Midwest Tape April 22 Great Courses Catalog

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Science and Psychology

Starring: Anita Foeman A professor of communication and media, and founder and primary investigator of the DNA Discussion Project at West Chester University, takes us behind the scenes to examine what really happens when individuals receive their personal DNA ancestry results.

353 min. (2021) Science DVD 14599179 $44.99 2 Discs

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Examining the Big Questions of Time

How to Raise Lifelong Learners

Understanding and Overcoming Fear

Understanding Human Emotions

Starring: Laura Helmuth 316 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14134819 $44.99 2 Discs

Starring: Donna Baer 165 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14649450 $29.99

Starring: Margee Kerr 692 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14727935 $79.99 4 Discs

Starring: Lawrence Ian Reed 318 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14782620 $44.99 2 Discs

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Science and Psychology The Scientific Guide to Health and Happiness Dr. Robin Miller, an internist and integrative medicine specialist, reveals the secrets to a healthy mind and body.

592 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14649449 $64.99 4 Discs

Extreme Offenders

Psychological Insights

Katherine Ramsland presents 12 fascinating episodes that plunge you into some of the darkest criminal mental states, methods, and motives.

360 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14649446 $44.99 2 Discs

The Brain-Based Guide to Communicating Better Starring: Allison Friederichs Professor Allison Friederichs will walk you through six lessons that can help you better know your own mind, and thus understand and transform your own methods of communication. You will learn how your brain acquires, processes, and retains information.

183 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14416650 $29.99

Introduction to Psychology A grand introduction to one of the most captivating, and human, fields of inquiry, taught by Professor Catherine A. Sanderson.

1077 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14270837 $114.99 6 Discs

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Travel and Fine Arts The Great Tours

A Guided Tour of Ancient Egypt Starring: Melinda Hartwig 696 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14416649 $79.99 4 Discs

Notorious London

Effective Editing

How to Take Your Writing to the Next Level Starring: Molly McCowan 315 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14599176 $44.99 2 Discs

Old English Literature

A City Tour

Starring: Paul Deslandes 356 min. (2021) Travel DVD 14270838 $44.99 2 Discs

Language as History

Starring: Renee R. Trilling 760 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14727934 $79.99 4 Discs

Capture amazing images using only a smartphone!

The Complete Guide to Smartphone Photography

Starring: Bob Krist An insightful course designed to support you through each step of the filmmaking process. Beginning with preparation and equipment, you will see how to use the skills you already have in still photography to manifest excellence in all your filmmaking endeavors.

351 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14599178 $44.99 2 Discs

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Starring: Jared Platt A comprehensive course focused on exploring the ins and outs of taking, tweaking, organizing, storing, and sharing photos exclusively on your smartphone.

444 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14858764 $44.99 3 Discs

Science and Mathematics Learning Java Programming Starring: Paulo Dichone 504 min. (2021) Science DVD 14332201 $64.99 3 Discs

The Evidence for Modern Physics How We Know What We Know

Starring: Don Lincoln 744 min. (2021) Science DVD 14332200 $79.99 4 Discs

Understanding the Periodic Table Starring: Ron B. Davis Jr. 740 min. (2021) Science DVD 14489829 $79.99 4 Discs

The Mathematics of Everyday Life Starring: Mohamed Omar 385 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14416648 $44.99 2 Discs

Understanding Economics Game Theory

Starring: Jay R. Corrigan Taught by Professor Jay R. Corrigan, this course introduces viewers to game theory, which is the study of how people make strategic decisions in business, commerce, and a host of other activities.

360 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14089746 $44.99 2 Discs

Starring: Emily Levesque Learn how Annie Jump Canon, Karl Lansky, Vera Rubin, and others sparked some of the great discoveries that have shaped astronomy over the past century through their groundbreaking new theories, serendipitous observations, and feats of engineering.

636 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14089745 $79.99 4 Discs

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History The Triumph of Christianity

In the Footsteps of Van Gogh

Starring: Bart D. Ehrman 680 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14782618 $79.99 4 Discs

Starring: Jean-Pierre Isbouts 339 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14858766 $44.99 3 Discs

World War II

Up Close and Personal

Starring: Keith Huxen 693 min. (2021) History DVD 14489828 $79.99 4 Discs

Starring: Richard Bell Taught by Professor Richard Bell of the University of Maryland, you’ll discover the American Revolution from a startlingly different perspective: not the perspective of the Founding Fathers, who were people of wealth and privilege, but of the common people who made the revolution happen. Over the course of 28 lessons, you’ll meet the soldiers, midwives, artisans, shopkeepers, farmers, enslaved people, and all the other men and women, European American, Native American, and African American, with whom the success or failure of the American Revolution depended. Without these people, there could have been no revolution.

703 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14649447 $79.99 4 Discs

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Starring: Jackson Crawford Think you know Thor? Loki?

The Valkyries? Think again. Packed with gods, anti-gods, magical figures, human heroes, religious practices, and literary devices, the 24 lectures of Norse Mythology lay bare the reasons for our enduring fascination with Norse myths.

Jackson Crawford also connects the dots between the Icelandic sagas of human heroes and the culture and worldview of the pre-modern Scandinavian peoples.

680 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14858765 $79.99 4 Discs

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Crimes of the Century A Selective History of Infamy

Starring: Richard B. Spence 338 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14416647 $44.99 2 Discs

History

The Middle East in the 20th Century

World Heritage Sites

Exploring the World’s Greatest Places

Starring: Eamonn Gearon 700 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14727933 $79.99 4 Discs

Starring: Justin M. Jacobs 708 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14858767 $79.99 4 Discs

Communism in Power

How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance

From Stalin to Mao

Starring: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius 354 min. (2021) Educational DVD 14649448 $44.99 2 Discs

Starring: William Landon 364 min. (2021) History DVD 14599177

Starring: Mark J. Ravina Professor Mark J. Ravina of the University of Texas at Austin covers Japan since World War II, dealing with the economic miracle that made it second only to the United States in the size of its economy. You learn how this happened and why Japanese markets plunged in the 1990s. You explore the economic, political, and social background, and the natural and nuclear disasters that befell Japan in 2011.

352 min. (2021) History DVD 14782619 $44.99 2 Discs

$44.99 2 Discs

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