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Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
Steven NovellaSave up to $240.00 Starting at $39.95 $299.95 $39.95–$299.95Dr. Steven Novella of the Yale School of Medicine equips you with the knowledge and skills you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life. The 24 rewarding lectures of Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills immerses you in the science of cognitive biases and thought processes. By learning how to think about thinking (a fascinating process... -
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Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science
Robert SapolskySave up to $169.95 Starting at $40.00 $229.95 $40.00–$229.95Join acclaimed neurobiologist and popular Great Courses Professor Robert Sapolsky for an undeniably fascinating study of what, specifically, makes you you. Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science is a 12-lecture course that takes you to the front lines of scientific research and offers you a new perspective on the supposedly quirky nature of being ourselves. Thought-provoking, witty, and sometimes... -
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How We Learn
Monisha PasupathiSave up to $239.95 Starting at $40.00 $299.95 $40.00–$299.95Shed some much-needed light on what's going on when you learn, and dispel some pervasive myths about an activity so central to your daily life. With Professor Monisha Pasupathi's 24-lecture course, How We Learn, you'll examine interesting theories about learning; explore the ways we master tasks such as speaking a new language, learning a musical instrument, or navigating through a new city; and gain vital... -
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Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know
Michael K. SalemiSave up to $345.00 Starting at $54.95 $429.95 $54.95–$429.95Get a penetrating look at the financial institutions that are fundamental to your life with the 36 detailed lectures of Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know. Award-winning Professor Michael K. Salemi investigates a range of pivotal and fascinating topics. Among these: the history of money; how money is created by commercial and central banks; the role of public confidence in the stability of financial... -
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Understanding the Science for Tomorrow: Myth and Reality
Jeffrey C. GrossmanSave up to $239.95 Starting at $40.00 $299.95 $40.00–$299.95Explore the many possibilities of what your future may look like with Understanding the Science for Tomorrow: Myth and Reality, an unforgettable survey of today's most advanced research in fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, and theoretical physics. These 24 lectures by Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman delve into the genuine science of today's-and tomorrow's-hottest issues in an accessible manner that... -
History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective
Gregory S. AldreteStarting at $435.95 Starting at $435.95 $599.95 $435.95–$599.95Look at ancient history from a fresh, innovative vantage point with the 48 lectures of History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective. Historian and Professor Gregory S. Aldrete’s course examines the ancient world’s greatest civilizations from the Mediterranean, Asia, and the Americas—including those of Rome, Greece, China, Persia, India, and the Maya—not in isolation but in the full context of where... -
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Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History
Craig R. KoesterSave up to $239.95 Starting at $40.00 $299.95 $40.00–$299.95What are we to make of the book of Revelation? The Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History, by scholar and Professor Craig R. Koester, is your guide to this extraordinary work and its impact on our civilization. These 24 thought-provoking and enlightening lectures are divided into three parts: the historical and intellectual background of the Apocalypse; a close reading of the book of Revelation,... -
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The Everyday Guide to Spirits and Cocktails: Tastes and Traditions
Jennifer Simonetti-BryanSave up to $69.95 Starting at $40.00 $119.95 $40.00–$119.95In The Everyday Guide to Spirits and Cocktails: Tastes and Traditions, join acclaimed expert Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan, a Certified Specialist of Spirits, as she demystifies the world's most popular spirits. You'll discover your own personal preferences; learn how to make classic cocktail recipes just like a master mixologist; and use little-known insider tips and techniques for tasting and shopping for spirits.... -
Skywatching: Seeing and Understanding Cosmic Wonders
Alex FilippenkoStarting at $149.95 Starting at $149.95 $229.95 $149.95–$229.95Get an unparalleled visual guide to nature's most mysterious and beautiful offerings with Skywatching: Seeing and Understanding Cosmic Wonders. With these twelve 45-minute lectures, award-winning astronomer and Professor Alex Filippenko has crafted a visually stunning tour of the sky's most dazzling displays, including clouds, sunsets, stars, planets, meteors, and solar eclipses. One of our most intensively... -
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Oceanography: Exploring Earth's Final Wilderness
Harold J. TobinSave up to $345.00 Starting at $54.95 $429.95 $54.95–$429.95Discover the wonder, delight, and awe-inspiring majesty of Earth's ocean with Oceanography: Exploring Earth's Final Wilderness. Professor Harold J. Tobin, an ocean scientist who has visited landscapes on the seabed that no human eyes have seen before, takes you on a scientific expedition to fathom the ocean's many mysteries—from its shallowest tidal zone to its deepest depths. Requiring no background in... -
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Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation
Mark W. MuesseSave up to $230.00 Starting at $49.95 $299.95 $49.95–$299.95Learn how to better live in harmony with the realities of the world and to feel more deeply connected to the whole of life with Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation. In these 24 lectures, award-winning Professor Mark W. Muesse gives you a clear and usable understanding of the essence of meditation and how to practice it. You'll learn the principles and techniques of sitting meditation; the related... -
Fall of the Pagans and the Origins of Medieval Christianity
Kenneth W. HarlStarting at $199.95 Starting at $199.95 $299.95 $199.95–$299.95Why did pagan Rome clash with early Christians? How did Christianity ultimately achieve dominance in the Roman Empire and eclipse paganism in one of the most influential turning points in the history of the West? Find out the startling answers to these and other questions with The Fall of the Pagans and the Origins of Medieval Christianity. This historically focused discussion of the dramatic interaction between... -
Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception
Peter M. VishtonStarting at $199.95 Starting at $199.95 $299.95 $199.95–$299.95Discover the secret life of your senses with Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception, an intriguing and unforgettable 24-lecture course delivered by Professor Peter M. Vishton, an expert in the frontiers of human perception. With him as your authoritative guide, you'll consider each of your senses from a wide range of perspectives, explore how your brain processes different sensory information, consider how... -
Great Tours: Greece and Turkey, from Athens to Istanbul
John R. HaleStarting at $249.95 Starting at $249.95 $299.95 $249.95–$299.95Join Professor John R. Hale as he guides you through the fabulous civilizations of the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Ottomans, and to the natural wonders surrounding them. The Great Tours: Greece and Turkey, from Athens to Istanbul is a journey unlike any other, giving you the chance to experience important sites—such as the Acropolis of Athens, Ephesus, and Sardis—through the eyes of a scholar whose... -
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Unexpected Economics
Timothy TaylorSave up to $260.00 Starting at $19.95 $299.95 $19.95–$299.95Grasp as never before the ways in which economics operates in areas you may never have considered. Delivered by acclaimed economist and Professor Timothy Taylor, the 24 lectures of Unexpected Economics offer a wide-ranging investigation of how economic thinking—whether applied personally, nationally, or globally—relates to, and sheds fresh light on, just about everything. Using findings from recent Nobel... -
Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
Vejas Gabriel LiuleviciusStarting at $199.95 Starting at $199.95 $199.95 $199.95–$199.95Take a detailed tour of the millennia-long history and enduring legacy of a top-secret subject in Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History. Delivered by master historian and Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, these 24 thrilling lectures survey how world powers have worked in the shadows to gain information or subvert enemies. Filled with stories that are both marvelous and mysterious, and insights that... -
Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works
Richard WolfsonStarting at $499.95 Starting at $499.95 $724.95 $499.95–$724.95Discover the beauty and simplicity of science's most fundamental branch with Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works. Intensively illustrated with diagrams, experiments, animations, graphs, and other visual aids, these 60 lectures by engaging and award-winning Professor Richard Wolfson introduce you to scores of fundamental ideas such as Newtonian mechanics, waves and fluids, thermodynamics, electricity and... -
The Skeptic's Guide to the Great Books
Grant L. VothStarting at $149.95 Starting at $149.95 $149.95 $149.95–$149.95Open yourself up to works that are just as engaging and insightful about great human themes and ideas as anything you'd find on a college-level reading list. Professor Grant L. Voth's The Skeptic's Guide to the Great Books is your opportunity to discover new literary adventures that make worthy substitutes to works from the Western canon. In these 12 lectures, you'll get an introduction to works that redefine what... -
Life Lessons from the Great Myths
J. Rufus FearsStarting at $229.95 Starting at $229.95 $429.95 $229.95–$429.95Change the way you think about the greatest stories ever told with Life Lessons from the Great Myths by acclaimed Great Courses Professor J. Rufus Fears. A powerful work of storytelling prowess, this 36-lecture course explores individuals and events that so gripped civilizations, they transcended to the level of myth. Taking you from the battlefields of Alexander the Great to the conquests of Napoleon Bonaparte to... -
Mysteries of the Microscopic World
Bruce E. FleuryStarting at $249.95 Starting at $249.95 $299.95 $249.95–$299.95Travel to the microscopic world and encounter the trillions of bacteria, fungi, and other organisms known as microbes in the 24 lectures of Mysteries of the Microscopic World. In undertaking this journey, guided by award-winning Professor Bruce E. Fleury, you'll learn the powerful role these microbes play in your life, from the bacteria in your stomach that helps you digest, to the pathogens responsible for...
