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A lecture (from Latin: lēctūra 'reading') is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. Lectures are used to convey critical information, history, background, theories, and equations. A politician's speech, a minister's sermon, or even a business person's sales presentation may be similar in form to a lecture. Usually the lecturer will stand at the front of the room and recite information relevant to the lecture's content. Though lectures are much criticised as a teaching method, universities have not yet found practical alternative teaching methods for the large majority of their courses. Critics point out that lecturing is mainly a one-way method of communication that does not involve significant audience participation but relies upon passive learning. Therefore, lecturing is often contrasted to active learning. Lectures delivered by talented speakers can be highly stimulating; at the very least, lectures have survived in academia as a quick, cheap, and efficient way of introducing large numbers of students to a particular field of study. Lectures have a significant role outside the classroom, as well. Academic and scientific awards routinely include a lecture as part of the honor, and academic conferences often center on "keynote addresses", i.e., lectures. The public lecture has a long history in the sciences and in social movements. Union halls, for instance, historically have hosted numerous free and public lectures on a wide variety of matters. Similarly, churches, community centers, libraries, museums, and other organizations have hosted lectures in furtherance of their missions or their constituents' interests. Lectures represent a continuation of oral tradition in contrast to textual communication in books and other media. Lectures may be considered a type of grey literature. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in the genre lecture 31
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Talking Houses: Ten Lectures by Colin Ward
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Vorlesungen zur Einführung ins „Kapital“
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The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917–67
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Scientific explanation
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Bibliography in an age of science
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Races; a study of the problems of race formation in man
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Chemistry of muscular contraction
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Cosmic rays
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Apes, giants and man
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The Hormones in Human Reproduction / George W. Corner
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Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist
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The renaissance of physics / Karl K. Darrow
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The Nature of the Physical World / Arthur Stanley Eddington
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Wahrscheinlichkeit, Statistik und Wahrheit
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Der wahre Staat
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Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse
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14° conferencia. El cumplimiento de deseo
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The Mind of Primitive Man / Franz Boas
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Light waves and their uses
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Introductory Lecture of the One Hundred and Ninth Session of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania
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Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik
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Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Litteratur
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Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre
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Einige Vorlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten
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The New Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox
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The Meaning of Relativity
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Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse
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Cours au Collège de France
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Das Menschen Mögliche. Zur Aktualität von Günther Anders
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Risque et progrès
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