World War II [videorecording] : a military and social history

World War Two

World War 2

The great courses, modern history

Great courses (DVD)

European thought & culture in the 20th century

European thought and culture in the twentieth century

Great courses

Great courses (Compact disc)

Origins of 20th-century European thought -- Universities, cities & the modern 'culture industry' -- Naturalism in fin-de-siècle literature -- New avant-garde literary culture -- Rethinking the scientific tradition -- Emergence of modern art -- Émile Durkheim & French social thought -- Max Weber & the new German sociology -- Great war & cultural pessimism -- Sigmund Freud & the psychoanalytic theory -- Freud, Jung & the constraints of civilized life -- Poetry & surrealism after the great war -- Modern novel, Joyce & Woolf -- Continental novel, Proust, Kafka, Mann -- Language & reality in modern philosophy -- Revisiting Marxism & liberalism -- Responses to Nazism & the Holocaust -- Existential philosophy -- Literature & memory in postwar culture -- Redefining modern feminism -- History, anthropology & structuralism -- Poststructuralist thought, Foucault & Derrida -- European postmodernism -- Changes & traditions at century's end.

Theories of human development [sound recording]

The great courses. Math, science & economics

Introduction--the value of theories -- The early history of child study -- Two worldviews, Locke vs. Rousseau -- Later history : becoming scientific -- Freud's psychodynamic theory -- How we gain contact with reality : the ego -- Freud's psycho-sexual stages -- Erikson's psycho-social theory -- Erikson's early stages -- Identity and intimacy -- Erikson's later stages : adult development -- Bowlby and Ainsworth's attachment theory -- How nature ensures that attachment will occur -- Development of secure and insecure attachments -- Early attachments and adult relationships -- Bandura's social learning theory -- Bandura's self-efficacy theory -- Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory -- Piaget's early stages -- Concrete operations -- Piaget's last stage -- Vygotsky's cognitive-mediation theory -- Vygotsky's zone of proximal development -- Conclusions--our nature and development.

Great scientific ideas that changed the world [videorecording]

Great courses. Science & mathematics

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

Knowledge, know-how, and social change -- Writing makes science possible -- Inventing reason and knowledge -- The birth of natural science -- Mathematics as the order of nature -- The birth of techno-science -- Universities relaunch the idea of knowledge -- The medieval revolution in know-how -- Progress enters into history -- The printed book : Gutenberg to Galileo -- Renaissance painting and techno-science -- Copernicus moves the Earth.

The birth of modern science -- Algebra, calculus, and probability -- Conservation and symmetry -- Instruments as extensions of the mind -- Time, change , and novelty -- The atomic theory of matter -- The cell theory of life -- The germ theory of disease -- The gene theory of inheritance -- Energy challenges matter -- Fields : the immaterial become real -- Relationships become physical.

Evolution as process science -- Statistical laws challenge determinism -- Techno-science comes of age -- Institutions empower innovation -- The quantum revolution -- Relativity redefines space and time -- Reconceiving the universe, again -- The idea behind the computer -- Three faces of information -- Systems, chaos, and self-organization -- Life as molecules in action -- Great ideas, past and future.

Great scientific ideas that changed the world

The great courses. Science & mathematics

Great courses. Science & mathematics.

Knowledge, know-how, and social change. Writing makes science possible -- Inventing reason and knowledge. The birth of natural science -- Mathematics as the order of nature. The birth of techno-science -- Universities relaunch the idea of knowledge. The Medieval revolution in know-how -- disc 5. lecture 9. Progress enters into history. The printed book : Gutenberg to Galileo -- Renaissance painting and techno-science. Copernicus moves the earth.

The birth of modern science. Algebra, calculus, and probability -- Conservation and symmetry. Instruments as extensions of the mind -- Time, change, and novelty. The atomic theory of matter -- The cell theory of life. The germ theory of disease -- The gene theory of inheritance. Energy challenges matter -- Fields : the immaterial become eal. Relationships become physical.

Evolution as process science. Statistical laws challenge determinism -- Technoscience comes of age. Institutions empower innovation -- The quantum revolution. Relativity redefines space and time -- Reconceiving the universe, again. The idea behind the computer -- Three faces of information. System, chaos, and self-organization -- Life as molecules in action. Great ideas, past and future.

Food, science, and the human body

The great courses

Great courses (Compact disc)

Food, Science, and the Human Body [DVD]

Great courses. Better living. Health & wellness

The great courses

Great courses (DVD). Better living.

Great courses (DVD)

Turning points in modern history [sound recording]

Great courses. History. Modern history

Great courses (Compact disc)

1433, the great voyages of Admiral Zheng He -- 1453, the fall of Constantinople -- 1455, Gutenberg's print revolution -- 1492, the Columbian exchange -- 1600, the British East India Company -- 1648, the treaty of Westphalia -- 1676, Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope -- 1751, Diderot's enlightenment encyclopedia -- 1787, the American experiment -- 1789, the French Revolution -- 1838, the British slavery abolition act -- 1839, the opium war in China -- 1859, Darwin and the Origin of species -- 1869, binding continents -- 1893, first women voters in New Zealand -- 1896, the invention of motion pictures -- 1903, Kitty Hawk and powered flight -- 1904, the Russo-Japanese war -- 1928, the discovery of penicillin -- 1942, the dawn of the atom -- 1969, walking on the moon -- 1972, China enters the world balance -- 1989, the fall of the Berlin wall -- 2004, the rise of social media.

Victorian Britain

The great courses. Modern history

Great courses (Compact disc)

The story of human language [videorecording]

Great courses

Great courses (DVD). Social sciences.

The great ideas of philosophy [videorecording].

The great courses on tape ;

SuperStar teachers.

Great courses on tape ;

Crashes and crises [DVD] : lessons from a history of financial disasters

Great Courses series

Great courses (DVD).