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Whether you''re looking to launch into a new professional career as a creative nonfiction writer, dabble in the genre as a pastime, start a personal blog, or simply get inside the mind of a creative nonfiction writer at work, you''ll find much to learn from and enjoy in Writing Creative Nonfiction. These 24 lectures by award-winning writing instructor and Professor Tilar J. Mazzeo of Colby College ... are a chance for you to explore the entire process of writing creative nonfiction, from brainstorming for the perfect idea to getting your final product noticed by literary agents and publishers.

Lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, cover the history of rhetoric and debate as well as analysis of different types of arguments in various situations.

This transcript book is meant to accompany Great Courses No. 1391 and contains the text of each lecture, biogrphical notes, and bibliography. The course examines the ways advances in science and technology may change the fundamentals of the way we live in the future-- what we eat and drink, how we travel, how we connect with each other, and even how long we live.

Robert C. Solomon, Professor of Business and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, delivers 24 lectures in which he discusses emotions, primarily from the standpoint of ethics and practical concerns.

Michael K. Salemi, professor of economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explores money as a social contract as well as such topics as inflation and hyperinflation, financial institutions, stocks, bonds and derivative securities and central banks, exchange rates and monetary policy coordination among developed nations.

Turning Points in American History is your chance to relive the most powerful and groundbreaking moments in the fascinating story of the United States of America. These 48 lectures, delivered by masterful historian and dynamic Professor Edward T. O''Donnell of College of the Holy Cross, offer you a different perspective on the sweeping narrative of U. S. history. Spanning the arrival of the first English colonists to the chaos of the Civil War to the birth of the computer age and beyond, this course is a captivating and comprehensive tour of those particular moments in the story of America, after which the nation would never be the same again.

"Through Professor Hale''s vibrant commentary and extensive field footage, you discover monumental ancient cities, classical ruins, temples, shrines, fortresses, stadiums, theaters, churches, and palaces. In each site, you explore the critical history and culture that defined them and the ways in which they influenced our modern world. In their compelling historical and visual detail, the lectures offer both a rich resource for travelers preparing to visit these distant lands and a multilevel cultural journey that can be enjoyed just as well from the comfort of home" --From publisher''s website.

"This course is designed to equip you with a basic understanding of how your body works and to enable you to set and meet your own health and fitness goals..."--Transcript book, p. 1".

This guide to the historical and intellectual background of the John of Patmos'' Apocalypse includes a close reading of the text, focusing on the meaning of its images and details the wide-ranging impact of the book on Christian and Western history. Dr. Koester examines its meaning in John''s day and how it continues to be meaningful to contemporary readers, for some as a book of predictions and others as a work of literature, while it remains for most who read it a message of hope.