Brazilian Portuguese year 1 semester B
This module is aimed at students in year 1 semester B (beginners Portuguese). The varied exercises cover a range of topics from a solar eclipse to the Portuguese language. The transcript reader of the listening exercises allows students to identify words/passages they find difficult to understand.
Back-bench rebels
Philip Cowley, Reader in the University’s School of Politics and International Relations, was recently nominated for the Times Higher young researcher of the year award. In this podcast, Philip discusses his research into back bench rebellions within the British parliament. Philip describes his research as practical politics, linking academic research to the real world of political debate.
Since the British Labour party’s re-election with a reduced majority of 66 MPs in May 2005, some back
Art and war
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught Autumn Semester 2010.
This module will focus on the treatment of war or the representation of war in art broadly conceived: war stories, war photography, war paintings, war films, war music, even war architecture - war memorials and war museums. It will seek to ask in what ways such works contribute to our understanding of war, and by extension our understanding of international relations. How effective
Building Effective States [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Paul Collier, Sushil Kumar Modi | Getting fragile states on a path of sustainable economic growth is currently a key policy imperative. This session will discuss ways of breaking out of a political equilibrium that creates state fragility and creating one that generates sustained economic growth. Paul Collier is director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University. Sushil Kumar Modi is deputy chief minister of Bihar, India. This event is part of the
Golven van de beschaving Deze presentatie is bedoeld als inleidende les voor geschiedenis, waarbij de leerlingen de volgende opdrachten krijgen:
Lecture 13a: Functional Analysis - Normed spaces and Banach spaces
The first part of the thirteenth class in Dr Joel Feinstein's Functional Analysis module completes the discussion of Normed spaces and Banach spaces.
Further module materials are available for download from The University of Nottingham open courseware site: http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/resource.aspx?hid=bd32d53b-3c12-ac19-176b-d9e112731951 and on iTunes U: http://itunesu.nottingham.ac.uk/albums/64.rss
Dr Feinstein's blog may be viewed at: http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com
Dr Joel Fe
Singapore: Modern Transportation
This five minute video is about Singapore and its changes to its transportation system over time. It has a lot of data that is presented quickly and might have use for students doing a compare and contrast paper on transportation
Séminaire de chirurgie oncologique: Cancer du Sein: Epidémiologie- Histoire naturelle
Séminaire de chirurgie oncologique: Cancer du Sein: Epidémiologie- Histoire naturelle
SEMINAIRE DE CHIRURGIE GYNECOLOGIQUE
Oncologie mammaire et pelvienne
DAKAR - du 6 juin au 10 juin 2011
Faculté de médecine de Pharmacie et d'Odontologie
Université Cheikh Anta Diop
Hôpital de Pikine
Sous l'Egide
Ministère français des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes
Fonds de Solidarité Prioritaire - Mortalité et Morbidité de la Mère et
Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan, the most successful military leader ever and the subject of this 2:30 long video. A fun video and easy for students to follow if they have a map to follow the large number of countries mentioned.
Séminaire de chirurgie oncologique: Cancer du Sein: Epidémiologie- Histoire naturelle
Séminaire de chirurgie oncologique: Cancer du Sein: Epidémiologie- Histoire naturelle
SEMINAIRE DE CHIRURGIE GYNECOLOGIQUE
Oncologie mammaire et pelvienne
DAKAR - du 6 juin au 10 juin 2011
Faculté de médecine de Pharmacie et d'Odontologie
Université Cheikh Anta Diop
Hôpital de Pikine
Sous l'Egide
Ministère français des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes
Fonds de Solidarité Prioritaire - Mortalité et Morbidité de la Mère et
Authors@Google: Kevin Mitnick
Kevin Mitnick visits Google's NYC office to discuss his book "Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker" with Eran Feigenbaum, Google's Director of Security for Google Apps. This event took place on August 17, 2011, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies--and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through p
Israel: Peace talks should precede statehood bid
Sept. 23 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Palestine should make peace with Israel before the United Nations considers its bid for statehood. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
North America: Showing the Changing Seasons
SeaWiFS false color data showing seasonal change in the oceans and on land for North America. The data is seasonally averaged, and shows fall, winter, spring, summer, fall, winter, and spring.
Talking Spell Check
Authors@Google: Russell Banks
Author Russell Banks visits Google Cambridge to discuss his new novel Lost Memory of Skin. From the description:
"Lost Memory of Skin is a provocative novel of spiritual and moral redemption from Russell Banks, the author of Affliction, Rule of the Bone, Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, and other acclaimed masterworks of contemporary American fiction. Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live
The week ahead: September 22nd 2011
The Palestinian bid for statehood advances, IMF and World Bank leaders meet and the party conference season continues in Britain
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry--The Pick of the Week from 60 second Recap®
In this Pick of the Week video, students will be introduced to "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. Summary--Jonas is safe. Very safe. That's what living in the Community is about. There is no pain or fear or unpleasantness. Everything is organized. Everyone gets along. But when Jonas is chosen to be his community's Receiver of Memory, he begins to discover some not-so-pleasant things about the not-so-safe world he's living in. For the first time, Jonas is forced to make impossible choices. And his decisi
Bill George, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School - IMPACT
"Bill George is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004. He is the author of three best-selling books True North, Finding Your True North, and Authentic Leadership.
Mr. George is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as President and Chief Operating Officer, was Chief Executive Officer from 1991-2001, and Chairman of the Board from 1996 to 2002. Under his leadership, Medtronic'
