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Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...de Milo all have WHRs in the 0.7 range. However body weight may be even more important than WHR in determining attractiveness and Swami and Furnham report on research that shows some variation among cultures when they looked at this measure. Generally, in economically developed societies men tend to prefer women with a lighter build, while men in economically developing...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...de facto causal basis of consciousness, but we have, it seems, no understanding whatever of how this can be so. It strikes us as miraculous, eerie, even faintly comic. Somehow, we feel, the water of the physical brain is turned into the wine of consciousness, but we draw a total blank on the nature of this conversion. Neural transmissions just seem like the wrong kind of...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...modes of thinking) that can contribute towards and exacerbate anxiety are summarised in Box 6. Box 5 Common symptoms and general behaviours associated with anxiety disorders Common symptoms Physical: trembling, muscle tension, shortness of breath, accelerated heart rate, heart palpitations, sweating, dizziness, dry mouth, loss of appetite, nausea, headaches, insomnia....
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...de/deed.en Figure 2: Leemage; Getty Images Activity 6: Cuckoo: Rajukhan Pathan; Pexels; Sheep: Pixabay; Pexels; Dog: Pixabay; Pexels; Owl: Pixabay; Pexels; Frog: Mali Maeder; Pexels Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity....
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...de Vitoria, subjects must fight – the guilt falling, as in Henry V , on their leaders. Vitoria’s argument suggests how firmly political life is set, even in the pre-modern state, against the very idea of volition in time of war. ‘A prince is not able,’ he writes, ‘and ought not always to render reasons for the war to his subjects, and if the subjects cannot...
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...Des Jenson/Photoshot; Figure 10: Courtesy of the Advertising Archives; Figure 11: Copyright © Marcus Clackson/iStockphoto.com; Figure 12 left: Courtesy of Consumer Credit Counselling Service www.cccs.co.uk; Figure 12 right: Courtesy of Citizens Advice Bureau. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...de Tocqueville put it, the idea of rights ‘removes from any request its supplicant character, and places the one who claims it on the same level as the one who grants it’. Rights: a definition A right is a justifiable entitlement to something (the object of the right), by virtue of the possession of a relevant attribute, against an agent or agents with the...
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...de Jongh, D. and Fourie, W. (2022) ‘Followership: a review of current and emerging research’ Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 43(4), pp. 653–668. Available at: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/LODJ-10-2021-0473/full/pdf?title=followership-a-review-of-current-and-emerging-research (Accessed 5 October 2023). Oc, Burak., Chintakananda,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs