• The Story of Human Language

• Autor: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: John McWhorter
• Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 15 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• solid, but less scientific than hoped

• Von M. R. Am hilfreichsten 06.08.2017

• Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion

• Autor: Bill Messenger, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Bill Messenger
• Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 59 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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• Geschichte

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Jazz is a uniquely American art form, one of America's great contributions to not only musical culture, but world culture, with each generation of musicians applying new levels of creativity that take the music in unexpected directions that defy definition, category, and stagnation.

Now you can learn the basics and history of this intoxicating genre in an eight-lecture series that is as free-flowing and original as the art form itself.

• Thinking Like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Making

• Autor: Randall Bartlett, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Randall Bartlett
• Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 10 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Economic forces are everywhere around you. But that doesn't mean you need to passively accept whatever outcome those forces might press upon you. Instead, with these 12 fast-moving and crystal clear lectures, you can learn how to use a small handful of basic nuts-and-bolts principles to turn those same forces to your own advantage.

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

• Autor: Yuval Noah Harari
• Sprecher: Derek Perkins
• Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 41 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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  5 out of 5 stars 13
• Geschichte

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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• another classic from a great master of his field

• Von Moritz Am hilfreichsten 30.08.2018

• The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World

• Autor: Robert Garland, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Robert Garland
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 28 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Hervorragend und unterhaltsam

• Von Bambikill Am hilfreichsten 20.05.2014

• The Foundations of Western Civilization

• Autor: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Thomas F. X. Noble
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 54 Min.
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  5 out of 5 stars 29
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What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• very interesting overview

• Von Martin Pfemeter Am hilfreichsten 07.12.2017

• The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

• Autor: Daniel N. Robinson, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Daniel N. Robinson
• Spieldauer: 30 Std. und 11 Min.
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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  4.5 out of 5 stars 15
• Geschichte

  4 out of 5 stars 14

Grasp the important ideas that have served as the backbone of philosophy across the ages with this extraordinary 60-lecture series. This is your opportunity to explore the enormous range of philosophical perspectives and ponder the most important and enduring of human questions-without spending your life poring over dense philosophical texts.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Well read! best coverage of philosophers .

• Von Amazon Customer Am hilfreichsten 20.04.2018

• Educated

• A Memoir
• Autor: Tara Westover
• Sprecher: Julia Whelan
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 10 Min.
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  5 out of 5 stars 56
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  5 out of 5 stars 54

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Great.

• Von Amy Patton Am hilfreichsten 11.03.2018

• Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition

• Autor: Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Richard Wolfson
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 20 Min.
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"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Wolfson at the outset of these 24 lectures on what may be the most important subjects in the universe: relativity and quantum physics. Both have reputations for complexity. But the basic ideas behind them are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. These dynamic and illuminating lectures begin with a brief overview of theories of physical reality starting with Aristotle and culminating in Newtonian or "classical" physics. After that, you'll follow along as Professor Wolfson outlines the logic that led to Einstein's profound theory of special relativity and the simple yet far-reaching insight on which it rests. With that insight in mind, you'll move on to consider Einstein's theory of general relativity and its interpretation of gravitation in terms of the curvature of space and time.From there, you'll embark on a dazzling exploration of how inquiry into matter at the atomic and subatomic scales led to quandaries that are resolved-or at least clarified-by quantum mechanics, a vision of physical reality so profound and so at odds with our experience that it nearly defies language.By bringing relativity and quantum mechanics into the same picture, you'll chart the development of fascinating hypotheses about the origin, development, and possible futures of the entire universe, as well as the possibility that physics can produce a "theory of everything" to account for all aspects of the physical world. But the goal throughout these lectures remains the same: to present the key ideas of modern physics in a way that makes them clear to the interested layperson.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Interesting and good explained

• Von isolator Am hilfreichsten 27.01.2017

• Writing Creative Nonfiction

• Autor: Tilar J J. Mazzeo, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Tilar J J. Mazzeo
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 16 Min.
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  4 out of 5 stars 4
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Bringing together the imaginative strategies of fiction storytelling and new ways of narrating true, real-life events, creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing part of the creative writing world. It's a cutting-edge genre that's reshaping how we write (and read) everything from biographies and memoirs to blogs and public speaking scripts to personal essays and magazine articles.

• The American Civil War

• Autor: Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Gary W. Gallagher
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 36 Min.
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  5 out of 5 stars 18
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Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Lautstärke schwankt

• Von Georg Am hilfreichsten 24.07.2018

• Against the Grain

• A Deep History of the Earliest States
• Autor: James C. Scott
• Sprecher: Eric Martin
• Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 35 Min.
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  4 out of 5 stars 4
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  4 out of 5 stars 4
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  4 out of 5 stars 4

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative.

• Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy

• Autor: The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Professor David K. Johnson PhD University of Oklahoma
• Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 30 Min.
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The science fiction genre has become increasingly influential in mainstream popular culture, evolving into one of the most engaging storytelling tools we use to think about technology and consider the shape of the future. Along the way, it has also become one of the major lenses we use to explore important philosophical questions. The origins of science fiction are most often thought to trace to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, a story born from a night of spooky tale-telling by the fireside that explores scientific, moral, and ethical questions that were of great concern in the 19th century - and that continue to resonate today.

• The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy

• Autor: Edward J. Larson, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Edward J. Larson
• Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 10 Min.
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Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution-the idea that life on earth is the product of purely natural causes, not the hand of God-set off shock waves that continue to reverberate through Western society, and especially the United States. What makes evolution such a profoundly provocative concept, so convincing to most scientists, yet so socially and politically divisive? These 12 eye-opening lectures are an examination of the varied elements that so often make this science the object of strong sentiments and heated debate.

• The Dead Sea Scrolls

• Autor: Gary A. Rendsburg, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Gary A. Rendsburg
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 21 Min.
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  5 out of 5 stars 4
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Whether complete or only fragmentary, the 930 extant Dead Sea Scrolls irrevocably altered how we look at and understand the foundations of faith and religious practice. Now you can get a comprehensive introduction to this unique series of archaeological documents, and to scholars' evolving understanding of their authorship and significance, with these 24 lectures. Learn what the scrolls are, what they contain, and how the insights they offered into religious and ancient history came into focus.