Deelibrarian Reading Log Blog

 An essential part of becoming a good writer is embracing the process of editing what you write.  In this 13-lesson course, Ms McCowan walks...

 Everyone knows that certain cognitive abilities decline with age. In this series of twelve lectures, Dr. Polk discusses what brain function...

 Synthetic Biology is using splicing or other means to create altered or completely new DNA sequences.  In this lecture series Muldrow enthu...

Epigenetics are a complex set up chemicals that surround a gene and tell it when to express itself or go dormant. In this 12-part lecture se...

 In this 6-hour Great Courses series, a professor of Roman history critiques some of the most famous "Sword and Toga" movies ever ...

 Many people base a lot of their personal identity on their race and family narrative. What happens, then, if you take a DNA Ancestry test a...

 Espionage has been a part of society as long as there has been society.  This fairly new Great Courses recording explores the nature and hi...

 Some scholars have argued that the Medici family of Florence Italy were the main force behind the Italian Renaissance. In this 6 hour serie...

 In 1491 both North and South America were full of thousands of native civilizations.  Some were large like the Mayas and the Incas.  Most w...

Charlemagne is one of the historical figures that looms larger than life.  His father was a successful ruler, Pepin,  King of the Franks, bu...

Dr. Dorsey is from Purdue University and has done several Great Courses videos on Medieval History.  In this one she focuses on 12 people wh...

 In this Great Courses series, Dr. Bartlett focuses on the history of Italy from the 11th century until the unification of Italy in the 1800...

 In this 24 part lecture series, Harl traces the history of Asia Minor from the period of the Hittites in about 2000 BCE to the rise of the ...

 Secret societies have existed from ancient times to today.  In 24 lectures, Richard Spence touches on every kind of secret society imaginab...

This is an older series of 24 1/2 hour lectures about the evolutionary origins of the human mind.  Actually, about half of the lectures are ...

 This Great Courses lecture series contains 12 half-hour lectures of the Qur'an by Dr. Martyn Oliver.  The first lecture deals with the ...

 In this twelve lecture series, Brown discusses how people are able to influence others, for good or bad, and how people can recognize and r...

In this series of 24 lectures, Dr Sapolsky walks the listeners through many the physiological of human behavior.  He starts with a simple ex...

 Saint Augustine is now considered one of the theological fathers of the Catholic Church, but he didn't start out that way.  As a youth ...

 In 2012 the CERN scientists announced that a Higgs Boson had been created in the Large Hadron Collider. At the time I wondered what it was ...