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3) Buddhism
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"This course is a survey of the history of Buddhism from its origin in India in the sixth century B.C.E. to contemporary times in America. The course is meant to introduce students to the astonishing vitality and adaptability of a tradition that has transformed the civilizations of India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Korea, and Japan and has now become a lively component in the cultures of Europe, Australia and the Americas."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
So how do you tell stories that stick-- in your own mind and in the minds of your family, friends, colleagues, and clients? That's precisely what you'll learn in The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals, an enthralling course that reveals the tried-and-true methods experienced storytellers use to develop and tell engaging, entertaining, and memorable tales.
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
Ninety-six lectures, divided into ten sections, are designed to provide a non-technical description of modern astronomy, including the structure and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. Updated edition integrates discoveries reported in the 2003 course and includes recent findings (through mid-2006).
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This course takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ to show you how it works. Recent decades have seen unparalleled advances in understanding how the brain does what it does. Today we can pinpoint the specific regions, or nuclei, where some of life's most mysterious processes take place, including: where light that enters the eye is converted into the subjective experience of sight; where pressure waves that reach the ear are processed...
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 243
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this set of 24 lectures, Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, University of Maryland, introduces the student to the primary characters and most important stories of classical Greek and Roman mythology. She also surveys some of the leading theoretical approaches to understanding myth in general and classical myth in particular.
14) How to draw
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Drawing is one of humanity's oldest forms of expression, with existing examples dating back an astonishing 80,000 years or more. Older than written language by tens of thousands of years, drawing developed across millennia, forming the base of many of the world's artistic traditions..
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Professor Richard Brettell, the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Texas at Dallas, presents the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the US, and introduces several of its collections.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Hilariously charming novel about a heartbroken man trying to redeem himself by championing forgotten books. Fleeing heartbreak, an unnamed author goes to an unnamed city to give a series of lectures at an unnamed university about forgotten books, only to find himself involved in a mystery when it turns out the professor who invited him is no where to be found, and no one seems quite sure why he's there.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
These 36 half-hour lectures are your initiation into the geological world that lies just outside your door. "The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology" introduces you to physical geology, the study of Earth's minerals, rocks, soils, and the processes that operate on them through time.
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