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James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...education and health and everything else, it’s not this niche new thing, it’s now an issue that most people are globally aware of, but it’s also got its detractors and its critics, so they’re always quick to jump on any kind of inaccuracy, so I think in environmental filmmaking you need to be even more careful and stringent with your facts. Climate change: A BBC...
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...Open University course B302 Strategic management...Business models in strategic management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise how to distinguish among, and make use of, different types of business models understand how to build a business model by using a business model canvas tool develop a business model canvas for...
The abolition of capital punishment
Society, Politics & Law

The abolition of capital punishment

...Open University, Professor Barbara Hudson, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Central Lancashire, and Dr. Nigel Warburton, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Open University, explore some of the fundamental issues underpinning our attitudes to this most severe of punishments. The discussion is chaired by...
Witnesses and Evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Witnesses and Evidence

...Slapper, Professor of Law at The Open University, and Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of the Times, discuss whether jurors and expert witnesses are suited to roles they undertake... Witnesses and Evidence Professor Gary Slapper of The Open University, and Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of The Times discuss how well jurors and expert witnesses are suited to the tasks they perform....
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...open city’ that accepts and works with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. While John Tomaney finds this a learned and literate book rich in provocative metaphors and examples, the implications of today’s political and economic context, including the issue of inequality, upon its ethics of the city are underexplored...[Denver from the sky] The question of how we...
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...education, you might like to look at the following open access publication about the teaching of English as an Additional Language: Coffin, Caroline (2010). Language support in EAL contexts. Why systemic functional linguistics? (Special Issue of NALDIC Quarterly). NALDIC, Reading, UK. Available at: http://oro.open.ac.uk/ 25026/ 1/ For a more general introduction, a good...
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