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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

...creative, visionary side to Hitler, however repellent it is to us. That was what the first spin-doctor, Joseph Goebbels, exploited in building up the public image of the great Leader. In a society gripped by panaoia of national decline and decadence, Hitler offered a breathtaking vision of Germany’s future grandeur and glory, of regeneration, resurgence, and redemption....
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...Cover image: Nicolas Raymond in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...writing in an era of social and economic change. In the 1730s the population was growing fast, social mobility was on the increase, England's cities were beginning to bulge and the old ruling order began to get nervous about change; change that it could not direct or control. Defoe's comment is one example of a history of respectable fears. This notion was coined by the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...writing, and you should always check to see how it is being used. As I explained, our focus in this course will be on state consciousness of the ordinary non-introspective variety – phenomenal consciousness, in Block's terminology. I shall not keep spelling this out, however, and from now on, unless otherwise indicated, the words ‘conscious’ and ‘consciousness’...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...writing this technology is under development in Norway as a possible solution to the similar problem of fjord crossings needed for the coastal highway project. [Described image] Figure 21 An artist’s impression of a proposed floating tunnel for Norway A floating tunnel may be held up by its own buoyancy and anchored to the sea bed, or it may have negative buoyancy (i.e....
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Money & Business

Academi Arian MSE

...Creative Commons 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 4.0/: Darllenwch delerau’r drwydded a glynwch wrthynt bob amser. Rhoddir cydnabyddiaeth ddiolchgar i’r canlynol nad yw’n destun trwyddedu Creative Commons oni nodir hynny. Delwedd y cwrs: Y Brifysgol Agored Bathodyn Academi Arian MSE © Y Brifysgol Agored Rydym wedi gwneud pob ymdrech i gysylltu...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...writing that book. And much later the actual mechanics of energy policy became obviously the thing that people interested in climate change had to do, and that, I suppose, mainly occurred for me in the early 2000s, particularly when I began to be interested in what the British Government was doing, and eventually when I became an advisor to the British Government. Climate...
Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: Rex Pe in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...