Teaching Company
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6 videodiscs (approximately 18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 205 pages ; 19 cm).
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English
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Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by John McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, based on his courses in Linguistics.
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4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
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English
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Great writing begins -- and ends -- with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving...
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6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + part I transcript book (ii, 226 pages ; 21 cm) + part I guidebook (ii, 64 pages ; 22 cm) + part II transcript book (ii, 234 pages ; 21 cm) + part II guidebook (ii, 65 pages ; 22 cm) + part III transcript book (ii, 248 pages ; 21 cm) + part III guidebook (ii, 80 pages ; 22 cm).
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English
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These lectures cover the art historical periods known as the Early Renaissance and the High Renaissance, which extended from about 1400 to about 1520. No era of artistic achievement is as renowned as the Renaissance, and no country holds a higher place in that period than Italy. The supreme works created in Florence, Rome, Venice, and other Italian cities by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian have never...
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6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook.
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English
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Language is fascinating. It defines humans as a species, placing us head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. Professor McWhorter explores many of the common questions about language, such as: Why isn't there just a single language? Or, How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth? In short, everything about a language is eternally and inherently changeable, from its word...
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4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 183 pages ; 19 cm).
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English
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Ready to exercise those brain cells? Professor Arthur T. Benjamin is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and in this series, he shows that there are simple tricks that allow anyone to look like a math magician. Throughout these lectures, he shows how everything in mathematics is connected--how the beautiful and often imposing edifice that has given us algebra, geometry,...
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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
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English
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For anyone wanting to master music's language, being able to read musical notation is a necessity. But this course, as Professor Greenberg notes, is a basic course, designed to introduce you to music's language in a way that is similar to the way you learned your own native language, by "discovering and exploring musical syntax through our ears-- by learning what the parts of musical speech sound like--rather than what they look like on paper." By...
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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 60 pages ; 22 cm).
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English
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Lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, cover the history of rhetoric and debate as well as analysis of different types of arguments in various situations.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (71 pages each ; 22 cm).
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English
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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.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm).
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English
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"Professor Francis Colavita offers a biopsychological perspective on the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us in a process that is ever-changing. Our experiences are vastly different today than they were when we were children and our senses and brains were still developing; and those experiences are becoming ever more different as we age, when natural changes alert us to the need to compensate, often in ways that are quite positive"--Publisher's...
12) Algebra I
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6 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm).
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English
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3 volumes ; 21 cm.
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English
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Thirty-six lectures by Peter N. Stearns that provide a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe, beginning with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ending with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
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x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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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.
19) Famous Romans
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12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 65 pages, ii, 70 pages ; 22 cm).
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English
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An introduction to Roman history focusing on the lives of great individuals. Examines lives from the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.) through the Empire during the first and second centuries A.D.