• Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior

• Autor: Mark Leary, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Mark Leary
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 11 Min.
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Every day of your life is spent surrounded by mysteries that involve what appear to be rather ordinary human behaviors. What makes you happy? Where did your personality come from? Why do you have trouble controlling certain behaviors? Why do you behave differently as an adult than you did as an adolescent?Since the start of recorded history, and probably even before, people have been interested in answering questions about why we behave the way we do.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Extremely interesting

• Von Niko Am hilfreichsten 15.10.2015

• Mind-Body Philosophy

• Autor: Patrick Grim, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Patrick Grim
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 21 Min.
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How is it that our brain creates all the subjective experiences of our lives every single day - the experiences we call reality? That is the mind-body problem. In Mind-Body Philosophy, Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook leads an intellectually exhilarating tour through millennia of philosophy and science addressing one of life's greatest conundrums. But you won't just be a spectator as Dr. Grim engages and encourages each of us to come to our own conclusions.

• No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life

• Autor: Robert C. Solomon, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Robert C. Solomon
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 7 Min.
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What is life? What is my place in it? What choices do these questions obligate me to make? More than a half-century after it burst upon the intellectual scene - with roots that extend to the mid-19th century - Existentialism's quest to answer these most fundamental questions of individual responsibility, morality, and personal freedom, life has continued to exert a profound attraction.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Great Introduction to Existentialism

• Von Andreas S. Am hilfreichsten 30.07.2017

• Food: A Cultural Culinary History

• Autor: Ken Albala, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Ken Albala
• Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 22 Min.
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Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history, from prehistoric times to the present. Epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said it best: "Gastronomy governs the whole life of man."

• 5 out of 5 stars

• interesting....right?

• Von Dissidentdreamr Am hilfreichsten 14.05.2015

• 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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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

• Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

• Autor: Steven Novella, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Steven Novella
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 39 Min.
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No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever. These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• wow! very nice and interesting.

• Von Samuel Am hilfreichsten 14.10.2015

• Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science

• Autor: Robert Sapolsky, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: The Great Courses
• Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 53 Min.
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Understanding our humanity - the essence of who we are - is one of the deepest mysteries and biggest challenges in modern science. Why do we have bad moods? Why are we capable of having such strange dreams? How can metaphors in our language hold such sway on our actions? As we learn more about the mechanisms of human behavior through evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, and other related fields, we're discovering just how intriguing the human species is.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• genial

• Von Immanuela Am hilfreichsten 13.05.2015

• Maps of Meaning

• Autor: Jordan B. Peterson
• Sprecher: Jordan B. Peterson
• Spieldauer: 30 Std. und 52 Min.
• Ungekürztes

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From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Unbelievable

• Von Matter of Personal Opinion Am hilfreichsten 05.07.2018

• 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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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

• 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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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 New Testament

• Autor: Bart D. Ehrman, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Bart D. Ehrman
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 26 Min.
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Whether taken as a book of faith or a cultural artifact, the New Testament is among the most significant writings the world has ever known, its web of meaning relied upon by virtually every major writer in the last 2,000 years. Yet the New Testament is not only one of Western civilization’s most believed books, but also one of its most widely disputed, often maligned, and least clearly understood, with a vast number of people unaware of how it was written and transmitted.

• 1066: The Year That Changed Everything

• Autor: Jennifer Paxton, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Jennifer Paxton
• Spieldauer: 3 Std.
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With this exciting and historically rich six-lecture course, experience for yourself the drama of this dynamic year in medieval history, centered on the landmark Norman Conquest. Taking you from the shores of Scandinavia and France to the battlefields of the English countryside, these lectures will plunge you into a world of fierce Viking warriors, powerful noble families, politically charged marriages, tense succession crises, epic military invasions, and much more.Your journey starts in the 10th and early 11th centuries, when power in England and Normandy was very much up for grabs-and when the small island nation was under continuous assault from Viking forces. Professor Paxton helps you gain a solid grasp of the complex political alliances and shifting relationships between figures such as Emma of Normandy, Cnut, and Edward the Confessor. She also recounts for you the two seminal battles that pitted England against the Scandinavians and the Normans: the Battle of Stamford Bridge and the Battle of Hastings. Throughout the lectures, Dr. Paxton opens your eyes to continued debates and controversies over this year and offers her own take on the Norman Conquest's enduring legacy and the fascinating results of this epic clash. By exploring the year 1066-what led up to it, what happened during that fateful year, and what changed as a result-you'll gain a sharper perspective and a greater understanding of everything that would come afterward.

• 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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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.

• The Iliad of Homer

• Autor: Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Elizabeth Vandiver
• Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 4 Min.
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For thousands of years, Homer's ancient epic poem the Iliad has enchanted readers from around the world. When you join Professor Vandiver for this lecture series on the Iliad, you'll come to understand what has enthralled and gripped so many people.Her compelling 12-lecture look at this literary masterpiece -whether it's the work of many authors or the "vision" of a single blind poet - makes it vividly clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Iliad remains not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told but also one of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written.

• 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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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.