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Understanding Complexity

Tom Dooley

Daniel N. Robinson

Jaimée M. Aigret

Jon Leven

Consists of 60 lectures given by Professor Daniel N. Robinson of Oxford University tracing the abiding issues of philosophy across the centuries.

The Great Ideas of Philosophy

Bob Brier

A survey of the 3,000 years of Egyptian history from prehistoric times to the death of Cleopatra.

Parts I-IV

The History of Ancient Egypt

Professor Robert Sapolsky explores the physiologial effects of stress on the human body.

Stress and Your Body

Professor Richard Baum, University of California, Los Angeles, delivers 48 lectures on the history of China.

The Fall and Rise of China

Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are works that shaped the minds of great individuals and that offer an extraodrdinary gift of wisdom to those willing to receive it. Focus is on intellectual history and ethics, taking the underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life. From the Aeneid and the Book of Job to Othello and 1984, the range in time is from the 3rd millennium B.D. to the 20th century, and in locale from Mesopotamia and China to Europe and America.

Books That Can Change Your Life

Books That Have Made History

Stanley K. Ridgley

Strategic Thinking Skills

Presents the fundamental ideas of relativity and quantum physics.

Modern Physics for Non-scientists

Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution

Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, is an interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave. In 24 lectures, you will investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.

The Neurological Origins of Individuality

Biology and Human Behavior

Thomas F. X. Noble

James A. W. Heffernan

Elizabeth Vandiver

Ronald B. Herzman

Susan Sage Heinzelman

This series presents some of the finest teachers in America, lecturing on some of the greatest literature ever written.

Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition

All writing--whether it's an essay, a personal letter, or a detailed business report--is at its most memorable when it's built on the fundamental and critical skills that transform your words from good to great. The first lectures provide the first key to more engaging and effective writing: understanding literary genres and the ways their unique styles can shape and inform your own voice. The focus then shifts to the art of rhetoric and the ways it can help you adapt your writing to a variety of situations. The final part is a step-by-step guide through the writing process in its four major stages: researching, first draft, editing and rewriting.

How to Engage and Write about Anything

Analysis and Critique

Explores how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective decisions and offers techniques for effective decision-making. Includes case studies.

The Art of Critical Decision Making

Lawrence E. Cahoone

From Descartes to Derrida

Modern Intellectual Tradition

What We Think We Know May Be Hurting Us

Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths

Culinary Institute of America

Kevin Flanigan

Connie Guttersen

Bill Briwa

These six lessons will help you learn how to move your dietary choices toward healthier, more enjoyable options by using superstar ingredients in your daily cooking.

Building a Better Vocabulary

Robert C. Solomon

Kathleen Marie Higgins

Professors Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins help the user discover the heart and mind of this systematically unsystematic philosopher. Each lecture focuses on the specific ideas that preoccupied Nietzsche, while tracing the profound themes that give shape and meaning to his philosophy. These themes form the foundation of modern humanistic culture.

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Power

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.

The Vikings

In this set of 24 lectures, Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, University of Maryland, introduces the student to the primary characters and most important stories of classical Greek and Roman mythology. She also surveys some of the leading theoretical approaches to understanding myth in general and classical myth in particular.

Classical Mythology

The Odyssey of Homer [Video]

This course is a practical guide to developing the skill of mindfulness and applying it to every aspect of daily life.

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