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ECONOMICS- The Problems of Disadvantaged YouthEdited by Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of Chicago Press, £76.00. ISBN 9780226309453Taking...
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Odds and quads
Along with ketchup containers and an apple-shaped promotional radio, this Rhoda Handbag - designed by Sarah Bayley - forms part of the collection at the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP).
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Caesar adsum iam forte
In a shock move, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has announced "a major quantitative upsurge" in the amount of Latin to be used in our graduation ceremonies.Targett told...
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Poisonous impact
A latter-day Socrates wouldn't stand a chance, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Research intelligence: Change of climate
A consultation aims to ensure that postgrads in environmental science are ready for the future. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Autonomy must be the goal
Universities need to be free from government control if they are to succeed in providing the education demanded of them
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From where I sit: Accentuating the positive
I am constantly reading (and writing) about the negatives of tertiary education today: universities are now merely businesses; grammatical standards have slipped; young people are ignoramuses who don...
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Stanley Ellis, 1926-2009
A dialectologist and pioneering forensic linguist - who made a notable intervention in the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry - has died.Stanley Ellis was born in Bradford on 18 February 1926, studied at...
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Principles of Molecular Photochemistry: An Introduction/Modern Molecular Photochemistry of Organic Molecules
Timely revision of a classic work
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Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
This is the third edition of a well-established textbook that presents the chemistry of the environment: the natural, unpolluted environment and the damaged environment, including what can be done to...
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Chemistry for the Life Sciences
This book is mostly a collection of chapters on basic physical chemistry and organic chemistry with just a smattering of information on the inorganic parts of the periodic table of relevance to...
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Molecular Theory of Water and Aqueous Solutions: Part I - Understanding Water
From the general principles of chemistry we now turn to an investigation of a single substance, water. Water is perhaps one of the most extraordinary of substances, with properties unlike those of...
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Food Chemistry
If you want to know the depth of chemistry behind a menu in a restaurant, this is the book for you. Here are more than 1,000 pages of closely packed information about the essential chemistry of foods...
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Student Review: Chemistry3: Introducing Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry
Chemistry has a reputation as a difficult, arcane subject, often reinforced by monolithic textbooks as unhelpful as they are intimidating. Stepping up to challenge this convention, Chemistry3 aims to...