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History of the construction of St. Peter's Basilica [TTC Audio]
English | 2006 | 38 mins | MP3 | 26 MB
Professor Kenneth Bartlett

On April 18, Rome will celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Julius II. In honor of that milestone in Renaissance architecture, The Teaching Company is proud to present Professor Kenneth Bartlett in a lecture that provides historical context and background to the commitment to build what today many think to be the largest church in the world.

Kenneth Bartlett is Professor of History and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1978. A past President of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, he has devoted much of his career to bringing Renaissance culture into undergraduate and graduate classrooms. He teaches the brilliantly illustrated 36-lecture The Italian Renaissance for The Teaching Company.

St. Peter's Basilica counts among its contributors and creators some of the most famous architects and artists of the Renaissance: Bramante, Bernini, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

It was built on the site of the Circus of Nero, and Catholic tradition holds that St. Peter, the original disciple of Jesus Christ and the first Pope of the Catholic Church, was crucified and buried where the current church now stands.

The lecture is free. You may listen to it at your computer by choosing to "stream" it, or you may download it to listen on your computer without being attached to the Internet. You may also burn it to a CD or load it on a portable listening device if you download it.

Please feel free to forward the link to the lecture to any friends who might enjoy it. It's free for them as well.

We hope you enjoy this special lecture. As always, we thank you for being our customer and for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Tom Rollins
President and CEO
The Teaching Company

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Great Writers: Their Lives and Works [TTC Audio]
English | 1996 | 8 hrs and 47 mins | MP3 | 118 MB

By: John B. Fisher

Very listenable course of lectures by Dr. John B. Fisher of Rollins College. The course includes twelve lectures on 6 tapes and a guidebook. Covered in the course are: Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, H.L.Mencken, Robert Burns,Maeterlinck, Hugo, St. Augustine, Emily Dickinson, Ulysses Grant, Samuel Johnson, Plutarch, and Tennyson. Details of their lives and bits of their works make for very entertaining lectures.

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Lewis and Clark: The Explorers [TTC Audio]
English | 2005 | Patrick N. Allitt | 32 mins | MP3 | 22 MB

"Lewis and Clark The Explorers " A Complimentary Lecture

We invite you join us in commemorating the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark reaching the
Pacific Ocean. This free lecture recounts how Lewis and Clark, a pair of army captains,
led the Corps of Discovery on a three-year mission after President Jefferson seized the
opportunity to buy the Louisiana territory from France. Their mission was to map the
territory, see whether it would provide an easy route to the West Coast and the Pacific
Ocean for trade with Asia, and gain American control of the lucrative trans-Mississippi
fur trade. The two captains worked well together and lost only one of their 33 men, despite
Indian attacks, sickness, and bouts of near starvation. They brought back to the president
a vast trove of information about the American West s geography, flora, fauna, and peoples.
Their industriousness as observers and collectors, and their self-discipline in the face of
human and natural threats, assured the expedition s success. Most importantly, they laid the
foundations of the nation s subsequent westward expansion.

We offer free lectures to our customers at various times throughout the year as part of
our goal to provide a lifelong learning experience. "Lewis and Clark The Explorers" is
presented by Professor Patrick N. Allitt of Emory University (Ph.D., University of California
at Berkeley) as Lecture 12 of American Identity.

Patrick N. Allitt is Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He was
born and raised in central England and received his B.A. in British and European History
from Oxford University. He earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of
California at Berkeley. Dr. Allitt has served as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity
School and at the Princeton University Center for the Study of American Religion.

Professor Allitt is the author of five books and editor of a sixth. They include I'm the
Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom (2004), Religion in
America Since 1945: A History (2003), Major Problems in American Religious History (2000),
Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome (1997), and Catholic
Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America (1993).

Professor Allitt is Director of Emory's Center for Teaching and Curriculum and former holder
of the NEH/Arthur Blank Professorship of Teaching in the Humanities.

You may listen to these lectures at your computer through December 31, 2005 by choosing to
"stream" them, or you may download them to listen on your computer without being attached to
the Internet. You may also burn them to a CD or load them on a portable listening device if
you download them.

Please feel free to send the link to this lecture to any friends of yours who might also
enjoy it. This lecture is free for them as well.

It is a pleasure for us to bring you the joy of lifelong learning every day in recorded
lectures on DVD, audio CD, audiotape, and videotape. Professor Allitt is one of the more
than 100 great teachers we offer on a variety of course topics. We hope you enjoy this taste
of his lecturing style.

As always, thank you for being our customer.

Tom Rollins
President and CEO
The Teaching Company

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Einstein s 100th 'Anniversary' [TTC Audio]
English | 2005 | 1 hrs and 4 mins | MP3 | 36 MB

Richard Wolfson - Einstein s 100th "Anniversary"
Einstein's Miraculous Year
Relativity in a Nutshell

Einstein s 100th "Anniversary" Two Complimentary Lectures

Welcome, Friend of The Teaching Company.

We are pleased to present two complimentary lectures on the history of physics:
"Einstein's Miraculous Year" and Relativity in a Nutshell are presented by Professor
Richard Wolfson, a 20-year teaching veteran at Middlebury College, These lectures reflect
his expertise in interpreting science for the non-specialist.

We offer free lectures to our customers at various times throughout the year as part of
our goal to provide a lifelong learning experience. You may access these free lectures
online any time between now and December 31, 2005.

In Einstein's Miracle Year, you will learn about 1905, when the great physicist published
major works in diverse areas of physics. Two of them on the quantum nature of light and on
special relativity laid the groundwork for much of 20th-century physics. Others presented
final convincing evidence for the reality of atoms and molecules.

Einstein's name is most closely associated with the Theory of Relativity. In Relativity in
a Nutshell, Dr. Wolfson outlines the essence of relativity and hints at why the theory
requires a radical restructuring of our notions of time and space.

You may listen to these lectures at your computer by choosing to "stream" them, or you may
download them to listen on your computer without being attached to the Internet. You may
also burn them to a CD or load them on a portable listening device if you download them.

You may access your free lectures online. Please feel free to send the link to the lectures
to any friends of yours who might also enjoy them. The lectures are free for them as well.

As always, thank you for being our customer.

Tom Rollins
President and CEO
The Teaching Company

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Understanding the Universe: Introduction to Astronomy [TTC Audio]
English | 1998 | 30 hrs and 49 mins | MP3 | 423 MB



Understanding the Universe; Introduction to Astronomy

01, A Grand Tour Of The Cosmos
02, Journey Through Space And Time
03, Light, The Supreme Informant
04, The Fingerprints Of Atoms
05, Tools Of The Trade
06, Space Telescopes And The Celestial Sphere
07, Our Sun, The Nearest Star
08, Lunar Phases And Glorious Eclipses
09, The Early History Of Astronomy
10, The Copernican Revolution
11, On The Shoulders Of Giants
12, One Small Step, The Earth And Moon
13, Paradise Lost, Venus And Mars
14, Planetary Behemoths, Jupiter And Saturn
15, Distant Worlds And Solar-System Debris
16, Comets And Catastrophic Collisions
17, Distant Suns
18, Social Stars, Binaries And Clusters
19, Nature s Nuclear Reactors
20, The Fate Of Our Sun
21, Exploding Stars, Celestial Fireworks
22, The Corpses Of Massive Stars
23, Hearts Of Darkness
24, The Quest For Black Holes
25, Starting At Home, The Milky Way
26, One Giant Leap, Other Galaxies
27, The Dark Side Of Matter
28, The Birth And Life Of Galaxies
29, Quasars, Cosmic Powerhouses
30, In The Belly Of The Beast
31, Are We Alone The Search Begins
32, Communicating With Extraterrestrials
33, The Expansion Of The Universe
34, The Age Of The Universe
35, The Geometry And Fate Of The Universe
36, Einstein s Biggest Blunder
37, Echoes Of The Big Bang
38, In The Beginning
39, The Ultimate Free Lunch
40, A Universe Of Universes

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The Teaching Company - A Collection Of Guidebooks
88 guidebooks | pdf/txt/rtf/doc/jpg/xls | 1.1 GB

The Teaching Company
The Great Courses

It all began with just a few videotapes and a brilliant inspiration. Tom Rollins, the founder of The Great Courses, was a law student at Harvard University and was facing an important exam on the U.S. Federal Rules of Evidence an exam for which he wasn't prepared. Dreading the notoriously boring subject but knowing his success depended on understanding the material, Rollins obtained videotapes of 10 lectures by a noted authority on the subject, Professor Irving Younger. Rollins planted himself in front of his television late at night and put the first tape into his VCR. What he discovered changed his life. The tapes were unlike anything Rollins had experienced in his Harvard lecture halls. Professor Younger's lectures were outrageously insightful, impressively thorough, and engagingly witty. Most important: They hammered home the concepts in a way that made the subject both accessible and interesting. They made learning not a chore to be accomplished but an adventure to be experienced. Rollins played all 10 hours of those lectures nearly nonstop. A few days later he passed his exam and went on to make an "A" in the course. He never forgot the unique power of recorded lectures by a great teacher the way that a bright mind could ignite a passion for lifelong learning. And years later, in 1990, Rollins founded The Great Courses to share that unforgettable experience with the rest of the world.

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Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Then - Prophecy, The Creation Of The Modern World [TTC Audio]
English | 1995 | 12 hrs and 13 mins | MP3 | 84 MB

Authors: Arthur H. Williamson, Teaching Company

Lecture 1. Meet the beast
Lecture 2. Medieval formulations
Lecture 3. The Reformation: the apocalypse revived
Lecture 4. Prophecy and science I: Francis Bacon
Lecture 5. John Milton and freedom of the press
Lecture 6. New heaven, new earth: modern democrary
Lecture 7. Andrew Marvell: poet of the republic
Lecture 8. The universe as matter, the universe as spirit
Lecture 9. The hope of Israel: the origins of toleration
Lecture 10. Anti-antichrist: the limits of prophecy
Lecture 11. Prophecy and science II: Sir Isaac Newton
Lecture l2. The enlightenment: prophecy and progress
Lecture 13. The apocalypse and the American Revolution
Lecture 14. Cold war ideology
Lecture 15. Martin Luther King, Jr
Lecture 16. Belief against politics

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
English | International Edition, September 13, 2016 | ISBN: 0771038682 | 448 pages | EPUB/PDF | 20 MB

International Bestseller

From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary new book that explores the future of the human species.

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. In Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between.

Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century – from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.

War is obsolete
You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict

Famine is disappearing
You are at more risk of obesity than starvation

Death is just a technical problem
Equality is out – but immortality is in

What does our future hold?

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Understanding the Universe: What's New in Astronomy, 2003 [TTC Audio]
English | 2003 | 12 hrs and 9 mins | MP3 | 167 MB

(16 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 190
Taught by Alex Filippenko
University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology


Modern astronomy is unwrapping the cosmos at light speed. Here are a few headlines from the last five years:

Mars was drenched in water
Particles traveling faster than light have been found leaving "sonic boom" signatures
Black holes not only exist; they are abundant
Our galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy and together they will absorb most local galaxies
The cosmos is expanding at an accelerating rate
We haven't found 90% of the energy in the cosmos (five years ago, we knew that 90% of the matter was missing).
While our customers have been absorbing the astronomical secrets unveiled by Alex Filippenko's original 1998 course, Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, astronomers, physicists, and cosomologists have continued to race ahead, making dazzling new discoveries and creating still more questions at an astounding rate.

That's why Professor Filippenko who has himself played a major role in several of those discoveries is back to teach this new course, Understanding the Universe: What's New in Astronomy, 2003.

In this course, he builds on the remarkable discoveries astronomers and physicists have made during the past five years. This course devotes much more of its content to the implications of recent discoveries for our fundamental understandings of physics and the cosmos. Half of the lectures discuss our recently shaken understandings of the origin and fate of the universe.

Tracking the plan of the first course, Professor Filippenko begins with the nearby and accessible the night sky seen with the naked eye and moves to the planets, the stars, the galaxies, and then to the unimaginably vast forces that unite them all.

An Improved Foundation for Understanding Tomorrow's Discoveries

By building on the foundation laid by his first course, Professor Filippenko enables you to follow at a very sophisticated level the continuing revelations of the universe's secrets in newspapers, magazines, television, and the internet.

You'll instantly understand the implications when you hear of new planets being discovered or old ones possibly being relegated to less-than-planetary status; or of the discovery of black holes in the process of merging and releasing gravity waves; or about the ongoing exploration of exactly why the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating and what the nature of the "dark energy" that appears to be causing this expansion may be.

As a key member of the team of astronomers that made this stunning last discovery, Professor Filippenko is the ideal guide on this fresh voyage through the cosmos. (Science magazine described the finding as perhaps the most important astronomical discovery of the century.)

Cited in nearly 500 papers and abstracts, his research is at the leading edge of astronomical investigation.

And Professor Filippenko can teach: he was voted by students "Best Professor" at the University of California at Berkeley in 1995, 2001, 2003, and 2004.

The first course, Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy , is certainly not a prerequisite for understanding the concepts in this one. However the 30 hours of richly detailed background material in the first course make it an ideal companion to the 12 hours of material in this new update.

A Very Visual Educational Experience

Understanding the Universe: What's New in Astronomy, 2003 is very visual, filled with images, video clips, and photos. You don't simply hear about supernovae, quasars, gamma-ray bursts, or the stunning deep field photographs transmitted to us by the Hubble Space Telescope, you actually see them, as Professor Filippenko uses more than 700 images, including pictures, diagrams, graphs, and animations.

Have you ever wondered whether there are exceptions to the "rule" that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light? Indeed, there are, and Professor Filippenko, in a discussion of the formation and evolution of stars, uses both photographs and diagrams to explain how the speed of light is depressed by a third in water, and how charged particles can exceed that depressed speed, betraying their presence by emitting the electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom, a detectable discharge known as Cherenkov light.

Signals From the Past

You'll also hear the story of how astronomers were at first kept in the dark in the late 1960s when military satellites meant to identify violations of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty began to detect frequent bursts of gamma rays a high-energy form of electromagnetic radiation that the military feared might be coming from nuclear weapons testing.

When it was determined that the bursts were actually coming from the sky, and astronomers were finally notified, a chain of discoveries revealed that the radiation was not only coming from the sky but from distant galaxies.

Through images and animations including a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telegraph of an explosive gamma ray burst from nine and a half billion years ago, equivalent to a million million suns exploding simultaneously you'll learn the latest theories about how these rays were born amidst the explosive chaos of stars forming and collapsing to black holes as the universe was taking shape.

A Telescope Pointed at the Future

Astronomers are as interested in the future as in the past, and you'll be surprised at what eventually awaits our own galaxy as Professor Filippenko uses both space photography and animations to show the process of galaxies merging including our own Milky Way with the Andromeda Galaxy in six to seven billion years, followed by this new "super galaxy's" absorption of other local galaxies a process that also includes the merger of all of the black holes within those galaxies into a single, massive black hole in that final "super galaxy."

Dr. Filippenko devotes his final lectures to a fascinating exploration of some of the most speculative of the theories astronomers and physicists have posed to answer those questions about the universe that still linger. These include inflation theory, the possibility of light traveling faster in the past (a hypothesis that does away with the Big Bang entirely), Modified Newtonian Dynamics, and the theoretical possibility that there is more than one universe and more than four dimensions.

Though this course often covers complex ground, with forays into Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum physics, Professor Filippenko is always mindful of the need for making his material as clear as possible to those without a background in the subject.

Whether using graphics, demonstrations, or physical props including simple balls and heating packs sold in camping supply stores Professor Filippenko is eager to share with his audience his wonder at a universe that is no less wondrous to him for his knowledge of it.

Indeed, the wonder is growing greater. As he notes at the end of the course, "the fact that we have curiosity and can comprehend the universe behooves us to not squander these abilities, and to use them to use this gift to our full potential."

Available on Videotape and DVD

This course includes more than 700 images, including pictures, diagrams, graphs, and animations.


Course Lecture Titles

*01. From Dawn to Dusk
*02. Exploring the Night Sky
*03. Recent Discoveries in Our Solar System
*04. Other Worlds Galore
*05. The Formation and Evolution of Stars
*06. Supernovae Catastrophic Stellar Explosions
*07. Gamma Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes
*08. Observational Evidence for Black Holes
*09. Einstein's Relativity
*10. Cosmology and Cosmic Expansion
*11. The Birth and Evolution of Galaxies
*12. The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
*13. The Stuff of the Cosmos
*14. Dark Energy May the Force Be With You
*15. Theories of Everything, and Hidden Dimensions
*16. Our Universe, One of Many

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The History of Hitler's Empire [TTC Audio]
English | Thomas Childers | 5 hrs and 58 mins | MP3 | 80 MB



L1.8 - The Early History of National Socialism & Hitler
L2.8 - Setting the Stage - Problems in German Democracy
L3.8 - Nazi Election Politics
L4.8 - Hitler's Assumption of Power
L5.8 - Consolidation, Chaos, and Terror in the Third Reich
L6.8 - Transforming the Ideology into Policy
L7.8 - Hitlers Foreign Policy & the Preludes to War
L8.8 - The Third Reich World War II & the Holocaust

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