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International Management
Money & Business

International Management

...world about managing globally. This material forms part of the Open University course B848 Leadership and management in intercultural contexts... Introduction to International Management In this series we are going to take a look at three different perspectives on managing across cultures. In each we will hear from experienced international managers and from academics...
Winning Resources and Support
Money & Business

Winning Resources and Support

...world. As the bridge between the giver and the receiver how do these organizations get started and continue successfully? This album contains interviews with five professionals involved with fund raising organisations. They draw on their expertise and different experiences to raise and explore key fund raising issues - how to increase the amount of funds received; how to...
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...world, the pandemic overturned our ways of working. For many workers the pandemic caused losses of work, increased unemployment, informality, reduced incomes, business closures. Around the world all but essential workers stayed at home. But what exactly is “essential work”? Employers and authorities were slow to ensure adequately safe working conditions for many of...
Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...world that appears increasingly hostile to expertise, Janet Newman suggests ways forward – and some new alliances...[A man shouts into a traffic cone as part of a protest against Brexit] In the immediate aftermath of the UK referendum I felt that the result had undermined my last 20 years of research and teaching. What had been the point, I wondered, of trying to offer...
Heaven: What might it be like?
History & The Arts

Heaven: What might it be like?

...world effects of these beliefs. What does a particular vision of a more perfect world inspire people to do and create? Infamously, promises of paradise have motivated Islamic fighters to desire martyrdom. For example, potential recruits into Lashkar-e Taiba, a Pakistani group trying to ‘liberate’ their fellow Muslims in Kashmir from violence and discrimination, are...
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...world with my great-coat and boots, and put on contentment and idleness with my slippers. On the hearth-rug, Pepper, coiled in a shaggy ball, is asleep in the ruddy light and heat. An imaginative sense of the cold outside increases my present comfort--just as one never hugs one's own good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortune...
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...world started at a young age. He found his first fossil on a beach when he was 8 years old, and from that moment he was hooked. At University Paul studied palaeontology, before working as a researcher at the Natural History Museum in London. In 2003 he began work as a researcher at the BBC Natural History Unit. Since then he has filmed in more than 30 countries. He has...
Lazarus: David Bowie's bio-obituary
History & The Arts

Lazarus: David Bowie's bio-obituary

...world of his 'scars that can't be seen', his 'drama that can't be stolen' and that he has ‘nothing left to lose’. Transcript Always re-creating himself throughout his long career in pop music, Bowie was the master of reincarnations. And it is as if 'Lazarus', who paradoxically was raised from the dead by Jesus, was Bowie's ultimate rebirth as he pronounces 'Oh I'll be...