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Retail management and marketing
Money & Business

Retail management and marketing

...work Using frozen peas as an example, this video takes us through the complete supply chain process. Retail buying in the fashion industry A look at how UK fashion companies trade overseas. Independent retailers Several independent retailers explain why they are a preferred alternative to the high street. The Internet debate Experts discuss the internet tools available to...
Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions
History & The Arts

Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions

...work during the turbulent times of the 1960s; his songs like Blowin’ in the Wind and The Times They are A-Changin’ were widely popular during the anti-Vietnam War and civil rights movements in the United States. Bob Dylan is also immensely popular in some South Asian countries. In fact, in 2009 Indian author Nilanjana S Roy proposed on the Serkadis blog that Bob Dylan...
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...Working Group I "The Physical Science Basis" of the IPCC, the United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. Thomas Stocker has co-authored more than 200 publications; he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Versailles and has received several awards for his work. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Foreign Member of the...
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...works were composed...The free course, Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin, gives a taste of what it is like to learn two ancient languages. It is for those who have encountered the classical world through translations of Greek and Latin texts and wish to know more about the languages in which these works were composed....Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin: Introduction...
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...worked within a context of scientific knowledge, available skills and tools, and set rules that govern their behaviour. The purpose of this course is to introduce you to some of the basics of engineering and to explore how engineering is done. Of course, you will first need to understand what engineering is. You probably have your own ideas regarding what is meant by the...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...work? If you live near a town rather than in it, you may need to use ar bwys: Dw i'n byw ar bwys Llanbed. I live near Lampeter. Ymarfer 17 Now learn the phrases in Ymarfer 16 and test yourself using the audio clip. Try to ask the questions without looking at the text. B. Gofynnwch y cwestiynau hyn. Ask these questions: B. Ask, “Where do you live?” A. Ble dych chi’n...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...work in which to start to consider the largest-scale stage of voice-leading analysis. This course requires you to switch between several different formats of material. This reflects the particular nature of analysis, where you are constantly comparing what you write out, or see in the score or analytical graph, with what you can hear – a difficult job! So make every...
Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...worked, knobbly protuberances, signs for clouds (the first classification of clouds was made sixteen years later by Luke Howard). The concentric circles formed by these rings of clouds, together with the blue ring at the edge, are meant to suggest depth. “The Breadth of the blue Margin defines the apparent Height of the Spectator in the Balloon (viz. 4 Miles) above the...