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    <namePart>Hazen, Robert M. (Robert Miller)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1948-</namePart>
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    <publisher>The Teaching Company</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued>
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  <abstract>Lucid, information-packed lectures conveying the excitement of scientific discovery and tracing the connections between discoveries over time.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>lecture 1. The nature of science -- lecture 2. The scientific method -- lecture 3. The ordered universe -- lecture 4. Celestial and terrestrial mechanics -- lecture 5. Newton's laws of motion -- lecture 6. Universal gravitation -- lecture 7. The nature of energy -- lecture 8. The first law of thermodynamics -- lecture 9. The second law of thermodynamics -- lecture 10. Entropy -- lecture 11. Magnetism and static electricity -- lecture 12. Electricity -- lecture 13. Electromagnetism -- lecture 14. The electromagnetic spectrum, part I -- lecture 15. The electromagnetic spectrum, part II -- lecture 16. Relativity -- lecture 17. Atoms -- lecture 18. The Bohr atom -- lecture 19. The quantum world -- lecture 20. The periodic table of the elements -- lecture 21. Introduction to chemistry -- lecture 22. The chemistry of carbon -- lecture 23. States of matter and changes of state -- lecture 24. Phase transformation &amp; chemical reactions -- lecture 25. Properties of materials -- lecture 26. Semiconductors and modern microelectronics -- lecture 27. Isotopes and radioactivity -- lecture 28. Nuclear fission and fusion reaction -- lecture 29. Astronomy -- lecture 30. The life cycle of stars -- lecture 31. Edwin Hubble and the discovery of galaxies -- lecture 32. The big bang -- lecture 33. The ultimate structure of matter -- lecture 34. The nebular hypothesis -- lecture 35. The solar system -- lecture 36. The Earth as a planet -- lecture 37. The dynamic earth -- lecture 38. The plate-tectonics revolution -- lecture 39. Earthquakes, volcanoes, &amp; plate motions today -- lecture 40. Earth cycles, water -- lecture 41. The atmospheric cycle -- lecture 42. The rock cycle -- lecture 43. What is life? -- lecture 44. Strategies of life -- lecture 45. Life's molecular building blocks -- lecture 46. Proteins -- lecture 47. Cells, the chemical factories of life -- lecture 48. Gregor Mendel, founder of genetics -- lecture 49. The discovery of DNA -- lecture 50. The genetic code -- lecture 51. Reading the genetic code -- lecture 52. Genetic engineering -- lecture 53. Cancer and other genetic diseases -- lecture 54. The chemical evolution of life -- lecture 55. Biological evolution, a unifying theme of biology -- lecture 56. The fact of evolution, the fossil record -- lecture 57. Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection -- lecture 58. Ecosystems and the law of unintended consequences -- lecture 59. The ozone hole, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect -- lecture 60. Science, the endless frontier.</tableOfContents>
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  <note>"Course no. 1100--1105"</note>
  <note>6 DVD que contienen 36 lecturas / 30 minutos por lectura. </note>
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