The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live
The recurrence of war throughout human history is a pattern whose explanation has eluded philosophers, politicians, activists and diplomat practitioners. During the classical European system of...
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The Bible and the People
The father of a friend of mine once characterised the US-American approach to travel in the following manner: "Do Europe in three days: Pisa, Florence and the Bingen Mauseturm." Be that as it may:...
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Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature
A thoughtful examination of how homosexuality is portrayed historically rings true with Robert Mills
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The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from its Origins to the Twenty-First Century
Widely recognised as the foremost historian of Italian cinema, to whom "all historians of Italian films owe an outstanding debt", Gian Piero Brunetta has finally and somewhat belatedly seen his...
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Shapes for Sounds
The written character is and remains the basis of every typographic activity. It is not a creation of our century. The written character goes far back in time, spanning the vast distance from early...
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Thinking About Almost Everything: New Ideas to Light Up Minds
Durham University's commercial for the range and depth of its work leaves Jon Turney wanting more
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESMore Than Darwin: The People and Places of the Evolution-Creationism ControversyBy Randy Moore, H.T. Morse-Alumni distinguished teaching professor of biology, University of...
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Poor quality subsidised by bundles of despair
The electronic distribution of academic journals has many advantages, but the business model that underpins it has a fatal flaw.Central to it is the "bundling" of journals. When we subscribe to a...
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Knowledge is not enough
I wonder if Thomas Docherty has any first-hand experience of apprenticeships ("To provide teaching of quality, we must get back to our roots", 9 July). Far from being characterised by mutual respect...
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Sharp insights 1
Gary Thomas can't think of any "major social-scientific achievements" ("In search of singular insight", 9 July). Well, Nobel prizewinner Amartya Sen, in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on...
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Sharp insights 2
The strange article by Gary Thomas suggests to me that the author knows little about modern economics research.The May 2009 issue of The Quarterly Journal of Economics, one of the leading...
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Faith, hope and clarity 1
Those privileged to hear Ron Barnett's plenary address at the Higher Education Academy conference will probably be wondering what's in store for the universities of the future ("Selfish models lose...
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Faith, hope and clarity 2
Thanks for the list of universities, Ron. Perhaps you should add another one to it: the "bullying" university. You could ask it to "rediscover its responsibilities to staff". I tried but got nowhere....
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Simplistic diagnosis
I was surprised to read under the headline "Medics riled by tests of professional behaviour" (9 July) that I had "defended" our work on professionalism among medical students, since this suggests...
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Take your word for it
One of the few advantages of delivering higher education in further education colleges concerns plagiarism ("To catch a plagiarist", 9 July). Most plagiarism in further education is detected by staff...