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1. Beginners’ Chinese Do you want to learn some basics in Mandarin Chinese? The tracks presented here are designed to give you a taste of Mandarin Chinese language and cult...	2. Phenylketonuria - a long term condition Phenylketonuria is an inherited long term condition where, from birth, the person is unable to break down an amino acid called phenylalanine, a compon...	3. Moons of the Solar System How did the solar system form? Are we alone in the Universe? What are alien atmospheres made of? These questions can be answered by studying the solar...
4. Exploring History: Medieval to Modern 1400 - 1900 Ever wanted to understand the key themes driving over five hundred years of European history? In this album, architecture reveals the social, religiou...	5. Cognitive Psychology The consciousness of the human mind has long been a topic of fascination and curiosity amongst writers, artists and psychologists, from Carl Jung and ...	6. Portales: beginners' Spanish This series of clips covers a variety of issues about Spanish culture and society. Material is taken from The Open University Course L194 Portales: b...
7. Addiction and neural ageing (eBook) This unit looks at two topics that are of immense worldwide social, economic, ethical, and political importance – ‘addiction’ and ‘neural agei...	8. Fossil Detectives This event took place on 21st October 2008 and was hosted by Hermione Cockburn, presenter of the brand-new OU/BBC series Fossil Detectives. Hermione, ...	9. Changing approaches to heritage If you could save one thing for posterity, what would it be? Your answer is likely to depend on the things you value. But the things that society valu...
10. The medicalised context of bereavement (eBook) This unit helps you to explore the extent to which death and dying in western societies are medical events and what aspects of death and dying might b...	11. Fossil Detectives This event took place on 21st October 2008 and was hosted by Hermione Cockburn, presenter of the brand-new OU/BBC series Fossil Detectives. Hermione, ...	12. English grammar in context (eBook) The use of grammar is more complex than it appears. This unit looks at the way grammar can be used as a tool for adapting our communications (both wri...