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    Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations (Transcript)
    Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations (Transcript)
    Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations (Transcript)
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    Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations (Transcript)

    By Brian M. Fagan

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    Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations is the companion book to the audio/video series of the same name. It contains a full transcript of the series as well as the complete course guidebook which includes lecture notes, bibliography, and more.

    About this series:

    Learn to approach the critical decisions in your life with a more seasoned, educated eye with this fascinating 24-lecture series that explores how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective decisions. The heart of this accessible series is a thorough examination of decision making at three key levels. First, you'll look at decisions made at the individual level, where, among the many things you'll learn is that intuition is more than just a gut instinct and, in fact, represents a powerful pattern recognition capability. Then, you'll explore decisions made at the group level, where you'll try to answer the question of whether groups are "smarter" and more capable of making critical decisions than individuals. And finally, you'll pull back to analyze organizational decision making, in which Professor Roberto demonstrates how some organizations have encouraged and reliably performed vigilant decision making in the face of risky scenarios. Whether you're the head of a Fortune 500 company, a government agency, or an everyday household, you constantly make decisions important to you and those immediately around you. These lectures offer you a toolbox of practical knowledge and skills that you can apply to various decisions - whether large or small - in your everyday life and work. Professor Roberto's lively lectures are packed with useful anecdotes, tools, and advice designed to improve your own ability to make informed decisions. As you explore the intriguing process of making a good decision, you'll strengthen your grip on individual theories of decision making and the situations that illustrate them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Great Courses
    Release dateFeb 3, 2003
    ISBN9781565855908
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      Wonderful audio course. I think it's the best one I've had from the Teaching Company. The first part was hominid ancestors, human paleontology and human migration patterns out of Africa. That was fascinating and I read a lot of interesting books from the bibliography. Little did I know that Professor Fagan was just warming up. His review of what we know about the first civilizations gave me lots of new insights, especially at how vulnerable humans are to things like climate change, but how tenacious we are in the face of adversity. I highly recommend this course. (I'll warn you that Professor Fagan has a small speech impediment that takes a couple of lessons to filter out. This course is too good to let a little thing like that deter you. Just listen until you get used to it.)

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