Anyone use the recently released CDs by Barnes & Noble Portable Professor series? http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=tV42n7d8S9&isbn=0760750092&fmt=AU&itm=10 Here's one on US constitutional history by a certified authority and author of several books in the field: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=tV42n7d8S9&isbn=0760750017&fmt=AU&itm=15 B&N go into competition against The Teaching Company (http://www.teach12.com/) with 20 titles? Their title are mostly in history, religion, and literature. --Orson
Greetings. PMBI, but I think the following link to "Portable Professor" information might be better: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/subjects/ref/ref_cds2.asp?PID=6077&userid=bsq1qtA959&cds2Pid=5802
I've been wondering if anyone was going to mention this series here. I first learned about it when Barnes & Noble included a reference to it in its underwriting tag on one of the programs I listen to on National Public Radio, and I then went to B&N's web site to check it out (and, indeed, I found RKanarek's "better" page... which I agree is better). I think maybe my opening order will be Shaping Justice and One God, Three Faiths. I note they're each only fourteen 35-minute lectures -- barely enough to qualify as a full-blown course at most universities... but still enough to qualify. Twenty to twenty-five 45 minute lectures would be closer to what one would typically find in a three-credit-hour course at most colleges and universities. But, hey, they still look darned interesting, don't they? It doesn't seem like the series would be heavy-duty competition with the Teaching Company, though -- not, at least, until B&N offers a helluva lot more titles!
