Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the rise of a broad-based conservative...

Takes the viewer from the early study of motion through the path of modern discovery of relativity, quantum phenomena and the consequences of these discoveries for our understanding of space, time and the universe.

An all-new series of practical talks first shared on Eckhart Tolle TV, a flourishing online community with members from 130 countries. Inspired by what he describes as the evolutionary impulse to assist in humanity's collective spiritual awakening, Tolle designed these sessions to take listeners beyond the introductory material offered in his public appearances.

This course examines the ideas, events, and characters that molded Western political, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, scientific and economic history during the period from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Malcolm David Eckel presents 24 lectures concerning the history and funadmental teachings of Buddhism.

Professor Greenberg combines perceptive analysis of extensive musical excerpts with historical anecdotes, metaphors, and humor to show what goes on inside a musical composition: how it came to be written, how it works, and how, as is often the case with Beethoven, it may break all former rules to achieve a completely new and powerful effect. This course is somewhat technical and although musical knowledge is helpful, it is not a necessity.

Professor Brier delivers twelve lectures on the leaders of ancient Egypt. In recounting the lives and accomplishments of the pharoahs of Egypt, his lectures present a history of Egypt spreading over thirty centuries.

At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job a the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated...

Lyra, the silent princess of daylight, must find a way to make noise and pass a series of tests to stop a pretender from stealing her betrothed prince and crown.

Between the lamppost and Cair Paravel on the eastern sea lies Narnia, a mystical land where animals hold the power of speech, woodland creatures conspire with men, and dark forces, bent on conquest, gather at the world's rim to wage war against the realm's rightful king. Into this enchanted world comes a group of unlikely travelers. These ordinary boys and girls, when faced with peril, learn extraordinary lessons in courage, self-sacrifice, friendship,...