Are your English skills standing in the way of your success? Video Aided Instruction’s Learning English Steps 1-2-3 is the perfect resource for beginning English language learners, from middle school through adults. Designed for anyone who is new to the language, this comprehensive DVD set includes 83 developmental lessons and practice exercises in the basics of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English. Combining colorful computer graphics and proven teaching methods, Learning English Steps 1-2-3 uses “real world” situations to help you learn the basics of English.
Course No. 528 (10 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Timothy Taylor Macalester College M.Econ., Stanford University 1. Before Economics—Mercantilists and Physiocrats 2. Adam Smith and the Birth of Economics 3. The Dismal Science—Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo 4. John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism 5. Karl Marx and Socialism 6. Alfred Marshall and Marginalist Thought 7. The Socialist Calculation Debate 8. Joseph Schumpeter and Entrepreneurialism 9. John Maynard Keynes and the Keynesian Revolution 10. Milton Friedman and the Rebirth of Classical Economics
In a city of grandeur and decadence, beauty and bloodshed, two boys, best friends, dream of glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator. The other is a bastard child. As young Gaius and Marcus grow to manhood, they are trained in the art of combat—under the tutelage of one of Rome’s most fearsome gladiators.
The 36 lectures of Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language—taught by acclaimed linguist, author, and Professor John McWhorter from the Manhattan Institute—are your opportunity to take a revealing journey through the fascinating terrain of linguistics. You focus on the scientific aspects of human language that were left out of any classes you may have taken in English or a foreign language, and you emerge from your journey with a newfound appreciation of the
In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060 — the setting for several of her most celebrated works — and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler’s bombers attempt to pummel London into submission.