The Story of Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, by Susan Wise Bauer
Alison Stokes on the literature that has tried to make complex explanations of the natural world accessible to laymen
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How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People, by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Martin Cohen is unimpressed by an attempt to generalise about the philosophical inclinations of an entire nation
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Swift and Others, by Claude Rawson
A collection of erudite essays examines the impact of the great tiger of English letters on other writers, learns Richard J. Larschan
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The End of Cinema? A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age, by André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion
The advent of sound, of TV, of digital – the doomsayers have always pronounced on the demise of the flicks, Philip Kemp discovers
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The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, by Susan Pedersen
Niamh Gallagher on a body that, in chipping away at imperial rule, shaped the modern world
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What are you reading? – 2 July 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles, directed by Chuck Workman
Having entered Hollywood a wunderkind, Orson Welles could never escape his own myth or his self-destructive tendencies, says Philip Kemp
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The postdoc experience: hopes and fears
Six early career researchers reflect on their experiences
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US men aren’t interested in ‘life-changing’ rhetoric of studying abroad
Report suggests that male social groups are ‘less fluid’ than women’s, who made up 63.5 per cent of American students overseas
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The quirks and surprises of being the in-house English speaker
From translating health and safety advice to tongue-twisters, there’s always something new to do, says Kate Macdonald
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Rebuilding from blaze helps Glasgow kindle new knowledge
The silver lining in the fire that ravaged an Art Nouveau gem is the chance to explore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s methods
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Mike Redmayne, 1967-2015
A leading legal scholar notable for his “taste for the absurd” as well as his erudition has died
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Q&A with Glyn Davis
We speak to the vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, the host of the THE World Academic Summit
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Exam howlers: to share or not to share
Is it fair to laugh at students’ mistakes? Anger at THE’s annual exam howlers competition has generated a wave of self-published mistakes
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Grant winners – 2 July 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash