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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...attention needs to be given to how wildfires are prepared for and responded to. Understanding wildfires as entanglements of environmental and social processes helps to highlight how effective planning for the environmental challenges posed by wildfires requires engagement with nature, communities, local knowledge, scientific understanding, and political systems....
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...attention as the overall design because this can lead to other benefits. In some cases the smallest components may have a significant effect. Take Trunki, for example, an internationally successful product that failed to get funding on the BBC television programme Dragons’ Den due to the strap clip breaking during demonstration. Despite this failure, its designer...
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...attention of the world's media. However, far from being a childish behaviour … stone throwing amongst children in Palestine has been elevated to a military art with specific roles assigned to children of different ages. Those aged 7–10 years are given the job of rolling tyres into the middle of the road. These tyres are then set alight in order to disrupt traffic and...
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...attention to gender and gender difference. So it looks at the way in which social arrangements operate differently for men and women, treat men and women differently, and very often subordinate women to men. PAUL TROOP Can a male judge be a feminist? ROSEMARY HUNTER Absolutely, yes. So being a feminist means having a commitment to or having an interest in or concern about...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...attentive to her words – at least, three of them are. Peter has his back to his mother and is clearly not listening. His coat is a different colour from that of the others – another clue that he is different, in attitude as well as gender. He seems impatient to leave (and his eye direction leads us to turn the page ourselves). Potter is, therefore, providing visual...
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...attention away from this very successful scrutiny of heterosexual men's misdeeds. Suddenly there was what the historians call a moral panic around sodomites and sodomy and this coinage of this, you know, the tenor of aversion in homophobia that we inherit today and then you see for the next thirty years sentences that growing and growing in extremity, consensual male...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...attention from the vehicle; and he is like some saint whose history is to be rendered into all languages, into verse and prose, into songs and pictures, and cut up into proverbs; so that the occasions which gave the saint's meaning the form of a conversation, or of a prayer, or of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application. So it fares...
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...attention to how those sources are written, that’ll give you clues as to what makes a good source. But how to find them on your own? Well again, when just starting out, it’s best to be conservative, to err on the side of caution, so there are a few things you can look to. First is publisher. Academic presses (like Oxford University Press) specialise in publishing...