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1) Algebra II
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (DVD) + 2 workbooks : sound , color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
2) Geometry
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (DVD) + 2 workbooks : sound , color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (approximately 1,440 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 224 pages : music ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Dr. Greenberg examines eighteenth and nineteenth century music through the examples of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak, Richard Strauss, Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Franz Liszt.
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 900 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 study workbook (iv, 110 p. ; 28 cm.).
Language
English
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Description
This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting effects these civilizations have had on Western civilization....
8) Algebra I
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (DVD) + 2 workbooks : sound , color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
9) Basic math
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (DVD) + 2 workbooks : sound , color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Basic Math is designed to provide students with an understanding of arithmetic and to prepare them for Algebra I and beyond.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 106 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Why do the ancient Greeks occupy such a prominent place in conceptions of Western culture and identity? The Greeks are a source of much that we esteem: democracy, philosophy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry, history-writing, ideals of athletic competition, aesthetic sensibilities, and more. Spanning roughly 1,000 years, the lectures cover the Late Bronze Age (1500 B.C.E.) to the time of Alexander the Great in the late 4th century (400 B.C.E.). Greek...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm)
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800, a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still. This course consolidates and enhances material from two of Professor Kors's earlier courses, The origin of the modern mind and The mind of the enlightenment.
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
14 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 7 course guides (22 cm)
Language
English
Description
Professor Weinstein of Brown University presents eighty-four lectures on the great classics of American literature, showing how such authors as Irving, Poe, Thoreau, Hemingway, and Faulkner bring the past to life, changing as each generation steps forward to interpret it anew.
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1,440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 208 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Three lifetimes ago, Europe was a farming society ruled by families of monarchs. Modern European history began with two seismic tremors that shattered Europe's foundations: the Industrial Revolution in England introduced modern industrial capitalism, while the French Revolution of 1789-1799 threatened entrenched elites throughout Europe. For the next three generations, consider the following events that occurred in the span of one lifetime: (1) Napoleon's...
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 6
Language
English
Description
How did Egypt become history's first nation? Once King Narmer unified Upper and Lower Egypt, it took only a few hundred years to build a power that would dominate the Near East for millennia. Learn why the political structure of ancient Egypt made this possible and how the "Narmer Palette" tells this story.
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 43
Language
English
Description
The Greek kings known as the Ptolemies ran Egypt like a business. Taxes were heavy; government was oppressive. There are two great Hellenistic achievements, however: the Pharos Lighthouse and the famed Library of Alexandria.
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