The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage [Audio]
Speaker(s): Jodi Kantor, Professor Sarah Churchwell | Jodi Kantor will be in conversation with Professor Sarah Churchwell to discuss her new book The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage which is an intimate portrait of the Obamas in the White House by a New York Times journalist who has been covering the President and first lady for 5 years. The Obamas had never lived together full-time as a family until they moved into the White House - and that's where their political and personal lives became inext
France, Britain, the EU and the World [Audio]
Speaker(s): Bernard Emié | Bernard Emié, French Ambassador to the United Kingdom will be in conversation with Maurice Fraser, Senior Fellow in LSE's European Institute.
The Geostrategic Importance of Cyprus: long term trends and prospects [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis | Placed at the crossroads of three continents, Cyprus remains of key strategic importance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis is the minister of foreign affairs for Cyprus.
Histories of International Law: dealing with Eurocentrism [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Martti Koskenniemi | Martti Koskenniemi is director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights and visiting professor at LSE Law.
Dangers and Demon(izer)s of Democratization in Egypt: Through an Indonesian Glass, Darkly [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor John Sidel | Editor's note: Unfortunately the last few minutes of the question and answer session are missing from the podcast. Over the past several months, an alarmist picture of developments in Egypt has emerged in the media, raising the spectre of Islamization, inter-religious violence, and generalized criminality and disorder. Yet these early signs of trouble are amply familiar to observers of transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy elsewhere in the developin
Ten Reasons Why India Will Not and Should Not Become a Superpower [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Ramachandra Guha | High annual growth rates, a rising middle class, and successes in the software sector have led to much talk of India becoming a superpower. But rather than seek to expand India's influence abroad, the political class and intellectual elite would do well to focus on the fissures within. Ramachandra Guha is Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS for 2011-2012.
From Regional to Global Players: The Emergence of Asian Firms in the Global Economy [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung | In this lecture, Henry Wai-chung Yeung will aim to explain how a number of leading business firms from Asian newly industrialized economies (NIEs) of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan are articulated into global production networks and become major players in their respective market niches. Drawing upon a triangular analytical framework and original empirical data, he will seek to explain the complex relationships between the dynamic arti
Evaluate the strategies used by British Airways to deliver customer service in a competitive global
Evaluate the strategies used by British Airways to deliver customer service in a competitive global market.
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MIT Diversity Summit 2012 - Keynote Keynote Speaker: Evelynn Hammonds, PhD Dean of Harvard College, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and American Studies [Recorded on 1/27/12]
Peter Perdue and Ellen Sebring, Boxer Rebellion Overview
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Mayfly Madness
This video gives a quick glimpse of life and times of the mayfly on the Mississippi. It's life span is only 24 hours long. This video could also be used with a lesson about life cycles. Time 2:29
Welcome & Plenary I: Population, Consumption and Human Wellbeing
Welcome remarks were made by Haile Debas, Steve Shortell and John Stobo. Plenary I was chaired by Malcolm Potts, with a keynote speech by Sir John E. Sulston and comments by panelists Ndola Prata and Jaime Sepulveda.
Intro to Chemistry: 10.1 Introduction to Acids and Bases (1/2)
Join award winning teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams as they interactively teach Chemistry: 10.1 Introduction to Acids and Bases. Common acids and bases are identified. The properties of acids and bases are also identified. ( 8:01)
TED402 Session 2 Spring 2012
Educational Psychology with Jeff Miller 02/01/12
GRCC Board of Trustees Meeting (January, 2012)
Recorded January 23, 2012. Regular meeting of the Grand Rapids Community College Board of Trustees.
Ludwig von Mises: The Logician of Freedom [The Austrian School of Economics (2011)] There is a photo in his wife's published memoirs showi
Misrepresenting Inequality Sir William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, once said, When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind. Kelvin's statement is an important reminder that when magnitudes of cer
Het gerecht : Contractwerk De bedoeling van dit hoeken– en contractwerk is dat de leerlingen kennis maken met de ingewikkelde wereld van de justitie. De opdrachten worden duidelijk omschreven.
Eni scuola.net This site from ENI offers an educational area for schools with documents about energy, sustainable use of resources and a good collection of experiments, multimedia, games and quizzes. Available in Italian and English.
