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An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...division between elected politicians making decisions and public servants carrying them out. Firstly, there is an ethical question: is it always right to carry out orders, even when they are morally problematic? The book Unmasking Administrative Evil (2014), by Guy Adams and Danny Balfour, showed how societal horrors like the Holocaust were efficiently implemented through...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...division into verses. The relationship between rhyming and rhythm is subtle: the first four lines rhyme AB-AB, but Goethe undermines any sense of regularity by varying the lengths of the lines and by running the sense over from line 4 to line 5. I think you'll agree that Schubert's setting of ‘Wandrers Nachtlied’ does not sound in the least like a folk-song. It is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...divisions between Muslim and non-Muslim communities reinforcing mistrust and potentially amplifying Islamophobia. You could have linked the possibility of increased Islamophobia to inequality by suggesting that discrimination might reduce opportunities, such as employment opportunities, for Muslims. The discussion of the work of Pantazis and Pemberton may have made you...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...division into two categories is really a matter of convenience, since these two categories merge into each other and there is continuum of variation in the distance travelled. Would you classify white storks (Figure 9) as long- or short-distance migrants? White storks are long-distance migrants, as they fly mainly from Europe to Africa and hence cross continents....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...divisions, such as gender and age, have an impact? [Described image] Translation: [Described image] Some people find this alternative approach to note taking useful as diagrammatic representations can be more memorable – particularly useful then for revising themes and issues in preparation for exams. It is also easy to add on additional questions, ideas and examples at...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...division between human and non-human animals. Humans – or homo sapiens – are seen as being fundamentally different even from pan paniscus (the bonobo chimpanzee (Figure 9) – genetically our closest relative in the animal world). Figure 9 It is this widespread belief that humans occupy a special place in nature that underpins the whole notion that it might be...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...division of Random House, Inc; ‘The Sky is Blue’ by David Ignatow, 1976, The New Naked Poetry, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc; ‘The literal and the metaphor’ by Eva Salzman, Double Crossing: New and Selected Poems, 2004, Bloodaxe Books. With the permission of Bloodaxe Books; ‘Fan-piece, for her Imperial Lord’ by Ezra Pound, Personae, © by Ezra Pound....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs