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The course examines decision making on three levels: the individual level, the group level, and the organizational level. 24 lectures. Learn to understand the underlying psychological, social, and emotional components that influence decision making in order to approach the critical decisions in your life with a more educated eye.

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Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition

Attack and Defense II 11. Validity and Fallacies II 21. The ends of argumentation Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Validity and Fallacies I 20 This course teaches how to reason. Stasis-the Heart of the Controversy 9. It teaches how to persuade others that what you think is right.

History of Argumentation Studies 5. Case construction-Requirements and Options 8. Reasoning from Parts to Whole 14. Public argument and Democratic Life 24. Establishing Correlations 16. Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric 2. We do it in our own minds, and we do it with others. Evaluating Evidence 13. Formal and Informal Argumentation 4.

Language and Style in Argument 12. Moving from Cause to Effect 17. Underlying Assumptions of Argumentation 3. Reasoning with Comparisons 15. Complex Structures of Argument 7.


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Optimizing Brain Fitness

Each lesson is packed with vital information and research-based exercises, practice problems, challenges, and tests that will enhance and improve your brain's essential functions. Discover the secrets to enhancing your quality of your life with this engaging 12-lesson course that shows you how to build the brain you want to live with for the rest of your life.

You focus mainly on three of the most vital functions: attention, general memory, and working memory. Brain plasticity is one of the most revolutionary discoveries in modern neuroscience. Scientists used to believe that our brains stopped growing when we reached adulthood, but the truth is that our life experiences continually shape and mold our brains in fascinating ways.

You can improve your memory, attention, sensory acuity, and fine motor skills, focus, learning ability, creativity, no matter your age. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Insightful, and undeniably fun, instructive, Optimizing Brain Fitness is an invaluable part of your personal tool kit for lasting health and wellness.

This course is the perfect way to maintain or improve the health of the most important organ in your body.


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Thinking like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Making

Economic forces are everywhere around you. By learning to identify the many varied situations in which economics affects your life and how to wield the tools that can help you make the wisest choices in those situations, you'll enhance not only your understanding of daily life but your own success in living it.

But that doesn't mean you need to passively accept whatever outcome those forces might press upon you. You'll see how basic economic ideas like incentives, or your local bank's loan officer, and rationality are not just the province of professional economists, government policymakers, rewards, risks, but instead lie at the root of nearly every decision you must make in your daily life.

Requiring no previous economics background, Professor Bartlett presents some of the fundamental principles and concepts that shape the lenses through which economists view the world. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. And after these dozen lectures with Professor Bartlett, things really will look very different.

Packed with case studies, helpful strategies, this series will equip you with a reliable toolkit for thinking more like an everyday economist and approach the issues in your own life with a more educated, and more, economic insights, seasoned eye. Instead, with these 12 fast-moving and crystal clear lectures, you can learn how to use a small handful of basic nuts-and-bolts principles to turn those same forces to your own advantage.

He then shows you how to use these simple analytical tools to understand what you see through those lenses.


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Nature of Earth : An Introduction to Geology

Renton, an award-winning educator at West Virginia University, and a widely respected expert on the geology of coal. He is easy to follow, and extremely well organized, funny, with a gift for picking simple analogies that make complicated concepts clear and memorable. Wouldn't you like to know how to read the rocks and landscape; how to make sense of debates over natural resources; and how to appreciate the ""deep time"" that governs a geologist's sweeping perspective? These 36 half-hour lectures are your initiation into the geological world that lies just outside your door.

You'll see the world that passes you by differently, understanding it better, and appreciating it more. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Wherever you live or travel, geology is everywhere. No other science deals more practically with the world on which we live, oil, telling us where to dig a well; when to add lime to soil; how gold, and other valuable minerals are formed and where to find them; what kinds of structures are safest in an earthquake zone; and why some active volcanoes are deadlier than others - far deadlier.

Your guide on this adventure is Professor John J. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Though you may never become a geologist, mountain range, you'll find yourself drawing on the lessons you've learned in this course whenever you experience a new beach, or winding country road.

You'll be introduced to physical geology, soils, rocks, the study of Earth's minerals, and the processes that operate on them through time.


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Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft

Why do some lengthy sentences flow effortlessly while others stumble along? Why are you captivated by the writing of particular authors? How can you craft sentences that reflect your unique outlook on the world? This lively, talk about, 24-lecture course introduces you to the myriad ways in which we think about, and write sentences.

You'll explore sentence constructions that make writing more complex and add exciting levels of suspense, and see tactics that create balance and rhythm. Recognizing and appreciating these and other eye-opening aspects of sentences helps you understand the work that goes into creating an effective, or phrases in the poems, which can make you more aware of why particular lines, pleasurable sentence, passages, novels, or articles you read so enchant you.

Reviving the sentence-oriented approach to studying writing, Professor Landon provides a greater context for what makes sentences great - and how you can apply these methods to your own writing. With its passionate approach to writing and reading and its indulgence in the sheer joy of language, this journey gives you unique insights into the nature of great writing-and also teaches you how you can achieve some of this greatness yourself.

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Experiencing Hubble: Understanding the Greatest Images of the Universe

These 12 spectacular lectures offer a fascinating overview of Hubble's accomplishments, drawing on one noted astronomer's Top 10 list to take you on a dazzling voyage of discovery that will feed the imagination and unlock new secrets of the universe. Professor david meyer, scientific impact, who directs the Dearborn Observatory and has collaborated in 20 research projects with Hubble, has selected 10 iconic Hubble images based on their visual beauty, and breadth of subject matter.

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Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond

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Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. If you have any concerns with your product, or want to request a replacement, please contact The Great Courses through our Amazon storefront for more information. Each lesson features visually rich graphics that help you grasp the simple mathematical ideas underlying this fascinating field of study.

Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Translating them into everyday examples, Professor Stevens shows how these games occur everywhere, from casual life to business to international diplomacy. Award-winning professor scott stevens introduces you to the tools of game theory by exploring several classic games, each involving two players who can make one of two choices.

Just as these lessons introduce you to game theory's most important ideas, Arrow, they also introduce you to many of its most important minds, Nalebuff, like von Neumann, Nash, and Brandenberger. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Modern game theory - the scientific study of interactive, rational decision making - achieved prominence in the mid-20th century and has proven instrumental in helping us understand how and why we make decisions.




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The Joy of Thinking: The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematical Ideas

Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. It is as much about learning to think abstractly as it is about what we traditionally think of as mathematics. The joy of thinking is a course about fun, aesthetics, observations of everyday life, and mystery-about great mathematical ideas that arise from puzzles, and habits of curiosity and effective thinking.

Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. This course explores infinity, the fourth dimension, probability, fractals, chaos, and other fantastic themes. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Discover mathematics as an artistic and creative realm that contains some of the greatest ideas of human history.

Rather than focusing on adding figures or creating equations in fact, enjoying, there are fewer numbers than you might expect, this course enables you to uncover and grasp insightful strategies for approaching, and understanding the world around you. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses.

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Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Here are some that you will explore in your investigation of probability as a reasoning tool: When did the most recent common ancestor of all humans live? How much should you pay for a stock option? What do you do on third down with long yardage? After an introduction to the key concepts of probability, you will delve into the wealth of applications, from biology to physics to finance to war.

. Professor michael starbird of the university of Texas at Austin knows the secret of making numbers come alive to non-mathematicians: he picks intriguing, useful, and entertaining examples. Probability comes to the rescue to describe what we should expect from the randomness of life. Take hold of this powerful tool and you can dispel uncertainty and understand the true odds in the game of life.

Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Every time you buy a stock, play poker, or make plans based on a weather forecast, you are consigning your fate to probability. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. These 12 fascinating half-hour lectures help you understand the random factors that lurk behind almost everything.




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Understanding Complexity

These include tipping points, processes, the idea that new properties, the argument that certain types of groups harness information and make decisions in more effective ways than individuals; six degrees of separation, the sociological term used to describe moments when unique or rare phenomena become more commonplace; the wisdom of crowds, the idea that it takes no more than six steps to find some form of connection between two random individuals; and emergence, and structures can emerge unexpectedly from complex systems.

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