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A reader's guide to Cold Comfort Farm
Health, Sports & Psychology

A reader's guide to Cold Comfort Farm

...family seemed partial to creating scenes, but with a clear thread of pretence running through their ‘performances’. Gibbons felt that the genre of the rural novel – ‘The Loam and Lovechild School of Fiction’ - had run its course and offered itself to parody. Writers such as Mary Webb irritated her, so she offered an alternative vision of country living. Stock...
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Small Business Saturday and The Open University Business School
Money & Business

Small Business Saturday and The Open University Business School

...family food truck in Edmonton, Alberta] Small businesses come in all shapes - and can become all sizes The Open University Business School is supporting Small Business Saturday because so many of our students aspire to start their own successful businesses. We are committed to supporting them throughout their careers, whatever their path, through lifelong learning; a...
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Simple Coding - Summary
Digital & Computing

Simple Coding - Summary

...small and precise steps that even a machine can understand. Python makes it easy to write the code once we come up with a sufficiently detailed algorithm, but the thinking (still) has to be done by us. Like learning any other skill, only practice makes perfect. We hope this tutorial inspired you to learn more Python and to share your creations with friends and family....
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Growing up with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing up with Disability

...families. This material forms part of The Open University course KE312 Working together for children... Growing up with Disability A short introduction to this album. The Voluntary Organisation PLUS An introduction to the voluntary organisation PLUS. Circles of Support Forming volunteer groups of peers to help create natural friendship bonds with a focused child. Local...
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Exploring Sports
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring Sports

...is in a weight categorised sport An interview with a paraglider David Snowdon has been paragliding for 15 years, 13 of those have been at an international level. David is a self-taught pilot An interview with a marathon runner Serious amateur marathon runner Mick Curry runs in excess of 100miles a week and is motivated by his family and chronically disabled son Philip...
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How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...history for understanding the present? Consider how the programme highlights the need and access to welfare are socially constructed and contested. Consider how the contrast between Anderson's and Campbell's arguments reflect the distinction between social order and social justice approaches to social problems. One sees the poor as the problem while the other sees the...
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Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...History, as well as the images we associate with it, should not be underestimated here. While a British business tycoon will think of Ronald Kipling’s India when a deal in the subcontinent is proposed, pictures of Stalin’s communist regime will cloud their thinking over a similar proposal stemming from Hungary. A yet unanswered question is whether the distinct path...
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There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters
Society, Politics & Law

There’s only one woman on the UK Brexit negotiating team – here’s why that matters

...history, and make it impossible to stay in her partners’ household. The rules also make it harder for women to establish a right to reside if they combine domestic care for the elderly or disabled or being a single parent with part time work. Women and children are already overlooked, and are at significant risk of falling through the cracks in the new regime. Trade is...
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