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History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...Paradoxes (1666) ranked as two of his favourite contemporary authors, and he read these books several times over the course of the decade. Pepys was, then, an intensive reader, seeking to engage with the text and exploit books to their full potential. As he wrote on the evening of 28 April 1667, ‘mightily pleased with my reading Boyles book of Colours today; only,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...Paradoxically, not having penal servitude saved a lot of lives because people really didn't want to sentence their neighbours to execution, you know, that's Bill and his friend Joe, we know them so when before 1857 there were vanishing few sentences but after 1857 with the introduction of penal servitude and the crackdown on this "vice" and the new kind of discourse that...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...paradox...Obesity: balanced diets and treatment: 2.2 Experimental studies of energy balance - The energy that a human takes in, primarily in food or nutritive fluids, has to be balanced by the energy lost in various ways. Some energy is used to maintain basic metabolic processes, some in physical activity while the remainder is lost as heat, or in the faeces or urine. If...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...paradox between ‘woman’s innate emotionalism co-existent with her inability to channel it effectively into creativity in music, that most emotional art form’. She summarises his view that a woman’s true musical role was not as composer but rather as ‘helpmate, or muse, to successful male composers, and also as performer’ (Citron, 1990, p. 111). Citron goes on...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise, London, Abacus. Checkland, P. (1981) Systems Thinking, Systems Practice, New York, John Wiley. Eden, C; Jones, S. and Sims, D. (1983) Messing About with Problems, New York, Pergamon Press. Kolb, D. (1984) Experiential Learning: experience as the source of learning and development, New York, Prentice-Hall. Lovelock, J....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...paradox of perfectionism: promoting healthy perfectionism in sport’, BelievePerform, Wellbeing [Online]. Available at https://believeperform.com/ wellbeing/ manipulating-the-paradox-of-perfectionism-promoting-healthy-perfectionism-in-sport/(Accessed 7 January 2019). Coakley, J. (1992) ‘Burnout among adolescent athletes: A personal failure or social problem?’,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...paradox...Session 5: Reasoning with sets: 1 Lewis Carroll, the master puzzler - Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), the British author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass, also published many logic puzzles. Here is one of them. Suppose you are given the following starting points (called premises). All babies are illogical. Illogical persons are despised....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...paradox periphrasis synthesis Discussion apocalypse apo + calypse (‘unveiling’) catastrophe cata + strophe (‘overturning’) diaspora dia + spora (‘scattering about’) ecstatic ec + stasis (‘standing outside [oneself]’) epidemic epi + demic (‘among, or in, the people’) hyperbole hyper + bole (‘overshooting’) hypothesis hypo + thesis (‘an underlying...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs