‘No science cuts? I’ll throw a party’
Adam Afriyie indicates that Tories would reduce the 2010-11 budget if they come to power. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: Giving the sector the second degree
Tara Brabazon muses on a non-graduate’s resentment at ‘taxpayer-funded’ higher education and the academy’s vision of lifelong ‘learner-earners’ buying social mobility
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Bournemouth head takes the reins at City
Paul Curran hails appointment as ‘unique privilege’. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Book of the week: Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti
Katrina Schlunke finds exotic tales of Pacific island encounters to be most revealing
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The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure
An attempt to solve the mystery of a lost Aztec treasure doesn't crack it, says Alan Sandstrom
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Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is perhaps best remembered by millions of cinema-goers as Charlton Heston, trading terribilita with Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) in The Agony and the Ecstasy (...
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The Canon: Studies in Classic American Literature. By D.H. Lawrence
I took a course in D.H. Lawrence from the critic Marvin Mudrick when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate. We read the three great novels, all the stories and poems, a few travel books, and the...
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Diaghilev: A Life
Anne Hogan showers praise on a terrific study of a Russian colossus and true avant-gardist
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Kristallnacht 1938
Richard J. Evans finds a crystal-clear picture of the Night of Broken Glass bolstered by trial records
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Published this week
ECONOMICS- Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal WorldBy Alex Callinicos, professor of European studies, King's College London. Polity, £45.00 and £14.99. ISBN 9780745648750 and 8767By...
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Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning
Information professionals in higher education spend a considerable amount of time teaching information literacy, either through group sessions or more often one-to-one at the enquiry desk in...
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The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914
The explosive growth of science means that each successive century gets harder to sum up. There is no decent single-volume survey of 20th-century science, although at least one intrepid author is at...
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Vesuvius: A Biography
Lucia Gurioli feels the heat in these eyewitness accounts of Italy's famous volcano
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Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos
When considering the winners and losers of modernity it is tempting to see children as most definitely in the former camp. They not only enjoy unprecedented levels of legal protection but have reams...
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Plagiarism probe sees UK scholar quit Belgian post
A British academic has resigned from his post at a Belgian university after being accused of plagiarising the PhD thesis of a member of the Finnish Parliament.Martin Stone, a professor of philosophy...