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Money & Business
Learning for organizational development
A new book to help learning and development professionals develop skills in designing and delivering effective people development.
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Nature & Environment
Why is East Africa experiencing such a terrible drought?
Countries across East Africa are in the grip of a murderous period of drought. It's been caused by the dipole. Rob Marchant explains how the 'Indian Nino' has brought the region to the brink of famine.
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History & The Arts
Thoughts on creativity
Andrew Cowan shares his perspective on the creativity, his creative process - and beating writer's block.
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History & The Arts
Writing across cultures
Xiaolu Guo explains how she approached her novel, A Concise Chinese–English Dictionary for Lovers - making creativity work across the English and Chinese languages
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History & The Arts
A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws
Trevor Thomas built a reputation in Leicester - before British attitudes to his sexuality nearly destroyed his life.
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Society, Politics & Law
Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Dr Peter Wood, a Visiting Fellow with the Geography Discipline, argues that although methodological choices are often seen as technical decisions, they can actually be key to intellectual creativity.
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Nature & Environment
The environmental costs of Trump’s wall
Trump's wall will not only have long-lasting impact on human society, but also severe ecological consequences.
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Money & Business
How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
One hundred million people are part of some sort of co-op around the world. A change in the law in 1991 has powered their development in Italy. It's a model worth investigating, explains onthecommons' Jay Walljasper.
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Education & Development
Encouraging book talk in the school library
As adults we sometimes struggle to justify our feelings about particular books, but children are quite clear about what they like and don't like. It is possible to get children to discuss why they liked or did not like particular books and to encourage them to think more deeply about the books they've read. This free course, Encouraging book ...
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Society, Politics & Law
What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?
Jordan removed legal punishments for same-gender relationships nearly two decades before the UK decriminalised consensual gay male intercourse. But day-to-day life for LGBTQ people in the country isn't easy. Nora B reports.
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Languages
Year of the Rooster: Chinese New Year
As the Chinese celebrate the Year of the Rooster, why not learn how to write and pronounce basic Chinese words, or find out more about the people and culture?
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Languages
Language in the real world
This free course, Language in the real world, explains and illustrates why a knowledge about how language works (i.e. ‘linguistics’) is helpful – some might say essential – for different aspects of our everyday lives. It provides an introduction to ideas around what language is and to the field of Applied Linguistics, which is dedicated to ...