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Selling Empire: Introduction
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Introduction

...introduction of ‘Imperial Preference’ (charging a tariff on foreign goods, but less or none on their Empire counterparts). Article 3: Posters Posters discusses the Empire Marketing Board’s posters in more detail, starting with the Highways of Empire poster shown above. Article 4: Film Film shows how EMB filmmakers were given enormous scope to experiment. It traces...
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Article 5 mins
Introduction to the Amazon System
Nature & Environment

Introduction to the Amazon System

...management sustains and enhances the Amazon’s ecology. The Amazon’s natural resources The Amazon is the location of vast natural resources: from mineral ores (iron, aluminium, manganese, uranium, copper, gypsum, nickel and gold), fossil fuel reserves (petroleum, gas and lignite), renewable energy potential (through hydroelectric dams), timber and agricultural land....
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Article 5 mins
Introduction to complex analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to complex analysis

...Introduction to complex analysis, is an extract from the third level Open University course M337 Complex Analysis, which develops the theory of functions of a complex variable, emphasising their geometric properties and indicating some applications...This free course, Introduction to complex analysis, is an extract from the third level Open University course M337 Complex...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
The politics of food introduction
Society, Politics & Law

The politics of food introduction

The apple has become a contested political symbol of rural Britain versus the need to keep up with mass markets, and as the policing of pleasure increases, in an attempt to deal with social problems such as binge drinking, the new politics of food has a far reaching impact...Video Audio Text Commentary The humble apple, and cider, one of its most pleasurable products,...
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Video 5 mins
Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...Project: Opening up Education on the Move in 2019: Academics and Artists working together to understand migration, participation, citizenship and Belonging...The 2019 ‘Who Are We?’ project took place for the third year at the Tate Modern and brought together academics and artists to explore migration, participation, citizenship and belonging through installations,...
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Article 15 mins
Integrated health, safety and environmental management
Science, Maths & Technology

Integrated health, safety and environmental management

...management... Integrated health, safety and environmental management A brief introduction to this album. Risk and biscuit manufacture Fox's biscuit factory might not seem a terribly dangerous place, but in fact there are many risks involved with biscuit manufacture, and Fox's have evolved a stringent and complex health and safety policy. Minimising risk How Fox's have...
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Audio 1 hr 11 mins
Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Languages

Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...manage relationships with the expectation we are constantly available? Caroline Tagg explains how people craft messages to keep people close, but not too close...Find out about The Open University's English courses Phone messaging apps are first and foremost a means of relating to, or connecting with, other people. This means that many anxieties about messaging are really...
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Article 5 mins
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...managing, caring....The caring manager in health and social care: Introduction - This free course, The caring manager in health and social care, encourages you to think about how a leader or manager in the ‘caring professions’ can be, in short, more caring. It is made up of a series of four sections. The first section focuses on understanding stress and anxiety more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs