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Creativity, Commerce, & Culture: Lessig vs. Valenti by Jack Valenti Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (5.0 Stars)
In the new digital environment, what impact do intellectual property rights
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare Available on: Online Audio Average Rating:     (5.0 Stars)
Macbeth is William Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and one of his most
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Voice Lessons by Anne Peckham Available on: Digital Download | MP3 Download | Online Video Average Rating:
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Duke Law School: Conference on the Public Domain Available on: Digital Download Average Rating:     (4.5 Stars)
The last fifteen years has seen a rise in both the importance and the strength
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Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig Available on: Digital Download Average Rating:     (4.4 Stars)
Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s
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Charlie Rose: All-TIME 100 Movies by Charlie Rose Available on: Digital Download Average Rating:     (4.0 Stars)
Time film critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss tell Charlie Rose
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DJ & Turntable Lessons by Stephen Webber Available on: Digital Download | Online Video Average Rating:     (4.0 Stars)
Berklee College of Music faculty member Stephen Webber teaches DJs the art
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Guitar Lessons by Randy Roos Available on: Digital Download | Online Video Average Rating:     (4.0 Stars)
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Science and Fine Art by David Bomford Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (0.5 Stars)
There is a long tradition of applying scientific techniques to the study
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Available on: Digital Download
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Art and Technology by Alan Brody Available on: Online Video
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Art Determined by Politics by James Panero Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
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The Art of Structural Design by David P. Billington Available on: Online Video
Bridges serve a utilitarian purpose,
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Bass Lessons by Danny Morris Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
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Drums & Percussion Lessons by Rick Considine Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
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The Emerging Mediascape by Mark Jurkowitz Available on: Online Video
‘500 channels and still nothing
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Ground Zero: The Design Competition by Rafael Vinoly Available on: Online Video
Rafael Vinoly and Frederic Schwartz led
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Handel As Orpheus by Ellen Harris Available on: Online Video
MIT Professor of Music Ellen Harris discusses
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History and the Movies by Oliver Stone Available on: Online Video
Oliver Stone speaks about his life and
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Kandinsky by Wassily Kandinsky Available on: Digital Download
Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian-born
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Keyboard Lessons by Paul Schmeling Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
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The Last Place by Joe Richman Available on: Digital Download
It was assumed many years ago, when
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Media Ecology Education by Neil Postman Available on: Digital Download
Listen to Neil Postman speak about
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The Mercury Theatre on the Air by Orson Welles Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
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News Broadcasts of the 1960s by NBC Available on: Online Audio
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Ken Blanchard's and Spencer Johnson's The One-Minute Manager® series has
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The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (5.0 Stars)
One billion people on the planet are struggling with extreme poverty according
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The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (4.9 Stars)
Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as
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Software Breakthroughs by Bill Gates Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (4.8 Stars)
Bill Gates’ talk at MIT provided an optimistic view of the next generation
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Earth's Most Customer Centric Company by Jeff Bezos Available on: Online Video Average Rating:    (4.6 Stars)
In this lively presentation Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com discusses
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A Conversation with Jack Welch by Jack Welch Available on: Online Video Average Rating:     (4.0 Stars)
When Jack Welch was a young manager, he blew the roof off one of General
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After the Tsunami by Mary Jo Meisner Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu Available on: Digital Download
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The Automotive Sector by Daniel Roos Available on: Online Video
We pay a stiff price for our car addiction.
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Blood and Oil in Burma by Daniel Zwerdling Available on: Online Audio
This is the first time that anybody
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Building One of the World's Largest Technology Businesses by Frank Cloutier Available on: Online Video
Anyone who remembers the din of a dot
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The Coming Generational Storm by Laurence J. Kotlikoff Available on: Online Video
A word of advice to baby boomers:
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A Conversation with G. Richard Wagoner, Chairman and CEO, General Motors by G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. Available on: Online Video
While he doesn’t quite
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The Cost of Corruption by Michael Montgomery Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
Every day. somewhere
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Deregulating the U.S. Economy: Part I by Thomas G. Moore Available on: Online Video
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Deregulating the U.S. Economy: Part II by Thomas G. Moore Available on: Online Video
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Donald Livingston: Mises Institute Lectures by Donald Livingston Available on: Digital Download
Donald Livingston is an American
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Economic and Social Organization by Ludwig von Mises Available on: Online Audio
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The Emergence of China in the Global Economy by Lester Thurow Available on: Online Video
Napoleon admonished the world to beware
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Ending Global Poverty by Muhammad Yunus Available on: Online Video
Imagine a bank that loans money based
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Forced Labor in the Globalized World by Tom Ashbrook Available on: Online Video
Before buying your next chocolate bar or
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Forced Labor: The World Debate by Zeinab Badawi Available on: Online Video
Jean-Robert Cādet lost his childhood,
when at the age of four, he became a slave to a rich Port-au-Prince family |
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Fortune Favors the Bold by Lester Thurow Available on: Online Video
Economists know that the massive trade
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years from now -- is anybody’s guess. |
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Friedrich Hayek: Mises Institute Lectures by Friedrich A. Hayek Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Friedrich August
von Hayek born in 1899 in Vienna) was an economist and social scientist of the Austrian School... | |
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Navigating the Future by Philip Condit Available on: Online Video
While he won’t provide a definitive
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The Nobel Prize in Economics 2005 by Robert J. Aumann Available on: Online Video
Listen to speeches from the two recipients
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An Original Ghost Story by Russell Kirk Available on: Online Audio
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Peter Klein: Mises Institute Lectures by Peter Klein Available on: Digital Download
Peter G. Klein is a professor at the
University of Missouri and Associate Director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute. |
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Placing Your Bets by Bob Metcalfe Available on: Online Video
In this freewheeling conversation, three
veterans of the IT and venture capital worlds describe the current state of technology investing, and make a stab at predicting
the next hot markets. |
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The Power of the Network to Change the Way We Work, Live, Play, and Learn by John Chambers Available on: Online Video
John Chambers provides rich evidence of
the way Cisco Systems has leveraged its core philosophy into a durable high tech success story. |
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Ralph Raico: Mises Institute Lectures by Ralph Raico Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Ralph Raico is professor
of European history at Buffalo State College and a specialist on the history of liberty... |
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Rhetoric or Reality: Civil Rights Under Siege by Julianne Malveaux Available on: Online Video
In this keynote address, Julianne
Malveaux takes deadly aim at the hypocrisy she finds in many sectors of American society including exploitation of low wage
workers and legacy admissions policies. |
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Robert LeFevre: Mises Institute Lectures by Robert LeFevre Available on: Digital Download
Robert LeFevre (1911-1986) was a
libertarian businessman and radio personality. |
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Robert Murphy: Mises Institute Lectures by Robert Murphy Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Robert Murphy teaches
economics at Hillsdale College in Michigan. |
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Roderick Long: Mises Institute Lectures by Roderick Long Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Roderick Long (born
February 4, 1964) is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University and libertarian political commentator. |
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Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO, News Corporation Available on: Digital Download
News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch speaks
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Sound Selling Audiobook: Keynote #15 by Dan Collins Available on: Digital Download
Collins Educational and LearnOutLoud.com
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Sound Selling Audiobook: Keynote #9A by Dan Collins Available on: Digital Download
Collins Educational and LearnOutLoud.com
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Standards and Strategy by Rebecca Henderson Available on: Online Video
Let’s assume, says Rebecca Henderson,
that the eagerly awaited convergence in technology has begun, enabling our PCs, phones, cars and appliances to communicate
with each other transparently. |
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Startup Nation Radio Podcast Available on: Podcast
StartupNation Radio, hosted by lifetime entrepreneurs, the Sloan
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Strategy for High Tech Companies by Michael A. Cusumano Available on: Online Video
If you are starting out in the software
business, Michael Cusumano has some advice for you: think hard about whether to specialize in products or services, and take
a serious look at trends in the industry. |
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Thomas DiLorenzo: Mises Institute Lectures by Thomas DiLorenzo Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
is an American economics professor at Loyola College in Maryland. |
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Thomas Woods: Mises Institute Lectures by Thomas E. Woods Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Thomas E. Woods,
Jr., senior fellow in history at the Mises Institute, holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard... |
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Walter Block: Mises Institute Lectures by Walter Block Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Walter Block (born 1941)
is a leading Austrian School economist in the USA. |
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What Ever Happened to Free Enterprise by Ronald Reagan Available on: Digital Download
"And yet, in spite of all the evidence
that points to the free market as the most efficient system..." |
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Who Are These People? by Bill Grady Available on: Digital Download
This is a great companion to Bill Grady's
seminar "How You Can Create Advertising That Really Works". Bill talks about Generational Marketing and why trying to target
18-54 year olds with one message no longer works in today's world. |
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Who Owns the Sky? by Peter Barnes Available on: Online Video
In "Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets
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Why is there No Class Warfare in the US? by Chuck Collins Available on: Online Video
In this talk, Collins discusses the economic
impact of the (then) proposed and (now) passed into law Bush tax cut, and issues around distribution of wealth. |
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With This Ring by Michael Montgomery Available on: Online Audio
In 1948, the De Beers company began
to use the slogan, "A Diamond Is Forever", and touched off the romance of the century |
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