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Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...La Tène Culture, named for excavations made at La Tène in Switzerland. Figure 9 An example of La Tène art This was also Celtic and appears to have been more expansive in nature; decorated metalwork of La Tène style have been found in Britain and Ireland, for example. Figure 10 A Romano-Celtic mirror It is uncertain what languages were being spoken in the British Isles...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...La Via Campesina, 2011) 1. Why are violent protests occurring in Senegal? Answer In 2007–08, violent protests occurred in Senegal because the price of imported rice increased, making it unaffordable for many. In 2011, riots occurred because of land leases for biofuel production. 2. How can social movements mobilise in the face of uneven economic and power relationships?...
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...c) trickery. ‘Management’ can thus refer to an instance of managing, an administrative act, a governing body of an organisation or business, or the group of employees that administers and controls a business or industry, for example. It is also used to refer to the working or cultivation of land, in particular, control of a forest, environment or nature reserve, and,...
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...C., Ishikawa, S., Silverstein, M., Jacobson, M., Fiksdahl-King, I. and Angel, S. (1977) A Pattern Language, Oxford University Press. Bass, L., Clements, P. and Kazman, R. (1998) Software Architecture in Practice Prentice-Hall. Beck, K. (1997) Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, Prentice Hall. Beck, K. (2000) Extreme Programming Explained, Addison-Wesley. Booch, G. (1994)...
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...c) galaxy, (d) planetary nebula and (e) diffuse nebula. Open cluster Figure 9a shows M11, an example of an open cluster of stars. With modern telescopes, you can make out individual stars in the cluster, but at low image resolution the light from the stars blurs together to form a fuzzy, nebula-like appearance. Globular cluster Figure 9b shows M75, a globular cluster....
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...C., Munch, P. and Blanchette, S. (2010) Storytelling – Branding in Practice, 2nd edn, London, Springer. Gronroos, C. (1981) ‘Internal marketing: an integral part of marketing theory’, in Donnelly, J. and George, W. (eds), Marketing Services, Chicago, American Marketing Association. Gronroos, C. (1985) ‘Internal marketing, theory and practice’, in Bloch, T.M.,...
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...C. (2016) Making sense of global migration In: Global Migration: Patterns, processes, and politics. 1st edn. London: Routledge, Chapter 1 pp. 1–27 Available at: https://www-taylorfrancis-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/chapters/mono/10.4324/9781315623399-1/making-sense-global-migration-elizabeth-mavroudi-caroline-nagel?context=ubx&refId=0d9aa82b-0b84-40a9-812d-606f46ef204b...
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...C. Organic Matter: (1) screen; (2) invisibility; (3) dimness; (4) darkness; (5) dim sight. The final category is D. Dressing in ‘Space and Dimensions.’ It is interesting that ‘veil as dress’ is last on the list of significations. There is a separate grouping called Religion: Canonicals that includes vestures; covering; seclusion; monastic; occult. (On ‘Veil of...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs