American religious history

Great courses. Religion

Great courses (Compact disc). Religion.

Memory and the human lifespan

The great courses

Great courses (Compact disc)

Latin 101 : learning a classical language

Learning a classical language

The Great courses. Literature & language. Language learning

Great courses (Compact disc)

Scientific secrets for self-control

The great courses. Topic, Better living. Subtopic, Personal development

Great courses (Compact disc)

Why is it so hard to do what we should? ; Self control successes and failures -- Marshmallows, monkeys, and mortality ; Taming the impulsive beast -- First impressions and sterotypes ; Romance, finance, and your environment.

The Apostle Paul [sound recording]

Great courses

Bible. Epistles of Paul

Great courses (Compact disc)

An apostle admired and despised -- How should we read Paul? -- Paul's life and letters -- Problems of early Christianity -- First and Second Thessalonians -- Life in the world : First Corinthians -- Life in Christ : Second Corinthians -- Life and law : Galatians -- Life and righteousness : Romans -- Fellowship : letters from captivity -- History and theology -- Paul's influence.

What science knows about cancer [sound recording]

The great courses. Better living. Health & wellness

The great courses

Great courses (Compact disc)

Cancer is an ongoing challenge -- Cancer is a major burden to society -- Discovering causes of cancer in populations -- Some causes of cancer in populations -- DNA is the key to understanding cancer -- How does DNA change to initiate cancer? -- How do we know if something causes cancer? -- How do normal cells function? -- What is different about cancer cells? -- How do tumors grow? -- How tumors spread and thrive -- What are tumor viruses? -- How do tumor viruses cause cancer? -- How do cancer-causing genes work? -- Can cancer be inherited? -- How do normal genes suppress tumors? -- How do genetic changes result in cancer? -- Treating cancer with surgery -- Treating cancer with radiation -- Treating cancer with drugs -- How do drugs attack cancer? -- Frontiers of cancer treatment -- Can screening for cancer be useful? -- Can cancer be prevented?

Unexpected economics [sound recording]

Great courses

The great courses. Business & Economics. Economics

Great courses (Compact disc)

Great courses. Business & Economics. Economics.

The world of choices -- A market for pregnancy -- Selling a kidney -- disc 2, lecture 4. Traffic congestion -- costs, pricing, and you -- Two-way ties between religion and economics -- Prediction markets -- windows on the future -- Pathways for crime and crime fighting -- Marriage as a search market -- Procreation and parenthood -- Small choices and racial discrimination -- Fairness and the ultimatum game -- Myopic preferences and behavioral economics -- Altruism, charity, and gifts -- Loss aversion and reference point bias -- Risk and uncertainty -- Human herds and Information cascades -- Addiction and choice -- Obesity -- who bears the costs? -- The economics of natural disasters -- Sports lessons -- pay, performance, tournaments -- Voting, money, and politics -- The pursuit of happiness.

The world was never the same [sound recording] : events that changed history

The great courses. Topic, History. Subtopic, Civilization & culture

Great courses (Compact disc). History. Civilization & culture.

Hammurabi issues a code ; Moses and monotheisem -- The enlightement of the Buddha ; Confucius instructs a nation -- Solon, democracy begins ; Marathon, democracy triumphant -- Hippocrates takes an oath ; Caesar crosses the Rubicon -- Jesus, the trial of a teacher ; Constantine I wins a battle -- Muhammad moves to Medina, the Hegira ; Bologna gets a university.

Dante sees Beatrice ; Black death, pandemics and history -- Columbus finds a New World ; Michelangelo accepts a commission -- Erasmus, a book sets Europe ablaze ; Luther's new course changes history -- The defeat of the Spanish Armada ; The Battle of Vienna -- The Battle of Lexington ; General Pickett leads a charge -- Adam Smith versus Karl Marx ; Charles Darwin takes an ocean voyage.

Louis Pasteur cures a child ; Two brothers take flight -- The Archduke makes a state visit ; One night in Petrograd -- The day the stock market crashed ; Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany -- Franklin Roosevelt becomes President ; The atomic bomb is dropped -- Mao Zedong begins his long march ; John F. Kennedy is assassinated -- Dr. King leads a march ; September 11, 2001.

The Age of Henry VIII

Age of Henry the Eighth

Henry the Eighth

Great courses

Great courses (Compact disc)

The other 1492 [sound recording] : Ferdinand, Isabella, and the making of an empire

Ferdinand, Isabella, and the making of an empire

Other fourteen ninety two

Other fourteen hundred ninety two

The great courses

Great courses (Videorecordings)

Europe and the new world in 1492 -- Reconquest, Pilgrimage, Crusade, Repopulation -- Transformation of values -- An Age of crisis -- Isabella and Ferinand: an age of reform -- Iberian culture in the fifteenth century -- Conquest of Granada, Muslim life in Iberia -- Edict of expulsion, Jewish life in Iberia -- Jews, conversos, and the inquisition -- World of Christopher Columbus -- Shock of the new -- Spain and its empire, the aftermath of 1492.

English grammar boot camp [sound recording]

Great courses. Literature & language. Writing

Great courses (Compact disc). Literature & language.

Why do we care about grammar? -- Prescriptivism: grammar shoulds and shouldn'ts -- Descriptivism: how grammar really works -- Re phrasing -- Fewer octopuses or less octopi? -- Between you and your pronouns -- Which hunting -- A(n) historical issue -- Funnest lecture ever -- Going, going, went -- Object lessons -- Shall we?

Passive voice was corrected -- Only adverbs -- No ifs, ands, or buts -- However to use However -- Squirrels and prepositions -- Stranded prepositions -- The dangers of danglers -- Navigating the choppy paragraph -- What part of speech is Um? -- Duck, duck, comma, and duck -- Its/It's confusing -- Trending language.

The art of storytelling [sound recording] : from parents to professionals

From parents to professionals

The great courses. Professional. Communication skills

Great courses (Compact disc)

Telling a good story -- The storytelling triangle -- Connecting with your story -- Connecting with your audience -- Telling family stories -- The powerful telling of fairy tales -- Myth and the hero's journey -- Tensive conflict and meaning -- Giving yourself permission to tell -- Visualization and memory -- Discovering point of view -- The artful manipulation of time and focus -- Narrator -- bridging characters and audience -- Developing complex characters -- Plot and story structures -- Emotional arc and empathy -- Varying the narrator's perspective -- Vocal intonation -- Preparing to perform -- Putting performance anxiety to good use -- Adapting to different audiences -- Invitation to the audience -- mindset -- Keeping your audience's attention -- Remember your stories -- the power of orality.