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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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The best-selling book ever on classroom management and teaching for student achievement with over 3.3 million copies sold. The book walks a teacher, either novice or veteran, through structuring and organizing a classroom for success that can be applied at any time of the year at any grade level, pre-K through college.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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"This course takes you on an exciting ride through an itinerary that samples 23 of the world's greatest short stories. The form of the genre, as well as the various ways in which it has evolved, is highlighted along the way with a display of the essential nuts and bolts of storytelling-- plot, character, setting, style, point of view, and theme. A mix of critical approaches will also be brought in to enhance analysis and interpretation and to explore...
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Series
Great courses. Music and fine arts volume 7158
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Series of 24 lectures (each approximately 30 min. long) surveying the history of American art from its colonial origins until just before World War I.
Series
Great courses. Literature. Writing volume 3268
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Great writing begins--and ends--with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving your...
Series
Great courses volume 1933
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This course is a practical guide to developing the skill of mindfulness and applying it to every aspect of daily life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
For anyone wanting to master music's language, being able to read musical notation is a necessity. But this course, as Professor Greenberg notes, is a basic course, designed to introduce you to music's language in a way that is similar to the way you learned your own native language, by "discovering and exploring musical syntax through our ears-- by learning what the parts of musical speech sound like--rather than what they look like on paper." By...
Series
Great courses. Better living. Arts and leisure volume 7901
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
In this collection of 24 lectures (30 min. each), Joel Sartore lectures on the basics of operating a camera, the elements of a photograph and composition and lighting, as well as analyzing real-life photo opportunities and selecting and preparing photographs for photographic essays.
Author
Pub. Date
♭2010
Language
English
Description
"Some things can happen in our universe and others cannot. The laws of physics set this boundary between the possible and the impossible."--Container. Professor Schumacher takes the viewer into territory on both sides of the impossibility line to examine these complex realms.
17) Our night sky
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Presents 12 lectures (ca. 30 min. each) by Edward M. Murphy on astronomy.
18) The Vikings
Series
Great courses. History. Medieval history volume 3910
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
Series
Great courses. Music and fine arts. Visual arts volume 7640
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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20) How to draw
Author
Series
Great courses. Better living. Art and leisure volume 7770
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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