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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...geography, sub-Saharan Africa, awash with fires. Western Europe, ablaze with lights. Well, not all those lights are powered directly by industrial combustion, but you can bet industrial fire is somewhere fundamental in their chain of creation. And they all substitute for open flames. Or a finer grain but more politically radical example, North Korea, distinctive by the...
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...geography’ (Wood, 2014, p. 211). In the upper registers of the two main walls, Rivera depicted the four races that between them comprised the ethnic diversity of the Americas: white, yellow, brown and black, with each one holding a particular mineral essential to the production of iron, which is itself central to the development of industrial modernity. The tracing of...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...geography of where they are storing the contaminated water? RUPERT WINGFIELD-HAYES: Well the geography is one of the things that makes it very complicated. Firstly the site is very close to the Pacific ocean, the reactors are less than 100 metres from the shoreline and so any contaminated water doesn’t have far to go to get into the sea. And the second thing is it’s a...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...geographies to such an extent that they are considered a universal form of discourse (Rubin, 1995). In the next section you will start to think about how different types of reading might have different effects upon the reader...What happens to you when you read?: 2 The benefits of being a bookworm - Some researchers believe that reading fiction allows us to experience a...
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...geography, age, sex, routine (for example, alcohol consumption/going out), ‘race’/ethnicity [Described image] Figure 10 Translation: focus on personal and property crime (excludes non-personal offences) and therefore misses crimes against organizations includes only self-defined victims/those willing to disclose under represents crime where the victim is complicit and...
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...geography’ of a country in the process of self-formation. Figure 23 Salomon van Ruysdael, Market by the Sea, 1637, oil on panel, 41 × 59 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 60.55.4. Photo: © 2010. The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence...Dutch painting of the Golden Age: 7 The role of conventions - Schama’s approach represents a partial...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...geography. So irrespective of what the official statistics might say, it may be that our fascination with crime is fuelling our story-telling. We took this one stage further in Section 3.4 when we applied the idea of a moral panic to the crime problem. While not conclusive in any way, our discussion suggests that popular concerns with crime may function as metaphors and...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...geography, spatial layout, context of here. And maybe it’s not universal. Maybe it’s not everybody. There may be many, many, many paths to becoming a successful human being. And Bloomington, Indiana, a college town in the Midwest, may not be, OK, optimal for understanding that. One of the reasons we were interested in going to India was because we wanted a place,...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs