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Understanding Investments
Professor Connel Fullenkamp
Learn how to invest with skill and confidence to attain your financial goals with the 24 timely and informative lectures of Understanding Investments. Economist and Professor Connel Fullenkamp explains the fundamentals of investing to those new to the subject while broadening and deepening the knowledge of more experienced investors. He clearly explains the various kinds of financial markets, the different kinds of investments available to you, and the pros and cons of each—and shows you how to evaluate each of these in terms of your own financial situation and goals.
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The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals
Professor Hannah B. Harvey
The gift of storytelling may be one of life's most powerful—and envied—skills. A well-crafted narrative can keep the people, values, and life lessons you hold dear alive and give you the power to influence others. Now, The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals reveals the tried-and-true methods experienced storytellers use to develop and tell entertaining and memorable stories. In 24 enthralling lectures, Professor Hannah B. Harvey of East Tennessee State University demonstrates how to master the art form’s basic principles with the same dynamic energy that has made her an internationally recognized professional storyteller and award-winning educator. Even if you never plan to set foot on a stage, knowing what a professional storyteller does in the process of crafting and delivering a tale allows you to enhance the stories you tell everyday—to your children at bedtime, in your conversational anecdotes, and in your presentations at work.
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Effective Communication Skills
Professor Dalton Kehoe
Effective Communication Skills is your chance to learn more about how you communicate verbally, the common problems you can encounter in doing so, and how you can improve your own effectiveness—especially by overcoming the psychological and biological hard-wiring that often gets in the way of success. These 24 mind-opening lectures by Professor Dalton Kehoe, packed with the tools and strategies you need, are a powerful exploration of what's really going on in any conversation you take part in.
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Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know
Professor Michael K. Salemi
Get a penetrating look at the financial institutions that are fundamental to your life with the 36 detailed lectures of Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know. Award-winning Professor Michael K. Salemi investigates a range of pivotal and fascinating topics. Among these: the history of money; how money is created by commercial and central banks; the role of public confidence in the stability of financial systems; the psychology of stock market "bubbles"; the connection between Wall Street and Main Street; and more.
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How Conversation Works: 6 Lessons for Better Communication
Professor Anne Curzan
Like it or not, one of the most important things you do on a daily basis is converse with others. Successful conversations help you advance professionally and make, maintain, and deepen relationships. Fortunately, it’s a skill set anyone can acquire and refine. In just six lectures, How Conversation Works: 6 Lessons for Better Communication will teach you key strategies that can dramatically improve your ability to speak with anyone, from strangers to supervisors. Delivered by award-winning English professor Anne Curzan of the University of Michigan, this highly practical course focuses on the fundamental principles you need to become more conversationally aware and savvy at home, in the workplace, and beyond.
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Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
Professor Steven Novella
Dr. Steven Novella of the Yale School of Medicine equips you with the knowledge and skills you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life. The 24 rewarding lectures of Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills immerses you in the science of cognitive biases and thought processes. By learning how to think about thinking (a fascinating process known as metacognition), you'll gain concrete lessons for doing so more critically, more intelligently, and more successfully than ever before.
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Art of Critical Decision Making
Professor Michael A. Roberto
Making a good decision is a skill—one that can be learned, honed, and perfected. Now, approach the important decisions in your life with a more seasoned, educated eye. The Art of Critical Decision Making explores how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective choices. These 24 fascinating lectures also provide you with the skills and techniques you need to enhance the effectiveness of your own decision making. Taught by Professor Michael A. Roberto—a scholar of managerial decision making—this course is an engaging and practical guide to one of the most fundamental activities in your everyday life.
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The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset
Professor Scott E. Page
From technology to business, two (or more) heads often prove to be better than one—but only if those heads are cognitively diverse. Diverse perspectives are a powerful tool for maximizing productivity and enhancing collective performance. Now, in The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset, you can learn the strategies that make you a more diverse thinker and position you to break down institutional silos and build robust, effective teams. Delivered by Professor Scott E. Page of the University of Michigan—a pioneering researcher in his field—these 24 thought-provoking lectures are packed with case studies, cautionary tales, and formal mathematical methods that prove the case for cognitive difference.
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Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies, and Organizations
Professor Michael A. Roberto
Get an essential guide to the dynamics of transformational leadership with Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies, and Organizations. Professor Michael A. Roberto's 24 lectures examine the leadership behaviors essential to creating positive change in teams and organizations. Filled with case studies and lessons from leaders in business and politics, as well as specific skills you can put to use in your own career, this course is a must-have handbook for leaders everywhere.
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Unexpected Economics
Professor Timothy Taylor
Grasp as never before the ways in which economics operates in areas you may never have considered. Delivered by acclaimed economist and Professor Timothy Taylor, the 24 lectures of Unexpected Economics offer a wide-ranging investigation of how economic thinking—whether applied personally, nationally, or globally—relates to, and sheds fresh light on, just about everything. Using findings from recent Nobel Prize winners and leading-edge fields like behavioral economics, Professor Taylor explores the economics behind subjects such as discrimination, natural disasters, charity, and even terrorism.
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Understanding Complexity
Professor Scott E. Page
Discover and grasp the fundamentals and applications of the amazing field of complexity science with Understanding Complexity. Professor Scott E. Page—one of the field's most highly regarded teachers and researchers—shows you how complexity science helps us understand the nature and behavior of financial markets, corporations, native cultures, governments, and other systems that play important roles in our increasingly complex world. By the conclusion of the course, you'll have attained a new lens through which to better view and make sense of your world.
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China, India, and the United States: The Future of Economic Supremacy
Professor Peter Rodriguez
In the six provocative lectures of China, India, and the United States: The Future of Economic Supremacy, noted economist and award-winning Professor Peter Rodriguez previews what the next few decades of the global economy will look like in the wake of the miraculous growth rates of China and India. You'll also uncover what these developments mean for the economic future of the United States of America.
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History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century
Professor Timothy Taylor
Speaking with authority and credibility, economist and award-winning Professor Timothy Taylor delivers a wealth of insights into the economic history of the last 100 years of our nation in A History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century. This fast-paced course introduces you to vital economic lessons learned in the last century and provides you with invaluable guidance for understanding the current economy. In some cases, you examine well-defined events like the creation of the Federal Reserve. In others, you explore larger societal shifts, such as the evolving role of women in the economy or changing consumption patterns. As Professor Taylor remarks, knowing economic history "helps discussions about the present get off on the right foot, free of at least some of the myths and ignorance that can so easily lead us astray."
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Business Law: Negligence and Torts
Professor Frank B. Cross
Business Law: Negligence and Torts addresses two important questions: When is someone else legally responsible for harm done to you? and When are you legally responsible for harm done to someone else? Former attorney and Professor Frank B. Cross takes you inside the intricate world of torts: the body of law designed to redress through civil litigation harms done to persons. These eight lectures not only explain the basics of this substantive body of law but give insight through examples of how the law is based on a logical idea of a just outcome.
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The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals & Effective Communication Skills (Set)
Various Professors
Learn how to command an audience of one or one-thousand with this practical course set on the craft of communicating. First, The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals reveals the tried-and-true methods experienced storytellers use to develop and tell entertaining and memorable tales. Then, Effective Communication Skills illuminates how you communicate verbally, the common problems you can encounter in doing so, and how you can improve your own effectiveness—especially by overcoming the psychological and biological hard-wiring that often gets in the way of success.
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