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How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd EditionHow to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition

By Professor
Robert Greenberg

This course can permanently enrich your life: With Professor Greenberg as your teacher, you will hear and understand an entire language of unmatched beauty, genius, and power. Using digitally recorded passages to illustrate his points, Professor Greenberg will take you inside magnificent compositions by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and more. You have listened to many of the illustrative pieces all your life—but after this course, you will never hear them the same way again.
Formats Available: DVD, Audio CD, Audio Download, Audiotape, Transcript Book
Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd EditionArgumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition

By Professor
David Zarefsky

Reasoning, tested by doubt, is argumentation. We do it, hear it, and judge it every day. We do it in our own minds, and we do it with others. What is effective reasoning? And how can it be done persuasively? This is equally a course in argument and in reasoning. This course teaches how to reason. It teaches how to persuade others that what you think is right. And it teaches how to judge and answer the arguments of others—and how they will judge yours.
Formats Available: DVD, Audio CD, Audio Download, Audiotape, Transcript Book
Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd EditionUnderstanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition

By Professor
Alex Filippenko

In 96 richly illustrated half-hour lectures you will survey the main concepts, methods, and discoveries in astronomy—from the constellations drawn by the ancients, to the latest reports from planetary probes in our Solar System and the most recent images offered by telescopes probing the farthest frontiers of space and time. While updating this course, Professor Alex Filippenko added hundreds of images, including nearly 300 short movies and computer animations.
Formats Available: DVD, Transcript Book
Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd EditionGreat Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

By Professor
Daniel N. Robinson

Humanity left childhood and entered the troubled but productive world when it started to criticize its own certainties and weigh the worthiness of its most secure beliefs. Thus began that "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, the terms of civic and political life—the good, the better, the best. This course of 60 lectures gives the student a sure guide and interpreter as major themes of philosophy are presented and considered.
Formats Available: DVD, Audio CD, Audio Download, Audiotape, Transcript Book
  
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Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear, 2nd EditionChange and Motion: Calculus Made Clear, 2nd Edition

By Professor
Michael Starbird

Most of the differences in the way we experience life emerged because of technical advances that rely on calculus. Calculus is a beautiful idea exposing the rational workings of the world; it is part of our intellectual heritage. It justly deserves a place in the pantheon of our accomplishments with Shakespeare's plays, Beethoven's symphonies, and Einstein's theories of relativity. Many of us exclude ourselves from the profound insights of calculus because we didn't continue in mathematics. This great achievement remains a closed door. But Professor Michael Starbird can open that door and make calculus accessible to all.
Formats Available: DVD, Transcript Book
Great World Religions, 2nd Edition: All 5 Religions (Set)Great World Religions, 2nd Edition: All 5 Religions (Set)

By Various Professors

Join five top college professors in this all-new version of Great World Religions, an authoritative, informative, and up-to-date survey of the history and nature of the world’s five major faiths: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. How are these religions alike? How are they dissimilar? What issues are most meaningful to each religion’s adherents? This 60-lecture tour will do more than just enhance your knowledge of these major faiths; it will enable you to view religion in its totality as a unified, integrated human activity.
Formats Available: DVD, Audio CD, Audiotape
Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and PhysiologyUnderstanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

By Professor
Anthony A. Goodman

Surgeon, writer, and teacher Dr. Anthony A. Goodman puts a solid understanding of human anatomy and physiology within your grasp. You’ll learn to see how structure and function are integrated into efficient unity—a perspective that reveals the logic and symmetry of the human organism with awesome clarity.
Formats Available: DVD