LSE Literary Weekend - The Arts of Illness
Consciousness of our own mortality is at the heart of the human experience, and has long fascinated writers and artists, inspiring quite an obsession with the body and its well-being. This panel will examine the relationship between creativity, illness and the imagination.
LSE Literary Weekend - Sociology as Literature
Editors note: We apologise for the poor audio quality of this podcast. Richard Sennett's award winning Sociology of Literature explores the role of narrative in social research and in writing sociology.
Road to the train station
Marjorie Sprague walks along the dirt road in front of the Du Vall building (on the northeast corner of First Street and Harvard Avenue) on the way to the Claremont train station.
Automotive Drum Brakes
Do you know when the first car was built? Do you know who built the first automobile? Would you guess, Henry Ford? Try again. Do you know by what means they used to stop that car? We know the brakes on the vehicles we drive today are quite different from those back in the 1800s. While knowing the history of the automobile is interesting, knowing how they work is also interesting. The automotive brake or to be more specific, the drum brake is what this instruction is designed to review. In this i
Examination Strategy for Literature Exams
Examination Strategy for Literature Exams
Victorian Literature & Crime
Victorian Literature & Crime
Eliminativism: An approach to Mental States
Eliminativism: An approach to Mental States
Lecture 18 - 11/30/2010
Lecture 18
Collaborative Online Assignments for Final Year Module on Literature
Collaborative Online Assignments for Final Year Module on Literature
Engaging with Students: Spanish and Portuguese Literature Activities created by Antonio Martínez-Ar
Engaging with Students: Spanish and Portuguese Literature Activities created by Antonio Martínez-Arboleda
European Heart Journal - My Cardio Interview: Christopher Cannon & Ulf Landmesser on DEFINE
Christopher Cannon in conversation with Ulf Landmesser
DEFINE: Determining the EFficacy and Tolerability of CETP INhibition With AnacEtrapid
Lecture 28 - 6/3/2009
Lecture 28
Lecture 19 - 5/11/2009
Lecture 19
Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe: Seminar 4: Ghosts and Literature
Ghosts, Witches and Portents in Early Modern Europe: Seminar 4: Ghosts and Literature
Suggestions for Approaching a Literature Exam
Suggestions for Approaching a Literature Exam
Professorial Lecture: Professor Penny Eley - Emotional Archaeology: On the uses of Medieval French L
Professorial Lecture: Professor Penny Eley - Emotional Archaeology: On the uses of Medieval French Literature
Attendance and students' school experiences
This report was commissioned by the National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) in Ireland. It is an exploratory study which draws together literature and findings related to characteristics of school attendance by pupils in Irish primary and post-primary schools. It uses a number of data sources, particularly re-working data collected by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and the NEWB. In particular, it highlights issues relating to poor attendance, discussing definitions of terms
Painting in the Dutch Golden Age: A Profile of the Seventeenth Century
Painting in the Dutch Golden Age: A Profile of the Seventeenth Century examines the culture and art of one of the world's greatest periods of creativity. The sheer volume—and outstanding quality—of the paintings produced can scarcely be paralleled. A 164-page book provides background information about the newly independent Dutch Republic and the nexus of its art and civics. Chapters look at landscape, still life, portraiture, and genre and history painting. Also included are artist biographi
TALAT Lecture 1253: Creep
This lecture constitutes an introduction to creep and to the creep response of aluminium and its alloys. It provides basic information on creep and its mechanisms; it gives a description of the more extensively used mathematical relations among creep variables (time, stress and temperature); it illustrates the creep response of pure Aluminium and of Al-Mg alloys; it provides a synthesis of the information available in the literature on the creep behaviour of a number of new alloys and composites
