THE TEACHING COMPANY The Joy of Science COMPLETE 10 DVDs 5 BOOKS SET 60 Lectures

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This is a respectfully used DVD & book set -- the DVDs ARE IN EXCELLENT WORKING CONDITION - THE BOOKS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION--from a smoke-free environment.The Teaching Company - The Great Courses - Science & Mathematics: THE JOY OF SCIENCE - Taught by: Professor Robert M. Hazen, George Mason University and Carnegie Institution of Washington - presented in 5 parts, each part includes the soft cover Course Guidebook - 60 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture - 10 DVDs. This is the complete set.English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as something every educated person should know. One such idea, according to Snow, was the second law of thermodynamics, which deals with the diffusion of heat and has many profound consequences. He might well have added Newton's laws, the periodic table of elements, the double-helix structure of DNA, and scores of other masterpieces of scientific discovery.Now, Professor Robert M. Hazen introduces these and other great ideas in 60 lectures that explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of all of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more.The Teaching Company © 2001 ISBN 1-56585-552-3 Please check my listings for more great Teaching Company sets - will read more