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Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) National Centre for Scientific Research, France. participant RH: So this is Jean-Pierre Gattuso. Where are you from? JPG: Villefranche-sur-Mer. RH: Jean-Pierre, what sort of a state are the oceans in as result of our CO2 emissions? JPG: The CO2 emissions trigger two major changes, that is the warming of the water because the ocean is...
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The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...de facto commander-in-chief of the German army, had been long expecting the attack. In February, he had launched an assault on the French fortress of Verdun that was designed to ‘bleed white’ the French army and force the French government to peace talks. Falkenhayn believed that before the final French collapse the British would launch an offensive of their own,...
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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...de France ‘winner’) was also stripped of his titles due to doping. Drug technology has continued to evolve allowing cheats to stay one step ahead of the testing laboratories for now. As all technology has advanced it seems that human evolution has taken a turn towards devolution. With the current generation often reported as the first to have a shorter life expectancy...
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John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum. One of the effects of employing this fairly regular metre is that deviations from it tend to stand out. Look, for example, at the following passage: but if’t chance Some cursed example poison’t near the head, Death and diseases through the whole land spread. (1.1.13–15) Line 14 is metrically quite even, but line 15 is a bit...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...de Bunt: ‘… trust works as a lubricant in economic transactions by smoothing relations between actors and reducing transaction costs related to control’ (Bijlsma and van de Bunt, 2003, p. 639) The idea of ‘smoothing relations between actors’ deserves more attention here, as does the notion of ‘reducing transaction costs related to control’. Let’s take each...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...de la francophonie, 2018). Do any of them surprise you? Over 300 million people around the world speak French. France is the most-visited country in the world, with 75 million tourists every year. Toulouse and Montreal are among the world’s leading cities in aerospace technology. French film production is the second-largest in the world, producing 500 films per year. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...Maladies. London: Fourth Estate. Article from an academic journal Surname, Initial. (Year of publication) ‘Title of article’, Title of Journal, volume number (issue number), page reference. Doi: doi number if available OR Available at: URL (Accessed date) Ungar, S. (2008) ‘Global bird flu communication: hot crisis and media reassurance’, Science Communication,...
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Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...Parkinson, S. (1773) A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship, the Endeavour. Faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, draughtsman to Joseph Banks, Esq., London, Stanfield Parkinson. Cook’s expeditions were also encounters with local peoples. Cook’s map included some information gained from such encounters. It used,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs