The Teaching Company - Science in the 20th Century [Video Training] | 5,97 GiB
Taught by Steven L. Goldman | Lehigh University | Ph.D., Boston University | $374.95
AVI | 128 kbps | 640 x 464 | 36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
As the 19th century drew to a close, the age-old quest to understand the physical world appeared to be complete except for a few minor details. "It seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established," said Albert Michelson, the first American scientist to win a Nobel Prize. But when Michelson made that prediction, he never dreamed that one of the "details"—his own curious discovery that the speed of light is constant no matter how fast an observer is moving—would soon be explained by a revolutionary theory that redefined the very concepts of space, time, matter, and energy. The author of that theory, called relativity, was Albert Einstein. He would also lay the foundation for a strange new picture of the atom, which would eventually lead to quantum mechanics and a succession of startling discoveries driving physicists to ever more bizarre theories of the ultimate nature of the universe.
Total Training Microsoft Expression Web: From FrontPage to Expression Web [Video Training] | 982 MB
Janine starts with a quick review of the differences between FrontPage and Expression Web, pointing out the many ways you can customize the interface of this new web design program to make it your own. Next, you'll discover how to make the transition from Web designs created with HTML Tables to advanced layouts using CSS using Expression Web. You'll also learn how to use Dynamic Web Templates to automate global changes and manage navigation elements across many pages. The final lesson is dedicated to helping you move beyond FrontPage features, like Themes, Shared Borders, and Web bots that are not supported in Expression Web. Discover the advantages of standards-based Web design and create Web pages that are accessible to everyone on the Web!
Digital Tutors Texturin With ZBrush 3 [Video Training] | 852 MB
Learn a production-tested approach to texture painting and generating normal and displacement maps with ZBrush 3.1. Contains nearly 4 hours of time-saving texturing and sculpting techniques that are are widely being used throughout Film and Games. Perfect for new and intermediate artists using ZBrush.
Digital Tutors - Texturing Next-Gen Characters in ZBrush [Video Training] | 1.04 GB
Learn a production workflow and time-saving methods for creating game-ready textured characters, texture painting techniques, and adding character enhancements for appeal. Contains over 4 hours of project-based training for artists learning the creative processes of texturing characters for next-generation games.
Fingerpicking is essential to the blues, country, rock and folk music ...and it's a way to solo or accompany your own singing. In this DVD lesson, Fred Sokolow starts at the beginning (tuning up and playing simple chords), and shows you patterns, licks and grooves you can use to play any style of music.
Marty Friedman's Electric Guitar Day One (VHS) [Video Training] | 848 MB
AVI | 352 kbps | 384 x 240
Marty Friedman, a successful solo artist and former lead guitarist for Cacophony and Megadeth, is one of the most respected rock guitarists in the industry, known for his technical brilliance and harmonic sense of adventure. In this video for beginners, he gives you everything you need to get started! He covers: parts of the guitar, strings and picks, tuning, amp settings, effects and pedals, practice and performance tips, chords & scales, how to play solos, lead patterns, and much more! Includes an insert. 90+ minutes.
Michael Doucet - Learn to Play Cajun Fiddle [Video Training] | 825 MB
AVI | 128 kbps | 640 x 480
The Grammy-nominated fiddler from Beausoleil breaks down the stylistic devices that give Cajun music its distinctive sound—slurs, harmonies, ornaments and more—and teaches over a dozen waltzes, two-steps, blues and breakdowns.
Songs: Allons à Lafayette, Ma Chére Bébé Créole, Locassine Special, Jolie Blonde, J’été Au Bal, Chère Toot Toot, Johnny Can’t Dance, Tolan Waltz, Lake Arthur Stomp, Les Barres de la Prison, Les Veuves de la Coulée, The Reel de Nez Piqué.
Fred Sokolow - Beginners Blues Guitar [Video Training] | 698 MB
AVI | 104 kbps | 480 x 368
Fred Sokolow is an extremely versatile musician. Although he is most often seen playing jazz guitar and singing in Los Angeles night spots, he is just as likely to turn up playing 5 string banjo at bluegrass festivals or rock guitar at studio sessions. You may even spot him playing Resonator Guitar or mandolin on various folk revivals seen on cable and public television. Besides soloing as a jazz guitarist/vocalist, Fred also has fronted his own jazz, bluegrass and rock bands. He has toured with Bobbie Gentry, Jim Stafford and The Limeliters. He has performed in such diverse settings as The Fillmore, The Fairmount Hotel and The Boarding House in San Francisco, The Denver Folklore Center, The Alladin, Sahara and Harrah's in Las Vegas and the Banjo Cafe, Donte's and McCabe's in LA. He has written over 50 instructional books, tapes and videos. If you think that Fred Sokolow still isn't versatile enough, know that he has MC'd for Carol Doda at San Francisco's legendary Condor Club, accompanied a Russian balalaika virtuoso, won the Gong show, played lap steel on the Tonight Show, played Resonator Guitar with Chubby Checker and wrote and performed the music score for the movie Rampaging Nurses!
Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life [Video Training] | 7.02 GiB
AVI | 128 kbps | 640 x 480 | Ebook PDF included | 36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
What makes a written work eternal—its message still so fundamental to the way we live that it continues to speak to us, hundreds or thousands of years distant from the lifetime of its author?
Why do we still respond to an ancient Greek playwright's tale of the Titan so committed to humanity's survival that he is willing to endure eternal torture in his defiance of the gods? To the cold advice of a 16th-century Florentine exiled from the corridors of power? To the words of a World War I German veteran writing of the horrors of endless trench warfare?
Most important of all, what do such works—"Great Books" in every sense—mean to us? Can they deepen our self-knowledge and wisdom? Are our lives changed in any meaningful way by the experience of reading them?
Origins of Life [Video Training] | 5.5 GiB
AVI | 128 kbps | 640 x 480 | 24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
Four billion years ago, the infant Earth was a seething cauldron of erupting volcanoes, raining meteors, and hot noxious gases, totally devoid of life. But a relatively short time later—100 to 200 million years—the planet was teeming with primitive organisms. What happened?
Professor Robert M. Hazen, one of the nation's foremost science educators and leader of a NASA-supported team that is studying the origins of life in the universe, leads you on a 24-lecture expedition to find the answer to this momentous question.
The search takes you from path-breaking experiments in the 19th century proving that the molecules of life are no different from other chemicals, to the increasingly sophisticated understanding in the 20th century of how the chemistry of life works, to the near certainty that the 21st century will see spectacular and unpredictable developments in our understanding of how life began.
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language [Video Training] | 6.87 GiB
AVI | 105 kbps | 640 x 480 | 36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
We all use language every day of our lives. Language, regardless of the particular dialect spoken, is the tool we use to express our wants, our needs, and our feelings.
Recently, many experts who study language have become convinced by an idea about this remarkable human trait that was, only a few decades ago, utterly revolutionary. These experts believe that the capacity for spoken language and the rules for its structure are not cultural but universal—a set of rules shared by humans in every culture and that even may be hardwired into our brains. Moreover, these rules apply regardless of which of the world's 6,000 languages are being spoken.
The Teaching Company - Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre [Video Training] | 3.6 GiB
Taught by Richard Brettell | The University of Texas at Dallas | Ph.D., Yale University
AVI | 256 kbps | 640 x 480 | PDF Guidebook Included | $199.95
Do you dream of exploring the masterpieces of the Louvre Museum in Paris? Whether you're planning your first visit to this world-class museum, returning for a second look, or simply playing the role of armchair art critic, you'll enjoy the pleasures that await you in this tour of France's greatest treasures.
In Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre, expert art critic and historian Richard Brettell takes you on an unforgettable journey through one of the world's greatest museums. This 12-lecture series begins with an overview of the Louvre's colorful history as royal palace, art academy, and national showcase. Then you'll explore some of the most beautiful and renowned examples from the museum's remarkable collection of European paintings from the late medieval period through the early 19th century, including masterworks by Raphael, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Watteau, Rubens and Vermeer.
Guided by Professor Brettell's expert commentary, you'll browse world-famous masterpieces and hidden gems as they come alive in luminous, full-color illustrations. What is the mystery behind Mona Lisa's smile? What does Jusepe Ribera's painting of the Clubfooted Boy seem to say about the proper subject of art? From the art novice to the expert, everyone will find something to enlighten and surprise.
The Teaching Company - Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It [Video Training] | 3.53 GiB
Taught by Steven L. Goldman | Lehigh University | Ph.D., Boston University | $254.95
AVI | 128 kbps | 640 x 464
Choose one: (A) Science gives us objective knowledge of an independently existing reality. (B) Scientific knowledge is always provisional and tells us nothing that is universal, necessary, or certain about the world.
Welcome to the science wars—a long-running battle over the status of scientific knowledge that began in ancient Greece, raged furiously among scientists, social scientists, and humanists during the 1990s, and has re-emerged in today's conflict between science and religion over issues such as evolution.
Professor Steven L. Goldman, whose Teaching Company course on Science in the 20th Century was praised by customers as "a scholarly achievement of the highest order" and "excellent in every way," leads you on a quest for the nature of scientific reasoning in this intellectually pathbreaking lecture series, Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It.
Those who have taken Professor Goldman's previous course, which is an intensive survey of the revolution in scientific knowledge from 1900 to 2000, may have wondered: if what counts as scientific knowledge can transform so dramatically within only 100 years, what exactly is scientific knowledge? Science Wars addresses this surprisingly difficult question.
The Teaching Company - A History of European Art [Video Training] | 5,34 GiB Taught by William Kloss | Independent Art Historian, The Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution | M.A., Oberlin College
MPEG4 Video 320x240 29.97fps | 48 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture | $519.95
The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters.
We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How many of us can connect the dots of influences and inspiration that link the Renaissance with Mannerism, or that tie the paintings of the creator of modern art, Edouard Manet, to masterpieces from centuries earlier?
A History of European Art is your gateway to this visually stunning story. In 48 beautifully illustrated lectures you will encounter all the landmarks you would expect to find in a comprehensive survey of Western art since the Middle Ages. Works such as Giotto's Arena Chapel, Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece, Leonardo's The Last Supper, Michelangelo's David, Vermeer's View of Delft, Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Picasso's Guernica, and hundreds more.
The Teaching Company - Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World [Video Training] | 6,2 GiB
Taught by Steven L. Goldman | Lehigh University | Ph.D., Boston University | $374.95
AVI | 128 kbps | 640 x 464 | 36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
Why has science so dramatically altered how we live and how we think about ourselves?
With characteristic energy and verve, Professor Steven L. Goldman declares, "One is tempted to speak of scientific discoveries as being the source of science's power to be a driver of social change—that scientists have been discovering new truths about nature, and that the change follows from that. But I argue that it is scientific ideas that are responsible for this change. Ideas are the source of science's power—not discoveries."
And what is the greatest scientific idea of all? For Professor Goldman, that is surely the very idea of science, for as he puts it, "The idea of science itself is an idea that had to be invented."
