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Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...research further...Introducing mammals: Conclusion - During this course you have learnt how mammals are defined by a number of attributes, including: the possession of fur; lactation in females; and the ability to liberate heat energy through metabolism, as a means of thermoregulation. More than any other animal group, the mammals have been influenced by another species...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...researched and how much would it cost? Comment You will have found that a great deal of information, from national organisations, local authorities and local groups. You probably realised that for Catherine, a quick online search is likely to be the beginning of a very long journey. Anyone seeking to help her would need considerable help and advice from a wide range of...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...research interests lay within the disciplines of politics and international relations...George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate and recognise the distinctive language and terminology of Nineteen Eighty-Four understand the historical and political context of Orwell’s writing understand how...
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...research student. He returned to Skye as a teacher, then moved on to the Isle of Mull, and then back to Edinburgh in 1939. In late 1940 he entered the Army. He was wounded three times in the North African campaign – the third experience at the Battle of El Alamein ended his war, since many of the bones in his feet were broken. After convalescence he returned to teaching...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...research on different areas of history such as those we’ve identified in the textbook: political, economic, cultural or religious history. Each area makes use of a particular range of source materials. Economic historians make use of numerical data, while cultural historians draw on a wide range of sources, from texts such as diaries or letters, to objects such as...
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...Research Center University of Alaska Fairbanks Video 10: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Video 11: NASA http://www.nasa.gov/ Video 12: NASA http://www.nasa.gov/ Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...Research, vol.23, no.2, pp.365–78. Anderson, J. (1995) ‘The exaggerated death of the nation state’ in Anderson, J., Brook, C. and Cochrane, A. (eds) A Global World? Re-ordering Political Space, Oxford, Oxford University Press/The Open University. Anderson, J. (1996) ‘The shifting stage of politics: new medieval and postmodern territorialities?’, Environment and...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...research interests are around arts and politics in Mexico in the period of the revolution of 1910 to 1920. And in particular, the murals of Diego Rivera. It was these murals that brought Rivera to the attention of North American patrons, who then paid for him to go north of the border to paint murals in their corporate headquarters. Yet today, I want to look at a painting...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs