The Great Courses (Firm)
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explore the visual style of programming seen on the web and in the graphical user interface of an operating system. Get started with pyglet, a Python package created to help support development of games and other audio-visual environments. Use pyglet to make a graphical version of the game from Lesson 13.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
For 22 years, Tuthmosis III was second fiddle to his aunt Hatshepsut, who ruled as a king although she was a woman. When she died and he ruled by himself, he became one of the greatest military pharaohs Egypt had ever known. Learn what it meant to be a great king by tracing the epic events of his reign.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Every day, the sun delivers 14,000 times more energy than the human economy uses. Discover how solar energy in all its forms can be harnessed and used in efficient ways, in addition to the financial benefits that come from using it. Learn how you can use energy wisely in your home..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Look now at events surrounding Jesus's death that we cannot know about with certainty. Assess the plausibility of the Gospels' accounts of his arrival in Jerusalem, the date of his crucifixion, and the matter of his burial. Grasp how Christian writers made changes in the accounts of his death to serve theological ends.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Consider how the biological effects of listening to music might affect people with a wide range of medical conditions, from those undergoing surgery to premature infants, stroke victims, and Alzheimer’s patients. Search for the biological mechanisms that make music a powerful balm for the mind and body..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Follow the rise of the Fatimids—history’s only Shia caliphate—in political and religious opposition to the Baghdad-based Abbasids. Witness the founding of Cairo as the new Fatimid capital, and examine the enlightened leadership of the 4th and 5th Fatimid caliphs, under whom Cairo became the most important city in the Islamic world.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Despite being a common disease, the flu is responsible for some of the deadliest pandemics of all time. Explore two important biological aspects of influenza—antigenic drift and antigenic shift—to understand why changes in viruses can have such a huge impact on disease prevalence..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In robotics, the most important problem mobile robots must solve is how to navigate, or move with purpose, in the world. Here, learn how simultaneous localization and mapping (using internal models, beacons, and dead reckoning navigation) is the key to a robot’s autonomy in both structured and exploratory situations..
69) Detecting Clues
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The clue is so imperative to the successful mystery story that there are few elements more subject to rules and regulations. Yet for all the requirements around how, when, and why to present clues, this narrative element is highly subjective. In this lecture, you’ll learn how clues are used to help, hinder, mislead, and solve mysteries, for both the characters and the audience.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explore how the English settlers gradually transformed themselves from colonists to American citizens, and how English in America became American English. Myriad dialects began to coalesce, and there was an explosion of linguistic creativity, especially in the creation of dialect words - Americanisms like "raccoon"and "bifocal”.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lay the basic building blocks of geometry by examining what we mean by the terms point, line, angle, plane, straight, and flat. Then learn the postulates or axioms for how those building blocks interact. Finally, work through your first proof—the vertical angle theorem.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Invented over two thousand years ago by Aristophanes of Byzantium, head of the Library of Alexandria, accents are important clues to the pronunciation of Greek words, and they often provide other crucial information. Learn the rules for the three types of accents: acute, grave, and circumflex.
73) The Verb ειμι
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The most common μι verb is also one of the most irregular: to be. Study its forms, discovering that, as unpredictable as it appears, it is more regular than its English counterparts: I am, you are, he is. Then learn to count in Greek, and analyze lines 109-117 of the Iliad.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Here, learn how political events in Europe directly shaped Mozart’s music and personal circumstances. Investigate the long-term threat posed to Europe by the Ottoman Empire, and observe the paradoxical Turkish vogue in European art and fashion. Study the Turkish elements in both the plot and musical content of Mozart’s opera The Abduction from the Harem, and grasp how the economic fallout from Austria’s war with the Ottomans contributed to Mozart’s...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Operation Market Garden is routinely listed among the great military mishaps of World War II. Investigate the Allies’ numerous errors in planning, organization, and execution in this bold air/land mission, from underestimating the Germans’ resistance to ignoring important intelligence to making unrealistic timetables..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dig deeper into object-oriented design, seeing how encapsulation—combining data and the functions that deal with data into a single package—is the basis for two other object-oriented features: inheritance and polymorphism. Apply these ideas to sports statistics.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Get three more advanced tools to help you generate bold, creative ideas. The first is reverse brainstorming, a variation that helps shake things up. The second is forced relationships, which facilitate associative thought and recharge thinking. The third is visually identifying relationships, which uses images and pictures to stimulate ideas.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Continue your study of World War II from the Eastern European perspective. Here, you’ll see how Hitler caught Stalin off guard with a surprise attack, causing the Soviet Union to join the Allies. Nevertheless, Stalin had his own plans to expand the Soviet sphere of influence. Meanwhile, in the Balkans, communist partisans had other ideas..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explore the world of small-cap investing, which targets companies with a market capitalization (outstanding shares times price/share) generally less than a billion dollars. Learn how legendary investors Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, and Michael Burry flourished in this market. Survey your own options for getting involved.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
There is a bit of a mystery about Ramses's reign. Its last 40 years were rather sedentary. In considering what might have happened, you will see how a pharaoh with the resources of Ramses prepared himself and his family for the next world.