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Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...education level, mental health, etc. Some of these may be visible (ethnicity), others invisible (education) and many may be open to change (marital status); some refer to the characteristics of the individual (age), while some may be concerned with the beliefs, norms and values of a group (religion). (It may even be the case that a visible characteristic (for example,...
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...education and so he was really keen to get that story out and his family was there during the sit-in and everything that happened. So when we did a documentary called Windy Bay looking particularly at Clayoquot Sound and the fact that you can’t replant an old growth, temperate rainforest by just putting in a few trees, when that show was broadcast the next day it was...
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...education (i.e. sources of science where you are not formally being taught). Sources could include, for example, television programmes, news websites, blogs, books, magazines, newspapers, social media, museums and science centres. In the light of your experiences, write a short summary (no more than 200 words) that addresses the following questions. Briefly, what is the...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...education and for social welfare. (Gilliat-Ray, 2010, p. 182f) The East London Mosque has sought to expand its ability to serve a variety of functions for its community. It added a building to host more community services, the London Muslim Centre, in 2004. It completed building the Maryam Centre, making specific provision for women, in 2013. The London Muslim Centre and...
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...technology in these ways is nuts. I mean, the first iPhone was expensive too; if you bought Apple stock, you were a smart man. RH: Do you have Apple stock? BM: I don’t. RH: Do you have Tesla stock or Solar City stock? BM: No, I’m a writer, remember? RH: You’re not such a smart man? BM: I’m a writer; I’m not a rich man. RH: Let me ask you...
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...technology needed to get the job done. “Brewster is a visionary who looks at things differently,” says Carole Moore, chief librarian at the University of Toronto. “He is able to imagine doing things that everyone else thinks are impossible. But then he does them.” Mr Kahle is an unostentatious millionaire who does not “wear his money on clothes”, as one...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...Technology in the Netherlands. Ben’s career in Shell spans both Upstream and Downstream activities. He has held a number of operational and commercial roles, including some 10 years in the LNG business, and a variety of positions in Downstream. In January 2005, Ben became Vice President, Manufacturing Excellence, based in Houston, USA. In this role he was responsible...
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...technology is described later in section 3.4. [Described image] Figure 26 (a) The Brunck Estate in Ludwigshafen, Germany (b) Laying blocks of foam insulation on a roof Monitoring showed that the net space heating energy use fell by a factor of seven from 210 kWh per square metre of floor area per year to only 30 kWh m2 yr–1. This is equivalent to 3 litres of heating oil...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs