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Food: A Cultural Culinary History & The Everyday Gourmet: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Cooking (Set)
Various Professors
Indulge your love of food with this deliciously informative course duo. In Food: A Cultural Culinary History, you'll travel the world discovering fascinating food lore and culture of all regions and eras. In The Everyday Gourmet: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Cooking, you'll join a seasoned Culinary Institute of America chef-instructor as he demonstrates all the foundational culinary skills you need to turn out satisfying and impressive meals.
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What Science Knows about Cancer & Lifelong Health: Achieving Optimum Well-Being at Any Age (Set)
Various Professors
Arm yourself with information that can help you and your loved ones stay healthy with this important two-course set. What Science Knows about Cancer reports from the front lines of the war on cancer with a clear and scientifically precise—yet thoroughly accessible—guide to how the disease develops, thrives, and can potentially be conquered. Lifelong Health: Achieving Optimum Well-Being at Any Age is an essential reference guide to healthy living, packed with information and advice rooted in the latest scientific understanding of nutrition, physiology, and other related fields.
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Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist & Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills (Set)
Various Professors
Become a savvier, sharper critical thinker with this eye-opening course duo. In Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist, you'll discover how to apply the rational, empirical methods of skepticism to detect specious claims and faulty logic in any scenario you encounter. And in Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills, you'll learn how to think about thinking (a fascinating process known as metacognition) and gain concrete lessons for doing so more intelligently and more successfully than ever before.
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Life in Our Universe & Black Holes Explained (Set)
Various Professors
Explore two of the great mysteries in the universe—whether life exists elsewhere and the phenomenon of black holes—in this visually lavish course set. First, in Life in Our Universe, you'll explore the cutting-edge research leading scientists to believe that life is not exclusively the domain of Earth. Then, in Black Holes Explained, you'll grasp one of the most exotic, mind-boggling, and profound subjects in astrophysics through accessible explanations of photon spheres, event horizons, Einstein rings, and other key concepts.
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The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room & Strategic Thinking Skills (Set)
Various Professors
Learn about the pitfalls that inhibit good thinking and their remedies, as well as the art of thinking strategically in business and in life, with this practical course set. In The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room, you'll gain the tools to be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in your thinking and in all aspects of your daily life. And in Strategic Thinking Skills, you'll get a comprehensive guide to the skills, tactics, techniques, tools, case studies, and lessons behind the process of setting goals, developing long-range plans, anticipating the unexpected, analyzing your environment, and even cooperating with your competitors.
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How to Read and Understand Shakespeare & Art of Reading (Set)
Various Professors
Get all the tools you need to interpret and appreciate any novel or story, or play by Shakespeare in this course set that shows you how to divine the deeper meanings of these works yourself. In How to Read and Understand Shakespeare, Professor Marc C. Conner gives you a set of more than 40 interpretive tools, drawn from the texts themselves, that give you direct insight into Shakespeare's plays. Then, in The Art of Reading, Professor Timothy Spurgin gives you the concepts, tools, and techniques to approach even the most daunting novel or short story with increased confidence to make your future reading experiences more enriching and enjoyable.
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Old Testament & New Testament (Set)
Various Professors
Discover new ways to look at the Hebrew and Christian Bibles with two expert religious scholars. The Old Testament probes the content of the Hebrew Bible's various books and various debates over their meaning. The New Testament draws on modern scholarship, recent archaeological evidence, and literary analysis to trace the history of the Christian Bible and the early Christian community.
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Writing Creative Nonfiction & Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything (Set)
Various Professors
This immensely practical two-course set will help improve your writing of the stories that you want to share with others as well as anything else that requires analytical and persuasive writing. Explore the entire process of writing creative nonfiction, from brainstorming for the perfect idea to getting your final product noticed by literary agents and publishers, in Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo’s Writing Creative Nonfiction. In Professor Dorsey Armstrong’s Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything, learn the fundamental elements of effective writing that transform your writing from "good" to "great."
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The Skeptic’s Guide to American History & Turning Points in American History (Set)
Various Professors
Gain a fuller appreciation for America’s story with this insightful two-course set. First, relive the United States’ most pivotal, groundbreaking moments from the arrival of the first English colonists through the computer age and beyond with Turning Points in American History. Then, in The Skeptic’s Guide to American History, reframe your understanding of this great nation’s past by examining many commonly held myths and half-truths about America and learning what really happened—as opposed to what many believe happened.
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Foundations of Western Civilization I & II (Set)
Various Professors
In Foundations of Western Civilization I, discover the essential nature, evolution, and perceptions of Western civilization. Award-winning scholar and teacher Thomas F. X. Noble of the University of Notre Dame begins in the ancient Near East, and moves to Greece, then to Rome, and concludes by examining the spread of Western civilization. Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World is a course about the meaning of civilization itself. This course offers a coherent context for the events and trends with which you may be familiar, but also makes clear the nature of the legacies those centuries have bequeathed to us.
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Algebra I & Algebra II (Set)
Professor James A. Sellers
Master the fundamental concepts and applications of high-school algebra in this two-course set designed to appeal to anyone interested in grasping an essential branch of mathematics. Algebra I makes the concepts of first-year algebra—including variables, order of operations, and functions—easy to grasp. Algebra II takes a similar approach to concepts in second-year algebra such as matrices, polynomials, sequences, and logarithms.
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The Science of Natural Healing & Nutrition Made Clear (Set)
Various Professors
Learn the most effective ways to nurture your optimal health with this potentially life-changing two-course set. You’ll start with an exploration of the fundamentals of good nutrition in Nutrition Made Clear, a course packed with medically backed, statistically proven information on the guidelines for healthy living and eating. Then, in The Science of Natural Healing, a board-certified cardiologist leads you in a compelling and practical investigation of holistic approaches to healthcare, including many nature-based treatments and methods that are both clinically proven and readily available.
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Masters of War: History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers & Great Battles of the Ancient World (Set)
Various Professors
Investigate military strategy, tactics, and weaponry from ancient times through the modern day with this two-course set. First, Masters of War: History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers gives you an inside look at the thought process and historical context of the world’s greatest war strategists. Then, Great Battles of the Ancient World takes you into the thick of combat in some of the most notable battles fought in the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times to the 4th century A.D.
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Lost Worlds of South America & Conquest of the Americas (Set)
Various Professors
Take a fascinating journey through time to explore the histories and legacies of North and South America. The first of this set’s courses, Lost Worlds of South America leads you on an adventurous trek of discovery through the emerging finds and archaeological knowledge of more than 12 seminal civilizations. Then, Conquest of the Americas investigates how the collision of three distinct peoples and cultures—Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans—gave rise to a new American identity and radically transformed the world.
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Mathematics Describing the Real World & Understanding Calculus (Set)
Professor Bruce H. Edwards
Master the fundamental concepts and applications of two fascinating branches of mathematics with this richly illustrated two-course set. Gain insights into functions, complex numbers, matrices, and much more with Mathematics Describing the Real World: Precalculus and Trigonometry. Then, cover all the major topics of a full-year calculus course in high school at the College Board Advanced Placement AB level or a first-semester course in college with Understanding Calculus: Problems, Solutions, and Tips.
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