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English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...Work is such a mischievous dog which never does as it’s told no matter how loud you shout at it It won’t stay, it won’t fetch, and you end up herding the flock yourself. And love, well it’s a half wild cat you feed occasionally. It makes off with your ball of wool and tears your knitting in pieces so you chase the creature away. Nobody except an idiot or a saint...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...works, word-lists, and mathematical problems and tables. Nearly all of the texts that give us our fullest understanding of Babylonian mathematics—indeed, of any mathematics before the Greeks—date from about 1800—1600 BC. During this period, King Hammurabi unified Mesopotamia out of a rabble of small city-states into an empire whose capital was Babylon, which was on...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...work your way through Activity 7, which gives you a chance to practise your German pronunciation. Activity 7 Wer ist das?/ Who is that? Play Audio 5 and listen carefully to the pronunciation of the names. They are the same as those in Activity 4. Say out loud what you hear and include the number of the picture. You will hear the information of the first four pictures...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...work your way through this course, you will have the chance to participate in both reading and writing activities and experience for yourself what happens to you when you read....What happens to you when you read?: Introduction - Reading as a form of entertainment has a long history. Not only does a good book entertain us though, it can be an activity that brings us...
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...working out where the risks lay when making assumptions about them if they are ambiguously or poorly reported. The questions that statistics asks At its heart, statistics is concerned with asking the following questions: is this thing the same as another thing, given things vary? Or: is this thing or these things behaving in a particular way, given things vary? Or: how...
Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War

...worked at the University of Sussex for all his academic life – and why are you so interested in the topic? John Röhl: My interpretation lies in the foundation of the German Reich back in 1871 and in particular in the extraordinary success of imperial Germany – this huge country in the heart of Europe – from about 1895 onwards, waiting to take over from Britain as...
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...work, we need a few more details about his life...Form and uses of language: 1.2 The early years - He was born in 1886 into a wealthy family. After being educated at home until he was 13, he was sent to a prominent public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...succeeded in establishing their strongholds in different European territories, and subsequently expanding the sphere of their influence. As such, the Orthodox Church is closely associated with the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire. Spanning over 1100 years (330–1453), it is the longest surviving empire in European history. Three main factors...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs