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Are we taking the fun out of reading?
Education & Development

Are we taking the fun out of reading?

...public libraries. Many carers seemed to regard it as their duty to bring their young children to such spaces. Once there, they would go into “teacher-mode” and try and get their children to engage with books in a very narrow way resonant of formal teaching: usually making children look at a book while trying to get them to sit still on the adult’s lap or in a...
Ten commandments of research
History & The Arts

Ten commandments of research

...Public Record Office of Northern Ireland National Archives of Ireland. FAMILIA is a very useful site for family and public records, operated by the Museums and Libraries Archives Council. County Records: These will be held by your local archives and records office, which will be organised by your local County or Municipal Borough Council. These usually also contain...
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...public. Through Captain Bellodi, the northern Italian police investigating officer, he explored the culture, mentality and political contexts in which the Mafia thrived, and set out the familiar scenarios in which they operated. In this and his other short detective novels (often inconclusive and without happy endings) he suggested that to understand the Mafia you needed...
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...public goods and services their citizens need. Environmental policy: Supporters of EU membership identify a range of areas, from carbon limitations to biodiversity protection, in which common policies have made the UK greener. Opponents identify comparably significant ways in which EU policies do environmental damage, deliberately or inadvertently. Agricultural policy:...
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...public service. He was appointed to the United States Senate in 1980 to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become Secretary of State. He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 1982 in a stunning come-from-behind victory. After trailing in public opinion polls by 36 points, Senator Mitchell rallied to win the election, receiving...
Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...health, demography, regime type and (yes) the power of the state. The days when one could claim that the situation of women is a “small bore” issue in foreign policy should now be emphatically over. When Clinton was secretary of state, the global empowerment of women was enshrined as a key foreign policy objective. While there were failures as well as successes in...
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...health and education. Different calculators therefore give different results depending on their assumptions, data sources and what they include. This calculator attempts to be comprehensive by including the effects of income, goods and services consumption and infrastructure emissions as well as the usual energy, food and transport footprints. For this article we are...
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...public, private, individuals, groups), fields (e.g. social, political, health, environment) and levels (e.g. local, national, global). Difference refers to interested parties coming to development management with their own histories that diverge on the basis of their interests, values, agendas, cultures and access to power. Emergence refers to the way development...