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"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

American University professor Allan J. Lichtman delivers forty-eight lectures on twelve of America's presidents.

For over 400 years, Shakespeare's plays have enthralled, moved, and enriched each new generation of readers and theatergoers. This lecture series builds the skills that allow you to reach your own understanding of the plays, to deeply comprehend Shakespeare's transcendent poetic language, the spellbinding world of his great characters and stories, and his revelatory reflections on human experience. The tools you learn are yours for years of enjoyment...

Learning how to appreciate the unmatched beauty, genius, and power of concert music can permanently enrich your life. Why is this so? As award-winning composer and Professor Robert Greenberg explains, Music, the most abstract and sublime of all the arts, is capable of transmitting an unbelievable amount of expressive, historical, and even philosophical information to us, provided that our antennas are up and pointed in the right direction. A little...

Islam has more than 1.2 billion adherents worldwide. Today, it is imperative that the West understand Islam's role as both a religion and a way of life, what Muslims believe, their practices and history. This set of twelve thirty-minute lectures present an exploration of Islamic law, mysticism, civilization, and Muslim life and society through the ages. Examines the "struggle for the soul of Islam" occurring today between conservatives and reformers,...

This course explores the life and writings of C.S. Lewis and considers why Lewis' works have continued to gain in power and popularity over the last half-century. It also surveys some of the events and people that shaped his thought and his works. His various roles and contributions are examined sequentially , first as apologist, then academic scholar and finally as novelist .

Discusses various schools of thought in developmental psychology, including those of Freud, Erickson, Bandura, Ainsworth, Piaget, and Vygotsky.

With this tape you will learn: To explain the meaning of multiplication; The ability to multiply using the lattice method; To make valid estimates for multiplication problems and to explain the meaning of division.