The Western Literary Canon in Context
By: John M. Bowers
4.10
Format: 19 pages, Audio CD
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here The Western literary canon has come to epitom…
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1. Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
By: None , Suzanne M. Desan
4.26
Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio
The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after N… read more
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2. A History of Eastern Europe
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
4.24
Format: 13 pages, Audio CD
Eastern Europe has long been thought of as the "Other Europe", a region rife with political upheava… read more
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3. Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage
By: None , John McWhorter
4.38
Format: 620 pages, Audible Audio
Is English broken? Do bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards… read more
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4. Joyce's Ulysses
By: James A.W. Heffernan
4.10
Format: 271 pages,
Dartmouth's Professor James A. W. Heffernan maps the brilliance, passion, humanity, and humor of Ja… read more
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5. The History of the United States (Great Courses, #8500)
By: Patrick N. Allitt , Allen C. Guelzo , Gary W. Gallagher
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Audio CD
This is the chronicle of a nation that enslaved a race of people. And of a nation that fought a Civ… read more
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6. Turning Points in Modern History
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Audio CD
This series contains 24 lectures, each one focusing on a different "turning point" since 1400. read more
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7. The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
By: Martin Puchner
4.36
Format: 184 pages,
In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and aroun… read more
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8. The Skeptic's Guide to American History
By: Mark A. Stoler
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Audible Audio
To take a skeptical approach to American history is not to dabble in imaginative conspiracy theorie… read more
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9. The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
By: Robert L. O'Connell
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A stirring account of the most influential battle in history: For millennia, Carthage's triumph ove… read more
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10. The Art of War (The Great Courses, #9456)
By: Andrew R. Wilson
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Audiobook
Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a landmark achievement in the evolution of strategic thought. So univer… read more
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11. 12 Essential Scientific Concepts
By: The Great Courses , Indre Viskontas
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Audible Audio
Length: 12 hours and 5 minutes Science is such a vast arena of knowledge that people looking for a … read more
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12. The History Of World Literature (Great Courses, #2300)
By: Grant L. Voth
3.22
Format: 224 pages,
This is a series of 48 half-hour lectures by Professor Grant L Voth, professor emeritus of English … read more
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13. Shakespeare: The Word and the Action (The Great Courses, #273)
By: Peter Saccio
3.81
Format: None pages,
Shakespeare is the leading playwright, and probably the leading writer, in Western civilization. Hi… read more
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14. The Skeptic’s Guide to the Great Books
By: Grant L. Voth
4.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Hamlet. Moby-Dick. War and Peace. Ulysses. These are just four of what are considered the "Great Bo… read more
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15. Classics of British Literature
By: John Sutherland
3.83
Format: 32 pages,
For more than 1,500 years, the literature of Great Britain has taught, nurtured, thrilled, outraged… read more
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16. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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17. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
By: David Reich
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more
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18. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
19. Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works
By: Maureen Corrigan
4.18
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Throughout the 24 lectures of Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works, author and book… read more
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20. Rise of the Novel: Exploring History's Greatest Works
By: Leo Damrosch
3.77
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Thousands of novels are published around the world every year. There are so many readily available,… read more
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21. Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.81
Format: 18 pages, Audible Audio
Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civiliz… read more
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22. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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23. 36 Books That Changed the World
By: Andrew R. Wilson
3.66
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Certain works of literature, history, science, philosophy, political theory and religion offer powe… read more
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24. Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature
By: Arnold Weinstein
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
36 lectures, 30 minutes per Meeting the Challenge of Great Literaure, Defoe - Moll Flanders, Sterne… read more
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25. Modern British Drama (The Great Courses, Cassettes)
By: Peter Saccio
3.98
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
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26. The Western Literary Canon in Context
By: John M. Bowers
4.10
Format: 19 pages, Audio CD
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27. In Praise of Good Bookstores
By: Jeff Deutsch
3.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular … read more
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28. Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition
By: Elizabeth Vandiver
4.12
Format: 43 pages, Audible Audio
1. Foundations 2. The Epic of Gilgamesh 3. Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis 4. The Deut… read more
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29. Mystical Tradition: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
By: Luke Timothy Johnson
3.49
Format: 377 pages, Audio CD
Mystical experiences and practices-including dramatic visions, direct communication with the divine… read more
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30. 36 Big Ideas
By: Various
3.66
Format: None pages, Audio CD
As the home to big ideas, The Great Courses has produced thousands of lectures that have introduced… read more
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31. Life Lessons from the Great Books
By: J. Rufus Fears
3.83
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
Study more than three dozen works that span the timelines of Western history, from ancient Greece a… read more
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