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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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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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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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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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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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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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From Jesus to Christianity: A History of the Early Church
by Thomas F. Madden
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Entrusting the apostles to continue the work he had started by instructing them to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit...," Jesus kindled the fires of a new religion in a world largely dominated by polytheism, cult leader worship, and mysticism.
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Religions of the East: Paths to Enlightenment
by Stephen Prothero
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The main aim of this course is to cultivate basic literacy in the principal religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism.
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Plato and Aristotle
by Aryeh Kosman
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
This course is an introduction to the philosophical thought of the two most important philosophical figures of ancient Greece. By working through parts of their central texts and thoughts, we will gain an understanding of Plato and Aristotle's relevance in the past and today as well.
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Brotherhood of the Revolution
by Joseph J. Ellis
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
This is the story of the American Revolution, the men who made it and who then secured it. It is the story of an improbable victory by a provincial collection of loosely knit colonies over the dominant military and political power in the world.
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Law of the Land: A History of the Supreme Court
by Kermit Hall
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The Judiciary in general and the Supreme Court of the United States in particular represent the republic’s most unusual and least understood branch of government. Unlike the elected executive and legislative branches, the justices of the Supreme Court are appointed and serve during good behavior.
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Islam and the West
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Islam and Christianity share both remarkable similarities and remarkable differences. In the grand scheme, both are relatively recent religions, with Christianity taking hold in Northern Europe at about the same time that Islam took hold in the Persian world (although Christianity appeared on the scene six centuries before Islam).
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The Catholic Church in the Modern Age
by Thomas F. Madden
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
As the world entered the modern age, the Catholic Church faced new challenges to its authority, both from without and within. As one of the planet's oldest institutions, the Church had already survived sixteen centuries, but as winds of change altered the global landscape, the Church's very existence would be called into question.
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The Tiber and the Potomac: Rome, America, and Empires of Trust
by Thomas F. Madden
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Esteemed university professor and best-selling author Thomas F. Madden presents an intriguing series of lectures based on a fascinating premise: that the United States has more in common with the rising Roman Republic than with the declining Roman Empire.
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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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Epochs of European Civilization: Reformation to the Twenty-First Century
by Geoffrey Hosking
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The period from the Reformation to the twenty-first century proved a time of radical change for Europe - and with the continent's far-reaching influence, for the entire world as well.
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Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism
by F. E. Peters
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a key turning point in the history of modern Europe and the world. For much of the twentieth century, politics were defined by attitudes to what had taken place in Russia in 1917.
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Behold the Mighty Dinosaur
by John Kricher
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Dinosaurs-the word means "fearfully great reptile"-have been a source of fascination ever since their discovery in England early in the nineteenth century.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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