• Archaeology
    • Archaeology: An Introduction to the World's Greatest Sites by Eric H. Cline, Ph.D.4.5 - 136
    • The Modern Scholar: Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History4.26 - 151
    • Digging for the Truth: One Man's Epic Adventure Exploring the World's Greatest Archaeological Mysteries4.2 - 32
    • The Modern Scholar: Icons of the Iron Age: The Celts in History3.88 - 96
    • The Modern Scholar: Myths & Mysteries in Archaeology3.84 - 44
  • Astronomy
    • The Modern Scholar: Astronomy I: Earth, Sky and Planets4.45 - 330
    • The Modern Scholar: Astronomy II: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe4.52 - 256
    • The Modern Scholar: Heavens Above: Stars, Constellations, and the Sky4.31 - 61
    • Life in Our Universe4 - 32 Laird Close, Ph.D.The University of Arizona
      1 Is There Life Elsewhere in Our Universe?
      2 Bang! A Universe Built for Life
      3 A Star Is Born—Forming the Solar System
      4 The Early Earth and Its Moon
      5 Impacts—Bringers of Death … or Life?
      6 Evidence of the First Life on Earth
      7 Common Themes for All Life on Earth
      8 Origin of Terrestrial Life
      9 Astrobiology—Life beyond Earth
      10 Has Mars Always Been Dead?
      11 Evidence for Fossilized Life from Mars
      12 Could Life Ever Have Existed on Venus?
      13 Liquid Assets—The Moons of Jupiter
      14 Liquid on Titan and Enceladus
      15 Discovery of Extrasolar Planets
      16 The Kepler Spacecraft's Planets
      17 A Tour of Exotic Alien Solar Systems
      18 Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
      19 SETI—The Search for Intelligent Life
      20 The Fermi Paradox—Where Is Everyone?
      21 Space Travel—A Reality Check
      22 Terraforming a Planet
      23 The Future of Terrestrial Life
      24 The Search for Another Earth
    • SEEING IN THE DARK3.8 - 34
    • The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence4.4 - 86
  • Biography
    • Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel by Banesh Hoffman4.3 - 7
    • American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer4.6 - 323
    • Autobiography of Mark Twain4.2 - 619
    • Benjamin Franklin4.6 - 712
    • Einstein His Life and Universe4.6 - 1,005
    • Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice4.0 - 134
    • Leonardo The First Scientist3.2 - 20
    • The Modern Scholar: The Life and Times of Mark Twain4.11 - 28
    • Lincoln's Melancholy4.4 - 179
    • The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer3.1 - 51
    • The World As I See It by Albert Einstein4.1 - 183
    • Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger4.5 - 658
    • The Modern Scholar: Winston Churchill: Man of the Century4.33 - 57 Professor John Ramsden (Queen Mary University of London)
      Lecture 1 Family, Background, and Identity
      Lecture 2 Soldier and War Correspondent, 1893-1900
      Lecture 3 Young Man in a Hurry, 1900-1911
      Lecture 4 “I Am a War Person”
      Lecture 5 Starting Again, 1916-1930
      Lecture 6 Churchill the Writer
      Lecture 7 Neglected Prophet in the 1930s
      Lecture 8 His “Finest Hour”: Churchill the Orator
      Lecture 9 Churchill and Stalin: Dealing with the Devil
      Lecture 10 Churchill, Roosevelt, and the “Special Relationship,” 1940-1945
      Lecture 11 Triumph and Tragedy, 1942-1945
      Lecture 12 Prophet Again, 1945-1951
      Lecture 13 Apotheosis, 1951-1965
      Lecture 14 Man of the Century?
  • Biology
    • A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology4.0 -
    • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?4.4 - 251
    • Betsey Dexter Dyer
      • The Modern Scholar: Basics of Genetics4.16 - 83 Lecture 1 The Long History of Practical Genetics
        Lecture 2 What Did Gregor Mendel Do?
        Lecture 3 What Did Mendel Do Next?
        Lecture 4 A Cookie Factory in a Black Box Designed by Rube Goldberg
        Lecture 5 How Mammals Get Their Colors
        Lecture 6 The Importance of Environment: In the Short Term
        Lecture 7 Environment Over the Long Term: The Genetics of Populations
        Lecture 8 DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)
        Lecture 9 Transcription and Translation: The Metaphor of an Error-Prone Medieval Monk in a Scriptorium
        Lecture 10 Chromosomes, Mitosis, and Meiosis: How DNA Is Packaged for Moving
        Lecture 11 Mutations
        Lecture 12 Regulating the Genes and the Dramatic Consequences of Regulatory Mutations
        Lecture 13 Viruses, Jumping Genes, and Symbionts: Whose DNA Is It and What Are the New Philosophical Questions?
        Lecture 14 Conclusions
      • The Modern Scholar: Unseen Diversity: The World of Bacteria4.18 - 134 Professor Betsey Dexter Dyer (Wheaton College)
        Lecture 1 Introduction to the Bacterial World
        Lecture 2 Hidden in Plain Sight
        Lecture 3 Seventeenth-Century Microscopy and the Discovery of Bacteria
        Lecture 4 A Brief History of Bacteriology
        Lecture 5 The Family Tree of Bacteria
        Lecture 6 The Extremophiles
        Lecture 7 An Enormous and Diverse Group: The Proteobacteria
        Lecture 8 An Enormous and Diverse Group: The Gram Positives
        Lecture 9 Gram Positives in the Soil Community
        Lecture 10 Bacteria as Pathogens
        Lecture 11 What About the Viruses?
        Lecture 12 Cyanobacteria: The Original Photosynthesizers
        Lecture 13 Diverse Metabolisms
        Lecture 14 Future Directions
    • Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History4.4 - 59
    • Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry4.6 - 60
    • Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old-And What It Means for Staying Young4.7 - 28
    • The Modern Scholar: Creating Humans: Ethical Questions Where Reproduction and Science Collide3.6 - 10
    • Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself4.4 - 41
    • Adventures in Human Being4.6 - 7
    • Genes, Chromosomes, and Disease: From Simple Traits, to Complex Traits, to Personalized Medicine4.1 - 21
    • How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever3.9 - 41
    • I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life4.7 - 285
    • Our Inner Ape4.3 - 70
    • John K. Young
      • The Modern Scholar: The Building Blocks of Human Life: Understanding Mature Cells and Stem Cells4.2 - 79 Professor John K. Young (Howard University)
        Lecture 1 Origin of Cell Types
        Lecture 2 Epithelial Cells
        Lecture 3 Muscle Cells
        Lecture 4 Cells of Nervous Tissue
        Lecture 5 Connective Tissue Cells
        Lecture 6 Blood Cells and Their Progenitors
        Lecture 7 Cells of Cartilage and Bone
        Lecture 8 Cells of the Skin
        Lecture 9 Exocrine Cells
        Lecture 10 Endocrine Cells
        Lecture 11 Sensory Cells
        Lecture 12 Cells of Reproductive Organs
        Lecture 13 Extreme Cells
        Lecture 14 Death and Aging of Cells
      • The Modern Scholar: Basic Human Anatomy: The Beauty of Form and Function4.23 - 128 Professor John K. Young (Howard University)
        Lecture 1 Introduction to Anatomy and the Axial Skeleton
        Lecture 2 Bones and Muscles of the Arms and Hands
        Lecture 3 Bones and Muscles of the Legs and Feet
        Lecture 4 The Cardiovascular System
        Lecture 5 Lymphatic Vessels and Organs of the Immune System
        Lecture 6 Spinal Cord and Brain
        Lecture 7 Eye and Ear
        Lecture 8 Upper Digestive System
        Lecture 9 Lower Digestive System
        Lecture 10 Exocrine and Endocrine Glands
        Lecture 11 The Respiratory System
        Lecture 12 The Urinary System
        Lecture 13 The Male Reproductive System
        Lecture 14 The Female Reproductive System
    • Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life4.3 - 105
    • Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself4.6 - 38
    • Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable4.7 - 35
    • The Medusa and the Snail4.6 - 38
    • Investigating the Human Genome: Insights into Human Variation and Disease Susceptibility3.6 - 10
    • Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves4.3 - 21
    • Neil Shubin
      • The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body4.3 - 142
      • Your inner fish4.6 - 553
    • Nick Lane
      • Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution4.6 - 112
      • The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane4.5 - 189
    • Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond4.3 - 72
    • Parasites - The Todd Mundt Show
    • The Modern Scholar: Seeing, Eye to I: Understanding Visual Perception3.64 - 11
    • Sharon Moalem
      • Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes4.5 - 124
      • Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease4.6 - 319
    • The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance4.5 - 177
    • The Compatibility Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves4.3 - 23
    • The Deeper Genome: Why there is more to the human genome than meets the eye4.3 - 32
    • The Modern Scholar: Ecological Planet - An Introduction to Earth's Major Ecosystems4.32 - 85 Professor John Kricher (Wheaton College)
      Lecture 1 Ecology and the Big Picture
      Lecture 2 Earth and the Goldilocks Effect
      Lecture 3 Distribution of Global Ecosystems
      Lecture 4 Climate and Ecology
      Lecture 5 Biogeography and Evolution
      Lecture 6 Polar Ecosystems and Tundra
      Lecture 7 Boreal Forest
      Lecture 8 Temperate Deciduous Forest
      Lecture 9 Grassland and Savanna
      Lecture 10 Desert
      Lecture 11 Tropical Rainforest
      Lecture 12 Marine Ecosystems
      Lecture 13 Unique Coastal Ecosystems
      Lecture 14 Current Issues in Global Ecology
    • The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World4.5 - 32
    • The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life4.0 - 26
    • Lives of a Cell4.5 - 101
    • The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution4.6 - 106
    • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History4.5 - 1,560
    • The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body4.5 - 53
    • The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology 4.2 - 60
    • This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society4.5 - 108
    • Understanding the Human Factor: Life and Its Impact4.1 - 28 Gary A. Sojka, Ph.D. Bucknell University
      1 Man the Domesticator
      2 The Beginnings of Domestication
      3 The Basis for Settled Communities
      4 The Dispersal and Spread of Agriculture
      5 Agriculture Impacts Ecology and Geology
      6 You Are What You Eat, Raise, and Build
      7 The Domestication of Cereal Grains
      8 The Oligarchy of the Garden Patch
      9 The Importance of Storage Crops
      10 Three of Man's Best Friends
      11 The Common Barnyard Domesticates
      12 Landraces, Breeds, and Strains
      13 The Columbian Exchange
      14 Plants That Influenced Global Culture
      15 Agriculture in the Age of Reason
      16 Darwin, Galton, and Mendel
      17 Some Notable Scientific Plant Breeders
      18 Farming the Waters
      19 Domesticated Mice, Molds, and Microbes
      20 Our Technology-Based Global Food System
      21 Engineering Our Domesticates
      22 Novel Delivery Systems and Spare Parts
      23 The Age of Industrial Farming
      24 The Path Forward
    • Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own4.1 - 36
    • What's Eating You?: People and Parasites3.7 - 7
    • Why Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do)4.4 - 7
  • Biology - Evolution
    • A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth4.4 - 74
    • Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle4.4 - 83
    • In A Nutshell: Darwin5.0 -
    • The Modern Scholar: Darwin, Darwinism, and the Modern World3.72 - 18 Dr. Chandak Sengoopta (University of London)
      Lecture 1 Charles Darwin: The Man, His Life, and His Contexts, Part I
      Lecture 2 Charles Darwin: The Man, His Life, and His Contexts, Part II
      Lecture 3 On the Origin of Species: The Fundamental Arguments
      Lecture 4 On the Origin of Species: The Unresolved Issues and the Achievements
      Lecture 5 The Descent of Man: Man’s Place in Nature
      Lecture 6 The Scientific Response to Darwin
      Lecture 7 Cultural and Religious Debates on Evolution in the Victorian Era
      Lecture 8 “Social Darwinism” and the Natural Basis of Society
      Lecture 9 Race, Gender, and Evolution
      Lecture 10 Evolution, Language, and Literature
      Lecture 11 Evolution and Religion
      Lecture 12 The “Modern Synthesis”: Evolution Meets Genetics
      Lecture 13 Eugenics: A Helping Hand for Evolution
      Lecture 14 At Century’s End: Fresh Debates and Old Concerns
    • Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes4.2 - 65
    • Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory4.3 - 31
    • Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer4.4 - 97
    • The Origin Of Species4.2 - 1,226
    • The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design3.7 - 141
    • Randomness in Evolution4.4 - 5
    • Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species4.3 - 59
    • The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution3.9 - 40
    • The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time4.5 - 174
    • The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life4.1 - 42
    • The Reluctant Mr. Darwin4.6 - 63
    • The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance4.6 - 473
    • Theory of Evolution A History of Controversy4.2 - 85 Professor Edward J. Larson, Ph.D., J.D.
      1 Before Darwin
      2 Evolution in the Air
      3 Darwin's Inspiration
      4 An Intellectual Revolution
      5 Debates over Mechanism
      6 Missing Links
      7 Genetics Enters the Picture
      8 Social Darwinism and Eugenics
      9 America's Anti-Evolution Crusade
      10 The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
      11 Scientific Creationism
      12 Selfish Genes and Intelligent Design
    • The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself4.3 - 24
    • Why Evolution Is True4.5 - 486
    • Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human4.0 - 82
  • Business
    • A Sense of Urgency4.3 - 124
    • A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive4.9 - 41
    • The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal3.7 - 247
    • Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business4.3 - 62
    • Beyond Reason : Using Emotions as You Negotiate4.3 - 89
    • Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think4.2 - 365
    • The Modern Scholar: Big Picture MBA: What Every Business School Graduate Knows3.51 - 41
    • Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant4.3 - 526
    • Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It4.1 - 18
    • Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy4.2 - 147
    • Breakpoint: Why the Web will Implode, Search will be Obsolete, and Everything Else you Need to Know about Technology is in Your Brain4.3 - 41
    • Broken Windows, Broken Business4.0 - 47
    • Built to Last4.5 - 363
    • Business @ the Speed of Thought by Bill Gates4.0 - 134
    • Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street4.0 - 442
    • Buying In4.1 - 43
    • Buyology3.7 - 283
    • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley4.1 - 473
    • Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business4.8 - 845
    • Conversion Marketing: Convert Website Visitors into Buyers4.9 - 27
    • Daniel H. Pink
      • A whole new mind4.4 - 727
      • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us4.4 - 1,096
      • To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others4.4 - 712
    • Getting Things Done4.4 - 2,261
    • Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose4.5 - 1,064
    • Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution4.1 - 141
    • The E-Myth Revisited4.6 - 1,751
    • Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time4.6 - 949
    • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future4.7 - 2,481
    • Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done4.2 - 415
    • Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation4.2 - 170
    • First, Break All the Rules4.5 - 578
    • Future shop3.3 - 21
    • Getting Past No4.6 - 171
    • Good Luck4.5 - 37
    • Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All4.5 - 349
    • 201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business4.0 - 13
    • Groundswell4.3 - 144
    • How May We Hate You?: Notes from the Concierge Desk3.8 - 71
    • How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business4.5 - 153
    • Influencer: The Power to Change Anything4.5 - 518
    • Internet Riches 4.2 - 163
    • Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked4.3 - 140
    • It's Called Work For a Reason4.5 - 139
    • It's Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships4.4 - 50
    • Long Fuse, Big Bang: Achieving Long-Term Success Through Daily Victories3.6 - 10
    • Made to Stick4.7 - 1,025
    • Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win4.3 - 43
    • Microtrend3.6 - 100
    • The Secrets of Power Negotiating: You Can Get Anything You Want4.6 - 238
    • Negotiation Boot Camp: How to Resolve Conflict, Satisfy Customers, and Make Better Deals4.8 - 52
    • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It4.8 - 1,460
    • On Negotiating by Mark H. McCormack3.4 - 5
    • Ori Brafman
      • Click: The Magic of Instant Connections4.2 - 69
      • Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior4.2 - 271
      • The starfish and the spider 4.4 - 254
    • Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People: Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities3.7 - 29
    • Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence4.4 - 278
    • Revolutionary Wealth4.2 - 69
    • sales - why people buy - brian tracy
    • Secrets of Closing the Sale4.6 - 319
    • Selling on Amazon: Unlocking the Secrets to Successfully Generate a Long-Term Passive Income Business by Selling on Amazon: E-Commerce Revolution, Book 11.0 -
    • Sexy Little Numbers: How to Grow Your Business Using the Data You Already Have4.8 - 15
    • So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love4.4 - 536
    • Strategic Thinking Skills4.3 - 71 Stanley K. Ridgley, Ph.D.Drexel University
      1 The World of Strategic Thinking
      2 The Origins and Relevance of Ancient Strategy
      3 The Dawn of Modern Strategic Thinking
      4 Modern Principles of Strategic Conflict
      5 Geography—Know Your Terrain
      6 Grand Strategists and Strategic Intent
      7 The Core and the Rise of Strategic Planning
      8 Which Business Strategy? Fundamental Choices
      9 Your Competitive Advantage—Find the Blue Ocean
      10 Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
      11 Avoid the Pathologies of Execution
      12 Tactics of Combat as Problem-Solving Tools
      13 Shock of the New—Inflection Points
      14 Surprise! Perils and Power of Strategic Deception
      15 The Sources and Uses of Reliable Intelligence
      16 Move and Countermove—The Theory of Games
      17 The Evolution of Cooperation
      18 When Strategy Breaks Down
      19 Leverage Cognitive Psychology for Better Strategy
      20 Strategic Intuition and Creative Insight
      21 From Systemic Problems to Systemic Solutions
      22 Seize the Future with Scenario Analysis
      23 The Correlation of Forces, Luck, and Culture
      24 Strategic Thinking as a Way of Life
    • Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs4.6 - 101
    • TELECOSM3.5 - 40
    • The 10 Second Internet Manager3.1 - 15
    • The 360 Degree Leader4.4 - 319
    • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich4.4 - 5,163
    • The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power4.0 - 14
    • The Ape in the Corner Office4.6 - 17
    • The Apple Way3.7 - 12
    • The Art of Closing the Sale4.5 - 124
    • The Art of War for Women: Sun Tzu's Ultimate Guide to Winning Without Confrontation4.2 - 48
    • The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads4.4 - 89
    • The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry4.7 - 142
    • The Closer's Survival Guide4.5 - 152
    • The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups4.7 - 62
    • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team4.6 - 2,011
    • The Entrepreneur's Toolkit4.6 - 29 Michael G. Goldsby, Ph.D. Ball State University
      1 How to Come Up with a Great Business Idea
      2 Understanding Your Market
      3 Prototypes-Making Your Idea a Reality
      4 Defining Your Business Model
      5 Picking Your Business Structure
      6 Starting Your Business Plan
      7 Market Analysis and Marketing Strategy
      8 Business Logistics and Operations
      9 Organizational Structure and Management Teams
      10 Income Statements and Balance Sheets
      11 Cash Flow Statements and Performance Measures
      12 Conducting Risk Analysis
      13 Finishing Your Business Plan
      14 How to Finance Your Business
      15 From Your Home Office to Social Media
      16 Starting a Family Business
      17 Buying a Franchise or Other Business
      18 Understanding Intellectual Property
      19 Managing Human Resources
      20 The Customer's Experience and Your Brand
      21 Entrepreneurial Perspectives
      22 Entrepreneurial Exhaustion
      23 Entrepreneurial Leadership
      24 The Successful Entrepreneur
    • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future4.3 - 287
    • The Long Tail Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More4.2 - 392
    • The Modern Scholar: Masters of Enterprise: American Business History and the People Who Made it4.59 - 82
    • The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company4.3 - 189
    • The Small Business Owner's Guide to a Good Night's Sleep5.0 - 2
    • The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success4.1 - 92
    • The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World4.7 - 120
    • The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership4.5 - 130
    • Treasure Hunt3.8 - 28
    • Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator4.3 - 382
    • Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy4.0 - 20
    • The Wal-Mart Effect4.3 - 177
    • What Got You Here Won't Get You There4.3 - 767
    • Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs4.6 - 240
    • Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design4.2 - 89
    • Why Business People Speak Like Idiots3.6 - 59
    • Wikinomics3.8 - 147
    • Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide4.4 - 80
    • You're in Charge--Now What4.1 - 51
    • Your Marketing Sucks3.7 - 76
    • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future4.5 - 1,872
  • Business - Google
    • Googled: The End of the World As We Know It4.0 - 103
    • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives4.2 - 217
    • Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know3.5 - 28
    • The Google Story3.3 - 122
    • The Search: How Google.4.2 - 131
    • What Would Google Do?3.9 - 161
  • By Authors
    • A. J. Jacobs
      • Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection4.2 - 305
      • It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree4.2 - 70
      • The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment4.1 - 131
      • Know It All4.1 - 384
      • The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible4.3 - 1,041
    • Alain De Botton
      • How to Think More About Sex4.0 - 79
      • Status Anxiety4.1 - 107
      • The Architecture of Happiness4.1 - 131
      • The Art of Travel4.1 - 147
      • The Consolations of Philosophy4.4 - 222
      • The News: A User's Manual4.2 - 52
      • The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work3.8 - 72
    • Bryan Caplan
      • Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think (Text-to-speech)3.7 - 71
      • The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies4.0 - 93
    • Christopher Hitchens
      • Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens4.6 - 290
      • Christopher Hitchens vs Tony Blair
      • God is not Great4.6 - 2,250
      • Hitch-224.3 - 338
      • Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)4.5 - 167
      • Mortality4.5 - 603
      • The Portable Atheist4.5 - 362
      • Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography4.8 - 81
    • Dan Ariely
      • Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations4.1 - 130
      • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions4.5 - 1,181
      • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves4.4 - 325
      • The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home4.2 - 245
    • Daniel C. Dennett
      • Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon3.9 - 307
      • Consciousness Explained3.4 - 158
      • DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE4.1 - 173
      • Freedom Evolves3.6 - 58
      • Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett4.0 - 143
    • David Brooks
      • Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There3.7 - 211
      • The Road to Characte4.3 - 1,528
      • The Social Animal4.2 - 503
    • David Friedman
      • IP Theory
      • Legal Systems Different From Ours
      • The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism4.6 - 23
    • David Plotz
      • Genius Factory3.6 - 45
      • Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible4.1 - 135
    • Edward O. Wilson
      • Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life4.4 - 91
      • On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson4.2 - 76
      • The Meaning of Human Existence4.2 - 401
      • The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson4.5 - 270
    • Gladwell
      • Blink4.3 - 2,671
      • David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants4.3 - 3,174
      • Outliers: The Story of Success4.6 - 4,966
      • Tipping Point4.3 - 2,332
      • What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures4.2 - 717
    • James Gleick
      • Chaos: Making a New Science4.3 - 264
      • Faster3.4 - 52
      • Isaac Newton4.1 - 160
    • Jared Diamond
      • Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed4.3 - 899
      • Guns, Germs, and Steel4.3 - 2,408
      • The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond4.2 - 197
      • The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?4.0 - 375
    • Jon Ronson
      • The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry4.3 - 956
      • So You've Been Publicly Shamed4.4 - 488
      • The Elephant in the Room: A journey into the Trump campaign and the ‘alt-right’3.8 - 351
      • The Men Who Stare at Goats3.9 - 192
      • Them: Adventures with Extremists4.3 - 956
    • Jonathan Haidt
      • The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom4.6 - 512
      • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion4.5 - 1,262
    • Jordan Peterson
      • 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos4.7 - 1,852
      • 2017 Personality & It's Transformations
      • Biblical Series
      • Maps Of Meaning (Harvard Lectures)
      • 2017 Maps of Meaning
    • Mary Roach
      • Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex4.3 - 552
      • Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War4.4 - 561
      • Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal4.5 - 1,145
      • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void4.5 - 599
      • Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife3.7 - 372
      • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers4.5 - 1,642
    • Matt Ridley
      • Genome: The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters4.4 - 334
      • Nature Via Nurture4.3 - 75
      • The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge4.1 - 159
      • The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation4.1 - 64
      • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves4.5 - 406
      • The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature4.3 - 221
    • Michael Lewis
      • Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World4.3 - 1,149
      • Moneyball4.6 - 1,318
      • Next The Future Just Happened3.9 - 118
      • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine4.6 - 2,430
      • The Money Culture3.9 - 66
      • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Mind4.2 - 1,266
    • Michael Shermer
      • Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist3.8 - 53 Michael Shermer, Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University
        1 The Virtues of Skepticism
        2 Skepticism and Science
        3 Mistakes in Thinking We All Make
        4 Cognitive Biases and Their Effects
        5 Wrong Thinking in Everyday Life
        6 The Neuroscience of Belief
        7 The Paranormal and the Supernatural
        8 Science versus Pseudoscience
        9 Comparing SETI and UFOlogy
        10 Comparing Evolution and Creationism
        11 Science, History, and Pseudohistory
        12 The Lure of Conspiracy Theories
        13 Inside the Modern Cult
        14 The Psychology of Religious Belief
        15 The God Question
        16 Without God, Does Anything Go?
        17 Life, Death, and the Afterlife
        18 Your Skeptical Toolkit
      • Science Friction3.6 - 15
      • The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths4.2 - 216
      • The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense3.2 - 22
      • The Mind of the Market: How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives3.5 - 50
      • The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better People4.0 - 137
      • The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule3.8 - 61
      • Why Darwin Matters3.9 - 99
      • Why People Believe Weird Things4.0 - 228
    • Milton Friedman
      • Capitalism and Freedom:4.5 - 397
      • Free to Choose4.7 - 331
      • Milton Friedman: A concise guide to the ideas and influence of the free-market economist4.8 - 11
      • Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History4.2 - 104
      • The Indispensable Milton Friedman: Essays on Politics and Economics4.6 - 15
    • Nassim Taleb
      • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder4.3 - 999
      • Fooled by Randomness4.1 - 716
      • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life4.0 - 143
      • The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms3.9 - 209
      • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable4.0 - 1,263
    • Nicholas Wade
      • A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History4.0 - 351
      • Before the dawn4.3 - 268
      • The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures3.8 - 82
    • Oliver Sacks
      • An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales4.6 - 150
      • Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks4.3 - 398
      • Musicophilia4.4 - 391
      • The Mind's Eye4.3 - 136
    • Richard Dawkins
      • An Appetite for Wonder4.0 - 166
      • God Delusion4.4 - 3,492
      • The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution4.4 - 309
      • The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design4.1 - 447
      • The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution4.5 - 689
      • The Selfish Gene4.5 - 840
    • Richard Feynman
      • Feynman - Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track4.5 - 64
      • Feynman - The Meaning of it All4.1 - 90
      • Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time4.2 - 70
      • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!4.6 - 1,199
      • The Character of Physical Law4.5 - 56
      • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman4.5 - 156
      • "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character4.5 - 220
    • Richard H. Thaler
      • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics4.4 - 367
      • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness4.0 - 541
    • Robert Greene
      • Mastery4.6 - 803
      • The 33 Strategies of War4.6 - 384
      • The 48 Laws of Power4.5 - 2,600
      • The 48 Laws of Power [Russian Edition]4.5 -
      • The 50th Law4.6 - 536
      • The Art of Seduction4.3 - 747
    • Robert Sapolsky
      • A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons4.6 - 222
      • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst4.5 - 280
      • Biology and Human Behavior - 1st Edition3.9 - 8
      • Biology and Human Behavior - 2nd Edition4.9 - 118 1 Biology and Behavior—An Introduction
        2 The Basic Cells of the Nervous System
        3 How Two Neurons Communicate
        4 Learning and Synaptic Plasticity
        5 The Dynamics of Interacting Neurons
        6 The Limbic System
        7 The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
        8 The Regulation of Hormones by the Brain
        9 The Regulation of the Brain by Hormones
        10 The Evolution of Behavior
        11 The Evolution of Behavior—Some Examples
        12 Cooperation, Competition, and Neuroeconomics
        13 What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes
        14 What Do Genes Do? Macroevolution of Genes
        15 Behavior Genetics
        16 Behavior Genetics and Prenatal Environment
        17 An Introduction to Ethology
        18 Neuroethology
        19 The Neurobiology of Aggression I
        20 The Neurobiology of Aggression II
        21 Hormones and Aggression
        22 Early Experience and Aggression
        23 Evolution, Aggression, and Cooperation
        24 A Summary
      • Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science4.5 - 55 Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D. Stanford University
        1 What's So Special about Being Human?
        2 Junk-Food Monkeys
        3 The Burden of Being Burden-Free
        4 Bugs in the Brain
        5 Poverty's Remains
        6 Why Are Dreams Dreamlike?
        7 The Pleasures and Pains of "Maybe"
        8 How the Other Half Heals
        9 Why We Want the Bodies Back
        10 Anatomy of a Bad Mood
        11 This Is Your Brain on Metaphors
        12 Sushi and Middle Age
      • Stress and Your Body4.7 - 100 1 Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers? Why Do We?
        2 The Nuts and Bolts of the Stress-Response
        3 Stress and Your Heart
        4 Stress, Metabolism, and Liquidating Your Assets
        5 Stress, Overeating, and Your Digestive Tract
        6 Stress and Growth—Echoes from the Womb
        7 Stress, Growth, and Child Development
        8 Stress and Female Reproduction
        9 Stress and Male Reproduction
        10 Stress and Your Immune System
        11 Stress and Cancer
        12 Stress and Pain
        13 Stress, Learning, and Memory
        14 Stress, Judgment, and Impulse Control
        15 Stress, Sleep, and Lack of Sleep
        16 Stress and Aging
        17 Understanding Psychological Stress
        18 Psychological Modulators of Stress
        19 Stress and the Biology of Depression
        20 Stress and the Psychology of Depression
        21 Anxiety, Hostility, Repression, and Reward
        22 Stress, Health, and Low Social Status
        23 Stress Management—Clues to Success?
        24 Stress Management—Approaches and Cautions
      • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky4.5 - 312
    • Sam Harris
      • Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue4.6 - 416
      • Letter to a Christian Nation4.6 - 1,153
      • The End of Faith4.4 - 1,339
      • The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values4.2 - 581
      • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion4.3 - 1,152
    • Seth Godin
      • All Marketers Are Liars4.4 - 280
      • The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable4.1 - 71
      • Leap First: Creating Work That Matters4.6 - 11
      • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?4.3 - 728
      • The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)4.2 - 563
      • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?4.5 - 309
      • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin4.3 - 613
      • Unleashing the Idea Virus4.2 - 113
    • Sherwin B. Nuland
      • Brain, Mind and Spirit: The Wisdom of the Human BodyDr. Sherwin B. Nuland
        Physician, surgeon, teacher, medical historian and best-selling author, Sherwin Nuland continues to enlighten audiences with his research, scholarship, philosophy and vision on the future of medicine. His most recent book Leonardo da Vinci, completes Nuland’s twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
      • Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography4.6 - 117 1 Hippocrates and the Origins of Western Medicine
        2 The Paradox of Galen
        3 Vesalius and the Renaissance of Medicine
        4 Harvey, Discoverer of the Circulation
        5 Morgagni and the Anatomy of Disease
        6 Hunter, the Surgeon as Scientist
        7 Laennec and the Invention of the Stethoscope
        8 Morton and the Origins of Anesthesia
        9 Virchow and the Cellular Origins of Disease
        10 Lister and the Germ Theory
        11 Halsted and American Medical Education
        12 Taussig and the Development of Cardiac Surgery
      • How We Die4.5 - 345
      • Lost in America: A Journey with My Father4.2 - 41
      • The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being4.0 - 70
      • The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine3.7 - 8
    • Stephan Molyneux
    • Stephen Jay Gould
      • Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History4.9 - 18
      • Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life3.3 - 68
      • The Mismeasure of Man3.9 - 190
      • An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas4.5 - 12
    • Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
      • Freakonomics4.4 - 3,314
      • Super Freakonomics4.3 - 977
      • Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain4.2 - 1,210
      • When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants3.8 - 288
    • Steven Pinker
      • The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature4.3 - 355
      • Enlightenment Now
      • How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker4.0 - 238
      • Language instinct4.4 - 221
      • The Better Angels of Our Nature4.3 - 745
      • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century4.3 - 329
      • The Stuff of Thought4.0 - 109
      • Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language3.9 - 48
    • Thomas Friedman
      • Hot, Flat, and Crowded4.1 - 435
      • Longitudes and Attitudes3.8 - 98
      • Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations4.5 - 839
      • The World Is Flat4.0 - 1,180
    • Thomas Sowell
      • A Conflict of Visions4.6 - 161
      • A Personal Odyssey4.7 - 112
      • Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One4.6 - 83
      • Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy4.8 - 640
      • Black Rednecks and White Liberals4.8 - 419
      • Choosing a College4.4 - 5
      • Civil Rights: RHETORIC OR REALITY4.8 - 36
      • Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays4.3 - 5
      • Conquests and Cultures: An International History4.5 - 53
      • Dismantling America: and other controversial essays4.4 - 100
      • Economic Facts and Fallacies4.6 - 276
      • Ethnic America: A History4.8 - 57
      • Intellectuals and Race4.7 - 126
      • Intellectuals and Society4.6 - 207
      • Knowledge and Decisions4.6 - 49
      • Marxism: Philosophy and Economics4.4 - 26
      • Migrations And Cultures: A World View4.7 - 26
      • The Quest for Cosmic Justice4.8 - 127
      • Race And Culture: A World View4.4 - 49
      • The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective4.8 - 17
      • The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition4.5 - 192
      • The Thomas Sowell Reader4.9 - 130
      • The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy4.6 - 201
      • Conquests and Cultures: An International History4.5 - 53
      • Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective4.7 - 211
  • China
    • Changing China
    • The Modern Scholar: The People's Dynasty: Culture and Society in Modern China3.83 - 41
    • Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneit4.0 - 98
    • The Modern Scholar: Waking Dragon: The Emerging Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the World3.85 - 34
  • Computer Science
    • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions4.5 - 240
    • Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You4.3 - 15
    • How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet4.1 - 10
    • Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual4.7 - 246
    • The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything4.5 - 120
    • To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death4.0 - 19
    • To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism3.8 - 49
  • Crime
    • A Burglar's Guide to the City3.4 - 118
    • 400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman4.6 - 265
    • CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier3.4 - 34
    • Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals4 - 69 Elizabeth A. Murray, Ph.D. Mount St. Joseph University
      1 The Infamous Jack the Ripper
      2 Analyzing the Black Dahlia Murder
      3 Dissecting Hollywood Deaths
      4 Decomposition and Confusing Interpretations
      5 Lizzie Borden and the Menendez Brothers
      6 The Tylenol Murders
      7 Copycats and Hoaxes
      8 Frauds and Forgeries
      9 Blood Doping and Other Sports Scandals
      10 Bad Boys of U.S. Politics
      11 Criminals of the Wild, Wild West
      12 Investigating Incredible Bank Heists
      13 How Reliable Is Eyewitness Testimony?
      14 The Truth behind False Confessions
      15 Crooked Cops and Bad Convictions
      16 Guilty until Proven Innocent
      17 Political Assassinations
      18 Mysteries of the Romanov Family
      19 Forensics of Genocide
      20 The Nazis and the Witch of Buchenwald
      21 The Spies Have It
      22 Motive and Kidnapping
      23 Identification Matters
      24 The Past, Present, and Future of Forensics
    • Forensic Science: A Beginner's Guide4.0 - 3
    • Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker4.6 - 779
    • I, Spy: How to Be Your Own Private Investigator4.3 - 23
    • Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town4.2 - 1,154
    • The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York4.5 - 420
    • Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking4.2 - 185
    • The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security4.2 - 196
    • The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data4.5 - 117
    • The Art of the Steal4.3 - 63
    • Trails of Evidence: How Forensic Science Works4.3 - 67 Elizabeth A. Murray, Ph.D. Mount St. Joseph University
      1 Using Science—Crime Scene to Courtroom
      2 Crime Scenes and Forensic Evidence
      3 Fingerprint Science—Hands-Down ID
      4 Telltale Marks—Tools, Guns, and Ammunition
      5 Good Impressions—Shoes, Tires, and Skin
      6 Forensics of Fibers, Paint, and Glass
      7 Traces of Hair and Fur
      8 Soil, Protist, Plant, and Animal Traces
      9 Serology—Blood and Other Body Fluids
      10 The Forensic Analysis of DNA
      11 Forensic Toxicology of Drugs and Poisons
      12 The Forensics of Substance Abuse
      13 Handwriting and Forgery Analysis
      14 Computer Forensics and Digital Evidence
      15 Structure Failure—Forensic Engineering
      16 Forensic Analysis of Vehicle Accidents
      17 Fire Science and Explosion Forensics
      18 Blood Evidence—Stains and Spatters
      19 The Science of Death
      20 Death Investigation—Algor, Livor, and Rigor
      21 Autopsy—Cause and Manner of Death
      22 Decomposition—From Bugs to Bones
      23 Forensic Anthropology—Skeleton Stories
      24 Forensics of Teeth and Bite Marks
      25 Police Sketches and Facial Reproductions
      26 Interview, Interrogation, Intelligence
      27 Forensic Profiling—Who, How, and Why?
      28 Human Memory and Eyewitness Accounts
      29 Criminal Minds—Psychology and Psychiatry
      30 When Forensic Evidence Is on Trial
      31 Forensic Scientists and Expert Testimony
      32 Comparing Crimes and Crime Labs
      33 Crimes—Nobody’s Supposed to Get Hurt
      34 Crimes—Killers of One, Killers of Many
      35 Applications—Mass-Disaster Forensics
      36 Applications—Identification Matters
    • We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency4.1 - 128
  • Economics
    • 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism4.2 - 187
    • 50 Economics Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy (50 Classics)4.8 - 9
    • History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century4.6 - 45 Timothy Taylor, M.Econ. Macalester College
      10 lectures | 45 minutes each
      1 The Curtain Opens on the 20th Century
      2 Big Government Is Conceived—Income Tax, the Federal Reserve, World War I
      3 The Roaring 1920s
      4 The Depression Decade of the 1930s
      5 The 1940s—World War II and its Aftermath This lecture discusses how World War II led to tremendous growth but was not the sole factor in ending the Great Depression. The war did expand the income tax, raise the government debt, and increase the size of the federal government. It also reshaped the economy as a whole; the government intervened in markets, unions grew, jobs shifted in nature, wages compressed, labor markets for minorities changed, health care spending rose, and the baby boom began. Finally the U.S. government contributed to rebuilding global institutions by developing the Marshall Plan, the International Monetary Fund, and the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs.
      6 The Quiet Boom of the 1950s
      7 The 1960s and the End of Certainty
      8 Stagflation and the 1970s
      9 A Decade of Debt—The 1980s
      10 Inequality and Insecurity in the 1990s
    • The Wealth of Nations4.3 - 768
    • Alan Greenspan
      • The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan4.2 - 339
      • The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting3.4 - 87
    • Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism3.8 - 131
    • Behavioral Economics: When Psychology and Economics Collide4.1 - 22 1 What Is a Good Decision?
      2 The Rise of Behavioral Economics
      3 Reference Dependence—It’s All Relative
      4 Reference Dependence—Economic Implications
      5 Range Effects—Changing the Scale
      6 Probability Weighting
      7 Risk—The Known Unknowns
      8 Ambiguity—The Unknown Unknowns
      9 Temporal Discounting—Now or Later?
      10 Comparison—Apples and Oranges
      11 Bounded Rationality—Knowing Your Limits
      12 Heuristics and Biases
      13 Randomness and Patterns
      14 How Much Evidence Do We Need?
      15 The Value of Experience
      16 Medical Decision Making
      17 Social Decisions—Competition and Coordination
      18 Group Decision Making—The Vox Populi
      19 Giving and Helping—Why Altruism?
      20 Cooperation by Individuals and in Societies
      21 When Incentives Backfire
      22 Precommitment—Setting Rationality Aside
      23 Framing—Moving to a Different Perspective
      24 Interventions, Nudges, and Decisions
    • Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture3.9 - 102
    • China, India, and the United States - The Future of Economic Supremacy [The Great Courses] by Professor Peter Rodriguez, Ph.D
    • Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance4.2 - 113
    • Foundations of Economic Prosperity4.5 - 26 1 The Foundations of Economic Prosperity
      2 Does Economic Prosperity Make You Happy?
      3 Varieties of Entrepreneurship
      4 Individual Prosperity—The Developed World
      5 Individual Prosperity—The Developing World
      6 Foundations of National Prosperity
      7 Perils to National Prosperity
      8 Political Foundations of Prosperity
      9 Mysteries of the Industrial Revolution
      10 Sources of Poverty
      11 Reducing Poverty with Economic Development
      12 National Prosperity in the Developing World
      13 National Prosperity in the Developed World
      14 Can Prosperity Be Lost?
      15 Inequality and Prosperity
      16 Globalization and Global Prosperity
      17 Great Powers and Global Prosperity
      18 The Washington versus the Beijing Consensus
      19 Political Challenges to Global Prosperity
      20 Financial Challenges to Global Prosperity
      21 Will the Developed World Stagnate?
      22 Global Prosperity and the Environment
      23 Ideological Challenges to Global Prosperity
      24 The Ethics of Global Prosperity
    • Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years4.2 - 323
    • Economics One Lesson4.5 - 861
    • Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science4.1 - 41
    • Elsewhere, U.S.A.3.2 - 28
    • Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't3.8 - 101
    • Gotcha Capitalism4.0 - 54
    • How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness4.7 - 139
    • Human Action: A Treatise on Economics4.4 - 164
    • Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics4.4 - 121
    • Meltdown4.5 - 289
    • Peter Schiff
      • Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse4.0 - 368
      • How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes4.6 - 426
      • The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save Yourself and Your Country4.2 - 642
    • Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception3.6 - 169
    • The Modern Scholar: Principles of Economics: Business, Banking, Finance, and Your Life3.8 - 95 Professor Peter Navarro
      (University of California-Irvine)
      Lecture 1 Introduction to Macro- and Microeconomics
      Lecture 2 The Business Cycle and the Warring Schools of Macroeconomics
      Lecture 3 Fiscal Policy and Budget Deficits: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
      Lecture 4 Monetary Policy: It’s All About Money, Credit, and Banking
      Lecture 5 Unemployment and Inflation: Enter the Dragons
      Lecture 6 International Trade and Protectionism: Where Did Our Jobs Go?
      Lecture 7 The International Monetary System, Exchange Rates, and Trade Deficits
      Lecture 8 Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium: How Prices Are Set in Our Markets
      Lecture 9 Understanding Consumer Behavior: The Essential Elements
      Lecture 10 Producer Behavior and an Introduction to Perfect Competition
      Lecture 11 Market Structure, Conduct, and Performance: Why Monopolists Do What They Do
      Lecture 12 Why the Government Intervenes in Our Markets and Lives: The Economist’s Critique
      Lecture 13 Government Taxation from the Cradle to the Grave: The Big Issues
      Lecture 14 Land, Labor, and Capital: How Our Rents, Wages, and Interest Rates Are Set
    • Scroogenomics3.5 - 28
    • State Capitalism: How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World3.9 - 4
    • The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm4.4 - 69
    • The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything4.1 - 7
    • The Economics of Uncertainty3.9 - 11 Connel Fullenkamp, Ph.D. Duke University
      1 Man, Nature, and Economic Uncertainty
      2 Turning Uncertainty into Risk
      3 Five Ways to Face the Unknown
      4 Probability: Frequency or Belief?
      5 How We Misjudge Likelihood and Risk
      6 The Reward in Risk
      7 Decision Science Tools
      8 Gambling Economics
      9 Game Theory: Reveal or Conceal?
      10 Adverse Selection: Hiding in Plain Sight
      11 Moral Hazard: Whom Do You Trust?
      12 The Principal-Agent Problem: When Mice Play
      13 Compensation Traps
      14 Caring, Sharing, and Risk Bearing
      15 Mayhem! Insurance Protection
      16 Uncertainty in the Numbers
      17 The Business Cycle's Wheel of Fortune
      18 The Danger of Inflation
      19 Extreme Markets
      20 Regulation, Innovation, Excess
      21 Global Trade in Employment
      22 No Limits to Growth
      23 Hedging Business and Personal Risks
      24 Stress Testing Your Finances
    • An Economic History of the World since 14004.2 - 36 Donald J. Harreld, Ph.D.Brigham Young University
      1 Self-Interest, Human Survival, and History
      2 Marco Polo, China, and Silk Road Trade
      3 Manorial Society in Medieval Europe
      4 How Black Death Reshaped Town and Field
      5 Late-14th-Century Guilds and Monopolies
      6 European Discovery Routes: East and West
      7 1571: Spain, Portugal Encircle the Globe
      8 Old World Bourses and Market Information
      9 The Europeans' Plantation Labor Problem
      10 Adam Smith, Mercantilism, State Building
      11 British and Dutch Joint-Stock Companies
      12 Europe, the Printing Press, and Science
      13 The Industrious Revolution: Demand Grows
      14 Why Didn't China Industrialize Earlier?
      15 18th-Century Agriculture and Production
      16 Industrial Revolution: The Textile Trade
      17 British Coal, Coke, and a New Age of Iron
      18 Power: From Peat Bogs to Steam Engines
      19 A Second Industrial Revolution after 1850
      20 Family Labor Evolves into Factory Work
      21 Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Modern Firm
      22 19th-Century Farm Technology, Land Reform
      23 Speeding Up: Canals, Steamships, Railroads
      24 European Urbanization and Emigration
      25 Unions, Strikes, and the Haymarket Affair
      26 Banks, Central Banks, and Modern States
      27 Understanding Uneven Economic Development
      28 Adam Smith's Argument for Free Trade
      29 Middle-Class Catalogs and Mass Consumption
      30 Imperialism: Land Grabs and Morality Plays
      31 World War I: Industrial Powers Collide
      32 Russia's Marxist-Leninist Experiment
      33 The Trouble with the Gold Standard
      34 Tariffs, Cartels, and John Maynard Keynes
      35 Japanese Expansionism: Manchurian Incident
      36 U.S. Aid and a Postwar Economic Miracle
      37 Colonialism and the Independence Movement
      38 Japan, the Transistor, and Asia's Tigers
      39 The Welfare State: From Bismarck to Obama
      40 The End of American Exceptionalism?
      41 Middle East: From Pawn to Power Broker
      42 Germany, the European Union, and the Euro
      43 Free Trade: Global versus Regional Blocs
      44 Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the Soviet Decline
      45 Half the World Left behind in Poverty
      46 China, India: Two Paths to Wealth Extremes
      47 The Information Economy: Telegraph to Tech
      48 Leverage with Globalization in Its Grip
    • The Industries of the Future4.4 - 319
    • The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates4.3 - 61
    • The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers4.4 - 53
    • The Making of Modern Economics, Second Edition: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers4.4 - 53
    • The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism4.2 - 53
    • The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life4.0 - 78
    • Thinking like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Making4.7 - 104 Professor Randall Bartlett
      Smith CollegePh.D., Stanford University
      1 The Economist's Tool Kit—6 Principles
      2 The Economist's Tool Kit—3 Core Concepts
      3 The Myth of "True Value"
      4 Incentives and Optimal Choice
      5 False Incentives, Real Harm
      6 The Economics of Ignorance
      7 Playing the Odds—Reason in a Risky World
      8 The Economics of Information
      9 A Matter of Time—Predicting Future Values
      10 Think Again—Evaluating Risk in Purchasing
      11 Behavioral Economics—What Are We Thinking?
      12 Acting like an Economist
    • Tim Harford
      • Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure4.0 - 90
      • The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World4.0 - 67
      • The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run—or Ruin—an Economy3.9 - 50
      • The Undercover Economist4.1 - 240
    • Timothy Taylor
      • America and the New Global Economy4.4 - 59
      • Contemporary Economic Issues (The Great Courses) by Timothy Taylor5.0 - 2 Part I
        Lecture 1: Economizing, the Economy, Economics, and Economic Policy
        Lecture 2: America’s Competition Policy—Antitrust and Mergers
        Lecture 3: The Great Deregulation Experiment—Airlines and More
        Lecture 4: Frontiers of Deregulation—Telephones and Electricity
        Lecture 5: Financing the Health Care Industry
        Lecture 6: Competitiveness in Banks and Savings and Loans
        Lecture 7: Re-Inventing Regulation
        Lecture 8: Issues in Environmental Regulation
        Lecture 9: Privatization—Steering, not Rowing
        Lecture 10: Medicine for Unemployment—What Works, What Doesn’t
        Lecture 11: Are America’s Jobs Decreasing in Quality?
        Lecture 12: The Growing Inequality of Wages
        Part II
        Lecture 13: The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of American Unions
        Lecture 14: Discrimination Against Women and Minorities in the Labor Market
        Lecture 15: Taking the Economics out of Immigration
        Lecture 16: Welfare Reform
        Lecture 17: Raising Wages for the Working Poor—Minimum Wages, Wage Subsidies, and Job Training
        Lecture 18: The Race for Global Economic Leadership
        Lecture 19: Can We Increase U.S. Savings and Investment?
        Lecture 20: Reform of K-12 Education
        Lecture 21: The Delicacies of Investing in Infrastructure
        Lecture 22: Technology, Research and Development
        Lecture 23: Is the Stock Market Headed for a Crash?
        Lecture 24: The Supply-Side Economics Movement
        Part III
        Lecture 25: Sectoral Evolution—Farming, Manufacturing, Services, the Information Age?
        Lecture 26: Federal Budgets—Deficit, Balance, or Surplus
        Lecture 27: The Shaky Foundations of Social Security
        Lecture 28: Defense Spending and the Uncertainties of the "Peace Dividend"
        Lecture 29: The Government in Health Care—Medicare and Medicaid
        Lecture 30: The American Tax Burden in Perspective
        Lecture 31: Flat and Flatter Taxes
        Lecture 32: Inflation—Why the Measure Matters
        Lecture 33: The Federal Reserve and Inflation Fighting
        Lecture 34: Economic Interpretations of Federalism—What Should States Do?
        Lecture 35: Foreign Trade—What’s Really at Issue?
        Lecture 36: Free Trade vs. Labor and Environmental Standards
        Part IV
        Lecture 37: The Trade Deficit—What Are the Real Issues?
        Lecture 38: Can Anything Be Done About International Financial Crashes?
        Lecture 39: A Single European Currency
        Lecture 40: The Economics of European Union
        Lecture 41: From Communism to a State of Transition in Russia and Eastern Europe
        Lecture 42: Has Japan’s Economic Miracle Come and Gone?
        Lecture 43: Lessons from the East Asian (Rumpled) Tigers
        Lecture 44: China’s Economic Surge
        Lecture 45: India
        Lecture 46: Market Economics Comes to Latin America
        Lecture 47: Africa’s Plight
        Lecture 48: What Economists Know, and Don’t Know, About Economic Policy
      • Economics by Timothy Taylor - The Teaching Company4.6 - 114 1 How Economists Think
        2 Division of Labor
        3 Supply and Demand
        4 Price Floors and Ceilings
        5 Elasticity
        6 The Labor Market and Wages
        7 Financial Markets and Rates of Return
        8 Personal Investing
        9 From Perfect Competition to Monopoly
        10 Antitrust and Competition Policy
        11 Regulation and Deregulation
        12 Negative Externalities and the Environment
        13 Positive Externalities and Technology
        14 Public Goods
        15 Poverty and Welfare Programs
        16 Inequality
        17 Imperfect Information and Insurance
        18 Corporate and Political Governance
        19 Macroeconomics and GDP
        20 Economic Growth
        21 Unemployment
        22 Inflation
        23 The Balance of Trade
        24 Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
        25 The Unemployment-Inflation Tradeoff
        26 Fiscal Policy and Budget Deficits
        27 Countercyclical Fiscal Policy Spending increases or tax cuts can mitigate a recession, and spending cuts or tax hikes can fight inflation. In the United States, these countercyclical measures happen automatically to some extent, but some believe government should go beyond these automatic stabilizers.
        28 Budget Deficits and National Saving
        29 Money and Banking
        30 The Federal Reserve and Its Powers
        31 The Conduct of Monetary Policy
        32 The Gains of International Trade
        33 The Debates over Protectionism
        34 Exchange Rates
        35 International Financial Crashes
        36 A Global Economic Perspective
      • Legacies of Great Economists4.8 - 53 Timothy Taylor, M.Econ. Macalester College
        1 Before Economics—Mercantilists and Physiocrats
        2 Adam Smith and the Birth of Economics
        3 The Dismal Science—Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo
        4 John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism
        5 Karl Marx and Socialism
        6 Alfred Marshall and Marginalist Thought
        7 The Socialist Calculation Debate
        8 Joseph Schumpeter and Entrepreneurialism
        9 John Maynard Keynes and the Keynesian Revolution
        10 Milton Friedman and the Rebirth of Classical Economics Milton Friedman defends markets fiercely. In both microeconomic and macroeconomic arenas, he explained why, even when omniscient and instantaneous government intervention might theoretically help the economy, in the real world markets can have both practical and ethical advantages.
      • The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works4.7 - 41
      • Unexpected Economics4.4 - 43 Timothy Taylor, M.Econ. Macalester College
        1 The World of Choices
        2 A Market for Pregnancy
        3 Selling a Kidney
        4 Traffic Congestion—Costs, Pricing, and You
        5 Two-Way Ties between Religion and Economics
        6 Prediction Markets—Windows on the Future
        7 Pathways for Crime and Crime Fighting
        8 Terrorism as an Occupational Choice
        9 Marriage as a Search Market
        10 Procreation and Parenthood
        11 Small Choices and Racial Discrimination
        12 Cooperation and the Prisoner's Dilemma
        13 Fairness and the Ultimatum Game
        14 Myopic Preferences and Behavioral Economics
        15 Altruism, Charity, and Gifts
        16 Loss Aversion and Reference Point Bias
        17 Risk and Uncertainty
        18 Human Herds and Information Cascades
        19 Addiction and Choice
        20 Obesity—Who Bears the Costs?
        21 The Economics of Natural Disasters
        22 Sports Lessons—Pay, Performance, Tournaments
        23 Voting, Money, and Politics
        24 The Pursuit of Happiness
    • Thinking about Capitalism, Professor Jerry Z. Muller, Ph.D.4.6 - 101
    • Tyler Cowen
      • An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies3.5 - 61
      • Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation3.7 - 164
      • Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World3.1 - 32
      • Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist3.1 - 55
      • The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream3.7 - 79
      • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will(Eventually) Feel Better3.9 - 118
    • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies4.3 - 76
    • Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty4.3 - 849
  • Food
    • An Edible History of Humanity4.0 - 139
    • The Modern Scholar: Brewmaster’s Art: THE HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF BEERMAKING4.69 - 181
    • Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human4.4 - 166
    • Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat4.2 - 249
    • Don't Eat This Book3.8 - 74
    • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat4.5 - 44
    • French Women Don't Get Fat4.3 - 826
    • Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing4.3 - 214
    • Michael Pollan
      • The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World4.5 - 435
      • In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto4.6 - 1,027
      • The Omnivore's Dilemma4.5 - 1,532
    • Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think4.6 - 533
    • Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor3.8 - 74
    • The Case Against Sugar4.4 - 283
    • The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite4.2 - 646
    • Twinkie, Deconstructed3.9 - 90
    • What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained4.4 - 204
    • Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine4.1 - 21
    • Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition4.6 - 620
    • Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food4.1 - 19
  • Health
    • The Autoimmune Solution: Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases4.4 - 674
    • Anatomy and Physiology (Video Based)4.5 - 136 1 Cardiovascular System—Anatomy of the Heart
      2 Cardiovascular System—Physiology of the Heart
      3 Cardiovascular System—Anatomy of the Great Vessels
      4 Cardiovascular System—Physiology of the Great Vessels
      5 Respiratory System—Anatomy of the Lungs
      6 Respiratory System—Physiology of the Lungs
      7 Nervous System—Anatomy of the Brain
      8 Nervous System—Physiology of the Brain
      9 Nervous System—Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves
      10 Nervous System—Autonomic Nervous System and Cranial Nerves
      11 Nervous System—The Eyes
      12 Nervous System—The Ears, Hearing, and Equilibrium
      13 Nervous System—Memory
      14 Digestive System—Anatomy of the Mouth, Esophagus, and Stomach
      15 Digestive System—Physiology of the Mouth, Esophagus, and Stomach
      16 Digestive System—Anatomy of the Pancreas, Liver, and the Biliary Tree
      17 Digestive System—Physiology of the Pancreas, Liver, and the Biliary Tree
      18 Digestive System—Anatomy of the Small Intestine, Colon, and Rectum
      19 Digestive System—Physiology of the Small Intestine, Colon, and Rectum
      20 Endocrine System—The Pituitary and Adrenal Glands
      21 Endocrine System—Pancreas
      22 Endocrine System—Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands
      23 Urinary System—Anatomy of the Kidneys, Ureters, and Bladder
      24 Urinary System—Physiology of the Kidneys, Ureters, and Bladder
      25 Reproductive System—Male
      26 Reproductive System—Female
      27 Reproductive System—Physiology of Genetic Inheritance
      28 Musculoskeletal System—Physiology and Physics of the Muscles
      29 Musculoskeletal System—Anatomy of the Muscles
      30 Musculoskeletal System—Bones
      31 Immune System—Anatomy and Physiology
      32 The Biology of Human Cancer
    • Anticancer: A New Way of Life4.7 - 342
    • Atul Gawande
      • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End4.8 - 6,954
      • Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance4.7 - 410
      • Complications4.7 - 671
      • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right4.5 - 1,305
    • Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born4.3 - 100
    • Born To Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - by Christopher McDougall4.7 - 3,765
    • Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life4.7 - 978
    • Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It4.3 - 111
    • Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds4.3 - 52
    • Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility4.3 - 95
    • Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients4.3 - 36
    • Eternity Soup4.5 - 33
    • Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know4.4 - 667
    • Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality4.3 - 97
    • Healthy Aging4.3 - 183
    • How Doctors Think4.6 - 388
    • If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body4.4 - 51
    • Immortality: How Science is Extending Your Life Span and Changing the World3.7 - 12
    • Incurable Me: Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice4.0 - 49
    • Your Inner Wisdom: The Key to Getting and Staying Well by Dr. Christiane Northrup
    • Internal Medicine Medical School Crash Course3.89 - 37
    • Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths: What We Think We Know May Be Hurting Us4.1 - 80 Professor Steven Novella
      Yale School of MedicineM.D., Georgetown University
      1 Medical Knowledge versus Misinformation
      2 Myths about Water and Hydration
      3 Vitamin and Nutrition Myths
      4 Dieting—Separating Myths from Facts
      5 The Fallacy That Natural Is Always Better
      6 Probiotics and Our Bacterial Friends
      7 Sugar and Hyperactivity
      8 Antioxidants—Hype versus Reality
      9 The Common Cold
      10 Vaccination Benefits—How Well Vaccines Work
      11 Vaccination Risks—Real and Imagined
      12 Antibiotics, Germs, and Hygiene
      13 Vague Symptoms and Fuzzy Diagnoses
      14 Herbalism and Herbal Medicines
      15 Homeopathy—One Giant Myth
      16 Facts about Toxins and Myths about Detox
      17 Myths about Acupuncture's Past and Benefits
      18 Myths about Magnets, Microwaves, Cell Phones
      19 All about Hypnosis
      20 Myths about Coma and Consciousness
      21 What Placebos Can and Cannot Do
      22 Myths about Pregnancy
      23 Medical Myths from around the World
    • Human Physiology: Medical School Crash Course4.47 - 17
    • Pharmacology - Medical School Crash Course4.38 - 16
    • Psychiatry - Medical School Crash Course4.43 - 14
    • Medical School for Everyone: Emergency Medicine4.8 - 51 Roy Benaroch, M.D. Emory University
      1 Triage in Emergency Medicine
      2 Emergency Medicine Means Thinking Fast
      3 Emergency Medicine Means Thinking Again
      4 The Story Is the Diagnosis
      5 Hidden Clues in the Emergency Department
      6 Treat the Patient, Treat the Family
      7 Chest Pain
      8 Treat the Cause, Not the Symptom
      9 Who Needs the Emergency Department?
      10 Altered Mental Status
      11 Simple Symptoms, Serious Illness
      12 In an Emergency, Protect Yourself First
      13 Treating Insect and Animal Bites
      14 The Missing Piece in an Emergency Diagnosis
      15 Healthy Paranoia in Emergency Medicine
      16 Fever: Friend or Foe
      17 Always Treat Pain
      18 An Ounce of Prevention
      19 The Big Picture in Emergency Medicine
      20 Is Exercise Good for Your Health?
      21 Stay Safe in the Emergency Department
      22 Emergency Medicine for Travelers
      23 Emergency Medicine Lessons from the Past
      24 Lessons from the Emergency Department It's time for your last shift in the emergency department. In this closing lecture, Dr. Benaroch uses several case studies to help you review the big-picture lessons of good emergency care you've learned throughout the course - lessons that have opened your eyes to the excitement and challenges of emergency medicine and that can help you take better care of yourself and your loved ones.
    • Medical School for Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases4.9 - 88 Roy Benaroch, M.D. Emory University
      1 I Never Feel Good
      2 A Persistent Fever
      3 Puzzling Pain
      4 Just Look at Me
      5 Headaches in Wonderland
      6 The Tennis Player
      7 Sudden Collapse
      8 School Failure
      9 Dizzy Attacks
      10 Weight Loss
      11 I Can’t Walk
      12 Learning from Failure
      13 The Children Who Come and Go
      14 Guardian’s Day
      15 Dickens’s Diagnosis
      16 Shaking Sammi
      17 Hickam’s Dictum
      18 Forgetting Jerusalem
      19 Sherlock’s Investigation
      20 The Boy Who Doesn’t Speak
      21 Antarctic Adventure
      22 A Sunday Drive
      23 Cough, Cough, Cough
      24 A Confused Father
    • Medical School for Everyone: Pediatrics Grand Rounds5 - 9
    • The Men's Health Longevity Program3.7 - 2
    • Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer4.6 - 785
    • Never Be Sick Again: Health Is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It4.6 - 224
    • Nutrition Made Clear4.4 - 209 Professor Roberta H. Anding M.S., Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital
      1 Why We Eat What We Do
      2 Sources of Nutrition Fact and Fiction
      3 Our Underappreciated Digestive Tract
      4 It's All about the Calories!
      5 Hydration—You Are What You Drink
      6 Not All Carbohydrates Are Created Equal
      7 Facts on Fiber
      8 Protein—An Indispensable Nutrient
      9 Fat, Fat Everywhere!
      10 Vitamins—Spotlight on C
      11 Vitamins A and K—Multitaskers
      12 Vitamin E—Fallen Hero; Vitamin D—Rising Star
      13 B Vitamin Basics
      14 The Major Minerals
      15 The Highs and Lows of Sodium and Potassium
      16 Iron, Zinc, Selenium—Balance Is Everything
      17 Cardiovascular Disease—What Are the Risks?
      18 A Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
      19 The DASH Diet—A Lifesaver
      20 Obesity—Public Health Enemy Number One
      21 Healthy Weight Management
      22 Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes
      23 Dietary Approaches to Weight Management
      24 Nutrition and Cancer Prevention
      25 Nutrition and Digestive Health
      26 Prebiotics and Probiotics in Your Diet
      27 Food Safety—It's in Your Hands
      28 Demystifying Food Labels
      29 Facts on Functional Foods
      30 A Look at Herbal Therapy
      31 Organic or Conventional—Your Choice
      32 Fake or Real—Sugars and Fats
      33 Creating Your Own Personal Nutrition Plan
      34 Exercise and Nutrition—Partners for Life
      35 The Future of Nutrition—Science and Trends
      36 Nutrition Facts and FAQs
    • Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health4.7 - 240
    • Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health4.7 - 240
    • Pathology: Medical School Crash Course4.5 - 12
    • Do You Believe in Magic?: Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain4.3 - 413
    • Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead4.2 - 25
    • Surgery - Medical School Crash Course3.91 - 11
    • The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest4.5 - 353
    • The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery4.2 - 96
    • The Demon Under the Microscope4.6 - 113
    • The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines4.7 - 20
    • The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer4.7 - 1,709
    • The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth4.3 - 80
    • Family That Couldn't Sleep A Medical Mystery4.6 - 85
    • The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease-and the Statin-Free Plan That Will4.7 - 992
    • The Aging Brain4.6 - 118 1 The Aging Mind: What Changes?
      2 Why Don’t We Live Forever?
      3 Is Aging a Disease?
      4 Aging and Brain Structure
      5 Aging and Brain Function
      6 Emotional Aging
      7 Strategies for an Aging Memory
      8 Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
      9 Parkinson’s Disease and Stroke
      10 Aging Well: Staying Active
      11 Aging Well: Diet and Stress
      12 The Science of Immortality
    • The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study4.1 - 67
    • The Mayo Clinic Guide to Pain Relief - Professor Barbara K. Bruce, Ph.D., L.P.4.4 - 37
    • The Mommy MD Guide to Your Baby's First Year: More than 900 tips that 70 doctors who are also mothers use during their baby's first year4.7 - 49
    • The Myths of Nutrition and Fitness3.9 - 30 Anthony A. Goodman, M.D. Montana State University
      1 Fueling Up for Fitness Routines
      2 Hydration for an Active Life
      3 The Skinny on Exercise and Weight Loss
      4 Some Facts about Vitamins and Supplements
      5 Can You Get Too Much of a Good Thing?
      6 Going to Extremes—The Smart Way
    • The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands4.6 - 146
    • The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease4.7 - 330
    • The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer4.3 - 212
    • The Truth About the Drug Companies4.4 - 185
    • The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease4.4 - 27
    • The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution4.1 - 20
    • What Science Knows about Cancer4.6 - 36
    • YOU: Being Beautiful3.8 - 84
    • You: Staying Young4.2 - 328
    • YOU The Owner's Manual4.2 - 781
    • Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You4.2 - 74
  • History
    • 1776 by David McCullough4.6 - 1,845
    • A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization4.5 - 55
    • The Modern Scholar: History of Ancient Greece4.2 - 180
    • The Modern Scholar: The History of Ancient Israel: From the Patriarchs Through the Romans4.23 - 133 Professor Eric H. Cline (The George Washington University)
      Lecture 1 Abraham and the Patriarchs
      Lecture 2 The Exodus and Egypt
      Lecture 3 The Conquest of Canaan: Israelites, Philistines, and Phoenicians
      Lecture 4 King David in History and Tradition
      Lecture 5 King Solomon in History and Tradition
      Lecture 6 Excursus: The Ark of the Covenant
      Lecture 7 The Kingdom of Israel and the Omride Dynasty
      Lecture 8 The Kingdom of Judah Until the Time of Sennacherib
      Lecture 9 Neo-Babylonians and the End of the Kingdom of Judah
      Lecture 10 Persians and Greeks in Judea
      Lecture 11 The Coming of the Romans and Christianity
      Lecture 12 Excursus: Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
      Lecture 13 From the First Jewish Revolt and the Destruction of Jerusalem to Bar Kochba and the Second Jewish Rebellion
      Lecture 14 Excursus: Masada, What Really Happened?
    • The Modern Scholar: A History of Ancient Sparta: Valor, Virtue, and Devotion in the Greek Golden Age4.2 - 92
    • A History of Britain: British Wars 1603-17764.3 - 24
    • A Renegade History of the United States4.3 - 149
    • The Modern Scholar: Alexander of Macedonia: The World Conquered4.21 - 28
    • American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue"4.5 - 85
    • The Modern Scholar: American Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism3.96 - 26
    • American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America4.5 - 923
    • The Modern Scholar: The Anglo-Saxon World4.51 - 661
    • Pyramids (Video Based)
    • Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America4.7 - 49
    • Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity4.6 - 188 Professor David Christian D.Phil. Macquarie University
      1 What Is Big History?
      2 Moving across Multiple Scales
      3 Simplicity and Complexity
      4 Evidence and the Nature of Science
      5 Threshold 1—Origins of Big Bang Cosmology
      6 How Did Everything Begin?
      7 Threshold 2—The First Stars and Galaxies
      8 Threshold 3—Making Chemical Elements
      9 Threshold 4—The Earth and the Solar System
      10 The Early Earth—A Short History
      11 Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography
      12 Threshold 5—Life
      13 Darwin and Natural Selection
      14 The Evidence for Natural Selection
      15 The Origins of Life
      16 Life on Earth—Single-celled Organisms
      17 Life on Earth—Multi-celled Organisms
      18 Hominines
      19 Evidence on Hominine Evolution
      20 Threshold 6—What Makes Humans Different?
      21 Homo sapiens—The First Humans
      22 Paleolithic Lifeways
      23 Change in the Paleolithic Era
      24 Threshold 7—Agriculture
      25 The Origins of Agriculture
      26 The First Agrarian Societies
      27 Power and Its Origins
      28 Early Power Structures
      29 From Villages to Cities
      30 Sumer—The First Agrarian Civilization
      31 Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions
      32 The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made
      33 Long Trends—Expansion and State Power
      34 Long Trends—Rates of Innovation
      35 Long Trends—Disease and Malthusian Cycles
      36 Comparing the World Zones
      37 The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era
      38 Threshold 8—The Modern Revolution
      39 The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350
      40 The Early Modern Cycle, 1350–1700
      41 Breakthrough—The Industrial Revolution
      42 Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900
      43 The 20th Century
      44 The World That the Modern Revolution Made
      45 Human History and the Biosphere
      46 The Next 100 Years
      47 The Next Millennium and the Remote Future
      48 Big History—Humans in the Cosmos
    • Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies4.6 - 345
    • The Modern Scholar: World's First Superpower: The Rise of the British Empire, 1497 to 19013.95 - 66 Professor Denis Judd (London Metropolitan University)
      Lecture 1 The Tudor Empire from the Discovery of Newfoundland in 1497 to the Founding of Virginia and the Death of Elizabeth I in 1603
      Lecture 2 Colonies in the New World
      Lecture 3 The British in India, c. 1600-1815
      Lecture 4 The American Revolution and the Restructured Empire
      Lecture 5 Australia and New Zealand: Convicts, Settlers, and Self-Government
      Lecture 6 Ireland: Mother Country or Exploited British Colony?
      Lecture 7 The Canadian Crisis and the Spread of Internal Colonial Self-Government
      Lecture 8 Trade and Dominion: The Profits and Commerce of Empire
      Lecture 9 The British Raj, 1815 to 1905: The High Noon of Empire in India
      Lecture 10 The Suez Canal, Egypt, Sudan, and the Middle East
      Lecture 11 The Partition of Africa: Opening Up the “Dark Continent”
      Lecture 12 Empire Builders and Empire Critics
      Lecture 13 Conflict and War in South Africa
      Lecture 14 Hurrah for the Jubilee! Queen Victoria’s 1897 Diamond Jubilee and the Meaning of Empire
    • The Modern Scholar: World's First Superpower: From Empire to Commonwealth, 1901-Present3.82 - 22 Professor Denis Judd (London Metropolitan University)
      Lecture 1 The Edwardian Empire, 1901–1914
      Lecture 2 Making the Most of Empire, 1901–1914
      Lecture 3 The Empire and WWI, 1914–1919
      Lecture 4 The 1924 Wembley Empire Exhibition: Empire, Trade, Unity, and Disunity
      Lecture 5 Indian Nationalism and the British Raj, 1914–1939
      Lecture 6 Sexuality and the British Empire
      Lecture 7 The First Commonwealth: Dominion Status, the Self-Governing Colonies and Their Relations with Britain
      Lecture 8 Sport and the British Empire
      Lecture 9 The Empire-Commonwealth and WWII
      Lecture 10 The Labour Government of 1945–1951 and the Empire-Commonwealth
      Lecture 11 “Winston’s Back!”: Churchill, the Conservatives, and Empire, 1951–1955
      Lecture 12 The Suez Crisis of 1956–1957 and the “Wind of Change,” 1957–1963
      Lecture 13 Labour Back in Power: The Wilson Government, 1964–1970
      Lecture 14 Embracing the Commonwealth and Winding Down the Empire, 1970–Present
    • The Modern Scholar: Brotherhood of the Revolution: How America's Founders Forged a New Nation4.38 - 61
    • Civilization: The West and the Rest4.0 - 309
    • The Modern Scholar: Cold War: On the Brink of Apocalypse4 - 15 Lecture 1 Hiroshima and the Origins of the Cold War
      Lecture 2 The Superpowers and the World in 1945
      Lecture 3 The Struggle for Europe
      Lecture 4 Globalizing the Cold War
      Lecture 5 The Korean War and Changing Power Balances
      Lecture 6 Turmoil in the Third World
      Lecture 7 The Cuban Missile Crisis
      Lecture 8 The Turbulent 1960s
      Lecture 9 Origins of Détente
      Lecture 10 Revolution in the Third World and the End of Détente
      Lecture 11 The Arms Race and the Breakdown of Détente
      Lecture 12 The Reagan Offensive
      Lecture 13 Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War
      Lecture 14 Understanding the Cold War
    • The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews Under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain4.4 - 179
    • Alan Turing: Unlocking The Enigma3.7 - 334
    • The Modern Scholar: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire4.04 - 304
    • Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World4.1 - 257
    • Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power4.1 - 257
    • The Modern Scholar: Empire of Gold: A History of the Byzantine Empire4.1 - 211
    • Empires of Trust: How Rome Built--and America Is Building--a New World4.7 - 38
    • The Modern Scholar: Enlightenment: Reason, Tolerance, and Humanity4.21 - 39
    • The Modern Scholar: Epochs of European Civilization: Antiquity to Renaissance3.84 - 25 Professor Geoffrey Hosking (University College London)
      Lecture 1 Jews in the Ancient World
      Lecture 2 Jews and the Diaspora
      Lecture 3 Ancient Greece
      Lecture 4 Greek Science, Philosophy, and Culture
      Lecture 5 Rome as a City-State
      Lecture 6 Augustus and the Fall of the Roman Empire
      Lecture 7 The Birth and Spread of Christianity
      Lecture 8 Western Christianity after Augustine
      Lecture 9 The Challenge of Islam
      Lecture 10 Feudalism and Western Kingship
      Lecture 11 The Church’s Bid for Power
      Lecture 12 Origins of the Modern State
      Lecture 13 Italian City-States and Public Finance: The Nature of Money, Trade, and Finance
      Lecture 14 The Renaissance
    • The Modern Scholar: Epochs of European Civilization: Reformation to the 21st Century4.14 - 28
    • Era of the Crusades (Out of Order)4.4 - 76 1 The Heirs of Rome
      2 Byzantine Orthodox Civilization
      3 Byzantine Zenith in the Macedonian Age
      4 The Failure of the Heirs of Basil II
      5 Abbasid Baghdad and Fatimid Egypt
      6 The Coming of the Seljuk Turks
      7 The Recovery of Western Europe
      8 Kings and Princes of Western Europe
      9 Warfare in Western Europe
      10 The Papacy and Religious Reform
      11 Piety and Pilgrimage
      12 Christian Offensives in Spain and Sicily
      13 Alexius I and the First Crusade
      14 From Clermont to Jerusalem
      15 Conquest and Defense of Outremer
      16 Frankish Settlement of Outremer
      17 Comnenian Emperors and Crusader Princes
      18 The Second Crusade
      19 The Empire at Bay
      20 The Rise of Saladin
      21 Byzantine Recovery under the Comnenians
      22 A Renaissance of Byzantine Letters and Arts
      23 Trade and Currency in the Mediterranean
      24 Cultural Exchange in Gothic Europe
      25 The Horns of Hattin
      26 The Third Crusade
      27 From Jerusalem to Constantinople
      28 The Sack of Constantinople
      29 The World of Frankish Greece
      30 Splinter Empires and Orthodox Princes
      31 Ayyubid Egypt and Seljuk Anatolia
      32 Crusader Cyprus and the Levant
      33 Venice and Genoa
      34 The Mongols and the Legend of Prester John
      35 The Royal Crusaders
      36 The Passing of the Crusades
    • The Arabs: A History4.3 - 158
    • Foundations of Western Civilization (Out of Order)4.4 - 179 Professor Thomas F. X. Noble, Ph.D.
      1 “Western,” “Civilization,” and “Foundations”
      2 History Begins at Sumer
      3 Egypt—The Gift of the Nile
      4 The Hebrews—Small States and Big Ideas
      5 A Succession of Empires
      6 Wide-Ruling Agamemnon
      7 Dark Age and Archaic Greece
      8 The Greek Polis—Sparta
      9 The Greek Polis—Athens
      10 Civic Culture—Architecture and Drama
      11 The Birth of History
      12 From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy
      13 Plato and Aristotle
      14 The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander
      15 The Hellenistic World
      16 The Rise of Rome
      17 The Roman Republic—Government and Politics
      18 Roman Imperialism
      19 The Culture of the Roman Republic
      20 Rome—From Republic to Empire
      21 The Pax Romana
      22 Rome's Golden and Silver Ages
      23 Jesus and the New Testament
      24 The Emergence of a Christian Church
      25 Late Antiquity—Crisis and Response
      26 Barbarians and Emperors
      27 The Emergence of the Catholic Church
      28 Christian Culture in Late Antiquity
      29 Muhammad and Islam
      30 The Birth of Byzantium
      31 Barbarian Kingdoms in the West
      32 The World of Charlemagne
      33 The Carolingian Renaissance
      34 The Expansion of Europe
      35 The Chivalrous Society
      36 Medieval Political Traditions, I
      37 Medieval Political Traditions, II
      38 Scholastic Culture
      39 Vernacular Culture
      40 The Crisis of Renaissance Europe
      41 The Renaissance Problem
      42 Renaissance Portraits
      43 The Northern Renaissance
      44 The Protestant Reformation—Martin Luther
      45 The Protestant Reformation—John Calvin
      46 Catholic Reforms and "Confessionalization"
      47 Exploration and Empire
      48 What Challenges Remain?
    • Founding Brothers4.3 - 754
    • The Fracture Zone4.1 - 25
    • From Yao to Mao 5000 Years of Chinese History (Out of Order)3.8 - 158 Taught By Professor Kenneth J. Hammond, Ph.D., Harvard University, New Mexico State University
      1 Geography and Archaeology
      2 The First Dynasties
      3 The Zhou Conquest
      4 Fragmentation and Social Change
      5 Confucianism and Daoism
      6 The Hundred Schools
      7 The Early Han Dynasty
      8 Later Han and the Three Kingdoms
      9 Buddhism
      10 Northern and Southern Dynasties
      11 Sui Reunification and the Rise of the Tang
      12 The Early Tang Dynasty
      13 Han Yu and the Late Tang
      14 Five Dynasties and the Song Founding
      15 Intellectual Ferment in the 11th Century
      16 Art and the Way
      17 Conquest States in the North
      18 Economy and Society in Southern Song
      19 Zhu Xi and Neo-Confucianism
      20 The Rise of the Mongols
      21 The Yuan Dynasty
      22 The Rise of the Ming
      23 The Ming Golden Age
      24 Gridlock and Crisis
      25 The Rise of the Manchus
      26 Kangxi to Qianlong
      27 The Coming of the West
      28 Threats from Within and Without
      29 The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
      30 Efforts at Reform
      31 The Fall of the Empire
      32 The New Culture Movement and May 4th
      33 The Chinese Communists, 1921–1937
      34 War and Revolution
      35 China Under Mao
      36 China and the World in a New Century
    • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World4.5 - 887
    • The Modern Scholar: God Wills It!: Understanding the Crusades4.38 - 113 Professor Thomas F. Madden (Saint Louis University)
      Lecture 1 The Medieval Background of the Crusades
      Lecture 2 Islam: Faith, Culture, Empire
      Lecture 3 Pope Urban II and the Calling of the First Crusade
      Lecture 4 The First Crusade
      Lecture 5 What Were the Crusades? Who Were the Crusaders?
      Lecture 6 The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
      Lecture 7 The Second Crusade
      Lecture 8 The Third Crusade
      Lecture 9 The Fourth Crusade
      Lecture 10 Crusades in Europe
      Lecture 11 The Fifth Crusade
      Lecture 12 The Crusades of St. Louis
      Lecture 13 The Fall of the Crusader States
      Lecture 14 Later Crusades and the Legacy of the Crusades
    • The Modern Scholar: The Grandeur That Was Rome: Roman Art and Archaeology4.13 - 30
    • The Modern Scholar: Heaven or Heresy: A History of the Inquisition4.27 - 113
    • The Modern Scholar: Hebrews, Greeks and Romans: Foundations of Western Civilization4.03 - 70
    • The Modern Scholar: High Seas, High Stakes: Naval Battles That Changed History3.56 - 36
    • History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time4.2 - 410
    • History of Ancient Egypt4.7 - 229 Bob Brier, Ph.D. Long Island University
      1 Introduction
      2 Prehistoric Egypt
      3 Ancient Egyptian Thought
      4 Napoleon and the Beginnings of Egyptology
      5 The Rosetta Stone, and Much More
      6 The First Nation in History
      7 The Rise of the Old Kingdom
      8 Sneferu, the Pyramid Builder
      9 The Great Pyramid of Giza
      10 The End of the Old Kingdom
      11 The First Intermediate Period
      12 The Middle Kingdom—Dynasty XI
      13 The Middle Kingdom—Dynasty XII
      14 The Second Intermediate Period
      15 Joseph in Egypt
      16 The Beginning of the New Kingdom—The Fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty
      17 Queen Hatshepsut
      18 Obelisks
      19 Tuthmosis III—King At Last
      20 The Fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty Rolls On
      21 Akhenaten the Heretic Pharaoh
      22 The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb
      23 The Murder of Tutankhamen—A Theory
      24 Medicine—The Necessary Art
      25 The End of Dynasty XVIII
      26 Mummification—How We Know What We Know
      27 What Mummies Tell Us
      28 Making a Modern Mummy
      29 Dynasty XIX Begins
      30 Ramses the Great—The Early Years
      31 Ramses the Great—The Later Years
      32 The Exodus—Did It Happen?
      33 The Decline of Dynasty XIX
      34 Dynasty XX—The Decline Continues
      35 Ancient Egyptian Magic
      36 Dynasty XXI—Egypt Divided
      37 Dynasty XXII—Egypt United
      38 Dynasty XXV—The Nubians Have Their Day
      39 Dynasty XXVI—The Saite Period
      40 Dynasty XXVII—The Persians
      41 Dynasties XXVIII to XXXI—The Beginning of the End
      42 Alexander the Great
      43 The First Ptolemies
      44 The Middle Ptolemies—The Decline
      45 Animal Mummies
      46 Cleopatra's Family
      47 Cleopatra—The Last Ptolemy
      48 The Grand Finale
    • The Modern Scholar: A History of Ancient Rome4.2 - 122
    • A History of the World in 100 Objects4.5 - 210
    • The Modern Scholar: A History of Venice: Queen of the Seas4.18 - 134
    • Holocaust
    • The Modern Scholar: A House Reunited: How America Survived the Civil War3.96 - 28 Professor Jay Winik (University of Maryland)
      Lecture 1 A Nation Delayed
      Lecture 2 The Dilemma: America as Two Nations
      Lecture 3 The Warrior: Robert E. Lee
      Lecture 4 The Epic Fall of Richmond
      Lecture 5 The Chase—Grant Hot on Lee’s Heels
      Lecture 6 The Fateful Decision: Guerrilla War?
      Lecture 7 U.S. Grant and the Historic Meeting at Appomattox
      Lecture 8 April 14—Decapitation and the Great Unraveling?
      Lecture 9 Abraham Lincoln: On Whom So Much Depends
      Lecture 10 Post-Assassination: Would It Now All Come Undone?
      Lecture 11 The Volatile Ones: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Bill Sherman
      Lecture 12 The Surrender Continues
      Lecture 13 The Final Obstacles to Reconciliation
      Lecture 14 What Happened To Make a Nation?
    • How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World4.6 - 546
    • The Modern Scholar: Ideas that Shaped Mankind3.91 - 35 Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Oxford University)
      Lecture 1 The Idea of Ideas
      Lecture 2 The Mind of the Hunter
      Lecture 3 Of Ice and Mud
      Lecture 4 From Settlement to Civilization
      Lecture 5 Thus Spake Zarathustra
      Lecture 6 The Age of Sages: Politics and Knowledge
      Lecture 7 The Age of Sages: Religion
      Lecture 8 Ideas About Religion
      Lecture 9 The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution
      Lecture 10 The Enlightenment
      Lecture 11 The Nineteenth Century
      Lecture 12 A Century of Horrors
      Lecture 13 The Restoration of Chaos
      Lecture 14 The Age of Uncertainty
    • If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home4.3 - 97
    • The Modern Scholar: In Michelangelo’s Shadow: The Mystery of Modern Italy3.86 - 22
    • The Modern Scholar: The Incas: Inside an American Empire4.16 - 90 Professor Terence N. D’Altroy (Columbia University)
      Lecture 1 Portrait of the Incas: An Introduction
      Lecture 2 The Land and Its People
      Lecture 3 The Origins of Inca Society
      Lecture 4 The Formation of Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire
      Lecture 5 Inca Militarism
      Lecture 6 Cuzco: The Navel of the Universe
      Lecture 7 The Royal Estates
      Lecture 8 At the Heart of Power
      Lecture 9 Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present
      Lecture 10 Growing Up Inca
      Lecture 11 Provincial Rule
      Lecture 12 Building the Empire
      Lecture 13 Provisioning the State and the Sun
      Lecture 14 Invasion and Aftermath
    • Interpreting the 20th Century The Struggle Over Democracy (Out of Order)4.5 - 34 Taught By Professor Pamela Radcliff, Ph.D., Columbia University, University of California at San Diego
      1 Framing the 20th Century
      2 The Opening Act—World War I
      3 Framing the Peace—The Paris Peace Treaties
      4 Intellectual Foundations—Nietzsche and Freud
      5 Art and the Post-War "Crisis of Meaning"
      6 Gender Crisis—The "Woman Question"
      7 The Origins of "Mass Society"
      8 Defining Mass Society and Its Consequences
      9 Crisis of Capitalism—The Great Depression
      10 Communist Ideology—From Marx to Lenin
      11 The Rise of Fascism
      12 Communist Revolution in Russia
      13 The Totalitarian State? Nazi Germany
      14 The Totalitarian State? The Soviet Union
      15 China—The Legacy of Imperialism
      16 The Chinese Revolution
      17 India—The Legacy of Imperialism
      18 India—The Road to Independence
      19 Mexico—The Roots of Revolution
      20 The Mexican Revolution and Its Consequences
      21 Japan—The Path to Modernization
      22 Japan—A New Imperial Power
      23 The Pacific War
      24 The European War
      25 The Holocaust
      26 Existentialism in Post-War Europe
      27 Origins of the Cold War
      28 The Cold War in American Society
      29 Science and the State in Cold War America
      30 The Welfare State
      31 The Process of Decolonization
      32 Challenges for Post-Colonial Societies
      33 Competing Nationalisms—The Middle East
      34 Development Models—Communist China
      35 Development Models—Democratic India
      36 The Authoritarian Development State—Japan
      37 The Japanese Model—Available for Export?
      38 Latin America—Dictatorship and Democracy
      39 Hard Cases—Africa
      40 An African Case Study—Nigeria
      41 A Generation of Protests—Civil Rights
      42 A Generation of Protests—1968
      43 Global Women
      44 The Rise of Fundamentalist Politics
      45 Communism—From Reform to Collapse, 1956–90
      46 The "End of History"?
      47 Globalization and Its Challenges
      48 A New World Order?
    • The Modern Scholar: Jerusalem: The Contested City4.32 - 44 Professor Frank E. Peters (New York University)
      Lecture 1 Holy Places, Holy City
      Lecture 2 The City of the Great King
      Lecture 3 The Fall and Restoration of Jerusalem
      Lecture 4 Jews and Greeks in Jerusalem
      Lecture 5 The Jerusalem of Jesus
      Lecture 6 The Great Wars (66-135 C.E.)
      Lecture 7 The "Mother of All the Churches" (325-635 C.E.)
      Lecture 8 The Distant Shrine: The Muslims Come to Jerusalem (638-750 C.E.)
      Lecture 9 The Crusades
      Lecture 10 Jerusalem Liberated
      Lecture 11 Piety and Polemic: The Age of Pilgrimage
      Lecture 12 Travelers, Tourists and Pilgrims
      Lecture 13 Through New Eyes: Jerusalem and the Moderns
      Lecture 14 From Then to Now: The Holy Places in the Present Age
    • The Modern Scholar: Journeys of the Great Explorers: Columbus to Cook4.3 - 40 Professor Glyndwr Williams (University of London)
      Lecture 1 The World Before Columbus
      Lecture 2 The Voyages of Christopher Columbus
      Lecture 3 The Voyage of Vasco da Gama and the “Sea Road” to the East
      Lecture 4 The First Circumnavigation: The Voyage of Ferdinand Magellan
      Lecture 5 The Second Circumnavigation: The Voyage of Francis Drake
      Lecture 6 The Tools of Discovery
      Lecture 7 Life at Sea
      Lecture 8 Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage
      Lecture 9 The Pacific Ocean: The Great Unknown
      Lecture 10 The “Rambling Voyages” of William Dampier
      Lecture 11 Vitus Bering and the Russian Discovery of America
      Lecture 12 The Pacific Voyages of James Cook
      Lecture 13 The Revolution in Navigation and Health
      Lecture 14 The World After Cook
    • Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History3.5 - 70
    • The Modern Scholar: Liberty and Its Price: Understanding the French Revolution3.92 - 59
    • Lies My Teacher Told Me4.3 - 1,377
    • Lost civilizations (Video Based)4.8 - 2,822
    • Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy4.5 - 26
    • Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties4.4 - 175
    • White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America4.1 - 1,104
    • Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History4.2 - 113
    • The Modern Scholar: Odyssey of the West I: A Classic Education through the Great Books: Hebrews and Greeks4.16 - 111
    • The Modern Scholar: Odyssey of the West II: A Classic Education through the Great Books: From Athens to Rome and the Gospels4.1 - 60
    • The Modern Scholar: Odyssey of the West III: A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Medieval World4.1 - 48
    • The Modern Scholar: Odyssey of the West IV: A Classic Education through the Great Books: Towards Enlightenment4.26 - 42
    • Odyssey of the West, Part V: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Renewal4.49 - 39
    • Odyssey of the West VI: A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Twentieth Century4.43 - 28
    • The Modern Scholar: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic: A History of the Church in the Middle Ages4.45 - 108
    • Origin of Civilization3.5 - 51 Scott MacEachern, Ph.D.Bowdoin College
      1 Ancient States and Civilizations
      2 The History of Archaeological Research
      3 Studying the Origins of States
      4 Archaeological Interpretation—Çatalhöyük
      5 Stepping Stones to Civilization
      6 Trajectories of Cultural Development
      7 When Is a State a State?
      8 A Complex Neolithic—Halafian and Samarran
      9 Hierarchy and Urbanism—'Ubaid Mesopotamia
      10 The Uruk World System
      11 Sumer and Afterward
      12 Civilization and Pastoralism in Mesopotamia
      13 The Development of Writing in Mesopotamia
      14 The Gift of the Nile
      15 The Egyptian Predynastic Period
      16 The Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
      17 Divinity and Display in Dynastic Egypt
      18 Why So Different? Mesopotamia and the Nile
      19 Borders and Territories of Ancient States
      20 The Levantine Copper and Early Bronze Ages
      21 Hierarchy and Society in the Aegean
      22 Early Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
      23 Palace and Countryside on Crete
      24 How Things Fall Apart—The Greek Dark Ages
      25 First Farmers in the Indus Valley
      26 Cities along the Indus
      27 Seeing What We Expect—Power and Display
      28 Sedentism and Agriculture in Early China
      29 State Formation in Ancient China
      30 Origins of the Chinese Writing System
      31 From Human Sacrifice to the Tao of Politics
      32 Spread of States in Mainland Southeast Asia
      33 Axumite Civilization in Ethiopia
      34 Inland Niger Delta—Hierarchy and Heterarchy
      35 Lake Chad Basin—Settlement and Complexity
      36 Great Zimbabwe and Its Successors
      37 Sedentism and Agriculture in Mesoamerica
      38 The Olmec of Lowland Mexico
      39 Teotihuacán—The First American City
      40 Beginnings of States in Lowland Mesoamerica
      41 The Great Maya City-States
      42 Epigraphy—Changing Views of the Maya
      43 Was There a Maya Collapse?
      44 Adaptations in Pacific South America
      45 Pyramids and Precocity in Coastal Peru
      46 Andean Civilization—Chav'n to Chimú
      47 The Florescence of the Inka Empire
      48 Ancient States—Unity and Diversity?
    • Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution3.7 - 35
    • Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence4.5 - 43
    • Resolute Determination: Napoleon and the French Empire4.16 - 25
    • The Modern Scholar: Rethinking Our Past: Recognizing Facts, Fictions, and Lies in American History4.15 - 208 Professor Emeritus James W. Loewen (University of Vermont)
      Lecture 1 Why Study the Past?
      Lecture 2 Archaeology and Prehistory
      Lecture 3 The Politics and History of Columbus
      Lecture 4 Pilgrims
      Lecture 5 Native American Societies and Cultures
      Lecture 6 The Making and Use of the Constitution
      Lecture 7 Slavery
      Lecture 8 The Civil War
      Lecture 9 The Civil War (Continued) and Reconstruction
      Lecture 10 The Nadir of Race Relations
      Lecture 11 The Nadir of Race Relations (Continued)
      Lecture 12 United States Foreign Policy
      Lecture 13 Capitalism and Social Class
      Lecture 14 Doing History Yourself
    • Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution4.4 - 92
    • Search of Shakespeare (Video Based)
    • A Short History of Progress4.2 - 106
    • The Modern Scholar: Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 19194.43 - 316
    • The Modern Scholar: Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A History of Baseball in America4.08 - 25
    • Terror of History Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition (Out of Order)4.1 - 84 Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
      1 The Terror of History
      2 Politics, Economy, and Society
      3 Religion and Culture
      4 Mysticism in the Western Tradition
      5 Mysticism in the Twelfth Century
      6 Mysticism in the Thirteenth Century
      7 Jewish Mysticism
      8 Mysticism in Early Modern Europe
      9 Heresy and the Millennium
      10 The Church Under Attack
      11 The Birth of the Inquisition
      12 The Millennium in the Sixteenth Century
      13 Jewish Millennial Expectations
      14 The Mysteries of the Renaissance
      15 Hermeticism, Astrology, Alchemy, and Magic
      16 The Origins of Witchcraft
      17 Religion, Science, and Magic
      18 The Witch Craze and Its Historians
      19 Fear and the Construction of Satan
      20 The Witch Craze and Misogyny
      21 The World of Witches
      22 The Witches of Loudon
      23 The Witches of Essex and Salem
      24 The Survival of the Past
    • American Identity4.7 - 48 Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Ph.D. Emory University
      1. Being American
      2. John Smith—The Colonial Promoter
      3. William Penn—The Religious Liberty Advocate
      4. Cotton Mather—The Puritan
      5. Benjamin Franklin—The Improver
      6. Francis Marion—The Guerrilla Soldier
      7. Thomas Jefferson—The Patriot
      8. Abigail Adams—The First Lady
      9. Mother Ann Lee—The Religious Founder
      10. Rittenhouse and Bartram—The Scientists
      11. Eli Whitney—The Inventor
      12. Lewis and Clark—The Explorers
      13. Charles Grandison Finney—The Revivalist
      14. Horace Mann—The Educator
      15. Ralph Waldo Emerson—The Philosopher
      16. Frederick Douglass—The Abolitionist
      17. Edmund Ruffin—The Champion of Slavery
      18. Brigham Young—The Religious Autocrat
      19. Frederick Law Olmsted—The Landscape Architect
      20. William Tecumseh Sherman—The General
      21. Louisa May Alcott—The Professional Writer
      22. Andrew Carnegie—Conscience-Stricken Entrepreneur
      23. “Buffalo Bill”—The Westerner
      24. Black Elk—The Holy Man
      25. John Wesley Powell—The Desert Theorist
      26. William Mulholland—The Water Engineer
      27. Samuel Gompers—The Trade Unionist
      28. Booker T. Washington—The "Race Leader"
      29. Emma Goldman—The Anarchist
      30. Abraham Cahan—The Immigrants' Advocate
      31. Isabella Stewart Gardner—The Collector
      32. Oliver Wendell Holmes—The Jurist
      33. Henry Ford—The Mass Producer
      34. Harry Houdini—The Sensationalist
      35. Al Capone—The Crime Boss
      36. Herbert Hoover—The Humanitarian
      37. Helen Keller—The Inspiration
      38. Duke Ellington—The Jazzman
      39. Charles Lindbergh—The Aviator
      40. Douglas MacArthur—The World-Power Warrior
      41. Leonard Bernstein—The Musical Polymath
      42. Shirley Temple—The Child Prodigy
      43. George Wallace—The Demagogue
      44. William F. Buckley, Jr.—The Conservative
      45. Roberto Clemente—The Athlete
      46. Betty Friedan—The Feminist
      47. Jesse Jackson—The The Civil Rights Legatee
      48. Stability and Change
    • The Modern Scholar: The American Presidency3.98 - 42
    • The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics4.6 - 60
    • Living History: Experiencing Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds4.2 - 26 Robert Garland, Ph.D. Colgate University
      1 Ramesses II: Heartbeat of History
      2 Marathon: The Persians Have Landed!
      3 Oresteia: Judgment at the Dionysia
      4 Attack on Attica: Pericles's Gamble
      5 Socrates on Trial: For the Defense
      6 Conspiracy! Murder of Philip II
      7 Alexander the Great: Punjab Revolt
      8 Pyrrhus: Deadly Dreams of Empire
      9 India's Ashoka the Great Repents
      10 Hannibal: Rome Holds Its Breath
      11 The Final Days of Julius Caesar
      12 Antony and Cleopatra's Death Pact
      13 Jesus under Surveillance and Arrest
      14 Jerusalem Tinderbox: Temple in Flames
      15 Roman Colosseum: Blood in the Arena
      16 Visigoth King Alaric Descends on Rome
      17 Nika Riots at the Racetrack: Theodora
      18 The Concubine Empress: Wu Zetian
      19 Muhammad's Awakening and Escape
      20 Charles Martel Defeats the Muslims
      21 Culture Shock! Travels of Ibn Fadlan
      22 Vladimir Smashes the Idols of the Rus
      23 Charlemagne Saves Leo III, Rogue Pope
      24 Urban II Unleashes the First Crusade
    • The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age4.8 - 45
    • The Modern Scholar: The Medieval World I: Kingdoms, Empires, and War4.31 - 201
    • The Modern Scholar: The Medieval World, Part II: Society, Economy, and Culture4.4 - 134
    • The Modern Scholar: People and the Ballot: A History of American Party Politics3.7 - 30
    • The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History4.3 - 459
    • The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents: From Wilson to Obama4.0 - 65
    • The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History4.2 - 25
    • The Modern Scholar: The Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism3.71 - 75 Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism
      Professor Johnathan D. Smele
      Lecture 1 Russia: The Geographical Setting
      Lecture 2 Russia: Empire and People
      Lecture 3 The “Great Reforms”: Alexander II and the Emancipation of the Serfs
      Lecture 4 The Social and Economic Consequences of the Emancipation
      Lecture 5 Origins of the First Russian Revolution, 1881–1905
      Lecture 6 Russia and the World in the Late Nineteenth Century
      Lecture 7 The Opposition to Tsarism: Constitutional Democrats and Socialists-Revolutionaries
      Lecture 8 The Opposition to Tsarism: Lenin and the Bolsheviks
      Lecture 9 Nicholas II, Stolypin, and the “Constitutional Monarchy,” 1905–1917
      Lecture 10 Russia in War and Revolution: August 1914–February 1917
      Lecture 11 The Year of Revolutions, 1917: Events
      Lecture 12 The Year of Revolutions, 1917: Interpretations
      Lecture 13 The Russian Civil Wars, 1917–1921: Events
      Lecture 14 The Russian Civil Wars, 1917–1921: Interpretations
    • The Search for a Meaningful Past5.0 - By Darren Staloff
      1. Issues and Problems
      2. Mircea Eliade's Cosmos and History and Cyclical Time
      3. The Early Enlightenment and the Search for the Laws of History—Vico's New Science of History
      4. The High Enlightenment's Cult of Progress—Kant's "Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View"
      5. Hegel's Philosophy of History
      6. Marx's Historical Materialism
      7. Nietzsche's Critique of Historical Consciousness—On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
      8. Weber's Historical Sociology
      9. Taking the Long View—Arnold Toynbee and World Historical Speculation
      10. Twentieth-Century Neo-Idealism—R.G. Collingwood's The Idea of History
      11. The Positivist Conception of Historical Knowledge—Carl Hempel's "The Function of General Laws in History"
      12. Analytic Musings-Arthur Danto's Narration and Knowledge
      13. Social History, Structuralism, and the Longue Duree—Fernand Braudel's On History
      14. Post-Structuralism and the Linguistic Turn-Hayden White's Introduction to Metahistory
      15. Naturalism Revisited—William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples
      16. The Heterogeneity of Historical Understanding
    • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern4.3 - 775
    • The Modern Scholar: The Tiber and the Potomac: Rome, America, and Empires of Trust4.28 - 57 Professor Thomas F. Madden (Saint Louis University)
      Lecture 1 The Varieties of Empire
      Lecture 2 The Founding of the Republics
      Lecture 3 The Roots of Isolationism
      Lecture 4 The First Encounters with a Dangerous World
      Lecture 5 Securing the Horizon
      Lecture 6 Superpowers
      Lecture 7 Protecting the Elder Cultures
      Lecture 8 A Cultural Generation Gap
      Lecture 9 The Reluctant Empire of Trust
      Lecture 10 The Dynamics of Trust
      Lecture 11 War and Peace in a Time of Pax
      Lecture 12 The Turn Inward
      Lecture 13 Religious Terrorism and the Empire of Trust
      Lecture 14 Decline and Fall
    • The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty3.5 - 59
    • Wisdom of History - Teaching Company4.1 - 124 Taught by J. Rufus Fears University of Oklahoma
      1. Why We Study History
      2. World War I and the Lessons of History
      3. Hitler's Rise and the Lessons of History
      4. World War II and the Lessons of History
      5. Is Freedom a Universal Value?
      6. Birth of Civilization in the Middle East
      7. The Trojan War and the Middle East
      8. Ancient Israel and the Middle East
      9. Ancient Greece and the Middle East
      10. Athenian Democracy and Empire
      11. The Destiny of the Athenian Democracy
      12. Alexander the Great and the Middle East
      13. The Roman Republic as Superpower
      14. Rome of the Caesars as Superpower
      15. Rome and the Middle East
      16. Why the Roman Empire Fell
      17. Christianity
      18. Islam
      19. The Ottoman Empire and Turkey
      20. The Spanish Empire and Latin America
      21. Napoleon's Liberal Empire
      22. The British Empire in India
      23. Russia and Empire
      24. China and Empire
      25. The Empire of Genghis Khan
      26. Britain's Legacy of Freedom
      27. George Washington as Statesman
      28. Thomas Jefferson as Statesman
      29. America's Empire of Liberty—Lewis and Clark
      30. America and Slavery
      31. Abraham Lincoln as Statesman
      32. The United States and Empire
      33. Franklin Roosevelt as Statesman
      34. A Superpower at the Crossroads
      35. The Wisdom of History and the Citizen
      36. The Wisdom of History and You
    • The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World4.5 - 174
    • They Made America4.3 - 52
    • Tocqueville and the American Experiment4.6 - 61 Professor William R. Cook, Ph.D. State University of New York, Geneseo
      1 An Overview of Democracy in America
      2 Alexis de Tocqueville—A Brief Biography
      3 The Journey to America
      4 Equality of Conditions and Freedom
      5 The Foundations of the American Experience
      6 Does America Have a Mixed Constitution?
      7 The American Constitution
      8 The Judiciary and Lawyers in America
      9 Democracy and Local Government
      10 Freedom of Speech in Theory and Practice
      11 Freedom of the Press
      12 Political Parties
      13 The Problem of the Tyranny of the Majority
      14 Political Associations
      15 Civil Associations
      16 Blacks and Indians
      17 Mores and Democracy
      18 Christianity and Democracy
      19 Education and Culture in Democracies
      20 Individualism in America
      21 The Desire for Wealth in America
      22 The Democratic Family
      23 Are Democracy and Excellence Compatible?
      24 Tocqueville’s Unanswered Questions
    • The Modern Scholar: Understanding Democracy in America by Ken Masugi3.9 -
    • A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds4.1 - 32
    • The Modern Scholar: Understanding the Holocaust5.0 - 2
    • The Modern Scholar: Upon This Rock: A History of the Papacy from Peter to John Paul II4.44 - 86
    • The Modern Scholar: Wars That Made the Western World: The Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War and the Punic Wars4.23 - 60
    • When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank: History's Unknown Chapters4.4 - 18
    • When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters4.3 - 39
    • Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future4.1 - 187
    • World of Byzantium (Out of Order)4.5 - 83 Taught By Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D., Yale University, Tulane University
      1 Imperial Crisis and Reform
      2 Constantine
      3 State and Society Under the Dominate
      4 Imperial Rome and the Barbarians
      5 The Rise of Christianity
      6 Imperial Church and Christian Dogma
      7 The Friends of God—Ascetics and Monks
      8 The Fall of the Western Empire
      9 The Age of Justinian
      10 The Reconquest of the West
      11 The Search for Religious Unity
      12 The Birth of Christian Aesthetics and Letters
      13 The Emperor Heraclius
      14 The Christian Citadel
      15 Life in the Byzantine Dark Age
      16 The Iconoclastic Controversy
      17 Recovery Under the Macedonian Emperors
      18 Imperial Zenith—Basil II
      19 Imperial Collapse
      20 Alexius I and the First Crusade
      21 Comnenian Emperors and Crusaders
      22 Imperial Exile and Restoration
      23 Byzantine Letters and Aesthetics
      24 The Fall of Constantinople
    • The Modern Scholar: World War l: The Great War and the World It Made4.34 - 291 Professor John Ramsden (Queen Mary University of London)
      Lecture 1 The Greatest War
      Lecture 2 Opening Shots
      Lecture 3 Gallipoli and the Near and Middle East
      Lecture 4 1915 in the West
      Lecture 5 Home Fronts
      Lecture 6 The Western Front in 1916
      Lecture 7 The Eastern Front
      Lecture 8 A Literary and Artistic War
      Lecture 9 1917 in the West
      Lecture 10 The War at Sea
      Lecture 11 America Goes to War
      Lecture 12 Germany Almost Wins the War in 1918
      Lecture 13 Victory in the West
      Lecture 14 Aftermath and Reputation
  • Kids
    • Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It4.3 - 20
    • Charlotte's web
    • Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    • Diary of a wimpy kid Rodrick rules4.7 - 11,202
    • Hanna montana
    • high school musical
    • Mark Twain Library of Humor3.6 - 8
    • Nothing's fair in fifth grade4.2 - 107
    • Redwall
    • The Sea of Monsters4.8 - 2,177
    • Tales from Shakespeare -Charles Lamb4.0 - 128
    • Skippyjon Jones in the Doghouse
    • The Snow Queen4.7 - 279
    • The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • The Emperor's New Clothes
    • The lightning thief4.7 - 4,512
    • The tale of despereaux
    • The titan's curse4.8 - 6,437
  • Language
    • Building a Better Vocabulary4.7 - 106 Professor Kevin Flanigan, Professor of Education
      West Chester University of Pennsylvania
      1 Five Principles for Learning Vocabulary
      2 The Spelling-Meaning Connection
      3 Words for Lying, Swindling, and Conniving
      4 Words That Express Annoyance and Disgust
      5 Fighting Words and Peaceful Words
      6 Going beyond Dictionary Meanings
      7 Wicked Words
      8 Words for Beginnings and Endings
      9 Words Expressing Fear, Love, and Hatred
      10 Words for the Everyday and the Elite
      11 Words from Gods and Heroes
      12 Humble Words and Prideful Words
      13 High-Frequency Greek and Latin Roots
      14 Words Relating to Belief and Trust
      15 Words for the Way We Talk
      16 Words for Praise, Criticism, and Nonsense
      17 Eponyms from Literature and History
      18 Thinking, Teaching, and Learning Words
      19 Words for the Diligent and the Lazy
      20 Words That Break and Words That Join
      21 Some High-Utility Greek and Latin Affixes
      22 Cranky Words and Cool Words
      23 Words for Courage and Cowardice
      24 Reviewing Vocabulary through Literature
      25 Words for Killing and Cutting
      26 A Vocabulary Grab Bag
      27 Words for Words
      28 Specialty Words for Language
      29 Nasty Words and Nice Words
      30 Words for the Really Big and the Very Small
      31 Spelling as a Vocabulary Tool
      32 A Medley of New Words
      33 Building Vocabulary through Games
      34 Words English Borrowed and Never Returned
      35 More Foreign Loan Words
      36 Forgotten Words and Neologisms
    • The Modern Scholar: Detective Fiction: From Victorian Sleuths to the Present3.77 - 52
    • The Modern Scholar: A History of the English Language4.49 - 292
    • History of the English Language4.6 - 87 Professor Seth Lerer, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
      1 Introduction to the Study of Language
      2 The Historical Study of Language
      3 Indo-European and the Prehistory of English
      4 Reconstructing Meaning and Sound
      5 Historical Linguistics and Studying Culture
      6 The Beginnings of English
      7 The Old English Worldview
      8 Did the Normans Really Conquer English?
      9 What Did the Normans Do to English?
      10 Chaucer's English
      11 Dialect Representations in Middle English
      12 Medieval Attitudes toward Language
      13 The Return of English as a Standard
      14 The Great Vowel Shift and Modern English
      15 The Expanding English Vocabulary
      16 Early Modern English Syntax and Grammar
      17 Renaissance Attitudes toward Teaching English
      18 Shakespeare—Drama, Grammar, Pronunciation
      19 Shakespeare—Poetry, Sound, Sense
      20 The Bible in English
      21 Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary
      22 New Standards in English
      23 Dictionaries and Word Histories
      24 Values, Words, and Modernity
      25 The Beginnings of American English
      26 American Language from Webster to Mencken
      27 American Rhetoric from Jefferson to Lincoln
      28 The Language of the American Self
      29 American Regionalism
      30 American Dialects in Literature
      31 The Impact of African-American English
      32 An Anglophone World
      33 The Language of Science
      34 The Science of Language
      35 Linguistics and Politics in Language Study
      36 Conclusions and Provocations
    • Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing4.4 - 76
    • Language A to Z4.5 - 78 Professor John McWhorter Ph.D. Columbia University
      1 A for Aramaic
      2 B for Baby Mama
      3 C for Compounds
      4 D for Double Negatives
      5 E for Etymology
      6 F for First Words
      7 G for Greek Alphabet
      8 H for Hobbits
      9 I for Island
      10 J for Jamaican
      11 K for Ket
      12 L for Like
      13 M for Maltese
      14 N for Native American English
      15 O for Oldsters in Cartoons
      16 P for Plurals, Q for Quiz
      17 R for R-Lessness
      18 S for She
      19 T for Tone
      20 U for Understand
      21 V for Vocabulary
      22 W for What’s Up, Doc?
      23 X for !X-õ, Y for Yiddish
      24 Z for Zed
    • Mastering the American Accent4.5 - 190
    • Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue4.1 - 158
    • Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain4.4 - 110
    • Story of Human Language4.7 - 219 Professor John McWhorter, Ph.D. Columbia University
      1 What Is Language?
      2 When Language Began
      3 How Language Changes—Sound Change
      4 How Language Changes—Building New Material
      5 How Language Changes—Meaning and Order
      6 How Language Changes—Many Directions
      7 How Language Changes—Modern English
      8 Language Families—Indo-European
      9 Language Families—Tracing Indo-European
      10 Language Families—Diversity of Structures
      11 Language Families—Clues to the Past
      12 The Case Against the World’s First Language
      13 The Case For the World’s First Language
      14 Dialects—Subspecies of Species
      15 Dialects—Where Do You Draw the Line?
      16 Dialects—Two Tongues in One Mouth
      17 Dialects—The Standard as Token of the Past
      18 Dialects—Spoken Style, Written Style
      19 Dialects—The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar
      20 Language Mixture—Words
      21 Language Mixture—Grammar
      22 Language Mixture—Language Areas
      23 Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty
      24 Language Interrupted
      25 A New Perspective on the Story of English
      26 Does Culture Drive Language Change?
      27 Language Starts Over—Pidgins
      28 Language Starts Over—Creoles I
      29 Language Starts Over—Creoles II
      30 Language Starts Over—Signs of the New
      31 Language Starts Over—The Creole Continuum
      32 What Is Black English?
      33 Language Death—The Problem
      34 Language Death—Prognosis
      35 Artificial Languages
      36 Finale—Master Class
    • The Language Hoax3.3 - 36
    • The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics4.4 - 85
    • The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us4.3 - 112
    • The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins4.5 - 104 Anne Curzan, Ph.D. University of Michigan
      1 Winning Words, Banished Words
      2 The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death
      3 The Human Hands behind Dictionaries
      4 Treasure Houses, Theft, and Traps
      5 Yarn and Clues—New Word Meanings
      6 Smog, Mob, Bling—New Words
      7 “Often” versus “Offen”—Pronunciation
      8 Fighting over Zippers
      9 Opening the Early English Word-Hoard
      10 Safe and Sound—The French Invasion
      11 Magnifical Dexterity—Latin and Learning
      12 Chutzpah to Pajamas—World Borrowings
      13 The Pop/Soda/Coke Divide
      14 Maths, Wombats, and Les Bluejeans
      15 Foot and Pedestrian—Word Cousins
      16 Desultory Somersaults—Latin Roots
      17 Analogous Prologues—Greek Roots
      18 The Tough Stuff of English Spelling
      19 The b in Debt—Meddling in Spelling
      20 Of Mice, Men, and Y’All
      21 I’m Good … Or Am I Well?
      22 How Snuck Sneaked In
      23 Um, Well, Like, You Know
      24 Wicked Cool—The Irreverence of Slang
      25 Boy Toys and Bad Eggs—Slangy Wordplay
      26 Spinster, Bachelor, Guy, Dude
      27 Firefighters and Freshpersons
      28 A Slam Dunk—The Language of Sports
      29 Fooling Around—The Language of Love
      30 Gung Ho—The Language of War
      31 Filibustering—The Language of Politics
      32 LOL—The Language of the Internet
      33 #$@%!—Forbidden Words
      34 Couldn’t (or Could) Care Less
      35 Musquirt and Other Lexical Gaps
      36 Playing Fast and Loose with Words
    • Way With Words: Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion4.4 - 1230 Professor Michael D.C. Drout
      (Wheaton College)
      Lecture 1 How to Do Things with Words: Rhetoric and Speech-Act Theory: How Words Can Change Reality
      Lecture 2 Rhetoric, Sophistry, and Philosophy
      Lecture 3 Audience
      Lecture 4 Structures of Effective Arguments
      Lecture 5 The Enthymeme
      Lecture 6 The Rhetoric of Logic: Truth and Syllogisms
      Lecture 7 Logical Fallacies
      Lecture 8 Logos, Ethos, Pathos
      Lecture 9 Figures of Speech I: Schemes
      Lecture 10 Figures of Speech II: Tropes
      Lecture 11 Grammar I: Syntax
      Lecture 12 Grammar II: Structure, Punctuation (“Pause and Effect”)
      Lecture 13 Subtleties: Word Choice, Speech Patterns, Accent
      Lecture 14 Rhetorical Train Wrecks and Triumphs
      Way with Words II: Approaches to Literature
      Lecture 1 Understanding Literature: Some Big Questions
      Lecture 2 Language
      Lecture 3 The Text
      Lecture 4 The Author
      Lecture 5 The Audience
      Lecture 6 Genres
      Lecture 7 Formalism and Forms: Primarily Poetry
      Lecture 8 Form, Pattern, and Symbol: Prose
      Lecture 9 Literature and the Mind
      Lecture 10 What Is Postmodernism and Why Are People Saying Such Horrible Things About It?
      Lecture 11 Identity Politics
      Lecture 12 Culture and Cultural Production
      Lecture 13 The Literary Canon
      Lecture 14 What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Literature?
      Way With Words III: Understanding Grammar for Powerful Communication
      Lecture 1 The Red Panda and the Drout Way: A Sensible Approach to Grammar
      Lecture 2 What Is Grammar?
      Lecture 3 Why It Is the Way It Is: The Short History of the English Language
      Lecture 4 G-H-O-T-I Spells Fish
      Lecture 5 Word Classes
      Lecture 6 Pronouns and the Noun System
      Lecture 7 The Verb System I
      Lecture 8 The Verb System II: Infinitives, Participles, Gerunds
      Lecture 9 The Verb System III: Truly Irregular Verbs
      Lecture 10 Subjects and Predicates and Objects, Oh, My!
      Lecture 11 Transformations
      Lecture 12 Phrases and Clauses, Word Choices and Pauses
      Lecture 13 Punctuation: Pause and Effect
      Lecture 14 Fight! Fight! Fight! For English (for English?)
      • TMS - Way With Words I - Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion
      • TMS - Way with Words II - Approaches to Literature
      • TMS - Way With Words III - Understanding Grammar for Powerful Communication
      • TMS - Way With Words IV - Understanding Poetry
    • Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still4.2 - 42
    • Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language3.4 - 14
  • Law
    • The Modern Scholar: The American Legal Experience4.19 - 31 Professor Lawrence M. Friedman (Stanford University)
      Lecture 1 Introduction to the American Legal System
      Lecture 2 The Colonial Legal Experience
      Lecture 3 Criminal Justice in the Colonial
      Lecture 4 Revolution and the New Republic
      Lecture 5 Law and Economic Development in the 19th Century
      Lecture 6 Black and White: Slavery and Its Aftermath in the 19th Century
      Lecture 7 The Other Americans: Natives and Immigrants
      Lecture 8 Family Law
      Lecture 9 Crime and Punishment in the 19th Century
      Lecture 10 Conflict and Struggle: Labor and Social Legislation
      Lecture 11 Crime and Punishment in the 20th Century
      Lecture 12 The Rise of the Welfare-Regulatory State
      Lecture 13 Race Relations, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties in the 20th Century
      Lecture 14 Culture, Policy, and Law in the Late 20th Century
    • Argumentation by David Zarefsky4 - 112 1 Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric
      2 Underlying Assumptions of Argumentation
      3 Formal and Informal Argumentation
      4 History of Argumentation Studies
      5 Argument Analysis and Diagramming
      6 Complex Structures of Argument
      7 Case Construction—Requirements and Options
      8 Stasis—The Heart of the Controversy
      9 Attack and Defense I
      10 Attack and Defense II
      11 Language and Style in Argument
      12 Evaluating Evidence
      13 Reasoning from Parts to Whole
      14 Reasoning with Comparisons
      15 Establishing Correlations
      16 Moving from Cause to Effect
      17 Commonplaces and Arguments from Form
      18 Hybrid Patterns of Inference
      19 Validity and Fallacies I
      20 Validity and Fallacies II
      21 Arguments between Friends
      22 Arguments among Experts
      23 Public Argument and Democratic Life
      24 The Ends of Argumentation
    • Business Law: Contracts4.5 - 41 Professor Frank B. Cross, J.D. The University of Texas at Austin
      1 Foundations of Contract
      2 Offer and Acceptance
      3 Consideration, Capacity, and Form
      4 Geniuneness of Assent
      5 Performance and Discharge
      6 Remedies
      7 Third-Party Rights
      8 International Contracts
    • Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World4.5 - 155
    • The Modern Scholar: Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation4.45 - 213 Alan M. Dershowitz (Harvard Law School)
      Lecture 1 The Scopes Trial
      Lecture 2 The Case of Leo Frank
      Lecture 3 Leopold and Loeb
      Lecture 4 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
      Lecture 5 O.J. Simpson
      Lecture 6 Sacco and Vanzetti
      Lecture 7 Claus von Bülow
      Lecture 8 Bernhard Goetz
      Lecture 9 Mike Tyson
      Lecture 10 Roe v. Wade
      Lecture 11 Lawrence v. Texas
      Lecture 12 Bill Clinton
      Lecture 13 Bush v. Gore
      Lecture 14 Human Rights in the Face of Terrorism
    • The Modern Scholar: Philosophy and the Law: How Judges Reason3.65 - 34 Stephen Mathis
      Lecture 1 Legal Realism
      Lecture 2 Legal Positivism, Part I
      Lecture 3 Legal Positivism, Part II
      Lecture 4 Theoretical Disagreement in Law
      Lecture 5 Theories of Interpretation
      Lecture 6 Legal Conservatism
      Lecture 7 Judicial Activism
      Lecture 8 Law as Integrity
      Lecture 9 Common Law and Statutes
      Lecture 10 Constitutional Law
      Lecture 11 Dualist Democracy
      Lecture 12 Regime Perspective
      Lecture 13 Interpretive Synthesis
      Lecture 14 Judicial Politics versus Interpretation
    • The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution4.5 - 164
    • Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature3.9 - 16 Taught by Susan Sage Heinzelman The University of Texas at AustinPh.D., University of Western Ontario
      1. Literature as Law, Literature of Law
      2. The Old Testament as Law and Literature
      3. Revenge and Justice in Aeschylus’s Oresteia
      4. Community in Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus
      5. Ritual Order in Mystery and Morality Plays
      6. Chaucer’s Lawyers and Priests
      7. Inns of Court, Royal Courts, and the Stage
      8. Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (1596–97)
      9. Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (1603–04)
      10. Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (1609–11)
      11. An Epic Trial—Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667)
      12. Moll Flanders (1722); Beggar’s Opera (1727)
      13. Trial Tales of Parricide Mary Blandy (1752)
      14. Property and Self—Edgeworth, Burney, Austen
      15. Law as Fog—Dickens’s Bleak House (1852–53)
      16. Puritans Anew—The Scarlet Letter (1850)
      17. Slavery and Huckleberry Finn (1885)
      18. Victorian Limits—Tess and Jude the Obscure
      19. Susan Glaspell’s “Jury of Her Peers” (1917)
      20. Kafka and 20th-Century Anxiety about Law
      21. Lolita (1958) and the Art of Confessing
      22. “Witnessing” Slavery in Beloved (1987)
      23. Maternal Infanticide—Myth and Judgment
      24. Literature and Law—Past, Present, Future
    • The Modern Scholar: Law of the Land: A History of the Supreme Court4.15 - 46 Professor Kermit Hall (Utah State University)
      Lecture 1 The Judicial Power, Jurisdiction, and the Ages of the Supreme Court
      Lecture 2 The Establishment of Judicial Review: Marbury v. Madison (1803)
      Lecture 3 Privilege and Creative Destruction: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)
      Lecture 4 Equality, Slavery and the Supreme Court Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
      Lecture 5 Native American Sovereignty, Congress and the Constitution: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)
      Lecture 6 Liberty to Contract in the Industrial Age Lochner v. New York (1905)
      Lecture 7 Clear and Present Danger, the First Amendment and Total War: Abrams v. United States
      Lecture 8 A Switch in Time: West Coast v. Parrish
      Lecture 9 Japanese Internment and Total War Korematsu v. United States (1944)
      Lecture 10 Simple Justice Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955)
      Lecture 11 Women, Abortion, and Equality Roe v. Wade (1973)
      Lecture 12 Presidential Immunity and Watergate United States v. Nixon (1974)
      Lecture 13 Affirmative Action: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
      Lecture 14 The Ten Greatest Justices of the Supreme Court
    • The Art of Debate, Professor Jarrod Atchison, Ph.D., Wake Forest University4.5 - 19
    • The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice4.0 - 49
    • Business Law: Negligence and Torts4.6 - 29 1 Foundations of Torts and Negligence Introduction
      2 Negligence (continued)
      3 Intentional Interferences with Property
      4 Defamation
      5 Privacy and Emotional Distress
      6 Product Liability
      7 Business Torts
      8 Trademark
    • Winning Every Time4.2 - 35
  • Literature
    • A Day's Read4.4 - 18 Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D. Brown University
      1 Kafka, “A Country Doctor”
      2 Prévost, Manon Lescaut
      3 Flaubert, “A Simple Heart”
      4 Faulkner, “Pantaloon in Black”
      5 Borges, Short Story Selections
      6 Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
      7 O’Connor, Short Story Selections
      8 Lagerkvist, The Sybil
      9 Vesaas, The Ice Palace
      10 Calvino, Invisible Cities
      11 Duras, The Lover
      12 Coetzee, Disgrace
      13 Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
      14 Austen, Lady Susan
      15 Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes
      16 Meredith, Modern Love
      17 Huysmans, Against the Grain
      18 Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
      19 Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
      20 James, The Beast in the Jungle
      21 Joyce, “The Dead”
      22 Proust, The Lemoine Affair
      23 Woolf, “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street”
      24 McEwan, On Chesil Beach
      25 Cather, Alexander’s Bridge
      26 Lu Xun, Short Story Selections
      27 Chopin, The Awakening
      28 Melville, Billy Budd
      29 McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Café
      30 Chekhov, Short Story Selections
      31 Hersey, Hiroshima
      32 Satrapi, Persepolis
      33 Jataka Story Selections
      34 Munro, Short Story Selections
      35 Basho, The Narrow Road of the Interior
      36 Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    • The Modern Scholar: Bard of the Middle Ages - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer4.6 - 121
    • The Modern Scholar: Dante and His Divine Comedy: The Modern Scholar4.56 - 97
    • The Modern Scholar: Eternal Chalice: The Grail in Literature and Legend4.1 - 21
    • The Modern Scholar: From Here to Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature4.49 - 289
    • The Modern Scholar: Giants of French Literature: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus4.22 - 63
    • The Modern Scholar: The Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov4 - 70
    • he Modern Scholar: Greek Drama: Tragedy and Comedy4.35 - 52
    • Heaven in a Wild Flower: The British Romantic Poets4.4 - 5
    • In a Dark Wood: A Memoir4.0 - 21
    • The Modern Scholar: Masterpieces of Medieval Literature4.11 - 45
    • The Modern Scholar: Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: Approaching the Epic in Literature3.98 - 49
    • The Modern Scholar: Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature4.42 - 480 Professor Michael D.C. Drout (Wheaton College
      Lecture 1 What Is Fantasy Literature?: Genre, Canon, History
      Lecture 2 Origins of Modern Fantasy
      Lecture 3 Tolkien: Life and Languages
      Lecture 4 Tolkien: The Hobbit
      Lecture 5 Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring
      Lecture 6 Tolkien: The Two Towers
      Lecture 7 Tolkien: The Return of the King
      Lecture 8 Tolkien: The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and Other Posthumously Published Work
      Lecture 9 Tolkien: Criticism and Theory
      Lecture 10 Imitations and Reactions: Brooks and Donaldson
      Lecture 11 Worthy Inheritors: Le Guin and Holdstock
      Lecture 12 Children’s Fantasy
      Lecture 13 Arthurian Fantasy
      Lecture 14 Magical Realism and Conclusions
    • The Modern Scholar: Shakespeare: Ten Great Comedies3.5 - 22
    • The Modern Scholar: Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies4.1 - 87
    • The Modern Scholar: Stranger Than Fiction: The Art of Literary Journalism4.45 - 29
    • The Modern Scholar: The Giants of Irish Literature: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett3.75 - 28
    • The Modern Scholar: Literature of C. S. Lewis4.19 - 42
    • The Modern Scholar: Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry4.26 - 39
  • Math and Statistics
    • A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age4.2 - 88
    • Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World4.2 - 140
    • Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do2.9 - 63
    • Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear4.3 - 94 1 Two Ideas, Vast Implications
      2 Stop Sign Crime—The First Idea of Calculus—The Derivative
      3 Another Car, Another Crime—The Second Idea of Calculus—The Integral
      4 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
      5 Visualizing the Derivative—Slopes
      6 Derivatives the Easy Way—Symbol Pushing
      7 Abstracting the Derivative—Circles and Belts
      8 Circles, Pyramids, Cones, and Spheres
      9 Archimedes and the Tractrix
      10 The Integral and the Fundamental Theorem
      11 Abstracting the Integral—Pyramids and Dams
      12 Buffon’s Needle or p from Breadsticks
      13 Achilles, Tortoises, Limits, and Continuity
      14 Calculators and Approximations
      15 The Best of All Possible Worlds—Optimization
      16 Economics and Architecture
      17 Galileo, Newton, and Baseball
      18 Getting off the Line—Motion in Space
      19 Mountain Slopes and Tangent Planes
      20 Several Variables—Volumes Galore
      21 The Fundamental Theorem Extended
      22 Fields of Arrows—Differential Equations
      23 Owls, Rats, Waves, and Guitars
      24 Calculus Everywhere
    • Fractal time4.3 - 163
    • Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations4.2 - 10
    • How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking4.2 - 490
    • How to Lie with Statistics4.4 - 456
    • Linked4.3 - 124
    • Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear- The Teaching Company4 - 57 Professor Michael Starbird, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin
      1 Describing Data and Inferring Meaning
      2 Data and Distributions—Getting the Picture
      3 Inference—How Close? How Confident?
      4 Describing Dispersion or Measuring Spread
      5 Models of Distributions—Shapely Families
      6 The Bell Curve
      7 Correlation and Regression—Moving Together
      8 Probability—Workhorse for Inference
      9 Samples—The Few, The Chosen
      10 Hypothesis Testing—Innocent Until
      11 Confidence Intervals—How Close? How Sure?
      12 Design of Experiments—Thinking Ahead
      13 Law—You’re the Jury
      14 Democracy and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
      15 Election Problems and Engine Failure
      16 Sports—Who’s Best of All Time?
      17 Risk—War and Insurance
      18 Real Estate—Accounting for Value
      19 Misleading, Distorting, and Lying
      20 Social Science—Parsing Personalities
      21 Quack Medicine, Good Hospitals, and Dieting
      22 Economics—“One” Way to Find Fraud
      23 Science—Mendel’s Too-Good Peas
      24 Statistics Everywhere
    • Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data4.5 - 447
    • Numerati3.7 - 72
    • Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension3.7 - 38
    • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart3.9 - 158
    • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction4.3 - 292
    • Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life4.3 - 131
    • The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number4.3 - 166
    • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't4.4 - 1,138
    • The Modern Scholar: Mathematics Is Power4.02 - 44
    • You Are Probability: Surfing the Matrix4.5 -
    • Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea4.4 - 251
  • Mind-Brain
    • Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives4.2 - 57
    • Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life4.7 - 978
    • Brain Myths Exploded: Lessons from Neuroscience4.6 - 36
    • Brain rules4.5 - 932
    • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience4.1 - 66
    • Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century4.1 - 56
    • Embracing the Wide Sky3.9 - 61
    • Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind4.5 - 264
    • Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To4.2 - 70
    • Your Best Brain3.9 - 43 1 How Your Brain Works
      2 Your Unique Thinking Abilities
      3 Damaged Brain, Damaged Function
      4 Neuroplasticity: Your Flexible Brain
      5 How Your Brain Uses Memory
      6 The Advantages of Forgetting
      7 Creativity and Fluid Intelligence
      8 How Your Brain Uses Your Senses
      9 Seeing with Your Brain: Vision
      10 Feeling with Your Brain: Emotion
      11 How Emotion Drives Attention
      12 Pleasure and Your Brain
      13 What Makes You Happy
      14 How Your Brain Manages Stress
      15 Your Social Brain
      16 How Infant Brains Work
      17 How Adolescent Brains Work
      18 Sex and Your Brain
      19 How Your Brain Ages
      20 How Your Brain Copes with Grief
      21 How Self-Control Works
      22 The Power of Exercise
      23 Improving Your Memory
      24 Why Your Brain Needs Sleep
    • Making a Good Brain Great4.3 - 115
    • Mind Wide Open4.1 - 61
    • Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot4.2 - 51
    • My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey4.6 - 1,769
    • NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior4.8 - 43
    • Outsmart Yourself: Brain-Based Strategies to a Better You4.7 - 62 Peter M. Vishton, Ph.D. The College of William & Mary
      1 Take Control of Your Automatic Brain
      2 Beat Procrastination by Doing Nothing
      3 Train Yourself like a Dog
      4 Clean Your Kitchen, Improve Your Diet
      5 Eat Slow, Eat Small, Eat Smart
      6 The Myth of Multitasking
      7 Future You and Better Decisions
      8 How to Become an Expert on Anything
      9 Tune Up Your Brain with Meditation
      10 Take the Sleep Challenge
      11 Boost Insights and Creativity
      12 Enhance Performance with Imagery
      13 Overcome Your Aging Brain
      14 Grow Your Brain Out of Depression
      15 Hack Your Brain to Unlearn Fear
      16 Use Your Body to Alter Your Mind
      17 Suppress-Don't Repress-Anger
      18 How Little Things Cause Big Persuasion
      19 How Framing Changes Decisions
      20 How Language Changes Your Brain
      21 How Your Brain Falls in Love
      22 The Neuroscience of Lasting Love
      23 How Your Brain Creates Happiness
      24 Happy Brains Are Smart Brains
    • Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality4.0 - 31
    • Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions4.3 - 93
    • Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal4.4 - 52
    • The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God4.0 - 60
    • The Biology Of Belief4.6 - 1,386
    • The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science4.7 - 1,023
    • The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind4.5 - 696
    • The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives4.2 - 140
    • The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable4.7 - 20
    • Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To4.2 - 70
    • The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force4.4 - 146
    • The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition3.8 - 21
    • The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science4.4 - 68
    • The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind4.4 - 77
    • The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human4.3 - 151
    • Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance4.1 - 63
    • Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life4.2 - 93
    • Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills4 - 85 Professor Steven Novella M.D.
      1 The Necessity of Thinking about Thinking
      2 The Neuroscience of Belief
      3 Errors of Perception
      4 Flaws and Fabrications of Memory
      5 Pattern Recognition—Seeing What’s Not There
      6 Our Constructed Reality
      7 The Structure and Purpose of Argument
      8 Logic and Logical Fallacies
      9 Heuristics and Cognitive Biases
      10 Poor at Probability—Our Innate Innumeracy
      11 Toward Better Estimates of What’s Probable
      12 Culture and Mass Delusions
      13 Philosophy and Presuppositions of Science
      14 Science and the Supernatural
      15 Varieties and Quality of Scientific Evidence
      16 Great Scientific Blunders
      17 Science versus Pseudoscience
      18 The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience
      19 The Trap of Grand Conspiracy Thinking
      20 Denialism—Rejecting Science and History
      21 Marketing, Scams, and Urban Legends
      22 Science, Media, and Democracy
      23 Experts and Scientific Consensus
      24 Critical Thinking and Science in Your Life
  • Mind-Brain - AI
    • Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives4.1 - 26
    • How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed4.2 - 292
    • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence4.3 - 199
    • On Intelligence4.4 - 262
    • Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era4.1 - 324
    • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies4.0 - 406
    • The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth3.5 - 35
    • The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive4.4 - 75
  • Mind-Brain - Consciousness
    • Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are4.1 - 120
    • Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thought4.6 - 89
    • From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds3.8 - 96
    • From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness
    • Incognito the secret lives of the brain4.5 - 523
    • Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter3.7 - 55
    • Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness4.3 - 131
    • Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness3.9 - 42
    • Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain3.9 - 30
    • Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain4.3 - 94
    • The Ego Tunnel4.2 - 53
    • The Feeling of What Happens4.1 - 69
    • The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness4.5 - 23
    • The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning3.9 - 29
    • The Self Illusion: Why There Is No "You" Inside Your Head4.2 - 57
    • The Soul of An Octopus4.4 - 734
    • Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines by Professor Patrick Grim4.7 - 87
    • Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain4.2 - 122
  • Mind-Brain - Memory
    • 101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory4.4 - 12
    • Improve Your Memory Now: Tools & Exercises to Maximize Your Brain3.0 - 3
    • Memory and the Human Lifespan4.8 - 46 Professor Steve Joordens
      University of Toronto ScarboroughPh.D., University of Waterloo
      1 Memory Is a Party
      2 The Ancient “Art of Memory”
      3 Rote Memorization and a Science of Forgetting
      4 Sensory Memory—Brief Traces of the Past
      5 The Conveyor Belt of Working Memory
      6 Encoding—Our Gateway into Long-Term Memory
      7 Episodic and Semantic Long-Term Memory
      8 The Secret Passage—Implicit Memory
      9 From Procedural Memory to Habit
      10 When Memory Systems Battle—Habits vs. Goals
      11 Sleep and the Consolidation of Memories
      12 Infant and Early Childhood Memory
      13 Animal Cognition and Memory
      14 Mapping Memory in the Brain
      15 Neural Network Models
      16 Learning from Brain Damage and Amnesias
      17 The Many Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease
      18 That Powerful Glow of Warm Familiarity
      19 Déjà Vu and the Illusion of Memory
      20 Recovered Memories or False Memories?
      21 Mind the Gaps! Memory as Reconstruction
      22 How We Choose What's Important to Remember
      23 Aging, Memory, and Cognitive Transition
      24 The Monster at the End of the Book
    • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything4.3 - 1,237
    • This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)3.9 - 196
    • You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself4.4 - 405
  • Money - Investing
    • A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market4.3 - 148
    • Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently3.8 - 40
    • The Modern Scholar: Big Picture Investing3.77 - 44 Peter Navarro
      Lecture 1 An Introduction to Big Picture Investing.
      Lecture 2 The Three Golden Rules and Four Stages of Big Picture Investing
      Lecture 3 How the Corporate Earnings News and “Exogenous Shocks” Move the Markets
      Lecture 4 How Fiscal and Monetary Policy Move the Markets
      Lecture 5 How the Macroeconomic Calendar Moves the Market
      Lecture 6 How Stock Prices Move Over the Course of the Business and Stock Market Cycles and the Patterns of Sector Rotation
      Lecture 7 The Interest Rate Cycle and Yield Curve as Leading Indicators of Stock Price Movements
      Lecture 8 How—and How Not!—to Find Winning Stocks
      Lecture 9 How to Properly Screen Your Stock Market Picks Using Both Fundamental and Technical Analysis
      Lecture 10 Managing Your Portfolio and Its Many Risks
      Lecture 11 Managing Your Money: The Key to Long Term Investing
      Lecture 12 How to Buy and Sell Your Stocks Efficiently: The Art of Trade Execution
      Lecture 13 How to Manage Your Portfolio Over the Internet
      Lecture 14 A Day in the Life of a Big Picture Investor
    • Cracking the Millionaire Code3.2 - 76
    • I Will Teach You To Be Rich4.5 - 1,174
    • Investing in Real Estate4.3 - 113
    • The Millionaire Mind4.5 - 432
    • The Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio4.0 - 85
    • Tax-Free Wealth: How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes (Rich Dad Advisors)4.3 - 281
    • Rich Dad, Poor Dad4.6 - 6,658
    • Rule #14.4 - 390
    • Snowball effect4.4 - 536
    • The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order4.2 - 123
    • The Art of Investing: Lessons from History’s Greatest Traders4.6 - 35 John M. Longo, Ph.D. Rutgers University
      1 Investing Skill, Strategy, and Temperament
      2 Benjamin Graham and Value Investing
      3 Warren Buffett: Investing Forever
      4 Fisher and Price: The Growth-Stock Investors
      5 Harry Markowitz's Modern Portfolio Theory
      6 John Bogle, Index Mutual Fund Pioneer
      7 Small-Cap Stocks: More Risk, More Reward
      8 John Templeton, Global Treasure Hunter
      9 David Dreman, Contrarian Money Manager
      10 Peter Lynch: Invest in What You Know
      11 The Bond Kings: Bill Gross, Jeffrey Gundlach
      12 Sovereign Wealth Funds: Singapore
      13 The First Hedge Fund: A. W. Jones
      14 Activist Investors: Icahn, Loeb, Ackman
      15 The Big Shorts: Livermore, Chanos
      16 George Soros's $10 Billion Currency Play
      17 Bridgewater's Multi-Strategy Investing
      18 Paul Tudor Jones, Futures Market Seer
      19 James Simons: Money, Math, and Computers
      20 Distressed-Asset Investors: Tepper, Klarman
      21 Motorcycles, Gold, and Global Commodities
      22 Private Equity Innovators: KKR, Blackstone
      23 Four Women Who Moved Financial Markets
      24 Becoming a Great Investor
    • Automatic Millionaire Homeowner3.9 - 87
    • The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World3.8 - 86
    • The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Best Seller on Value Investing4.5 - 1,836
    • The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money4.5 - 39
    • The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How not to be your own worst enemy4.3 - 72
    • The Little Book That Beats the Market4.1 - 465
    • Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management4.2 - 247
    • Trading in the Zone - Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude4.5 - 544
  • Money - Other
    • Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism3.9 - 111
    • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man4.4 - 1,476
    • Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff4.5 - 56
    • Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation4.7 - 17
    • Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets2.4 - 28
    • Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity 3.7 - 72
    • The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It 3.9 - 212
    • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World 4.2 - 413
    • The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System4.4 - 728
    • The Old Money Book: How To Live Better While Spending Less: Secrets of America's Upper Class4.2 - 150
    • This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly3.7 - 271
  • Morality
    • An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics4.6 - 5
    • Consciousness and the Social Brain4.4 - 52
    • The Modern Scholar: Ethics: A History of Moral Thought4.48 - 331 Peter Kreeft (Boston College)
      Lecture 1 Being Good and Everything Else: An Introduction
      Lecture 2 Being Good and Being Traditional: Why Do We Call It “Ancient Wisdom”?
      Lecture 3 Being Good and Being Wise: Can Virtue Be Taught?
      Lecture 4 Being Good and Being Pious: Plato’s Euthyphro
      Lecture 5 Being Good and Being Happy: Plato’s Republic
      Lecture 6 Aristotle’s Ethics
      Lecture 7 Being Good and Being Successful: Aquinas on the Meaning of Life.
      Lecture 8 Being Good and Being Successful According to Machiavelli: Is It Either/Or?
      Lecture 9 Being Good and Being Evil: Is Humanity Naturally Good? (Hobbes vs. Rousseau)
      Lecture 10 Being Good and Being Scientific: Can Morality Be a Science? (Descartes, Hume, Mill)
      Lecture 11 Being Good and Being Fair: The Ethics of Kant
      Lecture 12 Being Good and Being Secular: Can an Atheist Be Ethical? The Ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre
      Lecture 13 Being Good in Eastern Ethics
      Lecture 14 Being Good and Surviving: Ethics and the Future of Western Civilization
    • In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance4.3 - 53
    • Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil4.1 - 121
    • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?4.5 - 507
    • Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics4.6 - 27
    • The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology4.3 - 221
    • The MORAL SENSE4.0 - 23
    • Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them4.2 - 120
    • Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny4.1 - 122
    • Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved4.1 - 26
    • Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong4.2 - 46
  • Music
    • Fundamentals of Classical Music3.92 - 50 Professor Richard Freedman (Haverford College)
      Lecture 1 Preliminary Thoughts and Encouragements
      Lecture 2 On Musical Timbre
      Lecture 3 Listening to Texture
      Lecture 4 Listening to Melody
      Lecture 5 Listening to Rhythm and Meter
      Lecture 6 Listening to Harmony
      Lecture 7 Kinds of Music
      Lecture 8 Concerning Musical Representation
      Lecture 9 Listening to Musical History
      Lecture 10 Listening to Musical Forms: Sectional
      Lecture 11 Listening to Musical Forms: Continuous
      Lecture 12 Hearing Minuets, and Other Dance Forms
      Lecture 13 Sonatas and Cycles
      Lecture 14 Fantasy and Fugue
    • The Modern Scholar: How to Listen to and Appreciate Jazz by Ted Buehrer5.0 -
    • Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds3.8 - 15
    • The Modern Scholar: Masterpieces of Western Music4.42 - 89
    • The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature3.5 - 54
  • Mythology
    • The Modern Scholar: Classical Mythology: The Greeks by Peter Meineck4.32 - 224
    • The Modern Scholar: Classical Mythology: The Romans4.13 - 52
    • Classical Mythology4.7 - 147 Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D. Whitman College
      1 Introduction
      2 What Is Myth?
      3 Why Is Myth?
      4 “First Was Chaos”
      5 The Reign of the Olympians
      6 Immortals and Mortals
      7 Demeter, Persephone, and the Conquest of Death
      8 The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Afterlife
      9 Apollo and Artemis
      10 Hermes and Dionysos
      11 Laughter-Loving Aphrodite
      12 Culture, Prehistory, and the "Great Goddess"
      13 Humans, Heroes, and Half-Gods
      14 Theseus and the "Test-and-Quest" Myth
      15 From Myth to History and Back Again
      16 The Greatest Hero of All
      17 The Trojan War
      18 The Terrible House of Atreus
      19 Blood Vengeance, Justice, and the Furies
      20 The Tragedies of King Oedipus
      21 Monstrous Females and Female Monsters
      22 Roman Founders, Roman Fables
      23 “Gods Are Useful”
      24 From Ovid to the Stars
    • Don't Know Much About Mythology3.9 - 70
    • Great Mythologies of the World3.5 - 14 Grant L. Voth, Ph.D. Monterey Peninsula College
      1 The Titans in Greek Mythology
      2 Complex Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera
      3 Gods and Humanity in Greek Thought
      4 Herakles and the Greek Hero
      5 Odysseus, Master of Schemes
      6 The Golden Fleece and the Hero's Return
      7 Romulus, Remus, and Rome's Origins
      8 Roman Heroes and Traitors
      9 The Mother Goddess in Rome and Beyond
      10 The Dagda's Harp and Other Celtic Myths
      11 Norse Tales of Odin and Thor
      12 Hammers, Rings, and Other Norse Magic
      13 The World's Oldest Myth: Gilgamesh
      14 The Babylonian Creation Story
      15 Chaos and Order in Egypt
      16 Horus, Osiris, and Ra
      17 Myths of the Pharaohs
      18 The Book of Job
      19 The Great Indian Epics
      20 The Bhagavad Gita
      21 Stories of the Buddha
      22 Persia's Book of Kings
      23 One Thousand and One Nights
      24 Tales of Flood and Fire
      25 The Beauty of African Mythology
      26 African Creation Stories
      27 African Religious Cosmology
      28 Tricksters of Africa
      29 Africa's Gods and Humanity
      30 Close Encounters with African Divinities
      31 Culture Heroes of African Myth
      32 The African Morality Tale
      33 The Dausi and African Epics
      34 The Epic of Bakaridjan Kone
      35 Death and the Afterlife in African Myth
      36 African Heroes in the Underworld
      37 Culture and Cosmos in Chinese Mythology
      38 Chinese Heroes, Kings, and Destroyers
      39 Peasant Folktales and Chinese Scholarship
      40 Spirits and Syncretism in Korean Myth
      41 Korea's Warring Kingdoms and Flying Dragons
      42 Japanese Tales of Purity and Defilement
      43 Gods, Rice, and the Japanese State
      44 Nature Gods and Tricksters of Polynesia
      45 Creation and Misbehavior in Micronesia
      46 Melanesian Myths of Life and Cannibalism
      47 Origins in Indonesia and the Philippines
      48 Aboriginal and Colonial Myths of Australia
      49 Nature in Native American Myth
      50 Inuit and Northern Forest Mythology
      51 Tales and Rituals of the Iroquois League
      52 Southeast Amerindian Origin Stories
      53 Mythology of the Plains Peoples
      54 Amerindian Tales from the Northwest
      55 The Navajo Emergence Myth
      56 Stories of the Pueblo
      57 Native American Tricksters
      58 The Maya and the Popol Vuh
      59 Aztec Myth Meets Hernan Cortes
      60 Inca Myth as Imperial Mandate
    • Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell4.5 - 528
    • The Modern Scholar: Religion Myth And Magic: The Anthropology Of Religion3.9 - 21
    • When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth4.4 - 29
  • Other
    • Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think4.6 - 785
    • All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten4.6 - 375
    • Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other4.0 - 242
    • American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics4.5 - 188
    • Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck4.2 - 203
    • Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life4.1 - 59
    • Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us3.4 - 26
    • Are Men Necessary?3.2 - 146
    • Autopilot: The Art and Science of Doing Nothing3.6 - 23
    • Bad Feminist: Essays4.2 - 432
    • Beating Back the Devil4.6 - 32
    • Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids3.8 - 156
    • The Modern Scholar: Behold the Mighty Dinosaur4.34 - 148
    • Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong4.1 - 13
    • lack Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do4.6 - 98
    • Bolinda Beginner Guides
      • Evolutionary Psychology: Bolinda Beginner Guides4.5 - 14
      • Planet Earth: Bolinda Beginner Guides3.67 - 6
    • Breakout Principle3.9 - 20
    • Car Talk: The Greatest Stories Ever Told4.2 - 27
    • Clay Shirky
      • Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age4.2 - 93
      • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations4.3 - 99
    • Contagious: Why Things Catch On4.5 - 783
    • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration4.7 - 1,080
    • Curiosity, Motivation and Achievement
    • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It4.4 - 69
    • Customs of the World: Using Cultural Intelligence to Adapt, Wherever You Are4.6 - 57 David Livermore, Ph.D. Cultural Intelligence Center
      1 Culture Matters
      2 Developing Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
      3 Identity—Individualist versus Collectivist
      4 Authority—Low versus High Power Distance
      5 Risk—Low versus High Uncertainty Avoidance
      6 Achievement—Cooperative versus Competitive
      7 Time—Punctuality versus Relationships
      8 Communication—Direct versus Indirect
      9 Lifestyle—Being versus Doing
      10 Rules—Particularist versus Universalist
      11 Expressiveness—Neutral versus Affective
      12 Social Norms—Tight versus Loose
      13 Roots of Cultural Differences
      14 Anglo Cultures
      15 Nordic European Cultures
      16 Germanic Cultures
      17 Eastern European/Central Asian Cultures
      18 Latin European Cultures
      19 Latin American Cultures
      20 Confucian Asian Cultures
      21 South Asian Cultures
      22 Sub-Saharan African Cultures
      23 Arab Cultures
      24 Cultural Intelligence for Life
    • Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Imag4.0 - 57
    • Discoverers4.6 - 180
    • Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson4.5 - 142
    • Dragon Hunter4.2 - 32
    • Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, 10th Anniversary Edition4.6 - 367
    • Eating the Dinosaur4.1 - 81
    • Ego: The Fall of the Twin Towers and the Rise of an Enlightened Humanity4.1 - 17
    • Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer4.0 - 128
    • Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth4.6 - 73
    • The Modern Scholar: Feminism and the Future of Women4.39 - 38
    • Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction4.3 - 123
    • Hitler's Scientists3.8 - 37
    • How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything3.9 - 45
    • How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)4.3 - 152
    • How Ideas Spread3.8 - 19 Jonah Berger, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
      1 Social Epidemics - Why Things Catch On
      2 The Basics of Consumer Psychology
      3 The Impact of Triggers on Consumer Choice
      4 Simple Rules to Make Ideas Stick
      5 The Social Influence of Conformity
      6 The Social Influence of Divergence
      7 Word of Mouth - Powerful and Persuasive
      8 The Social Currency of Shared Ideas
      9 Messages That Go Viral
      10 Social Networks - Channels of Influence
      11 Social Influencers - Myths and Science
      12 Tracking Results - Big Data, Little Data
    • How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci4.5 - 244
    • I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy4.2 - 23
    • If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice4.3 - 5
    • From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism4.8 - 97 Professor Richard Brettell Ph.D. - The University of Texas, Dallas
      1 The Realist and the Idealist
      2 Napoleon III’s Paris
      3 Baudelaire and the Definition of Modernism
      4 The Shock of the New
      5 The Painters of Modern Life
      6 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      7 Impressions in the Countryside
      8 Paris under Siege
      9 The First Exhibition
      10 Monet and Renoir in Argenteuil
      11 Cézanne and Pissarro in Pontoise
      12 Berthe Morisot
      13 The Third Exhibition
      14 Edgar Degas
      15 Gustave Caillebotte
      16 Mary Cassatt
      17 Manet’s Later Works
      18 Departures
      19 Paul Gauguin
      20 The Final Exhibition
      21 The Studio of the South—Van Gogh and Gauguin
      22 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
      23 The Nabis
      24 La Fin
    • In Pursuit of Elegance3.9 - 38
    • Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong4.9 - 18
    • Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto4.1 - 38
    • Last Words: A Memoir by George Carlin4.4 - 310
    • Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries4.2 - 153
    • Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You'll Ever Need4.3 - 60
    • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time4.5 - 1,010
    • Loud and Clear4.3 - 20
    • Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds1.0 -
    • On Bullshit3.8 - 405
    • Very Short Introductions
      • Freud A Very Short Introduction4.1 - 17
      • Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction by Ian J. Deary4.4 - 23
      • Jung A Very Short Introduction4.6 - 76
      • Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction2.9 - 11
      • Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction3.8 - 18
      • Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction3.7 - 6
      • Autism: A Very Short Introduction4.1 - 13
      • Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction4.5 - 24
      • Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction3.6 - 13
      • Druids: A Very Short Introduction4.4 - 19
      • Ethics: A Very Short Introduction3.4 - 17
      • Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction3.6 - 16
      • Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction3.7 - 5
      • Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction3.0 - 4
      • The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction4.5 - 13
      • The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction3.4 - 10
      • The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction4.4 - 63
      • Leadership: A Very Short Introduction5.0 - 4
      • The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction5.0 - 6
      • North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction3.8 - 13
      • The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction3.9 - 8
      • Relativity: A Very Short Introduction4.1 - 19
      • Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction4.0 - 6
      • Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction5.0 -
      • Socrates: A Very Short Introduction3.3 - 14
      • Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction4.6 - 17
      • Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction4.1 - 9
      • The Apocryphal Gospels: A Very Short Introduction4.5 - 5
      • The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction4.2 - 23
      • The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction3.7 - 12
      • The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction3.2 - 11
      • Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction5.0 - 4
      • The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction4.3 - 4
    • Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization3.7 - 73
    • Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber4.1 - 8
    • Progress Paradox3.7 - 92
    • Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art4.5 - 149
    • Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live3.6 - 21
    • REPLY ALL...and Other Ways to Tank Your Career: A Guide to Workplace Etiquett3.9 - 14
    • Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back4.3 - 64
    • Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody3.9 - 39
    • Salt A World History4.2 - 651
    • Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction3.7 - 100
    • Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds5.0 - 4
    • Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex3.0 - 40
    • Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World4.0 - 64
    • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You3.7 - 106
    • Spanish Phase 1, Unit 01-05: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Program4.2 - 11
    • Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things4.5 - 268
    • Talk to the Hand3.0 - 57
    • The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It3.4 - 141
    • The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man4.6 - 447
    • The Art of Procrastination4.4 - 94
    • The Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture4.4 - 26
    • The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo4.4 - 696
    • The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry3.8 - 41
    • The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them4.2 - 21
    • The Design of Everyday Things4.4 - 568
    • The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness4.6 - 121
    • The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do3.7 - 43
    • The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date3.8 - 75
    • The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset4.5 - 12 Scott E. Page, Ph.D. University of Michigan
      1 Individual Diversity and Collective Performance
      2 Why Now? The Rise of Diversity
      3 Diversity Squared
      4 The Wisdom of Crowds
      5 The Diversity Prediction Theorem Times Three
      6 The Weighting Is the Hardest Part
      7 Foxes and Hedgehogs—Can I Be Diverse?
      8 Fermi’s Barbers—Estimating and Predicting
      9 Problem Solving
      10 Diverse Perspectives
      11 Heuristics and the Adjacent Possible
      12 Diversity Trumps Ability
      13 Digging Holes and Splicing Genes
      14 Ability and Diversity
      15 Combining and Recombining Heuristics
      16 Beware of False Prophets—No Free Lunch
      17 Crowdsourcing and the Limits of Diversity
      18 Experimentation, Variation, and Six Sigma
      19 Diversity and Robustness
      20 Inescapable Benefits of Diversity
      21 The Historical Value of Diversity
      22 Homophily, Incentives, and Groupthink
      23 The Problem of Diverse Preferences
      24 The Team. The Team. The Team.
    • The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny3.7 - 94
    • The Immortal Game: A History of Chess4.5 - 98
    • The Last Lecture4.7 - 2,939
    • The Like Switch4.4 - 188
    • The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels4.7 - 429
    • The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less4.1 - 341
    • The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter4.4 - 60
    • The Rise Of The Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community And Everyday Life4.1 - 115
    • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains4.3 - 571
    • The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America4.5 - 36
    • The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century4.4 - 34
    • The Weather Makers4.2 - 134
    • 36 Big Ideas - Great Courses2.9 - 10 1 The Big Bang
      2 Astronomy
      3 Time’s Arrow
      4 Time Travel
      5 String Theory, Membranes, and the Multiverse
      6 Three Faces of Information
      7 The Human Asteroid
      8 What Is the Meaning of Life?
      9 Psychology and Free Will
      10 What Is Existentialism?
      11 Infancy Gospels
      12 The Problem of Pseudonymity
      13 Cosmic Hub at Stonehenge
      14 Washington—Failures and Real Accomplishments
      15 The Black Death
      16 Gutenberg’s Print Revolution
      17 Mysteries of the Industrial Revolution
      18 A Renaissance in the Kitchen
      19 The Khipu
      20 Japanese—The World’s Most Complex Script
      21 The Monomyths of Rank and Campbell
      22 Why Texting Is Misunderstood
      23 The Hard Problem of Consciousness
      24 Our Changing Brain
      25 The Strange World of Dreams
      26 What Babies Know
      27 Synesthesia—Tasting Color and Seeing Sound
      28 This Is Your Brain on Metaphors
      29 The Ancient Art of Memory
      30 The Pleasures and Pains of “Maybe”
      31 Stress and Growth—Echoes from the Womb
      32 Frontiers of Cancer Treatment
      33 Harvey, Discoverer of Circulation
      34 The Evolution of Behavior
      35 When Incentives Backfire
      36 How Emotions Are Intelligent
    • Art of Teaching: Best Practices from a Master Educator4.3 - 75 Patrick N. Allitt, Ph.D. Emory University
      1 Successful Teaching
      2 The Broad Range of Learners
      3 Starting Out Right
      4 The Teacher's Persona
      5 Planning the Work
      6 The Teacher-Student Relationship
      7 Dynamic Lecturing
      8 Teaching with PowerPoint
      9 Demonstrations, Old and New
      10 Teaching the Critical Skills
      11 Engaging with Discussion, Part 1
      12 Engaging with Discussion, Part 2
      13 Cogent Thinking and Effective Writing
      14 Teaching Revision and Editing
      15 Coaching Students on Presentation Skills
      16 One-on-One Teaching
      17 The Learner's Perspective
      18 Exams, Evaluation, and Feedback
      19 Maintaining Your Enthusiasm
      20 Managing the Challenges of Teaching
      21 Creativity and Innovation
      22 Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths
      23 The Anatomy of a Great Teacher
      24 Teaching and Civilization
    • The Modern Scholar: Understanding Movies: The Art and History of Film4.07 - 127 Professor Raphael Shargel (Providence College)
      Lecture 1 The Origins of Cinema and the Grammar of Film
      Lecture 2 Film Imagery and the Theory of Montage
      Lecture 3 Storytelling in the 1930s and Stagecoach
      Lecture 4 Citizen Kane: An American Masterpiece
      Lecture 5 World War II and the Cinema of Community: Casablanca; Now, Voyager; and It’s a Wonderful Life
      Lecture 6 Noir and Neorealism: Bicycle Thieves and On the Waterfront
      Lecture 7 Love and the Mirror of Death: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
      Lecture 8 Widescreen: The World Writ Large and Intimate: The Apartment
      Lecture 9 The New Wave in France: The 400 Blows and Week-end
      Lecture 10 The American New Wave I: Politics and Family: The Godfather
      Lecture 11 The American New Wave II: The Social Canvas: Nashville
      Lecture 12 The Rule of the Blockbuster: Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark
      Lecture 13 Gender, Race, and the Varieties of Cinematic Experience: Vagabond, Do the Right Thing, and Lone Star
      Lecture 14 The Contemporary Maverick: Goodfellas, Million Dollar Baby, Persepolis
    • Uranium4.2 - 68
    • Waiter Rant4.0 - 630
    • What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night4.0 - 54
    • What Technology Wants4.1 - 104
    • When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man4.6 - 312
    • Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril4.3 - 83
  • Philosophy
    • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy4.5 - 416
    • The Art of Being4.2 - 34
    • Bertrand Russel
      • Bertrand Russel - Religion and science4.1 - 29
      • A History of Western Philosophy4.5 - 259
      • What I Believe by Bertrand Russell4.4 - 8
      • The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell4.2 - 173
      • The Conquest of Happiness4.3 - 118
    • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past3.8 - 231
    • Communist Manifesto
    • The Modern Scholar: Discovering the Philosopher in You: The Big Questons in Philosophy3.96 - 157
    • The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance4.4 - 39
    • Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus To Pornography3.6 - 26
    • Investigating Wittgenstein5.0 -
    • 'House' and Philosophy: Everybody Lies4.3 - 48
    • Massimo Pigliucci
      • How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life4.3 - 63
      • Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk3.7 - 47
    • Meditations4.4 - 1,855
    • Natural Law and Human Nature3.7 - 70
    • Beyond Good and Evil- Nietzsche3.8 - 386
    • No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life4.3 - 84 Robert C. Solomon, Ph.D.
      The University of Texas at Austin
      1 What Is Existentialism?
      2 Albert Camus—The Stranger, Part I
      3 Camus—The Stranger, Part II
      4 Camus—The Myth of Sisyphus
      5 Camus—The Plague and The Fall
      6 Camus—The Fall, Part II
      7 Søren Kierkegaard—“On Becoming a Christian”
      8 Kierkegaard on Subjective Truth
      9 Kierkegaard's Existential Dialectic
      10 Friedrich Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God
      11 Nietzsche, the “Immoralist”
      12 Nietzsche on Freedom, Fate, and Responsibility
      13 Nietzsche—The Übermensch and the Will to Power
      14 Three Grand Inquisitors—Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse
      15 Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology
      16 Heidegger on the World and the Self
      17 Heidegger on “Authenticity”
      18 Jean-Paul Sartre at War
      19 Sartre on Emotions and Responsibility
      20 Sartres Phenomenology
      21 Sartre on “Bad Faith”
      22 Sartre’s Being-for-Others and No Exit
      23 Sartre on Sex and Love
      24 From Existentialism to Postmodernism What is postmodernism?
    • Objectivism4.4 - 118
    • Paul Strathern
      • Aristotle in 90 Minutes3.2 - 16
      • Descartes in 90 Minutes3.0 - 11
      • Hume in 90 Minutes2.4 - 6
      • Kafka in 90 Minutes5.0 - 4
      • Kant in 90 Minutes3.2 - 17
      • Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes2.7 - 8
      • Marx in 90 Minutes2.6 - 9
      • Nietzsche in 90 Minutes2.6 - 22
      • Rousseau in 90 Minutes3.9 - 5
      • Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes4.0 - 10
      • Spinoza in 90 Minutes3.6 - 10
      • Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes2.7 - 13
      • Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes3.1 - 9
    • A New Earth - Philosophers Notes Summary4.0 - 21
    • Philosophy as a Guide to Living4.2 - 52 Course No. 4244 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
      Taught by Stephen A. Erickson
      Pomona College
      Ph.D., Yale University
      1. The Axial Model
      2. Kant’s Hopeful Program
      3. The Kantian Legacy
      4. Kant and the Romantic Reaction
      5. Hegel on the Human Spirit
      6. Hegel on State and Society
      7. Hegel on Selfhood and Human Identity
      8. Schopenhauer’s Pessimism
      9. Schopenhauer’s Remedies
      10. Alienation in Marx
      11. Marx’s Utopian Hope
      12. Kierkegaard’s Crises
      13. Kierkegaard’s Passion
      14. Why God Died—Nietzsche’s Claim
      15. Nietzsche’s Dream
      16. Freud’s Nightmare
      17. Freud on Our Origins
      18. Psychoanalytic Visions in and after Freud
      19. Heidegger on the Meaning of Meaning
      20. Heidegger on Technology’s Threat
      21. Heidegger’s Politics and Legacy
      22. The Human Situation—Sartre and Camus
      23. Power and Reason—Foucault and Habermas
      24. Today’s Provocative Landscape—Thresholding
    • The Modern Scholar: Philosophy of Mind4.07 - 90
    • Philosophy of Science4.2 - 82 Course No. 4100 (36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
      Taught by Jeffrey L. Kasser
      Colorado State University
      Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      Course Lecture Titles
      1. Science and Philosophy
      2. Popper and the Problem of Demarcation
      3. Further Thoughts on Demarcation
      4. Einstein, Measurement, and Meaning
      5. Classical Empiricism
      6. Logical Positivism and Verifiability
      7. Logical Positivism, Science, and Meaning
      8. Holism
      9. Discovery and Justification
      10. Induction as Illegitimate
      11. Some Solutions and a New Riddle
      12. Instances and Consequences
      13. Kuhn and the Challenge of History
      14. Revolutions and Rationality
      15. Assessment of Kuhn
      16. For and Against Method
      17. Sociology, Postmodernism, and Science Wars
      18. (How) Does Science Explain?
      19. Putting the Cause Back in "Because"
      20. Probability, Pragmatics, and Unification
      21. Laws and Regularities
      22. Laws and Necessity
      23. Reduction and Progress
      24. Reduction and Physicalism
      25. New Views of Meaning and Reference
      26. Scientific Realism
      27. Success, Experience, and Explanation
      28. Realism and Naturalism
      29. Values and Objectivity
      30. Probability
      31. Bayesianism
      32. Problems with Bayesianism
      33. Entropy and Explanation
      34. Species and Reality
      35. The Elimination of Persons?
      36. Philosophy and Science
    • The Modern Scholar: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas4.6 - 470
    • The Modern Scholar: Plato and Aristotle: The Genesis of Western Thought3.89 - 87
    • Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away4.2 - 164
    • Plato's Republic by David Roochnik, Ph.D. Boston University4.7 - 47
    • Plato-Republic
    • Practical Philosophy: The Greco-Roman Moralists4.6 - 50 Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D. Emory University
      1 The World of the Greco-Roman Moralists
      2 How Empire Changed Philosophy
      3 The Great Schools and Their Battles
      4 Dominant Themes and Metaphors
      5 The Ideal Philosopher—A Composite Portrait
      6 The Charlatan—Philosophy Betrayed
      7 Philosophy Satirized—The Comic Lucian
      8 Cicero—The Philosopher as Politician
      9 Seneca—Philosopher as Court Advisor
      10 Good Roman Advice—Cicero and Seneca
      11 Musonius Rufus—The Roman Socrates
      12 Dio Chrysostom—The Wandering Rhetorician
      13 Dio Chrysostom—Preaching Peace and Piety
      14 Epictetus—Philosopher as School Teacher
      15 Epictetus—The Stotic Path to Virtue
      16 Epictetus—The Messenger of Zeus
      17 Marcus Aurelius—Meditations of the King
      18 Jews Thinking Like Greeks
      19 Philo—Judaism as Greek Philosophy
      20 Plutarch—Biography as Moral Instruction
      21 Plutarch and Philosophical Religion
      22 Plutarch on Virtue and Educating Children
      23 Plutarch—Envy, Anger, and Talking Too Much
      24 The Missing Page in Philosophy’s Story
    • Questions of Value, Professor Patrick Grim, Ph.D.4.2 - 77
    • Sacrifice (Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory)3.9 - 6
    • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living4.7 - 502
    • The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters4.3 - 241
    • The Giants of Philosophy
      • David Hume: The Giants of Philosophy4.5 - 2
      • Aristotle4.6 - 3
      • Immanuel Kant4.0 - 8
      • Jean-Paul Sartre4.2 - 4
      • Plato4.5 - 2
      • Soren Kierkegaard4.0 - 2
    • Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions3.8 - 55 Professor Robert C. Solomon, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin
      1 Emotions as Engagements with the World
      2 The Wrath of Achilles
      3 It’s Good to Be Afraid
      4 Lessons of Love—Plato’s Symposium
      5 We Are Not Alone—Compassion and Empathy
      6 Noble? or Deadly Sin? Pride and Shame
      7 Nasty—Iago’s Envy, Othello’s Jealousy
      8 Nastier—Resentment and Vengeance
      9 A Death in the Family—The Logic of Grief
      10 James and the Bear—Emotions and Feelings
      11 Freud’s Catharsis—the Hydraulic Model
      12 Are Emotions “in” the Mind?
      13 How Emotions Are Intelligent
      14 Emotions as Judgments
      15 Beyond Boohoo and Hooray
      16 Emotions Are Rational
      17 Emotions and Responsibility
      18 Emotions in Ethics
      19 Emotions and the Self
      20 What Is Emotional Experience?
      21 Emotions across Cultures—Universals
      22 Emotions across Cultures—Differences
      23 Laughter and Music
      24 Happiness and Spirituality
    • The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room4.7 - 40 Patrick Grim, Ph.D. State University of New York, Stony Brook
      1 How We Think and How to Think Better
      2 Cool Rationality and Hot Thought
      3 The Strategy of Visualization
      4 Visualizing Concepts and Propositions
      5 The Power of Thought Experiments
      6 Thinking like Aristotle
      7 Ironclad, Airtight Validity
      8 Thinking outside the Box
      9 The Flow of Argument
      10 Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
      11 Why We Make Misteaks
      12 Rational Discussion in a Polarized Context
      13 Rhetoric versus Rationality
      14 Bogus Arguments and How to Defuse Them
      15 The Great Debate
      16 Outwitting the Advertiser
      17 Putting a Spin on Statistics
      18 Poker, Probability, and Everyday Life
      19 Decisions, Decisions
      20 Thinking Scientifically
      21 Put It to the Test—Beautiful Experiments
      22 Game Theory and Beyond
      23 Thinking with Models
      24 Lessons from the Great Thinkers
    • The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. Mencken3.7 - 34
    • The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters4.2 - 110
    • The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers4.4 - 306
    • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety4.5 - 420
    • Thomas Cathcart
      • Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington3.6 - 61
      • Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between4.0 - 82
      • Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes4.4 - 385
    • Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now4.5 - 284
    • Tools of Thinking3.4 - 51 Taught by James Hall
      University of Richmond
      Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      1. What Are “Tools of Thinking”?
      2. Which Tools of Thinking Are Basic?
      3. Platonic Intuition, Memory, and Reason
      4. Intuition, Memory, and Reason—Problems
      5. Sense Experience—A More Modern Take
      6. Observation and Immediate Inferences
      7. Further Immediate Inferences
      8. Categorical Syllogisms
      9. Ancient Logic in Modern Dress
      10. Systematic Doubt and Rational Certainty
      11. The Limits of Sense Experience
      12. Inferences Demand Relevant Evidence
      13. Proper Inferences Avoid Equivocation
      14. Induction Is Slippery but Unavoidable
      15. The Scientific Revolution
      16. Hypotheses and Experiments—A First Look
      17. How Empirical Is Modern Empiricism?
      18. Hypotheses and Experiments — A Closer Look
      19. “Normal Science” at Mid-Century
      20. Modern Logic—Truth Tables
      21. Modern Logic—Sentential Arguments
      22. Modern Logic—Predicate Arguments
      23. Postmodern and New-Age Problems
      24. Rational Empiricism in the 21st Century
    • Virtue of Selfishness4.3 - 312
    • Why Businessmen Need Philosophy4.1 - 14
    • Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance4.3 - 1,604
  • Politics
    • American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good4.4 - 43
    • Anti-Intellectualism in American Life4.4 - 110
    • Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
      • The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics4.6 - 209
      • The Predictioneer's Game4.0 - 102
    • Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drug4.8 - 920
    • Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau4.2 - 1,650
    • Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization4.3 - 106
    • Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach3.8 - 19
    • Crystallizing Public Opinion4.2 - 54
    • Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science3.8 - 48
    • Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter, Second Edition4.2 - 12
    • The Federalist Papers
    • George Friedman
      • America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies4.2 - 112
      • The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century4.2 - 569
      • The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going4.2 - 158
    • Health Care Are We Getting Our Money's WorthLecture by Ceci Connolly
      Washington Post national staff writer Ceci Connolly has written for the newspaper since 1997 and is currently focusing on health care in America. The title of her lecture is Health Care: Are We Getting Our Money's Worth?
    • Israel and Palestine: Is Peace Possible?by Philip Wilcox
      Former Ambassador Philip C. Wilcox, in this lecture, offered a solution to the
      Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is not Wilcox’s solution, but one that was proposed by a group of Palestinians and Israelis.
      Before introducing this proposal, Wilcox gave some background and his assessments of the situation. He said peace between Palestine and Israel is important to the United States, and it is imperative that we return to active diplomacy there.
      Wilcox said some believe there are only two solutions to the conflict. One is realistic and one is supernatural. If Jesus, Mohammed and Moses appeared and commanded the people of the area to make peace, it would happen. That, he said, is the realistic solution. If the people made peace on their own, it would be miraculous.
    • Political Philosophy by Jason Brennan4.5 - 10
    • Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke4.0 - 22
    • No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State4.6 - 910
    • Of Paradise and Power : America and Europe3.8 - 114
    • Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us4.2 - 49
    • Common Sense, The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine4.0 - 4
    • Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy4.7 - 215
    • The Modern Scholar: Political Theory: The Classic Texts and Their Continuing Relevance4.15 - 78 Professor Joshua Kaplan (University of Notre Dame)
      Lecture 1 How Political Theory Means
      Lecture 2 Plato 1
      Lecture 3 Plato 2—The Republic
      Lecture 4 Thucydides 1
      Lecture 5 Thucydides 2
      Lecture 6 Aristotle
      Lecture 7 Machiavelli
      Lecture 8 Thomas Hobbes—Leviathan
      Lecture 9 Jean-Jacques Rousseau—On the Social Contract
      Lecture 10 The Federalist Papers
      Lecture 11 Alexis de Tocqueville 1
      Lecture 12 Alexis de Tocqueville 2
      Lecture 13 Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto
      Lecture 14 Game Theory
    • Revolution for Dummies4.4 - 102
    • The Modern Scholar: Rules of the Game: How Government Works and Why it Sometimes Doesn't5.0 - Magness, Phillip W.
      Lecture 1. What are the rules of the game and why do they matter?
      Lecture 2. In defense of the spoils system
      Lecture 3. Half-breeds, stalwarts, mugwumps, and assassins
      Lecture 4. Between public interests and private interest groups
      Lecture 5. How whiskey captured the Pure Food movement
      Lecture 6. Federalism : two sovereign governments for the price of one
      Lecture 7. Bureaucracy and its many dysfunctions
      Lecture 8. Administrative policymaking : who makes the laws?
      Lecture 9. Congress versus the bureaucracy
      Lecture 10. Presidential management, presidential frustration
      Lecture 11. The privatization movement : falling in love with big business
      Lecture 12. GSEs and other strange hybrids
      Lecture 13. Private governance : taking the government out of governance
      Lecture 14. Putting it all together : the financial crisis case study.
    • Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe4.5 - 7
    • The Authoritarians4.4 - 26
    • The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time3.8 - 215
    • The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America4.3 - 417
    • The Liberal's Guide to Conservatives4.7 - 18
    • The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas4.5 - 40 Lawrence Cahoone, Ph.D. College of the Holy Cross
      1 Origins and Conflicts of Modern Politics
      2 Ancient Republics, Empires, Fiefdoms
      3 Machiavelli’s New Order
      4 Hobbes, Natural Law, the Social Contract
      5 Locke on Limited Government and Toleration
      6 Rousseau’s Republican Community
      7 Kant’s Ethics of Duty and Natural Rights
      8 Smith and the Market Revolution
      9 Montesquieu and the American Founding
      10 Debating the French Revolution
      11 Legacies of the Revolution—Right to Left
      12 Nationalism and a People’s War
      13 Civil Society—Constant, Hegel, Tocqueville
      14 Mill on Liberty and Utility
      15 Marx’s Critique of Capitalism
      16 Modern vs. Traditional Society
      17 Progressivism and New Liberalism
      18 Fleeing Liberalism—Varieties of Socialism
      19 Fleeing Liberalism—Fascism and Carl Schmitt
      20 Totalitarianism and Total War
      21 Conservative or Neoliberal—Oakeshott, Hayek
      22 Reviving the Public Realm—Hannah Arendt
      23 Philosophy vs. Politics—Strauss and Friends
      24 Marcuse and the New Left
      25 Rawls’s A Theory of Justice
      26 Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, Libertarianism
      27 What about Community?
      28 Walzer on Everything Money Shouldn’t Buy
      29 Identity Politics—Feminism
      30 Identity Politics—Multiculturalism
      31 The Politics of Nature—Environmentalism
      32 Postmodernism, Truth, and Power
      33 Habermas—Democracy as Communication
      34 The End of History? Clash of Civilizations?
      35 Just Wars? The Problem of Dirty Hands
      36 Why Political Philosophy Matters Do we need more government or less?
    • The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age3.7 - 26
    • The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution4.6 - 206
    • The Political Brain4.3 - 89
    • The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics4.3 - 76
    • The Post-American World4.3 - 603
    • The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World4.4 - 181
    • The Surveillance State: Big Data, Freedom, and You4.6 - 27
    • The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor4.2 - 68
    • The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy3.5 - 54
    • This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists, and Cypherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks are Freeing the World's Information by Greenberg, Andy4.6 - 5
    • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power4.4 - 1,471
    • Ultimate Punishment4.1 - 35
    • The Modern Scholar: Visions of Utopia: Philosophy and the Perfect Society3.98 - 41 Professor Fred E. Baumann - Kenyon College
      Lecture 1 Introduction to Visions of Utopia
      Lecture 2 The Republic: Part 1
      Lecture 3 The Republic: Part 2
      Lecture 4 The Republic: Part 3
      Lecture 5 Utopia: Part 1
      Lecture 6 Utopia: Part 2
      Lecture 7 New Atlantis
      Lecture 8 The Social Contract: Part 1
      Lecture 9 The Social Contract: Part 2
      Lecture 10 Rousseau in Practice: Jacobins and Communal Utopians
      Lecture 11 Marx: Part 1
      Lecture 12 Marx: Part 2
      Lecture 13 Walden Two
      Lecture 14 Conclusion
  • Politics - Left
    • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America4.3 - 762
    • Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy4.0 - 188
    • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race4.4 - 348
    • Don't Think of an Elephant4.4 - 249
    • House of Bush, House of Saudi4.5 - 137
    • Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back4.1 - 62
    • Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming4.5 - 354
    • New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer4.0 - 238
    • Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals3.7 - 1,013
    • Assault on Reason-Al Gore4.3 - 383
    • Audacity of Hope4.1 - 1,292
    • The Republican Noise Machine4.1 - 85
    • Who Let the Dogs4.6 - 27
  • Politics - Libertarianism
    • 63 documnets the government doesn't want you to read4.1 - 299
    • A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity4.3 - 64
    • A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society4.7 - 137
    • Authoritarian Sociopathy: Toward a Renegade Psychological Experiment3.5 - 4
    • By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission4.5 - 158
    • Cypherpunks4.3 - 49
    • Defending the Undefendable4.0 - 47
    • Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards3.9 - 61
    • End the Fed4.6 - 705
    • Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality4.5 - 155
    • For a New Libert4.6 - 123
    • Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment4.1 - 37
    • Give Me a Break4.3 - 213
    • Hayek: His Contribution to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time4.7 - 3
    • In Defense of Selfishness: Why the Code of Self-Sacrifice is Unjust and Destructive4.3 - 49
    • Jeffrey Tucker
      • Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World4.6 - 15
      • It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes
    • Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World4.2 - 135
    • Libertarianism: A Primer4.4 - 45
    • Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know4.4 - 22
    • Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto4.8 - 3,333
    • Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom4.5 - 582
    • No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed4.7 - 339
    • Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century4.5 - 133
    • On Liberty by John Stuart Mill4.5 - 217
    • Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion4.6 - 161
    • Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces4.6 - 409
    • Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis4.5 - 81
    • The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce3.5 - 25
    • The Case Against the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard4.3 - 109
    • The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)4.6 - 122
    • The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy's Only Hope4.5 - 199
    • The Law by Frederic Bastiat4.7 - 688
    • The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom4.4 - 63
    • The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul4.5 - 1,677
    • The Road to Serfdom4.5 - 996
    • Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom4.5 - 276
    • Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play4.1 - 46
  • Politics - Religion
    • American Theocracy4.1 - 237
    • One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America4.8 - 54
    • The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam4.3 - 933
    • What Went Wrong The Clash Between Islam and Modernity4.0 - 308
  • Politics - Right
    • Abduction: How Liberalism Steals Our Children's Hearts and Minds4.7 - 30
    • Against All Enemies4.2 - 470
    • America Alone4.6 - 774
    • Ann Coulter
      • Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America4.3 - 570
      • Godless - The Church of Liberalism3.8 - 995
      • Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America4.0 - 393
      • High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton4.1 - 124
      • How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter3.6 - 841
      • If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans3.5 - 415
      • Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama4.6 - 631
      • Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right3.5 - 835
      • Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism3.6 - 1,315
    • Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government4.3 - 695
    • Ben Shapiro - Bullies How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
    • Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education4.6 - 497
    • Do As I Say (Not As I Do)4.0 - 340
    • Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered3.7 - 6
    • Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them3.8 - 95
    • Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party4.7 - 1,591
    • Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning4.4 - 845
    • Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future4.0 - 67
    • Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism4.7 - 1,171
    • SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police4.6 - 626
    • Stand for Something4.2 - 28
    • Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism4.8 - 54
    • The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House4.6 - 2,510
    • The Conservative Tradition4.6 - 71 Patrick N. Allitt, Ph.D. Emory University
      1 What Is Conservatism?
      2 The Glorious Revolution and Its Heritage
      3 Burke, Tradition, and the French Revolution
      4 Pitt and the Wars of the French Revolution
      5 The American Revolution
      6 The Federalists
      7 Conservatives in the American South
      8 Northern Antebellum Conservatism
      9 Opposing the Great Reform Act
      10 Robert Peel and the Conservative Revival
      11 Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Mill
      12 Conservatism and the American Civil War
      13 Industrialists, Mugwumps, Traditionalists
      14 Disraeli and Tory Imperialism
      15 The Rise of Labour and the House of Lords
      16 The Idea of Anglo-Saxon Supremacy
      17 No Vote for Women
      18 American Conservatives after World War I
      19 Opposing the New Deal
      20 The Tory Party from Bonar Law to Churchill
      21 The Reaction to Labour and Nationalization
      22 American Anticommunism and McCarthyism
      23 American Traditionalists
      24 Libertarianism
      25 National Review and Barry Goldwater
      26 Upheavals of the 1960s
      27 The Neoconservatives
      28 The Neoconservatives and Foreign Policy
      29 Christian Conservatives and the New Right
      30 Margaret Thatcher's Counterrevolution
      31 Monarchs and Prime Ministers
      32 Reagan Triumphant
      33 The End of the Cold War
      34 Paleoconservatives and Theoconservatives
      35 Culture Wars
      36 Unresolved Paradoxes This final lecture summarizes the issues discussed
    • The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left4.3 - 120
    • The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture4.1 - 305
    • The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas4.3 - 231
  • Prehistory and Anthropology
    • Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans4.2 - 148
    • Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human4.5 - 18
    • Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live3.9 - 74
    • Peoples and Cultures of the World4 - 49 Professor Edward Fischer Ph.D.
      Vanderbilt University
      1. The Study of Humanity
      2. The Four Fields of Anthropology
      3. Culture and Relativity
      4. Fieldwork and the Anthropological Method
      5. Nature, Nurture, and Human Behavior
      6. Languages, Dialects, and Social Categories
      7. Language and Thought
      8. Constructing Emotions and Identities
      9. Magic, Religion, and Codes of Conduct
      10. Rites of Passage
      11. Family, Marriage, and Incest
      12. Multiple Spouses and Matrilineality
      13. Gatherers and Hunters
      14. Headmen and Horticulturists
      15. Cannibalism and Violence
      16. The Role of Reciprocity
      17. Chiefdoms and Redistribution
      18. Cultural Contact and Colonialism
      19. Cultures of Capitalism
      20. Is Economics Rational?
      21. Late Capitalism—From Ford to Disney
      22. The Maya, Ancient and Modern
      23. Maya Resurgence in Guatemala and Mexico
      24. The Janus Face of Globalization
    • Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind3.7 - 23
    • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind4.6 - 4,729
    • The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors3.8 - 41
    • Rise of Humans: Great Scientific Debates4.6 - 41 John Hawks, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
      1 Ramapithecus—Ape Man
      2 Australopithecus afarensis—Ancestor or Not?
      3 Ardipithecus—Hominin or Not?
      4 Brain Structure versus Brain Size
      5 The Dietary Hypothesis
      6 Africa or Asia?
      7 An Ape’s View of the Oldowan
      8 Who Was Homo habilis?
      9 How Big Was Homo erectus?
      10 The Movius Line
      11 The Hobbits of Flores
      12 Archaeology and Cooperation
      13 Presapiens or Preneandertal?
      14 What Do Stone Tools Reveal about Early Man?
      15 Did Neandertals Speak?
      16 Neandertals—Extinct or Ancestors?
      17 Is Our Neandertal Heritage Important?
      18 Multiregional Evolution versus Out of Africa
      19 Climate’s Impact on Our Evolution
      20 Language—Adaptation or Spandrel?
      21 Why Did Humans Start Creating Art?
      22 Clovis or Pre-Clovis?
      23 Farming—Migration or Diffusion?
      24 Are Humans Still Evolving?
    • The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific4.1 - 359
  • Psychology
    • 10 Qualities of Charismatic People3.3 - 5
    • A Million Little Pieces4.0 - 2,211
    • Assholes: A Theory3.5 - 221
    • ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life4.4 - 278
    • Against Depression3.7 - 55
    • Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion3.5 - 106
    • Age of Anger: A History of the Present3.4 - 63
    • The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society4.0 - 50
    • The Doors of Perception5.0 - 5
    • Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America4.6 - 452
    • Animals in Translation4.6 - 398
    • Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety3.8 - 52
    • The Art of Choosing4.1 - 125
    • The Art of Loving4.4 - 348
    • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind?and Keep?Love4.7 - 888
    • Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself4.6 - 273
    • Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People4.3 - 156
    • Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions3.8 - 33
    • Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence3.9 - 14
    • Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering3.9 - 76
    • Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsivenes4.3 - 865
    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for Retraining Your Brain4.3 - 143 Professor Jason M. Satterfield, Ph.D.
      University of California, San Francisco
      Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for Retraining Your Brain
      1 Cognitive Behavioral Foundations
      2 Quantified Self-Assessment for Therapy
      3 Setting Therapeutic Goals
      4 Third-Wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
      5 Stress and Coping
      6 Anxiety and Fear
      7 Treating Depression
      8 Anger and Rage
      9 Advanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
      10 Positive Psychology
      11 Healing Traumatic Injuries
      12 Forgiveness and Letting Go
      13 Digging Deep and Finding Meaning
      14 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Medicine
      15 Staying on the Wagon
      16 Thinking Healthy: Weight and Nutrition
      17 Behavioral Therapy for Chemical Addictions
      18 Getting a Good Night's Sleep
      19 Mastering Chronic Pain
      20 Building and Deepening Relationships
      21 Constructive Conflict and Fighting Fair
      22 Thriving at Work through Behavioral Health
      23 Developing Emotional Flexibility
      24 Finding the Best Help
    • Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential4.0 - 97
    • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High4.5 - 1,520
    • Deborah Tannen
      • You're Wearing That? by Deborah Tannen4.1 - 125
      • The Modern Scholar: He Said/She Said: Women, Men and Language4.02 - 207 Professor Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University)
        Lecture 1 He Said/She Said: A Framework for Understanding Conversations Between Women and Men
        Lecture 2 The Source of Gender Patterns: Children at Play
        Lecture 3 A Cross-Cultural Approach to GenderTalk
        Lecture 4 The Role of Opposition in Men's Relationships
        Lecture 5 The Role of Talk in Women's Relationships
        Lecture 6 The Interplay of Power and Connection
        Lecture 7 Ambiguity and Polysemy: Two Keys to Understanding Language and Gender
        Lecture 8 Indirectness: Not in So Many Words
        Lecture 9 Talking at Home: Gender in the Family
        Lecture 10 Talking at Work
        Lecture 11 Who Talks More?: Public and Private Speaking
        Lecture 12 A History of Research on Gender and Language
        Lecture 13 Nature/Nurture: The Source of Gender Differences
        Lecture 14 Conclusion: What Can You Do?
      • I only say this because I love you4.1 - 27
      • The Modern Scholar: That's Not What I Meant: The Sociolinguistics of Everyday Conversation5.0 - Professor Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University)
        Lecture 1 Conversational Style: The Power of Language in Your Life
        Lecture 2 Linguistic Signals, Devices, and Rituals
        Lecture 3 Framing and Reframing: How Metamessages Frame Meaning
        Lecture 4 Power and Solidarity: The Interplay of Hierarchy and Connection
        Lecture 5 Indirectness: The Ways and Whys We Communicate Meaning Not in So Many Words
        Lecture 6 The Rhythms of Talk: Pacing, Pausing, Silence, and Interruption
        Lecture 7 Listenership: Conversation as a Joint Production
        Lecture 8 Agonism: Programmed Contentiousness, Ritualized Opposition
        Lecture 9 Gender: Women and Men Talking
        Lecture 10 Apologies in Private and Public Contexts
        Lecture 11 Talking at Work: Institutional and Interactional Power
        Lecture 12 The Classroom: Talking in School
        Lecture 13 Politics: Talk in the Public Arena
        Lecture 14 What to Do with What You’ve Learned
      • The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words4.3 - 30
      • You Were Always Mom's Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives3.7 - 57
    • Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking4.2 - 372
    • Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind3.7 - 45
    • Devil in the Details - Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood4.2 - 40
    • Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep4.0 - 142
    • Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs4.6 - 15
    • Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behav4.2 - 115
    • Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success4.4 - 66
    • Emotional Intelligence 2.04.1 - 1,108
    • The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live4.3 - 181
    • The Empathy Gap4.0 - 8
    • Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity4.6 - 771
    • F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems4.0 - 273
    • Five Minds for the Future4.1 - 84
    • Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious3.9 - 69
    • Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why3.8 - 34
    • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence4.5 - 45
    • How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain4.2 - 136
    • How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like3.6 - 51
    • How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use4.7 - 46
    • How to Make Stress Work for You4.5 - 22
    • How We Decide4.1 - 315
    • I Need Your Love - Is That True4.6 - 232
    • I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"4.6 - 731
    • Imagine: How Creativity Works3.9 - 224
    • In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People4.6 - 757
    • Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland4.1 - 17
    • Is Anyone Really Normal? Perspectives on Abnormal Psychology by Drew Westen5.0 - 3
    • Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning4.2 - 36
    • Man's Search for Meaning4.7 - 4,105
    • Maria Konnikova
      • Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes4.0 - 228
      • The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time4.0 - 189
    • Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives4.4 - 64
    • Mind Mapping: How to Liberate Your Natural Genius3.6 - 4
    • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success4.5 - 2,329
    • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation4.5 - 350
    • Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want4.1 - 106
    • Mirroring People - The New Science of How We Connect with Others4.1 - 40
    • Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts4.5 - 446
    • Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool4.2 - 42
    • NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity4.6 - 445
    • Nlp: The New Technology4.1 - 148
    • The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression4.3 - 363
    • Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century4.1 - 56
    • On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits3.9 - 24
    • Origins of the Human Mind4.4 - 38 Dr. Stephen P. Hinshaw
      1 Brains and Minds, Evolution and Development
      2 How the Human Brain Works
      3 Development of the Human Brain
      4 Evolution and the Brain
      5 Psychological Views of the Mind
      6 Instinct, Learning, and Emotion
      7 Microevolution, Culture, and the Brain
      8 Infancy—Temperament and Attachment
      9 Childhood—Stages and Widening Contexts
      10 Adolescence—Rebellion, Identity, and Self
      11 Adulthood—Aging, Horizons, and Wisdom
      12 Influences of Sex and Gender
      13 Parallels between Development and Evolution
      14 Myths and Realities of Heritability
      15 Genes and Environments Together
      16 The Abnormal Mind—What Goes Wrong?
      17 Rationality, Psychosis, and Schizophrenia
      18 Emotion Regulation and Mood Disorders
      19 Attention, Impulse Control, and ADHD
      20 Empathy, Social Connections, and Autism
      21 Evolution and the Paradox of Mental Illness
      22 Roots of Religion, Aggression, and Prejudice
      23 Bringing in Personal Narratives
      24 The Future of the Human Mind
    • Pass Through Panic: Freeing Yourself from Anxiety and Fear4.4 - 92
    • Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior4.5 - 838
    • Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation4.4 - 290 Professor Mark W. Muesse Ph.D. Rhodes College
      1 Mindlessness—The Default Setting
      2 Mindfulness—The Power of Awareness
      3 Expectations—Relinquishing Preconceptions
      4 Preparation—Taking Moral Inventory
      5 Position—Where to Be for Meditation
      6 Breathing—Finding a Focus for Attention
      7 Problems—Stepping-Stones to Mindfulness
      8 Body—Attending to Our Physical Natures
      9 Mind—Working with Thoughts
      10 Walking—Mindfulness While Moving
      11 Consuming—Watching What You Eat
      12 Driving—Staying Awake at the Wheel
      13 Insight—Clearing the Mind
      14 Wisdom—Seeing the World as It Is
      15 Compassion—Expressing Fundamental Kindness
      16 Imperfection—Embracing Our Flaws
      17 Wishing—May All Beings Be Well and Happy
      18 Generosity—The Joy of Giving
      19 Speech—Training the Tongue
      20 Anger—Cooling the Fires of Irritation
      21 Pain—Embracing Physical Discomfort
      22 Grief—Learning to Accept Loss
      23 Finitude—Living in the Face of Death
      24 Life—Putting It All in Perspective
    • Psychiatry: The Science of Lies4.2 - 20
    • Psychology of Human Behavior3.8 - 40 Course No. 1620 (36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
      Taught by David W. Martin
      North Carolina State University
      1. Modern Psychology in Historical Context
      2. Experimentation as a Research Method
      3. Nonexperimental Research Methods
      4. Evolutionary Theory and Modern Psychology
      5. Freud’s Thinking
      6. Details of Psychoanalytic Theory
      7. Classification of Mental Illnesses
      8. Anxiety and Mood Disorders
      9. Disorders of Brain, Body, Self, Drugs, Sex
      10. Schizophrenic Disorders
      11. Childhood, Retardation, Personality Disorders
      12. Physical Therapies—Drugs
      13. Physical Therapies—ECT, Surgery, Genes
      14. Talking Therapies—Psychoanalysis
      15. Therapies—Humanistic, Cognitive, Group
      16. Behavior Therapies—Classical Conditioning
      17. Behavior Therapies—Operant Conditioning
      18. Models of Motivation
      19. Emotion—What Do We Measure?
      20. Emotion—Theories
      21. Psychoactive Drugs—Processes, Stimulants
      22. Drugs—Depressants, Narcotics, Hallucinogens
      23. Social Psychology—Influence and Reciprocity
      24. Social Psychology—Additional Mechanisms
      25. Simple Learning—Classical Conditioning
      26. Simple Learning—Operant Conditioning
      27. Complex Learning
      28. Memory—Characteristics
      29. Memory—Memory Aids and Forgetting Theories
      30. Perception—Forming Internal Models
      31. Perception—Finding and Organizing Cues
      32. Evolutionary Psychology—Basic Concepts
      33. Evolutionary Psychology—Altruism and Mating
      34. Evolutionary Psychology—War, Family, Food
      35. Engineering Psychology
      36. Recap, Omissions, and Into the Future
    • Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change4.2 - 72
    • Revealing Psychiatry... From an Insider: Psychiatric stories for open minds and to open minds4.4 - 3
    • Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking4.1 - 48
    • Secrets of Sleep Science: From Dreams to Disorders4 - 55 H. Craig Heller, Ph.D. Stanford University
      1 Sweet Sleep—Essential for a Healthy Life
      2 What Is Sleep?
      3 Sleep across the Night
      4 Sleep across the Lifespan
      5 Who in the World Sleeps?
      6 The Timing of Sleep
      7 The Wheels of the Circadian Clock
      8 The Deep Sleep of Hibernators
      9 The Neuroanatomy and Neurochemistry of Sleep
      10 The Neurophysiology of Sleep
      11 Sleep Disorders—Narcolepsy
      12 The Strange World of Dreams
      13 Functions of Sleep—Fueling the Brain
      14 The Timing and Function of REM Sleep
      15 Sleep and Learning—Procedural Memory
      16 Sleep and Declarative Memory
      17 Sleep and Memory in Animals
      18 Sleep and Learning Disability
      19 When You Cannot Sleep—Insomnia
      20 Sleep Apnea
      21 Behavior during Sleep—Parasomnias
      22 Sleep and the Rest of the Body
      23 Improving Sleep
      24 Sleep in the Future and the Future of Sleep Will we ever fully comprehend the function of sleep? See how sleep and treatment for sleep problems might change in years to come, and consider how continuing progress in understanding sleep’s role in learning and memory processes may enhance education and hold therapeutic potential for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
    • Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better4.4 - 85
    • Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect4.5 - 138
    • Social Intelligence4.3 - 216
    • Stop Overreacting: Effective Strategies for Calming Your Emotions4.5 - 40
    • Strangers to Ourselves - Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious4.3 - 86
    • Street Hypnosis Masterclass by Igor Ledochowski
      • 1 The Non-Awareness Set
      • 10 The Dynamic Principles
      • 11 Instant Street Hypnosis
      • 12 Hypnotic Language
      • 13 & 14 NLP in Hypnosis
      • 15 Killer Presentations
      • 16 Hypnotic Frames
      • 17 Make Money with Hypnosis
      • 18 Hypnotic Magic Moments
      • 19 Hypnotically Exploiting Emotions
      • 2 How To Tell Spellbinding Stories
      • 20 Create Highly Responsive Hypnotic Subjects
      • 21 Hypnotic Hero's Journey
      • 22 Hypnotic Profiling
      • 23 Parallel Realities
      • 24 Instant Hypnotic Influence
      • 3 Hypnotic power loops
      • 4 Hypnotic Realities
      • 5 Changing Peoples Minds
      • 6 The Distraction Method
      • 7 Secrets of Irresistible suggestions
      • 8 Hypnotic Power States
      • 9 Hypnotic Reversals
    • Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior4.4 - 302
    • Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success4.3 - 54
    • Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way4.5 - 177
    • Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society3.0 - 43
    • The Addictive Brain4.9 - 68 Professor Thad Polk Ph.D. University of Michigan
      1 Addiction 101
      2 The Psychology and Neuroscience of Reward
      3 How Addiction Hijacks the Brain
      4 Genetics: Born to Be an Addict?
      5 Your Brain on Drugs
      6 Why We Crave Coffee and Cigarettes
      7 Alcohol: Social Lubricant or Drug of Abuse?
      8 The Science of Marijuana
      9 Stimulants: From Cocaine to Ritalin
      10 The Science of Poppies, Pleasure, and Pain
      11 The Gambler's Brain
      12 Junk Food, Porn, Video Games: Addictions?
    • The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict4.7 - 811
    • The Anger Trap: Free Yourself from the Frustrations that Sabotage Your Life4.4 - 123
    • Art of Conflict Management: Achieving Solutions for Life, Work, and Beyond4.3 - 55 Michael Dues, Ph.D. University of Arizona
      1 Why Conflict Management Matters
      2 The Adversary System
      3 Morton Deutsch and the Concept of Win-Win
      4 Perception, Perspective, and Punctuation
      5 Managing Multiple and Conflicting Emotions
      6 Multiple, Complex, and Changing Goals
      7 Power—How Much We Need and How to Use It
      8 Conflict Styles
      9 Dysfunctional Conflict Strategies
      10 Principled Negotiation
      11 Preparing and Arranging to Negotiate
      12 Negotiating Conflict Resolutions
      13 Listening in Conflict
      14 Dynamic Patterns in Close Relationships
      15 Disruptions in Close Relationships
      16 How Management Theories Affect Conflict
      17 The Manager's Role in Dealing with Conflict
      18 Getting Professional Help with Conflict
      19 Helping Others Manage Conflict
      20 Moral and Cultural Conflicts
      21 Managing Moral Conflicts—Success Stories
      22 Managing Conflict's Aftermath
      23 Teaching Our Children about Conflict
      24 Conflict Management—A Success in Progress
    • The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease4.3 - 110
    • The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism4.5 - 570
    • The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good4.1 - 79
    • THE COW IN THE PARKING LOT: A guide for transforming anger for a happier more effective life5.0 - 2
    • The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--and What We Can Do About It4.2 - 68
    • The DENIAL OF DEATH4.1 - 254
    • The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--and How You Can Change Them4.3 - 181
    • The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves4.2 - 198
    • The Female Brain4.3 - 466
    • The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections4.1 - 85
    • The Gift of Fear4.6 - 2,158
    • The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us4.3 - 272
    • The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone4.2 - 50
    • The Male Brain4.4 - 216
    • The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory4.1 - 21
    • The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters4.4 - 43
    • The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression4.3 - 7
    • The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain4.0 - 59
    • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload4.1 - 291
    • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business4.5 - 4,561
    • The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think4.3 - 45
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    • The Science of Mindfulness: A Research-Based Path to Well-Being4.5 - 119
    • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human4.1 - 192
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    • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman4.5 - 2,895
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    • Understanding Nonverbal Communication3.9 - 71 Mark G. Frank, Ph.D. University at Buffalo,
      1 The Science of Nonverbal Communication
      2 The Meaning of Personal Space
      3 Space, Color, and Mood
      4 What Body Type Doesn't Tell You
      5 Evolution's Role in Nonverbal Communication
      6 Secrets in Facial Expressions
      7 Hidden Clues in Vocal Tones
      8 Cues from Gestures and Gait
      9 Interpreting Nonverbal Communication
      10 Cultural Differences in Nonverbal Communication
      11 Spotting Nonverbal Deception
      12 Communicating Attraction
    • Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior4.5 - 95 Professor Mark Leary
      1 Solving Psychological Mysteries
      2 How Did Human Nature Evolve?
      3 Where Do People’s Personalities Come From?
      4 How Can Siblings Be So Different?
      5 Why Do People Need Self-Esteem—Or Do They?
      6 Why Do We Have Emotions?
      7 What Makes People Happy?
      8 Why Are So Many People So Stressed Out?
      9 Why Do Hurt Feelings Hurt?
      10 Why Do We Make Mountains out of Molehills?
      11 Why Is Self-Control So Hard?
      12 Why Do We Forget?
      13 Can Subliminal Messages Affect Behavior?
      14 Why Do We Dream?
      15 Why Are People So Full of Themselves?
      16 Do People Have Psychic Abilities?
      17 Why Don’t Adolescents Behave like Adults?
      18 How Much Do Men and Women Really Differ?
      19 Why Do We Care What Others Think of Us?
      20 Why Are Prejudice and Conflict So Common?
      21 Why Do People Fall In—and Out of—Love?
      22 What Makes Relationships Succeed or Fail?
      23 Why Do People Blush?
      24 A Few Mysteries We Can’t Explain Yet
    • Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception4.7 - 32 Professor Peter M. Vishton
      The College of William & MaryPh.D., Cornell University
      1 Your Amazing, Intelligent Senses
      2 The Physiological Hardware of Your Senses
      3 Neuroimaging—The Sensory Brain at Work
      4 Brain Modules—Subcomponents of the Senses
      5 Perceiving a World in Motion
      6 Seeing Distance and Depth
      7 Seeing Color and Light
      8 Your World of Taste and Olfaction
      9 Hearing the World around You
      10 Speech and Language Perception
      11 Touch—Temperature, Vibration, and Pressure
      12 Pain—How It Works for You
      13 Perception in Action
      14 Attention and Perception
      15 Kinesthetic Perception
      16 Seeing, Remembering, Inferring Infants
      17 How Infants Sense and Act On Their World
      18 Illusions and Magic
      19 Perceiving Emotion in Others and Ourselves
      20 Sensing the Thoughts of Others—ESP
      21 Opponent Process for Perception and Life
      22 Synesthesia—Tasting Color and Seeing Sound
      23 How Your Sensory Systems Learn
      24 Fixing, Replacing, and Enhancing the Senses
    • Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day4.2 - 197
    • Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality3.9 - 17
    • Wait: The Art and Science of Delay3.8 - 76
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    • What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness4.3 - 14
    • What's Wrong with Homosexuality? (Philosophy in Action)4.5 - 47
    • When I Say No, I Feel Guilty4.3 - 282
    • Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do4.4 - 183
    • Why Loyalty Matters: The Groundbreaking Approach to Rediscovering Happiness, Meaning and Lasting Fulfillment in Your Life and Work4.3 - 25
    • Why We Make Mistakes4.2 - 125
    • Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind4.5 - 50
    • Women Who Think Too Much4.2 - 78
    • Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Robert Cialdini4.4 - 261
    • You are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself4.6 - 134
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    • You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder4.5 - 366
    • Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long4.7 - 283
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    • 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-124.5 - 1,463
    • The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents4.3 - 61
    • A Mind at a Time3.7 - 93
    • ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic4.1 - 40
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    • Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain4.4 - 232
    • Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked4.3 - 51
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    • Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less4.4 - 118
    • Freeing Your Child from Anxiety4.5 - 47
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    • Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs4.3 - 121
    • NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children4.6 - 558
    • The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know--Your Kids3.9 - 19
    • Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive4.9 - 31 Professor Peter M. Vishton Ph.D. The College of William & Mary
      1 Self-Control—From Tummy Time to Tae Kwon Do
      2 Seeing, Hearing, Thinking, Learning Infants
      3 Sleep—Getting Enough “Vitamin S”
      4 Healthy Eating Habits for Life
      5 Baby Talk, Sign Language, and Speech
      6 Shaping Behavior—How Kids and Rats Differ
      7 Which Style of Parenting Is Best?
      8 The Joy of Reading and the Place of Phonics
      9 IQ Hazards and Boosting Intelligence
      10 Enhancing Your Child’s Memory
      11 Parent as Teacher—Homework and Beyond
      12 Getting a Jump on Math—Without Math Anxiety
      13 Advantages of a Second Language
      14 What TV and Video Can and Can’t Teach
      15 Values and Pitfalls of Video Games
      16 Promoting Persistence and Self-Esteem
      17 Encouraging Cooperation, Sharing, Empathy
      18 Peer Conflicts and Social Development
      19 Maria Montessori at Home for Young Children
      20 Schooling and the Montessori Approach
      21 Physical Development and Education
      22 The Adolescent Brain
      23 Becoming a Parent-Scientist
      24 The Great Values of an Unhurried Childhood
    • Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know4.6 - 1,120
    • The Birth Order Book4.5 - 355
    • The Emotional Life of the Toddler4.1 - 65
    • The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children4.2 - 29
    • The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans: How to Decode Their Behavior, Develop Unshakable Trust, and Raise a Respectable Adult4.9 - 138
    • The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life4.2 - 43
    • The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way4.6 - 629
    • The Talk: Helping Your Kids Navigate Sex in the Real Worl4.5 - 10
    • The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men4.3 - 151
    • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind4.7 - 808
    • Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College4.4 - 54
    • What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life4.5 - 182
    • Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences4.3 - 231
  • Psychology - Evolutionary
    • Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human4.0 - 36
    • David M. Buss
      • The murderer next door3.7 - 39
      • Why Women Have Sex4.4 - 59
    • Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?4.4 - 25
    • Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind4.0 - 65
    • Language, Music, and Laughter in Evolutionary Perspective
    • Mean Genes3.8 - 106
    • Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution5.0 - 3
    • Satoshi Kanazawa
      • The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One3.2 - 30
      • Beautiful People Have More Daughters3.9 - 115
    • Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature4.1 - 40
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    • The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do4.0 - 112
    • The Science of Love and Betrayal4.0 - 3
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    • The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World4.4 - 233
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    • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience4.2 - 571
    • Happy4.2 - 16
    • If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?4.6 - 90
    • Martin E. P. Seligman
      • Authentic Happiness4.1 - 242
      • Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being3.9 - 300
      • Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life4.2 - 487
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    • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life4.4 - 3,345
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    • Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight3.4 - 436
    • The Sociopath Next Door4.4 - 1,605
    • The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime4.3 - 154
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    • The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain3.9 - 192
    • The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience4.5 - 168
    • The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty3.7 - 126
    • The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success4.0 - 260
    • Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us4.5 - 618
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    • Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray4.1 - 32
    • Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead4.7 - 2,989
    • Gary Chapman
      • The Five Love Languages4.8 - 12,673
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  • Psychology - Willpower
    • Scientific Secrets for Self-Control2.8 - 55 Professor C. Nathan DeWall, Ph.D.
      University of Kentucky
      1 Why Is It So Hard to Do What We Should?
      2 Self-Control Successes and Failures
      3 Marshmallows, Monkeys, and Mortality
      4 Taming the Impulsive Beast
      5 First Impressions and Stereotypes
      6 Romance, Finance, and Your Environment
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      1. Major Features of American Religious History
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    • The Modern Scholar: Faith and Reason: The Philosophy of Religion4.39 - 312
    • For Those Who Can't Believeby Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
      Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis is one of the best-known pulpit rabbis in America, serving as Rabbi at Congregation Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. He combined a Talmudic education at Yeshiva College with graduate studies in modern philosophical and theological thought at New York University, the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Pacific School of Religion, from which he received his Th.D. in theology. He has lectured in philosophy and theology at CCNY, the University of Judaism and Hebrew Union College.The title of this lecture is, "For Those Who Can't Believe: The Two Faces of God Confronting Natural and Moral Evil."
    • Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are4.3 - 236
    • The Modern Scholar: From Jesus to Christianity: A History of the Early Church4.25 - 180
    • God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales3.9 - 391
    • God.Com: A Deity for the New Millennium3.7 - 6
    • Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife4.0 - 32
    • How to Win a Cosmic War4.3 - 146
    • Infidel4.7 - 1,567
    • Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion4.4 - 391
    • Interfaith Dialogue on Jewish Meditation, Mysticism and Alternative Healing
    • Introduction to Judaism (Out of Order)4.5 - 57 Professor Shai Cherry, Ph.D. Shaar Hamayim
      1 Torah, Old Testament, and Hebrew Bible
      2 From Israelite to Jew
      3 Repentance
      4 Study
      5 Prayer
      6 Deeds of Loving Kindness
      7 Messianism
      8 The Coming World
      9 Sabbath
      10 Law and Spirit
      11 Fall Holidays
      12 Spring Holidays
      13 Minor Holidays—Then and Now
      14 Medieval Jewish Philosophy—Maimonides
      15 Medieval Jewish Mysticism—Kabbalah
      16 Evil and Suffering—Biblical and Rabbinic
      17 Evil and Suffering—Medieval and Modern
      18 Emancipation, Enlightenment, and Reform
      19 Orthodox Judaisms
      20 Israel and Zionism
      21 American Judaisms
      22 Women and Jewish Law
      23 Judaism and the Other
      24 The Chosen People?
    • Is There Life After Death?4.0 - 16
    • The Modern Scholar: Islam and the West3.78 - 41
    • Islam in Modern ScienceIslam in Modern Science: Similarities and Contrast to Christian Theological Thoughts in Relation to Modern Science
      by Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
      University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. In his lecture he will be speaking on the similarities and contrast to Christian theological thoughts in relation to modern science.
    • Jesus for the Non-Religious4.4 - 211
    • The Modern Scholar: Judaism, Christinanity and Islam4.19 - 140
    • Complete Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll3.7 - 5
    • Luther: Gospel, Law, and Reformation4.4 - 94 Professor Phillip Cary, Ph.D. Eastern University
      1 Luther's Gospel
      2 The Medieval Church—Abuses and Reform
      3 The Augustinian Paradigm of Spirituality
      4 Young Luther Against Himself
      5 Hearing the Gospel
      6 Faith and Works
      7 The Meaning of the Sacraments
      8 The Indulgence Controversy
      9 The Reformation Goes Public
      10 The Captivity of the Sacraments
      11 Reformation in Wittenberg
      12 The Work of the Reformer
      13 Against the Spirit of Rebellion
      14 Controversy Over the Lord’s Supper
      15 Controversy Over Infant Baptism
      16 Grace and Justification
      17 Luther and the Bible
      18 Luther and Erasmus
      19 Luther and Predestination
      20 Luther and Protestantism
      21 Luther and Politics
      22 Luther and His Enemies
      23 Luther and the Jews
      24 Luther and Modernity
    • Mindfulness for beginners4.1 - 446
    • Misquoting Jesus4.3 - 944
    • The Power of Intention4.6 - 902
    • Purpose-driven Life4.5 - 4,703
    • Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion4.0 - 183
    • Religion, Myth, and Magic: The Anthropology of Religion4.6 - Professor Susan Johnston (George Washington University)
      Lecture 1 What Is Religion?
      Lecture 2 Religious Specialists
      Lecture 3 Mythology
      Lecture 4 Symbols
      Lecture 5 What Is Ritual?
      Lecture 6 What Does Ritual Do?
      Lecture 7 The Nonhuman World
      Lecture 8 The Origins of Religion
      Lecture 9 Analyzing Ancient Religions
      Lecture 10 Dealing with Death
      Lecture 11 Magic and Witchcraft
      Lecture 12 Religion and Gender
      Lecture 13 New Religious Forms
      Lecture 14 Religion and Politics
    • The Modern Scholar: Religions of the East: Paths to Enlightenment4.07 - 90
    • Science and Religion4.2 - 137 Taught by Lawrence M. Principe
      Johns Hopkins University
      1. Science and Religion
      2. The Warfare Thesis
      3. Faith and Reason—Scripture and Nature
      4. God and Nature—Miracles and Demons
      5. Church, Copernicus, and Galileo
      6. Galileo’s Trial
      7. God the Watchmaker
      8. Natural Theology and Arguments from Design
      9. Geology, Cosmology, and Biblical Chronology
      10. Darwin and Responses to Evolution
      11. Fundamentalism and Creationism
      12. Past, Present, and Future
    • Terror in the Name of God4.2 - 61
    • The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent4.4 - 330
    • The Atheists Guide to Christmas4.0 - 31
    • The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life3.9 - 61
    • The Modern Scholar: The Bible and the Roots of Western Literature3.71 - 31
    • The Modern Scholar: The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth behind the Mystique4 - 119
    • The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions4.4 - 134
    • The Modern Scholar: The Hebrew Bible4.21 - 95
    • The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief4.4 - 827
    • The naked Buddha4.4 - 26
    • The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age3.9 - 18
    • The Modern Scholar: The Quest: The Historians' Search for Jesus and Muhammad4.03 - 36 Professor Frank E. Peters
      Lecture 1 Well-Known Is Not Well Known
      Lecture 2 Clearing the Ground
      Lecture 3 The Settings: First-Century Judea, Seventh-Century Hejaz
      Lecture 4 Opening the File on Jesus
      Lecture 5 Opening the File on Muhammad
      Lecture 6 How to Proceed
      Lecture 7 The Critic at Work
      Lecture 8 Jesus Speaks
      Lecture 9 Muhammad Speaks, or Sings
      Lecture 10 The Message: Jesus in Galilee
      Lecture 11 The Message: Muhammad at Mecca
      Lecture 12 Act II: Tragedy and Triumph
      Lecture 13 The Aftermath, the Legacy
      Lecture 14 Further Thoughts on Jesus and Muhammad
    • The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith4.2 - 193
    • The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience3.2 - 69 Professor Andrew Newberg,
      Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
      1 A New Perspective on Ancient Questions
      2 Why Do We Have a Spiritual Brain?
      3 Brain Function and Religion
      4 How Does Science Study Religion?
      5 Believers and Atheists
      6 Spiritual Development
      7 The Myth-Making Brain
      8 The Brain and Religious Rituals
      9 The Biology of Spiritual Practices
      10 Religion and Health
      11 Religion and Mental Health
      12 Religion and Brain Dysfunction
      13 Transmitters to God
      14 Stimulated States and Religious Experiences
      15 Near-Death Experiences and the Brain
      16 The Believing Brain
      17 The Brain’s Influence on Religious Ideas
      18 Revelation, Salvation, and the Brain
      19 The Brain’s Influence on Religious Behavior
      20 How the Brain Changes God
      21 How God Changes the Brain
      22 Why God Won’t Go Away
      23 The Mystical Mind
      24 Reality and Beyond
    • The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam4.6 - 70
    • The Truth About Muhammad3.9 - 680
    • The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University4.6 - 287
    • Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective4.3 - 106
    • War of the Worldviews: Science Vs. Spirituality3.9 - 104
    • Zealot4.3 - 4,936
  • Science & Technology
    • 13 Things that Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time4.2 - 107
    • A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design4.1 - 86
    • Short History of Nearly Everything4.6 - 2,715
    • Almost Everyone's Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything (Yale Nota Bene)3.8 - 12
    • Bad Science4.3 - 244
    • Brain Trust: 93 Top Scientists Reveal Lab-Tested Secrets to Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants, and More!3.5 - 25
    • Brian Greene
      • The Fabric of the Cosmos4.6 - 517
      • The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos4.4 - 403
    • Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity4.6 - 189
    • The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory4.2 - 45
    • Cosmos by Carl Sagan4.7 - 620
    • David Bodanis
      • E = mc2 A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation4.3 - 211
      • Electric Universe The Shocking True Story of Electricity4.0 - 77
    • Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature3.9 - 34
    • Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer3.9 - 45
    • Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age3.6 - 37
    • Fear of Physics4.5 - 39
    • First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began4.3 - 14
    • For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics4.6 - 133
    • From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time4.1 - 155
    • The Modern Scholar: Fueling the Planet: The Past, Present, and Future of Energy3.88 - 26 Professor Michael B. McElroy (Harvard University)
      Lecture 1 A Short History of the Earth
      Lecture 2 What Is Energy?
      Lecture 3 The Sun
      Lecture 4 Fossil Fuels: Coal and Oil (Part I)
      Lecture 5 Oil (Part II) and Natural Gas
      Lecture 6 Water and Wind Power
      Lecture 7 The Nature and History of Nuclear Power
      Lecture 8 Steam and the Industrial Revolution
      Lecture 9 Electricity
      Lecture 10 The Internal Combustion Engine
      Lecture 11 How We Use Energy Today
      Lecture 12 The Climate Challenge
      Lecture 13 Options for a Low-Carbon Energy Economy: Corn, Sugar Cane, and Other Biofuels
      Lecture 14 Vision for a Sustainable Energy Future
    • The Modern Scholar: Global Warming, Global Threat4.19 - 167
    • Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos4.2 - 56
    • Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World4.3 - 70 Taught by Steven L. Goldman
      Lehigh University
      Ph.D., Boston University
      1. Knowledge, Know-How, and Social Change
      2. Writing Makes Science Possible
      3. Inventing Reason and Knowledge
      4. The Birth of Natural Science
      5. Mathematics as the Order of Nature
      6. The Birth of Techno-Science
      7. Universities Relaunch the Idea of Knowledge
      8. The Medieval Revolution in Know-How
      9. Progress Enters into History
      10. The Printed Book—Gutenberg to Galileo
      11. Renaissance Painting and Techno-Science
      12. Copernicus Moves the Earth
      13. The Birth of Modern Science
      14. Algebra, Calculus, and Probability
      15. Conservation and Symmetry
      16. Instruments as Extensions of the Mind
      17. Time, Change, and Novelty
      18. The Atomic Theory of Matter
      19. The Cell Theory of Life
      20. The Germ Theory of Disease
      21. The Gene Theory of Inheritance
      22. Energy Challenges Matter
      23. Fields—The Immaterial Becomes Real
      24. Relationships Become Physical
      25. Evolution as Process Science
      26. Statistical Laws Challenge Determinism
      27. Techno-Science Comes of Age
      28. Institutions Empower Innovation
      29. The Quantum Revolution
      30. Relativity Redefines Space and Time
      31. Reconceiving the Universe, Again
      32. The Idea behind the Computer
      33. Three Faces of Information
      34. Systems, Chaos, and Self-Organization
      35. Life as Molecules in Action
      36. Great Ideas, Past and Future
    • History of Science Antiquity to 17004.4 - 40 Professor Lawrence M. Principe, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
      1 Beginning the Journey
      2 Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks
      3 The Presocratics
      4 Plato and the Pythagoreans
      5 Plato's Cosmos
      6 Aristotle's View of the Natural World
      7 Aristotelian Cosmology and Physics
      8 Hellenistic Natural Philosophy
      9 Greek Astronomy from Eudoxus to Ptolemy
      10 The Roman Contributions
      11 Roman Versions of Greek Science and Education
      12 The End of the Classical World
      13 Early Christianity and Science
      14 The Rise of Islam and Islamic Science
      15 Islamic Astronomy, Mathematics, and Optics
      16 Alchemy, Medicine, and Late Islamic Culture
      17 The Latin West Reawakens
      18 Natural Philosophy at School and University
      19 Aristotle and Medieval Scholasticism
      20 The Science of Creation
      21 Science in the Orders
      22 Medieval Latin Alchemy and Astrology
      23 Medieval Physics and Earth Sciences
      24 The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
      25 Renaissance Natural Magic
      26 Copernicus and Calendrical Reform
      27 Renaissance Technology
      28 Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo
      29 The New Physics
      30 Voyages of Discovery and Natural History
      31 Mechanical Philosophy and Revised Atomism
      32 Mechanism and Vitalism
      33 Seventeenth-Century Chemistry
      34 The Force of Isaac Newton
      35 The Rise of Scientific Societies
      36 How Science Develops
    • How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space4.3 - 43
    • In Suspect Terrain4.5 - 25
    • Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America4.4 - 48
    • Introduction to Nanotechnology: The New Science of Small4.1 - 29 Shana Kelley University of Toronto
      1 The Crossroads of 21st-Century Science
      2 The Fundamental Importance of Being Nano
      3 From Micro to Nano—Scaling in a Digital World
      4 Leveraging the Nanometer in Computing
      5 Leveraging the Nanometer in Communications
      6 Sensing the World through Nanoengineering
      7 Nanomedicine—DNA and Gold Nanoparticles
      8 Nano and Proteins—Enzymes to Cholesterol
      9 Nanoparticles Detect Cancer in Living Organisms
      10 Detecting Only a Few Molecules of a Disease
      11 Nanomaterials That Seek and Destroy Disease
      12 How Nanomaterials Improve Drug Delivery
      13 Delivering Drugs with “Smart” Nanocapsules
      14 Nanoscale Surgical Tools
      15 Nanomaterials for Artificial Tissue
      16 How Nano Research Gets Done
      17 Nanomotifs—Building Blocks, Complex Structures
      18 Using Nanotechnology to Capture Sunlight
      19 Photons to Electricity—Nano-Based Solar Cells
      20 Nanotechnology for Storing Energy
      21 Nanotechnology for Releasing Energy
      22 Energy’s Holy Grail—Artificial Photosynthesis
      23 Nanorobots and Nature’s Nanomachines
      24 On the Horizon and in the Far Future
    • James Gleick
      • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood4.2 - 255
      • Time Travel: A History3.7 - 100
      • What Just Happened3.7 - 8
    • Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World4.1 - 216
    • Lawrence M. Krauss
      • A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing4.2 - 1,040
      • Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science4.3 - 97
      • The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?4.1 - 176
      • The Physics of Star Trek4.5 - 140
    • Leonard Mlodinow
      • The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives4.2 - 439
      • The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos4.3 - 110
    • Why?: What Makes Us Curious4.1 - 18
    • Michio Kaku
      • Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time4.6 - 102
      • Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos4.6 - 267
      • Physics of the Impossible4.5 - 457
      • Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 21004.3 - 465
    • Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time4.2 - 90 Sean Carroll, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
      1 Why Time Is a Mystery
      2 What Is Time?
      3 Keeping Time
      4 Time’s Arrow
      5 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
      6 Reversibility and the Laws of Physics
      7 Time Reversal in Particle Physics
      8 Time in Quantum Mechanics
      9 Entropy and Counting
      10 Playing with Entropy
      11 The Past Hypothesis
      12 Memory, Causality, and Action
      13 Boltzmann Brains
      14 Complexity and Life
      15 The Perception of Time
      16 Memory and Consciousness
      17 Time and Relativity
      18 Curved Spacetime and Black Holes
      19 Time Travel
      20 Black Hole Entropy
      21 Evolution of the Universe
      22 The Big Bang
      23 The Multiverse
      24 Approaches to the Arrow of Time
    • Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements4.7 - 50
    • Neil deGrasse Tyson
      • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry4.6 - 2,636
      • Death by Black Hole4.7 - 452
      • My Favorite Universe4.2 - 106 Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D. Hayden Planetarium
        1 On Being Round
        2 On Being Rarefied
        3 On Being Dense
        4 Death by Black Hole
        5 Ends of the World
        6 Coming Attractions
        7 Onward to the Edge
        8 In Defense of the Big Bang
        9 The Greatest Story Ever Told
        10 Forged in the Stars
        11 The Search for Planets
        12 The Search for Life in the Universe
      • Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution4.6 - 254
      • The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet4.4 - 122
    • Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist4.1 - 64
    • Organized Unpredictability : Past and Future of Science, chautauqua - Freeman Dyson
    • Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong4.3 - 113
    • Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos4.7 - 118 Steven Pollock, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulde
      1 Nature of Physics
      2 Standard Model of Particle Physics
      3 Pre-History of Particle Physics
      4 Birth of Modern Physics
      5 Quantum Mechanics Gets Serious
      6 New Particles & New Technologies
      7 Weak Interactions & the Neutrino
      8 Accelerators & Particle Explosion
      9 Particle "Zoo"
      10 Fields & Forces
      11 "Three Quarks for Muster Mark"
      12 From Quarks to QCD
      13 Symmetry & Conservation Laws
      14 Broken Symmetry, Shattered Mirrors
      15 November Revolution of 1974
      16 A New Generation
      17 Weak Forces & the Standard Model
      18 Greatest Success Story in Physics
      19 The Higgs Particle
      20 Solar Neutrino Puzzle
      21 Back to the Future (1)—Experiments to Come
      22 Back to the Future (2)—Puzzles & Progress
      23 Really Big Stuff—The Origin of the Universe
      24 Looking Back & Looking Forward
    • Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality4.7 - 190
    • Ray Kurzweil
      • Ray Kurzweil Commencement Address at WPI (May 21, 2005) 4.03 - 113
      • The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology4.1 - 456
    • Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science4.6 - 58 Steven Gimbel, Ph.D. Gettysburg College
      1 Metaphysics and the Nature of Science
      2 Defining Reality
      3 Mathematics in Crisis
      4 Special Relativity
      5 General Relativity
      6 Big Bang Cosmology
      7 The Reality of Atoms
      8 Quantum Mechanics
      9 Quantum Field Theory
      10 Chaos Theory
      11 Dark Matter and Dark Energy
      12 Grand Unified Theories
      13 Quantum Consciousness
      14 Defining Reality in the Life Sciences
      15 Genes and Identity
      16 The Birth of Psychology
      17 Jung and the Behaviorists
      18 The Rediscovery of the Mind The Holocaust raised troubling questions about the mind and its relation to authority. Examine three landmark experiments that tested the limits of human autonomy and came to shocking conclusions: Solomon Asch's group think study, Stanley Milgram's obedience study, and Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison study.
      19 The Caring Brain
      20 Brain and Self
      21 Evolutionary Psychology
      22 The Birth of Sociology
      23 Competition and Cooperation
      24 Race and Reality
      25 Social Progress
      26 The Reality of Money
      27 The Origin of Life
      28 Exoplanets and Extraterrestrial Life
      29 Technology and Death
      30 Cloning and Identity
      31 Genetic Engineering
      32 Medically Enhanced Humans
      33 Transhumans: Making Living Gods
      34 Artificial Intelligence
      35 The Internet and Virtual Reality
      36 Data Analytics
    • Relativity: The Special and the General Theory By Albert Einstein4.0 - 344
    • Richard A. Muller
      • Now: The Physics of Time4.1 - 192
      • Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines4.0 - 197
    • Sam Kean
      • The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements4.5 - 803
      • The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery4.7 - 214
      • The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code4.5 - 279
    • Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies4.3 - 97
    • Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It4.4 - 100 Course No. 1235 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
      Taught by Steven L. Goldman
      Lehigh University
      Ph.D., Boston University
      Course Lecture Titles
      1. Knowledge and Truth Are Age-Old Problems
      2. Competing Visions of the Scientific Method
      3. Galileo, the Catholic Church, and Truth
      4. Isaac Newton’s Theory of the Universe
      5. Science vs. Philosophy in the 17th Century
      6. Locke, Hume, and the Path to Skepticism
      7. Kant Restores Certainty
      8. Science, Society, and the Age of Reason
      9. Science Comes of Age in the 19th Century
      10. Theories Need Not Explain
      11. Knowledge as a Product of the Active Mind
      12. Trading Reality for Experience
      13. Scientific Truth in the Early 20th Century
      14. Two New Theories of Scientific Knowledge
      15. Einstein and Bohr Redefine Reality
      16. Truth, Ideology, and Thought Collectives
      17. Kuhn's Revolutionary Image of Science
      18. Challenging Mainstream Science from Within
      19. Objectivity Under Attack
      20. Scientific Knowledge as Social Construct
      21. New Definitions of Objectivity
      22. Science Wars of the Late 20th Century
      23. Intelligent Design and the Scope of Science
      24. Truth, History, and Citizenship
    • Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals4.3 - 127
    • Stephen Hawking
      • A Brief History of Time4.5 - 2,080
      • Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays4.3 - 81
      • The Grand Design4.1 - 987
      • The Universe in a Nutshell4.5 - 2,080
    • Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking3.9 - 47
    • That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles: 62 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life4.5 - 10
    • The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (Pragmatic Programmers)4.4 - 79
    • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World4.4 - 181
    • The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics4.4 - 142
    • The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World4.5 - 152
    • The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism4.2 - 34
    • The Great Acceleration3.9 - 11
    • The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe4.2 - 41
    • The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century4.0 - 23
    • The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence4.8 - 61 Robert M. Hazen, Ph.D. George Mason University
      1 Mineralogy and a New View of Earth
      2 Origin and Evolution of the Early Universe
      3 Origins of the Elements—Nucleosynthesis
      4 Ur-Minerals, First Crystals in the Cosmos
      5 Presolar Dust Grains—Chemistry Begins
      6 Coming to Grips with Deep Time
      7 The Birth of the Solar System
      8 The Early Solar System—Terrestrial Planets
      9 Hints from the Gas Giants and Their Moons
      10 Meteorites—The Oldest Objects You Can Hold
      11 Mineral Evolution, Go! Chondrite Meteorites
      12 Meteorite Types and Planetesimals
      13 Achondrites and Geochemical Affinities
      14 The Accretion and Differentiation of Earth
      15 How Did the Moon Form?
      16 The Big Thwack!
      17 The “Big Six” Elements of Early Earth
      18 The Black Earth—Peridotite to Basalt
      19 Origins of the Oceans
      20 Blue Earth and the Water Cycle
      21 Earth and Mars versus Mercury and the Moon
      22 Gray Earth—Clays and the Rise of Granite
      23 Earth’s Mineralogy Takes Off—Pegmatites
      24 Moving Continents and the Rock Cycle
      25 Plate Tectonics Changes Everything
      26 Geochemistry to Biochemistry—Raw Materials
      27 Biomolecules—Select, Concentrate, Assemble
      28 Why Reproduction? World Enough and Time
      29 Eons, Eras, and Strategies of Early Life
      30 Red Earth—The Great Oxidation Event
      31 Earliest Microbial and Molecular Fossils?
      32 Microbial Mats and Which Minerals Can Form
      33 Earth's Greatest Mineral Explosion
      34 The Boring Billion? Cratons and Continents
      35 The Supercontinent Cycle
      36 Feedback Loops and Tipping Points
      37 Snowball Earth and Hothouse Earth
      38 The Second Great Oxidation Event
      39 Deep Carbon—Deep Life, Fuels, and Methane
      40 Biominerals and Early Animals
      41 Between Rodinia and Pangaea—Plants on Land
      42 Life Speeds Up—Oxygen and Climate Swings
      43 From the “Great Dying" to Dinosaurs
      44 Impact! From Dinosaurs to Mammals
      45 Humans and the Anthropocene Epoch
      46 The Next 5 Billion Years
      47 The Nearer Future
      48 Coevolution of Geosphere and Biosphere
    • The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments4.3 - 70
    • The Science of Interstellar4.6 - 332
    • The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things4.2 - 31
    • The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You3.6 - 27
    • The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet4.7 - 175
    • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions4.3 - 429
    • The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments4.0 - 40
    • The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next4.4 - 251
    • The World Without Us4.2 - 487
    • This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works4.0 - 131
    • This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Edge Question Series)4.2 - 69
    • Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe3.8 - 164
    • The Modern Scholar: Geology: The Story of Earth4.44 - 123
    • To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science3.9 - 148
    • Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science4.6 - 58
    • Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science4.2 - 73
    • The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality4.1 - 51
    • We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe4.6 - 201
    • What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions4.6 - 3,779
    • What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night (Edge Question Series)4.0 - 54
    • The Wisdom of Crowds4.2 - 302
  • Self-Help
    • 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story4.5 - 2,774
    • Get the Edge: A 7-Day Program To Transform Your Life4.5 - 46
    • 8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness (8 Keys to Mental Health)4.5 - 46
    • The Science of Self-Confidence4.6 - 3
    • Brian Tracy Live - Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires3.5 - 2
    • Ego Is the Enemy4.6 - 860
    • How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day4.5 - 244
    • How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age4.7 - 6,947
    • Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives4.6 - 172
    • How To Be A No-Limit Person3.8 - 19
    • NLP: The New Technology of Achievement4.1 - 148
    • Small Talk: How to Connect Effortlessly With Anyone, Strike Up Conversations with Confidence and Make Small Talk Without the Fear of Being Awkward3.7 - 69
    • Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined4.6 - 69
    • How to Work a Room - Susan RoAne4.0 - 25
    • Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life4.5 - 106
    • The 8th Habit4.1 - 302
    • The Art & Skill of Conversation2.6 - 2
    • The Art of Meditation4.2 - 8
    • The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness4.4 - 120
    • The science of being great4.1 - 34
    • Unshakeable: Your Guide to Financial Freedom4.5 - 728
  • Sex
    • A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships3.9 - 133
    • American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus4.7 - 30
    • Henry Miller
      • Sexus4.1 - 64
      • Tropic of Cancer3.4 - 315
      • Tropic of Capricorn3.4 - 84
    • Herotica 45.0 -
    • How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do4.1 - 34
    • Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships3.9 - 36
    • The McDonaldization of Sex
    • Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us4.1 - 104
    • Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World4.2 - 38
    • Sex on the Brain: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life4.0 - 31
    • Sex, Time and Power4.3 - 78
    • The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction4.4 - 62
  • Sport
    • Heart of Fan Mania4.5 - 111
    • The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game4.3 - 612
    • The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch4.6 - 104
  • Stories
    • A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut4.3 - 309
    • A Thousand Splendid Suns4.7 - 4,573
    • An Ideal Husband
    • Angels and Demons by Dan Brown4.5 - 3,359
    • Anna Karenina4.1 - 2,850
    • Anne Frank4.6 - 2,381
    • Azimov
      • Foundation4.4 - 2,254
      • I, Robot4.4 - 610
      • Prelude to Foundation4.5 - 303
      • The End of Eternity4.5 - 309
      • Second Foundation4.4 - 2,254
    • Boris Akunin
      • Murder on the Leviathan4.0 - 64
      • The Turkish Gambit3.9 - 60
      • The Winter Queen4.2 - 135
    • Breakpoint3.7 - 81
    • By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept4.3 - 490
    • Douglas Adams
      • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy4.5 - 5,281
      • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe4.5 - 5,281
      • Life, Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams4.5 - 5,281
      • So Long, and thanks for the fish - Douglas Adams4.5 - 5,281
      • Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams4.0 - 206
      • The Salmon of Doubt4.5 - 5,281
    • Frank McCourt
      • Angela's Ashes4.4 - 2,349
      • Teacher Man4.4 - 522
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky
      • Crime and Punishment4.2 - 1,652
      • Notes from Underground4.2 - 140
    • The Gift of Valor A War Story4.8 - 73
    • Gilgamesh: A New English Version4.3 - 241
    • Holiday Classics by O.Henry
    • Jodi Picoult
      • Change of Heart: A Novel4.1 - 509
      • Handle with Care: A Novel4.2 - 1,043
      • Harvesting the Heart3.8 - 480
      • Keeping Faith4.3 - 1,372
      • My Sister's Keeper4.5 - 3,830
      • Nineteen Minutes4.5 - 3,830
      • Picture Perfect3.8 - 508
      • Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult4.5 - 1,272
      • Songs of the Humpback Whale3.4 - 193
      • The Pact LP: A Love Story4.4 - 2,790
      • The Tenth Circle3.6 - 459
    • Letters from Earth4.4 - 255
    • Metamorphosis - Kafka
    • Nabokov
      • Lolita4.1 - 1,408
      • Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov4.3 - 130
    • Next by Michael Crichton3.4 - 689
    • Night4.7 - 4,664
    • Night by Elie Wiesel
    • Robert A. Heinlein
      • "All You Zombies-": Five Classic Stories by Robert A. Heinlein4.2 - 72
      • Assignment in Eternity4.4 - 55
      • Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume One4.2 - 79
      • Robert Heinlein's Expanded Universe: Volume Two3.8 - 82
      • Farmer in the Sky4.6 - 120
      • Farnham's Freehold4.0 - 198
      • For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs3.8 - 116
      • Friday4.3 - 247
      • Glory Road4.4 - 263
      • Have Space Suit - Will Travel4.7 - 268
      • Job: A Comedy of Justice4.3 - 146
      • Podkayne of Mars4.1 - 201
      • Rocket Ship Galileo4.5 - 84
      • Sixth Column4.3 - 156
      • Starman Jones4.7 - 165
      • Starship Troopers4.5 - 1,716
      • The Cat Who Walks Through Walls3.4 - 129
      • The Door into Summer4.6 - 397
      • The Green Hills of Earth4.6 - 64
      • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress4.5 - 565
      • The Number of the Beast3.8 - 153
      • The Puppet Masters4.4 - 168
      • The Rolling Stones4.6 - 119
      • The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag4.2 - 60
      • Time Enough for Love4.3 - 433
      • Time for the Stars4.5 - 180
      • To Sail Beyond the Sunset3.9 - 82
      • Tunnel in the Sky4.5 - 272
    • Salman Rushdie
      • Step Across This Line4.3 - 21
      • The Satanic Verses3.6 - 458
    • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
    • The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
    • Skeletons on the Zahara4.5 - 420
    • Skipping Christmas4.3 - 2,623
    • The Cricket on the Hearth: and Other Christmas Stories4.0 - 60
    • Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night4.3 - 3,848
    • The Demon in the Freezer4.5 - 438
    • The Fountainhead4.4 - 1,920
    • The Fugitive: Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 6 by Marcel Proust5.0 - 2
    • The picture of Dorian Gray4.3 - 2,961
    • The Secret4.6 - 7,367
    • To Kill a Mockingbird4.7 - 10,094
  • Stories - humor
    • Dad Is Fat4.4 - 2,306
    • David Sedaris
      • David Sedaris-Live at Carnegie Hall4.7 - 79
      • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim4.3 - 516
      • Let's Explore Diabetes with Owl4.2 - 1,699
      • When You Are Engulfed in Flames4.1 - 1,351
    • Go the F**k to Sleep4.7 - 3,463
    • Modern Romance4.4 - 1,586
    • A Year in the Merde4.1 - 170
    • The Stupidest Angel4.2 - 525
    • Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence4.4 - 12
  • Survival
    • Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual - Essential Strategies For Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signa4.7 - 178
    • How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times4.4 - 860
    • Survivors club4.2 - 335
    • The Minimalist Guide To Prepping: Being Prepared Without Being Obsessed3.4 - 18
    • The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why4.6 - 353
  • Talent
    • Talent code4.6 - 740
    • Talent is overrated4.3 - 418
    • The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong4.1 - 93
    • The Little Book of Talent4.6 - 326
    • Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined4.3 - 44
  • Travel
    • Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland4.4 - 361
    • In Siberia5.0 - 3
    • Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia4.3 - 206
    • The geography of bliss4.3 - 477
    • The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate4.0 - 337
  • Unsorted
  • Unsorted - Convert
    • Cultural Literacy E.D. Hirsch Jr
    • Everybody Lies
    • Last Ape Standing by Chip Walter
    • The Teenage Brain
  • War
    • Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership4.1 - 48
    • Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat4.8 - 150
    • History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach4.4 - 58 Gregory S. Aldrete, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
      1 Petersburg: Union Digs Its Own Grave - 1864
      2 Syracuse: Athens's Second Front - 413 B.C.
      3 Carrhae: The Parthian Shot - 53 B.C.
      4 Red Cliffs: Cao Cao's Bad Day - 208 A.D.
      5 Barbarian Gate: Adrianople - 378, Pliska - 811
      6 Fourth Crusade: Byzantium Betrayed - 1204
      7 Kalka River: Genghis Khan's General - 1223
      8 Courtrai: Knights versus Shopkeepers - 1302
      9 Nagashino: Taking Swords to a Gunfight - 1575
      10 Cartagena: High Walls, Short Ladders - 1741
      11 Culloden: The Bonnie Prince Blunders - 1746
      12 Russia: Napoleon Retreats in the Snow - 1812
      13 Afghanistan: Khyber Pass Death Trap - 1842
      14 Crimea: Charge of the Light Brigade - 1854
      15 Greasy Grass: Custer's Last Stand - 1876
      16 Isandlwana: 25,000 Zulus Undetected - 1879
      17 Adwa: Italy's Fiasco in Ethiopia - 1896
      18 Colenso: The Second Boer War - 1899
      19 Tannenberg: Ineptitude in the East - 1914
      20 Gallipoli: Churchill Dooms Allied Assault - 1915
      21 World War II: Royal Navy Goes Down - 1941-42
      22 Dieppe Raid: Catastrophe on the Beach - 1942
      23 Operation Market Garden: A Bridge Too Far - 1944
      24 The Great Blunders: Four Paths to Failure
    • Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda4.0 - 84
    • Strategy: A History4.1 - 100
    • Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers4.5 - 85 Professor Andrew R. Wilson Ph.D.
      U.S. Naval War College
      1 Why Strategy Matters
      2 Thucydides on Strategy
      3 Thucydides as a Possession for All Time
      4 Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
      5 Sun Tzu through Time
      6 Machiavelli’s The Art of War
      7 Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy
      8 The Napoleonic Revolution in War
      9 Baron Jomini as a Strategist
      10 Clausewitz’s On War
      11 Jomini and Clausewitz through the Ages
      12 From Sail to Steam—The Sea-Power Revolution
      13 Alfred Thayer Mahan
      14 Sir Julian Corbett
      15 Mahan, Corbett, and the Pacific War
      16 Air Power in Theory and Practice
      17 From Rolling Thunder to Instant Thunder
      18 Nuclear Strategy
      19 Mao Tse-tung in Theory and Practice
      20 Classics of Counterinsurgency
      21 Just-War Theory
      22 Terrorism as Strategy
      23 Strategies of Counterterrorism
      24 From the Jaws of Defeat—Strategic Adaptation
    • On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society4.6 - 904
    • Sebastian Junger
      • Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging4.5 - 1,065
      • War by Sebastian Junger4.7 - 671
    • The Art of Non-war3.6 - 7
    • The Gun4.2 - 165
  • YouTube
    • Darvin BBC
    • George Carlin HBO Special 2008 Its Bad For Ya
    • Intro to Game Theory - John Fountain at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
    • Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain
    • Physics, Metaphysics and the Consciousness Connection
    • The Evolution of Confusion by Dan Dennett