As promised, I’ve got a complete scan of the latest Teaching Company catalogue – and I did it before the prices expire! Strangely this catalogue comes not from a random discard, but instead from my mom, who had it come in her mail. She’d never heard The Teaching Company, or this catalogue of “The Great Courses” and she has no idea how she got on their mailing list!
It isn’t fair. I want to be on that list!
Here’s the Summer 2011 catalogue of The Great Courses |PDF|
And as usual it’s just lousy with educational goodness. Among the many lecture series that struck me as cool sounding were:
How To Become A Superstar Student, 2nd Edition (Page 11)
The Art Of Teaching: Best Practices From A Master Educator (Page 21)
Games People Play: Game Theory In Life, Business and Beyond (Page 31)
The Wisdom Of History (Page 37)
Books That Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life (Page 39)
The World Was Never The Same: Events That Changed History (Page 41)
Classical Mythology (Page 51)
Posted by Jesse Willis
“it’s just lousy with educational goodness”, what do you mean by this?
It’s a dead metaphor, albeit a rare one. It means:
well supplied with or abundant with