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Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Third edition, library edition.
Language
English
Description
Provides understanding of musical forms, techniques, and terms and of the reciprocal relationship of social context and musical creation, using digitally recorded music to illustrate points and examining the contributions of nearly every major western composer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Thirty-six lectures that provide a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe, beginning with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ending with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve lectures delivered by Professor Malcolm David Eckel of Boston University in which he presents a survey of Buddhism from its origins in India to contemporary times in America. The course introduces the vitality and adaptability of Buddhism which has transformed civilizations in Asia and become a lively component of Western culture.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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 study philosophy, we're focusing only on the Western intellectual tradition brought about by people such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Nietzsche. But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to only get half of the story. Just as important, and just as valid a contribution...
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
University of Tennessee professor Vejas Liulevicius delivers lectures for a course on the First World War, which was touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and quickly expanded far beyond the expectations of those involved. It became the first "total war", a conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to victory at any price. The cost...
Author
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
To witness how European civilization developed is to understand why and how the entire Western world became who and what it is. Such an understanding is essential if you are to have a nuanced grasp of the important events that dominate the daily news. In short, and in almost every way that matters, historical Europe was the laboratory in which the world you now live in was conceived and tested. And you'll be living with the consequences of those experiments...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This course explores how leading Western philosophers and theologians such as Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Martin Buber, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Rowan Williams, and Jacques Derrida have defined and debated, defended and attacked religion. Some are pious and some are atheists. Some are philosophers who explain why religion is essential for human life, and some are philosophers who just as rationally explain why religion is...
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A series of 64 lectures comprising a survey course on Western literature presented by Arnold Weinstein, Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Covers drama from the fifth century B.C. to the mid-twentieth century, poetry from Shakespeare's sonnets to the protest poetry of Adrienne Rich, and narrative from the twelfth-century courtly romance of Chretien de Troyes to the contemporary novel The color purple by Alice Walker.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
People who are anonymous and whose lives are usually ignored in traditional historical accounts are no less important than more prominent individuals in influencing the flow of events. These ordinary, but often heroic, people are the focus of this course. Each of the 48 lectures looks at history from a nontraditional perspective, that of the weak and marginalized-- the poor, sick, disabled, and elderly, as well as the refugees, slaves, women, children,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Why did pagan Rome, which had a history of tolerating other faiths, clash with early Christians? What was it like, under Roman law, to be a Jew or a Christian? What led to the great persecutions of Christians? Above all else, how did Christianity ultimately achieve dominance in the Roman Empire, eclipsing paganism in one of the most influential turning points in the history of Western civilization? These and many other questions are answered in Professor...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This course addresses three broad chronological spans. The first third of the course covers the nomadic steppe peoples from antiquity to 550 A.D., from their domestication of the horse through their interactions with the civilizations of China, the Near East, the Greeks, and Imperial Rome. The second third of the course deals with the early Middle Ages, a period of time that was dominated by the spread of the Turkish language across the steppe zones....
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Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In this course, historian Patrick N. Allitt investigates the American character by introducing notable Americans from all eras of the nation's history, from Thomas Jefferson to Al Capone, whose lives speak on the qualities that make one truly American. The figures in these lectures led fascinating lives, helping one to gain a deeper understanding of the trends and ideas that shaped America and that continue to influence American society today.
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Presents a study of events that shaped modern Europe, from political revolution in the late 18th century to the collapse of communism at the end of the 20th century. Professor Childers details the political, social, cultural, and economic conditions leading to each of these events and traces their implications across the decades.
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