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This course begins with a unifying overview of the Universe that provides a broad context into which we place the objects of our planetary system. It then divides into four overlapping portions. First, explore the moving Earth and the layout of the sky to probe the meanings of the day, the year, the seasons, and the earthly views of the Moon, stars, planets, and constellations. Second, examine the physical laws the control what we see and look at...
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The goal of this audio course is to provide listeners with a literary and historical overview of the Bible, from its opening in Genesis to its ending in the Book of Revelation, and also with a sense of some of the ways in which the Bible has influenced the literary traditions of the West.
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This course is a very hands-on companion to Peter Navarro's two books on investing. In the best-selling If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, he introduced the revolutionary concept of Big Picture Investing as a way to not only profit-but also protect your portfolio from heavy losses. Since the publication of that book, he has received countless requests to illustrate, in a very detailed way, just how to apply Big Picture Investing to the day-to-day...
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Harvard University professor, Michael B. McElroy delivers a course that will discuss the complex interdependent systems that regulate the environment of Earth. Also, this course offers listeners a comprehensive overview of the essential environmental issues of our time including: air pollution, acid rain, depletion of the stratospheric ozone, destruction of tropical forests, and impending climate changes.
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This course examines the foundations of Western Civilization in antiquity. Shutt looks at the culture of the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, as well as how these cultures interacted with each other. He pays most of his attention to events taking place and ideas coming to birth in the Mediterranean basin, the fundamental homeland, or cultural hearth of Western Civilization from about 1200 BCE, before the Common Era, to about 600 CE: that is to...
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Presents an overview of the common bonds and historical differences among Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Explores the basic historical perspectives of the three religions and examines the three belief systems and their influence on each other and the modern world.
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A study of the life of Benjamin Franklin and his influence on both American and world history. From his early days as a printer's apprentice to very nearly his last days, Benjamin Franklin's thirst for knowledge and his desire to share what he knew brought him into the forefront of a changing world.
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The world will never see another peace conference like the one that took place in Paris in 1919. For six months, the world's major leaders - including Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, David Lloyd George, prime minister of Great Britain, and Georges Clemenceau, prime minister of France - met to discuss the peace settlements to end World War I. They faced huge issues and, as the weeks went by, their agenda grew.
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This course is not designed as a chronological survey of musical history and its many stylistic periods or moments, nor an exploration of the lives and output of individual composers. Instead, these lectures focus on the development of listening skills. Through this course you will develop new levels of aural awareness that will allow you to better appreciate the richness, complexity and excitement at the heart of all great concert music. Music is...
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Friedman explores the history of the American legal system with its foundations in English common law to how the system has evolved through culture, race relations, economics, crime, and issues of equality. Also how the public and private perceptions of liberty have changed over time.
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A chronological survey of the period from 1763 to 1800 and examination of the American Revolution. Key figures discussed include: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, Joseph Plumb Martin, Abigail Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.
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In Classical Mythology: The Greeks, widely published Professor Peter Meineck examines in thrilling detail the far-reaching influence of Greek myths on Western thought and literature. The nature of myth and its importance to ancient Greece in terms of storytelling, music, poetry, religion, cults, rituals, theatre, and literature are viewed through works ranging from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey to the writings of Sophocles and Aeschylus. Through the study...
18) Communication matters: "that's not what I meant!" : the sociolinguistics of everyday conversation
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"These lectures address the various aspects and implications of "conversational style." They look at the dynamics of specific situations, such as the workplace and classroom, where the role of conversational style is of particular importance"--Container.
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Discusses various moral aspects of human reproduction, from methods of conception to methods of ending a pregnancy. Explores the moral, cultural, legal and political influences on reproduction, and discusses the scientific advances in reproductive technology.
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This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust? Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and bad behavior, and to make judgments over what is just and what is unjust. But why are ethics important to us? This course looks at our history...
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