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What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...table and produce a box of little screw-drivers and punches, and while I sat on his knee he would unscrew the lid and take out the wheels to see what was the matter. He must have been a clever mechanist, for the result was always the same-after a longer or shorter period the music began again. Sometimes when the musical-boxes had played all their tunes he used to put them...
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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...table online and also provides menus online, often along with special offers and discounts. This makes it easier for me to decide if I want to eat there and might just persuade me to book a table. It is also trying to innovate in terms of sourcing local ingredients and supporting local suppliers. The hallmark of these innovations is that it is trying to redefine what it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...de Vincennes near Paris (BBC, 2020). The demonstration involved taking several rifles apart, putting the components into different boxes, then mixing up the components within the boxes, before reassembling the flintlocks by picking out random parts from each box. This could be done in minutes with little skill required. The demonstration was astonishing to the audience...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...Table 1 Language notebook Key phrases Pronunciation Culture Language Words: 0 What would you write into each box, if anything? Would you add more boxes? Comment Here’s a suggestion for how you could fill in your boxes: Table 2 Example of a completed language notebook for Week 1 Key phrases Hello/goodbye: Salut (can be hello or goodbye) Bonne journée = have a good day A...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...de Bernières as they talk about their own experience of writing. And you’ll have the chance to share comments and ideas with your fellow writers while sampling how established authors such as Toni Morrison and Graham Greene have written and presented their characters. By the end of the course you’ll have learned tricks such as using a journal to generate ideas, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...Table 1. Table 1 Parenting styles based on Baumrind’s four dimensions of parenting PARENTING STYLE PARENTING BEHAVIOUR POTENTIAL IMPACT ON CHILD PHRASES A PARENT MIGHT USE AUTHORITARIAN Strict discipline Child expected to follow rules No opportunity for child to negotiate Discontented Withdrawn Mistrustful Rebellious (as they get older) ‘No you can’t …’...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...global terms, this places Northern Ireland in the top quarter of the international league table of suicide rates. Tomlinson identified adults who as children had lived through the worst period of Troubles-related violence (from 1970 to 1977) as the age group that experienced the most rapid rise in suicides in the decade after 1998. It seems obvious that this group, the middle-aged who’d seen the worst of the Troubles, would ......
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...table, where there’s not a great deal of overlap. And one of the issues of radio and television in terms of broadcast collaboration or companion broadcasting in natural history is that what could look absolutely spectacular on television can be as dull as ditch water on radio, unless you’ve got people who can really describe things well. But if they’re describing...
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