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Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...par faire des études de droit, qui finalement ne m’ont pas plu, donc j’ai fait une faculté d’anglais et puis je me suis rendue compte aussi que ce n’était pas fait pour moi, donc j’ai décidé de faire des études d’infirmière. Et je suis maintenant infirmière depuis deux ans et demi. Pour mes amis, je suis euh le boute-en-train, c’est à dire la...
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...par value), an interest rate (coupon rate) paid on the bond by the borrower, and a maturity date. Let us examine each of these elements in more detail. A company issues bond certificates with a single face value (FV), which is the value that appears on the certificate. This is usually equal to £100 or £1000, while the total value of the bonds issued at a certain time...
‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry
Society, Politics & Law

‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry

...par with the beer they sold or the crisps and nuts they stocked: my body was property, something which was commonplace across the so-called ‘hospitality industry’ and other sectors – another mechanism to increase profits. Sometimes I had to do a two-hour shift on my own – completely solo. This was because it was quiet in the early evenings and the company did not...
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...par with other types of engineering (Cameron 2018). Between 1961 and 1963 Hamilton worked as a programmer on the US Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defence system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where she became interested in and learned much about the reliability of software (Spicer 2017), being able to make a previously inoperative radar...
Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
Languages

Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...par le pont de l’Europe. Framboise (Christine) C’est loin? Valérie À 30 minutes à pied. Framboise (Christine) Et la poste, c’est où? Valérie Le bureau de Poste est cours Président Kennedy. Framboise (Christine) Merci beaucoup madame. Audio 1 Exemple Office du tourisme – C La mairie (L'hôtel de ville) Le musée Calvet Le commissariat La piscine La poste...
An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...levels | Books | The Guardian Good e-Reader (2022) Book sales in the United Kingdom are booming - Good e-Reader (goodereader.com) BePolar (2019) Les chiffres et le palmarès des ventes du genre Polar dévoilés par l'Observatoire de la librairie (bepolar.fr) Acknowledgements Image of Andrea Camilleri Image of Georges Simenon Image of Hercule Poirot Image of Maj Sjöwall...
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion". To put it bluntly, the contributions of creationists to discussions of evolution today are on a par with what astrologers have to say about astronomy, or crystal healing folk about mineralogy. This year, indeed, we may say that they are exactly 150 years behind the times!...
African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...par excellence, for once and for all. Matory (2018) assesses that as on the one hand, Marx’s use of the ‘fetishism of commodities’ can be a useful tool to understand the tendency of capitalist societies to fetishise things, on the other hand, in his argument against capitalism, Marx fetishised Africans and African enslaved in various ways. At first, he neglected the...