Discover Great Britain Puff your way up 530 steps to the top of St. Paul's Cathedral for a heavenly view of London. Let the train take the strain while you admire the views on the Ffestiniog Railway. Get your Gaelic up to scratch with a course on the Isle of Skye. Tube ride a Cornish wave in Newquay, a the capital of English surfing.
Discovery School - Great Books - George Orwell's 1984
The novel 1984 is a frightening prediction of the future with its references to privacy issues and totalitarian control. The characters Winston and Julia represent hope in a world of dictators. In this video, autobiographical information about Orwell reveals his disillusionment with revolution and his honest desire to change society.
Machiavelli's masterpiece of manipulation and political intrigue was written more than 500 years ago, but its principles still live. Politician Gary Hart and statesman Henry Kissinger, among others, discuss how The Prince has influenced world leaders and the course of history from medieval times through the present.
Discovery School - Great Books - Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
Using a unique series of dream sequence reenactments based on Freud's revolutionary book, experts and artists escort viewers down the road of the unconscious and into a deeper understanding of the inner life of humans.
