Maggie

One of my favorite Great Courses!

Revisado: 06-13-23

Engaging and highly informative. I am using this course to structure a lot of the other ancient history topics I’d like to study in more depth.

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Fantastic

Revisado: 07-02-19

One of the best books I’ve read in a long time. I don’t agree with Comey 100% on all the actions he took, but I understand where he is coming from. I’m confident that those decisions were reasonable, well thought out, and have undergone serious reflection since they were made. It was fascinating hearing him talk about the people he’s met and known (famous or otherwise). Anyone looking to get a peek inside the Trump presidency won’t be disappointed, but it encompasses a small percentage of the book. Overall, I highly recommend.

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Great read!

Revisado: 09-30-18

The story is fascinating and well-written, the narration is great, and the analysis is thoughtful. If you’re interested in the story of modern Russia, this is for you!

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Great Overview!

Revisado: 05-12-18

This audio course is 100% worth your Audible credit. While it focuses on the development of the modern global economy, it delves into the cultural differences that helped create the various economies we see today, as well as the wars that have driven or disrupted them. History buffs: this is for you.

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Interesting, but a little technical for most.

Revisado: 12-28-17

I enjoyed it, but I think that it goes a little into the technical for a lot of people. Science buffs are the target audience. Overall, though, I recommend it for its historical scope and for highlighting the people behind the discoveries. This four stars is to give pause to those looking for a light read, not to discourage those already excited about the expansion of our ability to understand the universe.

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Fantastic!

Revisado: 06-25-17

If you have any interest at all in linguistics, history or anthropology, get this course! It was engaging, and the professor was funny (in a dorky, academic way). This is a lot more than just tracing word histories, although that is woven throughout. I highly recommend!

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History and Concepts Woven Together

Revisado: 06-17-17

This is a thorough history of the major players and concepts in the development of evolutionary biology , from pre-Darwinian creationist natural history to the Modern Synthesis that combined Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection with Mendelian genetics. In the last lecture, it previews Part 2: everything that has been discovered in evolutionary biology since 1959 (the centennial celebration of Darwin's theories that marked the widespread acceptance of the Modern Synthesis). I can't wait!

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Made me want to be a mathematician!

Revisado: 06-08-17

If you like math, this book will captivate you. The story alternates between his personal history (fascinating) of desperately wanting to practice pure mathematics in a Soviet Russia that only allowed Jews to pursue certain careers and mathematical explanations (most far, far over my head) of some of the mind-blowing connections found by mathematicians and physicists between seemingly unrelated disciplines in a collaborative research initiative called the Langlands program. It is now a life goal to be able to understand enough of the mathematics to listen to this again in a couple of years and have most of the math parts make sense.

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