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The general study of running a firm, and the umbrella the functional fields hang under: what the parts of a business are and how they fit together.

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What a firm owes and to whom: responsibility beyond shareholders, the ethics of a corporate decision, and whether an organisation can be blamed for anything.

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Firms and industries over time: how the large corporation came about, how families and states shaped enterprise, and what the archives say the managers were thinking.

Finding the function that minimizes or maximizes a quantity, from the shortest path to the least action.

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The internal law of the Christian churches, and one of the two learned laws that shaped the European legal tradition.

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The heart and the circulation: coronary disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, and the imaging and intervention around them.

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Making maps: projection, generalisation, symbolisation, and the choices that decide what a map tells you and what it hides.

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Substances that speed a reaction without being consumed by it. Homogeneous, heterogeneous and enzymatic, and the industrial chemistry that depends on all three.

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Objects and the arrows between them, which turns constructions repeated across mathematics into one statement.

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The motion of bodies under mutual gravity: orbits, resonances, perturbations, and the long-term stability of the solar system.

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The structure and behaviour of the cell: its organelles, its division cycle, how it signals to its neighbours and how it dies.

Taking a reaction that works in a flask and making it work in a plant: reactor design, separation processes, heat and mass transfer, and process control.

How fast a reaction goes and by what mechanism: rate laws, elementary steps, and the transition states in between.

Energy, entropy and equilibrium in chemical systems -- which reactions can happen, and how far they go.

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The study of matter, its composition, structure, properties, and the transformations it undergoes.

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Chinese as an object of study, centred on Mandarin: its grammar, its tones, and a writing system older than any of its spoken varieties.

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Separating a mixture by making its components travel at different speeds through a medium. The workhorse of analytical labs.

The built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, dams and water systems, and the question of whether they will stand up.

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The general law of private relations -- persons, obligations, property and succession -- from which contract, tort and family law are carved out.

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The conduct of a private lawsuit, from filing to enforcement, and the arbitration and settlement paths that route around it.