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Strong women who stand up for justice in the face of deadly opposition have been featured recently in the international media--from the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner boldly standing up for the educational rights of Pakistani girls, to an Iranian professor whose secret book club defied the oppression of a brutal regime. Virginia Prodan is to be counted among these women. Denouncing one of the most powerful and brutal communist dictators of the...
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2000
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12 sound discs (ca. 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Whether you consider it a book of faith or a cultural artifact, the New Testament is among the most significant writings that the world has ever known. Scarcely a single major writer in the last 2,000 years has failed to rely on the web of meaning contained in the New Testament to communicate. Yet the New Testament is also among the most widely disputed and least clearly understood books in history. In these lectures Professor Bart D. Ehrman develops...
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Teaching Co
Pub. Date
1999.
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6 videodiscs (approximately 960 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
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English
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This course examines how philosophy and religion have interacted throughout history on fundamental questions of religious belief, including the concepts of God, creation, sin, mercy, and redemption. Invoking the writing of the greatest Greek, Jewish, and Christian thinkers as well as "modern" philosophers such as Hume, Kant, Schleiermacher, and Nietzsche, this course casts new light on the entire Greco-Judeo-Christian belief system of the Western...
4) Belonging
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English
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Leaving behind her bitter past, Felicia Kristoffersen seeks to make a brighter future for herself as a teacher in Frenchman's Bluff, Idaho. But in this tiny high desert town, she can't afford to fail. And not everyone is happy she's here to begin with.
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The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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8 videodiscs (approximately 1440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 48 lectures, award-winning Professor Jennifer McNabb guides viewers through centuries of exhilarating change in Europe, focusing on often-unexplored or overlooked areas, including the role of women in the Renaissance, the lives of the poor and elite, Renaissance home and family life, and the connections between the Renaissance and the Reformation.
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Teaching Co
Pub. Date
1995.
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8 videodiscs (approximately 1440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The music of Johann Sebastian Bach fuses emotional power, religious devotion, technical virtuosity, diverse national styles, and sheer genius in ways that are unforgettable, delightful, and moving. Professor Robert Greenberg explains all this and more with compelling insight, deep human sympathy, and puckish wit. Join him and learn to hear Bach with more pleasure and understanding than ever before.
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The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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4 videodiscs (approximately 8 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (149 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm).
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English
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"In Tibet: History, Culture, and Religion, Professor Constance Kassor, will show you the real, multi-dimensional Tibet and its people who live on the 'Roof of the World,' the highest and largest plateau on Earth. In 24 fascinating lectures, you will learn how Tibet's history was shaped by kings and kingdoms, power struggles, religion, traditions, and wars and peace. Today, geopolitical struggles, modernism, and the exile of its religious leaders form...
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