A collection of audio books, audio courses, audio lectures, audio shows, audio essays, video courses, articles and books that I study…
Audio books
A History of Western Philosophy / Bertrand Russell
- id: 2592
- name: A History of Western Philosophy
- length: 1.42 days
- size: 555.17 MB
- chapters: 79
- type: audio book
- language: English
- end view date: 2013-04-01 21:07:59
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: New cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: It’s OK but Russell puts too much emphasis on language and less on reality. Probably still heritage from previous philosophers. But he does refute almost all who case before him and ends on the right note.
- review date: 2013-04-01 21:07:59
- Author: Bertrand Russell english wikipedia id: Bertrand_Russell
- english wikipedia id: A_History_of_Western_Philosophy
- ISBN id: 0-415-32505-6
The Twelve Caesars / Gaius Tranquillus Suetonius, Robert Graves
- id: 2535
- name: The Twelve Caesars
- length: 13.58 hrs
- size: 745.85 MB
- chapters: 2
- type: audio book
- language: English
- end view date: 2013-02-02 14:58:04
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: New cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 5
- review: Very gossipy. Not too much real information. No hint about the origin of the information nor it’s certainty. Too much superstition. Too much information which could not possible be obtained. On the other hand: what do you expect?!?
- review date: 2013-02-02 14:58:04
- Author: Gaius Tranquillus Suetonius english wikipedia id: Suetonius
- Translator: Robert Graves english wikipedia id: Robert_Graves
- Producer: Audible
- english wikipedia id: The_Twelve_Caesars
The Republic / Plato
- id: 2533
- name: The Republic
- length: 4.83 hrs
- size: 132.57 MB
- chapters: 4
- type: audio book
- language: English
- end view date: 2013-02-01 08:24:12
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: New cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 5
- review: The ideas of Plato are so tyrannical, abusive and obviously stupid that they hardly need attention.
- review date: 2013-02-01 08:24:12
- Author: Plato english wikipedia id: Plato
- english wikipedia id: The_Republic_(Plato)
The Greatest Show on Earth / Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- id: 599
- name: The Greatest Show on Earth
- length: 14.58 hrs
- size: 800.94 MB
- chapters: 15
- type: audio book
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-03-31 03:05:13
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 8
- review: Very good overview of the evidence for evolution. Worth a read.
- review date: 2012-03-31 03:05:13
- Author: Richard Dawkins website url: http://richarddawkins.net/ english wikipedia id: Richard_Dawkins
- Narrator: Richard Dawkins website url: http://richarddawkins.net/ english wikipedia id: Richard_Dawkins
- Narrator: Lalla Ward english wikipedia id: Lalla_Ward
- amazon product id: 0743579275
The Whole Shebang / Prof. Timothy Ferris, Prof. Timothy Ferris
- id: 432
- name: The Whole Shebang
- length: 6.65 hrs
- size: 91.32 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio book
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-10-04 14:32:21
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: OK but not too precise on the math side.
- review date: 2011-10-04 14:32:21
- Author: Prof. Timothy Ferris website url: http://www.timothyferris.com
- Narrator: Prof. Timothy Ferris website url: http://www.timothyferris.com
God is not Great / Christopher Hitchens
- id: 341
- name: God is not Great
- length: 8.82 hrs
- size: 242.19 MB
- chapters: 109
- type: audio book
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-06-15 16:12:17
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 8
- review: Hitchens is very knowledgeable and aggressive. Good.
- review date: 2011-06-15 16:12:17
- Author: Christopher Hitchens amazon author id: Christopher-Hitchens/e/B000APSKR0
- amazon product id: 0446697966
The Character of Physical Law / Richard Phillips Feynman
- id: 219
- name: The Character of Physical Law
- length: 2.73 hrs
- size: 37.56 MB
- chapters: 6
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2011-02-07 05:21:33
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 8
- review: Very clean headed thinking and introduction to the art which is physics.
- review date: 2011-02-07 05:21:33
- Author: Richard Phillips Feynman
- amazon product id: 0679601279
Economics in One Lesson / Henry Hazlitt
- id: 121
- name: Economics in One Lesson
- length: 5.29 hrs
- size: 54.49 MB
- chapters: 1
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2010-11-26 04:16:53
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Pretty clear headed economics thinking.
- review date: 2010-11-26 04:16:53
- Author: Henry Hazlitt
- amazon product id: 0517548232
The Day the Universe Changed / James Burke
- id: 60
- name: The Day the Universe Changed
- length: 2.95 hrs
- size: 153.54 MB
- chapters: 7
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2010-09-21 09:44:06
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: YES
- rating: 5
- review: Very quick review of all scientific progress. The end is so stupid! The only conclusion he comes to is totdally relativistic which is horseshit. The opening up of science to the public is great but that everyone will have an opinion on the number of quarks is nothing short of idiotic.
- review date: 2010-09-21 09:44:06
- Author: James Burke
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed / Jared Mason Diamond
- id: 54
- name: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- length: 1.08 days
- size: 1.38 GB
- chapters: 463
- type: audio book
- start view date: 2010-08-13 05:04:11
- end view date: 2010-09-03 04:11:11
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 6
- review: Starts out with overall perspectives on collapses and ends with only an environmental one. Loosly bound.
- review date: 2010-09-03 04:11:11
- Author: Jared Mason Diamond
- amazon product id: 0143036556
The Case Against The Fed / Murray N. Rothbard
- id: 52
- name: The Case Against The Fed
- length: 4.05 hrs
- size: 41.7 MB
- chapters: 1
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2010-08-10 00:07:04
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Pretty clear although wrong in the conclusion and muddled on the theory side.
- review date: 2010-08-10 00:07:04
- Author: Murray N. Rothbard
America’s Great Depression / Murray N. Rothbard
- id: 50
- name: America’s Great Depression
- length: 10.02 hrs
- size: 550.66 MB
- chapters: 2
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2010-07-21 15:25:17
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Should have stuck to the theory. Too many details about the actions of the Hoover administration. I understand the need to make a point, but still…
- review date: 2010-07-21 15:25:17
- Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith
- id: 45
- name: Wealth of Nations
- length: 1.47 days
- size: 607.6 MB
- chapters: 50
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2010-05-04 12:53:32
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: A very exhostive work. Too much detail at time which obscures the theory but the theory comes out anyway.
- review date: 2010-05-04 12:53:32
- Author: Adam Smith english wikipedia id: Adam_Smith hebrew wikipedia id: אדם_סמית
The Road To Serfdom / Friedrich Hayek
- id: 37
- name: The Road To Serfdom
- length: 3.38 hrs
- size: 185.76 MB
- chapters: 1
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2010-01-30 03:48:16
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Interesting but does not go into great detail.
- review date: 2010-01-30 03:48:16
- Author: Friedrich Hayek
E=mc2 / David Bodanis
- id: 35
- name: E=mc2
- length: 6.82 hrs
- size: 281.12 MB
- chapters: 1
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2010-01-20 16:46:02
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: nice overview of the subject. Not very deep scientifically.
- review date: 2010-01-20 16:46:02
- Author: David Bodanis
Getting Things Done / David Allen
- id: 30
- name: Getting Things Done
- length: 2.78 hrs
- size: 76.22 MB
- chapters: 1
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-12-29 00:03:40
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: good ideas but too short for my taste.
- review date: 2009-12-29 00:03:40
- Author: David Allen
The Day We Found the Universe / Marcia Bartusiak
- id: 31
- name: The Day We Found the Universe
- length: 10.53 hrs
- size: 348.36 MB
- chapters: 18
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-12-29 00:03:40
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Very interesting book. A little too fine detailed at times.
- review date: 2009-12-29 00:03:40
- Author: Marcia Bartusiak
The Tipping Point / Malcolm Gladwell
- id: 26
- name: The Tipping Point
- length: 3.08 hrs
- size: 168.94 MB
- chapters: 43
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-10-03 09:04:03
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Interesting but too weak on the theory side.
- review date: 2009-10-03 09:04:03
- Author: Malcolm Gladwell
The Biology of Doom, The History of America’s Secret Germ Warfare Project / Ed Regis
- id: 20
- name: The Biology of Doom, The History of America’s Secret Germ Warfare Project
- length: 10.75 hrs
- size: 295.23 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-09-02 06:48:19
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 6
- review: Informative but not beyond.
- review date: 2009-09-02 06:48:19
- Author: Ed Regis
What’s So Great About America / Dinesh D’Souza
- id: 18
- name: What’s So Great About America
- length: 6.13 hrs
- size: 84.12 MB
- chapters: 37
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-08-01 01:38:36
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 6
- review: Not memorable.
- review date: 2009-08-01 01:38:36
- Author: Dinesh D’Souza
Zero,The Biography of a Dangerous Idea / Charles Seife
- id: 17
- name: Zero,The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- length: 5.7 hrs
- size: 78.23 MB
- chapters: 10
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-07-31 18:24:47
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 6
- review: Has some interesting moments but it seems that the emphasis on the zero idea is too large at times.
- review date: 2009-07-31 18:24:47
- Author: Charles Seife
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man / John Perkins
- id: 15
- name: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- length: 9.29 hrs
- size: 255.28 MB
- chapters: 39
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-07-27 08:37:22
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 6
- review: Interesting but too self indulgent. Does not propose any real solutions to the problems it presents.
- review date: 2009-07-27 08:37:22
- Author: John Perkins
The Revolution – A Manifesto / Ron Paul
- id: 14
- name: The Revolution – A Manifesto
- length: 5.34 hrs
- size: 293.39 MB
- chapters: 57
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-07-22 00:28:06
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 6
- review: Has some nice compaints about current government but does not really propose any concrete solutions.
- review date: 2009-07-22 00:28:06
- Author: Ron Paul
The End of Faith / Sam Harris
- id: 13
- name: The End of Faith
- length: 9.27 hrs
- size: 127.36 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-07-20 11:55:41
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Very good.
- review date: 2009-07-20 11:55:41
- Author: Sam Harris website url: http://www.samharris.org/
Genome / Matt Ridley
- id: 10
- name: Genome
- length: 14.49 hrs
- size: 199 MB
- chapters: 25
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-05-28 14:54:04
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Excellect book to start thinking about genes.
- review date: 2009-05-28 14:54:04
- Author: Matt Ridley
Hot Flat And Crowded / Thomas L. Friedman
- id: 9
- name: Hot Flat And Crowded
- length: 20.91 hrs
- size: 502.63 MB
- chapters: 22
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-05-12 20:01:44
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Nice message but too technical and too jurnalistic.
- review date: 2009-05-12 20:01:44
- Author: Thomas L. Friedman
The Demon Haunted World – Science As A Candle In The Dark / Carl Sagan
- id: 8
- name: The Demon Haunted World – Science As A Candle In The Dark
- length: 14.33 hrs
- size: 590.35 MB
- chapters: 20
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-04-23 11:09:27
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Sagan does what he does best.
- review date: 2009-04-23 11:09:27
- Author: Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot / Carl Sagan
- id: 7
- name: Pale Blue Dot
- length: 10.44 hrs
- size: 143.44 MB
- chapters: 22
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-04-10 18:21:46
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Sagan does what he does best.
- review date: 2009-04-10 18:21:46
- Author: Carl Sagan
Life in the Universe / Carl Sagan
- id: 6
- name: Life in the Universe
- length: 2.87 hrs
- size: 157.74 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-03-30 00:36:12
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Sagan does what he does best.
- review date: 2009-03-30 00:36:12
- Author: Carl Sagan
Religion & Science / Bertrand Russell
- id: 5
- name: Religion & Science
- length: 2.26 hrs
- size: 30.99 MB
- chapters: 12
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-03-28 14:51:47
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 8
- review: Very good philosophy.
- review date: 2009-03-28 14:51:47
- Author: Bertrand Russell english wikipedia id: Bertrand_Russell
- amazon product id: 0195115511
Kinds of Minds / Daniel Dennet
- id: 4
- name: Kinds of Minds
- length: 3.51 hrs
- size: 48.23 MB
- chapters: 6
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2009-03-22 16:12:00
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 8
- review: Very good philosophy.
- review date: 2009-03-22 16:12:00
- Author: Daniel Dennet
Rethinking Our Past / James Loewen
- id: 2
- name: Rethinking Our Past
- length: 8.07 hrs
- size: 332.5 MB
- chapters: 7
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2008-10-25 19:36:47
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: very good – gives you a nice persepective on American history
- review date: 2008-10-25 19:36:47
- Author: James Loewen
War of the Worlds / Orson Welles
- id: 1
- name: War of the Worlds
- length: 57.16 mins
- size: 52.33 MB
- chapters: 1
- type: audio book
- end view date: 2007-04-07 18:03:34
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 5
- review: nice and historic
- review date: 2007-04-07 18:03:34
- Author: Orson Welles
Audio courses
Great Ideas of Psychology / Daniel N. Robinson
- id: 4758
- name: Great Ideas of Psychology
- length: 1.01 days
- size: 334.19 MB
- chapters: 48
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2013-04-27 00:49:51
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: New cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: Good intro into the subject. The professor is good (has high verbal skills) but is low on precise analytic mastery.
- review date: 2013-04-27 00:49:51
- Lecturer: Daniel N. Robinson TTC professor id: 17
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 660
World History / Ph.D. Yuval Noah Harari
- id: 2551
- name: World History
- length: 1.62 days
- size: 2.08 GB
- chapters: 26
- type: audio course
- language: Hebrew
- end view date: 2013-03-02 10:47:19
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: New cowon mp3 player
- lang: Hebrew
- rating: 8
- review: Excellent course. Shows the entire human history in a different light. Very good in order to piece together the broken pieces of your high school history classes.
- review date: 2013-03-02 10:47:19
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Yuval Noah Harari english wikipedia id: Yuval_Harari hebrew wikipedia id: יובל_נח_הררי
- School of Course: Hebrew University
- website url: http://university.qwerty.org.il/?p=486
Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition / Daniel N. Robinson
- id: 2520
- name: Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition
- length: 1.26 days
- size: 1.21 GB
- chapters: 60
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2013-01-16 19:15:15
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: New cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 5
- review: The professor is too eloquent and too scattered in his thought and does not explain each subject in a thorough manner. It was better if he would use plainer language and spent more time on the foundations of each idea and not on developing later thought on each of those ideas.
- review date: 2013-01-16 19:15:15
- Lecturer: Daniel N. Robinson TTC professor id: 17
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4200
Classics of British Literature / Ph.D. John Sutherland
- id: 2480
- name: Classics of British Literature
- length: 1.01 days
- size: 735.44 MB
- chapters: 48
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-12-07 14:58:48
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: New cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: Very nice review of the subject. No single piece of work gets a very deep discussion but the overview is nice.
- review date: 2012-12-07 14:58:48
- Lecturer: Ph.D. John Sutherland TTC professor id: 350
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 2400
American Revolution / Ph.D. Allen C. Guelzo
- id: 2445
- name: American Revolution
- length: 12.29 hrs
- size: 904.26 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-11-02 22:02:03
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: New cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: The lecturer is very good and is very well versed in the details but some big picture discussions are missing.
- review date: 2012-11-02 22:02:03
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Allen C. Guelzo TTC professor id: 287
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 8514
Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature / Arnold Weinstein
- id: 629
- name: Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature
- length: 18.51 hrs
- size: 762.47 MB
- chapters: 36
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-05-04 13:05:03
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: As an intro this is just OK. I haven’t found any great insights that I did not have before. For me this was more of an insight how literary professors think than how writers write…
- review date: 2012-05-04 13:05:03
- Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein TTC professor id: 81
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 2310
Great Ideas of Classical Physics / Ph.D. Steven Pollock
- id: 525
- name: Great Ideas of Classical Physics
- length: 12.25 hrs
- size: 504.66 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-01-05 17:01:16
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 8
- review: The lecturer is very good. Goes for the heart of things and explains the philosophy well. Did a lot better than I would have thought possible for 12 hours. Recommended.
- review date: 2012-01-05 17:01:16
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Steven Pollock TTC professor id: 251
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 1295
Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature’s Most Fantastic Works / Ph.D. Eric S. Rabkin
- id: 519
- name: Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature’s Most Fantastic Works
- length: 12.54 hrs
- size: 351.46 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-12-30 16:43:02
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Too many works surveyed. Too much symbolism. Too little science. The lecturer is not interesting and is trying awfully hard to sound intellectual.
- review date: 2011-12-30 16:43:02
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Eric S. Rabkin TTC professor id: 142
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 2997
Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications / Ph.D. David Sadava
- id: 517
- name: Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications
- length: 11.97 hrs
- size: 210.68 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-12-26 20:25:07
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Good intro. Does not go into too much detail.
- review date: 2011-12-26 20:25:07
- Lecturer: Ph.D. David Sadava TTC professor id: 346
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 1533
Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos / Ph.D. Steven Pollock
- id: 508
- name: Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos
- length: 12.18 hrs
- size: 167.28 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-12-19 03:49:06
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Good intro to the subject.
- review date: 2011-12-19 03:49:06
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Steven Pollock TTC professor id: 251
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 1247
Earth’s Changing Climate / Prof. Richard Wolfson
- id: 495
- name: Earth’s Changing Climate
- length: 6.15 hrs
- size: 84.49 MB
- chapters: 12
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-12-06 19:40:45
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: He is quite good but the physics are weak. I guess it’s because of lack of time.
- review date: 2011-12-06 19:40:45
- Lecturer: Prof. Richard Wolfson TTC professor id: 6
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 1219
God and Mankind: Comparative Religions / Ph.D. Robert Oden
- id: 471
- name: God and Mankind: Comparative Religions
- length: 5.83 hrs
- size: 120.11 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-11-08 14:38:46
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Very muddled. Puts too much emphasis on Christianity. Does not explore the huge problems with all the religious arguments that are presented. It sure sounds like the lecturer is a theist (what an idiot!).
- review date: 2011-11-08 14:38:46
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Robert Oden TTC professor id: 70
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 616
Bach and the High Baroque / Prof. Robert Greenberg
- id: 470
- name: Bach and the High Baroque
- length: 1.04 days
- size: 688.79 MB
- chapters: 288
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-11-08 00:10:41
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: The lecturer is very good although he does not go into the musical technicalities which is a shame.
- review date: 2011-11-08 00:10:41
- Lecturer: Prof. Robert Greenberg TTC professor id: 3
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 720
Questions of Value / Prof. Patrick Grim
- id: 431
- name: Questions of Value
- length: 12.28 hrs
- size: 506.06 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-10-04 03:14:33
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: A nice intro but the lecturer is not very exciting. He also does not delve deeply into any of the topics.
- review date: 2011-10-04 03:14:33
- Lecturer: Prof. Patrick Grim TTC professor id: 311 website url: http://www.pgrim.org
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4433
Self Under Siege – Philosophy in the 20th Century / Prof. Rick Roderick
- id: 411
- name: Self Under Siege – Philosophy in the 20th Century
- length: 6.08 hrs
- size: 125.29 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-09-07 01:25:32
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Rick is great but his arguments about this “attack” on the self are not convincing. I am not a post modernist, I guess.
- review date: 2011-09-07 01:25:32
- Lecturer: Prof. Rick Roderick english wikipedia id: Rick_Roderick
- Producer: TTC
- amazon product id: B0015N1PWI
Philosophy and Human Values / Prof. Rick Roderick
- id: 410
- name: Philosophy and Human Values
- length: 5.7 hrs
- size: 136.9 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-09-02 18:50:30
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: Rick is very good but very little theory is captured in these lectures.
- review date: 2011-09-02 18:50:30
- Lecturer: Prof. Rick Roderick english wikipedia id: Rick_Roderick
- Producer: TTC
- amazon product id: B003A80GJO
A Brief History of the World / Prof. Peter N. Stearns
- id: 404
- name: A Brief History of the World
- length: 19.01 hrs
- size: 783.37 MB
- chapters: 36
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-08-27 14:17:56
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: OK as far as dividing the history of the world into periods. Very little political theory. Most points are obvious.
- review date: 2011-08-27 14:17:56
- Lecturer: Prof. Peter N. Stearns TTC professor id: 335
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 8080
Science and Religion / Prof. Lawrence M. Principe
- id: 376
- name: Science and Religion
- length: 6.24 hrs
- size: 256.96 MB
- chapters: 12
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-07-25 22:01:55
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Not too enlightening and the lecture is obviously a theist that seems to really believe that there is such a thing as high order theology. Quite absurd. I don’t recommend this. TTC fucked up on this one.
- review date: 2011-07-25 22:01:55
- Lecturer: Prof. Lawrence M. Principe TTC professor id: 248
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4691
Science in the Twentieth Century A Social-Intellectual Survey / Ph.D. Steven L. Goldman
- id: 373
- name: Science in the Twentieth Century A Social-Intellectual Survey
- length: 18.37 hrs
- size: 504.46 MB
- chapters: 217
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-07-20 07:05:54
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: Goldman is very good. The science is not deep, but probably could not be deep in a course like this. As an overview this is very good.
- review date: 2011-07-20 07:05:54
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Steven L. Goldman
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 1220
World War II – A Military and Social History / Thomas Childers
- id: 361
- name: World War II – A Military and Social History
- length: 15.25 hrs
- size: 144.32 MB
- chapters: 30
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-07-06 15:06:55
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: In terms of facts it is a good review. Not too much analysis. I may well be that this is not a real complaint against this course: maybe 30 lectures which amount to 15 hours do not allow more than the bare facts.
- review date: 2011-07-06 15:06:55
- Lecturer: Thomas Childers TTC professor id: 10
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 810
Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition / Prof. Rick Roderick
- id: 343
- name: Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition
- length: 5.42 hrs
- size: 148.8 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-06-17 14:02:06
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Not very methodical. The lecturer is good but the points he is making are not clear nor is Nietzsche’s stand on any of them. Maybe a prerequisite should be to read Nietzsche?
- review date: 2011-06-17 14:02:06
- Lecturer: Prof. Rick Roderick english wikipedia id: Rick_Roderick
- Producer: TTC
Herodotus, The Father of History / Elizabeth Vandiver
- id: 336
- name: Herodotus, The Father of History
- length: 11.97 hrs
- size: 164.43 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-06-08 03:07:12
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Very little criticism of the old way of thinking. Very little discussion of the issues involved in general. Very little discussion about the philosophy of history.
- review date: 2011-06-08 03:07:12
- Lecturer: Elizabeth Vandiver TTC professor id: 33
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 2353
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music / Prof. Robert Greenberg
- id: 323
- name: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
- length: 1.55 days
- size: 1.6 GB
- chapters: 48
- type: audio course
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-05-23 22:37:53
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 8
- review: The lecturer is very good and his enthusiasm passes off. On the downside there is very little technical discussion of chords, melody, consonance, dissonance and rhythm.
- review date: 2011-05-23 22:37:53
- Lecturer: Prof. Robert Greenberg TTC professor id: 3
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 700
Great Debate – Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution / Ph.D. Thomas L. Pangle
- id: 255
- name: Great Debate – Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution
- length: 6.25 hrs
- size: 257.57 MB
- chapters: 12
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-04-02 05:28:31
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Too muddled for me. The views of the federalists and the anti-federalists are so intermingled and they keep switching sides. Another issue I had with this course is that the professor did not give modern examples of the influences of the original design of the constitution and leaves it all to theory.
- review date: 2011-04-02 05:28:31
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Thomas L. Pangle TTC professor id: 344
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4878
Understanding the Fundamentals of Music / Prof. Robert Greenberg
- id: 252
- name: Understanding the Fundamentals of Music
- length: 12.24 hrs
- size: 504.36 MB
- chapters: 16
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-03-27 08:07:02
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 8
- review: The professor is great. I knew almost all of the stuff in the course but still had fun listening to it. Maybe he sounded clear to my ears since I knew all the technical jargon beforehand but he sounded very precise.
- review date: 2011-03-27 08:07:02
- Lecturer: Prof. Robert Greenberg TTC professor id: 3
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 7261
Heroes, Heroines, and the Wisdom of Myth / Georgia S. Nugent
- id: 243
- name: Heroes, Heroines, and the Wisdom of Myth
- length: 5.62 hrs
- size: 308.61 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-03-18 03:13:22
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Very confused. With this much literary freedom I could turn gravitation into a repulsive force. The feminist angles are also obvious but I don’t need a course in Myth to tell me that women were abused.
- review date: 2011-03-18 03:13:22
- Lecturer: Georgia S. Nugent english wikipedia id: S._Georgia_Nugent
- Producer: TTC
- amazon product id: B000N63HWE
Thomas Jefferson – Visionary American / Darren Staloff
- id: 238
- name: Thomas Jefferson – Visionary American
- length: 6.14 hrs
- size: 84.31 MB
- chapters: 72
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-03-06 21:10:29
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: A good review of his life. Again, as academics go, there is no concrete saying this way or that and very little actual philosophical accuracy.
- review date: 2011-03-06 21:10:29
- Lecturer: Darren Staloff
- Producer: TTC
- amazon product id: 1565853903
Life of the Mind – An Introduction to Psychology / Ph.D. Richard Gerrig
- id: 233
- name: Life of the Mind – An Introduction to Psychology
- length: 5.9 hrs
- size: 324.25 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-02-24 22:22:31
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: A good introduction to Psychology.
- review date: 2011-02-24 22:22:31
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Richard Gerrig
- Producer: TTC
The English Novel / Prof. Timothy Spurgin
- id: 228
- name: The English Novel
- length: 12.48 hrs
- size: 171.33 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-02-18 05:44:49
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Very good intro. A little weak on the philosophical side.
- review date: 2011-02-18 05:44:49
- Lecturer: Prof. Timothy Spurgin
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 2429
Science Wars – What Scientists Know and How They Know It / Ph.D. Steven L. Goldman
- id: 213
- name: Science Wars – What Scientists Know and How They Know It
- length: 12.4 hrs
- size: 170.27 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-02-04 14:56:51
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: A very good course. Gives a good overview. Don’t expect hard science nor hard philosophy and it would help if you have background in both.
- review date: 2011-02-04 14:56:51
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Steven L. Goldman
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 1235
Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement / Ph.D. Ashton Nichols
- id: 204
- name: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement
- length: 12.21 hrs
- size: 502.97 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-01-26 23:04:50
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Not too much philosophy. A cluster of ideas which is pretty non unified. Maybe that is indeed the transcendentalist movement and if so it does not help philosophically at all. The lecturer has lots of knowledge but is boring.
- review date: 2011-01-26 23:04:50
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Ashton Nichols
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 2598
American Ideals: Founding a Republic of Virtue / Daniel N. Robinson
- id: 197
- name: American Ideals: Founding a Republic of Virtue
- length: 6.14 hrs
- size: 336.27 MB
- chapters: 72
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-01-21 08:43:40
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Nice intro to the American revolution.
- review date: 2011-01-21 08:43:40
- Lecturer: Daniel N. Robinson TTC professor id: 17
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4855
Thinking about Capitalism / Jerry Z. Muller
- id: 195
- name: Thinking about Capitalism
- length: 18.61 hrs
- size: 766.84 MB
- chapters: 36
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2011-01-18 00:48:03
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Gives a well rounded perspective on Capitalism. Does not deal too much with corruption, monopolies, government preference for affiliated parties and such.
- review date: 2011-01-18 00:48:03
- Lecturer: Jerry Z. Muller
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 5665
Understanding the Universe – What’s New in Astronomy, 2003 / Alex Filippenko
- id: 157
- name: Understanding the Universe – What’s New in Astronomy, 2003
- length: 12.16 hrs
- size: 166.97 MB
- chapters: 16
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-12-21 20:42:49
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 6
- review: Same level as the old course. Some of the explanations are too shallow. Better to explain little and be very precise in my opinion.
- review date: 2010-12-21 20:42:49
- Lecturer: Alex Filippenko
The American Dream / John K. Roth
- id: 145
- name: The American Dream
- length: 6.06 hrs
- size: 249.82 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-12-13 00:57:44
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: Beijing->TLV flight
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 5
- review: Too much literary babble up to the point where it looks like all the lecturer wants is to impress us with his scholarly breadth. A lot of strands of thought none of which are seriously and quantitatively pitches one against the other. In summary: 8 lectures which tell you nothing new.
- review date: 2010-12-13 00:57:44
- Lecturer: John K. Roth
- Producer: TTC
Legacies of Great Economists / Timothy Taylor
- id: 144
- name: Legacies of Great Economists
- length: 7.31 hrs
- size: 125.51 MB
- chapters: 10
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-12-13 00:57:44
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: Beijing->TLV flight
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Very good review of great economists contributions. The lecturer is great, as always.
- review date: 2010-12-13 00:57:44
- Lecturer: Timothy Taylor
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 528
Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights / John E. Finn
- id: 139
- name: Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights
- length: 18.06 hrs
- size: 248.05 MB
- chapters: 36
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-12-07 01:56:34
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: Beijing hotel
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Good intro intro the workings of the US supreme court. Too technical at times but very good at times. In the end it comes down to a power game which the lecturer refused to consider and chose various judicial tools instead. At times he does confess that “they are making it up” -> but how do they “make it up” ? What are the pressures exerted on them ? This the author refused to consider.
- review date: 2010-12-07 01:56:34
- Lecturer: John E. Finn
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 8530
Poetry – A Basic Course / Allen Grossman
- id: 104
- name: Poetry – A Basic Course
- length: 6.24 hrs
- size: 257.11 MB
- chapters: 16
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-11-18 22:24:22
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Not too intelligible but the lecturer has outstanding presence. Worth a hear just for impression his vision of poetry leaves lingering in ones mind.
- review date: 2010-11-18 22:24:22
- Lecturer: Allen Grossman
- Producer: TTC
Understanding the Universe – Introduction to Astronomy / Alex Filippenko
- id: 102
- name: Understanding the Universe – Introduction to Astronomy
- length: 1.28 days
- size: 423.3 MB
- chapters: 40
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-11-17 18:29:41
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Very good course on astronomy. Long with lots of info.
- review date: 2010-11-17 18:29:41
- Lecturer: Alex Filippenko
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 1810
The Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism / Gary Hamburg
- id: 100
- name: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism
- length: 11.81 hrs
- size: 324.29 MB
- chapters: 16
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-11-17 18:06:49
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Quite informative. Does not provide much theory but is has lots of very easy flowing material.
- review date: 2010-11-17 18:06:49
- Lecturer: Gary Hamburg
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 827
World Philosophy / Kathleen M. Higgins
- id: 101
- name: World Philosophy
- length: 12.02 hrs
- size: 330.06 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-11-17 18:06:49
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 5
- review: Rubbish. All of these philosophies does not seem to worth the paper they are written on.
- review date: 2010-11-17 18:06:49
- Lecturer: Kathleen M. Higgins
- Producer: TTC
Understanding Complexity / Scott E. Page
- id: 98
- name: Understanding Complexity
- length: 6.11 hrs
- size: 251.66 MB
- chapters: 13
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-11-17 18:06:49
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Very interesting course which opens up a whole new way of thinking in Political Science and other fields.
- review date: 2010-11-17 18:06:49
- Lecturer: Scott E. Page
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 5181
Machiavelli In Context / William R. Cook
- id: 56
- name: Machiavelli In Context
- length: 12.34 hrs
- size: 169.46 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-09-18 17:59:29
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Too repetative.
- review date: 2010-09-18 17:59:29
- Lecturer: William R. Cook
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4311
Plato, Socrates and the Dialogues / Michael Sugrue
- id: 51
- name: Plato, Socrates and the Dialogues
- length: 12.03 hrs
- size: 261.04 MB
- chapters: 16
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-08-05 06:07:06
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 5
- review: Too much poetry, too much praise, too little philosophy.
- review date: 2010-08-05 06:07:06
- Lecturer: Michael Sugrue TTC professor id: 59
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 463
Introduction to the Study of Religion / Charles B. Jones
- id: 49
- name: Introduction to the Study of Religion
- length: 11.95 hrs
- size: 492.3 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-06-24 04:16:00
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Ok. Gives a good overview but does not apply lots of analysis.
- review date: 2010-06-24 04:16:00
- Lecturer: Charles B. Jones
- Producer: TTC
Great Figures of the New Testament / Amy-Jill Levine
- id: 48
- name: Great Figures of the New Testament
- length: 12.3 hrs
- size: 168.97 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-06-12 15:11:00
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 5
- review: Very unscientific with a split brain: tries to show scholasticism while not saying something like “but obviously no miracle has EVER happened”
- review date: 2010-06-12 15:11:00
- Lecturer: Amy-Jill Levine
- Producer: TTC
Can the Modern World Believe in God / Thomas Mulvihill King
- id: 47
- name: Can the Modern World Believe in God
- length: 5.67 hrs
- size: 233.65 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-05-27 08:01:00
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 5
- review: An ok explanation for different types of beliefs but a very non probing mind
- review date: 2010-05-27 08:01:00
- Lecturer: Thomas Mulvihill King
- Producer: TTC
Representing Justice – Stories of Law and Literature / Susan Sage Heinzelman
- id: 46
- name: Representing Justice – Stories of Law and Literature
- length: 12.02 hrs
- size: 165.03 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-05-12 05:23:24
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Too many prolonged description with supefluous adjectives. Does not make any serious point or solutions or even discuss practical problems.
- review date: 2010-05-12 05:23:24
- Lecturer: Susan Sage Heinzelman
- Producer: TTC
Twentieth Century American Fiction / Arnold Weinstein
- id: 44
- name: Twentieth Century American Fiction
- length: 16.29 hrs
- size: 391.59 MB
- chapters: 32
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-03-23 00:47:32
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: takes too much liberty in the interpretation. I could arrive at any conclusion with that so much liberty of intepretation.
- review date: 2010-03-23 00:47:32
- Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein TTC professor id: 81
- Producer: TTC
Great American Music – Broadway Musicals / Bill Messenger
- id: 42
- name: Great American Music – Broadway Musicals
- length: 11.96 hrs
- size: 164.29 MB
- chapters: 16
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-03-11 21:43:29
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: trip to europe
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 6
- review: Too many details. Where is the theory ?!?.
- review date: 2010-03-11 21:43:29
- Lecturer: Bill Messenger
- Producer: TTC
Perspectives on Abnormal Psychology / Drew Westen
- id: 40
- name: Perspectives on Abnormal Psychology
- length: 5.96 hrs
- size: 122.8 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-03-11 21:43:29
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: trip to europe
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Pretty good review of psycho analysis and related material.
- review date: 2010-03-11 21:43:29
- Lecturer: Drew Westen
- Producer: TTC
Soul and the City- Art, Literature and Urban Living / Arnold Weinstein
- id: 43
- name: Soul and the City- Art, Literature and Urban Living
- length: 6.01 hrs
- size: 82.56 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-03-11 21:43:29
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: trip to europe
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 6
- review: Nice to hear but provides very little true insight.
- review date: 2010-03-11 21:43:29
- Lecturer: Arnold Weinstein TTC professor id: 81
- Producer: TTC
Ethics and Public Policy / Edward Beiser
- id: 41
- name: Ethics and Public Policy
- length: 5.46 hrs
- size: 224.78 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-03-11 21:43:29
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: trip to europe
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Very disorganized but the lecturer is briliant. Worth a hear.
- review date: 2010-03-11 21:43:29
- Lecturer: Edward Beiser
- Producer: TTC
Science Fiction – The Literature of Technological Imagination / Ph.D. Eric S. Rabkin
- id: 39
- name: Science Fiction – The Literature of Technological Imagination
- length: 6.29 hrs
- size: 172.79 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-02-20 04:29:12
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Very nice introduction to Science Fiction.
- review date: 2010-02-20 04:29:12
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Eric S. Rabkin TTC professor id: 142
- Producer: TTC
Story of Human Language / John McWhorter
- id: 38
- name: Story of Human Language
- length: 18.27 hrs
- size: 250.84 MB
- chapters: 36
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-02-20 02:03:47
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Very nice introduction to linguistics.
- review date: 2010-02-20 02:03:47
- Lecturer: John McWhorter
- Producer: TTC
Theory of Evolution – A History of Controversy / Edward J. Larson
- id: 36
- name: Theory of Evolution – A History of Controversy
- length: 6.18 hrs
- size: 169.7 MB
- chapters: 72
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-01-25 08:15:32
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Good overview of the subject.
- review date: 2010-01-25 08:15:32
- Lecturer: Edward J. Larson
- Producer: TTC
Power Over People / Dennis Dalton
- id: 34
- name: Power Over People
- length: 11.98 hrs
- size: 164.51 MB
- chapters: 17
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-01-16 12:46:45
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Interesting but not philosophical enough.
- review date: 2010-01-16 12:46:45
- Lecturer: Dennis Dalton
- Producer: TTC
Freedom – The Philosophy of Liberation / Dennis Dalton
- id: 33
- name: Freedom – The Philosophy of Liberation
- length: 6.37 hrs
- size: 87.45 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2010-01-06 05:34:46
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Interesting but does not deal with the real issues of freedom.
- review date: 2010-01-06 05:34:46
- Lecturer: Dennis Dalton
- Producer: TTC
Theories Of Human Development / Malcom Watson
- id: 32
- name: Theories Of Human Development
- length: 12.1 hrs
- size: 124.62 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-12-29 00:03:40
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Good intro to the subject.
- review date: 2009-12-29 00:03:40
- Lecturer: Malcom Watson
- Producer: TTC
The Enlightenment – Invention of the Modern Self / Leo Damrosch
- id: 29
- name: The Enlightenment – Invention of the Modern Self
- length: 12.21 hrs
- size: 167.64 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-11-01 22:14:34
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 5
- review: Too confused. Too many conflicting theories with no binding thread. No explanation of why the theories arose.
- review date: 2009-11-01 22:14:34
- Lecturer: Leo Damrosch
- Producer: TTC
Search for a Meaningful Past; Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History / Darren Staloff
- id: 28
- name: Search for a Meaningful Past; Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History
- length: 12.21 hrs
- size: 258.86 MB
- chapters: 16
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-10-17 05:32:19
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Very good introduction to the subject of philosophy of history.
- review date: 2009-10-17 05:32:19
- Lecturer: Darren Staloff
- Producer: TTC
Voltaire and the Triumph of Enlightenment / Alan Charles Kors
- id: 25
- name: Voltaire and the Triumph of Enlightenment
- length: 6.1 hrs
- size: 167.54 MB
- chapters: 12
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-09-28 01:55:45
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Interesting and informative.
- review date: 2009-09-28 01:55:45
- Lecturer: Alan Charles Kors
- Producer: TTC
Mind of the Enlightenment / Alan Charles Kors
- id: 24
- name: Mind of the Enlightenment
- length: 5.54 hrs
- size: 228.21 MB
- chapters: 8
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-09-22 23:39:54
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Interesting and informative.
- review date: 2009-09-22 23:39:54
- Lecturer: Alan Charles Kors
- Producer: TTC
Roots Of Human Behavior / Barbara King
- id: 23
- name: Roots Of Human Behavior
- length: 5.96 hrs
- size: 122.76 MB
- chapters: 3
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-09-17 21:53:58
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 7
- review: Interesting and informative.
- review date: 2009-09-17 21:53:58
- Lecturer: Barbara King
- Producer: TTC
Search for Intelligent Life in Space / Seth Shostak
- id: 22
- name: Search for Intelligent Life in Space
- length: 5.98 hrs
- size: 82.16 MB
- chapters: 12
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-09-14 21:19:53
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Good intro to the topic.
- review date: 2009-09-14 21:19:53
- Lecturer: Seth Shostak
- Producer: TTC
Philosophy of Mind / John Searle
- id: 21
- name: Philosophy of Mind
- length: 8.71 hrs
- size: 239.23 MB
- chapters: 12
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-09-08 00:47:33
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Good introduction to the topics except the last chapters which are junk and the fact that the lecturer tries too damn hard to defend his own chinese room argument which does not hold water.
- review date: 2009-09-08 00:47:33
- Lecturer: John Searle
- Producer: TTC
Economics / Timothy Taylor
- id: 19
- name: Economics
- length: 15.22 hrs
- size: 156.74 MB
- chapters: 20
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-08-22 01:59:47
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Very good introduction to basic economics (micro and macro).
- review date: 2009-08-22 01:59:47
- Lecturer: Timothy Taylor
- Producer: TTC
Peoples and Cultures of the World / Edward Fischer
- id: 16
- name: Peoples and Cultures of the World
- length: 12.14 hrs
- size: 500.24 MB
- chapters: 24
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-07-30 00:46:44
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 6
- review: Interesting in the informative sense but tries hard to defend the diversity of human culture.
- review date: 2009-07-30 00:46:44
- Lecturer: Edward Fischer
- Producer: TTC
The United States And The Middle East 1914- 9-11 / Salim Yaqub
- id: 12
- name: The United States And The Middle East 1914- 9-11
- length: 12.44 hrs
- size: 343.64 MB
- chapters: 144
- type: audio course
- end view date: 2009-07-11 15:42:28
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 6
- review: Informative but does not reach any conclusions nor postulates any thesis.
- review date: 2009-07-11 15:42:28
- Lecturer: Salim Yaqub
- Producer: TTC
Audio lectures
The Lost Lecture / Richard Phillips Feynman
- id: 220
- name: The Lost Lecture
- length: 1.27 hrs
- size: 17.42 MB
- chapters: 1
- type: audio lecture
- end view date: 2011-02-07 05:21:33
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: night walk
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 8
- review: Very interesting proof, but more importantly the way he thinks about physics with no constraint on method.
- review date: 2011-02-07 05:21:33
- Lecturer: Richard Phillips Feynman
- amazon product id: 0393319954
St. Patrick – The Patron Saint of Ireland / William R. Cook
- id: 53
- name: St. Patrick – The Patron Saint of Ireland
- length: 31.22 mins
- size: 21.44 MB
- chapters: 1
- type: audio lecture
- end view date: 2010-08-09 23:56:04
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: Just an overview.
- review date: 2010-08-09 23:56:04
- Lecturer: William R. Cook
- Producer: TTC
Fiction In The Da Vinci Code / Bart D. Ehrman
- id: 27
- name: Fiction In The Da Vinci Code
- length: 1.09 hrs
- size: 44.85 MB
- chapters: 2
- type: audio lecture
- end view date: 2009-10-03 09:04:03
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Car stereo
- rating: 6
- review: It is very hard to deny that Jesus married Mary Magdalene when you try very hard not to say “but obviously the walking on the water part is nonsense also”…
- review date: 2009-10-03 09:04:03
- Lecturer: Bart D. Ehrman
- Producer: TTC
Audio shows
Letting go of God / Julia Sweeney
- id: 11
- name: Letting go of God
- length: 2.12 hrs
- size: 116.29 MB
- chapters: 27
- type: audio show
- end view date: 2009-06-06 02:11:51
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 8
- review: Very funny and provocative.
- review date: 2009-06-06 02:11:51
- Participant: Julia Sweeney
The Myth of Free Will / Susan Blackmore
- id: 3
- name: The Myth of Free Will
- length: 55.67 mins
- size: 50.97 MB
- chapters: 2
- type: audio show
- end view date: 2009-03-14 03:05:40
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 5
- review: interesting but not more than that.
- review date: 2009-03-14 03:05:40
- Participant: Susan Blackmore
Audio essays
Civil Disobedience / Henry David Thoreau
- id: 140
- name: Civil Disobedience
- length: 58.08 mins
- size: 33.23 MB
- chapters: 2
- type: audio essay
- end view date: 2010-12-12 02:02:21
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: Beijing hotel
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- rating: 7
- review: Pretty straight forward.
- review date: 2010-12-12 02:02:21
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
Video courses
Plato’s Republic / Prof. David Roochnik
- id: 4775
- name: Plato’s Republic
- length: 12.22 hrs
- size: 3.54 GB
- chapters: 25
- type: video course
- language: English
- end view date: 2013-05-14 17:37:47
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3 harddrive
- lang: English
- rating: 4
- review: I disliked this course very much. Not much insight by the professor. Takes Plato’s stance too much while he should be criticizing him…
- review date: 2013-05-14 17:37:47
- Lecturer: Prof. David Roochnik TTC professor id: 212
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4537
Rights of Man: Great Thinkers and Great Movements / Ph.D. Paul Gordon Lauren
- id: 2439
- name: Rights of Man: Great Thinkers and Great Movements
- length: 12.01 hrs
- size: 4.49 GB
- chapters: 25
- type: video course
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-10-25 03:02:42
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Too much emphasis on the rights concepts and less on the political structures opposing them.
- review date: 2012-10-25 03:02:42
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Paul Gordon Lauren TTC professor id: 365
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4242
Skeptics and Believers: Religious Debate in the Western Intellectual Tradition / Prof. Tyler Roberts
- id: 2423
- name: Skeptics and Believers: Religious Debate in the Western Intellectual Tradition
- length: 18.65 hrs
- size: 7.26 GB
- chapters: 37
- type: video course
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-09-30 12:09:16
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Not very critical of religion. Minor thinkers seem to make this guy happy while they make me yawn.
- review date: 2012-09-30 12:09:16
- Lecturer: Prof. Tyler Roberts TTC professor id: 383
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4670
Genius of Michelangelo / Prof. William E. Wallace
- id: 653
- name: Genius of Michelangelo
- length: 17.91 hrs
- size: 5.62 GB
- chapters: 36
- type: video course
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-07-14 18:54:51
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: Not very enlightening. Too much praising of the artist and too much superfluous literary babble. Not a lot of concentration on the art itself, on the technique, on comparison to other artists of the same age, on previous and post artists and so forth.
- review date: 2012-07-14 18:54:51
- Lecturer: Prof. William E. Wallace TTC professor id: 336
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 7130
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance / William Kloss
- id: 613
- name: Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance
- length: 18.23 hrs
- size: 8.22 GB
- chapters: 37
- type: video course
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-04-20 14:47:56
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- lang: English
- rating: 6
- review: A fine course in terms of paintings covered. Not too much in either technical painting details nor philosophy.
- review date: 2012-04-20 14:47:56
- Lecturer: William Kloss TTC professor id: 296
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 7140
Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World / Ph.D. Steven L. Goldman
- id: 199
- name: Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World
- length: 19.16 hrs
- size: 6.2 GB
- chapters: 37
- type: video course
- end view date: 2011-01-22 08:43:59
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- rating: 7
- review: Good overview of all the major scientific idea. One specific area which is left out is Artificial Intelligence – maybe because the lecturer wears a yarmulke ?
- review date: 2011-01-22 08:43:59
- Lecturer: Ph.D. Steven L. Goldman
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 1120
Joy of Mathematics / Arthur T. Benjamin
- id: 138
- name: Joy of Mathematics
- length: 12.33 hrs
- size: 4.21 GB
- chapters: 25
- type: video course
- end view date: 2010-07-18 00:03:47
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- rating: 7
- review: I knew most of the stuff but it was nice as an overview and some of the approaches show that you can indeed explain lots of the stuff to newbies without the need for lots of definitions and small proofs.
- review date: 2010-07-18 00:03:47
- Lecturer: Arthur T. Benjamin
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 1411
Discovering the Middle Ages / William R. Cook, Ronald B. Herzman
- id: 136
- name: Discovering the Middle Ages
- length: 6.13 hrs
- size: 3.45 GB
- chapters: 12
- type: video course
- end view date: 2010-05-15 23:53:54
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- rating: 6
- review: Nice introduction to the subject of the Middle Ages.
- review date: 2010-05-15 23:53:54
- Lecturer: William R. Cook
- Lecturer: Ronald B. Herzman
- Producer: TTC
Dutch Masters – The Age of Rembrandt / William Kloss
- id: 137
- name: Dutch Masters – The Age of Rembrandt
- length: 18.05 hrs
- size: 9.56 GB
- chapters: 37
- type: video course
- end view date: 2010-05-06 18:50:10
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- rating: 7
- review: Not a lot of theory but quite a good review of many paintings and their connection to the social world around them.
- review date: 2010-05-06 18:50:10
- Lecturer: William Kloss TTC professor id: 296
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 7180
History of Hitler’s Empire, 2nd Edition / Thomas Childers
- id: 135
- name: History of Hitler’s Empire, 2nd Edition
- length: 6.36 hrs
- size: 3.65 GB
- chapters: 13
- type: video course
- end view date: 2010-04-22 19:40:43
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- rating: 6
- review: Good overview of the rise to power of the Nazis + an emphasis on the Jewish Holocaust.
- review date: 2010-04-22 19:40:43
- Lecturer: Thomas Childers TTC professor id: 10
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 805
Consciousness and its Implications / Daniel N. Robinson
- id: 134
- name: Consciousness and its Implications
- length: 6.07 hrs
- size: 2.05 GB
- chapters: 13
- type: video course
- end view date: 2010-04-21 15:04:57
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- rating: 6
- review: not very scientific. This guy is really a dualist underneath all the academic babble. Dan Dennett eats him for breakfast.
- review date: 2010-04-21 15:04:57
- Lecturer: Daniel N. Robinson TTC professor id: 17
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 4168
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition / Dennis Dalton, Alan Charles Kors, Robert H. Kane, Phillip Cary, Louis Markos, Darren Staloff, Robert C. Solomon, Jeremy Adams, Jeremy Shearmur, Kathleen M. Higgins, Mark Risjord, Douglas Kellner
- id: 130
- name: Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition
- length: 1.78 days
- size: 14.52 GB
- chapters: 85
- type: video course
- end view date: 2010-04-18 07:02:11
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: PS3
- rating: 7
- review: Good introduction to the entire history of western thought. The religious parts are horrible (carry no logic and meaning what so ever) – but the rest is fine. Quality of argumentation is, in all cases, quite low compared to scientific argumentation. I would flunk most philosophers on this ground.
- review date: 2010-04-18 07:02:11
- Lecturer: Dennis Dalton
- Lecturer: Alan Charles Kors
- Lecturer: Robert H. Kane
- Lecturer: Phillip Cary
- Lecturer: Louis Markos
- Lecturer: Darren Staloff
- Lecturer: Robert C. Solomon
- Lecturer: Jeremy Adams
- Lecturer: Jeremy Shearmur
- Lecturer: Kathleen M. Higgins
- Lecturer: Mark Risjord
- Lecturer: Douglas Kellner
- Producer: TTC
- TTC course id: 470
Articles
Kernel logging: APIs and implementation / M. Tim Jones
- id: 160
- name: Kernel logging: APIs and implementation
- type: text article
- end view date: 2010-12-24 06:04:04
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 6
- review: No in depth discussion of performance of logging or the locking of the in-kernel buffer.
- review date: 2010-12-24 06:04:04
- Author: M. Tim Jones website url: http://www.mtjones.com/
- url: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kernel-logging-apis/index.html
Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs / Neil Brown
- id: 149
- name: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs
- type: text article
- end view date: 2010-12-16 04:45:26
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 8
- review: I love this guys articles. Excellent read.
- review date: 2010-12-16 04:45:26
- Author: Neil Brown website url: http://neil.brown.name/blog/
- url: http://lwn.net/Articles/416494/
Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs / Neil Brown
- id: 127
- name: Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs
- type: text article
- end view date: 2010-11-30 04:13:23
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Excellent article. Needs expert UNIX knowledge to understand but is well worth the effort.
- review date: 2010-11-30 04:13:23
- Author: Neil Brown website url: http://neil.brown.name/blog/
- url: http://lwn.net/Articles/414618/
Ghosts of Unix past, part 2: Conflated designs / Neil Brown
- id: 112
- name: Ghosts of Unix past, part 2: Conflated designs
- type: text article
- end view date: 2010-11-24 01:24:26
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Good article with good technical details. Some of the ideas for APIs do look interesting. Quite creative.
- review date: 2010-11-24 01:24:26
- Author: Neil Brown website url: http://neil.brown.name/blog/
- url: https://lwn.net/Articles/412131/
Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns / Neil Brown
- id: 111
- name: Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns
- type: text article
- end view date: 2010-11-24 01:04:36
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Very good insight into the UNIX API.
- review date: 2010-11-24 01:04:36
- Author: Neil Brown website url: http://neil.brown.name/blog/
- url: http://lwn.net/Articles/411845/
Barack Obama Ensures a Long Depression
- id: 120
- name: Barack Obama Ensures a Long Depression
- type: text article
- end view date: 2010-10-15 13:39:45
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 6
- review: Interesting but I need more economic theory.
- review date: 2010-10-15 13:39:45
- url: http://mises.org/daily/3907
האם, מדעית, מרקס צדק?
- id: 119
- name: האם, מדעית, מרקס צדק?
- type: text article
- end view date: 2010-10-15 13:39:45
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 6
- review: I really do need to read Marx.
- review date: 2010-10-15 13:39:45
- url: http://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3416502,00.html
Interview with Donald Knuth
- id: 118
- name: Interview with Donald Knuth
- type: text article
- end view date: 2008-04-29 02:26:53
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Fascinating person.
- review date: 2008-04-29 02:26:53
- url: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
Kernel
- id: 117
- name: Kernel
- type: text article
- end view date: 2008-03-07 11:50:16
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Good overview of the subject.
- review date: 2008-03-07 11:50:16
- url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(computer_science)
Anatomy of Linux synchronization methods / M. Tim Jones
- id: 116
- name: Anatomy of Linux synchronization methods
- type: text article
- end view date: 2007-11-12 21:50:28
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: home
- device: Desktop Computer Harddrive
- rating: 7
- review: Good overview of the subject.
- review date: 2007-11-12 21:50:28
- Author: M. Tim Jones website url: http://www.mtjones.com/
- url: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-synchronization.html
Books
The Origin of Species / Charles Darwin
- id: 268
- name: The Origin of Species
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2012-03-31 11:40:57
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: car
- device: Cowon mp3 player
- lang: English
- rating: 9
- review: One of the most marvelous books you can ever read. When taking into account the time at which it was written there is no escaping the fact that Darwin was a genius.
- review date: 2004-10-16 18:27:36
- Author: Charles Darwin english wikipedia id: Charles_Darwin
- english wikipedia id: On_the_Origin_of_Species
River Out of Eden / Richard Dawkins
- id: 420
- name: River Out of Eden
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2011-09-28 13:50:00
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: Heathrow->TLV flight
- device: Amazon Kindle
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: Very nice ideas. Worth a read.
- review date: 2011-09-28 13:50:00
- Author: Richard Dawkins website url: http://richarddawkins.net/ english wikipedia id: Richard_Dawkins
- english wikipedia id: River_Out_of_Eden
- amazon product id: 0465069908
Letter to a Christian Nation / Sam Harris
- id: 278
- name: Letter to a Christian Nation
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2009-04-05 00:03:48
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
- device: Unknown
- lang: English
- rating: 8
- review: Like Dawkins’ book – very well written, convincing, and will not make any impact.
- review date: 2009-04-05 00:03:48
- Author: Sam Harris website url: http://www.samharris.org/
- english wikipedia id: Letter_to_a_Christian_Nation
- amazon product id: 0307265773
The God Delusion / Richard Dawkins
- id: 277
- name: The God Delusion
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2009-01-15 02:57:18
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
- device: Unknown
- lang: English
- rating: 8
- review: Good review of all anti-god arguments. Very coherent and probably will not make any dent in religion worth speaking about.
- review date: 2009-01-15 02:57:18
- Author: Richard Dawkins website url: http://richarddawkins.net/ english wikipedia id: Richard_Dawkins
- english wikipedia id: The_God_Delusion
- amazon product id: 0618680004
Children of Light and the Children of Darkness / Reinhold Niebuhr
- id: 272
- name: Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2008-06-11 00:17:23
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
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- lang: Hebrew
- rating: 7
- review: Very confused. Sometimes clear and sometimes retreats to theological reasoning that explains nothing. Shows the great conflict in the religious mind.
- review date: 2008-06-11 00:17:23
- Author: Reinhold Niebuhr english wikipedia id: Reinhold_Niebuhr
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- ISBN id: 965-7052-24-6
The Blank Slate / Steven Pinker
- id: 271
- name: The Blank Slate
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- language: English
- end view date: 2007-11-06 00:55:57
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
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- rating: 8
- review: Excellent book. Highly convincing and modern in it’s viewpoint.
- review date: 2007-11-06 00:55:57
- Author: Steven Pinker english wikipedia id: Steven_Pinker
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Sleeping With the Devil / Robert Baer
- id: 270
- name: Sleeping With the Devil
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- language: English
- end view date: 2007-09-10 19:09:46
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
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- rating: 7
- review: Very interesting read. Not philosophical but can certainly enlighten someone trying to form a broad conception of the affairs in the middle east.
- review date: 2007-09-10 19:09:46
- Author: Robert Baer english wikipedia id: Robert_Baer
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המניפסט הדמוקרטי / אפרים ריינר
- id: 276
- name: המניפסט הדמוקרטי
- type: text book
- language: Hebrew
- end view date: 2007-08-12 14:17:30
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
- device: Unknown
- lang: Hebrew
- rating: 7
- review: The problems the author presents are very well articulated. The solutions are unimaginative and have been tried and found lacking in the past.
- review date: 2007-08-12 14:17:30
- Author: אפרים ריינר
- url: http://www.getit.co.il/BN_Direct/35107/
- ISBN id: 965-02-0278-1
The Wisdom of Crowds / James Surowiecki
- id: 275
- name: The Wisdom of Crowds
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2007-06-02 19:35:56
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
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- lang: Hebrew
- rating: 8
- review: Excellent intro into how people can be made to share information and produce wisdom. Does not go very deep though.
- review date: 2007-06-02 19:35:56
- Author: James Surowiecki english wikipedia id: James_Surowiecki ted speaker id: james_surowiecki
- english wikipedia id: The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
- url: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/
- ISBN id: 965-7318-23-8
Thinking Strategically / Barry J. Nalebuff, Avinash K. Dixit
- id: 269
- name: Thinking Strategically
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2007-03-18 14:23:18
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
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- lang: Hebrew
- rating: 7
- review: Good intro to game theory and main strategies employed.
- review date: 2007-03-18 14:23:18
- Author: Barry J. Nalebuff english wikipedia id: Barry_Nalebuff profile url: http://mba.yale.edu/faculty/profiles/nalebuff.shtml
- Author: Avinash K. Dixit homepage url: http://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/ english wikipedia id: Avinash_Dixit
- amazon product id: 0393310353
- ISBN id: 965-511-314-0
Unweaving the Rainbow / Richard Dawkins
- id: 274
- name: Unweaving the Rainbow
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2007-03-03 23:31:02
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
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- rating: 8
- review: Very coherent point of view which goes against the whole “spiritual” trends of the last 20 years. At last someone who thinks.
- review date: 2007-03-03 23:31:02
- Author: Richard Dawkins website url: http://richarddawkins.net/ english wikipedia id: Richard_Dawkins
- amazon product id: 0618056734
- english wikipedia id: Unweaving_the_Rainbow
דמוקרטיה ישירה / Aki Orr
- id: 273
- name: דמוקרטיה ישירה
- type: text book
- language: Hebrew
- end view date: 2006-07-09 01:14:33
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
- device: Unknown
- lang: Hebrew
- rating: 6
- review: Some good general ideas but the connection to reality is very weak.
- review date: 2006-07-09 01:14:33
- Author: Aki Orr english wikipedia id: Aki_Orr website url: http://www.akivaorrbooks.org/
The Origin of Species / Charles Darwin
- id: 268
- name: The Origin of Species
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2004-10-16 18:27:36
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
- device: Unknown
- lang: English
- rating: 9
- review: One of the most marvelous books you can ever read. When taking into account the time at which it was written there is no escaping the fact that Darwin was a genius.
- review date: 2004-10-16 18:27:36
- Author: Charles Darwin english wikipedia id: Charles_Darwin
- english wikipedia id: On_the_Origin_of_Species
גוף הנפש / Zvi Atzmon
- id: 267
- name: גוף הנפש
- type: text book
- language: Hebrew
- end view date: 2004-08-12 05:45:36
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
- device: Unknown
- lang: Hebrew
- rating: 7
- review: Nice overview – not more than that.
- review date: 2004-08-12 05:45:36
- Author: Zvi Atzmon hebrew wikipedia id: צבי_עצמון
- url: http://simania.co.il/bookdetails.php?item_id=40717
בין מדע לפילוסופיה / Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz
- id: 266
- name: בין מדע לפילוסופיה
- type: text book
- language: Hebrew
- end view date: 2004-04-20 11:06:21
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
- device: Unknown
- lang: Hebrew
- rating: 6
- review: He is a devout dualist. He fails miserably.
- review date: 2004-04-20 11:06:21
- Author: Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz english wikipedia id: Yeshayahu_Leibowitz hebrew wikipedia id: ישעיהו_ליבוביץ
- url: http://213.8.106.62/leibowitz/bookscomp.asp?id=5
The Cathedral and the Bazaar / Eric S. Raymond
- id: 264
- name: The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- type: text book
- language: English
- end view date: 2003-06-30 03:44:13
- viewer: Mark Veltzer
- location: unknown
- device: Unknown
- lang: English
- rating: 7
- review: Well formulated and an important read for anyone doing software.
- review date: 2003-06-30 03:44:13
- Author: Eric S. Raymond homepage url: http://www.catb.org/~esr/ english wikipedia id: Eric_S._Raymond
- english wikipedia id: The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
- amazon product id: 0596001088
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