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A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...laws; but there are also small newly created regions such as Murcia and tiny La Rioja which filled awkward gaps between more established regions...A Europe of the Regions?: 2.4 Summary - ‘Regions’ and ‘regionalism’ in Western Europe display great diversity in economic, social, cultural and political terms, varying not only between states but also within particular...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...Law’), (2) is applicable across a wide variety of industries, from online trading to inventory control in factories, (3) has created the need for new products and processes, such as the production of portable printers, and (4) is often used alongside older technologies, such as the use of computer-aided design/manufacturing (CADCAM) to reduce inventory alongside...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...Law in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. All materials included in this course are derived from content originated at the Open University. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and...
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...laws of physics like other objects in the universe, and apt for study using scientific methods. Critics of the materialist world view are keen to stress how hard it is to show how both these assumptions could be true...Language and thought: Introducing representation: 1.4 Three characteristic difficulties in discussions of representation - I have hinted that accounting...
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...law in the previous section shows that ‘meaning’ can be a more complex affair than we might normally assume. It’s not only about the dictionary meaning of the words used, for example, or about the logical function of an utterance. In the case of the cross-examining example, the second, more assertive style of questioning conveyed the speaker’s superior authority...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...laws or rural depopulation can have profound effects on the nature, location, and extent of fire. Thinking in terms of entanglements encourages thinking which is alive to those influences that are hidden and difficult to trace, as well as those that are clear and obvious. Therefore, human decisions about land use, institutional behaviours, political policies, social...
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...law, democracy (or some other political system), or the market. Whatever you have chosen, though, it is likely that you will have chosen them because – using different means to enforce the ‘compliance’ that Brett speaks of – they will have governed your relations with other people in particular contexts and in society at large. They will have set the rules you...
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...law was being broken. Are there any other ethical issues you want to discuss and come to an agreement on? You may, for example, want to agree that you will all commit to working together constructively and supportively, and/or that you will all attend punctually and be fully prepared. Agree aims and objectives for the coaching sessions (usually set with line managers/HRD...