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Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...Le deuxième sexe II: 13/267) is for her, a philosophical platitude. But Beauvoir also rejects the anti-essentialist view: Being a woman is, at least in our world, not a casual fact, irrelevant to a person’s core identity - any more than is being Jewish or black or old. Nor is being a woman simply a matter of one’s own choice: precisely how you are a woman may be up...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...T. (2015) ‘Early Child Care and obesity at 12 months of age in the Danish National Birth Cohort’, International Journal of Obesity, 39(1), pp. 33–8. Bento, G. and Dias, G. (2017) ‘The importance of outdoor play for young children’s healthy development’, Porto Biomedical Journal, 2(5), pp. 157–60. Bijnens, E.M., Derom, C., Thiery, E., Weyers, S. and Nawrot,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...T) Figure 13 also suggests that the total contribution of renewables to gross final consumption could be between 28% and 46%, and this, together with other similar analyses, suggests that the prospects for renewable energy in the coming decades look bright! You will examine in more detail the future prospects for renewables in the UK, the EU and the world as a whole later...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...Le Floch, M., Bereiter, B., Blunier, T., Barnola, J.-M., Siegenthaler, U., Raynaud, D., Jouzel, J., Fischer, H., Kawamura, K. and Stocker, T.F. (2008) ‘High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000-800,000 years before present’, Nature, vol. 453, pp. 379–82. Macdonald, R.W., Harner, T. and Fyfe, J. (2005) ‘Recent climate change in the Arctic and its...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...T/C to father. Abbreviations/acronyms When Mary is low in mood she lacks motivation to complete daily tasks. Full sentence Having looked at these examples, do you think that some aspects of style are more appropriate for some texts and not others? Are there aspects of style that you personally feel strongly about and if so what are these?...Effective writing in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...T., Richter, T., Green, M. C. (2015) ‘The transportation scale- short form (TS-SF)’, Media Psychology, 18(2), pp. 243–266. Bal, M. P., Veltkamp, M. (2013) ‘How does fiction reading influence empathy? An experimental investigation on the role of emotional transportation’, PLoSONE 8(1) e55341. Bartlett, F. C. (1932) Remembering: A study in experimental and social...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...T., Elden, Å., Paulsen, H. G., Banerjee, A. and Lipton, R. (2007) ‘Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic’ Vision Research, 47(12), pp. 1595–1607. Manatū Hauora Ministry of Health (2017) Māori health models – te whare tapa whā. Available at:
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...T) with the property that each point of X has a neighbourhood that is homeomorphic either to an open disc in the plane or to an open half-disc in the upper half-plane, i.e. given any point x X, there is an open set U containing x such that U is homeomorphic either to an open disc in 2 or to an open half-disc in the upper half-plane with the subspace topology inherited...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs