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An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...Composite of photographs, taken over a lunar month, shows the changing shape, or phase, of the Moon] Figure 4 This composite of photographs, taken over a lunar month, shows the changing shape, or phase, of the Moon, growing from a thin crescent to full moon and back again Figure 5 explains how the phases of the Moon change as the Moon orbits around the Earth each month,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Англійська у світі сьогодні
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Англійська у світі сьогодні

...Unbiddibil ay, fir aa du roars. Hit winna byd, hit nivir faetchis. an du winds up kaain aa. An luv, wiel hit’s a haaf-wyld kat Du mebbie maets, bakk an foar. Hit’ll tak dy kloo an ryv dy sokk, Till du shæsts da bæst awa. Naen firby a tøtak’r sænt Wid aks da pær ta ly tagiddir. [Work is such a mischievous dog which never does as it’s told no matter how...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...Du Gay, Hall, Janes, Madsen, Mackay and Negus (1997) identify five major cultural practices, which are interrelated by the articulations between them (see Figure 3). This is represented diagrammatically as five nodes (in no particular order) connected by arrows. [Described image] Figure 3 Circuit of culture Articulations reflect how culture is produced and exchanged...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Advanced German: Regional landscapes
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Advanced German: Regional landscapes

...du. Teehausdamen Es leben hier so viele alte Menschen, alle jungen müssen diese Stadt verlassen, weil sie hier keine Arbeit finden. Und eine Stadt mit nur alten Menschen mag zwar für Touristen im Moment im Sommer reizvoll sein, aber um die, die hier leben und arbeiten, so wie wir hier im Teepalast, ist es wichtig, auch kaufkräftige junge Menschen hier zu haben....
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...composition of the milk changes during the newborn’s development. Thinking of the marsupial method of reproduction as ‘primitive’ or inferior to that of placental mammals is misleading. What we see is a successful reproductive strategy (or rather a range of strategies, because the details vary between different marsupial species) that is very different from our own....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...composition). The eponymous victim is a ‘new money’ industrialist but also a well-established community figure who is found murdered in a locked room. There is a closed circle of relations and associates with potential motives for the killing. Hercule Poirot, the series detective familiar to the reader, is necessarily on hand to assist the police and in the absence of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...composition; you might need to do some background research to find out more about authors with whom you’re unfamiliar, but don’t spend more than half an hour on this), and note where the sources corroborate or contradict each other. Discussion Let’s take each of these sources in turn and try to determine whether they tell us anything reliable about the fate of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...composition has changed in the past 800,000 years. Taken altogether it's very clear that climate is changing in many aspects over the last 50 years in an unprecedented manner, over decades to millennia. So it's the measurements that actually speak a very clear language. RH: Another thing that makes people sceptical is the pause. Climate scientists predicted very...
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