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Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...geographies of stateness’, Political Geography, vol. 25, pp. 752–74. Proudhon, J.-P. (1923 [1851]) General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (trans. J.B. Robinson), London, Freedom Press. Sartori, G. (1987) The Theory of Democracy Revisited (2 vols), Chatham, NJ, Chatham House. Sen, A. (1999) ‘Democracy as a universal value’, Journal of Democracy,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...geography with great earnestness when the other man came round the corner. He greeted him in answer to his salutation, but the incident disturbed his train of thought, and for the rest of the walk he became very difficult to understand, and talked in a nervous and preoccupied manner. One strange way in which his nervousness affected him was peculiarly characteristic....
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Article 10 mins
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...Geography in the news: polder salvation’. National Geographic, 5 May. Available at: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/ 2014/ 05/ 05/ geography-in-the-news-polder-salvation/ (Accessed: 26 September 2019). Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) (2018) Land use change statistics: 2016 to 2017. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/ government/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...geography. Central and southern Italy are divided along most of their length by the natural barrier of the Appenines, meaning that east–west rail links are few and far between. In the Po Valley in the north of Italy, however, east–west rail links are good, with a fast train network extending from Genoa in the west to Trieste in the east. There are still areas of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...geography teacher, chronicles the birth of his daughter, Maggie, in letters to his globe-trotting brother, Douglas. Painting an intimate picture of his relationship with his partner, Jay, the novel offers a bleak picture of inner city life, and the couple’s growing need for some sort of political involvement. It comes in the form of the road-protest movement: the novel...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...geography, politics, and how children are viewed in society are all factors that can impact on children's mental health. This week, you'll look at different childhoods from countries around the world. We include case studies of children living on the streets in India, and in some African countries, and the experience of child soldiers in war-torn countries. We include...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...geography of the room speaks of separation of official from claimant. A counter keeps them safely apart, and the steel framework above it suggests that there are shutters which can be erected when needed. The attire of the various actors too tells of separation: the smart white-collared, besuited official with his plastered hair and studious spectacles facing the mass of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...geography and environment of a particular place (such as water, wind, birdsong, animals or even indistinct sounds of traffic or human voices). Keynote sounds are ubiquitous and do not have to be listened to consciously. The term derives from the musical concept that denotes, according to Schafer: ‘the anchor or fundamental tone of a particular piece … although the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs