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Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...La Force de l’âge, Paris: Gallimard. Translated as The Prime of Life. Beauvoir, Simone de. (1963) La Force des choses, Paris: Gallimard. Translated as Force of Circumstance. Beauvoir, Simone de. (1972) Tout compte fait, Paris: Gallimard. Translated as All Said and Done. Beauvoir, Simone de. (1976) ‘The second sex 25 years later, interview by John Gerassi’, Society,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...la Géographie des Plantes, Levrault, Schell & Co., Paris. Kohn, D.D. and Walsh, D.M. 1994. Plant species richness – the effect of island size and habitat diversity. Journal of Ecology, 82, 367–377. Linder, H.P. 2005. The evolution of diversity: the Cape flora. Trends in Plant Science, 10, 537–542. MacArthur, R.H. and Wilson, E.O. 1967. The Theory of Island...
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Article 20 mins
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...la carte versions – ‘beef’, ‘mutton’ and ‘pork’ – come from the French-speaking toffs, beginning a long running trend for restaurants having completely indecipherable menus. All in all, the English absorbed about 10,000 new words from the Normans, though they still couldn’t grasp the rules of cheek kissing. The bonhomie all ended when the English nation...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...LA governor, headteacher as a governor, community governor, additional community governor, representative governor, foundation governor, associate pupil governor, partnership governor or sponsor governor. Having reflected on the questions take a few moments and make a note of your responses to each question in the text box below. You can download the notes you make by...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...la Musique des Pygmées Aka [CD liner notes]. Translated from the French by D. Stevens. Paris: Ocora C559012 13. Bent, I.D., Hughes, D.W., Provine, R.C., Rastall, R., Kilmer, A., Hiley, D., Szendrei, J., Payne, T.B., Bent, M., and Chew, G. (2014) ‘Notation’, Grove Music Online. Available at:
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...La Chartreuse de Parme and Alphonse Daudet’s Numa Roumestan (for the transcription of this list, see ID: 20618). We can analyse the field of literature here through the filters of language, genre, and recentness (or date of publication). Certain clear patterns emerge in Lee’s reading over this 11 month period. First: the majority of her reading was in French (37 of 60...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...La Grande Odalisque Rubens represents a very different interpretation of ‘the classical’ from that favoured by the neoclassicists. His history paintings often use the luminous diagonals (shafts of light falling diagonally across the canvas), turbulent movement, luscious colour and sparkling objects that exerted such a profound influence on Delacroix, as on many other...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...LA Times Syndicate © Copyright © 1997 Wasserman, Boston Globe, LA Times Syndicate Figure 1 The internet increases productivity at work (or does it?) Other sceptics point to the possibility that the rise in US productivity has been due more to the increased flexibility of the US labour market than to any specific characteristics of information technology. OECD studies...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs