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Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...la politique extériure et coloniale, (1893–1898), p. 210–12 ‘[T]he superior races have a right vis-à-vis the inferior races [...] I repeat that the superior races have a right, because they have a duty towards them. They have the duty to civilise the inferior races [...] Can you deny, can anyone deny, that there is more justice, more order (material and moral),...
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...La Paz and other towns were packed with street vendors and small-scale producers, all hungry for capital. The micro-credit idea had already reached Bolivia in various ways, including the influence of expatriate Bolivians living in the United States and, crucially, through American ODA (USAID), which had already carried out several micro-credit experiments in Bolivia....
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...La Rioja which filled awkward gaps between more established regions...A Europe of the Regions?: 2.4 Summary - ‘Regions’ and ‘regionalism’ in Western Europe display great diversity in economic, social, cultural and political terms, varying not only between states but also within particular states (as exemplified by the UK and Spain). Regions vary widely in their...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...Laing and L. M. Newman), New Haven and London, Yale University Press. Loh, M. (2007) Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute. Maas, A. (1910) ‘Publius Lentulus’, in The Catholic Encyclopedia [Online], New York, Robert Appleton Company. Available at www.newadvent.org/cathen/09154a.htm (Accessed...
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...La Jolla, CA, USA “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”’, 8 October [Press release]. Available at: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2008/press-release/ (Accessed: 10 February 2023). This article describes fluorescence imaging techniques in 3D tissues and organisms and is the source for some of the videos shown in Video...
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...La Voie Du Mont, c.1920, advertising poster, 106 × 76 cm. The Roman Forum was another important site for Grand Tourists, and remains so today. In what follows, you’ll consider what writers actually do (their creative practices or processes, if you will), and observe one example of how a writer might engage with the ideas that lay behind the Grand Tour by connecting...
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...Laing, S. and Warr, C. (2016) ‘The great British medalists project: a review of current knowledge on the development of the world’s best sporting talent’. Sports medicine, 46(8), pp. 1041–1058. Sarkar, M. and Fletcher, D. (2013) ‘Psychological resilience: A review and critique of definitions, concepts, and theory’, European Psychologist, 18(1), pp. 12–23....
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...la-Chapelle (Aachen) in 1818. After the publication of the essays and his later plan for communities, many other prominent figures in politics, the churches and reforming circles were also willing to give Owen's views a hearing, though whether or not this was a commitment to action seemed to be one of the questions Owen consistently refused to address...Robert Owen and...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs