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First, my apologies for not labeling this correctly the first time.  The files are now also MP3 id1 and id2 tagged.This product contains a full audio collection of Leo Buscaglia’s greatest lectures. Don’t let his work be forgotten!Dr. Buscaglia is an accomplished author and speaker who I was introduced to back in the early eighties in my high school years. I know first hand the difference his lectures and books have made in my life.Those of us who have taken Dr. Buscaglia’s message to heart (and there are thousands) have seen noticeable changes both in us and in the relationships with those around us. There will always be those who take the path of least resistance and want their life legacy to be one of making callous, malevolent statements, even as pathetic as making fun of a man’s name who spent his entire life trying to instruct people on the many joys found through loving each other. Listen to Leo’s lectures having an open mind and believe in the possibilities that love can bring in this messed up world. There will always be those who will try to convince you this is all a load of bunk and just accept the bad things in life and everything that’s wrong in it. Don’t be like them! Be willing to risk and take a chance. It CAN make a difference in your life like it has in mine and in many others!————————————————————————————–Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia Ph.D. (31 March 1924 of Italian descent – 11 June 1998) was a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.Leo Buscaglia authored a number of New York Times bestselling inspirational books on love and human reticences on the subject, including The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Bus 9 to Paradise, Living Loving and Learning, Love and My Father. In lectures he often protested, in outrage at the comparative absence of writings on the subject, “I got the copyright for love!!!”The Fall of Freddie the LeafThe Fall of Freddie the Leaf is a short story by Leo Buscaglia aimed at helping adults and children cope with fear of dying.Freddy is a leaf. He dances in the Spring and basks lazily in Summer. In Autumn he develops a beautiful colour. In Winter he falls from the tree but it doesn’t hurt.[1]A student’s suicideWhile teaching at USC, Buscaglia was moved by a student’s suicide to contemplate human disconnectedness and the meaning of life, and began a non-credit class he called Love 1A. His book and numerous recorded and televised lectures, some of which became available through PBS, became extremely well received. He argued that social bonds are essential at transcending the stresses of everyday life and enriching it above the limitations of poverty as well as crossing communication gaps between generations.Barriers to the expression of loveBuscaglia worked actively to overcome social and mental barriers that inhibited the expression of love between people, from family to acquaintances to the disabled, institutionalized, and elderly, to complete strangers, often making his own forwardness on the subject a topic of self-deprecating humor. The profundity of his subject, however, almost invariably struck a responsive chord regarding an area many regarded as deficient in their lives, and by 1998 his books had reached eighteen million copies in print in seventeen languages.DeathLeo Buscaglia died of a heart attack on 11 June 1998 at his home in Glenbrook, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe. He was 74.