TTC - Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear, 2nd Edition
Course No. 177 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Michael Starbird The University of Texas at Austin Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
At its peak in the early 20th century, Britain's empire was the largest in the history of the world, greater even than that of ancient Rome. It embraced more than a fourth of the world's population and affected the course of Western civilization in ways almost too numerous to imagine.
Even today, with the advantages of historical perspective and hindsight, it is still nearly impossible to overstate the scope and importance of its stunning legacy.
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire will give you a refreshing new understanding of what made the British Empire both great in its achievements and vulnerable to its eventual downfall.
There's more than heather shaking in Lochdubh when Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates the murder of a gorgeous television reporter whose inflammatory reportage and unscrupulous investigative tactics have incensed the entire village -- and left no shortage of suspects.
Anyone concerned about the future of horror will find plenty of reassurance in this outstanding reprint anthology showcasing short fiction by todays best writers in the genre. Straub (The Throat) skillfully varies tempo and style, mixing stories of psychological terror with more traditional ghostly tales. Thomas Tessier puts a fresh spin on the empty old house theme in the memorable In Praise of Folly, in which the lonely protagonist pursues his fascination with bizarre structures to the Adirondacks.
With his neat new uniform, big new truck and important new job as head of Lochdubh's state-of-the-art recycling center, dustman Fergus Macleod is a force to be reckoned with-issuing harsh fines and enforcing petty rules, much to the dismay of the businesspeople in town. But when the unpopular trash collector is found dead, stuffed in his own recycling bin, Scottish detective Hamish Macbeth is called to the scene to make a clean sweep of the murder and dig up a dirty killer with ties to Lochdubh's new oceanfront hotel.