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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Available on: Audio Download
First published in 1845, the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass became Frederick Douglass's most well known work. It is as the name implies his autobiography.
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Zaadz Notes: Authentic Happiness
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Audio Download
Martin Seligman is changing the world. As the former President of the American Psychological Association and Founder of the revolutionary “Positive Psychology” movement, he and his colleagues are literally creating a science of happiness.
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Speech on Women's Right to Vote
by Susan B. Anthony
Available on: Audio Download
This speech, recited before court in 1873 is one of the greatest statements ever made on behalf of women's suffrage.
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Understanding Conversations Between Women and Men
by Deborah Tannen
Available on: Audio Download
In this lecture linguistics professor and bestselling author Deborah Tannen describes many of the basic differences between in communication between men and women.
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The Soul in Depression
by Andrew Solomon
Available on: Audio Download
Nearly ten million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression. As a society, we're increasingly aware of the many faces of depression, and we've become conversant in the language of psychological analysis of depression and medical treatment for it.
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Introduction to Psychology
by Jeremy Wolfe
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love.
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The End of Poverty
by Jeffrey Sachs
Available on: Online Video
One billion people on the planet are struggling with extreme poverty according to Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?
by Immanuel Kant
Available on: Audio Download
Written in 1784, "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" is one of philosopher Immanuel Kant's most influential and famous essays. Here Kant addresses the causes for a lack of Enlightenment in society, and the preconditions a person must meet in order to gain it.
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Cold War Documentaries - "Atomic City: USA"
by Various
Available on: Audio Download
Fears of a cold war turning hot were rampant from the late 1940’s to the 1980’s and no fear was greater than the fear of a nuclear war and whether or not we were prepared for one.
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The Foundations of Language
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download
In this lecture Professor Michael Drout focuses on language as a whole and how it develops and is learned. He points out the amazing ability that children have for speaking and comprehending a language...
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Dream Psychology
by Sigmund Freud
Available on: Audio Download
With a simple, compact manual such as Dream Psychology there shall be no longer any excuse for ignorance of the most revolutionary psychological system of modern times.
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Zaadz Notes: Abraham Maslow
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Audio Download
Abraham Maslow is a cool guy...definitely one of my favorite teachers. An expert in the field of human motivation, and one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th Century, Maslow believed that human beings were innately incredible.
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Democracy in America, Vol. I
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Available on: Audio Download
When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else.
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Available on: Audio Download
The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Malcolm Gladwell: What We Can Learn From Spaghetti Sauce
by Malcolm Gladwell
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce - and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.
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Seven Steps Of Self-Actualization
Available on: Audio Download
After finishing Paul D. Hudon book entitled Seven Steps in Self Actualization, I realized this is not just another of your "run of the mill" self help books; as the title suggests,is All In All.
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JimCollins.com Lecture Hall
by Jim Collins
Available on: Audio Download
In the Lecture Hall, you can listen to what Jim Collins has been saying in his lectures and interviews.
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Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight
by Jill Bolte Taylor
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one.
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Vilayanur Ramachandran: A Journey to the Center of Your Mind
by Vilayanur Ramachandran
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.
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Why Can't We Be Good?
by Jacob Needleman
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Jacob Needleman discusses Why Can't We Be Good?
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The Neuroscience of Consciousness, Perception, and Self
by Bob Woodruff
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
The Neuroscience of Consciousness, Perception, and Self with Eric Haseltine and Bob Woodruff speaking at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Ten Days in a Madhouse
by Nellie Bly
Available on: Audio Download
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and “stunt” reporter, had herself committed to the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York.
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Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?
by Steven Hawkins
Available on: Online Audio
On this week's show, we broadcasted the 13th Great Debate held as part of the biannual Great Debate Series that Boston University's College of Communications began in 1996. The topic of the 13th Great Debate was "Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?"
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Architecture of the Brain
by Elly Nedivi
Available on: Online Video
In this lecture Elly Nedivi provides an overview on the basics of brain anatomy, working her way up the spinal column to the deepest recesses of the cerebral cortex.
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by Phillip Zimbardo
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo discusses From Genocide to Abu Ghraib: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.
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