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Basic Human Anatomy
by John K. Young
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The structures that lie beneath our skin represent a remarkable and beautiful assortment of biological machines essential for our lives. Often, however, we take these structures for granted; it is only when we become ill that we wonder how the body functions and what has gone wrong.
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Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth-Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation
by Alan M. Dershowitz
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The courtroom trial has fascinated human beings from the beginning of recorded history. Trials are theater, trials are history, and the great trials of the twentieth century and beyond provide a unique window into American history and the sense of America's enduring commitment to law.
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Astronomy I: Earth, Sky and Planets
by James Kaler
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The Earth, the sun and moon, the planets, comets, asteroids and meteors—the solar system is all around us, yet how much do we truly know about it?
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Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History
by Eric H. Cline
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The Trojan War, captured forever in Homer's epic poem the Iliad, resonates to the present day in the popular imagination, and this magnificent confrontation continues to exert a tremendous influence on modern audiences.
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A History of Ancient Greece
by Eric H. Cline
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
In this intriguing series of lectures, prolific researcher, author, and George Washington University professor Eric H. Cline delves into the history of ancient Greece, frequently considered to be the founding nation of democracy in Western civilization.
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Astronomy II: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
by James Kaler
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Over the past century, our vision has taken us far beyond the home Galaxy into the vastness of the Universe, where we find we are hardly alone.
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Heavens Above: Stars, Constellations, and the Sky
by James Kaler
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Have you ever gone outside at night to admire the stars? And wonder what they all are, and what stories they have to tell? Have you ever thought you'd like to know and understand the constellations or know the names of the stars?
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Rock 'n' Roll and American Society, Part 1
by William McKeen
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
An author and university professor whose books include scholarly works on The Beatles and Bob Dylan, William McKeen here tackles the role of popular music in American culture.
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Principles of Economics: Business, Banking, Finance, and Your Everyday Life
by Peter Navarro
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
This course introduces both macro economics and micro economics.
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Detective Fiction
by M. Lee Alexander
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
From mysterious origins, through the Victorian sleuths and the "Golden Age" of the genre (the 1920s through the 1940s), and to the present day, detective fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers have consistently topped best-seller lists around the world.
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Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
by Peter Kreeft
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
An enthusiastic admirer of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, professor and philosopher Peter Kreeft details the rational thought and precise literary talent that established Aquinas as the foremost thinker of his time—and as the most important philosopher for the almost two thousand years between Aristotle and Descartes.
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A Way with Words, Part I: Writing Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
In A Way with Words: Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion, esteemed professor Michael D.C. Drout brings his expertise in literary studies to the subject of rhetoric
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Discovering the Philosopher in You
by Colin McGinn
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Everyone has their own inner philosopher—a voice within that asks, oh so insistently, philosophical questions.
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A Way With Words, Part III: Grammar for Adults
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Who Eats Shoots and Leaves? A panda? Or a gunman at a restaurant? The answer to this all depends on - you guessed it - grammar. In the third part of his extraordinary Way with Words series, Professor Drout continues to explore humanity's intimate association with language, here delving into the finer points of English grammar.
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Faith and Reason: The Philosophy of Religion
by Peter Kreeft
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Through the ages, mankind has pursued questions of faith in something beyond the world of ordinary experience. Is there a God? How can we explain the presence of evil? Do humans, or human souls, live on after death? Is there a hell?
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A History of the English Language
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Professor Drout addresses the foundation of language and its connection to specific portions of the brain. The components of language are explained in easy-to-understand terms and the progression of the language from Germanic to Old, Middle, and Modern English is fully illustrated...
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Big Picture MBA
by Peter Navarro
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
This course is designed to give listeners an overview of the MBA degree - one of the most valuable graduate degrees available. The focus is on the major courses taught in the core curriculum at any one of the top fifty business schools in the United States.
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Communication Matters I: He Said, She Said
by Deborah Tannen
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Professor Deborah Tannen's groundbreaking research into the fundamental differences between the ways in which the sexes communicate using language forms the basis for this fascinating series of lectures.
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The Enlightenment: Reason, Tolerance, and Humanity
by James Schmidt
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The Enlightenment stands at the threshold of the modern age. It elevated the natural sciences to the preeminent position they enjoy in modern culture. It inaugurated a skepticism toward tradition and authority that decisively shaped modern attitudes in religion, morality, and politics.
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Ethics: A History of Moral Thought
by Peter Kreeft
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust?
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
by Lawrence H. Schiffman
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
In this course, Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman presents the real Dead Sea Scrolls. In so doing, this widely published authority on Judaic studies imparts a clear understanding of what the Scrolls are, and even more importantly, what they are not.
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Philosophy and the Law: How Judges Reason
by Stephen Mathis
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Do judges deduce their decisions from legal rules and principles, or do they decide cases based on what is fair given the facts at hand?
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Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
by Harold Bloom
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love.
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Liberty and its Price: Understanding the French Revolution
by Donald M.G. Sutherland
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Esteemed professor Donald M.G. Sutherland provides a riveting account of the French Revolution, explaining how its effects varied greatly according to regional economies, social structures, and religious affiliations.
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Dante and His Divine Comedy
by Timothy B. Shutt
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
By near universal agreement, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy stands very high among the greatest literary works ever written. This may come as a surprise, because Dante is best known for the Inferno, the first cantica of the Commedia, which is, by any standard, fairly grim in some respects.
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