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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 30(3), pp. 221–34. Taylor, M. (2017) ‘Good work: the Taylor review of modern working practices’, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 11 July 2017. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/good-work-the-taylor-review-of-modern-working-practices (Accessed 16 November 2022)....
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...business, politics and organised crime, and racism. Writers such as Fruttero and Lucentini (Italy), Didier Daeninckx (France) and Jakob Arjouni (Germany) opened a path that many others would follow. In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, leading to the reunification of Germany and the collapse of the former Soviet bloc. Capitalism seemed to have triumphed, contrary to the...
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Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...business after oil and sex and although there is no longer a British Empire, sport is one of the two main legacies of colonialism along with the English language. (Mike Cronin in The State of Play, 2012) Even if you have no interest in it, it is difficult to ignore football (especially during global events such as the World Cup) because of its massive media coverage and...
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Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...businesses, and ports prospered on the basis of the slave trade. However, this is a long way from saying that the slave trade was the main cause of Britain’s “industrialisation”. British economic advance was made possible by many other factors, including the progress of agriculture, the advance of technology, the stability of political institutions, the local...
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Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...business is sedimentary deposition. Of course, organisms that yield robust hard-parts, such as shells, teeth and bones, are more likely to furnish suitable material for preservation in the first place, but even these will in time be destroyed by myriad chemical and physical assaults operating at the Earth's surface - unless protected by sedimentary burial. But you need...
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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...of Essential Theory and Research. London: Psychology Press. Besieux, T. (2017) ‘Why I hate feedback: Anchoring effective feedback within organizations’, Business Horizons, 60(4), pp. 435–9, doi: 10.1016/j.bushor.2017.03.001. Shute, V. (2008) ‘Focus on formative feedback’, Review of Educational Research, 78(1), pp. 153–89. doi: 10.3102/0034654307313795....
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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...adherence of such improvements. This is a key consideration as many organisations push forward in enacting management upgrading projects around the world. This blog post is based on the author’s paper All in the family? CEO choice and firm organization, co-authored with Renata Lemos and was originally posted at the LSE Business Review under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence...
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A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime

...business, that Ophelia should be turned into Columbine was to be expected; but I confess I was a little shocked when Hamlet's mother became Pantaloon, and was instantly knocked down by Clown Claudius. Grimaldi is getting a little old now, but for real humor there are few clowns like him. Mr. Shuter, as the grave-digger, was chaste and comic, as he always is, and the...
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