European e-Justice portal
Website of the European Commissions European e-Justice portal which is designed to be an electronic one-stop-shop for access to justice throughout the EU. The site brings together legal information for citizens, businesses and lawyers concerned with cross-border legal questions. There is background information on the court and legal systems of all member states and users have access to databases providing EU and national legislation and case law including EUR-Lex, N-Lex and JURE. Links to
Thoreau at Creekside
Thoreau's cabin at Walden was only 1 1/2 to 2 miles from Concord, Mass. Most people, however, when they read the book, believe that he hid himself miles from civilization in the middle of a natural nowhere. In order to correct his misconception in the minds of his students--and to expand their knowledge of Transcendentalist philosophy generally--Dickinson College English professor Ash Nichols walked his students from campus to his house at Creekside. At Creekside they met Thoreau himself in a re
Story Hour in the Library - David Sheff
David Sheff is the author of Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, a New York Times #1 bestseller. It was named Best Nonfiction Book of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and won the 2009 Barnes and Noble Discover Award. In 2009, Sheff was named to Time Magazine's list of the world's most influential people. He has written for the New York Times, Playboy, and Wired, among others. His books include Game Over, China Dawn, and All We Are Saying.
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Today we salute you, Elon Alumni of Genius!
A new video featuring three Elon presidents, and one faculty rock star!
Appearing in this video:
President Leo M. Lambert
President Fred Young
President Earl Danieley
Stephen Futrell, associate professor of music
Connie Book, associate provost
Jana Lynn Patterson, assistant vice president for student life
Michael Williams, director of campus center operations
Jim Donathan, associate director of academic advising
Bob Anderson (narrator), associate professor of political science
Students:
Will A
You Kiss by the Book': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet presents "star-cross'd" lovers whose plight has become the subject of many of today's novels, plays, films, and television dramas. Explore with your students the techniques that Shakespeare uses to capture the magic of the couple's first meeting and to make that meeting so memorable. This lesson plan complements the study of plot and characterization in Romeo and Juliet in its focus on lyrical form and convention that heighten the impact of the action on the stage.
Them and Us: why we need a fair society
Will Hutton discusses the issues raised in his new book Them and Us: politics, greed and inequality – why we need a fair society. Will Hutton is the executive vice-chair of The Work Foundation and senior visiting fellow at LSE Global Governance.
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson has spent twenty years immersed in creative industries, was active at the dawn of the internet and has a unique perspective that draws on his fluency in fields ranging from neurobiology to new media. In his new book, he identifies the key principles to the genesis of great ideas, from the cultivation of hunches to the importance of connectivity and how best to make use of new technologies. By recognising where and how patterns of creativity occur – whether within a school, a sof
Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer: basic information, guidelines, statistics, female gynocologic anatomy, causes, and treatment.
SAT Prep: Test 4, Section 8, Part 4
Students, improve your math SAT score! The instructor uses an electronic chalkboard to model problems. This video is appropriate for high school students. Uses a textbook (the official SAT study guide) commonly found in bookstores, but it is not absolutely necessary as the narrator does all work on the screen. Problem 16 starting on page 615.
Authors@Google: Alexandra Schwartz
Alexandra Schwartz is a member of the curatorial department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has written or edited multiple books on art, including two on Ed Ruscha. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has worked closely with Ruscha on several projects over the past several years.
Ed Ruscha is one of Los Angeles's best known artists. He was born in Nebraska and raised in Oklahoma but belongs to Los Angeles in a way that few other artists do. Since the 1960s, Rus
Tecnologia / digital. Compres sota zero
Durada: 2 min. Vídeo. CCMA.
Si esteu farts de sentir a parlar de la crisi i d'amagar bitllets sota les rajoles "per si de cas", és hora de passar a l'acció. Per tant, anem de compres! Ara, gràcies a la xarxa, ja no és traumàtic ni representa perdre un ronyó.
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DT15 using ProDESKTOP
Using pro DESKTOP to generate ideas
George Soros on The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
George Soros extends his “theory of reflexivity” from abstraction to application in the realm of investing. His book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, offers a timely look at the credit crisis that reached crescendo in 2008. His views fall between prescience and vindication. Nevertheless, he concedes fallibility
Mission Control Operations
Chris Kraft manages to present in a single event the ultimate in engineering case studies, as well as an insider’s history of 20th century space missions and a pep talk for AeroAstro students. This blunt raconteur describes the challenges of the earliest space pioneers. His story begins with Project Mercury in the 19
5.2 Tests as a selection tool
Does the recruitment and selection process fill you with dread? Discrimination and equal opportunities legislation can make this area feel like a minefield. If you are faced with appointing a new employee, then this unit will provide a straight-forward guide to the process: from writing job descriptions to finally assessing who to appoint.
An Evening with Vikram Chandra
In the tradition of his favorite childhood writers, Dickens, Thackeray and the “curiously forgotten James Hadley Chase,” Vikram Chandra explores the seamier sides of human relations. In Chandra’s latest, sprawling novel, Sacred Games, his backdrop is Bombay, a city steeped in corruption from head to toe. Reading three s
Egyptian economy and non-royal women: their status in public life
The online version of a lecture given 21 June, 1995, at Brown University, by William A. Ward deals with the status of women in ancient Egypt society. Although pharaonic Egypt was in most respects a male society, with men holding positions in public life while women dominated the private life, Ward points to the fact that there is plenty of evidence that women, throughout ancient Egyptian civilisation could own, bequeath and inherit land. Furthermore women seem to have been able to hold positions
