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The Sawyer Free Library now offers college-level course lectures through The Teaching Company audio CDs and DVDs. These innovative products bring engaging professors into your home or car through courses taught by great teachers from the Ivy League, Stanford, Georgetown, and other leading colleges and universities. It’s the adventure of learning without the homework or exams! The library has acquired a selection of the some 200 courses offered by The Teaching Company, and includes a variety of subjects in literature, philosophy, history, religion, fine arts, and science. The CDs and DVDs can be checked out for use at home or in your car for normal circulation periods.

List of titles now available at the library:

Basic Math (DVD) Lib Ed
Story of Human Language (CD) Lib Ed
The History of the English Language (CD)
Consciousness and Its Implications (CD) Lib Ed
Earth's Changing Climate (CD) Lib Ed
Religions of the Axial Age (CD) Lib Ed
Fundamentals of Music (CD) Lib Ed
Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (CD)
Philosophy of Religion (CD)
Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions (CD) Lib Ed
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition (CD)
Geometry (DVD) Lib Ed
Tocqueville & the American Experiment (CD) Lib Ed
American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue" (CD) Lib Ed
Great World Religions, Islam: 2nd Edition (CD)
Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition (CD)
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (CD)
The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy (CD)
Science and Religion (CD) Lib Ed
Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations (CD) Lib Ed
Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear (DVD)
How to Become a SuperStar Student (DVD) Lib Ed
History of European Art (DVD) Lib Ed
Understanding the Universe, 2nd Ed. (DVD) Lib Ed
History of the United States (CD) set Lib Ed
Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition (CD) Lib Ed
Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (CD)

Please check out The Teaching Company's Website for further information. If you would like to listen to a lecture that the library does not yet own, send a recommendation to library staff.