What are you reading? – 6 August 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton, by Hilary Gatti
This study of an era of violent abuses of power ignores half of humanity, finds Jacqueline Broad
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Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance, by Debarati Sanyal
National histories can shape recollections of atrocities, discovers Robert Eaglestone
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30 Great Myths about the Romantics, by Duncan Wu
The real Lord Byron was ‘a flabby, effeminate man who liked wigs’, finds Jane Darcy
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The Deeper Genome: Why There is More to the Human Genome than Meets the Eye, by John Parrington
Charalambos P. Kyriacou commends an epic analysis of a scientific revolution
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Sophist Kings: Persians as Others in Herodotus, by Vernon L. Provencal
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on the complex thesis emerging from a study of the Histories
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Higher Education, Leadership and Women Vice Chancellors: Fitting in to Communities of Practice of Masculinities, by Paula Burkinshaw
Mary Evans on proposals for achieving equal representation of women and men in university hierarchies
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The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received
Six academics share their experiences before delivering a verdict on the system
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City values versus academia’s ‘slow’ virtues
Universities were once urged to ape the governance models of the Square Mile, but big business could learn from some collegiate practices, suggests Malcolm Gillies
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'If you want a Nobel Prize, do some experiments'
Crick and Watson's landmark papers on the structure of DNA would have been rejected by modern editors for lack of data, researcher argues
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Grant winners – 6 August 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 6 August 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study