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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...paradox: Mehmed the Conqueror as patron of the arts’, Oxford Art Journal, 5:1, pp.3–8. Raby, J. (1982b) Venice, Dürer and the Oriental Mode, London, Sotheby Islamic Art Publications. Raby, J. (1991) catalogue entry 107, Portrait Medal of Mehmet II, in Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration,Washington, National Gallery of Art (exhibition catalogue), p.211. Roper,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...paradox when we make use of technology. While the introduction, for example, of a new consumer appliance or a new application of existing technology may bring obvious benefits to individuals or society, in turn it nearly always seems to expose us to new risks and dangers. When we use technology we appear to be dealing with a phenomenon that has a split personality, one...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...Paradoxically’, Wittkower wrote, ‘the untrammelled individualism of twentieth-century avant-garde artists, their personality and social problems were ultimately derived from the Italian Renaissance, the period in history on which they heaped the fullness of their scorn’ (Wittkower, 1961, p. 199). Not only are artists traditionally stereotyped as ‘different’ but...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...paradox. This shows your life expectancy against gross national income, how rich countries are on average. And you see the countries on the right, like Norway and the USA, are twice as rich as Israel, Greece, Portugal on the left. And it makes no difference to their life expectancy at all. There's no suggestion of a relationship there. But if we look within our societies,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...paradox is that the word is used both when we identify a need – the first link in the problem-solving chain – and when we undertake the process of meeting that need. It is the identification of the need and the realisation that it is real and must be met that creates the anxiety and the negative feelings ('Houston, we have a problem …'). The process of finding a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...paradox’) which show 50% probability with 23 people and 99.9% probability with just 70. [This is a graph. On the X-axis is number of people and on the Y-axis is probability of a pair.] Figure 1...Week 2: Digital approaches: 1.2 Tools for analysing digital library content today - We can do a lot of analysis working with the metadata. For example, we can analyse...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...paradoxically he encourages us to believe in what he can and does record. [A picture of a ship on the sea. The hull is curved and lined (suggesting a wooden construction), with a curved bow to the right, as the viewer sees it. A central mast carries a massive sail which spans almost the length of the ship.] Figure 10 Phoenicians ship carved on the face of a sarcophagus,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...paradox light-bringer phosphorus flesh-eater sarcophagus Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 6 items in each list. empty-tomb horse-river eight-foot against-expectation light-bringer flesh-eater Match each of the previous list items with an item from the following list: a.phosphorus...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs