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Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...resource for professionals (2nd Edition) London: National Children’s Bureau/ Jessica Kingsley Publishers Cleaver, H., Unell, I. and Aldgate, J. (2010), Children's Needs, Parenting Capacity: The impact of parental mental illness, learning disability, problem alcohol and drug use and domestic violence on children's safety & development 2nd Edition London: The Stationery...
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Bridges and Buildings: The structures of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Bridges and Buildings: The structures of the Industrial Revolution

...resources, especially coal, and materials such as natural fibres and iron itself. One such bridge across the Dee at Chester, was made using cast iron beams. It cracked in the middle while a train was passing over, and the carriages fell into the tidal river below killing seven (Figure 4). Robert Stephenson claimed that the train hit the bridge and caused the collapse, but...
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...At an industry, organisational or enterprise level, we have the potential to make changes whose effect multiplies across our communities to give significant scale. More on digital carbon footprints This resource is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital transformation collection, made possible by the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...
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Number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Number theory

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. 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....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it
Society, Politics & Law

NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it

...resources exploring what the Good Friday Agreement brought to our lives in the 25 years since its signing. I often hear the refrain “nothing ever changes in this place” and “politics always stays the same” but as CS Lewis once said, 'Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different?' Since 1998, Northern Ireland has...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland

...Resource Center, Randolph, J.A. (ed.) (2007) Eavan Boland: A Sourcebook. Manchester: Carcanet. Wilson, R. E., & Somerville-Arjat, G. (1990). Sleeping with monsters: Conversations with Scottish and Irish women poets. Edinburgh: Polygon. That the Science of Cartography is Limited (Boland, 1994). Available at:
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Introduction to analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to analysis

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. 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 ....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?

...resources have the potential to be deepened, along with uneven distributional benefits of space. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which remains the guiding principles behind space use, states that that 'The exploration and use of outer space … shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific...
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