Ravagers, despoilers, pagans, the Vikings are often regarded as bloodthirsty pirates. Yet they were also traders, settlers and farmers with a thriving artistic culture and legal systems. Using archaeology we examine the varied aspects of the Viking world.
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Is there a true story that only you can tell? This course is designed to provide you with the skills you need to turn experiences, recollections and real-life phenomena into literary works that are enjoyable and accessible to a wider audience.
Advance your negotiation skills and strengthen your diplomatic impact. Build the tools, mindset and strategic awareness to navigate high-stakes negotiations while fostering trust and long-term international relationships.
Discover theories of attachment, stress, personality and grief from a neuropsychological perspective. This online day school presents experimental and theoretical information for clinical and experimental psychologists, therapists and other clinicians.
Positive Psychology offers a direct approach to help people create strategies towards wellbeing. Changing our interpretation of the world can help us feel happier, healthier, more positive, and become more resilient. Join us in Oxford to learn more.
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This course will help anyone interested in using coaching, whether professionally, as a life skill, or to achieve better results in their work with others. Thought-provoking and practical, this course explores the theory and skills of good coaching.
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This course is designed for anyone who would like to sing, but feels that they can't. Through a mixture of seminars and workshops, consideration will be given to various common vocal problems and their solutions.
This course considers some of the foundations of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: their birth and early historical development, key text(s), and some of their fundamental beliefs and practices.
The touchstones of Shia Iran are its ancient culture, sensitivity to Anglo-US perfidy and stifling of Iranian democracy, and its hostility to Israel and to Sunni Saudi Arabia. A ruthless but modern monarchy was replaced by a brutal 'Islamic' republic.
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