State of play
With the party conference season over, Dr Steven Fielding weighs up the current climate in British politics and what lies in store.
Dr Fielding is the Director of the Centre for British Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University.
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With a threatened financial crisis looming large, is there really anything a politician can do to stem the tide?
CSSA Spring Festival Gala 2004
This film depicts a new-year celebration typical of Chinese people who study and work abroad.,This is a 1 hour 37 minutes film recording exacts of Chinese Spring Festival Gala held in Corn Exchange Theatre in Cambridge on 16th January 2004. The occasion organiser was CSSA and audience were about 1000 people coming from all over UK in that evening.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Starting with the Gold Rush, Chinese migrated to California and other regions of the United States in search of work. As several photographs show, many Chinese found work in the gold mines and on the railroads. They accepted $32.50 a month to work on the Union Pacific in Wyoming in 1870 for the same job that paid white workers $52 a month. This led to deep resentment by the whites, who felt the Chinese were competing unfairly for jobs. White labor unions blamed the Chinese for lower wages and la
Projet Jean Rouch ? J3.3 : Communication 1 (version anglaise)
LE PROJET JEAN ROUCH ? : VERS UNE CONNAISSANCE HORS TEXTE, CROISER LES REGARDS, PARTAGER LES INTERROGATIONS. 14 – 20 novembre 2009
Évènement organisé par le Comité du film ethnographique en collaboration avec la Bibliothèque nationale de France, le Centre national du cinéma - Archives françaises du film et le Centre national de la recherche scientifi
Projet Jean Rouch ? J3.4 : Communication 2 (version française)
LE PROJET JEAN ROUCH ? : VERS UNE CONNAISSANCE HORS TEXTE, CROISER LES REGARDS, PARTAGER LES INTERROGATIONS. 14 – 20 novembre 2009
Évènement organisé par le Comité du film ethnographique en collaboration avec la Bibliothèque nationale de France, le Centre national du cinéma - Archives françaises du film et le Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
Use Science to Improve Food Safety & Nutrition, Study Food Science & Technology
Text-only Transcript: http://www.caes.uga.edu/global/media/texttranscript.cfm?vid=yN9_NhBv07Y
Study Food Science & Technology: http://students.caes.uga.edu/undergraduate/majors/food-science.cfm
Dr. Manan Sharma discusses how his degree in Food Science has prepared him for a career as a research scientist. Graduates from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UGA have many job opportunities in the state of Georgia.
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Dr. Manan Sharma
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Justice et management : enjeux et défis
Troisième partie de l’Essentiel "Eléments pour une rencontre de la Sociologie et de l’Economie" qui fait suite à la Grande Leçon "La sociologie peut-elle aider à comprendre l'économie ? - Le nouveau management public".
Les auteurs vous proposent de rencontrer Frédéric Schoenaers (sociologue), Joël Ficet (politologue) et David Delvaux (sociologue) pour comprendre quels sont les enjeux liés à l’introduction du référentiel managérial au sein des
Lecture 17 - 11/23/2010
Lecture 17
Le Millésime 2009 (audio)
A l'occasion de la Semaine des Primeurs, Denis Dubourdieu et Laurence Geny, respectivement professeur et maître de conférences à la Faculté d'Oenologie de Bordeaux, présentent le Millésime 2009 et proposent une dégustation des grands vins de Bordeaux: St Emilion, Pomerol, Margaux, Barsac...
La couleur profonde, le fruit éclatant, la qualité des tanins des 2009 annoncent une grande année dans laquelle les terroirs s'expriment avec la plus haute définition.
La gestion des personnes et le pouvoir dans l'entreprise, la loyauté dans l'entreprise (video)
"À "nouvelle économie", nouveaux modes de relations et de gestion interpersonnelles. Le pouvoir dans l'entreprise.
- Les représentations du pouvoir La hiérarchie / l'autorité ; La prise de décision / la responsabilité ; La carrière
- Les attributs du pouvoir : Symboles du pouvoir ; Rémunérations ; Stock options
- Les variations culturelles Individualisme et ""power distance"", Modèles anglo-saxon, latin et communa
La gestion des personnes et le pouvoir dans l'entreprise, la loyauté dans l'entreprise (audio)
"À "nouvelle économie", nouveaux modes de relations et de gestion interpersonnelles. Le pouvoir dans l'entreprise.
- Les représentations du pouvoir La hiérarchie / l'autorité ; La prise de décision / la responsabilité ; La carrière
- Les attributs du pouvoir : Symboles du pouvoir ; Rémunérations ; Stock options
- Les variations culturelles Individualisme et ""power distance"", Modèles anglo-saxon, latin et communa
Democratic Reason : The Mechanisms of Collective Intelligence in Politics (video)
La sagesse collective : principes et mécanismes
Colloque des 22-23 mai 2008, organisé par l'Institut du Monde Contemporain du Collège de France, sous la direction du Professeur Jon Elster.
In this paper, Landemore argues that democratic institutions can be seen as ways to channel “democratic reason,” or the distributed intelligence of the many—a concept that she builds in part on the insights of the cognitive sciences. S
Intervention de Hélène Landemore.
Where Is Thumbkin
Sing along or act out the nursery rhyme with your child. After all, listening is the basic step for any learning to follow. Run time 02:28.
How the Body Works : Breathing
This is a very brief (47 seconds) video that explains how our lungs expand to receive oxygen.
Disappearing Red Shrimp
These legendary creatures may have something to teach us about survival, even as the clock is ticking on their habitats
"As a child in Hawaii, I grew up exploring. Those experiences shaped my direction and interest in science," recalls molecular biologist Scott Santos. He remembers playing along the shore and swimming in the ponds imbedded in lava rocks.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/index.jsp
Cheat Sheet to Mastering Japanese #1 - 365 Days of Japanese is Easy as 1, 2, 3!
Your boss is breathing down your back about that missed deadline. Your mom’s birthday is tomorrow and you still don’t have a present! Doctor’s appointments! Late-night meetings! Hitting the gym to get ready for bikini season! It’s not that you don’t want to study Japanese everyday but as every self-studier [...]
Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten – 24.02.2011
Trainieren Sie Ihr Hörverstehen mit authentischen Materialien. Nutzen Sie die Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Donnerstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei. TRIPOLIS: In Libyen versucht Staatschef Gaddafi verzweifelt seine Machtposition zu retten. Regimetreue Truppen sollen die Stadt Sawija südwestlich der Hauptstadt Tripolis angegriffen haben. Das meldet der Nachrichtensender Al-Arabija unter Berufung auf Augenzeugen. Im staatlichen Fernsehen wurden die Regimegegne
Yochai Benkler: "From Free Software and Wikipedia to a Field of Cooperative Human Systems Design" YOCHAI BENKLER is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal
Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for
Internet and Society. Since the 1990s he has played a central part in
characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized
collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the
networked economy and society. His books include The Wealth of
Networks: How social production transforms markets and f
How the Presidency Is Invading Your Home [New York Post, October 11, 2010] The Obama administration isn't satisfied giving the American public vast things we don't want — from stimulus packages to bailouts to ObamaCare. Witness its attempt to redesign home appliances. In the pipeline are dumb regulations for almost everything that plugs in or fires up in your home.
International Relations, Spring 2007
This course is designed to acquaint beginning students with some of the fundamental principles of international relations such as realism and idealism. Realism, for example is based on the assumption that the state constitutes the most important actor in the international system. The course will also explore the nature of idealism, which emphasizes the role of international norms and ethics, such as the preservation of human rights, as a means of realizing international justice. The course will
