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Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...think I may have damaged his career very slightly by suggesting he would have also made an excellent television producer. Ian of course is one of the world experts though, if not the single greatest expert on the life and times of Adolf Hitler. His two volume epic biography of the Nazi dictator is now the standard text on the subject, and he’s speaking tonight,...
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Audio 45 mins
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...think if I’d been… I don’t know, I was lucky to grow up in the countryside in the thirties and to see… natural life at close quarters. My studies in animal behaviour Back in the 1950s I was working here in Oxford with Niko Tinbergen as a comparative ethologist. I was working on animal behaviour, in particular behaviour of a small fish called the ten-spined...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...think about ourselves in relation to that world. Insofar as novels typically have a specific location in time and place, they are characteristically involved in the major upheavals of their societies, directly or indirectly: we are viewing the novel as a genre capable of registering in satisfyingly complex ways what we think we know about how the world we live in has come...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...thinking was very different from non-Asian thinking. This difference is structured in terms of reason and passion, with the US as reasonable and the Filipino population as passionate and emotional. A further supposition was that the Filipino population could be divided into good and evil. This leads to particular subject positions. A hierarchy is implied, with the US as...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...think and feel in several different ways. During this course you will complete activities that not only get you reading but allow you to experience for yourself some of the effects that reading can have on you as an individual. As well as changing you in some of the ways that you will explore here, research suggests that people who read books actually live longer....
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?
Society, Politics & Law

Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?

...thinks the SNP will bide its time...[Nicola Sturgeon signing the original Scottish Independence Referendum Bill] Nicola Sturgeon signing the first referendum into Scottish law Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement of a draft bill to make a second independence referendum viable unsurprisingly delighted the audience at the SNP conference in Glasgow. But...
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Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...thinking and knowing. In one notebook entry the late Nietzsche writes rather cryptically: The logical negation of the world and the annihilation [of its value] results from our need to oppose Being to Non-being [the Nothing], and that the concept of ‘Becoming’ is denied. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Notebooks, 1887–88) It requires a lot of analysis and...
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Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...thinking skills means that they can resist food advertising. First, children find ads in digital media much harder to distinguish from other web page content. Second, in social media, ads are designed to be particularly engaging, emotionally appealing, and entertaining. They build on young people’s passions – their loves for humour, music, movies, sports, games,...
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