Anthropologists arrested over ‘mock execution’ plans
Two academics said to have been planning an anti-monarchy mock execution at Westminster Abbey were arrested ahead of the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton in London.
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Price of progress: former minister defends Plymouth fees
A former higher education minister who is now leading a post-1992 university’s student experience strategy has defended the institution’s decision to charge tuition fees of £9,000 for the 2012-13...
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Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America
Lynne Segal is appalled by US experiences of the coming of age, but cheered by the hope of change
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The Big Society: The Anatomy of the New Politics
Too much rhetoric in the coalition's central tenet leaves Vernon Bogdanor worried for the future
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Pakistan: A Hard Country
This hefty volume, which offers a sweeping portrait of modern Pakistan, is a curious product. Couched in language sometimes reminiscent of the memoirs of a British district administrator under the...
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Why Does College Cost So Much?
A year ago, this book about the US higher education system might have been of little interest to UK academics, but how quickly things change. In the wake of the UK's recent funding review, the issues...
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Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920
Harvey Levenstein has sympathy for the diners in the battle of the cuisines in pre-Prohibition US
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Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast
Since its appearance in the south of France in the 1760s, the mysterious creature known as the Beast of the Gévaudan has been an object of lasting fascination not just for the general public, but for...
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Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are both well-known film studies scholars who have written extensively on film aesthetics, film history and on the film industry. However, it is as the co-authors...
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The Global Forest: 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us
A tribute to trees and the diverse nature of their impact on our lives is no revelation to Jules Pretty
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Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I
One scenario of the road to war in 1914 depicts early 20th-century Europe as cracking beneath a serene exterior as it was riven by divisive forces: nationalism no longer in harmony with liberalism,...
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Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature
What happens when the Twilight zone of vampires and zombies comes up against the eternal afterlife? What is the function of the "living dead" when there is no death?These are largely philosophical...
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All set to shatter glass ceilings but not to start a revolution
The first female head of the EUA lays out the aims of her three-year presidency. Hannah Fearn reports
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News in brief
Sri LankaCampus closed after clashesA Sri Lankan university had to be temporarily closed after students clashed with police. The incident at the Eastern University of Sri Lanka was caused by protests...
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Blogconfidential: Recipe for disaster
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Recipe for disaster