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Books that have made history : books that can change your life, J. Rufus Fears

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Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are works that shaped the minds of great individuals and that offer an extraodrdinary gift of wisdom to those willing to receive it. Focus is on intellectual history and ethics, taking the underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life. From the Aeneid and the Book of Job to Othello and 1984, the range in time is from the 3rd millennium B.D. to the 20th century, and in locale from Mesopotamia and China to Europe and America
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eng
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6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.)
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  • "Literature and English language"--Container cover insert
  • Course guidebook laid in each of three containers
  • Course guidebook contain outlines of each 30 minute lecture
Contents
  • Part 1. lecture 1. Bonhoeffer, LEtters and Papers From Prison -- lecture 2. Homer, Iliad -- lecture 3. Marcus Aurelius, MEditations -- lecture 4. Bhagavad Gita -- lecture 5. Book of Exodus -- lecture 6. Gospel of Mark -- lecture 7. Koran -- lecture 8. Gilgamesh -- lecture 9. Beowulf -- lecture 10. Book of Job -- lecture 11. Aeschylus, Oresteia -- lecture 12. Euripdes, Bacchae
  • part 2. lecture 13. Plato, Phaedo -- lecture 14. Dante, The Divine Comedy -- lecture 15. Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice -- lecture 16. Aeschylus, Prometheus bound -- lecture 17. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago -- lecture 18. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -- lecture 19. George Orwell, 1984 -- lecture 20. Vergil, Aeneid -- lecture 21. Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address -- lecture 22. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front -- lecture 23. Confucius, The Analects -- lecture 24. Machiavelli, The Prince
  • part 3. lecture 25. Plato, Republic -- lecture 25. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty -- lecture 27. Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d'Arthur -- lecture 28. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1 -- lecture 29. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 2. lecture 30. Henry David Thoreau, Walden -- lecture 31. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- lecture 32. Lord Acton, The History of Freedom -- lecture 33. Cicero, On Moral Duties (De Officiis) -- lecture 34. Gandhi, An Autobiography -- lecture 35. Churchill, My Early Life; Painting as a PStime; WWII -- lecture 36. lessons from the Great Books
Isbn
9781598030259
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Books that have made history : books that can change your life
Title
Books that have made history
Title remainder
books that can change your life
Statement of responsibility
J. Rufus Fears
Title variation
Books that can change your life
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Language
eng
Summary
Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are works that shaped the minds of great individuals and that offer an extraodrdinary gift of wisdom to those willing to receive it. Focus is on intellectual history and ethics, taking the underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life. From the Aeneid and the Book of Job to Othello and 1984, the range in time is from the 3rd millennium B.D. to the 20th century, and in locale from Mesopotamia and China to Europe and America
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videorecording
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Fears, J. Rufus
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016.8
LC call number
Z1035.A1
LC item number
F43 2005
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Taught by: Professor J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma
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0
Series statement
The great courses
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4600
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  • Best books
  • Books and reading
  • Best books
  • Books and reading
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live action
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Books that have made history : books that can change your life, J. Rufus Fears
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Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "Literature and English language"--Container cover insert
  • Course guidebook laid in each of three containers
  • Course guidebook contain outlines of each 30 minute lecture
Accompanying material
course guidebook (22 cm).
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videodisc
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  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
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unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Part 1. lecture 1. Bonhoeffer, LEtters and Papers From Prison -- lecture 2. Homer, Iliad -- lecture 3. Marcus Aurelius, MEditations -- lecture 4. Bhagavad Gita -- lecture 5. Book of Exodus -- lecture 6. Gospel of Mark -- lecture 7. Koran -- lecture 8. Gilgamesh -- lecture 9. Beowulf -- lecture 10. Book of Job -- lecture 11. Aeschylus, Oresteia -- lecture 12. Euripdes, Bacchae
  • part 2. lecture 13. Plato, Phaedo -- lecture 14. Dante, The Divine Comedy -- lecture 15. Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice -- lecture 16. Aeschylus, Prometheus bound -- lecture 17. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago -- lecture 18. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -- lecture 19. George Orwell, 1984 -- lecture 20. Vergil, Aeneid -- lecture 21. Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address -- lecture 22. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front -- lecture 23. Confucius, The Analects -- lecture 24. Machiavelli, The Prince
  • part 3. lecture 25. Plato, Republic -- lecture 25. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty -- lecture 27. Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d'Arthur -- lecture 28. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1 -- lecture 29. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 2. lecture 30. Henry David Thoreau, Walden -- lecture 31. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- lecture 32. Lord Acton, The History of Freedom -- lecture 33. Cicero, On Moral Duties (De Officiis) -- lecture 34. Gandhi, An Autobiography -- lecture 35. Churchill, My Early Life; Painting as a PStime; WWII -- lecture 36. lessons from the Great Books
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ocm60448520
Dimensions
3/4 in. +
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other
Extent
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.)
Isbn
9781598030259
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video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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  • v
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videodisc
Other control number
9781598030259
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
  • ID4600A-01
  • PB4600A
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System details
DVD, region 1
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Books that have made history : books that can change your life, J. Rufus Fears
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "Literature and English language"--Container cover insert
  • Course guidebook laid in each of three containers
  • Course guidebook contain outlines of each 30 minute lecture
Accompanying material
course guidebook (22 cm).
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Part 1. lecture 1. Bonhoeffer, LEtters and Papers From Prison -- lecture 2. Homer, Iliad -- lecture 3. Marcus Aurelius, MEditations -- lecture 4. Bhagavad Gita -- lecture 5. Book of Exodus -- lecture 6. Gospel of Mark -- lecture 7. Koran -- lecture 8. Gilgamesh -- lecture 9. Beowulf -- lecture 10. Book of Job -- lecture 11. Aeschylus, Oresteia -- lecture 12. Euripdes, Bacchae
  • part 2. lecture 13. Plato, Phaedo -- lecture 14. Dante, The Divine Comedy -- lecture 15. Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice -- lecture 16. Aeschylus, Prometheus bound -- lecture 17. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago -- lecture 18. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -- lecture 19. George Orwell, 1984 -- lecture 20. Vergil, Aeneid -- lecture 21. Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address -- lecture 22. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front -- lecture 23. Confucius, The Analects -- lecture 24. Machiavelli, The Prince
  • part 3. lecture 25. Plato, Republic -- lecture 25. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty -- lecture 27. Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d'Arthur -- lecture 28. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1 -- lecture 29. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 2. lecture 30. Henry David Thoreau, Walden -- lecture 31. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- lecture 32. Lord Acton, The History of Freedom -- lecture 33. Cicero, On Moral Duties (De Officiis) -- lecture 34. Gandhi, An Autobiography -- lecture 35. Churchill, My Early Life; Painting as a PStime; WWII -- lecture 36. lessons from the Great Books
Control code
ocm60448520
Dimensions
3/4 in. +
Dimensions
other
Extent
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.)
Isbn
9781598030259
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
9781598030259
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
  • ID4600A-01
  • PB4600A
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System details
DVD, region 1
Video recording format
DVD

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