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From where I sit - Reform slowed to a snail's pace
There is a joke about India's new Education Minister, Kapil Sibal, doing the rounds. It says that his love of "instant" cricket is influencing the pace of his political work. Like a batsman in a...
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Peter Widdowson, 1942-2009
Peter Widdowson, a pioneer of new perspectives on English literature, has died.
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THE Book of the Week - The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers
Graham Farmelo admires a sassy new overview of theories of fundamental particles
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Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War
The Cold War intimacy of America's medical and military establishments bothers Elizabeth Toon
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Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
Having been a lifelong advocate of cycling proficiency lessons for fish, I was delighted to discover this sharp new look at an old feminist role model. Jennifer Scanlon is one of the few to have...
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The Canon: Ordinary Vices
In her landmark 1984 work, Ordinary Vices, political theorist Judith Shklar argues that in contrast to other liberal conceptions the "liberalism of fear" refers only to one summum malum, cruelty (and...
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Author profile: Farzana Shaikh discusses her latest book - Making Sense of Pakistan
Farzana Shaikh's identity leads to some distrust of her work on Pakistan. Unfazed, she tells Melanie Newman she expects more criticism for her exploration of the country's identity crisis
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The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade
A focus on Pasolini's conflicted gay identity offers new insights, says John David Rhodes
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Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair
This is a lively and stimulating history of electoral campaigning, spanning three centuries from the era before Parliamentary reform of the franchise to the present. Despite the enormous changes in...
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Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918
The First World War gave war a bad name and, as the rather chilling title of this book forewarns, Leo van Bergen is keen to tell us why in grisly detail. No doubt a stroll around the battlefields of...
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'Alpha-rated' but no cash - how crushing
Martin Willis spotlights the dispiriting process of waiting to hear from funding bodies about unsuccessful bids, and highlights the lack of feedback from most of these bodies, in particular the...
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New tricks 1
I did not recognise the teaching accreditation "modulettes" that Thomas Docherty describes ("To provide teaching quality, we must get back to our roots", 9 July).Far from "demanding allegiance" to...
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New tricks 2
Kevin Sharpe's concern that academics are being forced to provide students with a diet of trite soundbite-style lectures is one that I have often heard and is a view with which I sympathise ("Teach...
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New tricks 3
Gordon Brown promises up to 10,000 extra university places to meet demand fuelled by recession and rising unemployment. Will this expansion be met by additional permanent posts for academic staff, or...