Thirty lectures on geometry presented by James Noggle, math instructor at Pendleton Heights High School in Pendleton, Indiana and recipient of the Tandy Technology Scholar Award for academic excellence in mathematics, science, and computer science. Topics covered in lectures: postulates; proofs; triangles; congruence and similarity; parallel lines; quadrilaterals; right triangles; circles; area; coodinate geometry; solids; constructions; and introduction...

Historical overview of the evolution of algebra. Explores the various families of functions, in a logical and ascending order from linear to quadratic to rational and, finally, to the family of exponential functions. (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)

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Professor Weinstein of Brown University presents eighty-four lectures on the great classics of American literature, showing how such authors as Irving, Poe, Thoreau, Hemingway, and Faulkner bring the past to life, changing as each generation steps forward to interpret it anew. (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)

Course examines World War II, its causes and costs. (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)

Presents Virgil's epic poem about Aeneas and his journey west from ruined Troy to the founding of a new nation in Italy. The Aeneid is an examination of leadership, a study of the conflict between duty and desire, a meditation on the relationship of the individual to society and of art to life, and a Roman's reflection on the dangers, and the allure, of Hellenistic culture. It represents both Virgil's tribute to Homer, and his attempt to re-imagine...

Discover the story of how Odysseus, "the man of many twists and turns," returns home from the Trojan War by the most winding and adventurous route imaginable, battling gods and monsters and even visiting Hades in his quest to get back to Ithaca and set his lands and life in order.

An introductory course on Greek and Roman mythology. Surveys some of the leading theoretical approaches to understanding myth in general and classical myth in particular.

A series of twelve 30 min. lectures. Historian William Cook and literary scholar Ronald Herzman discuss the life, world, and legacy of Francis of Assisi.

Presents lectures delivered by Bart D. Ehrman on the "man behind the myth," Jesus of Nazereth. Includes an analysis of his life and times from a historical perspective.