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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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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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Martin Luther King: Live Speech on Racial Discrimination
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Available on: Online Audio
Martin Luther King Jr., prime mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, keynote speaker at the March on Washington, and youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, speaks about racial discrimination.
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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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Philosophy of Language
by John Searle
Available on: Audio Download
The main purpose of this course is to answer the question, “How does language relate to the world?” In order to do this we will have to explore a lot of related questions...
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Change your Mind, Change your Brain
by Matthieu Ricard
Available on: Online Video
If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it?
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Buddhist Psychology
by Eleanor H. Rosch
Available on: Audio Download
Based on tradition of direct observation of working of ordinary mind in everyday life situations. Provides contrasting perspective to present theories of cognition, perception, motivation, emotion, social interaction, and neurosis.
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World Regions, Peoples, and States
by Nathan F. Sayre
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
The world is comprised of regions—this basic contention, as old as Western civilization, is at once commonsensical and problematic.
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Human Emotion
by Dacher Keltner
Available on: Audio Download
This course will examine two different theoretical perspectives on emotion: (1) the differential emotions approach with its strong evolutionary grounding, and (2) the social constructionist approach.
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Malcolm Gladwell: What We Can Learn From Spaghetti Sauce
by Malcolm Gladwell
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
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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