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Great Courses volume 2
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Dr. Bonura discusses the secrets of motivation and illustrates the six stages of behavioral change: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination. She also offers tips on conquering several common barriers to change, including procrastination, preconditioned beliefs, and a fear of discomfort.
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Great Courses volume 2
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Practice finding the logical arguments hidden in statements by looking for indicator words that either appear explicitly or are implied-such as therefore and because. Then see how to identify the structure of an argument, focusing on whether it is deductive or inductive.
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Great Courses volume 24
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The digital revolution has radically altered both the media and journalism, and here, you'll see the impact mobile photography has had on Mr. Kashi's work. But first, examine advocacy journalism, another development in visual storytelling, through projects on sustainable development in Madagascar and on the devastating effects of kidney disease among sugar cane workers in Nicaragua.
4) Heroes and Legends: The Most Influential Characters of Literature: Frodo Baggins - A Reluctant Hero
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Great Courses volume 1
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What makes certain characters successful? Begin this study with a look at Frodo Baggins, the hobbit-hero from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In considering what makes him a hero, and how he runs counter to many notions of the traditional hero, viewers will see how changing cultural values connect to heroism.
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Great Courses volume 24
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See what happens if we deny the central claim of classical logic, that a proposition is either true or false. This step leads to new and useful types of reasoning called multi-valued logic and fuzzy logic. Wind up the course by considering where you've been and what logic is ultimately about.
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Great Courses volume 8
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English
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Gambling makes some people nervous, but it gives valuable insight into any type of risk-taking activity, including investing and entrepreneurship. Explore the role of games of skill and chance in the economy, and apply their lessons to activities such as banking and retirement planning.
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Great Courses volume 8
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"Garbage in, garbage out" is a famous expression in computer science, underscoring the importance of starting with reliable data. Learn how data is prepared to remove errors and ambiguities. As an example, see how the US Postal Service perfected machines that can read hastily scribbled addresses.
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Great Courses volume 20
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English
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Concrete, the world's most commonly used construction material, has been used in buildings that are anything but common. See concrete's versatility at work in an incredible range of structures, including Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, the Salginatobel Bridge in the Swiss Alps, and Dubai's Burj Khalifa (currently the world's tallest building).
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Great Courses volume 9
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We've all been fooled by a magic trick at one point or another. But we rarely stop to think about how magicians are simply manipulating pre-existing shortcomings in our minds. Here, explore some of the neurological principles magicians rely on, including selective attention, inattention blindness, and change blindness.
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Great Courses volume 4
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English
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Delve into the time of Pericles and the Peloponnesian War, where political action has required rural citizens to head into the city. There, the cramped urban conditions and pestilence breeds disaffection among the citizenry. Hear what Pericles had to say to inspire Athenians for the continued glory of the city.
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Great Courses volume 24
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Assuming something is wrong with schools, how might they be fixed? Analyze how the larger forces of imposition, invitation, and innovation can lead to change through examples from Saudi Arabia, the U.S., and Myanmar, where Buddhist monks have established non-religious schools at their monasteries to remedy the poor quality of government-provided education.
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Great Courses volume 21
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Follow the Abbasid Caliphate's administrator, Ibn Fadlan, as he travels from cosmopolitan Baghdad to the rustic wilds of central Asia. He brings money and instructions to King Almis of the Volga Bulgars, who has recently converted to Islam. Then he visits the Slavic Rus tribe for a bizarre and fascinating encounter.
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Great Courses volume 3
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Trace the roots of this masterpiece and the circumstances of its creation. Penetrate its complexity by digging into its "concentric" structure to discover the remarkable "trinities" and how they serve the larger unity and spiritual meaning of the set.
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Great Courses volume 11
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Truth-functional logic provides the tools to assess many of the conclusions we make about the world. In the previous lecture, you were introduced to truth tables, which map out the implications of an argument's premises. Deepen your proficiency with this technique, which has almost magical versatility.
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Great Courses volume 1
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English
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Follow how Cory Richards's approach to adventure photography has evolved beyond capturing the pure danger of climbing into something larger. Discover ways to reveal the human element in and culture of a locale by using to your advantage techniques including silhouette, leading lines, the vastness of a landscape, and anticipation.
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Great Courses volume 10
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Take a step beyond Aristotle to evaluate sentences whose truth cannot be proved by his system. Learn about truth-functional logic, pioneered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the German philosopher Gottlob Frege. This approach addresses the behavior of truth-functional connectives, such as not, and, or, and if -and that is the basis of computer logic, the way computers think.
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Great Courses volume 16
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So far, you have learned two approaches to logic: Aristotle's categorical method and truth-functional logic. Now add a third, hybrid approach, first-order predicate logic, which allows you to get inside sentences to map the logical structure within them.
18) Big Data: How Data Analytics Is Transforming the World: Degrees of Separation and Social Networks
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Great Courses volume 22
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Test the popular theory that six steps, at most, connect you to any person on the planet. Social networks like Facebook provide a wealth of data for quantifying our relative connectedness. See how graph theory helps you to visualize any linked phenomena.
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Great Courses volume 12
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Focus on a special case of moral hazard: the principal-agent problem, in which an agent is appointed to handle a matter beyond the expertise of the person doing the hiring (the principal). The agent may easily take unfair advantage of this situation, which covers everything from home repair to government contracting.
20) Masters of Mindfulness: Transforming Your Mind and Body: Beyond the Orgasm: Communicate and Flow
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Orgasm anxiety takes us away from sexual pleasure. But mindful sex can refocus our attention on the body's innate sexual feelings without judgment, allowing us to relax into pleasure. Jessica Graham shares the concept of "flow" meditation as well as ways mindfulness can help forge better communication between partners, deepening both pleasure and meaningful connection.