Art & physics : parallel visions in space, time, and light

Art and physics

Space, time and architecture; the growth of a new tradition.

Charles Eliot Norton lectures

Charles Eliot Norton lectures ;

Cyrano : adventures in space and time with the legendary French hero

Cyrano : the life and legend of Cyrano de Bergerac

Six not-so-easy pieces : Einstein's relativity, symmetry, and space-time

Helix books

Helix book.

Einstein's cosmos : how Albert Einstein's vision transformed our understanding of space and time

Great discoveries

Great discoveries.

Bridging time & space : essays on layered art

Bridging time and space

Essays on layered art

Layered art

Jung and the story of our time

Time and space -- The man and the place -- The lake and the river -- The vigil and the summons -- Errant and adventure -- Point of total return.

The Smithsonian collection of newspaper comics

Struwwelpeter, Pagliacci, and Puss and Boots : folklore figures in the early Sunday comic strip, 1896-1916 -- Mr. Caudle, Sherlock Holmes, and the Artless dodger / popular images in the early daily comic strip, 1907-1925 -- Old cunning stagers : Long-lived stars of the comic strip's second two decades, 1916-1936 -- Sunny Toonerville and the darkling world : anecdote and narrative in the daily comic strip, 1917-1933 -- Popeye, the Skipper, and the abyss of space and time : anecdote and narrative in the Sunday comic strip, 1930-1941 -- Shadow shapes in moving rows : extended narrative in the daily and Sunday comic strip, 1928-1943 -- Cats, dogs, possums, counts, and others : a comics miscellany, 1928-1950 -- Little people, wise guys, and witches : the return of the funnies.

Stiffed : the betrayal of the American man

Departures -- Son, the moon, and the stars: the promise of postwar manhood -- Utility men -- Nothing but big work: From shipyards to space, the closing of the American job -- Girls have all the power: What's troubling troubled boys -- Good dawg will always remain loyal: The Cleveland Browns skip town -- Where am I in the kingdom?: a Christian quest for manhood -- Evil empires -- Gone to soldiers, every one: the Vietnam War that no one dodged -- Creature in the mirror: the Fantasy Cavalry to the rescue -- Burning down the house: the fire last time in Waco, Texas -- Hood ornaments -- Man in a can: moon walkers, ghetto stars, and cross-dressers in a Gilded Age -- Waiting for wood: a death on the New Frontier -- Destinations -- Parting shots: the fighter still remains -- Rebels in the kingdom.

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.

How to look at and understand great art [videorecording].

The Great courses fine arts & music

Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.

The importance of first Impression -- Where am I? point of view and focal point -- Color: description, symbol and more -- Line: description and expression -- Space, shape, shade, and shadow -- Seeing the big picture: composition -- The illusion: getting the right perspective -- Art that moves us: time and motion -- Feeling with our eyes: texture and light -- Drawing: dry, liquid, and modern media -- Printmaking: relief and intaglio -- Modern printmaking: planographic -- Sculpture: salt cellars to monuments -- Development of painting: tempera and oils -- Modern painting: acrylics and assemblages -- Subject matters -- Signs: symbols, icons, and indexes in art -- Portraits: how artists see others -- Self-portraits: how artists see themselves -- Landscapes: art of the great outdoors -- Putting it all together -- Early Renaissance: humanism emergent -- Northern Renaissance: devil in the details -- High Renaissance: humanism perfected -- Mannerism and Baroque: distortion and drama -- Going Baroque: north versus south -- 18th century reality and decorative Rococo -- Revolutions: neoclassicism and romanticism -- Postimpressionism: form and content re-viewed -- Expressionism: empathy and emotion -- Cubism: an experiment in form -- Abstraction/Modernism: new visual languages -- Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams -- Postmodernism: focus on the viewer -- Your next museum visit: do it yourself.

The great ideas : a lexicon of Western thought

Great books of the Western world.

Angel -- 2. Animal -- 3. Aristocracy -- 4. Art -- 5. Astronomy and cosmology -- 6. Beauty -- 7. Being -- 8. Cause -- 9. Chance -- 10. Change -- 11. Citizen -- 12. Constitution -- 13. Courage -- 14. Custom and convention -- 15. Definition -- 16. Democracy -- 17. Desire -- 18. Dialectic -- 19. Duty -- 20. Education -- 21. Element -- 22. Emotion -- 23. Eternity -- 24. Evolution -- 25. Experience -- 26. Family -- 27. Fate -- 28. Form -- 29. God -- 30. Good and evil -- 31. Government -- 32. Habit -- 33. Happiness -- 34. History -- 35. Honor -- 36. Hypothesis -- 37. Idea -- 38. Immortality -- 39. Induction -- 40. Infinity -- 41. Judgment -- 42. Justice -- 43. Knowledge -- 44. Labor -- 45. Language -- 46. Law -- 47. Liberty -- 48. Life and death -- 49. Logic -- 50. Love -- 51. Man -- 52. Mathematics -- 53. Matter -- 54. Mechanics -- 55. Medicine -- 56. Memory and imagination -- 57. Metaphysics -- 58. Mind -- 59. Monarchy -- 60. Nature -- 61. Necessity and contingency -- 62. Oligarchy -- 63. One and many -- 64. Opinion -- 65. Opposition -- 66. Philosophy -- 67. Physics -- 68. Pleasure and pain -- 69. Poetry -- 70. Principle -- 71. Progress -- 72. Prophecy -- 73. Prudence -- 74. Punishment -- 75. Quality -- 76. Quantity -- 77. Reasoning -- 78. Relation -- 79. Religion -- 80. Revolution -- 81. Rhetoric -- 82. Same and other -- 83. Science -- 84. Sense -- 85. Sign and symbol -- 86. Sin -- 87. Slavery -- 88. Soul -- 89. Space -- 90. State -- 91. Temperance -- 92. Theology -- 93. Time -- 94. Truth -- 95. Tyranny and despotism -- 96. Universal and particular -- 97. Virtue and vice -- 98. War and peace -- 99. Wealth -- 100. Will -- 101. Wisdom -- 102. World.