Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? [Audiobook]
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? [Audiobook
What separates your mind from an animal's? Is it your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future that makes humans the superior species? But these claims have been eroded – or even disproved outright – by recent studies of animal cognition. Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, chimpanzees, and bonobos, world-renowned primatologist de Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence.
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf CoastBestselling historian Douglas Brinkley, a professor at Tulane University, lived through the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with his fellow New Orleans residents, and now in The Great Deluge he has written one of the first complete accounts of that harrowing week, which sorts out the bewildering events of the storm and its aftermath, telling the stories of unsung heroes and incompetent officials alike.
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.
On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks.
Tim Burton is going to make a movie based on this book.
Course No. 528 (10 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Timothy Taylor Macalester College M.Econ., Stanford University 1. Before Economics—Mercantilists and Physiocrats 2. Adam Smith and the Birth of Economics 3. The Dismal Science—Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo 4. John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism 5. Karl Marx and Socialism 6. Alfred Marshall and Marginalist Thought 7. The Socialist Calculation Debate 8. Joseph Schumpeter and Entrepreneurialism 9. John Maynard Keynes and the Keynesian Revolution 10. Milton Friedman and the Rebirth of Classical Economics
TTC - Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann - Their Lives and Music
Course No. 759 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Greenberg San Francisco Performances Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1. Isn't it Romantic! 2. A Pianist in Leipzig 3. Clara 4. Carnaval 5. Marriage and Songs 6. The Symphonic Year 7. Illness Takes Hold 8. Madness
