Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account
A proselytising book assumes much about world poverty but answers little, writes Radha D'Souza
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The Unfinished Game
For (Luck) your science finds no measuring rods," wrote Dante Alighieri in the Inferno (in Dorothy L. Sayers' translation). For most of the history of humanity, few would have disagreed. Luck, or...
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Cruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain
A review of a book on human cruelty is a daunting and anxiety-provoking task. Listening to news broadcasts on any given day, one is confronted with examples of the myriad ways in which humans can...
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Book of the week: Mothers and Others
Camilla Power finds emotional modernity is the legacy of co-operative breeding
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The week in books
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach professor of world order studies, Columbia University. Penguin, £12.99, ISBN 9780141011929"It was always a source of...
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGN- Travel, Space, ArchitectureEdited by Jilly Traganou, assistant professor of art and design, New School, and Miodrag Mitrasinovic, associate professor of communication design, New...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Edinburgh
1 Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? by Denis AlexanderMonarch, £10.99ISBN 97818542474692 Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure by Paul C. MartinHarperCollins, £16.99ISBN...
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'Disgraceful' trio quit group to pursue their own bid
Coalition hoping to run teaching masters was left hanging by lead partners. Melanie Newman writes
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Original features
Although what is now the University of Chichester was granted degree-awarding powers only in 1999, it can trace its origins back to 1839, when William Otter, Bishop of Chichester, issued an appeal...
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News in brief
Data protectionBreach earns official reproachThe personal records of more than 1,700 students, including details of some students' disabilities, were mistakenly sent out in an email by the University...
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Lecturer disputes demo notice law
Arrested protester challenges police's requirement for six days' warning. Melanie Newman reports
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Royal Northern College of Music - Another string to their bows
Military musicians are to benefit from a new postgraduate diploma in instrumental teaching that has been developed by the Royal Northern College of Music. The two-year course is to be offered at the...
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University of East Anglia - A Grimm get-together
A major international conference dedicated to fairytales took place at the University of East Anglia from 22 to 25 April. It marked the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Bloody Chamber, a...
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University of St Andrews - Course decision deferred for year
A decision about whether to close an undergraduate geosciences degree at the University of St Andrews has been postponed for another year. A proposal put forward by senior managers and academic staff...
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University of Salford - Nurses discuss life choices
The rights and wrongs of assisted suicide were debated at the University of Salford's School of Nursing this week. The aim was to discuss whether the Royal College of Nursing should maintain its...