Steven Heighton

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

In 1871 off the coast of Greenland, 19 men, women, and children, cast adrift on an ice floe from their foundering ship, the Arctic explorer "Polaris," endured a six-month winter ordeal before finally being rescued the following spring. In "Afterlands," Heighton provocatively fills in the blanks of the documented history of this event.

Afterlands

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Jane Hamilton

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Ruth, a young woman living in a rural Illinois town, looks back on the people who have shaped her life, including her runaway father, shrewish mother, and crazy husband

The Book of Ruth

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Michio Kaku

How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction--it's also daily life in the year 2100.

Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, space travel, and more, that are poised to happen over the next hundred years. He also considers how these inventions will affect the world economy, addressing the key questions: Who will have jobs? Which nations will prosper? Kaku interviews three hundred of the world's top scientists--working in their labs on astonishing prototypes. He also takes into account the rigorous scientific principles that regulate how quickly, how safely, and how far technologies can advance. In Physics of the Future, Kaku forecasts a century of earthshaking advances in technology that could make even the last centuries' leaps and bounds seem insignificant.

Physics of the Future

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Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads

It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who's been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.

Jonathan Franzen's novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.

A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.

Crossroads

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Robert Greenberg

This course consists of 32 lectures on 32 CDs

Professor Robert Greenberg, formerly of San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is currently music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances. He earned a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California at Berkeley. He has performed, taught, and lectured across North America and Europe. His awards include three Nicola De Lorenzo Prizes in composition, three Meet the Composer grants, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress.
He has composed over 40 instrumental and vocal works.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Bach and the High Baroque

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This courses consists of 32 lectures on 32 CDs

Professor Robert Greenberg, formerly of San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is currently music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances. He earned a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California at Berkeley. He has performed, taught, and lectured across North America and Europe. His awards include three Nicola De Lorenzo Prizes in composition, three Meet the Composer grants, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress.
He has composed over 40 instrumental and vocal works.

How to Listen to and Understand Opera

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Daniel Robinson

This course consists of 50 lectures on 25 CDs

Professor Daniel N. Robinson is a member of the Philosophy faculty at Oxford University. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at Georgetown University. He earned his Ph.D. in neuropsychology from City University of New York. He has written or edited over 40 books. In 2001, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of History of Psychology of the American Psychological Association

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Philosophy

The Great Ideas of Philosophy

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Richard Brettell

This course features 24 lectures on 4 DVDs

Professor Richard Brettell is Professor of Aesthetic Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Yale University. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard University and Yale University, and is currently the American Director for The French Regional and American Museum Exchange (FRAME). His books include Modern Art—
1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation and Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890.

A History of Impressionism

From Monet to Van Gogh

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestive chapters consumable any time and anywhere in the busy day

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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This course consists of 8 lectures on 8 CDs

Professor Robert Greenberg, formerly of San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is currently music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances. He earned a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California at Berkeley. He has performed, taught, and lectured across North America and Europe. His awards include three Nicola De Lorenzo Prizes in composition, three Meet the Composer grants, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress.
He has composed over 40 instrumental and vocal works.

Shostakovich--His Life and Music

Great Masters

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Their Lives and Music

Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann

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This course consists in 8 lectures on 8 CDs

Professor Robert Greenberg, formerly of San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is currently music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances. He earned a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California at Berkeley. He has performed, taught, and lectured across North America and Europe. His awards include three Nicola De Lorenzo Prizes in composition, three Meet the Composer grants, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress.
He has composed over 40 instrumental and vocal works.

His Life and Music

Great Masters: Liszt

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Great Masters: Brahms

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Great Masters: Beethoven

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William Kloss

This series of lectures consists of 36 lectures on 6 DVDs

The Age of Rembrandt

Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt introduces you to the art of 17th century Holland. It traces the development of this renowed, independent school of painting and the great seafaring nation that produced the new society that would be reflected in that new art. The course concludes with the achievements of Holland's greatest and most versatile genius, Rembrandt.

Dutch Masters

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This course consists of 36 lectures on 6 DVDs 

Professor William Kloss, Independent Art Historian, The Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution, has presented more than 100 courses for their seminar and travel programs. He received an M.A. in Art History from Oberlin College and continued postgraduate work at the University of Michigan. He was Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia and serves on the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, a presidential appointment. He is the author of Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride.

Shai Cherry

This unopened course features 24 lectures on 12 CDs

Professor Shai Cherry is the Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought at Vanderbilt University. He holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Dr. Cherry's research focuses on biblical interpretation and the nexus between science and Judaism. He has received numerous awards for his work in community education and continues to teach across the United States and in Israel. He is the author of several articles.

History

Introduction to Judaism

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J. Rufus Fears

This unopened course features 24 lectures on 12 CDs

Professor J. Rufus Fears is Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma, where he holds the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. A 15-time award winner for outstanding teaching, he was Indiana University's first-ever Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer and has three times been named "Professor of the Year" at Oklahoma. He has written four books and more than 70 articles.

Famous Romans

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A set of 24 lectures on 6 DVDs 

Professor Robert Greenberg is music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances. He earned a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California at Berkeley. He has performed, taught, and lectured across North America and Europe. His awards include three Nicola De Lorenzo Prizes in composition, three Meet the Composer grants, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress. He has composed over 40 instrumental and vocal works. 

The Symphony

A set of 16 lectures on 16 CDs 

Professor Robert Greenberg is music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances. He earned a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of California at Berkeley. He has performed, taught, and lectured across North America and Europe. His awards include three Nicola De Lorenzo Prizes in composition, three Meet the Composer grants, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress.
He has composed more than 40 instrumental and vocal works.

Chamber Music of Mozart

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A set of 24 lectures on 12 CDs

Professor Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has won several teaching awards, including the Students' Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Ehrman has written or edited 12 books.

A History of Early Christianity

From Jesus to Constantine

David Christian

Unopened set of 48 lectures on 24CDs

Professor David Christian is Professor of History at San Diego State University. He received his D.Phil from Oxford University. Professor Christian is the author of This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity and Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, which won the 2005 World History Association Book Prize. He is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.

The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

Big History

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Robert C. Bartlett

Unopened set of 12 lectures on 6 CDs

Professor Robert C. Bartlett is Professor of Political Science at Emory University. His principal research concerns the history of moral and political philosophy, with special attention to the political thought of classical antiquity. Professor Bartlett has been recognized for excellence in undergraduate lecturing by the Emory student body and for excellence in teaching by the Emory University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle

Masters of Greek Thought

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Unopened set of 8 lectures on 8 CDs

Professor Robert Greenberg, the Music Historian-in-Residence with San Francisco Performances, is the composer of more than 45 works for a variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles. A former instructor with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Professor Greenberg is an authority on a range of composers and classical music genres. His masterful compositions have won three Nicola de Lorenzo Composition Prizes and a Koussevitzky commission from the Library of Congress.

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