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Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...physical prowess of Sherlock Holmes, their methods, moral frameworks, and social status in many ways make them the antithesis of earlier models of the investigating sleuth. One obvious advance into the territory of detective fiction, however, was the success of women authors in the post-war period. Alongside important male contemporaries – particularly G. K. Chesterton...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...physical capital, which includes environmental issues, attention to our precious, natural resources. So when we talk to companies, we want to make sure that their boards are paying attention to those global very important issues and that they are having oversight over those issues. So we ask boards and the companies that we meet with, for example, does your board have a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...physical, emotional and social skills and so we might wonder how technology can support people in this – this is an important question to keep asking ourselves as we increasingly adopt technology in the home care environment. In the following activity, you will read a news article on how technology can change and improve social care. Activity 1 Weighing up the news The...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...physical changes that take place. Under the perception of a threat, our body releases hormones and glucose to help prepare the fight or flight response. While this is an adaptive response in the short term, it can drain our energy over time leading to a variety of health-related problems such as tension headaches and high blood pressure. Amongst the most cited causes of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...physical document that participants sign, an electronic document which is emailed and which they sign electronically, or through an internet form, usually supplied as a link. For the Reproductive Bodylore project, we created several participant documents. Participant Materials include a ‘Friends & Family Information Sheet’ and a ‘Friends & Family Online Consent...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...physical or online bookshop reveals a vast array of fictional crime titles and authors, from Agatha Christie to Robert Galbraith to Jonathan Kellerman. In many bookshops you will also find a whole section dedicated to ‘true crime’ and books which claim to explore the ‘mind of the criminal’ or recount gruesome biographies of serial killers. If you google ‘crime...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Succeed in the workplace Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...physically what you say and how you say it how you deal with difficulties in the interview. Let’s take a closer look at each of these in the next three sections...Week 7: Presenting your ‘best’ self at interview: 7.1 Physical impression - [Photo of a scruffy-looking dog.] Figure 12 What first impression will you give? As you know from Section 2, first impressions...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...physical properties. Next you will learn about yeast, the fungal microorganism that is used to convert carbohydrates, such as sugars and starches, into carbon dioxide and ethanol through the fermentation reaction. You will look at a homebrew kit and you can take part in an optional home experiment that will run alongside this course. Furthermore, you will learn about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs