Disc 1: Lesson 1: Overcoming Obstacles - Demosthenes of Athens; #2: Practice your Delivery - Patrick Henry; #3: Be Yourself - Elizabeth I to her Army; #4: Find Your Humorous Voice - Will Rogers; #5: Make It a Story - Marie Curie on Discovery; #6: Use the Power of Three - Paul to His People; Disc 2: Build a Logical Case - Susan B. Anthony; #8: Paint Pictures in Words - Tecumseh on Unity; #9: Focus on Your Audience - Gandhi on Trial; #10: Share A Vision...

Forty-eight lectures on the history of ancient Rome beginning with pre-Roman Italy and ending with the fall of Rome.

In six lessons, you'll learn how to move your dietary choices toward healthier, more enjoyable options and away from indulgence, deprivation, and nutritional missteps.

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,...

Twelve 30-minute lectures by Oxford University Professor Daniel N. Robinson on consciousness from the perspective of the philosopher, the psychologist, the scientist, and the doctor.

Forty-eight lectures on the foundations, methods, and dominant perspectives in psychology.

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.

Alex Filippenko's lectures offer a non-technical description of modern astronomy, including the structure and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole.

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...

"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....