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Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...classes may seem unrelated, they represent evolutionary variations on the same theme - the molluscan bodyplan. Three classes, each of which range from Cambrian to Recent, are particularly important, both as fossils and today: the Bivalvia - bivalves (e.g. cockles, mussels and oysters) (Figure 1e); the Gastropoda - gastropods (e.g. slugs and snails); and the nektonic...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...classes, ruling classes. And there was a great interest in knowing what was the scale of the problem. Charles Booth was interested in the question of how many of this increasing number of poor people were there. This wasn't about causes. Poverty was taken very much for granted as part of the natural order. But how large was the problem? And so the significance of his...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...feedback; may be negative, i.e. compensatory or balancing; or positive, i.e. exaggerating or reinforcing. A situation can be understood by step-by-step analysis followed by evaluation and repetition of the original analysis. Systems cannot be understood by analysis of the component parts. The properties of the parts are not intrinsic properties, but can be understood only...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...class are surely the books we read as children’. The vast cultural influence of Robinson Crusoe was noted by a number of commentators in the nineteenth century. George Borrow, for example, writing in 1851, regarded it as ‘a book which has exerted over the minds of Englishmen an influence certainly greater than any other of modern times…a book, moreover, to which,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...De Visu / Shutterstock; Juanmonino / iStock. 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. 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...de-legitimised his victory was music to the ears of the Labour Right. And some knew, deep down, that if enough of a storm was created about infiltration, this would provide cover for the party apparatus to deny more leftwing activists a vote, and that this could, just about, influence a close result. [Peter Mandelson] Will the former Communist Peter Mandelson find himself...
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The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...de facto commander-in-chief of the German army, had been long expecting the attack. In February, he had launched an assault on the French fortress of Verdun that was designed to ‘bleed white’ the French army and force the French government to peace talks. Falkenhayn believed that before the final French collapse the British would launch an offensive of their own,...
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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...de France ‘winner’) was also stripped of his titles due to doping. Drug technology has continued to evolve allowing cheats to stay one step ahead of the testing laboratories for now. As all technology has advanced it seems that human evolution has taken a turn towards devolution. With the current generation often reported as the first to have a shorter life expectancy...
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