More money, more choice and a virtuous circle of innovation
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Pioneers need not apply
The research councils' use of peer 'preview' is fundamentally flawed and a pathway to mediocrity, argues Donald W. Braben
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Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
Steve Wheeler is convinced that we need new approaches for digitally remastered learners
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Everyone's a Winner: Life In Our Congratulatory Culture
Les Gofton takes the measure of 'status inflation' and the bathetic growth of universal heroism
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The Origin of Our Species
And God said, let there be culture. And there was culture. Then came technology, art, writing and, eventually, books. Some books featured more convincingly detailed stories about how it all started....
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Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: The Changing Views of Russians
Explanations for the durability - or not - of undemocratic regimes could scarcely be more timely, given the upheavals that cashiered strongmen in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, but not (so far) in Syria...
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The University and The People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
A 19th-century farmers' movement has left its mark on US universities, finds Francisco Ramirez
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Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century
More than two centuries after the revolution of 1789, the identification of the French nation with its republican institutions and values represents one of the most powerful myths in modern history;...
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Virtual Water: Tackling the Threat to our Planet's Most Precious Resource
Tony Allan is acknowledged as a world authority in the political economy of water policy and its reform. A pioneer in the development of key concepts in the understanding and communication of water...
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Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History
Sarah Toulalan praises an exploration of how pre-19th-century societies acted on their urges
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Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work
Isn't it time we started taking culture seriously in the design of technological innovations? Here, cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo throws down the gauntlet in a manifesto for true...
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The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence
Writing Irish history, for any readership and at any level, presents a challenge of complexity and bias of a very special kind. All historical sources present the difficulties of partiality, limited...
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Derrida had a word for it
An irritating cliche inspired David Bellos to examine the artful skills of the translator. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
LeedsThe Sadler GiftA century ago this year, Sir Michael Sadler (1861-1943) became vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. He played a crucial role in developing the cultural life of the city and...
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The Pick - Tartuffe
TartuffeRoger McGough after MolièreEnglish Touring Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, and then touring nationallyWhen the theatre director Gemma Bodinetz asked poet Roger McGough to create a new version...