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A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...system since its publication. For practitioners too, Wicca had reached a stable position as it entered the twenty-first century. The broader (Neo)Pagan movement it had instigated has a strong presence in the US and Northern Europe; Wicca gained legal protection as a religion in the US in 1986, and continues to campaign for legal recognition in the UK. Estimates put the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...systems, bushes, bridge bearings NBR nitrile (acrylonitrile- butadiene copolymer) Special-purpose rubbers of density 1.0 Mg m−3 and moderate mechanical properties. Poor cold resistance. Excellent resistance to swelling in hydrocarbons and alcohols. The greatest oil and alcohol resistance occurs in rubbers with a high acrylonitrile content. Fuel lines and linings SBR...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...system or the wider universe. [Described image] Figure 3 Macroscopic perspective In a way, studying language is really no different to this. Learning to master a language requires skills and knowledge that relate to the big picture, as well as the smallest details. Imagine a camera lens – you need to be able to ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ to look at things in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...systems that sit around athletes. The third set of factors are the individual factors. So these are much more the personality-based factors for that individual athlete, such as perfectionism, or athletic identity, or motivation. So as you go through the session, you'll learn about those different factors and how they can put an athlete at risk from burnout. You're also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...system of official patronage was in place. After Bonaparte seized power, David hoped to be given responsibility for running government art policy himself; in 1800 he was offered the title of ‘painter to the government’ but turned it down, apparently because it lacked the powers that he wanted. It was not until the end of 1802 that the administrator who was to be in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...system depicted in the novel, and the great expectations it feeds on, are ultimately rooted in the reality of the prison hulks (Figure 3), the decay and murder that occupy the more or less hidden underground of the narrative. The most pointed irony of Pip's story is that the woman he falls in love with, and perhaps in the end joins, turns out to be the child of that dark...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...system of parallel ridges, or ripple marks, like the ones shown in Figure 13a, form by the action that flowing water has on the erosion, transport and deposition of sand grains. In sedimentary strata, ripples and dunes (which are effectively larger versions of ripple marks) are normally seen in cross-section rather than in plan view, because pristine depositional surfaces...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...systems that young people have are each other. ANDREW: I think if all the activities weren’t there and I didn’t have a penny to do an activity, the relationships would still be there, and the work would still go on. When we started The Factory Project out, we had 42 pounds in the bank, that was it, you know. And to set a project up on such a minimal amount of money...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs