Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life
Dispensing the Bard to salve modern ills is a good idea but Jonathan Bate can't swallow all of it
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Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me": at least, that is what we tell children. And every child knows that it is a lie. Words have an uncanny ability to inflict the...
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Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
The art of musical collage has followed a rocky path in the years since 1988, when Public Enemy redefined popular music with their album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, and, a year...
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Craving Earth: Understanding Pica - The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice and Chalk
Jeremy MacClancy finds a little understood alimentary habit well worth the study
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Climate Change and Society
Given the scale of the possible - indeed likely - societal impacts of climate change, it is striking how few books there are on the sociology of the climate issue. John Urry, unquestionably one of...
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Digital Cultures
A student is reading a book. A message beeps from an iPhone. Eyes flick to the screen in curiosity. During the glance from paper to screen, an iPod continues to shuffle a soundtrack.From screen to...
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Camera turns to capture gay and unpleasant land
Research on past rural attitudes to homosexuality informs new film project. Matthew Reisz reports
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Thanks to cuts, we may not have the tools to finish fees job, Hefce warns
Efforts to smooth path to new funding regime 'at risk', chief executive says. Simon Baker reports
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Students take to the streets over South Korea's fees
Rallies, vigils and strikes greet government efforts to 'halve' tuition costs. John Morgan reports
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News in brief
ߣߣÊÓƵPlans to enshrine freedom in lawߣߣÊÓƵ's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has unveiled plans for legislation that would explicitly protect academic freedom. Under the proposals, the 2003...
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'Pioneers of the new Europe' fight the Italian closed shop
Matthew Reisz and Diana Garrisi on the lettori's long-running struggle for equality and respect
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Top journals in gerontology
Top journals in gerontologyData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2001-February 2011Â Journal Papers Citations Impact1Ageing Research Reviews249 5,960 23....
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Fallen union leader calls for coalition of the willing
AAUP must stop navel-gazing and form alliances to protect staff, Gary Rhoades tells Jon Marcus
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Difference engine: U-Multirank aims to disrupt ranking 'homogenisation'
The European Commission's head of higher education has warned that university rankings are "homogenising" institutions across the Continent as a system was launched that aims to counter the research...
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Picasso windfall benefits Sydney centre
Anonymous donation of prize Picasso will yield vast sum for Sydney centre. Matthew Reisz writes