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Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk
History & The Arts

Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk

...writing for Manchester University Press, The Art of The Faerie Queene, and which builds on book, co-authored with J. B. Lethbridge, 2013's A Concordance to the Rhymes of The Faerie Queene. Professor Danson Brown said: “I will look at the self-conscious manipulation of devices like simile in Elizabethan poetry in terms of the demands they make on us as readers. I will...
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Reading Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Mill
History & The Arts

Reading Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Mill

...writings, and the way in which they highlight aspects of fundamental historical materialism, formal equality and the relationship between the state and the individual. Derek Matravers and Gerry Cohen on The German Ideology The German Ideology, Marx and Engels’ 1845 book, is dissected and discussed. The discussion highlights the importance of the book in terms of Marx...
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Audio 5 hrs 18 mins
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Text Week 2, Section 8 – El Teatro Municipal de...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...write down a lot of, kind of, how I need to be prepared, what we’ve been working on, what are the strengths, what are the weaknesses, what are our threats, you know, from the opposition, from how we could go wrong and then have a very clear plan of, you know, what we’re going to achieve when we get to the race or when we get to the Olympics. And I think writing it...
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Video 10 mins
Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: © NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...Write them down in a list, and then consider the following questions for each of your examples. What was the impact, or is the likely impact, of the change in the external context on your organisation? Were you, or will you be, able to mediate the change? Did the culture, or might the culture, of the country or the locality mediate the change? Has the outcome, or likely...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...creativity can even be automated. Computers already write good music for instance. What will be left are those areas of work that need the human touch. We will quickly move through the information economy into the care economy, exploring what it is we want from each other when we can automate most of the physical and mental bits of our work. […] Equipment for the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...write down everything you did in a recent activity. This could be something you completed at work, while volunteering or spending time with your family, or in your community or other position. For each task, note down roughly how much time you spent on this (either actual time in hours or as a percentage of the day). You will return to this list in Activity 2. Here is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs