Lecture Ready Strategies for Academic Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion prepares students to deal with academic lectures with skill and confidence.The lectures include elements of natural speech, such as false starts and digressions, to provide practice in maintaining focus on the essential core of a lecture.Key features:
- Listening Strategies help students recognize language signals and tune in to academic lectures.
- Note-taking Strategies help students manage information intake.
- Discussion Strategies help students participate fully in classroom discussion.
- Themed units align with academic content areas
Lecture Ready 1 includes 5 units: Psychology, business, media studies, science, humanities. Answer key and transcripts.
2 audio CDs of lectures, listening exercises for targeted lecture language in each chapter (ten total).
Intermediate Listening Comprehension is the first volume in this groundbreaking listening and notetaking series of THOMSON.
This bookis designed to familiarize students with the major rhetorical patterns of formal, spoken English.
Lectures and readings from across the curriculum (history, science, anthropology, American studies, and language arts) provide stimulating content-based material for developing comprehension, notetaking, and academic study skills.Carefully sequenced progression of activities, spiraled rhetorical patterns, vocabulary, and structures, integrated speaking practice
This boxed set provides Volumes 1-3 together making this the complete and definitive set of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. For all readers interested in physics. Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 in Brooklyn and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1942. Despite his youth, he played an important part in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II. Subsequently, he taught at Cornell and at the California Institute of Technology. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- stovokor
Roots of Human Behavior - TTC (12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 168
Taught by Barbara J. King
The College of William and Mary
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
While human history is usually studied from the perspective of a few hundred years, anthropologists consider deeper causes for the ways we act. In this course, anthropologist Barbara J. King uses her wealth of research experience to open a window of understanding for you into the legacy left by our primate past. These lectures look for the roots of human behavior in the behavior of other primates: monkeys, apes, and human ancestors.
In these lectures, you explore such questions as:
• Are language and technology unique to humans?
• Have human love and loyalty developed from emotions of our primate cousins?
• Do the ways in which human males and females relate to each other come from our primate past?
• Have we inherited a biological tendency for aggression?
• How much of our behavioral, cognitive, and cultural identity have we inherited from our closest living relatives?
• How can the study of monkeys and apes lead us to a fuller picture of who we are?
Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions
Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 4123
Taught by Robert C. Solomon The University of Texas at Austin Ph.D., University of Michigan Fear, joy, grief, love, hate, pride, shame. We all have emotions, and we recognize emotions in others. But do we really understand what emotions are and what they signify? It is remarkable how often we are wrong about our own emotions and misread the emotions of others. We also deceive ourselves about their meaning. The more we puzzle over the nature of emotions, the deeper the mystery becomes. It is a mystery that is by no means solved, but one that repays careful, philosophical analysis. Far from being routine, emotions are “the key to the meaning of life,” says distinguished philosopher and author Robert C. Solomon, who in these 24 lectures takes you on a tour of his more than three-decade-long intellectual struggle to reach an understanding of these complex phenomena. Some of his conclusions are surprising and very much against the current of common sense. Professor Solomon's lectures unfold as a rich dialogue with other philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Descartes, Adam Smith, Nietzsche, William James, Freud, Heidegger, and Sartre. He also relates these views to contemporary work in the cognitive sciences on emotions, notably research by Antonio Damasio, Joseph LeDoux, and Paul Ekman. And he discusses the portrayal of emotions in writers and artists including Homer, Shakespeare, Melville, Dostoevsky, and Picasso.
Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions
