The Great Courses

The Great CoursesThe Great Courses

Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition

(Literature and English Literature)

All lectures 30 minutes each.

Part 1 taught by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, formerly of the University of Maryland

1. Foundations

2. The Epic of Gilgamesh

3. Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis

4. The Deuteronomistic History

5. Isaiah

6. Job

7. Homer—The Iliad

8. Homer—The Odyssey

9. Sappho and Pindar

10. Aeschylus

11. Sophocles

12. Euripides

Part 2 taught by Vandiver

13. Herodotus

14. Thucydides

15. Aristophanes

16. Plato

17. Menander and Hellenistic Literature

18. Catullus and Horace

19. Virgil

20. Ovid

21. Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch

22. Petronius and Apuleius

23. The Gospels

24. Augustine

Part 3 taught by Professor F.X. Noble of Notre Dame.

25. Beowulf

26. The Song of Roland

27. El Cid

28. Tristan and Isolt

29. The Romance of the Rose

30. Dante Alighieri—Life and Works

31. Dante Alighieri—The Divine Comedy

32. Petrarch

33. Giovanni Boccaccio

34. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

35. Geoffrey Chaucer—Life and Works

36. Geoffrey Chaucer—The Canterbury Tales

Part 4 taught by Ronald Herzman of the State University of New York

37. Christine de Pizan

38. Erasmus

39. Thomas More

40. Michel de Montaigne

41. François Rabelais

42. Christopher Marlowe

43. William Shakespeare—The Merchant of Venice

44. William Shakespeare—Hamlet

45. Lope de Vega

46. Miguel de Cervantes

47. John Milton

48. Blaise Pascal

Part 5 taught by Professor Susan Sage Heinzelman

49. Molière

50. Jean Racine

51. Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz

52. Daniel Defoe

53. Alexander Pope

54. Jonathan Swift

55. Voltaire

56. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

57. Samuel Johnson

58. Denis Diderot

59. William Blake

60. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Part 6 taught by James A. W. Heffernan, formerly of Dartmouth.

61. William Wordsworth

62. Jane Austen

63. Stendhal

64. Herman Melville

65. Walt Whitman

66. Gustave Flaubert

67. Charles Dickens

68. Fyodor Dostoevsky

69. Leo Tolstoy

70. Mark Twain

71. Thomas Hardy

72. Oscar Wilde

Part 7 taught by Heffernan

73. Henry James

74. Joseph Conrad

75. William Butler Yeats

76. Marcel Proust

77. James Joyce

78. Franz Kafka

79. Virginia Woolf

80. William Faulkner

81. Bertolt Brecht

82. Albert Camus

83. Samuel Beckett

84. Conclusion

The Foundations of Western Civilization

(Ancient and Medieval History)

Taught by Professor Thomas F. X. Noble of Notre Dame. All lectures are 30 minutes each.

Part 1:

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

Part 2:

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

Part 3:

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

Part 4:

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?

The History of the United States

Part 1 by Professor Allen Guelzo of Eastern University

All 30 minutes each.

Lecture 1--Living Bravely

Lecture 2--Spain, France, and the Netherlands

Lecture 3--Gentlemen in the Wilderness

Lecture 4--Radicals in the Wilderness

Lecture 5--Traders in the Wilderness

Lecture 6--An economy of slaves

Lecture 7--Printers, Painters, and Preachers

Lecture 8--The Great Awakening

Lecture 9—The Great War for the Empire

Lecture 10—The Rejection of the Empire

Lecture 11—the American Revolution—Politics and People

Lecture 12—The American Revolution—Howe’s War

Part 2 by Professor Guelzo

Lecture 13—The American Revolution—Washington’s War

Lecture 14—Creating the Constitution

Lecture 15—Hamilton’s Republic

Lecture 16—Republicans and Federalists

Lecture 17—Adams and Liberty

Lecture 18—The Jeffersonian Reaction

Lecture 19—Territory and Treason

Lecture 20—The Agrarian Republic

Lecture 21—The Disastrous War of 1812

Lecture 22—The “American System”

Lecture 23—A Nation Announcing Itself

Lecture 24—National Republican Follies

Part 3 by Professor Guelzo

Lecture 25—The Second Great Awakening

Lecture 26—Dark Satanic Mills

Lecture 27—The Military Chieftain

Lecture 28—The Politics of Distrust

Lecture 29—The Monster Bank

Lecture 30—Whigs and Democrats

Lecture 31—American Romanticism

Lecture 32—The Age of Reform

Lecture 33—Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery

Lecture 34—Whose Manifest Destiny?

Lecture 35—The Mexican War

Lecture 36—The Great Compromise

Part 4 by Professor Gary Gallagher of the University of Virginia

Lecture 37—Sectional Tensions Escalate

Lecture 38---Drifting toward Disaster

Lecture 39--The Coming of War

Lecture 40--The First Year of Fighting

Lecture 41—Shifting Tides of Battle

Lecture 42—Diplomatic Clashes and Sustaining the War

Lecture 43—Behind the Lines—Politics and Economies

Lecture 44—African Americans in Wartime

Lecture 45—The Union Drive to Victory

Lecture 46—Presdiential Reconstruction

Lecture 47—Congress Takes Command

Lecture 48—Reconstruction Ends

Part 5 by Professor Patrick Allitt of Emory University

Lecture 49—Industrialization

Lecture 50—Transcontinental Railroads

Lecture 51—The Last Indian Wars

Lecture 52—Farming the Great Plains

Lecture 53—African Americans and Reconstruction

Lecture 54—Men and Women

Lecture 55--Religions in Victorian America

Lecture 56—The Populists

Lecture 57—The New Immigratopm

Lecture 58—City Life

Lecture 59---Labor and Capital

Lecture 60—Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism

Part 6 by Professor Allitt

Lecture 61—Mass Production

Lecture 62—World War I—The Road to Intervention

Lecture 63—World War I—Versailles and Wilson’s Gambit

Lecture 64—The 1920s

Lecture 65—The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression

Lecture 66—The New Deal

Lecture 67—World War II—The Road to Pearl Harbor

Lecture 68—World War II—The European Theater

Lecture 69—World War II—The Pacific Theater

Lecture 70—The Cold War

Lecture 71---The Korean War and McCarthyism

Lecture 72—The Affluent Society

Part 7 by Professor Allitt

Lecture 73—The Civil Rights Movement

Lecture 74—The New Frontier

Lecture 75—The Rise of Mass Media

Lecture 76—The Vietnam War

Lecture 77—The Women’s Movement

Lecture 78—Nixon and Watergate

Lecture 79—Environmentalism

Lecture 80—Religion in the 20^th-century

Lecture 81—Carter and the Reagan Revolution

Lecture 82 The New World Order

Lecture 83—Clinton’s America and the Millenium

Lecture 84—Reflections

World War II: A Military and Social History

(Modern History)

All 3 parts taught by Professor Thomas Childers of the University of Pennsylvania

Part 1:

1. The Origins of the Second World War

2. Hitler’s Challenge to the International System, 1933–1936

3. The Failure of the International System

4. The Coming of War

5. Blitzkrieg

6. The German Offensive in the West

7. “Their Finest Hour”—Britain Alone

8. The Battle of Britain

9. Hitler Moves East

10. The Germans Before Moscow

Part 2:

11. The War in Asia

12. The Japanese Gamble

13. The Height of Japanese Power

14. Turning the Tide in the Pacific—Midway and Guadalcanal

15. The War in North Africa

16. War in the Mediterranean—The Invasions of Sicily and Italy

17. Stalingrad—The Turning Point on the Eastern Front

18. Eisenhower and Operation Overlord

19. D-Day to Paris

20.Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge

Part 3:

21. Advance Across the Pacific

22. Turning Point in the Southwest Pacific—Leyte Gulf and the Philippines

23. The Final Drive for Japan—Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo

24. War in the Air

25. Hitler's New Order in Europe

26. “The Man’s Army”

27. Daily Life, Culture, and Society in Wartime

28. The Race for Berlin

29. Truman, the Bomb, and the End of the War in the Pacific

30. The Costs of War

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

(Fine Arts and Music)

Part 1 taught by Professor Robert Greenberg, formerly of Francisco Conservatory of Music. Lecture are 45 minutes each.

1. Music as a Mirror

2. Sources—The Ancient World and the Early Church

3. The Middle Ages

4. Introduction to the Renaissance

5. The Renaissance Mass

6. The Madrigal

7. An Introduction to the Baroque Era

8. Style Features of Baroque-era Music

Part 2, same professor, lectures 45 minutes each

9. National Styles—Italy and Germany

10. Fugue

11. Baroque Opera, Part 1

12. Baroque Opera, Part 2

13. The Oratorio

14. The Lutheran Church Cantata

15. Passacaglia

16. Ritornello Form and the Baroque Concerto

Part 3, same professor, 45 minutes each

17. The Enlightenment and an Introduction to the Classical Era

18. The Viennese Classical Style, Homophony, and the Cadence

19. Classical-era Form—Theme and Variations

20. Classical-era Form—Minuet and Trio: Baroque Antecedents

21. Classical-era Form—Minuet and Trio Form

22. Classical-era Form—Rondo Form

23. Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 1

24. Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 2

Part 4, same professor, 45 minutes each

25. Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 3

26. The Symphony—Music for Every Person

27. The Solo Concerto

28. Classical-era Opera—The Rise of Opera Buffa

29. Classical-era Opera, Part 2—Mozart and the Operatic Ensemble

30. The French Revolution and an Introduction to Beethoven

31. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 1

32. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 2

Part 5, same professor, 45-minute lectures

33. Introduction to Romanticism

34. Formal Challenges and Solutions in Early Romantic Music

35. The Program Symphony—Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 1

36. The Program Symphony—Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 2

37. 19th-Century Italian Opera—Bel Canto Opera

38. 19th-Century Italian Opera—Giuseppe Verdi

39. 19th-Century German Opera—Nationalism and Experimentation

40. 19th-Century German Opera—Richard Wagner

Part 6, same professor, lectures 45 mintues long

41. The Concert Overture, Part 1

42. The Concert Overture, Part 2

43. Romantic-era Musical Nationalism

44. Russian Nationalism

45. An Introduction to Early 20th-Century Modernism

46. Early 20th-Century Modernism—Claude Debussy

47. Early 20th-Century Modernism—Igor Stravinsky

48. Early 20th-Century Modernism—Arnold Schönberg

A History of European Art

(Fine Arts and Music)

Taught by Professor William Kloss of the Smithosonian Institution. All lectures are 30 minutes each.

Part 1:

1. Approaches to European Art

2. Carolingian and Ottonian Art

3. Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture

4. Gothic Art in France

5.Gothic Art in Germany and Italy

6. Giotto and the Arena Chapel—Part I

7. Giotto and the Arena Chapel—Part II

8. Duccio and the Maestà

9. Sienese Art in the 14th Century

10. The Black Death and the International Style

11.Early Renaissance Sculpture in Florence

12. Early Renaissance Architecture in Florence

Part 2:

13. Masaccio and Early Renaissance Painting

14. Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance Art

15. Northern Renaissance Altarpieces

16. Piero della Francesca in Arezzo

17. Sandro Botticelli

18. Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini

19. High Renaissance Painting in Venice

20. The High Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci

21. The High Renaissance—Raphael

22. The High Renaissance—Michelangelo

23. Albrecht Dürer and German Renaissance Art

24. Riemenschneider and Grünewald

Part 3:

25. Netherlandish Art in the 16th Century

26. Pieter Bruegel the Elder

27. Mannerism and the Late Work of Michelangelo

28. Annibale Carracci and the Reform of Art

29. Caravaggio

30. Italian Baroque Painting in Rome

31. Gian Lorenzo Bernini

32. Peter Paul Rubens

33. Dutch Painting in the 17th Century

34. Rembrandt

35. Poussin and Claude—The Allure of Rome

36. Baroque Painting in Spain

Part 4:

37. Louis XIV and Versailles

38. French Art in the 18th Century

39. Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism

40. Romanticism in the 19th Century

41. Realism—From Daumier to Courbet

42. Manet and Monet—The Birth of Impressionism

43. Monet and Degas

44. Renoir, Pissarro, and Cézanne

45. Beyond Impressionism—From Seurat to Matisse

46. Cubism and Early Modern Painting

47. Modern Sculpture—Rodin and Brancusi

48. Art between Two Wars—Kandinsky to Picasso

No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life

(Philosophy and Intellectual History)

Part 1 by Professore Robert Solomon of the University of Texas at Austin

Lecture 1—What is existentialism?

Lecture 2—Albert Camus—The Stranger, Part 1

Lecture 3—Albert Camus—The Stranger, Part 2

Lecture 4—Camus—The Myth of Sisyphus

Lecture 5—Camus—The Plague and The Fall

Lecture 6—Camus—The Fall, Part 2

Lecture 7—Soren Kierkegaard—“On Becoming a Christian”

Lecture 8—Kierkegaard on Subjective Truth

Lecture 9--Kierhegaard’s Existential Dialectic

Lecture 10—Friedrich Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God

Lecture 11—Nietzsche, the “Immortalist”

Lecture 12—Neitzsche on Freedom, Fate and Responsibility

Part 2 by Professor Solomon

Lecture 13—Nietzsche—The Ubermensch and the Will to Power

Lecture 14—Three Grand Inquisitors—Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hesse

Lecture 15—Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology

Lecture 16—Heidegger on the World and Self

Lecture 17—Heidegger on “Authenticity”

Lecture 18—Jean-Paul Sartre at War

Lecture 19—Jean Paul Sartre on Emotions and Responsibility

Lecture 20—Sartre’s Phenomenology

Lecture 21—Sartre on “Bad Faith”

Lecture 22—Sartre’s Being-for-Oters and No Exit

Lecture 23—Sartre on Sex and Love

Lecture 24—From Existentialism to Postmodernism

Classical Mythology

Part 1 taught by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver of the University of Maryland

Lecture 1—Introduction

Lecture 2—What is Myth?

Lecture 3—Why is Myth?

Lecture 4—“First was Chaos.”

Lecture 5—The Reign of the Olympians

Lecture 6—Immortals and Mortals

Lecture 7—Demeter, Persephone, and the Conquest of Death

Lecture 8—The Eleusian Mysteries and the Afterlife

Lecture 9—Apollo and Artemis

Lecture 10—Hermes and Dionysos

Lecture 11—Laughter-loving Aphrodite

Lecture 12—Culture, Prehistory, and the “Great Goddess”

Part 2 by Professor Vandiver

Lecture 13—Humans, Heroes, and Half-Gods

Lecture 14—Thesus and the “Test and Quest” Myth

Lecture 15—From Myth to History and Back Again

Lecture 16—The Greatest Hero of All

Lecture 17—The Trojan War

Lecture 18—The Terrible House of Atreus

Lecture 19—Blood Vengeance, Justice, and the Furies

Lecture 20—The Tragedies of King Oedipus

Lecture 21—Monstrous Females and Female Monsters

Lecture 22==Roman Founders, Roman Fables

Lecture 23—“God are Useful”

Lecture 24—From Ovid to the Stars

What are the Chances?

Probability Made Clear

(Science and Mathematics)

Taught by Professor Michael Starbird of the University of Texas as Austin

Lecture 1--Our Random World—Probability Defined

Lecture 2--The Nature of Randomness

Lecture 3--Expected Value—You Can Bet on It

Lecture 4--Random Thoughts on Random Walks

Lecture 5--Probability Phenomena of Physics

Lecture 6--Probability Is in Our Genes

Lecture 7--Options and Our Financial Future

Lecture 8--Probability Where We Don't Expect It

Lecture 9--Probability Surprises

Lecture 10--Conundrums of Conditional Probability

Lecture 11--Believe It or Not—Bayesian Probability

Lecture 12--Probability Everywhere

Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear

(Science and Mathematics)

Part 1 taught by Professort Michael Starbird of the University of Texas at Austin. Lectures 30 minutes each

1. Data and Inferring Meaning

2. Distributions—Getting the Picture

3. How Close? How confident?

4. Dispersion or Measuring Spread

5. Distributions—Shapely Families

6. The Bell Curve

7. Correlations and Regression—Moving Together

8. Probability—Workhorse for Inference

9. Samples—The Few, the Chosen

10. Testing—Innocent Until…

11. Intervals—How Close? How Sure

12. Experiments—Thinking Ahead

Part 2, Starbird, 30-minute lectures

13. Law---You’re the jury

14. Democracy and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

15. Election Problems and Engines Failures

16. Sports—Who’s the 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

The Early Middle Ages

(Ancient and Medieval History)

Part 1 taught by Professor Philip Daileader of the College of William and Mary.

1. Long Shadows and the Dark Ages

2. Diocletian and the Crises of the Third Century

3. Constantine the Great-Christian Emperor

4. Pagans and Christians in the Fourth Century

5. Athletes of God

6. Augustine, Part One

7. Augustine, Part 2

8. Barbarians at the Gate

9. Franks and Goths

10. Arthur’s England

11. . Justinian and the Byzantine Empire

12. The House of Islam

Part 2, taught by Daileader, lectures 30 minutes long

13. Rise of the Carolingians

14. Charlemagne

15. Carolingian Christianity

16. The Carolingian Renaissance

17. Fury of the Northmen

18. Collapse of the Carolingian Empire

19. The Birth of France and Germany

20. England in the Age of Alfred

21. Al-Andalus-Islamic Spain

22. Carolingian Europe-Gateway to the Middle Ages

23. Family Life—How Then Became Now

24. Long Shadows and the Dark Ages Revisited.

The High Middle Ages

(Ancient and Medieval History)

Two parts taught by Professor Philip Daileader of The College of William and Mary

Part 1—lectures 30 minutes each

1. Why the Middle Ages?

2. Demography and the Commercial Revolution

3. Those Who Fought—The Nobles

4. The Chivalric Code

5. Feudalism

6. Those Who Worked—The Peasants

7. Those Who Worked—The Townspeople

8. Women in Medieval Society

9. Those Who Prayed—The Monks

10. Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan Movement

11. Heretics and Heresy

12. The Medieval Inquisitions

Part 2—lectures 30 minutes each

13. Jews and Christians

14. The Origins of Scholasticism

15. Aquinas and the Problem of Aristotle

16. The First Universities

17. The People's Crusade

18. The Conquest of Jerusalem

19. The Norman Conquest

20. Philip II of France

21. Magna Carta

22. Empire versus Papacy

23. Emperor Frederick II

24. Looking Back, Looking Forward

Understanding the Universe

(An Introduction to Astronomy)

Part 1—30-minute-long lectures by Professor Alex Filippenko from the University of California.

1. A Grand Tour of the Cosmos

2. The Rainbow Connection

3. Sunrise, Sunset

4. Bright Objects in the Night Sky

5. Fainter Phenomena in the Sky

6. Our Sky through Binoculars and Telescopes

7. The Celestial Sphere

8. The Reason for the Seasons

9. Lunar Phases and Eerie Lunar Eclipses

10. Glorious Total Solar Eclipses

11. More Ecllipse Tales

12. Early Studies of the Solar System

Part 2

13. Geocentric Universe

14. Galileo and the Copernican Revolution

15. Refinements to the Heliocentric Model

16. On the Shoulders of Giants

17. Surveying Space and Time

18. Scale Models of the Universe

19. Light—The Supreme Informant

20. The Wave-Particle Duality of Light

21. The Colors of Stars

22. The Fingerprints of Atoms

23. Modern Telescopes

24. A Better Set of Eyes

Part 3

25. Our Sun, the Nearest Star

26. The Earth, Third Rock from the Sun

27. Our Moon, Earth’s nearest Neighbor

28. Mercury or Venus

29. Of Mars and Martians

30. Jupiter and its Amazing Moons

31. Magnificent Saturn

32. Uranus and Nepturn, the Small Giants

33. Pluto and its Cousins

34. Asteroids and Dwarf Planets

35. Comets—Gorgeous Primordial Snowballs

36. Catastrophic Collisions

Part 4

37. Formation of Planetary Systems

38. Quest for other Planetary Systems

39. Extra-solar Planets Galore

40. Life beyond the Earth

41. The Search for Extraterrestrials

42. Special Relativity and Interstellar Travel

43. Stars—Distant Suns

44. The Intrinsic Brightness of Stars

45. The Diverse Sizes of Stars

46. Binary Stars and Stellar Masses

47. Star Clusters, Ages, and Remote Distances

48. How Stars Shine—Nature’s Nuclear Reactors

Part 5

49. Solar Neutrinos—Probes of the Sun’s Core

50. Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets

51. Our Sun’s Brilliant Future

52. White Dwarf and Nova Eruption

53. Exploding Stars—Celestial Fireworks

54. White Dwarf Supernovae—Stealing to Wins

55. Core Collapse Supernovae—Gravity Wins

56. The Brightest Supernova in nearly 400 Years

57. The Corpses of Massive Stars

58. 58. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

59. Warping of Space and Time

60. Black Holes—Abandon Hope, Ye who Enter

Part 6

61. The Quest for Black Holes

62. Imagining the Journey to a Black Hole

63. Wormholes- Gateways to Other Universes ?

64. Quantum Physics and Black-Hole Evaporation

65. Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts

66. Birth Cries of Black Holes

67. Our Home- The Milky Way Galaxy

68. Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy

69. Other Galaxies – “ Island Universes”

70. The Dark Side of Matter

71. Cosmology- The Really Big Picture

72. Expansion of the Universe and the Big Bang

Part 7

73. Searching for Distant Galaxies

74. The Evolution of Galaxies

75. Active Galaxies and Quasars

76. Cosmic Powerhouses of the Distant Past

77. Supermassive Black Holes

78. Feeding the Monster

79. The Paradox of the Dark Night Sky

80. The Age of the Universe

81. When Geometry Is Destiny

82. The Mass Density of the Universe

83. Einstein’s Biggest Blunder?

84. The Afterglow of the Big Bang

Part 8

85. Ripples in the Cosmic Background Radiation

86. The Stuff of the Cosmos

87. Dark Energy- Quantum Fluctuations

88. Dark Energy- Quintessence

89. Grand Unifacation and Theories of Everything

90. Searching for Hidden Dimensions

91. The Shape, Size and Fate of the Universe

92. In the Beginning

93. The Inflationary Universe

94. The Ultimate Free Lunch?

95. A Universe of Universes

96. Reflections on Life and the Cosmos

Understanding the Human Body

An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

Part 1

45-minute lectures taught by Professor Anthony Goodman of Montana State University

1. Cardiovascular System- Anatomy of the Heart

2. Cardiovascular System- Physiolgy 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

Part 2

9. Nervous System- Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves

10. Nervous System Automatic 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

16. Digestive System-Anatomy of the Pancreas, Liver, and the Biliary Tree

Part 3.

17. Digestive System—Physciology of the Pancreas, Liver, and the Biliary Tree

18. Digestive System—Antomy 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

Part 4

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.

The Joy of Thinking:

The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematics Ideas

First part of this series are 30-minute lectures by Professor Edward Burger at Williams College.

1.Great Ideas that Bring Our World into Focus

2. How Many? Counting Surprises

3. Fermat’s Last Theorem and the Allure of Number

4. Pining for Nature’s Number

5. Sizing up the Fibonacci Numbers

6. The Sexiest Triangle</