Summary: Dr. Silver provides a foundation for understanding how life works at the level of genes and molecules that interact in complex networks to drive human development, evolution, and behavior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611 SCICall number: DVD 611 SCI
Summary: The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the caves of Qumran could be considered the most remarkable archaeological find of the past century. This course explores the archeology, publication, content, and interpretations of the historical period of the scrolls.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 DEACall number: DVD 296 DEA
Goodman, Anthony A.
Summary: You live with it 24 hours a day, but how well do you really know it? This course is an owner's manual to a remarkably complex, resilient, and fascinating structure: the human body. Using detailed color illustrations, life-sized models, and, even a video shot during surgery, this course examines the major systems of the body, explaining exactly how things work and why they sometimes don't. Each...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2004
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 UNDCall number: DVD 612 UND
Strauss, Eric.
Summary: Ecology is to reveal the nature of ourselves and of our relationship with the species around us. The lectures in this course are often in pairs, with basic ecological principles discussed in the first lecture and the human role or human implications addressed in the second.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 525 EARRestak, Richard
Summary: These 12 lectures focus attention on the human brain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 OPTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 612.82 OptimizingSummary: The body is a fortress under constant assault. It faces threats from infectious diseases, parasites, allergens, environmental toxins, physical trauma, and natural disasters from without, to overzealous allergic, immune, and inflammatory responses, and cellular mutations from within. This course is an introduction to the field of pathophysiology--the study of the disruptions in a normal body's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.07 HUMSummary: In recent decades, the philosophy of humor has been recognized as a legitimate subfield of philosophy. The reason for this? Because to understand how humor works is to better understand the nature of human experience. In these 24 insightful, informative, illuminating, and (yes) humorous lectures, explore the philosophical theories and explanations of humor, from blatantly obvious puns to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 TAKCall number: DVD 128 TAK
Restak, Richard M.
Summary: These 12 lectures focus attention on the human brain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 OPTCall number: DVD 612.82 OPT