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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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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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PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...free OpenLearn course. Individual football clubs have to survive in a competitive market – competition for players, competition for TV income, competition against other leisure activities. Promotion to the Premier league is the biggest incentive of all: this can boost club income by up to £10m a year. Relegation to the First Division means an instant loss in revenue of...
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The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981
Society, Politics & Law

The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981

...courses Between February and August 1981, the mostly women workers at Greenock’s Lee Jeans factory defied management intentions to close the plant. At a time when female unemployment in Greenock was 50% higher than in Scotland as a whole, the women argued that their factory was feasible and that corporate greed was the reason for closure. They seized control of the...
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Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...course, the sector has a government regulator – the Water Services Regulation Authority (OFWAT) - but OFWAT only regulates Thames Water Utilities Limited, a small part of the whole corporate structure .... as you can see. Thames Water Utilities Limited is effectively ‘ring fenced’ for regulatory purposes: what goes on within the ring fence is of concern to OFWAT;...
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...free posters from the feminist science group Finding Ada. They show pupils what kinds of science careers exist: representing diverse people to encourage more women and more people from an ethnic minority background to consider a career in science. Critical Race Theory (CRT) In contrast to multiculturalism, CRT offers an explicitly political critique to support thinking...
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Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...courses. Folk music is music that is rarely written for profit, music that has endured, often passed down by oral tradition, investing a sense of identity in artist and listener alike. Folk music has imitation at its core. Its narratives and characters are usually already known to listeners, and they often refer to real-life people and events. The content is often based...
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Even the homeless can have a 'home'
Society, Politics & Law

Even the homeless can have a 'home'

...free it of its previous reputation for poverty, crime and post-industrial decline. Scorned, not supported Views of rough sleepers as anathema to prosperity and progress stem from the false belief that they must, by definition, perform all bodily functions – from urination and defecation to sleep and sex – in public spaces rather than a private home. Because of this,...
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