Teaching Company
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
These lectures reveal how mathematics has changed the way people look at the world. We study how the model of certainty in Euclid's revolutionary Elements influenced philosophers for centuries, and how the invention of non-Euclidiean geometry further influenced philosophy and changed modern views of the world. As well. we consider how the newer disciplines of probability and statistics gave scientists ways of dealing--with precision--with events that...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of Hinduism and discusses why Hinduism is perhaps the most diverse religion of all. Covers topics such as arranged marriages and the caste system, the Indus Valley Civilization, the sacred writings in the Vedas, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Upanishads, ritual purity rites, the Aryan language of Sanskrit, and Hinduism's rejection of the notion that there is but one path to the divine. Introduces Hinduism's wealth of gods, terms,...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this course of lectures Prof. Fischer surveys anthropology, the study of human societies and comparative customs with a special emphasis on pre-capitalist societies and the things which pre-capitalist societies and modern societies have in common.
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their qualities of uniqueness, impact, and emotional and intellectual...
Author
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the world. The aim of these lectures is to both prepare new...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An eight lecture course that traces the development of the symphony from its roots in the opera of the Baroque period to the present.
Lectures 17-24 of a twenty-four lecture course that traces the development of the symphony from its roots in the opera of the Baroque period to the present.
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Lectures 9-16 of a twenty-four lecture course that traces the development of the symphony from its roots in the opera of the Baroque period to the present.
An eight lecture course that traces the development of the symphony from its roots in the opera of the Baroque period to the present.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Consists of twelve 30-min. lectures that provide an overview of Islam. Discusses Islam's role as both a religion and a way of life, and its deep impact on world affairs both historically and today. Covers topics such as Muhammad, jihad, Sufism, Muslim beliefs about other faiths, the possible future relations between Islam and the West, Islamic civilization's contributions to art, law, and science, whether the Quran condones terrorism and what it says...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The goal of this course is to illuminate the original foundations of our American civic culture by reenacting the Great Debate, from 1787 to 1788, over ratification of the proposed constitution. We will focus on the most profound intellectual and philosophic levels of the contoversy, centered on the competing republican visions held by the proponents of the constitution (Federalists) and their opponents (Anti-Federalists)"--Course guidebook p. 1....
Series
The great courses volume 2100
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This series presents some of the finest teachers in America, lecturing on some of the greatest literature ever written.