Teaching Company
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Professor Harl begins during the Bronze Age and the emergence of urban-based literate civilizations and carries the story forward until the demise of Persia's great empire at the hands of the Greeks, who embraced many of the achievements of these Near East civilizations but clearly represented a different kind of civilization, built on different institutions. Along the way, he examines advances like the invention and evolution of writing; the development...
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
In thirty-six each half hour lectures, Professor Sam Wang explores the science and mystery of the human nervous system, from essential neurochemical and neurobiological processes to the psychological and social constructs they are thought to produce.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Experience for yourself the high-stakes drama, scientific detective work, and medical insights of life in an everyday emergency department. By the end of this 24-lecture rotation, you'll have a stronger knowledge of, and greater respect for, emergency medicine and the brave doctors who practice it.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Presents a series of twenty-four lectures that examines in detail the New Testament. Professor Bart Ehrman discusses its form, the methods of composition, its authors and their original audiences, and the surrounding historical context. He focuses on questions of historical evidence and explanation rather than on issues of religious belief and theological truth.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Presents a course in Western visual art that serves as both a mind-broadening survey and an essential introduction. It is designed to give anyone interested in Western art a firm familiarity with its basics, including major artists and styles in various media and providing a broad foundation for deeper exploration.
Author
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Professor Scott E. Page from University of Michigan introduces you to complexity science. You learn how this vibrant and still evolving discipline helps you understand the nature and behavior of systems formed of financial markets, corporations, native cultures, governments, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2004
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.
Author
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,...
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory. Explains why the central figures, elements, and creeds of Christianity are hard to fathom yet give Christianity its distinctive character. Covers topics such as Christianity's birth and expansion across the Mediterranean world, the development of its doctrine, its...