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Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...World Cup) because of its massive media coverage and the celebrity status of many of its top players. Football is all about belonging; belonging to those who support one team and making it quite clear that that is where you belong and not in the camp of an opposing team. You might show you belong by wearing a scarf or the team strip to matches (or in other situations if...
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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...world smartphone use. PloS one, 10(10), e0139004. Appel, H., Gerlach, A. L., & Crusius, J. (2016). The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression. Current Opinion in Psychology, 9, 44-49. Chang, A. M., Aeschbach, D., Duffy, J. F., & Czeisler, C. A. (2015). Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and...
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Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...world, with key provision they are free to access for all. Even park designs have evolved, from open spaces imitating countryside, to including features such as miniature woodlands, floral beds or ornamental lakes. Many of Milton Keynes’s parks have designed landscapes, such as Campbell Park in the city centre, which has recently been awarded Grade II Listed status by...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...world of crime fiction publishing, with a move from hardback lending libraries to the mass production and sale of cheap paperback editions. [A black and white image of Georges Simenon.]In the immediate post-war period and the early 1950s, crime fiction tended to be dominated by many of the same authors who had been popular in the 1930s. For example, Georges Simenon...
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Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...world on the survey ship, HMS Beagle. Recently down from Cambridge, his training there for the clergy had assured him that species were fixed in character, having been divinely created with perfect fit to their myriad places in nature. 'Transformist' speculation from across the Channel was right out for our Anglican establishment, keen to preserve the social and economic...
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Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...world around them, yet had a strong moral code and were able to resist the charms of the genre’s typical femme fatale (Nyman, 1997). Gallagher’s love for the genre started as a child through trips to the cinema with his brother Dónal, where The Maltese Falcon (a screen adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel about Detective Sam Spade’s search for a...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...world. It implies that the excluded writers can be ignored. So stark is the potential for unfair exclusion that it might reasonably amount to academic misconduct. It is worth noting here that citation sits alongside co-authorship in equitable approaches to undertaking research. An expansive concept of authorship includes more than the person who has penned words on a page...
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In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...world. On our first morning the sun, when it climbed to the upper heavens, found a little hole in the dun pall, and shone down through it, and tried to pierce through the more immediate cloud above the works; but it could not, and it ended by shutting the hole under it, and disappearing. Beyond the foul avenues thridding the region of the works, and smelling of the decay...
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