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Are “forgivable fees” the answer?
Maintaining a stable university income while writing off a third of student loans could save money and win votes, John Cater suggests
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Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 at Tate Modern, London
The German artist critiqued Western ideals with humour and a sharp eye for their subjective nature, says Eliane Glaser
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The Copernicus Complex: The Quest for Our Cosmic (In)significance, by Caleb Scharf
Is life on our planet unique in space? And do we know how to find out? Cait MacPhee ponders
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Resonances of the Raj: India in the English Musical Imagination 1897-1947, by Nalini Ghuman
Andrew Blake appreciates a new view of the relationship between Empire and cultural hybridity
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Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire, by Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor
Isabelle Szmigin on how ‘pleasure engineers’ have affected our physical and social well-being
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Actual Consciousness, by Ted Honderich
Roberta Locatelli on an audacious venture to elucidate representations of thoughts and desires
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John Skelton: The Career of an Early Tudor Poet, by John Scattergood
David Salter on a comprehensive analysis of the diverse work of a ‘poet of contradictions’
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God and the Multiverse: Humanity’s Expanding View of the Cosmos, by Victor J. Stenger
Virginia Trimble on a book that aims to explain the universe and its contents in terms of natural processes
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Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time, by Garry Wills
A look at theatre in the Elizabethan court indulges in some fantasies of its own, says Willy Maley
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The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts, by Sarah Dry
Robyn Arianrhod on the complex and contradictory life of the greatest physicist of all time
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The Global Republic: America’s Inadvertent Rise to World Power, by Frank Ninkovich
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on an intricate history of the role of America on the global stage
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Claire Fletcher-Flinn, Peter J. Smith, Eleonora Belfiore, R. C. Richardson and Uwe Schütte…
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The best bloc for a 21st-century education system?
Mike Cole ponders how to promote research culture and social democracy in Cambodia
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Maximise returns – go long
Universities know well the value of international students, but myopic politicians struggle to see past electoral expediency