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Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
$29.95
Stanchfield's voice is so clear in his writing, you get the sense of his passion for the art, and his desire to teach and inspire the next generation of animators as if you were one of his students. His writing ranges the philosophical discussion of what it means to be an artist (animator) and it's place in society, to very specific instruction on what to draw and why. You should read this. Animators in any style should read this.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 volume set) (Set v)
$101.10
This famous 3 volume set is best used in one of the following ways:

1. You have already taken university calculus based physics and are interested in another view of the subject by one of the modern masters of physics
2.. You are reading the texts for intellectual stimulation and already have some background in math/physics; e.g., you are a curious engineer
3. You are taking university physics and want to use these books for additional readings to understand important concepts and the big picture

If you are planning to use these books as your primary textbook source to learn the basics of physics, I agree with Feynman that these lectures are a failure.
However, the books are great to flip through, scan, skip around, read a page here and there. There are amazing deep insights sprinkled throughout.

The very serious student of physics should try and dig up the 5 volume Berkeley Physics Course to seek a deep, well-thought-out, mathematically rigorous introduction to
physics. Volume 2 on E&M by Purcell is still in print and still in use but the other volumes on Mechanics, Waves, Quantum, and Statistical Physics are harder to find.
Volume 5 on Stat Physics by Reif is particularly enlightening. By the way, if they tried to use all these Berkeley physics books as a primary texts in a freshman class today most engineering students would change their major
to Econ. However, the few proud students remaining would really be empowered for great success in the sciences.

Historical Lectures and Essays
$3.65
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE I. Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, 1867. CASTE. These Lectures are meant to be comments on the state of France before the French Revolution. To English society, past or present, I do not refer. For reasons which I have set forth at length in an introductory discourse, there never was any Ancien Regime in England. Therefore, when the Stuarts tried to establish in England a system which might have led to a political condition like that of the Continent, all classes combined and exterminated them; while the course of English society went on as before. On the contrary, England was the mother of every movement which undermined, and at last destroyed, the Ancien Regime. From England went forth those political theories which, transmitted from America to France, became the principles of the French Revolution. From England went forth the philosophy of Locke, with all its immense results. It is noteworthy, that when Voltaire tries to persuade people, in a certain famous passage, that philosophers do not care to trouble theworld?of the ten names to whom he does honour, seven names are English. "It is," he says, "neither Montaigne, nor Locke, nor Boyle, nor Spinoza, nor Hobbes, nor Lord Shaftesbury, nor Mr. Collins, nor Mr. Toland, nor Fludd, nor Baker, who have carried the torch of discord into their countries." It is worth notice, that not only are the majority of these names English, but that they belong not to the latter but to the former half of the eighteenth century; and indeed, to the latter half of the seventeenth. So it was with that Inductive Physical Science, which helped more than all to break up the superstitions of the Ancien Regime, and to set man face to face with the facts of the universe. From England, towards the end of the seventeent...

Brain Lectures: Brain, Mind, Emotion, Memory, Language, Consciousness, Insanity, Frontal Lobes, Limbic System...
$34.95
This fascinating, entertaining, and informative 6 hour, 3 DVD set, includes and is based on 10 master lectures presented by Dr. Rhawn Joseph, to college students in a classroom setting. This lecture series is available, free, online and at the BrainMind website, and in total, has been viewed over 500,000 times. Although this is not a slick, professionally produced film series, it has received the highest praise from viewers online. The topic covered include: The Brain, Mind, Consciousness, Emotion, Memory, Language, Insanity, Stress, PTSD, Hallucination, Sex, The Right & Left Hemisphere, Frontal Lobes, Temporal Lobes, Parietal Lobes, Occipital Lobes, Brainstem, Midbrain, Thalamus, Striatum, Limbic System, Motivation, Body Image, Rage, Hunger, Aphasia, Amnesia, Frontal Lobotomy... DVD 1: 1. The Brain Overview: Frontal, Temporal, Parietal & Occipital Lobes, Limbic System, Language, Vision, Memory, Emotion... 2. Left Hemisphere, Brainstem, Midbrain, Thalamus ....Language, Vision, Audition, Emotion, Motor Functioning.... DVD 2: 3. Frontal Lobes: Frontal Lobotomy, Memory, Catatonia, Paralysis, Language, Depression, Mania... 4. Parietal Lobes: Body Image, Neglect, Phantom Limbs, Phantom Pain... DVD 3: 5. Temporal Lobes: Language, Memory, Emotion, Hallucinations, Face Recognition, Vision, Amnesia... 6. Limbic System: Amygdala, Hippocampus, Hypothalamus: Sex, Emotion, Hunger, Rage, Memory, Stress, PTSD, Hallucinations... Dr. Joseph obtained his Ph.D. from UHS/The Chicago Medical School, Internship completed at Yale Medical School, and has a history of making major scientific discoveries published in prestigious scientific journals. These include the discovery of the profound effects of early environmental influences on learning, memory, and intelligence; the environmental and hormonal influences on creating and reversing sex differences; neuroplasticity in the primate brain and the ability of adult primate brain cells to grow, atrophy, or lose or recover functions based on environmental influences. These discoveries were made and published in the 1970s in the Journal of Comparative Neurology, Developmental Psychobiology, Brain Behavioral Research, Behavioral Biology, etc. He has also published major discoveries on human development and evolution, and the nature of language and consciousness. His works have also been featured on the covers of prestigious scientific journals. Dr. Joseph has published best selling scholarly neuroscience texts (e.g., Plenum, 1990, 1992, 1993, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1996), which received the highest praise by major scientific periodicals. His scholarly works have been reprinted by major medical schools and universities including Harvard, and he has been invited to speak at prestigious universities including the University of California at Berkeley. Choice Magazine has called his previous books: Brilliant. Joseph... is Sagan and Asimov. Other Journals called his texts Astounding! The best! One of the most astonishing books of our time.-Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society First rate... Among the best... Deserving of a place on the shelf of any neuropsychologist, neuropsychiatrist, or behavioral neurologist. -the journal of Neuropsychiatry. The finest analysis of... brain phenomena that we have to date. - The New England Review of Books An intense, in-depth examination of the relationship between neuroanatomy and associated behavior, personality, thinking, psychosis, and emotions; 4 Stars! Highly recommended. -Medical Review Journal Excellent... Comprehensive... Exceptional...Enthusiastically recommended! -Health Sciences Review Journal Astounding... astounding... [Joseph] deserves our admiration.-Electroencephalography & Clinical Neurophysiology