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Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...communicate effectively in Spanish in everyday contexts. This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXS001 Beginners Spanish 1: ¡Empezamos!. After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning...If you want to learn a new language for work or for...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...community level, Mark was chair of the Board of Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative from 2006 to 2015, which generates more than enough electricity to supply the demand of all the co-op’s 2500 members. Mark and Alice also recognise that there are environmental issues that can be tackled only at government levels, such as local and regional planning and national energy, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...communicates social and cultural messages, a practice that has been present in tangible form since ancient times, a symbol ideologically fundamental to the Christian, and particularly the Catholic, vision of womanhood and piety, and a vehicle for resistance in Islamic societies, and is currently the center of scholarly debate on gender and women in the Islamic East. In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...communication skills are bad. Their understanding of relations in the world are bad. If you can think about the bumps they’ve got to get over in terms of the typical pathway to creating experiences of learning, he’s helped solve them. He’s done two amazing things. He, one, makes exoskeletons for these babies, so they can sit stably. That means they can hold … they...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...communicated, and contested, by the language and imagery used to refer to and represent other animals...Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?: 2 Nonhuman victims of harm - The experience of being physically and/or psychologically harmed is unavoidable for all animals, whether human or nonhuman, but for criminologists, an increasing area of concern is avoidable harm...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...communication technology (ICT) industry consumes massive amounts of power. However, in the absence of the large smoking chimneys that traditional industries have, this fact gets easily overlooked. The UK’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2008) predicts that ICT will be responsible for 3% of global emissions by 2020. Just keeping the data available that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...Community Medicine, surveying the torn flesh on Bhuvan’s neck. “I’ve seen far more severe bites.” That morning, Narayana spends hours calling suppliers for two doses of the crucial treatment: rabies immunoglobulin, a concentrated solution of rabies antibodies. Two vials arrive just after noon. Bhuvan is placed on a clinic bed, where an attendant holds him down as...
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Article 10 mins
The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...community across the U.S. "All candidates of both major parties, Republican and Democrat, are being invited, as well as candidates of the Reform Party, including Patrick Buchanan and Donald Trump," the three said in a statement. "Since one of these candidates will be the post-President Clinton White House occupant, this forum will be the most critical since candidate Bill...
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Article 5 mins