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Robert Owen and New Lanark
Robert Owen and New Lanark - for iBooks - August 01, 2011 02:29 - application/epub+zip ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChildcare, education, working conditions, healthcare, crime … these issues are hotly debated in today's society. They are also issues that Robert Owen, seen by some as a visionary and by others as a knave and a charlatan, sought to address in the early 1800s. This unit uses a series of essays wri...
Form and uses of language
Form and uses of language - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 01:11 - application/epub+zipIn this unit we will consider how language can be used in different ways for different purposes. To do this we will use the theme of memorial and commemoration. In the first section we briefly discuss the life of the poet Siegfried Sassoon before examining both his poetry and prose. Through this ...
Getting started on Classical Greek
Getting started on Classical Greek - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:54 - application/epub+zip ★★★ - 17 ratingsThe aim of this unit is to enable you to get started in Classical Greek. It has been developed in response to requests from students who had had no contact with Greek before and who felt they would like to spend a little time preparing for the kind of learning that takes place on a classical lang...
Getting started on Classical Latin
Getting started on Classical Latin - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:53 - application/epub+zip ★★★ - 85 ratingsLatin is the basis for many languages in the world. This unit will provide you with a general introduction to learning Latin allowing you to assess whether you would like to learn more. You will look at the links that exist between Latin and English, examine the structure of sentences and gain an...
Studying the Arts and Humanities
Studying the Arts and Humanities - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:11 - application/epub+zip ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis unit is an introduction to studying the arts and humanities. It takes you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance and improve your confidence as an independent learner. This study unit is just one of many that can be found on Learni...
What is poetry?
What is poetry? - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:09 - application/epub+zip ★★★★ - 2 ratingsHave you always wanted to try to write poetry but never quite managed to start? This unit is designed to illustrate the techniques behind both the traditional forms of poetry and free verse. You will learn how you can use your own experiences to develop ideas and how to harness your imagination. ...
French Revolution
French Revolution - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:06 - application/epub+zip ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis unit provides basic historical background to the French Revolution. It will show that the Revolution accelerated intellectual, cultural and psychological change, and opened up new horizons and possibilities. In fact, while much controversy and scepticism remain as to the real extent of under...
Delacroix
Delacroix - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:05 - application/epub+zipIn this unit you will be introduced to a variety of Delacroix’s work and see how his paintings relate to the cultural transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism. You will study Delacroix’s early career, his classical background, the development of Romantic ideas and their incorporation into his...
Wilberforce
Wilberforce - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:04 - application/epub+zipWilliam Wilberforce, the politician and religious writer, was instrumental in the abolition of slavery in Britain in 1807. This unit explores Wilberforce’s career and writings and assesses their historical significance. In particular it examines the contribution that Evangelicalism, the religious...
Approaching plays
Approaching plays - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:03 - application/epub+zip ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDo you want to get more out of drama? This unit is designed to develop the analytical skills you need for a more in-depth study of literary plays. You will learn about dialogue, stage directions, blank verse, dramatic structure and conventions and aspects of performance. This study unit is just o...
Medicine transformed: on access to health care
Medicine transformed: on access to health care - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:00 - application/epub+zipAccess to healthcare is important to all of us. Did the arrival of state medicine in the twentieth century mean that everyone had access to good medical services? If you fell sick in 1930 where could you get treatment – from a GP, a hospital, a nurse? This unit shows that in the early twentieth c...
Introducing the classical world
Introducing the classical world - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:59 - application/epub+zipHow do we learn about the world of the ancient Romans and Greeks? This unit will provide you with an insight into the Classical world by introducing you to the various sources of information used by scholars to draw together an image of this fascinating period of history. This study unit is just ...
Philosophy: the nature of persons
Philosophy: the nature of persons - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:58 - application/epub+zip ★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat is a person? This unit examines this philosophical question concerning the nature of personhood. You will examine whether a ‘person’ is the same as a ‘human being’, and look at whether it is our free will that in the end defines us as a ‘person’. This study unit is just one of many that can ...
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:57 - application/epub+zip ★★★★ - 1 ratingThis unit examines the philosophical questions surrounding the mind. You will examine how beliefs have changed over the centuries and be able to contrast the views of Descartes with more modern ideas. This study unit is just one of many that can be found on LearningSpace, part of OpenLearn, a col...
Emotion: an introductory picture
Emotion: an introductory picture - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:56 - application/epub+zipWhat is emotion? This unit takes a philosophical approach to this question in an attempt to understand why people respond to events in a certain way. Is there a difference between an emotion and a bodily feeling or is one a consequence of the other? This study unit is just one of many that can be...
Language and thought: introducing representation
Language and thought: introducing representation - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:55 - application/epub+zipHow does what you say come to mean something? Does what you say inherently represent what you, the speaker, think it means, whatever that might be, or does what you say carry its own meaning, separate from your intentions in saying it? This unit introduces you to the key questions about how meani...
Imagination: the missing mystery of philosophy
Imagination: the missing mystery of philosophy - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:54 - application/epub+zip ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat is imagination and can philosophy define it in any meaningful way? This unit will introduce you to some of the possible answers to these questions and will examine why philosophy has sometimes found it difficult to approach imagination. It will then go on to examine the relationship that ima...
Introducing consciousness
Introducing consciousness - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:53 - application/epub+zipWhat is consciousness? How does the brain generate consciousness and how can a science of the mind describe and explain it adequately? This unit will introduce you to the slippery phenomenon that is consciousness, as well as some of the difficulties consciousness presents to science and philosoph...
Religion today: themes and issues
Religion today: themes and issues - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:52 - application/epub+zip ★ - 1 ratingThere is a widespread perception in the West that we live in a secular age, an age in which religion is at best an optional extra, if not a false delusion completely out of place. However, religion still arouses passion and causes controversy; it controls and transforms lives. An informed underst...
John Napier
John Napier - for iBooks - June 05, 2011 23:17 - application/epub+zipScotsman John Napier is best known to for his treatise on Protestant religion. However, it was his interest in a completely different subject that radically altered the course of mathematics. After forty years of dabbling in maths, he revealed his table of logarithms in the early 17th century. Th...
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