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Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)

Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Co. 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 970 EAK
Call number: CD 970 EAK PART 2

Goldman, Steven L.

Summary: Professor Steven L. Goldman of Lehigh University presents 24 lectures addressing various topics pertaining to the nature of scientific knowledge and the limits of scientific theories regarding claims to truth.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 509 GOL

Vandiver, Elizabeth

Summary: Professor Vandiver makes it clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Homeric epics remain not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told, but also two of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written. Questions include, why does Odysseus long so powerfully to go home? What are the limits of our freedom? Who or what shapes our actions and our ends? What holds...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 VAN

Vandiver, Elizabeth

Summary: Professor Vandiver makes it clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Homeric epics remain not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told, but also two of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written. Questions include, why does Achilles rage? What are the limits of our freedom? Who or what shapes our actions and our ends? Why do we love our own so strongly? Where...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 VAN

Cook, William R. (William Robert)

Summary: An analysis of the classic work Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430). Includes Roman history and Christian controversries at the time and background for understanding the book. Also discusses its ongoing usefulness and how it may serve as a guide despite the obvious diffrence between Augustine's world and ours.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 270.2 COO PART 1
Call number: CD 270.2 COO PART 2

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