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James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...course we need to make informative, educational and above all entertaining wildlife films, but they have to be true to nature in all its senses, and that means showing humanity, the effects of humanity, setting it in a context that’s real and relevant to today because that's the reality of it. A series like Africa, for example, yes, we showed the glorious wildlife but...
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Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...course we, as scholars, have found it fantastically interesting, historians, geographers, environmental researchers as we are, but we’re also really confident that teachers and learners in schools and universities are going to draw on this material. There’s another category we didn’t think of before we started, and that’s the world of natural history and...
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Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...course ‘Changing Britain, Changing world: geographical perspectives’. The course was studied by Open University students between 1985 and 1995. The collection of articles uses the course materials to give an overview of issues past and present in the West of Ireland and provide a snapshot of changes to aspects of economy and society in two Irish case study areas first...
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What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...course of the eighteenth century, these were gathered together and published as Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, thirty-four volumes of which appeared between 1702 and 1776. The Jesuit accounts of far-flung lands were widely read during the Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie....
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Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...course part of the EU. But such a border (besides being a dramatic restraint on normal commerce) risks a return to the half century of violence endemic to the region, violence only recently curtailed by the Good Friday agreement signed in 1998. The troubles have deep roots, going back to English colonisation of Ireland and associated religious conflicts in the 17th...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...course taster is taken from the Open University’s ‘Child Development’ course (ED209). It is an extract from one of the four course text books (Oates, J., and Stevenson, J. (2005) ‘Temperament and development’, in Oates, J., Wood, C. and Grayson, A. (eds) Psychological Development and Early Childhood, Oxford, Blackwell.) © Open University 2005...Find out more...
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World-Changing Women: Nur Jahan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Nur Jahan

...courses and qualifications Nur Jahan India 1577 - 1645 Imperial Rule [Nur Jahan image] Portrait of Nur Jahan In seventeenth-century northern India, upper-class women’s movements were very much restricted by the rules of purdah, that is, the seclusion of women from public view behind high-walled screens and curtains within the home. It is all the more remarkable then,...
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Applying Psychology to Work Activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying Psychology to Work Activity

...Courses that may interest you below. Welcome to the Whole Applying Psychology to Work Hub! Within this activity is only a taster of the large range of materials available with the whole hub, so please do feel free to explore further: Connecting through LinkedIn We would love to continue these conversations with you, by inviting you to connect with us through our Applying...
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