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Lecture 11 - Low Fertility in Developed Countries (Guest Lecture by Michael Teitelbaum), Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Concerns about low fertility have been present in many countries for at least 100 years. A large population was considered essential to national po...

Lecture 23 - Rome of Constantine and a New Rome, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner presents the architecture of Constantine the Great, the last pagan and first Christian emperor of Rome, who founded Constantinop...

Lecture 16 - The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 This first lecture on social theories of art and artistic production examines the Frankfurt School. The theoretical writings of Theodor Adorno and ...

Lecture 19 - Oxygen and the Chemical Revolution (Beginning to 1789), Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 This lecture begins a series describing the development of organic chemistry in chronological order, beginning with the father of modern chemistry...

Lecture 2 - From Stories to Canon, New Testament History and Literature Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 The Christian faith is based upon a canon of texts considered to be holy scripture. How did this canon come to be? Different factors, such as comp...

Lecture 2 - The Founding of Rome and the Beginnings of Urbanism in Italy, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner traces the evolution of Roman architecture from its beginnings in the eight-century B.C. Iron Age through the late Republican per...

Lecture 22 - The Tetrarchic Renaissance, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner characterizes third-century Rome as an "architectural wasteland" due to the rapid change of emperors, continuous civil war, and ...

Dutch and British Exceptionalism Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Several reasons can be found to explain why Great Britain and the Netherlands did not follow the other major European powers of the seventeenth cen...

Lecture 18 - Amide, Carboxylic Acid and Alkyl Lithium, Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 This lecture completes the first half of the semester by analyzing three functional groups in terms of the interaction of localized atomic or pairw...

Lecture 10 - Quantitative Aspects, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Census data is often politically influenced and hence inaccurate. The birthrate in developing countries is nearly twice that in developed countries...

Lecture 21 - Architecture of the Western Roman Empire, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner explores the architecture of the western provinces of the Roman Empire, focusing on sites in what are now North Italy, France, S...

Lecture 1 - Introduction to Roman Architecture, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner introduces the wide variety of Roman buildings covered in the course and links them with the theme of Roman urbanism. The lecture...

Collaboration and Resistance in World War II Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 One of the principal myths concerning collaboration during World War II in France, as in other countries, is that the domestic collaborators did s...

Lecture 21 - Interpreting Scripture: Hebrews, New Testament History and Literature Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 There are many ways of interpreting the text, and ancient methods of interpretation may seem bizarre to our modern sensibilities. The New Testamen...

Lecture 37 - Potential Energy Surfaces, Transition State Theory and Reaction Mechanism, Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 After discussing the statistical basis of the law of mass action, the lecture turns to developing a framework for understanding reaction rates. A ...

Lecture 20 - The Rebirth of Athens, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner discusses the rebirth of Athens under the Romans especially during the reigns of the two philhellenic emperors, Augustus and Had...

Lecture 7 - Lying and Principles, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Part 1 - A Lesson in Lying: Immanuel Kant believed that telling a lie, even a white lie, is a violation of one’s own dignity. Professor Sandel as...

Comparative Methods: Trees, Maps, and Traits Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 We can use methods of genetic analysis to connect phylogenic information to geographical histories. Human migration has left genetic traces on ever...

Lecture 8 - Demographic Transition in Europe; Fertility Decline, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Prior to Malthus, population growth was seen as good for the power and wealth of a country. The rapid population growth of America was crucial in ...

Lecture 19 - Baroque Phenomenon in Roman Architecture, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner features the baroque phenomenon in Roman architecture, in which the traditional vocabulary of architecture, consisting of column...

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