Highlights of western civilization (Record no. 130564)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2004568139 |
| 028 00 - PUBLISHER NUMBER | |
| Publisher number | 8801 |
| Source | Teaching Co. |
| 028 00 - PUBLISHER NUMBER | |
| Publisher number | 8806 |
| Source | Teaching Co. |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | BD-DhUL |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | RZA 7751, etc. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Highlights of western civilization |
| Medium | [sound recording] : |
| Remainder of title | a Great courses anthology / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | featuring various professors. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Chantilly, VA : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Teaching Co., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | [2003] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 36 sound cassettes : |
| Other physical details | analog, Dolby processed + |
| Accompanying material | 6 course guides (22 cm.) |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | The great courses |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Teaching Co.: 8801--8806. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | In six containers (22 cm.). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Pt. I. The ancient world and the spread of Hellenism. The great pyramid of Giza / Brier ; Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks / Principe ; The Hebrews, small states and big ideas / Noble ; Abraham / Levine ; The greatest hero of all / Vandiver ; The Homeric quest / Vandiver ; The art of democracy / Jeremy McInerney ; Plato, metaphysics / Cary ; Aristotle on the knowable / Robinson ; Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi / Harl ; Alexandria and the library / McInerney ; The beginnings of the republic / Fagan -- |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Pt. II. The Roman empire and the rise of Christianity. Cloepatra, the last ptolemy / Brier ; Rome, from republic to empire / Noble ; Unhappy Dido / Vandiver ; Good Roman advice, Cicero and Seneca / Johnson ; Public entertainment II, gladitorial games / Fagan ; Nero / Fears ; The Greco-Roman context / Ehrman ; Paul's life and letters / Johnson ; Thoughts on the "fall" of the Roman empire / Fagan ; The city of God / Cary ; The age of Justinian / Harl ; Muhammad, prophet and statesman / Esposito -- |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Pt. III. The medieval age and the dawn of the Renaissance. The Middle Ages, darkness, change, and diversity / Greenberg ; The chivalrous society / Noble ; The chivalric code / Daileader ; From worldly knight to knight of Christ / Cook, Herzman ; Science in the orders / Principe ; The first universities / Daileader ; "Abandon every hope, all ye who enter" / Cook, Herzman ; Renaissance portraits / Noble ; Machiavelli and the origins of political science / Staloff ; Christopher Columbus, path to conquest / Eakin ; Utopia, between heaven and earth / Sugrue ; The king's great matter, 1527-30 / Bucholz -- |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Pt. IV. The Reformation and the Enlightenment. Martin Luther's road to Reformation / Gregory ; The Protestant Reformation, John Calvin / Noble ; Hamlet, the Protestant hero / Saccio ; The new physics / Principe ; The civil wars, 1642-49 / Bucholz ; The Puritans / Allitt ; Descartes, Locke, and the crisis of modernity / Cary ; Newton's laws of motion / Hazen ; Introduction / Greenberg ; Voltaire, Candide / Damrosch ; The Philosophes, the triumph of the French Enlightenment / Kors ; Franklin and Adam Smith / Damrosch -- |
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| Formatted contents note | Pt. V. The nineteenth century and revolutionary ideas. Apotheosis / Kors ; Two concerts, 1808 and 1824 / Greenberg ; Napoleonic Europe, an epoch of war / Childers ; "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know" / Spiegelman ; Victoria's early reign, 1837-1861 / Allitt ; Marx, on alienation / Dalton ; Poverty and the "Hungry Forties" / Allitt ; Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection / Hazen ; First Manassas or Bull Run / Gallagher ; Huck Finn, I, defining an American voice / Railton ; Quashing the rumors about Nietzsche / Solomon, Higgins ; Freud's psychodynamic theory / Watson -- |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Pt. VI. Modern times. Einstein to the rescue / Wolfson ; Robert Frost and the spirit of New England / Weinstein ; The rite of spring / Greenberg ; The war to end all wars, the experience of the trenches / Childers ; Ghandi's use of power / Dalton ; The grapes of wrath, American saga / Weinstein ; Rallying the nation / Fears ; Eisenhower and Operation Overlord / Childers ; John F. Kennedy, his final challenges / Lichtman ; The civil rights movement / Allitt ; The greatest success story in physics / Pollock ; Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost / Steinberg. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Presents an anthology of lectures from courses on western civilization, taught by various noted professors. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Civilization, Western. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Teaching Company. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Great courses (Audiocassette) |
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| Price effective from | Date last seen | Permanent Location | Not for loan | Date acquired | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Koha item type | Collection code | Barcode | Shelving location | Lost status | Damaged status | Withdrawn status | Current Location |
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| 2016-12-04 | 2016-12-04 | Dhaka University Library | 2016-12-04 | Books | Non Fiction | A4982 | General Stacks | Dhaka University Library |