High and popular culture to meet in new postcolonial studies centre
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Campus close-up: Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
A London club’s Middlesex University-accredited two-year degrees promise a pitch-perfect environment to study football
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Canada and the ‘war on science’
Stephen Harper’s government is accused of ‘muzzling’ federal scientists at a time of concern over funding. Is it time for more academics to speak out?
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How to create a successful start-up incubator
Tips on shaping the right environment to encourage entrepreneurial skills and create links between universities and industry. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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The Institute of Sexology, Wellcome Collection, London
The pioneers who examined human sexual desire took personal risks to uncover the realities of sex, this exhibition shows. Fern Riddell writes
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Extreme: Why Some People Thrive at the Limits, by Emma Barrett and Paul Martin
Do tales of derring-do contain tips for surviving in the cubicle jungles? David Green finds out
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution’s Greatest Puzzle, by Andreas Wagner
Tiffany Taylor on an investigation of the strategies for innovation involved in evolution
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An Intelligent Tory: Henry Worms, Lord Pirbright (1840-1903), by James Grimshaw
The Anglo-Jewish MP makes for a fascinating biographical subject, writes James Stevens Curl
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Stalin: Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, by Stephen Kotkin
A study of the Soviet leader is a brilliant portrait of a man of contradictions, says Robert Gellately
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The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon, by Brian Vick
Jeremy Black on a significant study of the far-reaching effects of one diplomatic summit
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Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left, by Mark Taylor
Howard P. Segal on an examination of the accelerating pace of life whose scope extends beyond fast food and computers
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The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age, by James G. Webster
Now that digitisation has revolutionised the media, what are we watching - and how? By Sharon Wheeler
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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, by Danielle Keats Citron
A compelling argument for strong-arm tactics against those who perpetrate abuse on the net. By Helen Fenwick
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How to be a Conservative, by Roger Scruton
The veteran right-wing academic sets out his belief system. By A. W. Purdue
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Sector urged to put brakes on Confucius Institutes’ expansion
Book dubs Chinese government-funded centres ‘a threat to academic freedom’