Teaching Company
61) Famous Romans
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Great courses. Better living volume 9483
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Learn hands-on strategies for sustainable practices that can help you cut costs, live healthier, and promote a more regerative world.
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Teaching is more than a job--it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But teaching is no easy task. It's an art form that requires...
Series
Great courses. Better living volume 9483
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Learn hands-on strategies for sustainable practices that can help you cut costs, live healthier, and promote a more regerative world.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Presents a series of twenty-four lectures that examines in detail the New Testament. Professor Bart Ehrman discusses its form, the methods of composition, its authors and their original audiences, and the surrounding historical context. He focuses on questions of historical evidence and explanation rather than on issues of religious belief and theological truth.
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"These lucid, information-packed lectures convey the excitement of scientific discovery and trace the connections between discoveries over time. In this course, veteran science educator Robert Hazen renders the most complex ideas simple and memorable, without ever being simplistic"--www.teach12.com
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For thousands of centuries, humans lived near the ocean, wandered right up to its edge, and turned back to the relative safety of the known land. Even when we invented ships and the very bravest among us sailed out, our fears and imaginations took over. What creatures could be living in the unknowable darkness, the bottomless depths? Giant worms, microorganisms that eat metal, faceless fish, giant sea spiders? Marine life is even more otherworldly...
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ninety-six lectures, divided into ten sections, are 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. Updated edition integrates discoveries reported in the 2003 course and includes recent findings (through mid-2006).
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Thirty-six lectures of thirty minutes each by William Kloss, independent art historian with Smithsonian Associates, the Smithsonian Institution. 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...
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"These lucid, information-packed lectures convey the excitement of scientific discovery and trace the connections between discoveries over time. In this course, veteran science educator Robert Hazen renders the most complex ideas simple and memorable, without ever being simplistic"--www.teach12.com
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"These lucid, information-packed lectures convey the excitement of scientific discovery and trace the connections between discoveries over time. In this course, veteran science educator Robert Hazen renders the most complex ideas simple and memorable, without ever being simplistic"--www.teach12.com
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"These lucid, information-packed lectures convey the excitement of scientific discovery and trace the connections between discoveries over time. In this course, veteran science educator Robert Hazen renders the most complex ideas simple and memorable, without ever being simplistic"--www.teach12.com
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"These lucid, information-packed lectures convey the excitement of scientific discovery and trace the connections between discoveries over time. In this course, veteran science educator Robert Hazen renders the most complex ideas simple and memorable, without ever being simplistic"--www.teach12.com