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The Great Courses Lifelong learning and personal enrichment
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1066: The Year That Changed Everything
With 1066, Professor Jennifer Paxton's exciting and historically rich six-lecture course, experience the drama of this dynamic year in medieval history-centering on the Norman Conquest of England that would dramatically reshape both English and Western history. Taking viewers from the shores of Scandinavia and France to the battlefields of the English countryside, this course plunges them into a world of fierce Viking warriors, powerful noble families, politically charged marriages, and more.
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The Aging Brain
Delve into the latest neuroscientific research with twelve fascinating lectures that give viewers a deep understanding of what happens to the brain over time. Cutting-edge science comes to life as viewers go down to the cellular level of the brain to discover why certain brain functions decline, and which functions stay stable or even improve, and learn what viewers can do to prolong their health and keep their mind sharp.
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The American Identity
The paradox of the American identity is that although the United States is a melting pot of many differenct traditions, motives, and ideals, there are nevertheless distinctive qualities that define the American Character. In this course, historian Patrick N. Allitt investigates the national character by introducing you to notable Americans from all eras of the nation's history, from Thomas jefferson to Al Capone, whose lives speak eloquently about 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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The Art of Investing : Lessons from History's Greatest Traders
Great investors like Warren Buffett and Ray Dalio will tell you they're no geniuses; they're simply observant, open-minded, and industrious. Using these key traits, the world's most outstanding traders have employed a remarkable mix of strategies to build huge fortunes. Their careers are a how-to manual for anyone who wants to succeed at investing. The lives of rich and famous investors are gripping tales of opportunities seized and squandered; of billions won and lost, and won again. And these life stories are also an eye-opening education in the workings of financial markets. Professor John M Longo profiles over 30 men and women at the pinnacle of the investing field, including Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio, John Bogle, Peter Lynch, George Soros, Linda Bradford Raschke, David Dreman, Michael Burry, and others involved in such ventures as value stocks, growth stocks, mutual funds, index funds, hedge funds, commodity futures, private equity, sovereign wealth, distressed assets, and more.
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Cooking Basics: What Everyone Should Know
Presented in partnership with The Culinary Institute of America and filmed at the CIA’s flagship facility in Hyde Park, New York. Chef Sean Kahlenberg carefully walks viewers through the many dozen original recipes he presents in this course in 24 easy-to-follow lessons.
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Do-It-Yourself Engineering
Taught by Professor Stephen Ressler of West Point, this course conducts viewers through seventeen thrilling engineering projects that they can build at home, from a suspension bridge across a small stream to a low-altitude sounding rocket. Dr. Ressler walks viewers through the entire process, from design to build to test, showing how to think like an engineer in approaching any problem.
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Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy
The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) provide an outstanding eight-lecture series designed to arm viewers with the very skills needed to defuse the threat of misinformation media. Ms. Tara Susman-Peña and her colleagues at IREX, Mehri Druckman and Nina Odura, will lead viewers step by step through the history, evolution, science, and impact of misinformation in an eight-lecture course that helps viewers to develop the skills they need to combat fakes, stereotypes, and frauds.
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Going to the Devil : The Impeachment of 1868
This first-time-ever original-narrative documentary is a unique and entertaining retelling of the turbulent-yet-fascinating events leading up to and through the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. You'll learn firsthand from the characters themselves- such as Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and others who were involved- as you get an in-depth and evenhanded picture of an often-overlooked period in American history. And these characters are probably unlike anyone you have encountered. With backstabbings, acts of violence, and twists and turns, the factual history of this case unfolds like a fictional story.
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Great American Bestsellers : The Books That Shaped America
There's much more to the nation's best-selling books than the enormous sales figures they rake in. They also provide unique ways to appreciate and understand American culture. This pointed 24-lecture course tours key best-selling works in the history of U.S. literature and what they reveal about the cultural climate of the nation at particular points in its history.
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A Historian Goes to the Movies : Ancient Rome
From Ben-Hur to Spartacus to Gladiator, get a front-row look at the great movies that have shaped ancient Rome’s role in popular culture and memory. The twelve lectures of Professor Gregory S. Aldrete cover over 50 years of cinematic history and talent and immerse viewers in the glory and grandeur, and even the folly, of classic and contemporary films set in Roman antiquity.
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Liberty on Trial in America: Cases that Defined Freedom
Viewers will learn how liberty increased in this country when individuals sued for freedoms and when cases were brought specifically to test the limits of the Constitution. In 24 fascinating lectures, Professor Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law takes viewers behind the scenes of the trials that recognized many of the liberties Americans enjoy today.
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Optimizing Brain Fitness
This engaging twelve-lecture course shows viewers how to take advantage of the basic principles of brain operation and build the brain they want to live with for the rest of their lives. Delivered by Dr. Richard Restak, an award-winning teacher and practicing neurologist, these lectures are packed with vital information and research-based exercises that can be performed every day to tap into hidden mental potential.
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Understanding Nonverbal Communication
Explore the history, evolution, and context of both the outright obvious and the sublimely subtle nuances of personal expression. This course will view the scope of nonverbal communication through the lens of science, led by Dr. Mark Frank, a renowned expert in this field, and will show viewers how understanding nonverbal communication helps them to better understand people.
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The Wonders of America's State Parks
Join best-selling travel writer Joe Yogerst for a virtual tour of over 100 state wilderness areas stretching from New England to the Alaskan frontier to the Hawaiian Islands. Learn how these parks came into existence, what makes them a special part of America's story, and how to get the most out of a visit.
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