Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: Being human : life lessons from the frontiers of science. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., ©2012. Description: 2 videodiscs (6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 90 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). Summary: Understanding our humanity--the very essence of who we are and how we live our lives--is one of the deepest mysteries and biggest challenges in modern science. Series: The Great courses. Science & mathematics (Biology) Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Subjects: Brain. Human genome. Genre: Educational films. Science films. Lectures. Other Author: Sapolsky, Robert M. Teaching Company. Notes: 12 lectures with 30 min. each. Robert Sapolsky, professor, Stanford University. DVD. Contents: What's so special about being human? -- Junk-food monkeys -- The burden of being burden-free -- Bugs in the brain -- Poverty's remains -- Why are dreams dreamlike? -- The pleasures and pains of "maybe" -- How the other half heals -- Why we want the bodies back -- Anatomy of a bad mood -- This is your brain on metaphors -- Sushi and middle age. ISBN: 9781598038101 1598038109 Publisher Number: 1686 Other Number: 776889770 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 335888 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 611.018 Being hu Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
