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This comprehensive series of 84 lectures features three award-winning historians sharing their insights into this nation's past-from the European settlement and the Revolutionary War through the Civil War, 19th-century industrialization, two world wars, and the present day. These lectures give you the opportunity to grasp the different aspects of our past that combine to make us distinctly American, and to gain the knowledge so essential to recognizing not only what makes this country such a noteworthy part of world history, but the varying degrees to which it has lived up to its ideals.

I didn’t know I was a witch until a pair of cats started talking to me and I received an official summons to report to a training school for my supernatural abilities. That’s when I’m shipped off to a highly esteemed university for the supernatural, Moongrove Academy. I go to class alongside shifters, vampires, and other creatures straight from the paranormal books I love so much.

Grasp the important ideas that have served as the backbone of philosophy across the ages with this extraordinary 60-lecture series. This is your opportunity to explore the enormous range of philosophical perspectives and ponder the most important and enduring of human questions-without spending your life poring over dense philosophical texts.

There’s an apocryphal story that Alexander the Great once captured a notorious pirate named Diomedes. The great conqueror decided to interview the doomed pirate, asking him what he thought gave him the right to seize the property of other people. The pirate responded by asking the emperor what he thought gave him the right to take property that doesn’t belong to him, including entire countries. The story goes that Alexander thought the pirate very clever, granting him freedom instead of execution.

Step into a captivating world of alien romance and adventure with the thrilling box set of the Captured by Aliens series.

Taught by acclaimed Professor Patrick Allitt, a British-born scholar who teaches at Emory University, these 36 splendid lectures give you an insider’s take on traveling through Great Britain. Whether you are planning a week-long vacation, a month-long grand tour, or just want to experience England, Scotland, and Wales from afar, this immersive course takes you on a voyage through not only the most popular tourist sites but also a trove of “hidden gems” overlooked by the traditional guidebooks.

After divorce, job loss, or life crisis, many men find themselves lost—drifting through days, numbing pain, wondering how they became strangers in their own lives. REBUILD is the practical guide for men ready to transform wreckage into strength.

The construction of the great pyramids of Egypt, the development of democracy in ancient Greece, the glories of ancient Rome-these stories are familiar to students of history. But what about the rest of the world? How do the histories of China and Japan, or Russia, India, and the remote territories of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America fit in with commonly known accounts of Western traditions?Learn the rest of the story with these 36 riveting lectures that survey the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe.

From electric lights to automobiles to the appliances that make our lives easier at work and at home, we owe so much of our world to the Industrial Revolution. In this course, The Great Courses partners with the Smithsonian - one of the world's most storied and exceptional educational institutions - to examine the extraordinary events of this period and uncover the far-reaching impact of this incredible revolution.

Read by the author. A new and inviting introduction to the Acts of the Apostles from New Testament scholar and theologian N. T. Wright. Acts is a substantial book. It sits right in the middle of the New Testament, looking back to the four Gospels and ahead to the mission of the early church. It...

A Translation of the Good News of Jesus for Everyone If the Bible cannot be understood by everyone, then it is not good news. But from the very first days of the church at Pentecost, the good news of Jesus was translated into languages of everyday people through the power of the Holy Spirit...

Ein jahrtausendealter Fluch. Ein grausamer Halbgott, der sich nach Rache sehnt. Eine junge Frau, die den Tod überlisten will. Yuna Lark weiß dank ihrer Gabe genau, wann jemand sterben wird – und ihre Mutter hat nur noch wenig Zeit. Als sie den Halbgott Zenon versehentlich von einem uralten Fluch befreit, bietet er ihr eine Reise in die Unterwelt an, um mit den Schicksalsgöttinnen selbst um das Leben ihrer Mutter zu feilschen. Je näher sie den mächtigen Moiren kommen, desto mehr verliert sie sich in Zenons rauen Berührungen.

Kai war einst die Große Beschützerin von Vallendor – bis sie vom rechten Weg abgekommen ist. Nun hat sie ihre Erinnerungen zurück, aber ihr Reich steht kurz vor der Vernichtung. Um ihren Feind zu besiegen, muss sie zwei magische Artefakte finden. Doch nicht nur das: Ausgerechnet Jadon, der sie belogen hat und noch immer eine Flut an zwiespältigen Gefühlen in ihr auslöst, braucht ihre Hilfe. Kai muss ihre Macht zurückfordern und sich entscheiden, wer sie sein will: Eine Zerstörerin oder eine Retterin?

Der Sozialpsychologe Jonathan Haidt zeigt: Die Antwort liegt in unserer Moral – die weit weniger auf Rationalität und Logik gründet als auf Intuition und Sozialtrieb. Moral bringt uns dazu, individuelle Interessen zu überwinden und mit anderen zu kooperieren; zugleich aber macht sie uns blind für die Perspektiven anderer Gruppen. So haben sich im Lauf der Evolution und Geschichte zwischen Gemeinschaften und Kulturen sehr unterschiedliche moralische Intuitionen herausgebildet.

Your All-in-One Blueprint for Financial Security, Legacy Protection & Tax-Smart Wealth Building If you're serious about protecting your legacy, making your money last, and leaving behind more than just memories, this book is your one-stop guide. Living Trusts + Wills, Retirement, Tax & Estate Planning – The 6-in-1 Guide gives you everything you need to create a complete financial and legal game plan for your future—and your family's. What Makes This Book Special?

Like pilots navigating turbulence, CEOs must handle the invisible forces that want to drag their companies down and learn to take advantage of the ones that keep them soaring. Drawing from three decades as a growth advisor to CEOs around the world, Kevin Lawrence explains how even exceptional leaders can become victims of their own success and reveals what it takes to keep a company on course. Filled with examples from real CEOs, The 4 Forces of Growth offers a clear path to achieving real, consistent, and scalable growth by harnessing a few simple tools and avoiding common pitfalls.

Jana Doktor ist fast dreißig, frisch getrennt und vorübergehend wieder bei den Eltern eingezogen. Spontan begeben sich die beiden Frauen auf einen Road-Trip nach Italien, der für Jana ein unerwartetes Erlebnis bereithält: eine Epiphanie? Lakonisch und zugleich warmherzig erzählt Lisa Roy von der Suche nach Sinn und Zugehörigkeit, nach Glauben, Familie, Liebe und Freundschaft in einer zunehmend unübersichtlichen Welt.

Seit Faith in unser Leben gestolpert ist, hat sich alles verändert. Wir stecken mitten in einem Krieg, der Opfer fordern wird und sie ist unser Pfand, das dafür sorgt, dass wir nicht dazu gehören. Doch anstatt sich wie eine gefügige Geisel zu verhalten, raubt sie uns den Verstand und zwingt uns, unsere eigenen Regeln zu brechen. Besonders unseren König. Nyx versinkt ihretwegen immer tiefer in seiner Dunkelheit. Trotz des Verlusts seiner Krone und dem drohenden Zerfall unserer Truppe werde ich für immer an seiner Seite bleiben.

This series of 36 fascinating lectures is a chronological journey into the story of Victorian Britain, from the unexpected ascension to the throne of teenaged Princess Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901 as the Boer War neared its end.Presented with all of Victoria's strengths and foibles left intact by an award-winning teacher and author, the lectures invite you to reflect on both the positive and negative aspects of her reign.

If you’ve ever wanted to delve more deeply into the mysteries of human emotion, perception, and cognition, and of why we do what we do, these 48 lectures offer a superb place to start. With them, you’ll see the entire history of psychology unfold. In the hands of Professor Robinson, these lectures encompass ideas, speculations, and point-blank moral questions that might just dismantle and rebuild everything you once thought you knew about psychology.