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Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition - DVD course
Who has not gazed with wonder at the night sky? The great canopy of stars stretching overhead suggests that our world is part of a vastly larger cosmos. But how large is it? Where ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-274-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$799.95
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Classics of American Literature - DVD course
To truly understand the United States of America, you must explore its literary tradition. Works by Melville, Whitman, Faulkner, Hemingway, and others are more than just masterpiec ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-569-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$749.95
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Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition - DVD course
Novelists, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, essayists, and philosophers—whether famous or anonymous, many of Western culture's greatest figures have been writers. Rang ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-977-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$749.95
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History of the United States, 2nd Edition - DVD course
This is the story of a country in which immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries huddled in cramped tenement apartments lit by hazardous kerosene lamps. And a country t ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-763-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$749.95
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Biology: The Science of Life - DVD course
One of the greatest scientific feats of our era is the astonishing progress made in understanding the intricate machinery of life. We are living in the most productive phase so far ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-930-2
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$699.95
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How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition - DVD course
Learning how to appreciate the unmatched beauty, genius, and power of concert music can permanently enrich your life. Why is this so? As award-winning composer and Professor Robert ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-270-3
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$699.95
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition - DVD course
For 3,000 years, mankind has grappled with fundamental questions about life. Crucial questions about our existence and being have been pondered by thoughtful men and women since ci ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-578-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$699.95
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Joy of Science - DVD course
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as something every educated person should know. One such idea, according to ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-552-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$624.95
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Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works - DVD course
Physics is the fundamental science. It explains how the universe behaves at every scale, from the subatomic to the extragalactic. It describes the most basic objects and forces and ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-771-5
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$624.95
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Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition - DVD course
Humanity left childhood and entered the troubled but productive world when it started to criticize its own certainties and weigh the worthiness of its most secure beliefs. Thus beg ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-982-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$624.95
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Classics of American Literature - CD course
To truly understand the United States of America, you must explore its literary tradition. Works by Melville, Whitman, Faulkner, Hemingway, and others are more than just masterpiec ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-298-3
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$539.95
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Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition - CD course
Novelists, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, essayists, and philosophers—whether famous or anonymous, many of Western culture's greatest figures have been writers. Rang ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-976-0
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$539.95
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History of the United States, 2nd Edition - CD course
This is the story of a country in which immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries huddled in cramped tenement apartments lit by hazardous kerosene lamps. And a country t ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-761-2
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$539.95
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Turning Points in American History - DVD course
1777: The colonial victory over British troops at the Battle of Saratoga persuades France to provide financial and military support that will prove vital to the success of the Amer ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-749-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Foundations of Western Civilization - DVD course
You can discover the essential nature, evolution, and perceptions of Western civilization from its humble beginnings in the great river valleys of Iraq and Egypt to the dawn of the ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-575-5
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon - DVD course
The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after Napoleon in 1814 is an astonishing period in world history. This era shook the fou ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-953-5
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Foundations of Eastern Civilization - DVD course
So much of our historical knowledge is rooted in Western civilization, from the stories of ancient Greece and Rome to the intellectual developments of the Renaissance. But this his ...
UPC: 978-1-62997-006-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence - DVD course
The story of Earth is an epic filled with crises, catastrophes, and remarkable, repeated change. Earth traces its origin to simple atoms that were created in the big bang, transfor ...
UPC: 978-1-62997-021-9
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations - DVD course
In 1347, a merchant ship traveling from Crimea in central Asia docked at Messina in Sicily with a crew of desperately sick sailors. As they were taken ashore, rats also left the ve ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-040-2
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Classics of British Literature - DVD course
Few nations offer a literary legacy as impressive as that of Great Britain. For more than 1,500 years, the literature of this tiny island has taught, nurtured, thrilled, outraged, ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-414-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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History of Ancient Egypt - DVD course
Ancient Egyptian civilization is so grand that our minds sometimes have difficulty adjusting to it. Consider time. Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted 3,000 years, longer than any ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-574-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World - DVD course
Imagine you’re a Greek soldier marching into battle in the front row of a phalanx. Or an Egyptian woman putting on makeup before attending an evening party with your husband. Or ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-861-3
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective - DVD course
Even though you might never stop to think about it, the ancient world and the civilizations it produced are with you in almosteverything you do. The ancient world has influenced ou ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-805-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Life and Operas of Verdi - DVD course
The Italians have a word for the sense of dazzling beauty produced by effortless mastery: "sprezzatura." Perhaps no cultural form associated with Italy is as steeped in the love of ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-748-3
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Concert Masterworks - DVD course
Have you ever wondered what goes through a composer's mind during those magical weeks and months when a musical composition—something meant to become a listening experience—is ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-607-3
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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A History of European Art - DVD course
The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedra ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-090-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts - DVD course
During the 229-year period from 1485 to 1714, England transformed itself from a minor feudal state into what has been called "the first modern society," and emerged as the wealthie ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-657-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution - DVD course
The years 1760–1800 rocked the Western world. These were the years when colonists on the eastern fringes of a continent converted Enlightenment thought first into action, then in ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-235-2
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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How to Listen to and Understand Opera - DVD course
For more than 400 years, opera has been one of the most popular performing arts. Geniuses—Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini—produced some of the landmark artistic ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-584-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Fall and Rise of China - DVD course
China—the world's oldest continuous civilization—has undergone an astonishing transformation in a brief span of recent history. Since the collapse of its once-glorious empire i ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-641-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology - DVD course
You live with it 24 hours a day. But how well do you really know it? These 32 lectures are your owner's manual to a remarkably complex, resilient, and endlessly fascinating structu ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-566-3
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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War and World History - DVD course
For thousands of years, military engagements between opposing nations and societies have had important effects on all aspects of human civilization. While the most direct and recog ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-571-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Bach and the High Baroque - DVD course
Underappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights in the estimation of generations of music lovers. But what is it about his music that makes ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-742-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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American Civil War - DVD course
Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countrysi ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-587-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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American Identity - DVD course
What defines an American? Is it the love of liberty, the pursuit of justice, the urge to invent, the desire for wealth, the drive to explore, the quest for spiritual values? The pa ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-020-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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How the Earth Works - DVD course
Imagine coming upon Earth as a traveler from another galaxy. It wouldn't take you long to discover Earth's fascinating variety. The combination of continents, oceans, and atmospher ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-406-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World - DVD course
300 Spartans guarding the pass at Thermopylae. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle engaging in a dialogue that will give birth to Western philosophy. Alexander the Great conquering near ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-543-8
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$519.95
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Origin of Civilization - DVD course
Every single day of your life is spent within a civilization—an elaborate system composed of governing bodies, detailed laws, dense urban centers, elaborate trade networks, visua ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-623-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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History of World Literature - DVD course
A Buddhist monk searches for mystical texts. French lords and ladies tell stories to pass the time. African warriors fight against European conquerors. These and other fascinating ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-360-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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History of Ancient Rome - DVD course
There are many reasons to study ancient Rome. Rome's span was vast. In the regional, restless, and shifting history of continental Europe, the Roman Empire stands as a towering mon ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-573-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Art across the Ages - DVD course
From the earliest cave painting of hunting scenes to the spectacular architecture of ancient Greece and Rome to the startling perspectives of Postmodern paintings, art has provided ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-356-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age - DVD course
Three lifetimes ago, Europe was a farming society ruled by families of monarchs. Modern European history began with two seismic tremors—capitalism and democracy—that shattered ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-727-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Great Presidents - DVD course
It was one of the most audacious decisions in American history. The founders of the American Republic created a new kind of leadership office. It would be a strong and independent ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-744-5
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Great Ideas of Psychology - DVD course
If you've ever wanted to delve more deeply into the mysteries of human emotion, perception, and cognition, and of why we do what we do, this course offers a superb place to start. ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-812-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World - DVD course
How did people of ancient times cope with the overwhelming mysteries of the universe? The cycles of nature kept predictable time with the sun, moon, and stars; yet, without warning ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-035-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Symphonies of Beethoven - DVD course
Why is Beethoven one of the most revered composers in the history of Western music? Professor Robert Greenberg answers: "Beethoven possessed a unique gift for communication. He rad ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-700-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity - DVD course
About 100,000 to 60,000 years ago, a species of hominines—bipedal ape-like creatures—began to move out of its home territory in Africa and into the Asian continent. Today, homo ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-410-3
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Development of European Civilization - DVD course
For anyone living in the Western world, Europe is so much more than just a varied mix of travel destinations, an inspiring example of different cultures living side by side, and a ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-738-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World - DVD course
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 all ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-176-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works - DVD course
From the majesty of Baroque and Classical era masterpieces to the daring visions of modernism, orchestral music is undoubtedly one of the supreme artistic traditions of Western cul ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-769-2
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$519.95
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Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative - CD course
All too often, people fail to give the great books the attention they deserve. They might feel locked out of these masterpieces because they believe themselves unequipped to savor ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-097-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$499.95
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Biology: The Science of Life - CD course
One of the greatest scientific feats of our era is the astonishing progress made in understanding the intricate machinery of life. We are living in the most productive phase so far ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-929-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$499.95
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition - CD course
For 3,000 years, mankind has grappled with fundamental questions about life. Crucial questions about our existence and being have been pondered by thoughtful men and women since ci ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-354-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$499.95
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How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition - CD course
Learning how to appreciate the unmatched beauty, genius, and power of concert music can permanently enrich your life. Why is this so? As award-winning composer and Professor Robert ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-269-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$499.95
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Joy of Science - CD course
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as something every educated person should know. One such idea, according to ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-275-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$449.95
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Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition - CD course
Humanity left childhood and entered the troubled but productive world when it started to criticize its own certainties and weigh the worthiness of its most secure beliefs. Thus beg ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-981-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$449.95
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Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World - DVD course
Why has science so dramatically altered how we live and how we think about ourselves? What is the greatest scientific idea of all time? According to Professor Steven L. Goldman, on ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-304-5
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Modern Economic Issues - DVD course
How do the major economic issues that dominate today's news—questions about gross domestic product or budget deficits or trade imbalances—impact the average citizen? Why are he ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-380-9
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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History of the English Language, 2nd Edition - DVD course
Sixteen centuries ago a wave of settlers from northern Europe came to the British Isles speaking a mix of Germanic dialects thick with consonants and complex grammatical forms. Tod ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-402-8
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The Catholic Church: A History - DVD course
The Catholic Church. It began as a small band of supporters following the teachings of an itinerant preacher in an outpost of the Roman Empire. From there, the church expanded both ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-597-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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The World’s Greatest Geological Wonders: 36 Spectacular Sites - DVD course
Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Mount Fuji, the Galapagos Islands. These natural wonders are on everyone’s list of must-see attractions that are both spectacular and geologically ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-980-1
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Rise and Fall of the British Empire - DVD course
At its peak in the early 20th century, Britain's empire was the largest in the history of the world, greater even than that of ancient Rome. It embraced more than a fourth of the w ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-585-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Mind-Body Medicine: The New Science of Optimal Health - DVD course
In recent decades, science has revealed that the mind and body are intimately connected in ways we haven’t previously realized—and this field of knowledge is now changing our u ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-992-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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A New History of Life - DVD course
Life is stranger than fiction. Recent investigations hint at episodes in the history of life on Earth that rival the most imaginative movies. For example: Could our planet have bee ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-959-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life - DVD course
What makes a written work eternal—its message still so fundamental to the way we live that it continues to speak to us, hundreds or thousands of years distant from the lifetime o ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-025-9
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life - DVD course
What is the meaning of life? Is human existence meaningful or absurd? Is it even worth asking this kind of question? Anyone who has ever pondered these fundamental questions has an ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-581-0
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Oceanography: Exploring Earth's Final Wilderness - DVD course
Earth's ocean is a source of wonder, delight, sustenance, economic benefit, and awe in the face of its overwhelming mystery and power. It dominates the natural world in ways that s ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-789-0
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Philosophy of Religion - DVD course
Can humans know whether the claim "God exists" is true or not? If so, how? If not, why not? Questions such as these have perplexed humans since the first moment we were capable of ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-604-2
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works - DVD course
As a solo concert instrument, the piano enjoys an unrivaled popularity in Western music. Capable of a vast sonic range, from ethereal softness to thundering grandeur, its appeal is ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-995-5
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition - DVD course
Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought built up by a rich collection of brilliant minds. When most of us st ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-741-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Philosophy and Religion in the West - DVD course
Acclaimed humanities teacher Phillip Cary explores thousands of years of deep reflection and brilliant debate over the nature of God, the human self, and the world. It's a debate t ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-597-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest - DVD course
Evidence of Great Britain's legacy to the English-speaking world—indeed, to most of the Western world itself—is all around us, woven intimately into the fabric of almost every ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-708-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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Skeptics and Believers: Religious Debate in the Western Intellectual Tradition - DVD course
With the advent of modernity, the questions on which philosophers and religious thinkers had been reflecting for centuries underwent a dramatic and unprecedented change. For over a ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-611-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Economics, 3rd Edition - DVD course
We are all economists—when we work, buy, save, invest, pay taxes, and vote. It repays us many times over to be good economists. Economic issues are active in our lives every day. ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-127-0
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Conservative Tradition - DVD course
Preserving the traditions and values of the past and applying them to the future—this is the core of the Conservative attitude. While the development of Conservatism has followed ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-549-0
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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Understanding the Inventions that Changed the World - DVD course
We’re surrounded by inventions. Consider the clocks, appliances, and transportation that coordinate our days. Or the televisions, cell phones, and social media that connect us to ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-846-0
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000 - DVD course
For much of the past five centuries, the history of the European continent has been a history of chaos, its civilization thrown into turmoil by ferocious wars or bitter religious c ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-384-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Psychology of Human Behavior - DVD course
What comes to mind when you picture a psychologist? If you're like most people coming to this fascinating field for the first time, the answer may include a leather couch and a sch ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-181-2
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language - DVD course
We all use language every day of our lives. Language, regardless of the particular dialect spoken, is the tool we use to express our wants, our needs, and our feelings. Recently, m ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-477-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature - DVD course
All our lives, we've been taught the importance of the ancient Greeks to so much of the world that came after them, and particularly to our own way of living in and seeing that wor ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-278-9
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Exploring the Roots of Religion - DVD course
Stonehenge. Machu Picchu. The Acropolis. The Great Pyramids at Giza. Sites such as these have captivated the world for centuries—even millennia—since their creation. They are w ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-577-3
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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The World Was Never the Same: Events That Changed History - DVD course
January 10, 49 B.C.: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River into Rome, igniting a civil war that leads to the birth of the world's greatest ancient civilization. October 12, 1492: ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-685-5
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Classics of Russian Literature - DVD course
Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul. These 36 half-hour lectures delve into this extraordinary body of work under the guidance of Professor Irwin Weil o ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-186-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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The Symphony - DVD course
The great Bohemian-born composer Gustav Mahler once said, "A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything." Over the course of its nearly 300-year life, the symphony ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-883-1
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations - DVD course
Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civilizations of the world develop? How does a past so shadowy that it has to be painsta ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-589-2
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Era of the Crusades - DVD course
The Crusades have been hailed as the driving force that brought Western Europe out of the Middle Ages—and condemned as the beginning of European imperialism in the Muslim Near Ea ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-833-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Life Lessons from the Great Books - DVD course
For every important moment and stage in your life, there is a Great Book that can offer you invaluable lessons and place your unique experiences in a larger perspective. Some of hi ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-517-9
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins - DVD course
English is changing all around us. We see this in new words such as “bling” and “email,” and from the loss of old forms such as “shall.” It’s a human impulse to play ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-893-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Story of Human Language - DVD course
I never met a person who is not interested in language, wrote the bestselling author and psychologist Steven Pinker. There are good reasons that language fascinates us so. It not o ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-948-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Latin 101: Learning a Classical Language - DVD course
Latin lives! The language of Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, St. Jerome, and countless other great authors is alive and well in the modern world. It lives in the Romance languages, which a ...
UPC: 978-1-62997-018-9
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Life Lessons from the Great Myths - DVD course
Hector and Achilles clash on the battlefields of Troy. Arthur discovers a magical sword and becomes a powerful British king. Jesse James pulls off daring crimes across the American ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-776-0
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance - DVD course
No era of artistic achievement is as renowned as the Renaissance, and no country holds a higher place in that period than Italy. The supreme works created in Florence, Rome, Venice ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-910-4
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Long 19th Century: European History from 1789 to 1917 - DVD course
History at its most interesting is complex, a fascinating whirl of events, personalities, and forces, and few periods of history offer us such captivating complexity as Europe's 19 ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-996-8
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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A Brief History of the World - DVD course
Think of the construction of the great pyramids of Egypt, or the development of democratic rule in ancient Greece. Recall the innovations of the European Renaissance and Enlightenm ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-326-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Lifelong Health: Achieving Optimum Well-Being at Any Age - DVD course
A long and healthy life is a universal desire. So how can you achieve this goal? There's a whirlwind of advice on how to optimize your health and well-being. The only problem is th ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-662-6
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Thinking about Capitalism - DVD course
As the economic system under which you live, capitalism shapes the marketplaces that determine where you live and work, how much you are paid, what you can buy, what you can accumu ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-511-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev - DVD course
It's difficult to imagine a nation whose history is more compelling for Americans than that of Russia. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this was the nation against which we ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-634-9
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Mystical Tradition: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - DVD course
Mystical experiences and practices—including dramatic visions, direct communication with the divine, intense spiritual quests, and hermetic lifestyles—are commonly associated w ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-466-0
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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History of Christian Theology - DVD course
Some 2,000 years ago, a man walked the earth who had a greater impact than any other person in history. Lowly born, he rose to prominence as he spread his vision of the redemption ...
UPC: 978-1-59803-487-5
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies - DVD course
There is no more important author in Western literature than William Shakespeare. And his plays—whether a comedy like A Midsummer Night's Dream; a history like Henry IV; or a tra ...
UPC: 978-1-56585-571-7
Manufacturer: The Great Courses - The Teaching Company
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$374.95
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