Jesus in past and present.
John Szarkowski on Eugene Atget
Photography of Eugene Atget
The Joy of Science (DVD & Audio Tape)
Pt. 1: lecture 1. The nature of
science ; lecture 2. The scientific method -- lecture 3. The ordered universe
; lecture 4. Celestial and terrestrial mechanics -- lecture 5. Newton's laws
of motion ; lecture 6. Universal gravitation -- lecture 7. The nature of
energy ; lecture 8. The first law of thermodynamics -- lecture 9. The second
law of thermodynamics ; lecture 10. Entropy -- lecture 11. Magnetism and
static electricity ; lecture 12. Electricity.
Pt. 2: lecture 13. Electromagnetism ; lecture 14. The electromagnetic
spectrum, part I -- lecture 15. The electromagnetic spectrum, part II ;
lecture 16. Relativity -- lecture 17. Atoms ; lecture 18. The Bohr atom --
lecture 19. The quantum world ; lecture 20. The periodic table of the elements
-- lecture 21. Introduction to chemistry ; lecture 22. The chemistry of carbon
-- lecture 23. States of matter and changes of state ; lecture 24. Phase
transformation & chemical reactions.
Pt. 3: lecture 25. Properties of materials ; lecture 26. Semiconductors
and modern microelectronics -- lecture 27. Isotopes and radioactivity ;
lecture 28. Nuclear fission and fusion reaction -- lecture 29. Astronomy ;
lecture 30. The life cycle of stars -- lecture 31. Edwin Hubble and the
discovery of galaxies ; lecture 32. The big bang -- lecture 33. The ultimate
structure of matter ; lecture 34. The nebular hypothesis -- lecture 35. The
solar system ; lecture 36. The Earth as a planet.
Pt. 4: lecture 37. The dynamic earth ; lecture 38. The plate-tectonics
revolution -- lecture 39. Earthquakes, volcanoes, & plate motions today ;
lecture 40. Earth cycles, water -- lecture 41. The atmospheric cycle ; lecture
42. The rock cycle -- lecture 43. What is life? ; lecture 44. Strategies of
life -- lecture 45. Life's molecular building blocks ; lecture 46. Proteins --
lecture 47. Cells, the chemical factories of life ; lecture 48. Gregor Mendel,
founder of genetics.
Pt. 5: lecture 49. The discovery of DNA ; lecture 50. The genetic code
-- lecture 51. Reading the genetic code ; lecture 52. Genetic engineering --
lecture 53. Cancer and other genetic diseases ; lecture 54. The chemical
evolution of life -- lecture 55. Biological evolution, a unifying theme of
biology ; lecture 56. The fact of evolution, the fossil record -- lecture 57.
Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection ; lecture 58. Ecosystems
and the law of unintended consequences -- lecture 59. The ozone hole, acid
rain, and the greenhouse effect ; lecture 60. Science, the endless frontier.
Peoples and Cultures of the World
In this course of lectures Prof. Fischer surveys
anthropology, the study of human societies and comparative customs with a
special emphasis on pre-capitalist societies and the things which
pre-capitalist societies and modern societies have in common.
Pt.1, disc 1. 1. The study of humanity ; 2. The four fields of
anthropology ; 3. Culture and relativity ; 4. Fieldwork and the
anthropological method ; 5. Nature, nurture, and human behavior ; 6.
Languages, dialects, and social categories --
Pt. 1, disc 2. 7. Language and thought ; 8. Constructing emotions and
identities ; 9. Magic, religion, and codes of conduct ; 10. Rites of passage ;
11. Family, marriage, and incest ; 12. Multiple spouses and matrilineality --
Pt.2, disc 3. 13. Gatherers and hunters ; 14. Headmen and
horticulturists ; 15. Cannibalism and violence ; 16. The role of reciprocity ;
17. Chiefdoms and redistribution ; 18. Cultural contact and colonialism -- pt.
2, disc 4. 19. Cultures of capitalism ; 20. Is economics rational? ; 21. Late
capitalism: from Ford to Disney ; 22. The Maya, ancient and modern ; 23. Maya
resurgence in Guatemala and Mexico ; 24. The Janus face of globalization
Understanding the Universe
Alex Filippenko presents
lectures for a course which "is designed to provide a non-technical
description of modern astronomy, including the structure and evolution of
planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole"--Course guidebook, p.
1.
World War II : a military and social history
Pt. 1: lecture 1. The origins of
the second world war -- lecture 2. Hitler's challenge to the international
system, 1933-1936 -- lecture 3. The failure of the international system --
lecture 4. The coming war -- lecture 5. Blitzkrieg -- lecture 6. The German
offensive in the west -- lecture 7. "Their finest hour": Britain alone --
lecture 8. The battle of Britain -- lecture 9. Hitler moves east -- lecture
10. The Germans before Moscow.
Pt. 2: lecture 11. The war in Asia -- lecture 12. The Japanese gamble
-- lecture 13. The height of Japanese power -- lecture 14. Turning the tide in
the Pacific: Midway and Guadalcanal -- lecture 15. The war in north Africa --
lecture 16. War in the Mediterranean: the invasion of Sicily and Italy --
lecture 17. Stalingrad: the turning point on the eastern front -- lecture 18.
Eisenhower and Operation Overlord -- lecture 19. D-Day to Paris -- lecture 20.
Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.
Pt. 3: lecture 21. Advance across the Pacific -- lecture 22. Turning
point in the southwest Pacific: Leyte Gulf and the Philippines -- lecture 23.
The final drive for Japan: Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the fire-bombing of Tokyo --
lecture 24. War in the air -- lecture 25. Hitler's new order in Europe --
lecture 26. "This man's army" -- lecture 27. Daily life, culture, and society
in wartime -- lecture 28. The race for Berlin -- lecture 29. Truman, the bomb,
and the end of the war in the Pacific -- lecture 30. The costs of the war.
Augustine, philosopher and saint
Church father -- Christian Platonist -- Confessions,
the search for wisdom -- Confession, love and tears -- Confessions, the road
home -- Augustine's career as a Christian writer -- Faith, love, grace --
Evil, free will, original sin & predestination -- Signs and sacrament -- The
inner self -- The trinity and the soul -- The city of God.
Biological anthropology: an evolutionary perspective
Twenty four lectures: Barbara J. King, College of William and
Mary.Lectures detailing the evolution of humanity.
Part I. lecture 1. What is biological anthropology? ; lecture 2. How
evolution works ; lecture 3. The debate over evolution ; lecture 4. Matter
arising, new species ; lecture 5. Prosimians, monkeys, and apes ; lecture 6.
Monkey and ape social behavior ; lecture 7. The mind of the great ape ;
lecture 8. Models for human ancestors ; lecture 9. Introducing the hominids ;
lecture 10. Lucy and company ; lecture 11. Stones and bones ; lecture 12. Out
of Africa --
Part II. lecture 13. Who were the Neanderthals? ; lecture 14. Did
hunting make us human? ; lecture 15. The prehistory of gender ; lecture 16.
Modern human anatomy and behavior ; lecture 17. On the origins of Homo sapiens
; lecture 18. Language ; lecture 19. Do human races exist? ; lecture 20.
Modern human variation ; lecture 21. Body fat, diet, and obesity ; lecture 22.
The body and mind evolving ; lecture 23. Tyranny of the gene? ; lecture 24.
Evolution and our future.
Biology and human behavior: the neurological origins of individuality
Presents an introduction to the physical workings of the brain,
the cause-effect cycle of brain-hormone regulation, and the biological
foundations of behavioral psychology.
The basic components -- Neurochemistry, how two neurons communicate --
Plasticity in the synapse, how learning works -- The dynamics of interacting
neurons -- The autonomic nervous system (ANS) -- Endocrinology I, generating
an endocrine system -- Endocrinology II, hormonal effects on the brain -- A
synthesis, the biology of who we are.
The DUO guide to classics: an A to Z of classical music terms
CD 1. Concerto grosso no. 5 in D
minor (1744). Allegro (2:03) / Avison-Scarlatti -- Adagio in G minor for
strings and organ (6:55) / Albinoni -- Brandenburg concerto no. 3 in G.
Allegro (5:07) ; Sonata for violin solo no. 1 in G minor. Fuga (5:12) / J.S.
Bach -- Piano sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor ("Moonlight"). Adagio sostenuto
(6:01) / Beethoven -- String quintet op. 13, no. 5. Minuet (4:02) / Boccherini
-- Piano concerto no. 2 in B-flat. Allegro appassionato (9:15) / Brahms --
Waltz in D-flat, op. 64, no. 1 ("Minute Waltz") (1:46) / Chopin -- Piano trio
in E minor ("Dumky"). Lento maestoso (4:43) / Dvorák -- Pomp & circumstance
march no. 1 (6:30) / Elgar -- Élégie, op. 24. Molto adagio (6:59) / Fauré --
Peer Gynt suite no. 1. Morning (4:36) / Grieg -- Symphony no. 94 in G
("Surprise"). Andante (6:12) / Haydn -- Messiah. Hallelujah (3:51) / Handel --
Sinfonietta. Allegretto (2:25) / Janácek -- Liebesfreud (3:20) / Kreisler
CD 2. Motet: Osculetur me (3:25) / Lasso -- Liebestraum no. 3 in A flat
(3:54) / Liszt -- Elijah. Herr Gott Abrahams (3:17) / Mendelssohn -- Piano
concerto no. 21 in C major. Andante (6:32) / Mozart -- Tosca. Vissi d'arte
(3:33) / Puccini -- Prelude in C-sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2 (4:32) /
Rachmaninoff -- Concerto de Aranjuez. Adagio (excerpt) (6:02) / Rodrigo --
Pavane pour une infante défunte [piano] (6:13) / Ravel -- Carnival of the
animals. The swan (3:10) / Saint-Saëns -- Gymnopédie no. 1 [piano] (5:57) /
Satie -- Finlandia (7:49) / Sibelius -- Piano trio in E-flat, D. 929. Andante
con moto (8:54) / Schubert -- Sleeping beauty. Rose adagio 5:26) / Tchaikovsky
-- Concerto no. 1 in E major ("Spring"). Allegro (3:44) / Vivaldi -- Die
Walküre. Walkürenritt (6:09) / Wagner.
The Great books. series I
Narrated by Dr. Bruce Meyer in conversation with
Michael Enright
Literary discussion by Dr. Bruce Meyer of five essential texts that have
shaped the literature, philosophy and thought of the western world.
Tape 1. Bible -- Odyssey /Homer -- Tape 2. Aenid / Virgil -- Metamorphoses /
Ovid --Tape 3. Theban plays / Sophocles.
The Great books, series II
Narrated by Dr. Bruce Meyer in conversation with Michael
Enright
Literary discussion by Dr. Bruce Meyer of five essential texts that have
shaped the literature, philosophy and thought of the western world.
1. Consolation of philosophy / Boethius -- Confessions / St. Augustine -- 2.
Sir Gawain and the green knight -- Inferno / Dante -- 3. Sonnets / William
Shakespeare -- Love poetry / Dante.
The Great books. Series III
Narrated by Dr. Bruce Meyer in conversation with Michael
Enright
Literary discussion by Dr. Bruce Meyer of five essential texts that have
shaped the literature, philosophy and thought of the western world.
1. Lives of the artists / Vasari -- Prince / Machiavelli -- 2. Utopia / Thomas
More -- King Lear ; Tempest / William Shakespeare -- 3. Paradise lost / John
Milton -- Ulysses / James Joyce.
The Great Ideas of Philosophy
Lectures by Daniel N. Robinson (Georgetown University)
Part. 1: lecture 1. From the Upanishads to Homer ; lecture 2. What is
it and did the Greeks invent it? ; lecture 3. Pythagoras and the divinity of
number ; lecture 4. What is there? The pre-Socratics and the ultimate stuff of
the universe ; lecture 5. Is Medea guilty as charged? The Greek tragedians on
man's fate ; lecture 6. Know thyself, Herodotus and the lamp of history ;
lecture 7. Socrates on the examined life ; lecture 8. Plato's search for truth
; lecture 9. Can virtue be taught? ; lecture 10. Plato's Republic, man writ
large
Part. 2: lecture 11. Mind and body, Hippocrates and the science of life
; lecture 12. Aristotle on the knowable ; lecture 13. Aristotle on friendship
; lecture 14. Aristotle on the perfect life ; lecture 15. Rome, the stoics,
and the rule of life ; lecture 16. The stoic bridge to Christianity ; lecture
17. Roman law, making a city of the once-wide world ; lecture 18. The light
within, Augustine's idea of human nature ; lecture 19. Islam ; lecture 20.
Secular knowledge, the idea of the university
Part. 3: lecture 21. Facts and values, the reappearance of experimental
science lecture ; lecture 22. Scholasticism and the theory of natural law ;
lecture 23. Erasmus and Luther, humanism and fundamentalism ; lecture 24. Let
us burn the witches to save them ; lecture 25. Francis Bacon's Great
instauration, the authority of experience ; lecture 26. Descartes and the
skeptical mind, the authority of reason ; lecture 27. Newton, the saint of
science ; lecture 28. The social machine, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and the
science of statecraft ; lecture 29. A Newtonian science of the mind, John
Locke on human understanding ; lecture 30. No matter? Never mind! Berkeley and
the Challenge of materialism - Part. 4: lecture 31. Skepticism and the
pursuit of happiness ; lecture 32. Common sense and diving providence, Thomas
Reid and the Scottish school ; lecture 33. The play of mind and the salons of
dissent, France and the philosophes ; lecture 34. The Federalist papers and
the great experiment ; lecture 35. What is enlightenment? Kant on freedom and
the forms of knowledge ; lecture 36. Moral science and the natural world, Kant
and the moral imperative ; lecture 37. The phrenologists, early sciences of
mind and brain ; lecture 38. The idea of freedom ; lecture 39. Human history
as the unfolding of the ideal, the Hegelians ; lecture 40. The world and the
gift of genius, the aesthetic movement
Part. 5: lecture 41. Dark corners of the soul, Nietzche at the twilight
; lecture 42. liberal tradition, J.S. Mill on liberty ; lecture 43. Survival
of the fittest, Darwin and the (blind) purposes of nature ; lecture 44.
Marxism, dead but not forgotten ; lecture 45. The Freudian world ; lecture 46.
Yankee thought in a world of mystery, the radical william James ; lecture 47.
William James's pragmatism ; lecture 48. Helping the fly out of the bottle,
Wittgenstein and the discursive turn ; lecture 49. Breaking the code, Alan
Turing in the forest of wisdom ; lecture 50. Four theories of the good life,
from saints to heroes to brains in vats.
The Great Ideas of Psychology / Daniel N. Robinson.
Presents forty-eight lectures tracing the development and
evolution of psychology, from ancient times to the twentieth century.
Great Presidents
/ [Allan Lichtman]
Pt. 1: lecture 1. The American
Presidency ; lecture 2. George Washington-The Rise of a Patriot ; lecture 3.
George Washington-American Liberator ; lecture 4. George Washington-The First
President ; lecture 5. George Washington-American Icon ; lecture 6. Thomas
Jefferson-The Pen of Freedom ; lecture 7. Thomas Jefferson-Party Leader ;
lecture 8. Thomas Jefferson-Expansionist President ; lecture 9. Thomas
Jefferson-The Agonies of a Second Team ; lecture 10. Andrew Jackson-Hero of
the New Republic ; lecture 11. Andrew Jackson-The Conqueror Returns ; lecture
12. Andrew Jackson-The Warrior President --
Pt.2: lecture 13. Andrew Jackson-A President Defiant ; lecture 14.
James K. Polk-Party Loyalist ; lecture 15. James K. Polk-The First "Dark
Horse" ; lecture 16. James K. Polk-Apostle of Manifest Destiny ; lecture 17.
Abraham Lincoln-Frontier Politician ; lecture 18. Abraham Lincoln-The First
Republican President ; lecture 19. Abraham Lincoln-Wartime Leader ; lecture
20. Abraham Lincoln-The Martyred President ; lecture 21. Theodore
Roosevelt-Patrician Reformer ; lecture 22. Theodore Roosevelt-The Cowboy as
President ; lecture 23. Theodore Roosevelt-Progressive Dynamo ; lecture 24.
Theodore Roosevelt-Third-Party Crusader --
Pt.3: lecture 25. Woodrow Wilson-American Visionary ; lecture 26.
Woodrow Wilson-The Professor as Politician ; lecture 27. Woodrow Wilson-The
World Stage ; lecture 28. Woodrow Wilson-The Fight for Postwar Peace ; lecture
29. Franklin D. Roosevelt-Provocative Politician ; lecture 30. Franklin D.
Roosevelt-New Dealer ; lecture 31. Franklin D. Roosevelt-Into the Storm ;
lecture 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt-President in a World at War ; lecture 33.
Harry S Truman-A Struggle for Success ; lecture 34. Harry S Truman-Needing
America's Prayers ; lecture 35. Harry S Truman-Winning the Peace ; lecture 36.
Harry S Truman-No Accidental President --
Pt. 4: lecture 37. John F. Kennedy-The Construction of a Politician ;
lecture 38. John F. Kennedy-The Emergence of a President ; lecture 39. John F.
Kennedy-A President in Crisis ; lecture 40. John F. Kennedy-His final
Challenges ; lecture 41. Lyndon Johnson-Politician in the Rough ; lecture 42.
Lyndon Johnson-Professional Politician ; lecture 43. Lyndon Johnson-Building
the Great Society ; lecture 44.
Lyndon Johnson-Acrimony at Home and Abroad ; lecture 45. Ronald Reagan-"The
Gipper" ; lecture 46. Ronald Reagan-A Conservative in the White House ;
lecture 47. Ronald Reagan-The Acting President ; lecture 48. Ronald Reagan-The
Teflon President.
Great World Religions : Buddhism. Part I/ [Malcolm David Eckel
Twelve lectures delivered by Professor Malcolm David Eckel of
Boston University in which he presents a survey of Buddhism from its origins
in India to contemporary times in America. The course introduces the vitality
and adaptability of Buddhism which has transformed civilizations in Asia and
become a lively component of Western culture.
Lecture 1. Buddhism as a world religion -- Lecture 2. The life of the Buddha
-- Lecture 3. "All is suffering" -- Lecture 4. The path to Nirvana -- Lecture
5. The Buddhist community -- Lecture 6. Mahayana Buddhism --the Bodhisattva
ideal -- Lecture 7. Celestial Buddhas and Bodhisattvas -- Lecture 8. Emptiness
-- Lecture 9. Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia -- Lecture 10. Buddhism in
Tibet -- Lecture 11. Buddhism in China -- Lecture 12. Buddhism in Japan.
Great World Religions: Christianity, Part 1 / [Luke Timothy Johnson]
Christianity among world religions -- Birth and expansion --
Second century and self-definition -- The Christian story -- What Christians
believe -- The church and sacraments -- Moral teaching -- The radical edge --
Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant -- Christianity and politics -- Christianity
and culture -- Tensions and possibilities.
Great World Religions: Islam / [John L. Esposito].
Islam yesterday, today, and tomorrow -- The five pillars of
Islam -- Muhammad, Prophet and Statesman -- God's word, the Quranic worldview
-- The Muslim community, faith and Politics -- Paths to God, Islamic law and
mysticsim -- Islamic revivalism, renewal and reform -- The contemporary
resurgence of Islam -- Islam at the crossroads -- Women and change in Islam --
Islam in the West -- The future of Islam.
Great World Religions: Judaism, Part 1/ [Isaiah M. Gafni]
What is Judaism? -- The stages of history -- The Jewish library
-- The emergence of Rabbinic Judaism -- Jewish worship-prayer and the
synagogue -- The calendar-a communal life-cycle -- Individual life-cycles --
Go and man; God and community -- Philosophers and mystics -- The legal
frameworks of Judaism-Halakha -- Common Judaism-or a plurality of Judaisms? --
Judaism and "others."
Great World Religions: Hinduism, Part 1 / [Mark W. Muesse]
Hinduism in the world and the world of Hinduism -- The early
cultures of India -- The world of the Veda -- From the Vedic tradition to
classical Hinduism -- Caste -- Men, women, and the stages of life -- The way
of action -- The way of wisdom -- Seeing God -- The way of devotion -- The
Goddess and her devotees -- Hinduism in the modern period.
The High Middle Ages
Presents 24 lectures discussing the flowering of European
medieval civilization between 1000 and 1300, with examination of social
conditions, intellectual and religious history, and political developments.
Part. 1. lecture 1. Why the
Middle Ages? ; lecture 2. Demography and the commercial revolution ; lecture
3. Those who fought: the nobles ; lecture 4. The chivalric code ; lecture 5.
Feudalism ; lecture 6. Those who worked: the peasants ; lecture 7. Those who
worked: the townspeople ; lecture 8. Women in medieval society ; lecture 9.
Those who prayed: the monks ; lecture 10. Francis of Assisi & the Franciscan
movement ; lecture 11. Heretics & heresy ; lecture 12. The medieval
inquisitions --
Part. 2. lecture 13. Jews & Christians ; lecture 14. The origins of
scholasticism ; lecture 15. Aquinas & the problem of Aristotle ; lecture 16.
The first universities ; lecture 17. The People's Crusade ; lecture 18. The
conquest of Jerusalem ; lecture 19. The Norman Conquest ; lecture 20. Philip
II of France ; lecture 21. Magna Carta ; lecture 22. Empire versus papacy ;
lecture 23. Emperor Frederick II ; lecture 24. Looking back, looking forward.
The History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts
Part I. Lecture 1. England 1485-1714, the first
modern country ; Lecture 2. The land and its people in 1485, I ; Lecture 3.
The land and its people in 1485, II ; Lecture 4. The land and its people in
1485, III ; Lecture 5. Medieval prelude, 1377-1455 ; Lecture 6. Medieval
prelude, 1455-85 ; Lecture 7. Establishing the Tudor dynasty, 1485-97 ;
Lecture 8. Establishing the Tudor dynasty, 1497-1509 ; Lecture 9. Young King
Hal, 1509-27 ; Lecture 10. The king's great matter, 1527-30 ; Lecture 11. The
break from Rome, 1529-36 ; Lecture 12. A Tudor revolution, 1536-47?
Part II. Lecture 13. The
last years of Henry VIII, 1540-47 ; Lecture 14. Edward VI, 1547-53 ; Lecture
15. Mary I, 1553-58 ; Lecture 16. Young Elizabeth, 1558 ; Lecture 17. The
Elizabethan settlement, 1558-68 ; Lecture 18. Set in a dangerous world,
1568-88 ; Lecture 19. Heart and stomach of a queen, 1588-1603 ; Lecture 20.
The land and its people in 1603 ; Lecture 21. Private life, the elite ;
Lecture 22. Private life, the commoners ; Lecture 23. The ties that bound ;
Lecture 24. Order and disorder
Part III. Lecture 25. Towns, trade, and colonization ; Lecture 26.
London ; Lecture 27. The Elizabethan and Jacobean age ; Lecture 28.
Establishing the Stuart dynasty, 1603-25 ; Lecture 29. The ascendancy of
Buckingham, 1614-28 ; Lecture 30. Religion and local control, 1628-37 ;
Lecture 31. Crisis of three kingdoms, 1637-42 ; Lecture 32. The civil wars,
1642-49 ; Lecture 33. The search for a settlement, 1649-53 ; Lecture 34.
Cromwellian England, 1653-60 ; Lecture 35. The Restoration settlement, 1660-70
; Lecture 36. The failure of the Restoration, 1670-78
Part IV. Lecture 37. The popish plot and exclusion, 1678-85 ; Lecture
38. A Catholic Restoration?, 1685-88 ; Lecture 39. The Glorious Revolution,
1688-89 ; Lecture 40. King William's war, 1689-92 ; Lecture 41. King William's
war, 1692-1702 ; Lecture 42. Queen Anne and the rage of party, 1702 ; Lecture
43. Queen Anne's war, 1702-10 ; Lecture 44. Queen Anne's peace, 1710-14 ;
Lecture 45. Hanoverian epilogue, 1714-30 ; Lecture 46. The land and its people
in 1714, I ; Lecture 47. The land and its people in 1714, II ; Lecture 48. The
meaning of English history, 1485-1714.
The History of the English Language
Lecturer: Seth Lerer, Stanford University
Part. 1: lecture 1. Introduction to the study
of language ; lecture 2. The historic study of language, methods and
approaches ; lecture 3. The prehistory of English, the Indo-European context ;
lecture 4. Reconstructing meaning and sound ; lecture 5. Words and worlds,
historical linguistics and the study of culture ; lecture 6. The beginnings of
English ; lecture 7. Old English, the Anglo-Saxon worldview ; lecture 8.
Changing language, did the Normans really conquer English? ; lecture 9.
Conquering language, what did the Normans do to English? ; lecture 10.
Chaucer's English ; lecture 11. Dialect jokes and literary representation in
Middle English ; lecture 12. A multilingual world, medieval attitudes toward
language change and variation
Part. 2: lecture 13. The return of English as a standard ; lecture 14.
How we speak, the great vowel shift and the making of modern English ; lecture
15. What we say, the expanding English vocabulary ; lecture 16. The shape of
modern English, changes in syntax and grammar ; lecture 17. Renaissance
attitudes toward teaching English ; lecture 18. The language of Shakespeare
(1), drama, grammar, and pronunciation ; lecture 19. The language of
Shakespeare (2), poetry, sound, and sense ; lecture 20. The Bible in English ;
lecture 21. Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary ; lecture 22. New standards in
English ; lecture 23. Semantic change, dictionaries and the histories of words
; lecture 24. Values and words in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Part. 3: lecture 25. The beginnings of American English ; lecture 26.
Making the American language, from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken ; lecture 27.
The rhetoric of independence from Jefferson to Lincoln ; lecture 28. The
language of the American self ; lecture 29. American regionalism ; lecture 30.
American dialects in literature ; lecture 31. The impact of African-American
English ; lecture 32. An Anglophone world ; lecture 33. The language of
science, the changing nature of 20th century English ; lecture 34. The science
of language, the study of language in the 20th century ; lecture 35. Modern
linguistics and the politics of language study ; lecture 36. Conclusions and
provocations.
The History of Hitler's Empire
University of Pennsylvania history professor Thomas
Childers delivers twelve lectures tracing the factors that led to the rise of
national socialism in Germany, Hitler's ascent to power, the Second World War,
and the Holocaust.
Lecture 1. The Third Reich, Hitler, and the 20th century -- lecture 2. The
First World War and its legacy -- lecture 3. The Weimar Republic and the rise
of the Nazi party -- lecture 4. The twenties and the Great Depression --
lecture 5. The Nazi breakthrough -- lecture 6. Hitler's assumption of power --
lecture 7. Racial policy and the totalitarian state -- lecture 8. Hitler's
foreign policy -- lecture 9. Munich and the triumph of national socialism --
lecture 10. War in the west, war in the east -- lecture 11. Holocaust,
Hitler's war against the Jews -- lecture 12. The Final Solution.
The History of the United States
Part 1: Patterns of settlement and society.
Introduction -- The English context: Society, religion, politics -- The
disruption of Amerindian life -- The struggle for survival -- Social conflict
and slavery in the Chesapeake -- The religion of Puritans -- Political
structures in New England -- New England society -- The new proprietaries: the
middle-colonies -- The new proprietaries: the deep South
Part 2: The structure of empire -- Slavery and African-American life --
Women and the family -- The Great Awakening -- Eighteenth-century colonial
politics -- Sources of disorder and conflict -- The causes of the American
Revolution -- From protest to revolution -- the Revolutionary War -- The
meaning of revolution
Part 3: The problem of national identity -- A republican experiment --
Crisis and constitution -- The debate over ratification -- Federalists versus
republicans -- The age of capital -- Westward expansion -- The second party
system -- Southern society -- Slavery and race.
Part 4: Revivalism and reform -- Antislavery movements -- The
transcendalist movement -- Immigration and nativism -- The crises of the 1850s
-- Lincoln and the coming of civil war -- The course of war -- Emancipation --
The meanings of freedom -- Reconstructing the United States.
Part 5: The making of modern America. The compromise of 1877 -- The
making of a racial policy -- The emergence of modern America -- The rise of
the city -- Imperialism--America as a world power -- Progressivism -- The new
freedom -- World War I--America goes abroad -- After the war--the long
armistice -- The twenties--a cultural revolution.
Part 6: Liberalism and the Cold War. The Great Depression -- Franklin
D. Roosevelt and the New Deal -- The election of 1936 and its aftermath -- The
developing crises in the Pacific -- The coming of World War II -- The
undeclared war and the abandonment of neutrality -- World War II -- The war in
Europe -- The Truman years: Portrait of everyman as president -- An uneasy
peace: The Korean War.
Part 7: Consensus and conflict. Kennedy and the New Frontier -- LBJ and
the Great Society -- Black America: Demand for equality -- The Vietnam War:
The War without end -- Richard M. Nixon and Watergate -- The Reagan years:
overturning the Great Society -- The Gulf War: oil and American Middle Eastern
Policy -- The end of the Cold War -- A multicultural America -- Conclusion:
interpreting the American past.
How to Listen To and Understand Great Music
Pt. 1. The ancient world through early Baroque -- Pt.
2. The high Baroque -- Pt. 3. The Classical era I -- Pt. 4. The Classical era
II and the Age of Revolution - Beethoven -- Pt. 5. Nineteenth-century
Romanticism -- Pt. 6. From Romanticism to Modernism : 1848-1913.
The New Testament
Professor Bart D. Ehrman, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.
Part 1: lecture 1. The early Christians and their literature ; lecture
2. The Greco-Roman context ; lecture ; 3. Ancient Judaism ; lecture 4. The
earliest traditions about Jesus ; lecture 5. Mark : Jesus the suffering son of
God ; lecture 6. Matthew : Jesus the Jewish messiah ; lecture 7. Luke : Jesus
the savior of the world ; lecture 8. John : Jesus the man from Heaven ;
lecture 9. Noncanonical gospels ; lecture 10. The historical Jesus, sources
and problems ; lecture 11. The historical Jesus, solutions and methods ;
lecture 12. Jesus the apocalyptic prophet
Part 2: lecture 13. The acts of the apostles ; lecture 14. Paul : the
man, the mission and the modus operandi ; lecture 15. Paul and the crises of
his churches : First Corinthians ; lecture 16. Pauline ethics ; lecture 17.
Paul's letter to the Romans ; lecture 18. Paul, Jesus and James lecture 19.
The Deutero-Pauline Epistles ; lecture 20. The Pastoral Epistles lecture 21.
The book of Hebrew and the rise of Christian anti-semitism ; lecture 22. First
Peter and the persecution of the early Christians ; lecture 23. The book of
revelation ; lecture 24. Do we have the original New Testament?
Particle Physics for Non-Physicists:
Professor Steven Pollock of the University of Colorado at
Boulder delivers twenty-four lectures on particle physics.
The nature of physics -- The standard model of particle physics -- The
pre-history of particle physics -- The birth of modern physics -- Quantum
mechanics gets serious -- New particles and new technologies -- Weak
interactions and the neutrino -- Accelerators and the particle explosion --
The particle "zoo" -- Fields and forces -- "Three quarks for muster mark" --
From quarks to QCD -- Symmetry and conservation laws -- Broken symmetry,
shattered mirrors -- The November revolution of 1974 -- A new generation --
Weak forces and the standard model -- The great success story in physics --
The Higgs particle -- The solar neutrino puzzle -- Back to the future (1),
Experiments to come -- Back to the future (2), Puzzles and progress -- Really
big stuff, the origin of the universe -- Looking back and looking forward.
The rise and fall of Soviet communism: a history of twentieth century Russia
Sixteen lectures, Professor Gary Hamburg, University
of Notre Dame.
pt. 1: lecture 1. Nicholas II and the Russian empire ; lecture 2. The
failure of constitutional government ; lecture 3. Russia and the first world
war ; lecture 4. Lenin and the origins of Bolshevism ; lecture 5. Lenin comes
to power ; lecture 6. Lenin and the making of a Bolshevik state ; lecture 7.
The twenties ; lecture 8. Stalin and the second October revolution --
pt. 2: lecture 9. Stalin and the great terror ; lecture 10. Stalin,
Hitler and the road to war ; lecture 11. The USSR at war ; lecture 12.
Stalin's last years ; lecture 13. De-Stalinization ; lecture 14. Gorbachev and
perestroika ; lecture 15. The disintegration of the USSR ; lecture 16. Rebirth
of Russia or rebirth of the USSR?
Roots of Human Behavior
Twelve lectures by professor Barbara J. King, College of
William and Mary
Lecture 1. The four facets of anthropology ; lecture 2. Social bonds and
family ties ; lecture 3. The journey away from mom ; lecture 4. Males and
females -- really so different? ; lecture 5. Sex and reproduction ; lecture 6.
Tool making -- Of hammers and anvils ; lecture 7. Social learning and teaching
; lecture 8. Culture -- What is it? Who's got it? ; lecture 9. Dynamics of
social communication ; lecture 10. Do great apes use language? ; lecture 11.
Highlights of human evolution ; lecture 12. Exploring and conserving a legacy
The Story of Human Language
Lecturer: John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute
What Is language? -- When language began -- How language changes--sound change
-- How language changes--building new material -- How language
changes--meaning and order -- How language changes--many directions -- How
language changes--modern English -- Language families--Indo-European --
Language families--tracing Indo-European -- Language families--diversity of
structures -- Language families--clues to the past -- The case against the
world's first language -- The case for the world's first language --
Dialects-subspecies of species -- Dialects--where do you draw the line? --
Dialects--two tongues in one mouth -- Dialects--the standard as token of the
past -- Dialects--spoken style, written style -- Dialects--the fallacy of
blackboard grammar -- Language mixture--words -- Language mixture--grammar --
Language mixture--language areas -- Language develops beyond the call of duty
-- Language interrupted -- A new perspective on the story of English -- Does
culture drive language change? -- Language starts over--Pidgins -- Language
starts over--Creoles I -- Language starts over--Creoles II -- Language starts
over--signs of the new -- Language starts over--the Creole continuum -- What
is Black English? -- Language death--the problem -- Language death--prognosis
-- Artificial languages -- Finale--master class
The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy
Twelve lectures delivered by Edward J. Larson, University of
Georgia
Before Darwin -- Evolution in the air -- Darwin's inspiration -- An
intellectual revolution -- Debates over mechanism -- Missing links -- Genetics
enters the picture -- Social Darwinism and eugenics -- America's
anti-evolution crusade -- The neo-Darwinian synthesis -- Scientific
creationism -- Selfish genes and intelligent design.
Victorian Britain
Part. I. The Victorian paradox -- Victoria's early reign: 1837-1861 --
The industrial revolution: 1750-1830 -- Railways and steamships --
Parliamentary reform and chartism -- The upper and middle class woman -- The
working class woman -- The state church and evangelical revival -- The Oxford
movement and catholicism -- Work and working class life -- Poverty and the
"Hungry forties" -- Ireland, famine, and Robert Peel
Part. II. Scotland and Wales -- Progress and optimism -- China and the
opium war -- Crimean war: 1854-1856 -- Indian Mutiny: 1857 -- Victorian
Britain and the American civil war -- British in Africa: 1840-1880 --
Victorian literature I -- Art and music -- Science -- Medicine and public
health -- Architecture
Part. III. Education -- Trade unions and the labour party -- Crime and
punishment -- Gladstone and disraeli: 1865-1881 -- Ireland and home rule --
Democracy and its discontents -- The British in Africa: 1880-1901 -- Later
Victorian literature -- Leisure -- Domestic servants -- Victoria after Albert:
1861-1901 -- The Victorian legacy.
Great Courses - Operas on CD Collection
Aida / Guiseppe Verdi
Birgit Nilsson, lead vocalist ; Orchestra and Chorus e Coro del Teatro
dell'Opera di Roma ;
Zubin Mehta, conductor ; text, John McDonough.
The introductory CD includes background information, a synopsys of each act
and scene and a biography of each lead performer ; two CDs contain the
complete opera.
The complete opera in four acts sung in Italian ; introduction in English.
The Barber of Seville / Gioacchino Rossini.
Beverly Sills, lead vocalist ; London Symphony Orchestra; James
Levine, conductor ;
text by John McDonough.
An introductory CD includes background information, a synopsis of each act and
scene, and a biography of each lead performer ; two CDs contain the complete
opera.
Introduction in English ; opera sung in Italian
Carmen / Georges Bizet
Grace Bumbry, lead vocalist ;Orchestra of the Théâtre National
de l'Opéra ; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor ; text, John McDonough.
An introductory CD includes background information, a synopsis of each act and
scene, and a biography of each lead performer ; two CDs contain the complete
opera.
A guide to understanding and appreciating opera
Sung in French ; introduction in English
Il trovatore/ Giuseppe Verdi
Leontyne Price, lead vocalist ; Berlin Philharmonic ; Herbert
von Karajan, conductor ;
text, John McDonough.
An introductory CD includes background information, a synopsis of each act and
scene, and a biography of each lead performer ; two CDs contain the complete
opera.
Opera sung in Italian ; introduction in English
La Bohème/ Giacomo Puccini
Mirella Freni, lead vocalist ; other soloists ; Orchestra e
Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma ; Thomas Schippers, conductor ; narrator,
John McDonough.
The introductory CD includes background information, a synopsis of each act
and scene, and a biography of each lead performer ; two CDs contain the
complete opera.
Sung in Italian ; introduction in English
La Traviata / Giuseppi Verdi
Beverly Sills, lead vocalist ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ;
Aldo Ceccato, conductor ;
text, John McDonough.
An introductory CD includes background information, a synopsis of each act and
scene, and a biography of each lead performer ; two CDs contain the complete
opera.
Complete opera sung in Italian ; introduction in English
The Marriage of Figaro /Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, lead vocalist ; English
Chamber Orchestra ; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
An introductory CD includes background information, a synopsis of each act and
scene, and a biography of each lead performer ; two CDs contain the complete
opera.
Sung in Italian ; introduction in English.
Madama Butterfly / Giacomo Puccini.
Renata Scotto, lead vocalist ; Orchestra e Coro del Teatro
dell'Opera di Roma ; Sir John Barbirolli, conductor ; text by John McDonough.
The introductory CD includes background information, a synopsis of each act
and scene, and a biography of each lead performer ; two CDs contain the
complete opera.
Sung in Italian ; introduction in English.
The Barber of Seville / Gioacchino Rossini
Beverly Sills, lead vocalist ; London Symphony Orchestra; James
Levine, conductor ; text by John McDonough.
An introductory CD includes background information, a synopsis of each act and
scene, and a biography of each lead performer ; two CDs contain the complete
opera.
Introduction in English ; opera sung in Italian
