Book of the week: No University Is an Island
We'll swim together or sink separately, finds Charles R. Middleton
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We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life
The claim that there is life on Mars - and beyond - is sadly not yet proven, writes Ian Crawford
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When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities across Borders
Juxtaposing scholarly essays with personal histories, When Men Dance probes the impediments (and, occasionally, the advantages) faced by male artists in a discipline plagued by "choreophobia,...
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The Canon: Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers. By Stanley Cohen
If ever a work was decisive in defining the contours of a discipline and field of research for decades to come, Stanley Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics certainly ranks among the most influential...
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Let freedom ring
Cary Nelson's latest book considers the dark forces ranged against free speech in the academy. Only collective action can save higher education, the activist and AAUP president tells Zoë Corbyn
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The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970
All this magnificent study of Pax Britannica lacks is the scent of sweat and blood, writes Joanna Lewis
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Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
This is a distinctive and courageous book. Mike Hulme is a geographer and climate modeller, a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and professor of climate change at...
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Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
As insecurity increasingly defines work, Rosalind Gill glimpses the emerging global 'precariat'
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World HistoryBy Robert Finlay, professor of history, University of Arkansas. University of California Press, £24.95. ISBN...
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Institute of Education - New life for old school ties
The records of 3,000 schools are to be opened in a project to restore and catalogue an important collection at the Institute of Education. The IoE has won £41,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to...
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Staffordshire University - Forward march to a field of study
Soldiers and other members of the Armed Forces will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of conflict issues thanks to a new course. Staffordshire University is one of six approved...
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University of the West of England - Swindon can wait
Plans for a university campus in Swindon have been put on hold indefinitely in the wake of cuts in government funding. The University of the West of England has been told that money is no longer...
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Royal College of Art - Safety glasses
Some of the most horrific facial injuries resulting from drink-fuelled violence are caused by shattered pint glasses. In an attempt to limit the damage such attacks can do, the Royal College of Art...
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Bangor University - From inn to outstanding
A lecture charting the colourful history of Bangor University is to tell the story of its growth from a small college teaching 58 students in the Penrhyn Arms inn to an independent university with 13...
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University of Warwick - Surviving splitsville
A study of university students has found that they normally emerge unscathed from the recent divorce of their parents. Economists at the University of Warwick measured the productivity and happiness...