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Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2005. DVD. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 120-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Not from a library. From the estate of Amato Giaccia, MD. Suitable for gifting. An interdisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject. In 24 lectures, you will investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work. Contents: Lecture 1 Biology and Behavior—An Introduction ; Lecture 2 The Basic Cells of the Nervous System ; Lecture 3 How Two Neurons Communicate ; Lecture 4 Learning and Synaptic Plasticity ; Lecture 5 The Dynamics of Interacting Neurons ; Lecture 6… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2009. DVD. Twelve 30-minute lectures on two Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with a Fine 84-page paperback Course Guidebook. Disks show little sign of prior use. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. Drawing on extensive graphics, including hundreds of stunning astronomical images, Dr. Filippenko shows how scientists have been able to read the evidence to surmise a great deal about objects that are inherently invisible. Contents: Lecture 1 A General Introduction to Black Holes ; Lecture 2 The Violent Deaths of Massive Stars ; Lecture 3 Gamma-Ray Bursts—The Birth of Black Holes ; Lecture 4 Searching for Stellar-Mass Black Holes ; Lecture 5 Monster of the Milky Way and Other Galaxies ; Lecture 6 Quasars—Feasting Supermassive Black Holes ; Lecture 7 Gravitational Waves—Ripples in Space-Time ; Lecture 8 The Wildest Ride in the Universe ; Lecture 9 Shortcuts through the Universe and Beyond? ; Lecture 10 Stephen Hawking and Black Hole Evaporation ;… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2005. DVD. Very Good. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on six DVDs in original cases along with a paperback Course Guidebook. Light shelf and use wear. Not from a library.
These lectures require no special or advanced knowledge of mathematics. Instead, you will learn economics through intuitive explanations and in plain English.
Professor Timothy Taylor's first 18 lectures focus on "microeconomics," or looking at economics "from the bottom up." You will study the behavior of individuals, households, and firms; and how they interact in markets for goods, labor, and saving and investment. The second half of the course covers "macroeconomics," or studying the economy "from the top down." Here you will examine the factors that help economists evaluate the economy on a national and global scale.
You will learn that economics is essentially a way of thinking about big problems that face our society, and that economists sometimes think very differently about these issues… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2006. DVD. New. Forty-eight 30-minute lectures on eight DVDs in original case along with a paperback Course Guidebook, all in original shrink-wrap. Starting with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded. Over the next 600 years, rapid innovations in philosophy, technology, economics, military affairs, and politics allowed what once had been a cultural backwater left by the collapse of the Roman Empire to dominate the world. These 48 lectures explore how—and why—this happened. Contents: Lecture 1 The Importance of the West ; Lecture 2 Geography Is Destiny ; Lecture 3 Culture Is Destiny ; Lecture 4 Renaissance Humanism—1350–1650 ; Lecture 5 Renaissance Princes—1450–1600 ; Lecture 6 The New World & the Old—1400–1650 ; Lecture 7 The Protestant Reformation—1500–22 ; Lecture 8 The Wars of Religion—1523–1648 ; Lecture 9 Rational & Scientific Revolutions—1450–1650 ; Lecture 10 French Absolutism—1589–1715 ; Lecture 11 English… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: The Teaching Company, 2001. Audio CDs. 2nd Edition. Twelve 30-minute lectures on six Fine Audio CDs in Fine original case along with an As New paperback Course Guidebook (58 pages). No shrinkwrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting.These twelve lectures are designed to answer two questions that have nagged generations ever since Hitler and Nazism were destroyed: How could a man like Adolf Hitler and a movement like Nazism come to power in 20th-century Germany, an industrially developed country with a highly educated population? How were the Nazis able to establish the foundations of a totalitarian regime in such a short time and hurl the whole world into a devastating war that would consume millions of lives? As you travel back in time to answer these questions, you'll gain fascinating (and sometimes troubling) insights into the historical nightmare sparked by Hitler and his beliefs. You'll discover who voted for the Nazis and why;… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: The Teaching Company, 2001. Audio CDs. 2nd Edition. Twelve 30-minute lectures on six Fine Audio CDs in Fine original clamshell case along with an As New paperback Course Guidebook (58 pages). Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. These twelve lectures are designed to answer two questions that have nagged generations ever since Hitler and Nazism were destroyed: How could a man like Adolf Hitler and a movement like Nazism come to power in 20th-century Germany, an industrially developed country with a highly educated population? How were the Nazis able to establish the foundations of a totalitarian regime in such a short time and hurl the whole world into a devastating war that would consume millions of lives? As you travel back in time to answer these questions, you'll gain fascinating (and sometimes troubling) insights into the historical nightmare sparked by Hitler and his beliefs. You'll discover who voted for the Nazis and why; how the Nazis campaigned, and what they… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2007. DVD. Very Good+. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four DVDs in original cases along with a paperback Course Guidebook. Light shelf and use wear. Not from a library.

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company. DVD. 2005. Fine. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on six Fine DVDs in three Fine original cases along with a Fine 147-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. Professor Kenneth Bartlett helps you appreciate the Italian Renaissance as the moment in history when culture reached a point that is still very much with us, in the way we live our modern lives and in the extant Renaissance cities of contemporary Italy. You will gain an understanding of the underlying social, political, and economic forces that made such exceptional art and culture possible. In this course, you will learn from two masters: Professor Bartlett himself, and the eminent 19th-century art historian Jacob Burckhardt, who created the scholarly model of cultural history through which the Renaissance is still widely studied today.Lecture 1 The Study of the Italian Renaissance ; Lecture 2 The… Read More

Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 173-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. Ready to exercise those brain cells? Humans have been having fun with mathematics for thousands of years. Along the way, they've discovered the amazing utility of this field—in science, engineering, finance, games of chance, and many other aspects of life. This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Although racing a calculator to solve a difficult problem may seem like a superhuman achievement, Professor Benjamin shows that there are simple tricks that allow anyone to look like a math magician. Professor Benjamin has another goal in this course: throughout these lectures, he shows how everything in mathematics is connected—how the beautiful and often imposing edifice… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Compnay, 2008. DVD. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on six Fine DVDs in the original case along with a Very Good 172-page paperback Course Guidebook. Disks show only slight signs of prior use; no scratches. Slight shelfwear to case. Guidebook has two pages of vocabulary written in the "notes" pages at the end, otherwise Fine. Not from a library. This course of 36 lectures explores the five momentous centuries that link the classical and modern worlds and shows you how the fall of the Roman Empire gave rise to three great civilizations: Medieval Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Islamic Caliphate. It explores many features of the period between A.D. 253 and A.D. 750, including the development of these unique civilizations, their memorable political and religious leaders, and the fascinating experience of daily life in the late antique world.Contents: lecture 1. The world of late antiquity ; lecture 2. The crisis of the 3rd century ; lecture 3. The new empire of… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2011. DVD. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 127-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. From the estate of Amato Giaccia, MD. Suitable for gifting. Theese 24 lectures take you on a startling voyage into the human mind, explaining not only how the various aspects of your memory operate, but the impact memory has on your daily experience of life.Contents: Lecture 1 Memory is a party -- Lecture 2 The ancient "art of memory" -- Lecture 3 Rote memorization and a science of forgetting -- Lecture 4 Sensory memory--brief traces of the past -- Lecture 5 The conveyor belt of working memory -- Lecture 6 Encoding--our gateway into long-term memory -- Lecture 7 Episodic and semantic long-term memory -- Lecture 8 The secret passage--implicit memory -- Lecture 9 From procedural memory to habit -- Lecture 10 When memory systems battle--habits vs.… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2004. Audio CDs. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on 18 Audio CDs in original clam-shell cases along with a three-part paperback Course Guidebook. Good. No markings, but wear from prior use. Not from a library.
An in-depth tour of the development of human language, showing how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago has evolved into the 6000 languages used around the world today. Contents: What is language? -- When language began -- How language changes-- sound change -- How language changes-- building new material -- How language changes-- meaning and order -- How language changes-- many directions -- How language changes-- modern English -- Language families-- Indo-European -- Language families-- tracing Indo-European -- Language families-- diversity of structures -- Language families-- clues to the past -- The case against the world's first language -- The case for the world's first language -- Dialects-- subspecies of species -- Dialects-- where do you draw… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2007. DVDs. New. In plastic wrap. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on six new DVDs in a new case along with a new 190-page paperback illustrated Course Guidebook. Understanding the Brain, a 36-lecture course by award-winning Professor Jeanette Norden of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ and shows you how it works, from the gross level of its organization to the molecular level of how cells in the brain communicate. With its combination of neurology, biology, and psychology, this course will help you understand how we perceive the world through our senses, how we move, how we learn and remember, and how emotions affect our thoughts and actions. Contents: Lecture 1: Historical Underpinnings of Neuroscience; Lecture 2 Central Nervous System - Gross Organization; Lecture 3 Central Nervous System - Internal Organization; Lecture 4 Central Nervous System - Subdivisions; Lecture 5 Cortex - Lobes and Areas; Lecture… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2008. DVD. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 177-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. Understanding genetics is like sitting down to work a massive puzzle. With each piece you examine, think through, and solve, you glean a new and amazing insight into humanity. Put several pieces together, and you can treat or cure a disease, save a developing fetus from a fatal birth defect, catch a criminal, or reunite a family. Each lecture begins with a helpful story that illustrates the importance of genetics. The course explicitly outlines the connections between the science of genetics and the health-related problems that plague us in modern society, and illuminates how studying genetics can be instrumental in solving those problems.Contents: 1ecture 1. Our inheritance -- lecture 2. Mendel and genes -- lecture 3.… Read More