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Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...law firm, for example? There is therefore a danger with transformational leadership that it transfers too much deference and power into the hands of single leaders and you will consider these issues in the next section...Week 3: Transformational leadership and power: 2 Sacred leadership? - The core problem with leader-centred perspectives on leadership is that they feed...
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...law code from Crete and two boundary stones from Athens. Accompanying images will introduce you to Greek as it was actually written in the ancient world, which can differ in interesting respects from the standardised Greek familiar today. We hope you enjoy the course...Introduction: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: read the letters of...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...laws and conventions have been drawn up to try and protect heritage from this sort of destruction. In the next pages you will learn about one of the main treaties with this aim...Week 2: Cultural heritage in war: 3 The Hague Convention (1954) - Cultural heritage often plays an important role in armed conflicts. Heritage buildings can be used as fortresses or observation...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Oedraniaeth a gwahaniaethu ar sail oedran
Society, Politics & Law

Oedraniaeth a gwahaniaethu ar sail oedran

...law: discrimination explained', Comisiwn Cydraddoldeb a Hawliau Dynol (Gweler y trawsgrifiad [PDF 30 KB]) Rhaid i gyrff cyhoeddus roi ‘sylw dyledus’ i’r angen i gyflawni tri phrif nod, fel y gwelir yn Ffigur 9. [Graffigyn gyda’r teitl ‘Dyletswydd Cydraddoldeb y Sector Cyhoeddus’. Mae’r testun o dan y teitl yn dweud ‘Pwrpas tri nod y ddyletswydd gyffredinol...
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...law maxim de minimis non curat lex: ‘the law does not concern itself with trifles’. A one-in-a-million level of increased risk over a lifetime is often used as a reasonable criterion for separating high-risk problems (which warrant attention) from negligible-risk problems (which do not). Of course, you can try to quantify such risks, but still your perception of...
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...law, and utters a speech to the effect that, owing to old age, he wishes to retire from the cares of business and divide his kingdom between his daughters. In order to know how much he should give to each daughter, he announces that to the one who says she loves him most he will give most. The eldest daughter, Goneril, says that words can not express the extent of her...
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...law wouldn't punish her, would they? So I did. [SIGHS] Well, there you are. I’ve done your work for you. Sorry, Carol. How successful are the screen writers in adapting a supposedly un-adaptable novel for the small screen, based on this scene and their handling of the killer’s revelation? What decisions might they have made differently, in terms of structure, form and...
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...laws of the numbers themselves’. (O. Neugebauer and A. Sachs, Mathematical Cuneiform Texts (American Oriental Society, 1945) pp. 37, 41.) So, on this interpretation, it has little to do with geometry as such, except incidentally, but more to do with properties of numbers. For what struck them especially, when trying to work out how the table had been constructed, was...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs