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Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...mode of living and nourishment enjoyed at the present time by men in health would have been discovered, had a man been satisfied with the same food and drink as satisfy an ox, a horse, and every animal save man, for example the products of the earth—fruits, wood and grass. (Hippocrates, Ancient Medicine, 3) However, in addition to humans eating cooked food, further...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...de-narrativise the picture, extending the youth away from himself, connecting him, as the other fanlike structures do, to a realm of being he can't contain, where there are no borders or figures, no beginning or end. This, then, is the youth's secret, one not of interiority but rather of infinite extensibility, a secret of unrepresented and unrepresentable, ontological...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...De La Rue and Neil Henfrey of Boots, now a brand for the international pharmacist Alliance Boots a banking risk management specialist – Hor Chan Head of the Department for Accounting and Finance at the Open University Business School – Martin Upton. It examines the financial risks that organisations are exposed to and how they are addressed by management. The audio...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...de floorboard’. There's a sense of amazement at ‘de people pouring from de underground system’, but the comment ‘Like beans’, given the emphasis of a line to itself, suggests that this is something that won't faze her. She continues to take things in her stride, changing her ‘calypso ways’ to learn English customs, such as not visiting ‘Before giving them...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...des Westens) in Berlin (the largest is Harrods in London). Read the information about the KaDeWe given in German below. Then complete the activity that follows. [Described image] Figure 1 KaDeWe in Berlin Es ist das bekannteste Kaufhaus Deutschlands und mit 60.000 Quadratmetern Verkaufsfläche das größte Warenhaus auf dem europäischen Festland: das Kaufhaus des...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol

...de gyda'n cydweithwyr? Ble mae ein dallbwynt newydd? Ac mae yna bethau y mae angen i ni eu dad-ddysgu-- dad-ddysgu o'r cyfnod cyn y pandemig a hyd yn oed o'r cyfnod y mae COVID-19 wedi effeithio arno? Felly i mi, yr her yw nad ydw i am greu dallbwyntiau newydd drwy awgrymu'r elfennau ansicr y dylai pobl roi sylw iddynt, ond dweud ar gyfer pob un ohonom, y bydd pethau nad...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...de Hooch very clearly demonstrate a belief in cleanliness being next to godliness because you've seen there's a picture in one painting - a woman sweeping the floor while another's feeding the baby and the shadow of a cross is silhouetted on the wonderful clean floor. But tell me about this association which is going here between cleanliness and godliness. Adam Kuper:...
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Article 30 mins
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...respirator during the 1950s in Denmark, an invention that redefined the end of life in terms of the idea of brain death and created the specialty of intensive care, in which unresponsive and comatose patients who seemed unable to wake up again were written off as ‘vegetables’ or ‘jellyfish’. As is always the case when treating patients, definitions are critical:...
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Article 15 mins